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Andrew Kolvet & Blake Neff: December 23, 2025 | Charlie Kirk Today

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Charlie Kirk Today | Andrew Kolvet & Blake Neff: December 23, 2025 | Charlie Kirk Today | December 23, 2025

Brought to you in part by the
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International fellowship of christians and jews.
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You know,
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We we have to tell the tale.
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That was, four action packed days of america fest.
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Blake.
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I mean, that was, you know, every side of the political
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Debate seemed to get in on what happened at am fest.
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Everybody had an opinion.
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I'm all i'm all here for it.
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And, you know, more than any other am fest
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In the history
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Of turning point, this was, we had the eyes of the world,
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The nation, certainly on this event.
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And so you're going to get a lot of opinions either way.
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But one thing is very clear.
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Anybody that was there
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Absolutely had the time of their lives
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And realized just how much unity
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There is in the movement, in the love of the people.
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I think it was truly transformative
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If you were in the space in the event and,
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If you were just on twitter, taking pot shots,
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I guess there's no pleasing you.
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But i mean, honestly, what an event.
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What an absolutely,
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Historic, enormous, achievement for the team.
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And, i'm really proud of everybody that was involved.
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It was it was such a triumph in so many ways.
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Blake. you were you were obviously there.
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You, were taking part in a lot of the,
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Activities and interviews and shows.
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What was your take?
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Yeah, it's very funny because i,
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We were doing
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So many interviews for the exclusive segments
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That i kind of had a bit of tunnel vision.
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I didn't see that many of the speeches on stage.
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So i'm actually looking forward to catching some of the clips
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That we have here because we did, you know,
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As i'm sure a lot of you listening right now know,
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We had our exclusives room.
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We talked to megan kelly, we had michael knowles,
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We had tom homan, we had, the sons of that korean pastor,
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Pastor song, who was arrested in korea,
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Who we had on the show at m fest last week.
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And so we saw all of that.
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But what we were seeing on stage at the same time was,
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I think what was most interesting about this am fest
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Is we've had it as a big event.
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We've had it as an event to get people fired up.
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We've had it as an event
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For people to celebrate after the 2024 win,
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But i think this was probably the most significant
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America fest in terms of it really being a space
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Where different members of the coalition,
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Different members of maga, go to state their position
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On what the movement should be,
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How they should approach some, significant issues.
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I think it stands out.
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We built on the debate that we had last summer,
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And we had several debates on different issues,
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And i think
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That's a very promising theme that we'll be having
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Going forward, because we can do
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We can do debates about israel, we can do debates about weed.
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We can do
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Maybe we'll have a debate about the property tax,
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And everyone can yell at me again.
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I think it, that's what
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Stood out about this america fest that there was,
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There was a certain combativeness over issues.
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But i, as you said, people on the ground,
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It was a very positive vibe, a very good attitude.
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There was a lot of unity coming from everyone
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Remembering charlie and what he meant for the movement.
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And i think most people there, the vast majority of people
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There were extremely upbeat, and they were remembering
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The things that we're all fighting for.
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Yeah.
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And then,
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You know, like i said, it was like an
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It was like a play in four acts or something,
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You know, it was like night one.
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It was,
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You know, ben shapiro came on the stage,
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Kind of namechecked, a lot of people kind of took,
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As i said, it kind of took
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Like a howitzer to, a lot of the online.
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Right.
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And had, you know,
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It was like the festivus for the rest of us.
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It was a episode of seinfeld, aired his grievances,
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Got it out of his system.
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And then you had a couple of those people.
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Tucker, on the first night, that kind of fired back.
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But, you know,
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I think tucker was a little bit more restrained.
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And then you had steve bannon, obviously, megyn kelly.
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So you had a bunch of that kind of chatter.
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But by the,
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I think
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It was, saturday night, you had jesse waters come on
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And basically just tell funny stories
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About trump and kind of talked about how charlie inspired
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Him and ended ended the, saturday night.
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And then we had faith night.
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So we had, you know, proclamation of the gospel.
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And we had, of course, sunday,
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Where we had the surprise guest, nicki minaj.
