President Trump's Triumphant State of the Union Aftermath

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The Charlie Kirk Show is proudly sponsored by Preserved Gold, leading gold and silver experts and the only precious metals company I recommend to my family, friends and viewers. 00:01:09 Speaker 2: All Right, welcome to the Charlie Kirk Show. 00:01:11 Speaker 4: I'm still in DC after an amazing state of the Union speech last night. Blake is in Phoenix. Blake last night was a barn burner of a speech. I was honored to be inside the gallery to watch it and really felt the energy up close. But you guys, you did a stream last night. POSO was there, Cliff Maloney, Danny from the team I called in. 00:01:36 Speaker 2: I'm going to start with you. It was the longest State of. 00:01:39 Speaker 4: The Union address in US history, clocking in it nearly one hour and forty eight minutes. Our president's almost eighty years old, and he beat the previous record by Bill Clinton. 00:01:50 Speaker 2: What did you make of it? 00:01:51 Speaker 4: Watching from I guess the studio or of a TV environment as opposed to being inside. 00:01:56 Speaker 5: Well, I think they're pretty similar. The president. We all know President Trump has a flare for imagery. He has a flair for the theatrical. He thinks a lot about how will this look on television? And he took full advantage of that. He throughout the speech. We've always had. You know, past presidents would also, they'd bring guests and they'd shout them out. 00:02:19 Speaker 6: Biden did that, Obama did that, Bush did that. 00:02:21 Speaker 5: But President Trump really thinks about how to take it to the next level. So the way he has the US Olympic Hockey team walk in in the early part of his speech as part of the tired of winning line, and then of course the shout out to Charlie with Erica there, which I'm sure we'll play that clip again in a moment, and then not one but two Congressional Medals of Honor awarded during the ceremony. It really it was a strong mix of what we expect from the State of the Union, which is he's shouting out his accomplishments over the past year and laying out what he thinks should be done in the next with the more pure Americana that a lot of Americans appreciate of celebrating the country, celebrating the country's heroes. And it was a consistently good visual throughout, and I guess has to be said, we'll get the good midterm visual where he says, let's stand for American citizens and you have a bunch of people not standing. I think, yeah, it really was showcasing his talent. You know, the guy who's been on TV as much as he has, it showed that side of his talent set very well. 00:03:28 Speaker 2: Well. It's interesting, you know, we have this clip. 00:03:30 Speaker 4: I mean, it was electric inside the gallery last night, and people don't realize how small that space is. 00:03:37 Speaker 2: And it was built, you know, before a. 00:03:39 Speaker 4: Time where he had sound amplification right, so you can hear everything that's going on. You can hear when Ilhan Omar and Rashida t Liber shouting at him. You can hear what they're saying. I had a visual right over the top of them, so I got to see them right up and right up close. 00:03:54 Speaker 2: But here's what's crazy. 00:03:55 Speaker 4: Is I'm getting the impression from inside the gallery. I was like, this is a triumph. This is a ten out of ten, an absolute home runner. As Jack Pisovic said last night, it wasn't a home run. 00:04:06 Speaker 2: It was a home run derby. 00:04:07 Speaker 4: It's just hit, hit after hit, and it seems like even according to CNN, this was a successful speech play Cup four to sixty. 00:04:14 Speaker 7: But among speech watchers tonight, sixty four percent of his policies will move the US in the right direction and look at the growth President Trump. 00:04:21 Speaker 3: Made over the speech. 00:04:23 Speaker 7: So pre speech it was fifty four percent of speech watchers said his policies will move the US in the right direction. After the speech, that number goes up ten percentage points. So Donald Trump made some progress with people watching the speech from their pre speech expectations to what they. 00:04:39 Speaker 3: Saw in the speech itself. 00:04:41 Speaker 4: That I think is one of the best you know, sort of data points that we can take from this blake. 00:04:47 Speaker 2: But I mean listen. 00:04:48 Speaker 4: He focused on a turnaround for the ages quote unquote and declared the Golden Age of America after one year in office. He emphasized economic revival, border security, crime reduction, global strength, which he used to repeatedly criticize Democrats for past failures and. 00:05:05 Speaker 2: Obstruction their current obstruction. 