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Speaker 3: All right, welcome to The Charlie Kirk Show. March fourth,
Speaker 3: twenty twenty six, welcome, Blake. Lots to get to today
Speaker 3: we have a jam pack show. I'm excited to announce
Speaker 3: that we have Steve Toff who has he took down
Speaker 3: took down Dan Frenchman, Dan Crenshaw, and that was a
Speaker 3: big upset. Dan Crenshaw becomes the first incumbent House member
Speaker 3: to lose his reelection bid.
Speaker 4: So he's done and so there you go. That is
Speaker 4: a turning point.
Speaker 3: Action endorsed candidate taking out d Dan Crenshaw in Texas's
Speaker 3: second district.
Speaker 5: To everyone who turned out Phoenix Woodlands.
Speaker 3: Area north of Houston, Houston, because you know you limited
Speaker 3: veotix anyway. So we've got him in the second hour
Speaker 3: at one point thirty eastern, so don't go anywhere.
Speaker 4: We're excited to talk to him. We've actually also got
Speaker 4: an admiral.
Speaker 3: We're going to talk tactics, what we know about chessboard
Speaker 3: pieces moving across the board in the Iran War. But
Speaker 3: we want to unpack everything that's going on right now
Speaker 3: with the primary elections in Texas that happened last night
Speaker 3: here on Real America's Voice. Steve Bannon did a bang
Speaker 3: up job covering the outcomes last night, So kudos to
Speaker 3: him had tip big time. But let's get into the
Speaker 3: Senate race. Because this was the big one, and there's
Speaker 3: a lot going on, you know, on the AG's house races.
Speaker 3: We get that. Let's go, let's go to this. John
Speaker 3: Cornyn looks like he eked out a victory over Ken Paxton.
Speaker 3: We endorse Ken Paxton. But the big story here, Blake
Speaker 3: is it's hard to overstate how much of a David
Speaker 3: versus Goliath story this.
Speaker 4: Actually, yeah, they.
Speaker 5: Spent approximately what sixty million dollars.
Speaker 3: I've seen sixty I've seen seventy five. I've seen one
Speaker 3: hundred and five.
Speaker 6: It depends huge amounts of money either way. They massively
Speaker 6: spent to keep Cornyn in office. I would say corn
Speaker 6: has to be one of the Republicans who sparks the
Speaker 6: least enthusiasm among the base of his state and around
Speaker 6: the country.
Speaker 3: Well, here's the angle here, though. If you're looking at that,
Speaker 3: you see Wesley Hunt got almost three hundred thousand votes. Okay,
Speaker 3: that is a lot of votes, and mark my words,
Speaker 3: turnout's going to be even higher for the next for
Speaker 3: the runoff. Okay, so what you're seeing is a forty
Speaker 3: one point nine percent for Cornyn the incumbent over forty
Speaker 3: point seven percent for Ken Paxton.
Speaker 5: I mean, it's just corn corn is a guy.
Speaker 6: I think it's pretty safe to say Paxton has advantaged
Speaker 6: in the runoff. And the reason for this is Cornan
Speaker 6: is a pro amnesty Republican, yes, well known for that.
Speaker 3: Also Wesley Hunt. Most of those votes for Wesley Hunt
Speaker 3: are probably going to go to Paxton. And here's the
Speaker 3: other thing. The Senate Leadership Fund was hitting Wesley Hunt.
Speaker 3: So if the Senate Leadership Fund is obviously wants John
Speaker 3: corn they think John Cornyn is the more electable of
Speaker 3: the two candidates, But then you go after Wesley Hunt,
Speaker 3: you're alienating Wesley Hunt's voters. I'm not exactly sure what
Speaker 3: the logic was on that, But the piece here that's
Speaker 3: important is the establishment wants John Cornyn. They think that
Speaker 3: he is more electable. And maybe he might be maybe.
Speaker 5: Although it's okay he's a vote for amnesty. I would
Speaker 5: rather not have a vote for amnesty in the Senate.
Speaker 5: He's a vote against so many things.
Speaker 3: He might be more electable or but here's the thing.
Speaker 3: They have said this about Ken Paxton from the jump.
Speaker 3: They have done this to him in every statewide election,
Speaker 3: and guess what, Ken Paxton keeps winning and winning by
Speaker 3: a sizable majority. Now, I'm not saying that if you
Speaker 3: put Cornyan up against Tall Rico that corn wouldn't get
Speaker 3: maybe a percentage point more or a percentage point and
Speaker 3: a half. But then you get this senator that's good
Speaker 3: for nothing in the US Senate. We have enough of those.
Speaker 3: Ken Paxton is a fighter. He's proven he can win
Speaker 3: statewide again and again and again. They always throw the
Speaker 3: same attack lines at him. He's absolutely capable of winning
Speaker 3: the against well.
Speaker 5: That is the more important thing.
Speaker 6: Because the candidate on the Democrat side, I think we
Speaker 6: were all hoping we would get to go against Jasmine Crockett.
Speaker 6: We all have found her highly entertaining. She's given us
Speaker 6: a lot of enjoyment.
Speaker 5: Over the years.
Speaker 6: But Jasmine Crockett's somewhat long shot primary bid where she
Speaker 6: opened with a video of President Trump calling her an
Speaker 6: idiot while sitting there, has fallen short. She has fallen short.
Speaker 6: We should bid farewell for her with one final video,
Speaker 6: I think, which is her coming out and saying that
Speaker 6: the primary was rigged by the Republicans. We will note
Speaker 6: primaries in Texas are just run by the parties themselves.
Speaker 6: So I guess the Republican has infiltrated the Democrat Party
Speaker 6: and just set.
Speaker 4: It all up.
Speaker 6: We'll bid her farewell with one last cry of racism.
Speaker 7: For seventy one alright has already stated we encourage each
Speaker 7: and every one of you to remain resilient. We cannot
Speaker 7: allow this type of behavior to be rewarded, because so
Speaker 7: long as they know that they can win, even if
Speaker 7: it means cheating, then they will continue.
Speaker 8: To do it.
Speaker 4: Wait wait, wait, wait, wait wait wait, hold on.
Speaker 3: I have been credibly informed that there is no such
Speaker 3: thing as election fraud. I have been credibly informed. But
Speaker 3: yet Jasmine Crockett alleges that there was cheating going on.
Speaker 3: My favorite thing to see is Democrats alleging other Democrats
Speaker 3: are cheating or in this case, I guess she did.
Speaker 3: She said that Republicans rigged it or something. I don't
Speaker 3: know why we would rig it, Okay, I had, so
Speaker 3: I begrudgingly am going to give Blake to a little
Speaker 3: hat tip period a very good line about Tall Rico.
Speaker 6: Now Tall Rico, so that is that is who won
Speaker 6: James Tolerance Ta Rico Presbyterian seminarian, I think is what
Speaker 6: he was so and.
Speaker 4: But but is he moderate?
Speaker 6: Well, so that's the thing is that they're going we
Speaker 6: often kind of reintroduce talercate everyone. You're going to be
Speaker 6: seeing him. He is now the standard bearer for the
Speaker 6: Democrats this midterm. He is their guy. He's probably going
Speaker 6: to get the most money. If he were to win
Speaker 6: next November, it will be touted as their biggest win.
Speaker 6: We're going to see this guy everywhere, James tell Rico,
Speaker 6: and they're going to tell you he's a moderate, he's
Speaker 6: the new face of the Democrat party. He's Christian, he's
Speaker 6: a good old boy, all these things. James tall Rico
Speaker 6: is not moderate. He's just white.
Speaker 5: That's just all in it. He is a white male.
Speaker 3: Can we repeat that for the folks in the back
Speaker 3: that maybe didn't hear you. James tall Rico is not moderate,
Speaker 3: he's just white.
Speaker 6: It is the exact same thing they ran with Tim
Speaker 6: Walls in last the well not a man there, but yeah,
Speaker 6: Tim Walls. The point is they trot this guy out
Speaker 6: and they say, look, he's a white, straight guy. You know,
Speaker 6: he hunts, he was on a football team or ago.
Speaker 6: He's moderate, He's safe for all of you when we
Speaker 6: know because he tells you himself. He embraces all of
Speaker 6: the worst, most radical policies of the Democratic Party, like
Speaker 6: we have Gavin Newsom coming out and sort of signaling
Speaker 6: now we should maybe chill out on the transgender stuff, guys,
Speaker 6: when this guy is going out and uh saying stuff
Speaker 6: like this four ninety five.
Speaker 9: God is both masculine and feminine and everything in between.
Speaker 9: God is non binary.
Speaker 6: Or this where he said, uh, you know, there are
Speaker 6: six biological sexes five twenty four.
Speaker 9: I want us all to be aware of is that
Speaker 9: that modern science obviously recognized as that there are many
Speaker 9: more than two biological sexes.
Speaker 10: In fact, there are six, but six biological sexes, Like
Speaker 10: this is the moderate, Say this is the moderate because
Speaker 10: the radical debs they believe there's infinity sexes.
