1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:03,720 Speaker 1: Welcome to today's podcast sponsored by Hillsdale College. All Things 2 00:00:03,800 --> 00:00:06,280 Speaker 1: Hillsdale at Hillsdale dot edu or I encourage you to 3 00:00:06,320 --> 00:00:08,800 Speaker 1: take advantage of the many free online courses there, and 4 00:00:08,840 --> 00:00:11,119 Speaker 1: of course I'll listen to the Hillsdale Dialogue all of 5 00:00:11,119 --> 00:00:14,560 Speaker 1: them at q for Hillsdale dot com or just google, Apple, 6 00:00:14,920 --> 00:00:16,840 Speaker 1: iTunes and Hillsdale. 7 00:00:17,520 --> 00:00:18,800 Speaker 2: I'm going to jump right into it. 8 00:00:18,840 --> 00:00:20,680 Speaker 3: I'm going to jump right into it with one of 9 00:00:20,720 --> 00:00:23,640 Speaker 3: the best people in the Senate, Senator Jim Banks from 10 00:00:23,680 --> 00:00:26,720 Speaker 3: the great state of Indiana. Welcome to thee and show. 11 00:00:28,040 --> 00:00:30,080 Speaker 4: Hey, good to be with you, Kurt, Thanks for having 12 00:00:30,080 --> 00:00:30,479 Speaker 4: me back. 13 00:00:30,640 --> 00:00:32,600 Speaker 3: Well, let's get right to it. What the hell is 14 00:00:32,640 --> 00:00:36,600 Speaker 3: wrong with your state? Why do you have any Democrat representatives? 15 00:00:36,720 --> 00:00:39,280 Speaker 3: I know you fought against it, but what the hell 16 00:00:39,280 --> 00:00:39,960 Speaker 3: were they thinking. 17 00:00:41,560 --> 00:00:43,639 Speaker 4: Well, we're just about eight or nine weeks away from 18 00:00:43,680 --> 00:00:48,479 Speaker 4: the Republican primary in May, and we have more primaries 19 00:00:48,560 --> 00:00:50,479 Speaker 4: of state legislators. 20 00:00:49,760 --> 00:00:50,840 Speaker 5: Than I've ever seen before. 21 00:00:50,880 --> 00:00:54,600 Speaker 4: You all these state senators that voted against redistricting in 22 00:00:54,600 --> 00:00:58,080 Speaker 4: our state all have tough primary opponents that are endorsed 23 00:00:58,120 --> 00:01:02,280 Speaker 4: by President Trump and a lot of funding behind them 24 00:01:02,320 --> 00:01:05,399 Speaker 4: to help get better leadership. 25 00:01:04,959 --> 00:01:05,400 Speaker 5: In our state. 26 00:01:05,520 --> 00:01:09,720 Speaker 4: Senate at the State House pass the redistricting. The governor 27 00:01:09,800 --> 00:01:12,240 Speaker 4: was for it, I was for it. President Trump obviously 28 00:01:12,319 --> 00:01:15,440 Speaker 4: was pushing for it. But it was a small handful 29 00:01:15,480 --> 00:01:18,759 Speaker 4: of establishment Republicans in the State Senate who were against it. 30 00:01:19,040 --> 00:01:23,880 Speaker 3: Well maybe you guys don't know out there in radio land. 31 00:01:24,200 --> 00:01:27,040 Speaker 3: But because he's a workhorse and not a show horse, 32 00:01:27,600 --> 00:01:31,200 Speaker 3: Jim Banks has been fighting this battle for a long time. 33 00:01:31,280 --> 00:01:34,800 Speaker 3: I know that personally. And he's fighting another battle now, 34 00:01:35,080 --> 00:01:38,119 Speaker 3: one that Donald Trump brought up the other day at 35 00:01:38,120 --> 00:01:40,240 Speaker 3: the State of the Union, the battle to undo the 36 00:01:40,319 --> 00:01:44,759 Speaker 3: damage states like my beloved California have caused by giving, 37 00:01:45,280 --> 00:01:48,160 Speaker 3: if you can imagine it, licenses to drive big rigs 38 00:01:48,320 --> 00:01:50,680 Speaker 3: to illegal aliens. How are you working to stop that, 39 00:01:50,760 --> 00:01:53,720 Speaker 3: Senator Banks, Well, it's really easy. 40 00:01:54,120 --> 00:01:57,840 Speaker 4: You pass a law that bans CDLs for illegal immigrants 41 00:01:58,080 --> 00:02:02,640 Speaker 4: and take away the current existing CDLs. The states like California, 42 00:02:02,960 --> 00:02:06,160 Speaker 4: New York, and Pennsylvania with Democratic governors have given out 43 00:02:06,200 --> 00:02:09,960 Speaker 4: like candy to illegal immigrants. It keeps happening. In Indiana. 44 00:02:10,040 --> 00:02:13,040 Speaker 4: Last week we had sixty four year old Terry Schultz 45 00:02:13,040 --> 00:02:17,959 Speaker 4: who was killed by an illegal from from from India 46 00:02:18,080 --> 00:02:21,399 Speaker 4: who rammed into him and killed him. Two weeks ago, 47 00:02:21,440 --> 00:02:24,240 Speaker 4: we had four Amish men in Jay County, which is 48 00:02:24,400 --> 00:02:27,160 Speaker 4: a very rural area close to where I live, who 49 00:02:27,200 --> 00:02:31,480 Speaker 4: were killed by an illegal from Kyrgyzstan. We had, in fact, 50 00:02:32,240 --> 00:02:36,560 Speaker 4: a National Guard soldier back in September who was killed 51 00:02:36,600 --> 00:02:40,320 Speaker 4: by an illegal from the country of Georgia who was 52 00:02:40,400 --> 00:02:44,280 Speaker 4: given a CDL from the state of New York and 53 00:02:44,919 --> 00:02:47,480 Speaker 4: got behind the wheel of a semi semi truck with 54 00:02:47,520 --> 00:02:51,160 Speaker 4: a trailer and swerved and in that case, I don't 55 00:02:51,160 --> 00:02:52,799 Speaker 4: know what, I don't know what. He was driving a 56 00:02:52,840 --> 00:02:56,080 Speaker 4: large a large truck and swerved and sideswiped the hum 57 00:02:56,200 --> 00:02:57,560 Speaker 4: V and went off the side of the road. He 58 00:02:57,600 --> 00:03:01,720 Speaker 4: was he was a training exercise for these National Guard soldiers. 59 00:03:01,840 --> 00:03:05,160 Speaker 4: And these illegals never should be behind the wheel to 60 00:03:05,160 --> 00:03:08,840 Speaker 4: begin with, but they go to fake truck driving schools 61 00:03:09,720 --> 00:03:13,639 Speaker 4: in states like Pennsylvania. Then they get CDL licenses from 62 00:03:13,639 --> 00:03:17,639 Speaker 4: Democrat states. So the Delilah law. Delilah was a beautiful 63 00:03:17,680 --> 00:03:20,400 Speaker 4: seven year old girl who was in the gallery for 64 00:03:20,440 --> 00:03:22,519 Speaker 4: the State of the Union on Tuesday night, President Trump 65 00:03:22,880 --> 00:03:26,120 Speaker 4: acknowledged her and her father. When she was five years old, 66 00:03:26,160 --> 00:03:30,520 Speaker 4: she was hit in the state of California and seriously injured. 67 00:03:30,560 --> 00:03:33,440 Speaker 4: I mean she's still seriously hurt today, but an incredible 68 00:03:33,480 --> 00:03:37,280 Speaker 4: recovery over the last couple of years. And we're going 69 00:03:37,360 --> 00:03:39,520 Speaker 4: to call this the Delilah Law. President Trump called on 70 00:03:39,640 --> 00:03:43,480 Speaker 4: us to pass it. I immediately introduced it because Indiana 71 00:03:43,560 --> 00:03:46,280 Speaker 4: is the crossroads of America. We have the fifth highest 72 00:03:46,480 --> 00:03:49,720 Speaker 4: amount of freight that travels through our state on our highways, 73 00:03:50,120 --> 00:03:53,400 Speaker 4: and this keeps happening. I mean, almost every week, another 74 00:03:53,440 --> 00:03:56,840 Speaker 4: accident with an illegal behind the wheel. It's a national crisis. 75 00:03:56,840 --> 00:03:59,360 Speaker 4: We have to do something about it. I'm serious about it, 76 00:03:59,400 --> 00:04:01,240 Speaker 4: and that's why I introduced the bill yesterday. 77 00:04:01,320 --> 00:04:03,760 Speaker 2: Well, well, Center Banks. It's one of those things where 78 00:04:03,800 --> 00:04:07,480 Speaker 2: you hear it and a normal person's like, wait, isn't 79 00:04:07,520 --> 00:04:11,280 Speaker 2: that already illegal? How do you How do the. 80 00:04:11,240 --> 00:04:16,880 Speaker 3: People across the aisle in the Senate explain the necessity 81 00:04:17,000 --> 00:04:19,520 Speaker 3: in their view of keeping people who shouldn't be in 82 00:04:19,560 --> 00:04:22,600 Speaker 3: the country in the first place behind the wheel of 83 00:04:22,839 --> 00:04:25,679 Speaker 3: trucks that could weigh up to a maximum of eighty 84 00:04:26,000 --> 00:04:27,240 Speaker 3: thousand pounds. 85 00:04:27,520 --> 00:04:28,800 Speaker 2: It's insane to me. 86 00:04:30,360 --> 00:04:33,760 Speaker 4: Yeah, CURTYE would expose them and everything that they've done. 87 00:04:33,800 --> 00:04:36,320 Speaker 4: And they believe if they if they came out and 88 00:04:36,400 --> 00:04:39,360 Speaker 4: acknowledged that this is national crisis and a threat to 89 00:04:39,400 --> 00:04:41,400 Speaker 4: the safety of families on the road. 90 00:04:41,520 --> 00:04:42,200 Speaker 2: It's their fault. 91 00:04:42,200 --> 00:04:46,279 Speaker 4: They flooded the country with tens of millions of illegals 92 00:04:46,360 --> 00:04:49,040 Speaker 4: during the Biden years, a wide open border, and then 93 00:04:49,040 --> 00:04:54,520 Speaker 4: you have governors like Avenussom, who who thinks it's completely 94 00:04:54,600 --> 00:04:58,000 Speaker 4: okay to give a driver's license to these illegals. And 95 00:04:58,720 --> 00:05:02,119 Speaker 4: even though they can't read English, even though they can't 96 00:05:02,320 --> 00:05:05,800 Speaker 4: they don't know the customs from experience of driving on 97 00:05:05,800 --> 00:05:09,200 Speaker 4: our roads. Again, they go to fake truck driving schools 98 00:05:09,200 --> 00:05:12,960 Speaker 4: that are scams. They take in states like California, they 99 00:05:13,080 --> 00:05:16,359 Speaker 4: offer this the truck driver's licensed tests and over a 100 00:05:16,400 --> 00:05:20,400 Speaker 4: dozen different languages. And you should, you should, you should 101 00:05:20,400 --> 00:05:23,239 Speaker 4: only when you take that test. It should be conducted 102 00:05:23,279 --> 00:05:28,080 Speaker 4: in English already. But California completely caters to the illegal population. 