Laken Riley's Killer Brought to Justice + The Military Crisis
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Hey everybody, Dan the Charlie Kirk show fulfilling the mandate. Liberation Day is coming, the largest deportation force in American history. Also, do you know that younger voters are favoring President Trump more than their parents? Then Captain Conrad joins us to talk about how we can't build ships anymore. The most basic things we're not able to do. Email us as always, freedom at charliekirk.com. Subscribe to our podcast. Become a member today, members.charliekirk.com to communicate with us directly and listen to our episodes.

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I want to thank Charlie. He's an incredible guy. His spirit, his love of this country. He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA. We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country. That's why we are here.

I've just dashed on over from the Trump transition team office.

Lots of amazing things happening. I have to tell you, being on the inside, without sharing any confidential information, the sense of urgency, the focus, the energy to fulfill the mandate is amazing. And today, interviews are continuing for positions of deputy and other positions in the government. And the team that is doing the interviews could not be in more alignment with President Trump's agenda.

There are real questions being asked, such as, do you share the president's worldview? What was your favorite accomplishment of the president's in the first term? So I had to dash on from that office to here to make sure that we do our broadcast together. And then right afterwards, I will be heading back into the trenches to do our best. The entire transition team is doing amazing. Susie, Sergio,

James Blair, the team is doing phenomenal and they are in the trenches doing the work to fulfill the mandate to fulfill the mandate that you gave this president. Those you that registered voters and knocked on doors that made phone calls. You helped make this happen. You delivered this victory. And what does that victory mean? We've gone through it in many different elements in many different regards, but I got to tell you about one individual in particular.

That is talking about fulfilling one of the most popular yet difficult promises in front of us. And I want to begin today framing the importance that day one we fulfill the promise of mass deportations.

The American people were presented with a clear choice. Kamala Harris wanted open borders. Donald Trump wanted mass deportations. Now, mass deportations is something that most Republicans were afraid to ever utter or mention. Donald Trump ran on it, and he won a landslide popular vote victory with the promise of mass deportations.

Today is Wednesday, November 20th. And I'm telling you right now that this is going to be the biggest sticking point of the administration the first 30 days, unless Joe Biden gets us into a nuclear war with Russia, of which is happening in real time. The sticking point is going to be Donald Trump trying to fulfill the mandate and fulfill his promise to deport

Illegal foreigners that have come into our country. Now, breaking news today, that maniac, evil, evil person, 26-year-old from Venezuela, today was finally convicted of murder. Malice murder, felony murder, aggravated battery, aggravated assault, Jose Ibarra for murdering Lakin Riley in Athens, Georgia, a gang member. He was arrested while in the United States prior to Riley's murder,

However, Joe Biden decided not to deport him. Since Joe Biden decided not to deport Jose Ibarra, a Trend de Aragón member, he went and murdered Lake and Riley as she fought for her life on a jogging trail in Athens, Georgia. Never needed to be here. Came here because evil, deranged people want as many criminals as possible. Biden and Harris celebrated when they learned that Lake and Riley was dead.

Every dead American, according to Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, is progress. She fought for 18 minutes. She fought for her life. This is going to be the big fight, everybody. As we ramp up, we have the confirmation fights on one side, and we have the fights to deport the foreigners on the other side. Let's play Cut 52. Ibarra, illegal alien, accused of killing Lake and Riley, hearing the verdict now. Let's watch. Count one, malice murder.

I find the defendant guilty. Count two, felony murder. I find the defendant guilty. Count three, felony murder. I find the defendant guilty. Count four, felony murder. I find the defendant guilty. Count five, kidnapping with bodily injury. I find the defendant guilty. Count six, aggravated assault with intent to rape. I find the defendant guilty.

Count seven, aggravated battery. I find the defendant guilty. Count eight, obstructing or hindering a 911 call. Find the defendant guilty. Count nine, tampering with evidence. I find the defendant guilty. Count 10, peeping Tom. I find the defendant guilty. Jose Ibarra, a Tren de Aragua member, never should have been here, never should have been in this country, never needed to be here.

