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Donald Trump honors Charlie Kirk with Presidential Medal of Freedom · Gil I Am

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Speaker 1: And then the President of the United States, accompanied by
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Speaker 1: Erica Kirk.
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Speaker 2: Thank you very much, everybody, Please, this is such an honor.
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Speaker 2: This is the Please be seated. This is the first time.
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Speaker 1: We've been at the new and improved Rose Garden, and
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Speaker 1: people are loving it.
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Speaker 2: They're loving it like they've not loved a lot of things.
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Speaker 2: We have the.
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Speaker 1: Presidential Walk of Fame, which you just saw and just opened,
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Speaker 1: and we wanted to get it open for this occasion,
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Speaker 1: hoping we were able to get outside, and the weather
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Speaker 1: allowed us to.
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Speaker 2: They're supposed to be a terrible rainy day.
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Speaker 1: I was telling Eric and God was watching, and he
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Speaker 1: didn't want that for Charlie. He just didn't want that.
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Speaker 1: So it's really beautiful. Couldn't be more beautiful. Today we're
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Speaker 1: here to honor and remember a fearless warrior for liberty,
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Speaker 1: beloved leader who galvanized the next generation like nobody I've
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Speaker 1: ever seen before, and an American patriot of the deepest conviction,
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Speaker 1: the finest quality, and the highest caliber, the late.
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Speaker 2: Great Charlie Kirk.
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Speaker 1: Five weeks ago, our nation was robbed of this extraordinary champion.
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Speaker 2: He was a champion in every way.
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Speaker 1: I got to know him so well, he didn't like losing,
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Speaker 1: and he was able to fight people that were enemies,
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Speaker 1: and he didn't necessarily love those enemies so much.
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Speaker 2: And I heard he.
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Speaker 1: Loved his enemies, and I said, wait a minute, is
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Speaker 1: that the same Charlie that I know?
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Speaker 2: I'm not sure, but I didn't want to get into it.
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Speaker 1: But it was a horrible, heinous, demonic act of murder.
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Speaker 1: He was assassinated in the prime of his life for
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Speaker 1: boldly speaking the truth, for living his faith and relentlessly
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Speaker 1: fighting for a better and stronger America.
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Speaker 2: Loved this country.
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Speaker 1: And that's why this afternoon, it's my privilege to posthumously
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Speaker 1: award Charles James Kirk R. Nation's highest civilian honor, the
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Speaker 1: Presidential Medal of Freedom.
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Speaker 2: Thank you.
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Speaker 1: As you know, only hours ago I returned from a
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Speaker 1: very historic trip to secure peace in the Middle East.
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Speaker 1: People said that couldn't be done. Charlie felt it could
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Speaker 1: be done. Charlie felt it could be done. Thank you,
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Speaker 1: thank you, thank you very much. But I raced back
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Speaker 1: halfway around at the lobe. I was gonna call Eric
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Speaker 1: and say, Erica, could you maybe move it to Friday?
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Speaker 1: And I didn't have the courage to call but you
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Speaker 1: know why I didn't call because I heard today was
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Speaker 1: Charlie's birthday, and I said, you know, now that was
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Speaker 1: a definite, And I said, we're gonna have to forget
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Speaker 1: about some of those very big, very rich countries that
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Speaker 1: expected me to be there. And I can tell you
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Speaker 1: based on the length of that flight, I wouldn't want
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Speaker 1: to go back tomorrow. But I would not have missed
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Speaker 1: this moment for anything in the world. Nothing, And it's
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Speaker 1: a very important time for our country. And our country
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Speaker 1: is doing so well, it's never done better. We are
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Speaker 1: a country with almost now eighteen trillion dollars of investment
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Speaker 1: coming in. Nobody's ever seen anything like that. Previous administration
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Speaker 1: at less than a trillion for four years, we have
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Speaker 1: more than eighteen. It'll be much more than twenty by
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Speaker 1: the time the year more than twenty trillion dollars. Has
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Speaker 1: never been a country in the world that had anything
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Speaker 1: like that. What's happened to our country is incredible in
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Speaker 1: a short period of time. Charlie was a big person
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Speaker 1: for sir, could we close up those borders please a
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Speaker 1: little bit? You know, they're really leaking badly, I said, Charlie.
