The President Honors Charlie at the State of the Union

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Watch these dems scoot like rats running from the orcan man is that an advertisement? 00:01:56 Speaker 4: Or I'm not sure? 00:01:57 Speaker 5: Orcanman? God bless America, God bless President Trump. Only one person thrown out was Al Green and President I'm not sure if he was thrown out or if he just walked. Did he walk out? I'm not sure. It wasn't super clear. We'll definitely get a screenshot of what happened there. Cliff will get your reaction in a second. But I think the first thing we want to do, we want to replay the part that is emotionally closest for all of us. And that was when President Trump shouted out Charlie and he got everyone in the House to stand for it because he linked it to a call to end all political violence. I believe that number is for forty two. 00:02:41 Speaker 6: I'm very proud to say that during my time in office, both the first four years and in particular this last year, there has been a tremendous renewal in religion, faith, Christianity, and belief in God. 00:02:56 Speaker 7: Tremendous. 00:03:09 Speaker 6: This is especially true among young people, and a big part of that had to do with my great friend Charlie Kirk, you. 00:03:18 Speaker 7: Great, great man. 00:03:29 Speaker 8: So last year Charlie was violently murdered by an assassin and martyred, really martyred for his beliefs. 00:03:38 Speaker 6: His wonderful wife, Erica is with us tonight. 00:03:41 Speaker 7: Erica, please stand. Thank you. Erica been through a lot in Charlie's memory. 00:04:08 Speaker 6: We must all come together to reaffirm that America is one nation under God, and we must totally reject political. 00:04:16 Speaker 7: Violence of any kind. 00:04:30 Speaker 9: We love religion and we love bringing it back, and it's coming back at levels that nobody actually thought possible. 00:04:38 Speaker 6: It's really a beautiful thing to see. 00:04:41 Speaker 5: Cliff, what were you feeling when you saw that. 00:04:44 Speaker 10: Yeah, I mean, I think it's obviously a beautiful tribute. 00:04:46 Speaker 11: I love that he was finally able to get them to stand and applaud together on the idea of, you know, hey, let's all say no more political violence. 00:04:54 Speaker 10: I mean, I think for all of us, that was the one thing. 00:04:56 Speaker 11: You know, I'm not going to speak for you guys, but you know, through all the conversations with people in Charlie's orbit, I still think the number one thing that was just so shocking was the response from so many people on the left and to see Democrats at least acknowledge, hey, let's take a pause and all agree to no political violence. 00:05:16 Speaker 10: I just think that was a powerful moment. 00:05:17 Speaker 11: I'm glad that obviously Erica got the recognition and to have them chanting Charlie was was pretty cool. 00:05:23 Speaker 5: It was it was I think that was that was my favorite moment in it, But obviously there were a lot of other great moments. The President is very he's very good at the pageantry side of the State of the Union, so we got not one, but two medals of honor that were awarded. He also had the hockey team showed up gave gave the medal of freedom to uh to the goalie, which that was. That was quite the gesture. I've got to say good shoutouts throughout and I think he did a good job. Part of this goal is, of course political. I think he did a good job of highlighting that Democrats are very loopy on some very important issues. He did that on the border, on illegal immigration generally. If you weren't hearing the president's remarks, you may have also seen. I saw Rashida Talib had a f ice button on that was just lovingly displayed there. Throughout the address, we got some nice images of Ilhan Omar glowering really angrily, and he of course he even highlighted the Somali fraud, which I thought that was a long shot on my bingo card. But I did pretty bad on my bingo card overall, but that was one that actually appeared. I did not score a full bingo, which that's okay. You know you want to have some long shot ones, make it a little bit of a challenge. But how did you do? 00:06:43 Speaker 4: Yeah, my card was not very good. I think I had five or six total. I kept going for long shots and stuff. I was hoping for more so than what would happen. 00:06:53 Speaker 11: But yeah, yeah, I blame I blame Fazzio. He gave me a card to use and it performed very poorly. 00:06:59 Speaker 5: So have been mine throwing Angelo under the bus like that. Gotta watch it, Cliff, But Angela, Angela could get you for that one. But yeah, no, it was I'm looking through just to remind myself of everything. So we did have We had Democrats. Actually I think it was Rashida Taleb again, she was screeching at Trump during some of the immigration rhetoric. 00:07:19 Speaker 1: That was. 00:07:20 Speaker 3: Yeah. 00:07:21 Speaker 5: Al Green of course disrupted it with he had a sign I think, do we have that image? I believe it's we do throw that up. It is four forty and the sign said black people aren't apes, which I guess is about that. It's about that TikTok. 00:07:38 Speaker 4: About social to the next video. At the very end, he. 00:07:43 Speaker 12: Was the best part though for like the five or six times that you could barely see it on the stream, it actually said black people rent apes because he was covering up the a like an idiot, So that was like taking off on Twitter. 00:07:55 Speaker 11: But anyway, I just think he does this for every every I mean, if you ever like, listen to this guy. 00:08:01 Speaker 10: This is one of those Democrats where you wonder. 00:08:03 Speaker 11: How in the world do these people get elected, and it's incumbency protection, et cetera. Like once you get in, you never can get out. He doesn't make sense with anything he says, right, He's just kind of this cartoon character. 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And I mean her reaction and sitting next to who was it to leave, I mean they just look like children screaming at the president. 00:10:48 Speaker 10: I mean she just went irate in that moment. 00:10:51 Speaker 5: Yeah, In fact, we have a clip of her. Let's let's get the clip of ilhan Omar getting very upset. That is for forty three. 00:10:58 Speaker 8: You should be a shamed of yourself not standing up. You should be ashamed of yourself. 