The Trump Team's Secret Midterm Strategy Session

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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. It is February eighteenth, twenty twenty six, Blake, Welcome, Howdy, Happy morning. Last night on Capitol Hill, the senior Trump political command briefed its core team on the mid terms. This is reporting from Mark Calprin, a frequent guest on this show, and I'm reading from an ex account that he has given to awesome. Great reporting from Mark Halprin. 00:01:34 Speaker 3: I like his Uh, he's got it here. It was a meeting at the Capitol Hill Club, so that's where Republicans often meet. 00:01:41 Speaker 2: The group is served chicken and steak. 00:01:43 Speaker 3: Very Halpern detail there get great out food, gets the food detail. 00:01:47 Speaker 2: It was a two hour program starting around five point thirty. This is a veteran group, not panicked or shaken, he says, just focused on the work and the task at hand. They're about seventy to five to one hundred people in the room. Many cabinet members with there, including Scott Bessen, Howard Lucknick RFK, Sean Duffy, along with their most senior aides. The meeting not the president, not the president. The meeting was hosted by Susie Wiles, who spoke briefly, the polster and strategist Tony Fabrizio, who Charlie loved presented with about twenty five slides on the data of what voters care about, the demographics, the issues, the messages that resonate, and what do not. The economy will be The economy will be the issue in the election. He said, messages that break through. Banning stock trading for Congress. That's a message that breaks let's. 00:02:36 Speaker 3: Yeah, so this is economic messages that get through the most, is what he's saying here. So, yeah, banning stock trading for Congress. I think that's a very interesting one. Transparency on health insurance data including pricing and claims, reimbursement, lower prescription drug costs, and the Trump tax cuts. 00:02:54 Speaker 2: I think this is worth hovering though for just a second. Again, this is Tony Fabrizio, one of the most famed, respected polsters in the entire I guess political scene, but especially within President Trump's. 00:03:07 Speaker 3: Was this the guy I remember when Charlie on election night, Charlie would be texting back and forth with like an unnamed person. He's like, he tells me, like, we got this, we got Like was that Tony? 00:03:17 Speaker 2: Yeah? There was a few of them on election night. One of them was Dada Republican, another one was Tony Fabrizio, and yeah, Charlie loved Tony. Tony is beloved by the Trump administration, by the team, trusted deeply. But again, let's just hover on these slides. 00:03:32 Speaker 3: I really love I do. Banning stock trading for Congress is an interesting one. I know, people, I think that is underrated because I do think there's been really all the way back since the big crash in eight Over and over again, public attention goes back to how wealthy members of Congress are, how much wealthier they routinely get while they're in Congress, the fact that insider trading for a long time had no restriction at all. It's still not that restricted. Now there's always like new ways that you can cash in, and people notice it. It's like you can. 00:04:07 Speaker 2: Literally I see a theme. Yeah, I see a theme in these issues that they list. There is a underpinning of the populist energy in each one of these, right, and it's coming from a conservative angle. So the question is how can you get wins that resonate, that stick in the brain of voters. You're also accomplishing a massive portfolio of policy agenda items that are having huge impacts actually on the economy. Underlying economic momentum. But these are things that stick in the minds of normy people that are not plugged into the day and day out of the political rigormol. This is what I'm saying, and banning stock trading for that. 00:04:46 Speaker 3: That's so interesting because it's not really a thing that makes any individual person richer, no, but it captures the idea of are the elites against us? Are they just exploiting us and playing by difference? 00:04:56 Speaker 2: There is such a hunger in tackling the corruption and draining the swamp. Now we're going to get to the Potomac story in the next segment, so that brings a whole new meaning to training the swamp. But that's what we're getting at, is that the voters, the grassroots, they want to see accountability. They want to see the elites that have been getting away with it in their minds for so long be held accountable. And these are the issues. It's not GDP, it's not even according to Tony Fabrizio, stopping the invasion at the border, which is a huge accomplishment that guaranteed has more impact on your daily life than any of the things I'm going to. 00:05:36 Speaker 3: We didn't read that he actually says apparently Fabrizio in his presentation, he said, this is from Mark Halpern. Taking credit for closing the border does not resonate much, which is a bummer because it is an incredible accomplishment of this administration. But if it's not resonating, it's not resonating. You should still do it, of course, because it's good, of course, but check it out. 00:05:57 Speaker 2: Let's read these again. Banning stock trading for Congress, get dirty corrupt politicians and college transparency on health insurance, get big medicine, get big hospitals, get big insurance. We want to know what we're paying for. We want them to stop getting away with it. Lowering prescription drug costs, stopping big pharma, and the Trump tax cuts. The Trump tax cuts will resonate because guess what people are already experiencing at about eleven percent boost in their tax returns. M Housing affordability. This is a Charlie Kirk special and we're gonna get into this in an hour two with Secretary of Scott Turner from HUD and we're going to talk about that. Jd Vance had a great interview with Martha McAllen yesterday. M HM taking credit for closing, the boarder does not resonate months. Much to Blake's earlier. 