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Speaker 1: I haven't gotten there yet. But you know, it came
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Speaker 1: out last four months. Literally nobody was allowed into our country,
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Speaker 1: and the only people that were allowed in were people
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Speaker 1: that came in legally. The borders are absolutely stone coll
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Speaker 1: closed and they reported zero zero, zero and zero, so
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Speaker 1: that's pretty good. But he was a big believer. He
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Speaker 1: wanted people in the country more than I did. Frankly,
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Speaker 1: he wanted them to come in legally, and he got
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Speaker 1: his wish. October fourteenth is Charlie's birthday, and he should
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Speaker 1: have been turning thirty two years old. I never when
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Speaker 1: I first met him, he was like twenty two, and
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Speaker 1: I said, boy, he's awfully young. But I thought he
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Speaker 1: was older than that. You know, he looked a little
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Speaker 1: bit older.
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Speaker 2: Than his age. That's okay.
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Speaker 1: You know, that's not good when you're old, but when
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Speaker 1: you're young, it's great. He had the best of all things,
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Speaker 1: but he was special. But instead, Charlie is attaining a
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Speaker 1: far more important milestone. We're entering his name forever into
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Speaker 1: the eternal roster of true American heroes. He's a true
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Speaker 1: American hero, an amazing person, way way beyond his years.
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Speaker 1: And I'm honored to be joined by a woman who
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Speaker 1: has endured unspeakable hardship with unbelievable strength. That's Charlie's widow, Erica.
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Speaker 1: And I just want to thank you, Erica. He loved
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Speaker 1: you so much.
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Speaker 2: I was with him. Please, thank you, darling, thank you.
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Speaker 1: I was with him before I met Erica, and he
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Speaker 1: told me he was going to get married. He said,
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Speaker 1: you won't believe how beautiful she is. I said, well, then,
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Speaker 1: now that I meet, he's right. But then he also said,
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Speaker 1: and you know what, she's like, the smartest person I know. See,
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Speaker 1: they do go together on occasion, not of it, not
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Speaker 1: of it, but on occasion they go together. But he
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Speaker 1: was in love with you. He was deeply in love
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Speaker 1: with you. It's great, Erica. You love and courage have
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Speaker 1: been an inspiration to all of us.
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Speaker 2: And we will always be here for you.
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Speaker 1: And we're always going to be here for your gorgeous,
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Speaker 1: beautiful children. And we'll never forget what your family has
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Speaker 1: sacrificed for our country. Man loved our country. When things
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Speaker 1: were going badly for our country, he was so as
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Speaker 1: you know, angry. We get angry because he said, it
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Speaker 1: doesn't have to be that way. We're also pleased to
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Speaker 1: be joined by an incredible group of Charlie's friends, very
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Speaker 1: powerful friends actually, and some not so powerful. And there
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Speaker 1: were actually better people. Okay, I know, well the less
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Speaker 1: powerful ones. I have to tell you that, all of
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Speaker 1: you power guys down here. The best ones in the
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Speaker 1: group are the ones that are less successful. But that
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Speaker 1: happens to now. They're all great and they're here. And
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Speaker 1: let's start with Erica's father. Where is Eric's father? Where
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Speaker 1: are you? Where are you dead?
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Speaker 2: Oh? Look at him? Well I want to get a
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Speaker 2: hat like that too. I like that. How are you
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Speaker 2: nice to see again?
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Speaker 1: Thanks as well to Vice President jd Vance, who's been fantastic.
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Speaker 2: Jd thank you very much, great doing a great job.
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Speaker 1: Did a great job on Sunday with George Slapadopolis put
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Speaker 1: him away pretty good. Second lady who's a phenomenal woman,
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Speaker 1: Usha Vanz, thank you very much, Yusha, thank you very much,
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Speaker 1: great woman.
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Speaker 2: President of Argentina. He wanted to be here.
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Speaker 1: That that's Argentina's a serious flight, right and he's become
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Speaker 1: a superstar and he's doing amazing things. It's he's a
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Speaker 1: maga person, but it's make Argentina great again. That's what
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Speaker 1: he does, right, And I want you to stand please,
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Speaker 1: Javier Javier Relay doing a great job.
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Speaker 2: Thank you.
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Speaker 1: Very many members of my cabinet here, just about all
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Speaker 1: of them here. I won't go into every single one
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Speaker 1: of them, but I'll announce a few of the people
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Speaker 1: that have really turned this country around and helped me.
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Speaker 1: Incredible people. Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, Where is Mike.
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Speaker 1: What a job you're doing, Mike, what a job you're doing.
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Speaker 1: And I watched you this morning and you're in there
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Speaker 1: trying to say, look, just let the country open.
