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Hey, everybody, again, the Charlie Kirk show. Donald Trump rings the bell at the New York Stock Exchange. A remarkable economic miracle is about. We're about to see it. It's really amazing. Email us as always. Freedom at Charlie Kirk dot com. That is freedom at Charlie Kirk dot com.

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Wanted to share some incredible news with you before we get into the New York Stock Exchange news, which was just amazing to witness for so many different reasons. Let's put Cut88 up on screen. Confirmed for AmericaFest. AmericaFest starts a week from tonight.

And look who is going to be our keynote at America Fest. President Donald J. Trump giving a special tribute to Arizona. Had the opportunity to speak to the president on the phone yesterday, and he said, Charlie, I want to honor the great people of Arizona as a tribute to them. He knows that Arizona was the best performing swing state. He says the people of Arizona are...

always been with him, have been so loyal and so good to him. This is a tribute to State 48. Of course, people from all across the country, you're welcome to attend. Amfest.com, amfbst.com. I warned you guys, bigger speakers were coming and that ticket's going to run out. We're going to have to turn off ticketing at some point. We don't know when that is. Again, so President Trump is the keynote. Tucker Carlson, Glenn Beck.

Steve Bannon, Patrick Bet-David, Ben Shapiro, Mike Johnson, Donald Trump Jr., Matt Walsh, Tim Pool, Ben Carson, Kimberly Guilfoyle, Michael Moles, Ted Cruz, Rob Schneider, Byron Donalds, Ana Paulina Luna, Matt Gaetz, Danica Patrick, Brett Cooper, and more. That is AmFest.com with the president. By the way, bigger names. Not bigger names, but big names. There's nothing bigger than President Trump. Big names soon yet to be announced.

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This is him going across the country. After he got back from France, he just went to New York. But it's because of his love of the state of Arizona. He said, Charlie, I will do it only if it is called a tribute to Arizona. So that is AmFest.com. President Donald Trump. I believe this is his...

First rally post-election. Am I right in saying that? I don't think he's had a rally. Yeah, it is. It is his first and maybe only. In 2016, you might remember, he did the thank you rallies all across the country. This is his big thank you rally to the beautiful people of Arizona. We are honored, and so get it. Let's have the biggest attendance possible, everybody. AmFest.com, AmericaFest. We'll be talking about it, obviously, throughout the week. We'll see.

Can we break 20,000 people? Can we break 25,000 people? A-M-F-E-S-T.com. Let's get it done. Amfest.com. I have no idea how many people are going to show up, but Lauren will figure it out. Amfest.com. Okay. So, by the way, Time Magazine Man of the Year. He's the Time Magazine Man of the Year again today.

now coming to AmericaFest, AmFest.com. Today with some remarkable news. Let's play cut 85. This is President Trump going to the New York Stock Exchange. Get that ready, please. President Trump is going to liberate the capital flows of this country, which is, of course, controlled largely by the big banks and the big corporations, while also rebuilding the middle class. Everybody is going to be a winner under President Trump's economy. He's going to use tariffs to hold our enemies accountable and our adversaries and people that have been

destroying us on trade, challenging the free trade orthodoxy, saying that deindustrialization has been good for the country. President Trump will rebuild the American middle class. Wages will go up. Grocery prices will go down. You're going to see the stock prices go up. You are going to see the unleashing of free markets while also making sure that our trade policies are in alignment with those of Alexander Hamilton and Abraham Lincoln. The idea that we've gotten away from tariffs has been a bad idea over the last 50 years.

You can have tariffs and also low taxes domestically. In fact, that's what President Trump supports. It is a new corporatist idea to have no tariffs whatsoever. And when you are the incumbent economic power, when you are the global reserve currency status, you're able to do whatever you want with tariffs because everyone wants to come into this country. What President Trump wants is saying, wait a second, why can you just do business for free here? You want to do business in America so badly?

You got to pay 5% of the way in. And by the way, before I play Cut 85, everyone screams about tariffs and all this. I sat down the other day with a very dear friend and billionaire donor to Turning Point USA, who has a lot of investments, but one of which is involved in textiles.