There was no purpose for him. And yet a lack of the will of our federal government, in fact, a will to keep him here, is why Lakin Riley is dead today. Donald Trump won the election on the promise of mass deportations. And I could tell you spending time in and around the Trump transition office, which is why we are still live here in Palm Beach, they are focused like a heat-seeking missile on mass deportations.

And they're going to be fought on every single possible front. They're going to be fought legally. There'll be protests in the streets. You see, allowing foreigners to occupy our homeland is critical to the Democrats' agenda, critical for future voters, critical for the great replacement as we native-born Americans are being replaced by foreigners, critical to allow the crime spree across the country. And Liberation Day is coming.

liberation day where we will be able to liberate ourselves from the enemy occupation the enemy occupation of the foreigner hordes that have been squatting on american turf squatting on our soil stephen miller is the deputy chief of staff for policy and the senior advisor over the department of homeland security nobody understands this issue as intimately as stephen miller

Stephen Miller understands exactly what is necessary to be able to act upon the largest deportation force in American history. And yes, no matter what the left says, we are going to continue. We are going to continue until our country improves. This Venezuelan street gang is in 16 states, California, Nevada, Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, Texas, Louisiana, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, North Carolina, Virginia, Illinois, Wisconsin, Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey, and New York.

Democrat leaders such as Katie Hobbs of Arizona, J.B. Pritzker in Illinois, Jared Polis in Colorado, Mara Healy from Massachusetts, Brandon Johnson, the mayor of Chicago, and Michelle Wu are going out of their way and Gavin Newsom to say that they will protect illegals. We'll get out of the way because Tom Homan is on his way. These are invasion forces that have occupied and domiciled themselves on the American homeland. And Liberation Day is coming.

Play cut 42. The moment that President Trump puts his hand on that Bible and takes the oath of office, as he has said, the occupation ends, liberation day begins. He will immediately sign executive orders, sealing the border shut, beginning the largest deportation operation in American history, finding the criminal gangs, rapists, drug dealers and monsters that have murdered our citizens and sending them home.

No one will be allowed to enter the country illegally and ICE will be empowered in partnership with FBI, DEA, ATF, the National Guard to fully seal and secure the border with CBP and to find and identify the criminal threats that are inside this country and send them back home. This is the fight that is necessary. The fight in front of us. The largest deportation force in American history.

Mass deportations will be enacted and every measure and every form of government will work collaboratively to get it across the finish line. And it's going to be a massive information warfare project. But in Lake and Riley's memory, we will carry on her fight. In the memory of all the young ladies who will be murdered if we do not get this done. What you just heard there is the incoming deputy chief of staff of the White House, Stephen Miller.

Playtime is over. And if a Democrat gets in our way, well, then Matt Gaetz very well might go arrest you. If you are getting in the way of the execution of the federal laws, the American people want these foreigners removed from our homeland. And that's what they're going to get. The table is set to make sure another Lake and Riley situation does not happen again. And federal lawsuit proceeds, by the way, federal lawsuit proceeded to allow Texas not to secure the southern border. Remember, the federal government had to cut the razor wire.

Not anymore. The deportations will occur. And if you're a foreigner, you might just want to get out of the country. Self-deport. Save yourself the humiliation. Because Tom Homan, Steve Miller, ICE, ATF, the federal marshals, the National Guard, they are coming for you. And you are not safe in this country.

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$50 off instantly after you play your first $5 lineup. Prize picks run your game. So check it out right now. Prize picks run your game. I want to continue on the immigration thing, but first there is some amazing... We all need a rest from polls. Can we all agree we need some rest from polls right now? There's just too many polls. We have been polled out the last two years. However, I will say this is a great poll from The Economist. And this is the work of Turning Point Action. This is the work of all of you that get behind the work we are doing on college campuses.