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Speaker 2: Everything will be fine.
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Speaker 1: We're dealing with some radical left lunatics. And I would
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Speaker 1: just wish Charlie was here to fight us. I think
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Speaker 1: the fight would have been over already. He would have
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Speaker 1: had a march on the Capitol by people whose average
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Speaker 1: age is about twenty one, because there's nobody that had
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Speaker 1: that relationship with young people, right, Mike, So thank you
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Speaker 1: Mike for being here. House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, Steve, thank.
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Speaker 2: You very much.
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Speaker 1: Brave, a brave guy and a friend. Majority Whip. Another
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Speaker 1: terrific man, Tom Emmer, Thank you, Tom.
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Speaker 2: Senate Majority Whip John Barrasso.
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Speaker 1: John, thank you very much. Yeah, all these senators I'm
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Speaker 1: going to get in trouble. I'm not going to read
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Speaker 1: all their names. I'll be reading all day. We'll be
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Speaker 1: talking about Charlie in about forty five minutes from now.
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Speaker 2: We can't do that.
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Speaker 1: So all of the senators, there's so many of you,
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Speaker 1: thank you very much. I do want to thank Senator
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Speaker 1: Thune for doing a terrific job. He's really been leading properly.
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Speaker 1: Do you agree, Mike. The team, the two of these
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Speaker 1: guys have been fantastic. So to Senator Thune, I want
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Speaker 1: to thank you very much. Incredible job. Watched him this
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Speaker 1: morning and he was out there pounding him this morning
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Speaker 1: on television two. And John Barrasso, thank you for the
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Speaker 1: work you've done and congratulations and your success. But I
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Speaker 1: want to thank you all in all of the congress
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Speaker 1: people that are here. And I see we have our
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Speaker 1: Attorney general here, so and you are doing a few
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Speaker 1: fantastic job. Thank you very much. Pamp, thank you, thank
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Speaker 1: you very much. We have everybody. Wow, that's a incredible Okay,
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Speaker 1: I'm not going to do anymore, going to be here
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Speaker 1: too long, but I just want to thank you have
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Speaker 1: given him such support, but he always gave you such support.
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Speaker 2: That's why you're here, and very unusual.
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Speaker 1: Charles James Kirk was a visionary and one of the
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Speaker 1: greatest figures of his generation. He was truly an amazing
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Speaker 1: figure and growing leaps and vows. He knew that the
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Speaker 1: fight to preserve our heritage is waged not only on
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Speaker 1: the battlefield and in the halls of power, of which
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Speaker 1: we have tremendous power here, including.
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Speaker 2: The head of a place called war. We called now war.
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Speaker 1: We had defense, we had our secretary of defense. Now
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Speaker 1: have a Secretary of War, and somehow I think it's
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Speaker 1: more emblematic. And hopefully we'll never have to use war.
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Speaker 1: But the fact that we're ready is very good. Piece
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Speaker 1: through strength is very important, but also in the hearts
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Speaker 1: of our nation's youth. That's where Charlie Road's strongest at
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Speaker 1: age eighteen. That inside inspired Charlie to found the organization
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Speaker 1: that ultimately touched the lives of millions and millions of
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Speaker 1: people and so many young people that nobody's ever seen
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Speaker 1: anything like it. Frankly, turning Point USA. It's amazing and
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Speaker 1: it's actually bigger now. It's become bigger in the last
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Speaker 1: few weeks than Charlie ever thought. I think his end
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Speaker 1: vision in many years from now would have been just
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Speaker 1: a fraction of what had turned out to be in
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Speaker 1: a couple of weeks. Right, it's amazing with hard work
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Speaker 1: and joyful spirit and endless and enthusiasm and determination. And
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Speaker 1: he did have great enthusiasm. And I always say you
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Speaker 1: need enthusiasm to be successful.
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Speaker 2: He had great enthusiasm.
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Speaker 1: Charlie grew Turning Point into the largest conservative youth organization
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Speaker 1: in the entire country. He warded a personal bond with
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Speaker 1: countless young conservatives. He fought for free speech, religious liberty,
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Speaker 1: strong borders, and a very strong and proud America. In
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Speaker 1: everything he did, he put America first. He really put
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Speaker 1: America first. And ultimately Charlie became more than a leader
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Speaker 1: of an important organization. He became the leader of historic
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Speaker 1: movements all over the country. There were movements, individual movements,
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Speaker 1: one movement, but it was historic.
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Speaker 2: Everything he did was historic.
