The Charlie Kirk Show - Live Israel/Iran Ceasefire Reaction

Episode Date: June 24, 2025

President Trump announced a fresh ceasefire ending the "12-Day War" between Iran and Israel. Charlie and Jack went live to offer immediate reaction and explain how this peace, if it holds, will comple...te a dramatic victory for President Trump’s foreign policy grand strategy. Watch every episode ad-free on members.charliekirk.com! Get new merch at charliekirkstore.com! Support the show: http://www.charliekirk.com/supportSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Charlie, what you've done is incredible here. Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campuses. I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk. Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks. I want to thank Charlie. He's an incredible guy. His spirit, his love of this country. He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
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Starting point is 00:01:03 and we can report and it has been verified both with sources inside the US government and Externally there is a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Iran brokered by President Donald Trump President Donald Trump writes on truth social quote Congratulations to everyone it has been fully agreed by and between Israel and Iran that there will be a complete and total ceasefire in and between Israel and Iran that there will be a complete and total ceasefire in approximately six hours from now when Israel and Iran have won down and completed their progress final missions. For 12 hours at which point the war will be considered ended. Officially Iran will start the ceasefire and upon the 12th hour Israel will start the ceasefire and upon the 24th hour an official end to the 12th day war 12 day war will be saluted by the world.
Starting point is 00:01:46 During each ceasefire, the other side will remain peaceful and respectful on the assumption that everything works as it should, which it will. I would like to congratulate both countries, Israel and Iran, on having the stamina, courage and intelligence to end what should be called the 12 day war. This is a war that could have gone on for years and destroyed the entire Middle East, but it didn't and never will. God bless Israel. God bless Iran and destroyed the entire Middle East, but it didn't and never will. God bless Israel. God bless Iran.
Starting point is 00:02:06 God bless the Middle East. And God bless the United States of America. And God bless the world. This is a massive victory, everybody. People woke up today with a lot of dooming. And I got to say that on this program, we took a big, a lot of incoming, a lot of incoming when we said, trust President Trump, trust the President, and trust his team and his ability to navigate all of this.
Starting point is 00:02:30 And not only today did we get a very fake theatrical response from Iran with zero American troops killed, none, zero American troops killed, we are now getting a peace deal in the Middle East. We are getting a settlement in the Middle East, the likes of which we never could have imagined, that will now bring this to closure between Israel and Iran. There is some news circulating online where people say, oh, this is fake, this is not
Starting point is 00:02:56 true. Some Iranian official did not confirm this. That is not correct. Iran has confirmed to Reuters the ceasefire is happening. Don't believe the fake news quote Reuters reports that according to a source close to negotiations Qatar's prime minister spoke with Tehran by phone and gained Iran's agreement to a US ceasefire proposal. You're seeing Qatar is kind of be being a central player in all of this.
Starting point is 00:03:20 I believe we have Jack Psobek here. I want to bring him in but everyone I want to just repeat there's no boots on the ground. There is no endless war. There's no regime change. There is no change in the hearts of this. I believe we have Jack Psobek here. I want to bring him in. But everyone, I want to just repeat, there's no boots on the ground. There is no endless war. There's no regime change. There is no change in the hearts of minds. There is no consensus changing war. There is no Iraq. There is no Afghanistan. There is no Syria. There is no Libya. Instead, President Trump has charted a third way. No nuclear program, no dead US troops, no regime change, no long endless war. Jack Posobiec is here. Jack, this is a remarkable victory for President Trump, for our agenda, for the American people.
Starting point is 00:03:53 And I just got to say, there's a lot of people that are going to have to do some backpedaling and some apologizing for everything they said about President Trump, everything they said about our movement the last couple of days. Jack Posobiec, your thoughts on this historic ceasefire announcement that President Trump was able to broker? Well Charlie, they said it couldn't be done and just like so many other things as President Trump has said throughout his career, under budget and ahead of schedule. So this is something where of course a peace deal between, or at least a ceasefire I should say, not a full peace deal, but a ceasefire, hopefully, which leads to a peace deal.
Starting point is 00:04:28 And I'm sure there's going to be much more work as we see coming through with with Witkoff and President Trump's other ambassadors and envoys into that region as it comes through, that this is what President Trump had been working for all along. We know that there had been recalcitrance. Obviously, there are deep simmering, there are deep simmering resentments in the region. This has been a fight that's been going on for a long, long time,
Starting point is 00:04:52 a lot longer than you and I have been alive, Charlie. But it was only through President Trump that perhaps this daylight was allowed to be brokered through. And that, you know, the biggest losers here are the neocons. The biggest losers are the people who wanted this to get into a protracted war, who wanted this full on regime change war in Iran. Senator Lindsey Graham is down there
Starting point is 00:05:14 in the well of the Senate for all afternoon and we played this earlier. And he's talking about, oh, we need regime change now, regime change now, regime change now. But look, President Trump has said that he wouldn't be against it, but he's signaled that he's not for a larger war. He drew one circle around the nuclear goals, the nuclear ambitions of Iran. He said no, but he said that's it. And now, boom, has fully come back to the position that he always had, was to say, number one, stop the
Starting point is 00:05:46 nukes and then number two, we want peace. And so this, by the way, Charlie, this opens up doors potentially for an even broader peace agreement down the road. And so politically, I think what a lot of people miss is that President Trump was setting this all up for a larger peace deal, and he had to get the pieces in place at first and maybe at one time or another, not everyone could see the big picture, but that's what President Trump was always playing from. This is the commander's desired end state, and it's very clear, as we would say in the
Starting point is 00:06:19 military, that the commander's desired end state has been achieved. And by the way, this is very important important that everyone understand that we have a ceasefire framework between Israel and Iran. Now it's a little more complex than that. It has to like play itself out like 12 hours to 24 hours. But this is now confirmed by the Amir of Qatar. It is this is this is major everybody. Everyone says, oh, World War Three price of oil is going $180 a barrel.
Starting point is 00:06:43 Understand this President Donald Trump did two things simultaneously, no nuclear weapons for Iran and no endless wars. Remember, Jack, we talked about that was President Trump's challenge here was trying to balance those two things together that we do not want endless war. We don't want regime change. We don't want boots on the ground. We don't want any of the stuff that John Bolton and Lindsey Graham want. But we also don't want Iran to have a nuclear weapon. How can we balance those two things together? And President Donald Trump, he was able to navigate this with incredible specificity, understanding the lack of appetite, including for himself, to have boots on the ground, while also saying that we are going to remove Iran's nuclear capability.
Starting point is 00:07:22 Jack, should Donald Trump be considered for the Nobel Peace Prize? Well, surely he certainly should. I believe the government of Pakistan just a couple of days ago nominated President Trump for it. So for once, I'm able to say that I agree with the Pakistanis. And I think that President Trump certainly should be in the room. Look, there's no more, there's no president anywhere, certainly not Barack Obama, who got us into deeper and deeper war against this, who got the Nobel Peace Prize, but he got it on day one of his administration, where he'd even done anything, before he kicked off the regime change war in Libya, before he kicked off the Syrian civil war, which turned into yet another protracted regime change war,
Starting point is 00:08:02 where by the way, Americans died, where Americans died. And Charlie, we haven't seen any Americans killed here whatsoever. Look, they're calling President Trump. Correct, not a single. And I said this last week, they're going to be saying this. And people came at me and I said they're going to be calling him on, I said this on Human Events Daily, the dealmaker in chief. This is the man who wrote the art of the deal.
