We 'JIP' ('join in progress,' Rush Limbaugh term) President Trump's Rose Garden address awarding the Presidential Medal of Freedom posthumously to Charlie Kirk with the slain political activist's widow Erika in attendance.
Christiane Amanpour of CNN attempts to walk back her tone-deaf comments on treatment by Israeli hostages at the hands of Hamas, while colleague Scott Jennings decimates esteemed Harvard professor (and pro-Palestine voice) CorneIl West on drawing a moral equivalency between Israel's treatment of Palestinian terrorists held as prisoners and hostages held, kidnapped, and often murdered by Hamas in captivity.
Christiane Amanpour of CNN attempts to walk back her tone-deaf comments on treatment by Israeli hostages at the hands of Hamas, while colleague Scott Jennings decimates esteemed Harvard professor (and pro-Palestine voice) CorneIl West on drawing a moral equivalency between Israel's treatment of Palestinian terrorists held as prisoners and hostages held, kidnapped, and often murdered by Hamas in captivity.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Okay, I miss spell. Going into the top of the hour.
There it is the Presidential Medal of Freedom that President
Donald J. Trump is awarding posthumously to Charlie Kirk today
what would have been his thirty second birthday. And as
I mentioned, I'm wearing a Freedom red sweatshirt American flag
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on it that I ordered from Turning Point USA online
in the memory of Charlie Kirk and all that he
contributed to the Conservative cause, especially amongst our younger people.
I don't think we've really felt the reverberations entirely of
the impact that he had passed tense and that he
will continue to have on our young people that carry
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forth the cause and carry the torch for Charlie Kirk.
President Trump is still making comments at the White House
right now, but I wanted to cue this up to
the beginning for you to hear as much of it
as you can before we go to our first break.
This is the President of United States honoring charl Kirk
with the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Ladies and gentlemen, the President of the United States, accompanied
by Erica Kirk.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
Thank you very much, everybody. Please, this is such an honor.
This is the please be seated. This is the first
time we've been at the new and improved Rose Garden,
and people are loving it. They're loving it like they've
not loved a lot of things. We have the Presidential
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Walk of Fame, which you just saw and I just opened,
and we wanted to get it open for this occasion.
We were hoping we were able to get outside, and
the weather allowed us to. They're supposed to be terrible
rainy day. I was telling Eric and God was watching,
and he didn't want that for Charlie. He just didn't
want that. So it's really beautiful. Couldn't be more beautiful.
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Today we're here to honor and remember a fearless warrior
for liberty, beloved leader who galvanized the next generation like
nobody I've ever seen before, and an American patriot of
the deepest conviction, the finest quality, and the highest caliber,
the late Great Charlie Kirk. Five weeks ago, our nation
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was robbed of this extraordinary champion. He was a champion
in every way. I got to know him so well well.
He didn't like losing, and he was able to fight
people that were enemies, and he didn't necessarily love those
enemies so much, and I heard he loved his enemies,
and I said, wait a minute, is that the same
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Charlie that I know? I'm not sure, but I didn't
want to get into it. But it was a horrible, heinous,
demonic act of murder. He was assassinated in the prime
of his life for baldly speaking the truth, for living
his faith and relentlessly fighting for a better and stronger America.
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Loved his country. And that's why this afternoon, it's my
privilege to posthumously award Charles James Kirk R. Nation's highest
civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Thank you. As
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you know, only hours ago I returned from a very
historic trip to secure peace in the Middle East. People
said that couldn't be done. Charlie felt it could be done.
Charlie felt it could be done. Thank you, thank you,
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thank you very much. But I raced back halfway around
at the Globe. I was gonna call Eric and say, Erica,
could you maybe move it to Friday? And I didn't
have the courage to call. But you know why I
didn't call because I heard today was Charlie's birthday. And
I said, you know, now, that was a definite, and
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I said, we're gonna have to forget about some of
those very big, very rich countries that expected me to
be there. And I can tell you based on the
length of that flight, I wouldn't want to go back tomorrow,
but I would not have missed this moment for anything
in the world. Nothing, And it's a very important time
for our country. And our country is doing so well,
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it's never done better. We are a country with almost
now eighteen trillion dollars of investment coming in. Nobody's ever
seen anything like that. Previous administration had less than a
trillion for four years. We have more than eighteen. It'll
be much more than twenty by the time the more
than twenty trillion dollars. Has never been a country in
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the world that had anything like that. What's happened to
our country is incredible in a short period of time.
Charlie was a big person for sir, can we close
up those borders please a little bit? You know they're
really leaking badly, I said, Charlie. I haven't gotten there yet,
but you know it came out last four months. Literally
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nobody was allowed into our country and the only people
that were allowed in were people that came in legally.
The borders are absolutely stone cold closed, and they reported zero, zero,
zero and zero, so that's pretty good. But he was
a big believer. He wanted people in the country more
than I did. Frankly, he wanted them to come in legally,
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and he got his wish. October fourteenth is Charlie's birthday,
and he should have been turning thirty two years all
that day. I never when I first met him, he
was like twenty two, and I said, boy, he's awfully young.
But I thought he was older than that. You know,
he looked a little bit older than his age. That's okay.
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You know, that's not good when you're old, but when
you're young, it's great. He had the best of all things,
but he was special. But instead, Charlie is attaining a
far more important milestone. We're entering his name forever into
the eternal roster of true American heroes. He's a true
American hero, an amazing person, way way beyond his years.
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And I'm honored to be joined by a woman who
has endured unspeakable hardship with unbelievable strength. And that's Charlie's widow. Erica,
and I just want to thank you, Erica. He loved
you so much. I was with him. Please, thank you, darling,
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thank you. I was with him before I met Erica,
and he told me he was going to get married.
He said, you won't believe how beautiful she is. I said, well, then,
now that I meet her, he's right. But then he
also said, and you know what, she's like, the smartest
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person I know. See, they do go together on occasion,
not of it, not of it, but on occasion they
go together. But he was in love with you. He
was deeply in love with you. It's great Erica encourage
have been an inspiration to all of us. And we
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will always be here for you, and we're always going
to be here for your gorgeous, beautiful children, and we'll
never forget what your family has sacrificed for our country.
Man loved our country. When things were going badly for
our country, he was so as you know, angry. We
get angry because he said, it doesn't have to be
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that way. We're also pleased to be joined by an
incredible group of Charlie's friends, very powerful friends actually, and
some not so powerful. And there were actually better people okay,
I know, well the less powerful ones. I have to
tell you that, all of you power guys down here,
the best ones in the group are the ones that
are less successful. But that happens to you now. They're
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all great and they're here. And let's start with Erica's father.