103 00:05:28,400 --> 00:05:31,680 Speaker 4: So I think back to Tuesday night and the speech, 104 00:05:31,760 --> 00:05:34,479 Speaker 4: the great speech the President gave. It was truly the 105 00:05:34,520 --> 00:05:37,120 Speaker 4: greatest State of the Union speech I've ever heard, and 106 00:05:37,160 --> 00:05:40,560 Speaker 4: he totally exposed the Democrats, and that one moment, that 107 00:05:40,640 --> 00:05:43,239 Speaker 4: one moment that will live on forever, when he said, 108 00:05:43,560 --> 00:05:45,960 Speaker 4: stand with me if you believe that it is the 109 00:05:46,040 --> 00:05:48,920 Speaker 4: duty of the American government to put our own people 110 00:05:48,960 --> 00:05:52,400 Speaker 4: first over the interest of illegals. Gavin Newsom and Josh 111 00:05:52,440 --> 00:05:55,640 Speaker 4: Shapiro and the other Blue state governors that are giving 112 00:05:55,640 --> 00:05:59,520 Speaker 4: out these drivers licenses and truck driver licenses to illegals 113 00:05:59,520 --> 00:06:02,960 Speaker 4: are obviously putting illegals interest over the safety of the 114 00:06:03,000 --> 00:06:05,560 Speaker 4: American people. I hear from so many families in Indiana 115 00:06:05,640 --> 00:06:08,160 Speaker 4: who are afraid to get in the minivan and go 116 00:06:08,200 --> 00:06:10,839 Speaker 4: out and take their young families on the road. Because 117 00:06:10,880 --> 00:06:13,560 Speaker 4: this is happening so often. We've got to put a 118 00:06:13,560 --> 00:06:14,120 Speaker 4: stop to it. 119 00:06:14,680 --> 00:06:17,719 Speaker 3: Well, Senator Banks, of course you were in the chamber. 120 00:06:17,760 --> 00:06:22,080 Speaker 3: You watch Trump's masterful speech, and I you know, as 121 00:06:22,120 --> 00:06:24,960 Speaker 3: a retired former trial lawyer, I just looked at it. 122 00:06:25,040 --> 00:06:27,440 Speaker 3: I was like, this guy's got it. This guy, this 123 00:06:27,520 --> 00:06:31,159 Speaker 3: guy knows how to talk to an audience. And the 124 00:06:31,160 --> 00:06:33,680 Speaker 3: audience was of course out in America. But you were, 125 00:06:34,240 --> 00:06:36,600 Speaker 3: you were in the room, and you've been up on 126 00:06:36,680 --> 00:06:40,240 Speaker 3: Capitol heill. How are the Republicans feeling about how the 127 00:06:40,279 --> 00:06:43,360 Speaker 3: speech went and how it'll play towards the midterms, and 128 00:06:43,400 --> 00:06:47,480 Speaker 3: how are the Democrats feeling? Well, I mean, as far 129 00:06:47,480 --> 00:06:49,560 Speaker 3: as Republicans go, there's so much to be optimistic about. 130 00:06:49,600 --> 00:06:54,920 Speaker 3: I mean, the economic numbers in Indiana. Early tax returns 131 00:06:54,920 --> 00:06:57,719 Speaker 3: for hoosiers is ten point nine percent more than it 132 00:06:57,800 --> 00:07:00,479 Speaker 3: was a year ago. Because of the historic tax cuts 133 00:07:00,520 --> 00:07:02,400 Speaker 3: we're working families that we passed a year ago. No 134 00:07:02,520 --> 00:07:05,880 Speaker 3: taxes on tips, no taxes on overtime. It's a big 135 00:07:05,920 --> 00:07:09,000 Speaker 3: deal for hoosiers. They're they're they're immediately they're already feeling 136 00:07:09,440 --> 00:07:11,559 Speaker 3: the benefit from it. I mean, I think, Kurt, what 137 00:07:11,560 --> 00:07:14,080 Speaker 3: what I noticed? I watch the Democrats mean, it's it's entertaining, 138 00:07:14,160 --> 00:07:16,960 Speaker 3: It's it's good, uh entertainment when you're when you're on 139 00:07:17,000 --> 00:07:19,480 Speaker 3: the floor and you're listening to President Trump give a 140 00:07:19,480 --> 00:07:21,280 Speaker 3: great speech like that, and they just sit there. They 141 00:07:21,440 --> 00:07:24,520 Speaker 3: they truly do not know how to react when when 142 00:07:24,600 --> 00:07:27,440 Speaker 3: Fetterman gets up and starts clapping, they all kind of 143 00:07:27,480 --> 00:07:30,840 Speaker 3: look at each other and they think to themselves, Fetterman. 144 00:07:30,920 --> 00:07:34,520 Speaker 3: They think, Fetterman's clapping, you know, what should we do? 145 00:07:34,560 --> 00:07:37,000 Speaker 3: Should we clap? And then they look over at at 146 00:07:37,280 --> 00:07:39,960 Speaker 3: h at Pelosi and the true leaders of their party 147 00:07:39,960 --> 00:07:42,320 Speaker 3: who are wagging their fingertelling them not to not to 148 00:07:42,360 --> 00:07:44,480 Speaker 3: show any support for President Trump. 149 00:07:44,520 --> 00:07:47,040 Speaker 4: They they are their own worst enemy. Again, they're they're not. 150 00:07:47,160 --> 00:07:49,240 Speaker 4: This is not my grandpa's Democrat Party. This is a 151 00:07:49,280 --> 00:07:53,600 Speaker 4: crazy Democrat party that that that truly does, truly does 152 00:07:53,680 --> 00:07:56,840 Speaker 4: believe it's okay to put the interest of illegals over Americans. 153 00:07:56,880 --> 00:07:58,480 Speaker 4: That President Trump exposed them for it. 154 00:07:58,720 --> 00:08:01,400 Speaker 3: Well, look, you you were there, Aaron. Of course, you're 155 00:08:01,440 --> 00:08:04,480 Speaker 3: a proud veteran in the United States Navy. So when 156 00:08:04,520 --> 00:08:08,600 Speaker 3: the fighter pilot Navy captain received his Medal of Honor, 157 00:08:08,640 --> 00:08:11,320 Speaker 3: you had to be sitting tall. But of course I'm 158 00:08:11,440 --> 00:08:16,480 Speaker 3: army and uh, Chief Warrant Officer five Slover. Holy cow, 159 00:08:16,720 --> 00:08:19,000 Speaker 3: what about that guy, Senator Banks? 160 00:08:19,360 --> 00:08:23,720 Speaker 4: What a real American hero? Yeah, a real American hero. 161 00:08:23,880 --> 00:08:26,440 Speaker 4: And and this is I just gave a speech on 162 00:08:26,480 --> 00:08:28,080 Speaker 4: the on the floor of the Senate before we close 163 00:08:28,160 --> 00:08:30,400 Speaker 4: the Senate for the weekend, and I talked about this. 164 00:08:30,440 --> 00:08:33,000 Speaker 4: I mean that President Trump talked about what makes America 165 00:08:33,080 --> 00:08:36,120 Speaker 4: great and the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of our country. 166 00:08:36,440 --> 00:08:37,880 Speaker 2: There's so much to be proud of. 167 00:08:38,200 --> 00:08:40,280 Speaker 4: His State of the Union speech didn't just talk about 168 00:08:40,280 --> 00:08:42,199 Speaker 4: how our union, our State of the Union is strong, 169 00:08:42,720 --> 00:08:45,040 Speaker 4: but he talked about American greatness, of what we're proud 170 00:08:45,080 --> 00:08:48,160 Speaker 4: of and the Democrats. The Democrats just sat on their hands. 171 00:08:48,160 --> 00:08:50,040 Speaker 4: They would they want to they want to get up 172 00:08:50,080 --> 00:08:53,679 Speaker 4: in cheer for America and that that's that's what the 173 00:08:53,880 --> 00:08:57,080 Speaker 4: that's who the modern Democrat Party is. They they would 174 00:08:57,080 --> 00:08:59,600 Speaker 4: they would rather sit on their hands while the rest 175 00:08:59,640 --> 00:09:02,480 Speaker 4: of us are cheering for what makes this country great. 176 00:09:02,480 --> 00:09:04,680 Speaker 4: And I'm so glad that Dald Trump is the president 177 00:09:04,720 --> 00:09:07,440 Speaker 4: for the two our fiftieth anniversary of this great country 178 00:09:07,480 --> 00:09:09,480 Speaker 4: because it makes us. He made us very proud on 179 00:09:09,520 --> 00:09:12,480 Speaker 4: Tuesday night. Thank you, Senator Jim Banks from Indiana. I'm 180 00:09:12,559 --> 00:09:15,319 Speaker 4: Kurt Schleickter, guest hosting for Hugh Hewitt. Stick around. We 181 00:09:15,400 --> 00:09:16,120 Speaker 4: got a lot more to come. 182 00:09:16,600 --> 00:09:19,000 Speaker 3: It's a real pleasure to be able to welcome Andrew 183 00:09:19,040 --> 00:09:24,400 Speaker 3: Colvett from TPUSA. Andrew, thanks for coming on the Hugh 184 00:09:24,440 --> 00:09:29,400 Speaker 3: Hewitt Show. The audience is, the audience is with you, 185 00:09:29,440 --> 00:09:32,960 Speaker 3: guys in the wake of that horrible murder. How is 186 00:09:33,040 --> 00:09:38,200 Speaker 3: TPUSA doing in general in the wake nearly six months later? 