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Speaker 1: Good evening and welcome into Turning Point tonight. We're together.

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Speaker 1: We are charting the course of America's cultural comeback, usually

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Speaker 1: through the mockery of terrible lib ideas, but instead today

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Speaker 1: in honor of our friend and founder of Turning Point,

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Speaker 1: Charlie Kirk. I'm sure you know Charlie Kirk received the

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Speaker 1: Presidential Medal of Freedom today at the White House, presented

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Speaker 1: by President Trump and received by Erica Kirk, who gave

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Speaker 1: a fantastic speech in addition to the President. And I

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Speaker 1: want to explain something really quick, because I think some

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Speaker 1: of the key elements that Erica mentioned in her speech

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Speaker 1: are vital to the conversation in the conservative movement going forward.

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Speaker 1: And because of that, we're actually gonna play Erica's speech first.

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Speaker 1: The order of operations traditionally was President Trump and then

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Speaker 1: ericas spoke, but I want to play Erica's speech first

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Speaker 1: because I would like you to also have this in

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Speaker 1: your mind. I want to recite a little bit of

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Speaker 1: the Declaration of Independence, so you can take that and

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Speaker 1: carry it into Erika's speech and hopefully, or at least

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Speaker 1: maybe it'll make a little bit more sense, and also

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Speaker 1: we can discuss it further tomorrow in a more standard

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Speaker 1: addition of turning points tonight. But the Declaration of Independence,

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Speaker 1: in part says this, we hold these truths to be

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Speaker 1: self evident, that all men are created equal, that they

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Speaker 1: are endowed by their creator with certain unailable rights, that

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Speaker 1: among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

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Speaker 1: That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men,

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Speaker 1: deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.

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Speaker 1: That whatever, whenever any form of government becomes destructive to

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Speaker 1: these ends, it is the right of the people to

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Speaker 1: alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government,

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Speaker 1: laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers

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Speaker 1: in such form as to them shall seem most likely

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Speaker 1: to affect their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate

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Speaker 1: that governments long established should not be changed for light

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Speaker 1: or transient causes. Maybe this will make more sense as

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Speaker 1: Erica begins to speak, but in case it doesn't, tune

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Speaker 1: in tomorrow we will have a broader discussion of the

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Speaker 1: idea of the United States of America and why I

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Speaker 1: think Erica Kirk's speech was so vital and so important.

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Speaker 1: Going forward, please enjoy the Presidential Medal of Freedom ceremony

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Speaker 1: from the White House.

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Speaker 2: The Presidential Medal of Freedom is awarded to Charles James Kirk.

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Speaker 2: Accepting on behalf of Charlie is his wife, missus Erica Kirk.

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Speaker 2: Charlie Kirk was one of the most influential American political

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Speaker 2: figures of his generation. At just eighteen years old, he

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Speaker 2: found it Turning Point USA and grew it into the

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Speaker 2: largest conservative youth organization in the nation. For over a

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Speaker 2: dec he tirelessly traveled the country, leading a movement to

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Speaker 2: restore respect for our founding principles, reawaken our national identity,

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Speaker 2: one of the great debaters and communicators of his time.

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Speaker 2: Despite receiving repeated threats, he remained undeterred and modeled courage, logic, humor,

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Speaker 2: and grace to the next generation. On September tenth, twenty

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Speaker 2: twenty five, at age thirty one, Charlie Kirk was assassinated

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Speaker 2: while addressing a group of students. The United States honors

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Speaker 2: him of a martyr for truth and freedom.

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Speaker 3: Thank you, mist your husband for honoring my husband in

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Speaker 3: such a profound and meaningful way. In Thank you for

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Speaker 3: making this event a priority with amid the peace process

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Speaker 3: in the Middle East. Thank you very grateful Charlotte. Excuse me,

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Speaker 3: Charlie always admired your commitment to freedom, and that's something

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Speaker 3: that both of you shared, So thank you. Your support

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Speaker 3: of our family and the work that Charlie devoted his

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Speaker 3: you to our gracious First Lady in her office for

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Speaker 3: making this event possible. Thank you as well, It's beautiful.

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Speaker 3: To Vice President and the lovely USHA fans. Your friendship

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Speaker 3: has been an unbelievable encouragement. Thank you. And to all

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Speaker 3: all around the world, thank you for loving us, Thank

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Speaker 3: you for praying for us, and for believing in what

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Speaker 3: Charlie believed in. And to our Turning Point USA staff

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Speaker 3: and the Charlie Kirk Show staff, we love you more

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Speaker 3: than you could ever know. And to the Turning Point

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Speaker 3: USA chapters that are watching all across America right now.

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Speaker 3: You are the heartbeat of this future and of this movement.

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Speaker 3: Everything that Charlie built. You guys are the legacy holders

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Speaker 3: of that, your living proof that his mission did not

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Speaker 3: die with him. It lives through you. And Charlie always said,

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Speaker 3: the next generation will decide whether freedom endoors and because

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Speaker 3: And today we're gathered not only to celebrate Charlie's birthday,

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Speaker 3: the Presidential Medal of Freedom reminds us that the national

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Speaker 3: they are God's endowment. Charlie lived for those blessings, not

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Speaker 3: from anything that could enslave his soul. His name Charles

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Speaker 3: literally means freeman, and that's exactly who my husband was.