Where is Erica's father? Where are you? Where are you dead? Oh?
Look at him? Well I want to get a hat
like that too. I like that. How are you nice
to see you again? Thanks as well to Vice President JD. Vance,
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who's been fantastic. Jd thank you very much, great doing
a great job. Did a great job on Sunday with
George Slapadopolis put him away pretty good. Second lady who's
a phenomenal woman, Usha Vance, thank you very much. Yushan,
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thank you very much, great woman. President of Argentina. He
wanted to be here. That's Argentina's a serious flight, right
and he's become a superstar and he's doing amazing things.
It's he's a maga person, but it's make Argentina great again.
That's what he does, right, And I want you to
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stand please hoavire haave m relay doing a great job.
Thank you very much. Many members of my cabinet here,
just about all of them here. I won't go into
every single one of them, but I'll announce a few
of the people that have really turned this country around
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and helped me. Incredible people. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson. Mike,
what a job you're doing. Mike, what a job you're doing.
And I watched you this morning and you're in there
trying to say, look, just let the country open, everything
will be fine. Who are dealing with some radical left lunatics.
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And I would just wish Charlie was here to fight us.
I think the fight would have been over already. They
would have had a march on the Capitol by people
whose average age is about twenty one, because there's nobody
that had that relationship with young people, right, Mike, So
thank you Mike for being her House Majority leader. Steve Scalise, Steve,
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thank you very much. Brave, a brave guy and a friend.
House Majority Whip. Another terrific man, Tom Emma, Thank you, Tom.
Senate Majority Whip John Barrasso, John, thank you very much.
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Oh yeah, all these senators I'm going to get in trouble.
I'm not going to read all their names. I'll be
reading all day. We'll be talking about Charlie in about
forty five minutes from now. We can't do that. So
all of the senators, there's so many of you, thank
you very much. I do want to thank Senators Thune
for doing a terrific job. He's really been leading properly.
Do you agree, Mike. The team of the two of
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these guys have been fantastic. So to Senator Thune, I
want to thank you very much. Incredible job. Watched him
this morning and he was out there pounding him this
morning on Television two. And John Barrasso, thank you for
the work you've done and congratulations and your success. But
I want to thank you all in all of the
congress people that are here. I see we have our
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Attorney general here, so and you are doing a fantastic job.
Thank you very much. Pam, thank you, thank you very much.
We have everybody. Wow, that's a credible Okay, I'm not
going to do anymore. I'm going to be here too long,
but I just want to thank you have given him
such support, but he always gave you such support. That's
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why you're here. And very unusual. Charles James Kirk was
a visionary and one of the greatest figures of his generation.
He was truly an amazing figure and growing leaps and valves.
He knew that the fight to preserve our heritage is
waged not only on the battlefield and in the halls
of power, of which we have tremendous power here, including
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the head of a place called war. We call it
now war. We had defense, we had our secretary of defense.
Now have a Secretary of War, and somehow I think
it's more emblematic, and hopefully we'll never have to use war,
but the fact that we're ready is very good. Peace
through strength is very important, but also in the hearts
of our nation's youth, as where Charlie Road's strongest at
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age eighteen. That inside inspired Charlie to found the organization
that ultimately touched the lives of millions and millions of people,
and so many young people that nobody's ever seen like it. Frankly,
turning point USA. It's amazing, and it's actually bigger now.
It's become bigger in the last few weeks, and Charlie
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ever thought. I think his end vision in many years
from now would have been just a fraction of what
had turned out to be in a couple of weeks, right,
it's amazing with hard work and joyful spirit and endless
and enthusiasm and determination. And he did have great enthusiasm
and say to be secull. Charlie's turning point to the
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larger conservative youth organization in the entire country. He forged
a personal bond with countless young conservatives. He fought for
free speech, religious liberty, strong borders, and a very strong
and proud America. In everything he did, he put America first.
He really put America first. And ultimately, Charlie he became
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more than a leader of an important organization. He became
the leader of historic movements all over the country. The movements,
individual movements, one movement, but it was historic. Everything he
did was historic. And a true evangelist for the cause
of freedom and the word of Almighty God. God was
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very important to Charlie. He would say, you know, if
you don't have religion, you're not going to have a
strong country. It's true. He was so wise beyond his years.
You know, I talked to him sometimes, I said, this
guy is like a young guy. He was really a
wise man. From the time worked on my presidential campaign
in twenty sixteen, and he was there right from the beginning.
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He liked me, I don't know, I have no idea.
What the hell was he thinking? He said, you're gonna win, sir.
I said, you know, I'm running against seventeen senators and
a lot of tough people and governors. We have all
these people. And he said, no, you're going to win, sir.
He said, not going to be close. And he made
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it happen. He helped make it happen. I'll tell you
that without him, who knows what would be Maybe you'd
have Kamalis standing here today. That would not be good.
I will tell you how he you don't know who
Kamala is from. It would not be good. Do you
agree with that, Howard? He also mobilized countless citizens to
go vote. It's called go vote, very simple, and with
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his help in twenty twenty four, we won more young
people than any Republican by far in the history of
our country, and we won the popular vote. We want
day seven of them. Remember they said, oh, well, if
Trump could win four, that would be nice. I went
seven by a lot, by a landslide. But the popular
vote was massive, and we won the electoral college. I remember,
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it's going to be very hard. I'd say two hundred
and seventy. Well, we got three hundred and twelve to
twenty six, and then we won something called districts and
councils and different things. But in one case we won
two thousand, seven hundred and fifty to five hundred and
twenty five. That's the one where you see the map
is almost entirely read except to have a little blue
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line on one side and a little blue line meaning
New York and Los Angeles. I have a feeling that
if the vote were one hundred percent, we would have
won that too. You want to know the truth. But
he knew, and he knew very well, and he also
understood honesty, and he was always concerned with honesty. The
only way we could lose is if the cheating gets
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so bad. And that's where we came up with a
little phrase, too big to rig. We said, out and vote,
just out and vote. And we had that. Remember, we
used to say that all the time because people would say, oh,
they're going to win, we don't have to vote. Let's
go to a movie. We'll come home and watch later.
And he wasn't about that. So we had we come
up to with really together. We came up with that phrase,
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we got to make it too big. I never made
a speech where I didn't say at the end, now, look,
the polls are showing good. Don't believe the pulse said,
We're going to make it, Susie Ray too big to rig.