187 00:09:40,720 --> 00:09:42,720 Speaker 6: Yeah, thanks for having me on, Kurt. 188 00:09:42,800 --> 00:09:45,400 Speaker 7: I'm a huge fan of yours and all of your 189 00:09:45,480 --> 00:09:48,880 Speaker 7: various capacities, all the hats you wear. Wow, when you 190 00:09:48,960 --> 00:09:52,600 Speaker 7: listen all like that, it's it's pretty impressive. I will say, Kurt, listen, 191 00:09:53,559 --> 00:09:55,920 Speaker 7: you know, I don't know how you ever get over 192 00:09:56,160 --> 00:09:58,959 Speaker 7: something like losing Charlie the way we did. I don't 193 00:09:58,960 --> 00:10:00,520 Speaker 7: think you get over it. I think you just have 194 00:10:00,559 --> 00:10:02,080 Speaker 7: to sort of say, I'm never going to get over that, 195 00:10:02,400 --> 00:10:05,960 Speaker 7: and you got to have to move on knowing that 196 00:10:06,120 --> 00:10:07,880 Speaker 7: that's kind of what I've determined it at least. And 197 00:10:08,120 --> 00:10:10,480 Speaker 7: you know, the grief hits you as it hits you, 198 00:10:10,520 --> 00:10:13,200 Speaker 7: and it does come in ways. I still have days, Kurt, 199 00:10:13,200 --> 00:10:16,360 Speaker 7: where I wake up and I legitimately can't believe that 200 00:10:16,400 --> 00:10:19,920 Speaker 7: he's gone, and I have to pinch myself because it 201 00:10:20,040 --> 00:10:21,680 Speaker 7: still feels very, very. 202 00:10:23,000 --> 00:10:23,880 Speaker 6: Recent, real. 203 00:10:24,600 --> 00:10:26,800 Speaker 7: And so I think the whole team is kind of 204 00:10:26,840 --> 00:10:29,400 Speaker 7: feeling that way from time to time. But in the 205 00:10:29,400 --> 00:10:32,000 Speaker 7: midst of that, we understand that we have a job 206 00:10:32,040 --> 00:10:34,440 Speaker 7: to do and we have a mission that Charlie left 207 00:10:34,480 --> 00:10:38,000 Speaker 7: us with, and he was very very clear in life 208 00:10:38,120 --> 00:10:40,320 Speaker 7: that Turning Point was going to be an institution that 209 00:10:40,360 --> 00:10:40,800 Speaker 7: stood the. 210 00:10:40,760 --> 00:10:41,400 Speaker 6: Test of time. 211 00:10:41,480 --> 00:10:44,680 Speaker 7: He took measures to do so and to make sure 212 00:10:44,679 --> 00:10:46,880 Speaker 7: that it was going to outlive him. Obviously, we thought 213 00:10:46,880 --> 00:10:48,840 Speaker 7: we were going to have fifty to sixty more years 214 00:10:49,240 --> 00:10:53,480 Speaker 7: with Charlie, but God has a plan and we don't 215 00:10:53,480 --> 00:10:55,360 Speaker 7: always have to understand it, we don't have to like it, 216 00:10:55,400 --> 00:10:57,600 Speaker 7: but we just have to say yes to when we're called. 217 00:10:57,640 --> 00:10:59,800 Speaker 7: And I would just say the whole team has rallied 218 00:11:00,040 --> 00:11:05,199 Speaker 7: such incredible ways, the amount of work output that this team. 219 00:11:04,960 --> 00:11:06,000 Speaker 6: Has been capable of. 220 00:11:06,120 --> 00:11:09,640 Speaker 7: I mean, we have the most ambitious Spring Campus tour 221 00:11:09,800 --> 00:11:10,480 Speaker 7: in our history. 222 00:11:10,520 --> 00:11:13,520 Speaker 6: We have the most ambitious tour in general. 223 00:11:13,559 --> 00:11:15,920 Speaker 7: We've got tours going on with pick Up the Mic tours, 224 00:11:15,960 --> 00:11:20,200 Speaker 7: we've got Make Kevin crowded tours, and we've got you know, 225 00:11:20,200 --> 00:11:24,040 Speaker 7: we did the halftime show, which probably we actually I 226 00:11:24,080 --> 00:11:26,679 Speaker 7: think I'm about ready to publish an official number from 227 00:11:26,720 --> 00:11:28,920 Speaker 7: a media partner, some of some sometimes these numbers take 228 00:11:28,920 --> 00:11:31,240 Speaker 7: forever to come in, but got over fifty million eyeballs 229 00:11:31,280 --> 00:11:34,640 Speaker 7: on the halftime show. And you know, we're still doing 230 00:11:34,679 --> 00:11:36,880 Speaker 7: the Charlie Kirk Show and trying to honor Charlie there 231 00:11:36,920 --> 00:11:40,480 Speaker 7: and so much more so. The work continues, the mission continues, 232 00:11:40,520 --> 00:11:42,800 Speaker 7: and that's not even mentioning everything that we're doing on 233 00:11:42,840 --> 00:11:44,880 Speaker 7: the action side. We're trying to build the Red Wall, 234 00:11:44,920 --> 00:11:48,160 Speaker 7: which was a mission Charlie had committed to before he 235 00:11:48,280 --> 00:11:51,800 Speaker 7: was assassinated and that's you know, we're staffing up. We 236 00:11:51,840 --> 00:11:55,640 Speaker 7: have over four hundred job openings right now in New Hampshire, Nevada, 237 00:11:55,720 --> 00:11:58,800 Speaker 7: and Arizona. And that's just the tip of the iceberg. 238 00:11:58,920 --> 00:12:01,480 Speaker 7: So you know, our we're never going to like the 239 00:12:01,520 --> 00:12:03,600 Speaker 7: reality that we have to do any of this without Charlie, 240 00:12:04,240 --> 00:12:06,400 Speaker 7: but it is a sacred duty to continue on the 241 00:12:06,440 --> 00:12:08,080 Speaker 7: mission that he left us to do, so thank you 242 00:12:08,120 --> 00:12:08,560 Speaker 7: for asking. 243 00:12:08,800 --> 00:12:11,760 Speaker 3: Well, one thing our audience is very concerned about is 244 00:12:12,240 --> 00:12:17,000 Speaker 3: Erica and the family, especially in the wake of these gutless, disgusting, 245 00:12:17,320 --> 00:12:20,920 Speaker 3: despicable attacks by people who should damn well know better. 246 00:12:21,000 --> 00:12:23,880 Speaker 3: I'm going to keep it FCC compliant, folks, but I 247 00:12:23,920 --> 00:12:26,920 Speaker 3: gotta tell you, I see this stuff out there and 248 00:12:27,000 --> 00:12:29,800 Speaker 3: it makes me mad. It makes the audience mad. How 249 00:12:29,880 --> 00:12:32,360 Speaker 3: is Erica and the family holding up? 250 00:12:34,679 --> 00:12:35,040 Speaker 6: Yeah? 251 00:12:35,200 --> 00:12:38,560 Speaker 7: Well, And I love your passion, Kurt, and trust me, 252 00:12:38,640 --> 00:12:40,400 Speaker 7: you may not see it in public, but I share 253 00:12:40,440 --> 00:12:44,280 Speaker 7: it privately, and I appreciate what you said. Erica is 254 00:12:45,000 --> 00:12:48,800 Speaker 7: an amazing, amazing person. She just really is. You know, 255 00:12:49,120 --> 00:12:53,840 Speaker 7: Charlie on multiple occasions told me privately, said it publicly 256 00:12:53,920 --> 00:12:56,160 Speaker 7: multiple times in my hearing that you know, if anything 257 00:12:56,200 --> 00:13:00,640 Speaker 7: happens to me Erica's taken over and something she obviously 258 00:13:00,720 --> 00:13:03,600 Speaker 7: didn't ask for. You know, she didn't ask to have 259 00:13:03,679 --> 00:13:05,200 Speaker 7: to be a single mom and raise her kids. 260 00:13:05,200 --> 00:13:05,959 Speaker 6: She didn't ask to. 261 00:13:05,920 --> 00:13:09,520 Speaker 7: Be thrust into the spotlight like this and to run 262 00:13:09,520 --> 00:13:13,080 Speaker 7: an organization of this size and magnitude of importance to 263 00:13:13,800 --> 00:13:15,640 Speaker 7: you know, so many things that she's just been asked 264 00:13:15,640 --> 00:13:19,480 Speaker 7: to do, to you know, make sure his book, his 265 00:13:19,600 --> 00:13:22,719 Speaker 7: last book, was a success, and that enough people, as 266 00:13:22,720 --> 00:13:25,920 Speaker 7: many people as possible could read it. She's she's tried 267 00:13:25,960 --> 00:13:28,200 Speaker 7: to honor Charlie as best she can, and she's done 268 00:13:28,240 --> 00:13:29,080 Speaker 7: an amazing job. 269 00:13:29,120 --> 00:13:32,320 Speaker 6: And I will just tell you under her leadership. 270 00:13:31,840 --> 00:13:34,920 Speaker 7: I mean, if you think about what turning point was 271 00:13:35,000 --> 00:13:37,880 Speaker 7: with Charlie, it was, you know, a lot of the 272 00:13:37,960 --> 00:13:41,400 Speaker 7: day to day he wasn't, you know, involved in directly 273 00:13:41,440 --> 00:13:43,200 Speaker 7: all the time, right, he just couldn't be because he 274 00:13:43,240 --> 00:13:45,760 Speaker 7: was traveling and he was speaking, and he was doing podcasts, 275 00:13:45,800 --> 00:13:48,840 Speaker 7: and so he set it up in such a way 276 00:13:48,840 --> 00:13:52,199 Speaker 7: where there's lieutenants kind of running the different pieces of 277 00:13:52,240 --> 00:13:54,960 Speaker 7: the organization, but he was the spiritual center. He was 278 00:13:55,000 --> 00:13:59,520 Speaker 7: the heartbeat, the messaging, drumbeat of what happened, and. 279 00:13:59,679 --> 00:14:01,200 Speaker 6: He he loved it. 280 00:14:01,240 --> 00:14:03,000 Speaker 7: And he was so good at it, and so Erica 281 00:14:03,880 --> 00:14:08,600 Speaker 7: that she's just so well positioned and she's so naturally 282 00:14:08,600 --> 00:14:11,959 Speaker 7: gifted at being that same thing to the to the team, 283 00:14:12,120 --> 00:14:14,120 Speaker 7: and it's like when she walks into the room and 284 00:14:13,920 --> 00:14:16,720 Speaker 7: she gives the marching orders, I will tell you every 285 00:14:16,800 --> 00:14:19,480 Speaker 7: every eye is fixed and everybody's ready to go run 286 00:14:19,520 --> 00:14:22,640 Speaker 7: through a brick wall. She has done an amazing job, 287 00:14:22,680 --> 00:14:24,720 Speaker 7: and I wish people could see that behind the scenes, 288 00:14:24,760 --> 00:14:27,520 Speaker 7: and she's you know, tackling all that and being a 289 00:14:27,560 --> 00:14:31,720 Speaker 7: mom and being her own grieving process. She's just truly remarkable. 290 00:14:31,800 --> 00:14:33,800 Speaker 7: It really really is a remarkable thing to watch. 