00:05:07 Speaker 4: You know, we talked about the He paid special tribute to Charlie, calling him a great friend. It was a beautiful moment. Here we go, let's play it. Let's go ahead and play it. We should four seventy two. 00:05:20 Speaker 8: This last year, there has been a tremendous renewal in religion, faith, Christianity, and belief in God. This is especially true among young people, and a big part of that had to do with my great friend Charlie Kirk. 00:05:36 Speaker 3: Great great man. 00:05:41 Speaker 8: The last year Charlie was violently murdered by an assassin and martyred, really martyred for his beliefs. His wonderful wife, Erica, is with us tonight. Erica, please stand in Charlie's memory. We must all come together to reaffirm that America is one nation under God, and we must totally reject political violence of any kind. 00:06:15 Speaker 5: So, Andrew, I was wondering, we couldn't always see what the crowd was doing. It looked like they did pan out to it and looked like almost everyone was standing, and the ones who weren't I was looking at looked like it might be old veterans who can't stand easily. Since you were in the chamber, were you able to see did the whole chamber consistently stand or if not, who was staying seated you made. 00:06:36 Speaker 2: For thee for Charlie? 00:06:38 Speaker 4: Yeah, particularly, Yeah, it was most of them were standing. Yeah, there was a few people that were still seated. There were some Democrats that just simply would not stand. You know, there was a really old guy that just like punched over. I didn't even recognize him because he didn't lift his head up and he was just looking at his phone the whole time. But you know, I think the ones that were engaged in the speech basically stood up for that moment, I will say, and you know that that's good. And and I at one point, though he's towards the end of that clip, he said we need to stand against political violence. And I would say eighty percent of the Democrat side of the House did not stand. And I I just got frustrated. I shouted down at them because I'm right over the top, and I realized. 00:07:19 Speaker 2: They could hear me. 00:07:20 Speaker 4: I said, you know, I said, stand up, you coward stepped up because it just infuriated me in that moment that they wouldn't stand up for a call against political violence. And you know, and that and and that really was the through line Blake about. You know, I think some of the biggest moments from this speech. Yes, President Trump lifted up a patriotic vision. Yes, the ending was just amazing. You know, where God needs a nation for a miracle, he knows who to call. I mean, these kind of moments were hugely inspiring, and they presented this positive vision of the future. But the moments that I will never forget was when when Trump asked, hey, stand up if you think America should should fight for American citizens first, and the Democrats didn't stand totally shameful. President Trump was right to call them out the political violence moment that I just mentioned, And then you know what Arena Zaruska. It was her parents sitting up there crying and they wouldn't stand. And these are people who are wearing the Ukrainian flag. And here's a Ukrainian refugee who flees to America only to get murdered by a monster that we let out after being arrested twelve times. Those images I will never get out of my mind. Being in the actual gallery, they're they're etched into my memory forever. 00:08:37 Speaker 2: Truly, it was. It was something I'll never forget. 00:08:40 Speaker 4: But like this, this was in an amazing moment that I think the polling shows President Trump was. It was a triumphant and here's my here's my bottom line take. 00:08:48 Speaker 2: And I felt this in the room. 00:08:49 Speaker 4: But it's good to see that everybody cross social media is kind of reacting in the same way. I mean, besides Democrats, this was the Trump that led us to victory in twenty twenty four. This is the Trump that won the popular vote, This is the Trump that won all seven swing states. This is the president that can lead us to victory in the midterms, there's been a lot of doomers, a lot of black pillars. I felt like this was the tone, this was the pace that was set. 00:09:15 Speaker 2: We need to follow this through. 00:09:16 Speaker 4: And Blake I couldn't help but notice he even integrated some of those Fabrizio slides and the presentation about the banning stock trading. We had that great moment when Nancy Pelosi where the camera panned to her and he. 00:09:27 Speaker 2: Brought her up. 00:09:29 Speaker 4: He talked about price transparency, he talked about cutting out big insurance companies, these populous wins that kind of pierced the noise and get to the normal American voter. 00:09:38 Speaker 5: Andrew, we actually have a pretty funny clip where because he made fun of Nancy Pelosi and she was asked about it afterwards and seemed very caught off guard because at least one Democrat applauded for it. I think that would be a pretty fun one to play. Let's do four forty eight. 