This is the work of worldview formation that we do on our educational side of Turning Point USA. This is the power of TikTok, the power of Instagram, the power of X. According to The Economist, with 1,400 registered voters, Donald Trump, between ages of people 18 to 29, has a 19-point favorability rating.

57% of people ages 18 to 29 view Donald Trump favorably. 38% view him unfavorably. Now, baby boomers, interestingly enough, baby boomers are negative three opinion of Donald Trump.

So Donald Trump and his incoming administration, again, we won the election. So some of this is just interesting. It's not instructive. It doesn't tell us anything about any immediate politics, but it does show that there very well might be a generational realignment happening. And we just need to keep on capitalizing on it. That's exactly why we are casting this vision at Turning Point USA and Turning Point Action these next couple of years that will be the most bold and aggressive and

And boundary pushing that turning point is ever done. You see, people are asking, Charlie, you're going into the White House. Again, I was not offered. However, I could have asked for something potentially. No, I want to help on the outside. I want to help on the outside to make sure that we capitalize on this once in a century realignment. There is a generational reconfiguration and this could make.

the country profoundly conservative for the next generation. When young people are more conservative than their parents, not just a little bit, but 22 points more conservative, that's a remarkable development. And I'll say it once, I'll say it again. If it was not for the youth vote, Donald Trump would not be president-elect.

We won the youth vote in Michigan. We nearly won at Wisconsin. We nearly flipped center County. We were 50, 50, basically youth vote in Pennsylvania. We won the youth vote in Arizona, won the youth vote in Nevada, almost won it in Georgia and almost won it in North Carolina. Out of those seven swing States, if we would have gotten blown out with younger voters, we did in prior elections, we'd be on the outside looking in president Trump delivered the most unexpected American comeback story because younger voters were

lifted him up to the white house boomers were not as excited again many of you guys in the audience are boomers are exempted to that but the data is the data now why is that young people are insanely poor their dollars worth next to nothing they can't afford homes they're tired of this totalitarian political correctness and donald trump is the coolest political political figure for ages 18 to 29 and it's not even close the democrats don't have anybody like this

From doing the Trump dance at the NFL, from going to UFC, Donald Trump is a symbol of cultural rebellion. He is a symbol that you can do anything if you put your mind to it. Donald Trump represents to this younger generation someone that can fight the man, fight the system, and still succeed. Older voters have different opinions of him.

And younger voters are the ones that want the mass deportations. In fact, younger voters are more on board for the deportation force than people in their 50s or 60s. That's just public polling. This is Tom Homan, who, by the way, will be at AmericaFest. Tom Homan is now a confirmed speaker for AmericaFest, amfest.com. Deportations are coming to a neighborhood near you, Placut 62. I hear a lot of people say, you know, the talk of a mass deportation is racist. It's threatening to the immigrant community.

It's not threatening to the immigrant community. It should be threatening to the illegal immigrant community. What would the largest deportation in American history look like to you? Well, let me tell you what it's not going to be first. It's not going to be a mass sweep of neighborhoods. It's not going to be building concentration camps. I've read it all. It's ridiculous. But if mass deportation is not going to be, as you said,

massive sweeps and concentration camps. What is it? They'll be targeted arrest. We'll know who we're going to arrest, where we're most likely to find them based on numerous investigative processes. Let me tell you what's happening is that ICE, Border Patrol, ATF, FBI, they have these lists that Biden has told them not to act upon. We know who they are. We even know where they live. And ICE is waiting, waiting, waiting,

We are 61 days out. We are 61 days out until the government gives a green light. Day one, Donald Trump says, so help me God. Donald Trump goes into the outer room of the Capitol, doesn't waste any time, and will sign executive order after executive order, allowing ICE to do their job, putting Remain in Mexico back in place, and allowing the securing of the southern border. And that is exactly what younger voters demanded, and that is what they will get, without which Donald Trump would not be president-elect.