00:06:41 Speaker 3: I really one last thing and then I want us to move into this I do. I really like how it's not just oh, we need more of a domestic focus on the economy. It's that specific bit of this is a specific thing, like banning stock trading or really honing in like on prescription drug crisis, that will be noticed and will produce results. 00:06:58 Speaker 2: One thousand percent. And by the way, if you think back to the campaign, it was similar, right, no tax on tips, no tax on social security. These were things that people could hang their hat on. They could say, oh, that sounds good. And by the way, it cuts through Normyville, it cuts through to main street. 00:07:14 Speaker 3: Yes, and speaking of stuff, that comes back to twenty twenty four. So he goes on. He says he makes recommendations for how they should spend time in media, and he says spend time on podcasts and social media, not national news interview. No one's watching to meet the press anymore. He says paid media should go on targeted media like that social media apps, not on broadcast. He says Facebook is still king for voters people, then Instagram are pushing. 00:07:39 Speaker 2: Back against this, and I want to push back against the pushback. Facebook is where normy voters live. 00:07:45 Speaker 3: Heka, older voters. They're the ones who will reliably turn out Facebook. Facebook exists for one reason, and it's so boomers can share anti Obama and anti Biden memes. 00:07:55 Speaker 2: So there's actually data on this. It's older millennials who were the first generation to have Facebook, their parents and that exer in between zone, so it makes sense they're original users, but they're still the most apt to vote, right. 00:08:10 Speaker 3: Yeah, I want we have a minute here. They're targeting he typoed this. It's thirty six targeted House races and seven key Senate races, and they're Frank Farbizio and then James Blair gets up the politicals are and they say, historically they know it's common for the president's party to lose seats, often a lot of seats in the midterms. They believe they'll only lose the Senate if we lose fifty House seats. So that's kind of an optimistic take. We're likely to keep the Senate, keep the ability to confirm Supreme Court justices, confirmed pointees, unless it's say true massive bloodbath and I think they're aware as long as they take the right moves they might lose seats. It's likely they'll lose seats, but not catastrophically. He says, trying to argue about wages being up will not help. Voters just have to feel it. And then this is interesting, apparently they said he since President Trump wasn't there, He says, Trump will do what he wants to do. He will say what he wants to say. He goes on guts and instincts. He's not as data driven. But everyone else, you know, they can stay on their message and they'll expect you know, Trump has a good instincts. 00:09:11 Speaker 2: Talking about it as a parallel path that everybody that can stay on message do it. Trump's gonna go with his gut and he's gonna message on instinct. He's the president, after all, he's earning the right. 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Let's start with NBC is finally covering this for sixty four. 00:12:05 Speaker 4: The River George Washington called the Nation's River is tonight off limits and contaminated after a sixty year old sewage line in Maryland broke open last month, spewing more than two hundred and forty million gallons of raw waste into the river. The same river that flows past the Kennedy Center and the Lincoln Memorial and used by boaters, kayakers, high school and college rowing teams. 00:12:28 Speaker 5: So you can see some of the toilet paper and the sewage up on the banks there. 00:12:32 Speaker 4: River keeper Dean no Yokes ass as to stench and environmental damage are staggering, with E. Coli levels more than ten thousand times above EPA quality standards at the time of the spill. 00:12:44 Speaker 2: I think they could fix it. 00:12:45 Speaker 3: They could just take a box of light kitchen matches and you just light it and burn it for a bit. 00:12:50 Speaker 2: And yeah, well, if you set the Potomac on fire, it would probably clean it up faster than what they're going to do here. And they're saying this might not be fixed for nine months. 