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Hey everybody, welcome to The Charlie Kirk Show. Andrew Colvett and Blake Neff are back for this episode of The Charlie Kirk Show. We cover the fallout from RFK's combative, really explosive confirmation here. We go through more clips, more reaction, and then we also tune in to the Lakin-Riley Act signing ceremony.
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Blake, say hello. Hello, Andrew. It's a great day. It is a great day. I mean, you know, I think it's important that we keep the show rolling here, Blake. I mean, that confirmation hearing with RFK was pretty explosive at times. I knew that he was going to be coming into a hostile environment, but I actually didn't anticipate the sort of
moralizing and the virtue signaling from the Democrats that we saw there. Actually, I thought it I knew it was going to be like a five, six at least. But I think what we saw was like an eight, nine to a ten at times. Grandstanding from Bernie Sanders, grandstanding from Senator Warren and, you know, Senator Hassan from New Hampshire. I mean, it was the list goes on. They all came at him very hot.
What do you make? of the environment within the confirmation hearing.
Well, I'm definitely not surprised about it, Andrew, because you have to think all the factors that could come into play to make this a barn burner hearing are there. First of all, he is a former Democrat. He ran for president as a Democrat. So that means two things. They can be angry at him for being, you know, a traitor, not one of their own.
It also means they have reason to think we can possibly sink this guy. He's not someone Republicans are naturally aligned with Republican senators, I should say. And so if they think they can take him out, they're going to go harder, I think. Also, he's plausibly the reason they lost the election. We won well enough.
I don't think you can say he was 100% needed, but he gave the Trump campaign a lot of energy right after the Democratic Convention, right around that time. Really built that coalition so they can dislike him for that reason. And, of course, there's also, lurking in the background, the economic reason. There's obviously, you know, there's reasons they can give to oppose all of Trump's picks.
But RFK is the one where you can say there is a large vested interest in the United States, both in government and in the private sector, that really, really badly does not want this to go through, which means they're able to spend...
millions of dollars on the oppo on the background networking like there can be this vast ad hoc apparatus to stop this nomination which means they're all going to have the opposition research they can draw on they can get like professional coaching from the lobbyists will say you need to do this you need to say this so They're going to make the full court press.
And, you know, the pressure is on for Trump, for MAGA, for Maha to make it clear to Republicans that they need to make this confirmation because Republicans will look for an out on this if they can. And, you know, it's like the line from Star Wars, like fear will keep the rebel senators in line. Fear of fear of MAGA.
Well, I think this is a clip that really sums it up well, Blake. This was Senator Bennett from Colorado just screaming at Republicans
rfk jr basically saying he was playing games he's gonna kill people 143 this matters it doesn't matter what you come here and say that isn't true that's not reflective of what you really believe that you haven't said over a decade after decade after decade because unlike other jobs we're confirming around this place this is a job where it is life and death
for the kids that I used to work for in the Denver public schools and for families all over this country that are suffering from living in the richest country in the world that can't deliver basic health care and basic mental health care to them. It's too important for the games that you're playing, Mr. Kennedy. And I hope my colleagues will say to the president, I have no influence over him.
I hope my colleagues will say to the president, out of 330 million Americans, we can do better than this.
Well, and so that seems to be the crux of the, I would say the main thrust of the argument is that you know, RFK is considered anti-vax. And so there was a lot of these exchanges going back and forth about this particular topic, specifically around the vaccine topic. I personally believe that, you know, he made some good points. He called Senator Wyden dishonest. We're going to pull that clip.
He said repeatedly that he's not anti-vax, but that he is asking uncomfortable questions through his advocacy. I want to take you back in time to this clip, which has been going around the internet lately. This is from 2005, Blake, where he was talking with Joe Scarborough. Remember, he's still considered a Democrat in good standing at this point in history. Play cut 140.
My son, born in 1991, has a slight form of autism called Asperger's. And again, when I was practicing law, and also when I was in Congress, parents would constantly come to me, and they'd bring me videotapes of their children, and they were all around the age of my son or younger.