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Speaker 3: He was a free man. And from the time I

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Speaker 3: Charlie often said that without God, freedom becomes chaos, and

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Speaker 3: are those whose hearts belong to Christ. But what's so

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Speaker 3: powerful is that Charlie had the ability to communicate so

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Speaker 3: brilliantly across all generations. And he reminded us that in

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Speaker 3: Freedom divorced from faith eventually just destroys itself. And what's

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Speaker 3: so fascinating about all of this is looking back these

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Speaker 3: there's almost this veil of sacredness, because what I realized

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Speaker 3: And ironically, for a man who impacted millions, Charlie never

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Speaker 3: My husband was not a man of extravagance. He loved simple,

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Speaker 3: and just be in peace. Because he was unreachable at

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Speaker 4: It's the day that God knew the world couldn't go

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Speaker 3: But last year, his one birthday wish was to see

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Speaker 3: It's such an honor and the recognition of a life

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Speaker 3: There was no no limit to what he would have

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Speaker 7: Today we're here to honor and remember a fearless warrior

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Speaker 7: And that's why this afternoon, it's my privilege to posthumously

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Speaker 7: As you know, only hours ago, I returned from a

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Speaker 5: Thank you, thank you, thank you very much. But I

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Speaker 7: Literally nobody was allowed into our country and the only

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Speaker 7: But instead, Charlie is attaining a far more important milestone.

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Speaker 7: Yshan, thank you very much, great woman. President of Argentina.

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Speaker 5: We have everybody. Wow, that's a credible Okay, I'm not

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00:31:41,080 --> 00:31:41,800
Speaker 5: going to do anymore.

435
00:31:42,840 --> 00:31:45,720
Speaker 7: It's going to be here too long, but I just

436
00:31:45,800 --> 00:31:49,200
Speaker 7: want to thank you have given him such support, but

437
00:31:49,240 --> 00:31:51,440
Speaker 7: he always gave you such support. That's why you're here

438
00:31:52,360 --> 00:31:56,680
Speaker 7: and very unusual. Charles James Kirk was a visionary and

439
00:31:57,040 --> 00:32:01,320
Speaker 7: one of the greatest figures of his generation. An amazing

440
00:32:01,360 --> 00:32:05,320
Speaker 7: figure and growing leaps and valves. He knew that the

441
00:32:05,360 --> 00:32:08,640
Speaker 7: fight to preserve our heritage is waged not only on

442
00:32:08,680 --> 00:32:11,800
Speaker 7: the battlefield and in the halls of power, of which

443
00:32:11,840 --> 00:32:16,360
Speaker 7: we have tremendous power here, including the head of a

444
00:32:16,400 --> 00:32:17,880
Speaker 7: place called war.

445
00:32:18,040 --> 00:32:20,920
Speaker 5: We call it now war. We had defense, we had

446
00:32:20,960 --> 00:32:22,360
Speaker 5: our secretary of defense.

447
00:32:22,400 --> 00:32:26,320
Speaker 7: Now have a secretary of war, and somehow I think

448
00:32:26,360 --> 00:32:28,360
Speaker 7: it's more emblematic, and hopefully we'll.

449
00:32:28,160 --> 00:32:30,120
Speaker 5: Never have to use war. But the fact that we're

450
00:32:30,120 --> 00:32:33,440
Speaker 5: ready is very good. Peace through strength is very important.

451
00:32:33,960 --> 00:32:36,920
Speaker 7: But also in the hearts of our nation's youth, as

452
00:32:36,960 --> 00:32:41,520
Speaker 7: where Charlie Road's strongest at age eighteen, That inside inspired

453
00:32:41,600 --> 00:32:46,240
Speaker 7: Charlie to found the organization that ultimately touched the lives

454
00:32:46,240 --> 00:32:49,040
Speaker 7: of millions and millions of people, and so many young

455
00:32:49,120 --> 00:32:54,640
Speaker 7: people that nobody's ever seen anything like it. Frankly, Turning

456
00:32:54,720 --> 00:32:59,600
Speaker 7: Point USA. It's amazing, and it's actually bigger now. It's

457
00:32:59,640 --> 00:33:02,800
Speaker 7: become bigger in the last few weeks than Charlie ever thought.

458
00:33:05,880 --> 00:33:08,480
Speaker 7: I think his end vision in many years from now

459
00:33:08,480 --> 00:33:10,400
Speaker 7: would have been just a fraction of what had turned

460
00:33:10,440 --> 00:33:11,720
Speaker 7: out to be in a couple of weeks.

461
00:33:11,800 --> 00:33:14,160
Speaker 5: Right, it's amazing with hard.

462
00:33:13,960 --> 00:33:18,920
Speaker 7: Work and joyful spirit and endless and enthusiasm and determination.

463
00:33:20,040 --> 00:33:22,560
Speaker 7: And he did have great enthusiasm. You know, say you

464
00:33:22,640 --> 00:33:26,840
Speaker 7: need enthusiasm to be successful. He had great enthusiasm. Charlie

465
00:33:26,840 --> 00:33:30,320
Speaker 7: grew Turning Point into the largest conservative youth organization in

466
00:33:30,360 --> 00:33:34,440
Speaker 7: the entire country. He forged a personal bond with countless

467
00:33:34,480 --> 00:33:39,520
Speaker 7: young conservatives. He fought for free speech, religious liberty, strong borders,

468
00:33:39,560 --> 00:33:43,520
Speaker 7: and a very strong and proud America. In everything he did,

469
00:33:43,880 --> 00:33:47,760
Speaker 7: he put America first. He really put America first. And

470
00:33:47,840 --> 00:33:52,960
Speaker 7: ultimately Charlie became more than a leader of an important organization.

