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Charlie Kirk Today | Alex Marlow: April 20, 2026 | Charlie Kirk Today | April 20, 2026
- Ceasefire.
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- We got the ceasefire
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- And the president has fired off a stream of truce socials.
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- We could probably just start rotating through some of these
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- Of the fact that the strait has been open.
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- Even iran's spokespeople are confirming
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- That the strait is in fact open.
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- So to supply context for this, do it, do it.
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- We announced the cease fire all a while ago,
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- But then
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- There was some friction because they wanted it to apply
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- To lebanon.
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- We said it didn't apply to lebanon,
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- So they said it really wasn't fully open.
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- So then we began blockading the strait.
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- So what was announced late last night was
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- There is a ten day ceasefire between, israel and hezbollah
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- In southern lebanon that was agreed
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- Through negotiations here in washington.
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- And because that ceasefire has been achieved, iran
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- Now says they're ready to leave the strait open.
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- But president trump does say that the blockade will continue
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- Until we can reach a final agreement with iran. yep.
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- And i think
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- This is a really telling clip because as soon as listen,
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- You may not like this conflict, you may have
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- Skepticism, hesitancy as i did.
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- But president trump's on to something with this blockade
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- And the blockade sort of exposed.
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- So, you know, first of all, you got the strikes.
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- They take out the missile capabilities.
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- That's all well and good you've got,
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- I don't know, 10 to 15 u.s.
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- Destroyers in the area, vessels
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- That can actually shoot down missiles,
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- Whatever they have left in their stockpile.
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- So now the strait was their big point of leverage.
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- So if you block the strait, you're cutting off their money.
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- That's really a big deal to iran and the future prospects
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- Of the iranian regime, what's left of it.
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- And i think this, this, this word that president
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- Trump uses with cnn is really, really important.
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- Let's go ahead and play.
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- Sot eight
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- Think we're now in week seven entering into week seven.
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- Do you think this is it?
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- This is the beginning of the end of this war?
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- I do i think
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- The straits of hormuz showed us the achilles heel for iran.
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- I mean, i'm a business guy.
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- I know that when revenues start to dry
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- Up, that all of a sudden you start to scramble.
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- I think the iranian regime
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- Realized that their cash flow was going to take a big hit,
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- When all of a sudden ships can't move in
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- And out of the straits of hormuz.
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- And so i think president trump
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- Did a brilliant job of taking that position.
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- I mean, it was, you know,
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- It seemed risky to everybody, but really
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- It was the one that i think put the, put them
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- On their heels and said, look, we have to have that cash.
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- We've got to find a deal.
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- It'll be interesting, i think at the end
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- Who we're actually really dealing with.
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- I know president trump knows that.
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- The achilles heel of the iranian regime
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- Is that strait of hormuz.
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- That's where all their money comes from.
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- That's where all the oil flows out.
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- And it's not just oil, by the way.
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- It's petrochemicals.
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- It's all kinds of different products.
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- So if you block that strait and you cut off
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- Iran's ability to get revenue from their energy,
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- You basically strangle the economy of iran.
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- And the iranian leaders understand that.
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- So when you find the achilles heel of your enemy
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- Or your opponent in this case, now this is straight,
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- You can really exact a really massive toll, a price.
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- And what is the price president trump is going to ensure?
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- At least this is what we're hearing,
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- That he's going to get
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- All of the nuclear components, the nuclear dust.
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- Yes. he says iranian dust.
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- Let's just we should read some of these stories.
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- Yeah. he says. so he opened just two hours ago.
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- He said,
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- The strait of hormuz is completely open
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- And ready for business and full passage,
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- But the naval blockade will remain in force and in effect
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- As it pertains to iran, only until such time
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- As our transaction with iran is 100% complete.
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- This process should go
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- Very quickly
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- And that most of the points are already negotiated.
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- Thank you for your attention.
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- And then he continued, right after,
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- Without all caps this time the usa will get all nuclear
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- Dust created by our great b-2 bombers.
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- No money will exchange hands in any way, shape or form.
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- We know he was very critical
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- Of the obama nuclear deal, which gave iran a lot of money.
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- He says this deal is in no way subject to lebanon,
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- But the usa will separately work with lebanon and deal
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- With the hezbollah situation in an appropriate manner.
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- Israel will not be bombing lebanon any longer.
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- They are prohibited from doing so by the usa.
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- Enough is enough.
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- That's a very interesting statement.
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- Can i pause on this one really quick?
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- The so i was talking with a,
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- Somebody that is looking at the numbers,
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- Look at the polling for midterms yesterday.
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- And i said, well, what can we what can we do?
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- What would be your advice?
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- And the advice was really clear.
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- It said president trump has to assert his independence
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- From israel immediately.
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- Now, i don't know if this person is speaking to the admin
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- About this specifically, but this tweet stood out to me
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- Because this truth, because he's saying
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- We're in charge, they're not in charge.
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- We're mandating the terms of this.
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- We're telling them to knock it off again.
