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- 0:01Speaker 1: Straight ahead on Real America tonight, it has been one
- 0:03Speaker 1: year since Turning Point USA founder and our dear friend
- 0:05Speaker 1: Charlie Kirk was assassinated, and the world hasn't been the
- 0:09Speaker 1: same since. Tonight, we'll pay a special tribute to him,
- 0:12Speaker 1: reflect on that fateful day, and we'll discuss his enduring legacy.
- 0:17Speaker 1: Also tonight, welcome to.
- 0:19Speaker 2: The first ever midterm convention of any party.
- 0:25Speaker 1: Just wrapped up day two of the first ever RNC
- 0:28Speaker 1: Midterm Convention. Actor and singer and political Republican advocate, John Schneider,
- 0:33Speaker 1: our pal, representing the great state of Indiana as a delegate,
- 0:36Speaker 1: will join us tonight to talk about this first ever convention.
- 0:41Speaker 1: Also tonight, we're joined exclusively by a New Yorker who
- 0:44Speaker 1: lost his wife in the Islamic terror attacks on September 11th,
- 0:48Speaker 1: 25 years ago. It's a conversation you don't want to
- 0:51Speaker 1: miss with a grieving husband. I'm Dan Ball, and Real
- 0:54Speaker 1: America starts right now.
- 1:03Speaker 3: Only in America is it possible to say, you know what,
- 1:07Speaker 3: I don't like the way the country is going, and
- 1:09Speaker 3: to do something about it.
- 1:10Speaker 1: Take that risk.
- 1:13Speaker 3: Take that leap of faith. Stay involved. Trust God and
- 1:17Speaker 3: act obediently.
- 1:18Speaker 4: Romans 12, 2 verse.
- 1:21Speaker 3: That God will use all things, all things, for good
- 1:25Speaker 3: for those who love him.
- 1:26Speaker 4: It's bigger than you. I want you to remember that.
- 1:29Speaker 3: It is bigger than you. It's bigger than me. You
- 1:33Speaker 3: are here to make somebody else's life better, the pursuit
- 1:36Speaker 3: of liberty and freedom. You know what gives me strength?
- 1:40Speaker 3: The hundreds of thousands of you that say, Charlie.
- 1:44Speaker 5: Keep going.
- 1:44Speaker 3: 1 Corinthians 5 and 15. So that's all pretty amazing evidence,
- 1:49Speaker 3: not just intra-biblical evidence, but extra-biblical evidence that Jesus Christ
- 1:53Speaker 3: was a real person.
- 1:55Speaker 4: He lived a perfect life.
- 1:56Speaker 3: He was crucified, died, and rose on the third day,
- 1:59Speaker 3: and He is.
- 1:59Speaker 4: Lord and God of all.
- 2:05Speaker 1: Good Thursday evening to you folks, September 10th. We begin
- 2:10Speaker 1: the program with heavy hearts because today marks the one-year
- 2:13Speaker 1: anniversary of that Charlie Kirk was assassinated. On this day,
- 2:18Speaker 1: the founder of Turning Point USA and our friend was
- 2:20Speaker 1: fatally shot during a campus speaking event like he had
- 2:23Speaker 1: always done in Utah. The time he was killed, he
- 2:27Speaker 1: was hosting what he always did, one of those live debates.
- 2:32Speaker 1: This was part of TPSA's American Comeback Tour at the
- 2:35Speaker 1: Utah Valley University in front of a crowd of over 3,000
- 2:38Speaker 1: when a sniper shot him. One single shot fired by, well,
- 2:47Speaker 1: the evidence points towards Tyler James Robinson. Charlie was reported
- 2:53Speaker 1: dead shortly thereafter at the hospital. Contrary to all these
- 2:57Speaker 1: ridiculous conspiracy theorists and claims online, the evidence points towards
- 3:03Speaker 1: Robinson as the gunman. And that's what we'll stay with
- 3:07Speaker 1: until he stands trial for his murder. The trial date
- 3:11Speaker 1: hasn't been set yet, but we're told it's coming. And
- 3:15Speaker 1: the death penalty is still on the table. Good. Now,
- 3:19Speaker 1: in honor of Charlie and his incredible work, thousands of people,
- 3:23Speaker 1: and I'm talking across the globe, from down under in
- 3:26Speaker 1: Australia to Europe to, of course, right here at home,
- 3:30Speaker 1: people are putting on memorials for Charlie today. Churches, schools, parks, everywhere.
- 3:38Speaker 1: Turning Point USA, of course, holding two special remembrance events today,
- 3:42Speaker 1: one at their headquarters, over in Phoenix, Arizona, and the
- 3:45Speaker 1: other at Utah Valley University. The college actually canceled classes,
- 3:51Speaker 1: shut down public activity today to create a somber space
- 3:55Speaker 1: so we can reflect and remember our friend. Meanwhile, people
- 3:58Speaker 1: gathered today outside of Turning Point USA's headquarters to pray, reflect,
- 4:02Speaker 1: and see the unveiling of a beautiful bronze new statue
- 4:06Speaker 1: of Charlie. If you look closely, I don't know if
- 4:08Speaker 1: we got a zoom in there, you can see him smiling.
- 4:13Speaker 1: He was always smiling. In New York City, a life-size
- 4:17Speaker 1: statue of Charlie unveiled in Times Square, designed by an
- 4:21Speaker 1: Italian artist who sold his apartment to self-fund the project.
- 4:26Speaker 1: I'm told the guy spent over $ 100, 000 of his own money.
- 4:30Speaker 1: Look at that. And of course, had Charlie's iconic T-shirt, Freedom.
- 4:36Speaker 1: It's also designated so that people can sit right next
- 4:39Speaker 1: to him on the bench and keep the spirit alive.
- 4:44Speaker 1: God bless you, Charlie. Our first guest this evening knew
- 4:46Speaker 1: Charlie well. He's been working for TPSA for years. He's
- 4:49Speaker 1: been showing up on the show for years. He's filled
- 4:51Speaker 1: in as a guest host, comedian and host of his
- 4:54Speaker 1: own show, Turning Point Tonight. Turning Point USA contributor, Joe Bob,
- 4:59Speaker 1: back on the program. Joe Bob, I see you're at
- 5:02Speaker 1: headquarters today. It's all hands on deck as we remember
- 5:04Speaker 1: our friend Charlie. How are you holding up, brother?
- 5:08Speaker 6: Yeah, you know, I spent the whole day talking about
- 5:11Speaker 6: what this day means and what this one year anniversary means.
- 5:16Speaker 6: And it's the thing that I keep coming back to
- 5:18Speaker 6: is it's two polar opposite emotions. Obviously, the weight of
- 5:23Speaker 6: all of this is extraordinarily heavy. And at the same time,
- 5:27Speaker 6: It's also galvanizing and a reminder of why the work
- 5:31Speaker 6: that Charlie was doing and that Turning Point is doing
- 5:34Speaker 6: is so important, so valuable, so vital to the success
- 5:37Speaker 6: of the continuation of this country. And both of those
- 5:40Speaker 6: emotions have been going back and forth all day. And
- 5:43Speaker 6: there's heavy moments. And then there's moments of excitement for
- 5:48Speaker 6: the future to continue this work, continue Charlie's mission and
- 5:51Speaker 6: Charlie's legacy. And that's, I think, I can speak for
- 5:55Speaker 6: most people here and say, that's, that's how everybody has
- 5:58Speaker 6: been feeling. There's been quiet moments. There've been moments of
- 6:01Speaker 6: silence and there's been moments of joy and reminiscing about
- 6:05Speaker 6: some of the funny things he would do and remembering
- 6:08Speaker 6: him for the person that he was outside the TV
- 6:11Speaker 6: setting outside of the camera. And I think that's what
- 6:15Speaker 6: most people here are feeling at headquarters today.
- 6:20Speaker 1: No, I feel you. You know, I didn't know him
- 6:22Speaker 1: as close as you guys did. We, We had him
- 6:24Speaker 1: on the show for several years. I'd see him at
- 6:26Speaker 1: all the events, you guys' events that he put on
- 6:28Speaker 1: from AmFest. I'd see him at CPAC. I'd see him at,
- 6:31Speaker 1: you know, an event in D.C., whatever, and Erica. And
- 6:35Speaker 1: we would chat backstage and behind the scenes, or I'd
- 6:37Speaker 1: text him or Andrew or you or Tyler, some of
- 6:39Speaker 1: the folks over there running TPSA. So I didn't know
- 6:41Speaker 1: him that well, but I feel the same way. Like,
- 6:43Speaker 1: I want to break down and ball because our friend
- 6:45Speaker 1: got murdered. But then also there's so much amazing stuff
- 6:48Speaker 1: he did, and so many people are finding him. Christ,
- 6:52Speaker 1: they're coming to TPUSA, they're becoming more patriotic, they're becoming
- 6:55Speaker 1: better members of their family. Just his legacy of that faith, family, country.
