WEBVTT - UVU's Security Errors + The Hegseth Impeachment? 0:00:03.560 --> 0:00:04.620 My name is Charlie Kirk. 0:00:05.120 --> 0:00:08.490 I run the largest pro-American student organization in the country 0:00:08.910 --> 0:00:12.530 fighting for the future of our republic. My call is 0:00:12.570 --> 0:00:15.350 to fight evil and to proclaim truth. If the most 0:00:15.430 --> 0:00:18.710 important thing for you is just feeling good, you're going 0:00:18.730 --> 0:00:21.329 to end up miserable. But if the most important thing 0:00:21.390 --> 0:00:25.169 is doing good, you will end up purposeful. College is 0:00:25.230 --> 0:00:27.270 a scam, everybody. You got to stop sending your kids 0:00:27.310 --> 0:00:27.770 to college. 0:00:27.860 --> 0:00:28.860 You should get married as. 0:00:28.840 --> 0:00:31.080 Young as possible and have as many kids as possible. 0:00:31.300 --> 0:00:33.900 Go start a Turning Point USA college chapter. 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That 0:01:13.250 --> 0:01:14.770 is noblegoldinvestments.com. 0:01:17.670 --> 0:01:19.410 All right. Welcome, everybody. 0:01:19.590 --> 0:01:21.850 It is September 16th, 2026. 0:01:21.850 --> 0:01:23.690 Blake is back in studio. Howdy, Blake. 0:01:23.730 --> 0:01:26.270 The Green Bay Packers tried to make me so depressed 0:01:26.330 --> 0:01:27.150 I could never come back. 0:01:27.720 --> 0:01:29.280 But I did. You're back. I've overcome. 0:01:29.300 --> 0:01:34.080 You're back and you're better than ever. So here's we've 0:01:34.120 --> 0:01:36.300 got a big packed show today. 0:01:36.319 --> 0:01:36.720 All right. 0:01:36.780 --> 0:01:38.880 So I want to just kind of lay out the 0:01:38.900 --> 0:01:40.709 state of play and how we plan to get through it. 0:01:40.800 --> 0:01:41.080 Yes. 0:01:41.720 --> 0:01:43.800 The big breaking news this morning is that the Kirk 0:01:43.819 --> 0:01:45.880 family has filed a notice of claim. 0:01:45.920 --> 0:01:46.080 What? 0:01:46.319 --> 0:01:49.200 That's not a lawsuit, but it's a notice of intent 0:01:49.880 --> 0:01:52.660 to file one. And it sort of extends the statute 0:01:52.700 --> 0:01:55.180 of limitations. We're going to get into all of that 0:01:55.260 --> 0:01:58.210 at about. the halfway mark of this hour, okay? So 0:01:58.750 --> 0:02:01.830 we're obviously, I've been dealing with it all morning, I've 0:02:01.850 --> 0:02:06.030 been doing interviews, and we will explain everything that is 0:02:06.090 --> 0:02:09.830 in that document, everything that is laid out there, some 0:02:09.850 --> 0:02:13.230 of the security failures that happened at UVU and why 0:02:13.290 --> 0:02:16.010 that is moving forward, but we're going to get to 0:02:16.030 --> 0:02:19.000 it at the 1230 mark, East Coast, okay? So hang 0:02:19.030 --> 0:02:21.840 with us right there. We've got a great expert that's 0:02:21.860 --> 0:02:25.100 going to be coming on who understands crowd control, that 0:02:25.120 --> 0:02:27.100 understands security at large events. So we're going to get 0:02:27.139 --> 0:02:30.910 there in just a minute, in a couple minutes. But first, 0:02:31.320 --> 0:02:33.630 we're going to get to, and I think this is 0:02:33.669 --> 0:02:37.390 really important, because the news broke while we were on 0:02:37.410 --> 0:02:40.029 the air yesterday, and that is that Thomas Massey has 0:02:40.090 --> 0:02:45.680 filed articles of impeachment against Secretary of War Pete Hegseth. Now, 0:02:45.720 --> 0:02:48.760 this caught all of us off guard yesterday. We didn't 0:02:48.780 --> 0:02:51.679 really know what to make of it, but we now 0:02:52.139 --> 0:02:55.860 know more. We have more information. And it's kind of 0:02:56.480 --> 0:03:00.320 