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- Remember that moment after midnight hammer, where
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- There was still some missiles going back and forth
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- Between israel and iran, and he was not happy.
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- Remember that
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- Where he's walking out to the, i think on the south
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- Lawn of the white house and he's like, i'm not happy.
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- It's not going out, you know?
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- And that was a really important moment,
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- I think, for the president
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- In that time, fast forward to today.
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- He's sort of doing this via truth, saying,
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- Here's the terms.
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- Lebanon's not going to scuttle the deal.
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- I'm not going to allow israel's fight with hezbollah,
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- Whatever you may think of that,
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- To scuttle the deal, because we had a larger thing
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- That we're doing here.
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- And frankly, it's too important to america
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- To get the deal done and over the finish line.
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- And this is my big my big message.
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- And my hope is that this is really and truly
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- The culmination, the finish, the end of this
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- Conflict in iran.
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- Let's wrap it up. let's declare victory.
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- Let's get the uranium dust.
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- Let's put our people in there.
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- Let's establish and normalize relations with iran.
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- If he can do that in the next,
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- If we can wrap this puppy up in 2 or 3 weeks,
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- That is a huge, huge, huge, huge, i would i would call it
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- A win, a definitive win for president trump.
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- Now the political fallout is still a thing.
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- It's going to take some time
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- To shake this off, especially with younger voters.
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- I've told you guys on the show a number of times
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- That young people don't like the iranian war.
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- They don't.
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- They don't like it.
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- Okay, now you might like it out there.
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- You might trust trump. you might see
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- That the geopolitical ramifications of this.
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- But that doesn't mean that normies out there
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- That aren't consuming the news every day
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- Understand the ramifications geopolitically,
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- What this does to china, what this does potentially
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- To end conflicts for a long time in the middle east.
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- And i've said it again,
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- I've said it before, and i'll say it again,
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- That this could have been the absolutely right
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- Geopolitical national security move,
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- But it will have a political cost.
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- So the point in politics is
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- Where do you want to spend your political capital?
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- We want to get through this, and we want to spend
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- Our political capital right here at home.
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- We want a nation build right here at home.
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- I think it's pretty. it's as you say.
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- I think it's pretty clear, as we said,
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- This had a political hit to the president.
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- But we said if he can resolve it
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- Successfully, pivot domestically,
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- And if he has something, he can point to it
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- That this is our last war, that this was a successful war.
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- They will get over it.
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- And i think he's excellently set the ground for that.
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- And now he just has to land the plane. yep.
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- Exit over the finish line.
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- If you can get uranium in a little bit,
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- He'll have done something no other president has done.
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- Not by a long shot.
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- Not by a long shot.
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- Welcoming now to the show
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- Is alex marlow, editor in chief of breitbart news.
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- Great publication.
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- Check it every day and host the tomorrow show.
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- Alex, thanks for joining us today.
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- There's actually so much news to get into and i
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- But i was inspired
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- By my conversation with vice president j.d.
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- Vance yesterday at the university of georgia,
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- And he started lauding his the administration's
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- Achievements on legal immigration.
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- I love the way this whole thing became a story.
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- It started with a gentleman named david bier,
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- From the cato institute that published
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- The collapse of immigration report that he was warning
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- The world, you don't know how bad it is.
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- President trump and the trump administration
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- Has cut legal immigration,
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- And you guys need to be aware of it.
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- And i think a lot of people in our audience were like,
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- You know, slow clapping like, wow, okay.
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- You know, this is this is what we voted for.
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- Alex.
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- I'll get into the,
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- You know, specifics of the report in just a second.
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- But what is
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- Your impression of cato's report on legal immigration?
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- Yeah. first of all, it's okay.
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- There's a libertarian economic thinktank,
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- And they're very well-funded, very well capitalized,
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- And they're pointing this out as a warning.
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- They're very pro open borders, legal immigration.
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- They think that america basically
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- Is nothing without importing much of the whole third world
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- And first world,
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- Second world,
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- However many people we can get in here,
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- That's their general philosophy.
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- And i think they tell you that to their face, to your face.
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- So this is a warning, and i think that this is essential.
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- I think vice president vance's
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- Narrative and his rise and why, you know,
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- We of breitbart
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- Were very interested in the stuff
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- He did say back when he was a mere author
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- And not even a senator. yet.
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- This is part of the general appeal,
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- Is understanding that when you're importing
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- A bunch of people from around the world,
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- It doesn't necessarily make life better for americans.
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- And america's government is obliged to be america first,
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- But should think of americans first.
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- And importing the entire planet we can't take care of
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- The whole planet is just not realistic.
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- Maybe some pie in the sky appeal to
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- Whatever is in your heart on,
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- It maybe you would want to help
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- As many people as you can, but we can't have them all here.
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- It's not realistic. it's never going to work.
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- It also is really negative on our culture.
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- We do have a culture. we have a homeland.
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- We are a people.
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- We have things that are worth preserving.
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- You can't do that when you import
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- Too many people recklessly.