- 7:00Speaker 1: He always said those three simple words, lead your life
- 7:02Speaker 1: that way, in that order. Faith first, family next, country third.
- 7:06Speaker 1: It's just a great, simple, common sense way to lead
- 7:09Speaker 1: your life, live your life, and to help this country prosper.
- 7:11Speaker 1: And Charlie was the man behind it all, and there's
- 7:14Speaker 1: never going to be another one like him. Joe Bob,
- 7:16Speaker 1: what are you guys doing at headquarters today, and then
- 7:17Speaker 1: also over on the campus to remember him? What are
- 7:19Speaker 1: those events looking like?
- 7:21Speaker 6: Yeah, the campus event is going to be big. It's
- 7:25Speaker 6: going to be as Charlie would have wanted an event
- 7:28Speaker 6: like this to be. We've got some great speakers over there.
- 7:32Speaker 6: Glenn Beck, Frank Turek, Michael Knowles, among some of them. And,
- 7:36Speaker 6: you know, it'll be a day of remembrance. And then again,
- 7:39Speaker 6: also a reminder of the continued fight. that Charlie brought
- 7:43Speaker 6: us all into. Here at headquarters, we unveiled the statue earlier.
- 7:47Speaker 6: You showed a couple video clips of that. That was
- 7:50Speaker 6: a special moment. And even, you know, in this Arizona heat,
- 7:54Speaker 6: you had a bunch of people out surrounded to see
- 7:58Speaker 6: the statue be unveiled. And, you know, I mean, I'm biased.
- 8:03Speaker 6: I was going to like whatever the statue ended up being.
- 8:05Speaker 6: But this, the depiction of his, what we call around
- 8:10Speaker 6: here his Jordan photo, is, I think, perfect for the situation. Because,
- 8:14Speaker 6: you know, you could have put a picture of Charlie
- 8:16Speaker 6: holding a microphone, and that would have been perfectly appropriate.
- 8:19Speaker 6: But the fact that he's not, the fact that he's,
- 8:21Speaker 6: you know, open to the people who are willing to engage,
- 8:25Speaker 6: it kind of says to me that age-old adage, preach
- 8:29Speaker 6: the gospel at all times, and when absolutely necessary, use words.
- 8:33Speaker 6: And that's how I feel like Charlie lived his life.
- 8:36Speaker 6: If you knew him and That's I think exemplified in
- 8:39Speaker 6: this statue. So there's a lot of different components to
- 8:42Speaker 6: this going on over a lot of different areas. I
- 8:45Speaker 6: know people are holding vigils all around the country in
- 8:49Speaker 6: order to, again, yeah, in order to get to remember
- 8:52Speaker 6: Charlie and more importantly at this point in time, continue
- 8:57Speaker 6: his mission and his legacy.
- 8:58Speaker 1: And I know you and Erica and the rest of
- 9:01Speaker 1: the team will do that, Joe Bob. So God bless
- 9:03Speaker 1: you and everyone involved with TPUSA. I know it's a
- 9:06Speaker 1: tough day. but we just got to keep celebrating his life.
- 9:09Speaker 1: I think that's what he would want. Take care, Joe Bob.
- 9:12Speaker 6: Appreciate it.
- 9:12Speaker 7: Thank you.
- 9:13Speaker 8: Yep.
- 9:14Speaker 4: Alrighty.
- 9:15Speaker 1: Coming up after the break, it is day two of
- 9:17Speaker 1: the GOP midterm convention in Dallas. You probably just finished
- 9:20Speaker 1: watching it here on the network. Well, earlier today, we
- 9:22Speaker 1: caught up with actor, singer, and an Indiana delegate, a
- 9:26Speaker 1: guy named John Schneider. Remember him? He's at the convention.
- 9:29Speaker 1: We'll chat with him about what a success it was.
- 9:31Speaker 1: Let's hope it turns into one in what, 54 days
- 9:34Speaker 1: and we win the midterms. Plus. Tomorrow marks the somber
- 9:37Speaker 1: 25th anniversary of 9-11. Ceremonies planned at all three crash sites.
- 9:42Speaker 1: Many grieving family members don't want New York City Mayor
- 9:45Speaker 1: Zoran Mamdami to attend. Well, the man behind a petition
- 9:48Speaker 1: to get him to stay at home is going to
- 9:49Speaker 1: join us next. Tell us why. Then a bit later,
- 9:52Speaker 1: we're going to continue to honor our friend Charlie Kirk.
- 9:54Speaker 1: We're going to talk about his legacy with a pastor
- 9:57Speaker 1: who knew him well. Stay with us. We'll be right back.
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- 10:38Speaker 2: America's future to the radical left Democrats and our nation
- 10:44Speaker 2: will spend the next decade just getting back.
- 10:47Speaker 1: On its feet. It will be a tragedy.
- 10:50Speaker 2: Vote Republican and we will leave the world in our
- 10:54Speaker 2: dust for generations to come.
- 10:56Speaker 4: There'll be nothing like it.
- 10:58Speaker 1: Let's hope that message from 47 carries us to victory
- 11:01Speaker 1: in November, folks.
- 11:02Speaker 4: We better.
- 11:03Speaker 1: If you didn't know, there's something going on. Down in Dallas,
- 11:06Speaker 1: it's historic. A two-day RNC midterm convention. And let me
- 11:11Speaker 1: tell you, folks, everything is at stake here. 54 days
- 11:15Speaker 1: till the midterms. And I know you heard me say
- 11:17Speaker 1: this was important four years ago during that midterm and
- 11:19Speaker 1: probably for.
- 11:20Speaker 4: But.
- 11:22Speaker 1: You see what's happening with that party. Socialists are taking
- 11:25Speaker 1: over an American political party. How can that even be?
- 11:31Speaker 1: President Trump speakin'. at that convention last night, highlighting the
- 11:35Speaker 1: importance of this election, saying we got a simple choice.
- 11:38Speaker 1: Make the right one. That includes introducing an unprecedented idea
- 11:43Speaker 1: to try and energize people to turn out the vote.
- 11:47Speaker 1: Dubbed the Trump dividend, Trump's idea would put some more
- 11:50Speaker 1: money in your pocket, and the crowd went wild for it.
- 11:53Speaker 1: Watch this.
- 11:55Speaker 2: If the Republicans win the House of Representatives and the
- 11:58Speaker 2: United States Senate, both of them, Because of our economic,
- 12:05Speaker 2: tremendous economic success, like in history, we've never had anything
- 12:09Speaker 2: like what's happening. But because of our tremendous strength and
- 12:13Speaker 2: success economically, I will issue a dividend to every adult
- 12:19Speaker 2: citizen in the United States of America for $ 5, 000.
- 12:26Speaker 1: I'll take that for all the damn gas prices. Let's go.
- 12:31Speaker 1: You heard the caveat. We have to win. We should
- 12:35Speaker 1: get the money either way, 47. Let's be real. Now,
- 12:39Speaker 1: speaking of unexpected twists and turns at the convention, which,
- 12:42Speaker 1: by the way, just wrapped up after two days, a
- 12:46Speaker 1: prominent Democrat lawmaker made a surprise cameo appearance.
- 12:51Speaker 9: What?
- 12:51Speaker 1: Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman, a man who's been acting like
- 12:56Speaker 1: a normal Kennedy Democrat, spoke to the attendees from the
- 13:00Speaker 1: heart of steel country. And his words were actually encouraging
- 13:04Speaker 1: at a GOP convention.
- 13:06Speaker 4: Watch this. Yes, I'm a Democrat.
- 13:08Speaker 10: Why am I here talking to you today? Because, well,
- 13:12Speaker 10: I'm a common-sense Democrat. I'm always going to stand with America.
- 13:16Speaker 10: I'm always going to reject the extremes and socialism and
- 13:20Speaker 10: that anti-American way of life. Dave McCormick is the kind
- 13:25Speaker 10: of senator that gets the job done, and he's going
- 13:29Speaker 10: to fight for Pennsylvania. I'm proud to count him as
- 13:33Speaker 10: my friend. Right back over my shoulder, that's the iconic U.S.
- 13:38Speaker 7: Steel Mill.
