The Charlie Kirk Show - Take Over D.C.!

Episode Date: August 6, 2025

After former DOGE staffer "Big Balls" got beaten up by a youth gang on the streets of D.C., President Trump is talking about revoking the city's home rule and putting it under direct federal control. Charlie talks about the merits of that plan and the Democrats' continuing policy of siding with criminals over law-abiding Americans. Then Russia Hoax victim Gen. Michael Flynn joins to talk about what Russiagate accountability looks like and how President Trump can secure an America-first win in Ukraine. 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.

Hey everybody, Charlie Kirk here live from the Bitcoin.com studio. Big balls in Washington, D.C. gets attacked. We talk about the rise in teenage crime. Lieutenant General Michael Flynn also joins us. Phenomenal conversation about Obamagate, Russiagate, Israel, and more. Email us, as always, freedom at charleycirk.com. Subscribe to our podcast and get involved with the Charlie Kirk show by becoming a member today. Members.com.

That is members.com. Charliekirk.com. As always, you can email us, Freedom at Charliekirk.com. Buckle up, everybody. Here we go. Charlie, what you've done is incredible here. Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus. 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. We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed. countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country. That's why we are here.

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John Brennan, James Comey, or Barack Obama. What is the game plan? What does he know? We're going to dive into that. But first, amazingly, crime is actually going down across the country. The Donald Trump effect is real. The more that we do mass deportations, the more that criminals know that they might end up getting a prison sentence, the more that we're seeing the rate of violent crime decrease.

But that is not stopping, of course, all violent crime. Washington, D.C. is no different. Washington, D.C., we saw a massive increase in carjackings when we just decided to stop policing. Now, let's just take a step back. I was recently asked to give advice to a group of Republican lawmakers and donors. I said, Charlie, what is the issue that you think Republicans should own and should be known for? I said, honestly, we should be much tough run crime. We need more people in jail.

We need more arrests. We need no, let's just say ease. We need no accommodation to criminals. People do not like criminals. Make liberals defend them and celebrate them. We need more police officers. We need hired standards. We need more rigidity.

We do not have enough. people in jail in this country and that is shocking when people hear that they say oh we have a prison industrial complex we're just a more violent country than other countries we also the average rapist only spends about five to six years in prison where all the suburban women that talk about how terrible rape is as they should and yet they're not marching in the streets demanding that rapists spend more time in jail more people in jail longer sentences and more cops on the street more enforcement one of my hopes is to turn the republican party into a resolutely stronger party on crime the democrats they can't do this because they think it's racist they have to pander to a criminal base of

their party and they think everything is through racial and systemic terms we are not harsh enough on crime in this country we put up with it too much we try to accommodate the criminal and this is not just about stopping criminals if you enforce the law housing will be cheaper because more of the country will be livable. When you think about it, why is that housing prices go up so much? Because you have a small group of law-abiding young people that want to live in certain zip codes. Why don't you open up more zip codes? If you enforce the law, we'll have more manufacturing here in America.

If you enforce the law, the economy will grow faster and the economic loss from crime is in trillions of dollars. The Republican Party needs to become harsher and harder on crime. President Donald Trump agrees. If I had to rank President Donald Trump as being 10 out of 10 on certain issues, he is 10 out of 10 and at his best, he is in the flow state, as we call it, when it comes to border and crime. President Donald Trump is in that kind of Michael Jordan fourth quarter, watch him do his best work when it comes to crime and it comes to the border. Unquestionably, the best American president on immigration and on crime in the zone. When America has less crime, everything is better. That's why the left loves crime so much.

It makes everything worse. And just a couple days ago, something happened in Washington, D.C. that caught the president's attention. By the way, we're still waiting for hate crime arrest in Cincinnati of the young woman that was nearly beat to death. Hospitalized had to take an Uber home while the police watched her, Holly, in Cincinnati. We're still waiting for hate crime arrest because she was obviously targeted because of the color of her skin. It was a black-on-white hate crime, not an arrest yet. We're expecting arrests from this Department of Justice.

