The Charlie Kirk Show, June 23, 2025

Commentary on military operation in Iran, escalation of war, Iran attacking America back, Qatar being attacked, oil, and 10 missiles at Qatar with 1 at Iraq 

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Speaker 1 (00:17):
The Charlie Kirk Show starts now.

Speaker 2 (00:21):
The US military carried out massive precision strikes on the
three key nuclear facilities in the Iranian regime for dau
Ntance and Sfahan. Tonight, I can report to the world
that the strikes were a spectacular military success.

Speaker 3 (00:42):
Is the United States now at war with Iran?

Speaker 4 (00:44):
No, Christian We're not at war with Iran. We're at
war with Iran's nuclear program. And what we did is
we destroyed the Iranian nuclear program. I think we set
that program back substantially, and we did it without endangering
the lives of the American pilots. That's an incredible thing,
and I think we all should be proud, whatever our politics,
we should be proud of what these guys accomplished, a

(01:07):
very very high impact mission under a lot of pressure.

Speaker 5 (01:10):
We are confident, yes, that Iran's nuclear sites were completely
and totally obliterated, as the President said in his address
to the nation on Saturday night, And we have a
high degree of confidence that where those strikes took place
is where Iran's enriched uranium was stored.

Speaker 6 (01:25):
The President wouldn't have.

Speaker 5 (01:26):
Launched the strikes if we weren't confident in that so
this operation was a resounding success, and administration officials agree.

Speaker 7 (01:33):
With that as well as Israel.

Speaker 8 (01:34):
The President believes the Iranian people can control their own destiny.
Why shouldn't the Iranian people take away the power of
this incredibly violence regime. Our posture has not changed, our
military posture has not changed. These were decisive, precision strikes

(01:55):
that were successful on Saturday evening. But the President is
just simply raising a good question, and that many people
around the world are asking.

Speaker 9 (02:01):
Do you expect Iran to move to close the straight
up Hoore.

Speaker 8 (02:05):
Moves to try to disrupt oil transportation across the world.

Speaker 9 (02:09):
Well, I encourage the Chinese government invasion to call them
about that, because they heavily depend on the Straits or
Horror Moves for their oil. If they do that, it
will be another terribleness. They gets economic suicide for them
if they do it, and we retain options to deal
with that. But other countries should be looking at that
as well. It would hurt other countries' economies a lot
worse than ours. It would be I think a massive
escalation that would have merit a response not just by us,

(02:31):
but from others. What happens next will depend on what
they do they want to negotiate, We're ready to negotiate.

Speaker 10 (02:36):
These regime change off the table, mister Secretariat.

Speaker 11 (02:39):
This mission was not and has not been about regime change.
The President authorized a precision operation to neutralize the threats
to our national interests posed by the Iranian nuclear program
and the collective self defense of our troops and our
ally Israel. One of the things that you saw for
the presidents and I really am proud of all of

(03:02):
our guys that the Senior Team is an operation of
this magnitude multiple B two's fourteen to thirty thousand pound
bombs and even an hour after the attack, the entire media,
you know, some of our enemies all over the world,
they had no idea this was happening.

Speaker 4 (03:20):
And that's because you had a coherent team that was
aligned behind the President's vision.

Speaker 1 (03:25):
There weren't any leaks.

Speaker 4 (03:27):
I think that made our troops safer as they carried
out this mission.

Speaker 12 (03:30):
What will be your next step if Iran or militios
under Iranian inflounced from the region attack US interests or alloys.

Speaker 11 (03:42):
In the region, wherever it may be, whether it's in
Iraq or Syria or bases in the Gulf as the
President said it would be or excuse me, as the
chairman said, it would be a very bad idea for
Iran or its proxies to attempt to attack American forces.

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Speaker 7 (05:25):
Welcome back. Hello, sorry, not welcome back. It is Monday.
I was reading something here, A lot going on. We
are at the Bitcoin dot Com studio a lot. How
I guess it is welcome back because we were streaming
this weekend and there was a lot happening. Okay, let's begin.
So this last weekend, President Donald Trump authorized a military
operation in Iran. America has officially joined the Iranian Israeli war.

(05:52):
An amazing military operation with remarkable precision. A thirty seven
hour round trip flight B two bombers flew from Missouri
all the way around the world and bombed three separate
sites in Iran, turned around and came back to the
United States. President Donald Trump announced it on Saturday evening.
We of course, were covering that live. Pete Hegseth, Marco

(06:15):
Rubio and Jade Vance have been hitting the media circuit
in the last couple of days. Now the question is
what happens next now live here on this program, we
are monitoring this Katari airspace is now closed. The largest
military base, the largest US military base in the Mid
East is in Qatar. As we've said, they are basically

(06:37):
sitting ducks right now. There's a lot of preventative measures
though that have been done and can be done to
get some of these US service members out of harm's way,
to get US troops out of a potential ballistic missile
strike against Iran. A lot of this is now outside
of our control. President Donald Trump acted decisively and prudently.

(07:00):
President Donald Trump has said for a long time that
Iran will not get a nuclear weapon. But now this
is out of our control. What will Iran do now?
There is major US air force movement going on right
now all over the Sentcom region, major breaking news, imminent
threat of Iranian attack on Al Udad Air Base in Qatar.

(07:20):
So it looks as if that juicy target in Qatar,
as we predicted on Saturday night, Iran just can't help itself.
That is the target they are going for now. Typically
there would be ten thousand US troops at that Katari
air base. That has been drawn down to five thousand
US troops. And so we're going to be here live

(07:41):
on air for the next couple of hours. As this
is developing in front of us, what will Iran do?
It is now getting closer to evening in the Middle East,
and this is going to unfold right here on this program,
and the imminent threat of Iranian attack will probably be
ballistic missiles. Now, remember when President Trump took out Cassamsalamani.

(08:04):
Iran responded with force. They even hit the tents of
service members where they were supposed to be. But thankfully,
we took exhaustive precautionary measures, and we got the planes
in the sky, we got the troops in the cars,
and thankfully, nobody died, by the grace of God. There's

(08:24):
some folks in some amazing American troops got concussions that
were in bunkers, but nobody died. So likely it looks
as if there is an imminent threat of ballistic missile
launches happening in Iran and they will go to Qatar.
Let's get a map of the Middle East. This is
a much shorter missile trajectory, by the way, than Israel,

(08:45):
So Israel has about a eight to ten minute heads
up before a ballistic missile goes all the way up
and then goes to Israel. Well, this is a much
much shorter missile projectile to Qatar. It's only five to
one hundred miles probably from the interior of Iran to Qatar.

(09:06):
So what does this mean for the United States? Well,
President Trump made the decision to bomb Iran. If Iran
kills ten, twenty thirty forty US service members, what should
our response be. Should we escalate this even further? Should
we then go after Iranian oil field? Should we take
out Iranian electricity? Or should we just say okay, we're done.

Speaker 6 (09:29):
Now.

Speaker 7 (09:30):
Iran said that their response is going to be proportional. Well,
from the best of our knowledge, no Iranians died in
the Iranian missile strike this last weekend, the bombing that
we did against Iran. Here's two fifty seven up on screen.
You'll see all the US bases across the region. It's

(09:55):
a lot of targets for Iran to hit. That is
a lot of targets. So if Iran goes and kills
twenty US service members, God forbid, how do we respond?
President Donald Trump has already issued massive threats saying that
you are not going to like what happens next. And
then do we find ourselves further stepping up the escalatory ladder.

(10:18):
This is brinkmanship at the highest imaginable and conceivable level.
And then there's another conversation that we had, which is
did we actually take out the Iranian nuclear program? That
is yet to be seen. Now, again there's a difference
between capabilities and program. Capabilities and program. The hope here

(10:38):
of what Iran is doing again in the side of
our control, we are hoping for the rationality of Iran.
So much of this right now is us hoping that
Iran acts rationally, which again is a little bit of
a contradiction because we're told that they can't get a
nuclear weapon because they're irrational. Anyway, that's a whole separate
topic for a different time, but anyway, right now, so

(11:00):
we are praying for the rationality of Iran. We're praying
that they don't wipe out a thousand US troops, they
don't wipe out two thousand US troops. After Solamani, they
did basically a showing face missile launch, but not really
they hit US bases directly. They just kind of gave
us enough heads up that we were able to evacuate

(11:20):
those US bases so they can go back to the
Iranian people and say say, look, we're strong. We hit
the bases, and we can kind of wipe our hands
of it. We can kind of get an off ramp.
It seems very clear that Israel and America kind of
wants this to come to an end. Does Iran, Does

(11:41):
Iran right now have the stomach to keep this going?
We don't know. There are reports on the ground that
Iranian sentiment is increasing in certain factions and certain portions,
especially the rural areas in Iran around the Supreme Leader,
but in the cities where a lot of the younger
Persians live, they are becoming more more Western. So this
is happening all in real time. Meanwhile, there is an

(12:06):
ever growing heated let's say, debate and environment happening online.
And we're gonna dive deep into the politics of this,
and I'm gonna kind of show you your opinion of
what is happening with Iran is almost it's almost a
one to one correlation based on your age and based
on your media consumption habits, and I want to dive

(12:29):
into that in great detail, but I just had to
get to this breaking news that any moment right now,
there is likely going to be than an Iranian attack
against a US base. Certain sources are saying that an
Iranian attack could have already begun against US basis, So
we're gonna keep our eyes on that. In real time,

(12:49):
we're monitoring it. There is a massive US Air Force
movement happening right all over the region to try to
intercept some of these missiles we have Patriot missiles, and
also to evacuate the base. Every minute here matters, Every
minute matters to get these US service members out of
the base so that they do not die. And that
would be awful, and that would be catastrophic. But this

(13:11):
fluid situation could then escalate into US then responding against Iran,
and they would respond further against US, and before you
know it, we are now in a shooting war, a
kinetic chapter of the US VERSA run, which I don't
think anybody in this audience wants. Maybe a couple people
want it, but I can't imagine anybody in this audience

(13:32):
right now wants a further escalation of this situation. And
President Donald Trump has been remarkably clear if you touch
a single US service member, there will be a response
the likes of which you have never seen President Donald
Trump acted decisively this last weekend. And now I'm going
to show you some of the fallout that you might

(13:53):
be missing, because if you are simply and only watching
cable news, you might think that the whole movement is,
as you, unified behind this. That is not the case,
especially for the MAGA faithful under the age of thirty,
and especially for the MAGA faithful that are hyper online.
There is a lot of heated opinions being thrown out

(14:15):
right now, and I'm going to dive into all of that.
And by the way, here's some other breaking It just
kind of continued breaking news. A coordinated attack from Iran,
the Iranian faction in Rock and Hutis and Yemen is
expected to take place. So it looks like this is
their big counter It's gonna happen live here on The
Charlie Kirk Show. We are monitoring and covering it here

(14:35):
in real time. Email us Freedom at Charliekirk dot com
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Speaker 13 (14:48):
Stop watching the news and start from making some the
Charlie Kirkshow.

Speaker 7 (14:53):
Okay, everybody, welcome back. Email us as always, Freedom at
Charliekirk dot com and subscribe to our podcast. I'm gonna
get into the politic of all this, and we'm going
to kind of restart where I wanted to start. But
all that breaking news kind of derailed us. Understandably. Reports
are saying that within hours we could see in Irani
attack on a US base, which leads you to believe
that this is probably no small attack. But there's a

(15:19):
little bit of a wind up here. Presidentnald Trump is
holding a national security meeting in the situation room in
the next thirty minutes, and multiple bases are going to
be attacked, is what it looks like. Sources that's unconfirmed. Unconfirmed.
By the way, We're going to be covering this all
live here on this program, more quicker than anybody else
because we got live top tier sources. You have to

(15:40):
understand here on this program we have the best sources
that you can have. I mean, maybe some other cable
news programs, but the sources here we have in this
show are top tier, original source. And it looks as
if multiple bases are going to be attacked. That's unconfirmed,
but it looks there is mass mobilization happening across the region.
We hope that Iran acts rationally. We hope that Iran

(16:03):
does not want to escalate this further. That would be
bad for them, It'd be bad for us, it'd be
bad for the region, be bad for our agenda. We
bomb the facilities in Ford, oh and Istefon and the
knots ntons or whatever. And there are sites of low
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(17:29):
Email us is always freedom at Charliekirk dot com. As
I said on Saturday. By the way, we're at the
Bitcoin dot com studios, I said on Saturday, as this
news broke, I have the President's back here. The president
is a friend. He acted with judgment and decisiveness and prudence.
But it's important that I just kind of tell you,
tell it like it is, that not everybody is in
support of this, and definitely over the weekend there was

(17:52):
a sizeable bubbling up of chatter disagreement, a special with
the under thirty hyper online crowd. If you support these
strikes in Iran, which by the way, I want to
hear from you freedom at Charliekirk dot com. Do you
support it or not support it? If you support these
strikes in Iran, you are likely getting your news habits

(18:17):
and your media consumption. If you support them from either
cable television or traditional media. If you are against these strikes,
you tend to listen to more podcasting, you tend to
get more information online. So let me kind of show
you the contrast of response. I think it's very important. First,
here is someone who has been very vocally in support

(18:41):
of striking Iran. He's a friend of mine. I refuse
to get into all this back and forth of name calling.
I don't like that, by way way. That's I think
one of the reasons why our show is doing so
well right now is I'm not getting into oh, you're
this name or your that name. I simultaneously can call
Tucker Carlson and Mark Levin a friend, and I'm proud
of that. And I don't like seeing all these different

(19:02):
friendships fall apart just because we have heated disagreements. I
don't like that. What cut is this, Shane, I can't
see it. The Mark Levin one? This cut sheet doesn't
make any sense. Which one is it? Guys? Okay, all right,

(19:25):
we'll get to that in a little bit. So three
point thirty three.