471
00:33:53,080 --> 00:33:57,240
Speaker 7: He became the leader of historic movements all over the country.

472
00:33:57,280 --> 00:34:02,360
Speaker 7: There were movements, individual movements, one movement, but it was historic.

473
00:34:02,480 --> 00:34:03,960
Speaker 5: Everything he did was historic.

474
00:34:04,080 --> 00:34:08,520
Speaker 7: And a true evangelist for the cause of freedom and.

475
00:34:09,719 --> 00:34:13,759
Speaker 5: The word of Almighty God. God was very important to Charlie.

476
00:34:14,080 --> 00:34:16,080
Speaker 7: He would say, you know, if you don't have religion,

477
00:34:16,120 --> 00:34:17,480
Speaker 7: you're not going to have a strong country.

478
00:34:17,480 --> 00:34:20,479
Speaker 5: It's true. He was so wise beyond his years.

479
00:34:20,520 --> 00:34:22,239
Speaker 7: You know, I talked to him sometimes, I said, this

480
00:34:22,320 --> 00:34:23,800
Speaker 7: guy is like a young guy.

481
00:34:24,800 --> 00:34:26,480
Speaker 5: He was really a wise man.

482
00:34:27,160 --> 00:34:30,200
Speaker 7: From the time Charlie worked on my presidential campaign in

483
00:34:30,239 --> 00:34:31,680
Speaker 7: twenty sixteen, and he was there.

484
00:34:31,600 --> 00:34:32,920
Speaker 5: Right from the beginning. He liked me.

485
00:34:33,000 --> 00:34:36,600
Speaker 7: I don't know, I have no idea. Why what the

486
00:34:36,640 --> 00:34:39,799
Speaker 7: hell was he thinking? He said, you're gonna win, Sir.

487
00:34:40,160 --> 00:34:43,359
Speaker 7: I said, you know, I'm running against seventeen senators and

488
00:34:43,880 --> 00:34:46,840
Speaker 7: a lot of tough people and governors.

489
00:34:46,880 --> 00:34:47,920
Speaker 5: We have all these people.

490
00:34:48,000 --> 00:34:50,719
Speaker 7: And he said, no, you're going to win, sir. He said,

491
00:34:51,000 --> 00:34:54,080
Speaker 7: not going to be close. And he made it happen.

492
00:34:54,120 --> 00:34:57,080
Speaker 7: He helped make it happen. I'll tell you that without him,

493
00:34:57,120 --> 00:35:00,440
Speaker 7: who knows what would be Maybe it'd have Kamali standing

494
00:35:00,480 --> 00:35:04,400
Speaker 7: here today. That would not be good. I will tell you, Howvea.

495
00:35:04,440 --> 00:35:07,040
Speaker 7: You don't know who Kamala is, promised it would not

496
00:35:07,160 --> 00:35:07,560
Speaker 7: be good.

497
00:35:07,800 --> 00:35:09,000
Speaker 5: Do you agree with that, Howard?

498
00:35:10,200 --> 00:35:13,560
Speaker 7: He also mobilized countless citizens to go vote. It's called

499
00:35:13,640 --> 00:35:17,600
Speaker 7: go vote, very simple, and with his help in twenty

500
00:35:17,640 --> 00:35:20,960
Speaker 7: twenty four, we won more young people than any Republican

501
00:35:21,040 --> 00:35:24,920
Speaker 7: by far in the history of our country, and we

502
00:35:24,960 --> 00:35:27,719
Speaker 7: won the popular vote. We won the swing states, all

503
00:35:27,800 --> 00:35:29,960
Speaker 7: seven of them. Remember they said, oh, well, if Trump

504
00:35:29,960 --> 00:35:32,320
Speaker 7: could win four, that would be nice. I went seven

505
00:35:32,480 --> 00:35:35,800
Speaker 7: by a lot, by a landslide. But the popular vote

506
00:35:35,840 --> 00:35:40,880
Speaker 7: was massive, and we won the electoral College. Remember they said, well,

507
00:35:40,880 --> 00:35:43,280
Speaker 7: it's going to be very hard. I'd say two hundred

508
00:35:43,280 --> 00:35:45,640
Speaker 7: and seventy. Well we got three hundred and twelve to

509
00:35:45,440 --> 00:35:49,799
Speaker 7: twenty six, and then we won something called districts and

510
00:35:50,360 --> 00:35:53,839
Speaker 7: councils and different things. But in one case we won

511
00:35:54,200 --> 00:35:57,960
Speaker 7: two thousand, seven hundred and fifty to five hundred and

512
00:35:57,960 --> 00:35:58,560
Speaker 7: twenty five.

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00:35:59,320 --> 00:36:01,640
Speaker 5: That's the one we see. The map is almost entirely

514
00:36:01,680 --> 00:36:02,520
Speaker 5: read except.

515
00:36:02,200 --> 00:36:04,799
Speaker 7: To have a little blue line on one side, and

516
00:36:04,880 --> 00:36:08,399
Speaker 7: a little blue line meaning New York and a little

517
00:36:08,400 --> 00:36:10,880
Speaker 7: bit Los Angeles. I have a feeling that if the

518
00:36:11,320 --> 00:36:13,560
Speaker 7: vote were one hundred percent, we would have won that too.

519
00:36:13,640 --> 00:36:14,680
Speaker 5: You want to know the truth.

520
00:36:15,200 --> 00:36:17,680
Speaker 7: But he knew, and he knew very well, and he

521
00:36:17,760 --> 00:36:22,240
Speaker 7: also understood honesty, and he was always concerned with honesty.