We are eagerly anticipating it. We are ready to receive those arrest warrants, and the mayor never even called her. But unfortunately, another situation happened in Washington, D.C., involving someone that has been, boy, he's had a year. I actually had a chance to meet this young man and text with this young man. He is known as Big Balls. now remember big balls nearly got run out of the government because he was a quote unquote racist remember big balls nearly got run out of the go this is a very important story everybody now i want you guys blake can you remind me why he almost got run out of the government it was some like tweet or social media post and jd vance stood up for big balls his name is edward Corstini

Corstini and he was basically the victim of an online lynch mob trying to kick him out of the federal government for thought crimes for believe he said something spicy but this is

so important oh is it a different guy I thought they were trying to run this guy out it wasn't big balls oh a different guy said the Indian thing got it balls is just a meme got it well big balls apparently is quote unquote a different person on the team so i stand corrected but the point remains they were trying to run this guy out of government they were

trying to run his him out of government because of doge they were trying to docks this young man they were trying to destroy this young man's life that is correct what happened the other night was remarkable two teenagers were teen i'm so sick of this oh yeah teenagers i wonder teenagers at 3 a.m going wilding trying to carjack teenagers do you notice they never use the race when it's blacks but they almost always use the race when it's whites and if it ends up being two white offenders i will correct the record and i will apologize i will we don't quite know yet but i have a sneaking suspicion i think we all know because they're not telling us two teenagers were arrested don't you guys hate that isn't isn't teenage crime the problem in this country

you know teenage carjacking two teenagers who are arrested in connection to the attempted carjacking of a former Department of Government Efficiency Staffer known as Big Balls. Authorities said the 15-year-old suspects who were charged with the unarmed carjacking were among several teens who allegedly approached the victim, Edward Costanini, and a woman police identified around 3 a.m. Sunday in the Washington's Logan Circle neighborhood. This group allegedly made comments about taking the car before Kostanini pushed his significant other into the vehicle for safety. and prepared to confront the group.

Law enforcement officials said, Korsenini, turned to face the teenagers, and several of them attacked him until police patrolling the area intervened. The group fled on foot when the police approached authority said. And so this is heroic behavior. This is like Trump and Butler. This is Daniel Penny-esque.

This young man should be on the front page of every single newspaper. This is the type of son that I want This is the type of man I want my son to grow up to be. To defend women against a mob. And I think we know what kind of mob it actually is. I don't see it on the front page of the Wall Street Journal. I don't see it on the front page of the New York Times.

Mike Lee wants to give him the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Now, if he had shot and killed one of these attackers, they would try to indict him for murder. That is the left. But here is a young white man who's working in the federal government as a Doge staffer, very similar to Kyle Rittenhouse. And we are only saying, well, these were just a bunch of youths and teenagers. Oh, a bunch of teenagers going carjacking at 3 a.m.

We should no longer put up with this. We should treat juvenile individuals at an adult threshold. We should have the juvenile threshold at the adult. And this young man could have been killed. president trump is calling for 14 years and older and he is right and i believe it's time to exercise the federalization of washington dc bring in the troops cut out the crime federalize washington dc president trump has the power to do it he has exercising home rule over the nation's capital make dc the safest city in america bring in the marines call in the insurrection act make the crime

go to zero. Use it as an example. Make DC as safe as Tokyo. Make DC as safe as Singapore. Make DC as safe as Seoul, South Korea. We can do it, but we choose not to because we don't want to offend the teenagers. You see, I know so many of you when you're out at night, you're worried about teenager crime. How can we call ourselves a superpower when our great capital is a dangerous dump? Beijing isn't like this. Tokyo's not like this, but D.C. is, and it's because we're choosing. It's time to federalize D.C., roll in the tanks, bring in the military, federalize the town, and bring teenage crime to zero. Gentlemen, let's get real for a second. Are you frustrated with today's woke dating apps?

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from a guy by the name of Garrison Hayes, I believe that's his name. And it's very linked to the first topic here. So Garrison Hayes says that I was wrong in a video where I said that 13% of the population blacks commit well over 50% of the crimes. And he says wrong, 38% of America's prison population is black, and that's according to the U.S. government. Now, his response is statistically illiterate, and he talks about exonerations. It's very, he goes to great lengths to try to fight against the reality that black America

commits way more crimes than the percentage of their population. and it's an unnecessary rationalization. The fact that you have to rationalize it is an impediment to solving the problem. Play cut 380. Black Americans are about 13 to 14% of the population, but half of all prisoners are black. Wrong. Just 38% of America's prison population is black.

That's according to the U.S. government. But it makes you wonder why Charlie feels the need to add an additional 12% to the black prison population. Could it be because his bigoted talking points only work if he exaggerates? If Charlie were actually looking for the race that makes up half the prison population in the U.S., he'd look no further than white people at 57%. So blacks commit more crimes than whites do.