Speaker 1 (19:32):
Look what Trump just did. Look what he did.

Speaker 14 (19:35):
Guess what There wasn't a regional war They're not going
to be a regional war. There's not World War three.
There was not going to be World War three. The
Israeli didn't drag us into it. I want the anti
Semites sit down and shut up. The Israeli didn't drag
us into this. The Israelis are defending themselves. We're defending ourselves.
That's what took place. Now, what's the reaction of the

(19:57):
Democrats and Peach Trump? These are sick people, sick, you
know why, because their guy Clinton couldn't do it. Obama
couldn't do it, Biden couldn't do anything.

Speaker 6 (20:08):
They if they had their way.

Speaker 7 (20:12):
And let's continue three thirty four. I want you to understand,
when you watch these clips, you're getting a certain presentation,
and that's fine of what is happening. And so if
you support the strikes in iran perfectly rational and respectable position,
this is the narrative that you are largely consuming. Let's
go to cut three thirty four.

Speaker 15 (20:31):
America.

Speaker 1 (20:32):
Don't you feel relief.

Speaker 14 (20:33):
Of course, you feel relief because this is These are
Islamo Nazis. We're building nuclear weapons to attack us too,
with intercontinental ballistic missiles. Guess what you can go to
bed peacefully tonight.

Speaker 1 (20:45):
No, that's not gonna happen.

Speaker 14 (20:47):
That's not gonna happen, not because of Obama, not because
of Biden, not because of the Democrats, not because of
the sun Republicans, because of Donald Trump.

Speaker 7 (20:57):
Okay, so if you port these strikes, you're likely over
the age of fifty and you watch cable television or
traditional media. But I think it's important that I read
some of these tweets of some of the top MAGA
voices that have spoken out this weekend, people that are very,
very pro Trump. Here is the Hodge Twins, for example,

(21:17):
Please stop with the gas lighting. Bombing another country's nuclear
facilities and then openly calling for regime change is not
a peaceful message. It's an act of war, plain and simple. Top.
By the way, well over ten million followers, very very
pro Trump. Alex Jones. We all know Alex Alex can
be quite entertaining. I'm sad to see that Trump drank

(21:40):
the neo kon kool aid and attacked Iron. That said,
most people see through the gas lighting and the age
of globalist warmongers is coming to its end. This insane
war quote must and now regardless, Trump is doing a
great job on domestic issue sash trade, as well as
boosting most America verse policies. So I'll not throw the
baby out with the bathwater. The Patriot voice to read

(22:00):
this entire thing, but very very pro Trump says, I
hardly recognize Maga anymore. I did not associate with magas
starting all the way back in twenty fifteen, me part
of this type of psychicotic cult like behavior. Very long,
saying that he's very upset with President Trump. This one
Shan Sean Strickland. What happened to America? First, cost of living,

(22:22):
staggering wages, inflation? How does spending hundreds of millions to
bomb a desert help the average America? Regime change? Question
mark UFC fighter. He was at our Las Vegas rally again.
He's kind of one of the cool kids that has
come alongside that is now totally against. And by the way,
before I read more and I'll do this more after
the break, a lot of the podcast bros, a lot

(22:43):
of the hyper digital online the young energy that has
been a catalyst to the movement. And just remember Donald
Trump won the youth vote. He won the White House
because of the youth vote. Boomers went three points to
the left. Young people move fifteen points to the right.
It's not because of boomers that Donald Trump won the
White House. It's because of young people and students and

(23:03):
a lot of those online and I'll read more are
vehemently against what has happened in the Middle East. Don't
shoot the messenger. I'll be right back.

Speaker 16 (23:23):
Welcome back to this Real America's Voice news break. I'm
Terrence Bates. We're working new information about the recent attack
on Iran. The US Embassy and Cutter is telling Americans
in that country to shelter in place until further notice.
This Cutter itself has closed its airspace over the country.
All of this with concern that Iran might be launching

(23:44):
some sort of attack on US facilities there in Cutter
or in that general region. In the meantime, President Trump
scheduled to meet with his national security team within the
next thirty minutes or so. Following Saturday's massive attack on
Iran's main nuclear facility and two other nuclear facilities in
that country, the White House posted a video of b
two bombers that dropped the so called bunker busting bombs

(24:07):
on the foid Oh plant this morning.

Speaker 7 (24:09):
As you can see.

Speaker 16 (24:10):
The planes are now safely back here in the United
States after touching down at Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri,
following a thirty six hour mission halfway across the country. However,
protesters in New York took to the streets on Sunday
to demonstrate against the attack and war. Similar marches were
staged in Los Angeles, Austin, Boston, and Chicago. Despite the opposition,

(24:33):
Secretary of Defense Pete Heggsath explaining on Sunday what this
weekend's attacks were all about.

Speaker 11 (24:39):
This mission was not and has not written about regime change.
The President authorized a precision operation to neutralize the threats
to our national interests posed by the Iranian nuclear program
and the collective self defense of our troops and our
ally Israel.

Speaker 16 (24:59):
As for the effectiveness of those bombings, President Trump says
Iran's nuclear sites sustained quote monumental damage. Defense officials are
still working there to determine the full extent of that damage.
Congressional pushback against the President's actions and Iran will likely
kicking the high gear this week. Republican Thomas Massey of
Kentucky is being called a rhino yet again. This morning

(25:22):
due to his criticism of Saturday's attack and his resolution,
which seeks to limit President Trump's war powers. Massey argues
that Congress should have made the call to attack, not
the president. Democrat Virginia Senator Tim Kaine also on record
this morning, saying he expects to force the Senate this
week to vote on a bill that will require the
Commander in chief to terminate hostilities against Iran.

Speaker 13 (25:55):
This movement will not be silenced. You're listening to the
Charlie kirksh.

Speaker 7 (26:00):
Okay, everybody, welcome back. Email us as always, fredam at
Charliekirk dot com. Here at the Bitcoin dot Com studio
Bitcoin dot com Studio. Joining us now is Mark Halprin,
editor in chief of two Way, host of Next Up
on the Meghan Kelly Network. Mark, great to see you.
I hope you had a RESTful and peaceful Saturday night.
Nothing really happened this weekend.

Speaker 17 (26:22):
Yeah, we did a special report on two Way, had
a big audience, and I think it's you know, we're
to hear a lot of negative stuff about America, American
people media. I think people are really engaged in this
in a substantive way. I know you hear it when
you talk to people. I know I regularly flatter you,
but it's all heartfelt. I think you've been so thoughtful
about this, and as an analyst, but also as someone

(26:45):
who's a player involved here, because this can be treated superficially,
it can be treated as a red blue divide.

Speaker 7 (26:51):
But Mark was saying all this wonderful stuff, and we
lost him. Okay, we'll try to get reconnected. Hang tight
there as we get Mark Halprin there. That was very
sweet what Mark was saying, because yes, we have been
very thoughtful, and we have been very analytical, and we

(27:13):
have been very fair in how we have been handling
this situation. Sorry, Mark, we lost you for a second.

Speaker 17 (27:19):
Please continue, Okay, Sorry a bet that I don't know
what happened. I just this cuts across the red blue divide,
and these are serious issues and people should not be
treating it like politics. They should be treating it like
what's America's role going to be in the world? And
what do we think of what President Trump has done?
And again, I think you've been extremely thoughtful as an
analyst and as a participant in saying there's a way

(27:42):
to do this, it's in America's interest and there are
ways that that history suggests aren't. And I think I
applaud you and everyone else, including my colleagues on two Way,
who are treating this like a serious thing rather than
a political thing or a fervo listening.

Speaker 7 (27:54):
Well, well, thank you, Mark. That means a lot. And
we've been attacked by both sides. We've been called the
warmonger and we've been called an isolationist. And then I
look around and I say, well, you know what, the
show's doing better than ever. So it turns out the
American people actually want a straight, fact first, non ideological
take on this. So Mark, let me ask some of
the harder questions. First of all, we are our eyes

(28:16):
right now, we're modern the situation. Any moment right now,
Iran could strike and hit a US base, So I
don't want to get too much into that because that's speculative.
But based on your reporting, Mark, was this strike in
Iran successful? Did it take out Iran's nuclear capability? There's
a lot of debate about that. The New York Times
is trying to cast a little bit of doubt regarding that.

(28:40):
What is your reporting showing regarding the success of this strike?

Speaker 17 (28:45):
Well, it was at least somewhat successful on two levels.
Number one, I'd say three levels. Number one, it's certainly
set back Iran's nuclear program. We don't know yet, No
one knows if it eliminated it. Number two, it's sent
Iron and Israel both message that the United States is,
as Israel is doing, is seizing this opportunity, an unprecedented

(29:06):
opportunity where Iran, as weak as it's been in quite
some time, to show that the United States is going
to partner with Israel. And then number three, it showed
America's technological superiority over every military in the world. And
that means that not just Iran, but the folks in
Beijing and elsewhere can be reminded that if the United

(29:27):
States decides to use its military power, it's going to
bring it to bear in a way with a technological
and human proficiency that's unmatched by everybody else on the planet.
That's an asymmetrical advantage for the United States.

Speaker 1 (29:39):
None of that.

Speaker 17 (29:39):
Means, though that anybody knows, including the New York Times,
including the administration, just how far back this has set
the program. And I think it's going to take a
lot of human intelligence and electronic surveillance to try to
figure it out.

Speaker 1 (29:54):
There's no doubt that.

Speaker 17 (29:55):
Iran did not go from being able to build a
nuclear device and deliver it to being enable completely unable
to deliver it. And we need to figure that out
as a news story. But the policymakers need to understand
because that goes to the next moves for both ISA
and the United States, whose stated goal is to remove
that capability, at least for the time being.

Speaker 7 (30:17):
Breaking news, by the way, Axios is saying, we can
put this up on screen. Israeli official says that Iran
has now fired towards Qatar and Iraq. Mark what is
the significance of this. We're going to know a lot
very quickly of the payload and the intent of the
Iranian military. A lot of our troops are sitting ducks

(30:38):
in the region. Kind of walk our audience through. We've
seen this similar in twenty twenty with the taking out
a solo money. So please educate our audience on this
as we see this develop in real time.

Speaker 1 (30:49):
Well, we saw it then.

Speaker 17 (30:50):
We also saw it when Israel and Iran fought a
few months ago. I think there's a good possibility. I'm
not predicting, I'm not saying it's the only possible outcome.
But I think there's a good possibility that are On
will do something like what they've just reportedly done, tell
their people it was a huge success and the full
retaliation and stand down. I think that's a possibility, and
I know there are people in the administration who are

(31:12):
familiar with that possibility as well.

Speaker 1 (31:14):
They may also decide to.

Speaker 17 (31:16):
Activate whatever remaining forces they have, both on their own
and through proxies, to try to harm the United States
and the United States allies, and that'll put a lot
of pressure on President Trump to decide what he wants
to do. His rhetoric suggests that if Aran does that,
the US will respond quite forcefully, But Israel's taking out
a lot of targets now, so I'm not sure what's

(31:38):
left for the US to hit, but there's certainly ways
to ratchet this up. So if a single American life
is lost, I think the President will act quite full force.
If it's just property, maybe not.