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- And that has been the policy
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- Of every republican and democrat administration
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- This century, aside from donald trump's
- 00:09:48.281 --> 00:09:50.216
- And so now we're seeing legal asylum entries down 99.9%,
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- Refugee admissions down 90%.
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- We're seeing k visas, which is, fiance and spouse visas
- 00:09:57.290 --> 00:10:00.827
- Down 65%, student visas down 40%.
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- And h-1b visas sharply reduced.
- 00:10:04.664 --> 00:10:06.766
- All this is due to the huge
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- Fee to be able to get some of these things.
- 00:10:08.535 --> 00:10:10.203
- This is amazing news for americans.
- 00:10:10.203 --> 00:10:12.005
- It's going to raise our wages.
- 00:10:12.005 --> 00:10:13.273
- It's going to drive down
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- The price of housing is a big positive
- 00:10:14.174 --> 00:10:16.042
- And hopefully the best is yet to come here.
- 00:10:16.042 --> 00:10:18.278
- Yeah.
- 00:10:18.278 --> 00:10:18.945
- Well listen to that h1-b line.
- 00:10:18.945 --> 00:10:21.915
- It really caught got, the internet by surprise,
- 00:10:21.915 --> 00:10:25.418
- I would say,
- 00:10:25.418 --> 00:10:26.286
- Because there's been so much chatter,
- 00:10:26.286 --> 00:10:27.320
- Especially with our students at, turning point
- 00:10:27.320 --> 00:10:29.489
- All across the country.
- 00:10:29.489 --> 00:10:30.390
- You ask them what they're worried about.
- 00:10:30.390 --> 00:10:31.691
- They're worried about foreigners taking their jobs.
- 00:10:31.691 --> 00:10:33.259
- They hate h-1b.
- 00:10:33.259 --> 00:10:34.761
- So the trump administration slaps up $100,000
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- Tax on any new h-1b.
- 00:10:38.298 --> 00:10:40.533
- New, h-1b visa issuances,
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- Down 90%, 90% 98.
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- Amazing. huge, huge win.
- 00:10:48.341 --> 00:10:50.477
- And you mentioned some of the other ones, though
- 00:10:50.477 --> 00:10:51.711
- Students from 40 countries are now outright banned
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- From studying in the united states.
- 00:10:54.514 --> 00:10:55.749
- That should have happened a long time ago.
- 00:10:55.749 --> 00:10:57.450
- Visa for international students down 40%. why?
- 00:10:57.450 --> 00:11:00.653
- That's a huge deal, by the way, that funds directly
- 00:11:00.653 --> 00:11:04.157
- A lot of the woke universities
- 00:11:04.157 --> 00:11:05.725
- In this country that pays their bills.
- 00:11:05.725 --> 00:11:07.694
- That's why we have so many foreigners,
- 00:11:07.694 --> 00:11:09.262
- Because they they pay full freight.
- 00:11:09.262 --> 00:11:10.930
- You are starving the leviathan
- 00:11:10.930 --> 00:11:13.800
- As we as we sit here today, it's happening in real time.
- 00:11:13.800 --> 00:11:17.137
- Huge, huge.
- 00:11:17.137 --> 00:11:18.304
- I know you're passionate about this. i want to get it.
- 00:11:18.304 --> 00:11:20.406
- But this was like music to our ears.
- 00:11:20.406 --> 00:11:23.143
- Go ahead.
- 00:11:23.443 --> 00:11:24.277
- Yeah. no, i mean, it's incredible.
- 00:11:24.277 --> 00:11:25.478
- And i think about not even just the direct measures, it's
- 00:11:25.478 --> 00:11:28.948
- That you can see.
- 00:11:28.948 --> 00:11:30.416
- It's like we talk about the vibe shift
- 00:11:30.416 --> 00:11:31.818
- In america against it,
- 00:11:31.818 --> 00:11:32.786
- But you're actually driving a vibe shift
- 00:11:32.786 --> 00:11:34.220
- In other countries, and this matters a lot.
- 00:11:34.220 --> 00:11:36.489
- For example, it was actually easy to claim
- 00:11:36.489 --> 00:11:38.925
- Asylum at the border for quite a long time.
- 00:11:38.925 --> 00:11:41.895
- But what really mattered is when biden came in office
- 00:11:41.895 --> 00:11:44.764
- And when tiktok became popular, it's like the word instantly
- 00:11:44.764 --> 00:11:48.401
- Spread around the world.
- 00:11:48.401 --> 00:11:49.602
- If you show up and you do x, y, z thing, you will get in.
- 00:11:49.602 --> 00:11:53.072
- And it just started a giant engine of itself where we went.
- 00:11:53.072 --> 00:11:56.342
- I remember one of the countries,
- 00:11:56.342 --> 00:11:57.477
- Mauritania, the country where slavery is still legal.