No, blacks absolutely commit more crimes than white people. Number one, do you know what per capita means, Harrison? Do you understand fractions? Or is it Garrison, whatever his name is? Garrison, Harrison, Harrison, I don't know. So whites, which are 57% of the population, have a lower prison threshold than there are a lot in the American population, and whites count Hispanics as white too. So whites plus Hispanics are actually lower than their threshold in the federal data.

But let me dive deeper into this. So let me play his second piece of tape here. Playcut 3.81. What's painfully obvious is that Charlie Kirk isn't interested in understanding the statistics he so carelessly misquotes. He's interested in making bad faith arguments. Something that becomes even more obvious in. his next point. Blacks are 13% of the population and they commit 58% of all the murders. Wrong again and loud this time. If Charlie were interested in honesty, he would have mentioned

the other 1350 statistics. Yes, black people are about 13% of the population, but make up 53% of all criminal exoneration. And then people like you have the nerve to parade these stats around as though they prove something. The realities that you probably know these stats, but you leave them out on purpose. Because to bring that stat into this conversation would, make some people think and that's the last thing a person like you wants all right garrison by the way you're welcome we'll have a chat any time i'll explain to you what per capita and what a fraction means you can understand that garrison exonerations are only a tiny share of total convictions we literally have two million people in jail or in prison at any time but the total number of exonerations

is only a few thousand if blacks are 55 percent of murder exonerations and also about 55 percent of murder convictions, and that indicates that really they're getting convicted at the right rate. If they were wrongly convicted all the time, there'd be higher share of exonerations. Just 38% of prisoners are black means they're also vastly overrepresented of all crimes. Also, 57% misses what, it lumps in white and Hispanics into all the white category. And finally, the key is this. So much of black crime goes without arrest. And conviction and a prison sentence. Half of all Chicago murders are unsolved.

If we actually arrested every single black criminal, it would go to 60 or 65%. And that's just the rough math of the unsolved black-on-black crime in downtown Chicago because of anti-snitch culture and lack of policing. And most dangerous cities, police are overwhelmed. And there is bad reporting and 911 calls go unanswered. And the left, meanwhile, wants to pile up grievance. and let criminals roam free. And yes, there is a number right here that I was citing.

In 2019 FBI data, interestingly, we haven't gotten the data in a while, but I know under Cash Patel, we will. 51% of all murder arrests were black Americans, 13% of the population, 51% of all the murders. And a sitting senator just applauded this nonsense. And we're not even bothering to mention random muggings. We're not even bothering to solve the carjackers. And they call me a racist. They just stop it.

This is not 2016. This doesn't mean anything. I'm the only one actually fighting to make black neighborhoods safer. You peddling this garbage Garrison Hayes or whatever your name is. You're siding with criminals. And Garrison Hayes cannot get past the irrefutable piece of information that black America has an almost a multiple effect on their proportion of the population versus the crimes that they commit.

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You can find out more about Pastor Allen and the ministry at Alan Jackson.com. That is Alan Jackson.com. Again, that is Alan Jackson.com. Joining us now is Lieutenant General Michael Flynn. Sir, great to see you. Thank you so much for taking the time. I want to take a step back before we get

into the details of Obamagate and Russia Gate. I want you to remind everyone what happened to you. and what the FBI did to. We have a lot of younger listeners in our audience that are not as familiar or have memory of it. They didn't live through it. The FBI sent people to entrap you in the guise of offering you help in the first days of the administration. You are patient zero, sir. Please walk us through it and remind us. Yeah. So for your audience, Charlie, when President Obama first met with President elect Trump right after the 2016 presidential election, election, he had a very short conversation with him. And President Obama at that time told President

Trump that he should not hire me. And it was very odd. And Trump and I spoke about that after his meeting with Obama. It was just odd that why would the President of the United States in transitioning the entirety of the government point out one person, in this case me, to not hire? And of course, you know, what Trump did was he then hired me as the National Security Advisor. And we now know, Charlie, when that, so if you go back and you look at the dates and the timeline, now we know about this 8 December 2016 meeting. We know about the 5 January 2017 meeting where there was collusion inside the Oval Office, led by Barack Obama, and it's very clear now. The evidence is really clear. We were able to, in my case, sort of jump forward to fast forward. The Jim Comey, the director of the