Starting point is 00:08:22 This is the man who put it together and he's proven to the entire world that he is, in fact, the dealmaker in chief. And by the way, just can we just also say that some of the quote unquote trusted voices have gotten this thing so wrong. It turns out, Jack, I mean, we have to take a little bit of a victory lap for here for this program and for we've been doing on our podcast, what we've been doing together. Jack, we kind of pitched a little bit of a perfect game here. You know, we said no regime change. We said it was likely that President Trump was going to strike. We even
Starting point is 00:08:47 offered some caution, introductory elements of this. But President Trump here, he acted with incredible prudence and decisiveness. And now we have not just an end to U.S. involvement in the Middle East. This is an end to the war, a war that people thought was going to be the war to end all wars. Who would have thought 12 days ago, Jack, that Israel preemptively striking Iran would end 12 days later with zero American troops dead and no nuclear program for a run. I hope you all understand this is not normal. This usually results in regime change, boots on the grounds, Marines in Tehran were mobilizing aircraft carriers.
Starting point is 00:09:22 Instead, President Donald Trump brought it right up to the brink, got what we wanted, and was able then to proceed for what was best for America and for Western civilization. Jack Posobik. Well, and Charlie, not only that, but, you know, and I'll give credit where credit's due. Charlie, you were the one who called when Israel's initial attack would take place. You were the one who said, I guess 12 days, we're calling it the 12 day war. I love that branding by the way. If we're calling it the 12 day war, then Charlie, it was you 12 days ago,
Starting point is 00:09:50 several hours, two hours, right? I'm remembering now, two hours exactly to the moment when you said the strikes would be taking place, right? So we knew that, we came up live and people said, why are Jack and Charlie live? Why are you guys doing all this? It's because you had the intel, right? So when you're watching the Charlie Kirk show,
Starting point is 00:10:07 when you're watching Real America's Voice, when you're watching Human Events Daily, you're ahead of the mainstream media. And then Steve, even publicly, Steve Bannon, over on War Room on the Saturday morning show, when we're up there, we're saying, the party's on tonight. The party's on, it's the only place in the world that you heard any of that.
Starting point is 00:10:23 And so for people who are saying, oh, well, these guys, they're this way. They're that way. I said, guys, if you would listen to us and just us for the entire time, and I'm not saying you have to do that by the go listen to anybody goes to anybody you want, not one of those people, but, but if you did listen to us, we told you what was going to happen, when it was going to happen. And generally, I think for pretty much every major piece of this before it happened with the exception,
Starting point is 00:10:45 and I will say with the exception of this peace deal, this ceasefire deal, because only President Trump could have done it in Trump time. And by the way, he makes this look so easy. Understand what he just did. Obama was never able to do. Bush was never able to do. No permanent war. No nuclear program.
Starting point is 00:11:01 No permanent war. No nuclear program. Well, no pallets of cash either. Remember the pallets of cash, Charlie? No pallets of cash, no sanction relief. Everybody, this is not normal. And for all the people that were doubting president Trump, we never wavered on this program.
Starting point is 00:11:13 And I want to even say more importantly, for those of you that never wavered good on you, for those of you that trusted president Trump, for those of you that knew that president Trump had the wisdom and he had the experience and he had the wherewithal, God bless you because you understood exactly the high-stakes situation here. And remember we went through the list when President Trump struck Syria, no endless war. President Trump took out Soleimani, no endless war. President Trump took out ISIS, no endless war. In fact, I could even say this was not even a war.
Starting point is 00:11:42 And all these people that were attacking President Trump and so viciously attacking him, you were wrong. Let me say this again. You were wrong. And by the way, you should also just say, I was wrong. It's okay to be wrong in life, but you know what's not okay? It's not okay to lie to your audience, act as if you had President Trump's back this entire time.
Starting point is 00:11:58 And Jack, you remember, you and I were texting yesterday, I want to throw to Andrew. Jack, remember, I was defending President Trump yesterday on X and people were saying, Whoa, whoa, whoa, it's a little hot there, Charlie Tide turning against Trump. I said no, no, no, no remember that Jack You and I were texting I said I'm going all in we're defending this guy this guy and now 24 hours later The people that were that were honestly so flimsy against President Trump I'm getting really fired up here and Andrew you could tell Andrew now We're talking about this that on on X and some social channels, people had no trust in President Trump. What else does President Trump have to do to win your trust over?
Starting point is 00:12:30 He ended the Indian-Pakistan war. President Trump has secured the southern border completely. We have inflation going down. We're about to pass the big, beautiful bill. And now President Trump is ending Israel-Iran war while no nuclear weapons. Andrew, I would think at this point point President Trump has overwhelmingly earned your trust. Andrew? Yeah, I mean, Charlie, what I think about is just how many people President Trump has
Starting point is 00:12:52 made fools of this week and last week. And what was unique about this is we're used to President Trump making fools of the foreign policy establishment or Democrats or the media talking heads. But this was a little bit different because it struck at this online debate about the position of Israel, about foreign interventions. And so it made fools of a new cadre of people. And one of the things that I'm really proud of our show and of Jack's show, War Room certainly,
Starting point is 00:13:27 is that there was a lack of panic. And I'll never forget when you went on Jesse Waters on, it looks like June 16th, so about seven days ago, one week to the day, and it looked like there was just this, you know, is he going to strike? What do we do if he strikes? You know, Israel's forcing a hand. What do you do in this impossible situation? And I'll never forget, you looked at the camera,
Starting point is 00:13:52 Jesse threw it to you and you said, you know what you do? You trust Trump, he's earned our trust. And then for the next week, you just saw, I think a lot of Trump supporters echoing that sentiment that sentiment trust Trump You know, what are we gonna do this why we elected the guy you need a strong person in this impossible situation and
Starting point is 00:14:12 And I'll say one more thing Charlie. I think yesterday especially on X There was this argument kind of raging about you know, you don't blindly trust any politician I don't care if his name's Trump or whatever. And it's like, yeah, that's true. You can always ask questions. You always raise concerns. You always have a robust debate. That's the sign of a healthy movement. But what's not a healthy position when you have a guy that you've been riding with for 10 years now that survived assassination attempts, impeachment attempts, that's done foreign interventions, by the way, with Soleimani and ISIS and the Moab. And he's gone toe to toe with Rocketman in North Korea.
Starting point is 00:14:51 I mean, this guy has earned our trust that he is not a regime change president, that he is not a quagmire or nation builder president. And so there was a lot of groundwork that he'd done in the past decade that he deserved our trust. And so for people to so blindly throw that away and act like that he had somehow fundamentally changed, I mean, I get it. We've all got a little PTSD after the last decade. But that was kind of my point. It's one thing to question. But there was no consistency to it. It's just, I know I started to interrupt interrupt but like the people that were saying that there was there was no reason to believe that somehow after Soleimani after al-bagdadi after Syria after all
Starting point is 00:15:30 of those campaign promises all of a sudden Donald Trump was gonna reemerge as John Bolton only you and your own delusion would lead you to that and I was just trying to reconfigure people say who do you think this guy is he's playing high game brinksmanship he's saying one thing he's doing he's doing rhetorical dance with another he's doing rhetorical threats Brinks by the way, you could actually probably play out Yeah And by the way Jack you could make an argument his regime change tweet yesterday
Starting point is 00:15:53 It was a little bit of a taunt and a threat to Iran to not go after US service members because in the back of their Head they were thinking oh my goodness Potentially, you know Donald Trump is my goodness, potentially, you know, Donald Trump is going to execute regime change. And you never know. Please, Jack. Yeah, you never know also behind the scenes what phone calls he's making, what messages he's making to the Russians, to the Chinese, to Xi Jinping, to Vladimir Putin. We saw that the Iranian foreign minister was in Russia last night.