Speaker 3: At least he's limiting it to six. So this is
Speaker 3: he is moderate. He's a total modern he only believes
Speaker 3: in six sexes. So here's here's a Bible verse for you,
Speaker 3: Blake James fourteen six. Jesus answered, I am the Way
Speaker 3: and the Truth and the Life. No one comes to
Speaker 3: the Father except through me. Now Here ta Rico's take
Speaker 3: on this five point thirty.
Speaker 9: Five leave Christianity points to the truth. I also think
Speaker 9: other religions of love point to the same truth. I
Speaker 9: think of different religious traditions as different languages. So you
Speaker 9: and I could sit here and debate what to call
Speaker 9: this cup, and you could call it a cup in English,
Speaker 9: you'd call it something else in Spanish and French. But
Speaker 9: we are all talking about the same reality. I believe
Speaker 9: Jesus Christ reveals that reality to us, but I also
Speaker 9: think that other traditions reveal that reality in their own ways,
Speaker 9: with their own symbol structures. And I've learned more about
Speaker 9: my tradition by learning more about Buddhism and Hinduism and
Speaker 9: Islam and Judaism, and so I see these beautiful faith
Speaker 9: traditions as circling the same truth about the universe, about
Speaker 9: the cosmos, and that truth is inher a mystery.
Speaker 3: Okay, Okay, I think it's worth repeating every time you
Speaker 3: see these clips. I want you to tell yourself, James
Speaker 3: taal Rico is not moderate.
Speaker 4: He's just white. Okay.
Speaker 6: I mean, so, I think we have we can come
Speaker 6: up with various terms for what tall Rico believes, but
Speaker 6: it's not for Christianity, that is, a er believer in
Speaker 6: the Christ who said he was sent by God to
Speaker 6: redeem sens or not answer the question well.
Speaker 4: And this is the thing.
Speaker 3: Left wing Christianity is an extraordinary intellectual exercise because you
Speaker 3: can see there James tal Rico is twisting himself into
Speaker 3: ideological and intellectual knots, trying to carve a way out
Speaker 3: for a progressive to relate to what he's saying so
Speaker 3: that they don't think he's a bigot, you know, not
Speaker 3: like all us Maga Bible thumpers. And it's designed progressive
Speaker 3: christian to blot out all the aspects of the faith
Speaker 3: that don't align with the Democrat Party platform. Sat another way,
Speaker 3: they put their own ideologies, their own wants, their own
Speaker 3: appetites ahead of the commandments of God in scripture. And
Speaker 3: that's why it's completely unrecognizable to your average Christian, to
Speaker 3: your average Evangelical, to your average Catholic, to your average Orthodox.
Speaker 3: And this is a verse for James Tyalrico. I'd love
Speaker 3: to get his feedback on the two Timothy four three
Speaker 3: through four, for the time is coming when people will
Speaker 3: not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears, they will
Speaker 3: accumulate for themselves, teachers to suit their own passions, and
Speaker 3: will turn away from listening to the truth and wander
Speaker 3: off into myths. And that's what you're seeing with the
Speaker 3: progressive Christians like James tall Rico.
Speaker 5: I feel like we.
Speaker 6: Need, we're gonna need a sustained investigation to find out
Speaker 6: how many coexist.
Speaker 5: Bumper stickers, James Tolerago.
Speaker 6: Hass on his car, on his computers, on various paraffine
Speaker 6: alia throughout his life because the answer.
Speaker 5: Is not zero, the answer zero.
Speaker 3: Well, and listen. To make a further point, this is
Speaker 3: how James tall Rico uses scripture in his Christian faith,
Speaker 3: and going to seminary of course, because because no seminaries
Speaker 3: are progressive. Of course, to defend abortion, not just any abortion,
Speaker 3: by the way, trans abortion as well.
Speaker 4: Four ninety.
Speaker 9: Before we go further, I want to acknowledge that our
Speaker 9: trans community needs abortion care too. Defending Trans Texas is
Speaker 9: something we have to do every day at the state Capitol,
Speaker 9: and you better believe I'll be getting sermons on that too.
Speaker 9: So when I use the word woman, it should not
Speaker 9: be understood as an exhaustive term, but rather as a
Speaker 9: as a lens through which to understand, examine, and interrogate patriarchy.
Speaker 6: Okay, so I'm going to note something. So for those
Speaker 6: against say he was preaching Saint Andrew's Presbyterian church, I
Speaker 6: want to go back to his whole Every religion is true.
Speaker 6: Saint Andrew is an apostle, and according to tradition, he
Speaker 6: is martyred on an ex cross because he will not
Speaker 6: follow the Roman gods. He will not follow other the
Speaker 6: pagan gods. He preaches that Christ is the savior and
Speaker 6: the only you know is the way and the truth
Speaker 6: of life, and that God is the only God. And
Speaker 6: for that he is executed according to Christian tradition. That
Speaker 6: is why he is Saint Andrew.
Speaker 5: So how can.
Speaker 6: James go out there and say, well, actually, the Romans
Speaker 6: were also just on their way to the truth, and
Speaker 6: you know he probably should have been more tolerant of that.
Speaker 3: Well, he probably would have said, well, the Romans were
Speaker 3: not practicing a religion of love.
Speaker 6: He might have said the bet because the Romans, the
Speaker 6: Romans didn't have nearly the problem with abortion that the
Speaker 6: early Christians did.
Speaker 5: But no, he says they were wrong on that one too.
Speaker 3: Listen, be careful and beware of false teachers that will
Speaker 3: lead you astray, and they will tell you whatever their
Speaker 3: itching ears want to hear because they are avoiding persecution
Speaker 3: for the truth. That is essentially what this is. God says,
Speaker 3: do you fear man? Do you fear God?
Speaker 4: Well?
Speaker 3: When you watch down scripture and when you put your
Speaker 3: own intellect and your own ideologies and your own political
Speaker 3: platform ahead of what scripture says, well, that's false teaching
Speaker 3: and it's extremely dangerous. But wait, there's more. James tall
Speaker 3: Rico's bad on the border. Can you imagine being a
Speaker 3: Texan and being awful on the border, and you.
Speaker 6: Have a Republican's bad on the border in the Senate
Speaker 6: for Texas.
Speaker 4: Right, fair enough, four ninety four.
Speaker 9: Our southern border should be like our front porch. There
Speaker 9: should be a giant welcome mat out front and a
Speaker 9: lock on the door. We can welcome immigrants who want
Speaker 9: to live the American dream. We can build a pathway
Speaker 9: to citizenship for those neighbors who have been here, making
Speaker 9: us richer and stronger, and we can keep out people
Speaker 9: who mean to do us harm.
Speaker 4: Giant front porch welcome.
Speaker 6: He is not moderate, He's just a white guy, and
Speaker 6: they're going to endlessly do this spent and it's really sinister.
Speaker 6: As as Christians, we have to be especially alert when
Speaker 6: they put these fake Christians in front of you and
Speaker 6: they say, oh, yeah, he's he loves Jesus too, and
Speaker 6: when they're preaching something that is really evil. When he
Speaker 6: is preaching literal child sacrifice in a supposed church, that
Speaker 6: is honestly far worse and far more sinister it than
Speaker 6: if he was just a non religious democrat.
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Speaker 3: most accomplished military minds that I think we've ever had,
Speaker 3: and I want to talk strategy, chessboard, chess pieces on
Speaker 3: a board kind of thing. This is Admiral Bob Harward
Speaker 3: He grew up in Iran, graduated from the Tehran American
Speaker 3: School and speaks Farsi. A former Navy seal and Vice admiral,
Speaker 3: he led US operation in Afghanistan in Iraq served as
Speaker 3: Deputy commander of the US Central Command, I mean, counter terrorism,
Speaker 3: all the things. This is a very accomplished gentleman, Admiral
Speaker 3: Bob Harwood. Welcome to the show. Honored to have you.
Speaker 3: There's so much news out of Iran. Give us the
Speaker 3: big picture of view right now. How are our troops
Speaker 3: along with the israel How are they performing? Are we
Speaker 3: ahead of schedule, behind schedule? Your assessment, sir, incredible.
Speaker 11: The whole thing, from cradle to grave is just incredible.
Speaker 11: That's the best description I can have. That we had
Speaker 11: a leader who was finally, after forty years, willing to
Speaker 11: take the political risk to stand up to this repressive
Speaker 11: regime that has been killing our people, attacking our partners
Speaker 11: in the region, attacking us in cyber and panetic activities
Speaker 11: in Iraq and Yemen. So that in itself is incredible.
Speaker 11: Then the actions of our military the real testament, the
Speaker 11: long term investments, the long term commitment, the professionalism of
Speaker 11: our military, and the capability and capacity of our military
Speaker 11: to come in here in a matter of days and
Speaker 11: really obliterate their integrated air defense system, their ability to
Speaker 11: project power. So it's just unprecedented. And then most important
Speaker 11: is you've noted the strategy and what this means. This
Speaker 11: changes the geopolitical content of a world as we know it.