So if you think we're going to win by a lot,
doesn't matter. Pretend we're losing. You got to go out
aboute They voted, and at nine oh two the whole
thing was over right, nine oh two. Remember they said, oh,
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this could go a few days. Well we went a
few minutes nine oh two, and he knew that, and
I felt it. But he knew it. He knew it.
I think he knew it more than anybody. But Charlie
never missed an opportunity to remind us of the Judeo
Christian principles of our nation's found to share his deep
Christian faith. In his final moments, Charlie testified to the
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greatness of America and did the glory of our Savior,
with whom he now rests in heaven, and he is
going to make heaven. I said, I'm not sure I
can make it but he's going to make it. He's there,
he's looking down on us right now. So incredible. Look
at this, how this turned out. This was supposed to
be so dark and cloudy. Not dark and cloudy, is it?
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I look at that, How beautiful that is. There's no
artist that can can capture it as beautiful as it
is today. Wow, it's amazing. As I said on the
day that he was assassinated, Charlie Kirk was a martyr
for truth and for freedom, and from Socrates to Think
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and to Saint Peter, from Abraham Lincoln to Martin Luther King,
those who change history the most, and he really did
have always risked their lives for a cause. Is they
were put on earth to defend. He was put on
earth to do exactly what he was doing. He didn't
want to waste time. He would have been a top
student at any college in the country. I know, to
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college as well. He was smarter than the guys. He
was so smart, but he almost I guess, didn't have
the time. He knew what he wanted to do. It
wasn't like Jae I want to sit in the classroom
for four years listening to people teach me. Liberal principles
because they were never going to teach him that anyway.
But he didn't have the time. He really didn't have
the time. But every time the enemies of goodness and
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virtue tried to silence the voice of righteous and noble
leaders like Charlie, they failed. They seemed to fail. Ultimately,
they looked like doing well, and then they end up failing.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
That's the President of the United States the deeply personal
tribute to Charlie Kirk, and I wanted you to hear
as much of that as we could in this opening segment. Currently,
Erica Kirk, Charlie's widow, speaking after he was posthumously awarded
the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest honor given to
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It's time to head to Cajuncreole Country with Louisiana Republican
Senator John Kennedy for today's installment of Buy You Bits
of Wisdom, tell us.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
About the meeting fighting, because that's priceless.
Speaker 5 (22:02):
Well, I met with him about midway through his first year.
We went to a I went to a bill signing.
I passed a bill, and he wanted to have a
picture with a Republican. As soon as he signed the bill,
his staff tried to get me to leave, and I
wouldn't do it. I just started talking to the President
and we talked about I wanted to get him talking.
We talked about his dog, Major, we talked about corvettes.
(22:25):
He showed me his cabinet room. But here's what I concluded,
President Biden. Remember this is his first year. He had
reached that point in life when all he wanted to
do was sit around, talk about the old days, tell stories,
and when he got tired, he wanted soup in an
early bedtime. And I came back to my office and
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I told my staff, I said, I will bet you
that the White House is not getting more than four
hours of solid work out of the president. It was
clear that you saw the beginning of neuro degenerative disease.
That wasn't his fault. We all aged differently, but I
knew it was going to get worse, and it did.
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And his staff they hit it very carefully, but they
reached the point finally they couldn't hide it. He had
to debate President.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
Trump and and we know how all that turned out.
Speaker 5 (23:25):
But I remember thinking, I remember thinking, you know, my
dad was like this in his last years, and I
took I had to take away his truck keys. And
President Biden had reached that one in his life.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
It was kind of sad, Franklin sad, but somebody should
have taken away the keys of the White House. Senator
John Kennedy always with that crackerjack wisdom, and he's got
a new book out how to Test Negative for Stupid
and why Washington Never Will. I've been trying to get
the Senator on this program, and I will continue those
(23:59):
efforts for all of you, because I know you would
love to hear that conversation just as much as I
would like to have it with Senator Kennedy. We always
think him for those buy you bits of wisdom. How
long did they think they were going to be able
to hide the old man? The debate was virtually unprecedented,
taking place on June twenty seventh of twenty twenty four.
Speaker 4 (24:21):
Why Joe Biden himself didn't view that as the trap
that it was.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
I'll never know why Joe Biden, Doctor, Joe Biden, the
first Lady didn't see that coming Edith Wilson style on
behalf of Woodrow Wilson, I'll never know.
Speaker 4 (24:34):
They had to know that this was Biden's team.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Trying to flush him out in the open so they
could kick him out of the race with one hundred
and seven days to go, is what happened to Kamala Harris.
But did the Democrats really understand what it took to
win and why were they pot committed on Joe Biden,
who had lost a majority of his faculties. I will
never understand the strategy or lack thereof, the lack of vision, purpose,
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long term, goal focused campaigning that they knew that Joe
Biden was not capable of doing. It was a perfect
storm that got Joe Biden elected in twenty twenty. COVID
was the greatest blessing for Joe Biden's campaign that could
ever have happened, because it allowed him to hide in
the basement and as Senator Kennedy just alluded to he
was slipping then if he hadn't already slipped all the
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way talking.
Speaker 4 (25:25):
About Joe Biden.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
And then he gets to hide away from the media,
He gets to hide away from any kind of public appearances.
And Donald Trump has basically left a campaign against himself.
It becomes a referendum on Trump during COVID and that
was the one mark on his first term that most
Americans did not like how that was handled. But it
was a once in one hundred year phenomenon. You had
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to go back to the Spanish influenza epidemic right around
World War One times to encounter anything that was comparable,
and you weren't going to get it in real time
necessarily right out of the gate, even with Operation Warp Speed.
Speaker 4 (26:03):
And we know what happened out of that.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
We discuss Christian amanpoor. You know this so called very
well seasoned, very.
Speaker 4 (26:14):
Well educated, she's smarter than you, and she'll let you
know that.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
Of CNN describing the conditions that the Israeli hostages face
the hands of Hamas as such.
Speaker 6 (26:26):
And I think for sure people who start to talk
to the hostages who have only just been released will
find that it will take a long long time for
them to recover physically, but also mentally. It's been a terrible,
terrible two years for them because not only are they there,
you know, they're probably being treated better than the average
Garsen because they are the pawns and the chips that
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Hamas had.
Speaker 4 (26:50):
Now Hamas has.
Speaker 6 (26:50):
Given up all its leverage, by the way, by giving
them all up, So that is a victory for the
Israeli side.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
Okay, I'm going to walk with Christian. I'm on poor
here just for a minute. Let's just say that she's right.