So something happened in 1989. Exactly. What happened was the vaccine schedule was increased. We went up from receiving about 10 vaccines in our generation to these kids received 24 vaccines. and they all had this thimerosal and this mercury, and nobody bothered to do an analysis of what the cumulative impact of all that mercury was doing to kids.
As it turns out, we are injecting our children with 400 times the amount of mercury that FDA or EPA considers safe.
Now, Blake, I know you're kind of a contrarian when it comes to RFK, as you are with many things. We love that about you. It's sometimes annoying, but we love it about you. But like, From your perspective, as somebody that would call some of this junk science, that would call some of it woo-woo, this is what so much of this hearing is hinging upon.
Where does the line between asking tough questions, uncomfortable questions, and woo-woo science come into play? Because it strikes me that asking tough questions is what will propel truth forward, will propel real science forward, instead of you know, relying on these institutionalized, calcified places like the FDA, CDC, and NIH?
Well, first of all, we're really seeing sort of the peril of existing in the modern age. Like, RFK, in this confirmation, to some extent, he's a victim of just being a famous person for decades on end with a consistent portfolio. He's been in the public arena. He's really gotten involved on medical questions, on other topics, too. But he's really been on the vaccine beat.
And so he just has decades of things that he's said. And I don't think RFK Jr., He probably never really planned to run for president the way he did. He probably never planned that he would be in, certainly not in a Republican administration. And he's not a doctor. And so over his history, he's had statements that are not fully precise.
He's probably occasionally said things that outran 100 percent of what he believes or 100 percent what he could prove. He'll say things that are provocative or thought provoking. And now he's having he's, you know, up for a serious position and he has to say, OK, like what I seriously believe at the moment is X, Y and Z. And it's not super surprising, I think. I think that's smart.
I think that's smart. Yeah. So it's not super surprising. that Congress is raking him over the coals. I think it's the job of RFK's supporters, RFK himself and our show here, to make it clear what he really believes, what he's saying, which is defensible, versus what... is essentially fear mongering by his opponents.
And I think he's striking a good tone where he's saying, I am not anti-vaccine because I don't think we want polio to come back. I don't think we want measles to come back. But what is true is we have in our recent history a vaccine that was very scientifically novel. That was pushed out very quickly, very aggressively. People were compelled to take it in situations that seemed very dubious.
In the military, very young people who weren't in danger from the virus itself. And they outrun the evidence on it. And there's certainly at least a lot of anecdotal evidence that it had harms they said couldn't happen. And that has created a huge amount of distrust. And I think the room is there for him to say...
We actually need more investigation to restore public confidence that has been so badly damaged by elite health care decision makers.
No, I think that's a really good point that he's got this long portfolio of comments that he's made dating all the way back to like the 80s. And some of those things he's probably not going to agree with anymore. Some of those things he might have revised his position and some of those things he's going to have to bring to heel to the president's position.
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Blake, I want to play this clip. I think it illustrates kind of what you're talking about with some of the things that RFK Jr. has said in the past. Maybe he wants to walk those back. Maybe he's refined his position. But I thought it was illustrative nonetheless. This is another exchange he had with Senator Bennett talking about Lyme disease, 147.
Did you say that Lyme disease is highly likely a materially engineered bioweapon? I made sure I put in the highly likely. Did you say Lyme disease is a highly likely militarily engineered bioweapon?
I probably did say that.
Did you say that? Okay, I want all of our colleagues to hear it, Mr. Kennedy. I want them to hear it. You said yes.
Senator Bennett's getting really into this one. But that's an example of, you know, I actually would love to hear the rest of the exchange. I don't think we have that tape. But, you know, he was constantly getting cut off. And you could actually see them using his speech impediment. It's...
Forgive me, I can't remember the exact name of the condition, but they were using it against him because they knew that he couldn't reply back in a rapid pace. And so they would use that against him and cut him off repeatedly, which was another thing that we saw in this confirmation here. Blake.