Speaker 11: Right now, we've removed one of the axis of evil
Speaker 11: that everyone's acknowledged for the last three or four decades.
Speaker 11: Or it's just incredible in every way.
Speaker 3: So I want to play this clip from Secretary of
Speaker 3: War Pete Hegseth talking about kind of the initial volley
Speaker 3: and return fire that we saw from around. He talks
Speaker 3: about it as a scripted play, like a football team
Speaker 3: for eighty two.
Speaker 12: But I like in Iran's predicament to a football team
Speaker 12: who scripted the first twenty plays of a game. The
Speaker 12: team knew what plays to run because their first few
Speaker 12: drives were scripted. But now that the game has started
Speaker 12: and the blitz is on, they don't know what plays
Speaker 12: to call, let alone how to get in the huddle
Speaker 12: and call those plays. Iran's senior leaders are dead. The
Speaker 12: so called governing council that might have selected a successor dead, missing,
Speaker 12: or cowering in bunkers, too terrified to even occupy the
Speaker 12: same room.
Speaker 4: General's, mid level officers, enlisted ranks.
Speaker 12: They can't talk or communicate, let alone mount a coordinated
Speaker 12: and sustained offensive. The Iranian Air Force is no more
Speaker 12: built for nineteen ninety six, destroyed in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 12: The Iranian Navy rests at the bottom of the Persian Gulf.
Speaker 3: So now this, I mean, all of this is amazing.
Speaker 3: And Pete hag Seth basically said that you know their
Speaker 3: aired defe This is about We're about to command this
Speaker 3: guy's over Iran in a day or two, less than
Speaker 3: a week. But then the question, then, Sir, becomes how
Speaker 3: long does this take?
Speaker 6: Because we are seeing the concerns Admiral about missile stockpiles.
Speaker 6: Does the US have enough for this to go weeks
Speaker 6: months on end? Can we win that war of attrition
Speaker 6: with whatever Iran's built up? That's a concern I'm seeing
Speaker 6: a lot of people have, and we are seeing, for example,
Speaker 6: people are betting money on this sort of thing, and
Speaker 6: the prediction markets say there's only about a forty percent
Speaker 6: chance that the regime falls by July. Can the us
Speaker 6: sustain this if the fight is going into April, May,
Speaker 6: the summer, June, July.
Speaker 11: Well, first off, I just agree with that premise completely.
Speaker 11: And again, our stockpiles are less relevant once we stop
Speaker 11: the ability to project power. If they can't launch missiles,
Speaker 11: they can't launch drones, they can't mind the straits of
Speaker 11: our mows. Who cares how long it takes. They can't
Speaker 11: hurt us, they can't hurt our allies. Time is on
Speaker 11: our sides, and do we arm the courage? Do we
Speaker 11: move arms into the people the opposition? Look, we've had
Speaker 11: thirty years of hunting people in Iraq, Afghanistan, Yem and everywhere.
Speaker 11: We can apply that same capability here in Iran to
Speaker 11: the IRGC and the regime that's been killing its people.
Speaker 11: So then time is irrelevant as long as they pose
Speaker 11: no threat and we've defanged them, which we're doing now.
Speaker 11: And as I said previously, we could will be at
Speaker 11: that tipic point now. We could take all the time
Speaker 11: in the world to eviscerate the leaders and those people
Speaker 11: who want to continue to project this ideology of radical
Speaker 11: Islam being a legit, jitimate form of government to repress
Speaker 11: its people and threaten others in the region and US
Speaker 11: and our allies. So time becomes irrelevant in that mind.
Speaker 11: So we have plenty of time to sustain that for
Speaker 11: whatever it takes. And I think back to your timeline
Speaker 11: June or July. Once we've eviscerated that and focused capacity
Speaker 11: and capability on the IRGC, you're going to see a
Speaker 11: lot more people turning. They're going to have to make
Speaker 11: that choice dry and while to live and be a
Speaker 11: part of the future or a my one just sacrifice
Speaker 11: my life for losing cause that has been proven to
Speaker 11: be illegitimate. So that's where I think this thing only accelerates.
Speaker 11: So this June and sustainment, I think that's a.
Speaker 4: Red hearing copy that.
Speaker 3: And so you're also a member of the Iron Policy
Speaker 3: Project at the Jewish Institute for National Security of America.
Speaker 3: So one of the things that's striking about this is
Speaker 3: you've seen, at least in America, but really around the world,
Speaker 3: you've seen Jews and Iranians celebrating in the streets together,
Speaker 3: which I think is a really I mean, you wouldn't
Speaker 3: necessary really see that or predict to see that, But
Speaker 3: you speak Farsi, you know something about the internal makeup
Speaker 3: of the people in Iran. What is the next step then,
Speaker 3: especially when we're talking about potentially arming the Kurds, I mean,
Speaker 3: because then you start worrying about civil war breaking out
Speaker 3: or something like that. What is the will of the
Speaker 3: IRGC and those loyal to the regime to stick and
Speaker 3: stay fighting, and what would be the process for turning
Speaker 3: over the government and getting a new government in its place.
Speaker 11: Let me go back to your initial comments about Israelis
Speaker 11: or Jews in the Iranians. When I grew up in
Speaker 11: Iran from sixties to seventy nine collapsed, the largest Jewish
Speaker 11: community outside of Israel was in Iran. It's right, and
Speaker 11: it was a very secular nation. They worked together business.
Speaker 11: It was really a peaceful area. And I've been in
Speaker 11: LA's and a few months ago where I attended bar
Speaker 11: Mitza there were more Persians and Iranians than there were
Speaker 11: Jews in that bar Mitzvah. So this ideology is what's
Speaker 11: made this whole regime so perverse. They flipped that on
Speaker 11: the head and made them their enemy and a threat
Speaker 11: as well as US, and the Iranian people have come
Speaker 11: to realize it's all a lie and facade. So again
Speaker 11: back to this flipping the regime. Once we've decimated that
Speaker 11: the ability to project power and can go after using
Speaker 11: signal intelligence, human intelligence, space assets, and can track and
Speaker 11: watch people not only to finish and fix them, but
Speaker 11: to identify them to the opposition groups so they can
Speaker 11: be targeted internally. And a few of those start occurring,
Speaker 11: You're going to watch these guys turn very quickly or
Speaker 11: leave the country if they can. So I think when
Speaker 11: you've got a nation of ninety million people where they've
Speaker 11: spoken very loudly, they've been on the streets protest and
Speaker 11: we're murdered, they're ready to hold these people accountable and
Speaker 11: act against them. And so again, I think that timeline
Speaker 11: can move much quicker than people realize.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and do we have have we? You know?
Speaker 3: I'm looking here at iran in an international dot com
Speaker 3: and there's a note here that I logged. It says
Speaker 3: the IRGC is also reportedly deeply concerned that once daylight
Speaker 3: breaks on Sunday, people across various parts of the country
Speaker 3: may take to the streets, potentially triggering a new wave
Speaker 3: of gatherings and protests. Have you heard anything on your
Speaker 3: end about a potential new wave of protests? People taking
Speaker 3: to the streets or is it too early to tell.
Speaker 11: No, it's inevitable. They've already been done it, but they
Speaker 11: were mowed down. Now the President, as he said, help
Speaker 11: is on the way. The help's there, and it's even coming.
Speaker 11: More so, they're gonna being powder. I don't know if
Speaker 11: it happens Sunday, if it happens Monday, it's coming. So
Speaker 11: no doubt about it. You'd have to be a blind
Speaker 11: man not to see a The day of reckoning for
Speaker 11: this regime and those who stood with it, willing to
Speaker 11: murder the people will be is coming much quicker than
Speaker 11: people realize. So this tipping point can occur almost any
Speaker 11: day now.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I mean, listen, we certainly hope it doesn't
Speaker 3: devolve into some sort of sectarian fighting or civil war.
Speaker 3: And that's why we have people like you that know
Speaker 3: the people better than we do and understand what's going
Speaker 3: to happen next. So last ten fifteen seconds to you, sir.
Speaker 11: Yeah, it's just again, just as we start. This is
Speaker 11: an incredible event, and we gotta start bickering phone stones
Speaker 11: at me. Let's see it through to fruition and then
Speaker 11: we can debate afterward. But We're in the middle of
Speaker 11: the fight now and this thing's going at a great
Speaker 11: rate of speed. Don't diminish it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, nobody, sir, nobody is.
Speaker 3: I mean, we're all impressed by our military, Mike, and
Speaker 3: it is incredible to watch.
Speaker 4: Thank you.
Speaker 3: Your perspective is invaluable and your accomplishments for this country
Speaker 3: are We respect them greatly and are grateful for you
Speaker 3: and your service, sir. Thank you so much. Thank you, guys,
Speaker 3: God bless you.
