October 16, 2025 • 13 mins
Interview: Charlie Kirk Day, Gov't Shutdown & Middle East Peace w/Senator Rick Scott
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Facts, integrity, and trust.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
This is the Brian Mud Show.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
It was on September eighteenth that you had, in the
wake of Charlie Kirk's assassination, the unanimous passage in the
United States Senate of a resolution designating Yesterday, October fourteenth
as a National Day of Remembrance for Charlie Kirk. And
(00:30):
the resolution was the result of none other than Senator
Rick Scott. We'll be connecting with the Senator yesterday. A
remarkable day on Charlie Kirk Day, where you had President
Trump posthumously award the Medal of Freedom, high civilian honor
(00:53):
to the widow, Erica Fox has shared Halpern with that story.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
President Trump remembered Charlie Kirk as a fearless warrior of
liberty who galvanized the next generation.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
We're entering his name forever into the eternal roster of
true American heroes.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
He's a true American hero, an amazing person.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
The President posthumously awarded Kirk the Presidential Medal of Freedom
on what would have been his thirty second birthday. Kirk's widow,
Erica Kirk, accepted the medal and he.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Used to say, freedom is the ability to do what
is right without fear, and that's how he lived.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
That is absolutely how he lived. And you heard about
the resolutions. You had a measure passed in the House,
Senator Rick Scott's unanimous resolution in the Senate. What you
probably haven't heard is the actual resolution itself. I found
that very few people have actually either read or heard
(01:56):
the resolutions. Now, I made a point was guest hosting
from Mark Levin in the immediate aftermath of the assassination
of Charlie to read the resolution because I thought it
was worthwhile. The resolution expressed his support for the designation
(02:16):
of October fourteenth as the National Day of Remembrance for
Charlie Kirk and goes on to say, whereas Charlie Kirk
was a champion of free speech, civil dialogue, and faith,
mister Kirk consistently promoted the values of individual liberty, open debate,
the importance of civic engagement, and the defense of constitutional principles.
Charlie Kirk was recognized as one of the leading voices
(02:38):
among young leaders in the United States, creating opportunities for
civic education, fostering youth leadership, promoting principles of liberty democracy
across the United States, and Charlie Kirk was the founder
executive director of Turning Point USA, a nonprofit organization of
thousands of chapters across the United States dedicated to educating
students about the principles of freedom, markets, limited government. Charlie
(03:01):
Kirk authored multiple national best selling books that engage readers
in critical conversations about civics, culture, the future of the
United States. Whereas, through mister Kirk's writing, public speaking, media presence,
Charlie Kirk reached millions of United States citizens, inspiring the
next generation to become active participants in civic life. Mister
(03:22):
Kirk's life's work has contributed to strengthening public discourse, defending
constitutional principles, fostering active citizenship. Mister Kirk's life work, especially
his efforts to bring these American ideals to life on
college campuses in the United States, cost him his life
by means of an assassin's bullet on September tenth, twenty
(03:43):
twenty five. Now, therefore be it resolve that the Senate
supports the designation of October fourteenth, twenty twenty five, as
the National Day of Remembrance for Charlie Kirk. Words from
the resolution that were assembled by Senator Rick Scott, who
jes joins us now. Good morning, Senator, Good morning, Brian.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
How are you doing.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
I'm doing well.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
And your resolution was brilliant and its construction that you
ended up having the unanimous consent was brilliant in its execution.
And what we saw yesterday, you know, with President Trump
oosthumously awarding the Medal of Freedom to Erica, I think
that was also another poignant moment in American history. So
(04:27):
thank you for continuing to highlight Charlie's legacy being part
of this critical point in American history.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Charlie was such a wonderful person. Patriots. You really cared
about freedom, cared about this country. Erica did a great
job yesterday, very moving talk. So I hope if there's
a positive.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
Out of this, there's more going to be more turning
point USA chapters, and more people are going to know
what Charlie Kirk believed in, which is good for this country.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
No doubt.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
One of the things that we've seen beyond that, it
has also been the religious renaissance as well. You know,
originally we saw that as many people were packing pews
in the wake of his assassination, as had returned to
church or gone to church for the first time following
nine to eleven, that size of an event. One of
(05:22):
the more exciting things, Senator, is that it's actually continuing,
unlike after nine to eleven to where it was, you know,
a couple of weeks for some people and then gone.