00:09:55 Speaker 9: There was one moment, Madam Speaker, where he called you out specifically around of course at congressional stock trading. What do you say back to him? 00:10:04 Speaker 10: I say back to him, as that's what members said, look at your own self. The inference he wants to draw, is there was something wrong with that, which there wasn't, and if there was, people get prosecuted for it. For a long time now we've been trying to pass this law. It doesn't have Now it has more support than it had before. 00:10:26 Speaker 9: And Elizabeth Warren stood up and applauded. Elizabeth Warren stood and applauded tonight when the President talked about it, well that we all did. 00:10:34 Speaker 10: I did too, we said the Nancy stand up, Yeah. 00:10:37 Speaker 8: I did too. 00:10:38 Speaker 3: A lot of people stood up, a lot of Democrats stood up. 00:10:42 Speaker 4: That shows Blake that this you know, I love this. 00:10:46 Speaker 2: I love this phrase. It breaks containment. 00:10:48 Speaker 4: This is why I love these ideas like banning stock trading. Like you could argue there are problems, I would argue that it's central though, because it's corruption in our judicial or our legislative process, right, and you're getting bought and paid for shills in Congress as opposed to people willing to do the right thing for the people. But here's the thing, the people understand these messages. It pierces it, It breaks containment. And the fact that CNN is even forced to do that segment and have a little moment of honest journalism, and you get Elizabeth Warren getting on board with it. These are big wins that you can put on the board and you could go and ride them into the midterm. 00:11:26 Speaker 5: Yeah exactly, it's I think it would be a strong platform. Just as you say, you see those headline items, and it's not necessarily it's not necessarily the stuff we consider the biggest accomplishments. As their presentation said, securing the border was great, actually of existential importance for the United States. But annoyingly, it's not something where you just stamp this guy secured the border and just win the midterms. 00:11:51 Speaker 6: It should be that way, It's not that way. That's how the human brain is. 00:11:55 Speaker 5: But having your next thing that you can run on, which is, hey, we have the proposal to banstock trading. It's not passing because of these opponents. I think that's a good message to have. I think correct the homeowners stoople is a good message to have. 00:12:11 Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly. 00:12:11 Speaker 4: People need a villain, and so when you see people that are blocking something as common sense as banning congressional stock trading, you have a villain and then you and then you can go after that villain and I think that's an effective messaging tactic. 00:12:25 Speaker 2: All right, So here's here's. 00:12:26 Speaker 4: I think the the There was so many good moments, the Congressional Medal of Honor, the the little girl that was injured and learning to walk again after being hit by an illegal with a commercial driver's license. All of these moments were viewed, but this, to me was the one that will live the longest. And this is where President Trump asked them to stand up if they support American citizens first, and Democrats refused. 00:12:51 Speaker 8: For sixty one tonight, I'm inviting every legislature to join with my administration and reaffirming a fundamental principle. 00:13:00 Speaker 3: If you agree with this statement. 00:13:02 Speaker 8: Then stand up and show your support. The first duty of the American government is to protect American citizens, not illegal aliens. In that shame, you should be ashamed of yourself not standing up. He should be ashamed of yourself. 00:13:39 Speaker 4: You should be ashamed of it. He baited them, and they took the bait. Their hatred of ice of DHS, the people that are keeping us safe, is so extreme, it's so extraordinary. They're so beholden to the radical left of their base that they refuse to stand up for American citizens absolutely shocking in that moment. By the way, I will just say in the gallery Blake, I couldn't actually hear what he was saying for part of it, because the acoustics were such that he was still talking and people are already making noise. 00:14:06 Speaker 2: I couldn't make out what he was saying. But all hell broke loose on the floor. 00:14:10 Speaker 4: I mean, you had shouting left and right, and the fact that President Trump, from an optic standpoint, overpowered that noise and just kept hitting them and came back with all that energy, that dynamism. He came back and said, you should be ashamed of yourself. You should be ashamed. I knew that a big moment had just happened, even though I missed the point. You could feel it in the room, just absolute, like the tension. You could cut it with a knife. 00:14:34 Speaker 6: Yeah, it's a remarkable image. 