00:11:05 Speaker 9: That is why I'm also asking you to end deadly sanctuary cities that protect the criminals and enact serious penalties for public officials. 00:11:15 Speaker 7: Who block the removal of criminal aliends. 00:11:18 Speaker 9: In many cases, drug lords, murders all over our country. 00:11:22 Speaker 7: They're blocking the removal of these people out of our country. And you should be ashamed of yourself. 00:11:40 Speaker 5: Could you tell what okay it was? Apparently she was shouting there, you have killed Americans. You should be ashamed, is what she was illinom. 00:11:48 Speaker 4: That's interesting coming from her policies which let in all these illegal immigrants have killed people of fendanel. 00:11:53 Speaker 5: Oh, yeah, of course. Well but as we as we know in Democrat politics, the realist Americans of the people who are not from America, like herself. Really, the only people who aren't American are the people who are born in America. Everyone else is if you're from America, you're your gutter trash. 00:12:07 Speaker 11: We at least give some credit to the Democrats that had to sit in the row in front of them too. 00:12:15 Speaker 5: Are people maybe they need maybe they need to get one of those medals. Yes, that's they definitely went through a trial by fire there. Looking at more reactions from some of those people. If you have any thoughts, feel free to shoot a Dono message. But well, we might read it anyway. You know, we love to see what your guys takes are. We've got the best part from ward thirty six, best part of the State of the Union. The President called out the Democrats to their faces and gave them a big I can't read that part of it. God blessed President Donald J. Trump. Hyland says, yes, the camera crew was great. That was the best part. I was hoping that ilhan O Marklet would be the part where as soon as he mentioned Somali fraud, they just cut over to they had the camera isode on her. It was It's like the only time that the State of the Union is like the only time that the cameras in Congress are on par with like Sunday night football, where they have a camera ready for every eventuality and they I think they just have impeccable time in They knew that might come up. They had it ready to go. You can picture the studio go put it on Ilhun, put it on Omar. 00:13:19 Speaker 11: Well, this this reminds me of when they were having the whole vacated speaker. Matt Gates talked about this a lot, how it was actually kind of awesome to watch c SPAN for once because instead of just the shot, you know, a lot of me break the secret here and all the members of Congress will have amad at. 00:13:34 Speaker 10: Me, but they typically have the shot where the camera's. 00:13:37 Speaker 11: Up high, pointing down so that people can't see that they're debating in an empty chamber, right, And so this is like the one night, like you said, where the control room is. They've got everybody kind of pinpointed and where they want to be. And obviously once they get you know, pre recording the speech, then they're probably mapping it out, you know, like a producer would do to figure out where they're going to go. So I once again kudos to the cameramen and the camera crew here. 00:14:01 Speaker 4: Yeah, and I think that was part of one of the best parts is Trump just calling them out straight to their face multiple times, especially on the transgender issue, and they refused to stand for that girl the transition became a guy and then went back to being a girl, and he just like looked at him and was like, you guys are crazy people. That's something that he didn't do last year that I feel like actually kind of helps. Just calling him out straight to. 00:14:25 Speaker 5: Their face with the with the transgender lawmaker right there, yeah, and then they showed the dude yeah or whatever, looky. 00:14:35 Speaker 10: Yeah. 00:14:36 Speaker 11: The best part is that Trump actually said I put up a video on this, and it was like he actually said to them, I'm going to ask you to stand up. 00:14:44 Speaker 10: If you agree with this. 00:14:45 Speaker 1: You know. 00:14:46 Speaker 11: He took a pause, went into his statement, and that way it wasn't just oh, look, they're not standing, you know, even though I said something that ninety percent of Americans agree with, he gave them the opportunity to stand. He kind of set the scene. And I honestly think, guys, I. 00:14:59 Speaker 10: Think this is going to be the the biggest. 00:15:01 Speaker 11: Moment where the biggest message that we have to control the narrative on for the twenty twenty six midterms, which is, do you think that the duty of the American government is to first stand with American citizens over legal immigrants and to have not one Democrat stand up. 00:15:18 Speaker 10: I just think that's the extremely. 00:15:19 Speaker 5: We have a cliff. We have your clip on this from a few minutes ago, so let's put that up four to forty four. 00:15:27 Speaker 9: Then stand up and show your support. 00:15:31 Speaker 6: The first duty of the American government is to protect American citizens, not lea. 00:15:37 Speaker 15: Come on, they all got to stand. They all got to stand. There's no way there that's to Oh my gosh, are you kidding me? Keep the chant going, these idiots, folks, We might have a chance in twenty twenty six. 00:15:56 Speaker 7: They have yet to learn. 00:15:58 Speaker 11: You cannot refuse to say that you support American citizens over illegals. You represent we the people, the American citizens. This right here gives us a shot to win big. 00:16:10 Speaker 10: In twenty twenty six. Not one Democrat standing up. 00:16:15 Speaker 7: You can't write this stuff. 