Speaker 7 (31:51):
Yeah, And so this has been a little bit telegraphed,
though we've kind of heard this for the last hour
or two hours. I'm texting with reporter right now who's
just about I'd say you're a better reporter, Mark, but
he's almost he's almost at the helper and league of excellence.
He says, quote, it sounds like, based on what are reporting,
this was telegraphed and designed to avoid casualties. Why would
Iran do that? Why would iron telegraph and design a

(32:14):
military attack to avoid casualties?

Speaker 17 (32:17):
Well, for long lines of what I said, they have
to appease their people. Their whole premise of governance has
been on the military front, the geopolitical front. We're going
to stand up to the big Satan in a little satan.
And people in Iran know that the United States and
Israel and both have now attacked the Iranian assets. And

(32:40):
I think again they've done this at least twice now
where they don't want to bring the full measure of
the United States force upon them, but they need to
tell their people they've done something. And they can tell
the Iranian people they did respond, and they can exaggerate
the degree of success and they you know, the tit
for tat nature of the response, and that's what many

(33:01):
people think they'll do and this could be a sign
of that. But you know, this is not a closed thing.
It's not like if they get one chance to respond,
they may respond that way and then respond a different way. Charlie,
I think the biggest variable in all of this is
the Iranian people and what the government feels they need
to do to appease them or keep them from demanding
a change in government, or or have a perception that

(33:24):
they're failed regime. And we don't know most of the
reporting out of Iran, and I'm unfortunately not in a
position to do much reporting there directly, but most of
the reporting suggests that they're rallying around the government. They're
reacting negatively to Israel in the United States, and that's
good for the government because that means they've got more
leeway in how they respond without having to worry about

(33:45):
losing face with their own people.

Speaker 7 (33:47):
Okay, six missiles launched so far by Iran right now
as we're here on air towards Katar. I'm told many
have been intercepted. There are multiple explosions over Doha, and
those interceptions are ongoing right now. Well, so it's conceivable
that Iran kind of, Hey, it's common, it's common, and
they didn't, like quite want to kill Americans, but they

(34:10):
wanted to show face domestically and they said, hey, we
did this thing. It's over. And I mean I could
see it if these missiles are successfully intercepted and no
US troops die. What is your reporting, show Mark, about
how President Trump would respond. Do you think he will
take an off ramp and then kind of just put
this thing, consider it done, if no US troops die.

Speaker 1 (34:34):
In the short term.

Speaker 17 (34:35):
I do think that's what the President would do if
it's just if it's just some buildings hit. However, is
an ongoing issue, right the president, you know, to the extent,
and again you've you've taken heat, as you said, both
you know, called an isolationisten called a warmonter. The President
is committed to not letting Iran develop a nuclear capability

(34:56):
or into continental ballistic capability. The Israeli scene to be
on this, and they continue to not only hit our
targets in Iran, but with a great deal of confidence.
But if there's another element of the mission, like we
saw over the weekend, where the United States capability can
get it done and Israel can't they don't have the
B two's and the bunker busters, then I think the

(35:16):
President would go back for more. But I think the
goal is to say, deter on from striking American forces
around the world, deter them from hitting American forces in
the United States, and hope that Israel can do what
both the United States and Israel say they want, which
is to eliminate that missile capability and that nuclear capability.

Speaker 7 (35:37):
We're getting some of the video now that we're going
to put up. Sorry, Mark, this is all just breaking
news in real time here.

Speaker 1 (35:43):
I'm a breaking news guy, Philla.

Speaker 7 (35:44):
No, I know so. And by the way, feel free
to check your phone, Mark if you're getting sources and
you're getting information to live on air. The skies of
Katar are lighting up right now as interceptions seem to
be occurring, and we're going to try to load up
those videos. Mark, What is this say for the Maga doctrine,
for the Trump doctrine? If there is an off ramp,

(36:05):
President Trump has kind of created a third way. We've
kind of always existed in Hey, either you're a dove
or you're a hawk. President Trump has always existed kind
of in between those two modalities. What does this mean
for the Trump doctrine and the Trump foreign policy worldview?

Speaker 17 (36:23):
Speak loudly, carry a big stick, use it when necessary,
and no boots on the ground. I find people who
are surprised by how President Trump is handling this to
be guilty of not paying attention. He's doing exactly what
he said he would do. People say, well, this is
a slippers slowe. No, he's not going to put boots

(36:44):
on the ground. They're not going to be American forces
on the ground. There's going to be no nation building,
there's going to be no attempt to win the hearts
and minds of the Iranian people. There'd be a lot
of rhetoric about how are the Iranian people, as the
President put on truth Social yesterday, how the Iranian people
should consider changing their government because their government has not
performed in their best interests. I think you'll continue to

(37:06):
see that. I can think you'll continue to see overwhelming
force US to take out whatever needs to be taken
out to make sure that Iran cannot be a nuclear power.
Other than that, I think it's up to the Iranian government.
If they kill an American, one single American, then I
think you'll see massive retaliation. And the President made that
clear to them that doesn't mean boots on the ground.

(37:28):
We've got extraordinary air power. The Israelis have helped clear
the way by making the Iranian air force and anti
air capacity quite limited. And so I think the President,
as he said over the weekend and the experts I
talked to, concur the mission that was carried out over
the weekend is the tough one. The ability of the

(37:48):
United States to destroy government buildings, political things, bases the navy.
That's fishing a barrel for the US military.

Speaker 7 (38:00):
All right, we have some visuals. I just want to
put this up on screen of some of the interceptions
that are happening over Qatar. Now, remember this is very
ballsy for Iran to do because Qatar and Iran, I
don't want to say their allies, but there's definitely something
that's been going on there with oil and they're they're
closer than Saudi Arabia and Iran. So this is quite
a maneuver for Iran to do. But look at that

(38:21):
those interceptions happening over the skies of Qatar right now,
that is real stuff. I mean, those ballistic missiles could
take out hundreds of people if it hits a certain target.
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always Freedom at Charliekirk dot com. Visuals are coming in.
We do not yet have any confirmation of a missile
hitting a US space yet, but there are more missiles
being launched right now. Stay right there. Mark Alprin continues
after the break. Okay, Mark Alprin continues with US Mark,

(39:59):
right now, looks like initial reports show that all missiles
were intercepted so far. We need triple confirmation on that.
I don't know what you're reporting is showing as well,
but that could be another victory for President Trump to
show the capacity for the US military to intercept these missiles.
There's also alarms that are ringing in Iraq and Bahrain,
and the source of the interception is probably aerial interception

(40:22):
and also patriot missiles from the bases. Again, we need
triple confirmation on that. So Mark, really quick, what do
you make of the politics of all this and kind
of the response that you've seen from MAGA faithful over
the last couple of days. You're very uniquely positioned as
a reporter to comment on this. As we get more
information about this aerial attack against us basis. What do

(40:44):
you make of the politics of all this.

Speaker 1 (40:47):
Well, on the Republican side, I think the.

Speaker 17 (40:50):
Stories about, you know, MAGA meltdown are exaggerated. There's a
few people like Marjorie Taylor Green who are on principle
opposed to this. I hear it on two way from
MAGA folks who say this is a violation of what
the president has stood for. But most people, and I
put you and Professor Bannon in this category, I think,

(41:11):
have participated in the debate in a responsible way, in
most members of Republicans in Congress saying let's make sure
that this is done consistent not with just American principles,
but consistent with the principles learned over the last several decades,
maybe from Vietnam onward, saying America cannot win these wars,
and America shouldn't get into wars that they can't win.

(41:33):
But at the same time, using air power and superiority
to achieve a specific objective, one that the President has
talked about for such a long time, making sure they're
not a nuclear power is a big one. I think
the Democratic Party, perhaps not surprisingly, is just a mess
on this. There's seventeen different positions. I've yet to hear
any Democrat annunciate what seems to be the obvious position,

(41:55):
which is support our troops, demand that the Iraqi of
the Iranian government not have have nuclear capability or intercontinental
ballistic missiles, and say that the president's obligated to work
with Congress whenever he's going to put American forces in
harm's way. That's like the easy, sensible position that's patriotic
and rational and doesn't give Donald Trump everything he wants.

(42:17):
And yet, like I said, I've heard almost no Democrat
talk about it. I'll be super curious to see if
the title pull numbers go up, because normally that would happen.

Speaker 7 (42:26):
Oh, I think they will just really quick. It looks
like there's more ballistic missiles right now launched at Bahrain,
so it looks as if they're going after multiple targets.
Based on reporting happening real time here on the program,
it looks like the Qatar missile strikes were intercepted and
all six headed to Doha where neutralized intercepted. Huge victory
for the US military and for the Saudi's and the

(42:47):
Kataris and the British that all so basically how again
as a very layman understanding. But basically, we fly a
bunch of fighter jets and we try to send out
a bunch of flares and disruptors that try to make
the missiles explode in air. There are sirens right now
in Kuwait, so we are not out of the woods yet.
Bahrain and Kuwait and a Rock are probably the next

(43:08):
three targets right here on the program as Iran looks
to retaliate from the US bombing on nuclear sides. Stay
right there, Welcome back, ever, buddy, Email US Freedom at
Carli Kirk dot com. Mark Halprin is with US. Okay,

(43:30):
alarms are ringing right now in Kuwait, they are ringing
in Bahrain, so eyes are now on those two countries.
Can we put up a Middle East grim map please? So?
Qatar is the juiciest of all the targets. It's the
largest US base, it's in a desert, and it's the
closest proximity. I think Bahrain actually might be a little
bit closer. But we also have Blake here who's gonna
help with us.

Speaker 1 (43:49):
So you gotta go ahead. Marks.

Speaker 17 (43:52):
You gotta worry about a Rock too, because there's a
history there of not through the air, but just human
assets on the ground have the capacity to attack American forces.
Those bases, of course, over years now have been fortified
and they're pretty well secured. But you never know if
this is a desperate time for the Iranians when they

(44:13):
may start to activate long haled assets who are in
a position to do harmed to America. The air defenses,
as Israel has shown in this part of the world,
are very good. Israel shoots down a very high percentage
of attacks on them from all quarters. And you mentioned
the list of countries for him.

Speaker 1 (44:30):
This is a victory. I know you didn't do it
on purpose, but.

Speaker 17 (44:32):
Just a live rattle. Israel big part of this as
well in terms of intelligence sharing, in terms of technology.

Speaker 7 (44:40):
So Mark, right now again reports are showing French, British
and American fighter jets are all over the Persian Gulf,
just kind of going nuts. I want you to remind
the audience though, when we took out Solemney, we were
able to get out with zero US troops, so this
would not be unprecedented where we do something with a
lot of HUTSPA, or we do some something where President

(45:00):
Trump really acts with decisiveness, with violence. But then we're
able to get out without a single US troop dead.
To do that twice, Mark, would be a rather phenomenal
accomplishment in the modern era. Mark, Mark Helprint, Well.

Speaker 17 (45:15):
It has to do with the extraordinary capabilities of the Pentagon, right,
they're following the orders the commander in chief, the Secretary
of Defense, and the President puts a premium on that
doesn't want a single casualty.

Speaker 1 (45:26):
But it also has to do with his attitude.

Speaker 17 (45:28):
His attitude is again, speak loudly, carry a big stick,
only use it when absolutely essential, and he doesn't. He
doesn't want Americans to die. Continues to be the less
failure to understand Donald Trump when they call him a warmonger.
He's the opposite of that. He's extremely aware of the
costs not just for American families, but for American prestige

(45:48):
and the military's capacity for when America suffers casualties. And
that's why, again, I just people who worry about him saying, well,
we're going to go in and start building firehouse in
parks and schools in Iran.

Speaker 1 (46:02):
It's not going to happen.

Speaker 7 (46:04):
Final thoughts here, Mark, and Mark, by the way, you're
welcome to hang with us as we kind of do
breaking news. We're just going to roll through this, but
I know you have a busy schedule. It sounds as
if we need to get this verified. There is explosions
at the Al Asad Air Base in Iraq. That does
not mean that anybody necessarily died. There were explosions at
these bases back in twenty twenty. It does not mean

(46:26):
that any US troops died. Ten missiles were launched targeting
US bases in Qatar. I think that those US bases
that was a successful interception. The Iraqi one is an
open question. As you astutely mentioned, Mark, the Iraq one
is very close geographically. There's a ton of Iraqi bases.
In some ways, they were kind of sitting ducks. So

(46:46):
it sounds like there might be a successful missile launch.
Successful in the worst possible way to say those words,
on a US base in Iraq. Also, sirens at US
bases in Saudi raced This looks like they're doing a
major volley here.