She's not, but let's just say that she is, and
that Hamas viewed these hostages as commodities, as bargaining chips.
You know, like you play poker and you've got a
certain amount of chips and you put them to put
Would you set your chips on fire?
Speaker 4 (27:13):
Would you destroy your chips? Would you throw them in
the garbage?
Speaker 1 (27:17):
If these chips were so valuable to Hamas, why did
they wantonly kill these chips hostages people prisoners.
Speaker 4 (27:26):
Why did they rape and murder the women that were
in their custody. Why would they do that?
Speaker 1 (27:34):
Christian aamen? Who if they were so valuable and important
to Hamas. It's because Hamas fosters a culture of death,
and we'll get to Scott Jennings comment along those lines
in a moment, but George W. Bush even said this,
it's difficult for those of us in Western civilizations, Judaeo
Christian values who live and promote a culture of life
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to fight against a culture of death that is willing
to fly planes into buildings and kill themselves, or put
bond jackets on children and had them wander in to
IDF soldiers and step them off. I'm on poor Later
that night, this was last night. Try to walk back
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what you just heard now.
Speaker 6 (28:19):
Earlier live on air, I spoke about what a day
of real joy this is for Israeli families whose loved
ones are finally being returned from two years of horrific
Hammas captivity, and for civilians in Gaza who finally had
reprieved from two years of brutal and deadly war. I
noted that for the hostages who are finally home, it'll
take a long time for them to recover mentally and physically,
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but I regret also saying that they might have been
treated better than many Gazans because Hamas used these hostages
as pawns and bargaining chips. But that was insensitive and
it was wrong. From speaking to many former hostages and
their families, Like everyone, I've been horrified at what Hamas
has subjected them to. Really two long years they've told
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me is you've just heard their stories of barely being
able to breathe in the tunnels, not being allowed to cry,
being starved and made to dig their own graves. And
of course today some of the hostages are coming back
in body bags.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
If you knew all that Christian I'm on poor, then
what would prompt you to say what you said in
that the hostages were somehow treated better than the gods
and civilians, the Palestinians under the thumb of Hamas.
Speaker 4 (29:30):
Why would you even think to say that, let alone
say it if you knew what you just said.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
Well, perhaps Cornell West can add some color here, because
he is unapologetically pro Palestine, but not so harsh on Jumas.
And he had this exchange with the great Scott Jennings
of CNN, who I'm trying to get back on the
program soon.
Speaker 7 (29:51):
But brother Scott, the are you concerned about the Palestinians?
Can you take that off of the Palestinians and all
of this suffer.
Speaker 8 (29:57):
Well, I'm concerned about what's happening to them right now now.
They're being shot in the street by hamas well.
Speaker 7 (30:01):
They're under occupation. It just had twenty thousand babies killed
in twenty three months. I mean, do you believe that
a hostage on the by Palestenius has the same value
as a Palestinian incarcerator.
Speaker 4 (30:15):
I ask that question.
Speaker 8 (30:16):
I don't regard some of the people that were in prison,
prison and Israel to be hostages. These were terrorists that
we had to let go in order to get these
twenty people back. The twenty living hostages did nothing wrong. Many,
as Abby pointed out in her monologue, of the people
the Palestinians wanted released are absolute terrorists.
Speaker 4 (30:32):
Whom they have no trial and have had no dose.
Speaker 8 (30:38):
Twenty people did nothing. The people taken on October the seventh.
Speaker 4 (30:41):
Were purely innocent. Cornell Wilson is a joke.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
Scott Jennings wins that not even TKO, that's a straight KO.
The part that I want to really focus on what
Cornell West said is that Palestine was under occupation. Now
he insinuates I think his meaning is under occupation by
Israel I would take that argument more seriously if he
would say, look, these Palestinians are under occupation by Hamas themselves.
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This is a terrorist organization, and the Palestinians are terrified
to rise up against them because they'll be executed in
the street exactly how Scott Jennings just described. Because if
they do rise up, they're going to be considered co
conspirators and collaborators with Israel and shot in the back
of the head in the street.
Speaker 4 (31:26):
Where was their due process? Cornell West? You moron?
Speaker 1 (31:30):
This guy is supposedly one of the most accomplished professors
on Harvard University's campus.
Speaker 4 (31:36):
Are you joking right now?
Speaker 3 (31:37):
Man?
Speaker 1 (31:38):
Where was the due process for the twelve hundred Israelis
murdered in cold blood, set on fire, raped, mowed down
in a hell of bullets at a music festival?
Speaker 4 (31:50):
Where was the due process there? Cornell West?
Speaker 1 (31:55):
Absolute idiocy and folks, that's the kindest explanation, because the
darker explanation would be.
Speaker 4 (32:02):
He's okay with that as a means to an end.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
And what we've seen with the assassination of Charlie Kirk,
with the rallying in the streets pro Palestine, anti Israel,
the menacing of Jewish students in college campuses, the attempted
assassination of Donald Trump. The left has made it known
that they're at least indifferent to, if not supportive, of,
political violence as a means to an end. So unless
(32:27):
he's on that page, nothing of what he just said
makes sense. One final break, We're back to wrap it
all up on Ryan Schuling Live. After this, it's time
once again for another edition of Trump's hot takes, charting
the forty seventh president's epic interactions with the fake news media.
Speaker 8 (32:47):
Considering talking about a questions, who are you in Politicosa Burns?
Speaker 3 (32:52):
Political politica has gotten bad. They've been so wrong about
everything political political A bit so wrong about everything. Let's
get somebody else to ask a question, Jimi, she said,
all rights a ghosttakeness.
Speaker 4 (33:08):
Let's get somebody else to ask some questions. Do you mind?
Is that all right? Asked her permission?
Speaker 1 (33:14):
Now, to Dashah Burns's credit, she took a lot of heat,
but you would think this would have turned a light
on in her mind. She is the one that sat
down with John Fetterman at a key point of that
campaign against doctor memmet Oz in that Senate race, and
it really revealed the cognitive decline of Fetterman in the
immediate aftermath of his stroke, and that Baird mentioning that
(33:38):
baired discussion, and Dashah Burns was pretty relentless on behalf
of NBC News at that time in covering that story.
But she took a lot of heat, slings and arrows
from the left. How dare she cover John Fetterman that closely?