291 00:14:34,080 --> 00:14:34,200 Speaker 1: Well. 292 00:14:34,240 --> 00:14:37,000 Speaker 3: One of the last communications I had with Charlie was 293 00:14:37,040 --> 00:14:39,400 Speaker 3: I was trying to get him on a show that 294 00:14:39,440 --> 00:14:43,200 Speaker 3: I was guest hosting because he had he was one 295 00:14:43,240 --> 00:14:46,600 Speaker 3: of the people who had really raised my consciousness about 296 00:14:46,760 --> 00:14:49,640 Speaker 3: young Americans and how it's very look, I'm a gen 297 00:14:49,840 --> 00:14:51,920 Speaker 3: X guy. I was actually born the last week of 298 00:14:51,920 --> 00:14:55,400 Speaker 3: the baby boom. I'm set, I'm done, but there the 299 00:14:55,520 --> 00:14:59,320 Speaker 3: young people today are facing challenges that guys like me 300 00:14:59,440 --> 00:15:01,960 Speaker 3: can't image. And it was Charlie who said, hey, way 301 00:15:01,960 --> 00:15:04,640 Speaker 3: a minute, you older guys, you need to listen and 302 00:15:04,680 --> 00:15:08,680 Speaker 3: hear we had a State of the Union message this week. 303 00:15:09,920 --> 00:15:14,440 Speaker 3: As someone in touch with younger Americans, you've got conservatives 304 00:15:14,480 --> 00:15:17,840 Speaker 3: who are coming up. Did that speak to them? And 305 00:15:17,920 --> 00:15:20,520 Speaker 3: what more can be done to make sure that we're 306 00:15:20,560 --> 00:15:22,120 Speaker 3: taking care of the next generation. 307 00:15:24,840 --> 00:15:25,520 Speaker 6: Yeah? 308 00:15:25,120 --> 00:15:28,160 Speaker 7: I give the President really high marks on that speech. 309 00:15:28,200 --> 00:15:30,840 Speaker 7: I was actually in the gallery and there were a 310 00:15:30,840 --> 00:15:33,840 Speaker 7: couple of things I really really wanted to hear him 311 00:15:33,880 --> 00:15:37,640 Speaker 7: talk about, and that was affordability, the housing crisis, blocking 312 00:15:37,680 --> 00:15:41,160 Speaker 7: institutional investors, foreign investors from buying up single family homes. 313 00:15:41,560 --> 00:15:45,560 Speaker 7: He hit that, and he hit the banning stock trading 314 00:15:45,600 --> 00:15:46,560 Speaker 7: thing really hard. 315 00:15:47,040 --> 00:15:48,120 Speaker 6: I think that was key. 316 00:15:48,160 --> 00:15:50,880 Speaker 7: There was a Fabrizio poll that was going around and 317 00:15:51,160 --> 00:15:54,480 Speaker 7: the week before the speech, and we have to understand 318 00:15:54,520 --> 00:15:57,520 Speaker 7: Trump doesn't get enough credit for closing the border. That's 319 00:15:57,560 --> 00:16:00,480 Speaker 7: an existential threat to the country. He did it overnight, 320 00:16:00,960 --> 00:16:03,920 Speaker 7: but the polling says that people it's not getting through anymore. 321 00:16:04,200 --> 00:16:07,720 Speaker 6: Okay, So what needs to be messaged and it's these. 322 00:16:07,680 --> 00:16:11,960 Speaker 7: Populist conservative wins, these totem poles that we can hang 323 00:16:12,000 --> 00:16:14,920 Speaker 7: a hat on that Normy Americans that aren't clued into 324 00:16:14,920 --> 00:16:17,640 Speaker 7: the u Hewitt Show or the Charlie Kirk Show can 325 00:16:17,760 --> 00:16:19,440 Speaker 7: understand in a single sentence. 326 00:16:19,520 --> 00:16:19,680 Speaker 6: Right. 327 00:16:19,720 --> 00:16:22,200 Speaker 7: This is why no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, 328 00:16:22,240 --> 00:16:25,760 Speaker 7: no tax on Social Security, or powerful messaging items because 329 00:16:25,800 --> 00:16:28,240 Speaker 7: they cut through the noise. I don't even necessarily think 330 00:16:28,240 --> 00:16:31,160 Speaker 7: those are the most important things to saving America, but 331 00:16:31,280 --> 00:16:31,880 Speaker 7: they work. 332 00:16:32,000 --> 00:16:32,720 Speaker 6: They work as. 333 00:16:32,560 --> 00:16:35,520 Speaker 7: Messaging items because normal people understand them, and they understand 334 00:16:35,560 --> 00:16:39,280 Speaker 7: them instantly. That's why banning stock trading for Congress, massive 335 00:16:40,440 --> 00:16:43,680 Speaker 7: hitting big insurance companies, getting the money right to people 336 00:16:43,720 --> 00:16:47,200 Speaker 7: to make healthcare more affordable. Those things work. They cut 337 00:16:47,200 --> 00:16:49,240 Speaker 7: through the noise, and he hit that really hard. I 338 00:16:49,240 --> 00:16:51,720 Speaker 7: think ultimately it's going to come down to two things. 339 00:16:51,880 --> 00:16:54,840 Speaker 7: The economy in Epstein with young people. I know that's crazy, 340 00:16:54,880 --> 00:16:56,320 Speaker 7: but I hit it today on the show. You know, 341 00:16:56,520 --> 00:16:59,080 Speaker 7: the NPR came out with this big blockbuster. They get 342 00:16:59,120 --> 00:17:02,480 Speaker 7: so called that Trump is, you know, was leaving documents 343 00:17:02,480 --> 00:17:04,680 Speaker 7: out of the Epstein files. 344 00:17:05,320 --> 00:17:06,159 Speaker 6: That's not true. 345 00:17:06,400 --> 00:17:09,840 Speaker 7: So the but TikTok doesn't know that, and you know 346 00:17:09,880 --> 00:17:12,200 Speaker 7: Instagram doesn't know that. So we have to message harder 347 00:17:12,440 --> 00:17:14,439 Speaker 7: on the fact that Trump was the first, you know, 348 00:17:14,760 --> 00:17:17,119 Speaker 7: one of the first prominent people to communicate with the FBI. 349 00:17:17,520 --> 00:17:20,399 Speaker 7: He has been vindicated at every turn. If the Democrats 350 00:17:20,400 --> 00:17:22,119 Speaker 7: had something, don't you think they would have dropped it. 351 00:17:22,680 --> 00:17:24,200 Speaker 6: There's so many different things. 352 00:17:24,280 --> 00:17:27,800 Speaker 7: But you know, the big NPR dump was or bombshell, 353 00:17:27,880 --> 00:17:29,800 Speaker 7: was that they were withholding documents. 354 00:17:30,000 --> 00:17:31,320 Speaker 6: That turns out it's not true. 355 00:17:31,400 --> 00:17:34,680 Speaker 7: The DOJ has been taking documents out of the files 356 00:17:34,880 --> 00:17:38,480 Speaker 7: and replacing them when they get complaints that personally identifiable 357 00:17:38,840 --> 00:17:43,280 Speaker 7: victim information has been included in the document dump, So 358 00:17:43,320 --> 00:17:44,920 Speaker 7: they take it out and then they put it back. 359 00:17:44,960 --> 00:17:46,240 Speaker 6: They take it out and they put it back. 360 00:17:46,240 --> 00:17:49,480 Speaker 7: There's thousands and thousands of documents that have been flagged 361 00:17:49,480 --> 00:17:53,680 Speaker 7: by council or by victims themselves, So they take those concerns, 362 00:17:53,720 --> 00:17:55,600 Speaker 7: they fix them, and they put them back out. So 363 00:17:55,640 --> 00:17:57,440 Speaker 7: the whole thing was a hit job, a drive by 364 00:17:57,800 --> 00:17:59,119 Speaker 7: on the day of the State of the Union. But 365 00:17:59,160 --> 00:18:00,800 Speaker 7: I will tell you what, you kids are not getting 366 00:18:00,800 --> 00:18:03,160 Speaker 7: that message. They're still convinced that, you know, a child 367 00:18:03,240 --> 00:18:07,440 Speaker 7: eating pedophile Cabala is running Washington and Trump is implicated 368 00:18:07,440 --> 00:18:09,000 Speaker 7: in that, and so we have to message about it, 369 00:18:09,040 --> 00:18:12,040 Speaker 7: even though you know he's been vindicated at every turn. 370 00:18:12,119 --> 00:18:14,960 Speaker 3: Well, thank you Andrew Clovid of TPUSA. Keep doing that 371 00:18:15,000 --> 00:18:18,119 Speaker 3: good work. Us older guys, we need to back up 372 00:18:18,119 --> 00:18:23,399 Speaker 3: these young folks. It's their time. I'm Kurt Schlichter. This 373 00:18:23,480 --> 00:18:34,920 Speaker 3: is the Hugh Hewitt Show. Got back on Hugh Hewitt Show. 374 00:18:34,960 --> 00:18:37,920 Speaker 3: I'm guess Ho's Kurt Schlickter. That's the damned with Smash 375 00:18:37,960 --> 00:18:40,119 Speaker 3: it Up. Kind of my motto. If I had a 376 00:18:40,160 --> 00:18:44,240 Speaker 3: tramp stamp, that's probably what would be etched on my cocksix. Well, 377 00:18:44,600 --> 00:18:48,560 Speaker 3: I am a bomb thrower. I've been hardcore all my 378 00:18:49,000 --> 00:18:52,480 Speaker 3: conservative career, which is about forty years. But it's important 379 00:18:52,480 --> 00:18:55,920 Speaker 3: that we talked to our normy KHN friends. We talked 380 00:18:55,920 --> 00:18:58,199 Speaker 3: to Mary Catherine Ham the other day. She's about as 381 00:18:58,280 --> 00:19:01,479 Speaker 3: normal as they get. And her partner Vic Mattis, who's 382 00:19:01,800 --> 00:19:05,400 Speaker 3: the free Beacond Weekend culture editor and who joins Mary 383 00:19:05,480 --> 00:19:09,199 Speaker 3: Catherine Ham on the Getting Hammered podcast which I listen to, 384 00:19:10,040 --> 00:19:10,679 Speaker 3: is joining us. 385 00:19:10,720 --> 00:19:11,880 Speaker 2: Now, Hi, Beck, how you doing? 386 00:19:13,280 --> 00:19:14,840 Speaker 5: I'm doing great, Kurt? How are you? 387 00:19:15,000 --> 00:19:15,800 Speaker 2: I'm doing fine? 388 00:19:15,880 --> 00:19:18,119 Speaker 3: I you know, I said, had the same conversation with 389 00:19:18,640 --> 00:19:21,679 Speaker 3: Mary Catherine. I see you around at events, but I 390 00:19:21,720 --> 00:19:25,480 Speaker 3: don't think we've ever hung out and done shots or anything. 391 00:19:26,480 --> 00:19:30,080 Speaker 8: You know, our paths somehow have never crossed. You're doing 392 00:19:30,080 --> 00:19:32,680 Speaker 8: more important things and I'm pretty much stuck behind a 393 00:19:32,760 --> 00:19:35,120 Speaker 8: desk or at the bar, one or the other. 