We're actually seeing where there's momentum behind that. How important
is that going forward?
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Well, I think I think believing in Supreme Being is
very important, and I think worshiping is important. I think
building community through worship is important. So I hope it continues.
I mean, Charlie was, you know, a faith leader, and
so you know, you know that was you know, what
(05:56):
happened to Charlie was was tough for our country. The
sea and the hostages family come home was just a hard,
heart warming event. So there's a there's there's some good
things that are happening for this country. We are we're
coming back to the founding prinstals of this country. That
(06:18):
family is important, face important, works important. So uh, community
involvement isn't It's important, So I hope it continues.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
You bring up, you know, a good point about the
situation and in Israel, this historic peace accord that what
was signed the force of nature that is President Trump
working through all these peace deals as perhaps only he
could do. You you taught tie that into faith in
the founding of this country, the Judeo Christian values, and
(06:50):
uh as we are in this this new moment in
the Middle East. What are your thoughts about that situation?
Do you think that we're going to be able to
build upon on this and and creates the building in
a region that historically has never really seen it.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Well, I've spent a lot of time in Israel, so
I'm very optimistic. However, it's actually going to come down
to it's not how most by itself, what's cutor going
to do? Are they going to continue to fund this?
Iran going to fund terrorism? Is Turkey going to fund terrorism?
So it comes down to you know what Hamas does,
But reality is it's the people that funded It's I mean,
(07:32):
I can't I just can't imagine. Like Ketterer, I don't
I don't get that they have they host Hamas leaders
in their country and allow them to live in luxury.
I met with their their ambassador right after October seven,
two years ago, and he said, well, we did it
because Obama asked us to do it. I said, well,
he's not the president, and I said it's a bad mission.
(07:53):
I said, you should stop. So I just had We
just had a meeting. The host of the other day
in visuits has showed the unbelievable close relationship between Hamas
and the Katari royal family. So I think a lot
of it's going to depend on the funding that comes.
I know Israel wants piece. I know there's a lot
(08:17):
of countries in them at least a one piece, but
the Ran doesn't. Hopefully Katar does, Hopefully Turkey does. The
only time will tell.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
It was never going to be easy to make the
transition here. Hamas has been the governing body in that
territory since two thousand and six, some of the most
heinous terrorists on the planet. And it wasn't like they're
just going to say, Okay, you know, we realized we've
been wrong in life, and I think we'll pack it
in and do something else for a living. So here
we are. We are seeing challenges on that front. Yesterday
(08:47):
Hamas saying, look, we're not going to disarm. We know
that they are still carrying out executions of those they
suspected were sympathetic to Israel or maybe helpful to Israel.
President warning Hamas that there will be consequences. Of course,
that was one of the twenty points that Hamas would disarm.
What does this look like from me at this moment,
(09:08):
this critical moment as we work towards getting some type
of new governing body in Gaza, Well.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
You hope that peace and prosperity and opportunity is you
know people, you know, it's people want to give it, right,
It's that it's popular, right. Unfortunately that's not where Hamas is.
But I really think it comes down to somebody's got
to fund them, right, So we've got to make sure
(09:38):
our dollars are not going to fund them, and we've
got to make sure that no one else funds them.
So we clearly had an impact on Iran. You have
to really admire Prime mister Neet Yahoo and idea of
what they did against his falla and Hamas the hoodies
in Iran to admire what prison Trump did against Iran.
So know, I'm optimistic, the I hope, I hope pieces
(10:05):
uh uh, you know people you know, it's it's popular
and it's contagious. But there's a lot of bad people.
One thing you learned as you get older in life,
I think is that is that is that there are
there's evil in the world. There's just true evil, and
whether we like it or not, if we don't stand
up against evil, it will impact us in our families.
(10:28):
And it was brought to us with nine to eleven,
and so it could happen again. So I'm I'm optimistic.
I mean, I know President Trump wants peace, and he's
busting his butt to get peace, so he could, you know,
like he's accomplished. He fully deserved the Nobel Peace Prize.
But I'm glad that Marina Corinea Machado got it because
(10:48):
and then that lady is a fighter in Venezuela. Also,
I'm you know, you look at so many things Trump's
doing right now, what he's doing against Maduro and the
narcotraffickers in Venezuela. I mean, that's impressive. So I'm very optimistic.