- 00:11:57.477 --> 00:12:00.680
- Basically, they had
- 00:12:00.680 --> 00:12:02.115
- They went from 10,000 of them in the us to 50,000 in
- 00:12:02.115 --> 00:12:05.652
- About two years.
- 00:12:05.652 --> 00:12:06.586
- And they were all going to a town in ohio
- 00:12:06.586 --> 00:12:08.054
- Because there's just a guy on tiktok
- 00:12:08.054 --> 00:12:09.589
- Now we're seeing the reversal of that.
- 00:12:09.589 --> 00:12:11.257
- The word is getting out.
- 00:12:11.257 --> 00:12:12.826
- America is tough to get into.
- 00:12:12.826 --> 00:12:14.794
- They're rejecting everything.
- 00:12:14.794 --> 00:12:16.696
- It's really hard.
- 00:12:16.696 --> 00:12:17.831
- And we're going to see people turn to other places.
- 00:12:17.831 --> 00:12:20.700
- They're going to turn to other parts.
- 00:12:20.700 --> 00:12:22.368
- So like even these measures of the actual number of people
- 00:12:22.368 --> 00:12:25.605
- Is not capturing that, that we're
- 00:12:25.605 --> 00:12:27.240
- We're getting the message out, don't come to america.
- 00:12:27.240 --> 00:12:30.009
- The juice isn't worth the squeeze.
- 00:12:30.009 --> 00:12:31.377
- Oh, i love this too. alex, check this out.
- 00:12:31.377 --> 00:12:33.112
- Throw this tweet up from, david j.
- 00:12:33.112 --> 00:12:35.114
- Beer from cato.
- 00:12:35.114 --> 00:12:36.382
- He goes
- 00:12:36.382 --> 00:12:37.584
- And he was responding to a clip from our event last night.
- 00:12:37.584 --> 00:12:40.220
- Where, you know,
- 00:12:40.620 --> 00:12:42.188
- Vice president vance is quoting some of this cato research.
- 00:12:42.188 --> 00:12:44.591
- He goes, he clearly read my research.
- 00:12:44.591 --> 00:12:46.826
- Trump and vance are bragging about
- 00:12:46.826 --> 00:12:48.394
- How anti-illegal immigration they are.
- 00:12:48.394 --> 00:12:50.363
- Embarrassing.
- 00:12:50.363 --> 00:12:51.364
- Very few americans agree and gives
- 00:12:51.364 --> 00:12:53.967
- Lie to their whole agenda.
- 00:12:53.967 --> 00:12:55.902
- No no no no, we agree and we like it.
- 00:12:55.902 --> 00:12:59.572
- We are totally all on board.
- 00:12:59.572 --> 00:13:01.307
- And i keep saying this to anybody who will listen.
- 00:13:01.307 --> 00:13:03.376
- Alex, this is a midterm election 2026.
- 00:13:03.376 --> 00:13:06.479
- What is a midterm election?
- 00:13:06.479 --> 00:13:07.780
- It's a turnout election.
- 00:13:07.780 --> 00:13:09.515
- You will not get your base to turn out for you
- 00:13:09.515 --> 00:13:12.051
- If you don't give them stuff that they really want.
- 00:13:12.051 --> 00:13:13.953
- What does our base really want?
- 00:13:13.953 --> 00:13:15.255
- We want mass deportations,
- 00:13:15.255 --> 00:13:16.890
- And we want the end of the legal invasion of our country.
- 00:13:16.890 --> 00:13:20.326
- When we pull this stuff at our events,
- 00:13:20.326 --> 00:13:22.495
- Immigration moratorium, it's one of the most popular things
- 00:13:22.495 --> 00:13:25.965
- You can pull amongst base.
- 00:13:25.965 --> 00:13:28.167
- Yeah.
- 00:13:28.401 --> 00:13:28.968
- It's great. you guys.
- 00:13:28.968 --> 00:13:29.769
- I love that you guys are on this
- 00:13:29.769 --> 00:13:30.703
- Because it's so big for so many reasons.
- 00:13:30.703 --> 00:13:32.138
- First of all, start with the universities. it's huge.
- 00:13:32.138 --> 00:13:34.040
- And even if you're a person
- 00:13:34.040 --> 00:13:35.108
- Who wants to go to an expensive university,
- 00:13:35.108 --> 00:13:37.510
- Part of the reason it's so expensive
- 00:13:37.510 --> 00:13:38.945
- Is because there's
- 00:13:38.945 --> 00:13:39.946
- So many foreigners who can pay full freight,
- 00:13:39.946 --> 00:13:41.981
- And some of them might be chinese.
- 00:13:41.981 --> 00:13:43.583
- It might take to know how back to their country
- 00:13:43.583 --> 00:13:45.885
- And just use it against us in the long run.
- 00:13:45.885 --> 00:13:48.621
- Others might just, basically waste a bunch of time
- 00:13:48.621 --> 00:13:51.958
- For everyone and drive up your wages. it.
- 00:13:51.958 --> 00:13:54.761
- But why?
- 00:13:54.761 --> 00:13:55.628
- We think of it in terms of my children.