Speaker 6 (47:02):
Mark.

Speaker 17 (47:03):
Yeah, and look, this is one of the many things
that people worried about. People who did not think the
US attack on the nuclear program was a good idea
for worried about just this, and now there's going to
be a question of how long do they keep it up,
do they kill any Americans? And if they do, what
is President Trump's response. There's also a possibility, of course

(47:24):
of communication and to say to the Iranians, Okay, you've
got your measure of revenge, now let's negotiate, or we
will reply in greater force. That will I predict to
be what the President does. I think he will make
one more effort to get them to the table. And
if they don't come promptly to the table in a
realistic way, I think you will see, as he suggested

(47:45):
over the weekend, overwhelming force. And that's if a single
American dies.

Speaker 7 (47:51):
And Mark, just to repeat a point that we've made
over the last couple of weeks, and this is not
in any way and I told you so. This was
just a cautionary element. When we get into these situations,
you don't know what's going to happen, You don't no
one could die, A hundred people could die. And that
risk has always been the root of my caution. When
you get in these situations, there's a thousand different ways

(48:12):
this stuff can fall apart. Mark Helprin thirty.

Speaker 1 (48:14):
Seconds, hundred percent.

Speaker 17 (48:17):
And the rejoinder, as you know, and which you've also
given voice to, is the status quo ain't great. We
have a country vowing to destory Israel, a country vowing
to do harm to the United States, and this is
an opportunity of the President's taking. It might not work
out well, and I know full well the President went
into it, asking questions about and knowing full well all
the things that could go wrong, and still decided it

(48:38):
was worth it. And the American people are going to
continue to debate no matter what happens, whether it was
the right choice or not. And that's as it should
be in a democracy of robust freedom.

Speaker 7 (48:48):
Mark open invite if you want to keep going. We
have over one hundred thousand concurrens right now, so we'll
be back in about ten seconds. Everybody email me Freedom
at Charliekirk dot com. Back in ten seconds. Let's go
through the brakes. Okay, I think we still have Mark

(49:12):
Alprin with us, and we also Mark open invite. You
could stay as long as you like. We have Blake.

Speaker 1 (49:16):
Blake.

Speaker 7 (49:17):
How you doing great, Charlie? What are we hearing of
the end? Well? Hopefully, hopefully we're doing great exact so
no visual reports or missiles over Kuwait and Bahrain. So
we have reports of you know, sirens going off, scrambling,
so that is what preceded the stuff in Qatar, but
we haven't seen any video of missiles coming in and
over there. There are reports of explosions at Alisada Airbase

(49:37):
in Iraq, there's no footage of that. Alisad is in
the western desert of Iraq, so there you wouldn't be
you know, in Qatar, any random person might see missiles
coming in.

Speaker 18 (49:46):
It's not a big country, it's all right by doa
very soil. So we'll be probably waiting for reports to
come in.

Speaker 7 (49:52):
So uh, Mark, we have Mark Alprin with us. By
the way, I want you guys to email us Freedom
at Charlie Kirk dot com as we are monitoring this
situation live as it is unfolding in front of US
coalition of jets. This is breaking news. Coalition of jets
intercepting Iranian drones over Katar, Iraq, Saudi and UAE air spaces.

(50:12):
So look, can we get the map break up again,
Let's get that Middle East map up. So if they're
going to Katar, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and UAE. They are
just they are flucked. They are flushing out in many
different directions. I want just a quick Middle Eastern geopolitical
lesson for those of you that are tuning in. A
lot of you are Iran is at odds with very

(50:33):
much at odds with the UAE and Saudi Arabia. There's
a Sunni Shia split. They just don't like each other.
They haven't for quite some time, especially Saudi Arabia and Iran. Airstrikes.
Air strikes in Iraq are now being reported, and so
the jets, by the way, pray for our service members
right now that are in jets intercepting drones, they're intercepting missiles.

(50:53):
This seems to be a pretty serious salvo by Iran.
Whether it is somewhat performative or theatrical, we will see.
We know it's real. But what I mean by performed
and theatrical, there has been a little bit of a
wind up to this close the airspace, you know, a
little bit of a hey, we're coming because does Iran
want to see this? Escalate? Mark, what are your sources
telling you? What are you seeing here? And if not,

(51:14):
you could go back. I don't mean to throw it
to you.

Speaker 1 (51:17):
No, that's okay.

Speaker 7 (51:18):
I mean, well, okay, we lost mark for a second here, Blake,
what are we see in.

Speaker 6 (51:26):
So there's definitely the belief.

Speaker 18 (51:29):
The big worry is if they hit us, are they
going to actually try to cause as much damage as
they can or is it they need to show that
they're willing to fight, much like we did remember this
in Trump's first term, where when we took out Solomony,
they shot missiles at us to sort of impress their
own domestic political base, but they weren't really attempting to

(51:51):
do as much damage as they could. They were not
going to all out war over this, and we might
see a similar strategy here. On the other hand, it
could also be there testing it, probing it, seen what
might be vulnerable, or just trying to deplete our stockpile
of interceptor missiles.

Speaker 7 (52:08):
Yes, okay. So breaking news, Iran says it has now
launched what is called Operation bak al Fata against the
US led coalition of the airbase in al Uided in Qatar.
The IRGC is to release his statement shortly, which means
that this is probably coming to a conclusion to an end.
So this is the question everybody. Is this a real escalation?

(52:29):
Does Iran want to escalate this or is this kind
of a domestic show of political force that they could
check the box? Is it a one and done? Do
we have Mark Alpern or do we lose him? Is
he we lost him? Okay, we lost him, got it.
He's welcome to come back if you'd like. And so
initial reports right now show three reports of impact at
the US base and al you did. This is fog

(52:50):
of war stuff, guys, So we have to like triple
confirm all of this. So there are additional attacks happening
right now in Iraq? Can we show the Kuwait up?
I just this Kuwait is the most Middle Eastern picture.
I'm sorry, this is the most Middle Eastern video ever.
It literally shows missiles being intercepted and a bunch of yachts. No, no, no,
you got to show the Kuwait one I just sent.
It's literally a bunch of yachts and then a bunch

(53:12):
of yachts on the bottom part in water, and then
a bunch of missiles being intercepted above and a bunch
of like four season like luxury condominiums. That is the
most Middle Eastern video you'll ever see, which is you just.

Speaker 18 (53:26):
Need like a guy to be like going through with
like an AK forty seven that's gold plated or something
that he just like sprays in the air.

Speaker 7 (53:31):
Exactly. President Donald Trump right now is arrived in the
situation room. Those optics right now to show one more time,
that is Kuwait. You've got missiles being intercepted up top,
you've got luxury condos in the middle, and you've got
yacht yachts on the bottom. Welcome to Kuwait, everybody. Oh yeah,
I think it's Kuwait. By the way. Right now, US
generals are meeting with President Trump in the situation room.
We are looking at all of our sources. We have
the best sources, I would say.

Speaker 1 (53:53):
Outside.

Speaker 7 (53:53):
We're texting a lot of the stakeholders that those that
are not currently in skips right now, we're texting. We're
getting information in real time. Okay, so Irani and missiles
are being intercepted. But it looks as if, unfortunately, there
have been some three successful strikes in bases in Iraq,
but we don't know if those are intercepted missiles that
maybe made their way through. Are they fragments, are they

(54:13):
direct hits.

Speaker 6 (54:15):
And if they hit, did they hit anything with people
in it?

Speaker 7 (54:17):
Yes? And so by the way, this why every minute matters.
The fact that there was almost an hour and a
half or two hour heads up means that everybody could
have gotten in vehicles and you know, drove off base.
They could got they could get planes up in the air,
they could get into bunkers. And by the way, the
US drew down their presence at a lot of these
bases from ten thousand to five thousand, there's been a
significant draw down to try to limit some of the

(54:40):
casualties and limit this response. There's no yet indication that
Iran is going to close the straight of hermus That
would be a serious escalation, one that would actually also
hurt China. So I think that there is a that
is probably unlikely that'll happen. We now have footage that
we're about to put up that the bay being struck.

(55:00):
The report is this quote. It appears that there have
been three direct hits on the large American base in Qatar.
There are no yet reported casualties at the base as
it was evacuated several days ago, but damage has been caused.
Pray that remains everybody. It was just building damage and
it's just equipment damage. Remember President Donald Trump exercised restraint. Again.
President has a lot of history and drama with Iran.

(55:23):
Do remember when Iran they struck down one of American drones?

Speaker 6 (55:27):
Yeah, they shot our robot down.

Speaker 7 (55:28):
Can we get that clip of Trump being like, I'm
not going to strike Iran and kill one hundred Iranians
because they just struck down a robot. And so, by
the way, if this response is limited to a few missiles,
let's put three fifty seven up. President Donald Trump will
be able to declare an unbelievable military victory. We take
out a nuclear capability. No Americans die. Okay, So let

(55:50):
me just repeat. There are reports of three direct hits
on US Bass and Katar, no reports of US casualties,
No reports of US casualties in an operation called the
annunciation of victory. Again, these guys are a bunch of
theyre just a bunch of talkers. They got a big
they got a big mouth in a run launched against
US Bass in a rock guitar, and Iran is confirming,

(56:11):
of course they're doing it. We we know that. So
Lindsay Graham is now saying now it's time to end
this madness in Iran. He's just calling for absolute regime change.
Mister President, please, I will call you later with this message,
but please resist. Lindsay Graham. Please, if they do not
kill an American and they just bomb a bunch of
our equipment, take the W. Take the W. You will

(56:33):
be able to say you did the most successful military
operation in history taking out a nuclear program with no
US troops dies. If that ends up bearing out, we
do not know that is true, Blake, can you comment
on that? That would be the phenomena that.

Speaker 18 (56:46):
Would be It would be by far the biggest win
for I think you know the way Trump sees his
own military stuff, of I will act decisively, but without
you know, with a clear objective, without.

Speaker 6 (56:57):
Any open ended commitment.

Speaker 18 (56:59):
If he's able to even you know, even temporarily or
significantly set back the nuclear program, let alone destroy it.
If you can say I blew this twenty year threat
to Smith Marines and all they did was they shot
some bottle rockets at US and killed nobody, that is
a big win for it.

Speaker 7 (57:15):
And we don't we don't want to, we don't want
to get that Americans might be dying right now, so
we want to stay that with humility. This is big
breaking news. The Katari Ministry of Defense reports that Katari
Air Defense is intercepted a missile attack aimed at the
Ayu Ed Air Base. And so, by the way, thank
you Katar. I know that there's been a lot of
anti Katari language and we haven't really gotten into that,

(57:37):
but if it's true that Katari Air Defense is intercepted
a missile, then they might have saved American lives. So
you have to there has to be a definitely some
moral clarity there. And again there's a lot of language
that okay, Qatar funds the Prohamas crowd. That seems to
also be true, but that might be a very complicated actor.
The straight of horror moves has not been closed down

(57:58):
any reports that demonstrate that. Really quick, Blake, I'm going
to test you with thirty seconds, what is the sort
of hormves? What would it mean if they close it?
So thirty second hormos?

Speaker 6 (58:05):
All right?

Speaker 18 (58:05):
The Persian Gulf is that little body of water that
showed the media going up to Iraq and then past
that is the Arabian Seed.

Speaker 6 (58:12):
That's the Indian Ocean.

Speaker 18 (58:13):
The Strait of Horror Moves is the narrow body of
water that goes through it. I believe it's named after
an island that the Portuguese owned, and that is the
narrow worst part. So Iran could mine it, they could
shoot missiles at it, and ships would not want to
go in there because.

Speaker 6 (58:26):
They don't want to get right into.

Speaker 7 (58:27):
Oil would go up, the.

Speaker 6 (58:28):
Price would go way up.

Speaker 18 (58:30):
A huge amount of the world's oil passes through that
straight on its way to global markets.