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Speaker 1: And a true evangelist for the cause of freedom and
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Speaker 1: the word of Almighty God God was very.
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Speaker 2: Important to Charlie.
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Speaker 1: He would say, you know, if you don't have religion,
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Speaker 1: you're not going to.
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Speaker 2: Have a strong country. It's true. He was so wise
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Speaker 2: beyond his years. You know. I talked to him sometimes.
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Speaker 2: I said, this guy is like a young guy.
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Speaker 1: He was really a wise man from the time Charlie
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Speaker 1: worked on my presidential campaign in twenty sixteen, and he
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Speaker 1: was there right for the bigin and he liked me.
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Speaker 1: I don't know, I have no idea. Why what the
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Speaker 1: hell was he thinking? He said, you're gonna win, sir.
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Speaker 1: I said, you know, I'm running against seventeen senators and
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Speaker 1: a lot of tough people and governors.
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Speaker 2: We have all these people.
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Speaker 1: And he said, no, you're going to win, sir. He said,
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Speaker 1: not going to be close. And he made it happen.
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Speaker 1: He helped make it happen. I'll tell you that without him,
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Speaker 1: who knows what would be Maybe you'd have Kamalist standing
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Speaker 1: here today. That would not be good. I will tell
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Speaker 1: you how he you don't know who Kamala is, promised
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Speaker 1: it would not be good. You agree with that, Howard.
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Speaker 1: He also mobilized countless citizens to go vote. It's called
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Speaker 1: go vote, very simple, and with his help, in twenty
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Speaker 1: twenty four, we won more young people than any Republican
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Speaker 1: by far in the history of our country, and we
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Speaker 1: won the popular vote.
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Speaker 2: We won the swing states, all seven of them.
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Speaker 1: Remember they said, oh, well, if Trump could win four,
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Speaker 1: that would be nice. I would by a lot, by
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Speaker 1: a landslide. But the popular vote was massive, and we
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Speaker 1: won the electoral college. I remember they said, well, it's
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Speaker 1: going to be very hard. I'd say two hundred and seventy.
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Speaker 1: Well we got three hundred and twelve to twenty six.
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Speaker 1: And then we won something called districts and councils and
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Speaker 1: different things. But in one case we won two thousand,
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Speaker 1: seven hundred and fifty to five hundred and twenty five.
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Speaker 1: That's the one where you see the map is almost
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Speaker 1: entirely red except to have a little blue line on
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Speaker 1: one side and a little blue line meaning New York
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Speaker 1: and a little bit Los Angeles. I have a feeling
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Speaker 1: that if the vote were one hundred percent, we would
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Speaker 1: have won that too.
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Speaker 2: You want to know the truth.
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Speaker 1: But he knew, and he knew very well, and he
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Speaker 1: also understood honesty, and he was always concerned with honesty.
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Speaker 1: He said, the only way we can lose is if
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Speaker 1: the cheating gets so bad. And that's where we came
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Speaker 1: up with a little phrase, too Big to Rig. We said,
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Speaker 1: go out and vote, Just go out and vote.
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Speaker 2: And we had that.
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Speaker 1: Remember we used to say that all the time because
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Speaker 1: people would say, oh, they're going to win, we don't
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Speaker 1: have to vote, Let's go to a movie. We'll come
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Speaker 1: home and watch later. And he wasn't about that. So
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Speaker 1: we had we come up to with really together.
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Speaker 2: We came up with that phrase. We got to make
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Speaker 2: it too big.
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Speaker 1: I never made a speech where I didn't say at
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Speaker 1: the end, now, look the polls are showing good. Don't
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Speaker 1: believe the pulse. He said, We're going to make.
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Speaker 2: It, Susie Ray too big to rig.
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Speaker 1: So if you think we're going to win by a lot,
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Speaker 1: doesn't matter. Pretend we're losing. You got to go out
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Speaker 1: of vote. They voted, and at nine oh two, the
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Speaker 1: whole thing was over right nine oh two. Remember they said, oh,
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Speaker 1: this could go a few days, well a few minutes
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Speaker 1: nine oh two.
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Speaker 2: And he knew that, and I felt it. But he
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Speaker 2: knew it. He knew it. I think he knew it
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Speaker 2: more than anybody.
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Speaker 1: But Charlie never missed an opportunity to remind us of
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Speaker 1: the Judeo Christian principles of our nation's founding, or to
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Speaker 1: share his deep Christian faith and his final moments early
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Speaker 1: testified to the greatness of America and did the glory
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Speaker 1: of our Savior, with.