what you might expect from a libertarian-leaning person like Thomas Massey. Now, 0:03:00.930 --> 0:03:03.549 he lost his primary. He's on his way out. Obviously, 0:03:03.610 --> 0:03:06.190 he's making what he feels is the most of his 0:03:06.230 --> 0:03:10.690 time here. Okay, so what is he alleging that Pete 0:03:10.710 --> 0:03:14.290 Hegseth has done? So Massey is accusing Hegseth of deliberately 0:03:14.350 --> 0:03:18.280 killing civilians... Now, you might remember when the first strikes 0:03:19.100 --> 0:03:22.740 in Iran happened, there was an Iranian school that was hit. 0:03:22.760 --> 0:03:26.740 A bunch of kids died. Terrible tragedy. So he's accusing 0:03:26.780 --> 0:03:32.250 Hegseth of deliberately killing civilians in that strike. He's accusing 0:03:32.290 --> 0:03:36.890 Hegseth of extrajudicial killings. And this is related to the 0:03:36.950 --> 0:03:42.690 Venezuelan narco boat blowing those up. So that's another thing. 0:03:43.210 --> 0:03:44.510 By the way, you had an interesting note. You were 0:03:44.550 --> 0:03:46.610 very skeptical of that whole thing because you were worried 0:03:46.630 --> 0:03:48.310 we were going to get some fishermen. 0:03:49.050 --> 0:03:51.400 I was skeptical of that because I just felt even 0:03:51.460 --> 0:03:53.700 if you think it's great to blow up drug smugglers, 0:03:53.780 --> 0:03:56.340 it felt like the situation where it was a matter 0:03:56.360 --> 0:03:58.900 of time until we'd inevitably blow up the wrong boat. 0:03:59.480 --> 0:04:01.860 And I just feel like we've never actually had that 0:04:01.880 --> 0:04:04.710 case where it just turned out, oh, this was obviously 0:04:04.730 --> 0:04:06.190 just a fishing boat and was destroyed. 0:04:06.230 --> 0:04:08.590 So I will give them credit that we haven't had 0:04:08.630 --> 0:04:09.070 that story. 0:04:09.090 --> 0:04:12.740 It sounds like a lot of the drug smuggling activity 0:04:12.840 --> 0:04:14.560 ceased once they started blowing those up. 0:04:14.680 --> 0:04:19.520 Fentanyl deaths are down about 50%. Yeah. Huge, huge. So 0:04:19.540 --> 0:04:21.820 he's accusing him of extrajudicial killings. Okay. 0:04:22.400 --> 0:04:27.029 He's accusing Hegseth of suppressing free speech by investigating Democrats 0:04:27.050 --> 0:04:30.610 like Mark Kelly, who I believe were trying to foment 0:04:30.770 --> 0:04:36.310 insurrection in the armed forces, telling them to disobey unlawful orders. 0:04:36.630 --> 0:04:36.890 Okay. 0:04:36.910 --> 0:04:40.870 But what is unlawful orders? who's going to determine that. 0:04:41.190 --> 0:04:41.510 Okay. 0:04:41.950 --> 0:04:47.029 They were trying to foment, uh, absolutely foment, uh, insurrection 0:04:47.050 --> 0:04:49.330 in the military. In my opinion, he was right to 0:04:49.850 --> 0:04:54.789 hold Mark Kelly accountable. And finally, Massey accuses Hegseth of kidnapping. 0:04:55.070 --> 0:05:00.210 Who did he kidnap? Nicholas Maduro. He accuses of kidnapping 0:05:00.270 --> 0:05:02.089 Nicholas Maduro and bringing him to the U S to 0:05:02.130 --> 0:05:05.469 stand trial. Uh, you know, what's interesting about this is 0:05:05.710 --> 0:05:08.620 I've talked to a bunch of libertarians, small L and 0:05:09.160 --> 0:05:12.740 Even they admit that the operation in Venezuela was. 0:05:13.040 --> 0:05:16.940 It was the lightest touch military operation that we've basically 0:05:17.060 --> 0:05:17.560 ever done. 0:05:17.860 --> 0:05:21.460 Now, Venezuela was becoming a playground for the CCP, for Iran, 0:05:21.540 --> 0:05:21.820 for Cuba. 0:05:21.880 --> 0:05:25.260 For Russia. Probably some of those drug smuggling boats. Yeah, exactly. 0:05:26.040 --> 0:05:28.940 They got them out. Venezuela, for all intents and purposes, 0:05:29.260 --> 0:05:29.900 is doing. 