FBI, sent in two agents to my office. They interviewed me, no problem. And I didn't have any issues with it. I'd been working with the FBI for the better part of 15 years prior to that. And I didn't lie to them then. And they actually said that. They wrote it down. We found that out in evidence later on. They then came after me very hard when the Mueller investigation hit. When they came after me, this is where they brought my family in, right? And they threatened me. And they threatened my son, my youngest son, who was about to have a child with basically all kinds of felony counts, and we're going to throw you in prison for years. So that was all true. That's all come out. And they went after me because, you know,

why? Why did Obama say that to Trump? Why did Obama go after me so hard early on? Because, Charlie, there's no, there's been, you know, I'll pat myself on the back here. There's not been a national security advisor to the United States of America with my background. Not one. I mean, going back to Henry Kissinger, who I met three times to do kind of a handle. Let me interject. You were also very cautious on Russia. You see, they needed to take you. They needed to take you out because they wanted to get to a kinetic war against Russia.

And you had a much more cautious, realistic, and restrained approach to Russia. So you were critical not only to manufacture the Russian narrative because they tried to gin up something because of some trip that you took or whatever, but to use you as a centerpiece, you were a, you were a stumbling block because you did not believe into, in the D.C. Empire's view that Russia was our greatest enemy. You were necessary for removal. I would argue that if you sustained through the first Trump administration, that we might never have got, we might never have had Russiagate. Please continue. Yeah, no, I agree. You know, one of the things that I talk, I talked to Trump about during the 2016 campaign, and certainly going into the administration after he won, was I wanted, and I still am, I still believe this,

we must pull Russia out of the influence, the sphere of influence that China has, right? China is really the sort of the wolf at the door here. So we have to pull Russia, and that's what I was talking about then. We've got to figure out ways to pull them out. We've never been to war. We've never been at war with Russia. Russia supported us during World War II. Russia supported us in the Middle East. I mean, most people, maybe a lot in your audience, realize, but we were working with the Russian Navy. We were working with Russian military in places like Syria, going against al-Qaeda and ISIS. So we had a great relationship after the end of the Cold War. I actually worked and trained with Russian forces in different training exercises and

scenarios that we had in the 90s and into the early 2000s, and of course, until 9-11. So Russia actually, and I wrote something in the last four days here, Charlie, about sort of rules for diplomacy that I would, you know, bring your audience to the attention of that. But there's 80% in a recent, in a good poll, 80% of the Russian people in Russia today, mostly young people, Charlie, want a more positive relationship with the United States of America because they feel aligned with us. So back then in the 2016, 2017 timeframe, we're, you know, the Obama administration did some really terrible things. They expelled a bunch of Russians. They put sanctions on all these on the Russians for no other reasons than to upset the incoming Trump administration. And one of the

actions that I took, among many talking to foreign leaders, which was I was authorized to do and fully by rights to do, I spoke with the Russians multiple times to let them know, look, let's let's let cool heads prevail. President Trump has a different view on foreign policy. Let's let us get into the office of the presidency so we can start a different tack going down the road when it came to The Obama administration wasn't having anything of it, and frankly, the intelligence community, and many on both sides of the political aisle that likes to have a war, a boogeyman in the name of Russia, Russia, Russia, because Charlie, and this is for your audience, there are billions and billions of dollars that flow into the coffers as long as we have that boogeyman called Russia.

And the American taxpayers, Charlie, we can't afford it anymore. afford to have these wars going on. And for everybody that's been, you know, fine. Even if we could afford it, we should not be at war against Russia. Even if we were endlessly rich and we had a sovereign wealth fund, it is not in our geopolitical interest. I don't like Putin. You don't like Putin. I don't like the way they've been acting. I don't like the fact they bomb churches on Palm Sunday. That really bothered me when they did that. But the real enemy is all to the east. It's the Chinese Communist Party. Can we build a hegemonic coalition against the rise of the Chinese Communist Party.

It's all about China. And so much of this is about trying to distract and divide, separate what should be a coalition against the Chinese Communist Party. So now let's talk about John Brennan. I'm of the opinion, and I want your opinion, Lieutenant General Michael Flynn, that we need to be very cautious and very careful going about possibly indicting Barack Obama himself. I think we should start with John Brennan. I think John Brennan is the central nervous system.