Starting point is 00:16:22 He's talking to the Israelis. So President Trump and Charlie, you know this as well as anyone. He's working the phones constantly. He's constant communication with everybody, certainly talking to world leaders. So this idea that just because he's sending one message out publicly, that's the only thing he's thinking about is,
Starting point is 00:16:37 guys, you're not always seeing the bigger picture. And I'm not making some argument for, you know, oh, 40 warfare or whatever, but you never know who he's talking to specifically in situations like this and let's not forget for a second here that this was the man who walked into North Korea Who stepped across that line when Barack Obama was terrified of going with the binoculars up there and you know He's like the whole observation post president Trump's a man who took Kim Jong-un's hand and walked directly into North Korea, crossing that line. And so he was willing to do so in the name of peace
Starting point is 00:17:11 and normalizing relations between the world and North Korea. And so we know President Trump's commitment. He's put himself personally in harm's way in the name of peace. And so when you see different things that go out there, I always just say, he's the deal maker in chief. He's always doing art of the deal. You never know what's going on behind the scenes.
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Starting point is 00:18:47 unpredictability of it all. And this is what you saw it play with the base. The base had sort of, especially online on places like X, had created a myth of dovishness for President Trump that I don't think he's ever actually sort of put out there. He's like, yeah, listen, what I do works. I don't start new wars. I finished old ones. I finished dumb wars. But like what you were seeing is that the base was like, well, we want peace. We don't want deployment of troops. And what the whole point of Trump's brinksmanship is
Starting point is 00:19:16 that he's able to defy norms. You have to give him latitude, a very wide latitude and wide leash to even defy sort of the things that he's you know sort of promised or said. I know that may seem sound counterintuitive but if you were to bring him back, if you were to sort of demand that he couldn't make those points then you would you would take away his leverage, you would take away his brinksmanship and the thing that makes Trump Trump. And this is exactly Charlie, I want to give you some credit here. This is cut 377.
Starting point is 00:19:47 Please get it ready. And this was again on June 16th in the middle of all of this fog. It is the base. You could feel the base getting very unsettled, very unsettled. And you went on Fox, which if we're just being honest, there's a lot of people on Fox that are a lot more hawkish about war. And Jesse asked you, well, Hey, what about the base that sounds like they don't want this? And you threaded the needle brilliantly. You had Trump's back. You gave him latitude to act. And it was a brilliant moment. I'm never personally going to forget this moment because
Starting point is 00:20:18 the stakes were so high that night, Charlie. 377. President Trump understands his base extraordinarily well. He knows that his base does not want another Iraq. He does not want Libya, does not want a civil war or bedlam where the United States is left carrying the bag. But also President Trump has been morally clear for a decade, Iran should not have a nuclear weapon. And President Trump has the talent, the expertise to be able to thread that needle. The generation that I represent, Jesse, the under 30 crowd, they absolutely
Starting point is 00:20:50 are very war weary. Many of them voted for President Trump on college campuses because they did not want to see a Joe Biden or George Bush philosophy where we get into this endless conflict where we're sending hundreds of billions of dollars. I think President Trump will be able to balance those two things while defending our allies, saying that Iran will not have a nuclear weapon without having to deploy a single American troop or even having America involved from the sky. President Trump can get that deal done while fulfilling the mandate that the voters gave him. Called the shot Charlie. Your reaction to yourself Charlie.
Starting point is 00:21:22 No the only thing I might, I put a caveat without maybe American nightly getting involved from the sky, it turns out President Trump authorized that. Besides that, I think we called the shot pretty clearly, right? And so, and I just want to repeat this, everybody, you are living through history. You understand how unlikely this, if Joe Biden was president, we would be authorizing $50 billion in aid to the Persian rebels. If Joe Biden was president, we'd be authorizing $50 billion in aid to the Persian rebels. If Joe Biden was president, we'd be calling for regime change and they would have another endless war on our hands.
Starting point is 00:21:50 Understand, President Donald Trump is like, well, I'm not going to go down this sink with saying end this thing. And by the way, for all of the people that are anti-Qatar, and I get it, there's money flowing from Qatar all over the places and not some good place. And yes, they're warmer with the Iranians than they should be. If it wasn't for Qatar and our relationship with Qatar, we might not have been able to end this thing right now. Qatar played a central role in us being able to end this war.
Starting point is 00:22:12 Think about this. Go ahead, Charlie. No, no, please. I'm thinking about, you know, there's been so much criticism, and Jack, you could probably weigh in on this even more, but like of President Trump seemingly cozying up to Qatar also, but think about the olive branch, Charlie, that he offered to Syria. So I mean, but so Trump is playing this whole thing differently and counterintuitively, and those friendships and those olive branches are giving him extraordinary leverage in this
Starting point is 00:22:41 region to pressure the Saudis, the Qataris, Bahrainis, all of them to get on board with this peace plan. And we just have to repeat this, and Jack, I want to throw it to you. This is not normal. What President Trump has been able to execute is in no way normal whatsoever. This is being able to bring different components together when we have Iran, we have Israel. We woke up this morning wondering what is Iran's response going to be. We are now ending the day with a drafted ceasefire.
Starting point is 00:23:17 Again, there's still some components there, 12-hour, 24-hour. It's kind of confusing with all that. You've got to finish your operations, kind of get it out of their system. So Jack, but understand this, were there not people this afternoon, Jack, that were pushing for the regime change upsell? And if so, and if so, who? Well, there were. And I'm looking at some of the data. So it's been nine. It's been 90 minutes at this point.
Starting point is 00:23:38 I want to be clear. It's been 90 minutes just for a check in for everybody. 90 minutes since President Trump has announced this. So the complete and total ceasefire, so six hours after his tweet, which is at 6 PM Eastern time, would be midnight on the Eastern seaboard here. So midnight at the Eastern seaboard, as we know, by the way, President Trump scheduled to attend the NATO conference in The Hague tomorrow.
Starting point is 00:24:02 And so this obviously will be a huge part of those discussions, but we're going to be really, you know, potentially up till midnight to see what's going on, operations continuing between Iran and Israel, also getting some reports of a explosions in Baghdad right now. So in Iraq, you know, a lot of questions as to actually how this goes. But, you know, I think the next 12 to 24 hours are going to be absolutely critical. But Charlie, to your point, this is something in the Wall Street or the Washington Post actually quoted me on this, this phrase, the regime change upsell. And here's what I said.
Starting point is 00:24:37 I said, look, President Trump has always been clear that he wants the denuclearization of Iran and that this operation was solely focused on the denuclearization of Iran. It's something that he said even when he came down the golden escalator 10 plus years ago now. However, there were there were those out there trying to upsell him on it. Lindsey Graham, Mark Levin, you just saw this this cavalcade of people saying, well, you know, you can't you can't let the
Starting point is 00:25:05 regime stay in power Mr. President you've got to you've got to take them out because that's the way to do this that's what and then Yahoo himself said this as well so there was this regime change this idea of upselling like when you you know I compared it to when you go to the dentist for you know a cleaning and then they start trying to upsell you on pulling your wisdom teeth and all this other work or when you're you know your car's got needs some new tires and then they start trying to upsell you on pulling your wisdom teeth and all this other work or when your car's got needs of new tires and then suddenly they want to put brakes and rotors and all this other work being done. And Shane Gillis actually has a whole new sitcom all about working in an auto shop, right?