0:05:31.250 --> 0:05:33.490 Well. It's now a U.S. ally. 0:05:33.529 --> 0:05:38.850 We took the second most adamantly anti-American government in the Americas... 0:05:39.110 --> 0:05:42.510 And made it a pro-American one, removed a bad dude, 0:05:42.930 --> 0:05:46.690 did it with the lightest touch possible. I mean, you 0:05:46.710 --> 0:05:49.370 could say that led us into the Iran stuff, and 0:05:49.390 --> 0:05:51.250 that's been tougher, and that would be a negative effect. 0:05:51.270 --> 0:05:55.610 But the Iran incident, the Venezuela incident itself seems perfect. 0:05:55.750 --> 0:05:58.450 No, that's what I'm saying. The most anti-interventionist crowd, of 0:05:58.510 --> 0:05:59.989 which I would include myself. 0:06:00.350 --> 0:06:02.330 We were really worried about that. And then it happened, 0:06:02.370 --> 0:06:04.300 and we said, oh. Well, yeah, exactly. 0:06:04.620 --> 0:06:07.280 People want to accuse us of being like so pro war. 0:06:07.360 --> 0:06:09.880 No, we are. Our approach is to the best of 0:06:09.940 --> 0:06:10.440 our ability. 0:06:10.500 --> 0:06:14.400 Exactly what we believe Charlie would do, which was, hey, 0:06:14.500 --> 0:06:20.730 warn against invading foreign lands and foreign interventions. But also 0:06:21.170 --> 0:06:22.970 have the back of the president when he makes a 0:06:22.990 --> 0:06:26.130 tough decision. OK, obviously, I have voiced my concerns about 0:06:26.170 --> 0:06:30.830 Iran on this show, as many of you know, multiple times. However, Venezuela, 0:06:31.470 --> 0:06:34.420 even if you are in that camp, is widely regarded 0:06:34.900 --> 0:06:39.310 as a well-executed, morally defensible operation. And by the way, 0:06:39.339 --> 0:06:42.000 it's kind of the Western Hemispheric dominance. We're getting back 0:06:42.180 --> 0:06:44.900 to that. So I think it's really important. I want 0:06:44.920 --> 0:06:47.080 to play some clips for you. And I want to 0:06:47.100 --> 0:06:48.560 hear from you, by the way. What do you guys 0:06:48.600 --> 0:06:54.919 think about Massey and this impeachment effort against Pete Hegseth? 0:06:55.360 --> 0:06:57.980 Freedom at CharlieKirk.com. I want to hear your thoughts, okay? 0:06:58.120 --> 0:07:00.420 Send us what you think. Freedom at CharlieKirk.com. Blake's going 0:07:00.440 --> 0:07:04.620 to read them in the next segment. Here's CK praising 0:07:04.670 --> 0:07:07.910 Pete Hegseth. And I will tell you, and Blake will attest, 0:07:08.650 --> 0:07:12.150 Charlie loved Pete dearly, and they were close friends. And 0:07:12.190 --> 0:07:15.590 when it came to his confirmation battle, there was no 0:07:15.930 --> 0:07:18.830 louder voice on the internet or on social media or 0:07:19.030 --> 0:07:21.470 on broadcast airwaves than Charlie Kirk. 0:07:21.710 --> 0:07:22.130 Stop five. 0:07:22.670 --> 0:07:25.570 Pete Hegseth is a great man. Pete Hegseth has honorably 0:07:25.810 --> 0:07:29.430 served his country. And Pete Hegseth right now is victim 0:07:29.770 --> 0:07:32.930 to a media smear job to try to destroy his 0:07:32.990 --> 0:07:36.970 character and try to remove him from the nomination for 0:07:37.050 --> 0:07:40.230 Secretary of Defense. Now some people say, but Charlie, he 0:07:40.250 --> 0:07:42.670 doesn't have the experience, you know, running a big organization. 0:07:42.690 --> 0:07:43.110 Hold on a second. 0:07:43.510 --> 0:07:48.650 He's actually served in the front lines of the department 0:07:50.280 --> 0:07:52.560 that he is going to have to run. Pete Hegseth 0:07:52.580 --> 0:07:56.840 has served his country with incredible bravery and courage. This 0:07:56.920 --> 0:08:00.380 is nothing compared to what he had to face on 0:08:00.400 --> 0:08:03.400 the front lines fighting for America. However, the media is 0:08:03.440 --> 0:08:07.140 doing their best to try and be the fourth estate. 