522
00:36:22,280 --> 00:36:24,200
Speaker 7: He said, the only way we can lose is if

523
00:36:25,320 --> 00:36:26,799
Speaker 7: the cheating gets so bad.

524
00:36:26,840 --> 00:36:28,840
Speaker 5: And that's where we came up with a little phrase,

525
00:36:29,680 --> 00:36:32,480
Speaker 5: too big to rig. We said, go out and vote,

526
00:36:33,200 --> 00:36:35,120
Speaker 5: Just go out and vote. And we had that.

527
00:36:35,280 --> 00:36:37,360
Speaker 7: Remember, we used to say that all the time because

528
00:36:37,360 --> 00:36:39,719
Speaker 7: people would say, oh, they're going to win, we don't

529
00:36:39,719 --> 00:36:40,160
Speaker 7: have to vote.

530
00:36:40,239 --> 00:36:42,520
Speaker 5: Let's go to a movie. We'll come home and watch later.

531
00:36:43,400 --> 00:36:44,839
Speaker 5: And he wasn't about that.

532
00:36:44,920 --> 00:36:47,280
Speaker 7: So we had we come up to with really together,

533
00:36:47,360 --> 00:36:49,000
Speaker 7: we came up with that phrase.

534
00:36:49,040 --> 00:36:50,000
Speaker 5: We got to make it too big.

535
00:36:50,040 --> 00:36:51,640
Speaker 7: I never made a speech where I didn't say at

536
00:36:51,640 --> 00:36:54,120
Speaker 7: the end, now, look the polls are showing good.

537
00:36:54,280 --> 00:36:57,359
Speaker 5: Don't believe the pulse. He said, We're going to make it.

538
00:36:57,400 --> 00:37:00,279
Speaker 5: Susie raight too big to rig.

539
00:37:00,400 --> 00:37:02,200
Speaker 7: So if you think we're going to win by alight,

540
00:37:02,320 --> 00:37:05,279
Speaker 7: doesn't matter. Pretend we're losing. You got to go out

541
00:37:05,280 --> 00:37:08,080
Speaker 7: about They voted, and at nine oh two the whole

542
00:37:08,120 --> 00:37:11,279
Speaker 7: thing was over right, nine oh two. Remember they said, oh,

543
00:37:11,360 --> 00:37:13,640
Speaker 7: this could go a few days. Well on a few

544
00:37:13,680 --> 00:37:17,440
Speaker 7: minutes nine oh two. And he knew that, and I

545
00:37:17,520 --> 00:37:18,520
Speaker 7: felt it, but he knew it.

546
00:37:18,560 --> 00:37:21,280
Speaker 5: He knew it. I think he knew it more than anybody.

547
00:37:22,040 --> 00:37:25,239
Speaker 7: But Charlie never missed an opportunity to remind us of

548
00:37:25,280 --> 00:37:28,720
Speaker 7: the Judeo Christian principles of our nation's founding.

549
00:37:28,400 --> 00:37:31,000
Speaker 5: Or to share his deep Christian faith.

550
00:37:31,040 --> 00:37:34,160
Speaker 7: In his final moments, Charlie testified to the greatness of

551
00:37:34,200 --> 00:37:37,319
Speaker 7: America and to the glory of our Savior, with whom

552
00:37:37,400 --> 00:37:39,080
Speaker 7: he now rests in heaven.

553
00:37:39,920 --> 00:37:41,360
Speaker 5: And he is going to make heaven.

554
00:37:41,400 --> 00:37:44,120
Speaker 7: I said, I'm not sure I could make it, but

555
00:37:44,200 --> 00:37:45,080
Speaker 7: he's going to make it.

556
00:37:45,760 --> 00:37:48,200
Speaker 5: He's there, he's looking down on us right now.

557
00:37:48,200 --> 00:37:50,879
Speaker 7: It's so incredible. Look at this, how this turned out?

558
00:37:50,960 --> 00:37:55,080
Speaker 7: This was supposed to be so dark and cloudy. Not

559
00:37:55,239 --> 00:37:57,040
Speaker 7: dark and cloudy, is it? I look at that, How

560
00:37:57,080 --> 00:38:01,400
Speaker 7: beautiful that is. There's no artist that can had captured

561
00:38:01,440 --> 00:38:03,120
Speaker 7: as beautiful as it is today.

562
00:38:03,160 --> 00:38:04,880
Speaker 5: Wow, it's amazing.

563
00:38:05,680 --> 00:38:08,360
Speaker 7: As I said on the day that he was assassinated,

564
00:38:08,520 --> 00:38:12,799
Speaker 7: Charlie Kirk was a martyr for truth and for freedom,

565
00:38:13,600 --> 00:38:18,319
Speaker 7: and from Socrates to think and to Saint Peter, from

566
00:38:18,440 --> 00:38:22,760
Speaker 7: Abraham Lincoln to Martin Luther King, those who change history

567
00:38:23,000 --> 00:38:26,919
Speaker 7: the most, and he really did have always risked their

568
00:38:26,960 --> 00:38:30,120
Speaker 7: lives for causes they were put on earth to defend.

569
00:38:30,239 --> 00:38:32,879
Speaker 7: He was put on earth to do exactly what he

570
00:38:32,920 --> 00:38:34,839
Speaker 7: was doing. He didn't want to waste time. He would

571
00:38:34,840 --> 00:38:38,280
Speaker 7: have been a top student at any college in the country.