But little did they know, Little did anybody know that
when John Fetterman recovered almost completely from the stroke, he
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would do an abrupt turn and land on a square
of common sense, much more so than any other Democrat
and elected office currently holds. But her organization Politico definitely
rubbed the President the wrong way in that exchange. And
that was on Air Force one and he moved on
to another reporter. That'll do it for me from here
for now. Dan kaplis coming up next joining me tomorrow.
(34:23):
Dave Kerber, one of my city council members for Greenwood Village,
on the upcoming election,
Okay, I miss spell. Going into the top of the hour.
There it is the Presidential Medal of Freedom that President
Donald J. Trump is awarding posthumously to Charlie Kirk today
what would have been his thirty second birthday. And as
I mentioned, I'm wearing a Freedom red sweatshirt American flag
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on it that I ordered from Turning Point USA online
in the memory of Charlie Kirk and all that he
contributed to the Conservative cause, especially amongst our younger people.
I don't think we've really felt the reverberations entirely of
the impact that he had passed tense and that he
will continue to have on our young people that carry
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forth the cause and carry the torch for Charlie Kirk.
President Trump is still making comments at the White House
right now, but I wanted to cue this up to
the beginning for you to hear as much of it
as you can before we go to our first break.
This is the President of United States honoring charl Kirk
with the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Ladies and gentlemen, the President of the United States, accompanied
by Erica Kirk.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
Thank you very much, everybody. Please, this is such an honor.
This is the please be seated. This is the first
time we've been at the new and improved Rose Garden,
and people are loving it. They're loving it like they've
not loved a lot of things. We have the Presidential
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Walk of Fame, which you just saw and I just opened,
and we wanted to get it open for this occasion.
We were hoping we were able to get outside, and
the weather allowed us to. They're supposed to be terrible
rainy day. I was telling Eric and God was watching,
and he didn't want that for Charlie. He just didn't
want that. So it's really beautiful. Couldn't be more beautiful.
(02:24):
Today we're here to honor and remember a fearless warrior
for liberty, beloved leader who galvanized the next generation like
nobody I've ever seen before, and an American patriot of
the deepest conviction, the finest quality, and the highest caliber,
the late Great Charlie Kirk. Five weeks ago, our nation
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was robbed of this extraordinary champion. He was a champion
in every way. I got to know him so well well.
He didn't like losing, and he was able to fight
people that were enemies, and he didn't necessarily love those
enemies so much, and I heard he loved his enemies,
and I said, wait a minute, is that the same
(03:15):
Charlie that I know? I'm not sure, but I didn't
want to get into it. But it was a horrible, heinous,
demonic act of murder. He was assassinated in the prime
of his life for baldly speaking the truth, for living
his faith and relentlessly fighting for a better and stronger America.
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Loved his country. And that's why this afternoon, it's my
privilege to posthumously award Charles James Kirk R. Nation's highest
civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Thank you. As
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you know, only hours ago I returned from a very
historic trip to secure peace in the Middle East. People
said that couldn't be done. Charlie felt it could be done.
Charlie felt it could be done. Thank you, thank you,
(04:23):
thank you very much. But I raced back halfway around
at the Globe. I was gonna call Eric and say, Erica,
could you maybe move it to Friday? And I didn't
have the courage to call. But you know why I
didn't call because I heard today was Charlie's birthday. And
I said, you know, now, that was a definite, and
(04:44):
I said, we're gonna have to forget about some of
those very big, very rich countries that expected me to
be there. And I can tell you based on the
length of that flight, I wouldn't want to go back tomorrow,
but I would not have missed this moment for anything
in the world. Nothing, And it's a very important time
for our country. And our country is doing so well,
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it's never done better. We are a country with almost
now eighteen trillion dollars of investment coming in. Nobody's ever
seen anything like that. Previous administration had less than a
trillion for four years. We have more than eighteen. It'll
be much more than twenty by the time the more
than twenty trillion dollars. Has never been a country in
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the world that had anything like that. What's happened to
our country is incredible in a short period of time.
Charlie was a big person for sir, can we close
up those borders please a little bit? You know they're
really leaking badly, I said, Charlie. I haven't gotten there yet,
but you know it came out last four months. Literally
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nobody was allowed into our country and the only people
that were allowed in were people that came in legally.
The borders are absolutely stone cold closed, and they reported zero, zero,
zero and zero, so that's pretty good. But he was
a big believer. He wanted people in the country more
than I did. Frankly, he wanted them to come in legally,
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and he got his wish. October fourteenth is Charlie's birthday,
and he should have been turning thirty two years all
that day. I never when I first met him, he
was like twenty two, and I said, boy, he's awfully young.
But I thought he was older than that. You know,
he looked a little bit older than his age. That's okay.
(06:32):
You know, that's not good when you're old, but when
you're young, it's great. He had the best of all things,
but he was special. But instead, Charlie is attaining a
far more important milestone. We're entering his name forever into
the eternal roster of true American heroes. He's a true
American hero, an amazing person, way way beyond his years.
(06:56):
And I'm honored to be joined by a woman who
has endured unspeakable hardship with unbelievable strength. And that's Charlie's widow. Erica,
and I just want to thank you, Erica. He loved
you so much. I was with him. Please, thank you, darling,
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thank you. I was with him before I met Erica,
and he told me he was going to get married.
He said, you won't believe how beautiful she is. I said, well, then,
now that I meet her, he's right. But then he
also said, and you know what, she's like, the smartest
(07:43):
person I know. See, they do go together on occasion,
not of it, not of it, but on occasion they
go together. But he was in love with you. He
was deeply in love with you. It's great Erica encourage
have been an inspiration to all of us. And we
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will always be here for you, and we're always going
to be here for your gorgeous, beautiful children, and we'll
never forget what your family has sacrificed for our country.
Man loved our country. When things were going badly for
our country, he was so as you know, angry. We
get angry because he said, it doesn't have to be
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that way. We're also pleased to be joined by an
incredible group of Charlie's friends, very powerful friends actually, and
some not so powerful. And there were actually better people okay,
I know, well the less powerful ones. I have to
tell you that, all of you power guys down here,
the best ones in the group are the ones that
are less successful. But that happens to you now. They're
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all great and they're here. And let's start with Erica's father.
Where is Erica's father? Where are you? Where are you dead? Oh?
Look at him? Well I want to get a hat
like that too. I like that. How are you nice
to see you again? Thanks as well to Vice President JD. Vance,
(09:09):
who's been fantastic. Jd thank you very much, great doing
a great job. Did a great job on Sunday with
George Slapadopolis put him away pretty good. Second lady who's
a phenomenal woman, Usha Vance, thank you very much. Yushan,
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thank you very much, great woman. President of Argentina. He
wanted to be here. That's Argentina's a serious flight, right
and he's become a superstar and he's doing amazing things.