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Speaker 3: Our US military is second to none, and we love
Speaker 3: our military, we support them, and again, once this conflict
Speaker 3: began raging, we want to win, all right, once you
Speaker 3: press go, like I think, the patriotic thing to do
Speaker 3: is not take it blindly, not not ask questions or
Speaker 3: anything like that. I disagree with all of those things,
Speaker 3: but we hope and pray for the safety of our troops,
Speaker 3: for the success of our troops, and that this will
Speaker 3: ultimately prove to be a good thing for the world.
Speaker 3: Now you may have disagreed with this going on. By
Speaker 3: the way, Blake, Blake is gonna pull emails. We talked
Speaker 3: about this. I don't know if you've already done, but Yeah,
Speaker 3: I've been looking at them where where it's like, you know,
Speaker 3: we've got emails.
Speaker 6: And it's I feel like we've done our best on
Speaker 6: the show to talk about how we think Charlie would
Speaker 6: have reacted to the build up to this war and
Speaker 6: the outbreak of it. And I feel a sign that
Speaker 6: we're hopefully getting it right is we have competing emails
Speaker 6: that say we are betraying Charlie by being too supportive
Speaker 6: of the president, and we are betraying Charlie by being
Speaker 6: too critical of the lead up to.
Speaker 5: The war, and that we are skeptical of it. So
Speaker 5: and listen, I think that's about the position.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that was exactly Charlie's experience with when it came
Speaker 3: to these things. But a couple of cool things have happened,
Speaker 3: actually just and cool in the sense that, like, listen,
Speaker 3: I love our military. There's nothing that is going to
Speaker 3: make me not love the military. I my brother serves,
Speaker 3: I have family members that serve, and we're proud of
Speaker 3: them when they do cool things. And you know, you
Speaker 3: could disagree with the premise of the war and still
Speaker 3: think that what they're doing is cool. And one of
Speaker 3: them is that we have some sunk a ship. We
Speaker 3: have some submarine ship in battle and an American submarine.
Speaker 3: Let's throw up the bureau. Four ninety eight, an American
Speaker 3: submarine sunk an Iranian warship in the Indian Ocean.
Speaker 6: It had apparently gone to some sort of naval review
Speaker 6: in India and then it was departing. It was in
Speaker 6: international waters and it was sunk about thirty miles off
Speaker 6: that post Sri Lanka.
Speaker 5: Yeah, play it again.
Speaker 4: Amazing, you can see it there.
Speaker 6: We have a powerful torpedo blew its back off. It's
Speaker 6: only the second time a nuclear powered submarine has sunk
Speaker 6: a ship with a torpedo. The British famously took out
Speaker 6: the General Belgrano of.
Speaker 5: Argentina during the Falklands War.
Speaker 6: But this is the first time an American submarine has
Speaker 6: done it since they were sinking Japanese ships eighty years ago.
Speaker 6: And you've got to think it's got to be very exciting.
Speaker 6: Can you imagine that crew the first time for decades
Speaker 6: they've trained for this and they're finally going into action.
Speaker 3: And listen, that is a huge, huge deal that the
Speaker 3: taking out the naval capabilities of the Iranians freeze up
Speaker 3: the Strait of hormuse. So, just to reiterate, about twenty
Speaker 3: percent of the world's energy flows through the Strait and
Speaker 3: fourteen to fifteen percent of all world trade flows through.
Speaker 6: The heart of President Trump was saying what his specific
Speaker 6: objectives are with this conflict, and it was removed the
Speaker 6: Supreme Leader, remove their nuclear program and sink their navy.
Speaker 6: These are explicit objectives he has stated. So it takes
Speaker 6: us closer to achieving those objectives that this happened. And
Speaker 6: that's what we want to see. What we want consistently
Speaker 6: from this administration. We want to see signs that they
Speaker 6: know what their objectives are and are working towards them.
Speaker 6: And what you want to avoid are signs of a
Speaker 6: conflict becoming open ended, becoming unclear, just we will fight
Speaker 6: until victory, and this without saying what that is.
Speaker 3: This is a story that we need to get to here.
Speaker 3: And so CNN yesterday was reporting that the CIA is
Speaker 3: working to arm Kurdish forces.
Speaker 4: This was reported that lead reporter on this.
Speaker 3: Was Natasha Bertrand who you will know from the fifty
Speaker 3: former Intel officials you know believe that, but Hudter's top
Speaker 3: But that means they have questions this information, This Natasha
Speaker 3: is bertrand is notorious for basically publishing press releases from
Speaker 3: deep deep state intel operatives. Okay, this was a story
Speaker 3: that was leaked, meaning that in my opinion, the people
Speaker 3: that leaked it are trying to harm the president. So
Speaker 3: here's CNN trying to explain this for seventy.
Speaker 13: We spent some time this evening with a senior Iranian
Speaker 13: Kurdish politician who basically told us that he the expectation
Speaker 13: among Iraqi, sorry Kurdish Iranian opposition forces is that they
Speaker 13: will be going into western Iran as part of some
Speaker 13: kind of a ground operation over the course or at
Speaker 13: some point during the next few days. That they will
Speaker 13: have support from the US and from Israel, though he
Speaker 13: would not be drawn as to what exactly that support
Speaker 13: will look like. He also told us that President Trump
Speaker 13: himself had called the leader of the KDPI, which is
Speaker 13: one of these Iranian Kurdish opposition parties today, and that
Speaker 13: they had what he categorized as or characterized, I should say,
Speaker 13: as a positive.
Speaker 3: Common all right, So what's our history arming Kurdish, Well,
Speaker 3: we've done it for a long time.
Speaker 6: Israel also has extensive connections with the Kurds. So, the
Speaker 6: Kurds are an ethnic group in the mountainous area. They've
Speaker 6: never had their own state, notably, and.
Speaker 4: So they're the largest ethnic group in the world that
Speaker 4: does not have their own study.
Speaker 5: Yes, so they have.
Speaker 6: So they're all across northern Iraq, Iraq, Iran, they're in Turkey.
Speaker 6: I think most of them are in Turkey. There are
Speaker 6: some in Syria. They've repeatedly popped up because they tend
Speaker 6: to be their fractious minority. I don't know that they're
Speaker 6: more all of them are communists. We're more Western friendly,
Speaker 6: that would be true. And we've armed them in a
Speaker 6: lot of conflicts, and you know, sometimes it's helpful, sometimes
Speaker 6: it's not. We encouraged them to launch an uprising against
Speaker 6: Saddam Hussein uh and they were notably, they were gassed
Speaker 6: by Saddam Hussein before the Golf War. After the Gulf War,
Speaker 6: we encouraged both Kurds and Shia Muslims in a rock
Speaker 6: to rise up against Saddam, but we didn't support them directly,
Speaker 6: so they were suppressed. And they've also been heavily involved
Speaker 6: in the Syrian Civil War. So I would find it
Speaker 6: pretty plausible if we were in communication with them to
Speaker 6: have some sort of on the ground presence in Iran
Speaker 6: because President Trump, we know, doesn't want US troops there.
Speaker 6: But I would voice a note of concern here, which is,
Speaker 6: once you're kind of bringing in these ethnic militias, we
Speaker 6: have seen how that can end, which is you're turning
Speaker 6: into you're turning a conflict into an ethnic civil war.
Speaker 6: So we had that in Afghanistan, we had that in Libya,
Speaker 6: we had that in Syria. All those conflicts went for
Speaker 6: a very long time and became difficult.
Speaker 4: YEP, it will exactly. So these are part.
Speaker 3: Of the unintended consequences of regime change that we have
Speaker 3: talked about because.
Speaker 5: We don't want our mess.
Speaker 6: We don't want it to be possible for the Iranian
Speaker 6: regime to say President Trump is trying to dismember Iran
Speaker 6: as a country.
Speaker 5: That will make it so.
Speaker 6: The Iran you know, the Iranians themselves, the Persians, who
Speaker 6: are the main ethnic group there, would be more likely
Speaker 6: to rally around the regime if it's going to say
Speaker 6: they're going to break apart our country.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the hope is that within Iran itself, if you
Speaker 3: start seeing these street protests, take action, if you start
Speaker 3: seeing command and control breakdown within the IRGC and the
Speaker 3: KUDS force, and obviously the naval apparatus has been dismantled.
Speaker 3: You want to see a natural sort of takeover. The
Speaker 3: question is what is it going to take. I think
Speaker 3: it would be helpful.
Speaker 6: I think it would be helpful if the admind probably
Speaker 6: said overtly we promised to not take apart iron that
Speaker 6: they're I don't they want to?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't think they do, so they should, they
Speaker 5: should say it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they just want to apply maximum force to make
Speaker 3: them fall quickly. And I understand that, but unintended consequences
Speaker 3: regime change, it's always the concern.
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Speaker 3: We are joined by a couple of our college students.
Speaker 3: Every so often we like to do a segment devoted
Speaker 3: to them because it's kind of what it's all about.
Speaker 3: That's what Charlie dedicated his life to reaching the next generation.