00:16:19 Speaker 13: Man. 00:16:21 Speaker 5: Hopefully they're ready enough to like there's a good way to cut that into an ad. I do feel like that's a good midterm message. But yeah, who knows. It's a strange country. We're looking over at the camera's Abigail Spanberger is delivering the Democrat response. I guess it's hard to tell at a glance whether it's pre taped, but my understanding is it usually is, though maybe not in this case. I'm not sure, Especially since she's not in Congress, it doesn't matter as much. But obviously it's pre written, so it's not really reacting to anything the president specifically did. But we'll see how that gets reviewed. We don't care about watching that right now because she's lame. 00:16:57 Speaker 4: Uh well, she's the perfect Democrat model. Yeah, it kind of makes sense. Of course, they make her do the speech for them, in that she pretended to be a moderate and then went insane as soon as she got into power m and that's their same game plan that they're trying to run out in twenty six. 00:17:12 Speaker 5: Zusus asks, can we get the USA hockey team to run for Congress? Only if they're over twenty five? Otherwise they are constitutionally ineligible to run for Congress? But I imagine most of them are I assume who knows. But we have wiser t God, bless Erica Heart, and three prayer hands. We have virtuously meet. Please do not put that communist spangler on here. 00:17:37 Speaker 7: We will not. 00:17:38 Speaker 5: We're not doing that. You guys can change the channel if you want to listen to Weird Virginia communis rattle on about things. 00:17:46 Speaker 11: One quick comment about the awkwardness of some of these USA hockey players. 00:17:51 Speaker 10: They play for teams in Canada, so they were interviewing. I think one of them just did a Fox interview. I think it's the goalie. I think he plays for Winnipeg and so he's got to go back to Canada. 00:18:00 Speaker 11: Now, is this American hero that stole the cup from the you know, the Canadians. I mean that's gonna be a fun trip. 00:18:06 Speaker 1: Man. Yeah. 00:18:07 Speaker 4: I don't really fall hockey much, but yeah, yeah, I only when the playoffs come around. 00:18:11 Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, yeah, Oh star stars for Charlie says literally just joined because I've been at church all night. I'm sure I missed a lot. You missed a great shout out to Charlie from the President. You'll want to catch that. You can find that our next orp. You'll be able to definitely catch it on our show tomorrow. We'll be playing that plenty of times. I am sure you missed the President getting Al Green kicked. He kicked himself out. 00:18:35 Speaker 4: Ye volunteerily walked himself out. 00:18:38 Speaker 5: I don't know, Yeah, you missed. I guess I'm thinking of other big topics out there. He talked about the economy, He talked about home ownership. I'm kicking myself that I didn't put on my bingo card what I thought he might do, which was both talk about helping people afford homes but without lowering the home prices of anyone who who currently owns a home. That is, that is a line the President has used from time to time. It's a definite walking a tight rope on on how housing is in this country, which is frankly one reason it does get so expensive is, yeah, we say we want affordable housing, but if you own a house, not not really, no, they don't. 00:19:12 Speaker 1: Uh. 00:19:13 Speaker 5: He talked, So, he talked about that, He talked what was that? 00:19:15 Speaker 11: How about the shots? I mean, is it me or did it feel as if there were more Democrats? A sleep and maybe once again the camera guys were just feeling a little you know. 00:19:24 Speaker 4: We had a sleep counter going on the office. I think we kind of at least three to four. Yeah, people asleep. 00:19:32 Speaker 10: Yeah, when do you term them? It's folks? 00:19:34 Speaker 1: You heard it here. 00:19:34 Speaker 4: First was Mitch McConnell there. 00:19:37 Speaker 5: I didn't see him, but he was I didn't see but he's he's definitely getting rather feeble. 00:19:43 Speaker 10: Yeah, he's in bed by six o'clock, so I don't think he made it. 00:19:45 Speaker 4: Yeah, I didn't see him there. 00:19:46 Speaker 5: Let's see what. Let's check on x IF Mitch McConnell. Uh was he There's just people still missing in action. People are saying, so I guess, uh, I guess he wasn't there. And and we had Hank Johnson either asleep or closing his eyes. Yeah, it seems it seems like it was that. Let's see. Oh, I did like him. Angelo predicted that we would get a slam on Nancy Pelosi, and I thought, Nancy's not even the Democrat leader anymore. She's retiring. How often you hear about her? But he was right and we were wrong. He threw in that dunk on Nancy Pelosi. And I don't know if she was there either. 00:20:24 Speaker 7: Was she there? 00:20:25 Speaker 6: Yeah? 00:20:25 Speaker 5: She was there, Okay, all right. 00:20:27 Speaker 4: She was probably pretty intoxicated as usual, but yeah, she. 00:20:30 Speaker 5: Was there, probably sleeping in someone. 00:20:33 Speaker 11: But well, you know, it was weird when they went to her. There was this congresswoman next to her who was like definitely asleep. And I don't want to say too much about Nancy we've we've attacked her enough over the past decade, but she was looking rough. 00:20:47 Speaker 10: I'll just leave that. It was not great for her. 00:20:51 Speaker 4: There was no Andrew sighting, though. 00:20:54 Speaker 5: I did have it on there if we would see and he was the guest of a congressman there. I'm not sure where he was in there, but they did not incidentally catch him, so that would have that would have gotten me close to a bingo. If I'd gotten that, I would have needed a backhanded compliment. But Trump, he didn't do that. Trump was was very positive about all his guys. 00:21:12 Speaker 16: He was. 00:21:12 Speaker 5: He appointed j d the Somali fraud Investigator at Large for America, which I think will be a rather thankless job, but it is an important one and a good one. And finally there was a job created that wasn't given to Marco Rubio, who also got a shout out. He said a lot about Marco Ruby, who was really touting the Secretary of State there, and yeah, it was very positive vibes for his ADMIN. Didn't call out Thomas Massey. We didn't see any I didn't notice any Epstein stuff in terms of people shouting. 00:21:44 Speaker 4: It or they had the pins. Though all the Democrats had the theater pins and that's. 00:21:49 Speaker 11: Their big message. But yeah, Nash was next to Nancy Mace. I did catch a couple of glimpses of him. But yeah, Trump didn't go into that. 00:21:57 Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm certainly not surprised he didn't. He did bring up eight wars, which included it's someone's it's funny to make up the list, like Egypt and Ethiopia. They get to eight through some somewhat creative account. 00:22:11 Speaker 1: Ye. 00:22:12 Speaker 4: Some of these aren't even wars. 00:22:13 Speaker 5: Yeah, well it's a it's a state of high tension, you know, if you're going for the Noble Peace Prize. You he was campaigning. 