394 00:19:35,200 --> 00:19:36,480 Speaker 5: But we'll have to amend that. 395 00:19:36,760 --> 00:19:41,679 Speaker 3: I'm literally doing nothing of importance. But I appreciate that. 396 00:19:42,400 --> 00:19:42,560 Speaker 6: Vic. 397 00:19:43,000 --> 00:19:44,959 Speaker 2: Like I said, you are a Norman Ka. 398 00:19:45,680 --> 00:19:50,359 Speaker 3: You take pride in not being well crazy of looking 399 00:19:50,400 --> 00:19:52,840 Speaker 3: at things like like like a. 400 00:19:52,840 --> 00:19:54,399 Speaker 2: Regular person would. 401 00:19:55,640 --> 00:19:59,960 Speaker 3: I'm comfortable in the role of, you know, super hyperbolic advocate. 402 00:20:00,480 --> 00:20:05,280 Speaker 3: But you guys, you guys see things like regular folks. 403 00:20:06,000 --> 00:20:08,040 Speaker 3: How did you see the State of the Union and 404 00:20:08,119 --> 00:20:14,560 Speaker 3: the concurrent fake and real scandals and uproars surrounding it. 405 00:20:16,200 --> 00:20:18,760 Speaker 8: Well, I tell you, Kurt, it was really interesting. There 406 00:20:18,840 --> 00:20:20,639 Speaker 8: was a lot of hype going into the State of 407 00:20:20,680 --> 00:20:23,520 Speaker 8: the Union. There was a lot of trepidation that this 408 00:20:23,560 --> 00:20:26,160 Speaker 8: thing was going to go into three hours, and once 409 00:20:26,200 --> 00:20:29,760 Speaker 8: you sort of mentally prepare for that possibility, when Trump 410 00:20:29,840 --> 00:20:33,359 Speaker 8: starts talking in the grand sweeping terms, even my eighteen 411 00:20:33,400 --> 00:20:34,240 Speaker 8: year old son. 412 00:20:34,080 --> 00:20:36,000 Speaker 5: Said he's wrapping it up. He said, this is it. 413 00:20:36,000 --> 00:20:37,600 Speaker 5: It's over. I said, what you're kidding me? 414 00:20:37,840 --> 00:20:40,080 Speaker 8: And he was right about that, because that's usually how 415 00:20:40,080 --> 00:20:42,399 Speaker 8: he ends these things. He gets right back to the teleprompter. 416 00:20:43,440 --> 00:20:47,119 Speaker 8: All things considered, I thought Trump was very disciplined. There 417 00:20:47,200 --> 00:20:48,919 Speaker 8: was a lot of taunting. It was like, you know, 418 00:20:49,200 --> 00:20:52,520 Speaker 8: questions for the Prime Minister in Parliament. You could hear 419 00:20:52,640 --> 00:20:56,240 Speaker 8: them in the chamber, and he didn't take that bait 420 00:20:56,320 --> 00:20:58,280 Speaker 8: other than to say these people are nuts. And I 421 00:20:58,320 --> 00:21:00,639 Speaker 8: think there were a lot of people why watching the 422 00:21:00,680 --> 00:21:02,600 Speaker 8: State of the Union who felt the same way. If 423 00:21:02,600 --> 00:21:04,800 Speaker 8: you can't stand up for whether it be the hockey 424 00:21:04,840 --> 00:21:09,040 Speaker 8: team or these terrible, terrible victims of these awful crimes, 425 00:21:09,440 --> 00:21:13,560 Speaker 8: or the people who are receiving medals of honor, then 426 00:21:13,560 --> 00:21:16,160 Speaker 8: there's probably something wrong with you. And guess what they're 427 00:21:16,200 --> 00:21:19,760 Speaker 8: going to use you in a clip come November. So 428 00:21:20,119 --> 00:21:23,080 Speaker 8: I think by and large, the President did very well. 429 00:21:23,480 --> 00:21:27,800 Speaker 8: The economy is doing great. I just saw that mortgage 430 00:21:28,119 --> 00:21:30,560 Speaker 8: rates are down below six percent now for the first 431 00:21:30,560 --> 00:21:31,680 Speaker 8: time in a very long time. 432 00:21:32,000 --> 00:21:33,840 Speaker 5: So things are going in the right direction. 433 00:21:34,200 --> 00:21:36,360 Speaker 8: And again I think the polling indicates that a lot 434 00:21:36,359 --> 00:21:39,359 Speaker 8: of Americans who watched the State of Union liked what 435 00:21:39,400 --> 00:21:39,879 Speaker 8: they saw. 436 00:21:40,200 --> 00:21:42,959 Speaker 3: Well, we just had Trafalgar poll come out today. It 437 00:21:43,040 --> 00:21:48,240 Speaker 3: has Trump at fifty point eight percent approval versus forty 438 00:21:48,359 --> 00:21:52,080 Speaker 3: seven point six disapproval. Now it's Strafalger, it's Republican leaning, 439 00:21:52,080 --> 00:21:55,720 Speaker 3: and other polls go in different directions. But I saw 440 00:21:55,760 --> 00:21:57,520 Speaker 3: that speech and I didn't know how Trump was going 441 00:21:57,600 --> 00:22:02,159 Speaker 3: to do. I was hoping to see discipline and showman Trump, 442 00:22:02,200 --> 00:22:04,920 Speaker 3: which we saw as opposed to walk out, grab his 443 00:22:04,960 --> 00:22:06,560 Speaker 3: groin and you know, I got your state of the 444 00:22:06,640 --> 00:22:13,119 Speaker 3: Union right here. Uh, growing Trump, and I think he's 445 00:22:13,320 --> 00:22:18,880 Speaker 3: I think he's fixing it. As as Dwayne says, normal 446 00:22:18,960 --> 00:22:23,720 Speaker 3: Trump versus abnormal Democrats for the nationalized midterm race. 447 00:22:25,240 --> 00:22:28,360 Speaker 8: Yeah, as crazy as that sounds, I think that's how 448 00:22:28,400 --> 00:22:29,119 Speaker 8: it's shaping up. 449 00:22:29,160 --> 00:22:30,720 Speaker 5: You and Duayne are right about that. 450 00:22:30,960 --> 00:22:33,640 Speaker 8: I mean, every time they flash to the Democrats seated there, 451 00:22:33,680 --> 00:22:37,320 Speaker 8: you see people like elan Omar, you know, yelling out 452 00:22:37,359 --> 00:22:41,159 Speaker 8: and in tears and hysterical, and of course her partner 453 00:22:41,160 --> 00:22:45,640 Speaker 8: in crime, Rashida Tulaib with the unspeakable kin on her lapel. 454 00:22:46,400 --> 00:22:48,159 Speaker 8: And those are the choices that you can make. You're 455 00:22:48,200 --> 00:22:50,000 Speaker 8: either with them where you're with the other side. And 456 00:22:50,040 --> 00:22:52,840 Speaker 8: I already saw a clip from the Republican saying that 457 00:22:52,880 --> 00:22:55,520 Speaker 8: they represent you know you and these other people are 458 00:22:55,640 --> 00:22:59,160 Speaker 8: insane essentially, So I think that's good. But I think 459 00:22:59,160 --> 00:23:02,160 Speaker 8: a lot of Americans are beginning to see the differences now, 460 00:23:02,200 --> 00:23:04,359 Speaker 8: I mean Trump has been going out, Jade Vance is 461 00:23:04,400 --> 00:23:08,359 Speaker 8: going out across the country on this economy tour, and 462 00:23:08,440 --> 00:23:10,479 Speaker 8: people are beginning to realize that, yeah, you know what, 463 00:23:10,560 --> 00:23:13,800 Speaker 8: prices are beginning to go down. Obviously gas is already there, 464 00:23:14,359 --> 00:23:18,719 Speaker 8: but in other areas as well. And again Trump at 465 00:23:18,720 --> 00:23:23,239 Speaker 8: the speech, he pretty much stuck to the script. There 466 00:23:23,240 --> 00:23:25,520 Speaker 8: are a few moments he gets overly dramatic. I mean, 467 00:23:25,520 --> 00:23:26,879 Speaker 8: he really loves to ham it up. 468 00:23:26,920 --> 00:23:27,520 Speaker 5: Right before the. 469 00:23:27,520 --> 00:23:31,480 Speaker 8: US Ben's hockey team descended those stairs, he becomes almost 470 00:23:31,480 --> 00:23:32,520 Speaker 8: a parody of himself. 471 00:23:32,760 --> 00:23:34,280 Speaker 5: But you're like, okay, what's going on? 472 00:23:34,320 --> 00:23:37,399 Speaker 8: And it turns it kind of into the show, like 473 00:23:37,440 --> 00:23:40,960 Speaker 8: I mentioned on the podcast, like this is your life. 474 00:23:40,960 --> 00:23:43,280 Speaker 5: You don't know who's walking out that door. It's going 475 00:23:43,320 --> 00:23:46,040 Speaker 5: to be the girl's father, the Venezuelan politician. 476 00:23:46,119 --> 00:23:48,359 Speaker 8: You don't know who's coming out, And it turns it 477 00:23:48,520 --> 00:23:50,359 Speaker 8: strangely into this must see TV. 478 00:23:50,480 --> 00:23:52,080 Speaker 5: But he's obviously very adept at that. 479 00:23:52,480 --> 00:23:55,280 Speaker 3: Well, look, I'm very old. I don't know if you're 480 00:23:55,320 --> 00:23:58,080 Speaker 3: as quite as old as me, but I remember Ronald Reagan. 481 00:23:58,160 --> 00:24:01,639 Speaker 3: I remember nineteen eighty and the big really starting with 482 00:24:01,680 --> 00:24:06,880 Speaker 3: the American Miracle on ice A, giant hockey victory. We're 483 00:24:06,920 --> 00:24:09,240 Speaker 3: coming out of a terrible economy from a one term 484 00:24:09,280 --> 00:24:13,919 Speaker 3: incompetent Democrat. And you know, back then we had Ronald Reagan, 485 00:24:14,000 --> 00:24:19,679 Speaker 3: who famously sunny disposition. This is sunny Trump, this is 486 00:24:19,800 --> 00:24:26,840 Speaker 3: orange man glad. This is a positive message versus you know, 487 00:24:26,880 --> 00:24:32,760 Speaker 3: the whole mass of gripes, complaints and snits of the left. 488 00:24:33,160 --> 00:24:35,520 Speaker 3: And I think he's just going to run him over 489 00:24:35,640 --> 00:24:37,200 Speaker 3: like a steamroller. 