He's the offensive coordinator. He was calling the plays. He was the maister of the orchestra. I think that is the lowest hanging fruit, and he does not have presidential immunity. Do you agree? And if so, what could he be charged for realistically? Yeah, I do agree that he is the sort of the lynchpin here, Charlie. And I do think that there are people, in fact, I know because partly Tulsi has said it,

but I also am aware that there are whistleblowers that have come forward with some very, very egregious information as it relates to that man that you're showing right now. There are going to be other leaders that were in the rooms with Barack Obama, with those two, with Obama and Brennan, that are also going to, you know, they're going to talk because they don't want to get into trouble here. There is a conspiracy, and it is still an ongoing conspiracy. And so all this talk about statutes of limitations, you know, I'll leave it to the constitutional lawyers who have studied this thing and looked at the problems that this guy is involved in, that Brennan is involved in. But he's got a lot, he's, he's at risk right now in a

big, big way. And I have a funny feeling that once you start to bring these people in, and I've been very public about guys like Jim Clapper, because Jim Clapper, I believe you bring Jim Clapper and Jim Clapper will spill the beans. Jim Clapper has already said publicly on a cable news network that they were ordered by Obama to do it. We now see the evidence. So he said it, and that's fine. But now we have the evidence coming out of the Director of National Intelligence's mouth and documented that shows that, in fact, these things happened. Tulsi Gabbard, the other day on another show, talked about these things happening. So the legalities of what these people are facing, I think, are severe. It has to happen. I think that the President, the President of the United States,

also needs to understand this, again, for your young audience. The President of the United States is the President of the United States. He is the commander in chief, but he's also the chief law enforcement officer of the country, not the Attorney General. The Attorney General is the Attorney General. And frankly, you don't even need to be a lawyer to be the Attorney General of the United States of America. Most people don't know that. But the Chief Law Enforcement Officer is the president who has extraordinary authority and power, executive power. And the president's going to have to, he's going to have to weigh in from time to time to direct his justice system to follow what I call the constitutional order of our country to go after and hold to account people

like Brennan, people like Jim Comey. And there are going to be others. And once they start that ball rolling and they start holding these people accountable, I think, and frankly, the evidence is there. We don't need years-long investigations. The evidence is there. And frankly, for the courageousness of Tulsi Garrett, who I'm a big fan of, you know, she's exposing more and more. And what these people do know, Charlie, is they know that there's more to come. I mean, she is like a good lawyer, and even though she's not one. She's holding cards that these people know exist. People like Kim know exist. People like Comey no exist. She's holding these cards because they're going to use them in the courtroom, right? In the rule, in the system that we call, you know,

constitutional order, right? And so when this happens, you know, Katie barred the door as to what these people are going to or what these people are going to start talking about. But that has to happen, you know, at the same time, President Trump is having to deal with the situation in the Middle East. He's having to deal with a, frankly, it's a losing war in Ukraine. So Ukraine lost the war. That part is done. They're already talking about 60-year-olds trying to get 60-year-olds to serve in the Ukrainian military. So, you know, it is a giant money laundering pit, and that needs to end. And the president, he knows that, but he's got to really take heed of the type of advice that he's getting. But his number one priority, Charlie, and I'll finish with this, is what we all

have come to believe in is this phrase, not make America great again. That's Trump's campaign bumper sticker, and it got him two victories. But really the phrase is America First. And America First is not in isolation to the rest of the world. America first is getting and making sure that we take care of our country for the young people of the future. It's America first, not America only.

It's a very important distinction. It's America leader. It's America first. But it's also, we do not want America everywhere. That's also a difference. It's not America everywhere. President Trump has blazed a new trail. So let's play cut 393, please, if we have that loaded.

John Brennan and And Jim Comey and I are part of the group that were tasked by President Obama to put together all the reporting we had on the Russian interference, which we did. President Obama directly and personally confronted Putin about the Russian interference in September and did not accept it face value Putin's protestations. John Brennan directly did the same thing with his counterpart. Lieutenant General Michael Flynn, what did we, was that the clip that you were mentioning? Yeah, I'd say that's perfect. That was perfect. So thank you for teeing that up. So for your audience, so he said in September, that's September of 2016, what's very important is on the third of August of 2016, three August, 2016, Brennan, back to Brennan, he brought into President Obama at that time, into the Oval Office, the dossier and told Obama at that time that that was,

that was made up information from the Hillary Clinton campaign that they were going to use as their October surprise against Trump to win the presidency. So Brennan and Obama, on the 3rd of August of 2016, knew then that it was made up baloney from the Hillary Clinton campaign to attack Trump so she could be the president. So here is Clapper. It's a really important piece of evidence here. That Clapper says in September, so a month later, here is Clapper. saying that the president directed him as the director of national intelligence to gather all the evidence about what Russia was doing to interfere in our elections. Well, Obama already knew that this scheme was in play. That was August of 2016. Now we fast forward. Trump wins.

