PBD Podcast - Charlie Kirk Memorial, Trump's $100K H-1B Visa Plan & Kimmel's Rumored Return | PBD Podcast | Ep. 653

Episode Date: September 22, 2025

Patrick Bet-David, Tom Ellsworth, Vincent Oshana, and Adam Sosnick break down Charlie Kirk’s memorial, Trump’s controversial $100K H-1B visa plan, and rumors of Jimmy Kimmel’s return to late nig...ht.------✝️ FAITH OVER FEAR COLLECTION: https://bit.ly/4nAU1Qe?r=qrⓂ️ JOIN THE PBD PODCAST CIRCLES COMMUNITY: ⁠https://bit.ly/4mAWQAP⁠🍋 ZEST IT FORWARD: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bit.ly/4kJ71lc⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ 📕 PBD'S BOOK "THE ACADEMY": ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bit.ly/41rtEV4⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠🎙️ FOLLOW THE PODCAST ON SPOTIFY: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bit.ly/4g57zR2⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠🎙️ FOLLOW THE PODCAST ON ITUNES: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bit.ly/4g1bXAh⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠🎙️ FOLLOW THE PODCAST ON ALL PLATFORMS: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bit.ly/4eXQl6A⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠📱 CONNECT ON MINNECT: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bit.ly/4ikyEkC⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠👔 BET-DAVID CONSULTING: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bit.ly/3ZjWhB7⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠📰 VTNEWS.AI: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bit.ly/3OExClZ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠🎓 VALUETAINMENT UNIVERSITY: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bit.ly/3BfA5Qw⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠📺 JOIN THE CHANNEL: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bit.ly/4g5C6Or⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠💬 TEXT US: Text “PODCAST” to 310-340-1132 to get the latest updates in real-time!ABOUT US:Patrick Bet-David is the founder and CEO of Valuetainment Media. He is the author of the #1 Wall Street Journal Bestseller “Your Next Five Moves” (Simon & Schuster) and a father of 2 boys and 2 girls. He currently resides in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Did you ever think you would make it? I feel I'm supposed to taste sweet with me. I know this life meant for me. Adam, what's your point? The future looks bright. My handshake is better than anything I ever size. Right here. You are a one of one?
Starting point is 00:00:17 My son's drive there. I think I've ever said this before. All right, gang. For those of you that watched the memorial or, were there, you probably experienced what we experienced. It was a magical event. I can't wait to share a couple things with you. Everything from the
Starting point is 00:00:38 moment we left to land it, to be in there, to all of a sudden, we're sitting at a place. Elon comes and sits right next to my oldest son. Tico Tico's looking at him. They're having a conversation for two hours. Just, you know, literally right next to each other. What was Tico's reaction, by the way? He just, you know, to him, that's his guy.
Starting point is 00:00:57 He's a big Yon guy. I thought he said he went like, not No, initially, I heard him. He was like this. Cool, when the Rockets land by themselves. Seats taken, buddy. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, he took my seat. And the speech, everybody from Don Jr.'s funny moments, hilarious,
Starting point is 00:01:14 president getting up there doing his thing, talking about, I hate my opponents. I know that's not Charlie. I just hate my opponents. I hate them. I don't know. I can't help myself. These left, what do you call him? These radical left lunatics.
Starting point is 00:01:26 Lunatics. He said, they tell him me to say just left, but I like to call him. lunatics and then a couple guys that got up and gave the message Erica at the end when she gave the message was something else. So we got a lot of stories to go through. A lot of stories to go through. Some things that happened yesterday that I got a question for
Starting point is 00:01:41 these guys, specifically for these guys after yesterday's events. So we'll see. We'll see what the answer is going to be like. By the way here this morning, got 1 o'clock in the morning. We landed. Adam drove all the way down to a hotel down the street. He was still late today. And
Starting point is 00:01:57 Rob on his way back, he was was in a middle of a standoff. Terrible. Did you mean a standstill or standoff? No, it was a police standoff. They had a car to the side of the road, helicopters, and 20 to 30 cop car. Vinnie, what'd you do?
Starting point is 00:02:10 I was trying to get home asleep to do this. Okay, so let's go through. Trump to impose 100,000, by the way, Thomas joking. Trump to impose a $100,000 fee on H-1B visa applications. Tear gas used on protesters at Chicago area, ice facility, amid immigration enforcement clashes. We're going to talk about obviously
Starting point is 00:02:32 all the things that happened yesterday at the memorial. Jimmy Kimmelin talks with Disney exec to negotiate a return of the late night show. The former Disney, Michael Eisner, CEO, had a few things to say. You have to hear what this guy had to say, which, by the way, Tom says you made a lot of good points. Van Jones shared a private DM from Charlie Kirk
Starting point is 00:02:51 and Van Jones, who is not on the same page politically as Charlie Kirk got emotional sharing what happened with that. Soros cuts $10 million check for California's redistricting campaign. But there's another data that also came out that he gave $80 million that I want to talk about to see what this guy's doing. What is this guy's motive to try to divide America to these leftist groups glorifying terrorism and violence? What is wrong with this guy? This is why President Trump said we may look into him for RICO case. And we'll see.
Starting point is 00:03:22 We'll see what's going to happen there. Trump called that Pam Bondi in a very assertive. way. Yesterday, Trump and Elon reunited first time shaking hands and Elon. Trump was asked about it on Air Force One. And so Trump declares Antifa, major terrorist group. Trump predicts government could have a shutdown, which is concerning for some people. His margin of approval jumps 10 points in four days. Polls say, we got a bunch of H-1Bs stuff to talk about. Chicago. One of the things he said yesterday. He says, you know, Charlie Kirk is from Chicago, and Charlie would tell me, this is Trump speaking, Charlie would tell me, Mr. President, we've got to find a way to clean the streets
Starting point is 00:04:04 of Chicago. We got to find him. He says, we're going to clean the streets of Chicago. He actually said it was their last conversation. That's right. It's the last conversation. Please help clean up Chicago. I said, I will, Charlie. That's right. Trump eyeing to return to Afghanistan. Saying U.S. is trying to get back, backgram airbase. Interesting. The TikTok deal will talk about that. Trump's suggesting pulling licenses of certain networks. There's a new video of Tyler Robinson that was found. Erica Kirk is officially the CEO and chair of Turning Point, USA.
Starting point is 00:04:37 Bill Maherstlam's Hollywood. Pete Buttigieg's response to Kamala Harris saying the reason why he wouldn't, she didn't pick him is because he's gay, which is, you know, deeply concerning for that community. Victoria's Secret ditches, woke rebrand and vows to return to unapologetically sexy roots. What a common sense idea to return to. Oh, my God. In other words, back when they had been shales.
Starting point is 00:05:03 Yeah. What is a woman? Exactly. And then could 2028, this is political, could 2020 be the YouTube election? Uh-oh. What are they talking about? Are they saying podcasts and YouTube's and creating your own, you know, platform could be the reason some people could get elected in 2028? Who knows? Josh Shapiro says Kamala Harris will have to
Starting point is 00:05:26 answer for never raising concerns over Biden's death and then we got a bunch of other things that's going on here. However, guys, I'm going to tell you this. Something special happened last week. Before we went to the memorial, Vinny had a new collection and we just got a report from Leo how successful that collection was, I'm going to have Vinny say a few thoughts and few words about the faith over fear, Vinny. Share with them why you're excited about this shirt. I mean, I think we rarely do back to back. I don't think we ever have done back to back. But it's such a big kid, especially with the timing of it. But so, so as you guys can tell, you know, cross on the front, faith on the fear in the back. I wore this on Sunday and I went to a diner and I'm sitting there. Guys, a guy
Starting point is 00:06:12 pats me in the back, sits down next to me, starts telling a story about his faith and his family starts crying a waitress comes and she's just sitting there her name is mary sitting there staring at me i'm at leicester's diner i had five people around me talking about faith and what you know what this move something something is happening pat i got emotional walking here today with you and get and crying and guys just having faith okay matzapala you mind the price crazy guys matt sapala is a is a huge big time loyal amazing amazing guy and friend uh with his wife sheena Dude, he just got on a plane, literally, flew to Arizona. No joke.
Starting point is 00:06:50 I think Pat, you're going to send it to Rob. Guys, he flies to Arizona, no nothing, no ticket. He has no way to get in. He has no way to get in. He texts Pat goes, I'm here. Guys, Rob, how many people were walking around outside? Well, they said that there were around 100,000 in the area. There were 60,000 inside the stadium, so 40,000 walking around, trying to find a way to get in.
Starting point is 00:07:10 We're driving in circles. We don't know where we're going. And out of nowhere, I don't know. where we see Matt Sopala. Now, Pat goes, hey, there's Matt right there he is. And by, long story short, we get him in the vehicle and he goes, and Pat goes, Pat goes, what are you, what are you doing here? No wife, no, he's like, he said faith over fear.
Starting point is 00:07:26 No, he goes, I just had faith that I got, something told me, just get on an airplane and go, and he goes, here I am. And he got at our van and we got him in. And the word faith jumped out. I go, I go, see how, see how God work security, the whole night. So I tell, so guys, the thing behind is just having faith. over fear. We don't, like, we don't know, none of us saw Jesus Christ, but I have faith because I've heard the stories and I believe, I believe in my heart of hearts and never, guys,
Starting point is 00:07:53 all this stuff, everything that happened with Charlie, zero fear, zero fear. We found out that Charlie, God rest of the soul, died instantly and I have faith that in that instant second he was with Jesus and he was with God in heaven. So that's it, guys. So faith over fear, let people know that I'm not scared, we're not scared about nothing, zero, because we have faith. Go to vtemerge.com, place your order. Faith over fear, Rob. Can we make sure we put the, if you can go to the website so I can show exactly where it's at
Starting point is 00:08:23 and they can find it, you literally go to VTmerch.com, and it's the first thing we have there. Go on the collection. There's multiple colors, the white. Apparently the red is doing really good. Yeah, go whichever color you want, you pick and choose gray, get your shirt represent. And did that, can you show that video of him?
Starting point is 00:08:39 What? The Matt? So this is Matt Supala. Guys, this is 40,000 people walking around and look. there he is I can't hear that guy look at him he's trying to find a way to get in
Starting point is 00:08:52 and now who's facetiming him he's face-timing him I'm like get in the car buddy he's like what car I said turn around I said turn around I'm like get over here
Starting point is 00:09:05 just straight guys he literally took a leap of face he goes I'm just getting on an airplane you want to see the before and after so we get there He gets in with us. He didn't know he's going to get a ticket.
Starting point is 00:09:16 Next thing you know, thanks to PBD, thanks to our crew, thanks to Turning Point. Look how close, Matt, who had no access. He's standing there front row with me, David Harris Jr. Matt's above. Hey, look, we made it. Having faith, bro. I said, you just show up.
Starting point is 00:09:30 Great things will happen. Okay, so let's talk about yesterday. Let's talk about yesterday's event and how magical it was. By the way, I've been to a lot of church revivals in my lifetime. I've been to many. And Tom, how do you define a revival? bring a lot of speakers, messages are being given. Maybe you're recommitting, right? You're making new decisions. What would you say revival is? A revival is where churches used to take a couple days
Starting point is 00:09:53 out and say, hey, we're going to invite some other pastors here. And we're also going to talk about things that really matter here in the community and specifically why your faith is so important. And it's not just the one-hour sermon with some praise. It's like an eight, ten-hour deal, right? Yes. Sometimes they're all day. Old-fashioned revivals used to be like all day on Saturday. And then baptizing people at the end of the day and everything that goes with it. But it was more conversion focused. So yesterday, this place, Rob, if you just show one of the clips of what the place looked like, this place was jam packed. Please welcome to the state. Frank Turer. He crushed it, by the way. It was great. He crushed it. I believe he was the gentleman
Starting point is 00:10:37 that was standing behind Charlie Kirk when he got shot. You can pause. He and I was speaking. So I had the boys over there, it's a, while we're there with the whole family, they're sitting down, Vinny, uh, uh, Vinny's doing his thing. And then all of a sudden, we go to the front. So we're saying hi to a bunch of people. Oh my God. Guys, if you were there, it was so great seeing everybody. Okay. It was so great seeing everybody. Walk in, emotions high. Matt Sapala puts the camera on my face. I'm not expecting to be recorded at that time. I'm just soaking everything in. And Rob, I don't know if you have this one or not. And he just asked me, what are you thinking about right now, right?
Starting point is 00:11:17 I haven't thought about an answer. He literally is to my right. I'm walking. I'm not trying to talk. I'm just trying to see what's going on. And then all of a sudden he says, Pat, what's on your mind? I walk in, Rob, if you can share this clip here. I walk in.
Starting point is 00:11:32 You're hearing the music. You're hearing everything. This is the greatest revival I've ever been to in my life, and I've been to many. it is the greatest revival I've been to my life watch this one here Rob go on and play this is one kid wanted to unite America
Starting point is 00:11:50 look what he did for one kid 31 years old to have to take them away millions of people will be inspired by this one guy named Char de Kloom we're going to celebrate this life today let me tell you emotions
Starting point is 00:12:06 emotions high we go we sit and then all of a sudden Matillo says hey you know, we all had floor seat. We just showed up late because traffic was out. By the way, we're going through security, secret service. Guy opens up the door. He says, yeah, PBD, we're trying to get in. I said, where are you from?
Starting point is 00:12:21 He says, Toronto. I said, wait, you came in from Toronto? So we did, him and his wife, good-looking couple. I said, so what happened? They send us out. I said, what do you mean they send us out? There is no room in the stadium. You're kidding me.