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We had erica interview her, we had don junior.
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We had then, of course, jd vance, who was the capstone
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Of the entire event.
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And i was telling people i was like,
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You know, the capstone of this event with jd coming
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In, it felt like, you know, dad's home.
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All right, settle down, kids.
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Here's what's going to here's
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What's going to be, the message and the takeaway.
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And he just did such a good job of crystallizing,
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I think, all of the, the sort of various,
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I don't know, messaging like through lines
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That you could pick apart and you could see
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And then jd vance just comes in and says, settle down.
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Here's the way it's going to go.
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We're not going to cancel anybody.
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We're not deplatforming anybody.
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We're going to have these arguments,
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You know, out in the open.
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And by the way, here's where we're going as a movement.
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Here's why we're going to win the midterms.
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Here's why we're different than the left. here's why.
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You know, you're not going to get hive minded collectivism
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And sit down, shut up and, pipe down.
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You know, it was just such a morally clear speech.
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I think in
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It's going to go down in history books
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Is one of the most important speeches, ever.
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Not just because this was the first and fest of,
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The post charlie era, which was on everybody's
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Hearts and minds the entire time.
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I mean that, by the way, i just want to give a shout out
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To so many of the patriots that came up and, and,
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You know, gave me a hug and took a selfie.
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I could feel how much charlie meant to
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You guys and how much he's still present in your hearts
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And in this movement, and certainly at this event.
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But, you know, that speech was so important
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Because of the all of the storylines that were going into
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The the event.
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And then
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Obviously following the event through through the week,
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He just added that moral clarity.
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And it underscored for me, blake,
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That this is a politician that's not afraid to,
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You know, really declare the moral center
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Of the conservative right, and to do it
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Forcefully, to do it articulately, articulately.
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And, i just felt so uplifted by that.
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And i felt like, you know, for all of the noise
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And all the contentiousness of the last few days,
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It was like that was the way to end it.
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Jd vance brought the clarity that the movement needed.
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And if you really go back and watch that speech
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Where he talks about getting rid of racism and, the day,
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Anti meritocracy and saying it's okay to but
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You don't have to apologize for being white in the country.
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You have to apologize
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For being asian in the country,
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That we are a christian nation,
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That we are
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We are a very diverse coalition, but we are
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Pulling in one direction.
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I genuinely think it was historic.
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It was important.
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And it's going to be, looking back this moment
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That all of us can look to and say, that was the moment
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Where things really began to crystallize again.
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Let's or let's just do that.
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Let's, let's play 130.
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The fruits of true christianity are good
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Husbands, patient fathers,
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Builders of great things and slayers of dragons,
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And, yes, men who are willing to die
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For a principle if that's what god asks them to do.
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Because so many of us recognize
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That it is better to die a patriot than live
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A coward.
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I think that was the biggest applause line of his speech.
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Was it was that line,
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It's almost too bad we cut it off there, but it
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It was a good line.
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It really crystallized what charlie stood for.
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And i think
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That's going to that's got to be the glue
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That binds the movement
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Together in this year and probably the years to come.
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The legacy of charlie that that great coalition builder,
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That great event planner, that great,
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Speaker, that great show host, that great man.
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And i think that was the biggest thing about em fest
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Was that we got the opportunity
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To spend four days remembering him.
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The wounds from
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October 7th didn't fade when the headlines did.
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Behind me rises
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A new rehabilitation home for israel's wounded soldiers.
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One of many urgent projects israel needs right now.
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Entire communities shattered.
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Families displaced.
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And each day,
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The impact of the need grows even more overwhelming.
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But the bible says it clearly.
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The righteous will live by faith and by faith.
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The fellowship is rolling up our sleeves
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And stepping into this immense challenge.
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Helping mothers who don't know where to begin again.
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Standing with paralyzed heroes.
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Fighting to take their first steps.
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Building centers of healing for the wounded
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And the traumatized.
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Bringing food and comfort to elderly israelis
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Who have no one else to care for them.
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To see the life saving work of the fellowship.
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Unfolding across israel right now.
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Visit ifc's dawg.
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Visit ifc's dawg.