And he said, well, what do you think is going to happen? I said, well, President Trump has publicly said it's going to be about maybe 10% on textiles. And they said, oh, is that it? No big deal. It's all fear-mongering. It's all fear-mongering. They're like, oh, 10%, no big deal. Do you know that 10% on imports of China could raise hundreds of billions of dollars and also result in the redomiciling of capital and an economic explosion waiting to happen for this country? I love this visual. This is President Trump taking the New York Stock Exchange by storm. You got Scott Besson.

You got Brooke Rollins. You got J.D. Vance. You got Bobby Kennedy. You got Doug Burgum. You got the Trump posse plus Ivanka, Tiffany, Kelly Loeffler. Play cut 85. So, ladies and gentlemen, go on. We're going to put it straight.

We're going to give tremendous incentive like no other country has. We're cutting your taxes. We're going to cut them very substantially. We got them down to 21 percent from probably 42 or 44 percent, depending on where you are. And we got them down to 21. Everyone said that was a miracle. Now we're getting them down to 15, but only if you make your product here. Otherwise, you pay 21, which is not bad. It's in the middle of the pact. We are incentivizing everybody to come back

to the United States. We want you back here. Car manufacturers, everybody. And we have one product that nobody has, really, to the extent that we do. It's called oil and gas. There is no country in the world that has more. We're number one. I brought it to number one during my first term in terms of production. We're going to be number one plus. We'll do numbers that nobody will really see before. And when that happens, prices are going to start coming down because people can't afford their groceries

And they're going to be affording their groceries very soon. Perfect. President Trump is saying that if you do business here in this country, you get a 15 percent corporate tax rate. And also you avoid tariffs if you do business in America. How does one avoid tariffs? You do business here. You avoid tariffs by building here. You do tariffs by employing Americans. You avoid tariffs that President Trump will use generously.

By hiring American workers and putting your bets in the interior of the United States of America. Let's play Cuts.

98, Treasury Secretary appointee Scott Besson, great man, who's going to do a terrific job. Play cut 98. What do you want to tell the nation about investing right now? Look, I think what we're going to see from President Trump is Wall Street can win and Main Street can win. All right. Everybody can do very well. Fair enough. Wall Street can win and Main Street can win. This is the operating truth of free market economics.

Now, mind you, we're not going to be a zealot with free markets. If we need to use some tariffs, if we need to have some smart regulation, but generally markets, when they are liberated, lift people out of poverty and increase the standard of living for all people. It's just the way it is.

We should not worship markets. Our country comes first. President Trump has the track record of the blue-collar boom, and it's going to be even better. We are going to see an economic miracle happen again. And we've lived under four years of this garbage under Joe Biden. And he has a team of all-stars that are going to make it happen. Tax cuts, deregulation. We've just been living under this malaise. And President Trump is going to unshackle the American economy and unleash American energy, entrepreneurs, artificial intelligence, the likes of which we have not seen in American history.

And him coming to go ring the bell at the New York Stock Exchange, he is going to awaken the sleeping giant. And I'm just going to say this on the record. Don't be shocked if we have 5% growth sometime next year. I know that's going to sound crazy. Do not be shocked if we hit 5% growth. If all of a sudden we're doing a broadcast next fall or next summer and there's 5% growth, don't be shocked. It might happen. I'm not saying it will, but don't be surprised.

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But part of economics is, of course, psychological. And the psychological boom that we have seen just since President Trump won is going to materialize into economic gains. If people believe that the economy is going to be strong, hilariously, the economy will be stronger. If people believe that America is a good place to invest, then people invest in it.

A primary part of what the president needs to do is he needs to be a cheerleader for the economy. We're going to grow. We're going to invest. We're going to strengthen. We're going. It is a vibe. And I know that's not the typical analysis that you'll receive on CNBC, which is fine. It's not my favorite one to watch. I prefer Fox Business. I think Fox Business is great on market stuff.