Starting point is 00:25:35 He's a mechanic. It's really funny, by the way. And so this idea of the regime change upsell, they use the foot in the door strategies, they get their foot in the door on the denuclearization and then they try to upsell. They say, well, you're here anyway, you might as well take them out, you might as well get the rest of it. Lindsey Graham gives this massive speech, right? So Lindsey Graham gives a massive speech in the well of the Senate today, saying we need to do this, we need to do that, we have to take them out, compares it to World War II, comparison to Hitler. And within minutes after Lindsey Graham's speech and within minutes after three hours almost exactly.
Starting point is 00:26:11 So within three hours of Mark Levin going up and almost almost directly attacking President Trump for calling for peace. Boom. President Trump has announced a peace deal in terms of this ceasefire. So for those guys who are pushing the regime change upsell, really does not look good on you, really does not. So we have Blake here as well. I'm gonna throw to Blake in a second here.
Starting point is 00:26:31 But Andrew, I wanna kind of get back to you here. The online chatter and the online vibe here. I mean, this is a major victory, right? This is as big as it and good as it gets. What does this mean politically, Andrew? Because what I'm reading online, a lot of people are starting the big backpedal. A lot of people that were attacking President Trump and doubting President Trump, they're scrubbing tweets, they're deleting tweets
Starting point is 00:26:52 actually, they're reconfiguring, they're trying to manipulate audiences. Andrew, what does this mean politically? And also talk our audience through some of the incoming that we received for trying to tell people to remain calm and steady throughout these last couple of days. Yeah, I mean, I'll start with that last question first. I mean, Charlie, you've personally that we received for trying to tell people to remain calm and steady throughout these last couple of days? Yeah, I mean I'll start with that last question first. I mean Charlie you've personally been called a warmonger and you've been called an isolationist both used as pejoratives so if you dared defend the president and and getting behind him and and Charlie I hope I'm not sharing some stuff out of school here But you know you were very clear you were going to support the president's decision if he chose to move.
Starting point is 00:27:27 I don't know that you were not enthusiastic about any American involvement. I was very cautious. I was very cautious. You were very cautious, but you said, I think both publicly and privately, I will defend you if you move, right? And I trust you. I mean, that's essentially what it was. You've earned my trust. You've had my back. I'm going to have yours. I mean that's essentially what it was. You've earned my trust,
Starting point is 00:27:45 you've had my back, I'm gonna have yours. I hope this all ends well right and so you know I don't think of that as being a warmonger or as a as a as a dove, an isolationist and essentially there are shades of gray, there's nuance here. Obviously everybody in this in this show, Jack I know you got something breaking here but everybody in the show wants to avoid quagmires and we want to focus on mass deportations. Like that's everybody on this show. That's what we want. But sometimes life comes at you quick and you got to be ready to deal with it. Jack, what's up? Well, so I do have this and this is out of my former colleague Trey Yengst and he just got it right here. President Trump spoke with Qatar's
Starting point is 00:28:22 Amir, informing the U.S. got Israel to agree to a ceasefire. The president asked Qatar to help persuade Iran following that the vice president, Vice President Vance, coordinated directly with Qatar's prime minister on the details. This effort proved successful and following discussion with the Qatari PM,
Starting point is 00:28:39 the Iranians agreed. So it was Israel first, then it was between, so the president, President Trump asked Qatar, then Vance and Qatar's prime minister worked directly on the details. So again, Charlie's point about this is why we have the open door there with the Qataris. The deal was then coordinated the highest level with the president and the vice president, the Qatari, Amir and the prime minister. Here's the quote, despite having been just, this is the Qatari's quote, right, despite having been just attacked a few hours earlier, the Qataris have set aside their grievances and prioritized regional security
Starting point is 00:29:14 to get the deal done. And as we've all said a number of times this week, blessed are the peacemakers. Blessed are the peacemakers. Amen. Hey, I've been saying that all week, and President Trump is blessed for trying to get to a place of reconciliation and for peace. There's a lot more. Boy, if you wanted ratings, I could tell you a lot more of the backstory that happened this last week, but I don't share or leak stuff. That's not what I do. But I will tell, will say this and Andrew to your point. I told the president and his team, if you guys do this, we will have your back because I trust your judgment. And I said that both publicly and privately because that's what you get out of here on this program. What I say publicly, I also say privately and vice versa. This is a nice a tee up here. 379. This is the left wing spin. The left wing spin is now all of a sudden there. They want to impeach Donald Trump for bombing Iran.
Starting point is 00:30:06 Now how are they going to possibly do this? He is brokering peace in the Middle East in a way we've never seen before. Play cut 379. I have worked in an administration that has had to communicate. I was in the Biden administration in the first year when the president made the decision to pull out of Afghanistan. And I think you can tell a lot about the administration's actions from how they are communicating outwardly about it.
Starting point is 00:30:30 What do these comments today and also yet this weekend from the vice president, secretary of state, right, secretary of defense, what do these comments tell you about the strategy that the administration is employing here? Or is there one at all? You know, they're making it up, Simone, as they go along. Strategy that the administration is employing here or is there one at all? No, they're making it up Simone as they go along Well, okay. So Jack, what do they mean? They're making it up. First of all, we have a peace deal I'm gonna go through the nose. Okay, no more war No boots on the ground. No regime change
Starting point is 00:31:01 No endless war No aid to the Persian rebels, and no nuclear weapons for Iran. Jack, those six big no's I just said is a dream. Please respond to MSNBC here. Well, I mean, they're sitting up there, and if I miss my guess, they're trying to compare this to like what Biden
Starting point is 00:31:18 was doing in Afghanistan and the pullout and all the rest of it, and it's ridiculous what they're doing here. And it's gross. It's just absolutely gross. And so what we're talking about is a president who's putting American lives first. That's absolutely correct.