Yeah, I have enjoyed it because even with, I think, spasmodic dysphonia, I think is what they call it. Dysphonia. Yeah, dysphonia is what he has. But despite that, he's been very – he's been aggressive. What senator was it where he basically just said it is maliciously dishonest to present what I said that way? Senator Wyden. Yeah, very combative compared to even –
The other hearings we've had so far, you know, Hegseth was a guy, but I don't think he had an exchange like that with any of his senators.
I think you're right. One thirty nine. We have that clip. It's a good clip. Let's go ahead and play it.
All of these things cannot be true. So are you lying to Congress today when you say you are pro vaccine or did you lie on all those podcasts?
As you know. Because it's been repeatedly debunked. That statement that I made on the Lex Friedman podcast was a fragment of the statement. I said there are no vaccines that are safe and effective. And I was going to continue for every person. Every medicine has people who are sensitive to them. including vaccines. He interrupted me at that point.
I've corrected it many times, including on national TV. You know about this, Senator Wyden, so bringing this up right now is dishonest.
Boom. Love that exchange. I just want to, for the audience sake, we're working on getting the feed from the Lake and Riley signing ceremony that's happening right now, so bear with us as we get that feed. But Blake, your reaction to, I mean, this sort of is the clip that
You were referencing where he was pretty combative back, pretty aggressive back, in which we all know President Trump loves to see a fighter.
Exactly, exactly. And I think he's got to do it because they have the attacks ready to bring against him. We know for a fact this is one of the big, probably big four really controversial nominees that President Trump made. We know Charlie's told us that there are people in Trump's circle who said, Don't make this nominee just bail on that promise.
There are people looking for excuses to vote against him. And so, as you say, Trump likes a warrior. Trump has faced unlimited opposition in the past decade, and he overcame it by fighting directly through it in the most aggressive.
in a straightforward way imaginable, so he'll definitely respect someone who does the same, and I think that respect is what he needs, because you have to have Trump, you have to have MAGA saying, this nomination is essential, this is a promise the president made, and if you vote against this, you are abetting The failure of President Trump to keep his promises. And that will be remembered.
That will reflect on whether you are supported the next time you are up for office. It will reflect whether we fund a primary challenge to you. And that threat has to be there to make sure people stay in line. Because we should be honest with ourselves. This is not a nomination other Republicans would make. And it's one that Republicans would not conventionally vote for. So they have to be...
pressured heavily to stay in line well and and you know we also saw nicole shanahan is going out uh making very direct threats of primary senators that vote against rfk jr that was of course his running mate when he was still running for congress he also made another viral clip here blake that president trump is going to like very much play cut 142
I don't want to take food away from anybody. If you like a cheeseburger, a McDonald's cheeseburger, a Diet Coke, which my boss loves, you should be able to get them. If you want to eat Hostess Twinkies, you should be able to do that. But you should know what the impacts are on your family and on your health.
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He was soon arrested again. in New York City on charges of endangering a child, but because of New York City's deadly sanctuary policies, as we have in California and many other places, which we're ending. We're going to end them. He was released again to reoffend. The Biden administration then provided this illegal alien criminal with a free, taxpayer-funded flight from New York to Georgia.
where he was arrested yet again, constantly, this time for stealing from a Walmart along with his gang member brother, who was a bad one. Only after being released a third time by the U.S. law enforcement did this cold-blooded criminal go out on that fateful morning, hunting for women on whom to prey. That's what he did. He hunted. He hunted. It was like a hunt there.
I'm going to show them who the hunter is. This horrific atrocity should never have been allowed to happen. And as president, I'm fighting every single day to ensure that such a tragedy never happens again. We don't want this to happen. And under the law, thank you.
Under the law I'm signing today, the Department of Homeland Security will be required to detain all illegal aliens who have been arrested for theft, burglary, larceny, shoplifting, assaulting a police officer, murder. or any crime that results in death or a serious injury.