490 00:24:38,880 --> 00:24:39,120 Speaker 5: Yeah. 491 00:24:39,200 --> 00:24:42,959 Speaker 8: I mean, obviously, traditionally, historically speaking, the odds are against 492 00:24:43,040 --> 00:24:45,080 Speaker 8: him and the power you know, whoever's in the White 493 00:24:45,080 --> 00:24:48,600 Speaker 8: House when it comes to the midterm. So it's going 494 00:24:48,640 --> 00:24:50,840 Speaker 8: to be quite a feat if they can somehow hold 495 00:24:50,880 --> 00:24:53,639 Speaker 8: on to the House. I think they have obviously a 496 00:24:53,680 --> 00:24:57,240 Speaker 8: better chance at the Senate. But he's certainly in the 497 00:24:57,320 --> 00:24:59,480 Speaker 8: right going down the right path right now by being 498 00:24:59,520 --> 00:25:03,439 Speaker 8: more of this positive Trump unless you know, the fewer 499 00:25:03,480 --> 00:25:06,040 Speaker 8: tweets about what happens to Rob Reiner and his wife, 500 00:25:06,040 --> 00:25:08,760 Speaker 8: the better that sort of a thing and get out 501 00:25:08,760 --> 00:25:13,119 Speaker 8: there and you know, deliver results and people want a 502 00:25:13,119 --> 00:25:16,760 Speaker 8: reason to vote for I think him and Republicans and 503 00:25:16,800 --> 00:25:18,960 Speaker 8: you just have to give that to them. I mean, 504 00:25:18,960 --> 00:25:22,680 Speaker 8: it's right there in front of you. So and again, 505 00:25:23,119 --> 00:25:25,280 Speaker 8: I think most of the majority of Americans are with him. 506 00:25:25,760 --> 00:25:29,480 Speaker 8: They don't think that there was something sinister going on 507 00:25:29,520 --> 00:25:32,200 Speaker 8: when he said what he mentioned the women's hockey team 508 00:25:32,280 --> 00:25:35,480 Speaker 8: in the locker room on the phone. Jimmy Carter was 509 00:25:35,520 --> 00:25:37,080 Speaker 8: on the phone with the team in nineteen eighty I 510 00:25:37,080 --> 00:25:39,560 Speaker 8: know you know that, and Walter Mondale was there too. 511 00:25:39,880 --> 00:25:41,920 Speaker 5: So, I mean there's obviously president for that. 512 00:25:42,240 --> 00:25:46,359 Speaker 8: And the idea that you might have a problem chanting USA, well, 513 00:25:46,600 --> 00:25:47,159 Speaker 8: I think that's. 514 00:25:47,080 --> 00:25:48,800 Speaker 5: More your problem and not our problem. 515 00:25:49,119 --> 00:25:49,359 Speaker 9: Yeah. 516 00:25:49,400 --> 00:25:53,160 Speaker 3: I think it's especially in the two hundred and fiftieth 517 00:25:53,160 --> 00:25:59,000 Speaker 3: anniversary of the United States of America, you know, having 518 00:25:59,119 --> 00:26:01,760 Speaker 3: as a key playing in your platform, this is a 519 00:26:01,800 --> 00:26:07,320 Speaker 3: country built on genocide and occupying stolen land. Probably not 520 00:26:07,400 --> 00:26:11,400 Speaker 3: a winning message outside of a faculty lounge somewhere. 521 00:26:12,720 --> 00:26:15,640 Speaker 8: Yeah, no, nobody gets that, let alone the Land acknowledgments 522 00:26:15,720 --> 00:26:18,640 Speaker 8: before any of these sort of lefty meetings. I often 523 00:26:18,720 --> 00:26:21,239 Speaker 8: joke around with Mary Catherine when we would tape here 524 00:26:21,280 --> 00:26:23,040 Speaker 8: in the studio in the Home of the Free Beacon, 525 00:26:23,080 --> 00:26:26,399 Speaker 8: I said, Land acknowledgment, This whole office was once USA today. 526 00:26:30,119 --> 00:26:34,480 Speaker 3: Well, Vic, do you think there's any chance and we 527 00:26:34,520 --> 00:26:36,040 Speaker 3: only got about fifteen seconds left. 528 00:26:36,240 --> 00:26:38,280 Speaker 2: Any chance at all, Trump. 529 00:26:38,040 --> 00:26:41,400 Speaker 3: Who's a second non consecutive term president for the first 530 00:26:41,440 --> 00:26:44,840 Speaker 3: time in one hundred and so years, might actually be 531 00:26:44,920 --> 00:26:48,800 Speaker 3: able to pull off a net gain in the House 532 00:26:48,800 --> 00:26:49,640 Speaker 3: of Representatives. 533 00:26:51,560 --> 00:26:53,800 Speaker 5: It's possible. It's a lot's going to depend on what 534 00:26:53,880 --> 00:26:55,040 Speaker 5: happened in the next couple of weeks. 535 00:26:55,080 --> 00:26:57,399 Speaker 8: In foreign policy, the biggest challenge of his life is 536 00:26:57,440 --> 00:26:57,879 Speaker 8: coming up. 537 00:26:58,400 --> 00:27:01,200 Speaker 3: Well, let's take those all us out of the picture 538 00:27:01,440 --> 00:27:04,920 Speaker 3: and settle that. Another thank you to Jimmy Carter. 539 00:27:05,440 --> 00:27:05,680 Speaker 2: Hugh. 540 00:27:06,160 --> 00:27:10,280 Speaker 3: I'm Kurt schliter. This is the Hugh Hewittt Show stick Around. 541 00:27:12,080 --> 00:27:15,200 Speaker 2: I'm Kurt schlicker back guest hosting for the great Hugh Qwitt. 542 00:27:15,640 --> 00:27:20,840 Speaker 3: I'm joined now by my great friend and fellow Pennsylvanian. Well, 543 00:27:20,880 --> 00:27:26,199 Speaker 3: I'm Pennsylvanian roots Selena Zito from The Washington Examiner and 544 00:27:26,240 --> 00:27:29,000 Speaker 3: the author of Butler. Hi, Selena, let me, let me 545 00:27:29,040 --> 00:27:34,040 Speaker 3: set the stage. I played journey fun song. Great, it's 546 00:27:34,040 --> 00:27:37,119 Speaker 3: from another time, a time when we had a hockey 547 00:27:37,119 --> 00:27:39,399 Speaker 3: team come to a gold medal victory, when we had 548 00:27:39,440 --> 00:27:42,600 Speaker 3: a president with a sunny disposition come in clean up 549 00:27:42,640 --> 00:27:46,680 Speaker 3: after a failed one term president and start cutting taxes, 550 00:27:46,760 --> 00:27:50,280 Speaker 3: getting the economy move and making America strong again? Question, 551 00:27:50,560 --> 00:27:51,800 Speaker 3: are we in the new eighties? 552 00:27:53,600 --> 00:27:55,640 Speaker 10: And we could be in the new eighties? 553 00:27:56,000 --> 00:27:59,919 Speaker 11: Nineteen eighty was that November was the year that Ronald 554 00:28:00,080 --> 00:28:03,880 Speaker 11: Reagan won, and it's set off eight years of growth 555 00:28:04,040 --> 00:28:07,960 Speaker 11: and optimism that we have largely missed. 556 00:28:09,200 --> 00:28:10,480 Speaker 10: Beginning at the. 557 00:28:10,400 --> 00:28:16,000 Speaker 11: End of Gerald Ford's presidency and through alt Jimmy Carter's presidency. 558 00:28:16,359 --> 00:28:20,439 Speaker 10: He called he called the American public in the. 559 00:28:21,600 --> 00:28:26,760 Speaker 11: State of malaise, right like, talk about setting the tone 560 00:28:26,840 --> 00:28:28,400 Speaker 11: for the country, not like. 561 00:28:29,960 --> 00:28:31,639 Speaker 10: I'm going to take you to a better place. 562 00:28:32,119 --> 00:28:32,280 Speaker 8: Now. 563 00:28:33,000 --> 00:28:37,840 Speaker 10: You guys are malaized, and there we are. We're no 564 00:28:37,960 --> 00:28:38,840 Speaker 10: wondering lost. 565 00:28:39,360 --> 00:28:41,560 Speaker 3: Well, Selena, you've got your finger on the pulse of 566 00:28:41,640 --> 00:28:44,640 Speaker 3: normal Americans. I certainly don't. I live in Los Angeles, 567 00:28:45,080 --> 00:28:50,600 Speaker 3: but I see Trump go out there. He's Orange man, glad, 568 00:28:50,760 --> 00:28:52,440 Speaker 3: he's sonny, he's positive. 569 00:28:52,720 --> 00:28:54,040 Speaker 2: He's looking at the Democrats. 570 00:28:54,040 --> 00:28:57,520 Speaker 3: He's not calling him names except crazy, because there's stuff 571 00:28:57,560 --> 00:28:58,200 Speaker 3: is crazy. 572 00:28:58,560 --> 00:29:02,680 Speaker 2: And their whole, their entire argument is Donald. 573 00:29:02,440 --> 00:29:05,680 Speaker 3: Trump is bad, and by extension, everybody who supports Donald 574 00:29:05,680 --> 00:29:09,400 Speaker 3: Trump is bad. I think it's a losing proposition. I'm 575 00:29:09,440 --> 00:29:13,000 Speaker 3: starting to think we may actually not lose the midterms. 576 00:29:13,280 --> 00:29:16,680 Speaker 3: I think we may gain seats. What do you think, 577 00:29:18,160 --> 00:29:19,400 Speaker 3: you know, it's quite possible. 578 00:29:20,160 --> 00:29:24,360 Speaker 11: I have always said since the beginning of heading into 579 00:29:24,560 --> 00:29:28,000 Speaker 11: this midterm election that the only thing that is going 580 00:29:28,040 --> 00:29:30,960 Speaker 11: to keep the Democrats from winning seats, whether it's one 581 00:29:31,360 --> 00:29:37,120 Speaker 11: or forty, is themselves. And if this jump start from 582 00:29:37,120 --> 00:29:40,720 Speaker 11: the beginning of the years, any indication that they have 583 00:29:40,800 --> 00:29:46,360 Speaker 11: not learned anything from twenty twenty four, they just might 584 00:29:46,440 --> 00:29:50,680 Speaker 11: not win the midterms and we might have a reversal 585 00:29:50,720 --> 00:29:53,640 Speaker 11: of fortune in terms. I mean, I think the last 586 00:29:53,680 --> 00:29:58,720 Speaker 11: time sitting party in power won seats and was two 587 00:29:58,800 --> 00:29:59,640 Speaker 11: thousand and two. 588 00:29:59,600 --> 00:30:03,240 Speaker 10: And that had a lot to do with the aftermath 589 00:30:03,520 --> 00:30:08,840 Speaker 10: of nine to eleven. And the Democrats have just it 590 00:30:09,680 --> 00:30:11,600 Speaker 10: is stunning to me that. 591 00:30:12,000 --> 00:30:16,840 Speaker 11: They don't understand how disjointed they are from the American public, 592 00:30:17,280 --> 00:30:21,120 Speaker 11: even with from people within their own party. They don't 593 00:30:21,240 --> 00:30:27,560 Speaker 11: understand what this thing is about. Let's just put aside politics. 