0:08:07.160 --> 0:08:10.500 Remember when Charlie came out and said, Pete's the red line? 0:08:11.140 --> 0:08:14.160 If you stand against Pete, remember that Joni Ernst was, 0:08:14.320 --> 0:08:16.200 you know, there was some back and forth there. And 0:08:16.220 --> 0:08:18.100 he said, if you stand against Pete, that's the red line. 0:08:18.140 --> 0:08:21.840 We will actually move to primary you, Republicans. 0:08:21.880 --> 0:08:24.280 Charlie was just such a believer in, guys, you won 0:08:24.320 --> 0:08:27.240 this election because people were electing Donald Trump as president. 0:08:27.540 --> 0:08:31.180 They weren't electing random Republican senators who immediately have a 0:08:31.160 --> 0:08:32.300 10 percent approval rating. 0:08:32.460 --> 0:08:32.640 Yes. 0:08:33.300 --> 0:08:36.230 Donald Trump has the right to appoint his people to 0:08:36.270 --> 0:08:37.770 do what he ran on doing. 0:08:38.010 --> 0:08:38.210 Yeah. 0:08:38.630 --> 0:08:38.809 Yeah. 0:08:38.950 --> 0:08:41.730 He stood by that, too. Charlie goes on. 0:08:41.770 --> 0:08:43.230 We have a bunch of these clips, by the way. 0:08:44.490 --> 0:08:49.679 These Republican senators need to stand up and be counted. 0:08:50.360 --> 0:08:54.040 And if you are going to oppose Pete Hegseth, then 0:08:54.059 --> 0:08:56.900 we want to know your names and your states because 0:08:56.920 --> 0:09:00.370 we'll be visiting a neighborhood near you. If you're from Arkansas, 0:09:00.380 --> 0:09:03.110 if you're from Kansas, if you're from South Dakota, if 0:09:03.130 --> 0:09:06.750 you're from Idaho and you're against Pete Hegseth, You're going 0:09:06.770 --> 0:09:09.830 to have to defend that to your voters. You see, 0:09:10.030 --> 0:09:14.010 the American people did not vote for old bull Senate 0:09:14.030 --> 0:09:17.230 Republicans to get in the way of President Trump's mandate. 0:09:18.070 --> 0:09:18.510 Well said. 0:09:19.250 --> 0:09:20.510 So we want to know what you think. Send us 0:09:20.530 --> 0:09:22.949 your emails. Freedom at Charlie Kirk dot com. Freedom at 0:09:22.990 --> 0:09:26.200 Charlie Kirk dot com. I will tell you, this one 0:09:26.460 --> 0:09:29.839 caught me completely out of left field. And I just 0:09:29.860 --> 0:09:30.640 think it's egregious. 0:09:30.700 --> 0:09:32.160 I don't think it caught me out of left field 0:09:32.300 --> 0:09:36.310 just because I think Matt Forney said it well. The 0:09:36.370 --> 0:09:39.270 end stage of being based and anti-Trump is you become 0:09:39.290 --> 0:09:40.390 a resistance wine mom. 0:09:40.720 --> 0:09:41.579 So get this. 0:09:41.980 --> 0:09:42.240 All right. 0:09:42.380 --> 0:09:45.620 So I just, I grokked it, you know, and I said, 0:09:45.700 --> 0:09:49.660 has recruitment improved in the U.S. military since Pete Hegseth 0:09:49.679 --> 0:09:53.330 took over as SecDef? And it goes, recruitment has improved markedly. 0:09:53.530 --> 0:09:57.220 That's pretty good for for an ai uh so the 0:09:57.340 --> 0:10:01.900 army hit 101.7 percent navy hit 108 percent air force 0:10:02.080 --> 0:10:05.920 over 100 percent space force 103 percent marine corps hit 0:10:05.970 --> 0:10:10.510 their mark now that was in 2025 in 2026 all 0:10:10.550 --> 0:10:13.630 five active duty branches hit or exceeded their goals months 0:10:13.929 --> 0:10:17.900 earlier all ahead of schedule As of mid-2026 reporting, the 0:10:18.020 --> 0:10:22.500 Army signed more than 61,500 contracts against a $ 61, 000 goal 0:10:22.540 --> 0:10:27.960 that was announced in May. Navy reached its raised 45,000. 