I tell people, these are all other problems that I'm
optimistic about where we're going.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
Speaking of where we're going, so here we are, over
two full weeks into the partial government shutdown. I know
that this isn't the ideal way to cut the federal government.
But I asked the question daily, have you felt the
impact of the federal government shut down? With thirty four
percent of the federal government that is offline, that's furloughed,
I still don't find people the average Flordian is not
(11:27):
impacted by this at all, by the way, and I
think this is an extremely instructive and teachable moment that
we could essentially do away with the third of the
federal government potentially run budget surpluses here and this needs
to be that time of reckoning. Your thoughts as voter,
are going to come back here on trying to resolve
this thing.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Well, we voted yesterday the reopening governments. This did happen.
We're going to vote today, it's not going to happen.
We're going to vote tomorrow. It's not going to happen.
So this is this is a fight that the Democrats
wanted to say, Oh no, we want we want Americans
to pay for health care for illegals, We want Americans
to pay for abortions, trans surgery, and this has got
to stop. You know what, their federal government should make
(12:11):
sure they defend their freedom and generally get out of
our lives. Amen, we don't. Don't. I don't want the
federal government to run my life. I love my mom.
I didn't like being told what to do. I don't
we just the settle government. All they're doing is take
away our freedoms. And so I hope that in this shutdown,
the President takes every opportunity to reduce the size of
the government. You know, we're running two training dollar deficits.
(12:33):
When goals out over forty two hundred dollars, it's telling
us people are worried about the thirty seven training dollars
with debt. They're worried about about the two training dollars
year deficits. They're worried that the American can't pay its bills.
So we have got to get back to fiscal sanity.
Our taxes need to be lower, our regulation needs to
be way less. It's what I did as governor. I
(12:54):
balance the budget, I cut taxes, and I gave people
their freedom back. And guess what sort of prospered. The
same thing will happen all across the country. The job
market's not great right now, and it's not great because
Biden and all the Democrats left Trump in a horrible
economic situation, and we've got to reduce regulation, reduce taxes,
reduce fees, reduce government to get this economy going again.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
Amen, keep holding the line. Good work out there, and
God bless you appreciate him.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
All right, I have a great day. Bye,
Facts, integrity, and trust.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
This is the Brian Mud Show.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
It was on September eighteenth that you had, in the
wake of Charlie Kirk's assassination, the unanimous passage in the
United States Senate of a resolution designating Yesterday, October fourteenth
as a National Day of Remembrance for Charlie Kirk. And
(00:30):
the resolution was the result of none other than Senator
Rick Scott. We'll be connecting with the Senator yesterday. A
remarkable day on Charlie Kirk Day, where you had President
Trump posthumously award the Medal of Freedom, high civilian honor
(00:53):
to the widow, Erica Fox has shared Halpern with that story.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
President Trump remembered Charlie Kirk as a fearless warrior of
liberty who galvanized the next generation.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
We're entering his name forever into the eternal roster of
true American heroes.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
He's a true American hero, an amazing person.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
The President posthumously awarded Kirk the Presidential Medal of Freedom
on what would have been his thirty second birthday. Kirk's widow,
Erica Kirk, accepted the medal and he.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Used to say, freedom is the ability to do what
is right without fear, and that's how he lived.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
That is absolutely how he lived. And you heard about
the resolutions. You had a measure passed in the House,
Senator Rick Scott's unanimous resolution in the Senate. What you
probably haven't heard is the actual resolution itself. I found
that very few people have actually either read or heard
(01:56):
the resolutions. Now, I made a point was guest hosting
from Mark Levin in the immediate aftermath of the assassination
of Charlie to read the resolution because I thought it
was worthwhile. The resolution expressed his support for the designation
(02:16):
of October fourteenth as the National Day of Remembrance for
Charlie Kirk and goes on to say, whereas Charlie Kirk
was a champion of free speech, civil dialogue, and faith,
mister Kirk consistently promoted the values of individual liberty, open debate,
the importance of civic engagement, and the defense of constitutional principles.