00:22:19 Speaker 4: I had that on my bingo board, and he never made He did not mention that. 00:22:22 Speaker 5: He did not mention that, and he did not mention Greenland. He did not He did not mention quite a few foreign policy things, which I think is right. We kind of are thinking he should pivot towards domestic stuff, and that is largely. 00:22:36 Speaker 1: What he did. 00:22:39 Speaker 5: Howdy Blake here, You know, in moments like this, truth really matters. 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Join the Angel Guild today at angel dot Com slash Charlie Kirk become a member and stream Thank You Doctor Fauci today. 00:23:48 Speaker 11: Which award did he say he would give him Is it the Presidential Medal of Honor? 00:23:52 Speaker 10: What award did he say he would give himself if he was able to. 00:23:55 Speaker 5: I think the Medal of Honor I think he was saying he would give himself a Medal of honor if he was able to if the loophole closed, or if the loophole opened, or whatever it was. But they told them, you can't, and it's you know, it's for it's for valor in the armed forces. So I think that's just kind of the usual, uh Trump cheekiness. I don't think people got too upset about that. But two medals of honor. I think we've awarded one medal of honor before, but I don't know that we've done two, or have we awarded it to someone living. I think we've they've awarded it to a widow. I believe perhaps during the State of the U I can find out. Yeah, I'm sure check on that. But it's it's almost like there's there's almost awards inflation, Like how where do you go from a Medal of Freedom and two medals of honor in one State of the Union address? 00:24:41 Speaker 10: Yeah, and I'll also had this. 00:24:42 Speaker 11: I do think that you know, the equips and kind of the the ability for Trump to handle himself to obviously go off script at certain points, not in a bad way, I just mean, you know, to work the room. 00:24:53 Speaker 10: I think the American people. 00:24:54 Speaker 11: You know, that's a big reason why he's gotten elected, right, is he's able to connect, he's able to talk, he's able to just kind of free flowing in a way that most politicians can't do. 00:25:04 Speaker 1: Right. 00:25:04 Speaker 11: We learned this at the twenty sixteen debates. You know, it was like, who's this guy who's not a politician that's a TV star. You know, he knows how to really carry himself and work the room, and that connects to the normies. So on a night late tonight when so many non political people, people that are just trying to pay their mortgage, take their kids to basketball practice, he had that audience tonight, and I think his demeanor really carried well to connect with that crowd. 00:25:28 Speaker 5: Yes, and some stuff where he might have been amped up, he didn't get as combative as you might have thought he did. He did mention the Supreme Court on the tariff case, but considering how clearly close to his heart that was and how he was pretty peeved, he basically just said, ah, you know, it wasn't a really nice cared for Like he was disagreeing with it, but it was not hyper aggressive. And then he pivoted to what I think you'd want, which is he's saying, we're still going to get the same trade deals with countries that were achieving what we wanted with the tariffs, with the teriffs we imposed in the year past, and we're going to do that, all right. I'm just getting notified we have Andrew on the phone. Andrew was just in the house chamber. They confiscated his phone from him as he was going in, but he has now recovered it. Andrew, what was it like inside the chamber? 00:26:17 Speaker 16: Well, hey guys, yeah, thanks Blitke, go back. It's pretty weird. Actually, they let the press have all of their devices and for some reason, you know, the guests that have been vited there don't get them. But inside it was it was amazingly electric, honestly, and I was kind of peering right over at the vantage point I had was looking right at Rashida Talib and ilhan Omar constantly throwing out random comments. Most time you couldn't cure them because the chamber was drowning them out. But it was actually I don't know what it was like on TV, but actually live in the venue, they literally would not shut up. They just kept yamor on and on and on and throwing out uh, you know, references to Alex Freddy and Renee Good and it's kept. I kept hearing them say you're killing American citizens, which I was assuming meant them, but they just it was just a really raucous crowd inside. I think the two standout moments for me were the US men's hockey team. It was just I mean, there was literally the the the energy and the volume of it was extraordinary inside that chamber. 00:27:30 Speaker 7: Uh. 00:27:30 Speaker 16: And then the the helicopter pilot, you know, getting awarded the Medal of Honor. It was just a really amazing moment. There was not a dry eye in my section where I was. It was truly truly a special honor to be able to witness in person. 00:27:47 Speaker 1: It's a much smaller. 00:27:48 Speaker 16: Space than people realize on TV, and so you you just feel crammed in with this whole room full of of huge emotions. And of course I have to I have to mention when President Trump honored Erica and Charlie, Uh, you know, we were, we were. Our whole section started cheering Charlie, Charlie channing his name, and that was a beautiful moment, as well, so really a special special night. 00:28:12 Speaker 5: That sounds great, Blake, I found it. 00:28:15 Speaker 4: It was the first time, yeah, during the speech that the Medal of Honor was awarded during the State of the Union. 00:28:20 Speaker 5: First time, all right, and they did it twice. 00:28:23 Speaker 16: Yeah, yeah, and they did it twice. Yeah, No, it was it was go ahead. 00:28:29 Speaker 11: Now, anything that surprised you, I mean, obviously being able to experience that being in the room, anything that like stood out as like you didn't expect. I mean, you mentioned it's smaller than you think or when you watch on TV. But anything that kind of you know, you weren't expecting. 00:28:41 Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, you know, there's a lot of yelling. 