- 00:13:55.628 --> 00:13:56.963
- Andrew, you got a bunch of children at blake.
- 00:13:56.963 --> 00:13:58.264
- Hopefully one day you'll have a bunch of children.
- 00:13:58.264 --> 00:13:59.599
- He's going to have the idea.
- 00:13:59.599 --> 00:14:01.334
- Yeah, the idea that i'm going to pay,
- 00:14:01.334 --> 00:14:04.070
- You know,
- 00:14:04.070 --> 00:14:05.238
- Six figures a year in taxes in the system for decades.
- 00:14:05.238 --> 00:14:07.373
- And then my kids are going to get educated,
- 00:14:07.373 --> 00:14:09.442
- And then they're going to get into the working world.
- 00:14:09.442 --> 00:14:11.244
- And then someone who has never been here,
- 00:14:11.244 --> 00:14:12.946
- Who has no roots here,
- 00:14:12.946 --> 00:14:13.980
- Who's not part of american culture,
- 00:14:13.980 --> 00:14:15.415
- Is not part of american heritage.
- 00:14:15.415 --> 00:14:16.849
- It's just going to take a job from one of my kids
- 00:14:16.849 --> 00:14:19.452
- Because they're willing to do it for
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- 11% less is so insane to me as a parent.
- 00:14:21.154 --> 00:14:25.224
- And yet this is exactly
- 00:14:25.224 --> 00:14:26.559
- How we've run our country for the last several decades.
- 00:14:26.559 --> 00:14:28.661
- And i think people need to understand
- 00:14:28.661 --> 00:14:29.963
- That that's not acceptable.
- 00:14:29.963 --> 00:14:31.998
- I'm going to show these images as well, said alex.
- 00:14:31.998 --> 00:14:34.233
- These are from our, am fest straw poll.
- 00:14:34.233 --> 00:14:38.638
- If you show them it was, would you support a net zero
- 00:14:38.638 --> 00:14:41.874
- Immigration moratorium? 90%? yes.
- 00:14:41.874 --> 00:14:44.744
- 11%. no.
- 00:14:44.744 --> 00:14:45.945
- All right.
- 00:14:45.945 --> 00:14:47.046
- And, would you you know, and then we did it again.
- 00:14:47.046 --> 00:14:49.749
- Would you support
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- An immigration moratorium into the united states?
- 00:14:50.850 --> 00:14:53.553
- And again, 90%, yes, slightly ticked up, 0.5%.
- 00:14:53.553 --> 00:14:57.290
- So this is something that's held for a long time
- 00:14:57.290 --> 00:15:00.960
- Now, you know, so it's it shouldn't be surprising.
- 00:15:00.960 --> 00:15:03.763
- And i do one last thing.
- 00:15:03.763 --> 00:15:05.198
- And then we're going to take a quick break
- 00:15:05.198 --> 00:15:06.366
- More with alex marla on the other side of it.
- 00:15:06.366 --> 00:15:08.167
- But a news story out of the dhs, confirmed this
- 00:15:08.167 --> 00:15:11.971
- This morning.
- 00:15:11.971 --> 00:15:12.972
- Dhs employee murdered while walking her dog
- 00:15:12.972 --> 00:15:16.309
- By a criminal immigrant who was naturalized under joe biden.
- 00:15:16.309 --> 00:15:20.480
- And this is a gentleman that, is actually a british
- 00:15:20.480 --> 00:15:24.584
- National who is naturalized under joe biden.
- 00:15:24.584 --> 00:15:27.186
- It doesn't look like the british man.
- 00:15:27.186 --> 00:15:28.755
- Our father's new, but his name was all ola.
- 00:15:28.755 --> 00:15:32.959
- Luke. kitten. adam, abel.
- 00:15:32.959 --> 00:15:36.796
- Yeah, i remember
- 00:15:37.196 --> 00:15:38.598
- That name signing the magna carta star wars name.
- 00:15:38.598 --> 00:15:40.633
- So that that is a tragedy.
- 00:15:40.633 --> 00:15:42.368
- Another unnecessary american death
- 00:15:42.368 --> 00:15:45.104
- That, unfortunately, we have to live through
- 00:15:45.104 --> 00:15:47.540
- Because joe biden just opened the borders.
- 00:15:47.540 --> 00:15:52.007
- Because joe biden just opened the borders.
- 00:15:52.007 --> 00:15:58.118
- All right.
- 00:15:58.419 --> 00:15:59.253
- We're going to talk about something
- 00:15:59.253 --> 00:16:00.087
- That i think is
- 00:16:00.087 --> 00:16:00.921
- I think it's important to talk about
- 00:16:00.921 --> 00:16:02.122
- Because i think some people in this audience maybe aren't.
- 00:16:02.122 --> 00:16:05.025
- I mean, they're aware of it broadly, but maybe not
- 00:16:05.025 --> 00:16:08.462
- As intimately as we are working with students on campus.