- 13:39Speaker 10: And that's exactly the kind of thing that will work
- 13:42Speaker 10: together and will work with President Trump to fight and
- 13:45Speaker 10: defend the steel way of life right here in the
- 13:48Speaker 10: Steel Valley.
- 13:50Speaker 1: I didn't see that one coming. Let's find out if
- 13:52Speaker 1: our next guest, a delegate for the Lone Star State,
- 13:56Speaker 1: big old Texas. You might know him, though, not from politics,
- 14:00Speaker 1: but from TV, film and singing. Our next guest, John Schneider.
- 14:04Speaker 1: Let's bring him on.
- 14:06Speaker 4: See what he's up to.
- 14:06Speaker 1: There he is. Big John. We had some excitement last night.
- 14:10Speaker 4: Hi.
- 14:12Speaker 11: My gosh, it's so exciting here. All day yesterday was crazy.
- 14:17Speaker 11: When Fetterman got up there, well, when Fetterman's video was
- 14:19Speaker 11: up there, it was astonishing.
- 14:23Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 14:23Speaker 4: You know, it's so great.
- 14:24Speaker 11: And I, for one, I was not a Fetterman fan
- 14:27Speaker 11: a couple of years ago.
- 14:28Speaker 4: I thought, who is this clown, right?
- 14:30Speaker 1: Yep.
- 14:30Speaker 11: But my God, this is the most common sense Democrat
- 14:34Speaker 11: in the world today. So I love that he did
- 14:38Speaker 11: that yesterday. I love the president's speech last night. It's
- 14:42Speaker 11: really been quite phenomenal.
- 14:44Speaker 1: Now, John, how did you become a delegate for Texas?
- 14:47Speaker 1: Tell me how you and DeeDee got there.
- 14:50Speaker 4: Well, actually, I'm a delegate for Indiana. Oh, I thought
- 14:53Speaker 4: it was.
- 14:53Speaker 11: I live in Indiana. I just happen to be standing
- 14:56Speaker 11: in Texas right now.
- 14:56Speaker 12: Okay.
- 14:57Speaker 11: But I'm an Indiana delegate. I've been living in Indiana
- 15:00Speaker 11: for a couple of years. Love our great state. Love
- 15:02Speaker 11: our governor. You know, by the way, we have the
- 15:04Speaker 11: cheapest gas prices in the country because of our governor.
- 15:07Speaker 1: I know. I was there last week.
- 15:09Speaker 4: He said all this nonsense, you know. Yeah.
- 15:11Speaker 6: Yeah.
- 15:12Speaker 11: So and we just came from California where you can
- 15:15Speaker 11: pay upwards of eight dollars a gallon for diesel.
- 15:18Speaker 4: Thank you, Gavin Newsom. Thank you, Democrat logic.
- 15:22Speaker 1: John. Hoosier State, great state, by the way. That's where
- 15:25Speaker 1: my wife's from. We were there last week on vacation,
- 15:27Speaker 1: so I agree with you. Indiana's a great place. I
- 15:29Speaker 1: don't know why, but the Internet said you were representing Texas.
- 15:31Speaker 1: So I'll yell at GPT.
- 15:33Speaker 4: That's okay. Don't worry about it. The Internet says a
- 15:36Speaker 4: lot of things.
- 15:36Speaker 1: Yeah, a lot of BS. Great shirt, by the way.
- 15:39Speaker 1: I like the Dukes of Hazzard theme with the 47.
- 15:42Speaker 1: That's sweet.
- 15:43Speaker 4: Let me ask you the most important question. Look, look, look.
- 15:46Speaker 1: Ah, there we go.
- 15:47Speaker 4: Okay.
- 15:48Speaker 1: You didn't get rid of the old one. Got to
- 15:49Speaker 1: have that. Got to have that.
- 15:50Speaker 4: All right. No, no, no, no.
- 15:52Speaker 1: Do you think the GOP is getting their message across
- 15:55Speaker 1: with 54 days to go? That's the key, John. We
- 15:58Speaker 1: got to win. Do you think they're getting the messaging right?
- 16:02Speaker 11: We've got to win. We've got to annihilate them. You know,
- 16:05Speaker 11: we really do. There's no shame in annihilation. We have
- 16:08Speaker 11: to do more than just win. We have to prove
- 16:10Speaker 11: that these ideas, that these, I hate to call them policies,
- 16:14Speaker 11: but this leftist, communist, socialist.
- 16:16Speaker 4: Agenda has got to stop.
- 16:18Speaker 1: Amen.
- 16:19Speaker 4: You know, it's crept in.
- 16:20Speaker 11: We've allowed it to creep in, I think, because we
- 16:22Speaker 11: never thought it was going to be possible.
- 16:25Speaker 4: But here it is. My hope is, you know.
- 16:28Speaker 11: When I do my math, and I'm not a mathematician
- 16:30Speaker 11: by any means, But I think the Democrat Socialist Party
- 16:33Speaker 11: is actually going to do far more damage to the
- 16:36Speaker 11: Democrat Party. It's not going to touch the Republican Party.
- 16:39Speaker 11: You know, where there's nobody, I don't know any Republicans
- 16:41Speaker 11: that are saying, gee, I don't know if I'm going
- 16:43Speaker 11: to stay a Republican or if I'm going to switch
- 16:45Speaker 11: over to be a Democrat Socialist.
- 16:47Speaker 1: No.
- 16:48Speaker 11: So what they're actually doing, I believe, is they've cut
- 16:51Speaker 11: their party. The Democrats have created their own Frankenstein monster,
- 16:55Speaker 11: and it's going to eat their lunch come November.
- 16:57Speaker 4: But we've got to show up, folks.
- 17:00Speaker 1: Yes.
- 17:00Speaker 11: Don't buy into the nonsense that your vote doesn't count
- 17:04Speaker 11: or that it's so much already in the bag that
- 17:07Speaker 11: you shouldn't bother.
- 17:08Speaker 4: Remember, in New York, about a.
- 17:10Speaker 11: Month and a half ago, three Democrat socialists were voted
- 17:15Speaker 11: in because only 17% of registered voters bothered to go vote.
- 17:21Speaker 2: Wow.
- 17:22Speaker 11: That can't be the case on November 3rd.
- 17:24Speaker 13: No.
- 17:24Speaker 4: Cannot be the case.
- 17:26Speaker 11: You have a right, you have a duty, and you
- 17:28Speaker 11: have an obligation... to participate in this process. And if
- 17:33Speaker 11: you don't participate in this process, you are tacitly voting
- 17:38Speaker 11: for a communist regime to take over your children's country.
- 17:41Speaker 11: We cannot afford that. We do not want that. It
- 17:44Speaker 11: must not happen.
- 17:45Speaker 1: John, so well put. Man, that's why I love having
- 17:47Speaker 1: you on the show. All right, enough with the convention.
- 17:51Speaker 1: I got one more question for you, and this one's
- 17:53Speaker 1: just as important.
- 17:54Speaker 4: What's that, my friend?
- 17:55Speaker 1: Because he was an amazing young man. Charlie Kirk, today
- 17:58Speaker 1: we honor a man that For only 30-some years old,
- 18:02Speaker 1: look at all the good he did and look at
- 18:05Speaker 1: his death with that horrific assassination a year ago today.
- 18:08Speaker 1: Look at the millions of people who've come to learn
- 18:10Speaker 1: about Christ. Look at how many chapters have opened up
- 18:13Speaker 1: around the country. I know you wanted to say something
- 18:15Speaker 1: about Charlie Kirk. That'll be the final question to you, John.
- 18:19Speaker 4: All right.
- 18:20Speaker 11: Well, I wrote a song called Charlie's Words about a
- 18:23Speaker 11: week after he passed away last year. And the thing
- 18:26Speaker 11: about Charlie that I noticed, and I hope other people
- 18:29Speaker 11: noticed it, is that there were so many terrible things
- 18:32Speaker 11: said about Charlie Kirk. But about ten days after he
- 18:35Speaker 11: passed away, there were people on the Internet that had
- 18:40Speaker 11: said bad things. And they said, you know, I'm now
- 18:42Speaker 11: looking for all of these terrible things that Charlie Kirk said.
- 18:46Speaker 4: And you know what?