Starting point is 00:31:39 American treasure first. I don't see any pallets of cash being sent over to Tehran. I didn't see any, you know, any of this capitulation and the Jigpoa and all these different things. By the way, this opens the door, right, because Iran has now shown rationality. So they've and this is clear, by the way. So Iran has shown rationality. And that opens the door. So if we're talking about the foot in the door tactic now, the upsell here is a broader
Starting point is 00:32:05 nuclear deal for Iran to perhaps keep this off the shelf completely. A broader peace deal, perhaps normalization, at least stabilization within the region. This opens the door for so many things that none of these talking heads saw going on. And by the way, it's not, you know, it's not the Taliban being given $9 billion of American equipment the same way that Joe Biden left them. And by the way, General Milley left them. I was there actually, Charlie, it was at a I believe was a turning point action reception where President Trump talked about that. And he had some choice words for for General Milley that have gone quite viral since since that day down there at Mar-a-Lago talking about this because this
Starting point is 00:32:51 shows the difference between a president who's an idiot and a president who knows how to achieve the commander's desired end state. So now I want to throw it to Blake here. Blake, you're kind of our historical mastermind here. Blake, can you summarize the roller coaster in the context of five years of Iran and Trump from the drone to Soleimani to the Iranian nuclear deal to assassination threats to bombing nukes, bombing nuclear sites to now a peace deal? Blake, this is a roller coaster likes of which we've never seen between Persia and the United States. It really is, Charlie. It's, I think if you when hopefully when all is said and done we'll look back on this as the Trump experience, the Trump tactics, the Trump strategy at its best, at its
Starting point is 00:33:37 most successful and I think we can all freely admit it can be pretty stressful to go through the same way riding a rollercoaster can be stressful As you say you say everything very publicly what you're going to do. President Trump is a little different President Trump He is a businessman who's used to negotiation who's used to having you know a public face as well as private intentions So President Trump is the kind of guy who can do things like say, I'm giving you two weeks but actually I've already decided to hit you tomorrow. He can say, I'm willing to go as much as it takes to willing to do anything. I'm willing to overthrow your government because actually I want you to just come to the table
Starting point is 00:34:17 so we can get this done. And we've seen this now over nearly a decade. President Trump said on his first day running for office that he hated the Iraq war and he didn't want Iran to get a nuclear weapon. And I think that is where he was at his most clear-cut, his most honest, his most, like, it was the best guide to everything that's happened since. And since then, it's been the ride. So we had Iran shot down one of our drones and there were people who wanted major
Starting point is 00:34:48 strikes on Iran over this and Trump seemed like he might be open to this and then oh he dialed it back and he said we don't need to do this. Then we had Soleimani he was they were getting overly aggressive in you know the whole Syria Lebanon area he said you know what we can show them we mean business blow up their guy. Boom. Blows them up. I believe he was in Iraq when it happened.
Starting point is 00:35:09 And then he took the rocket volley in response to that. And there was a lot of pressure. Oh, you got to escalate further. And he said, no, we don't need to do that. They shot. Their shot wasn't a big deal. We can move on. And this is the highest stakes version of that.
Starting point is 00:35:26 He said, Iran, you have two months to make a deal with us, and if not, something bad will happen. Those two months passed, and they called President Trump's bluff, so he allowed Israel to start a war, and then he followed up himself with strikes, and he even signaled oh maybe it's time for us to do regime change in Iran but now we're seeing the other
Starting point is 00:35:51 end of it. He's actually still exactly where he was in 2015. I am ready to make a deal. My main priority is don't let you get a nuclear bomb and other than that I don't want an Iraq war. I am perfectly fine stepping away it's stressful we've always wondered where he's going one direction or the other but in the end we've gotten to a place that seems very good for America amen Blake that was well said you know one of the biggest
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Starting point is 00:37:18 First of all, Senator Mullen, congratulations on the Thunder winning the NBA Finals. We're not here to talk about that, but I'm sure your family's happy about it. So now you get to celebrate an NBA finals victory, most importantly, peace in the Middle East. Senator Mullen, we've been saying, trust President Trump this whole time. This is historic. No troops on the ground, no regime change,
Starting point is 00:37:35 no U.S. force having to go into some permanent quagmire and no nukes for Iran. Senator Mullen, your reaction. Yeah, you know, this is, as a president's saying, this is the 12-day war. This is exactly what peace through strength looks like. Ron, Senator Mullen, your reaction. Yeah, you know, this is as a president saying this is the 12 day war. This is exactly what peace through strength looks like. When you're able to use strength in a decisive way,
Starting point is 00:37:52 you're able to declare what victory looks like before you even use strength. You're able to also declare the terms of I wouldn't say surrender, but the terms of of de-escalation. And that's exactly what took place here. The president positioned himself through deterrent. He had the assets in the area to be able to deliver on what needed to be done. He delivered on those assets precisely. And then he had enough restraint, even when the Ayatollah, which we knew they
Starting point is 00:38:27 had to say something, shot back at us. They had enough fear of President Trump and his leadership that they actually gave us a heads up that, hey, this is what we're going to do. Just understand it's coming and then we're probably in a good spot. And the president immediately responded by saying, appreciate the heads up, appreciate the war is over. And we look forward to hopefully having good relationships with you moving forward and leave it up to the Iranian people if they want regime change.
Starting point is 00:38:59 That's what leadership looks like when President Trump is pulled off. Amen. I know your time is limited here, Senator Mullen, but just final question here. How does this if at all impact the big beautiful bill? We need unity from the Republican Party. We need no tax on tips, no tax on overtime. We need Trump tax cuts, border security, golden dome. How does this impact the big beautiful bill? If at all narrative, we should see unity in the Republican Party. Please, Senator. Yeah, it doesn't it doesn't affect us at all. We are moving forward. In fact, I just stepped out of a hour and a half long conference with the Republican senators. Before that, I was in a meeting with
Starting point is 00:39:37 leadership for an hour discussing a path forward. I think we're in a very good spot. Hopefully we could possibly be see text and culture on this by Wednesday, Thursday and could even possibly start voting the Voterama as early as Friday. So we're on track to move forward. There's a lot of people in the room. Charlie's got a lot of ideas still. We respect those ideas. They want to make the bill better and we all do, but we can't allow perfection to get in a way of good because the fact is when this bill comes to the floor, you're going to have two options.
Starting point is 00:40:16 A, vote to move forward with the Trump era policies or B, you vote no and say, hey, I prefer to stay with Biden policies. That's not a good place for any Republican to be. Senator, you're doing a great job. You are the Senate House liaison. So when you speak about this, it really matters. Senator, come back when you have more time. Thank you so much, and congratulations to the world and to the people of Oklahoma. Thank you so much. Thank you. Okay, I want to throw back here. I want everyone, I want to hear from you freedom at Charlie Kirk.com, but I think this is an important theme, everybody, because this will not be the last trial.
Starting point is 00:40:43 I've been through this for 10 years. Andrew, how that I tell you I was like guys I've been through this for 10 years I've seen the cycle play out and it always ends up Okay, and it goes up and it goes down and it's just kind of like okay. What's going on here? We're going right to the brink. I actually I don't know if we still have Andrew because we had Senator Mullen We might throw him back here, but we do I'm here But yeah, what what are the lessons here for everybody that doubted President Trump, for everyone that didn't trust President Trump? What are the lessons here that people need to derive, which is that maybe when you read
Starting point is 00:41:12 truth socials, there might be something else going on. And has this man not earned your trust yet, Andrew? Yeah, I think about two things, tariffs and the Iran strikes. Those are really the two moments where this trust in the president has been has been stressed. Where even some of the base even some of his supporters start, you know, screaming the panic and if you will Jack Jack is the king of the panic and shut down. So I'll I won't I won't steal your panic and thunder here, Jack. But those are the two moments of this Trump 2.0 where I'm like, listen, it's worked out and it's worked out both times. It's worked out both times and we pray this holds.
Starting point is 00:41:57 I mean, I'm still there's a still a part of me in the back of my mind that's kind of waiting for the next six hour mark, the 12 hour mark. But yeah, I mean, Trump, Trump, once again, I go back to this idea that you have to let Trump sort of defy your expectations to get to the point that that we want to get to. He has to sometimes stretch the limits of what everybody's comfortable with. And you know, everybody thinks they've got Trump figured out, they go go this is how Trump does it, he does this and then he does and then as soon as you think you've got the formula figured out he scrambles the formula again and everybody freaks out again like we've never done this and then at the end of the day we wrap up exactly where we all hoped we would.