- 00:16:08.462 --> 00:16:11.165
- And that is support for israel.
- 00:16:11.165 --> 00:16:13.200
- Harry enten from cnn did a whole rundown of
- 00:16:13.200 --> 00:16:17.204
- Just how the numbers have collapsed.
- 00:16:17.204 --> 00:16:19.306
- Really, since 2022.
- 00:16:19.306 --> 00:16:20.741
- Right?
- 00:16:20.741 --> 00:16:21.575
- Remember we had october 7th, 2023,
- 00:16:21.575 --> 00:16:23.644
- And it's off a cliff, alex.
- 00:16:23.644 --> 00:16:26.113
- So let's play the clip
- 00:16:26.113 --> 00:16:27.147
- And we'll get your reaction on the other side.
- 00:16:27.147 --> 00:16:28.715
- Sot 16 israel's us popularity problem
- 00:16:28.715 --> 00:16:32.119
- Israel is losing support here in the united states
- 00:16:32.119 --> 00:16:34.922
- Even amongst republicans.
- 00:16:34.922 --> 00:16:36.523
- Take a look at this data.
- 00:16:36.523 --> 00:16:37.858
- Take a look at this data among young republicans.
- 00:16:37.858 --> 00:16:40.294
- Look at this massive shift that we have had over
- 00:16:40.294 --> 00:16:43.197
- Just the last four years, the net favorability
- 00:16:43.197 --> 00:16:45.132
- Of israel among republicans under the age of 50.
- 00:16:45.132 --> 00:16:47.668
- You know, you go back to 2022, two thumbs
- 00:16:47.668 --> 00:16:50.337
- Up, two thumbs up for israel amongst young republicans.
- 00:16:50.337 --> 00:16:53.307
- But by 2025, look at this already a 30 point shift away.
- 00:16:53.307 --> 00:16:57.044
- Their net favorable down to minus two today.
- 00:16:57.044 --> 00:17:00.147
- Look at this.
- 00:17:00.147 --> 00:17:00.747
- -16 points.
- 00:17:00.747 --> 00:17:02.483
- That's an over 40 point shift in just one, two,
- 00:17:02.483 --> 00:17:07.287
- Three, four years time away from israel
- 00:17:07.287 --> 00:17:10.457
- Amongst young republicans.
- 00:17:10.457 --> 00:17:11.859
- And he continues on.
- 00:17:11.859 --> 00:17:12.960
- It's about a 4 or 5 minute clip,
- 00:17:12.960 --> 00:17:14.428
- But he kind of
- 00:17:14.428 --> 00:17:15.562
- Goes through every age cohort and he goes through the
- 00:17:15.562 --> 00:17:17.931
- Different party affiliations, and it's down across the board.
- 00:17:17.931 --> 00:17:20.701
- I think collapse is a fair word here.
- 00:17:20.701 --> 00:17:23.270
- What do you what do you ascribe as the reason here,
- 00:17:23.270 --> 00:17:27.441
- But also what are the political ramifications?
- 00:17:27.441 --> 00:17:30.210
- Yeah, it's interesting.
- 00:17:30.210 --> 00:17:31.011
- It's a big political realignment
- 00:17:31.011 --> 00:17:32.412
- That's taking place.
- 00:17:32.412 --> 00:17:33.714
- And i think a lot of this
- 00:17:33.714 --> 00:17:34.948
- Has to do with just terrible pr for israel.
- 00:17:34.948 --> 00:17:37.784
- Israel is really almost no major spokespeople,
- 00:17:37.784 --> 00:17:40.621
- I think, who are particularly reaching younger people
- 00:17:40.621 --> 00:17:43.023
- Who are pro-israel,
- 00:17:43.023 --> 00:17:44.224
- Who are making a convincing case that israel is a unique
- 00:17:44.224 --> 00:17:47.594
- Beacon of hope in a region full of islamist insanity,
- 00:17:47.594 --> 00:17:50.430
- Which is how i regard it.
- 00:17:50.430 --> 00:17:51.632
- But there's very few people speaking to younger people
- 00:17:51.632 --> 00:17:53.767
- About that.
- 00:17:53.767 --> 00:17:54.835
- I know this was one of charlie's critiques of israel.
- 00:17:54.835 --> 00:17:56.937
- I think maybe his main critique of israel is
- 00:17:56.937 --> 00:17:59.173
- He found himself having to defend positions
- 00:17:59.173 --> 00:18:01.642
- That israel held that weren't ones you
- 00:18:01.642 --> 00:18:04.211
- Necessarily agreed with, because they weren't
- 00:18:04.211 --> 00:18:05.579
- Really doing a capable job of defending themselves.
- 00:18:05.579 --> 00:18:08.248
- And i think there's a lot of people
- 00:18:08.248 --> 00:18:09.883
- Who are messaging the younger people in the podcasting space,
- 00:18:09.883 --> 00:18:12.686
- In the online space, who are very much pro-israel.