0:10:27.800 --> 0:10:28.819 Goal in late June. 0:10:29.120 --> 0:10:32.130 Air Force and Space Force hit theirs in April. Marine 0:10:32.150 --> 0:10:36.970 Corps also hit its 26,600 Marines target. 0:10:38.410 --> 0:10:41.410 All way ahead of schedule. Pretty remarkable. Okay, we got emails. 0:10:41.450 --> 0:10:43.590 Oh, we got a mountain of them. I can't even 0:10:43.610 --> 0:10:45.570 read all of them. People sent in so many, but 0:10:45.590 --> 0:10:49.050 let's get a few. santa says massey is a little 0:10:49.050 --> 0:10:51.710 12 year old scorned girl and he doesn't deserve enough 0:10:52.030 --> 0:10:54.430 and he doesn't get enough credit for that aspect please 0:10:54.530 --> 0:10:56.970 for the love of america be the first to give 0:10:57.010 --> 0:11:01.530 him that credit make temper tantrums great again mark says 0:11:01.950 --> 0:11:04.890 this impeachment attempt is unfortunately the next in a pattern 0:11:04.910 --> 0:11:08.470 of poor decisions massey has made since his wife died 0:11:08.570 --> 0:11:10.990 he's it's like he lost his governor when he lost 0:11:11.030 --> 0:11:12.170 her i used to really like. 0:11:12.030 --> 0:11:14.020 Him and by the way i mean You know, my 0:11:14.040 --> 0:11:14.780 heart goes out to him. 0:11:14.880 --> 0:11:16.800 Of course. Losing his wife. 0:11:16.880 --> 0:11:18.839 I mean, that's off limits. 0:11:18.960 --> 0:11:21.760 That's off limits. Well, we're not even attacking him. It 0:11:21.780 --> 0:11:23.780 just does unfortunately. Sure, sure, sure. 0:11:23.820 --> 0:11:27.329 Jolene says, my personal opinion is that this impeachment attempt 0:11:27.410 --> 0:11:30.390 shows his true colors. Massey is a jaded child who 0:11:30.429 --> 0:11:33.370 is now throwing a tantrum because he was fired. He 0:11:33.410 --> 0:11:37.110 is acting just like the people he vacationed with after 0:11:37.170 --> 0:11:39.880 his defeat. Huge Charlie fan and want to thank you 0:11:39.910 --> 0:11:43.589 all for having Erica's back. Eric says Massey is a 0:11:43.630 --> 0:11:46.010 brat who is taking his ball and going home due 0:11:46.050 --> 0:11:49.190 to his complete opposition to Trump's agenda the people sent 0:11:49.250 --> 0:11:53.390 him packing Jennifer says Thomas Massey is a lame rat 0:11:55.000 --> 0:11:58.540 Pete says Jim says Pete is doing a great job 0:11:58.660 --> 0:12:01.699 Massey is jealous because he's out of here and. 0:12:02.520 --> 0:12:05.480 That's about it this is SOT7 we'll take a quick 0:12:05.540 --> 0:12:09.429 breather from the emails this is Charlie reiterating that email. 0:12:09.370 --> 0:12:11.990 SOT7 First of all, Pete, you're doing a phenomenal job. 0:12:12.510 --> 0:12:14.230 I just want to say that from the American people 0:12:14.270 --> 0:12:18.210 that you don't get the credit that you deserve, obviously, 0:12:18.270 --> 0:12:21.070 in the mainstream media. You're running the world's largest and 0:12:21.110 --> 0:12:21.970 greatest military. 0:12:21.990 --> 0:12:26.370 Yeah, this is from Matt Gates, by the way, 170. And, 0:12:26.550 --> 0:12:29.209 you know, Matt is kind of an independent arbiter here. 0:12:29.470 --> 0:12:32.770 He goes, Maga Grifter here. I'll defend Sec War. I 0:12:32.809 --> 0:12:35.370 spent eight years on the Armed Services Committee. I watched 0:12:35.450 --> 0:12:38.410 Biden and Austin turn our military into drag queen theater. 0:12:38.900 --> 0:12:41.110 I saw them punish red states and move military missions 0:12:41.730 --> 0:12:44.950 over abortion laws. They abandoned hundreds of our troops in 0:12:45.010 --> 0:12:49.990 Niger and failed to advance meaningful new technologies. SecHeadset isn't perfect. 