Speaker 7 (58:33):
Email us Freedom at Charliekirk dot com. I want to
know what you are thinking about all this. We're reading
the emails here live on air. Freedom at Charliekirk dot com.
We have Alex Marlow that would join the program. We're
going to be back in ten seconds. In the meantime,
subscribe to our podcast right now Charlie Kirkshow podcast page.
Be right back. Welcome back, everybody. Email us as always,

(59:11):
Freedom at Charlie Kirk dot com. Alex Marlow joins us,
editor in chief of Breitbart News. Okay, this we want
to we want to proceed with a lot of humility
and caution. I do want to say though, that I
have a great deal of relief that at least the
attacks on Katar seem to have not killed any Americans.
That is the most target rich of all the targets.
It's the biggest base, it's geographically one of the closest,

(59:34):
and if it's true that all those were intercepted, that
would be a major, major victory. Uh CNN said that
ten missiles were fired into Katar, one into a rock.
And we will now stay live here and analyze in
real time. Alex Marlow, what are we seeing potentially, Alex Marlow,
looks like President Trump could walk away with one of

(59:56):
the most remarkable US foreign policy victories if all continues
as it is right now, which would be taking out
the nuclear capability while also no US troops potentially being killed.
Alex Marlow, again, I put a major asterist on that.

Speaker 19 (01:00:12):
Yeah, Charlie, what you're talking about with Blake earlier. I
don't know if the whole radio audience got that. It's
really important about what's happening with Guitar, because this is
the point I wanted to make to you today, is
that the coalitions here around the world. Trump has brought
in a broader coalition on his side and on America's side.
America is the alpha here absolutely, and I know there's
some misconceptions about that, but Trump is playing this perfectly.

(01:00:32):
And one of the things is Guitar was seen as
averserial a few years ago. Now they're seen as largely
cooperative and they want to get closer to us. Look
what's happening on the other side with Iran right now.
One of Iron's biggest backers Russia. Russia is trying everything
they can not to help them. Why is this It's
because of Trump and they don't want to cause any
more problems with Trump right now.

Speaker 15 (01:00:51):
And this is a big deal.

Speaker 19 (01:00:52):
So who's going to come in on Iran's behalf on
behalf of this unpopular regime, Probably no one. Maybe the Venezuelans,
which is what are they going to do there? It's
seriously the Finnish coalition imaginable, which is I think why
Trump and Israel moved the way they've moved. But the
guitar incident that you've highlighted, it's so crucial because it
shows you the broadening coalition in the Middle East for

(01:01:13):
a piece and against war that they think this is
the quickest pass to path to a more peaceful region,
as led by Trump.

Speaker 7 (01:01:20):
Two things. Number One, I'm going to give Aguila a
shout out on telegram. The reporting has been actually very
very good the last couple of days, and so thank
you to Aguila on telegram. You guys can give them
a follow. Secondly, Iran is now saying that they fired
a missile at for every bomb that was dropped on us.
This seems very theatrical. Like again, I don't want to
lastingly say that, yeah they did. I do not want

(01:01:43):
to laugh because Americans actually might be dead right now.
We do not have the full casualty report, but I
just want to just take a big sigh of relief.
It looks like in Qatar, the most target rich of
all the targets, the one that we were worried about
the most, because they fired ten missiles at Qatar and
one into a rock. That looks to be no casualties

(01:02:04):
so far, and so we just want to kind of
take a deep breath and say thank you Lord for
protecting our US troops in Qatar, because that is the
biggest US base in the entire region. And so Alex,
what do you make of this? And Alex, I apologize
I might interrupt you at any moment here because there's
so much breaking news here. For example, the Iranian National
Security Council stated at the missile strike on the American

(01:02:26):
Aludebt base in Katar does not pose a threat to
the brotherly nation of Qatar, whatever that means. Okay, So,
but Alex, is it possible that Iran was just kind
of doing international theater here check the box, kind of
show their domestic strength while not trying to further provoke
the American military might as I say that Baran has

(01:02:50):
just urged all of its citizens the seek immediate shelter.
But Alex Marlow comments on that, Yeah, they've.

Speaker 19 (01:02:55):
Taken a very aggressive rhetorical approach, and they're obviously trying
to fight back with whatever they can. But their missile
capabilities are drastically weakened, and they.

Speaker 15 (01:03:04):
Have almost no ability.

Speaker 19 (01:03:06):
To quickly generate more because Israel has targeted a lot
of a lot of.

Speaker 15 (01:03:12):
The sites from where they fire the ballistic missiles.

Speaker 19 (01:03:14):
But also no nation wants to come in on their
behalf because they're in a losing proposition. Now, what does
the endgame look like, what does the full loss look like?
Is their regime changes are all really compelling and mysterious
questions at the moment, Charlie, But overall, we know Iran
is losing and no one wants to come in in
their behalf. Who would want to come in contra Donald
Trump from the position of strength that he is not
to mention, Israel has been very impressive in the war

(01:03:36):
in terms of their ability to take out military targets
and to come in on Iran's behalf is not going
to happen. So I think they're desperately trying to get
some level of momentum as fast as they can to
maybe recruit some allies to their side, but it's probably
not going to work. And because almost everything is getting
the retaliatory strikes are just so devastating to them at
every turn.

Speaker 7 (01:03:57):
Qatar has officially said no casualties, no damage from the attack,
Praise the Lord. That's a big deal. Was that was
the biggest threat of them all, But right now it's
not over. Bahrain is that sirens are going off in
Bahrain right now and they urge all citizens to seek
immediate shelter. That is happening in Bahan right now. Iran's
top security council tells Qatar it's attack poses no threat

(01:04:20):
to its friendly and brotherly neighbors. So basically Iron is like, hey, Katar,
we're your friend. So we're learning a lot about Qatar
in the midst of all this, So let's just kind
of kind of put a little bit of a we'll
talk about yeah this.

Speaker 15 (01:04:32):
We're all quick studies.

Speaker 7 (01:04:33):
Now, we're all very quick study here, but Bahrain. We
got to keep all eyes on Bahrain right now, all
eyes on Bahrain. By the way, before, Blake, I want
to throw to you for a second, everybody, I want
to hear from you freedom at Charlie Kirk dot com.
That is freedom at Charlie Kirk dot com. Iran has
filed ten missiles at Katar, one in a rock, and
it looks like something is happening towards Bahrain. By no
means a military expert, but here's my rule when it

(01:04:54):
comes on military things is if you, as an American
citizen can't understand it, then they have not a good
done a good enough job explaining it because it stuff's
actually not as complicated. Would you agree, Blake, Like, oh,
you know this is just for military minds. Actually, now
you're a US citizen, you deserve a right to understand it.
You're a stakeholder, this is your government. US base in
Katar reports no casualties and minimal damage. Praise God. And

(01:05:15):
now all eyes are on the Bahrain attack. The Iranian
state TV is now trying to pound the chest. They're
trying to get Oh, look at us, We responded back
to all these Americans. Missiles launched at Bahrain, Qatar and Kuwait.
Can we contrast this, for a second, blake with what
they did with Israel. Israel, they actually wanted to kill Jews.
That was not performative, that was real, that was aggressive.

(01:05:36):
With America, it looks as if it's a little bit
of a different of a calculation explained.

Speaker 6 (01:05:40):
Yeah, So first of all, they shot more missiles.

Speaker 18 (01:05:43):
Because Israel has the Iron Dome, they can shoot quite
a few incoming projectiles down. So a lot of them
got shot down, but some got through. They've hit a
decent number of buildings. I think the total death toll
is twenty four and really it could be higher, except
Israel has prepared so much for this. They have bunkers
forever everybody. They're very well drilled on how to avoid them.
So you almost certainly have far more deaths if they

(01:06:04):
were any less prepared. There have been major strikes in
Tel Aviv with really big missiles, so that they were
clearly actually going.

Speaker 6 (01:06:14):
For doing some damage. Uh.

Speaker 18 (01:06:16):
Yeah, this if we're stuck at eleven or twelve missiles
largely intercepted, intercepted or the ones that landed did no
damage and may not eveven have been seriously intending to
do damage.

Speaker 7 (01:06:29):
Uh.

Speaker 18 (01:06:29):
And they're already, you know, proclaiming victory and saying, you know, Qatar,
we're still buds with you.

Speaker 6 (01:06:35):
Don't worry about it.

Speaker 18 (01:06:36):
That that is a very positive signs the Woods.

Speaker 7 (01:06:41):
Yeah, please, Alex chime in really quick about it.

Speaker 19 (01:06:45):
Yes, we got we've got how many days it been
since Trump's attack. It's been two days and this is
all they got two days and this is it.

Speaker 7 (01:06:54):
Well, we don't want to, we don't want to overly not.

Speaker 15 (01:06:56):
It is not the show of force.

Speaker 7 (01:06:57):
No, I know. I agree. Again, we don't know. I
get it.

Speaker 19 (01:06:59):
I'm just it's an observation. You take it into vacuum, Charlie.

Speaker 7 (01:07:03):
No, I agree. In Iraq, reports are being made of
a drone attack against American air bases. Guys, Drones are
much easier to shoot down than ballistic missiles. Just so
we are clear. Okay, drones do not write Blake, I mean,
drones do not move at hypersonic speeds. Now, drones should
not be minimalized, but we have technology to shoot down drones.
Let's just be very clear. Okay, email US as always

(01:07:23):
Freedom at Charlie Kirk dot com. Again, there will be
a time for a victory lap. I just want to say,
if President Trump is able to come out of this
with no US troops with a performative response, US troops
died a performative response with incredible display of US military
might against Fourdeaux and against Istaphon, against the Tans, this

(01:07:46):
could be one of the most clear military victories that
we've seen in quite some time. And by the way,
keeping the entire Middle East coalition together, that would be
another win for the Maga Doctrine. I literally wrote the
book the Maga Doctrine a couple of years ago, and
keeping all all these international and regional partners together. And
we don't know what kind of drones these are, but
it just seems right now. The indication so far is

(01:08:09):
that this has been somewhat of a theatrical response on
behalf of a run. I'm not saying ballistic missiles aren't real,
but they kind of gave us a two to three
hour heads up, which, by the way, shows that President
Trump is winning here and they fear America and they
want America to kind of back off, and everybody's kind
of seeking an off ramp here right now, breaking news.

(01:08:29):
US aircraft takes off from the Saudi Arabia air base.
So we have air bases in Saudi Arabia. We had
air bases, and Katari got air bases all over the place,
and God bless our service members. Right now, what they're
doing is they're flying at well how fast they fly
eight hundred, nine hundred miles an hour. I mean they
fly almost the speed of sound over that's over the
speed of sound. They can break the speed of sound
seven hundred. I can't remember the exactly, but about something.
I mean, they're flying super fast across the Gulf trying

(01:08:52):
to find these missiles, shoot disruptors and interrupters, and so
far they've been doing a phenomenal job. So God bless
our troops that are doing this right now. And President
Donald Trump right now is in the situation room in
front of him is potentially a major US victory, no
regime change, no boots on the ground. You took out
the nuclear program, you took out the nuclear capability. I

(01:09:13):
should say it's actually a big difference, and you might
be able to say no US troops died in response.
What a triumph that President Trump very well might have
been able to engineer. Email US freedom at charliekirk dot com,
subscribe to the Charlie Kirkshow podcast page. Iran is just
running their mouth. They said, we just launched a very
devastating and powerful missile attack, but we should never trust anything.

(01:09:34):
The Iranian social media ever says again, we'll be back
in about ten seconds. Okay, we're back everybody. So we've

(01:09:58):
got Alex Marlow with us saying this was devastating and powerful.
It was devastating what President Trump did to you. Just
for the record, I want to I want to just
ask a question here really quick, Alex. If we are
able to get this to a settlement to clare victory,
which is legitimate, will this go a long way to
making sure the MAGA coalition stays unified? Alex Marlin, Yeah, I.

Speaker 19 (01:10:23):
Think the timing of it for the MAGA coalition. Charlie
it's high stakes. I know you've been hyper conscious of this,
and it's really wise to be this way. This is
one where if this is a clear decisive victory and
it takes place in the next week or two, which
I think that is exactly where we're on track, it
could go wrong at any minute. You've been cautious about that,
that's correct. But if this happens the next week or two,
a clear decisive victory where you've got a situation where
is real Nenya, who's been a fixture of public life

(01:10:45):
for thirty years and his main goal has been a
protected is real from Iran.

Speaker 15 (01:10:47):
That's been a state admission.

Speaker 19 (01:10:49):
And Iran has done numerous devastating things to America, including
shooting at our Navy fighters with the hoo Thies, etc.
Funding all sorts of terar proxies all around the world,
and pursuing the destruction of America.