00:14:36 Speaker 5: A lot of people were saying, could you cut an ad based on that? I don't know that I've ever actually seen an ad that used the state of the Union. It would be interesting to see, but it certainly for us is the perfect symbol of how it is that you go back to that nineteen ninety I think it was ninety six or ninety seven State of the Union Bill Clinton boasting about his efforts to deport illegal immigrants. Thirty years later, you have of Democrats just they are the party of illegal immigrants. That is what defines them, arguably more than anything besides transgender surgeries. 00:15:09 Speaker 4: I guess yeah, the lines have been drawn. You are either for the American people or you are not. That moment where you baited them and they took the bait is the defining moment of that speech, and they are going to live to regret it. 00:15:22 Speaker 2: I truly believe that. 00:15:25 Speaker 5: The online world moves fast, and it's moving even faster these days. 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It actually celebrated, obviously the United States hockey team and them coming in with the gold medals. That was probably the best moment I've seen in a State of the Union overall. Definitely the best one I've been a part of in six years. But honoring our World War Two veteran one hundred years old, Honoring the National guardsman who was on patrol here in DC, who's praying mother, basically, through the grace of God, he is still with us today, him being honored, Honoring the helicopter pilot in the mission to bring Maduro to justice here in the United States. 00:17:48 Speaker 3: It was a unifying speech. Of course. The President talked about policy. 00:17:52 Speaker 11: He got into domestic policy and how he's bringing back the American economy. How no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, the largest tax cuts for Social Security recipients in American history. How that's helping people keep more money in their pocket. The President wants to take on housing. He wants to get Blackstone and these institutional investors out of buying homes and taking them out from underneath the feet of the American people. He wants to make sure that we're driving down energy prices, driving down food cut prices, and then of course deporting criminal illegal aliens, and helping from the leadership perspective of the President of the United States, helping to end conflicts around the globe. It was a great speech, and the only thing that was damning is that the Democrats couldn't even get out of their own way to acknowledge the fact that every elected official in America, whether you're on Capitol Hill or local government or state government, we all have a responsibility first and foremost to the American people and to the United States of America. That truly is what America first means. That's our responsibility. And the Democrats are so deranged with Donald Trump, they just so lost it. They couldn't even acknowledge a simple question who comes first, the American people or criminal illegal aliens. I mean, I just think their party has lost They're gone. I saw you plan Charlie's take from from DJ Daniels last year at the Joint Session of Congress last year, and it was the same thing, like if you can't even acknowledge that you don't deserve political power because your worldview is so warped. 00:19:23 Speaker 3: We can't trust you with that authority. 00:19:26 Speaker 4: I totally agree, and you know, I do believe Charlie said this last year during the Joint Address, that you know, there's a spiritual sickness that has taken over the Democrat Party. And I just I was on full display last night and being in that gallery and hearing the shouts and the jeers from some of the you know, by the way, Nancy Pelosi is a liar. She's saying you could barely hear it. They barely like, you know, hear it in the in the room. I heard it like loud and clear. The acoustics in that room are incredible, so you're hearing everything everybody's saying. 00:19:57 Speaker 2: Total lie from her. 00:19:58 Speaker 4: By the way, I gotta get your reaction to some of your colleagues in Congress that are unhappy with the President's speech. 00:20:05 Speaker 2: This is Democrat Rep. Janelle Binham. She says it was racist four fifty three. 00:20:10 Speaker 12: What did you think about that moment when the President was asking Democrats to stand up for American citizens during that part of speech, when he was talking about immigration and immigration enforcement efforts. 00:20:21 Speaker 4: There's thinly veiled racist language, anti immigrant language in what he was asking, and. 00:20:28 Speaker 3: That was uncomfortable. 00:20:31 Speaker 2: Your reaction, Congress, that's just crazy, that's crazy. 00:20:34 Speaker 11: I don't even know what she's talking about. How is that thinly veiled? The President was clear, we are going to deport criminal illegal aliens. 00:20:42 Speaker 3: We are going to protect the American people. How was that racist? 