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Very interesting topic here. We're going to talk about military preparedness and readiness. People are so distracted with all the nonsense being thrown at Pete Hegseth. By the way, we need Pete Hegseth more than ever. But is our military ready to fight a war? And why are we sending all of our sophisticated weaponry

to a fight against Russia and why is Russia our enemy? No one can answer that question. Captain John A. Conrad, I think the fifth, if I'm reading this correctly, is our guest right now, proud alumnus of the New York Maritime College, best-selling author, entrepreneur, and U.S. Merchant Marine Officer. Captain Conrad, welcome to the program.

Thank you for having me, Charlie. I love the hat. So, Captain, tell us one thing in particular. We know that military readiness and preparedness is declining. How does that go to something as fundamental and necessary as our ability to build ships?

Our shipbuilding is absolutely in disaster zone area right now. China has 250 times the shipbuilding capacity of the United States. Even Russia has something like 46 icebreakers. We don't have...

Our icebreaker program is 10 years behind. We just cannot get those ships built. And this is part of the master plan. And the master plan designed by the neocons, designed by the globalists who control the International Maritime Organization in London, is

They first went after the U.S. Merchant Marine and the Merchant Marines down to 80 ships internationally compared to China's over 5,000. Then they went after the Coast Guard. No one looked at when the hurricane came in North Carolina. What happens when hurricanes come in? Coast Guard, helicopters, big orange birds land down and rescue. Where were they this time? Mainstream media did not respond.

Answer that question. That's why, you know, private citizens, patriots had to go in. Well, it's because the 70% of the Coast Guard helicopters were grounded. And now that the Coast Guard's nearly dead, they're going after the Navy. Why is this? Because Navy ships are very expensive. Air Force bombers are very expensive.

What they want to build, what the industrial complex wants to build is they want to build studies, they want to build algorithms, and they want to build very small things that are super expensive, like HIMARS, like Javelin missiles, because that's where the profit is. If you build a ship and you got to put $10 billion into a dry dock, well, you have to hire, you know, thousands of workers and you got to maintain that dry dock for 10, 20 years.

Well, if you just did a study on why the shipbuilding gave it to McKinsey or Deloitte, why shipbuilding isn't there, you have a $10 billion study. Well, you get to pocket $9.9 billion of that. And then you get to do a new study on why it's broken. And better yet, let's get the army in charge. Because when you have thousands of tanks, you can lose that money a lot quicker than if you're building just 10 ships for the same price.

So, Captain, but help me understand. It's not for a lack of resources. Our military budget is nearly a trillion dollars. It's $800 billion, not counting all the graft that we send overseas. And so why is it that Russia...

which is a poor country spends about $100 billion a year on defense. In fact, it's $84 billion. So they spend one-tenth of what we spend on defense. Why is it that Russia is able to build ships more efficiently than the United States? Help me understand this.

Well, the number one reason is the bureaucracy, the number of rules and regulations involved with this. So they have two ways that they can control things. And one is to suck all resources out. So that's what happened to my merchant marine.

We used to be the Department of the Maritime Administration, the commandant in charge of that, used to be bigger than the FAA in DOT. Now it's down to 300 employees in D.C. working on policy. FAA has over 40,000 employees. So they just suck out. And the media, mainstream media, it doesn't cover shipbuilding. It doesn't cover merchant marine stuff. And where that apathy is, where the ignorance is, it

It's, that's where they can just pull out and pull out shipbuilding. So they pulled out commercial shipbuilding. Navy has, you know, people know the Navy. They can't hide the Navy from mainstream media. So if they want to destroy the Navy and pull

put more money into studies in the army, like we said, what they had to do is the exact opposite. So FAA has 40,000 people, the shipbuilding and repair arm of the US Navy, it's called NAVSEA. They have 83,000 people employed in that. And those 83,000 people have not delivered one single ship on time and on budget in

This century. And what they do is they're... So, Captain, I have to interrupt. How many of them have been fired because of that? Sorry to interrupt, but we have tight breaks here. How many have been fired because of that, Captain? None have been fired. There's absolutely no accountability for all of this. We just had sabotage of welds at our biggest shipyard, HII, which does our aircraft carriers, our submarines.