- 18:47Speaker 11: I can't find a single one. Charlie Kirk was the
- 18:51Speaker 11: number in my book. Charlie Kirk was the one who
- 18:53Speaker 11: gave the microphone to everybody and anybody and said, please
- 18:58Speaker 11: express your opinion, but be ready because I'm going to
- 19:02Speaker 11: come back at you with mine. And Charlie Kirk was
- 19:06Speaker 11: just a master at giving the opposition an opportunity to
- 19:10Speaker 11: voice their opinion. And then, of course, he would come
- 19:14Speaker 11: back with a biblical quote or he'd come back with
- 19:17Speaker 11: good old-fashioned common sense or sound logic and change their mind.
- 19:22Speaker 11: If you're in a place in your life where where
- 19:25Speaker 11: you are so stuck in your ways that you refuse
- 19:28Speaker 11: to change your mind, then you never met Charlie Kirk.
- 19:32Speaker 14: Yeah.
- 19:33Speaker 1: He was the best of us. He truly was. John Schneider, actor, musician,
- 19:38Speaker 1: Indiana Delicate. Thank you, brother. Appreciate you.
- 19:42Speaker 4: Yes, indeed.
- 19:43Speaker 11: Thank you very much. We appreciate it. November, vote, everybody.
- 19:46Speaker 11: It's vitally important.
- 19:47Speaker 1: It is. It is so important. John Schneider, a Thank you, sir.
- 19:50Speaker 1: Take care, brother. All righty. Coming up next, as we
- 19:55Speaker 1: as a nation prepare to honor nearly 3,000 lives lost
- 20:00Speaker 1: on 9-11 tomorrow, 25 years later. There is a push
- 20:04Speaker 1: in the Big Apple tonight to get that mayor there,
- 20:07Speaker 1: Zoran Mamdani, to stay at home. Don't go to the
- 20:10Speaker 1: ground zero ceremony. They don't want you. Your connections to
- 20:14Speaker 1: radical Muslims, you know, the people behind bringing the towers down,
- 20:19Speaker 1: is bad enough. They don't want you there. The man
- 20:23Speaker 1: behind a petition to get the mayor to stay home
- 20:26Speaker 1: Giovanni Galanti, who lost his wife in the Twin Towers,
- 20:28Speaker 1: sounds off about all that next after the break. Folks,
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- 22:07Speaker 1: never forget. We say it and we mean it.
- 22:10Speaker 2: We will never forget those we lost and we will
- 22:14Speaker 2: never forget the immortal heroes of September.
- 22:19Speaker 1: 11th, 2001. Thank you, Mr. President. And yes, I can
- 22:23Speaker 1: say at least for myself, for my family, and I
- 22:27Speaker 1: hope most Americans, we will never forget. Let's never forget
- 22:32Speaker 1: what happened on that day, 25 years ago this week.
- 22:36Speaker 1: Islamic Terrorists attacked America. Plain and simple. September 11th, 2001.
- 22:43Speaker 1: We should never forget who did it, the lives we lost,
- 22:47Speaker 1: and the threat that is still out there to our homeland.
- 22:51Speaker 1: What is that threat? Islamic Jihad. That's the threat. 19
- 22:57Speaker 1: hijackers killed nearly 3,000 people. Lot of victims. Lot of
- 23:03Speaker 1: grieving families still wanting justice. Now, as we prepare to
- 23:08Speaker 1: mark the 25th somber anniversary of those attacks tomorrow, we
- 23:14Speaker 1: want to highlight some events that are happening to honor
- 23:17Speaker 1: the victims. For starters, New York put on a huge
- 23:20Speaker 1: drone show last night, recreating the Twin Towers with 2,977
- 23:26Speaker 1: individual lights to represent every single person.
- 23:32Speaker 8: Who was murdered.
- 23:33Speaker 1: Look at that. The lights rose high over the New
- 23:36Speaker 1: York Harbor They match the architectural scale of the original towers,
- 23:41Speaker 1: I'm told. This incredible installation was created with direct input
- 23:45Speaker 1: and approval from the 9-11 community, including survivors, first responders
- 23:50Speaker 1: that were there that day, victims' relatives. This all, of course,
- 23:55Speaker 1: setting the stage for all of the big, huge main
- 23:58Speaker 1: observances tomorrow that we'll be doing in New York, the Pentagon,
- 24:03Speaker 1: and in that field. Additionally, on Wednesday night of this week,
- 24:07Speaker 1: Former President George Bush and his former Secretary of State
- 24:09Speaker 1: Condoleezza Rice reflected on that day during a special event
- 24:12Speaker 1: down in Dallas, bringing us right back to the moments
- 24:16Speaker 1: following those attacks.
- 24:18Speaker 9: We both initially thought it was an accident.
- 24:20Speaker 5: Correct.
- 24:21Speaker 9: Because how could this actually be happening? But then we
- 24:26Speaker 9: talked a second time after we knew that a second
- 24:28Speaker 9: plane had gone into the World Trade Center and it
- 24:30Speaker 9: was indeed.
- 24:31Speaker 1: A terrorist attack.
- 24:31Speaker 9: And I actually did something, I don't even know if
- 24:33Speaker 9: you noticed, I did something... I never would do again.
- 24:36Speaker 9: I raised my voice to you because you said, I'm
- 24:41Speaker 9: coming back. And I said, stay where you are. The
- 24:44Speaker 9: United States of America is under attack. It's not safe here.
- 24:47Speaker 14: Somebody said, you got to give a speech to the nation.
- 24:49Speaker 14: And I said, you're right, I do. But I'm damn
- 24:52Speaker 14: sure not going to give it from a bunker in Omaha, Nebraska.
- 24:55Speaker 14: You know, I thought that would be a psychological victory
- 24:58Speaker 14: for those who attacked us.
- 25:01Speaker 1: Now, back to those ceremonies that will be happening. Of course,
- 25:03Speaker 1: the biggest one. is at Ground Zero tomorrow in New
- 25:06Speaker 1: York City. And for several weeks now, there have been
- 25:09Speaker 1: a lot of grieving families and tens of thousands of
- 25:12Speaker 1: people in and around New York City that have signed this.
- 25:15Speaker 1: Throw it up on the air, would you, Chris? This
- 25:17Speaker 1: is a petition. Matter of fact, they're up to 118,000.
- 25:21Speaker 1: We took this snapshot, which was a few hours ago,
- 25:23Speaker 1: so it's probably even higher. These are folks who want
- 25:26Speaker 1: to install a giant permanent flagpole at Ground Zero, trying
- 25:30Speaker 1: to get that done. And there's another petition that's been
- 25:32Speaker 1: going around, and that is to try and get the
- 25:35Speaker 1: radical Muslim mayor of New York City, Zoran Mamdani, not
- 25:39Speaker 1: to show up tomorrow to the 9-11 ceremonies where grieving
- 25:42Speaker 1: families will be at, where we read all 2,000, what
- 25:47Speaker 1: was it, 977 names that were lost that day.
- 25:51Speaker 4: Why?
- 25:51Speaker 1: Because he cozies up to radical Muslims, people like Hasan Piker,
- 25:55Speaker 1: who say that America deserved 9-11. So why the hell
- 26:01Speaker 1: Would grieving families want a piece of human excrement? There,
- 26:07Speaker 1: I censored myself. Censors, you don't have to worry about it.
- 26:10Speaker 1: Why would they want him there? Joining me now, and
- 26:15Speaker 1: I'm sure he's got a lot to say about this,
- 26:17Speaker 1: because he lost his wife, Grace, in the North Tower
- 26:21Speaker 1: 25 years ago. I want to welcome to the program
- 26:23Speaker 1: for the first time, Giovanni Galante. Giovanni, thanks for coming
- 26:28Speaker 1: on the program.
- 26:28Speaker 9: I know.
- 26:30Speaker 1: This time of year has got to be pretty tough
- 26:31Speaker 1: for you. But first and foremost, before we get to
- 26:34Speaker 1: the petition and Zoran and what happened 25 years ago,
- 26:38Speaker 1: let me start a little differently than most people probably start.
- 26:41Speaker 1: Tell us something about Grace Catherine Galante, your late wife.
- 26:48Speaker 7: She was a beautiful soul.
- 26:49Speaker 13: Let's start with thanks for having me, Dan.
- 26:51Speaker 7: I appreciate the time. I appreciate it.
- 26:54Speaker 13: All your efforts you're putting into this. I see how
- 26:57Speaker 13: much you talk about it.
- 26:59Speaker 7: And it's a great thing to keep alive.
- 27:01Speaker 1: Thank you.
- 27:01Speaker 7: Because people forget.
- 27:03Speaker 4: Yes, it is.
- 27:03Speaker 7: People forget every day. I'm sorry for the noise, but
- 27:06Speaker 7: I'm outside.
- 27:07Speaker 4: No, no, no.