00:28:44 Speaker 16: There's a lot of like whooping and hollering, and the members down on the floor, you know, they get really into it, you know, and uh, and you can hear people across the chamber talking. You know, I'm assuming that's by design, you know, when it was people needed to be able to hear each other across the room. 00:29:02 Speaker 1: So it's a very intimate space. Like I was actually on the. 00:29:05 Speaker 16: Other end from Erica, but you know, I felt like I could kind of wave at her and see her and she could wave back, and you know it was you know, I saw Michael Knowles like a couple of rows away from me, and it's. 00:29:18 Speaker 1: Just very small. It's just very intimate. 00:29:21 Speaker 16: And so when people are having open conflict and shouting at each other, I mean, it's it's, it's uh, you know, intense. I saw Steve Scalie try and rip out Al Green's you know, black people are not apes a little troll protests try to try to rip it out of his hands. I saw the congressman from New York Malatacas tell another congressman to shut up. It's like, I mean, it's it's it's really in your face. It's kind of raw politics. And you sort of wonder how how often these people are actually around each other because there's a lot of pent up conflict and frustration. 00:29:56 Speaker 1: You could feel it. Uh, it's it's just palpable inside the room. 00:30:00 Speaker 5: How long it is sort of a dumb question. How long How early do you have to get there for the state of the Union is it? Is it a lot of waiting? 00:30:07 Speaker 16: Yeah? Actually, so we came in through the Cannon building and then there was a tunnel and they tell you have to get in by like seven point thirty. Uh, and then they take your phone away and then you sit in there for you know, I don't I don't actually know what the start time was because I couldn't look at a watch it in have my phone, and you're just kind of sitting in there, and then you know, it's quite a process. But then h and then the vice president filter's in, and then the Senate and then you know, and then the kind of bond and on it goes. But I mean, you have to get there well in advance. I mean we I was having a conversation with my my seat mates, my seat neighbors. You don't know who you're gonna. 00:30:45 Speaker 1: Sit next here. 00:30:45 Speaker 16: So you know, there was a union boss from a steel union boss from Ohio there, and there was a there was a oil oil guy near me. I saw Congress from Brandon Gil came by and brought me waters. It's just, you know, you're kind of abe Hammada said, Hi, Lauren Bobert. 00:31:05 Speaker 1: You know it was it takes a. 00:31:07 Speaker 16: While to happen, but then you know, all of a sudden, next thing you know, they're they're gabbling in and the president enters, so it moves. But it's like you have to get there well in advance. 00:31:15 Speaker 5: What did you make We were discussing what did you make just of the I guess the message of the speech, what issues he focused on? Do you think there's anything that was left unsaid? Do you think there's anything that he particularly nailed? Well, what did you make of that? 00:31:29 Speaker 7: Yeah? 00:31:29 Speaker 16: You know what was interesting Blake, and we talked about this on the show quite a bit, was that he went straight at those Fabreezio polling points, right. He hit the the stock band, stock trading ban in Congress. He mentioned Nancy Pelosi. That's the that's the interesting thing because like you kind of spot all these people in the room. So when he brings up, you know, transgender ideology stuff, you look right at congress men and McBride, you know you when you when you mentioned Nancy Pelosi, you're able to right at Nancy. But yeah, so that he hit the stock trading band, He talked about transparency and healthcare. He uh, he talked about trump RX. I mean, he kind of did the Fabrizio talking points. It's interesting that they they they they wove those populist kind of totem items. Uh, they wove them into the speech, and he's messaging on them. I think it's important. It kind of echoes back to that no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, no tax on social Security. These kind of anchor tent pole items that give kind of normal Americans, main street street Americans who aren't following this stuff every day, something to kind of be like, oh, well, you know, President Trump helped me and and it's something I can point to. So it was it that to me was interesting that he did that. You know, I thought, you know, another thing I was looking for, Blake, honestly because you have brought it up on the show so many times, is you know, how's he going to sell Iran? And I thought he did a very interesting you know presentation of that, uh kind of weaving in the dead protesters, the fact that it's been American policy for you know, decades. 00:33:04 Speaker 1: That Iran will not get a nuclear weapon. 00:33:06 Speaker 16: So I think he did. I think I give him a bee on the Iran sale. I'm still not, you know, totally there, but I thought he at least it did a serviceable job. And I think that the messaging war on that front will still need to continue, but I thought it was interesting. 00:33:22 Speaker 1: Nonetheless, yeah, it overall. 00:33:25 Speaker 5: I would say Iran didn't strike me as a very big part of his speech. It was there almost because it had to be. But I feel he could have probably said just about the exact same thing if we weren't on the brink of war with Iran. So I think you're right. I think there probably will be need to be additional messaging if something is about to happen there as seems quite plausible. Still, Cliff, you haven't said anything for a while, any new thoughts. 00:33:53 Speaker 10: Andrew, How uncomfortable were the seats? 00:33:56 Speaker 16: Very? Yeah, the seats are built for like eighteenth century Americans, pre fast food, you know. The I'm pretty sure the gentleman next to me was in his sixties and is probably one hundred, you know cent, a millionaire oil tycoons from Texas. And I kept bumping into him. My suit was getting in his seat, and because you're standing up, sitting down, standing up, sitting down, And I was like, you know, felt bad for the guy because I'm pretty sure he hasn't been subjected to such tight spaces and quite some time. But yeah, it's small, it's tiny, and it's hot, you know, because you're on the upper balcony, so it's it's hot up there. 00:34:34 Speaker 1: I'm told it's much. 00:34:35 Speaker 16: Colder and cooler down on the floor, but yeah, it's it's a it's a almost. 00:34:39 Speaker 1: Like a sign up on that on that top balcony. 