Starting point is 00:12:33 No. What do you mean there is no room? There is no room in the stadium. How about the overflow room? The overflow room is back. What are you talking about? He's saying, can we get in with you? I said, I can't get you right now.
Starting point is 00:12:42 I'm right with Secret Service trying to get through. But it was such an incredible place to be. And then all of a sudden we get in, Matteo takes us, he says, hey, Elon Musk is not going to be there. His seats are available because we was going to be two and two. And I wanted the boys to sit together. We go when we sit down, it's me, Vinny, Tico and Dylan.
Starting point is 00:13:01 And then literally five minutes later, they say, well, Elon is here. He's right there. Yeah. So Elon walks up. Vinny gets up. Elon comes and sits right next to Tico. That was my seat. Okay.
Starting point is 00:13:11 And you see the hand up? You see the left hand up, someone's hand up? That's Dilley. That's Dillon's hand. So you can't see Dilly. You can see Dylan's hand, but you can see Tico's profile. And it was just a great event. It was a great event.
Starting point is 00:13:24 But Vinny, for you, what was it like being in the room? Without trying to put fluff or whatever people call it, when you walked into that stadium, you felt the presence of the Holy Spirit. People were singing, think about it, One of our guys was just 11 days ago assassinated in cold blood in front of the world. And guess what this room was? Nobody was fighting. Nobody was riding. Nobody was burning down.
Starting point is 00:13:51 Nobody was killing. Everybody just came together. And it was, by the way, hugging. People were in tears. People were getting emotional. People that were like, I've never, I haven't been to church. But this sparked something. And somebody said something about, they attempted to extinguish his life.
Starting point is 00:14:08 Every time you try to extinguish somebody's light like this, like Charlie, it only makes the fire brighter. It makes it more. And I was, and again, Adam, thank you. Thank you for giving us this opportunity just to be. Because you would think people would be furious. People would be angry and upset. It brought us together and evil. Remember when you said in the green room at the vault, you go, and it was that moment where you're like, we're going to win.
Starting point is 00:14:34 There's no way. And this is it, man. This was such a beautiful moment. that question to you about the other side because who if you had to compare anybody from the other side that was at Charlie where we who on the other they don't have nobody this is it this is it love they don't have anybody at Charlie's level no nobody let's go through a couple of the talks I was given okay let's go through a couple of them Rob if you can pull up uh pull up Don Jr because Don Jr. because Don Jr. broke the ice and if you guys weren't there
Starting point is 00:15:05 Don gave a phenomenal speech I texted him afterwards phenomenal speech. But Don was the guy that actually made the place a little bit. He brought the temperature down. He got people to laugh by impersonating his dad. Here's Don Jr. impersonating his dad right after his dad is in the arena. He points out of him and then he does this.
Starting point is 00:15:25 Go ahead. On social media knows I'm far more likely to crack a joke or get myself in trouble for posting some grossly inappropriate memes than I am to shed a tear. I know this because I've even gotten the call from that guy a couple of times You know, Don You're getting a little aggressive
Starting point is 00:15:49 on social media, Don, relax Clowning him in front of the world Good Dana, he's like, hi everybody Excuse me Dana White and Jared Can you actually picture that call happening? Can he actually picture that call happening? Meaning his father called and saying, listen, tone down that Michelle Obama type of stuff.
Starting point is 00:16:15 Relax with that, right? Can you picture that happen? Yeah, and him going, who are you to talk to me? You're the main guy. It's you. I learned it from you guy, yeah. But it was such a great moment when that happened, right? When Don said what he said about it.
Starting point is 00:16:30 And another one, Rob, if you can pull up, I actually really like Tucker's message Tucker's message when he gave the message about Rob, which part, which story is this? Is this the actual story? The opening? The opening, is this the one? No, this is when the comment that
Starting point is 00:16:50 Vinnie Ed mentioned. But the martyr one, but I think the opening, you know, this is the one where he says, when he dies, he says, I have an idea, let's just kill him. Is this it? Oh, no, that's the beginning. Rob, that's the opening when he talked about Jesus. That's the one.
Starting point is 00:17:03 It is on. one. Believable. How this guy opened it up. And he does the laugh. I think that's the one where he laughs. It is unbelievable. We're speaking the truth. The story Tucker told. Is this the one, Rob? Yes, right there.
Starting point is 00:17:16 Watch this one, folks. Listen to this one. Ultimately, he was a Christian evangelist. And it actually reminds me of my favorite story ever. So it's about 2,000 years ago in Jerusalem. And Jesus shows up and he starts talking about the people in power. and he starts doing the worst thing that you can do, which is telling the truth about people, and they hate it, and they just go bonkers. They hate it, and they become obsessed with making him stop.
Starting point is 00:17:45 This guy's got to stop talking. We've got to shut this guy up. And I can just sort of picture the scene in a lamplit room with a bunch of guys sitting around eating hummus thinking about what do we do about this guy telling the truth about us. We must make him stop talking. and there's always one guy with the bright idea and I can just hear him say, I've got an idea, why don't we just kill him?
Starting point is 00:18:08 That'll shut him up. That'll fix the problem. It doesn't work that way. It doesn't work that way. Everything is inverted. Tom, what did you think about that message? The message that Tucker gave immediately was getting heat as people were connecting dots and saying,
Starting point is 00:18:29 oh, he's bringing up Israel. No, he wasn't. He's bringing up the historical fact that there were Jewish people at that time waiting for the Messiah. And are you the Messiah? Are you him? And he was ministering people, healing people.
Starting point is 00:18:44 But the leaders of the synagogue who were corrupt, they wanted to keep power. And so that's exactly what happened. And we all know the Easter story and the Passover week and what they did and trumped up charges on him
Starting point is 00:18:58 and did it. And so Tucker's talking about that, and he was recounting that biblically, very authentically. And then people were giving him heat for that. But his bigger point that he may really touch me because I felt the Holy Spirit was front and center. Faith was front, foregrounded, but it wasn't like a political rally where you talk about faith, but you spin it. You're really careful how you say it because you don't offend these people over here, over here. and there was no spin of it and Tucker was just telling the historical story
Starting point is 00:19:31 of that's what happened to Christ and that's how Christ became the savior of the world and I thought Tucker's recounting of that was fine and people were saying oh you know he's... What did you think about it? What did you think about his message? I thought Tucker's, I thought overall Tucker's message was well crafted, it wasn't over long
Starting point is 00:19:52 and I thought he was kind of on point to the moment. I kind of felt that. I thought so as well. I thought he crushed it. I thought he was phenomenal. I thought the great thing about a panel of speakers is if everybody hits the different tone and not everybody hits the same.
Starting point is 00:20:10 You know, sometimes everyone's like, you know, when a ruler dies. When a tyrant dies, his rule is over. When a martyr dies, his rule begins. Three people use the same quote, but they were not in the room to hear that the other. So the first person that said it, the reaction was massive.
Starting point is 00:20:26 It was Benny Johnson. The place was lit up. And then afterwards, it was like, well, that's why you need to be there to hear what the audience is saying. So you're not saying the same thing twice. But I thought Tucker's message was spot on. Adam, your thoughts? Well, let me just say Tucker. Then I'll give you my thoughts on the thing.
Starting point is 00:20:39 I thought Tucker did a great job. You know, I don't, you're saying that people took his message the wrong way, Tom? Some people, some people obviously immediately are like, oh, he's, read the underlying thing. He's going after, you know, Israel did the thing. Well, I don't shut it up. Adam, it appeared to be people online. that didn't understand that he was properly recounting the story of Christ. And they were saying, oh, he was telling this tale trying to insinuate, you know, Israel responsibility.
Starting point is 00:21:08 I think that's like, wait a minute. I think that's a massive stretch. I think he was talking about the elites and the establishment of the time, whether that was the Pharisees and maybe even the Roman. And the Sadducees is the Sanhedron. Because he certainly wasn't talking about the Hebrews or the Israelites because those were literally his followers. Every single one of them was all Jewish. So anyone that's extrapolating and being like, he's anti-Israel. In this speech, you're talking about the elites and the establishment.
Starting point is 00:21:38 Because every single one of the apostles, every single one of his followers were Jewish Hebrews at the time. Pivoting. Erica Kirk crushed the event. I mean, absolutely incredible. sometimes, you know, people are anointed, well, she's the wife, it's the natural. She deserves every second of this. Her speech was incredible.
Starting point is 00:22:00 The forgiveness. She forgives the killer 11 days after his assassination. I would be filled with rage. Way to calm the flames. If she came up there and gave a message like, we need to attack them, what do you think would have happening right now?
Starting point is 00:22:17 Message of unity, unbelievable. They say that it was a revival. not a memorial. So full disclosure, this is my first time ever at a revival like this. I've been to church. This wasn't church. This was a revival. This was unity. This was love. This was respect. Because you don't have to be Christian to show respect. You know, at one point Trump got on stage is like, you know, Charlie Kirk's, his Lord and Savior, he didn't say our Lord and Savior. He said Charlie's Lord and Savior. Did he not? Yeah. Okay. So I don't know if Trump is the most religious person.
Starting point is 00:22:53 I'll let you guys speculate. He's not. But he has enough respect. And we should have enough respect to say, this is where we're at at this point. You don't have to be a follower of Jesus Christ to have respect. And certainly, in America, don't be anti-God. Don't be anti-Christianity.
Starting point is 00:23:10 Don't be anti-Jesus, Moses, Abraham. That's not going to be a good look. Yeah. So, by the way, maybe go to that, right? Play the clip of Erica when she went. So imagine it's been 11 days They have to put an event together The event goes flawless
Starting point is 00:23:26 I'm sitting there I'm looking at the name tags The name tags quality Wasn't paper They had to flip it to create that The name tag alone That's going to take you a minute to get In seven days they nailed AV In seven days they nailed VIPs
Starting point is 00:23:42 Getting in Secret Service Security In seven days they nailed overflow room In seven days they put their speeches together. In seven days, they got everybody around the world that agreed to come. Who was the person that was their performing, Tom, the singers, the band? Was it Blake? Which
Starting point is 00:23:59 was the one that you said? You said the one I was the one with the... They were wonderful. They were wonderful. Oh my gosh. I can only imagine. It says here, Brandon Lake, Chris Tomlin, Phil Wickham, Cody Carnes, and Carrie Job Carnes. Grandin Lake is a phenomenal Christian singer.
Starting point is 00:24:15 And Lee Greenwood. Lee Greenwood sang for the president for three minutes before while he sent. So they did all this stuff and Erica has to sit there to do makeup and she has to make her makeup because she knows all the camera is going to be on her and she has to get her speech and she has to get in front of everybody with a big poster in the stadium, 65,000 people of her husband right in front of it. She has to stare at while she's given that speech. The emotions high and this is one of the moments of her message here. Go ahead, Rob. That young man, that young man, on the cross, our Savior said,
Starting point is 00:25:01 Father, forgive them, for they not know what they do. That man, that young man, that young man, I forgive him. Everybody's back. Everybody's part of the entire day. What a strong woman. What an incredible woman. That's so not easy to do.
Starting point is 00:25:43 And didn't ruin her makeup, looked great. You know how I got this to do. You know how I got this to do. The man that kills your husband, you forgive him 11 days later, after it happens. can you go to power versus force which is something we keep talking about but it's so relevant it's so relevant in these situations right every day i'm going when i wake up where am i at yeah watch this yeah where is her love where is absolute love level 500 i would go it's all it is so hard to get
Starting point is 00:26:31 you forgive him publicly that's love that's reverence that's very hard to be there very hard. It's above reason. Because a person could say, listen, let me reason with you. I understand why you're upset. You just lost your husband in front of everybody. No, it's faith, it's love, and I respect it. It's not easy. The average person cannot do it because even the other day when what's his name was here, Eric was here, he says, I'm angry, I'm angry, I'm angry, right? I'm angry. I'm angry. I'm angry. I totally get it. The person that was hit by this more than anybody else is given the example of love. What do you think the rest of the world should be doing? I thought it was a great moment of what she did in the entire event. And I thought that was her way of almost
Starting point is 00:27:19 letting everybody, you know, say, hey, if I'm coming from this place, guys, you know, let's not increase the temperature more than what it is right now. I was very impressed by. Even in Charlie's death, we're seeing the legacy of his decision making. What kind of decision making do you think it took for him to say that's my wife if i'm gone she could carry the torch we're just starting to learn about erika kirk the new ceo of turning point but for what we're seeing about her in the last 11 days wow what a great decision charlie made a lot of people are acting in anger or desire at this point for her to show this outpouring of love for the person that just killed her husband is setting the tone for the rest of the country god bless you know why pat
Starting point is 00:28:07 Like on the up, not the opposite side, but Stephen Miller, who has been on a just a mission when he said those trying to ferment hatred against us, what do you have? You have nothing. You are nothing. You are wickedness. He's calling out, he's calling out evil. He's that you are jealousy, you are envy, you are hatred, you are nothing, you can build nothing, you can produce nothing. You cannot defeat us. You cannot slow us down.
Starting point is 00:28:33 You cannot stop us. You cannot deter. We will carry Charlie and Eric on our hearts every single. day and fight that much harder. He goes, you have no idea how determined we will be to save the civilization. Outside of Erica, who was your favorite speaker? Outside of Erica, yeah, Erica was number one.