- 27:07Speaker 1: You're in New York City. It's a noisy city. Look,
- 27:09Speaker 1: my friend, if they let me stay on TV 25
- 27:12Speaker 1: years from now, I'll be 77. I'll still be talking
- 27:15Speaker 1: about 9-11. Anyway, tell us about Grace.
- 27:19Speaker 7: Yes, Grace was a lovely soul.
- 27:21Speaker 13: I tell everyone she lit up the room as soon
- 27:23Speaker 13: as she walked in.
- 27:25Speaker 7: People remember her to this day.
- 27:27Speaker 13: They always talk good about her. Her sister has named
- 27:31Speaker 13: her daughter after her. I have a daughter with her
- 27:34Speaker 13: name as well. Cousins of mine, people that we knew named.
- 27:38Speaker 7: Their kids after her.
- 27:39Speaker 13: So just that alone should tell you people had respect
- 27:42Speaker 13: for her.
- 27:43Speaker 7: A lot of respect.
- 27:44Speaker 1: Well, they're carrying on her legacy. That's amazing. What was
- 27:48Speaker 1: she doing that day? She worked in the North Tower?
- 27:49Speaker 1: Tell us about it. Where did she work? What was
- 27:51Speaker 1: she doing?
- 27:52Speaker 13: Yeah, she worked for Kenneth Fitzgerald. She worked in the
- 27:54Speaker 13: mortgage-backed securities department.
- 27:56Speaker 1: Okay.
- 27:58Speaker 7: 105th floor. She loved her job. She was very good
- 28:05Speaker 7: at it.
- 28:05Speaker 13: She worked with 60 men, and they all loved her.
- 28:10Speaker 11: Yeah.
- 28:11Speaker 7: She did her job great.
- 28:13Speaker 13: Every time I met somebody new, they always would talk
- 28:15Speaker 13: about how great she was.
- 28:17Speaker 7: I have to say.
- 28:19Speaker 1: Love it. Love to hear that. Giovanni, it's been 25
- 28:22Speaker 1: years tomorrow. Lots of changes have come to New York City.
- 28:26Speaker 1: And one that I don't think is a change any
- 28:28Speaker 1: of you wanted involved in 9-11, I sure as hell
- 28:31Speaker 1: didn't want to see it, and I don't even live there.
- 28:33Speaker 1: And that's the election of your current mayor, Zoran Mamdani.
- 28:37Speaker 1: Big petition going around, 100 and some thousand signatures. In
- 28:40Speaker 1: addition to that petition I showed about the flagpole, which
- 28:42Speaker 1: why there's a liberal woman running the museum of 9-11,
- 28:45Speaker 1: I have no idea. Hopefully, y'all will get that flagpole.
- 28:47Speaker 1: But let's talk about this petition to try and get
- 28:49Speaker 1: the mayor not to show up tomorrow and make a scene.
- 28:52Speaker 1: He says he's still going to show. Your reaction.
- 28:57Speaker 3: Yes.
- 28:58Speaker 7: He keeps saying that he is going to show.
- 29:00Speaker 13: Look, all we're asking respectfully is for him to take
- 29:04Speaker 13: this one out.
- 29:05Speaker 7: You know, give us a break. We we have a
- 29:09Speaker 7: hundred and it's over one hundred and ten thousand.
- 29:12Speaker 13: After our press conference that day, we got ten thousand signatures.
- 29:16Speaker 7: Alone in two days. That's a record. You know how
- 29:19Speaker 7: long it.
- 29:19Speaker 13: Took to get to the 90s and 100,000?
- 29:23Speaker 7: We've been doing it over a month.
- 29:25Speaker 13: And just in two days, we got 10,000 signatures. People
- 29:29Speaker 13: are hearing us. People are listening. Hopefully, he can hear it.
- 29:33Speaker 13: The letter we dropped off. Don't know if he looked
- 29:37Speaker 13: at it, read it. But look, respectfully, we just need
- 29:40Speaker 13: a break we don't want him there we just his beliefs.
- 29:44Speaker 1: Are not what we want thank you and this isn't
- 29:46Speaker 1: about politics.
- 29:47Speaker 13: I don't know how he made it in into this
- 29:51Speaker 13: this form of being a mayor and i it chills
- 29:54Speaker 13: me to understand how america voted this way You know,
- 29:58Speaker 13: it's a slap in the face to me anyway, but regardless,
- 30:03Speaker 13: he's not a man that cares about America. If he was, then,
- 30:06Speaker 13: you know, we wouldn't have a problem with it. It's
- 30:09Speaker 13: just that's the way the dice rolled, and I guess
- 30:12Speaker 13: we have to live with it at this point, right?
- 30:14Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, look, you know, the people elected him.
- 30:18Speaker 1: Whether it's a legitimate election and whether those were legitimate voters,
- 30:21Speaker 1: I don't know. Maybe there's enough brainwashed immigrants and young
- 30:24Speaker 1: people under 20 or whatever that voted for him, that's
- 30:28Speaker 1: the numbers, right? It was young people and immigrants that
- 30:30Speaker 1: somehow elected this clown. But when he's out there chumming
- 30:33Speaker 1: up to people like Hasan Piker, who said, we deserve 9-11,
- 30:36Speaker 1: I know you know who that scumbag is. When he's
- 30:39Speaker 1: out there... I know who he is. Yep, when he's
- 30:40Speaker 1: out there chumming up to people that represented some of
- 30:44Speaker 1: the hijackers, right? The crap that he.
- 30:47Speaker 13: Just alone, the day that he signed that letter of remembrance.
- 30:51Speaker 7: Do.
- 30:51Speaker 13: I really need the letter of remembrance to remember my wife?
- 30:55Speaker 13: And does any one of our 3,000 people that lost
- 30:58Speaker 13: need that letter? We remember them every day in our
- 31:00Speaker 13: hearts and souls. We pray for them every time. We
- 31:03Speaker 13: are the victims here as well. We just need to
- 31:06Speaker 13: understand why he just doesn't get it through his head.
- 31:10Speaker 13: I mean, it'd be great if he just said, listen,
- 31:12Speaker 13: I want to come because that's how I am. But,
- 31:15Speaker 13: you know, we don't get those kind of answers. It's just,
- 31:18Speaker 13: you know, I want to respectfully... visit the site, and
- 31:22Speaker 13: honor the victims and survivors, which is bull.
- 31:26Speaker 1: Yeah, his actions don't back up what his words say, right?
- 31:30Speaker 13: You wouldn't give the pen that you signed this letter
- 31:32Speaker 13: to to the attorney that represented al-Qaeda.
- 31:39Speaker 1: That's who I'm talking about.
- 31:40Speaker 4: It's bulls * * t. Yep. You know it.
- 31:41Speaker 7: I don't know if I can say that on the air.
- 31:43Speaker 1: You can say whatever you want. It is bulls *
- 31:45Speaker 1: * t.
- 31:46Speaker 8: It is.
- 31:47Speaker 1: And I saw that. He signed the letter. If we
- 31:48Speaker 1: have the video, we'll put it up. He signed it
- 31:50Speaker 1: and then he bypassed your police commissioner gal, right? And
- 31:54Speaker 1: handed it over to his city attorney guy who literally
- 31:57Speaker 1: repped Al Qaeda. I mean, everything he does is a
- 32:00Speaker 1: slap in the face. I guarantee you the radical Muslims.
- 32:04Speaker 1: Oh yeah. The radical Muslims that committed 9-11, part of it,
- 32:08Speaker 1: not the dead ones, the ones that were also part
- 32:09Speaker 1: of it that haven't come to justice yet. They're loving
- 32:12Speaker 1: the fact that a radical Muslim is running New York
- 32:15Speaker 1: City where they attacked us 25 years ago. They are
- 32:17Speaker 1: dancing in their dirt streets over that clown being the
- 32:21Speaker 1: mayor of one of our cities, especially the one they hit.
- 32:24Speaker 1: And so I commend you and the others that have
- 32:25Speaker 1: signed the letter. I hope he doesn't show tomorrow. I really,
- 32:29Speaker 1: truly hope.
- 32:30Speaker 7: He doesn't show.
- 32:31Speaker 8: I hope not either.
- 32:32Speaker 7: I hope not either.
- 32:33Speaker 13: But given him the day off, I don't know if
- 32:35Speaker 13: we have the right to, but listen, I just want
- 32:38Speaker 13: to say if all the people that.
- 32:39Speaker 7: Did not sign my petition.
- 32:41Speaker 13: Change.org slash 9-11 ceremony.