594 00:30:27,840 --> 00:30:32,240 Speaker 11: What's this thing about culture? Where you can't even celebrate 595 00:30:32,840 --> 00:30:35,760 Speaker 11: of the hockey teams, both the men and the women's 596 00:30:35,760 --> 00:30:38,200 Speaker 11: hockey teams, we can't celebrate it. 597 00:30:38,440 --> 00:30:40,680 Speaker 10: We went into the Olympics. 598 00:30:40,120 --> 00:30:45,920 Speaker 11: Talking asking players of all sorts of sports about politics. 599 00:30:45,520 --> 00:30:47,480 Speaker 10: And we ended on. 600 00:30:49,080 --> 00:30:52,640 Speaker 11: Not celebrating their win because they went to the White House. 601 00:30:53,320 --> 00:30:57,840 Speaker 11: All teams go to the Whitehouse, like it's not unprecedented, 602 00:30:57,960 --> 00:31:03,760 Speaker 11: it's what we do and so and and my profession 603 00:31:04,360 --> 00:31:08,360 Speaker 11: keeps like shows they're even more out of touch, and 604 00:31:08,400 --> 00:31:12,240 Speaker 11: they keep extending the pain for the Democrats because every 605 00:31:12,320 --> 00:31:16,360 Speaker 11: day there's a new story about how awful the Olympic 606 00:31:16,440 --> 00:31:16,959 Speaker 11: team is. 607 00:31:17,400 --> 00:31:21,560 Speaker 3: Well, Celia Zito, it seems to me that the Democrats 608 00:31:21,600 --> 00:31:23,280 Speaker 3: and the regime media. 609 00:31:24,680 --> 00:31:28,520 Speaker 2: Have this rule that you know, Donald Trump doesn't Donald. 610 00:31:28,320 --> 00:31:31,160 Speaker 3: Trump may have won the election, but he doesn't actually 611 00:31:31,200 --> 00:31:32,200 Speaker 3: yet to be president. 612 00:31:32,280 --> 00:31:34,360 Speaker 2: And by extension, you people. 613 00:31:34,160 --> 00:31:37,360 Speaker 3: Who voted for him, you don't actually get to have 614 00:31:38,080 --> 00:31:43,000 Speaker 3: your interests protected and your cause advanced. There's there's some 615 00:31:43,120 --> 00:31:47,240 Speaker 3: special we win or you lose, and I. 616 00:31:47,440 --> 00:31:50,480 Speaker 10: Get never mind that you just don't get to have fun. 617 00:31:51,000 --> 00:31:52,280 Speaker 2: Yes, you can't have fun. 618 00:31:52,600 --> 00:31:53,680 Speaker 10: You're not going to have fun. 619 00:31:54,320 --> 00:31:56,560 Speaker 11: Everything you do is going to be scolded because it's 620 00:31:56,560 --> 00:31:59,040 Speaker 11: seen through the prism of how you voted. 621 00:32:00,080 --> 00:32:03,880 Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I mean, I'm surprised that Abigail Spamberger, who 622 00:32:04,120 --> 00:32:07,120 Speaker 3: looks like everybody's ex wife, including those of us who 623 00:32:07,120 --> 00:32:11,880 Speaker 3: have only been married once. She gives off this vibe 624 00:32:11,880 --> 00:32:14,680 Speaker 3: like she's about to drop a land acknowledgment and tell 625 00:32:14,760 --> 00:32:16,960 Speaker 3: you to use your inside voice. I don't think that's 626 00:32:16,960 --> 00:32:19,640 Speaker 3: going to resonate with normal people. But you're the expert 627 00:32:19,640 --> 00:32:20,440 Speaker 3: on normal people. 628 00:32:23,680 --> 00:32:28,240 Speaker 11: I was still too busy celebrating hockey. 629 00:32:28,640 --> 00:32:31,600 Speaker 10: I you know, I lasted. I mean, I know her 630 00:32:31,600 --> 00:32:35,640 Speaker 10: speech didn't go that long. I was really annoyed by 631 00:32:35,680 --> 00:32:39,360 Speaker 10: the controlled clapter. I know it shouldn't, but it really 632 00:32:39,400 --> 00:32:39,920 Speaker 10: annoyed me. 633 00:32:40,000 --> 00:32:40,520 Speaker 9: It was like. 634 00:32:42,320 --> 00:32:47,200 Speaker 10: And that is like cheerleaders, right, and it just it 635 00:32:47,520 --> 00:32:51,320 Speaker 10: just annoyed me. Look that that is a bankless. 636 00:32:50,840 --> 00:33:00,040 Speaker 11: Job to do that speech, ask Marco Rubio. But but 637 00:33:00,120 --> 00:33:06,280 Speaker 11: you know, I don't think she gives off the warm fuzzies. 638 00:33:06,760 --> 00:33:08,760 Speaker 10: Right, Look, I got the president. 639 00:33:08,840 --> 00:33:11,239 Speaker 11: I watched the speech in a bar, which is how 640 00:33:11,280 --> 00:33:12,840 Speaker 11: I always watched nikes. 641 00:33:13,040 --> 00:33:15,240 Speaker 10: And what I why do I do that? Because I 642 00:33:15,360 --> 00:33:22,240 Speaker 10: like to watch people. Well, there's that. I like to 643 00:33:22,280 --> 00:33:25,080 Speaker 10: see how they how they react, how they talk to 644 00:33:25,160 --> 00:33:27,520 Speaker 10: each other, what do I think moves them? 645 00:33:27,680 --> 00:33:27,920 Speaker 9: Right? 646 00:33:28,080 --> 00:33:31,720 Speaker 10: I try to like step back and take in the room. 647 00:33:32,280 --> 00:33:34,880 Speaker 10: I will tell you I've never been at a at 648 00:33:34,880 --> 00:33:35,600 Speaker 10: a bar. 649 00:33:37,160 --> 00:33:42,240 Speaker 11: When when people have given a President the standing ovation ovation. 650 00:33:43,920 --> 00:33:50,560 Speaker 11: But I did when President Trump said you people were crazy, So. 651 00:33:50,920 --> 00:33:55,120 Speaker 3: I mean you're telling me among regular folks, normal folks, 652 00:33:55,680 --> 00:33:59,280 Speaker 3: that's resonating. Is there anything that Democrats can do? Maybe 653 00:33:59,360 --> 00:34:01,800 Speaker 3: channel John Fetterman. We got about fifteen seconds. 654 00:34:03,200 --> 00:34:07,360 Speaker 11: John Fetterman is normal. It's because he has no blanks 655 00:34:07,360 --> 00:34:07,760 Speaker 11: to give. 656 00:34:08,560 --> 00:34:11,960 Speaker 10: He doesn't care what you think he's going to. 657 00:34:12,360 --> 00:34:17,480 Speaker 11: He's going to assess the situation in with the pragmatism 658 00:34:17,600 --> 00:34:21,440 Speaker 11: of someone from western Pennsylvania. And I would say he 659 00:34:21,600 --> 00:34:27,319 Speaker 11: reflects that he embodies that pragmatism, and that should be really. 660 00:34:27,000 --> 00:34:28,319 Speaker 10: Scary for Democrats. 661 00:34:28,440 --> 00:34:32,200 Speaker 3: Well, considering I grew up with a mom from western Pennsylvania, 662 00:34:32,960 --> 00:34:37,640 Speaker 3: I get it. Selena Zito, the Washington Examiner, author of Butler, 663 00:34:37,880 --> 00:34:40,680 Speaker 3: the best political book of the last few years. 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You can 709 00:36:59,360 --> 00:37:05,000 Speaker 3: follow him at Jim Talent on X Center Talent. Are 710 00:37:05,040 --> 00:37:08,200 Speaker 3: we going to start rocking as ac DC just said 711 00:37:08,640 --> 00:37:11,680 Speaker 3: in the in Around with that massive force we have 712 00:37:11,960 --> 00:37:16,080 Speaker 3: in position? Or do you think we're gonna climb down 713 00:37:16,239 --> 00:37:20,239 Speaker 3: from where we're at and instead allow the mullas to 714 00:37:20,280 --> 00:37:22,240 Speaker 3: continue on another fifty years? 715 00:37:25,040 --> 00:37:27,400 Speaker 9: And I will answer that question colonel, but I have 716 00:37:27,480 --> 00:37:30,280 Speaker 9: to say your own a rule. This afternoon. I've enjoyed 717 00:37:30,680 --> 00:37:37,399 Speaker 9: I've enjoyed listening the Kamala Harris clips. They're just priceless. 718 00:37:37,239 --> 00:37:39,359 Speaker 9: She just can't get it right. 719 00:37:39,840 --> 00:37:40,560 Speaker 5: She really can't. 720 00:37:40,880 --> 00:37:42,720 Speaker 6: Parents of children. 721 00:37:43,000 --> 00:37:44,520 Speaker 2: Yeah, the gift that keeps on gutting. 722 00:37:45,920 --> 00:37:51,719 Speaker 9: I'm going to stop trying to hijack the interview. I think, Yeah, 723 00:37:51,719 --> 00:37:52,719 Speaker 9: I think we're going to end. 724 00:37:52,680 --> 00:37:54,399 Speaker 6: Up attacking good. 725 00:37:54,480 --> 00:37:56,840 Speaker 9: And look, if you want to know what Trump's doing, 726 00:37:57,360 --> 00:38:00,600 Speaker 9: I've said this on the pod that I with Dwayne 727 00:38:01,000 --> 00:38:03,800 Speaker 9: on Dwayne's Pot a couple of times. Read the National 728 00:38:03,840 --> 00:38:08,040 Speaker 9: Security Strategy at least page five, the core vital interests 729 00:38:08,080 --> 00:38:10,160 Speaker 9: of the United States, and read the Art of the deal, 730 00:38:10,719 --> 00:38:13,600 Speaker 9: and you'll see at least the strategy, I mean, the tactics. 731 00:38:15,120 --> 00:38:17,640 Speaker 9: You know, he's read into all this intel, so you know, 732 00:38:17,680 --> 00:38:21,520 Speaker 9: we just speculate on that. But he's assembled an enormous 733 00:38:21,520 --> 00:38:25,399 Speaker 9: amount of leverage, the biggest forced package, I guess since 734 00:38:25,440 --> 00:38:26,360 Speaker 9: the war in Iraq. 735 00:38:27,640 --> 00:38:28,440 Speaker 5: He's squeezing. 