- 00:18:12.686 --> 00:18:15.689
- I very much anti-israel to various degrees,
- 00:18:15.689 --> 00:18:18.592
- And i don't really know what alternative
- 00:18:18.592 --> 00:18:20.327
- Is being presented to these younger people.
- 00:18:20.327 --> 00:18:22.362
- And for people who are older, i think a lot of people
- 00:18:22.362 --> 00:18:25.165
- Feel as though israel
- 00:18:25.165 --> 00:18:26.400
- Maybe is a good country in the scheme of countries,
- 00:18:26.400 --> 00:18:29.336
- But they don't really want to see
- 00:18:29.336 --> 00:18:30.504
- American blood and treasure spilled on israel's behalf.
- 00:18:30.504 --> 00:18:33.273
- And that's a deep concern
- 00:18:33.273 --> 00:18:34.508
- That if a world war breaks out, a lot of people
- 00:18:34.508 --> 00:18:36.743
- Assume that israel is going to be a part of the discussion.
- 00:18:36.743 --> 00:18:39.179
- So i'm a pro-israel person,
- 00:18:39.179 --> 00:18:40.581
- I like israel,
- 00:18:40.581 --> 00:18:41.415
- I don't love seeing these numbers,
- 00:18:41.415 --> 00:18:42.549
- But i completely understand it, given that media layout.
- 00:18:42.549 --> 00:18:45.185
- As you said, we talked a lot with charlie about this.
- 00:18:45.185 --> 00:18:47.754
- This is a big concern of his
- 00:18:47.754 --> 00:18:48.922
- Trying to get the synthesis that he knew
- 00:18:48.922 --> 00:18:51.625
- There was skepticism rising, but you want to be able to
- 00:18:51.625 --> 00:18:55.662
- Understand where it's coming from without letting it spiral
- 00:18:55.662 --> 00:18:58.465
- Off into the bad dark alleys that it often goes into.
- 00:18:58.465 --> 00:19:02.769
- And i remember us discussing ways that it could be fixed.
- 00:19:02.769 --> 00:19:06.139
- And what i will admit to having trouble with is
- 00:19:06.139 --> 00:19:09.810
- It seems much harder to fix now than it even was
- 00:19:09.810 --> 00:19:12.446
- Two months ago.
- 00:19:12.446 --> 00:19:13.513
- I think there was a lot of skepticism,
- 00:19:13.513 --> 00:19:14.915
- But that number you saw at 2025, it was about neutral
- 00:19:14.915 --> 00:19:18.518
- And then it's really bad just this spring.
- 00:19:18.518 --> 00:19:21.388
- Let's be frank, it's the iran conflict
- 00:19:21.388 --> 00:19:23.991
- Has really driven young people in a negative direction.
- 00:19:23.991 --> 00:19:27.127
- And so it's gone in a bad direction.
- 00:19:27.127 --> 00:19:29.930
- How do we arrest that decline?
- 00:19:29.930 --> 00:19:32.599
- Because we don't want the right to be this insane anti-semite
- 00:19:32.599 --> 00:19:36.637
- Conspiracy theory party,
- 00:19:36.637 --> 00:19:37.971
- Which there are people who would love
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- To take it in that direction.
- 00:19:39.406 --> 00:19:41.208
- Yeah, a short term and long term.
- 00:19:41.208 --> 00:19:43.043
- I think the short term things is, first of all,
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- Trump has a decisively win the iran war, move on
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- And then also sell to the american people.
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- Why he fought it to begin with,
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- Which i think is becoming very clear.
- 00:19:52.519 --> 00:19:54.321
- Vice president barnes was crystal
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- With you guys yesterday at the event.
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- It's about nuclear weapons,
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- And it really kind of took people about seven weeks
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- To figure out.
- 00:20:01.261 --> 00:20:02.162
- It really was always just about nukes.
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- Trump had drawn a red line over a year ago.
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- They were not going to pursue nuclear weapons
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- Or else he was going to bomb them.
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- It's really crystal clear looking
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- Back, hindsight
- 00:20:10.170 --> 00:20:11.338
- Being 2020 as it is, that trump was always going to bomb
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- Iran so long as they kept pursuing nuclear weapons,
- 00:20:13.774 --> 00:20:16.543
- People should know that.
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- And if we can get this boom, that could potentially happen
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- From ships
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- Going to get oil
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- From the united states of america
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- Instead of being hooked on iranian oil,
- 00:20:23.950 --> 00:20:25.786
- He could have a really major victory here.
- 00:20:25.786 --> 00:20:27.554
- And if he can tell that story,
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- I do think that actually helps the cause of israel,
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- Because as of now, people feel like that.
- 00:20:31.224 --> 00:20:33.360
- There's this perception that israel
- 00:20:33.360 --> 00:20:34.695
- Dragged us into a stupid war,
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- And that is very hard to push back against at the moment.
- 00:20:36.363 --> 00:20:40.300
- I think that can change.
- 00:20:40.300 --> 00:20:41.501
- I think also a lot of the most fervent anti-israel voices out
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- There are gradually losing their credibility
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- With certain audiences.