Speaker 15 (01:11:00):
They would love to do it.

Speaker 19 (01:11:01):
If Trump could devastate their nuclear facilities the way he's
done apparently what we've been told, and he can pull
out of the region without American casualties, without any forver wars,
without any ground troops going in, I think he could
reassure the entire magabase that this is the way forward,
This is the piece through strength approach.

Speaker 15 (01:11:19):
This is what America First is all about.

Speaker 19 (01:11:21):
There are many places where things can get fractured along
the way, but if that happens clearly and decisively, I
think he's going to start restoring trust in a lot
of Americans who do not trust our leadership in our government,
and it could be a huge moment for the future
of the country.

Speaker 7 (01:11:35):
Very quick, Blake, just from a looks like some of
the jets are now returning. It seems as if the
attack is simmering down. There could have been one impact
in a rock al Asad air base, So we want
to have a caveat on this. We don't know Americans
could have died, and so we don't want to have
a preemptive celebration. But what are we reading and seeing, Blake,
Very quickly.

Speaker 18 (01:11:55):
I mean it's looking like now we're seeing reports that,
you know, if anything, saying stakes are going down, Like
they're not freaking out as much, they're dialing back their concern.
We don't have we haven't had new reports of additional
missiles coming in, and I feel like if this was
going to get worse, it's basically early in the evening there,

(01:12:15):
so in theory, this could be the opening wave and
you could see more stuff launched over the course of
the night. They have many hours to do that before
daylight arrives. But so far it seems it might really
just be one volley of missiles.

Speaker 6 (01:12:28):
Declare victory, Go home.

Speaker 7 (01:12:29):
I want to say thank you to Real America's Voice
for blowing through the brakes. You guys should download the
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so as Bannon and pastobics, So download the Real America's
Voice app for our show every single day. Okay, So
let me just kind of go to some of these
reports here. It seems like there was a lot of
talk from Iran. This seems to be largely a theatrical show.

(01:12:52):
A lot of the parties. It seems like new the
plot and the outcome in advance. This was permitted largely
to allow Iranians as a way to save face. So Alex,
do we still have you here? Alex, we have you?

Speaker 15 (01:13:07):
Yeah, Yeah, I hit meet, I'm here again.

Speaker 7 (01:13:09):
If that ends up being true and no Americans being killed,
it is now an incredible victory and we shouldn't have
any focus on regime change or any that. But we
can now reconfigure our intent on the American homeland, on
deportations on the border. Again, we're looking at this right now.
Israeli jets are now moving into strike a run. Okay,

(01:13:31):
that's a whole separate dynamic here. But the America. Is
it possible the American chapter of this might actually be closed.

Speaker 19 (01:13:39):
Yeah, it's possible, and I think the most likely and
most favorable scenario. Again, there's so many caveats I can
add to this, but you guys will see where I'm
going with this. Israel will continue to pummel a round
for the next week or two, continue to devastate them
because they do not have any aerial defense right now,
and Israel's going to take advantage.

Speaker 15 (01:13:56):
America should do nothing else.

Speaker 19 (01:13:58):
Both sides have said they want this war to and quickly,
and we cannot be involved in any sort of regime
change because regime change will go on and on and on.

Speaker 15 (01:14:05):
There's gonna be a lot.

Speaker 19 (01:14:06):
Of people are going to try to tempt us into
some sort of regime change. That is not our final
that is not our fight, that's not our battle. We
cannot kill. We cannot engage in it because we stay
right there.

Speaker 7 (01:14:21):
The next great awakening is here.

Speaker 1 (01:14:24):
Welcome back to the Charlie Kirk Show.

Speaker 7 (01:14:27):
Okay, everybody, welcome back. Sorry, Alex, we cut you off there,
but Alex, I'll throw it back to you in a second.

Speaker 1 (01:14:31):
Problem.

Speaker 7 (01:14:32):
Let me just read here. Qatar's defense systems intercepted nine
out of ten missiles launched by Iran, with one missile
landing in an open area. And so it looks like
all the missiles to Qatar, nine out of ten were intercepted.
This is what happens when you kind of give a
little bit of like an hour to two hour, Hey,
we're going to attack. We're going to attack, Alex. What

(01:14:52):
does this say for the Supreme Leader? It seems that
the head of Iran did not want to see an
escalation with America. They did not they truly fear President
Trump as they should. So President Trump's words now have
real meaning for what he did in four Dho Could
it be so that President Trump just set an entire
message for the rest of the world that you better
listen when I talk.

Speaker 19 (01:15:16):
Yeah, I think Charlie and I called this last week
on your show. We talked about this exact thing is
that Trump's word matters. It always has, and he's always
said that they are not gonna be allowed to have
nuclear capabilities. He's been saying this for decade and a half,
So obviously, if they're going to continue to flaunt him
when he's in a position of deep power and they've
been in very much weakend by Israeli strikes over the
last few weeks, of course this was going to be

(01:15:37):
something that Trump was gonna do. He said he was
going to wait two weeks, typical unpredictable Trump fashion. He
only waited a couple of days, dropped some devastating attacks,
and now he's out and the American public is on
the side of aerial defense. They're not on the side
of regime change. And my prediction is Trump will stick
with that.

Speaker 7 (01:15:53):
Alex stay right there, Blake, I'm gonna throw to you
for a second. We do not know the extent of
the attack at a rock. The Bahrain sirens are still
going off, so there could be an attack on Brain.
Let's get the map back up here. Bahrain has closed
its airspace, so it might we are now seeing potentially
another volley towards Bahrain Bahrain is a very small country.

(01:16:16):
I can't This map is not helpful at all. But
you see Saudi Arabia.

Speaker 6 (01:16:20):
They're super tiny, yes, but Saudi two clusters.

Speaker 7 (01:16:22):
The two clusters on the eastern part of Saudi Arabia.
The southernmost one is the Qatari, the northern one is Bahrain.

Speaker 6 (01:16:28):
Exactly.

Speaker 18 (01:16:29):
It's literally like the icons they're using on that are
like larger than Bahrain. It's a tiny island. I doubt
it's that much larger even than like.

Speaker 7 (01:16:38):
So I'm curious. Some people are emailing us saying, Charlie,
even though they didn't kill any Americans, they want to
see a huge response from America. Is that your position,
Freedom at Charliekirk dot com. Should we now escalate this
if no Americans die? I don't know if that's my position.
I think President Trump could take a massive victory here,
which is that we bomb them hard, no Americans died,
and that's it, no regime change, no boots on the ground.

(01:17:00):
By the way, this is factored in was a this
was a expected, you know response. By the way, we
know that Iran probably wanted an exit ramp. Take the win.
That's my position. Email us Freedom at Charliekirk dot com.
Three different media outlets are now reporting no interest in injuries,
not even injury, let alone a death. Praise the Lord again.
This is the Maga doctrine. This is the Trump doctrine. Force,

(01:17:23):
exert the force, use it, be unapologetic in the use
of it. Limited, decisive, aggressive, violent, prudent action. Blake, let's
kind of go through the dynamics here. Why would we
not respond even though that they sent missiles towards us
and no one does, Why should we take the win here?

Speaker 4 (01:17:44):
Well?

Speaker 18 (01:17:44):
Because when you think about, like, what were we what
are we hoping to get done here? The reason we
got involved is hopefully to do as much damage to
Iran's nuclear program as possible, because that was what Trump's
goal was. He says Iran will not get a nuclear weapon.
And when we think what are the bad outcomes that
could happen here? The bad outcome is we get sucked
into some sort of cycle of constant strike and retaliation

(01:18:08):
and strike back. It'd be a huge failure case if
we end up with boots on the ground. And how
do you end up in a situation with boots on
the ground. Even if you say you don't if you're
constantly having these strikes go back and forth, if oh,
we need to get back at them for something they did,
and if this strike did in fact have no casualties,
we kind of have the perfect excuse to go all right.

(01:18:29):
They made their response and it was totally impotent. We
clearly don't even need to worry about what they have
to shoot at us other than their nuclear program, which
we just hit and did a bunch of damage to.
It perfectly works out for us to be able to
say we win, we take our ball, we go home.

Speaker 7 (01:18:45):
No impacts at the alue Dead Air base in Qatar,
and so that is from every source that we have
as well. Email us there's always freedom at charliekirk dot
com and subscribe to the Charlie Kirkshow podcast. We're gonna
be doing this analysis all the time on every possible
major breaking news issue. Joining us right now is Mike Cernovich.
We only have a minute remaining in this segment. We're
going to take Mike right through the break. Mike, great

(01:19:06):
to see you.

Speaker 6 (01:19:07):
Mike.

Speaker 7 (01:19:07):
I want to talk about the politics of what's happening
with all this, But potentially it looks like this could
be a end of this chapter, God Willing, what do
you think Mike's aer image.

Speaker 20 (01:19:17):
Well, there is the risk of escalation, that's the course.
The problem is the table's being set for massive attacks
that can be blamed on Iran. The table is being
set for Iran to a tolerate. Although I don't think
that they're going to. I think that the leadership in
Iran is way too afraid of the people uprising. But
the optives of the time of the attack, I think

(01:19:38):
are the biggest concern I have. I don't think that
we're anywhere near World War iie. And that's all kind
of panic in fear mongering by the usual suspects. But
the way this point down looks really bad, and it
looks weak in fact too. A lot of people who
turned out to vote for the first time this past
election in twenty twenty four.

Speaker 7 (01:19:57):
Stay right there. Email us Freedom at Charliekirk dot subscribe
to our podcast. Will be right back in ten seconds. Okay, everybody,

(01:20:23):
email us Freedom at Charlie Kirk dot com. Where we
are looking at this live so right now? Or Iran
coordinated attacks on the US airbase in Qatar, with Katari
officials providing advanced notice to minimize casualties, that is the
New York Times, and so Iran has responded, and they
responded with eleven ballistic missiles in the middle in the
Mid East. No American troops seem to have died so far,

(01:20:46):
God Willing. New York Times is reporting, though that Iran
coordinated the American air base attack. Condatis be theatrical and performative.
Iran appears to coordinate response as to what not dragged
the United States more directly into the fight. What does
that mean, Bake?

Speaker 18 (01:21:00):
I mean it almost makes this sound like pro wrestling
or something like. You know, if you ever watch it,
they have the whole like, you know, throw the punch,
but the guy's ready for it and like pulls his
head back. It's like, Oh, we're going to strike at
you guys to show we're serious, but we're gonna announce
it in advance. You're gonna see everything coming and it's gonna
be aimed really badly.

Speaker 6 (01:21:20):
And yeah, then nobody dies.

Speaker 18 (01:21:23):
That is, if this is where we're able to get
an off ramp, it is a gigantic win for the
United States, and I suppose a gigantic win for President
Trump's judgment.

Speaker 7 (01:21:31):
Yeah, if we are able to navigate it, and if
we're able to kind of go thig it so bigt Yes,
So so Mike, We're gonna continue with Mike's Sernovia here. So, Mike,
Iran has just launched eleven ballistic missiles kind of the
basically all intercept that it looks like no US troops
died in response, Iran seems to try to just want
to lower the temperature. Here, Iran's top security body says

(01:21:53):
that they dropped as many bombs that the US had
used in the attack on the Iranian nuclear facilities. This
kind seems very thieatrical and performative. It's a big if.
But if then we are able to get to a
closure of the chapter here in the Israel, in the
American involvement here, what would that? What would that mean?
And should America strike back now that Iran hit some

(01:22:16):
of our bases.

Speaker 15 (01:22:18):
Yeah, there are two issues going on.

Speaker 20 (01:22:20):
There was one the World War three fear mongering, which
I always said was kind of silly. And when Trumpet
killed so many I actually had supported that at the time,
And people are saying, well, how can you support the
Somani show for US versus this The issue that concerns
me is twenty twenty four was a popular vote when
against all odds, it was a maja coalition. It was

(01:22:40):
a bunch of libertarians who sometimes can be a little
bit silly. I'll be the first to admit it was
a lot of younger men under thirty who were not
politically engaged all before the election. Everybody kind of turns
out and the timing of all of this looks really bad,
and it actually made Trump look weak, especially in men
and the thirty. The circles that I read and keep

(01:23:01):
tabs on due to my other business interests and other
things that have going on, have been about ninety percent
against what Trump did. So the issue is that the
let's say Trump had accomplished it a mesic agenda. It's
a year from now, economy is good, massive deportations have happened,
and Trump out of blue decided that he wanted to
bomb Iran's nuclear facilities. I would not have had a

(01:23:23):
problem with that. In fact, I might have thought, as
in the case of the Solemni thing, I might have
thought that that was a good reminder to the rest
of the world. But the way this went down and
it looked like Trump was trying to do a deal
with Iran, wick Koff was being bashed as an agent
of Qatar. A number of people who were against mass regime,
James Wards were false accuses of leaking people, they're getting fired.