- 32:44Speaker 7: We're over 110,000.
- 32:45Speaker 13: I think it was 112, but I'm very proud of
- 32:50Speaker 13: the number we're at.
- 32:51Speaker 1: Let's get a few more 100,000 signed up over the
- 32:53Speaker 1: next 24 hours and tell his ass to stay home.
- 32:56Speaker 1: Giovanni Galante, remembering your wife, Grace Catherine, today, tomorrow, and always.
- 33:01Speaker 1: God bless you, brother.
- 33:02Speaker 7: Thank you, Dan. I appreciate the time. Have a good day.
- 33:05Speaker 8: Take care, Giovanni.
- 33:07Speaker 1: Alrighty, up next, Team Trump was in Eastern Europe this
- 33:09Speaker 1: past weekend trying to get a peace deal done between
- 33:12Speaker 1: Russia and Ukraine. Are they any closer? Well, the latest
- 33:15Speaker 1: on the conflict when we return. For all of our
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- 33:57Speaker 12: Throughout this illegal, unjustified, barbaric struggle, caused by Vladimir Putin
- 34:05Speaker 12: provided support for Ukraine, $ 26 billion of support, military support
- 34:12Speaker 12: from air defense to drones and beyond, training, working together,
- 34:17Speaker 12: humanitarian support, including working together for the repatriation of Ukrainian children.
- 34:25Speaker 1: Well, we haven't talked about it for a while, folks,
- 34:26Speaker 1: but we've got to head to Eastern Europe. Critical update
- 34:29Speaker 1: on the war between Russia and Ukraine. Thought it'd be
- 34:32Speaker 1: over by now, but these two sides just don't want
- 34:35Speaker 1: to make a deal. As you just saw right there,
- 34:38Speaker 1: Ukrainian President Zelensky just met with the Canadian Prime Minister,
- 34:42Speaker 1: Mark Carney, and Carney agreed to a massive air defense
- 34:45Speaker 1: package worth $ 254 million. This emergency funding will allow Ukraine
- 34:50Speaker 1: to rapidly acquire more air defense interceptors from us. This
- 34:56Speaker 1: deal comes at a pivotal moment in the negotiations. looking
- 35:00Speaker 1: for peace. The war remains a grinding conflict of attrition
- 35:05Speaker 1: with no end in sight, and Russia keeps advancing. Even
- 35:09Speaker 1: though it's slow and sometimes they get backed up, they're
- 35:12Speaker 1: still advancing. They currently hold about 20% of Ukraine's territory,
- 35:16Speaker 1: and they've been making some modest gains over the last
- 35:19Speaker 1: few weeks, launching new strikes almost on a daily basis.
- 35:23Speaker 1: Case in point, they killed about 12 people, injured dozens
- 35:27Speaker 1: more in a drone and missile attack earlier today. They
- 35:31Speaker 1: struck major port cities and some civilian infrastructure across Kiev,
- 35:34Speaker 1: the capital there. And they did it in retaliation, they say,
- 35:38Speaker 1: for recent attacks by Ukrainian forces on Russian forces. Okay, whatever,
- 35:42Speaker 1: it's a war. Those attacks hit two natural gas plants
- 35:46Speaker 1: deep inside Russia as well. See, that's what's causing more. Before,
- 35:50Speaker 1: it was just Russia on Ukrainian soil and fighting a war.
- 35:53Speaker 1: But Ukraine's been able to strike into Russia now over
- 35:56Speaker 1: the past several months, and that has changed dramatically. the dynamics.
- 36:00Speaker 1: Matter of fact, the strike I'm showing you right now,
- 36:02Speaker 1: roughly 1800 miles away from the Russia-Ukraine border. They also
- 36:09Speaker 1: hit a major terminal used to load oil onto cargo
- 36:13Speaker 1: ships and warships carrying Russian cruise missiles. Unsurprisingly, new reports
- 36:18Speaker 1: are saying that the morale of the Russian troops is
- 36:20Speaker 1: at an all-time low right now. They have seen countless
- 36:23Speaker 1: fatalities since the war began nearly five years ago. In
- 36:27Speaker 1: an effort to improve morale, Anyway, if they can do that.
- 36:31Speaker 1: They sent a fragment of the remains of a medieval
- 36:33Speaker 1: Russian grand prince to Russian soldiers fighting in Ukraine to
- 36:37Speaker 1: give them a little extra push, I guess. That's something
- 36:40Speaker 1: you don't see every day. And speaking of things you
- 36:43Speaker 1: don't see a lot of, some people sounding the alarm
- 36:45Speaker 1: following recent reports that a Russian drone almost hit the
- 36:49Speaker 1: plane that was carrying Ukrainian President Zelensky to Norway. The
- 36:54Speaker 1: aircraft was almost hit when it was taken off from
- 36:57Speaker 1: Adalvea Could have been an attempt on his life. Not sure.
- 37:01Speaker 1: Details about the incident are still a little sketchy. Let's
- 37:04Speaker 1: ask our next guest. He might have more insight than me.
- 37:06Speaker 1: Retired U.S. Army officer, former Pentagon strategist, and former instructor
- 37:10Speaker 1: at the U.S. Army War College, our good friend, retired
- 37:13Speaker 1: Lieutenant Colonel Robert McGinnis, back on Real America. All right, Colonel,
- 37:16Speaker 1: let's start with that plane, almost plane strike. What are
- 37:20Speaker 1: your sources telling you? Was that an accident or did
- 37:23Speaker 1: that drone get close on purpose? Was it trying to
- 37:25Speaker 1: do something?
- 37:28Speaker 8: I would doubt it's an accident. Yes, with AI available
- 37:33Speaker 8: to the Russians as well as Ukrainians, precision strikes such
- 37:37Speaker 8: as hitting an aircraft, especially one that's in a stable
- 37:42Speaker 8: or sitting position, is much easier. Now, to hit it
- 37:46Speaker 8: in flight, that would be a bit difficult for a drone,
- 37:50Speaker 8: but not for many of the missiles that the Russians have.
- 37:53Speaker 4: Gotcha.
- 37:54Speaker 1: All right, let's move to these talks because over the
- 37:57Speaker 1: past week, we saw, I believe, Steve Witkoff and Jared
- 38:00Speaker 1: Kushner on behalf of the Trump administration over talking to
- 38:04Speaker 1: both Putin and Zelensky just in the last, what was it, six,
- 38:08Speaker 1: seven days. It was over the weekend, I believe. I
- 38:11Speaker 1: didn't hear too much positivity coming from Team Trump on
- 38:16Speaker 1: either side. Zelensky or Putin's behalf. It sounds like both
- 38:19Speaker 1: of them are still digging in, you know? Publicly, they're like, yeah,
- 38:22Speaker 1: we're looking for some sort of resolution and peace deal,
- 38:25Speaker 1: but then we have a talk with them, and it
- 38:26Speaker 1: sounds like neither side's anywhere closer. And then, obviously, Ukraine,
- 38:30Speaker 1: getting more money from Canada so they can buy more weapons,
- 38:33Speaker 1: can just add longevity to this conflict. So, what do
- 38:37Speaker 1: you hear, Colonel?
- 38:38Speaker 8: Yeah, as long as the truth will probably go well
- 38:41Speaker 8: past five years into this fight, the Russians... persistent. Yuri
- 38:48Speaker 8: indicated moments ago that they're making incremental progress, which is true.
- 38:53Speaker 8: But the fact that the Ukrainians now have the technology
- 38:57Speaker 8: to reach deep into Russia and to strike where their
- 39:00Speaker 8: natural gas fields are and their oil development and export,
- 39:07Speaker 8: that is a different game. The Russians are hurting somewhat financially.
- 39:13Speaker 8: There's debt spending and, of course, There's money that's flowing
- 39:18Speaker 8: out of Russia. Now, whether or not that's smart people
- 39:23Speaker 8: making a bet against Putin, that's hard to tell. But
- 39:26Speaker 8: you know, I see really, you know, Dan, we're in
- 39:29Speaker 8: a stalemate here. Trench war. I don't see major progress
- 39:34Speaker 8: on either side unless Putin dies or Zelensky is replaced.
- 39:39Speaker 8: I just don't see this ending anytime soon.
- 39:42Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 39:42Speaker 1: I mean, Putin's not going to take a loss, right?