736 00:38:28,880 --> 00:38:32,279 Speaker 9: He knows the regime is more insecure than it's ever 737 00:38:32,360 --> 00:38:36,600 Speaker 9: been in fifty years. I think these negotiations are not 738 00:38:36,640 --> 00:38:39,279 Speaker 9: aimed at the mullas you know Trump does not miss 739 00:38:39,320 --> 00:38:41,960 Speaker 9: the obvious Kurt. He knows the Mulas are not going 740 00:38:42,000 --> 00:38:44,160 Speaker 9: to agree to what he wants. I think he's aiming 741 00:38:44,200 --> 00:38:47,279 Speaker 9: it at the guys in military caps, and I think 742 00:38:47,280 --> 00:38:51,879 Speaker 9: the message he's sending them is, look, if you play 743 00:38:51,920 --> 00:38:55,319 Speaker 9: ball with us, you can survive, and you probably can 744 00:38:55,440 --> 00:38:57,319 Speaker 9: keep some of the loot that you've had, and if 745 00:38:57,360 --> 00:39:01,719 Speaker 9: you don't, neither of those things is going to be true. Now, 746 00:39:01,719 --> 00:39:03,600 Speaker 9: I don't think it's going to work right now. I 747 00:39:04,080 --> 00:39:07,640 Speaker 9: think we're going to attack, But after we attack, after 748 00:39:07,680 --> 00:39:11,640 Speaker 9: the protesters come out, it might work. And I think 749 00:39:11,680 --> 00:39:15,480 Speaker 9: that's what the strategy is. Uh so, but I think 750 00:39:15,520 --> 00:39:17,080 Speaker 9: we're going to have to attack, and I think they're 751 00:39:17,080 --> 00:39:19,480 Speaker 9: going to go after the ballistic missile system of the 752 00:39:19,600 --> 00:39:23,399 Speaker 9: architecture and the missiles themselves and the launchers number one, 753 00:39:23,960 --> 00:39:27,279 Speaker 9: and then after that IRG Command and Control, and then 754 00:39:27,719 --> 00:39:28,600 Speaker 9: after that who. 755 00:39:28,440 --> 00:39:33,279 Speaker 3: Knows well, cenator talent. I'm going to bring up some 756 00:39:33,480 --> 00:39:37,520 Speaker 3: sun sou here. We know what the jang is, which 757 00:39:37,600 --> 00:39:41,319 Speaker 3: is the part of the picture that everyone sees in 758 00:39:41,360 --> 00:39:44,200 Speaker 3: the open that the enemy focuses on arounds. Looking at 759 00:39:44,239 --> 00:39:46,879 Speaker 3: this giant flotilla, look at this at array of aircraft 760 00:39:47,280 --> 00:39:49,920 Speaker 3: looking over at Israel, and that's what it sees. But 761 00:39:49,960 --> 00:39:53,360 Speaker 3: there's also the chi the thing that you don't see coming, 762 00:39:53,680 --> 00:39:56,640 Speaker 3: the hit that you don't expect that closes the deal, 763 00:39:57,080 --> 00:40:02,719 Speaker 3: like the famous flank sweep in Desert Storm, where I 764 00:40:02,800 --> 00:40:04,239 Speaker 3: was thirty five years ago. 765 00:40:04,320 --> 00:40:08,040 Speaker 2: Right now I'm wondering, what are we not seeing? 766 00:40:11,480 --> 00:40:16,919 Speaker 9: You mean with the Iranians? Yes, well, look, what we're 767 00:40:16,960 --> 00:40:20,120 Speaker 9: not seeing is although we can we can speculate and 768 00:40:20,120 --> 00:40:23,000 Speaker 9: when we can infer that it's pretty likely true the 769 00:40:23,120 --> 00:40:27,799 Speaker 9: extent in which the to which the Israelis have penetrated, 770 00:40:28,320 --> 00:40:31,359 Speaker 9: the intelligence that they've got, and that they're giving us. 771 00:40:31,800 --> 00:40:34,160 Speaker 9: The number of these i RG commanders, now, a lot 772 00:40:34,160 --> 00:40:35,960 Speaker 9: of them are fanatics, but a lot of them are 773 00:40:36,000 --> 00:40:38,840 Speaker 9: just just grifters. I mean, the regime has been around 774 00:40:38,960 --> 00:40:44,840 Speaker 9: long enough that the percentage of true believers versus grifters 775 00:40:44,920 --> 00:40:48,000 Speaker 9: has gone way down. And so and we don't we 776 00:40:48,080 --> 00:40:52,280 Speaker 9: don't know who over there is talking amongst themselves about 777 00:40:52,320 --> 00:40:54,600 Speaker 9: maybe it's time to get rid of the eighty six 778 00:40:54,680 --> 00:40:59,040 Speaker 9: year old guy who's who's already driven the country drout down, 779 00:40:59,120 --> 00:41:01,520 Speaker 9: but worse, from their point of view, is going to 780 00:41:01,560 --> 00:41:06,000 Speaker 9: take the whole power structure down, So we don't know that, 781 00:41:06,239 --> 00:41:10,319 Speaker 9: and if we did, it would tell us about how 782 00:41:10,480 --> 00:41:14,400 Speaker 9: likely the president may be thinking, or what the president's 783 00:41:14,440 --> 00:41:16,880 Speaker 9: thinking in terms of how likely this is going to 784 00:41:17,000 --> 00:41:21,360 Speaker 9: work in terms of regime reconfiguration or realignment, if not 785 00:41:21,480 --> 00:41:22,360 Speaker 9: regime chain. 786 00:41:22,719 --> 00:41:23,600 Speaker 2: Well Cenatter Tallon. 787 00:41:23,719 --> 00:41:27,360 Speaker 3: I expect that when things are about to go off, 788 00:41:27,760 --> 00:41:30,960 Speaker 3: a lot of Iranian generals are going to get a 789 00:41:30,960 --> 00:41:34,239 Speaker 3: phone call. And that phone call is going to be high. 790 00:41:34,440 --> 00:41:36,759 Speaker 3: Would you like to live because you got about it? 791 00:41:37,000 --> 00:41:41,319 Speaker 3: Because you better decide right now? And I think a 792 00:41:41,320 --> 00:41:43,400 Speaker 3: lot of them will. 793 00:41:43,600 --> 00:41:46,240 Speaker 9: And you know, I'm talking to an Army war college grad, 794 00:41:46,360 --> 00:41:48,960 Speaker 9: so I don't have to say this to you. But 795 00:41:49,040 --> 00:41:53,400 Speaker 9: our people, of course are envisioning what their leaders are thinking. 796 00:41:53,480 --> 00:41:57,280 Speaker 9: I mean, imagine sitting in these bunkers after the last 797 00:41:57,400 --> 00:42:02,840 Speaker 9: year in particular, and and waiting and waiting and sweating 798 00:42:03,000 --> 00:42:07,319 Speaker 9: and sweating when you know that the Israelis know very 799 00:42:07,400 --> 00:42:10,719 Speaker 9: probably know exactly where you are, exactly when you're going 800 00:42:10,800 --> 00:42:13,480 Speaker 9: to go someplace else, and that they're giving us all 801 00:42:13,600 --> 00:42:16,800 Speaker 9: that intel now you know, Yeah, if you're one of 802 00:42:16,880 --> 00:42:18,960 Speaker 9: these guys who thinks if I go down, I'm going 803 00:42:19,040 --> 00:42:21,160 Speaker 9: to go to heaven, and all the virgins will be 804 00:42:21,200 --> 00:42:23,920 Speaker 9: waiting for me. That's one thing. But if you're just 805 00:42:24,360 --> 00:42:26,120 Speaker 9: a guy who's in it for what he can, you know, 806 00:42:26,239 --> 00:42:30,560 Speaker 9: lift out of the till that's another. And having said 807 00:42:30,560 --> 00:42:32,440 Speaker 9: all this, I think we're going to have to attack 808 00:42:33,600 --> 00:42:36,719 Speaker 9: after that though, and the protesters are going to come 809 00:42:36,760 --> 00:42:39,799 Speaker 9: out in greater force. After that. We may get some 810 00:42:39,960 --> 00:42:41,080 Speaker 9: changes in Tehran. 811 00:42:42,000 --> 00:42:42,680 Speaker 2: Sarator talent. 812 00:42:42,760 --> 00:42:46,840 Speaker 3: Let's one last thing before I moved to the state 813 00:42:46,880 --> 00:42:50,480 Speaker 3: of the Union. What would you think about seizing carg 814 00:42:50,520 --> 00:42:55,040 Speaker 3: Island and holding it to embarrass and delegitimize the regime 815 00:42:55,080 --> 00:42:57,239 Speaker 3: while also strangling their oil capacity. 816 00:42:57,440 --> 00:42:58,200 Speaker 2: That's a two for. 817 00:42:58,239 --> 00:42:58,839 Speaker 5: In my view. 818 00:43:00,440 --> 00:43:05,960 Speaker 9: Yeah, and you ewit's talked a lot about about just 819 00:43:06,040 --> 00:43:09,320 Speaker 9: taking out Carg Island. I doubt the President's going to 820 00:43:09,400 --> 00:43:12,400 Speaker 9: want to put forces on the ground for any extended 821 00:43:12,440 --> 00:43:15,920 Speaker 9: period of time. I mean a special ops mission like 822 00:43:15,960 --> 00:43:18,560 Speaker 9: we did in Venezuela. That's one thing I think for 823 00:43:18,640 --> 00:43:21,040 Speaker 9: a lot of reasons, he's not going to want to 824 00:43:21,040 --> 00:43:24,279 Speaker 9: put our guys in there. It's an intriguing idea. Now 825 00:43:24,360 --> 00:43:28,120 Speaker 9: I think it's I think it's going to be precision strikes. 826 00:43:29,160 --> 00:43:32,240 Speaker 9: How many sorties over the course of about a week. 827 00:43:32,719 --> 00:43:36,680 Speaker 9: We can do what about fifteen hundred easily, Colonel two thousand, 828 00:43:36,800 --> 00:43:43,359 Speaker 9: Maybe the Israelis. The Israelis come in, and if they 829 00:43:43,400 --> 00:43:45,560 Speaker 9: don't come in at the beginning, they're going to come 830 00:43:45,560 --> 00:43:49,080 Speaker 9: in when the Iranians attack them. So it's going to 831 00:43:49,080 --> 00:43:52,040 Speaker 9: be US and the Israelis. That's the way I figure it. 832 00:43:52,080 --> 00:43:55,480 Speaker 9: And then Trump will see what happens because he knows 833 00:43:55,520 --> 00:43:57,960 Speaker 9: how insecure this regime is, and I think what he's 834 00:43:58,000 --> 00:44:01,160 Speaker 9: aiming for is what he's I think getting in Venezuela 835 00:44:01,200 --> 00:44:04,000 Speaker 9: and what he wants to get in Cuba, which is 836 00:44:04,040 --> 00:44:06,799 Speaker 9: sure overthrow of the whole regime if he can, but 837 00:44:06,960 --> 00:44:09,359 Speaker 9: if not, a regime that'll play ball with us. 838 00:44:09,800 --> 00:44:13,160 Speaker 3: Well, thank you, Senator Jim Tallitt, Senior Fellow, Reagan Institute's 839 00:44:13,200 --> 00:44:16,520 Speaker 3: Center for Peace through Strength. My guest host, Kurt Schlicker, 840 00:44:16,920 --> 00:44:18,719 Speaker 3: This is the Hugh Hewitt Show. Stick Around,