Speaker 3: And today we have Megan Doyle from Rutgers University and
Speaker 3: Brooke Christy from Appalachian State University. Welcome to the show,
Speaker 3: both you, ladies.
Speaker 8: Thank you so much for having us here. It's exciting
Speaker 8: to be here.
Speaker 4: Absolutely. All right, Well, thank you so much. So. Which
Speaker 4: one's Megan, Which one's Brook? I'm Brook, I'm all right
Speaker 4: there you go, Hey, Brook, Hi, Meghan.
Speaker 3: All right, So I want to start off by asking
Speaker 3: you guys to give us the vibe on campus of
Speaker 3: this the strikes against Iran.
Speaker 4: What's the vibe?
Speaker 3: What are people saying, Let's go ahead and start be
Speaker 3: honest with us, Yes, beyond bad, tell us we want
Speaker 3: to know.
Speaker 4: We want the unvarnished truth. Brook, you first.
Speaker 13: Yeah.
Speaker 8: I think my campus especially, people are very upset with
Speaker 8: the United States and their involvement. I think that a
Speaker 8: lot of direction is pointed at Israel and questioning our
Speaker 8: allies and the motives in that way.
Speaker 14: And Meghan, yeah, I definitely agree that it's the same
Speaker 14: vibe that we're having on campus, and I think more
Speaker 14: people don't want to see another war.
Speaker 3: Copy, So are you seeing protests? Are you seeing are
Speaker 3: people gathering in the square in the quad? What kind
Speaker 3: of activities are you seeing this manifest in.
Speaker 8: I'm mostly seeing things through online platforms, people on Instagram
Speaker 8: or Twitter, just you know, really going in at President
Speaker 8: Trump and being upset that, you know, gas prices might
Speaker 8: go up and forever war Like, people really really do
Speaker 8: not want boots on the ground in this circumstance.
Speaker 6: Are you seeing that even from people that you know
Speaker 6: voted for Trump in twenty twenty four or is it more?
Speaker 6: Is it still mostly from people you know would be
Speaker 6: left wing regardless, or.
Speaker 8: I think the idea of starting a new foreign war
Speaker 8: is really even for Trump voters, really deterring people from
Speaker 8: wanting to align with the administration and their actions. I
Speaker 8: can't speak for everyone, but I've definitely seen those opinions
Speaker 8: on campus.
Speaker 4: Copy. Megan, you seeing the same.
Speaker 14: Thing, Ah, Yes, And I think more people want to
Speaker 14: focus on our country. They don't want another war. They
Speaker 14: want to focus on affordability and housing and the gas prices.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: And I mean, listen, you know, we've gotten a lot
Speaker 3: of emails from our audience that are upset that we're not,
Speaker 3: I guess more full throated in our support of the war.
Speaker 3: And this is a big reason why is because you know,
Speaker 3: Charlie was very in tune with gen Z. He visited
Speaker 3: college campuses at Turning Point, and that's all we do
Speaker 3: is work with students, and I can tell you that
Speaker 3: the vibe on college campuses, even on high school at
Speaker 3: the campus is that young people do not want to
Speaker 3: go to war. They want to focus here on domestic issues, affordability, college,
Speaker 3: that sort of thing.
Speaker 4: Free speech.
Speaker 3: Are they going to have a job? Is AI taking
Speaker 3: over the job market. So that's a big reason why
Speaker 3: we're always a little reticent when we see this pensiant
Speaker 3: for starting wars in the Middle East. It could end
Speaker 3: up being the absolute right decision from a national security perspective,
Speaker 3: but it does come with political costs and we need
Speaker 3: to be honest about those. So thank you, thank you
Speaker 3: guys for being honest about this. All right, We're going
Speaker 3: to move on just a little bit here. There's a
Speaker 3: new report that says fifty one percent of gen Z
Speaker 3: view their college degree as a waste of money. This
Speaker 3: has been reported by multiple outlets. But yeah, both of
Speaker 3: you are in a college.
Speaker 6: Yes, right now, so explain yourselves and yeah, tell us
Speaker 6: how you feel about that.
Speaker 3: Mean, let's start with you. Do you find your degree
Speaker 3: to be a waste of money?
Speaker 14: Well, I think my degree. I want to be a
Speaker 14: lawyer one day, so I kind of have to have
Speaker 14: a degree in order to get to law school. However,
Speaker 14: I do think that colleges are ripping each other, ripping
Speaker 14: students off from getting a proper education. We have colleges
Speaker 14: that are forcing students as a graduation requirement to take
Speaker 14: indoctrination classes and it's really the values our degree.
Speaker 8: B Yeah, I think that personally for me, I'm going
Speaker 8: into the education field and my degree will help me there.
Speaker 8: I think that a lot of students these days go
Speaker 8: into college with the expectation that the degree is the objective,
Speaker 8: when you know, college is really supposed to be for
Speaker 8: finding your life's work, and a lot of people are
Speaker 8: not going in directionally or thinking ahead of their career,
Speaker 8: so they're letting college really scam them instead of you know,
Speaker 8: taking accountability for their classes and outside learning. And I
Speaker 8: don't think college even with all of the social sciences
Speaker 8: and maybe like DEI classes and what we could call brainwashing.
Speaker 8: I think that just, you know, so taking that accountability,
Speaker 8: really understanding the investment that you're making, and going in
Speaker 8: with a purpose could really help with that statistic and
Speaker 8: letting kids know that when they go into college it's
Speaker 8: not just for your vacation, that it's purposeful and academia
Speaker 8: has a purpose.
Speaker 6: Yeah, ameractly, and Charlie would have you know, we like
Speaker 6: we emphasize the college scam because Charlie called it the
Speaker 6: college scam. But he would always make that important point
Speaker 6: that you make the scam less of one if you
Speaker 6: know what you're if you're studying something useful, if you're
Speaker 6: making the most of it, if you're not going on autopilot,
Speaker 6: going in with no plan, going in spending too much
Speaker 6: money and taking too long.
Speaker 3: Let's play Charlie on why he thought college was a
Speaker 3: scam five twenty three.
Speaker 1: Just to be clear, the vast majority of people going
Speaker 1: to college should not go. Just one number off the
Speaker 1: top is that forty percent of kids that enroll in college,
Speaker 1: they drop out, they don't graduate at all, And the
Speaker 1: vast majority of kids are studying things that humanity associate
Speaker 1: or gender studies. There is of course a role for
Speaker 1: some people to go to college that requires some technical proficiency.
Speaker 1: But what happened, Brian is that the entire value, the
Speaker 1: entire value proposition was turned on its head. Is whether
Speaker 1: it be the two hundred thousand dollars plus of cost
Speaker 1: that it occurs for over four years, the bad ideas,
Speaker 1: the woke ideology. We're really playing with some very dangerous
Speaker 1: elements here. And so I encourage young people to think
Speaker 1: twice before going to college, and not everyone needs to
Speaker 1: go to college to succeed in America.
Speaker 3: Do you resonate with that, Megan? Do you feel like
Speaker 3: there's a lot of indoctrination going on?
Speaker 14: Yes, definitely, there is quite a lot of indoctrination going
Speaker 14: on in our college campuses. We're forced to take these
Speaker 14: liberal woke classes that are supposed to are quote so
Speaker 14: kind of supposed to help us, but in reality they're
Speaker 14: just ripping us off and making us more woke.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and you have to pay for that credit by credit, right,
Speaker 3: don't call it. When I was in there's a there's
Speaker 3: a price per credit that they put on that. I
Speaker 3: don't know what it is at Rutgers, I'm assuming pretty high. Actually,
Speaker 3: you know Rutgers University. By the way, Blake was the
Speaker 3: we we had doctor Antifa was at Rutgers. That was
Speaker 3: a guy that wrote the Antifa Handbook and then fled
Speaker 3: to Spain when it got hot because he was advocating
Speaker 3: that politics should we should be preemptively liberal, should be
Speaker 3: preemptively attacking fascists. So and then when then when he
Speaker 3: got a little criticism for that, he tucktail in Rand
Speaker 3: to span.
Speaker 4: All Right, Megan, you keep saying, uh.
Speaker 3: You're talking about this, these courses you have to take,
Speaker 3: these indoctrination courses you have to take, But it sounds
Speaker 3: like maybe.
Speaker 4: You're not there yet.
Speaker 3: You're not juniors and seniors have to take these courses,
Speaker 3: which is ironic, right, so before you send them out
Speaker 3: in the world.
Speaker 6: In our yeah, it just says in our summary there's
Speaker 6: apparently literal and Antifa classes.
Speaker 3: And if Mark Bray, doctor Antifa, is still employed by
Speaker 3: Rutgers University institution, yes, a public school, it's a ridicul
Speaker 3: He fled to Spain and he's still got a job.
Speaker 3: So Megan, tell us about that. What are some of
Speaker 3: the courses you've heard about?