- 39:45Speaker 1: This is like you just said. For months now, they've
- 39:46Speaker 1: been able to strike inside Russia. They couldn't in the
- 39:48Speaker 1: first four years, right? And so I think Putin thought
- 39:52Speaker 1: he was winning. But now that he's getting hit, he's
- 39:54Speaker 1: not going to let that happen. He's got way too
- 39:56Speaker 1: big of an ego for that. He's going to want
- 39:58Speaker 1: to win this thing and take some land. Zelensky now,
- 40:01Speaker 1: feeling like he's got a little more spring in the
- 40:03Speaker 1: step because he's getting money from Canada, can buy more rockets,
- 40:05Speaker 1: more missiles, and shoot into Russia, figures, I can hold
- 40:09Speaker 1: out even longer. Let's keep going. So with these two
- 40:11Speaker 1: guys at the helm, I don't see it just like
- 40:14Speaker 1: you ending anytime soon. Is there anything that the United
- 40:17Speaker 1: States can do, that President Trump can do to force
- 40:19Speaker 1: somebody's hand here in negotiations? What do you think, Colonel?
- 40:23Speaker 8: No, we're already providing them through the NATO allies, you know,
- 40:28Speaker 8: sufficient munitions. And the Canadians stepping up is good news
- 40:33Speaker 8: for Zelensky. But they're not going to get a lot
- 40:36Speaker 8: more patriots out of us. You know, we're based on reports,
- 40:40Speaker 8: were pretty low on that arsenal, and other munitions. So
- 40:45Speaker 8: the Europeans need to step up and produce more. Now,
- 40:48Speaker 8: at the same time, NATO, I think especially our European allies,
- 40:53Speaker 8: like Poland, are beginning to get pretty antsy because of
- 40:56Speaker 8: hybrid operations by the Russians. and, of course, the movement forward, and,
- 41:02Speaker 8: of course, the production of missiles. And they're not producing
- 41:06Speaker 8: missiles for Ukraine necessarily anymore. They're stockpiling them closer to
- 41:11Speaker 8: the European, the NATO border. So there's a long-term strategy
- 41:16Speaker 8: emerging here that our Eastern allies fully understand, and it
- 41:21Speaker 8: has little to do about Ukraine at this point.
- 41:24Speaker 15: Yeah.
- 41:26Speaker 1: Or us. I think that the Europeans need to step
- 41:29Speaker 1: up and take care of this problem. It's in their backyard.
- 41:33Speaker 1: Retired Lieutenant Colonel Robert McGinnis, thanks for the insight. Appreciate you, sir.
- 41:36Speaker 8: Thanks, Dan.
- 41:37Speaker 2: Yep.
- 41:38Speaker 1: All right. Stick around. Coming up, we're going to end
- 41:41Speaker 1: the program where we began. A tribute to the life
- 41:44Speaker 1: and legacy of a great young man. Turning Point USA's founder,
- 41:48Speaker 1: Charlie Kirk.
- 41:50Speaker 4: Stay with us.
- 41:50Speaker 1: We'll be right.
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- 43:34Speaker 3: I gave my life to the Lord in fifth grade
- 43:36Speaker 3: in the suburbs of Chicago, Christian Heritage Academy. It was
- 43:40Speaker 3: presented incredibly well.
- 43:41Speaker 1: I knew the stakes.
- 43:42Speaker 3: I understood the consequences that I don't earn salvation. I
- 43:45Speaker 3: don't do good things to get to heaven. I fall
- 43:47Speaker 3: short of the glory of God every day.
- 43:49Speaker 1: I covet.
- 43:50Speaker 3: I envy. I have jealousy. And we have a fleshly
- 43:54Speaker 3: nature because we are post-garden that we need Jesus. And
- 43:57Speaker 3: I gave my life to the Lord and made Jesus
- 43:59Speaker 3: Christ the chairman of the board of my life in
- 44:00Speaker 3: fifth grade. And every year as I grow, that means
- 44:03Speaker 3: more to me. The more I realize how broken and
- 44:06Speaker 3: how sinful I am and how much the world needs Jesus.
- 44:09Speaker 3: The more I study the word and I study the scripture,
- 44:11Speaker 3: the more I want to bring it to people. Invite
- 44:13Speaker 3: him into your life. Read the word every single day.
- 44:16Speaker 3: Know what he believed and know what he said.
- 44:22Speaker 1: Okay. A little tough to get through this one today.
- 44:28Speaker 1: What incredible advice from a young man, Charlie Kirk. He
- 44:34Speaker 1: was so wise beyond his words, wasn't he? We started
- 44:38Speaker 1: my show tonight talking about the tributes that people are
- 44:42Speaker 1: holding around the country for him one year ago today
- 44:45Speaker 1: when he was assassinated. But I want to end the
- 44:48Speaker 1: show talking about the legacy that he leaves behind. Because Charlie,
- 44:53Speaker 1: while he was here and now even in death, is
- 44:55Speaker 1: inspiring millions. Heck, I would say maybe even billions. I
- 44:59Speaker 1: hope so. His work, his words have changed lives. He
- 45:06Speaker 1: spread the word of God, like you saw in that
- 45:08Speaker 1: video right there, talking to young kids on campuses. Well,
- 45:11Speaker 1: let me tell you, those professors aren't teaching about God,
- 45:15Speaker 1: that's for sure. But Charlie was there speaking to them,
- 45:18Speaker 1: giving them the microphone, giving them the opportunity, and then
- 45:21Speaker 1: talking to them about Jesus. Exactly one year after his death,
- 45:26Speaker 1: Faith leaders say they have witnessed a global spiritual revival.
- 45:30Speaker 1: College ministries have experienced a huge influx of Gen Z students.
- 45:34Speaker 1: Church attendance with young people has risen dramatically. Over 2
- 45:39Speaker 1: million Bibles were sold in the U.S. during September 2025
- 45:42Speaker 1: after the 10th alone. Millions of Bibles. Additionally, the entire
- 45:49Speaker 1: Turning Point USA faith network doubled. 8,000 affiliated churches within
- 45:55Speaker 1: just a couple months of his passing. That all led
- 45:59Speaker 1: now to the Make Heaven Crowded Tour, which is led
- 46:03Speaker 1: by his widow, Erica. And folks, this is the tip
- 46:05Speaker 1: of the iceberg. In the last year, Turning Point has
- 46:08Speaker 1: added nearly 3,000 chapters across college and high school campuses.
- 46:12Speaker 1: That's awesome. We're talking about a growth of over 200%,
- 46:15Speaker 1: and it's still going. There's now about 1,500 college chapters
- 46:21Speaker 1: and 3,500 high school chapters, and kids are requesting chapters
- 46:25Speaker 1: every day. You can only imagine what he's thinking up there. Okay,
- 46:34Speaker 1: time to get the guest on before the old guy
- 46:35Speaker 1: starts crying. I want to bring my pastor on who
- 46:38Speaker 1: knows Erica, him and his wife, close friends with Charlie
- 46:40Speaker 1: and Erica. We've had him speak at our church here
- 46:43Speaker 1: in San Diego several times over the years as well.
- 46:45Speaker 1: And so I want to welcome back the founder and
- 46:47Speaker 1: the senior pastor to Awaken Church, my pastor, and a
- 46:50Speaker 1: friend of Charlie and Erica's, Juergen Matias, back on the program.
- 46:53Speaker 1: Pastor Juergen, it's a tough day, but when I look
- 46:58Speaker 1: at the numbers and I think about the lives that
- 47:01Speaker 1: were changed while Charlie was with us and the lives
- 47:04Speaker 1: that have changed that day on his death and the
- 47:07Speaker 1: year following, and hope to God the years to come,
- 47:10Speaker 1: I do get happy And I try to smile and
- 47:12Speaker 1: not cry. Welcome, Pastor.
- 47:15Speaker 5: It's an honor to be back.
- 47:16Speaker 16: And again, just a beautiful memorial of and tribute to
- 47:22Speaker 16: the life that is and was Charlie Kirk and the
- 47:25Speaker 16: legacy that continues with momentum to this day.
- 47:29Speaker 1: Talk to me about how he approached discussing the word
- 47:36Speaker 1: and bringing people to their salvation. Way different than sometimes
- 47:40Speaker 1: pastors do, especially old school ones that I grew up with, right?
- 47:43Speaker 1: You and I grew up with the ones in the
- 47:45Speaker 1: suit at the pulpit pounding and yelling at us and
- 47:48Speaker 1: brimstone and all that stuff. Charlie had a unique way,
- 47:51Speaker 1: and especially with young people, right? Talk to me about
- 47:54Speaker 1: that on how he was so just accessible and so
- 47:58Speaker 1: ready to give his testimony and then bring them into
- 48:02Speaker 1: God's kingdom. Talk to us about that, Pastor.