In addition, for the first time ever, this act gives state governments the ability to sue the federal government for immediate injunctive relief if any future administration ever again refuses to enforce the immigration laws of the United States, like happened for four long years. And that was happening for four long years, frightful years. Amazing. You'd say, how can people do this?
How can they allow this to happen? How can they allow criminals to pour into our country and then try and defend it? And they're still trying to defend it, but they can't. That's why I'm here instead of somebody else, actually. It's the biggest reason. I believe it's the single biggest reason. Inflation was horrible. Many things were horrible during that administration.
When you look at what took place in Afghanistan, the way they got out, not that they got out, but the way, so many things were horrible. But to me, this was the worst of all. It's a landmark law that we're doing today. It's going to save countless innocent American lives.
I want to thank every House Republican, every Senate Republican, as well as the 12 Senate Democrats and the 48 House Democrats who voted to pass this vitally important bill, and many of them are with us today, and I really do appreciate it. I very much especially appreciate the bipartisan support. The Democrats are really a big percentage of them came through and plenty of them wanted to.
They probably felt they couldn't, but they really wanted to. That they don't understand that would have made them a lot more popular, would have made them a lot better with their people. The ones that didn't are going to be. They're going to be sorry because the people are not going to forget that they wouldn't sign. This is a perfect, incredible tribute to an unbelievable young lady.
We're joined today by many great supporters of our new strong border policies, and they are indeed strong, including Vice President Vance. Thank you, J.D. The Secretary, Scott Besant, who just got approved, by the way. Where's Scott? He just got approved. Scott, I'm very impressed. Got a lot of Democrat votes, too. Thank you. He got a lot of Democrat votes. That's great. I don't know.
Is that a good thing or a bad thing? I'll have to think about that. Secretary of Homeland Security, who's going to be fantastic. I know her so well. And I know it's probably not complimentary because she is a woman, but she is tough. Where is she? Where is Christy? Christy, Christy. Great. Stand up, please. You have such an important job to do. Really great. Thank you very much.
And don't let that look fool you. That look is, she's tough and she cannot stand what she's, that she's having to sit here and even listen to this today. Another one who's done a job like nobody that I've seen in a long time, Tom Holman. He's my friend, but he is something special. He's something special. Great. And Tom and Christy, the numbers are unbelievable what's happened.
It's like just shut down. Nobody thought that was even possible. It's just shut down. They showed an area that a year ago had thousands and thousands of people rushing into our country. And today there was nobody there. It was like a beautiful sight. And also Senate Majority Whip John Barrasso. Great guy. Great guy. Thank you, John.
And I also want to thank the bill's sponsors, Senator Katie Britt. Katie, thank you, Katie. And Congressman Mike Collins. And, Mike, you were fantastic from Georgia. He took this. He loves his state, and he took this very personally. So thank you very much, Mike. As well as Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley. Chuck is here someplace. Chuck, thank you very much. It looked great.
And House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, who is a special guy, special man. And House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Mark Green. Thank you very much. Thank you, Mark. And we have many other congressmen and senators, but I'm not going to introduce because this is about your daughter. This is about something that's so important. And we're going to just go along. Thank you.
Also, we have to say Bert Jones is in the room and Bert is your lieutenant governor. And he was on this like you wouldn't believe. Thank you very much. I see you sitting there. Thank you very much. So we have state, local officials. We have law enforcement organizations. We have everybody. Most of them are in the room or represented in the room, and they're incredible people.
And I've never seen them come together like they have for this. I've done many of these, not of this kind, but different bills, different passages having to do with many different things, from homeland security to inner security to taxes to 50 different items. I've never seen such support. as you have today and as your great daughter has today. So I've never seen anything like it.
And we have to thank your daughter for that because she's going to save a lot of lives. She's going to be responsible for saving a lot of lives. So I'd like to just say to the Angel families, I've been with them and they've been with me from 2015 when I first Got this crazy idea in my head to run for president because we can do better as a country.
I want to thank so many of the people that are here that have been the angel moms. And we call them angel moms, but they're angel families, fathers and sons and daughters. But they've suffered tremendously like you have for no reason whatsoever. I want to thank...