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Speaker 2: Whom he now rests in heaven. And he is going
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Speaker 2: to make heaven.
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Speaker 1: I said, I'm not sure I can make it, but
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Speaker 1: he's gonna make it.
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Speaker 2: He's there, he's looking down.
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Speaker 1: On us right now. So incredible. Look at this, how
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Speaker 1: this turned out. This was supposed to be so dark
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Speaker 1: and cloudy. Not dark and cloudy, is it? I look
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Speaker 1: at that, How beautiful that is. There's no artist that
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Speaker 1: can can capture it as beautiful as it is today.
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Speaker 2: Wow, it's amazing.
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Speaker 1: As I said on the day that he was assassinated,
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Speaker 1: Charlie Kirk was a martyr for truth and for freedom,
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Speaker 1: and from Socrates to think and to Saint Peter, from
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Speaker 1: Abraham Lincoln to Martin Luther King, those who change history
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Speaker 1: the most, and he really did. Have always risked their
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Speaker 1: lives for causes they were put on earth to defend.
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Speaker 1: He was put on earth to do exactactly what he
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Speaker 1: was doing. He didn't want to waste time. He would
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Speaker 1: have been a top student at any college in the country.
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Speaker 1: I know, to college as well. He's smarter than the guys.
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Speaker 1: He was so smart, but he almost, I guess, didn't
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Speaker 1: have the time.
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Speaker 2: He knew what he wanted to do.
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Speaker 1: It wasn't like Jae I want to sit in the
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Speaker 1: classroom for four years listening to people teach me liberal principles,
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Speaker 1: because they were never going to teach him that anyway.
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Speaker 2: But he didn't have the time. He really didn't have
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Speaker 2: the time.
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Speaker 1: But every time the enemies of goodness and virtue tried
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Speaker 1: to silence the voice of righteous and noble leaders like Charlie.
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Speaker 2: They failed, They seemed to fail.
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Speaker 1: Ultimately, they look like they're doing well, and then they
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Speaker 1: end up failing because the truth has been unrelenting over
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Speaker 1: the years, over history, and people like Charlie, it's just
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Speaker 1: they've got a power that others don't have, and very
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Speaker 1: few people will ever have. So today, like those martyrs
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Speaker 1: before him, Charlie's voice, his message, and his legacy are
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Speaker 1: stronger and greater than before.
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Speaker 2: They are greater than ever before.
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Speaker 1: Look, this is a horrible event, but it brought out
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Speaker 1: the greatness of Charlie. Nothing could have ever supplanted this.
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Speaker 1: It's incredible the way people are talking about them, and.
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Speaker 2: With great love.
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Speaker 1: I mean, I read so many stories about some of
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Speaker 1: the enemies. But I watch the enemies. It's hard for
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Speaker 1: them to speak badly about them because they just don't.
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Speaker 2: And then you do have people.
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Speaker 1: In the days since Charlie's killing, we've seen exactly why
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Speaker 1: our country so dearly needed his example. We've watched legions
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Speaker 1: of far left radicals resort to desperate acts of violence
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Speaker 1: and terror because they know that their ideas and arguments
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Speaker 1: are persuading no one. They know that they're failing. They
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Speaker 1: have the devil's ideology, and they're failing, and they know it,
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Speaker 1: they feel it, and they become violent. They seem to
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Speaker 1: become very vile on the left. They've rammed vehicles into
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Speaker 1: federal law enforcement, fired sniper rifles at ice agents and me.
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Speaker 1: You know, but I was I made a turn at
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Speaker 1: a good time. I made a turn at a good time.
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Speaker 1: I turned to the right. Charlie couldn't believe it, actually,
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Speaker 1: he said, and I, hell.
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Speaker 2: Did you make that turn?
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Speaker 1: I said, I don't know, but fired rifles and threatened
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Speaker 1: the lives of our Supreme Court.
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Speaker 2: Justices are great justices. They have to be protected. We
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Speaker 2: just issued it a lot of money, sixty.
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Speaker 1: Million dollars to protect the Supreme Court justices very important.
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Speaker 1: We can't let anything happen in places of worship. We're
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Speaker 1: protecting our people. We've seen that a candidate for attorney
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Speaker 1: general and Virginia boasted that he would want to see
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Speaker 1: the Republican legislature a legislator in Virginia shot in the
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Speaker 1: head and to see his children murdered. They actually said this,
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Speaker 1: and now he continues to run for office, and most
21:06
Speaker 1: people continued to back him, but he said he wants
21:08
Speaker 1: his man shot said shot in the head, and to
21:11
Speaker 1: see his children murdered, and they keep running. Pretty amazing. Right,
21:17
Speaker 1: that's a bad one. Let's see how that turns out.