But they'll usually just be numbers and numbers and numbers and analytics. When in reality, when you're looking, for example, to allocate $35 million with $35 million of equity and $100 million of debt to go build an apartment building in Charleston, South Carolina, it's more than just numbers. You have to try to feel what is the energy flow going to be of investors and money velocity investors.

and the spending of capital in the next three to four years. And President Trump has given a psychological boost that will result in economic prosperity. America has a lot of problems, but Trump is actually committing to unleash America's best traits instead of killing them. Honestly, one of the greatest things that President Trump is going to do, which was just slow motion, civilizational suicide that Joe Biden did. If all

All President Trump does are these two things. He will go down as a great president, unleash American energy and secure the border. If that's the only thing he does and those are his legacies, he'll be a remarkably successful president versus Joe Biden. And by the way, that's like not even 1% of what he plans to do. Day one, a lot of executive orders on energy. Day one, a lot of executive orders on the border. Boom.

Now, understand even deeper than the executive orders on energy. We're getting a Keystone XL pipeline back. We're getting Dakota Access pipeline back. We're going to be smarter in the way that we export energy. We're going to bring people back to the dollar. You see, right now, we are about 42 to 48 percent of the world's reserve currency status. It used to be 60, 65 percent. President Trump is going to get that back up. He's going to break apart BRICS one by one. Oh, Brazil, you want to be part of BRICS? OK, great.

Russia is going to be harder. India, President Trump could handle India as part of BRICS in one phone call. China, President Trump is so smart, he invites Xi Jinping to his inauguration, which by the way, we should be trying to calm down some of the China war hawks. I'm very clear about the present danger of the Chinese Communist Party, but getting us closer to another thermonuclear war, they might take Taiwan while we have the Russia-Ukrainian conflict. Let's calm this down a little bit.

figure out with prudence, which is the highest form of statecraft. It is the highest of the virtues of Aristotle. What do we want? What are we willing to do? Churchill always avoided war at all costs. And inviting Xi Jinping to the inauguration is one way to do it. And we have to end this Russian-Ukrainian war. Russian-Ukrainian war ends, energy prices are going to go down.

You figure out the Middle East thing, not nearly as complicated as people make it. President Trump has a phenomenal team. Steve Witkoff, who's a terrific man. I got a chance to know him during the campaign. 10 out of 10 guy. Expand the Abraham Accord. Stand by our ally Israel unapologetically. But these wars are not good for anybody. And this Syria situation, that's a toughie. That is a new toughie. That is a tough situation. Stay the hell out of Syria. President Trump has said that in all caps. When he says all caps, he means it.

Very fluid. Bad, bad hombres. I don't know what the word in Arabic for hombre is. Bad people that have taken over Damascus. Not good. But President Trump is going to have this combination effect. I think there is a pent-up psychology of this country that is just willing to invest, that is willing to deploy capital, that is willing to take risks. Trump wants to unleash entrepreneurs. You do not have a wealthy country without entrepreneurs. Period. Period.

You cannot have a wealthy country. You can have a command and control country like China or Russia, which is a very unpleasant place to live. He wants to go to our most successful sectors and say, do your thing. The left's plan was to view anything that grows or succeeds as suspicious. President Trump's

His gut and initial reaction, his base case, he starts from the premise that if you are wealthy or rich, you must have had a good idea. Tell me about it. And if I hear that you did it through suspicious means, then I'll come to a different conclusion. He looks at success as a good thing, as the best of America. I think there's a new American renaissance unfolding in front of our eyes.

Email us as always, freedom at charliekirk.com. Joining us now is Senator Josh Hawley, who's just a rock star. Senator, I don't think we've had you on the program since your successful reelection, so allow me to say congratulations. Thank you. Thank you very much, and thanks for having me. It was not very much competitive. I know they tried their best to thwart you, but you've been terrific.

So, Senator, I want to just kind of get a broad sense. Where do these confirmation fights stand? I know there's been a lot of palace intrigue, a lot of wishing and washing. Do you think that President Trump stands in a good position to get his entire cabinet confirmed? I do. You know, I was just looking the other day, Charlie, and talking with some other senators. You know, in the last 30 plus years, I think it's 35 years, only two times Trump.

Thank you.

And my view is my role in this is to help President Trump get the strongest possible cabinet who will serve him well and who will implement the agenda that he ran and won on. I've had the opportunity now to sit down with a bunch of folks. I just came from a meeting with Elise Stefanik. I've sat down with Pam Bondi. She's terrific. Cash Patel, Pete Hague, Seth, we all sat down yesterday. All great.