00:20:46 Speaker 11: Joscelyn Nungari was not a young little white girl. She was a young Hispanic girl. She was raped and murdered by criminal illegal aliens. How is it racist to stand for her and her mother, all the other young girls, Rachel Moren who lost her life. How is that racist to stand for her life? This is craziness. And this is like I'm telling you, man, the Democrats have lost it because they would rather continue to drive these wedges using race, which, by the way, the American people are sick of it. 00:21:12 Speaker 3: They're over it. They're done. 00:21:13 Speaker 11: They've heard the talking points now for fifteen years in American politics. They're tired of everything that a Republican proposes as being somehow racist or bigot of It's just simply not true, and everybody knows it. So If that's the take that she's going to have, it demonstrates further why the American people cannot trust Democrats with the reigns of power here in Washington or quite frankly, in any state in the country. 00:21:37 Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I totally agree. 00:21:39 Speaker 4: There's one other one I want to play here for you, mocking President Trump giving the Congressional Medal of Honor to our brave military men and the one hundred year nearly one hundred year old war veteran. This is your colleague, Democrat Rep. Robin Kelly for fifty one. 00:21:58 Speaker 2: I was there. 00:21:59 Speaker 11: I was there, and it was as horrific as I thought it would be. Did you live. 00:22:06 Speaker 2: Absolutely, it was like an award show. You get a medal, you get a medal, You get a medal. 00:22:14 Speaker 4: Man, you get a medal, you get a medal. Congressman, your reaction. 00:22:18 Speaker 11: Acknowledging a one hundred year old World War Two vet who was in World War Two, was in Korea, was a helicopter pilot, and all those I believe it was a helicopter pilot, acknowledging his service to this nation. 00:22:32 Speaker 3: Is what we should do. 00:22:33 Speaker 11: Quite frankly, I'm surprised it's not happened at a State of the Union before. It probably should have because it's on display for the entire nation and the entire world to see that when you sacrifice for this country, you are acknowledged by the highest ranking official in our government, which is the President of the United States. And so if they take it as some sort of a ward show because they're trying to diminish Donald Trump, they're not diminishing him. They diminished themselves. Because when the American people see that clip, and they're going to see it over and over again in social media, normal people in the country are going to say, you know what, thank you, Donald Trump for acknowledging American greatness, acknowledging that veteran our of our armed forces, somebody who truly laid it on the line to protect America and to help make America the great country. 00:23:21 Speaker 3: That it is. 00:23:22 Speaker 4: Congressman, I gotta throw five point fifteen here. You know, one of the things about this moment last night is I feel like it's gonna give us massive, massive momentum going into the midterms, going into twenty twenty six. 00:23:35 Speaker 2: You are running for governor of the great State of Florida. 00:23:37 Speaker 4: This is a recent poll shows you at thirty one percent, your closest competitors at six percent. Tell us what does last night mean for your race, What does it mean for Florida? What does it mean for what you're going to do down there, what your plan is? 00:23:53 Speaker 3: Well. 00:23:53 Speaker 11: I think last night's speech it invigorates the country. I think Donald Trump was crystal clear about his vision of how to make America affordable again for our people, and a lot of that work has already started. 00:24:04 Speaker 3: He's going to continue to do that. 00:24:06 Speaker 11: It also is about partnering with the President as Florida's next governor to make sure that we're doing everything we can to build the housing we need in this country for young Americans who are in college right now trying to figure out a way to get married, have kids, and build their American dream in Florida. And also how we help seniors on fixed incomes be able to live week by week, month by month. That's where no tax on social Security really comes in. And so I think the President did the absolute right thing last night, talked about the rebuilding that did have to occur from Joe Biden and Kamala Harris because the economy was atrocious and security in the nation was atrocious and how he's working every single day to rebuild that. And I also thought it was a speech of true hope of what America is truly capable of the Golden Age being upon us. And I will tell you down in Florida, the Golden Age has been with us for quite some time. 00:24:58 Speaker 3: We are roaring. 00:25:00 Speaker 11: We have new reports saying and we expect the economy to grow to be the fourteenth largest economy. 00:25:05 Speaker 3: In the world in Florida. 00:25:07 Speaker 11: That's great credit to President Trump, great credit to Governor DeSantis. 00:25:13 Speaker 3: And so we're going to just keep that ball going and growing. 