572
00:38:38,320 --> 00:38:41,120
Speaker 7: I know, to college as well. He's smarter than the guys.

573
00:38:41,440 --> 00:38:42,800
Speaker 7: He was so smart.

574
00:38:43,200 --> 00:38:45,360
Speaker 5: But he almost I guess, didn't have the time. He

575
00:38:45,440 --> 00:38:46,440
Speaker 5: knew what he wanted to do.

576
00:38:46,560 --> 00:38:48,160
Speaker 7: It wasn't like you, I want to sit in the

577
00:38:48,200 --> 00:38:51,680
Speaker 7: classroom for four years listening to people teach me liberal

578
00:38:51,760 --> 00:38:54,400
Speaker 7: principles because they were never going to teach him that anyway.

579
00:38:55,200 --> 00:38:57,080
Speaker 5: But he didn't have the time. He really didn't have

580
00:38:57,120 --> 00:38:57,600
Speaker 5: the time.

581
00:38:57,960 --> 00:39:01,319
Speaker 7: But every time the enemies of goodness and virtue tried

582
00:39:01,360 --> 00:39:05,520
Speaker 7: to silence the voice of righteous and noble leaders like Charlie, they.

583
00:39:05,400 --> 00:39:06,520
Speaker 5: Fail, They seem to fail.

584
00:39:06,640 --> 00:39:09,080
Speaker 7: Ultimately, they look like they're doing well, and then they

585
00:39:09,239 --> 00:39:13,640
Speaker 7: end up failing because the truth has been unrelenting over

586
00:39:13,680 --> 00:39:18,560
Speaker 7: the years, over history, and people like Charlie, it's just

587
00:39:18,600 --> 00:39:22,279
Speaker 7: they've got a power that others don't have, and very

588
00:39:22,280 --> 00:39:26,440
Speaker 7: few people will ever have. So today, like those martyrs

589
00:39:26,440 --> 00:39:29,839
Speaker 7: before him, Charlie's voice, his message, and his legacy are

590
00:39:29,880 --> 00:39:33,759
Speaker 7: stronger and greater than ever before. They are greater than

591
00:39:33,800 --> 00:39:38,080
Speaker 7: ever before. Look, this is a horrible event, but it

592
00:39:38,160 --> 00:39:43,000
Speaker 7: brought out the greatness of Charlie. Nothing could have ever

593
00:39:44,320 --> 00:39:49,560
Speaker 7: supplanted this. It's incredible the way people are talking about him, and.

594
00:39:51,040 --> 00:39:51,719
Speaker 5: With great love.

595
00:39:51,760 --> 00:39:54,400
Speaker 7: I mean, I read so many stories about some of

596
00:39:54,440 --> 00:39:57,279
Speaker 7: the enemies, but I watch the enemies and it's hard

597
00:39:57,320 --> 00:40:00,520
Speaker 7: for them to speak badly about him because the don't.

598
00:40:00,560 --> 00:40:01,760
Speaker 5: And then you do have people.

599
00:40:01,840 --> 00:40:05,399
Speaker 7: In the days since Charlie's killing, we've seen exactly why

600
00:40:05,440 --> 00:40:11,400
Speaker 7: our country so dearly needed his example. We've watched legions

601
00:40:11,440 --> 00:40:15,320
Speaker 7: of far left radicals resort to desperate acts of violence

602
00:40:15,360 --> 00:40:18,760
Speaker 7: and terror because they know that their ideas and arguments

603
00:40:18,840 --> 00:40:19,960
Speaker 7: are persuading no one.

604
00:40:20,560 --> 00:40:21,680
Speaker 5: They know that they're failing.

605
00:40:22,040 --> 00:40:26,319
Speaker 7: They have the devil's ideology and they're failing, and they

606
00:40:26,360 --> 00:40:31,040
Speaker 7: know it, they feel it, and they become violent. They

607
00:40:31,040 --> 00:40:43,120
Speaker 7: seem to become very violent on the left, especially in

608
00:40:43,120 --> 00:40:46,480
Speaker 7: the wake of Charlie's assassination. Our country must have absolutely

609
00:40:46,560 --> 00:40:50,960
Speaker 7: no tolerance for this radical left violence, extremism, and terror.

610
00:40:51,480 --> 00:40:52,160
Speaker 5: We're done with.

611
00:40:52,120 --> 00:40:55,960
Speaker 7: The angry mobs, and we're not going to let our

612
00:40:56,000 --> 00:40:58,440
Speaker 7: cities be unsafe. We're going to make sure our cities

613
00:40:58,480 --> 00:41:00,839
Speaker 7: are safe. When you have Chicago where they had four

614
00:41:00,920 --> 00:41:04,160
Speaker 7: thousand people murdered over a very short period of time,

615
00:41:04,239 --> 00:41:07,960
Speaker 7: four thousand people, and then we have a governor stand

616
00:41:08,040 --> 00:41:10,839
Speaker 7: up and say, oh, things are going swimmingly.

617
00:41:11,040 --> 00:41:14,239
Speaker 5: No they're not. We're going to make Chicago safe, just

618
00:41:14,280 --> 00:41:16,919
Speaker 5: like we're going to make Look what we did in DC.

619
00:41:17,080 --> 00:41:19,160
Speaker 7: It's so nice that we started here because this was

620
00:41:19,200 --> 00:41:21,920
Speaker 7: one of the most violent places in the United States.

621
00:41:22,560 --> 00:41:25,680
Speaker 7: It'd be dangerous to be right out here, but you

622
00:41:25,719 --> 00:41:28,279
Speaker 7: couldn't go to a restaurant. The restaurants were all dying.