Starting point is 00:28:49 Miller? I think Tucker, Tucker, because he opened with Christ and he ended with Christ. And I do love, I do love, I would put Stephen Miller, Pat, because at the end of the day, he's not saying kill and he was talking to evil in evil's face and going, if you think, by the way, if you think we're going to
Starting point is 00:29:07 stop? You're crazy. And I love that he called out back. Because think about the other side. They were still on TV. They were still out there. Again, I have a bunch of clips. All of them saying Hitler, fascist, hate, Jasmine Crockett, all these people, Steve Bunnell. It's like, you're not going to stop. We're not going to stop. Tom, who's your favorite speaker? I had to be Erica. And there were some people on social media that didn't understand what she meant by forgiveness. She's not giving him a pardon. She's saying him, in my heart I have to forgive
Starting point is 00:29:42 so I'm not the one that's eternally bitter but the Bible will tell you that in your forgiveness you know there are earthly consequences there are consequences and the consequences is this young man is going to stand trial and whatever happens there is going to happen there
Starting point is 00:29:58 and so Erica was my number one number two was Turk the security and the association of Charlie, who was in the SUV with him when they put him in there. And he talked about how Charlie's eyes were still open, and he says he was looking at me, but he wasn't because he was gone. They're trying to administer, you know, now we know.
Starting point is 00:30:24 They're trying to administer first aid, and there was no hope. They're getting to the hospital. Third was Tucker, and then was Susie Wells. Those are mine. Erica, Turek, Tucker, Susie. I thought Frank Turek was incredible. I shook his hand afterwards. You're asking who you thought the best speaker was after Erica Kirk?
Starting point is 00:30:47 Who resonated the most with you? I think we're all in agreement that Erica Kirk crushed it. Yeah? For me, it was number one and number two after Erica was Don Jr. and Trump himself. Because of two reasons. Trump shut down the show. I think humbly, Mr. President. Erica should have gone last, my opinion.
Starting point is 00:31:08 But what Don Jr. did was a message of, I know I'm usually angry. I know I'm usually sarcastic, but let me actually lighten the mood for a second. Let me give a little brevity to this. And I thought he did with this impression. He also, also, and this is the biggest message here, showed a little bit, a little bit of being a synergist. We know Trump is not a synergist. He literally said, I hate my enemies. Charlie, you did it.
Starting point is 00:31:33 Charlie loved his perceived enemies Don Jr. at one point I was talking with Matt Sapala he showed a little bit signs of being a synergist I don't know if we're there Stephen Miller not a synergist So I think we need a lot more unity in this country What I was most upset about
Starting point is 00:31:49 You tell me guys I could be wrong I didn't see one Democrat politician there Not one Not one You're telling me as a brand As an establishment You're half the country You see the other half of the country
Starting point is 00:32:03 distraught, angry, sad, just filled with rage, love, affection. None of you show up, bro? Not one? Imagine the power if AOC shows up. Imagine. But we're at such a place in our country where you can't even show up. That, to me, is what we're lacking. Adam, these are the same people that couldn't stand up during Trump's State of the Union.
Starting point is 00:32:26 When a black kid that has cancer that wants to be a secret, they couldn't stand up and applaud him. You think they're going to fly to Aaron's? on faith and just walk around and hope no I think no well they they kind of stood up during the weekend and made their opinions known and not all of those were good but there is one van jones there is one van jones I'm gonna come to van he's not a politician so can you do me play the clip of what uh Adam said about Trump you know where he says you guys like it I don't like that's not me that's not me you just had it up Rob I think that's the one go ahead he wanted the best for them that's where
Starting point is 00:33:03 I disagreed with Charlie. I hate my opponent. And I don't want the best for them. I'm sorry. I am sorry, Erica. But now Erica can talk to me and the whole group, and maybe they can convince me that that's not right, but I can't stand
Starting point is 00:33:19 my opponent. I like that comment. Maybe she can convince me. I'm willing to, yeah. He's angry. Looking down, he's angry at me now. He wasn't interested in demonizing anyone. He was interested in. Yeah, I mean, it's, I'll tell you, couple things for me on what I liked okay I took notes when they were talking and here's what
Starting point is 00:33:39 I got I like what Frank Turk said he said make heaven crowded okay make our job is to make heaven crowded great message and I talked to him afterwards he said it was great senior sons here I said I appreciate it but it was him given that message the the the Sergio Gore I don't know who he is who is Sergio Gore I want to give him credit because of the Trump orbit can you Can you find his exact title? What does he do? He's an ambassador. He's on the White House presidential personnel office.
Starting point is 00:34:09 So he's somebody. And by the way, it doesn't mean anything. I don't know who he is. I don't want to, I don't want this thing to. He's also the ambassador to India. Okay, fantastic. You know what he said, which was very interesting because I think that that applies to every business, but specifically he said, he said, the world of politics is filled with
Starting point is 00:34:25 transactional people. Hmm. And he was making a point that Charlie wasn't a transactional person, which means They come in, they get what they want next. They come and they get what they want next. They come and they get what they want next. You ever seen the movie Vice where there is a scene where Carol, what it cares, Steve Corell, what is it?
Starting point is 00:34:45 Steve Carell, yeah, Steve Carell. He's the one where he says to Christian Bill who's playing Dick Cheney, I believe. Dick Cheney, yes. And he says, man, is it possible that you're even more evil than you were when I first met you? This is when Dick Cheney is firing him. Yeah. Can it even be possible? The scene, I don't know if you know the scene.
Starting point is 00:35:05 I don't know. Have you seen this movie? I have to watch this with you. There's a scene. Do you know what scene I'm talking about? It's kind of an accurate movie, but I know the scene. Yeah, he says, can you get any more evil than you used to be? I cannot believe that.
Starting point is 00:35:18 So in politics, transactional, I got what I wanted from you, boom next. I got what I wanted from you next. So I like that point being made, the fact that Charlie wasn't he was a guy that was a builder. Trump called him a master builder, okay? Master builder. Tucker's message was on fire. Hexed said Charlie had big plans, but God had even bigger plans. I actually like Hexat's message.
Starting point is 00:35:43 He came and he delivered. He left, gave his fluid at the end. He is. Then Hexed told the story about what his pastor told him. He said, the devil overplayed his hand. He started, he said, Charlie started turning point USA, but he said this event will end up becoming the turning point of USA. Did you understand that messaging?
Starting point is 00:36:04 Like pastors telling him that and Hexed sharing that with the audience I texted Bobby and I said to Bobby I said listen that one message It was you could tell Bobby was having a hard time Some was going on with Bobby I think this could have been an emotional moment from
Starting point is 00:36:18 Probably more than anybody else Because there's only one person in that room That has the experience of your relatives Being a Sansom here It's him So that's why I told him I said listen man I mean you know this has got to be And he sends me
Starting point is 00:36:28 So I said He says one day I go to my mom and I asked, do you have this, Rob? He says, one day I go to my mom. Is this it? The long, yes, longer version is right here. It is so amazing when he says, I go to my mom and I ask her about mom. What do you do with the hole, the pain of losing someone?
Starting point is 00:36:47 What do you do with that? Yeah. What do you do with that? What do you do when you have that hole? How do you deal with it? And this is what he was told. Go ahead, Rob. When my brother David died, I had a conversation with my mother who had been through more than her share of loss and tragedy.
Starting point is 00:37:15 And I said, I asked her, I said, does the hole they leave in you when they die? Does it ever get any smaller? And she said, no, it never gets any smaller. But our job is to build ourselves bigger around the hole. We do that by taking the best virtues and character traits of the person that we lost and using discipline and restraint and practice integrating those character traits into our own character. And in doing that, we make ourselves larger and a whole gets proportionally smaller. we also give that person a kind of immortality
Starting point is 00:38:02 because they are now living on, the best parts of them are now living on in us. Holy moly, can you imagine how powerful that is, what he's talking about? But, you know, before we go to the other side, what the other side was saying about this, while we're sitting there yesterday, I remember I interviewed Charlie in 2017,
Starting point is 00:38:26 eight years ago when he was, because Matt Sopalo's in the car. He's like, I remember he used to always talk about Charlie Kirk. Pay attention to this guy. He's going to be a president. So you were saying that seven, eight years ago. I'm like, who was this Charlie Kirk guy? I don't know who this Charlie Kirk guy is.
Starting point is 00:38:39 He says, and then I finally, the more and more and more I followed, I realized how big he was, how big of a deal he was becoming. And then obviously, at this point, Charlie being where he's at. And I'm like, wait a minute. Oh, right there. When is the interview rock? June 21st of 2017. That's when I uploaded it.
Starting point is 00:38:55 Can you pull up so. pull up that's six months after Trump took office Do you have the one which is the whole interview What which channel are you on VT Maine
Starting point is 00:39:06 Yeah I mean That's the interview I found it somewhere Apparently you don't have it there I think I found it somewhere here Rob Look at how young he is Can we see like how Oh man that conversation was
Starting point is 00:39:18 That conversation was But I want you to see the opening And I don't think that's the opening No it's not can we just see what it looks like look at how young yeah that's the first time charlie and i spoke and i and i you know in my business the business the business i'm in i my job is to identify who's going to be a player in three five 10 years yes that's the business i'm in that's what i've done the last however many years so i just look at someone i say there's something very different
Starting point is 00:39:51 and unique about this guy just found it i just want to send you the intro to this the first time that he and I spoke Rob he had a thousand people at this event we're in Dallas okay Rob I just sent you the link if you can just put the intro we're in Dallas and I see this guy and I said this guy this guy's different
Starting point is 00:40:15 there's something very special about this guy you know you you felt the energy you you felt the fact that he was not just talking just to talk, he was really selling a vision into something he believed in. Can you open it up, Rob? Audio. Yes.
Starting point is 00:40:36 Go ahead. So one of the things I love doing is I love meeting young cats who love capitalism and today we're going to meet Charlie Kirk who I think was a capitalist from the day he was born and he's been on politics from the day probably he was born. So I'm really curious to hear your story. How you went from? You can pause right there. Yeah, and I leave.
Starting point is 00:40:58 I said, this guy's going to be president one day. Okay. So here's the point. I wrote one thing. From my whole thing of Charlie Kirk, this is the part. In life, every once in a while, you will meet somebody
Starting point is 00:41:11 that is much younger than you. But you'll know immediately this person calibrates at a much more mature level than you. This is when you say age doesn't matter. You feel maturity. You feel wisdom.
Starting point is 00:41:33 You feel leadership. You feel a certain level of determination and seriousness that gets you to look past the person being 23. And he said, I don't really care about the age. The way the guy carries himself is unbelievable. How many people, one of the pastors gets up on stage and he says, one day Charlie Kirk calls me and he says, I want you to mentor me
Starting point is 00:41:57 and I want you to teach me everything you know about the Bible. And he says, I said, how is that even possible? The smartest guy I know is telling me that I'm going to teach you, right? I don't know whatever the, I think it was Frank. I think it was Frank. Yeah, we said that, right? And then J.D. Vance, the vice president, which by the way, for split second, he held it. He paused for five seconds. He was about to break down. And he says, you know, Charlie last week calls me and he's coming back from Korea. And he says, there's some things I want to talk to you about that we have to improve what our relationship in Korea. And he says, the one phone call of a guy I would call to ask him for advice, I can no longer make that phone call.
Starting point is 00:42:41 And that's Charlie Kirk. This is the vice president talking about calling a 31-year-old to get his advice. Charlie was that guy. Charlie was not 31 years old. Physically, he may have been 31 years old. But the way he knew history, the way where his heart was, his faith was, the guy was a real-life philosopher, pastor,
Starting point is 00:43:09 all combined in one person that we got a chance to witness. And by the way, while this is going on, Van Jones, who many would look at Van Jones and say Van Jones is a Obama guy. Van Jones at one point was tied to politically to some people said some communism, you know, maybe... He said himself.
Starting point is 00:43:30 I'm a communist, and then he said, I've rolled off that, but I'm still... That's right. And then he all of a sudden tells a story here about Charlie Kirk, and you can tell how sincere he's being. Go ahead, Rob. Charlie Kirk and I were not friends at all. In fact, the last week of his life, we were beefing hard, beefing online, beefing on air.
Starting point is 00:43:55 But the day before he died, he did something that shocked me. He sent me a personal message, calling for personal dialogue, wanting me to come on his show. He said, we could be gentlemen together. He said we could deal with our disagreements agreeably. And in the past week and a half, just watching people talk about civil wars and censorship and all this stuff coming out of his death, I just thought it was important to let people know. Don't put that on Charlie Kirk
Starting point is 00:44:24 because the last day of his life, he was reaching out to have not more censorship, more conversation, more dialogue with somebody who honestly was one of his adversaries, me. And I just want to share that with the world. And I hope that maybe it might help somebody on both sides. deal with issues more like he did.
Starting point is 00:44:49 Tom. Well, I think Van Jones there, first of all, Van, you watch us, I know you're watching. Thank you for being honest and thank you for positioning your response like that. That was a stand-up thing you did after you received a stand-up message. And I think he's right. You know, when I read this past week that Charlie said to somebody, he said, we have to be careful. When the conversation stops, that's when the violence starts.
Starting point is 00:45:21 And he's talking about civil disobedience and rioting and things when that conversation stops. And so Vann's bringing that up. And I think this is exactly why you have to have the conversations. Because what was conversation? Conversation isn't for two people to come to the table, have a coffee, and then not move an inch. A conversation is so there can be some understanding and there can be some new understanding. learning and together saying, I didn't know this. I didn't know that. And this is where I think some of the, like the vitriol that I catch and people on this podcast and elsewhere catch from the hard left, they seem to think I'm evil. I just think that they're not correct and we need to talk about it. And that's the difference I see. And I love the fact that Van went out and showed people
Starting point is 00:46:15 this and said the words, don't put that on Charlie Kirk, which I thought was a way to lower the temperature at a time where we need it lowered, Pat. Yeah, I thought so as well. Adam, your thoughts. Well, respect to Van Jones for being honest, because, you know, there's this whole concept out there. We're going to own the libs, bro. We're going to dunk on these guys. We're going to show them what's going on. Or on the other side, it's like, he's evil. He's Hitler. Let's all just agree on the basic foundation of who we are as Americans, as humans. We all want the same thing.