Charlie Kirk was recognized as one of the leading voices
(02:38):
among young leaders in the United States, creating opportunities for
civic education, fostering youth leadership, promoting principles of liberty democracy
across the United States, and Charlie Kirk was the founder
executive director of Turning Point USA, a nonprofit organization of
thousands of chapters across the United States dedicated to educating
students about the principles of freedom, markets, limited government. Charlie
(03:01):
Kirk authored multiple national best selling books that engage readers
in critical conversations about civics, culture, the future of the
United States. Whereas, through mister Kirk's writing, public speaking, media presence,
Charlie Kirk reached millions of United States citizens, inspiring the
next generation to become active participants in civic life. Mister
(03:22):
Kirk's life's work has contributed to strengthening public discourse, defending
constitutional principles, fostering active citizenship. Mister Kirk's life work, especially
his efforts to bring these American ideals to life on
college campuses in the United States, cost him his life
by means of an assassin's bullet on September tenth, twenty
(03:43):
twenty five. Now, therefore be it resolve that the Senate
supports the designation of October fourteenth, twenty twenty five, as
the National Day of Remembrance for Charlie Kirk. Words from
the resolution that were assembled by Senator Rick Scott, who
jes joins us now. Good morning, Senator, Good morning, Brian.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
How are you doing.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
I'm doing well.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
And your resolution was brilliant and its construction that you
ended up having the unanimous consent was brilliant in its execution.
And what we saw yesterday, you know, with President Trump
oosthumously awarding the Medal of Freedom to Erica, I think
that was also another poignant moment in American history. So
(04:27):
thank you for continuing to highlight Charlie's legacy being part
of this critical point in American history.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Charlie was such a wonderful person. Patriots. You really cared
about freedom, cared about this country. Erica did a great
job yesterday, very moving talk. So I hope if there's
a positive.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
Out of this, there's more going to be more turning
point USA chapters, and more people are going to know
what Charlie Kirk believed in, which is good for this country.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
No doubt.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
One of the things that we've seen beyond that, it
has also been the religious renaissance as well. You know,
originally we saw that as many people were packing pews
in the wake of his assassination, as had returned to
church or gone to church for the first time following
nine to eleven, that size of an event. One of
(05:22):
the more exciting things, Senator, is that it's actually continuing,
unlike after nine to eleven to where it was, you know,
a couple of weeks for some people and then gone.
We're actually seeing where there's momentum behind that. How important
is that going forward?
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Well, I think I think believing in Supreme Being is
very important, and I think worshiping is important. I think
building community through worship is important. So I hope it continues.
I mean, Charlie was, you know, a faith leader, and
so you know, you know that was you know, what
(05:56):
happened to Charlie was was tough for our country. The
sea and the hostages family come home was just a hard,
heart warming event. So there's a there's there's some good
things that are happening for this country. We are we're
coming back to the founding prinstals of this country. That
(06:18):
family is important, face important, works important. So uh, community
involvement isn't It's important, So I hope it continues.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
You bring up, you know, a good point about the
situation and in Israel, this historic peace accord that what
was signed the force of nature that is President Trump
working through all these peace deals as perhaps only he
could do. You you taught tie that into faith in
the founding of this country, the Judeo Christian values, and
(06:50):
uh as we are in this this new moment in
the Middle East. What are your thoughts about that situation?
Do you think that we're going to be able to
build upon on this and and creates the building in
a region that historically has never really seen it.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Well, I've spent a lot of time in Israel, so
I'm very optimistic. However, it's actually going to come down
to it's not how most by itself, what's cutor going
to do? Are they going to continue to fund this?
Iran going to fund terrorism? Is Turkey going to fund terrorism?
So it comes down to you know what Hamas does,
But reality is it's the people that funded It's I mean,
(07:32):
I can't I just can't imagine. Like Ketterer, I don't
I don't get that they have they host Hamas leaders
in their country and allow them to live in luxury.
I met with their their ambassador right after October seven,
two years ago, and he said, well, we did it
because Obama asked us to do it. I said, well,
he's not the president, and I said it's a bad mission.
(07:53):
I said, you should stop. So I just had We
just had a meeting. The host of the other day
in visuits has showed the unbelievable close relationship between Hamas
and the Katari royal family. So I think a lot
of it's going to depend on the funding that comes.