623
00:41:28,320 --> 00:41:30,799
Speaker 7: The whole place was dying. You'd have these gorges. Look

624
00:41:30,800 --> 00:41:33,600
Speaker 7: at the Washington Monument over there. You'd have these gorges,

625
00:41:33,600 --> 00:41:37,680
Speaker 7: buildings and monuments and structures, and people were afraid to

626
00:41:37,800 --> 00:41:38,720
Speaker 7: leave their apartment.

627
00:41:38,800 --> 00:41:40,040
Speaker 5: They were afraid to go to work.

628
00:41:41,400 --> 00:41:44,200
Speaker 7: They'd get into an uber and they'd feel safe, and

629
00:41:44,239 --> 00:41:47,279
Speaker 7: then the uber would be attacked. They thought they made

630
00:41:47,320 --> 00:41:49,960
Speaker 7: it the safety and then the uber was attacked on

631
00:41:50,080 --> 00:41:53,080
Speaker 7: the trip end. But we've done a great job and

632
00:41:53,120 --> 00:41:57,359
Speaker 7: now it's considered a totally safe city. We haven't had problems.

633
00:41:57,719 --> 00:41:59,799
Speaker 7: Took us twelve days to make it great. We took

634
00:41:59,800 --> 00:42:05,600
Speaker 7: out pam seventeen hundred hard criminals, career criminals in many cases,

635
00:42:05,640 --> 00:42:08,040
Speaker 7: but these are hardened criminals. Many of them came in

636
00:42:08,080 --> 00:42:10,480
Speaker 7: through the Biden open borders. We brought them back to

637
00:42:10,520 --> 00:42:13,359
Speaker 7: the countries and a couple was so violent that we.

638
00:42:13,280 --> 00:42:13,959
Speaker 5: Put them in jail.

639
00:42:13,960 --> 00:42:15,439
Speaker 7: We don't want to take a chance that they could

640
00:42:15,480 --> 00:42:17,759
Speaker 7: get back in because no matter how good we do,

641
00:42:17,880 --> 00:42:21,120
Speaker 7: somebody can sneak in. They were so violent and so

642
00:42:21,120 --> 00:42:24,480
Speaker 7: so bad. One arrested twenty eight times. Every time he

643
00:42:24,560 --> 00:42:29,000
Speaker 7: left prison, he'd get into a violent incident twenty eight times,

644
00:42:29,680 --> 00:42:33,080
Speaker 7: and we put him away for a long time. But

645
00:42:33,120 --> 00:42:35,360
Speaker 7: we're done with the angry mobs. We're done with it.

646
00:42:35,480 --> 00:42:39,719
Speaker 7: This is such an unbelievable place right now. You take

647
00:42:39,760 --> 00:42:42,000
Speaker 7: a look where you can walk down the middle of

648
00:42:42,000 --> 00:42:44,360
Speaker 7: the street with your wife or your husband. Your children

649
00:42:44,400 --> 00:42:46,839
Speaker 7: can walk, they can walk alone, it doesn't matter. They

650
00:42:46,840 --> 00:42:51,239
Speaker 7: can walk anywhere in Washington and they're safe now. If

651
00:42:51,239 --> 00:42:53,279
Speaker 7: this were a year and a half ago. A year ago,

652
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Speaker 7: they'd have a serious chance of being badly hurt, they'd

653
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Speaker 7: even killed. Even they come in from Indiana, they come

654
00:43:02,800 --> 00:43:06,080
Speaker 7: in from Iowa, they come from Florida. They see their

655
00:43:06,600 --> 00:43:09,280
Speaker 7: nation's capital, and somebody would have to call the parents.

656
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Speaker 5: I'm sorry, but your son or your daughter has been killed.

657
00:43:12,880 --> 00:43:15,759
Speaker 5: Not anymore. You hear those sirens going off. That's good.

658
00:43:15,840 --> 00:43:16,720
Speaker 5: That's a good sound.

659
00:43:17,560 --> 00:43:19,840
Speaker 7: That means they either got the bad guy or they

660
00:43:19,920 --> 00:43:21,759
Speaker 7: going to stop the bad guy. You didn't hear that

661
00:43:21,880 --> 00:43:26,800
Speaker 7: sound because nobody wanted to do anything. Nobody listened to

662
00:43:26,880 --> 00:43:32,120
Speaker 7: the beauty of that sound. Seriously, and that's the real deal. Sirens,

663
00:43:32,120 --> 00:43:35,279
Speaker 7: they're not politically correct sirens. You hear they're about three

664
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Speaker 7: miles away. That's great, what a beautiful sound. They're stopping crime.

665
00:43:40,280 --> 00:43:44,440
Speaker 7: That's what they're doing. So we're done with the voices,

666
00:43:44,480 --> 00:43:48,360
Speaker 7: the fools, they're fools and death threats, and we're gonna

667
00:43:48,360 --> 00:43:52,000
Speaker 7: make our city's safe. And I thought it was Charlie's

668
00:43:52,040 --> 00:43:54,560
Speaker 7: one of his biggest dreams was that he couldn't believe it.

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Speaker 5: Uh, Chicago's going to be a great city again.