(01:23:46):
There's all these attacks and snipes happening from against American
first people. And then next thing you know, that looks
like there's a deal, then Israel starts bombing Iran.

Speaker 7 (01:23:56):
So I got to interrupt, you got it. So, but
Trump is saying no intention of retali against Iran after
it's failed retaliation attempt, and so just let's just kind
of look at it right now. If then this is
the end of that chapter, is it possible then to
keep the coalition together, bring everybody back. If now the
United States will not respond to a run.

Speaker 20 (01:24:16):
For US for high information voters, for high information voters,
nothing has happened that I find particularly interesting or distressing.
The issue is this the new coalition, the people who
hadn't voted for before, who aren't high information voters, and
they just look at the timing of how things went
down and they're forming bad conclusions about Trump. That's the

(01:24:37):
issue that I'm concerned with.

Speaker 15 (01:24:38):
This World War restuff I thought was silly.

Speaker 20 (01:24:40):
The Mulaws are going to do what, try to wage
war against America when their own people want to rise
up against them, that they don't care about any of them,
things like that. They're like the Hamas leadership in Qatar.
They just want to have money.

Speaker 7 (01:24:51):
Let me play devil's advocate. I think is so, and
I hear what you're saying. But if the President is
able to say, hey, I struck, we took out nukes
and then I not a single US troop guide, isn't
that a positive telling of what was kind of trending
in the wrong direction online this weekend? Do you think
that narrative could stick far better than where we were

(01:25:12):
maybe thirty six hours.

Speaker 20 (01:25:13):
Ago, not to the not to a large segment of
first time voters. No, that's that's like again. The concern
is to us again, to people who follow that politics closely.
None of this is particularly surprising or even concerning. I'm
not worried about World War three. The issue is that
the way it looks to people who supported Trump for

(01:25:35):
the first time, who are not politically engaged people, and
I don't I don't think it makes Trump look good.

Speaker 7 (01:25:41):
I don't think it makes them look strong.

Speaker 20 (01:25:42):
I don't think it makes.

Speaker 1 (01:25:43):
Us look good.

Speaker 20 (01:25:44):
I think it makes I think it's I think it's
the opposite. I think it Trump was forced into it.

Speaker 7 (01:25:49):
One second, got it.

Speaker 1 (01:25:57):
We will not confined.

Speaker 13 (01:26:00):
If you're listening to the sound of Freedom, it's the
Charlie Kirk Show.

Speaker 7 (01:26:04):
Okay, do we have Alex Marlow with us? Okay, I
want to get to Alex Marlow here, email us Freedom
at Charliekirk dot com and Mike Service brings up a
good point. There's gonna have to be work to be
done with some of the people online that seemed to
be a little bit fired up. But honestly, this is
a great story to tell. Are you kidding me? That
you strike Iran? There is risk involved, no US troops

(01:26:26):
die in response, and end of story. This is a
major victory. That's the story to tell. Just to be clear,
though US officials are now saying this is the US
officials are now saying that Iran that I'm trying to
find this here. US officials are now saying that this

(01:26:47):
was largely symbolic. Trump has no intention of retaliation against
Iran after its failed retaliation attempt. Alex Marlow. If that's true,
is this not a very powerful narrative to be able
to present to the American people that look, there was
risk involved, but that ended up being no casualties and
no death to American troops.

Speaker 1 (01:27:09):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:27:10):
I think that.

Speaker 19 (01:27:11):
What we've seen here is Trump basically executing a plan
that is very straightforward. He's a man of his word,
and Iran has not shown any willingness to be cooperative
in the slightest and I think that, you know, it's
just not true. The facts are on Trump's side that
he was not manipulated into this.

Speaker 15 (01:27:26):
I know there's a.

Speaker 19 (01:27:27):
Perception online that Israel somehow coaxed Trump into war. The
Israel was freaking out that Trump could throw them under
the bus. We of course, of a lot of sources
in Israel, and there's a lot of people who deeply
concerned that Trump is not a fan of nt YAHOO,
does not want to fight wars on his behalf. But
Aron went right after Trump by continuing doing rich and
continuing to fund those proxies despite him pleading with them,
please stop, let's be diplomatic, and they would not do it.

(01:27:48):
And this fits very clearly with Trump's narrative of taking
out Bagdatti.

Speaker 15 (01:27:51):
You remember Charlie's all those beautiful dogs going through the wall.
They could have gone through the door.

Speaker 19 (01:27:55):
They went through the wall, all that great stuff with
him as Solomony, the taking out the boy troops in Syria,
pro arming, proactively arming Ukraine, cutting out in Nordstream two
to affect the Russians. Trump has been highly aggressive and
people are not cooperative with him, and then he does
a one off move, maybe two or three moves the most,
and then he backs off. He's a peacetime president, but

(01:28:16):
he understands being unpredictable is the quickest way to peace.
If he stops here where he's at now, that will
be the narrative and it will be a winning narrative
over time.

Speaker 7 (01:28:25):
Yeah, and Alex, let's just let's just kind of reiterate
this point though, you know, can you address some of
Mike's Mike Serovich's contentions that, hey, for low propensity voters,
they don't like the Ford intervention and all this. Yeah,
do you think the way that this is concluding could
maybe remedy some of that.

Speaker 15 (01:28:44):
Yeah, it has to.

Speaker 19 (01:28:45):
And Mike is one hundred percent correct on that that
we need to be deeply cautious of every political coalition
in this country is tenuous, and it is very important
that when you're in charge and you have to do stuff,
there's nothing that's one hundred to zero issue. So every
time Trump makes a move, there's always a risk that
some of the base, some of the movement, is not
going to understand it. It's imperative on the messengers and
on Trump himself and on his administration to make that

(01:29:07):
case to the public in an effective way. And I
trust these guys to do it. But there are a
lot of people who are new to the movement who
do not understand why some of us like Israel so
much and understand that deep history, and they don't want
to feel like Trump got manipulated into work. I know
for a fact that's not why Trump did this. But
that is on the people who want to see this
movement to be strong to make that case to the

(01:29:29):
people who are skeptical of everything, Charlie.

Speaker 15 (01:29:31):
They're skeptical of everything for good reason.

Speaker 19 (01:29:33):
After all the COVID stuff and after all the lying
after twenty twenty election. People are skeptical of the government,
and it is imperative upon us to make that case
to them.

Speaker 7 (01:29:41):
Really quick. Okay, so Mike in closing here, Mike Cernovich,
what then, does the Trump administration need to do domestically
to pitch a perfect game Epstein Files border to be
able to keep this colition here, let's just kind of
dismiss the whole Iran thing. I think this is going
to end up being a narrative win for him. But
what is the perfect game that this administration now has

(01:30:03):
to pitch on the domestic side.

Speaker 20 (01:30:05):
Mike Cernovic, Yeah, there's now no there's no more excuses
because obviously Trump will act on foreign policy when he's pushed.

Speaker 15 (01:30:13):
Okay, great, fine.

Speaker 6 (01:30:14):
Cool cool.

Speaker 20 (01:30:15):
We always knew a lot of these people were going
to get what they wanted with Iran, and I never
really cared about that. But the Maha stuff there, I
feel like the Maha people have been taken for granted.

Speaker 1 (01:30:24):
I'd actually talked to people.

Speaker 20 (01:30:25):
In the White House and said, you guys need to
roll out the red carpet for the Maha moms, and
who's doing that, who's responsible for that's so that's so important.

Speaker 1 (01:30:34):
I think it's still being overlooked.

Speaker 20 (01:30:35):
The Epstein Files people don't have the appetite anymore to
hear that we don't have it. We can't find it.
The pipe bomb, J six pipe bomb. They have to
really start rolling out a lot of domestic ones and
then sure, today's just.

Speaker 6 (01:30:46):
A blip on the radar.

Speaker 1 (01:30:47):
People will get over it quick.

Speaker 20 (01:30:48):
But there is now no more excuse for why things
aren't happening or why things are taking too long. People
are people are just done with that.

Speaker 7 (01:30:55):
Mike. We're gonna have you back on for a longer
conversation about this. But we have to have ten million
deep hportations. We gotta get Epstein files out. We need
to have the big beautiful bill. We need spending cuts.
We got to pitch a perfect game to keep this
low prop coalition together. Mike Cernovich, thank you so much.
We have Alex Marla with us and Blake. Blake, do
you have a comment here on kind of news that
we're seeing?

Speaker 6 (01:31:14):
Well, so, I mean, there's not much news right now.

Speaker 18 (01:31:16):
One of the funny things about this is just you
get war has like long lulls in it, and then
you just have these shows where you act. For now,
nothing new is happening on the strikes front. This may
be the end of things that could always change at
any time. I suppose A big open question is what
will happen if we get.

Speaker 6 (01:31:34):
This off ramp to get out of things.

Speaker 18 (01:31:36):
But if just the war continues, if Israel keeps bombing Iran,
Iran keeps shooting missiles back at Israel, will that cause
any pressure for US to get involved again at any
point or are we able to stand aside with just
the role we've played so far.

Speaker 7 (01:31:53):
So there are explosions in Tehran right now, which is
likely Israeli jets. So Israel and Ron are gonna keep
on going back at it. But this is probably and
likely a closure to the American involvement here. And by
the way, don't take my word for it. Oil prices
are going down. Oil prices are plummeting right now because
the markets they're like, okay, we know what this is.

(01:32:13):
This was theatrical, This was performative. This was kind of
checked the box. And President Donald Trump is able to
President Donald Trump is able to act in a decisive way.
You don't have to agree with it, But I'm gonna
ask the question though, Okay, if no US troops die,
and this is the end of the chapter, hasn't he

(01:32:34):
yet again earned your trust on this stuff? Syria, Solamani
al Bagdatti. American troops have not died in these situations.
Oil is collapsing right now, and air defenses are activated
over Tehran. That is not American jets. From our knowledge,
our understanding, the US officials are saying that was a
failed response. We don't plan a response. So it is conceivable, then, Alex,

(01:32:59):
that we can say that this chapter is closed. Is
that right?

Speaker 15 (01:33:05):
Yeah?

Speaker 19 (01:33:05):
I think we're We're hovering around something really important here
is that this needs to end. The war needs to end,
needs to come to a close. We need to not
be involved in regime change. And then, as Mike said,
go back and get that domestic agenda going. We seven
hundred illegal immigration arrests yesterday and that we barely have
time to talk about it. I mean that stuff I
want to talk about. I want to get back to
that agenda. I want to I want those Maha moms

(01:33:27):
reached out to. It is the Epstein files are not
gonna No one's going to be happy about that stuff,
and that continues to erode the trust in the people,
the normal people, the new people in Trump's coalition, and
those people need to be focused on, starting with the
immigration agenda, getting those tax cuts going, all the things
that Trump had promised that needs to get done next
in order to solidify that he's a man of his word,

(01:33:48):
which I think he is.

Speaker 15 (01:33:49):
So I'm very optimistic today and so and Blake.

Speaker 7 (01:33:53):
The Iranian response being theatrical very good for us, especially
if we want, like they gave us an off ramp
and it look like President Trump is going.

Speaker 1 (01:34:01):
To take it.

Speaker 7 (01:34:02):
It's conceivable that a week from now we're going to
be all back to deportation talk.

Speaker 6 (01:34:05):
Yeah, that's one of the great things.

Speaker 18 (01:34:07):
If we get the successful off ramp, this just becomes
I mean, how many details do you remember about the
Solo mony thing? How many details do you remember about
the Iran drone crisis? Can you remember the month either
of those things happened? Probably at this point some of
us could, but I bet most people they couldn't tell
you the exact number of you know, war crisis we
had with Iran on the first Trump term or when

(01:34:29):
they happened. And I think the biggest win for Trump
would be if, in you know, a year from now,
people can't even quite remember exactly when this happened.