And I think all headed in the right direction. So and I'm pleased to hear that one in particular that seems to be getting a lot of headlines is Tulsi Gabbard. You know, I'm very much behind Tulsi. I think she's terrific. What do you have to say about Tulsi Gabbard's nomination chances, what your colleagues are saying and your opinions on Tulsi Gabbard?

Well, I think she's making the rounds and sitting down with people face-to-face. And I always think that once you do that, once senators actually meet these folks, whether it's Tulsi or Pete Hegseth or others, once they get to sit down with them and talk to them face-to-face, it becomes a lot harder to...

to take pot shots and to say, oh, well, I have these generalized concerns. I mean, my message to my colleagues is ask to sit down with them. Sit across the room from them. Ask them your questions. If you've got concerns, okay, fine. Ask them your questions, number one. Number two, I think as Republican senators, every single Republican senator ought to be able to say easily, 100%, no thought involved, every one of these people should go to a confirmation hearing. And any senator who has concerns should at the very least, minimum,

wait until the confirmation hearing has happened where they can hear these people under oath answering questions. So I think Tulsi, here's my prediction. As Tulsi makes the rounds and talks to people, I think more and more people will come out in support of her. I think they'll hear from her. They'll say she's smart. She's a quick study. She's qualified. She supports the president. And remember, I mean, this is what I always say to my colleagues. These cabinet positions, these aren't about...

the individual's own personal views. These people are there to implement Donald Trump's agenda. That's what it means to be a cabinet secretary.

And the real question here is, do you support the president's agenda or not? Correct. And the American people overwhelmingly did three things. Number one, they gave a popular vote referendum to President Trump. Number two, they gave a convincing Senate majority, of which we now have a 53 Senate majority, the biggest in recent years. And number three is they want to change. They did not want more of the same. They did not want Dan Coats at DNI. They do not want the same thing. They want a change. They want the keeper of America's secrets.

to not send the intelligence service inwardly against the American body politic, that our intelligence services should not be used to war game in political games here domestically.

Senator, it seems as if there's this new flock of talent that's coming to the U.S. Senate. We haven't spent enough time on this on our program. Can you talk about Bernie Moreno and Jim Banks and some of the new faces? Introduce us to the new roster of folks that are coming to the U.S. Senate. It's exciting. It's new. It's grassrootsy. Introduce us to your new colleagues.

What really strikes me about all of those folks you just named, Charlie, is that they ran right in tandem with Donald Trump. I mean, you've got new senators coming in.

coming now to the body who agree fully with the Trump agenda that, as you just pointed out, was endorsed by the American people, has been overwhelmingly endorsed by Republican voters, of course, for the decade now, but was endorsed in November by a majority of the American people. And I think that is the key thing here. For a long time, you look at Capitol Hill, and just to be honest, I mean, everybody knows it, the Republicans on Capitol Hill have been out of step with the rest of the party. And what I love about these new senators, each of them brings different strengths,

By the way, each of them has their own areas of expertise, which are super impressive. But as a whole...

They are right in line with what our voters are saying, with what Donald Trump ran on. I think they're going to be fierce, fierce advocates for the America first agenda. And that's something to really celebrate. Without a doubt. I think that the party is changing for the better. Senator, I do want to get your comments here on something I mentioned in the previous segment, Syria. Some of your colleagues are gammering about how we need to get involved in U.S. troops and not U.S. troops, but they're getting close to saying that assistance. They're saying, is it necessary?

the United States' role to get involved in this fluid, unpredictable, and chaotic situation in Syria.

No, absolutely not. And you're not wrong about troops, actually, Charlie. We have a thousand American troops on the ground in Syria. There you go. And we might want to ask ourselves, do we really need to have a thousand U.S. troops on the ground in Syria? I think that what we ought to be doing, number one, is we look at that region. We look at our key ally in the region. That's the state of Israel. And I think we should ask ourselves, how can we further empower our ally, Israel, to

to protect their security and also to look to our shared common interests in the region. What we do not want is more American troops, a greater American presence on the ground. That would be bad. And in this civil war, listen, I mean, I'm glad Assad is gone. We should all celebrate that. That's fantastic. But right now they are in the midst of a civil war, which is tragic. But to think that the United States can resolve that

magically somehow, I think is very foolish, very dangerous. And we've got to be very careful here. I think we need to think about reducing our troop presence. And again, the key thing is we want to look to our allies in the region and ask them, frankly, to do even more. And Israel is at the top of that list. They're our key ally there. Without a doubt.