Alexis Nungari, the mother of 12-year-old Jocelyn Nungari, murdered last summer by two illegal alien gang members released into the United States by Joe Biden's open border stupid policies. And thank you very much, Alexis. I want to thank you very much. We had an amazing trip, and it was really special to meet you and your family. Appreciate it very much. So sad we have to be here, frankly.
And Jocelyn, as you know, is in our hearts, as she was then. It was an amazing day we had, a great day. But it was a day of celebration of somebody that unfortunately won't be with us. But she is with us now. You know that.
Here also is Patty Morin, the mother of Rachel Morin, killed two years ago by an illegal alien who was let into our country by the last administration's ridiculous weak policies. Open border. Can you imagine? When I heard open border, I said, oh, that's terrible. They're going to release Morin. their prisons all over the world. They're going to release their prisons into our country.
That's exactly what happened. Patty is joined by Rachel's brother, Michael, Rachel's daughter, Clementine, and sister-in-law, Shannon. Thank you all for being here. We appreciate it very much. Thank you very much. Thank you.
With us as well is the loving family of Kayla Hamilton, a 20-year-old girl murdered in July 2022 by the MS-13 illegal alien gang member who is violent, vicious, and they knew it, and they didn't do anything about it. And I want to thank you to Kayla's mother, Tammy, and her grandmother, Kathy, and her stepfather, Jeremiah, very much.
And finally, I want to thank others who have also suffered this horrible scourge that goes on with young people being killed, and other people too, but young people, largely young people being killed. Thank you to Scott Root, the father of Sarah Root, killed at 21 years of age.
Think of that, 21, by an illegal alien, shouldn't have been in our country, would have never been in our country if we were here. What a sad thing to each of these angel families. We love you and we stand in awe of your courage and your strength. It's the toughest thing anybody has to go through.
Many of the Angel families here today were betrayed by the last administration and with this heartless and foolish and really very, very arrogant and very, very dumb policies. Policies that aren't even believable when you talk about common sense. I say we're the party of common sense, but the Democrats also, they have plenty of common sense.
And that's why so many are here today and so many supported what we're doing, the very government. that was supposed to protect their daughters instead opened our borders and transported the world's most dangerous criminals straight into their communities. They came from prisons and jails and insane asylums and mental institutions from all over the world, not just South America.
People think South America. They come from all over the world. They come from every continent. And they came here by plane and they were loaded onto buses and they were driven right up to our border and they drove right through the border and nobody even said a word to them. And in those buses and those cars and those trucks were some of the meanest criminals anywhere in the world.
As of last September, 425,000 illegal alien criminals were roaming free, including 13,099 convicted illegal alien murderers, of which about almost 50 percent killed more than one person. And they were roaming all over the country in our farms, in our cities.
Under the Trump administration, we're moving with urgency and speed to get these vicious and violent criminals the hell out of our country and to restore law and order to our suburbs, our cities, and our towns. And we're going to do it with Tom and with Christy and with all of the people that are working so hard on this.
This week, compared to a comparable time a year ago, think of this, the number of illegal border crossers has already fallen by more than 100%. And because the election was coming, they started getting a little bit tougher on the border. They tried to follow our policies, and they did much better, but it still was horrible. The numbers were still horrible. So that's 100% over those.
They only did it because of the election, so they knew what they were doing was wrong. And those who do cross the border, and you're seeing that every time, all you have to do is turn on your television set or pick up a newspaper, read any form of new media, because we have a lot of new media today, fortunately, that's letting the word get out.
But they're watching these people be captured and removed from our country. ICE arrests have risen by 15 times, 15 times in just a short period. And over the past eight days, the heroes of ICE and Border Patrol, we can never forget Border Patrol. Those people, I've gotten to know so many of them. Our border czar, as you remember, never went to the border and never made a phone call.
She was the border czar. She never made one phone call. They went to the heads of border. They went to the heads of ICE. Did you ever get a call? No. And she admitted she never made one call, but she was the border czar. And that's exactly what our border was all about.