- 48:05Speaker 16: Yeah, you know, Charlie was a champion for truth, and
- 48:08Speaker 16: I think that's what made him so appealing. So even,
- 48:11Speaker 16: you know, in my world, he had probably three or
- 48:14Speaker 16: four guys who would put on the hat and claim
- 48:17Speaker 16: that he was, you know, that.
- 48:18Speaker 5: They were Charlie's pastor.
- 48:20Speaker 16: And yet every time Charlie was in a difficult spot
- 48:23Speaker 16: or in a tough predicament, he would reach out to
- 48:26Speaker 16: my wife and I, him and Erica, and We had
- 48:29Speaker 16: the privilege of praying for him, praying for him to
- 48:31Speaker 16: be baptized with the Holy Spirit, having encounters with God,
- 48:35Speaker 16: being set free from some of the demons that tried
- 48:38Speaker 16: to torment him and take him out early. You know,
- 48:43Speaker 16: he just had this way and it personified everything he did.
- 48:47Speaker 5: He would ask questions. He was one of the most.
- 48:50Speaker 16: brilliantly intelligent people that I've ever met. And yet he
- 48:54Speaker 16: would continually ask questions, listen, lean in. And he did
- 48:58Speaker 16: the same on the college campuses. And, you know, he
- 49:02Speaker 16: was assassinated not because he was vitriolic.
- 49:06Speaker 5: He was assassinated because they had no argument.
- 49:08Speaker 16: They had no way to defeat him with debate because
- 49:13Speaker 16: of the truth that he carried and the heart that
- 49:15Speaker 16: he had for people. They knew that the only way
- 49:17Speaker 16: to silence him was to put a bullet in him.
- 49:20Speaker 16: And it's just sad. But he was one of the
- 49:23Speaker 16: most magnificent, kindest, most beautiful truth warriors I've ever met.
- 49:28Speaker 1: Yeah, he truly was, Pastor. His legacy. You heard the numbers,
- 49:34Speaker 1: but bigger picture. You're a man of God. Bigger picture here.
- 49:37Speaker 1: Forget the numbers. let's talk about the sheer fact that
- 49:43Speaker 1: more human beings were brought to the word globally, right?
- 49:48Speaker 1: After that big celebration of life they had in Arizona
- 49:51Speaker 1: for him days after the assassination, I remember going online
- 49:55Speaker 1: and people said that there were like a couple billion
- 49:58Speaker 1: impressions of people that watched the ceremony, downloaded, went to
- 50:01Speaker 1: find a video of Charlie something, and then there were
- 50:04Speaker 1: millions that gave themselves over to Christ. Whew, what a legacy.
- 50:11Speaker 16: Yeah, incredible legacy. I mean, today you can see I'm
- 50:14Speaker 16: wearing the Charlie merch.
- 50:15Speaker 1: Faith over fear.
- 50:17Speaker 16: You know, I started off my day in a coffee
- 50:19Speaker 16: shop and I had people fist pumping me from all
- 50:22Speaker 16: walks of life. From guys in business suits to, you know,
- 50:25Speaker 16: guys who were blue collar plumbers, electricians.
- 50:29Speaker 5: Fist pumping me. Then I went to Home Depot.
- 50:32Speaker 16: I couldn't walk 10 feet in Home Depot without someone
- 50:34Speaker 16: fist pumping me and saying, we love Charlie Kirk.
- 50:36Speaker 5: God bless you.
- 50:37Speaker 16: We love Charlie Kirk. You know, I went to the
- 50:41Speaker 16: wine store to buy some wine and the people in
- 50:44Speaker 16: the wine.
- 50:44Speaker 5: Store are like, we love Charlie Kirk. So his impact
- 50:47Speaker 5: was all over.
- 50:48Speaker 16: You know, we have a Monday night Bible study for
- 50:50Speaker 16: young adults because we realized after Charlie's death, there was,
- 50:55Speaker 16: there was about, A whole generation, we have over 1,000, 1,500
- 50:59Speaker 16: people that tune in on a Monday night.
- 51:02Speaker 5: This is not a Sunday.
- 51:03Speaker 16: On a Monday night, wanting to go deeper in the
- 51:05Speaker 16: Bible because of something that Charlie Kirk had awoken in them.
- 51:10Speaker 16: So his impact, I know that's just in our church,
- 51:13Speaker 16: but as I travel all over the world, people still
- 51:16Speaker 16: talk about Charlie Kirk, his impact on them. The opening
- 51:20Speaker 16: of the scriptures, the pointing towards God, the pointing towards truth,
- 51:24Speaker 16: the pointing towards virtue. They're pointing towards morals. Morals aren't
- 51:29Speaker 16: something that, you know, bring us into harm or into shame,
- 51:33Speaker 16: but they are what buoy us and keep us living
- 51:38Speaker 16: our life successfully.
- 51:40Speaker 1: Yeah. And Charlie always said those three simple words, the
- 51:43Speaker 1: way he tried to live his life, faith, family, and country.
- 51:47Speaker 1: And in that order.
- 51:48Speaker 9: Yeah.
- 51:49Speaker 1: And I love that about him. Pastor Juergen Matisius, my
- 51:53Speaker 1: pastor and the senior pastor and the founder of an
- 51:55Speaker 1: amazing church, folks, in Southern California. And I believe also
- 51:59Speaker 1: in Utah, we got a campus. Idaho, we got a campus.
- 52:01Speaker 1: West Palm Beach, we got a campus coming. Not to
- 52:04Speaker 1: mention like almost 10 or 11 campuses around San Diego.
- 52:06Speaker 1: We're growing. We're planting those seeds in our church. And
- 52:09Speaker 1: it's what Charlie would have wanted.
- 52:10Speaker 4: Pastor? Yeah.
- 52:12Speaker 1: God bless you. Thank you.
- 52:14Speaker 5: God bless you. Thank you, Dan.
- 52:15Speaker 1: Yep. Take care. And folks, a little something different tonight.
- 52:20Speaker 1: I'm going to say good night and leave you with
- 52:23Speaker 1: a video that the Trump administration put up on the
- 52:25Speaker 1: White House. I think Instagram or Twitter, all over their
- 52:28Speaker 1: social media today, honoring our friend Charlie Kirk as we
- 52:33Speaker 1: look back one year after that horrific assassination and say
- 52:37Speaker 1: we will never forget our friend Charlie, his mission, TPUSA,
- 52:43Speaker 1: and everything that he stood for. And so as I
- 52:46Speaker 1: say goodnight, let's be some proud Americans. Let's be brave
- 52:49Speaker 1: out there like Charlie was. And God bless you all. Goodnight.
- 52:57Speaker 2: On that terrible day, September 10, 2025, our greatest evangelist
- 53:03Speaker 2: for American liberty became immortal.
- 53:06Speaker 8: He's a martyr now for American freedom.
- 53:09Speaker 3: You know you are part of something bigger than yourself.
- 53:13Speaker 3: You know that you are part of the most exciting, diverse,
- 53:18Speaker 3: powerful movement in the history of this country. This movement
- 53:24Speaker 3: is about the citizens.
- 53:27Speaker 4: Versus the oligarchs.
- 53:30Speaker 3: This movement is about we, the people, versus the ruling class.
- 53:35Speaker 3: This movement is about America versus the globalists. This movement
- 53:41Speaker 3: is about all of us against them. One of my
- 53:44Speaker 3: favorite sayings of the Bible in Hebrew is, here I am.
- 53:49Speaker 7: It means, Lord, use me.
- 53:52Speaker 4: What are my marching orders?
- 53:58Speaker 3: Abraham at the finding of Isaac.
- 54:00Speaker 1: He said, Lord, here I.
- 54:03Speaker 9: Am.
- 54:03Speaker 4: Moses at the burning bush.
- 54:05Speaker 3: Lord, here I am.
- 54:07Speaker 4: Samuel, Isaiah, here I am. It means, give me the ordinance.
- 54:20Speaker 4: Here I am, Lord.
- 54:23Speaker 3: Houston.
- 54:24Speaker 2: He transformed the face of conservatism, and in doing so,
- 54:28Speaker 2: he changed the course of American history.
- 54:31Speaker 3: You still live in the greatest nation ever to exist
- 54:33Speaker 3: in the history of the world. There is still so
- 54:35Speaker 3: much to be hopeful and to be thankful for.
- 54:38Speaker 4: Have that posture, here I am.
- 54:40Speaker 1: I can't wait to see how this whole story plays out.
- 54:43Speaker 3: The stakes are high. We have only begun to fight.
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