00:34:42 Speaker 5: Did you notice any funny guests that maybe weren't highlighted beforehand? You saw it? You mentioned Knowles say that again. Did you notice any funny guests that were there, like maybe that you didn't expect. Oh, yeah, we're a little surprising. 00:34:55 Speaker 16: No, I mean, listen, there was a lot more cowboy hats up there than I was anticipating. 00:35:00 Speaker 1: That was one thing I noticed. You know, I just was kind of the most of. 00:35:03 Speaker 16: The time, I was honestly just looking down onto the to the floor to see kind of what the Democrats were doing, you know, to see who was willing to clap. I mean, it's really stunning how how rare it is for them to stand, you know, and I think that's an unfortunate, fortunate reality for our country. So yeah, I mean, Knowles was kind of the standout. It's pretty focused on my my immediate proximity, but you know, it was just it's just a very interesting perspective to just be looking down watching them react and and frankly, I just have to say one more time, Ilhan Omar and Rashida Sili, we were very disgraceful in the way they just kept interrupting, and then eventually, you know, they walked out, probably five ten minutes before the you know, the the helicopter pilot received the Metal of Honor. So, I mean, it was honestly, it was a relief when they left. But again, it it makes me sad as an American to see the the ranks on the side of the aisle dwindling, you know, as we as we go here. 00:36:07 Speaker 1: Year by year. 00:36:08 Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean that. And I think one of the craziest parts is how they all stayed seated Democrats when IRENA's mother was in tears and they were Trump was desgrading that, yeah, and they were all staying seated. I think was that when he turned to them and said, you guys are crazy or is that on a separate thing, yes. 00:36:26 Speaker 1: Yeah, he said why can you not stand for that? 00:36:28 Speaker 16: I'm pretty sure that's when he had that moment, and I think that was one of the more powerful politically, That was one of the more powerful moments in the room. And I remember thinking, this is gonna this is not gonna look good for them because Arena was a war refugee. I thought they were the party that supports refugees and they can't stand for her parents and for her death even though you know she's from Ukraine. I thought you guys support the war in Ukraine and funding it endlessly, Like, I mean, what are we doing here just because Up is honoring her, you can't bring yourself to stand up and honor her. It was really there was a round my section. There was people just you know, drop job, kind of mumbling I can't believe it. 00:37:10 Speaker 1: I can't believe it. 00:37:10 Speaker 16: So I knew that that moment hit powerfully on at home and on TV because in the room it was definitely an elevated response. I'm actually curious what you guys thought watching it from your perspective, you know, not in the room. What moments played the best on television. That's kind of what I'm curious about right now. 00:37:31 Speaker 4: Yeah, I think definitely that played the best. And then also just Trump calling them out to their face on when they would refuse to stand or clap, like we played a clip of Cliff earlier reacting to them just refusing to clap and stand up for our country. 00:37:48 Speaker 10: Yeah, and Andrew, I'll give you a little more on that. 00:37:50 Speaker 11: The clip we played is when he literally said to them, I'm going to give you an opportunity to stand to show your support. 00:37:57 Speaker 1: For this statement. 00:37:58 Speaker 10: And this statement was just you know, hey, as the American government, our first priority is American citizens. And I just you know, I might be getting little excited. That got me pumped up, right twenty twenty six. I can be a pessimist. I can think, hey, we're you know, we're gonna be in trouble. A lot of the numbers don't look great. 00:38:14 Speaker 11: That was a moment that maybe think, you know what if this is the sentiment of the Democrat leaders, it's an open door for us. 00:38:21 Speaker 7: Yeah. 00:38:22 Speaker 1: No, you're right. 00:38:23 Speaker 16: That was a really that was a real powerful I actually kind of didn't cure it right at first. And then I I didn't know what he said because he it was it was a novel way to approach an applause line in the in the you know, in that speech. But then I, you know, I saw from the reaction of the members on the floor that you know, a gauntlet had been thrown and he was leaning into it. And then I leaned over to somebody. 00:38:47 Speaker 1: I was like, what did he say? 00:38:48 Speaker 10: You know? 00:38:48 Speaker 1: And I kind of gathered that it was like a you know, do. 00:38:51 Speaker 16: You stand with America moment and that we need you know, government's compact with its people is that we put them first. And yeah, I think that's I think it's a powerful line in the sand, and it's something that's going to be brought up again and again and again. 00:39:04 Speaker 1: Totally agree. 00:39:07 Speaker 14: Hi, folks, Andrew Colvett here, I'd like to tell you about my friends over at why Refi. 00:39:12 Speaker 1: You've probably been hearing me talk about y. 00:39:14 Speaker 5: REFI for some time now. 00:39:16 Speaker 3: We are all in with these guys. 00:39:18 Speaker 14: If you or someone you know is struggling with private student loan debt, take my advice and give them a call. Maybe you're behind on your payments, maybe you're even in default. You don't have to live in this nightmare anymore. Why ref I will provide you a custom payment based on your ability to pay. They tailor each loan individually. They can save you thousands of dollars and you can get your life back. We go to campuses all over America and we see student after student who's drowning in private student loan debt. 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You're gonna win bigger than ever and to prove that point. 00:40:22 Speaker 9: To prove that point here with us tonight is a group of winners who just made the entire nation proud. 00:40:29 Speaker 7: The men's gold medal Olympic hockey team, come on, go ahead. 00:41:06 Speaker 11: They just. 00:41:11 Speaker 13: That's the first time I've ever seen them get up, and actually not all of them did get up, but they beat a fantastic Canadian team and overtime as everybody so, as did the American. 00:41:26 Speaker 7: Women who will soon be coming to the White House. 