21:20
Speaker 1: But that's a really bad one. Nobody's heard that one before,
21:24
Speaker 1: especially in the wake up Charlie's assassination. Our country must
21:27
Speaker 1: have absolutely no tolerance for this radical left violence, extremism
21:32
Speaker 1: and terror. We're done with the angry mobs and we're
21:36
Speaker 1: not going to let our cities be unsafe. We're going
21:39
Speaker 1: to make sure our cities are safe. When you have
21:41
Speaker 1: Chicago where they had four thousand people murdered over a
21:44
Speaker 1: very short period of time, four thousand people, and then
21:48
Speaker 1: we have a governor's stand up and say, oh things.
21:50
Speaker 2: Are going swimmingly. No, they're not.
21:54
Speaker 1: We're going to make Chicago safe, just like we're going
21:56
Speaker 1: to make Look what we did in DC. It's so
21:59
Speaker 1: nice that we start here because this was one of
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Speaker 1: the most violent places in the United States. It'd be
22:04
Speaker 1: dangerous to be right out here. But you couldn't go
22:07
Speaker 1: to a restaurant. The restaurants were all dying. The whole
22:10
Speaker 1: place was dying. You'd have these gorges. Look at the
22:12
Speaker 1: Washington Monument over there. You'd have these gorges, buildings and
22:16
Speaker 1: monuments and structures, and people were afraid to leave their apartment.
22:20
Speaker 2: They were afraid to go to work.
22:23
Speaker 1: They'd get into an uber and they'd feel safe, and
22:26
Speaker 1: then the uber would be attacked. They thought they made
22:29
Speaker 1: it the safety and then the uber was attacked on
22:31
Speaker 1: the trip end. But we've done a great job and
22:34
Speaker 1: now it's considered a totally safe city. We haven't had problems.
22:39
Speaker 1: Took us twelve days to make it great. We took
22:41
Speaker 1: out pam seventeen hundred hard criminals, career criminals in many cases,
22:47
Speaker 1: but these are hardened criminals. Many of them came in
22:49
Speaker 1: through the Biden open borders. We brought them back to
22:52
Speaker 1: the countries, and a couple was so violent that we
22:55
Speaker 1: put them in jail. We don't want to take a
22:56
Speaker 1: chance that they could get back in because no matter
22:58
Speaker 1: how good we do, somebody can sneak in. They were
23:01
Speaker 1: so violent and so so bad. One arrested twenty eight times.
23:05
Speaker 1: Every time he left prison, he'd get into a violent
23:08
Speaker 1: incident twenty eight times. And we put him away for
23:12
Speaker 1: a long time. But we're done with the angry mobs.
23:16
Speaker 1: We're done with it. This is such an unbelievable place
23:20
Speaker 1: right now. You take a look where you can walk
23:23
Speaker 1: down the middle of the street with your wife or
23:24
Speaker 1: your husband. Your children can walk, they can walk alone,
23:27
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter. They can walk anywhere in Washington, and
23:30
Speaker 1: they're safe now. If this were a year and a
23:33
Speaker 1: half ago, a year ago, they'd have a serious chance
23:37
Speaker 1: of being badly hurt, even killed, even killed.
23:42
Speaker 2: They'd come in from Indiana, they'd come in from Iowa,
23:45
Speaker 2: they come from Florida.
23:46
Speaker 1: They see their nation's capital, and somebody would have to
23:50
Speaker 1: call the parents.
23:51
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, but your son or your daughter has been killed.
23:54
Speaker 2: Not anymore.
23:55
Speaker 1: You hear those sirens going off, that's good, that's a
23:57
Speaker 1: good sound. That means they either got the bad guy
24:01
Speaker 1: or they going to stop the bad guy. You didn't
24:03
Speaker 1: hear that sound because nobody wanted to do anything.
24:07
Speaker 2: Nobody listened to the beauty of that sound. Seriously, and
24:12
Speaker 2: that's the real deal.