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So let's speak more broadly. I know you've been very critical of us spending money on the Ukrainian war. Comment on that. I think we are recklessly under these last 40 days of Joe Biden handling this entire situation. What is your advice, your counsel to the president-elect?

when it comes to the Russian-Ukrainian matters, as you have had an opinion that is shared by the American people, however not shared by most of the U.S. Senate. Yeah, that's exactly right. I've been rebuffed by my colleagues constantly on this because I haven't been in favor of the hundreds of billions of dollars we spent on Ukraine. I tell you what I have been in favor of, Charlie, is tracking every single penny that we've sent to Ukraine. And I would just urge the president, the incoming president, to start right there. We need to get an assessment of every penny.

dime we have spent in Ukraine. Where is it actually going? We don't know. We have no earthly idea. We deserve to know where every dollar has gone, number one. Number two, we should say to the Ukrainians, we're not going to spend any more money, and to the Europeans too, we're not going to spend any more money in Ukraine right now. We've spent $200 billion. We're not spending any more. Number three, we need to pursue peace. The president is absolutely right about this.

We need to pursue peace that is in the strategic interest of who? The United States. I am not ashamed to say that I believe in putting America's security interests first. I'm often asked, well, do you want Russia to win or do you want Ukraine to win? Well, first of all, nobody wants Russia to win. But who I want to win most of all is the United States. We should seek an outcome there that will protect our interests first.

that will make sure that America is safe. And Charlie, the last thing I'll say is, I'm excited for Donald Trump to actually tell our allies in Europe that it is time for them to pony up in their own defense. They have been free-riding on America for decades now. This is a perfect example. They have looked to us to handle the entire Ukraine situation when it is in their backyard. Nations like Germany need to step up and see to their own security. It is vital. And Donald Trump, I think,

will deliver that message. The Trump cabinet has been assembled and the other tiers are being filled out. Legislatively, Senator, there was an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal that essentially argued that it's time for a couple reconciliation bills

to then lead us towards a border bill out of the gate. Do you support that of what Senator Thune is pushing? The president has endorsed this idea, from what I can understand, to make sure that we can prioritize border and then taxes in the new year. Yeah, and I think we should, yes, and I think what we should do, Charlie, is we should take the president's cues on this. This is going to be his administration. It's his first 100 days. He just ran on and won a platform that every Republican should endorse today

And I think that Congress ought to be looking to him to say, what do you want to prioritize? And I would say if we don't use the reconciliation process to try and get real wins on immigration and energy, for example, in addition to taxes, then we're being really foolish. And reconciliation is that congressional talk for that's just using the budget process to

to be able to get something through the Senate with only 51 votes. It's a powerful tool. The Democrats used it. It's totally fair and constitutional under the rules. And we ought to use it as Republicans right out of the gate. And we ought to use it for energy. We've got to get it reopened. We ought to use it for immigration. We've got to get the border closed down. And of course we ought to use it to cut the taxes of working people across this country. Senator, I love it. And I agree completely. And there, there are many of these fights that are looming, um,

legislatively, including a debt ceiling fight. Who knows what Doge is going to be able to do to find and identify the waste, hopefully to be able to cut hundreds of billions of dollars of unnecessary and wasteful spending. Really quick, Senator, I do want to get you on the record here. An interesting piece. Bipartisan lawmakers seek to break up giant health care conglomerates. One minute, Senator, please walk us through this striking news.

Right now, we have got these giant insurance companies, Charlie, that are buying up everything. Healthcare insurance companies, they're buying up doctor's practices. They're buying up pharmacies. They're buying up hospitals. Every American's experienced this because all of your listeners, their bills, their insurance premiums are going up. Their access to healthcare is going down. A big reason for that is monopolistic behavior by these insurance companies that, frankly, Charlie, was prompted by Obamacare.