Starting point is 00:42:39 I just want to know like I think this is all you know Jack let's go to Jack Jack go ahead and then we'll go to I just want to know you know and and for the human events daily audience out there has anyone done a wellness check on Lindsey Graham has anyone I think he's in DC. He might be down in, South Carolina I just want to make sure is Lindsey Graham gonna be alright You know, I'm concerned about him as an elected official of our nation I want to make sure that the people of South Carolina are well represented. Does anyone want to do a wellness check on him or the other neocon war mongers out there who were foaming at the mouth? There were people out there who were calling,
Starting point is 00:43:17 go all the way, Mr. President, go all the way, go all the way to Tehran, take them all out, wipe this out with no plan whatsoever. They don't even know the ethnic makeup of the country. They don't even know the size of the country, the population, they had no plan whatsoever for what would come next. And they just kept demanding more and more and more. And President Trump has very smartly shut them all down.
Starting point is 00:43:40 Shut them down decisively and quickly. Blake, I wanna ask you here, trying to remember my question. It was a really good question too. But Blake, we kind of go through that saga. How would you historically categorize President Trump's foreign policy? And can we now just kind of shed ourselves
Starting point is 00:43:56 of the isolationist interventionist binary? Love him or hate him, but President Trump has definitely created a third way. He has created a new path where he is not a dove, but he's willing to use short, violent force. And then a more provocative question for you, Blake. Blake, are we entering an age of the end of long wars? You might say, no, Charlie, look at Israel and Gaza, that's long, or Russia, Ukraine.
Starting point is 00:44:21 But as long from an American standpoint, will America fight another long war under President Trump? I'm just asking, I'm thinking out loud here because it seems like the appetite for long wars is not strong here in the United States. Your thoughts, Blake? Well, I don't, I don't want us to jump to too many conclusions on it. First of all, President Trump's term is not over. You never want to just declare anything official or done or complete as long as you know there's still history yet to be written and there still is history yet to be written for the Trump presidency. But I do think
Starting point is 00:44:54 we can say that what what Trump has been doing is a huge historical break from especially the norm that has existed in the you know the post-Cold War era that's kind of when you can say the modern phase of American history began the Cold War ended and we had Clinton, Bush, Obama, and then also sort of Biden in between the two Trump terms and what that era was defined by was a few things. It was defined by, as you said, long wars because America would get committed to... it was like America was trying to be the global police. It was America was trying... it was on the operating on the assumption that the end of history had arrived and therefore it could bend... like everywhere in the world was progressing towards this end state and we could
Starting point is 00:45:45 drag them to it. It was America as a quasi-globalist entity because we sort of equated globalist values with American values. And so that's what you got. You got American troops going on these long humanitarian interventions with no end mission with no real military objective We got open-ended forever wars in the Middle East We got this assumption of unlimited American power that caused us to recklessly race into things And so that's how we got Afghanistan and trillions of dollars spent thousands dead no good result Iraq trillions spent thousands dead a mediocre at best result. We got interventions in Libya where the idea was we have good intentions and that can make up for having no serious plan, no easy way to make this a good
Starting point is 00:46:34 outcome, and we can ignore all of the bad outcomes that happen instead. President Trump has thrown out all the assumptions that drove that and instead what we've gotten is a return to a more old fashioned way of doing things for America, which is when you do a military intervention, there should be a goal in mind if it's going badly, back away quickly, but ideally you're just not going to let it go badly. And that is a way America used to do things. Even relative idealists like Woodrow Wilson, who's overall a pretty globalist guy, he would do things like,
Starting point is 00:47:10 oh, there's stuff going on in Mexico, send troops to Mexico and then, oh, it gets bad, get out. We don't need to stick around forever. It's a willingness to behave, it's an underrated way to behave like a businessman because businessmen do not commit indefinitely to something that is going to lose them money.
Starting point is 00:47:29 They want to get value for what they do. Blake, exactly right. And this is the MAGA doctrine on full display. Also just as a fun personal note, right now we are the third largest podcast on all podcasts on Apple News. We just got above, we just surpassed Call Her Daddy. Do people really watch that? Call Her Daddy.
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Starting point is 00:48:12 remind the audience they might see some reports that there are ongoing airstrikes however that's within the 12 hour time frame this is a little confusing for people right and so can you do that and also plug your stuff Jack just kind of explain that human events daily. Follow that everywhere. Our email, if you do send us your send us your questions, then your comments and your theories and what's going on. Seventeen seventy six at human events dot com. Seventeen seventy six at human events dot com. Go and follow human events daily.
Starting point is 00:48:39 Apple, Spotify, get your podcast. By the way, Charlie, of those other podcasts, New York Times Daily and Call Her Daddy, I've been on one of them, but not the other, but I'm gonna leave it to the audience to guess which it was. As far as the Dames. Which one was it? No, no, not saying, not saying, it was one of them.
Starting point is 00:48:59 Multiple times, by the way. The strikes that we're seeing, so we're seeing some stuff now, strikes are hitting in Iran, in Tehran, we also saw, I mentioned earlier there were some strikes on Baghdad, it looks like those were on Iranian proxies, so I would guess that would be Israel, their drones we're told are hitting Iranian proxies right now. Look, this is the reason that President Trump put out, and we walked you through this, this timeframe
Starting point is 00:49:25 of the ceasefire that it's going to be a phased ceasefire because look, when you're running military operations like this communications with phased ceasefire, I love that. You're great information and there's there's even stories about you know, one of the biggest or you know, Revolutionary War battles that were fought even after Yorktown took place. So communications do break down after War, you know in wartime and look if you got fighters up if you got assets out in the ground some of these operate without Communication, so of course the enemy can't track them But then that also means you don't get the ability to run down to them and say hey guys by the way call it off
Starting point is 00:50:00 And so I would expect to see more strikes from potentially both sides. Now, interestingly enough, the Iranians would have an easier way of stopping their strikes because their strikes are predominantly missile-based. And so presumably the commanders are in direct communication with Tehran, whereas with Israel, you've got fighters, you've got Mossad, you've got drones, you've got all sorts of other stuff going on. So it might be harder for them to be able to call it off. That may be the reason that we saw the phase in the ceasefire for president Trump's tweet, but either way, expect a few more attacks like this tonight.
Starting point is 00:50:34 And then really tomorrow is what we're looking for to see if the ceasefire holds. And so a phase, a phased, um, ceasefire is a smart and understandable way to put that. a phased ceasefire is a smart and understandable way to put that. Why refi.com privacy loan debt in America totals about $300 billion. Why refi has been an amazing partner of us and it's only getting started. They were a huge supporter of our young women's leadership summit. Game changer, largest ever. Go to why refi.com that is why refy.com.
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Starting point is 00:52:07 President Donald Trump rejected the neocon interventionist nation builder. No nation building, no troops on the ground, no U.S. troops killed and no nukes for Iran. It's an amazing masterclass that he's put on. Let's play cut 382. It's about a religious agenda. Why do they do what they do? Religious fanatical beliefs, a master religion for the world. And if you don't believe that, you have missed a lot. That's what they want and the only way they're not going to get there is for somebody to stop them. What did Hitler want? To take over the entire world and create a master race. Anybody that didn't fit his henchmen have that same view, but it's religiously driven.