00:12:59 Speaker 3: Yeah, just I feel like that's that's probably the most emblematic thing. It's that when you're decayne, you read like the Hoover Dam got built in like two years or something. The Empire State Building went up in nine months, I think less than a year. And now, yeah, we can't fich fix You don't even need to go look at China. I remember Japan once they raised an entire train line in a day. You can watch the time lapse. They just shut down the whole station, did it all in one night. And now there's there's a powerful symbolism in it's already been a month. This is a it's a six foot wide pipe. That's quite the quite the you see and I. 00:13:34 Speaker 2: Guess some rocks there's like a rock dam. 00:13:37 Speaker 3: So they investigated it and like, oh, well, we have to clear this rock dam before we can cure the blockage. But yes, six months, nine months. And you know when they say it'll take nine months, that means it might take them a year, two years. They might just say, you know, ultimately, it's now just the sewage river. 00:13:50 Speaker 2: It's the sewage river, it's the Potomac. And now President Trump is blaming Wes Moore for Maryland, the governor there, and the governor is blaming the Fed for sixty five. 00:14:01 Speaker 4: President Trump has blamed Maryland's Democratic governor Wes Moore for gross mismanagement, while more fired back saying the pipe was federally built and regulated and the Trump EPA has been slow to respond to fear. Now the Potomac may not be safe for months. You used to swim right here. 00:14:18 Speaker 5: I've swam right here. 00:14:20 Speaker 4: Would you swim here again? 00:14:21 Speaker 3: Not for a while. 00:14:23 Speaker 4: DC Water expects to have the immediate repair job done by mid March, but overhauling the entire line could take at least nine months. 00:14:31 Speaker 2: All right, So here is where it gets interesting. D C Waters manager David Gaddis had a whole theory of the case. What was wrong with the people running this system? Before I'll give you a couple of guesses. Two. 00:14:48 Speaker 5: You know, when I arrived at DC Water, this was an organization that looked very similar to our tour our industry. It was predominantly you know, white male at the top. But this is a that's you know, more than seventy percent people of color work at this utility. The people at the top, the executives, the chiefs in that c suite, they should look like the employees that they that they serve and that they work with. And the same thing with the community. And so my executive team, you know, looks exactly like the community. It looks like it looks like the the employees, the staff, you know, be it people of color, women. 00:15:28 Speaker 2: Well, now they have a river filled with poop. 00:15:29 Speaker 3: Yeah, so how did that work out? Yeah? So, okay, they used to be a bunch of white men running it, and they're the ones who built the pipe. They probably built it faster than they'll ever repair it here. Now it worked for sixty years. 00:15:41 Speaker 2: Well, and the fact that this was going for four weeks is another just damning details. 00:15:46 Speaker 3: It sort of it just seems to have started as a small story and then just it keeps going and people are like, wait, if that's still going there's still pooh going in. 00:15:53 Speaker 2: There were telling me that the river that flows by the Kennedy Center and the Jefferson Memorial and the Lincoln Memorial right through our nation's capital is filled with pool. 00:16:02 Speaker 3: Now, admittedly I will I feel obliged to point out that the Potomac actually has been polluted a long time. So I know when I moved to DC, you were not supposed to swim in the Potomac, and that there was like a decade long cleanup process, and I think maybe a couple of years ago they finally said you could swim in it. And now it's just right back into the pool. 00:16:20 Speaker 2: They have Ecoli levels at ten thousand times. 00:16:22 Speaker 3: Now now you definitely can't. But even before you were always. 00:16:25 Speaker 2: Told here is a general observation because white men get a lot of crap. We get we're the only group it's like acceptable testible to attack us. 00:16:37 Speaker 3: But you have genocidal fantasm. 00:16:39 Speaker 2: Set the record straight. Though white men create rock Western civilization, they settled this continent. They built the most successful, functional, prosperous in advanced societies on planet Earth. And if you are going to go into the c suite of a utility that runs your sewage forllions of people, and you remove us arbitrarily, whether that be culturally or in this case, bureaucratically. Don't be surprised when your city regresses to the historical mean. Most places on planet Earth have rivers filled with poop. 00:17:18 Speaker 3: If you want, if you want to understand exactly how this works, there's there's a great X account. I'm going to shout it out to everyone and we should talk about it on thot Crime next time we have it. It's a Twitter account called Josie Versus Josie. That's j o z I so Josie versus Josie, and it's Johannesburg. That's the nickname for it in South Africa and all the only thing the account is is it's photos of Johannesburg from twenty ten, twenty nineteen ninety old photos of joe Hasburg, but mostly like two thousand and nine twenty ten old Google Maps photos, so when they would drive around and take photos and then today and that's all the account is, and all you have is Johannesburg after another fifteen years of their there's a lot of dei. South Africa is basically the Dei country. It's in their laws, in their constitution. At this point, you have to have African economic empowerment. I believe they call it black economic empowerment. The labels like that, and that is how they run their country. See how it's turned out. 00:18:18 Speaker 2: Is another example of that. There's beautiful pictures of Rhodesia from the nineteen sixties and seventies. 