670
00:43:58,680 --> 00:44:00,680
Speaker 7: Were already, you know, we send people in there six

671
00:44:00,719 --> 00:44:04,040
Speaker 7: months ago and this governors said, well, crime is done. Yeah,

672
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Speaker 7: that's because we had the FBI in there for six

673
00:44:05,960 --> 00:44:11,160
Speaker 7: months just preparing it for the bigger surge. And they've

674
00:44:11,160 --> 00:44:14,319
Speaker 7: done a great job, the cash and the FBI, they've

675
00:44:14,320 --> 00:44:15,120
Speaker 7: done a great job.

676
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Speaker 5: And they love doing it. You know, they love being

677
00:44:17,320 --> 00:44:19,880
Speaker 5: able to do it. They were restricted from doing it.

678
00:44:19,920 --> 00:44:24,960
Speaker 7: They couldn't do anything, and now they're totally unrestricted.

679
00:44:25,360 --> 00:44:27,919
Speaker 5: All they have to do is stop crime and they're

680
00:44:27,920 --> 00:44:28,279
Speaker 5: doing it.

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Speaker 7: By the way, Memphis, as you know, you heard, they

682
00:44:30,320 --> 00:44:32,799
Speaker 7: went in about a week ago, one of the most

683
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Speaker 7: dangerous places in the country.

684
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Speaker 5: It's really in the world. It's not just a country.

685
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Speaker 7: They have very few cities that would compare to some

686
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Speaker 7: of these cities.

687
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Speaker 5: You go to Afghanistan, you say, oh, that's unsafe. Well,

688
00:44:43,520 --> 00:44:44,120
Speaker 5: the crime.

689
00:44:43,960 --> 00:44:49,280
Speaker 7: Numbers are much better than the crime numbers and places.

690
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Speaker 5: That we have.

691
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Speaker 7: So Memphis, I understand, is doing unbelievably. In one week,

692
00:44:53,440 --> 00:44:56,640
Speaker 7: it's like a different place. And this took twelve days,

693
00:44:56,719 --> 00:44:59,600
Speaker 7: and then after that we just perfected it. But after

694
00:44:59,640 --> 00:45:02,839
Speaker 7: twelve we had good safety here. After one month, it's like,

695
00:45:03,600 --> 00:45:07,640
Speaker 7: it's really amazing. And by the way, restaurants are booming.

696
00:45:07,840 --> 00:45:10,279
Speaker 7: Restaurants are opening up. The big problem we have. You

697
00:45:10,280 --> 00:45:13,560
Speaker 7: can't get into a restaurant in DC anymore, so they're

698
00:45:13,600 --> 00:45:14,160
Speaker 7: opening up.

699
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Speaker 5: It's a beautiful thing to see.

700
00:45:15,520 --> 00:45:19,879
Speaker 7: It's called safety, it's called law enforcement and letting them

701
00:45:19,920 --> 00:45:23,479
Speaker 7: do their job. And that's why I said last month

702
00:45:23,520 --> 00:45:26,840
Speaker 7: that I have directed the Attorney General and the Department

703
00:45:26,880 --> 00:45:29,800
Speaker 7: of Homeland secured and to confront the very real threat

704
00:45:29,800 --> 00:45:32,640
Speaker 7: of left wing terrorism in our country. It's a real threat,

705
00:45:33,280 --> 00:45:37,200
Speaker 7: and not when you confront it. It's not because they're

706
00:45:37,200 --> 00:45:41,920
Speaker 7: not brave people. In fact, they're cowards. When you confront them,

707
00:45:41,920 --> 00:45:45,600
Speaker 7: they immediately fold. You have to see them fold, you

708
00:45:45,640 --> 00:45:46,720
Speaker 7: have to see them crying.

709
00:45:47,719 --> 00:45:49,240
Speaker 5: They fold.

710
00:45:49,400 --> 00:45:52,440
Speaker 7: But it includes dismantling the networks that fund them and

711
00:45:52,480 --> 00:45:53,160
Speaker 7: finance them.

712
00:45:53,239 --> 00:45:55,080
Speaker 5: And we're finding out who those networks are.

713
00:45:55,120 --> 00:45:59,680
Speaker 7: We already know quite a few of them. When you

714
00:45:59,719 --> 00:46:02,880
Speaker 7: see these violent incidents and then you see people holding

715
00:46:02,920 --> 00:46:09,840
Speaker 7: this gorgeous sign with beautiful wood, beautiful cardboard, wooding, everything's

716
00:46:09,960 --> 00:46:13,120
Speaker 7: per perfect paint job, and they're all the same. There

717
00:46:13,160 --> 00:46:17,120
Speaker 7: are thousands of um you know that they weren't made

718
00:46:17,440 --> 00:46:20,359
Speaker 7: in the basement out of love. They were made by

719
00:46:20,960 --> 00:46:24,240
Speaker 7: anarchists and in some cases wealthy.

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Speaker 5: I'll probably find some of my nice.

721
00:46:26,080 --> 00:46:29,680
Speaker 7: Friends that are up there being so nice to me,

722
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Speaker 7: especially lately.

723
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Speaker 5: They're being very nice.

724
00:46:32,600 --> 00:46:36,279
Speaker 7: But it surprises you who they may be, and you

725
00:46:36,360 --> 00:46:40,800
Speaker 7: almost wonder why would they do it? But they're hurting

726
00:46:40,840 --> 00:46:43,520
Speaker 7: our country, and we're really taking it back one by one.

727
00:46:43,560 --> 00:46:45,160
Speaker 5: If we didn't go into Los Angeles.