Starting point is 00:53:10 Not everything is comparable to Hitler, but yes, the Iranian regime is very bad. Here is JD Vance. Look at the contrast between him and JD Vance. Just night and day. JD is just extraordinary right now. Play cut 375. The Iranians, I think this is a new opportunity to actually pursue the path of peace. As I said yesterday, what the Iranians have showed through their support of terror networks, through their now failed effort to build a nuclear weapon, is that they're just not very good at war. And I think the president really hit the reset button and said, look, let's actually produce long-term peace for the region. That's always been his
Starting point is 00:53:44 goal. I actually think when we look back, we will say the 12-day war was an important reset moment for the entire region. A reset for the entire region. We're going to see what everybody wants in this situation. And I think that peace is going to prevail only through American strength. Do we have another JD Vance clip?
Starting point is 00:54:03 I think we do. I think we have another JD Vance one that I think we do. I think we have another JD Vance one that we can play here, if I'm not mistaken. Let's play 374, please. We talked about the next six hours, finalizing the attacks. I mean, I think what he's talking about is right now for the American people watching,
Starting point is 00:54:18 it's dark over there. That's typically when the Israelis and the Iranians have been shooting at each other. I think there's some recognition that that might continue for another few hours. And tomorrow really is a new day. The end of the 12-day war, the end of the Iranian nuclear program, and I really do believe the beginning of something very big for peace in the Middle East. I mean, J.D. Vance is looking more and more like someone who's going to be a phenomenal
Starting point is 00:54:39 president sometime in his future. One more excellent one. Let's play cut 376. What the president is saying very clearly, Brett, is if the Iranian people want to do something about their own leadership, that's up to the Iranian people. What the American national security interests here is very simple. It's to destroy the nuclear program. That's what we've done. And now that the 12-day war appears to be effectively over, we have an opportunity, I think, to restart a real peace process. And to restart a real peace process. So let me ask Andrew here, Andrew, what is the way that we now keep the coalition together? Andrew, you have some great insight here.
Starting point is 00:55:13 People have gotten very heated. I think we should also, A, keep expectations in check that Iran has been very bad actor. But this is a win. Let's make no mistake. This is a win, everybody. No U.S. troops dead, nuclear program severely diminished and damaged. Also, it's no boots on the ground, no regime change, no nation building. But Andrew, what do we have to do to keep the coalition together, to keep what we have built? Young people, muscular class, moms, parents, first-time voters, traditional
Starting point is 00:55:42 conservatives, more hawks. What now, now that we have a ceasefire, how do we get a MAGA movement ceasefire? Yeah, I think a couple lessons learned, Charlie, over the years is first of all, we have to avoid putting purity tests on people that should be our friends, that maybe stepped a little out of line in the last week. We need to be to a certain extent, we need to welcome those people back. If it was just those are passionate moments, we get it. But once again, Trump is going to push you, he's going to stretch you, he's going to put you in uncomfortable positions.
Starting point is 00:56:15 This is not a straight line between here and there and where we want to go. So just remember that next time this happens, maybe don't press the panic button so soon, first of all, but but but be gracious panic button so soon, first of all. But be gracious. Let's bring the coalition back together. We also have this Maha coalition. I know, assuming this peace deal holds, we're going to be putting a lot of focus and attention on mass deportations, the big beautiful bill to get the resources for those mass deportations, but also Maha, all the attention that this group deserves, the Maha moms, that's
Starting point is 00:56:47 a really big part of our coalition. I was talking with Rich Barris this morning. He's going to be coming out with a poll. It might be dated now, given that this peace deal has come up, but he's seen some drop off on younger voters that are disappointed in the fact that President Trump struck Iran. Hopefully we're going to be able to bring them back. We've got some great talking points, Charlie, that it was some of these things that probably resulted in peace.
Starting point is 00:57:12 You didn't like it in the moment, but now in retrospect, you see the wisdom of some of the actions President Trump was taking. So let's just hope that these memories can be shortened, that people's nerves that were frayed, you know, everybody calms down. Charlie, I can't wait for your fall campus tour. If anybody dares challenge you on this, you're going to be able to say, hey, look it, you maybe didn't like that tweet about regime change, but maybe that was the tweet that
Starting point is 00:57:40 actually forced them to accept the peace deal from from cutter, you know So I there is plenty of meat on a hundred percent base by the way I can we just repeat that President Trump tweeting about regime change the day before got some people fired up Understandably, but maybe that is all of a sudden what got Iran a little bit worried that hate is this this guys for this guys You know for the head of the snake. Maybe we just do a little bit of theatrics Can you build that out a little bit more Andrew? Oh, I remember Charlie he said in that one truth. He said I know exactly where the supreme leader is He's in hiding but it's not you know, he's not hidden from us. We know exactly where he is
Starting point is 00:58:15 we're not gonna take he's safe for now for now and Then he strikes hits the three nuclear sites. And listen, there might be open questions about how degraded their nuclear capacity is. I share that skepticism. I tend to believe that there is still some capacity there in Iran. But hopefully this is a turning of the page. The confrontation, the coming to the head has happened.
Starting point is 00:58:41 And the Supreme Leader understands he's against the ropes. Remember there is war gaming going on the likes of which we're not aware of, right? They probably have an exact count or precise count of how many short range, mid range and long range ballistic missiles around head left. Israel probably is doing the same calculations with the Iron Dome. These are two fighters that we don't know what round of the fight that they both thought they were in. Were they in the third round or were they in the 12th round and both of them were ready
Starting point is 00:59:09 to cry uncle? President Trump probably had a lot of that information and knew that he could get both parties to the table. He played it the way he played it. It turned out he played it right. And so, you know, I think that there is a real chance, and we should all pray for that, that we could see a turning of the page, an end of one chapter, the beginning of a better chapter with our relations with Iran.
Starting point is 00:59:32 I think that's completely on the table at this point. Yeah. And so, and also, Andrew, if the people of Persia decide to organically rise up, then that's something that we'll cheer for. That's something that we're going to cheer on, right? That's a great point. And to the people that say there's been moving in the goalposts, this is what I want to say. We have always been against regime change, top-down regime change.
Starting point is 00:59:55 We have always been pro if the Iranian people want to do it from the bottom up. But what we did not want, and I think Jack, you and I talked about this, we did not want, you know, a 2014, you know, made on coup repeat where the CIA was embedded and sowing discord. We did not want a repeat of Libya. We did not want a repeat of Iraq. Or or by the way, a repeat of the last time the United States pushed for regime change in Iran back in the 1950s when we overthrew the Democratic Republic that Iran had been working towards and Mosaddeg because he was nationalizing British petroleum and nationalizing the oil fields there. When the United States of America overthrew the last Democratic, because I noticed that Lindsey Graham didn't seem to put that in his little speech there because he said, Oh, Iran could be a democracy.
Starting point is 01:00:49 I said, who overthrew the democracy in Iran, Lindsey? You seem to be loosening up that part. And in fact, the CIA has even publicly acknowledged this, that it was us who overthrew the Prime Minister of Mosaddegh in the 1950s. We we installed the shah then this is and by the way i'm not justifying anything that the iranian regime has done i'm just telling the truth okay that telling the truth that it was because of that that the iranian people said were sick of this crap and then they turned to the nut jobs that eventually formed the islamic republic and led to the revolt in 1979. So just tell the truth, Lindsay, just be honest, but you can't.