Starting point is 00:46:50 We all want the best for our family. We all the best for ourselves. We all want to do good things in this world. And then you can take exceptions to this rule. This person's a horrible person. This person's a horrible person. Erica Kirk, and a moment that galvanized, I believe,
Starting point is 00:47:08 the country, I would hope, forgave the person that murdered her husband. That's something that I would go to the well in time and time again at a time where it's so easy to be angry or what's the what's the next word desire i'm going to show you what's going on to give grace and empathy and compassion and kindness and respect you think that just came that lived in a vacuum or did she get that from charlie and the charlie see himself beefing with van jones say you know what man let's just talk about this a little bit this concept of grace and being uh being able to disagree uh without being disagree
Starting point is 00:47:44 agreeable. It's such an important concept. Last point that I just want to bring up, you talked about President Trump, and he said that Charlie was a master builder, right? So, in my opinion, Charlie Kirk would have been the next president, and he would have been a better president than Donald Trump. Why? Trump said the following. He goes, Charlie wasn't concerned with money. You said, he said he was more about meaning than money. He said he was more about meaning than money. He said he was more about his mission than money. You talked about how, I think it was Sergio Gore, who was in the Trump inner circle.
Starting point is 00:48:20 He said that Trump is transactional. And the quote you said about Dick Cheney, Trump wrote the book, The Art of the Deal. No, no, no, no, no. You said Trump is transactional. You're saying that. I'm saying. Not Sergio Gore. No, no, no, no. No, no. Okay. I'm saying Trump is transactional.
Starting point is 00:48:36 Okay. Your opinion is Trump is transactional. Yes. He wrote the book, The Art of the Deal. Everything's a deal. Everything's a deal. If you say nice things about me, you're my friend, if you say mean things about me, we're enemies. He said, I hate my enemies. These are Trump's quotes. Charlie didn't care about money.
Starting point is 00:48:50 He cared about his mission. I don't think Charlie was transactional. Is that what he said? Charlie was not transactional. Correct. That's what I'm saying. I think Trump, I think Charlie would have been Trump, but better with sympathy and with principles and without, dare I say it, corruption.
Starting point is 00:49:09 Go ahead, Ben. Yeah, because I was going to say. Are you going to respond to what he just said? Well, first, and when you said, Adam, because I have to disagree, when you said, we all want what's good for our families and we all what's good for the country, I think that's the far from the truth, because the other side, I hate having to go this side and this side, show me an example of how their family and the country and the, because everything that they've showed us to this point, Adam, from opening the borders to all the children getting abused, to pro-abortion, to pro-violence, to celebrating murder. I don't see it. I do respect what Vanjohn did, but what is he going to do with it? Because it always seems like these people go and they have this moment of light. They see the light and then they jump right back because he's supposed to take that. I'm happy he's saying it, but what are you going to do with it? Are you going to try to convince your side that the other side isn't evil? We're not Nazis. We're not
Starting point is 00:50:07 crazy. It's just take it and what are you going to do with it? Because what I'm seeing and Adam, Saying that Charlie would have been, I mean, it's your opinion, better than Trump, nobody, I don't think ever, is going to go through what Trump, meaning, before he even got in, the spying, Obama, Brennan, deep state, everything, collusion. Trump had to go through hell and back to get to this point where I could see where he's on stage going. I'm not agreeing with it, but he knows the left was watching him. He knows that's why he's like, I hate my enemies. I'm not going to forgive my enemies.
Starting point is 00:50:40 So my point is being, Adam, the other side has to understand. They have to have a moment. Something has to happen with the left. Besides realizing, you guys are losing something spiritually, Adam, has to connect with these people because they're not jumping off the train. They're staying on the same rhetoric that's negativity and it's anti-American and it's anti-us. So I have one question for you. Yeah. What do you mean by the other side?
Starting point is 00:51:06 The other side, meaning the left. Let's do this. Let's do this way. Let me respond to the Charlie thing, and let's go to the other side because we've got a bunch of clips to go through. The comment you made, I think it's a little bit of an unfair comment,
Starting point is 00:51:18 but let me give my thoughts on why I think that is. And then I actually like that, you said that because it's a good conversation to have. To me, I think Lincoln was a right guy for that time. I think Reagan was a right guy for that time. Okay. I think John F. Kennedy was a right guy for that time. I don't think anybody could have done what Trump did to face the criticism and had the authority and the swagger to pull up and get there.
Starting point is 00:51:53 You got to realize, yes, we're given a lot of love to Charlie, and he deserves every ounce of it. Yes, we're given a lot of love to all the people that spoke there. but one guy put him up there and I was Trump without Trump we don't know Charlie it's not not the other way around first comes the prophet the guy that was willing to go to war and had the audacity and fearlessness
Starting point is 00:52:24 who inspired Charlie's to get behind them you know what did they say the chicken what is the the chicken or the egg which comes first the chicken or the egg the first came Trump okay that that is a historical figure that came and then came i'm going to go fight for him and i'm going to go get all these states and places for him when he says charlie would call me sometimes and he would say mr president can you be in arizona tomorrow what what are you
Starting point is 00:52:55 talking about tomorrow you're giving me one day these people need to hear from you and sometimes i'm like this guy's crazy but i would have to go for him why because he did so much for us right he did so much for us and as much as you're saying transactional i i there's a part of me i got a phone call you know from someone that said pat i wonder if it's all business with you right is it all business with you it's a fair question to ask it's it's not a it's not a i don't take it as an insult i take it as yeah i can see how that that's what it could look like if it was only transactional why is dana white still in his life 20 something years later how much you money hasn't made off of Dana White? Why are so many of these guys still doing what they're doing?
Starting point is 00:53:43 Was there an element of transactional? Sure. Was there an element of that that happens in business? Yes. Are some of those people you don't want to be in business with again? Yes. But I think Trump is a once-in-a-lifetime type of guy who built master builders. There are master builders. then there is the guy that built master builders. Trump is the guy that built a ton of master builders. Trump created careers for people. Trump put people on the limelight with podcasts, with shows, with writing, with politics. Trump gave camera and eyeballs to people who have never gotten it before.
Starting point is 00:54:22 That's the difference. But if you're going back to saying, you know, when the one part of the event, which was like such a, boom, it just hits you. It's the comment J.D. Vance made when he says, I have not talked about Jesus more in my lifetime than I have in the last two weeks, and that's because of Charlie.
Starting point is 00:54:45 Charlie brought God back into the center stage. Charlie's bringing that back. That's going to be Charlie's movement, which I don't think we got with the president, which I don't think we got, but I don't think that's him. I don't think he needs to be that guy. I do think we're going to get to a point that somebody in the next 5, 10, 15, 20 years,
Starting point is 00:55:05 a president's going to come, that they're going to open things up with a prayer. Hey, before we do this, can I pray for everybody? Heavenly Father, you know, I pray for you. I see that's coming up. And I do think that's going to be inspired by Charlie. And by the way, as crazy as it sounds, I think Charlie is going to increase the calibration and the level of consciousness of America higher to love. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:55:28 But in that moment of what Trump has done the last eight years, no, the guy is, the guy is a very, very unique guy. Now, having said that, if you do want to rebuttal to before I go into some of these things. Look, it doesn't benefit me to disagree with Pat publicly, but sometimes I do. Here's where I'm going to disagree with you, sir. Trump's 80 years old almost. Charlie is 31 at his death. You talk about apples to apples. One of the things I love about Patty goes, let's go there.
Starting point is 00:55:55 Imagine Charlie 40 years from now. what kind of momentum he would have what kind of things he would have when Charlie started turning point it was in 2012 four years before Trump even thought about running for president and he started this with purpose
Starting point is 00:56:14 with the meaning with a mission and look what he accomplished at 31 at 31 respectfully Trump was building buildings Charlie built a movement so in my opinion in 40 years from now at the rate Charlie was going, he would have been bigger, better, and more wonderful than Trump.
Starting point is 00:56:33 Oh, 40 years. I'm just saying in general. In 40 years. Yeah, we can't compare Charlie at 31 to Trump at 80. I'm saying the trajectory he was on. Adam. He would have been there. Adam, so let me tell you how this works.
Starting point is 00:56:46 Sometimes a person thinks they're famous. Like, for example, sometimes there are people that hang with a guy like Trump. Let's just say. And everywhere Trump goes, there's cameras. And Trump's got four or five people around the circle who have never had this many eyeballs. This isn't just Trump. This can be said about many different people, right? But in this context, I'm just using Trump.
Starting point is 00:57:16 Out of these five guys that are around Trump that are getting more eyeballs than ever in their lives, how many of them are grateful for it, knowing they're getting it because of Trump, How many of them are thinking, no, it's not because of Trump. It's because of me. How many? Out of the five? Out of the five. I would say four out of the five think that, and they'd be wrong.
Starting point is 00:57:38 Four out of the five think that it's them. It's not Trump. Yeah, exactly. I'm with you. So here's where I'm going with you. I think Charlie's the one guy that says I owe my credit to Trump. And what I'm going to is what this guy did for 70 years is what prepared for the Republican Party
Starting point is 00:57:57 to get the eyeballs that is getting because ever since Trump was a kid no matter where he went, cameras followed him. Oh, no doubt. So what I'm saying to you is he brought the, he made a lot of the conservative players celebrities purely by association,
Starting point is 00:58:14 not the other way around. I agree. But you're right. And I do think, and my part with this is, I feel like I wanted to see the finished product with Charlie. That's the part. That maybe I don't, maybe I speak on behalf of some people. Maybe I speak, I'm just speaking for myself, but if you relate, you relate.
Starting point is 00:58:35 I really wanted to see what this guy was going to do. But God's got bigger plans and I trust him more than I trust anybody else. And we're going to see what's going to be happening with it. But I understand your argument you're making for sure. He would have been a, he would have been a once in a lifetime type of talent. But Trump was the reason why a lot of this. giving Trump infinite respect. I'm simply saying apples to apples.
Starting point is 00:58:57 If Charlie kept a trajectory he was on, no question. He would have been bigger. Who else on that stage? Name one other person. We talked about it yesterday. I mean, I wrote about it. We were talking about on the flight back. Can I address something that Vinnie talked about on the people on the other side? The other side. Can we play these? Yeah, yeah. Sure. Sure.
Starting point is 00:59:14 This is the other side. Okay. So, Rob, you got quite a few clips here of what people are saying. You can start off with Ilhan Omar. Because Ilhan Omar, folks, the moment you watch this. You're going to need a blood pressure pill. You may need a Tylenol, but don't take it if you're pregnant because they're making some announcements. President Trump and Maha is going to make some announcements. So before you take Tylenol, please watch the announcement that they're making
Starting point is 00:59:37 today. Tylenol just took a massive hit. But just Woosa for a second while you hear this motivational speaker from the left. Go ahead. It was the video where it called him Dr. Frankenstein and said his monster shot him through the neck. I mean, obviously, this is a person, and looking at this, this is someone who was a husband and a father, and in the days after his shocking death, that happened as a result of his views or happened as a result as he was sharing his views publicly with people,
Starting point is 01:00:09 that people found it jarring to hear such criticism of that in the immediate aftermath of someone's death. What I find jarring is that there's so many people willing to excuse the most reprehensible things that he said, that they agree with that, that they're willing to have monuments for him, that they want to create a day to honor him and that they want to produce resolutions
Starting point is 01:00:34 in the House of Congress honoring his life and legacy. It is one thing to care about his life because obviously so many people loved him, including his children and wife. But I am not going to sit here and be judged for not wanting to honor any legacy this man has left behind. That should be in the dustpin of history, and we should hopefully move on and forget the hate that he spewed every single day.
Starting point is 01:01:06 Unbelievable. Is it unbelievable? So that's one. Yeah. Okay. Rob. Crockett, who is possibly a candidate for 2028. I know people joke about it.
Starting point is 01:01:17 But I'm telling you, she's a candidate for 2028. Hey, Rob, is this the clip with her with Dana Bash? This is where they talk about the resolution to honor Charlie Kirk and her response why she was upset by it. Go for it. They came before the House this past week honoring Charlie Kirk. And there were 58 Democrats who voted against it. You were one.
Starting point is 01:01:38 Yeah. Why? Absolutely. You know what? One of the things I do want to point out that's not been laid out that honestly hurts my heart is when I saw the no votes, there were only two Caucasians. For the most part, The only people they voted know were people of color because the rhetoric that Charlie Kirk continuously put out there was rhetoric that specifically targeted people of color.
Starting point is 01:02:00 And so it is unfortunate that even our colleagues could not see how harmful his rhetoric was specifically to us. And I can tell you that a month prior to him passing away, he had actually gotten out on his podcast. I wasn't aware of this at the time, but he got out there and he was talking negative. about me directly. So if there was any way that I was going to honor somebody who decided that they were just going to negatively talk about me and proclaim that I was somehow involved in the great white replacement, yeah, I'm not honoring that kind of stuff, especially as a civil rights attorney and understanding how I got to Congress, knowing that there were people that died, people that were willing to die, that worked to make sure that voices like mine could
Starting point is 01:02:46 exist in this place. So to me, just like we wanted to make sense. Vinny, thoughts. Well, first of all, she has multiple personality syndrome because that's not how she speaks when she's in front of a different crowd. It's like, yeah, child, mm-hmm. She turns to the-she lets her ghetto out a little bit. Completely different person.