00:18:23 Speaker 3: Or go if you want a closer to home example, go to London, like Charlie did last spring. You'll see beautiful building after beautiful building built two hundred years ago, and they can't they can barely even repair them. Now they're talking about tearing down the Palace of Westminster because it would be annoying to repair it. 00:18:41 Speaker 2: They can't do that. 00:18:42 Speaker 3: They should, we should do regime change on that. 00:18:45 Speaker 2: We can try to change go that far. You know, be careful when you attack the people that uphold society, that produced in your society, that maintain it, that built it in the first place. You might just miss them when they are gone. 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And Charlie was always honest. We're always honest, and we say we're focused on the core swing states, Arizona, Nevada, New Hampshire, Georgia, places like that, and California. If you're there, you should fight for it. You should do everything you can. But it's not eminently about to flip. But there is a governor's election this year and California has a very interesting law. They have jungle primaries, which is regardless of party, everyone into a big pot and the top two vote getters go to the general and that's how it works. And they did this so they could get more left wing people in a lot of the country. You only have two Democrats, you could get a more left wing one versus moderate and so on. Yeah, they wanted a dem versus a dev But a side effect of just a big jungle primary is, well, it's a blue state. There are six Democrats at least running in the governor's race, and there's only two Republicans. And yesterday we got this poll. It's apparently done by Tavern Research and is an internal poll for the Xavier Bsera campaign. And these are top two advanced. The top two poll are Chad Bianco twenty percent, Steve Hilton twelve percent. Well, and then six Democrats. This is what's great. 00:21:53 Speaker 2: So I called Steve Yes, I was like, Steve, you're in the top two, Like this is great, and he goes, oh, that's a fake poll. You know, wonderful English accent saying, oh, that's a fake poll. Wait to see what comes out tomorrow. So now we have a new poll and I'm struggling to get the number here it is four fifty. So put up the new one. I think this is for Emerson. Did a poll Steve Hilton's actually at seventeen percent. In December he was down at twelve percent. So if you go to the left side of that graph. He is now pulled ahead as the top poll receiving most favorable of all the candidates. This one has Swallwell, Yeah, Eric Swalwell as number two, Chad Bianco the other Republican at number three. 00:22:40 Speaker 3: Also they're both at fourteen, so effectively for. 00:22:43 Speaker 2: Secondly tied for second. Top two advance Porter Styer, Sarah via Ragosa, and then undecided is still a huge chunk because you know it's early. 00:22:51 Speaker 3: If we were to get if we were to get it where just two Republicans are the nominees in California for the governorship, that would be that would possibly be the funniest thing I've seen in the state level politics. 00:23:03 Speaker 2: It basically would be a literal coup. We would take over the state well without further ado. One of those men and apparently the leading candidate for the governor of the state of California, Steve Hilton, joins us. Now, Steve, congratulations on these new breaking law results. You are at seventeen percent. I mean this massively crowded field, so to get to seventeen is a huge accomplishment. Welcome back to the show. Tell us what it means. 00:23:29 Speaker 3: It's great to be with you guys. 00:23:31 Speaker 6: Always fun, and I really appreciate the way you laid all that out there exactly right. We've got this ridiculous top two system, and there is a crazy scenario as you're just mentioning, where you could get two Republicans in the top two. That's theoretically possible, but in practice it's not gonna happen because the Democrat machine is not just going to surrender California. And right now they get there's another thing that's happened, which is as well as the existing candida that have been in the race for a while, people like I can barely say their names without laughing that these are the these are as the president would say, they're not sending. 00:24:08 Speaker 3: Their best when you think about the Democrats. 00:24:11 Speaker 6: Eric Swolwell, Katie Porter, the billionaire climate fanatic, Tom Steyer. Well, on top of that, you got another one now, a guy called Matt Mayhan. 00:24:21 Speaker 2: He is the mayor of San Jose. 00:24:22 Speaker 6: No one's really heard of him, but he's got big tech money behind him and they that's going to propel him up. He's got a lot of money. And the other on the other side of it, the unions, they always get behind one candidate they're going to pick their puppet, as it were, and it looks to me like they're getting behind Eric swoalwell. So within a couple of weeks even maybe it certainly put within months. 