24:13
Speaker 1: Sirens, they're not politically correct sirens here. They're about three
24:17
Speaker 1: miles away. That's great, what a beautiful sound. They're stopping crime,
24:22
Speaker 1: that's what they're doing. So we're done with the voices
24:26
Speaker 1: of fools. They're fools and death threats, and we're going
24:30
Speaker 1: to make our city's safe. And I thought it was
24:33
Speaker 1: Charlie's one of his biggest dreams was that he couldn't
24:35
Speaker 1: believe it. Chicago's going to be a great city again.
24:40
Speaker 1: We've already you know, we send people in there six
24:42
Speaker 1: months ago and this governors said, well, crime is down. Yeah,
24:45
Speaker 1: that's because we had the FBI in there for six
24:47
Speaker 1: months just preparing it for the bigger surge. And they've
24:52
Speaker 1: done a great job, the cash and the FBI. They've
24:56
Speaker 1: done a great job. And they love doing it. You know,
24:58
Speaker 1: they love being able to do it. We're restricted from
25:01
Speaker 1: doing it. They couldn't do anything, and now they're totally unrestricted.
25:06
Speaker 1: They well, they have to do is stop crime, and
25:09
Speaker 1: they're doing it. By the way, Memphis, as you know,
25:11
Speaker 1: you heard they went in about a week ago, one
25:14
Speaker 1: of the most dangerous places in the country.
25:16
Speaker 2: It's really in the world. It's not just the country.
25:18
Speaker 1: They have very few cities that would compare to some
25:21
Speaker 1: of these cities. You go to Afghanistan, you say, oh,
25:23
Speaker 1: that's unsafe. Well, the crime numbers are much better than
25:28
Speaker 1: the crime numbers and places that we have. So Memphis,
25:31
Speaker 1: I understand, is doing unbelievably. In one week, it's like
25:35
Speaker 1: a different place. And this took twelve days, and then
25:38
Speaker 1: after that we just perfected it. But after twelve days
25:42
Speaker 1: we had good safety here. After one month, it's like,
25:45
Speaker 1: it's really amazing. And by the way, restaurants are booming.
25:49
Speaker 1: Restaurants are opening up. The big problem we have. You
25:52
Speaker 1: can't get into a restaurant in DC anymore, so they're
25:55
Speaker 1: opening up.
25:55
Speaker 2: It's a beautiful thing to see.
25:57
Speaker 1: It's called safety, it's called law enforcement and letting them
26:01
Speaker 1: do their job. And that's why I said last month
26:05
Speaker 1: that I have directed the Attorney General and the Department
26:08
Speaker 1: of Homeland Security to confront the very real threat of
26:11
Speaker 1: left wing terrorism in our country. It's a real threat,
26:15
Speaker 1: not when you confront it. It's not because they're not
26:19
Speaker 1: brave people. In fact, they're cowards. When you confront them,
26:23
Speaker 1: they immediately fold. You have to see them fold, you
26:27
Speaker 1: have to see them crying. They fold. But it includes
26:32
Speaker 1: dismantling the networks that fund them and finance them. And
26:35
Speaker 1: we're finding out who those networks are. We already know
26:38
Speaker 1: quite a few of them. When you see these violent
26:42
Speaker 1: incidents and then you see people holding this gorgeous sign
26:46
Speaker 1: with beautiful wood, beautiful cardboard, wood, everything, everything's perfect paint job,
26:53
Speaker 1: and they're all the same. There are thousands of them.
26:56
Speaker 1: You know that they weren't made in the basement out
27:00
Speaker 1: of love. They were made by anarchists and in some
27:05
Speaker 1: cases wealthy. I'll probably find some of my nice friends
27:08
Speaker 1: that are up there being so nice to me, especially lately,
27:12
Speaker 1: they're being very nice. But it surprises you who they
27:17
Speaker 1: may be, and you almost wonder why would they do it.
27:21
Speaker 1: But they're hurting our country and we're really taking it
27:24
Speaker 1: back one by one. If we didn't go into Los
27:26
Speaker 1: Angeles early on in the administration, the Commissioner of the
27:31
Speaker 1: Chief of Police Los Angeles said, if they didn't go in,
27:35
Speaker 1: we would have lost our city. Now they already lost
27:37
Speaker 1: twenty five thousand houses to fire because they wouldn't let
27:39
Speaker 1: the water come in from the Pacific Northwest, which they
27:42
Speaker 1: should have done, and I said her, you'd better do it.
27:45
Speaker 1: They didn't do it, and we had twenty five thousand
27:48
Speaker 1: homes where they had no water in the sprinklers, they
27:51
Speaker 1: had no water in the fire hydrants. It would have
27:54
Speaker 1: been a different kind of thing if they did what
27:56
Speaker 1: they were supposed to do.