Speaker 14: So some of the courses that I've heard about was
Speaker 14: the history on abortion. And like you said, Mark Ray
Speaker 14: is in fact teaching the history of anti fascism, which
Speaker 14: he employs his Antifa rhetoric onto students and on along
Speaker 14: with the history on abortion. We have professors that are
Speaker 14: trying to push this pro choice view onto students.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's not education, that's activism. Do you see that
Speaker 3: at Appalachia's State Brookes?
Speaker 8: I do see some of it. I think there are
Speaker 8: certain classes that focus on critical theory and Marxisms, but
Speaker 8: a lot of teachers and professors, I think, try and
Speaker 8: express their opinions on that. A lot of them are
Speaker 8: very much pro leftist, and some of them do do
Speaker 8: a great job of, you know, actually engaging students in
Speaker 8: real education. What's troubling to me is students not wanting
Speaker 8: to break outside of their own thought circles and completely
Speaker 8: disregarding other or conservative ideas. So I think it's really
Speaker 8: like a student issue that professors, you know, put forward
Speaker 8: as well.
Speaker 3: So what is it like, you know, in the aftermath
Speaker 3: of Charlie's assassination for you, at turning point, a member
Speaker 3: tabling on campus, like, what's the stat how's the club doing?
Speaker 3: What's it like what's the reaction for other students at
Speaker 3: Appalachia State.
Speaker 8: Since we since Charlie has passed, we've gained about two
Speaker 8: hundred students. We started our chapter this semester with about
Speaker 8: thirty and now we're up to I think two hundred
Speaker 8: and thirteen. So it's been really great community building. We've
Speaker 8: had really helpful communication with staff and administration, putting on events,
Speaker 8: and we had a cow on campus the other day.
Speaker 8: But students are very much anti Turning Point, and I
Speaker 8: don't think that they truly want to engage with us
Speaker 8: as much if they're in those leftist circles. And that's
Speaker 8: something that I want to work on, is just overall
Speaker 8: campus communication.
Speaker 3: YEA, getting out there, inviting them to see that we're
Speaker 3: not all like crazy fascists that Mark Brad We're really just.
Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly. It turns out conservatives are happy.
Speaker 3: And nice and really welcoming if you give us a show,
Speaker 3: not that they would expect it.
Speaker 4: No, no, exactly.
Speaker 3: What about you, Megan, what's the what's the vibe on
Speaker 3: Rutgers University? You guys have some great student leaders, especially
Speaker 3: on the club level, that helped blow up that Mark
Speaker 3: brace story in the first place.
Speaker 14: Yes, yes, thank you so much. Yeah, the vibe with
Speaker 14: Turning Point beyond campus is quite negative. I remember when
Speaker 14: we did our tabling, and students often want to engage
Speaker 14: with us, but they don't. They really want to engage
Speaker 14: in a negative way. We've had students that mock Charlie
Speaker 14: Kirk stuff. We have students that openly insult us for
Speaker 14: our conservative and traditional beliefs, and it really just shows
Speaker 14: how divided we are, not only as a country but
Speaker 14: in campuses as well, and that shouldn't be the case.
Speaker 14: We should have open debate and open discussion. Just definitely
Speaker 14: something that colleges need to work on.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Danny's telling as he said at Ohio State, the
Speaker 3: college Democrats would threaten their members and people if they
Speaker 3: interacted with the chapter, the Turning Point chapter there.
Speaker 4: That's very real.
Speaker 6: And for those who aren't young people who aren't on campus,
Speaker 6: we want to drive this point home that we did
Speaker 6: well in twenty twenty four. We did have a shift
Speaker 6: of young people towards Trump, but due to events such
Speaker 6: as the war, some of that might be reversing. And
Speaker 6: also there was stuff where you know, you had more
Speaker 6: freedom to be conservative on campus and the left was
Speaker 6: cout a bit, but they're charging back. They're going to
Speaker 6: be aggressive again. They're going they might be violent again.
Speaker 6: And some of these people look at Luigi as a model.
Speaker 6: They might even look at Tyler Robinson as a hero.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's it's do you guys feel that they're the The
Speaker 3: level of antagonism, the aggressiveness of left, the progressive culture
Speaker 3: on campus has escalated in recent months.
Speaker 8: I think in a way it has. We have had
Speaker 8: a few cases after Charlie Kirk's assassination and the ice
Speaker 8: raids in Michigan that people, you know, write very nasty
Speaker 8: things on campus, like shoot your local ice agent, and
Speaker 8: we've we've had to communicate that with our our staff,
Speaker 8: and so it's it's sort of disheartening that people are
Speaker 8: taking these lines and protesting against our federal government. It's
Speaker 8: it's an interesting time to be on campus, for sure.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Megan, have you seen the energy from the left
Speaker 3: ramp up in recent months?
Speaker 14: Yeah, it has definitely ramped up, especially after Charlie Kirk died,
Speaker 14: and you know, with Rutgers Turning Point being involved with
Speaker 14: the petition to remove Mark Ray, it has definitely made
Speaker 14: Turning Point quite a target on campus. Like I said before,
Speaker 14: we have seen major acts of aggression towards me other
Speaker 14: leaders at Turning Point. I've been openly insulted to my
Speaker 14: face when I'm doing a tablingk at Turning in my
Speaker 14: college campus. And you know, with my involvement in the
Speaker 14: Antifa petition, not only have I been doxed, I've been
Speaker 14: my personal identity has just been thrown into the Internet
Speaker 14: for everyone to see.
Speaker 4: I'm so sorry, Megane.
Speaker 5: Thank you for holding firm in the face of that.
Speaker 3: You guys are the tip of the spear. You are
Speaker 3: so courageous and we just we have your back, and
Speaker 3: you guys are doing God's work.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and thank you for coming on and thank you
Speaker 6: for giving us raw honesty on stuff like the war.
Speaker 6: We appreciate hearing that Charlie looked to you guys to
Speaker 6: understand the truth of what was going on.
Speaker 5: Thank you for giving it to us. See you look
Speaker 5: in Meghan.
Speaker 8: Thanks so much, thank you, thank you, thank you so much.
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Speaker 3: Guest, and we have actually welcomed Tyler Boyer, who runs
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Speaker 3: and that a state representative, Steve Toth. He has been
Speaker 3: victorious U in his primary battle with Dan Crenshaw, won
Speaker 3: by a decisive margin. In Texas's second district. Steve Toff,
Speaker 3: Welcome to the show.
Speaker 2: It's toth, by the way, What.
Speaker 4: Did I say?
Speaker 8: Oh?
Speaker 4: I actually knew that. I don't know why it's you know,
Speaker 4: you get distracted with the reads.
Speaker 15: Steve Toath, Steve, I told him it was tooth all
Speaker 15: day yesterday, I said, to a lot.
Speaker 4: But I don't know what my problem is.
Speaker 16: What's what's so funny is that Dan Crensch spent three
Speaker 16: million dollars teaching everybody how to pronounce my name. And
Speaker 16: tell her that the reality is it ninety nine point
Speaker 16: nine percent of all people that have ever met me
Speaker 16: the very first time they taught, they don't know how
Speaker 16: to pronounce it.
Speaker 2: You know, it's the funny thing.
Speaker 4: Go ahead, So the funny thing.
Speaker 2: The funny thing is in the parking lot.
Speaker 16: For two weeks of early voting, people kept coming up
Speaker 16: to me saying, Steve Toath, I'm voting for you. I'm like, man,
Speaker 16: I'm so grateful for Dan Crenshaw all the negative as
Speaker 16: he's put out there that people finally know how to
Speaker 16: pronounce my name.
Speaker 15: Well except, hey, congrat huge, congratulations.
Speaker 4: We're so thrilled.
Speaker 15: I know so many great Uh you know, great Texans
Speaker 15: that are just so relieved is I guess, I guess
Speaker 15: the best word to have somebody that they know they
Speaker 15: can trust representing them in Congress. So tell us about
Speaker 15: what kind of the feedback was. I'm sure it was
Speaker 15: an emotional night last night for you.
Speaker 2: We were just so plumped.
Speaker 16: But you know what's crazy is that I've got a
Speaker 16: background on linear regression modeling and pulling, and people like,
Speaker 16: don't do this, you haven't got a chance, and we're like, no,
Speaker 16: we're gonna win.
Speaker 2: We're gonna win with fifty seven percent of the vote.
Speaker 2: And I was wrong.
Speaker 16: We got fifty eight percent of the vote. But people
Speaker 16: were just like so shocked. And I'm like, he was
Speaker 16: fifty five percent unfavorable in Montgomerent County, which is fifty
Speaker 16: three percent of the district. He was forty four percent
Speaker 16: unfavorable in Harris County, which everyone's like, there's no way
Speaker 16: you can beat him. We're like, no, we're gonna beat him.
Speaker 16: We're we're going to beat him. Trust me on this.
Speaker 16: And so it was just we're just overjoyed last night
Speaker 16: to see it. Finally nine months later, come to Fruition.