And I'll remind your audience again, there was a very famous text message that I brought out in my case of from Strach to his lover and number two lawyer at the FBI, Lisa Page, Peter Strach was the deputy director of counterespionage for the FBI. And in his text message to hers, if Trump wins, we have a insurance policy, right? If he should win, we have an insurance policy. Well, after I get picked by Trump, after Obama said, no, we can't have them, I get picked by Trump to be the NASCAR advisor. Now it's like, oh, my God, this guy who ran one of the largest intelligence agencies in

the world had a very different view and was very close to Trump on our foreign policy ideas. On the 8th of December, this is one of the bombshells that Tulsi discovered. On the 8th of December in the Oval Office, after Trump beat Hillary, which they didn't expect, they then sat in that meeting and they conspired to start the engines of Russia, Russia, Russia, going. Fast forward one more month, 5 January 2017, they did it again. This time in that meeting, and this is hard evidence, Charlie, in court, in the court of law, hard evidence that during that 5 January, meaning they said, essentially, we need to get Flynn out in order to get Trump, okay? And we know that because there were notes that were written by people in that meeting that we were

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can't lose sight of lieutenant general michael fly yeah thank you charlie i think for for trump trump really needs to he needs to he needs to he needs to reminding people what our country is all about that light right on the hill right that's he's got he's got he's got to give hope to the the American people. And the way he gives us that hope is by telling the American people that, look, here is our plan, what's already been exposed, to do things to reform the government, to reduce the size of the government. And he's already talking about our economy and the things that we need to do as we just talked about America first, but it does not mean America alone. He also is going to, he must end this war in Ukraine. He has to. We can't keep, you know, pouring more

money into a sift. He's got to end that war. And he also needs to figure out a way to bring the Middle East back to the Abrams Accords, which I thought was one of the fundamental, you know, the big ticket marks on his previous administration. So those are three big issues. The idea of hope matters to the American people, but it's hope with a purpose. And that purpose means you're going to have to hold people accountable. The president is going to have to spend, you know, days of his time directly involved in where are we withholding these people accountable because the American people, Charlie, are not walking away from this. They are not walking away from the idea of accountability. So I want to zero in on two things you said. The Russia thing, I completely

agree. I don't think we should be sending more weapons to Ukraine. I know why Trump is doing it and I can even make an argument for it and I sympathize for it. But how do we end this thing then? because it seems as if Putin does not want a settlement to it. If you were advising, what is the way that we could come to a conclusion to this Russian-Ukrainian war? Yeah, I think, you know, President Putin made a statement yesterday. I think it was 24 hours ago, and it's very important, and Trump should listen to it. If one of his advisors hasn't brought it to him, Trump needs to listen to Putin's speech like in the last 24, 48 hours. And his speech, he said, these are our lines, right?

So Trump needs to call up Putin, and he needs to say, okay, you know, where are you, and I'm just talking about the two of them. I'm not talking about with Zelensky because Zelensky is neutered. He's not, he's not affected. Trump needs to call up Putin and say, where is it in that, in that red lines, those red lines that you drew that you are willing to negotiate? Are you willing to negotiate, are you willing to negotiate, let's say, an election in the four Donbass, is the four provinces that that Putin mentioned in his speech. Are you willing to talk about, you know, because there's a place geography, and I'll point your audience to it, a place called Odessa, you know, and Crimea. We have to think about that. Also, east of the Urals, East of the Urals, the Ural Mountains are in Russia, right?