And not only has no one been fired, but they classify the reason for the sabotage. So we don't even have good info. That's what they do. They classify it, hide it from journalists like you and me. And then there's no accountability. So, Captain, let's go even deeper. Thank you. Of course, there's no accountability. I was with Pete Hegseth this morning, who I think is just amazing. He's thinking about this correctly and creatively. What can he do to fix this on day one?

Pick good people. What orders can he do to do something as simple as building ships? Yeah, I absolutely love Pete. And Mike Waltz is already on that. He's an army guy, but he realized this problem and he's creating the Ships for America Act in Congress and now in the National Security Council. So that's a big part. They got to get Wall Street. And Wall Street money is pouring into China. It's got to be closed off and redirected into the U.S. State Department has to get involved. But what Pete Exit has to do

First is fire these 83,000 people. Not all of them. Some of them are working on ship repair. But what you have is...

and dozens of people who walk around in clipboards looking for DEI infractions, looking for health and safety infractions, looking for toxic chemicals inside paints. And you have state people too. California won't let the firefighting foam that we need to get our ships out and safe on the highways. So you just have to cut off these people and...

What they did is every time there's a new rule change, say they want more women bathrooms or transgender safe spaces on board an aircraft carrier, well, they make a change order. And every time you make a change order, it's like the factory in Tesla going down. And if you moved pieces around every fifth car, it messes up the whole production line. The Ford class carrier had 16,000 change orders.

This is what's slowing it down because all these bureaucrats, DEI, health and safety, you know, some of them are weapons too, but they're all making these change orders. And every time you do it, it just sucks, sucks away time and time is precious and manufacturing, especially heavy manufacturing. This kind of goes down to a fundamental fault error that,

a first principle error in the military. What does the current military think it exists to do? Well, they're, they're, they're conquest. So you have to look at the Navy versus the army. You have to go back to Mahanian principles. This is what Teddy Roosevelt, the great white fleet, Teddy Roosevelt, you know, beta Cuba. He was a Colonel, but he was really about the Navy because the army goes and it destroys homes. It conquests, it takes over land. So if you want to take over someone and, uh,

You do an army. What the Navy does is control trade, control choke points. And this is essential. We see absolute failure of the Navy in the Red Sea. Well, this is helping spark that inflation. Inflation is two things. One is the vast spending these Democrats are doing is absolutely ridiculous. The other is reduction of supply because the supply chains are broken. So what a Navy does is it controls shipping. It controls trade. And when the Navy has a battle out to sea,

No civilians die, but you don't expend those small weapons. You don't expend, you can't control other countries. So the neocons do not want a navy. They've been, again, they destroyed the merchant marine, then the coast guard, now the navy, because they don't want to control trade. They want the globalists to control trade, the big ship owners in Europe, the Chinese shipping companies.

They don't want the Navy. They don't want the merchant marine. They don't want U.S. Congress anywhere near this trade because 90% of all trade goes on the ocean. And especially now that Donald Trump is talking about tariffs, you see papers like Financial Times and Economist going absolutely crazy on him. But they don't realize that tariffs are absolutely essential when you have adversaries. During times of peace, you don't need tariffs. Bring on the free trade.

But the enemy gets a vote. Iran, China, Russia, they aren't allowing that free trade. They aren't allowing the ships to go through the choke points. And we don't have a Navy strong enough to support it.

Really quick, Captain, what percentage of our critical infrastructure that we need, such as drones, et cetera, are made in a foreign land? Our military uses is not made in America. Do you have an estimation on that? I don't have an estimation on that, but it's also, it's not only the foreign land, it's our allies. You know, China's pulling market share away from shipbuilding, away from South Korea. It's pulling

pulling it away from Japan. And every time I've seen, I watch all the house armed services committee, whenever they give the Navy trouble on this and say, you are not, you're not, you're not doing good here. The Navy admirals always have the same answer. And he said, our allies are our strength. Well, where are our allies in the red sea? Where's Canada? You know, you want missile defense. Those missiles come over the ocean from China and Russia. Canada does not have one single destroyer. That's why the Canadian Navy is not in the red sea.