Speaker 15: Well, I have family in the North Houston area, and
Speaker 15: they are so thrilled and just in general just about
Speaker 15: I mean, it's just been it feels like it feels
Speaker 15: like for the many years since about twenty twenty, it's
Speaker 15: just been a lot of back and forth shenanigans, uh
Speaker 15: with people.
Speaker 5: And people are just done with that.
Speaker 15: In Congress, they want people who are gonna go, you know,
Speaker 15: be who they are, represent them well, communicate well with
Speaker 15: the people. I mean, what what is what is some
Speaker 15: of your primary goals that you're looking to achieve, you know,
Speaker 15: kind of stepping into that and helping rebuild some trust maybe,
Speaker 15: uh for Texas and and and again that Houston metropolitan
Speaker 15: area where some people kind of had felt like they
Speaker 15: were being ignored for many, many years by kind of
Speaker 15: the Hollywood levels type stuff that was going on. What
Speaker 15: I mean, what's what's your what's your puts? Your take,
Speaker 15: what's your plan?
Speaker 16: So Congressional District two in Texas is a tale of
Speaker 16: two communities. It's it's the western it's Montgomery County portion
Speaker 16: of Congressional District two in the Harrison County congress UH
Speaker 16: portion of Congressional District two, which the eastern portion of
Speaker 16: this in Harris County has been really by and large overlooked.
Speaker 16: It's the redheaded stepchild, if you will, of the city
Speaker 16: of Houston. And they flooded badly ten years ago, that's right,
Speaker 16: and so bad. Homes were washed off their frond foundations,
Speaker 16: people were drowned in the middle of the night. A
Speaker 16: terrible situation. And since that time, millions has.
Speaker 2: Been brought back.
Speaker 16: I mean, I was on the appropriations committee and I
Speaker 16: appropriated one point six billion dollars for flood mitigation efforts
Speaker 16: in the state of Texas, and yet none of it, really,
Speaker 16: none of it has found its way to this area.
Speaker 2: And so here we.
Speaker 16: Are ten years later and where every suscepted is susceptible
Speaker 16: to a flood as we were back then. And I
Speaker 16: want to fight for these guys and really help them
Speaker 16: realize that you can live in a place, beautiful place
Speaker 16: like this and I have to worry about your home
Speaker 16: being washed off its foundation in the middle of the night.
Speaker 16: So we've got a lot of work to do, and
Speaker 16: I've got a lot of work to do to really
Speaker 16: press upon them that I'm serious about this.
Speaker 15: Well, I appreciate that I was actually my family, My
Speaker 15: family's home was completely destroyed by those floods ten years ago,
Speaker 15: and it impacted their life in so many more ways.
Speaker 15: I'm the rebuilding you still have, you know, like you're
Speaker 15: mentioning elements of where that community hasn't been rebuilt, and
Speaker 15: so many people left that really shouldn't have left, like great,
Speaker 15: great people who are like, I'm not doing this, and
Speaker 15: they got to different parts of Texas or went to
Speaker 15: different parts of the country, and and that's really sad.
Speaker 4: So I'm glad that you brought that up well.
Speaker 3: And so you talk about restoring the trust with the
Speaker 3: grassroots and the base. You are the grassroots candidate. You
Speaker 3: pulled out a massive, massive win. Crenshaw is out now essentially,
Speaker 3: so you were going to be the Republican nominee and
Speaker 3: you are going against a Democrat though this is an
Speaker 3: R plus district. But he's got a lot of money.
Speaker 2: He's got a lot of money, and.
Speaker 16: His consultant is from what I'd heard, this is the
Speaker 16: guy that ran the campaign for Bernie Sanders when he
Speaker 16: ran for president. So full blown socialists. That's how the
Speaker 16: that's who these lose are in Texas. There is just
Speaker 16: like nothing moderate about him. You think, hey, it's sex
Speaker 16: is right. They must be a little bit you know,
Speaker 16: almost like a you know, a Lennon Bangs Johnson kind of. Now,
Speaker 16: those guys Lynna Baines Johnson Democrats are all gone there
Speaker 16: as far looney as you can possibly imagine. And so
Speaker 16: we're gonna have our hands, our works that cut out
Speaker 16: for us, and we're gonna work hard, and we're gonna
Speaker 16: win this.
Speaker 5: And I'm just looking at old James Tallerico tweet.
Speaker 6: One of our staff just sent us where he's, I guess,
Speaker 6: must be reacting to some someone saying something right of center,
Speaker 6: and he goes there. But for the grace of God
Speaker 6: go I as a white man, I'm susceptible to radicalization. Thankfully,
Speaker 6: I was exposed to diversity at a young age and
Speaker 6: explicitly taught the values of equality, inclusion, and justice. But
Speaker 6: not every young white boy is so lucky. We've got
Speaker 6: some bloopy people coming out of out of Texas unfortunately, Steve,
Speaker 6: and we need we need to very strong GOP to
Speaker 6: push back on it. And maybe that's you know, we
Speaker 6: can talk about that. There's been a lot of frustrations,
Speaker 6: I think with turnout turnout and just with the Texas GOP. Generally,
Speaker 6: I run into conservatives who make that. They'll make the
Speaker 6: comparison between Texas and Florida a lot. They're both very
Speaker 6: big states, they're both longtime Republican states. They're both very
Speaker 6: critical for our election prospects nationally. And it feels like
Speaker 6: Florida is almost always like on you know, they're really
Speaker 6: with it.
Speaker 5: They're very high functioning.
Speaker 6: They churn out a lot of high quality legislation, they
Speaker 6: get it done, and it feels like with Texas.
Speaker 5: We have these problems.
Speaker 6: We're always hearing oh in the Texas legislature, they get
Speaker 6: they literally pick their speaker with Democrats support, and they
Speaker 6: put Democrats in senior committee spots. And sorry if I'm
Speaker 6: rambling a bit, I guess I just wonder. You're the
Speaker 6: third most conservative guy in the Texas House according to
Speaker 6: a study by Rice. So maybe you have some thoughts
Speaker 6: on why those parties seem so different in what went
Speaker 6: wrong in Texas.
Speaker 16: See, two Democrats joined twenty one Republicans to give us
Speaker 16: the speaker of the House. So three quarters two thirds,
Speaker 16: you know, twenty yeah, two thirds two thirds Democrat, one
Speaker 16: third Republican. That coalition of Democrats runs the Texas House.
Speaker 16: So when I put fourth legislation to secure our elections,
Speaker 16: it gets killed by the Democrats. When I put forth
Speaker 16: legislation and the social transition of children, it gets killed
Speaker 16: by the Democrats. It is its evil. Tel Rico's part
Speaker 16: of that group. I served with James tell Rico from
Speaker 16: twenty nineteen through to today. This guy's as evil as
Speaker 16: they come. There is a darkness to this man's life
Speaker 16: that if you if you doubt, if you doubt that
Speaker 16: there's a wickedness and an evil into monic presence in
Speaker 16: the world, you only have to look at James tel Rico.
Speaker 2: He is an awful, awful person, awful person.
Speaker 4: Well, there's news on that race. By the way.
Speaker 3: President Trump has just announced that he will make an
Speaker 3: endorsement soon in Texas's GOP Senate primary, and he's asking
Speaker 3: the candidate that he does not endorse to drop out,
Speaker 3: which is quite the quite the truth. Social He has
Speaker 3: not announced yet, but he says he will soon.
Speaker 2: Scares me.
Speaker 4: Yeah, me too, Yes.
Speaker 2: That really scared that, Really, that really seriously scared me.
Speaker 15: Well, my hope is my hope is Steve that your
Speaker 15: race actually will you know, push the president to because
Speaker 15: I mean, your race is one of the.
Speaker 4: Few that the White bell Weather the bell Weather race.
Speaker 15: That the White House didn't engage in. And again I
Speaker 15: appreciate that because I think it would have been awful
Speaker 15: had they endorsed Dan Crenshaw.
Speaker 4: So I think.
Speaker 2: It's still a little lost.
Speaker 15: I mean, I agree with that. But my point is
Speaker 15: I'm hoping that you know, and I would love to
Speaker 15: get your thoughts, especially after we get out of the
Speaker 15: break here is you know, maybe maybe this is a
Speaker 15: new a new day for Texas because of your race.
Speaker 5: You winning your race so decisively.
Speaker 4: What do you think about.
Speaker 2: That eighty million dollars spent.
Speaker 16: And in the most expensive center rates in the history
Speaker 16: of the United States, eighty million dollars spent on one
Speaker 16: candidate and he could not even get fifty percent. And
Speaker 16: it tells you that America and texts this especially is
Speaker 16: done with John Cornyan and America. There is only one
Speaker 16: person that had higher unfavorables in the state of Texas.
Speaker 16: And I told this to the President. There's only one
Speaker 16: person that has highering favorables in the state of Texas
Speaker 16: and John Corny, and that was Dan Crenshaw. But it
Speaker 16: was only by one point and so yeah, I am
Speaker 16: hoping that the President considers that in in in his uh,
Speaker 16: in his endorsement, because John Cornyn is not going to
Speaker 16: be the next It's just not.