00:24:46 Speaker 3: You will get two very well. 00:24:48 Speaker 6: Funded Democrats moving up, purely because of all the money that the government, unions and the tech community you're putting in. So the real risk actually is that we get two Democrats in the top two. That's what I'm really concerned about. And then, of course the chance for change in California is gone, and it has a massively negative impact on the other races in California. If there's no Republican in the governor's race, you can forget about any of the congressional seats in California that are in play that we absolutely need to protect the House majority. You can forget about voter ID which is on the ballot. 00:25:24 Speaker 2: Avoid it on that, Steve, actually, because we had Calvert on the show giving us the update where we stand on that right. 00:25:30 Speaker 6: Now, fantastic, it's qualified for the ballot. We've got more than enough signatures. It's been led by Can has been great on it in front of mine, Carl Demayo has been really working hard. I've been on the road getting signatures as well. It's qualified for the ballot. This is huge. It's not just huge in its own right because it helps stop the cheating. It actually is a big part of why I believe we can really win this year because voter ID. Of course, as we know, it's popular across the board, even in California, even among California Democrats there's a majority for vote Trid. But of course it's really popular with Republicans. That means it's gonna really help the turnout in November and then a midterm as you know, that's what it's all about, getting your voters out. And so it's one of the main reasons I think we can actually win this year, truly win in November. And I like me, Governor, is vote rid being on the ballot. 00:26:23 Speaker 2: Well, and listen, there is. I mean, there is probably no politician in the United States so loathed and so marked save for like AOC and ilhan Omar as Eric Swawah. I mean this, the fact to see his name ahead of Katie Porter shocked me actually, because yeah, Katie Porter has got a terrible bedside manner. She's terrible to her staff. She's mean, uh, but you know she's a little like Eric Swawell. 00:26:53 Speaker 3: I mean, so we have to weigh the possibility that she may, if the race is close, simply eat Eric Swawah. 00:27:00 Speaker 2: You do not have to chime in on any of this if you don't want to, Uh, Steve. 00:27:03 Speaker 6: Hilton, Well, I won't say well, I won't say one thing, which is I can't decide between them. What is what is my preference? You know, Katie Porter with the endless opportunity for mashed potato jokes, or Eric Swolwell with the with the with the you know, possibilities for fang fang. 00:27:18 Speaker 3: Well, we found. 00:27:21 Speaker 2: There's flatulating on camera, there's fang fang. And now the new one is his erotic poetry. He's given Stacy Abrams a run for her money. Was once pendagraphic, I will charged college poem, boasting of lovers kissing till vans imploded and exploded with blood rolled down our chins. 00:27:41 Speaker 3: Okay, formless and magnificent. A flurry of limbs and nails. I guess you know, a flurry of limbs and nails. All of bad poetry. He was he was nineteen. I guess all of us were cringe once, but it is very funny. 00:27:56 Speaker 6: So right now I'm gonna I think I'm going to stick to saying my plan is for three dollar gas in California because we're gonna end the Democrats climate insanity. 00:28:07 Speaker 3: That's my response to that. 00:28:09 Speaker 2: Well, yeah, what are you seeing resonating on the on the campaign trail, because we just got this interesting report from Mark Halprin talking on the national level. They want to see banning stock trading, they want to see price transparency at hospital. So fabrizios giving the President and the administration these these messaging line items that will pierce the noise. Right what's piercing the noise in California. 00:28:33 Speaker 6: So we're on the road. I mean, you can see it behind me because this is I'm on the road with that. We call it the Califordable Tour because it's all of these Everything is the most expensive in California than anywhere else on the country. So my plan is, incredibly, you've got to end the Democrat climate crusade, so you get three dollar gas, cut electric bills, and hot We have the highest gas prices in the country, even though we have abundant oil reserves higher than Hawaii. In the middle of the Pacific Ocean. We have the highest electric bills everywhere apart from Hawaii. These are the concerns. Tax is the highest in the country, every rent, housing, all of these things, you know, Charlie used to talk about. And that's one of the things that so resonates, of course, for all of us, is that simple American dream, you know, get married, raise a family, buy your own home, a good decent life. They've made that impossible in California. It's actually those simple things. Three dollar gas, cut your electric bills in half, your first one hundred grand tax free, a home you can afford to buy. That's really what people are responding to. And I think that's and the Democrats have no answer, like literally