728
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Speaker 7: Early on in the administration, the commissioner, the chief of

729
00:46:49,960 --> 00:46:53,319
Speaker 7: police Los Angeles said, if they didn't go in, we

730
00:46:53,360 --> 00:46:55,520
Speaker 7: would have lost our city. Now they already lost twenty

731
00:46:55,520 --> 00:46:57,920
Speaker 7: five thousand houses to fire because they wouldn't let the

732
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Speaker 7: water come in from the Pacific Northwest, which they should

733
00:47:01,239 --> 00:47:04,000
Speaker 7: have done. I said her, you better do it. They

734
00:47:04,000 --> 00:47:07,480
Speaker 7: didn't do it, and we had twenty five thousand homes

735
00:47:07,560 --> 00:47:09,480
Speaker 7: where they had no water in the sprinklers, they had

736
00:47:09,480 --> 00:47:12,400
Speaker 7: no water in the fire hydrants. It would have been

737
00:47:12,440 --> 00:47:14,480
Speaker 7: a different kind of thing if they did what they

738
00:47:14,520 --> 00:47:16,279
Speaker 7: were supposed to do. We had to break in. We

739
00:47:16,320 --> 00:47:18,960
Speaker 7: broke in and had the water come down. They actually

740
00:47:19,400 --> 00:47:22,160
Speaker 7: they said for the environment, great. They lost twenty five

741
00:47:22,200 --> 00:47:26,400
Speaker 7: thousand houses. It's incredible. But the commissioner said, without the

742
00:47:26,440 --> 00:47:30,239
Speaker 7: federal government and President Trump's intervention, we would have lost

743
00:47:30,280 --> 00:47:33,600
Speaker 7: the entire city. And we have the Olympics going there soon.

744
00:47:34,080 --> 00:47:35,920
Speaker 7: I got the Olympics. We have the Olympics, we have

745
00:47:35,960 --> 00:47:38,600
Speaker 7: the World Cup, and we have most importantly, we have

746
00:47:39,320 --> 00:47:42,239
Speaker 7: the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of our country. That's

747
00:47:42,280 --> 00:47:45,440
Speaker 7: going to be most important. And all of these things

748
00:47:45,480 --> 00:47:47,799
Speaker 7: are happening, and we're gonna have safe cities. We're gonna

749
00:47:47,800 --> 00:47:51,880
Speaker 7: have very very safe cities. So one month after Charlie's death,

750
00:47:51,960 --> 00:47:55,040
Speaker 7: we still feel the terrible shock and the pain of

751
00:47:55,080 --> 00:47:58,480
Speaker 7: his loss. Like just about nobody I can think of,

752
00:47:58,920 --> 00:48:02,400
Speaker 7: Charlie Kirk was one of a kind. He was unstoppable,

753
00:48:03,080 --> 00:48:05,040
Speaker 7: and he really was boy. When he had an idea

754
00:48:05,040 --> 00:48:08,800
Speaker 7: in his head. Oh he would call me, sir, please,

755
00:48:08,880 --> 00:48:10,279
Speaker 7: you haven't done it yet.

756
00:48:10,520 --> 00:48:14,680
Speaker 5: Said Charlie. Relax, just relax. He didn't relax.

757
00:48:14,719 --> 00:48:17,440
Speaker 7: It called me the next day again it got it done.

758
00:48:18,120 --> 00:48:22,200
Speaker 7: But he was like indomitable and always will be. He's

759
00:48:22,239 --> 00:48:26,160
Speaker 7: really irreplaceable. Nobody gonna replace him, but they're going to

760
00:48:26,239 --> 00:48:29,680
Speaker 7: do great. But you can't replace that kind of person

761
00:48:29,800 --> 00:48:32,239
Speaker 7: and that kind of talent. Frankly, the word talent is

762
00:48:32,239 --> 00:48:34,200
Speaker 7: an important word, but that kind of talent.

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Speaker 5: So we hold his.

764
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Speaker 7: Memory in our hearts forever. Every single day of this administration.

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Speaker 7: We will continue to carry out the mission for which

766
00:48:42,960 --> 00:48:45,360
Speaker 7: he lived, and he really did. He lived for this country.

767
00:48:45,360 --> 00:48:47,080
Speaker 7: He lived for his wife and his family, but he

768
00:48:47,120 --> 00:48:51,880
Speaker 7: lived for this country too. In Charlie's honor, we will

769
00:48:52,600 --> 00:48:55,719
Speaker 7: continue like we have been, to fight, fight, fight, and

770
00:48:55,760 --> 00:48:56,719
Speaker 7: to win, win, win.

771
00:48:56,760 --> 00:48:58,239
Speaker 5: We're going to win so much.

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Speaker 3: So.

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Speaker 7: The Presidential Medal of Freedom is a big deal. You

774
00:49:08,360 --> 00:49:12,400
Speaker 7: have the Congressional Medal of Honor military and the Presidential

775
00:49:12,520 --> 00:49:14,840
Speaker 7: Medal of Freedom which is civilian.

776
00:49:15,520 --> 00:49:18,040
Speaker 5: And the Presidential Medal Freedom.

777
00:49:17,760 --> 00:49:21,000
Speaker 7: Is a really big deal. Very few people get it.

778
00:49:21,680 --> 00:49:25,160
Speaker 7: Very few people, frankly qualify. It's a decision of the president,

779
00:49:25,239 --> 00:49:28,959
Speaker 7: but it's a qualification that's a very hard one to get.

780
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Speaker 7: And I would like to ask if I might the

781
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Speaker 7: military aid to read Charles James Kirk's citation for the

782
00:49:38,000 --> 00:49:41,160
Speaker 7: Presidential Medal of Freedom.

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Speaker 5: Thank you very much, thank you