0:12:50.390 --> 0:12:53.250 His press briefings are often melodramatic and overwrought. He didn't 0:12:53.290 --> 0:12:56.360 inherit a perfect institution to run either. But he has 0:12:56.420 --> 0:12:59.240 reordered the culture of our military in profoundly positive ways. 0:12:59.320 --> 0:13:02.940 He got rid of race-based promotion. He insisted on physical standards. 0:13:03.400 --> 0:13:07.109 He prioritized patriotism and recruitment. He's actually shifted money away 0:13:07.160 --> 0:13:11.449 from failing legacy systems to more modernized, autonomous offense and defense. 0:13:11.870 --> 0:13:12.030 Rep. 0:13:12.050 --> 0:13:14.850 Massey, I know you disagree with Trump-Hegsteth on the Iran war. 0:13:15.190 --> 0:13:17.390 The debates we are having on foreign policy are important, 0:13:17.630 --> 0:13:19.369 and I too found it strange that Hegsteth went to 0:13:19.410 --> 0:13:22.320 Kentucky to personally campaign against you as our troops were 0:13:22.360 --> 0:13:25.020 in combat in harm's way. But impeachment is the wrong 0:13:25.100 --> 0:13:29.179 tool to pursue your objectives. Impeachment should not arise from 0:13:29.220 --> 0:13:31.439 policy disagreements or squabbles over competence. 0:13:32.000 --> 0:13:34.800 Good for him. In the meantime, Larry said, Massey is 0:13:34.820 --> 0:13:36.420 just being a bad word hole. 0:13:36.920 --> 0:13:40.400 I really appreciate Hegseth for what he is doing and 0:13:40.440 --> 0:13:41.040 what he has done. 0:13:41.179 --> 0:13:44.110 God bless him. These lunatic losers. 0:13:43.809 --> 0:13:47.070 Need to be removed immediately from office. I've been looking 0:13:47.090 --> 0:13:49.209 to see if we got anyone pushing near the line 0:13:49.230 --> 0:13:51.830 because it'd be fine if someone disagreed, but it does 0:13:51.870 --> 0:13:54.309 seem pretty uniform within our emails. 0:13:54.330 --> 0:13:54.560 Got it. 0:13:54.670 --> 0:13:54.929 All right. 0:13:54.970 --> 0:13:55.370 Fair enough. 0:13:56.150 --> 0:14:00.620 Yeah, I mean, listen, I find it to be really 0:14:01.100 --> 0:14:04.780 objectionable right, that this would be coming from our own side. 0:14:04.900 --> 0:14:07.780 Speaker Johnson's against it. And listen, I have a lot 0:14:07.800 --> 0:14:14.160 of compassion for people that are anti-war, anti-interventionists, and they're 0:14:14.179 --> 0:14:17.660 trying to get their message across. And I sympathize with 0:14:17.700 --> 0:14:19.740 that position. Blake and I both sympathize with that. We 0:14:19.800 --> 0:14:23.760 are very anti-foreign interventionists, especially in the Middle East. But, 0:14:25.080 --> 0:14:29.420 you know, we feel duty-bound to continue Charlie's rhythm on this, right? 0:14:29.540 --> 0:14:33.370 Because Charlie would quietly... work behind the scenes to advance 0:14:33.550 --> 0:14:35.810 what he believed was right. And in the case of Iran, 0:14:36.130 --> 0:14:37.810 he did not want to see us go into Iran. 0:14:37.830 --> 0:14:41.130 But when President Trump made the decision at Midnight Hammer, 0:14:41.930 --> 0:14:44.960 Charlie said, I trust that the person that we worked 0:14:45.000 --> 0:14:47.300 our tails off to get elected, that he's going to 0:14:47.340 --> 0:14:49.000 make the tough decisions and he's going to do it. 0:14:49.000 --> 0:14:50.200 We got to trust him and have his back. 0:14:50.300 --> 0:14:54.500 And especially he wouldn't crash out and demand the entire 0:14:54.580 --> 0:14:58.280 administration be eliminated so that we can have some far 0:14:58.320 --> 0:15:02.830 left Democrat reopen the border, bring back DEI. undo the 0:15:02.870 --> 0:15:04.830 huge amount of progress that we've made in so many 0:15:04.870 --> 0:15:07.420 different domains of america and that we're continuing to do 0:15:07.640 --> 0:15:10.560 we set another record for uh ice arrests in august 0:15:10.700 --> 0:15:13.760 yep every month great things are happening and what's especially 0:15:13.800 --> 0:15:17.940 impressive is they're happening where news cameras aren't always watching 0:15:17.980 --> 0:15:20.120 you have to go to niche x accounts that are 0:15:20.300 --> 0:15:23.720 aggressively tracking all the ice numbers because good news is 0:15:23.760 --> 0:15:24.600 just pouring. 