nothing to say about any of that. And the idea that we're just going to have more of the same of this nonsense in California is just unthinkable. So that's why I'm sure we. 00:29:45 Speaker 2: Can win the regulatory burden, especially on gas. The refinery situation didn't just say refinery just shut down. My family in Nevada was telling me gas and Nevada spiked because of refinery shut down in California. And now there's a report out of Bloomberg that gasoline starve California is turning to fuel from the Bahamas. This is this just came out from Bloomberg. Gasoline starve, California's turning to fuel from the bah Where's we need? California is so inept they need fuel from the Bahamas. All right, Steve, here's a question for you. Are you and Chad talking? Are you as like, what's it going to take to unite the clans consolidate the field? You don't. You can answer however you want, but it seems to. 00:30:28 Speaker 3: Me we do. 00:30:30 Speaker 6: We got to avoid splitting the vote. 00:30:32 Speaker 2: That's really important. 00:30:33 Speaker 6: Otherwise we could end up with two Democrats and that's an absolute calamity. So the truth is that for months now, actually I've been made I've made it clear. My door is open. I'm building a team to get this done. It's never actually been done like this in California. I've got a running mate for Lieutenant Governor Gloria Romero. Michael Gate's a fantastic fighter running with me for attorney general. He was the city attorney in Huntington Beach work for the Trump administration with Harmeiat Dillon and the Justice apartment. Herb Morgan running for state Controller. We've set up cal Doje to find the fraud. So I'm building a team already, and I love Chad to be part of that. I don't see any interest on his side. 00:31:11 Speaker 2: Steve Hilton for Governor, Charlie kirkendors, Steve Hilton for Governor, We're behind you one hundred percent, my friend, keep going, Thank you, keep going. 00:31:18 Speaker 3: Great to see you, hi, folks. 00:31:23 Speaker 2: 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. 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 Refy 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 in private student loan debt. 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How for the last few days, a lot of the logistical stuff has been because you can monitor those flights, so tankers have been flying across the ocean. The supply vehicles that would support a major effort all of that is heading from Europe from the United States, like you get that long term build up that would let them have sustained action against the country. 00:33:19 Speaker 2: Exactly so, more than one hundred and fifty US military cargo flights have moved weapons, systems and ammunitions to the Middle East. Just in the past twenty four hours. Another fifty fighter jets, F thirty five's, F twenty twos and F sixteen's headed to the region. So what they say is between the lines is stand up with Iran has gone on so long many Americans are likely numb to it. That would be maybe not. I wouldn't say the base is numb to it. The what they're getting at is this is a bigger build up than we had last summer, than we've had at other times. 00:33:50 Speaker 3: And yet this is the fourth segment of the hour. It's not what we led the show with. We haven't really been talking about it. It's been in the background, compared to shut down in Washington, compared to the ice stuff, compared to basically a lot of other issues. And there's no I think if you were to say, if we were to if Trump were to go on air and say we're launching a regime change war against Iran. I think a lot of people would be wondering why it's happening now. Last summer there was actual war between Iran and Israel. There alchimists going on. 00:34:19 Speaker 2: Their argument would be that there is this mass uprising and then the regime came in crushed it. We're talking with tens of thousands of dead protesters, which is obviously horrendous, but there's horrendous things that happened all over the world. Now, the pro Iran lobby would say, this is the time you could push them over the top, et cetera, et cetera. So this is what's interesting here, the timeline. The Israeli government, which is pushing for a maximalist scenario targeting regime change as well as Iran's nuclear missile programs, is preparing for a scenario of war within days, according to two Israeli officials. Some US sources tell Axios that the US might need more time. Senator Lindsay Grant this is the part what got my perked my ears right up. Senator Lindsay Graham said strikes could still be weeks away, but others say the timeline could be shorter. This is what it says, the boss is getting fed up. Some people around him warnt against going to war the RAM, But I think there is a ninety percent chance we see kinetic action in the next few weeks, one Trump advisor said. And what is prompting a lot of this is that there has been attempted Iran US diplomatic negotiations going on, and there is no evidence of a diplomatic breakthrough of Iran on the horizon. But there's more and more evidence that war is in fact now imminent. 