00:25:16 Speaker 11: And I think the President what he did last night is going to help Republicans across the board when it comes to the elections this November. 00:25:22 Speaker 4: You know a lot of people moved to Florida, especially during COVID. You are in the state from an affordability stand but almost a victim of your own success because you know, you got a lot of people moving in. It drives up home prices things like that. What this affordability message? What are you going to do in Florida specifically if you're elected Governor? 00:25:40 Speaker 11: Well, number one, we're going to address how long it takes to build housing in our state. National Association of home Builder says that thirty percent of the cost to build a home is government permitting. We're going to shrink that timeline down. We're going to get government out of the way of contractors building homes. If you can get that price down of what it is to deliver a home, you can get the price down for a young family trying to buy that home. Number Two, I hope the governor is successful with the legislature to eliminate homestead property taxes in state. In our state, I fully support that. One of the big things that we're also going to have to tackle is portability of home set exemption credits. If we get rid of it, great, there's no harm, no foul. But we have seniors in our state who bought a home a long time ago. Their property tax bill is actually quite low, and if they sell that home to downsize, their property tax bill is going to shoot through the roof, even though they're getting a smaller unit. So Florida is going to need to address that. Hopefully the legislature gets that done. But number three, it's about government efficiencies. And number four, it's about making sure that our young kids in the K twelve system, college system, university system, that every kid in Florida is on a pathway to economic success. We want them to be able to graduate, put food on the table, and build their families in the great state of Florida. My wife and I are really blessed to really build Florida dream. We built that Florida dream. We're excited about it. We're truly blessed. We want every kid in Florida to build that same dream for themselves, and it's no better place to do it in America than Florida. 00:27:10 Speaker 2: Yeah, well, aim in to that. 00:27:12 Speaker 4: And I think that portability issue is very fascinating. 00:27:15 Speaker 2: And the second, what you said about Gen Z and. 00:27:18 Speaker 4: The next generation, that's a message near and dear to our hearts here on the Charlie Kirkchow Obviously something Charlie cared a lot about. We've got to make it more affordable for young kids to get their foot in the economic doors. So thank you for focusing on that, and I've courage you to keep up the great work. Charlie Endorsed Byron Donalds. Thank you, sir, great to see you. 00:27:35 Speaker 3: Thank you. Take it easy, guys, hi folks. 00:27:40 Speaker 4: Andrew Colvett here, I'd like to tell you about my friends over at why Refi. You've probably been hearing me talk about y Refi for some time now. We are all in with these guys. 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It broke containment, It became a subject of comedians and so on, And I think it's something to drive home you really want to identify it. Really, it gives life to the stuff about illegal immigration, legal immigration for that matter, about the sense that Democrats are on the side of non citizens and against citizens, is that they will defend and support and enable all these fraud things. And I think putting the vice president in charge of it is a good way to keep that around. If you're regularly announcing new findings new indictments, If there's new ways to just keep that in the bl bloodstream over the year to come, that's it can entrench it in the popular mind as a big deal, and there's hopefully a lot to go for there. Obviously, Minnesota, we've seen it happen over and over again. 00:30:12 Speaker 6: But you look around in California, they have medicaid fraud that's so obviously concentrated. In certain you know, you have. 00:30:20 Speaker 5: Fifty two hospices in a few block radius that's obviously fraudulent. In New York, the New York Post has found where there's like senior care senior adult daycare centers, and these are very obviously just a way to con the federal government. They're not providing the services that that's intended for. In Maine they have the exact same smali kind of rings of businesses that look highly suspicious. Oregon's got it, Washington's got it. You can go to one state after another, and I think if they're serious about this, if they put real prosecutors and investigators on this beat and subpoena the documents and show what they're finding, they'll rapidly produce stories that can be very good for our movement. 00:31:03 Speaker 4: Yeah, and I think putting jd Vance in charge is a really good move if jd Vance wants to be the GOP nominee for president twenty twenty eight. 