The heroes of ICE have arrested thousands and thousands of illegal alien criminals, including hundreds of gang members, traffickers, child predators, terrorists, and murderers. For the first time in history, we're loading dangerous and illegal aliens into military aircraft and flying them back to the places from which they came. You probably read about Colombia two days ago.
They said, no, we're not taking them. I said, we're going to take them. You're going to take them. You're going to like it, too. You're going to take them. They talked about, we're not going to take people that are in shackles. I said, well, but the people that are in shackles are murderers. They're drug lords. They're rapists. They're very tough people.
They make our criminals look like very nice people. That's about the only thing that comes out of this. And I say, could you imagine you're a pilot on the plane, and you have your co-pilot, and you're sitting there, and you have 150 people, no shackles, and they like to murder people? This is not a good – this would not be a good flight.
So actually – so Colombia apologized to us profusely within an hour. based on something I said, meaning you're going to pay tariffs like nobody's ever paid tariffs before. But they actually wanted to terminate his position there. Essentially, Congress met and they were very angry with them.
But they actually said they were going to send the presidential plane to pick up these criminals and to bring them because they didn't want to inconvenience us or have us do a second flight. And that's what they did. And I appreciate it. And I do appreciate the people of Colombia are wonderful people. And the representatives really acted well. And I appreciate that they took back that tough talk.
But, you know, we may have tough talk from others, but it's not going to mean anything. They're going to all take them back and they're going to like it, too. They're going to like it. They're going to take it back and they're going to like it.
Today, I'm also signing an executive order to instruct the Departments of Defense and Homeland Security to begin preparing the 30,000-person migrant facility at Guantanamo Bay. Most people don't even know about it. We have 30,000 beds in Guantanamo to detain the worst criminal illegal aliens threatening the American people.
Some of them are so bad, we don't even trust the countries to hold them because we don't want them coming back. So we're going to send them out to Guantanamo. This will double our capacity immediately, right? And tough. That's a tough place to get out of. Today's signings bring us one step closer to eradicating the scourge of migrant crime in our communities once and for all.
And it was just a purely it's just an unforced error that we even have to be doing this. Now we need Congress to provide full funding for the complete and total restoration of our sovereign borders, as well as financial support to remove record numbers of illegal aliens. And these are illegal alien killers, criminals at levels that nobody's ever seen before. And you would have known that.
And you were there when I said it. I said, everybody that's bad is going to be thrown. If you look at Venezuela, Venezuela's crime is down 77 percent because they've taken their gang members, their prisoners, their drug dealers, their drug lords. They've shipped them all into the United States. Many other countries, their crime is way down and our crime is not doing well.
But we're going to have it do really well very soon. And we're shipping all these people back where they came from. And now, before I sign the Lakin-Riley Act into law, I would like to ask Lakin's really incredible mother, who I've gotten to know. A very sad day I got to know her. But this is an amazing tribute to an amazing young person.
And if you could come up, Allison, and say a few words, that would be great. Thank you very much.
Thank you, President Trump. We would like to thank Senator Katie Britt for her diligent bipartisan work to get this bill through the Senate. We'd also like to thank Congressman Mike Collins for his unwavering passion and for leading on the Lake and Riley Act from the start.
Our family will forever be grateful for the prayers of the people across our nation and for helping to get this legislation into law. We also want to thank President Trump for the promises he made to us. He said he would secure our borders and that he would never forget about Lakin. And he hasn't. He's a man of his word. We trust that he will fight for the American people.
Most importantly, I want to thank our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, because without his sacrifices, Lakin's story would have ended on that horrific day that she was taken from us. But because of him, we can continue living knowing that we will see Lakin again. There's no amount of change that will ever bring back our precious Lakin. Our hope moving forward is that her life saves lives.
We're so thankful that her passion for helping others and her legacy for doing good in the name of Jesus Christ will carry on. Thank you.