Starting point is 01:01:29 You just can't. And and we have we have we have a little bit more time. And then we have to we have to dash. And I want to email I want to have you guys email us freedom at Charlie Kirk.com. The politics this guy's is either people didn't trust President Trump, they didn't trust their own instincts. And President Donald Trump has now just said, quote, this is the end of the war. It is great and a wonderful thing for Israel and for the world.
Starting point is 01:01:55 So there you have it, guys. President Donald Trump is saying it is the end of the war. This is the stuff that Nobel Prize are made of. I know, Blake, you might cringe. Blake is a little contrarian. I like it. But Blake, if they gave a Nobel prize to Obama, would this not merit? I mean, I'm just saying a lot of people are saying it Blake.
Starting point is 01:02:14 A lot of people are saying that. If we get a real peace deal out of it, like long term, I'd say go for it. Yeah, why not? There you go. They'll move heaven and earth to college. We'll for it. Yeah, why not? They'd give it to Rubio or some crowd or something like that, but It would certainly deserve it more than man. There's been so many bad Nobel peace prizes They gave one to about they gave one to Al Gore
Starting point is 01:02:37 I think we've like all memory hold that one cuz oh my gosh, you've been a true they give it to Al Gore, but like stuff because they give it to Al Gore but like global warming stuff there have been there have been some dumb ones and remember that we've been lied to over the years is truly shocking that like that somehow we lifted up Al Gore is like you know a beacon of truth and progress it's just it's shocking go ahead Blake i'm sorry you've just no i'm just it's just there's so much, it's shocking. Go ahead, Blake. I'm sorry. You've just blown my mind. It's just, there's so much like, it's very funny. We still like give the so the Nobel peace prize so much weight because there have been, there have been a lot of very dumb Nobel peace prizes out there. Uh, so, but you know, they, they don't give it enough for just very straightforward.
Starting point is 01:03:19 Like what is it? What's the goal in Alfred Nobel's will? And it was to improve harmony among nations and lead to reducing the size of standing armies, I think was the exact line. And if we can achieve that out of this, if we can actually bring this 45-year conflict towards some sort of permanent resolution,
Starting point is 01:03:41 that would be a huge win for hundreds and hundreds of millions of people. And if we're able to achieve that Before this administration is done. He absolutely should get a Nobel peace prize There it is. I'll take it blake That was a resounding endorsement from blake. I mean, it's like you at like a four or five. I mean that's That's like an average man's uh, 10 right there. I'm gonna take it. Andrew. Do you have a form you want to walk people through? Oh, yes. Yeah, this is going around. Okay, I just want to preface this by saying it's one thing to question. Charlie, I think it's fair to say you, me, Jack and Blake are on many chats where we question a lot. Questioning is healthy. It
Starting point is 01:04:19 can be good. Helps you think through the problems, the pitfalls, all those things. It's a whole other thing to doomer on a guy that's been riding with you for 10 years and you've gone up and down a thousand roller coasters and just, you know, because Israel is a part of the equation, you just completely go into brain rot mode. So you can question, just don't go doomer mode. That's the point. So this form is going around on the internet right now and it's called a don a donald trump apology form And it says to donald trump from filling your name date it probably today
Starting point is 01:04:54 Reason for behavior we all we all know people that should be filling that out Yeah, right the media tricked me into believing their lies. I was jealous of trump's aura My simping for a boy girl Trump hater convinced me. I didn't listen to his actual speeches. I don't know how politics work. Trump said something mean and hurt my feelings." There's a checkbox that says, I will hereby trust the plan, stand with Donald J. Trump, and will not doubt the 45th and 47th President of the United States." Pretty funny. So there's a, that's the meme.
Starting point is 01:05:30 That's the meme. Again, you can question. It's okay to question. Nobody's asking. This is what pisses me off. Sorry. This is what frustrates me. Apologies to our TV audience.
Starting point is 01:05:38 I can't stand it when people say, you know, that you're following some cult. That's not what this is. It's about understanding that we have a coalition and that we don't wanna rip apart a winning coalition that delivered a popular vote victory in an electoral landslide. And something Republicans, the popular vote, we hadn't won since 2004 with George W. Bush
Starting point is 01:06:02 in the middle of a war that he started dumbly So the point is this is this is a really precious thing that we have and we respect how important and Special it is how historic it is and we don't want to rip it apart because people press the panic button We only have a couple minutes left Jack. Make sure you replug your stuff here for the audience and Jack How do we now make sure we bring the mega coalition to strength ever together? What are five or six or whatever domestic wins that we need? Is it deportations? Is it Epstein files? What do we need right now to focus on domestically? Jack Posobic. Well, Charlie, I think that's right.
Starting point is 01:06:39 And of course, folks can follow me, Human Events Daily, Apple, Spotify, wherever you get your podcasts up, 1776 at humanevents.com, 1776 at humanevents.com. Do you think that Trump had this all planned out all along? Do you think this was in response to a secret deal that was made? We want to get into all of it and we want to hear from you at 1776 at humanevents.com. Charlie, when you talk about domestic agenda, that's exactly right. Look, you mentioned deportations. Absolutely. Absteem files. Absolutely. By the way, how about perp walking some of the people that were working to overthrow our actual duly elected president back in 2016, 2017, the first term, going after that corruption, going after the election integrity issues. One of the things that I think a lot of people have wanted to address for a long, long time
Starting point is 01:07:32 and just hasn't been able to get done. Tim Dillon had a great segment on his show earlier this week that I caught where he was saying, look, guys, we didn't put people in office to just write novels. We put people in office to get things done. And that guy, he wasn't like some Trump endorser, but he pointed out, he said, you can't just be up there talking about stuff. You have to actually do things.
Starting point is 01:07:54 We're talking about various people that have come into power now. And so President Trump clearly showing that he's putting action ahead of words. You mentioned domestic policy again. We have these tariff issues. We have these trade deals. We have all of the economic issues to look at President Trump.
Starting point is 01:08:13 By the way, guys, no tax on tips, no tax on overtime and funding for deportations. That's in the big, beautiful bill, which by the way, Charlie, I'm told if it goes well, if it goes well, we could be seeing the big, beautiful bill being passed by the way, Charlie, I'm told if it goes well, if it goes well, we could be seeing the big beautiful bill being passed before July 4th, which I remember that was exactly when President Trump said it would be done. I think that's great. Also, there's, and I'm just going to say it because it's been raging sort of in the background of all of this here.
Starting point is 01:08:40 There's this question, Senator Mike Lee has this new addendum that he wants to put in this amendment to the big beautiful bill regarding the use of our public lands. I know guys we've been chatting about getting into this issue on a one of our thought crime episodes or as a debate, but that's something where I know has been absolutely raging. So I'd love to see that put to rest as well. And look, we're going to hear both sides out. I don't want to I don't want my my, you know, national parks being given over to some nameless faceless corporation. So I want to see what's going on. I want to see the proof of the pudding before we put anything else into this bill.
Starting point is 01:09:17 But also, you know, we've seen Senator Mike Lee and he's been so supportive of us in the past. So let's hear everybody out on this and put that to bed as well. Ton of things on the domestic issue. And by the way, these can all get done now because President Trump has just delivered for us on the foreign policy side. Totally, big time.
Starting point is 01:09:34 And by the way, a lot of the guys that are more neoconservative on the Hill, they better vote for the big, beautiful bill. They got what they wanted. They always wanted Iranian nuclear sites to be destroyed forcibly and it happens. They got what they wanted, ended up being the right call for America and President Trump was right all along.
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