00:31:13 Speaker 2: Again, I don't mean. 00:31:14 Speaker 4: To get ahead of ourselves here, but you gotta believe he's incentivized. He's gonna want to have real wins, real actionable wins on this front, because it is such a galling problem in our culture and our society when American taxpayers are struggling with affordability, yet at the same time you have foreigners that have moved here ripping off and taxpayers. And I love the way that we sometimes put it on this show. I think it's important where you actually say, hey, how many American taxpayers have to pay taxes for a lifetime to make up for nineteen billion dollars of Somali fraud. They're ripping out huge chunks of taxpayer base with all of this fraud. And then you expand that circle to California, Washington, Oregon. Like you said, Ohio, this is a rampant, widespread abuse of the American taxpayers that has to be rectified, and I think Jadvance is. 00:32:08 Speaker 2: The right guy to do it. Let's go ahead and play. 00:32:10 Speaker 4: Actually, JD was just on Fox this morning, so I want to play some of these, so I listen, I have lots of here. We'll do five owaight, him responding to exactly this the fraud story. 00:32:22 Speaker 2: Five oh way. 00:32:23 Speaker 13: I think that's unfortunate that nobody has ever tried to take a systematic look at how much fraud there is in the federal government. How many illegal aliens are on Medicaid. We know that it's billions and billions of dollars that should go to American citizens, it's going to illegal aliens. How many fraudulent daycare centers have been set up where that money should go to American citizens to help their kids get into childcare. Instead it's being stolen from them by illegal aliens in our country. The Department of Justice is going to be investigating and where possible, throwing fraudsters in prison. We're going to be looking at income tax records. We're going to be trying to understand how it is that the American peace people have been defrauded. And the President I talked about this a couple of months ago and said, what if we just did everything that we could to stop the fraud that's being committed against the American taxpayer. The President said, great idea, let's do it, and we're going to work on that very aggressively over the next year. 00:33:17 Speaker 4: Very aggressively. I think that's I think it's a promising side. I really trust JD to get at I mean, he's a guy and understands the difference between theater and actual wins. 00:33:26 Speaker 2: Trust me on that. 00:33:27 Speaker 4: So I'm positive in that direction. Blake, I want to really quickly, oh, go ahead, well. 00:33:32 Speaker 5: And it comes together because it is it Actually think about the Quality Leering Center. It is something where theater and real wins overlaps, because can you solve if there's two hundred billion dollars in fraud? Are you going to solve all that overnight? Frankly No, A lot of that's going to be tough to find, a lot of it's going to be tough to indict and prosecute. You're not going to solve fraud overnight, But you can get a very strong symbolic win. If you can even find a really agregious effet under and make them really famous, you drive the problem home and that can turn into political and policy wins. Even if you're not solving everything you find. You can make an example of a few really bad offenders. 00:34:11 Speaker 2: No, I agree with that. 00:34:12 Speaker 4: And you know a lot of times you'll hear these critiques on social media where they say, we've got to do more than a speech, or you got to do more than just a documentary or something like that. Understand, there's a continuum. You have to bring these issues front and center to the American people. You have to change the culture. You have to change the way people think about stuff, because then that creates political momentum to get actual wins, That creates the moral backing for prosecutors to bring actual charges. These things all are connected. You have to win the pr war, the air war sometimes first in order to win the ground war. So I you know, I just want people to be encouraged that sometimes when you think, oh, it's all it's all noise, it all, it's all theater notes, these things play in tandem, sometimes necessarily because you need to get the moral backing of the. 00:34:57 Speaker 2: American people behind it. 00:34:58 Speaker 4: Like I was going to ask you about ara On because jd Vance talked about it, but we're gonna have to wait for hour two. So hopefully we get some time an hour two to talk about it wrong because that was something you and I were both looking for. 00:35:09 Speaker 5: Go ahead, Well, someone asked, is JD being given an impossible task? A big difference between this and what happened with Kamala on the border, for example, is we actually do want to stop fraud, whereas Democrats never wanted to solve the border and. 00:35:22 Speaker 6: They still gave it to Kamala. So key difference. 00:35:29 Speaker 2: For more on many of these stories and news you can trust, go to Charliekirk dot com.