Starting point is 01:03:02 Rob, I sent you another clip. I got it. Look at this. This is just a quick montage of this interview. I do want to play a couple of statements that you made earlier this year. Okay. Okay.
Starting point is 01:03:14 Unfortunately, we have someone that is occupying the White House and as far as I'm concerned, he is an enemy to the United States. They want to show that they are loyal to this, you know, I don't even know what to call him. I've called him so many things. But there's want to be Hitler for sure. Hitler, enemy.
Starting point is 01:03:33 And to be clear, the president has attacked. Other people have attacked you. She has to piggyback off of it. Maybe not him personally. But do you have a responsibility as an elected official, not to raise the temperature, but rather lower the temperature, particularly when there are people out there who listen to elected officials all over the place who are not well, who use that as a way to instigate the political violence that you are calling out.
Starting point is 01:04:00 I think that my responsibility is to be transparent and to be honest. And the reality is that we are living in a time in which this administration and this regime is not interested in making sure that people understand history. We need to understand why they are so problematic. and so I am using that language because it is accurate language when we see the consolidation of power when we see them trying to chill. You hear the words
Starting point is 01:04:24 you hear the three regime Hitler all those type of rhetoric so Adam what I'm when I say when you're asking to go back which side this is the side this is the and I was remember yesterday when I was asking like how many what's the percentage of
Starting point is 01:04:40 Democrats that are openly professing their faith that love God that say they're Christians, I'm just, I'm very curious because I don't hear it at all. Zero from the Obamas to the Hillary's to Jasmine Crockett to all these people. So Adam, when you ask, what side? The Obama, Hillary, Crockett, the podcasters, the streamers, the left wing media, James Comey, Pritzker, Newsom. I don't feel personally that this side has any compassion. They don't have any love. They are godless. They've taken out God completely. I
Starting point is 01:05:16 I have yet to hear one of them say, thank God, or pray for Charlie, or pray for his wife. And it is that side. And, Adam, I can't even get mad. I truly, and Eric is a great example, I have to pray. That's the hardest thing. I told Pat last night while we were on the plane, I get a message from a guy named Todd. I'm not going to say his last name. The message was like this.
Starting point is 01:05:36 Hey, don't know if this is still your number, and I'm going to take out all the cuss words. But you know what? F you were in California with, you drug, you women, women. you and Charlie and hey you're orange blah blah blah blah Adam you know what old Vinnie would have done voice message face time I would have gone in I block I deleted my I felt my blood
Starting point is 01:05:56 pressure going up but that's the that's what the other side wants and I don't see the love Adam I don't see the compassion so when I say the other sides as much as Tommy we have to pray for them Pat it's not getting through their head so when there is a clear divide it's like we can keep preaching we can keep hoping
Starting point is 01:06:13 like a Van Jones that's what Charlie did has reached out and it hit Van Jones and he got to see it and his team actually let him know Van didn't see it at his team goes hey just FYI this is what happened because they're not open they're not looking for it so what do you do at him when you have that side that's that's what the other
Starting point is 01:06:29 there's good Adam and there's evil and you have to call it out so by the way a clip to show on Adam I'm going to come to you this is a clip Rob I sent you depicting on how one side response when there's a loss or an assassination attempt
Starting point is 01:06:45 versus the other side. Go ahead, Rob. So I throw up my head, praise you again. Wow. Wow. Why is that? You tell me. Why is that? Why are you doing that?
Starting point is 01:07:09 That's NYPD. That's New York. Hold on, look at that. And look at the top. Celebrating the life No burning flags Stealing Loving America
Starting point is 01:07:21 Everybody was peaceful See you One more time So I can listen to this guy All day I can I'll pause it right there Go ahead Adam
Starting point is 01:07:38 So So you're right In many respects But I do want to give a caveat everything you said about the politicians, the podcasters, the media, you're right. They're driving the divide in America. But I don't have the luxury of labeling, quote, unquote, 100 million people in America, the other side is evil. I don't tell you why.
Starting point is 01:07:59 I didn't say all of them are you. I know. I'm just saying, this is me. No, I think you made the premise to kind of toss back at Vinnie there, but make your point. Excuse me? I think you made the premise to toss back at Vinny, but go out. ahead and make your point are you hosting the show right now what are you doing right now you don't like that you don't like the statement toss back what time what did he toss back said he was saying he opened
Starting point is 01:08:30 it up which i think was drawing a line on viny's point and i'm saying make your point you said that's not what i was doing i don't have the luxury of taking a hundred million people and calling him the other side, and you were, I think, throwing that at Vinny. I don't think that was Vinny was doing. I'm just saying, I don't think that's what he was doing, but make your point. It's happening right now. Yeah. Tom, respectfully, let me address Vinny.
Starting point is 01:08:55 Thank you. You're calling. This is so funny. Go ahead. Tom, you good? I'm very good. Are you, though? Yes.
Starting point is 01:09:05 Adam, go ahead. I thought I was talking to Vinny, but I don't know what happened here, but love you, Tom. Let me address Vinny. I agree with you everything you're saying on the democratic side of things, the politicians, the podcasters. These people are what I would call
Starting point is 01:09:19 representatives. They're not here to be synergists, and it's equal on both sides, whether it's AOC, whether it's Jasmine Crockett, whether it's Rashida Tilibe, whether it's Ilhan Omar, who I think it's disgust. You could say the same for the Marjorie Taylor Greens. You can say for the Lauren Bowbirds.
Starting point is 01:09:35 You can say for the same for the Anna Paulina Luna, who I actually think is awesome. these are representatives they represent a very small district and the way did they get eyeballs is to inflame people what they say is you know senators senate is the cooling sauce for america you don't see senators as much as representatives doing this because they have they have a bigger constituency you don't see governors doing this at times you tend to see presidents sometimes like trump but they need to calm the flames right here i'm with you that there's a large contingency on the left and right that stokes the flames
Starting point is 01:10:10 and gets eyeballs because their constituency is this big, right? And a lot of them are anti-white, anti-Christian, anti-male, and it's disgusting. And we can address that. That's a big thing in this country. What I was talking about not having the luxury of being like, I'm not saying you're saying this, I think you were talking about the politicians or the podcasters,
Starting point is 01:10:31 but the luxury of this, my mom's a Democrat. My friends are Democrats. Like, people in my circle are Democrats. I have a lot of Republican friends. I have a lot of Democrat friends. What I'm trying to do is saying, when we say the other side, let's be specific to talk about what we mean. And I think that's what you meant.
Starting point is 01:10:49 Because there's people in my life who go, like, dude, I like your show, but do you hate me? Because I'm a Democrat? I'm like, no, not. But you keep saying that I'm the devil and I'm evil. Like, no, bro. We're talking about this. So what I'm saying is let's not conflate Democrats or liberals
Starting point is 01:11:04 to the far left woke mob and the politicians that represent them. But from what I've been seeing, it's not just the far, Adam. I'm seeing family members. I'm seeing people where the veil has come completely off. And it's not just a small little fringe of the far left. Adam, a lot. I'm talking about a lot of these people are showing their true colors. And at the end of the day, and I've said this on other shows, what are they standing on? When you say the Democratic Party, what are their principles? What are their morals? What do they care about? Because if I'm just an outsider looking in, they're not, Adam, I'm not talking about like your mom Democrats that are nice and they're sweet and they're like, I don't like what's happening. I'm talking about the majority of them. If God forbid something happens to Trump, they're going to cheer in the streets.
Starting point is 01:11:53 They're cheering right now for Charlie. They're mad that the border is closed. Adam, when we're trying, when Trump or whoever is trying to save like unborn children, they're like, how dare you? It's my body, my choice. but when it comes to the vaccine, they're like, shut up, your body, it's our choice. The government's choice. We get to put in you whatever we want.
Starting point is 01:12:14 So I understand, I'm not lumping them all together, but just a vibe. I want a vibe check of the other, what are they doing to come at them? Because the Marjorie Dary Greens, the Donald Trump's, they didn't ask for this smoke. The moment this guy came in, it was you, destroy him. Well, they got to fight for.
Starting point is 01:12:32 Let's, let's, Trump is who they vilified. But the horse, they didn't go after their marjorie. Yeah, but Marjorie Taylor Green is a soldier in the fight for Adam. Because at the end of the, yes, she's anger. They all have different walks of their life with their faith, whatever. But Adam, how many times can our side get pushed and labeled? And guess what? We have the Stephen Millers and we have the people that are like, hey, enough is enough.
Starting point is 01:12:55 And they're fighting with their voices at them. They're not sniping people. They're not burning down churches. They're not killing each other. They're not beating up and killing cops. There's a whole difference. I'm with you. I want to hear of Tom.
Starting point is 01:13:05 Go ahead, Tom. You're exactly right. Right. And this started where you brought up something. And what you brought up, you said, where was a Democrat or someone on the left that was willing to be there, even in the audience, or speaking? Right? Because Charlie was reaching across the aisle. You see what? The no dissent of Van Jones was not unique. He reached out to many people like this. And so where were they? And you know what? What I marvel at, it's not Martin Luther King. It's the reverend. Martin Luther King. And he started and he was giving speeches in churches. And these sweet African-American people that were hoping that civil rights would bring things forward and improve things for them were in churches and their Sunday best. And then they walked down streets and they were hit with water cannon and things like this. It started in churches and it started with faith and it started with peace. And when he said, I have a dream. What was a dream about? About little boys and little girls
Starting point is 01:14:06 come into the same place and coming to a point of understanding. Well, guess what? In 2006, Anne Coulter, who I'm not comparing to Martin Luther King, she's one of many commentators, but she wrote a book that captured it in 2006 called Godless, the Church of Liberalism. And it was so correct. That book is now 20 years old, but it is exactly on point with what's happened here. And you know what? You know what she needs? You know what Jasmine Crockett needs? She needs that there's no progress with civil rights because that is, I keep saying it, that's her blankie. She needs that.
Starting point is 01:14:40 She needs to be angry about that because they need to be victims. And victims need to take to the streets against your oppressors. And that's the reaction that they push for. And so we counter with love. And when I say the we, I'm saying the collective we, the people that want to put faith as our foundation, reasonableness, dialogue is our foundation, and come out and say, let's have a conversation about this. They need civil rights to be, oh, it's going in reverse, it's danger. They have to have
Starting point is 01:15:11 danger, danger, bad person, bad person, you know, go to the streets, overthrow, because liberalism is a victim-based, feeling-driven religion unto itself. And that's where it is. And so Stephen Miller is right. We've had enough of this. We can't have the victim. this we have to be we the people reaching out for all people reaching across aisles but jasmine crockett wants none of that she wants the anger to continue she needs the anger to continue unfortunately but and i'm and i'm not commentating this is by her own lips this is by her own lips and so dana bash who's been hit boy dana bash if you're on a highlight reel for the last year she's had some interviews where have gone really kind of weird i'm not picking on her but in this
Starting point is 01:16:00 one, she kind of sat up and said, don't you feel that you have something here and was trying to do it? But guess what? There was no, well, look, I think there's some balance. Okay. So then I got a follow-up question for you. So George Soros, the story comes out with Politico, gave $10 million dollar check for California for redistricting campaign. That's totally fine. You want to give money for that? Totally get it. Keep the state 48-24 when it comes onto Congress, representatives, fine. However, the daily caller does a story saying, explosive report alleges George Soros doled out $80 million to leftist group glorifying terrorism and violence. Okay, Rob, if you want to go to the story, I don't think you have a
Starting point is 01:16:41 video on this. I'll just read the story and then I'll come back to you. And I have a question for all of you, okay? So, this is George Soros. billion or mega donor George Soros has a funneled more than $80 million to organizations that praise terrorists or urge protect violence in America according to a new report by Capital Research Center, CRC. The report said that through his Open Society Foundation it distributed tens of millions of dollars to groups that engage in or endorse
Starting point is 01:17:14 actions that meet the FBI's definition of domestic terrorism. So again, let me read that. has distributed tens of millions of dollars to groups that engaged or endorsed actions that meet the FBI's definition of domestic terrorism. The revelations come as authorities investigate left-wing organization for a possible connection to the September 10th murder of Turning Point USA at Utah Valley University since 2020 Open Society Foundation has given $400,000 to the Center for Third World Organization,
Starting point is 01:17:48 which boasts it's through. with people in the streets. During the George Floyd rights, CRC noted that CTWO, which is the Center for Third World Organization, organizing, has consolidated radical groups into its hub, including the Ruckus Society, who is founders and training materials
Starting point is 01:18:08 endorsed tactics that may be outside of the law. CRC says the network also includes the Blackout Collective, which co-authored a pro-Hamas guide that glorifies October 7th attacks and references a ruckus society, manual, promoting tactics like property, destruction, and blockades. Okay, you're following it so far what's being said.