It's he's a maga person, but it's make Argentina great again.
That's what he does, right, And I want you to
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stand please hoavire haave m relay doing a great job.
Thank you very much. Many members of my cabinet here,
just about all of them here. I won't go into
every single one of them, but I'll announce a few
of the people that have really turned this country around
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and helped me. Incredible people. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson. Mike,
what a job you're doing. Mike, what a job you're doing.
And I watched you this morning and you're in there
trying to say, look, just let the country open, everything
will be fine. Who are dealing with some radical left lunatics.
(10:37):
And I would just wish Charlie was here to fight us.
I think the fight would have been over already. They
would have had a march on the Capitol by people
whose average age is about twenty one, because there's nobody
that had that relationship with young people, right, Mike, So
thank you Mike for being her House Majority leader. Steve Scalise, Steve,
(10:59):
thank you very much. Brave, a brave guy and a friend.
House Majority Whip. Another terrific man, Tom Emma, Thank you, Tom.
Senate Majority Whip John Barrasso, John, thank you very much.
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Oh yeah, all these senators I'm going to get in trouble.
I'm not going to read all their names. I'll be
reading all day. We'll be talking about Charlie in about
forty five minutes from now. We can't do that. So
all of the senators, there's so many of you, thank
you very much. I do want to thank Senators Thune
for doing a terrific job. He's really been leading properly.
Do you agree, Mike. The team of the two of
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these guys have been fantastic. So to Senator Thune, I
want to thank you very much. Incredible job. Watched him
this morning and he was out there pounding him this
morning on Television two. And John Barrasso, thank you for
the work you've done and congratulations and your success. But
I want to thank you all in all of the
congress people that are here. I see we have our
(12:01):
Attorney general here, so and you are doing a fantastic job.
Thank you very much. Pam, thank you, thank you very much.
We have everybody. Wow, that's a credible Okay, I'm not
going to do anymore. I'm going to be here too long,
but I just want to thank you have given him
such support, but he always gave you such support. That's
(12:22):
why you're here. And very unusual. Charles James Kirk was
a visionary and one of the greatest figures of his generation.
He was truly an amazing figure and growing leaps and valves.
He knew that the fight to preserve our heritage is
waged not only on the battlefield and in the halls
of power, of which we have tremendous power here, including
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the head of a place called war. We call it
now war. We had defense, we had our secretary of defense.
Now have a Secretary of War, and somehow I think
it's more emblematic, and hopefully we'll never have to use war,
but the fact that we're ready is very good. Peace
through strength is very important, but also in the hearts
of our nation's youth, as where Charlie Road's strongest at
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age eighteen. That inside inspired Charlie to found the organization
that ultimately touched the lives of millions and millions of people,
and so many young people that nobody's ever seen like it. Frankly,
turning point USA. It's amazing, and it's actually bigger now.
It's become bigger in the last few weeks, and Charlie
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ever thought. I think his end vision in many years
from now would have been just a fraction of what
had turned out to be in a couple of weeks, right,
it's amazing with hard work and joyful spirit and endless
and enthusiasm and determination. And he did have great enthusiasm
and say to be secull. Charlie's turning point to the
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larger conservative youth organization in the entire country. He forged
a personal bond with countless young conservatives. He fought for
free speech, religious liberty, strong borders, and a very strong
and proud America. In everything he did, he put America first.
He really put America first. And ultimately, Charlie he became
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more than a leader of an important organization. He became
the leader of historic movements all over the country. The movements,
individual movements, one movement, but it was historic. Everything he
did was historic. And a true evangelist for the cause
of freedom and the word of Almighty God. God was
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very important to Charlie. He would say, you know, if
you don't have religion, you're not going to have a
strong country. It's true. He was so wise beyond his years.
You know, I talked to him sometimes, I said, this
guy is like a young guy. He was really a
wise man. From the time worked on my presidential campaign
in twenty sixteen, and he was there right from the beginning.
(15:04):
He liked me, I don't know, I have no idea.
What the hell was he thinking? He said, you're gonna win, sir.
I said, you know, I'm running against seventeen senators and
a lot of tough people and governors. We have all
these people. And he said, no, you're going to win, sir.
He said, not going to be close. And he made
(15:25):
it happen. He helped make it happen. I'll tell you
that without him, who knows what would be Maybe you'd
have Kamalis standing here today. That would not be good.
I will tell you how he you don't know who
Kamala is from. It would not be good. Do you
agree with that, Howard? He also mobilized countless citizens to
go vote. It's called go vote, very simple, and with
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his help in twenty twenty four, we won more young
people than any Republican by far in the history of
our country, and we won the popular vote. We want
day seven of them. Remember they said, oh, well, if
Trump could win four, that would be nice. I went
seven by a lot, by a landslide. But the popular
vote was massive, and we won the electoral college. I remember,
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it's going to be very hard. I'd say two hundred
and seventy. Well, we got three hundred and twelve to
twenty six, and then we won something called districts and
councils and different things. But in one case we won
two thousand, seven hundred and fifty to five hundred and
twenty five. That's the one where you see the map
is almost entirely read except to have a little blue
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line on one side and a little blue line meaning
New York and Los Angeles. I have a feeling that
if the vote were one hundred percent, we would have
won that too. You want to know the truth. But
he knew, and he knew very well, and he also
understood honesty, and he was always concerned with honesty. The
only way we could lose is if the cheating gets
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so bad. And that's where we came up with a
little phrase, too big to rig. We said, out and vote,
just out and vote. And we had that. Remember, we
used to say that all the time because people would say, oh,
they're going to win, we don't have to vote. Let's
go to a movie. We'll come home and watch later.
And he wasn't about that. So we had we come
up to with really together. We came up with that phrase,
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we got to make it too big. I never made
a speech where I didn't say at the end, now, look,
the polls are showing good. Don't believe the pulse said,
We're going to make it, Susie Ray too big to rig.
So if you think we're going to win by a lot,
doesn't matter. Pretend we're losing. You got to go out
aboute They voted, and at nine oh two the whole
thing was over right, nine oh two. Remember they said, oh,
(17:43):
this could go a few days. Well we went a
few minutes nine oh two, and he knew that, and
I felt it. But he knew it. He knew it.