00:41:30 Speaker 5: That was pretty good that it was pretty good hearing it. 00:41:32 Speaker 16: Yeah, we have hearing it from the oh all right. 00:41:38 Speaker 3: Oh no, no, hey man, what's up? 00:41:40 Speaker 1: Guys? 00:41:41 Speaker 3: Go ahead, Andrew, what's up? 00:41:42 Speaker 10: Man? 00:41:42 Speaker 1: Good? 00:41:43 Speaker 17: I hope you had to hope you had a there looked it looks like you had a great time, and. 00:41:48 Speaker 16: That was good. 00:41:49 Speaker 10: It was. 00:41:50 Speaker 16: It was fantastic tons of energy, I will tell you. But that was one of those moments where the gallery erupted in applause as Trump was still talking, so I actually couldn't make out what. 00:42:00 Speaker 1: He was saying. 00:42:01 Speaker 16: The acoustics in the room or such that you can't hear. You just kind of hear him reference the hockey team, and then everybody starts exploding in applause. So it's actually great to hear kind of how he finished that off, and he powered through the applause. 00:42:13 Speaker 1: I think it made the moment even better for you. 00:42:15 Speaker 16: Guys watching it at home because and in the studio, because because I couldn't hear any of it. But I just, you know, I knew we were celebrating the hockey team, so I just lost my mind and started started shouting in whistling and clapping. So it's a beautiful moment. 00:42:29 Speaker 3: Now, Andrew, Is it true? 00:42:30 Speaker 17: I had a report from some some house interns that you tried to steal one of the gold medals, and and the hockey team actually knocked one of your teeth out. 00:42:39 Speaker 3: Is that true. 00:42:41 Speaker 16: I'm gonna have to take it down for the show tomorrow to get some dental work. But it's a good thing we are in America because we have the best senses, we have the best sentest. So I'm gonna get these puppies fixed it up. It's gonna be great. It was actually when I bited the goals that it broke off that way. 00:42:58 Speaker 3: So yeah, oh okay, you were you were you making sure they're past? No, I mean, this was it was. 00:43:03 Speaker 17: It was so much more than just a speech. This was made for TV. This is what Donald Trump is best at it. He leaned into spectacle, he leaned into greatness. You saw the intensity of emotion, the full display of the American people, from champions to heroes to families of the fallen. 00:43:25 Speaker 3: You know, a hero from Camp Mystic. 00:43:27 Speaker 17: It's just all over the country, so many different things, war heroes. 00:43:35 Speaker 3: You look at this, it's like, if you're some normy, I just just to finish the point. If you're some normy who's watching this, you're going I like that team I like what I see here. I want more of this. I want to be part of that thing. That's the goal, and that's I think on all fronts. 00:43:50 Speaker 10: Totally. 00:43:51 Speaker 1: I totally agree. 00:43:52 Speaker 16: It felt like a big family there in the upper gallery. 00:43:54 Speaker 1: I will tell you it. 00:43:56 Speaker 16: You know, you saw the conflict playing playing out on the floor like in the gallery. It was just unanimous. It was just it was everybody felt bonded together. And you know, I said there was a couple of moments that stood out, but really you just reminded me of all that. It was so packed with personal stories that it was it's hard to keep track of them all. I'm thinking about the young girl that is learning to walk again because she was hit by an illegal driver with a CDL out of Yeah, out of California, And man, I got teared up when I saw that story. 00:44:27 Speaker 1: It was so powerful. 00:44:28 Speaker 16: You know, uh, when the you know, the the Venezuelan uncle Enrique when he got reunited with his niece. 00:44:35 Speaker 1: I mean, that was powerful. 00:44:36 Speaker 16: There was just so many little moments that that it's hard to really parse through, but you're right, it kind of comes together in this giant mosaic that says I want to I love this team. These are the people that love this country and are standing with the real people. And I think that came that message came through loud and clear tonight. 00:44:53 Speaker 3: Absolutely, Hey, you said that, it's it's inspirational. 00:44:56 Speaker 17: It's just inspirational, and it's it's America at our best, America at our worst. So many different moments of you know, using that emotion. And you know what, you didn't hear Donald Trump say a lot tonight. You didn't hear Donald Trump use the word I a lot. He didn't really talk about himself that much. He barely talked about the work of the cabinet. I think, you know, Marco got a shout out JD. And that's pretty much it. You know, we were we were expecting, I think, coming in a lot of people to hear it's the Golden Age, everything is good, et cetera. 00:45:29 Speaker 3: But what he put on was a tour de force. I said on Twitter, and I understand by that. I really mean it. 00:45:35 Speaker 17: That speech was not a home run. That was a home run derby. And this state of the Union, it's the best day of the Union I've ever seen. And this was a speech that will make you fall in love with America. 00:45:47 Speaker 3: All over again. 00:45:48 Speaker 16: And speaking of that, well, gentlemen, I gotta, I gotta, I gotta make it. I gotta make it to my way over to Statuary Hall, so I gotta I gotta dash. 00:45:57 Speaker 1: But what really well said? 00:45:59 Speaker 16: Uh? Jack and Blake and Cliff and Danny. Thanks for holding it down, and God bless you guys. Will see you tomorrow morning. 00:46:05 Speaker 5: All right, we'll see you tomorrow. We want to get one more clip in, I think before we head out, and I'll scan to see if we have any more thoughts from the chat. But let's do the clip of one of the veterans receiving the Medal of Honor. This is the one hundred year old one forty six. That guy was looking pretty good for his age. We got a donation from rifleman one double O seven. Only way the hockey team entrance could get better was if they hammered some beers as they did it, stuff like the cash Betel strategy. Probably not the Charlie strategy, but it would be very they'd done it. It would have been entertaining, it would Blake. 00:47:30 Speaker 3: So I was trying to look this up earlier, you know, just Ai whatever using rock. 00:47:35 Speaker 17: I don't think that I certainly can't remember a medal of honor ever being awarded, and let alone two at the State of the Union before. Could you have you ever heard of that or do you guys remember anything like that being done before. 