27:57
Speaker 2: We had to break in. We broke in and had
27:58
Speaker 2: the water come down.
28:00
Speaker 1: They actually they said for the environment, great, They lost
28:03
Speaker 1: twenty five thousand houses.
28:05
Speaker 2: It's incredible.
28:06
Speaker 1: But the commissioner said, without the federal government and President
28:10
Speaker 1: Trump's intervention, we would have lost the entire city.
28:13
Speaker 2: And we have the Olympics going there soon. I got
28:16
Speaker 2: the Olympics.
28:16
Speaker 1: We have the Olympics, we have the World Cup, and
28:19
Speaker 1: we have most importantly, we have the two hundred and
28:22
Speaker 1: fiftieth anniversary of our country. That's going to be most important.
28:26
Speaker 1: And all of these things are happening, and we're gonna
28:28
Speaker 1: have safe cities. We're gonna have very very safe cities.
28:30
Speaker 1: So one month after Charlie's death. We still feel the
28:34
Speaker 1: terrible shock and the pain of his loss.
28:37
Speaker 2: Like just about nobody I can think of. Charlie Kirk
28:41
Speaker 2: was one of a kind.
28:42
Speaker 1: He was unstoppable and he really was boy. When he
28:46
Speaker 1: had an idea in his head. Oh, he would call me, sir, please,
28:50
Speaker 1: you haven't done it yet, said Charlie, Relax, just relax.
28:55
Speaker 1: He didn't relax it called me the next day again.
28:58
Speaker 1: It got it done. But he was like indomitable and
29:02
Speaker 1: always will be. He's really irreplaceable. Nobody's going to replace him,
29:07
Speaker 1: but they're going to do great. But you can't replace
29:09
Speaker 1: that kind of person and that kind of talent. Frankly,
29:13
Speaker 1: the word talent is an important word, but that kind
29:15
Speaker 1: of talent.
29:16
Speaker 2: So we hold his memory in our hearts forever.
29:19
Speaker 1: Every single day of this administration, we will continue to
29:22
Speaker 1: carry out the mission for which he lived, and he
29:25
Speaker 1: really did. He lived for this country. He lived for
29:27
Speaker 1: his wife and his family, but he lived for this
29:29
Speaker 1: country too. In Charlie's honor, we will continue like we
29:35
Speaker 1: have been, to fight, fight, fight, and to win, win, win.
29:38
Speaker 1: We're going to win so much so the Presidential Medal
29:48
Speaker 1: of Freedom is a big deal. You have the Congressional
29:51
Speaker 1: Medal of Honor military and the Presidential Medal of Freedom
29:55
Speaker 1: which is civilian. And the Presidential Medal Freedom is a
29:59
Speaker 1: real big deal. Very few people get it. Very few people,
30:04
Speaker 1: frankly qualify. It's a decision of the president, but it's
30:07
Speaker 1: a qualification that's a very hard one to get. And
30:12
Speaker 1: I would like to ask if I might the military
30:14
Speaker 1: aid to read Charles James Kirk's citation for the Presidential
30:21
Speaker 1: Medal of Freedom.
30:23
Speaker 2: Thank you very much, Thank you.
30:47
Speaker 3: The Presidential Medal of Freedom is awarded to Charles James Kirk,
30:52
Speaker 3: accepting on behalf of Charlie is his wife, missus Erica Kirk.
30:58
Speaker 3: Charlie Kirk was one of the most infl uential American
31:01
Speaker 3: political figures of his generation. At just eighteen years old,
31:05
Speaker 3: he founded Turning Point USA and grew it into the
31:09
Speaker 3: largest conservative youth organization in the nation. For over a decade,
31:13
Speaker 3: he tirelessly traveled the country, leading a movement to restore
31:17
Speaker 3: respect for our founding principles, reawaken our national identity, and
31:23
Speaker 3: inspire a renewed spirit of religious devotion. He was one
31:28
Speaker 3: of the great debaters and communicators of his time. Despite
31:32
Speaker 3: receiving repeated threats, he remained undeterred and modeled courage, logic, humor,
31:39
Speaker 3: and grace to the next generation. On September tenth, twenty
31:44
Speaker 3: twenty five, at age thirty one, Charlie Kirk was assassinated
31:48
Speaker 3: while addressing a group of students. The United States honors
31:52
Speaker 3: him of a martyr for truth and freedom.
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Speaker 1: Sh