I know Israel wants piece. I know there's a lot
(08:17):
of countries in them at least a one piece, but
the Ran doesn't. Hopefully Katar does, Hopefully Turkey does. The
only time will tell.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
It was never going to be easy to make the
transition here. Hamas has been the governing body in that
territory since two thousand and six, some of the most
heinous terrorists on the planet. And it wasn't like they're
just going to say, Okay, you know, we realized we've
been wrong in life, and I think we'll pack it
in and do something else for a living. So here
we are. We are seeing challenges on that front. Yesterday
(08:47):
Hamas saying, look, we're not going to disarm. We know
that they are still carrying out executions of those they
suspected were sympathetic to Israel or maybe helpful to Israel.
President warning Hamas that there will be consequences. Of course,
that was one of the twenty points that Hamas would disarm.
What does this look like from me at this moment,
(09:08):
this critical moment as we work towards getting some type
of new governing body in Gaza, Well.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
You hope that peace and prosperity and opportunity is you
know people, you know, it's people want to give it, right,
It's that it's popular, right. Unfortunately that's not where Hamas is.
But I really think it comes down to somebody's got
to fund them, right, So we've got to make sure
(09:38):
our dollars are not going to fund them, and we've
got to make sure that no one else funds them.
So we clearly had an impact on Iran. You have
to really admire Prime mister Neet Yahoo and idea of
what they did against his falla and Hamas the hoodies
in Iran to admire what prison Trump did against Iran.
So know, I'm optimistic, the I hope, I hope pieces
(10:05):
uh uh, you know people you know, it's it's popular
and it's contagious. But there's a lot of bad people.
One thing you learned as you get older in life,
I think is that is that is that there are
there's evil in the world. There's just true evil, and
whether we like it or not, if we don't stand
up against evil, it will impact us in our families.
(10:28):
And it was brought to us with nine to eleven,
and so it could happen again. So I'm I'm optimistic.
I mean, I know President Trump wants peace, and he's
busting his butt to get peace, so he could, you know,
like he's accomplished. He fully deserved the Nobel Peace Prize.
But I'm glad that Marina Corinea Machado got it because
(10:48):
and then that lady is a fighter in Venezuela. Also,
I'm you know, you look at so many things Trump's
doing right now, what he's doing against Maduro and the
narcotraffickers in Venezuela. I mean, that's impressive. So I'm very optimistic.
I tell people, these are all other problems that I'm
optimistic about where we're going.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
Speaking of where we're going, so here we are, over
two full weeks into the partial government shutdown. I know
that this isn't the ideal way to cut the federal government.
But I asked the question daily, have you felt the
impact of the federal government shut down? With thirty four
percent of the federal government that is offline, that's furloughed,
I still don't find people the average Flordian is not
(11:27):
impacted by this at all, by the way, and I
think this is an extremely instructive and teachable moment that
we could essentially do away with the third of the
federal government potentially run budget surpluses here and this needs
to be that time of reckoning. Your thoughts as voter,
are going to come back here on trying to resolve
this thing.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Well, we voted yesterday the reopening governments. This did happen.
We're going to vote today, it's not going to happen.
We're going to vote tomorrow. It's not going to happen.
So this is this is a fight that the Democrats
wanted to say, Oh no, we want we want Americans
to pay for health care for illegals, We want Americans
to pay for abortions, trans surgery, and this has got
to stop. You know what, their federal government should make
(12:11):
sure they defend their freedom and generally get out of
our lives. Amen, we don't. Don't. I don't want the
federal government to run my life. I love my mom.
I didn't like being told what to do. I don't
we just the settle government. All they're doing is take
away our freedoms. And so I hope that in this shutdown,
the President takes every opportunity to reduce the size of
the government. You know, we're running two training dollar deficits.
(12:33):
When goals out over forty two hundred dollars, it's telling
us people are worried about the thirty seven training dollars
with debt. They're worried about about the two training dollars
year deficits. They're worried that the American can't pay its bills.
So we have got to get back to fiscal sanity.
Our taxes need to be lower, our regulation needs to
be way less. It's what I did as governor. I
(12:54):
balance the budget, I cut taxes, and I gave people
their freedom back. And guess what sort of prospered. The
same thing will happen all across the country. The job
market's not great right now, and it's not great because
Biden and all the Democrats left Trump in a horrible
economic situation, and we've got to reduce regulation, reduce taxes,
reduce fees, reduce government to get this economy going again.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
Amen, keep holding the line. Good work out there, and
God bless you appreciate him.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
All right, I have a great day. Bye,
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