And East of the Urales matter, and Trump, and Putin, if Putin was listening to me right now, Charlie, and Obama, or I'm sorry, and Trump was listening to me, they would know what that means. The other thing is, Charlie, we tend to think about Ukraine in isolation of just that piece of geography. Cuba matters, Venezuela matters, other parts of the world matter in these alliances and these structures that we have. So we ought to, the United States of America ought to be bringing in Cuba. What's the future relationship that we're going to have with the Cubans? What's our future relationship that we're going to have with the Venezuelans? I mean, there's more to negotiating than just that piece of turf that splits the Russian Federation and,

in Ukraine right now. And frankly, I think, personally, I would tell Trump, NATO has to be off the table because Putin and they're just not going to allow it. And frankly, if you go back to the 1994 Budapest Accords where we were, we committed to no expansion of NATO, and I wrote about this in an article that I published in the last 48 hours here about my rules for diplomacy, people can go to my website to read it or go follow me on X, read it. We have, we've lied. We've lied as, as a nation on that regard. So now let's go to, you mentioned the Abraham Accords. On this program, we are on team civilization. We want Israel to win. However, a lot of people are growing exhausted with the war. Israel, it does not help to have long wars, long conflict. It's not good

for anybody involved. A lot of people are in America. They're growing exhausted with this issue that is certainly being used to divide a lot of good people. What then is your advice on the Israel issue? Thoughts on Netanyahu, his government, the Lakud Party, please, Lieutenant General Michael Phil. Yeah. So first of all, Charlie, wars of attrition never help either side because they come in a huge cost in lives and treasure. I think that for the Israelis, in terms of, internally, the Israelis need to do some soul search. And there's going to have to be some truth bombs that are going to have to come out of the Israeli leadership. And they're going through their own machinations right now between Netanyahu and the leadership and the military

because they're talking about the occupation of Gaza. You know, go ask any marining that served in Beirut during the Beirut barracks bombing, which was like back in 1983, we lost hundreds of Marines. So occupation forces don't, you know, they don't work. So there's got to to be soul searching there, but that soul searching also has to occur in the White House. And President Trump is going to have to talk to his own internal team to say, what is it that we can do? He's going to have to engage the leadership of the Arab world. And I mean, in a much bigger way than he's doing right now. I know that he's got Whitkoff doing all kinds of things. He's got Special Envoy Whitkoff in the Middle East and Oman. He's got him up in Russia.

We're spreading our forces too thin here. We have got to make a decision about Ukraine. And I think the war's got to end. And so the funding of additional resources, that has got to end. I'm sorry. I mean, I, you know, I love Trump. I fought tooth and nail for him. I've been on Team Trump, team America. Back to back to the wars and back to kind of the future. So for the, you know, because now I'm going to use the word nuclear, Charlie. And I know I don't want to take too much time because I know you got a show to run here. But for your audience, your young audience, nuclear warfare scares the crap out of me, so it should scare the crap out of your young audience. We have had discussions about nuclear capabilities more in the last year,

year and a half than in my, you know, almost four decades of service in uniform and to this country. I've never heard this much talk about nuclear capabilities and nuclear standoff. Once you cross that threshold, and here we are on the anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, those are devastating capabilities. And I wrote about that again in this article because you can't talk about a tactical nuclear weapon. It's poison. It's going to kill millions and millions of people and it's going to destroy the fabric of a large, large chunk of geography just from the tactical standpoint, never mind the strategic aspects of using a nuclear capability, which then escalates it even further, which is what we're communicating.

continuing to see in the Middle East and in Europe. Trump doesn't want any of that. You know, President Trump, you campaign on being the president of peace. I know that's what you want. And what I want you to do is I want you to tell the American people what your plans are, what your objectives are, to achieve that because we will stand with you as long as we understand what it is that you're trying to achieve. And I do, if I were with the president sitting in the Oval Office, I would recommend that. And I would help craft some of that. We've got to tell the American people, we've got to be totally transparent because what Tulsi Gabbard is dropping in terms of the subversion and espionage directed against the American people over the last, I don't know, eight, ten years is just extraordinary. That's going to have to be dealt with. And these wars are going to have to be dealt with. And it needs almost a state of the union like speech to the American people. Maybe it's an Oval Office speech by the president. I mean, I want. this president to so succeed and in a big, big way where they start, you know, give me the tools

and I'll start chipping away on Mount Rushmore. That's how much I want him to succeed. And he can do it. He's got the mandate to do it. He's not the political, you know, he doesn't have that sort of, he's not a typical politician. He knows he uses good common sense, but he's got to tell the American people the direction that he's heading and we'll go with him. Lieutenant General Michael Flynn, Thank you so much for your time. Excellent, as always. You were patient, zero. You've been through so much.

You're a patriot. Come back soon. Thank you. God bless, Charlie. Thank you. Thanks so much for listening. Everybody email us, as always, freedom at charliekirk.com. Thanks so much for listening, and God bless.

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