Starting point is 01:18:29 The Open Society Foundation has provided $1.85 million to dream defenders and $18 million to movement for Black Lives Matter, which collaborated with Blackout Collective to create the pro-Hamas guide, according to CRC's report. Soros Foundation has given $200,000 to dissenters, author, co-author of the alleged pro homas guide. So, just a question for you, Tom. Is this legal to be able to do so? And what are the laws of if I give money, and I'm actually really curious, because Soros, his lawyers, you're going to have good lawyers, and I'm just thinking from the lawyer from his lawyer. I just give money. I don't know what they're going to do with the money. My job is to just give
Starting point is 01:19:16 money. We give them, but we give away to hundreds of charities. They happen to do something like this. We of course don't support someone like this, but they did it. Tom. So it is illegal to incent violence, number one. Illegal. It's illegal to incent violence. Is it illegal to give money to a charity that does? Well, now you've got the slippery slope. Oh, well, our intense title of our charity doesn't mean that we're using money to buy guns. Well, I think everybody knows what's going on here is Soros. There is a reason he's not welcome in his own home country, and he's exactly what he's doing. So the legality or illegality of that, it says, I think we are, that there is just a thin
Starting point is 01:20:04 hairline between what he's doing and legality, but they are so careful the way they do it from what jurisdiction and how they do it. I believe that some of the stuff is not legal because they're incenting violence, very specifically, very specifically. And I don't think that can possibly be legal under the constitutional framework about within freedom of speech and not incenting violence. I don't see how it can be, but he's so careful, Pat. We've seen how they give it through the dark funds and through the back door and through the PACs that don't have to disclose where it comes from. And then you have he allegedly gave 400 here. You know, we know what he's all about. And so,
Starting point is 01:20:47 I think he's guilty because we know what he's all about. He wants to go to globalism where the world is controlled by socialist elites. That is his defined destination. He's very clear about that. And so therefore, how do you destabilize all these governments? You have to destabilize them. And what do you do with an election? I don't think so. You have to do it with violence. Wait, I've got an idea. What if I give money to district attorneys that won't prosecute people for violence? Weird. Now I can give to violence and make sure that that there's limited penalties. So I don't
Starting point is 01:21:22 see how it can't be illegal and I'd like to see somebody you know with some hair on their chest and I don't mean that you know I'm not being misogynous I mean somebody needs to relax someone needs to muscle up
Starting point is 01:21:37 and stand up anybody though doesn't have to be Middle Eastern. Somebody that has the brass is what you're saying. Well with hair on their chest we have that hair on their chest some women who's got the how about the gut and the courage, male or females, to walk to the podium and say, hang on a second. We're going to investigate all these things, and this stuff may be illegal.
Starting point is 01:21:58 And Mr. Soros, maybe not only can you not step foot in Hungary, maybe there's a day where you don't want to step foot in the United States because you don't want to get arrested. But the goal is globalism and social elite run by social elites, and destabilization is the tool. And so funding the people that cause us in the street, And you always wonder, like, the majority of the time, how many, all the roads to me lead back to this guy. And guys, if you watch a movie, Rob, like a movie, and you're like, who's the bad guy?
Starting point is 01:22:28 Rob, can you put that phone? Zoom in on the one on the left. Like, look at the face. That's the face. When people are like, okay, who is the bad? I would take Klaus Schwab over him, but he's there. Klaus Schwab is bad, but that guy, but that, like, every time you figure out who's paying, who was giving this guy money,
Starting point is 01:22:45 who was doing this. And these are the people that want to destroy. the country but you know what I don't want they keep hinting Trump was hinting at it Trump got the tweet about Pam Bond like hey Pam I'm getting messages from people that are saying you're not going after all these people and then he kind of is nice to her we want accountability and I keep hearing this guy's name I keep hearing the the destructive behavior though giving the money let's let's call a spade his mate it's we know what he's doing and we know but Adam you want to talk about hating America that's the guy that's the guy and guess what
Starting point is 01:23:17 His son seems to me that he's going to be carrying the torch when he's done. But that's the face, Pat. All I'm trying to find out is, so you got the crockets. You got all these guys that are there, right? Okay. And then you got the guy from the top that's given money. Like you heard the one lady that was giving a speech and said, well, Charlie one day came to me and she said he wanted $50,000 start. I'm like, you go raise half?
Starting point is 01:23:42 I'll give you the other half. Within two days he comes back saying I raise the 25, he gets the 25. And now, millions. We've given millions of dollars, right? So, yes, there is people that you're going to go and raise money with. Stacey Sheridan, I believe it was that name? Rebecca Dunn. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:23:56 And people who give money, why do they give money? You give money to a charity either because you believe in the charity. You give money to charity because you have certain things that you like to happen or you give money to charity because you want to be involved in certain things that's going to have. You're going to sit at this table. You're going to be at this table. Like these are different kind of things that they're doing. I'm trying to find out if somebody is given this kind of money
Starting point is 01:24:24 that's leading to protesting and rioting and destroying the streets, why don't we crack down on that, Tom? Why don't we crack down on the person that's funding all the protests and the rights that are taking place? I think the problem is, and I'd love to get a constitutional scholar here, and I can dive in even deeper. so why was it important for Trump to call remember when he called the cartels foreign terrorist organization FTOs
Starting point is 01:24:55 right because now you're an enemy in the United States whose pen can now go after you Donald Trump Donald Trump can he send helicopters over there with the cooperation of the foreign government to go blow up your drug lab or your drug boat or exactly or maybe something on Mexican soil if you had cooperation so that's
Starting point is 01:25:15 illegal pat and you're in a and you're an enemy of the United States. The problem is domestic, domestic terrorism. There is no, there is no that I'm aware of, a legal way to say, well, you're a domestic terrorists other than words. There's not a law that says domestic terrorism. You can't fund it. And then they say, well, I'm funding freedom of speech.
Starting point is 01:25:39 And if some of them get out of hand and light a fire in the middle of the street and burn a flag, that's freedom of expression. So, Pat, they kind of hide behind it. I think there's a difference between foreign terrorist organizations, which we did with the cartels, and domestic terrorist organization. And I think that there's a caution, here's my speculation. If I'm president, and I'm on the right, and I call you a domestic terrorist organization, now I can take action against you. I'm only six seconds from the next election. Totally. And then him saying, all conservative churches are now domestic terrorist organizations. And I don't think we want to put that law at the hand of a partisan pen because the pendulum will swing back and forth,
Starting point is 01:26:26 like it has on this freedom of speech things, when the Democrats didn't go to boomerang safety training and are getting hit by the same boomerang they were throwing asking to cancel Trump. So I asked this question. What if you give money to a charity that commits violence? If you go a little bit lower, there is an article under U.S. law, 18 U.S.C., and then it gives the whole details of what the number is. It's a crime to knowingly provide material support, money, training, and resources to a group that engages in terrorism or violence. Knowingly, so you were right.
Starting point is 01:26:59 But it's knowingly. So then you have to prove knowingly, right? material support includes donations, equipment, or even services. If a donor knows the organization commits or plans violence, they can face prosecution. Unknowing support, if you give to a large foundation and other charity and you have no knowledge of what they're going to be doing with it, you're not criminal health liable. So this is the part where a good lawyer will defend you and say, no, I didn't know that this was taking place. Because it's going to continue happening.
Starting point is 01:27:32 Let me tell you. It's going to continue happening. And the fact that nothing happened this Sunday, I am so surprised. Whether you want to give credit, cops were everywhere. Secret service everywhere. Military, everywhere you went,
Starting point is 01:27:47 you saw guys with the black glasses everywhere. You look left and right. A lot of that, your pieces. Adam, thoughts on this before we move on. George Soros and his whole organization needs to be looked into and hopefully held accountable, dismantled at the most. Because, you know, and we can play this clip.
Starting point is 01:28:04 Charlie Kirk talks about the difference between liberals and leftists, right? There's liberals, there's progressives, there's leftists, there's the far left, there's the radical left, then there's communists, there's Marxists. I'll ask you where you think George Soros falls and who he contributes to, just like there's conservatives, just there's like the Republicans, and then there's white nationalists and KKK in the far right. You know, we got to be careful with painting with broad strokes. But if we're going to label the KKK domestic terrorist and, you know, we're going to label the KKK domestic terrorist, neo-Nazis domestic terrorists.
Starting point is 01:28:36 What's the left version of that? Antifa? Whatever Soros has contributed to. So let's not play this game of like, oh, I didn't know what I was good. You know exactly what you're doing. They all show up with the exact same sign, with the exact same protest, with the free Palestine, with the BLM, and they want to see America burn
Starting point is 01:28:54 and they want to take down the West. And we can't just sit here and capitulate and be like, freedom speech, bro. He needs to be held accountable. Yeah. Okay. Well, I mean, to me, I'm just trying to see. if it's allowed and you keep doing it, guess what? This is not going to stop. But if they investigate and they see that there is intent
Starting point is 01:29:14 and you know what's happening, then there's a different conversation. Tom, let's talk about the H-1B visa. Okay. What are you going to say something? Well, I just quickly chat GPTed this on an FTO's foreign terrorist organization. There is no domestic counterpart for a foreign terrorist organization. So it's not illegal to provide material support unless you know that violence, is going to take place.
Starting point is 01:29:36 And there's no legal mechanism at any level, state, congressional, or executive, executive president to define domestic terrorist organization. Applying a label would require a change in federal law related to First Amendment privileges. Oh, wow. So there it is. And by the way, if you change that, guess what?
Starting point is 01:29:57 Every president, based on what sign they're on, could start defining his enemies. For sure, enemies. Okay, so Trump, imposes a $100,000 fee on H1B visa applications. A lot of people are not happy, okay? Some people are Mumbai. Oh, the people that video did with the video?
Starting point is 01:30:18 Those guys in the airplane video? Can I, can I? Raj and all his homies? I didn't want to upset your friends. I'm just reading the story, guys. I'm just, you guys don't upset Tom today. So President Donald Trump's expected to sign an executive action on Friday that would impose a $100,000 application fee for H-1B visas.
Starting point is 01:30:34 I've gotten so many menacs because of this, of people that are upset with this. An effort to curb overuse of the program, a White House official told CNN the executive action claim that abuse of H-1B visa pathway has displaced U.S. workers and will restrict entry under the program unless accompanied by payment, the official said the move marks the latest in a series of efforts from the administration to crack down on immigration and could significantly impact industries that could heavily depend on H-1B workers. The H-1B visa is a work visa that's valid for three years and can be renewed for another three years.
Starting point is 01:31:13 Here's President Trump talking about it. Go ahead. President, it seems like there's two categories of visa programs. The H-1B, a lot of people believe, take American jobs, and then the gold card in programs like EB-5 that add value in jobs to America. Is that sort of how you look at the visa program? Well, ideally, look, if somebody's got the people,
Starting point is 01:31:33 they're not going to want to spend $100,000 as an example in your second category. So it's not taking jobs. And we need certain jobs. We need certain skill jobs that we don't have. But they won't be taking jobs because, you know, ideally the people are going to want to, they're not going to ask. Right, that's right. They're really investing in America.
Starting point is 01:31:53 It seems like you have two categories. One, the Secretary of Lettings, the gold card, the G5, that create jobs and investment. And then there's other ones that seem to take, you know, whether it's a J1 and O, or an H-1B that take U.S. jobs. Yeah, it's pretty correct. I mean, I would say that's a correct assessment. But the main thing is we're going to have great people coming in,
Starting point is 01:32:12 and they're going to be paying. I mean, it's wonderful to say, oh, gee, this is, we took in 25 million people that, look, many criminals, jails were open from Venezuela, or from many other countries, and they were let out of jail and poured into our country. our poor country how it suffered with this
Starting point is 01:32:35 composite right there Tom thoughts okay so first let's break down what happened and then let's find out why people are upset and then Vinnie dug up something by a group called 4chan
Starting point is 01:32:46 that they did in the middle of it so let's get to that that's a very good catch so first of all what's happening inside the bill the minimum wage that's payable is moving
Starting point is 01:33:00 from 1.2 another from $60,000 to $150. Well, what does that mean? Means that, hey, I'd like to get some engineers. I found some guys that went out of ITT, a fantastic university in India. They'd like to come over here. I'm going to pay him $70,000. I should be paying him $140,000, $150,000.60. Why am I paying him 70? Because I'm saying, I'll give you the job if you'll work for 70. Now I got the engineer coming over here on an H-1B. Well, guess who I didn't pay? I didn't pay Americans over here.
Starting point is 01:33:38 And I mean maybe Indian Americans are over here in educational visas that are going to convert that into a, you know, a work visa of some type, not necessarily in H-1B. And there are people over here, but guess what I just did? I lowered my cost of making software, didn't I? Because now I got all these people on H-1Bs. So here's what Trump is saying. They're saying, if you're saying, if you...
Starting point is 01:33:59 have some incredibly special individual that you are willing to pay 152 and then also give the government 100, that's 250, where it's a super software architect, a super CTO, or a super person, guess what? The H-1B program is here for you and you may use it. If not, then let's stop lying to the camera about that the H-1B is about diversity and opportunity. it's not the these people primarily from india and there's a lot of people reacting have been taken advantage of for a long time let me tell you my personal moral authority on this i went
Starting point is 01:34:41 to hire people when i was in southern california running a company that had a large software lab and guess what people came to me and i interviewed some people and they said but um i'm sorry you know the H-1B, can you run it through this guy? And I'm like, what are you talking about? And there is a legal organization where this gentleman had 10, and they were Indian, so I'm not picking on India, but they were, they were 10 Indian engineer from Hyderabad that could work for me. But I have to pay the company.
Starting point is 01:35:18 I found out the company was going to take 20% of the paycheck. So not only was I going to pay $80,000 for these people, 16,000 was going to go to this guy standing in the middle. So they were really only going to get 64,000. What nobody is talking about is the exploitation and the placement services that have been going on. By the way, that organization was based legally with the U.S. business license. They were not criminals. They were in San Francisco.