You know, we need those allies to do 4%, you know, GDP spending on defense because the Navy's all alone. And you think, well, we got a large Navy. Well, the Chinese Navy is larger. And when you add in those allies, they don't show up. They haven't showed up in the Red Sea. And the ones that have are,

France and Italy have said, we are not going under United States command. They've been their own separate protect their own ships because we have all these these woke policies and we're protecting everyone's ship. The Navy's protecting Russian and Chinese ships in the Red Sea right now and not protecting U.S. flagships. And our partners are saying this is absolutely ridiculous what Jake Sullivan is doing here.

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It's worse than that. It's really worse than that, Charlie. If China takes Taiwan and we decide we are going to do something, we don't have the ships. Everyone thinks you can just put all of this military equipment on aircraft and get it over there. Well, the entire cargo capacity of the entire Air Force, including civilian partners like FedEx and UPS, is less than the cargo capacity of one Chinese mega container ship.

And we only have 80 merchant marine ships in service. They have 5,000. The Pacific's huge. And everyone thinks you can Berlin airlift. But during the Berlin airlift of Kennedy's time, it was a short hop from Berlin to –

you know, Western Germany. Now you have to do thousands of miles over the Pacific. So we can't get supplies over. And even if you did, even if we had 10 times the cargo capacity in the Air Force, where are those aircraft refueling? The air tankers have to refuel at forward air bases in

Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, Guam, Tinian, those places. Well, you need big oil tankers to deliver that jet fuel over there. The DOD only has access to 10 oil tankers. So we can't possibly get our supplies over there. But what is so dangerous about that is we have 200,000 to 300,000 servicemen and dependents in South Korea and Okinawa, Japan. We have Marines, Army, everyone.

We can't resupply them without these things. And if China has air superiority and the thing, if they can shoot down commercial airlines, well, we don't have the ships to pull these service members out. So it's an enormous problem. Captain, what does Trump need to do to make a peace deal happen?

And can a peace deal happen? With Russia specifically, are you asking? Between Russia and Ukraine. Well, what they don't understand is that Russia is, they want us to focus on the land war. The mainstream media wants us to focus on the land war, again, because they can sell them tanks. They can sell them Javelin missiles.

But that is not Putin's main concern. That Crimea is the choke point. It is Russia's New Orleans. So you have the entire inland waterway system of Russia is vast. It moves 70 million tons of cargo and 17 million people a year. And all of those rivers and the Caspian Sea, they all come down through Crimea to get out to market. So,

You know, Vladimir Putin, when the Ever Given blocked the Suez Canal, he said they were putting billions of dollars into this inland waterway system because all of their agriculture, a lot of their oil all comes down these rivers.

And so this war would have been very easy to stop Putin early on. You take out that Crimea bridge, you close down the waterway, and that's what chokes the economy of Russia. They would have came to the bargaining table very quick. But Jake Sullivan said, no, we are not attacking that Crimea bridge. We are not stopping him.

The Ukrainians tried to shell barge traffic from Mariupol. But if you see the map now, it's all along that Sea of Azov because that is the point that Putin wants. He is worried about NATO closing down this waterway and absolutely putting a chokehold on the economy. And this is why mainstream media and Jake Sullivan have not told you about the importance of the bridge and the Navy thinks they've more of a descent sinking of ships.

but they do not want your attention on the volume of traffic coming down this waterway. So that's one lever that Trump, you know, has that if, if you don't listen, Putin, we will shut down that waterway. We will, we will send the missiles and, and, and blow up that bridge and,

You know, that's just my suggestion. But obviously, you have amazing people. Thank you. Pete Hegseth there and Mike Waltz at National Security Council. Mike's a Green Beret. And with Bruce Kimbrell in the Navy, they created the SHIPS Act. Thank you so much. Excellent. Excellent job. Thank you. 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.