00:47:48 Speaker 4: Yeah, we looked it up and this was the first time and had ever been done. And he did it twice. 00:47:53 Speaker 3: I mean, just just as a guy who served in the military. 00:47:56 Speaker 17: So do you do you understand how hard it is to get a medal of honor and the amount of honors bestowed on that that it's you need to be in a situation where you probably are supposed to die, where you're probably going to be killed. This is why so many of you know, and you do so, and you go above and beyond the call of duty, so you save the lives of others. You finished the mission, even in a situation where you probably could have died or did die. And this is why so many medals of honor are of course awarded posthumously. And in addition to that, you need two witnesses to be able to do so. And I had actually heard this story about the Maduro raid. I don't I don't even know if it was all public, but the fact that they did shoot up the leg of the helicopter pilot on the way in the power of the chinnook. So I mean, the entire mission could have been a failure. Every single soldier could have been killed on the infill so on the way in, and he refused to allow that to happen. He refused to let down his fellow men. He continued the mission, came home, and look the Medal of Honor. That's the it's the only award that worn around the neck. It's the only award that's authorized to be worn in any clothing, so that you don't have to have your uniformal and you could wear any you know, suit, et cetera. And one of the just just on a personal level, I think it has always touched me is that no matter what rank you are, if you see someone wearing the Medal of Honor, even if you're you know, one hundred pay grades above them, you are still required to salute the Medal of Honor, no matter who wears it, because of what they did and what that award stands for. 00:49:31 Speaker 5: Very nice, very nice. And the mission he did was interesting. It was he shot down four Soviet meg fighters in a classified nineteen fifty two operation. It's like top Gun but in the fifties. Basically, very very impressive guy, very impressive moment as usual. Like we said, Trump very aware of the stage craft. We were joking as he walked out that he had the puff on his hair, but I think everyone forgot about that pretty much the moment he started speaking, which I think it is a good measure of how the speech went. 00:50:04 Speaker 3: Overall. 00:50:06 Speaker 5: I don't think we have too much to say extra it was. It was a strong speech. It went well. He hit all of the big topics and seems like the audience really liked it, which is good. Yeah, overall, gott to please them. 00:50:19 Speaker 4: Yeah, he hit the domestic issues that he needed to hit for the voters and for the midterms. So yeah, I think it was he hit all the boxes. 00:50:27 Speaker 5: Sounds great. 00:50:27 Speaker 3: Like the foreign policy think of it. 00:50:30 Speaker 17: He didn't bring up foreign policy until about ninety minutes into the speech, only stayed there for a little bit. You know, he you know, you can you could see him making that sort of pitch that Iran is this this hostile actor, that they are a hostile force that you know, obviously, like we talked about earlier with the sort of damacles that's out there. And look, I'm just gonna say it. You know, I said going in that the White House would have a challenge of being able to come up with ways to get beyond the sort of dom mcles. Not only did they surpass it, they destroyed it. You know, they were able to create through these these moments, through these made for TV moments, a way to get people to focus on the stories through showing the personal uh, you know, just the individuals who were involved in them, and of course you know Erica being there with the mother of Arena Zerutzka. I mean, just just an incredible moment. You know, regardless of your politics, I don't care who you are. I mean, that's that's got to make your tear up when you see the two of them together and realize what they both went through in the same period of time. 00:51:38 Speaker 3: And you know, I went and looked it up. 00:51:39 Speaker 17: Charlie's last tweet, Charlie's very last tweet two hours before that bullet. 00:51:45 Speaker 3: Rang out, was about Arena Zarutzka. 00:51:48 Speaker 17: And you know he's been tweeting quite a bit about it that day and in the days prior, so you know, this was this was something that was on his mind, and the fact that the two of them came together is it's phenomenal. You think of the logistics of getting everyone together, let alone getting people from a war zone all the. 00:52:04 Speaker 3: Way to the State of the Union. It's it's just incredible job by the White House. All around. 00:52:10 Speaker 5: It was it was anything else. Final thoughts Cliff. 00:52:14 Speaker 11: No great home run speech. I thought his temperament was great. I thought he hit on everything he needed too. And look, we've got our marching. 00:52:20 Speaker 10: Orders for twenty twenty six. 00:52:21 Speaker 11: I think the narrative has been set, and I think Jack's right to hit on a lot of things that connect with people. 00:52:27 Speaker 10: And it's you know, it's gonna be up to us. We got to go out there and do the work. 00:52:30 Speaker 5: So great night, all round, all right, and girl says I loved Speaker Mike Johnson's facial expressions throughout the speech, supportive, congenial and appropriately disapproving at the right moments. 00:52:46 Speaker 1: Amen. Good. 00:52:47 Speaker 5: Indeed that it was a strong speech. I think I didn't get a bingo, but I'm pretty satisfied despite that. I come close, And it was strong, and we'll have we'll have more to say about it tomorrow and we'll also find out what the heck the Democrats said, if anything of note, it's probably just really annoying, but we have to go find that out, so we'll have to go watch it, so all of you don't have to. But for all of you who tuned in, thanks for watching. That was a long State of the Union. It's almost midnight on the East Coast. It's almost ten pm even here in Phoenix, so we need to get our crew. They had a very long day, so we need to get them some rest so we can do the show tomorrow. Thank you to everyone who tuned in, and we'll see all of you soon. For more on many of these stories and news you can trust, go to Charliekirk dot com