Starting point is 01:35:42 But when you look at it on paper, the absolute conclusion is that that individual who just wants a job is being taken advantage of. Number one. And number two, a kid, like Mark Andreessen, I think, went to the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana. I think that's, I'm correct. So you have a modern-day Mark and Dresian that comes out of there and doesn't get the job. Why? He's looking for 120, 130, because that's the price for the job. And so what Trump is saying, if you really want them, you can have them, but it's going to cost you $250. And enough with this. Who's not happy with it? Who's not happy with it? Is, is that a lot of people from India are upset because they saw this as an avenue to get to jobs. And they were accepting. Who in America is not happy with them? I'll tell you who's not happy of it. The CEOs that take advantage of this talent that are now in their CFO's office saying, okay, so let's go take a look at the development costs for next year.
Starting point is 01:36:42 If we hire any H-1Bs, we don't get them for 80 to 85,000. Now it's going to cost us $250. We better be sure who we want. So they're upset because we just cut off the cheap labor because, Pat, it is fakery. It's absolute fakery. Silicon Valley and anybody in America, not everybody, organizations in Silicon Valley or in America that were, not everybody, not throwing everybody out, that were taking advantage of this to get cheaper labor than you would get by paying available labor here in the United States are about to see their costs go up, Pat, and that's why they're upset.
Starting point is 01:37:20 And a lot of people say, well, you're targeting India. Well, not really, but we're not specifically targeting India like a trade situation. Yeah. You know, but there have been a lot in India, but I'll say it now very clearly. They were being exploited, paying a lower rate. And the U.S. companies were taking advantage of that with lower costs, and they were taking advantage of this. And there were great engineers in America of whatever background coming out of our schools that weren't getting opportunities. for this because they were
Starting point is 01:37:52 there. And guess who could take advantage of it most? The bigger companies that had the longer arms are able to lobby. Your thoughts. Well, look, I think the average American doesn't know anything about H-1B visas, and this conversation came up, I want to say, in Christmas. I thought it was a vaccine. I thought H-1B1 was a vaccine.
Starting point is 01:38:08 Gotcha. It's your third booster this week. I was like, great. Another booster? Great. You did it again, Vinny. But this conversation really reached an inflection point. Steve Bannan versus Vivek Ramaswami. And then Elon Musk, and it's true. Tom's right, there are a lot of people that are exploiting
Starting point is 01:38:23 this loophole, right? The conversation that you had, I thought, was very impactful. Were you on Will Kane Show, PBD? I want to get your perspective on that, but there's legal immigration, there's a legal immigration. We're talking about legal immigration, but we want the best and brightest from all around the world. We want people who are contributing to America,
Starting point is 01:38:43 but we don't want these people replacing Americans that can also do the job. and then there's that $50, $60, $80, $100,000, you know, in the middle that goes to the headhunters or the exploiters, the company. So I think at the end of the day, if we're going to have these people, they need to have a couple different qualifications other than the hard skills. They need to love America and want to be in America. They should be able to stay in America because there's three-year increments. And then they need to pay their taxes, America, and keep their money in America. Because a lot of times they come here, they're paid low wages, they take away America.
Starting point is 01:39:19 American jobs, but then they send their money out of the country. So this doesn't help anyone but the company that's doing it and exploiting them. What are your thoughts, BPD? Yeah, I mean, look, to me, it comes down to this. If this causes those jobs to be in America, where we hire an American, that's what he promised. Very simple. It was part of his 47 promise, the 20 promises that he made for being a president. So if you like it, you don't like it. he's keeping his promise on what he's doing with it how they're going about it the one thing about President Trump guy you know with this one lady
Starting point is 01:39:55 message him said well you know how this is going to affect this isn't just about engineers what about the nurses you know there's a what did she say she said by the way she said something it's actually very true was it the girl that I know it as well yeah you know her as well she used the word medical
Starting point is 01:40:09 deserts this is hecka medical deserts yeah she's amazing we know medical deserts right where Rob, can you pull up medical deserts? Just type of medical deserts, Tom, I'm sure you're aware
Starting point is 01:40:22 of what medical deserts are. Areas in America where we don't have enough. Go to images. If you can go to images, Rob. Well, we don't have enough help and support. If you zoom out a little bit so we can show what this is.
Starting point is 01:40:36 Number of, just go on the one, you were doing the right thing, yeah. Healthcare deserts, county by county. Number of health care deserts. One, two, three, four, five, six, from the lowest to the highest, right? You see there are some places where we don't have enough pharmacies or primary care providers or hospitals or hospital beds or trauma centers.
Starting point is 01:40:59 And so the argument then becomes, you know, who does this affect? Does this affect the medical field? Does this affect what kind of health care we can provide to our, because maybe some nurses are coming from different places on H-1B visas? Maybe some people are coming. That is the only part. But this is my trust in the administration. Do you guys remember when they came out with something
Starting point is 01:41:21 and then they changed it immediately within days? What was it when he announced something? President Trump came up with something and they said, ah, you know what we've thought about it? What was the topic? It was what they were doing in California and they were getting rid of some workers and they said, wait a minute, our farms are taken ahead
Starting point is 01:41:41 and we have to find a way to make it work. Do you remember that, Rob? I don't know what it was. Yeah, it was a foreign work. for deportation. Right. And it was kind of like, hey, because of this, we are deciding to do this because that's what a CEO does. You come up with a new compensation plan. You come up with a new benefits package. You come up with something new. And then all of a sudden like, oh, it broke this. It broke that. It broke this. Like one time we got a health insurance, they come in, we're going to be cheaper.
Starting point is 01:42:06 We're going to be this. This is awesome. And then all the, you know, guys are like phenomenal. And you notice they didn't have a, what do you call it? When you have a kid, delivery. Tom, when you have the benefit of where the insurance covers if you have a child. Maternity, not maternity leave. It's the actual procedure when you go in there. It's expensive, right, when you're at the hospital. This one insurance didn't cover that. Oh, C-sections?
Starting point is 01:42:33 No, just the regular delivery. Yeah, regular delivery. So one of our girls comes in, it's like, wait, do you know about this insurance that we got? What's that? You know, if I want to have a kid, the benefits better before, even though this is, let you say 20% cheaper for, but it's not for somebody that wants to have kids. You know what?
Starting point is 01:42:50 We've got to change it. So then we want to change a health insurance again. So Trump is going to... Oh, the coverage exclusion. That's right. That's right. That's right. Yes. Trump's going to see this and it's going to say,
Starting point is 01:43:02 let's see how to market reacts. Let's you calls us. All right. Okay. So here's this is who caller. They got a good point. Can we make that adjustment? Can we make the judge?
Starting point is 01:43:12 Yes. And then boom, they take the next step. So I trust the fact that they'll be pivoting, but I do know this is a very sensitive issue to a lot of people, and I respect him. It was part of his promise to keep the jobs in America. And by the way, he made a micro-pivot yesterday or Saturday where he said,
Starting point is 01:43:27 hey, to be clear, that $100,000 will not apply, it should not apply, if you already have visas in motion because you weren't planning for that. So I don't want you to be pinched. Pat, let me just give you a little bit of credit for what you just said, because I don't know if everybody caught that.
Starting point is 01:43:43 That is such an important component of why Trump is good. president hear me out as a CEO because i see you i have the the the honor of sitting next to all the time and seeing these decisions even on the plane yesterday of not doubling down on bad decisions of saying you know what we were wrong on that one got we're going to cut we're going to stop that agenda we're going to actually cut off that show we're going to do whatever it is and we're actually going to pivot a lot of politicians say well i made the announcement i can't go back now i keep my word wink wink gavin newsom but to reverse course and not double down on a
Starting point is 01:44:15 dumb decision is so important for the leader of the country or the leader of a company. That to me is very important. Yeah, I mean, listen, you can't have it any other way if you're a businessman. You're not going to make it. Your business is going to be out of business and there's not much you can do about it. Now, let's talk about
Starting point is 01:44:31 what's going on with TikTok. Tom, a TikTok story is getting more. By the way, President Trump talked about TikTok with Charlie. Charlie was talking about TikTok's going to play very important role in How it helped the election?
Starting point is 01:44:46 I think we've got to figure something out. So Trump says Xi approved TikTok's deal in productive phone call, okay? And Rob, I think you got a video on this as well, if I'm not mistaken, on the TikTok deal. Is this the one? Yes. Go for it. Your call this morning with President Jay. I had a great call with President Xi, and as you know, he approved the TikTok deal.
Starting point is 01:45:12 and we're in the process we have some great investors big some of the biggest in the world American investors great people and we look forward to getting that deal closed is it fully approved the Chinese statements didn't necessarily get that I think so when you say fully approved I don't know what that means we have to get we have to get it signed I guess there could be a formality I found his word to be very good president she and I had a long talk We talked for almost two hours. Wow. And it started at 8 o'clock in the morning.
Starting point is 01:45:48 And I think it was a very good talk. We talked about trade. We talked about war. We talked about a lot of things. We talked about Russia, Ukraine, obviously, and Gaza. Damn. Talked about a lot of subjects. It was a good call.
Starting point is 01:46:02 We have a very good relationship. We've got a possible visit next year. But, yeah, he said possible visit next year. Tom. So as you're seeing this, I want to say, Larry Ellison is one of the folks that's behind the deal. Yep. And I want to see that TikTok deal gives American six of the seven board seats, which is an 87%.
Starting point is 01:46:21 And I think is this Caroline Levitt saying? Yes, sir. Go for it. This deal does put America's first. And let me just be very clear. This deal means that TikTok will be majority owned by Americans in the United States. There will be seven seats on the board that controls the app in the United States. And six of those seats will be Americans.
Starting point is 01:46:42 And the data and privacy will be led by one of America's greatest tech companies, Oracle. And the algorithm will also be controlled by America as well. So all of those details have already been agreed upon. Now we just need this deal to be signed. And that will be happening. I anticipate in the coming days. Making some news there. So six of the seven seats will be American.
Starting point is 01:47:01 Tom, what do you know about TikTok? So I dove into it a little bit. If all of those things that Ms. Levitt said come true, then this is good. So the problem is TikTok, we know, has data leakage in the back. When I say we know, it's like, I can't be absolute about this, but everyone talks about, hey, look, this is a Chinese app that there have been forensics done that is looking at other apps on your phone,
Starting point is 01:47:31 doing things, and we think that's dangerous. We don't think that's very safe. And so that was the whole reason that the January 25, 2025 deadline was put on by Trump. Hey, we can't have this. Well, Oracle and Silver Lake are named as people. The deal's not done yet, but Pat. But Oracle and Silver Lake is two of the very large, and Silver Lake's a large PE firm, the large organization of their, Oracle gets the technical business on their servers.
Starting point is 01:48:02 And then the comment they made, there's three elements to it. Six to seven board seats would be American, majority-owned. by America and the algorithm controlled by America. That's the crazy part of this, is bite-dance algorithm to know whether it is promoting certain content to our young people or taking data and redirecting it elsewhere. Those things have to happen. And apparently, the responsibility is going to be with the board and Oracle. If that truly happens, then TikTok.
Starting point is 01:48:39 at the president's promise, has been converted to an app that is safer in terms of the foreign intervention, and then draw your own conclusions because, you know, X is here in the U.S., and their algorithms sometimes are a little odd. Facebook is in the U.S., and their algorithms are sometimes a little odd. So just because the algorithms are controlled by Americans, Pat, doesn't mean that there might not be funny business in there, but this is good, and this is part of a campaign promise, And this is the result of nine months of negotiations back and forth that goes back to that deadline that was January 2025. Do you trust it?
Starting point is 01:49:17 I trust Larry Ellison, but I want to see the final part of this deal. Do you trust that TikTok and China's not going to have any influence or control or even a back-end access to the algorithms that they can use that we have to report to them? Not to be cynical, but if Z likes it and agrees to it, I probably still have a problem with. with it. I want Z to be very, wait a minute, this wasn't the deal. When you said in January, you would do this. If he's reacting like that, then I'm going to say, okay, hang on, stay with that. I want that version of the contract. Yeah. But if China's happy in any way, it does give me concerns. Got it. Adam. Uh, shut down TikTok, straight up. I don't take hardline positions on much stuff. I tend to be pragmatic, moderate for right now. I don't see the
Starting point is 01:50:09 benefit of keeping TikTok in this country whatsoever. I know they're talking about, you know, they've been doing extensions and Larry Ellison, who has, I have immense respect for, and board seats and the algorithm, the data, where's the data going? In my opinion, TikTok is a national security concern. It is a propaganda mouthpiece of the CCP, and what do we get for it? Free speech? Yeah.
Starting point is 01:50:33 I've been permanently banned from TikTok because I posted. a video of me interviewing Nick Fuentes and not being like, yeah, Nick, I hate everybody you do. I say, I'm pushing Nick Fuentes. So they're going to ban me from interviewing a conversation I had. We talk about, hey, how do you not get shadow banned on YouTube or whatever? It's by actually not agreeing with maybe bombastic wild takes and pushing them. Not on TikTok. They will just ban you for nothing.
Starting point is 01:51:04 So social media, China, forgive me. I do not see daylight there. Show me one American app that is legal in China. I'll wait. Rob, I like the poll you just ran. Rob ran a poll. What percentage of you support
Starting point is 01:51:19 the ban of Adam on TikTok? 99% said they side with Xi and China. Well, that's typical American these days. Siding with Xi and China and Putin and all our enemies. Not a real American. But I will tell you.
Starting point is 01:51:37 I wasn't aware I agreed with you on anything. When we had, when we had, when we had, when we had Charlie Kirk and Chris Coleman, when we had Charlie Kirk and Coma on the podcast, Charlie broke down that he reached out to TikTok and asked him, what do you want? Because I'm going to be driving TikTok. And I don't know how many videos he did that got over 30 million views, but he crushed TikTok's algorithms and it helped. So help them win, help them win.