Speaker 7 (01:34:38):
Is President Donald Trump? This is breaking new Some from Axios.
His administration was aware of the Iranian attack in advance.
So it's pretty amazing. So all right, email us as
always Freedom at Charliekirk dot com and subscribe to our podcast,
Alex Marlow, what else are you seeing and hearing?

Speaker 1 (01:34:57):
Yeah?

Speaker 19 (01:34:58):
I think that, Charlie, you're talking about the right stuff.
Urgency to end this thing and to move on is
the right thing. But it is incredible display of weakness
by Iron that this is all they could summon after
two days, and it shows you that they're deeply vulnerable.
And I'm not rooting for or against regime change there.
What I am rooting for is for America not to
be a part of it, and israelis to had They've
said they wanted the war to end as well. They

(01:35:19):
can keep bombing for another week or so and then
after that, you know, wind this thing down and start
focused on those deportations and the rest of the domestic agenda.
If that happens, Trump is going to look like just
a historic figure with historic wisdom. He continues to play
this thing right, and I continue to say optimistic.

Speaker 7 (01:35:36):
I'm trying to find one thing here, but Blake, what
does this then mean for the broader foreign policy project China, Ukraine, Russia.
Does this have other implications?

Speaker 18 (01:35:46):
Well, if we get out of it, I think it's
probably mostly positive. I think our adversaries, if they had
a hope, you know, what could happen to America, they
would be thinking, Oh, could America get into another conflict
that will deplete them and distract them. I imagine Russia
would love it if we got in an Iranian quagmire,
because that would probably mean the end to any significant

(01:36:07):
support to Ukraine. China might see, oh, this is going
to slow down their pivot to Asia.

Speaker 6 (01:36:12):
Maybe that's our chance to go for Taiwan.

Speaker 18 (01:36:16):
If we get out of this quickly, I think that
might make them think, well, one they're not distracted, and
two we saw US military hardware on display. It seems
to be working properly. It seems any talk about America's
armed forces being you know, a paper tiger might be overblown,
and that that could assist us in a lot of
our international relations. And also if we're able to successfully

(01:36:38):
kind of put Iran in a corner, that can definitely
improve the relationships we've been building in the Middle East.

Speaker 19 (01:36:44):
I think can I can I chime in on that, yes, Charlie,
because I was thinking about you guys talking about earlier
about the straight of our moves and how that's not
shut down yet, And I was thinking, if Iran really
thought they were in a position of strength, it would
have been shut down by now. But I know that
there's people in their ear who are more aligned with them,
who were saying, absolutely not, do not shut this down.
You can't do it, or else we're gonna throw you
under the boss too. So it just speaks to the

(01:37:05):
vulnerability that they have right now. And I think that
that is another sign that Trump is acting very prudently
here by doing something. Don't you too much. No ground
troops at all. I know Bandon's warned about the ground troops.
He's right to warn people about it. But overall, it
feels like we're in very strong footing at the moment.

Speaker 7 (01:37:21):
Yes, And so I was just double checking right now.
So it looks as if the attack is over. US
officials told Fox News that no American soldiers were killed
or injured in the Iranian attack. Praise the Lord. That's huge.
Everybody that's praise the Lord. It is really big. So
the American official says, quote the US is not expected

(01:37:42):
to respond to Iran's failed attack, and so the US
official we'll see what happens, and we need a double
and triple confirm that. Email us as always Freedom at
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seeing as far as the reaction online from folks?

Speaker 6 (01:40:05):
I mean the reaction online.

Speaker 18 (01:40:07):
What's funny is, you know this is also immediate. I'm
not even sure if everyone's seen it, they're at work
or whatever. But the initial stuff when people who are
hyper online, I think is optimistic. I think there's some gloating.
A lot of people at this point are really just
in the phase of making fun of Iran.

Speaker 6 (01:40:23):
I was messaging you earlier. It's almost like this is.

Speaker 18 (01:40:26):
The moment where you remember that Iran is a regime
founded by college professors, like they talk in their game,
kind of inapt, kind of incompetent, aren't really good at
the real world stuff.

Speaker 6 (01:40:36):
And you know that's good to the extent that it's true.

Speaker 18 (01:40:40):
And I think further reactions will depend greatly on what
actually happens.

Speaker 6 (01:40:45):
We live in a very you know.

Speaker 18 (01:40:46):
Ad D society, so some people are already spiking the football,
declaring total victory, declaring everything's worked out exactly as we wanted.
We will see what happens. Things change a lot, We'll
even have to see one thing we were to discuss
in this morning. We still don't know for sure how
much damage was actually done to Iran's nuclear program. Did
they get their uranium out that's still an open question.

(01:41:08):
It could turn out maybe Iran did a minor response
because they already know a lot of their nuclear material
is fine, and so they just don't want to antagonize
the US because they can just.

Speaker 6 (01:41:18):
Get right back to getting that underway again.

Speaker 18 (01:41:22):
So I don't think we should overreact to things, but
I think the reaction to the extense it exists is
a mixture of cautious optimism and making fun of Iran.

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seems to be largely theatrical. We now need to double
check this. Let's change the chir on until we get
triple confirmation here. But it looks as if based on

(01:43:49):
all reporting and we're gonna hear from the US officials
and the US administration sometime soon, doesn't look like the
United States is going to respond again. This is a
lot fog of war going on. Could you talk about
the fog of Where does that phrase come from, Blake?

Speaker 6 (01:44:04):
The fog of war? I think it must.

Speaker 18 (01:44:06):
I think it originally comes from Klauswitz, if you've ever
heard of that guy. No, Klauswitz was a Prussian. It
might even be older than that, but I think it's
from him. He was a Prussian military theorist in the
eighteen hundreds. He wrote a book on war and it
was kind of the first modern like analysis of war
that wasn't just like old fashioned, like medieval or ancient text.

Speaker 6 (01:44:29):
It was a guy in the eighteen hundreds.

Speaker 18 (01:44:30):
He was Germans, so of course the book had to
be like a thousand pages long, and he would write
and I think he also was the source of kind
of the concept of no plan survives first contact with
the enemy. So he's like in warfare, you design plans,
but as soon as you actually get into combat, those
plans break down. You have uncertainty about what's unfolding around you.

(01:44:52):
That's the fog of war.

Speaker 7 (01:44:54):
And so from a diplomatic standpoint, and now a US
domestic one, what would you say, Blake, is the lesson
or the takeaway if no US troops died, If.

Speaker 18 (01:45:05):
No US troops die, I would I actually like to caveat.
There can be worries about that. A worry that you
might have is if we're able to do this, blow
up a lot of Iran's nuclear program and get out
without any casualties, that could make us.

Speaker 6 (01:45:21):
Over confident that that can be replicated.

Speaker 18 (01:45:24):
You might think, oh, well, we can apply the same
lessons to this other country and they'll probably not hit
back at US either.

Speaker 6 (01:45:30):
And you make that mistake. I would like to caveat
that could happen.

Speaker 18 (01:45:34):
That said, I think a lesson we could take is
President Trump has at that point a very clear track
record of having good instincts on what he can what
he's able to do force wise without causing things to
spiral out of control. So it'd be a strong win
for President Trump's personal instincts in that realm, and it's

(01:45:57):
a display that it is in fact to do limited war,
that we can get America back to this attitude of
we can do military ventures with clear objectives rather than
open ended nation building. I think a reason so many
of our wars became these nation building fiascos is because
there was a mental tendency in America in Washington that

(01:46:21):
our interventions had to go that way, that we couldn't
just say we're going to beat up on this country.
It was almost we got too moralizing about our wars
that every war had to be to rescue an entire
country and bring them freedom and democracy.

Speaker 6 (01:46:35):
Whereas Trump, because he comes from a more.

Speaker 18 (01:46:39):
Real politic school of thought, he thinks, I wage war
for America's interests, and even if it'd be great if
Iran was free, that is not why America goes to war.

Speaker 7 (01:46:49):
Totally, and it's just so just we're clear. Third verification
now from a US official, no casualties reported in Iran
missile attack on US Base Blake. Some people and our
audience are saying, still we have to respond with force.
Come on, guys, take the win. Yeah, And they just
did a whole theatrical. You think our enemies are just

(01:47:10):
gonna like not do something at least theatrical in response.

Speaker 18 (01:47:13):
It's like if you're like, if you have this like
annoying neighbor or something and he's doing I don't know if.

Speaker 6 (01:47:20):
He's doing something.

Speaker 18 (01:47:21):
If he has something really like aggravating on his property,
and you go over and you like smash it to
bits or whatever because it's bad. And then he comes
over and he's like, you're big and strong, and he's
this little twink and he like punches you right in
the chest and like it doesn't even hurt you and
you're completely unharmed. Do you then like respond by like
grabbing him and breaking his arm. No, you just you
laugh at him and you walk away.

Speaker 7 (01:47:42):
Want you guys to email us Freedom at Charliekirk dot com.
Someone says some people say the chapter is not closed.
We should send boots on the ground. Some people are
saying that emails Freedom at Charliekirk dot com. I think
that's uh. I think that's kind of wild, to be
really honest. Oil prices, though, are falling five percent after
the attack on a US military base. The whole world

(01:48:02):
knows what this is and I fully anticipate President Donald Trump.
Here's what President Trump should do. If you want to
ask my two cents, and we're going to go till
the top. Now we're gonna go five more minutes. President
Donald Trump should do a primetime evening address tonight with
more specificical about what we did, why it was an
American interest to strike Iran, why it was not done lightly,

(01:48:22):
the amazing military accomplishment, and how Iran responded and no
American troops died, and then say that this you know,
we're going to stay engaged and involved in Iran dares
perks up, we will respond even more, but for all
intents and purposes, we don't have any further military action.

(01:48:43):
I think that would be a great response. Guys, let's
go another a couple minutes, like three to four more minutes.
I want to summarize all this. Email US Freedom at
Charliekirk dot com. Subscribe to our podcast. Be back in
about ten seconds. Okay, everybody, just to recap today. So

(01:49:13):
we started the day kind of talking about the political fallout,
and Iranian missiles were launched. Ten of them were launched
at US base in Katar, one in a rock and
no casualties reported. If this ends up being the case,
with this fast moving, breaking news day, President Donald Trump

(01:49:35):
will have pulled off a phenomenal success, a legendary success, textbook,
a masterclass, in a way that none of us could
have ever potentially dreamed. We're very word about escalation, as
we should be. These things can still escalate from this
point forward. These things can still go to levels that

(01:49:57):
we do not anticipate and that we cannot ow predict.
But I could tell you right now that President Donald
Trump is putting on a foreign policy masterclass, and I
believe that President Trump will now exercise restraint. This is
how strong nations exercise military power. You don't have to
agree with it, but how could you be against the result? Though?

(01:50:20):
If the result ends up being a nuclear program that
is severely put back and capability that is jeopardized, and
no US troops and no foreign war, no regime change,
how could it be against the result. So I encourage
you to enter into this discussion with a fair amount

(01:50:40):
of honesty and integrity. So email us Freedom at Charliekirk
dot com and subscribe to our podcast. Right now, we
still have well over sixty thousand of you on YouTube
and all across our separate platforms. I hate to say
goodbye to sixty thousand people that are watching all at once,
but we could probably go a little bit longer on YouTube, right, guys,
we can go a little bit longer on YouTube. Even

(01:51:00):
though we say goodbye to rav So in about a
minute and a half, I know we're going to lose
the real America's voice and then I'm going to throw
it to our great friend Jack Posobic.

Speaker 11 (01:51:13):
So.

Speaker 7 (01:51:14):
The the takeaway for me, and I think for a
lot of people is President Donald Trump has navigated this beautifully. Again,
there's still a lot of there's still a lot of
situational awareness we must have here. There is still a
lot of blowback that can still occur. But look this,
what Iran did here is very simple. Aran is very

(01:51:37):
worried about what an American response would potentially be. Thirty
seconds final thoughts, Blake.

Speaker 18 (01:51:43):
I you know, I think we talked about why we
were worried about this at the outset, the ways that
could spiral out of control. So far it is not spiraling,
and I think we would both agree it'd be great
for us to seize that opportunity, take the win. Say
we did what we came here to do, and we're
getting out. We are setting a new template for US
military action, limited restrained, clear objectives, brief and that's an

(01:52:09):
asset that we have and we should be grateful for it.

Speaker 7 (01:52:13):
Very good, everybody. We got to throw off the remark
because voice in about ten seconds here. We also want
to go through the super chats on YouTube. I bet
we have plenty of those, as we have well over
sixty two thousand