- 00:20:48.775 --> 00:20:50.277
- I don't know about younger audiences,
- 00:20:50.277 --> 00:20:51.712
- Maybe not there, but maybe so there.
- 00:20:51.712 --> 00:20:54.081
- And i think that that's important
- 00:20:54.081 --> 00:20:55.282
- Is a lot of the biggest anti-israel spokespeople
- 00:20:55.282 --> 00:20:58.151
- Are lighting themselves on fire in a public way lately.
- 00:20:58.151 --> 00:21:01.154
- I think over time that's going to make a difference as well.
- 00:21:01.154 --> 00:21:04.091
- But israelis are to figure out how to message in a way
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- That doesn't alienate huge groups of people.
- 00:21:06.727 --> 00:21:08.462
- And i say,
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- This is someone who would like to see israel succeed,
- 00:21:09.529 --> 00:21:11.198
- And they're doing really bad job at that,
- 00:21:11.198 --> 00:21:12.799
- And that probably should change if they want
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- A better approval in america.
- 00:21:14.634 --> 00:21:16.269
- You know what's interesting, alex?
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- I had a conversation
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- With somebody this morning that's like a very for fervent
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- Supporter of his or at least historically.
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- And he made a comment to me that kind of took me a back.
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- He said, you know, even i'm getting a little like
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- On edge about it because, you know, there is this perception
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- That, you know, it's like we like them, but
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- We like america more.
- 00:21:38.992 --> 00:21:40.360
- And we we want to make sure that our interests
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- Are being put in front of our own.
- 00:21:43.530 --> 00:21:44.931
- And he was like, you know,
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- I can only help you so much here.
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- Israel.
- 00:21:49.469 --> 00:21:50.404
- Like, you know, if you don't help yourself
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- And you got to stop bombing hezbollah, you got to stop.
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- You got to stop the iran stuff.
- 00:21:53.807 --> 00:21:55.075
- You got to just like, this has to be behind us,
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- Or this is only going to get worse.
- 00:21:57.244 --> 00:21:58.578
- And he was even at
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- He was tired, tired of trying to defend.
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- And i was surprised because he's been so fervent.
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- I, i think i was really telling.
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- Yeah, i think it is.
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- And the lebanon example is a perfect example.
- 00:22:07.187 --> 00:22:09.022
- If you want to go deep in the history,
- 00:22:09.022 --> 00:22:10.524
- This is an age old territorial beef.
- 00:22:10.524 --> 00:22:12.626
- Israel has got claims to regions of lebanon
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- That are unrealized.
- 00:22:15.562 --> 00:22:16.797
- And hezbollah,
- 00:22:16.797 --> 00:22:17.931
- Which is an iran funded terror proxy, is in the region.
- 00:22:17.931 --> 00:22:20.567
- And it strategically places a lot of their resources,
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- Their personnel, their terror weaponry in civilian areas,
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- Specifically because if israel tax them, they can
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- Then manipulate
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- The news cycle as they do, and they do it effectively.
- 00:22:30.644 --> 00:22:33.079
- But who cares?
- 00:22:33.079 --> 00:22:34.681
- Israel should not be bombing lebanon right now.
- 00:22:34.681 --> 00:22:36.516
- It's terrible for israel's own cause
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- Because you're killing christians.
- 00:22:38.718 --> 00:22:40.153
- They're killing people who are very sympathetic,
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- In the world media and them choosing to do that right now
- 00:22:41.988 --> 00:22:45.358
- When we're trying to get a cease fire in the region,
- 00:22:45.358 --> 00:22:46.927
- I think only hurt them long term.
- 00:22:46.927 --> 00:22:48.562
- They would say, we're just getting it now
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- Because we hate them. they're terrorists. fine.
- 00:22:49.996 --> 00:22:52.666
- But the optics are horrible
- 00:22:52.666 --> 00:22:54.167
- And they should recognize that if they want support.
- 00:22:54.167 --> 00:22:56.002
- There are rational explanations for this, but optically,
- 00:22:56.002 --> 00:22:59.473
- It just seems like there's
- 00:22:59.473 --> 00:23:00.474
- Been a lack of appreciation of what this is,
- 00:23:00.474 --> 00:23:03.243
- What the appearance is in america across the west.
- 00:23:03.243 --> 00:23:06.213
- And i think it's been really
- 00:23:06.213 --> 00:23:07.347
- Destructive overall, unfortunately.
- 00:23:07.347 --> 00:23:09.149
- But i'm told we're on the precipice of breakthrough here.
- 00:23:09.149 --> 00:23:12.652
- Let's hope in the next ten days we get this all wrapped up.
- 00:23:12.652 --> 00:23:14.988
- It's time to get out of the middle east.
- 00:23:14.988 --> 00:23:16.957
- It's time to get this done. and behind us.
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- Let's pray it happens sooner than than not.
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- Alex marlow, thank you so much. excellent.
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- As always yet.
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