Starting point is 01:52:08 So I don't know where it's going to go here. Here's President talking about a very interesting person that's going to have control that some may or may not like it. Go ahead, Rob. A tremendous amount of money. Billions? Oh, I'd rather have them. You know, they're very well-known people,
Starting point is 01:52:25 and Larry Ellison's one of them. He's involved. He's a great guy. Michael Dell is involved. I hate to tell you this, but a man named Lockland. is involved. You know who Lachlan is?
Starting point is 01:52:38 That's a very unusual name. Lockland Murdoch. Mr. Murdoch? I believe. We call him. You better, boy. You better use Mr. Boy. That's his boss.
Starting point is 01:52:49 He's so funny. So Lockland Murdoch's role is what, Rob? He's got, they're saying he may be a board member as well as Michael Dell from Dell computers. All right. All right. I like, uh, let's see what happens. What do you think we should do with TikTok?
Starting point is 01:53:04 I remember you did a whole experiment on TikTok. Like, listen. Break it down. Owned by them? Yeah. By the way, I did the experiment and then they adjusted my algorithm. They're like, oh, he's on to us. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:53:14 They adjusted my algorithms afterwards. But no, I think if it's going to be owned, controlled here, and no ties of reporting back and to them, and that's 100% clear, then I'm a little bit more comfortable with it. You trust China? How much you think I trust China? I don't know. We did a poll here right now. 99% of our.
Starting point is 01:53:36 audience agrees with you on this one. I trust with our audience's decision to that's cited with them to ban you on TikTok because I think it's better for mental clarity. But other than that, you know, it's a different story. All right. So let's go into a city. Let me see if I'm going to go to this one. Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. Okay, this one. I'm really curious to know what some of you guys will say about this. So Jimmy Kimmel. All right. Jimmy Jimmy Jimmy. So Jimmy Kimmel is in talks with Disney to negotiate return of late night show, okay?
Starting point is 01:54:11 So, what that call is like and talk is like, who knows? But he is having to talk. So during talks and late nights, according to a report, a comedian, business, and legal representatives are in deep discussions with Disney and ABC, NBC,
Starting point is 01:54:27 trying to hammer out a compromise that would allow Jimmy Kim alive to resume his 23rd season. Insider told Vanity Fair, Whether the sparring parties are close to any resolution is unknown, leaving Kimmel and his show in Limbaugh following defensive comments he made this week about the slaughter of Charlie Kirk. Kemmel is reportedly concerned about what a permanent cancellation would look like for his crew in L.A.
Starting point is 01:54:50 Who work on the show, many of whom are still digging themselves out of a financial hole caused by the actor's strike in 2023. Neither Kimmel's team nor Disney immediately responded to the post. So that's that part. Now, aside from them, you get a message from the former CEO of Disney, Michael Eisner. Michael Eisner blasts current leadership, a guy named Bob Iger, is there,
Starting point is 01:55:18 over how they handle Jimmy Kimmel's controversy. Now you've got to know there's a little bit of back and forth with Michael Eisner and Bob Iger because Michael Eisner sometimes felt like Bob Iger came and took over his job. And if you know the story, you know, Bob has been at ABC, He started off at ABC. He worked all the way up from 40 plus years ago. Bob's been at Disney.
Starting point is 01:55:38 Rob, can you find that? How long has Bob Iker been at Disney and ABC? How many years? It'll kind of tell you. So you need to know that. Decades. But what I'm saying is, I think it's 40 years is what it's been. It's 35 plus years is how long he's been there.
Starting point is 01:55:51 Yeah, I was wrong. 41 years he's been there. Okay. So there you go. So Michael Eisner blasted the company's current illusion of Jim Gammon adjustment and dividend suspension. Eisner lashed out at FCC's Chairman Brandon Carr for using out of control
Starting point is 01:56:08 intimidation to bully ABC to suspend into committee on late night show. He also appeared to take a jab at his successor Bob Igrin and questioned why leaders were not fighting against the supposed government pressure. Eisner asked on X, where was all the leadership gone? Where has all the leadership gone? If not for university presidents, where's that out of Bob?
Starting point is 01:56:29 If not for the university president, law firms, management partners, is a corporate chief executive standing up against bullies. Who then will step up for the First Amendment? The suspending indefinitely of Jimmy Kemmel immediately after the chairman of FCC aggressively yet hollow threatening of the Disney companies yet another example of out of control intimidation. Maybe the Constitution should have said, Congress shall make no laws abiding the freedom of speech or of the press
Starting point is 01:56:52 except in one political or financial self-interest. By the way, for the record, this ex-CEO finds Jimmy Kimmel very talented and very funny. Okay. Well, this ex-CEO would be completely wrong, respectfully, Michael Eisen. Anybody that says very talented and funny is absolutely, all that message goes out the window when you say that at the end. So in this thing, Michael Eisner is eloquently finding a way to call out both Eiger and call out Trump at the same time. So he got two things done and was able to give credit to Jimmy to make sure, oh my God, you know, Jimmy's going to be like, well, Michael Eisner's all. my side. So he's not really helping. Nothing about this comment, believe it or not, helps. Tom, your thoughts. So first of all, here you have Eisner, who is a legend of corporate
Starting point is 01:57:43 leadership, a tremendous CEO that had to make the hard calls, wasn't always liked by everybody in this organization. But when you look at the expansion of Disney and you look at the deals he made and you look at the share price, Michael Eisner gets a very, very good report card. Now, he comes out of remember he's a leader he speaks like this so pat i wonder if there's part of him that just can't help himself saying watching his old company and everything go through this he's like i i can't i i can't do this i'm gonna speak up right it's it's like but tom do you see this as leadership you take this as leadership what is he speaking up against he's speaking the way i interpreted again english is my fifth language. But the way I interpret this is, if I was there, I would have called Brandon Carr of
Starting point is 01:58:34 the FCC. I think that's his name. And I would have made sure you can never make a threat like that to Disney. I would have kept Jimmy Camel and Bob Iger sucks. That's how I interpret this to me. Am I wrong? I'm not saying he's right. I'm saying that his legacy I outlined. And then I don't think he can help himself. And he goes and says this. And he's jumping into the middle of it. There are five things that I think are true. Number one, it wasn't a freedom of speech issue. And the fact that these people can go talk to the media after it's all done and criticize the president proves they still have freedom of speech. They're not in a jail cell with stitches on their foreheads.
Starting point is 01:59:15 Second, it was an employee behavior issue. And there were things going on there and Jimmy Kimmel got out of line and Jimmy Kimmel got out of line and Jimmy Kimmel didn't listen to the boss, and he got themselves suspended, and advertisers and things. So it was a company decision, not a freedom of speech, but they have to make it a freedom of speech issues, make it about Trump. Number three, that is true, hypocrisy. He says, you look back the same language that was in the public square. They were applauding that same language to get rid of Trump when they got, when Rosie O'Donnell got canceled. AOC went and did a very tender, you know, a statement.
Starting point is 01:59:52 when Tucker was off the air. So the hypocrisy, the other way, just shows that apparently when HR sent the email about boomerang safety training, they didn't go. And now here the boomerang has come back, bunk! And here you have it. Number four. Number four thing is, I think Eisner can't, with his legacy and everything, Pat, you can't parachute back in like this.
Starting point is 02:00:16 I don't think it's helpful. I respect him. You respect his history and everything. but parachuting back in, there was something that, remember that Bush said, that other people didn't. Bush said, I'm not here to criticize my predecessor. And when he left the White House,
Starting point is 02:00:31 he said, look, I'm not going to jump into certain debates here. I may comment on things, but I'm just going to leave it alone, whereas Obama chose to blame, blame, as did Biden. And so I think right here, I don't know that if I was Michael with my legacy and everything, I would have jumped in like that,
Starting point is 02:00:48 said if I had been there, these things would have happened. you don't know that you don't know what everything was in front of them you don't know about i'm sure he's getting leaks on it but i don't think with his background i mean a hall of fame baseball player shouldn't jump in and criticize the modern players you should say i don't know about that you know that that seems odd to me but directly jumping in and saying if i had been there i would have got the hit in the bottom of the ninth we would have won the world series adam well i have a special place in my heart for disney because i've told the story that this was the first stock i
Starting point is 02:01:18 ever owned my grandma bought me 10 shares when I was a kid and look at me now but I would argue that bob Iger not Michael Eisner Bob Iger's the best CEO Disney's ever had so you know Tom over there always talks about words talk number scream look at go to the max for Disney if you can pull up their stock price so follow the numbers here scroll down Rob so you see the years at the bottom Michael Eisner was the CEO I believe from the early 80s to 2000 So look at the growth. It's up, but it's not massive. Bob Eiger takes over, and I believe 2005, and boom, it goes off.
Starting point is 02:01:59 And it reaches its apex right as COVID basically hit. And then he stepped down in 2022, I believe. And then they believe in, what was the CEO they brought in? It was another Bob, Bob Chap, I believe. For an hour and a half? For like two or three years. and Go Woke, go broke, and I'm not pinning this on him. They're like, nah, bro, you got to go.
Starting point is 02:02:24 And then they brought back in Iger. So a lot of what happened with Disney, a lot of the productions they had in place were placed blame on Bob Iger. But if you look at the stock price now, it's actually trending upward again since it basically reached its lows during COVID. So what's the point here? Bob Iger has been the best leader there.
Starting point is 02:02:44 I think Disney trusts his judgment. as far as Jimmy Kimmel goes, guys, let's, come on. Nobody finds Jimmy Kimmel funny. Nobody finds him talented. I get that he's a mouthpiece of the left. I get that he's been on there for 20 years now, and this is darling. But stop it, guys.
Starting point is 02:03:02 This isn't a free speech issue. They're hemorrhaging money. They're losing an audience. The writings on the wall, and they were looking for something to say, how do we get rid of this guy? That's my opinion. And they did it with this.
Starting point is 02:03:13 Let's do that. I like what direction you went. when Michael Eisner took over Disney was worth $2 billion as CEO just so you know that and he took it from $2 billion to $60 billion. Wow. So he 30xed.
Starting point is 02:03:26 When Bob Iger took over, this is Michael Eisner, when Bob Iger took over it was worth roughly 50 or $60 billion dollars and now it's worth $2.50, whatever the number is, $2.30. So he 4xed, 5xed the company. So Michael Eisner does get a lot of credit
Starting point is 02:03:42 to the people that are in the Disney world. I don't know what he's doing here I don't think he gets anything done here I'm a fan of Iger I've read his book I like the story I like what he did politically we know what he's at at one point he was thinking about running for president
Starting point is 02:03:56 when he was talking to was he talking to Rupert or Roger Illes one of the guys he was talking to where he had interest of running for president at the time he was 60 years old how old is he right now? 74 yeah he was 60 years old at the time he was involved with all the
Starting point is 02:04:11 Rahm Emanuel and all these guys he was one of those guys and this guy's got the swagger of somebody for running. So I just think the last five years have been one after another shitty decision and I think the transition didn't work. The co-CEO didn't work. And I think a lot of people are even saying
Starting point is 02:04:30 it's Bob making the decision but it's not fully Bob making a decision. Isn't the Sinclair Network? They're like, we just don't want this show on if he's going to be doing this, right? So it's not like, so what are he talking about? And business, they're right to say. They're right to say.
Starting point is 02:04:44 And then Bob's got to make a decision and say, hey, can you go on an apologize? No, I'm not going to apologize. What the hell you want me to do with this talent? Is it a matter of fact, tonight I'm going to go back on the air and double down. You're calling out your president, the CEO of the company publicly and saying, screw you, buddy. I'm sorry. I mean, that's just not how business works. So no, this has got nothing to do with the FCC stuff.
Starting point is 02:05:05 And no, it's got nothing to do with Trump. It's got to now. Let me, you hear some of these stories. We're thinking about taking away the license. since I think that's, this is where now you're adding, when Trump says stuff like that, you're given the other side ammunition to come back with a bunch of other things to say. But that's rhyme out with the story. We'll see what happened here.
Starting point is 02:05:23 One last story before we wrap up, what story do you guys want to hit? Tell me anyone's story. I'll go to it before I wrap up because we got something interesting that just happened that I got to go get to very quickly. Interesting is not bad. Do I need to get involved? No, you're good. Because I will.
Starting point is 02:05:37 I can't tell you what we're doing. I can't tell you who we're going to hurt. But I need you to. Who's car we take it? Which car we take it? I'm with you. So which one? We're going to Liberty City.
Starting point is 02:05:47 Can you drive? Yeah. Okay. So if you guys got no stories? What do you want to do with that? You guys had something very interesting, cute, going back and forth. I won't do any stories.
Starting point is 02:05:57 What we will do is we'll cover all these stories on the next podcast. Today's what? Monday. Is today Monday, right? Today's Monday. I don't know who we are. Wednesday. We'll have a pod.
Starting point is 02:06:06 Something interesting may come up tomorrow. Something will at 9 a.m. Tomorrow. Okay. Oh, Well, stay tuned, guys. God bless everybody. What is it?
Starting point is 02:06:15 Faith over fear. Faith over fear. Yeah, yeah. 1,500 already sold faith over fear. I fucking love that people are that bold enough to do that. By the way, turn around, Vinnie. Yeah, take your pants off. Come on, baby.
Starting point is 02:06:32 We love you. By the ladies and gentlemen, I'll be your fashion coordinator. You need the Faith Over Fear T-shirt to go with your angry Patriot hoodie. So you are equipped to go. out and support Vinnie and his passion for America. That was great Tom. Nice. That sold 1500 church. Guys, take care. God bless. Bye-bye.

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