We can get into that later, but this is really what has driven mass consolidation in the healthcare market. We've got to stop this. We've got to stop these insurance companies from owning everything and charging more and more for basic services. We need more competition and more choice for patients.

I love it. Senator, we have to have you back on sometime soon to chat about it. Senator, we're behind you 100%. Thank you so much. One of the most important voices in the U.S. Senate. Senator, thank you so much. Thanks for having me. Okay, I want to zip through these stories here because they're so incredibly interesting and they're also applicable. Okay, let's go to this one first. This is the power of this audience here.

This is Mark Halpern having a dialogue with former Press Secretary Sean Spicer and Goodman about how we applied pressure on the senators that were afraid to confirm Pete Hegseth. This shows the power of grassroots media, the power of podcasting, the power of what the Charlie Kirk Show and all of you in this audience that support us and that are members of what we are doing has become. We might have played a role. I know we've played a role. I have no idea how big of a role of pulling Pete Hegseth

across the finish line from where it seemed as if there was a little political oblivion. Again, we're not taking credit for anything. It's a big team. Don Jr., Steve Bannon, Bannon War Room, Jack Posobiec, Matt Boyle. It was a great, great team effort. Listen carefully to the team that we have assembled. Play cut 83. So Charlie Kirk tweeted Senator Rounds, who didn't like what Senator Rounds said about

think about the fbi director maybe uh you're up for re-election in 2026 if you're against any of trump's nominees the primary challenge wouldn't be hard just a reminder is that something they're fine letting charlie kirk and others bandy about or is this something the trump political operation might actually do uh and i thought about this after i saw the charlie kirk tweet is if you look we've talked about how unconventional some of the tactics have been you know with pete in particular

The idea that – think about what the Heritage Foundation is doing with the ads, what Charlie Kirk and Turning Point are doing keeping Republicans in line. You basically – we gave a lot of credit in the last couple days to, quote, Pete's team. I think a lot of the credit has to go to the outside groups though.

I mean, Charlie and I mean, they're not coordinated by Pete's team, though. Well, some degree. They're not they're not they're not turtles on fence posts. No, but I don't think Charlie Kirk is looking for people to give him permission to do anything. And I do think or for or forgiveness. Correct. That that that was not done in a vacuum. In other words, Charlie's not Charlie understands what he's doing.

It's the power of this audience, though. I mean, I could speak into the heavens and scream at the sky, but it's you guys, the grassroots, that help make this happen, that help move the dial. Van Jones agrees, by the way. Look at him talking about the power of new media. Play cut 96. And I'm telling you, we are way off. The entire political class is way off. First of all,

Digital is a new door knocking. You got to understand that. We were laughing our butts off at Donald Trump for suspending his door knocking campaign and letting Charlie Kirk and Elon do a bunch of stuff online. We said, these guys are idiots. These guys are stupid. Then you start knocking on these doors. You know what people come to the door with? Their phone in their hand.

They're in a 24-hour digital surround sound that has nothing to do with CNN, has nothing to do with any stuff that we do. I asked myself, I got a teenage son, I asked him, who are the most influential people in the world today? I'm thinking to myself, he's going to say Barack Obama, Oprah Winfrey, Jay-Z. He says, Kai Scent, Aiden Ross, Jinxie, and Sketch.

I don't know who he's talking about. I said, what platforms are you on? He goes, I'm on Twitch, Kick, and Rumble. I said, that sounds like you need to go to the hospital. What are these platforms? I'm telling you guys, the mainstream has become fringe, and the fringe has become mainstream. There are platforms, there are people out there that are getting 14 million streams, and we're on cable news getting 1 or 2 million.

And so there is a whole world out there. Kellyanne Conway, I hate to agree with her, but I do a lot of times. Donald Trump understood that and we didn't. And that's not just Democrats that don't. The entire political class is way off, way off, way off. I don't have a lot to add to that except the fact that Van Jones's son might be watching the Charlie Kirk show on Rumble. We are dominant in new media. It is the digital battlefield has expanded beyond the typical cable boxes.

And we are the media. Thanks so much for listening, everybody. Email us, as always, freedom at charliekirk.com. Thanks so much for listening, and God bless. For more on many of these stories and news you can trust, go to charliekirk.com.