Speaker 2: It does not matter how much money they spend.
Speaker 16: It does not matter how many endorsements John Corny gets.
Speaker 2: He will not win well.
Speaker 3: And by the way, Cornyn will stab him in the
Speaker 3: back as soon as he is done with this election.
Speaker 3: Well he was doing that before he realized that he
Speaker 3: was in a dogfight. So then he fell in line
Speaker 3: and voting mag all the way. But guess what if
Speaker 3: he gets another six year lease on life, he's uh,
Speaker 3: he's gonna go back to his old ways. So that's
Speaker 3: a good transition here. So, Steve, your race was is
Speaker 3: a bell weather for the state. It shows that the
Speaker 3: grassroots is fed up with the establishment in Texas. A
Speaker 3: lot of what ails Us looks like we there you go.
Speaker 3: A lot of what ales Texas is this sort of
Speaker 3: bush hangover establishment Republican. We experienced this in Arizona others.
Speaker 3: But Tyler knows this better than anybody, this war between
Speaker 3: the old guard and this new wave of populous conservative energy.
Speaker 3: The early report suggests that President Trump is going to
Speaker 3: endorse cornin that's what everybody's expecting here. Your race could
Speaker 3: be the key to making sure that doesn't happen. What
Speaker 3: is the energy of the grassroots in the state of Texas?
Speaker 3: Is it ready for this?
Speaker 2: It's yeah, it's off the charts.
Speaker 16: Ronald Reagan told us nearly fifty years ago, it's bold
Speaker 16: colors that will inspire the next generation of Americans turn
Speaker 16: out and vote. And we've seen that in Florida, right
Speaker 16: like you take a bold, a bold governor into Santus
Speaker 16: and he is inspiring a whole new generation. And look
Speaker 16: at our border, guys. Our border has turned gone from
Speaker 16: bright blue to bright red under President Trump. Why because
Speaker 16: Hispanics as well as young people want to see bold leadership.
Speaker 16: The problem with the Bush wing the Republican parties that
Speaker 16: whenever they want elections, they took office. Meanwhile, Democrats, when
Speaker 16: they want elections, they wielded power. People want to see
Speaker 16: bold leadership. They don't want to see people like John
Speaker 16: corn that have been there, been in office for forty
Speaker 16: somehdd freaking years. It hasn't done anything. He has done
Speaker 16: nothing for the movement. He's done nothing for the conservative
Speaker 16: movement at all. He's just stood in the way of it.
Speaker 16: We need a guy like Ken Paxson that's going to
Speaker 16: go and fight, and we need the President to get
Speaker 16: behind him.
Speaker 3: Why do you think the Senate Leadership Fund and the
Speaker 3: Establishment Republic? I mean, if you watch Fox News, it's
Speaker 3: all these senators going, we need Cornan, we need Cornan.
Speaker 4: Is this just good old boys stuff? Like they know him?
Speaker 3: I mean they've been attacking Paxton saying he couldn't win
Speaker 3: a statewide race every time he's running, Yet he keeps winning.
Speaker 4: So what's the deal.
Speaker 2: It's just rhino's taking care.
Speaker 16: I hate using that expression, but it's just incumbent's taking
Speaker 16: care of incumbents and it's it makes me just completely sick.
Speaker 4: What do you I agree? Uh, what are you looking at?
Speaker 4: In terms of the state ag race.
Speaker 16: I think it's going to be a battle, But honestly,
Speaker 16: I hope the President does not you know, it doesn't
Speaker 16: not support Cornet. But if he does, Ken's gonna win
Speaker 16: a sixty forty maybe sixty three, thirty seven.
Speaker 3: Well what about chip Roy, the Texas Attorney General? That
Speaker 3: race chip Roy, and then we've got that's.
Speaker 16: Yeah, that's gonna that's gonna be a that's gonna be
Speaker 16: a shootout between Middleton and chip Roy. And I know
Speaker 16: I couldn't call it. I really have a hard time
Speaker 16: calling it. But here's the thing is that you're going
Speaker 16: You're going from one in ten voters in the primary
Speaker 16: to the general and I think you're going to see
Speaker 16: I'm sorry, is you going to the runoff?
Speaker 4: I apologize, yes, if you go into.
Speaker 16: The runoff, you're going from one to ten to about
Speaker 16: one and twenty. And it's only the most conservative committed
Speaker 16: people that are going to turn out for runoffs, which
Speaker 16: means that John Cornon is going to get blown out
Speaker 16: of the water in this race. I mean, it's not
Speaker 16: even it's not going to be close. Yeah, it doesn't
Speaker 16: matter who endorses John Cornan. John Cornon is going to
Speaker 16: go down, and he's going to.
Speaker 2: Go down big.
Speaker 15: All of the polling shows that too, Steve, So all
Speaker 15: the polling has shown a vast majority of the individuals
Speaker 15: that voted for the third place candidate. Uh and in
Speaker 15: the sinist rate, it's in Congressman Wesley Hunt are are
Speaker 15: going towards Paxton.
Speaker 4: That's a turnout question, though, is an interesting aspect of this.
Speaker 15: But but but this is the point. Exactly what you're
Speaker 15: saying is what almost everyone from Texas that follows Texas closely,
Speaker 15: is that the runoff has produced a more conservative outcome.
Speaker 15: And almost every single and every single outcome for the
Speaker 15: past number of times that this has happened. Uh, you
Speaker 15: see that not changing is what you're saying this election.
Speaker 2: It's like it's it's not going to change.
Speaker 16: Although the Carl Rowe wing of the party one of
Speaker 16: the things that they're really good at. They're going to
Speaker 16: identify tens of thousands of Democrats that did not vote
Speaker 16: in the primary, and they're going to spend millions of
Speaker 16: dollars encouraging them to turn out and vote for John Cornyn.
Speaker 16: And so, yeah, there's going to be this really freakish
Speaker 16: coalition of moderates and Democrats that are going to try
Speaker 16: and turn out for him. But the problem is that
Speaker 16: is that probably thirty percent of the Republicans that voted
Speaker 16: for John Cornyn are not going to turn out for
Speaker 16: a runoff, although the vast majority ninety plus percent of
Speaker 16: the Conservatives will turn out for.
Speaker 15: Ken Well, and that may be the difference maker in
Speaker 15: this race. But you're bringing up something that is super important. Yeah,
Speaker 15: the Democrats wanted to make sure they didn't have a
Speaker 15: runoff in the Senate race so that they could try
Speaker 15: to influence negatively the Republican runoff. And to that point,
Speaker 15: so what.
Speaker 3: Are the rules though, So if you're a Democrat you
Speaker 3: can just vote in a Republican runoff?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 16: Yeah, so we have opened primaries in Texas. But what
Speaker 16: it means though, is that if you if you're a
Speaker 16: Democrat and you voted in the Democrat primary, you can't
Speaker 16: you can't vote in this runoff. But if you're a
Speaker 16: Democrat and you just didn't vote the primaries for whatever reason, right,
Speaker 16: then yeah, you could you could vote.
Speaker 2: You could vote in.
Speaker 4: Our runner should that that's a rule that should be changed,
Speaker 4: My goodness.
Speaker 2: We would love we would love to do that. We
Speaker 2: would love to do that.
Speaker 16: We've been trying to do that, but unfortunately the Texas House,
Speaker 16: in the Texas House, it's controlled by Democrats, and Democrats
Speaker 16: keep killing.
Speaker 3: That last question, Steve. Here, we've got forty five seconds
Speaker 3: left for you.
Speaker 4: Here.
Speaker 3: A lot of noise was made about turnout being low
Speaker 3: versus Democrats. Are we concerned about that going into the
Speaker 3: runoff in the general.
Speaker 16: Well, you're going to see record low turnout in the general.
Speaker 16: It's going to be high concentration of in the runoff.
Speaker 16: I'm sorry in the in the runoff, yes, but I'm
Speaker 16: not concerned about turnout in the general.
Speaker 2: It'll be fine. We'll do great.
Speaker 4: Okay, good Steve Toath.
Speaker 3: By the way, you're in good standing here because I
Speaker 3: did this to Representative Burchett. I kept saying, Burshett, I
Speaker 3: think and he he corrected me. But it's so great
Speaker 3: to have you and to get to meet you. We're
Speaker 3: so ecstatic that turning point action got behind you and
Speaker 3: you pulled it off.
Speaker 4: It's such an upgrade for Texas. And God bless you, sir.
Speaker 3: We'll keep We're gonna have you back on because you're
Speaker 3: you're good at this political commentary stuff.
Speaker 4: Uh so we'll have you back on again soon. God
Speaker 4: bless you, and congrats.
Speaker 2: Lord bless you and keep you.
Speaker 16: I'm so thankful for what God is doing in and
Speaker 16: through a turning point to raise up a new standard,
Speaker 16: new new generation of followers of Christ and patriots.
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