I think he knew it more than anybody. But Charlie
never missed an opportunity to remind us of the Judeo
Christian principles of our nation's found to share his deep
Christian faith. In his final moments, Charlie testified to the
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greatness of America and did the glory of our Savior,
with whom he now rests in heaven, and he is
going to make heaven. I said, I'm not sure I
can make it but he's going to make it. He's there,
he's looking down on us right now. So incredible. Look
at this, how this turned out. This was supposed to
be so dark and cloudy. Not dark and cloudy, is it?
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I look at that, How beautiful that is. There's no
artist that can can capture it as beautiful as it
is today. Wow, it's amazing. As I said on the
day that he was assassinated, Charlie Kirk was a martyr
for truth and for freedom, and from Socrates to Think
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and to Saint Peter, from Abraham Lincoln to Martin Luther King,
those who change history the most, and he really did
have always risked their lives for a cause. Is they
were put on earth to defend. He was put on
earth to do exactly what he was doing. He didn't
want to waste time. He would have been a top
student at any college in the country. I know, to
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college as well. He was smarter than the guys. He
was so smart, but he almost I guess, didn't have
the time. He knew what he wanted to do. It
wasn't like Jae I want to sit in the classroom
for four years listening to people teach me. Liberal principles
because they were never going to teach him that anyway.
But he didn't have the time. He really didn't have
the time. But every time the enemies of goodness and
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virtue tried to silence the voice of righteous and noble
leaders like Charlie, they failed. They seemed to fail. Ultimately,
they looked like doing well, and then they end up failing.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
That's the President of the United States the deeply personal
tribute to Charlie Kirk, and I wanted you to hear
as much of that as we could in this opening segment. Currently,
Erica Kirk, Charlie's widow, speaking after he was posthumously awarded
the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest honor given to
an American civilian. More after this on Ryan schuling life.
Speaker 4 (20:09):
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It's time to head to Cajuncreole Country with Louisiana Republican
Senator John Kennedy for today's installment of Buy You Bits
of Wisdom, tell us.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
About the meeting fighting, because that's priceless.
Speaker 5 (22:02):
Well, I met with him about midway through his first year.
We went to a I went to a bill signing.
I passed a bill, and he wanted to have a
picture with a Republican. As soon as he signed the bill,
his staff tried to get me to leave, and I
wouldn't do it. I just started talking to the President
and we talked about I wanted to get him talking.
We talked about his dog, Major, we talked about corvettes.
(22:25):
He showed me his cabinet room. But here's what I concluded,
President Biden. Remember this is his first year. He had
reached that point in life when all he wanted to
do was sit around, talk about the old days, tell stories,
and when he got tired, he wanted soup in an
early bedtime. And I came back to my office and
(22:49):
I told my staff, I said, I will bet you
that the White House is not getting more than four
hours of solid work out of the president. It was
clear that you saw the beginning of neuro degenerative disease.
That wasn't his fault. We all aged differently, but I
knew it was going to get worse, and it did.
(23:11):
And his staff they hit it very carefully, but they
reached the point finally they couldn't hide it. He had
to debate President.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
Trump and and we know how all that turned out.
Speaker 5 (23:25):
But I remember thinking, I remember thinking, you know, my
dad was like this in his last years, and I
took I had to take away his truck keys. And
President Biden had reached that one in his life.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
It was kind of sad, Franklin sad, but somebody should
have taken away the keys of the White House. Senator
John Kennedy always with that crackerjack wisdom, and he's got
a new book out how to Test Negative for Stupid
and why Washington Never Will. I've been trying to get
the Senator on this program, and I will continue those
(23:59):
efforts for all of you, because I know you would
love to hear that conversation just as much as I
would like to have it with Senator Kennedy. We always
think him for those buy you bits of wisdom. How
long did they think they were going to be able
to hide the old man? The debate was virtually unprecedented,
taking place on June twenty seventh of twenty twenty four.
Speaker 4 (24:21):
Why Joe Biden himself didn't view that as the trap
that it was.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
I'll never know why Joe Biden, Doctor, Joe Biden, the
first Lady didn't see that coming Edith Wilson style on
behalf of Woodrow Wilson, I'll never know.
Speaker 4 (24:34):
They had to know that this was Biden's team.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Trying to flush him out in the open so they
could kick him out of the race with one hundred
and seven days to go, is what happened to Kamala Harris.
But did the Democrats really understand what it took to
win and why were they pot committed on Joe Biden,
who had lost a majority of his faculties. I will
never understand the strategy or lack thereof, the lack of vision, purpose,
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long term, goal focused campaigning that they knew that Joe
Biden was not capable of doing. It was a perfect
storm that got Joe Biden elected in twenty twenty. COVID
was the greatest blessing for Joe Biden's campaign that could
ever have happened, because it allowed him to hide in
the basement and as Senator Kennedy just alluded to he
was slipping then if he hadn't already slipped all the
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way talking.
Speaker 4 (25:25):
About Joe Biden.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
And then he gets to hide away from the media,
He gets to hide away from any kind of public appearances.
And Donald Trump has basically left a campaign against himself.
It becomes a referendum on Trump during COVID and that
was the one mark on his first term that most
Americans did not like how that was handled. But it
was a once in one hundred year phenomenon. You had
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to go back to the Spanish influenza epidemic right around
World War One times to encounter anything that was comparable,
and you weren't going to get it in real time
necessarily right out of the gate, even with Operation Warp Speed.
Speaker 4 (26:03):
And we know what happened out of that.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
We discuss Christian amanpoor. You know this so called very
well seasoned, very.
Speaker 4 (26:14):
Well educated, she's smarter than you, and she'll let you
know that.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
Of CNN describing the conditions that the Israeli hostages face
the hands of Hamas as such.
Speaker 6 (26:26):
And I think for sure people who start to talk
to the hostages who have only just been released will
find that it will take a long long time for
them to recover physically, but also mentally. It's been a terrible,
terrible two years for them because not only are they there,
you know, they're probably being treated better than the average
Garsen because they are the pawns and the chips that
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Hamas had.
Speaker 4 (26:50):
Now Hamas has.
Speaker 6 (26:50):
Given up all its leverage, by the way, by giving
them all up, So that is a victory for the
Israeli side.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
Okay, I'm going to walk with Christian. I'm on poor
here just for a minute. Let's just say that she's right.
She's not, but let's just say that she is, and
that Hamas viewed these hostages as commodities, as bargaining chips.
You know, like you play poker and you've got a
certain amount of chips and you put them to put
Would you set your chips on fire?
Speaker 4 (27:13):
Would you destroy your chips? Would you throw them in
the garbage?