00:35:36 Speaker 3: We should know that the president has done this a few times. We had the long build up in Venezuela. I feel like everyone thought we were going to topple that government and then instead he just yoinked out Maduro and instead you have much just kind of a much friendlier relationship with essentially the same government. 00:35:53 Speaker 2: Still. Yeah, in all reports from Venezuela, to be fair, you even have former General Petraeus, retired General Petraeus praise Trump's handling of Venezuela, which is interesting. And all reports indicate that it's going well. Now, there's gonna be bumps along the road, there's no doubt in a country that large, and that's been that chaotic for that long. There's gonna be bumps along the road. But that is one scenario that seems to be going well. And that was ahead of a snake operation. Right, you take out Maduro, you provide an olive branch to the rest of the government. Seems to go well. Maybe he could pursue a similar thing. 00:36:24 Speaker 3: Maybe I would be skeptical of that. Now, as they always say, like who runs around it's as they would say, you know Sean Hannity voice, like the Mullahs in Iran, it is you have the Ayatola, but the Iatolas and a really old guy who's a cleric. He's it's not a cult of personality around one guys. 00:36:41 Speaker 2: It is a guy who loves to tweet. 00:36:42 Speaker 3: It is a theocratic regime. I mean they they're strong enough that they had military forces who could crush a large uprising in the country. 00:36:50 Speaker 2: You would. 00:36:51 Speaker 3: And also it's a much more I think, ideologically hostile regime. I mean it's a religious religious extremists. It's not even just kind of calmness. It is full more apocalyptic time. 00:37:02 Speaker 2: Probably the most aggressive from a messaging standpoint, regime in the world against the America. 00:37:07 Speaker 3: Exactly and so I don't think it's the sort of thing where you could helicopter out one guy and they'd be much friendlier. I think it is the sort of thing where if you were going to go in, you would have to overthrow the government and install a new one. And at that point you're risking more US troops. It's a more expensive operation no matter what happens. 00:37:27 Speaker 4: Uh. 00:37:28 Speaker 3: And we were just talking at the top that the goal is to pivot towards domestic stuff, message on the economy, message on drug prices. I think it would be difficult to mix that with this sort of war unless President Trump was highly confident it could be a rapid, decisive operation with no permanent US foot. 00:37:48 Speaker 2: Do you remember what Trump said during the Twelve Day war. He said, we could have taken the Etola out. We had his location, We could have done it. He opted not to then. So it's an interesting thing to keep it them back in your mind that he we have the capabilities, certainly to do it from a military standpoint. The question is, and would you can see how. 00:38:07 Speaker 3: They may have even been selling the president on this that For example, a lot of people US included were very concerned last summer this would escalate into a quagmire. And instead they said, no, we can do one strike, they won't detect it, there will be no losses, and it'll succeed. And they did that with the strikes. Similar thing in Venezuela. I think a lot of people would have said, this is a very risky operation where a lot of soldiers could be killed, and instead total success, no US losses, and we took them all out and they were completely, you know, completely humiliating for the regimes such that they basically had to submit to us because they're worried we could blow them all the smitherings with no losses. So you can sort of see how the people who are most concerned that an intervention would become a quagmire have we should just say it. They have been incorrect, and the people who've said we can do this easily with no losses have been correct several times. Then, yeah, I have to offer that caveat that if you do that over and over, eventually you do get unlucky. And you only have to get unlucky once, and we're in another five ten year mess. 00:39:10 Speaker 2: So the Iatola was just looking at his Twitter feed, you know, and you gotta imagine this is playing into President Trump's psychology here, because you don't threaten America when President Trump is president and basically get away with it. Americans say, come negotiate with us about your nuclear energy, and the result, by the way, nuclear energy, it's not just energy you guys want. We know better and the result would be that you won't have that energy. There is no need to negotiate. But if a negotiation were to take place, predetermining its outcome is misguided and stupid approach. That's Ayatola Kameaneemeani. 00:39:48 Speaker 3: Here's another one. Yeah, go ahead, Well we have another tweet four to seventy three where he says the president keeps saying they have the strongest military force in the world, the strongest military force the world may at times be struck so hard that it cannot get up again. Which, yeah, man, they really love to broadcast these. Every era of war or every Middle Eastern war is like threatened total annihilation of all enemies die. 00:40:13 Speaker 2: One last thing, Iran has tried to kill President Trump. That's going on in the back of his head too. Don't forget that. 00:40:25 Speaker 3: For more on many of these stories and news you can trust, go to Charliekirk dot com