0:15:24.300 --> 0:15:28.070 In there listen I totally agree. And we do have 0:15:28.350 --> 0:15:31.030 a problem with some of these guys like Massey. His 0:15:31.070 --> 0:15:33.730 constituency is younger and we need to reach out to them. 0:15:34.010 --> 0:15:36.160 We need to assure them that, hey, we have a 0:15:36.170 --> 0:15:39.700 domestic agenda that is robust and it is compelling. So 0:15:39.740 --> 0:15:41.680 that is a that is a very fair point. And 0:15:41.700 --> 0:15:44.300 I think the administration had missed the mark on some 0:15:44.320 --> 0:15:46.900 of those. Obviously, if you look at the polling, that's 0:15:46.960 --> 0:15:50.260 certainly true. And we miss Charlie's presence on these college 0:15:50.280 --> 0:15:53.290 campuses going out and arguing and advocating for our worldview. 0:15:53.590 --> 0:15:54.710 You can feel that. Right. 0:15:55.530 --> 0:15:57.710 But that doesn't mean, to Blake's point, that you turn 0:15:57.750 --> 0:16:01.670 into a horseshoe person and you go find common cause 0:16:01.750 --> 0:16:05.130 with the pro-abortionists that want to abort your child up 0:16:05.150 --> 0:16:07.650 to the point of birth, even after birth. Some of 0:16:07.670 --> 0:16:10.730 these states, you know, they've eliminated prosecuting moms with their 0:16:10.770 --> 0:16:13.660 child dies within the first year in some of these places. 0:16:13.760 --> 0:16:17.660 They won't even pursue prosecution. It's like Lindsey Clancy on steroids. 0:16:17.680 --> 0:16:20.060 This is happening all over the place. I'm not going 0:16:20.080 --> 0:16:22.500 to go find common cause with the open borders lobby 0:16:23.000 --> 0:16:25.380 that wants to throw up in the borders and replace 0:16:25.400 --> 0:16:27.720 the body politic in this country to get a compliant, 0:16:28.160 --> 0:16:30.560 dependent underclass that will vote for them. 0:16:30.920 --> 0:16:31.710 I'm not going to do it. 0:16:32.160 --> 0:16:34.940 I'm not going to go with the anti-white group that 0:16:34.980 --> 0:16:36.940 hate white people just to hate them. I'm not going 0:16:36.960 --> 0:16:40.020 to go with the anti-Christian group that hates Christians, that 0:16:40.200 --> 0:16:45.550 advocates against Christian freedoms. So even, here's my other point. 0:16:46.410 --> 0:16:48.750 So the horseshoe people like to say, well, it doesn't 0:16:48.790 --> 0:16:51.070 matter if we vote left or right, Republican or Democrat, 0:16:51.090 --> 0:16:55.220 because we still get foreign wars. okay let's just concede 0:16:55.240 --> 0:16:57.460 the point i don't agree with that at all but 0:16:57.500 --> 0:16:59.540 let's just concede the point for one second okay so 0:16:59.560 --> 0:17:03.280 if you get foreign wars then you're making my point 0:17:03.300 --> 0:17:05.330 that it's still better to vote for the republican because 0:17:05.350 --> 0:17:09.130 you get different domestic policies you get closed borders you 0:17:09.150 --> 0:17:13.830 get meritocracy instead of dei you get pro-life policies you 0:17:13.850 --> 0:17:18.340 get the smallest federal government since 1966 you get the 0:17:18.380 --> 0:17:22.930 lowest death and murder rate since 1900 per capita All 0:17:22.970 --> 0:17:26.690 of these things made possible by the Trump administration. So, yeah, 0:17:26.710 --> 0:17:29.250 things are not perfect. We are a coalition. You're not 0:17:29.270 --> 0:17:32.610 going to be happy with everything. But hopefully, cooler heads 0:17:32.630 --> 0:17:35.859 will prevail, and we will say this is obviously the 0:17:35.880 --> 0:17:36.780 better route for the country. 