Speaker 1 (27:17):
If these chips were so valuable to Hamas, why did
they wantonly kill these chips hostages people prisoners.
Speaker 4 (27:26):
Why did they rape and murder the women that were
in their custody. Why would they do that?
Speaker 1 (27:34):
Christian aamen? Who if they were so valuable and important
to Hamas. It's because Hamas fosters a culture of death,
and we'll get to Scott Jennings comment along those lines
in a moment, but George W. Bush even said this,
it's difficult for those of us in Western civilizations, Judaeo
Christian values who live and promote a culture of life
(27:55):
to fight against a culture of death that is willing
to fly planes into buildings and kill themselves, or put
bond jackets on children and had them wander in to
IDF soldiers and step them off. I'm on poor Later
that night, this was last night. Try to walk back
(28:18):
what you just heard now.
Speaker 6 (28:19):
Earlier live on air, I spoke about what a day
of real joy this is for Israeli families whose loved
ones are finally being returned from two years of horrific
Hammas captivity, and for civilians in Gaza who finally had
reprieved from two years of brutal and deadly war. I
noted that for the hostages who are finally home, it'll
take a long time for them to recover mentally and physically,
(28:41):
but I regret also saying that they might have been
treated better than many Gazans because Hamas used these hostages
as pawns and bargaining chips. But that was insensitive and
it was wrong. From speaking to many former hostages and
their families, Like everyone, I've been horrified at what Hamas
has subjected them to. Really two long years they've told
(29:02):
me is you've just heard their stories of barely being
able to breathe in the tunnels, not being allowed to cry,
being starved and made to dig their own graves. And
of course today some of the hostages are coming back
in body bags.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
If you knew all that Christian I'm on poor, then
what would prompt you to say what you said in
that the hostages were somehow treated better than the gods
and civilians, the Palestinians under the thumb of Hamas.
Speaker 4 (29:30):
Why would you even think to say that, let alone
say it if you knew what you just said.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
Well, perhaps Cornell West can add some color here, because
he is unapologetically pro Palestine, but not so harsh on Jumas.
And he had this exchange with the great Scott Jennings
of CNN, who I'm trying to get back on the
program soon.
Speaker 7 (29:51):
But brother Scott, the are you concerned about the Palestinians?
Can you take that off of the Palestinians and all
of this suffer.
Speaker 8 (29:57):
Well, I'm concerned about what's happening to them right now now.
They're being shot in the street by hamas well.
Speaker 7 (30:01):
They're under occupation. It just had twenty thousand babies killed
in twenty three months. I mean, do you believe that
a hostage on the by Palestenius has the same value
as a Palestinian incarcerator.
Speaker 4 (30:15):
I ask that question.
Speaker 8 (30:16):
I don't regard some of the people that were in prison,
prison and Israel to be hostages. These were terrorists that
we had to let go in order to get these
twenty people back. The twenty living hostages did nothing wrong. Many,
as Abby pointed out in her monologue, of the people
the Palestinians wanted released are absolute terrorists.
Speaker 4 (30:32):
Whom they have no trial and have had no dose.
Speaker 8 (30:38):
Twenty people did nothing. The people taken on October the seventh.
Speaker 4 (30:41):
Were purely innocent. Cornell Wilson is a joke.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
Scott Jennings wins that not even TKO, that's a straight KO.
The part that I want to really focus on what
Cornell West said is that Palestine was under occupation. Now
he insinuates I think his meaning is under occupation by
Israel I would take that argument more seriously if he
would say, look, these Palestinians are under occupation by Hamas themselves.
(31:07):
This is a terrorist organization, and the Palestinians are terrified
to rise up against them because they'll be executed in
the street exactly how Scott Jennings just described. Because if
they do rise up, they're going to be considered co
conspirators and collaborators with Israel and shot in the back
of the head in the street.
Speaker 4 (31:26):
Where was their due process? Cornell West? You moron?
Speaker 1 (31:30):
This guy is supposedly one of the most accomplished professors
on Harvard University's campus.
Speaker 4 (31:36):
Are you joking right now?
Speaker 3 (31:37):
Man?
Speaker 1 (31:38):
Where was the due process for the twelve hundred Israelis
murdered in cold blood, set on fire, raped, mowed down
in a hell of bullets at a music festival?
Speaker 4 (31:50):
Where was the due process there? Cornell West?
Speaker 1 (31:55):
Absolute idiocy and folks, that's the kindest explanation, because the
darker explanation would be.
Speaker 4 (32:02):
He's okay with that as a means to an end.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
And what we've seen with the assassination of Charlie Kirk,
with the rallying in the streets pro Palestine, anti Israel,
the menacing of Jewish students in college campuses, the attempted
assassination of Donald Trump. The left has made it known
that they're at least indifferent to, if not supportive, of,
political violence as a means to an end. So unless
(32:27):
he's on that page, nothing of what he just said
makes sense. One final break, We're back to wrap it
all up on Ryan Schuling Live. After this, it's time
once again for another edition of Trump's hot takes, charting
the forty seventh president's epic interactions with the fake news media.
Speaker 8 (32:47):
Considering talking about a questions, who are you in Politicosa Burns?
Speaker 3 (32:52):
Political politica has gotten bad. They've been so wrong about
everything political political A bit so wrong about everything. Let's
get somebody else to ask a question, Jimi, she said,
all rights a ghosttakeness.
Speaker 4 (33:08):
Let's get somebody else to ask some questions. Do you mind?
Is that all right? Asked her permission?
Speaker 1 (33:14):
Now, to Dashah Burns's credit, she took a lot of heat,
but you would think this would have turned a light
on in her mind. She is the one that sat
down with John Fetterman at a key point of that
campaign against doctor memmet Oz in that Senate race, and
it really revealed the cognitive decline of Fetterman in the
immediate aftermath of his stroke, and that Baird mentioning that
(33:38):
baired discussion, and Dashah Burns was pretty relentless on behalf
of NBC News at that time in covering that story.
But she took a lot of heat, slings and arrows
from the left. How dare she cover John Fetterman that closely?
But little did they know, Little did anybody know that
when John Fetterman recovered almost completely from the stroke, he
(34:00):
would do an abrupt turn and land on a square
of common sense, much more so than any other Democrat
and elected office currently holds. But her organization Politico definitely
rubbed the President the wrong way in that exchange. And
that was on Air Force one and he moved on
to another reporter. That'll do it for me from here
for now. Dan kaplis coming up next joining me tomorrow.
(34:23):
Dave Kerber, one of my city council members for Greenwood Village,
on the upcoming election,
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