Thank you. We're going to sign this in honor of Lake and Riley. Come on up here, some of the people that we love that have been so instrumental. Okay?
Okay. Thank you.
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That was an incredibly powerful moment, Blake, when Allison Phillips, Lake and Riley's mother, came up. And it was interesting, the camera I was watching, it kind of almost zoomed in on President Trump standing behind her shoulder as she spoke and sort of talked about Lakin, got emotional.
And you could see the president take this heavy, deep breath in, just sort of gutted, as I think I was, as everybody watching would be, hearing her describe her deceased daughter that was killed at the hands of an illegal Venezuelan immigrant who should have never been in this country. Even Bill Clinton, if you'll remember during the campaign, said didn't think they vetted that immigrant properly.
This person never should have been here, killed Lake and Riley. And to hear Alison Phillips speak about that from the heart during this signing ceremony was just powerful. And to see President Trump's reaction was also powerful.
It really was. And it's it's definitely the element of Trump's personal brand of politics where he's at his strongest. We have multiple cases of this. Lakin Riley is out there, but there have been others that we've seen in the past where people have said, you know, President Trump called me I think some of the people whose family were taken as hostages have talked about this.
And there might be other examples. But they've said, you know, President Trump called me about, you know, our family's thing. And he's followed up with it. He's called us later. And he said he makes these promises. I will get this taken care of. And it's kind of becoming the dominant... I think this will be the dominant theme of Trump's second presidency is that he really is...
It feels weird to say he is the American politician most focused on fulfilling the explicit promises he has made. And that's what we've seen these first few weeks. He's just like, all right, what promises did I make in our platform? What promises did I make in my speeches? Let's go. Number one, number two, number three.
And well, and Blake, you even you've even yeah, you've even seen Democrats pundits on CNN, MSNBC saying, guys, you shouldn't be surprised that he's doing X, Y and Z. He said exactly. this during the campaign and he's fulfilling it. We're just not used to Republicans or Democrats for that matter, politicians in general fulfilling their promises.
I wanna play this clip really quick though, 166, and you'll see the camera does actually zoom in on President Trump reacting to Lakin Riley's mother, 166.
We also wanna thank President Trump for the promises he made to us. He said he would secure our borders and that he would never forget about Lakin. And he hasn't. He's a man of his word. We trust that he will fight for the American people. Most importantly, I want to thank our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
Because without his sacrifices, Lakin's story would have ended on that horrific day that she was taken from us. But because of him, we can continue living knowing that we will see Lakin again. Amen.
Just powerful. I think beyond just promises made, promises kept, Blake, I think to your earlier point, realizing and seeing the American people realize how personal this is to President Trump and how much of a personal touch he pursues all of his policies with, he is a guy that will call you and check in on you if your wife has cancer.
He is a guy, if some tragedy has befallen you, will call in multiple times to check in. This is sort of unprecedented. I don't know where he gets the time But we have not seen that in an American politician, at least at this scale and this level. In my lifetime, I've never seen a politician like this.
It's an exceptional talent. It sometimes is said what the greatest politicians they can do is there's 340 million people in America. There are 80 million people who voted for President Trump. He does not know all of them. He cannot possibly know or speak to all of them. But the greatest politicians, what they can do is they can create –
Little relationships in microcosm that allow tens of millions of people to feel like they know them. And President Trump is incredibly talented at that. He can take Lake and Riley's family and through his honest and earnest care for them to help bring justice for their daughter.
He communicates that he understands all the Americans, the thousands of Americans who have been harmed by what happened on our border, who have been harmed by the Biden crime wave. And it's only world class politicians can do that. None of us are capable of that. Well, maybe Charlie could be capable of that, but.
Only a handful of people can do that, and we're watching a world-class politician do world-class things. Like I said, there's a reason I rated the first week a 10 out of 10 and surprised you, surprised Charlie, surprised everyone.
Yeah. Well, Mark Halperin said he's seen two of these, and it's Bill Clinton, 12-3, Barack Obama, and Donald Trump. Thanks so much. Talk to you soon.
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