0:17:37.320 --> 0:17:41.129 Charlie believes. If you're looking at. 0:17:41.090 --> 0:17:44.590 Your investment portfolio and feeling pretty smart right now, remember, 0:17:44.810 --> 0:17:47.530 a bull market can make anyone look like a genius. 0:17:47.690 --> 0:17:49.770 If you've had a good run, the question is whether 0:17:49.830 --> 0:17:52.109 you keep it. The people who act early do it 0:17:52.170 --> 0:17:55.130 from a position of strength. The ones who wait act 0:17:55.190 --> 0:17:58.210 out of fear. 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She's a News Nation contributor, 0:18:38.210 --> 0:18:40.830 so she's being very gracious here. You can find her 0:18:41.030 --> 0:18:45.350 on Instagram and TikTok at The Unexpected Spy. Check her 0:18:45.450 --> 0:18:48.210 out there. Tracy, welcome to the show. I'm grateful to 0:18:48.250 --> 0:18:50.560 have you, and thanks for making some time for us today. 0:18:51.630 --> 0:18:53.399 I'm going to play this clip just to start us 0:18:53.580 --> 0:18:55.979 off because it kind of sets the table, and this 0:18:56.020 --> 0:18:59.040 was from some of what you did with News Nation here. 0:18:59.060 --> 0:18:59.419 Stop four. 0:19:00.030 --> 0:19:04.540 Charlie Kirk's family says Utah Valley University, campus police, and 0:19:04.660 --> 0:19:08.280 others did not properly address security concerns leading up to 0:19:08.320 --> 0:19:12.700 his assassination, despite multiple warnings. One Turning Point USA member 0:19:12.800 --> 0:19:16.619 even raised concerns about the roof where Kirk's alleged assassin 0:19:16.680 --> 0:19:17.379 shot him from. 0:19:17.400 --> 0:19:20.480 Notice of claim sent to the university from Erica's lawyers 0:19:20.850 --> 0:19:24.609 with a shocking accusation that before the event, a member 0:19:24.630 --> 0:19:28.520 of Turning Point USA texted the police chief Hello, Chief Long. 0:19:28.800 --> 0:19:31.680 We received this message today from the student group. There 0:19:31.740 --> 0:19:34.760 is student roof access pretty close to where Charlie Kirk 0:19:34.780 --> 0:19:37.740 will be set up at Utah Valley. If this is true, 0:19:38.050 --> 0:19:40.270 it would be nice to either have it controlled access 0:19:40.609 --> 0:19:42.770 or allow one of my guys to be there as well, 0:19:42.830 --> 0:19:43.490 if possible. 0:19:43.990 --> 0:19:46.570 Chief Long responded, I got you covered. 0:19:47.030 --> 0:19:49.629 It's not just a big mistake. It's a catastrophic mistake. 0:19:50.520 --> 0:19:53.320 So that was your take on, I guess it was 0:19:53.359 --> 0:19:55.400 a brief snippet, but I thought it was a really 0:19:55.440 --> 0:19:56.200 powerful line. 0:19:56.660 --> 0:19:58.600 So why don't you break this down for us? 0:19:58.640 --> 0:20:03.830 You've experienced crowd control, securing venues, securing large venues. When 0:20:03.850 --> 0:20:07.469 you read this notice of claim, what is your immediate reaction? 0:20:08.000 --> 0:20:09.699 Well, thank you so much for having me. To be 0:20:09.800 --> 0:20:14.179 completely honest with you, I was shocked by the lack 0:20:14.340 --> 0:20:17.680 of security and lack of planning, to be completely frank 0:20:17.740 --> 0:20:21.560 with you. The fact that there was no threat assessment 0:20:21.580 --> 0:20:26.260