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Andrew cole, the executive producer of this fine show.
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Blake neff in, back in the phoenix studio.
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Blake, did you get any sleep during this event?
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I feel like i got, like, five hours of sleep.
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I am, my mom did that thing again
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When she's like, you look tired.
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And i'm like, i know, mom.
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I got a i got a medium amount of sleep, i think.
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I don't know.
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Now i'm remembering how charlie said
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He would get 8 or 9 night.
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Did he do that during emphasis?
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It sounds hard to believe, but.
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No, but you know what?
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He he would he would still really discipline, i tried.
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Don't get me wrong, i tried, but it was, you know,
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You wake up early, you got 48, urgent things to get done.
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And and by the way, i just want to say that the the
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Team, the the turning point team, the events team i have,
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I've gotten just overwhelmed,
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Inundated with people saying that was,
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The just how positive they are, how helpful they were.
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Everybody has an interaction with a turning point staff
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Member at these events,
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And they need something and they get help.
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And there's just nobody like it.
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Nobody in the in the, in the space does this.
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And these are, these are like from top
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To bottom, the kids that, you know, just got hired,
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You know, award to the top level staff.
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There is so much just grassroots humility.
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And this is a this is an event
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To serve the base to serve everyday americans.
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If you walk around those halls, it's just average,
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Everyday americans that love their country,
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That are there to make sure that the,
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The movement is in a good place,
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That they want to honor charlie, honor his memory.
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And, it's just it's just we the people, man.
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This event is just we the people.
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Blake, we do have that clip that you wanted,
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I believe, set it up for us from. and.
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All right, well, it's, 71.
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Yeah. all right, let's, so
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It's just
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We're trying to figure out what america's identity is.
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We're trying to figure out what the right's identity is.
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And that's what a big theme of the event was.
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And charlie would always
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Want to be searching for positive identifications.
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You don't define the right by what things offend you, or
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What things you disagree with, or what things make you angry.
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The best way to build a durable coalition is to find
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Positive, shared things that can unite different peoples.
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And j.d.
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Vance made a case for one charlie would agree with.
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We would agree with america as it's not a nation
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Where everyone is christian, but it is a christian nation.
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Let's play 171.
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More than any time i can recount
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People are talking about american identity
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And figuring out what it is that unites us.
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But i want to say something here.
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The only thing that is truly served as an anchor
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Of the united states of america is that we have been,
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And by the grace of god, we always will be,
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A christian nation.
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And he continued for a bit
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After that and elaborate on what he meant.
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It wasn't just, a throwaway line.
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He talks about that
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You not everyone in america is christian.
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Many follow other religions.
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As we know, his own wife is not a christian,
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But it's that america is.
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It's built on this
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Bedrock of christian values that that it undergirds
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All of american history.
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It undergirds its founding documents.
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It's what drove america to become
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The greatest nation in the world.
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It's what makes america such a desirable nation today.
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And even if you are not
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Christian, you live in a world that is completely pervaded
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By those christian values, and that the preservation of them
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Is central to keeping america great.
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And i think you made a very strong case for that.
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Yeah.
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You know, he says christianity is america's
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Creed, the shared moral language,
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From the revolution to the civil war and beyond.
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And i thought that was a beautiful way
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To sum it up, because, you know, we've
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We've been talking about what is an american a lot.
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On this show, charlie was talking about it
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And he was contemplating that that notion a lot.
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And we, you know, we played you know, clips are not clips.
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We showed quotes from teddy roosevelt talking about,
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What they were
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You know, believed in american to be in the early 1900s.
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And that idea is something that we have to contend
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With generation after generation,
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Especially after the mass migration that we have
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Absorbed as a country over the last 40 years.
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And i think especially poignant was that moment
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Because we do have a lot of a lot more people in this country
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That are not christian.
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Church attendance rates have dropped among those
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Who used to be christian, right, that come from
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Christian families and heritage and backgrounds.
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And so for him to go out there and to state definitively,
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I think especially given the fact that his own wife
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Is not a professing christian was a powerful,
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Powerful moment, and it truly is uniting
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If you let it and if you let it be because
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It doesn't matter if you profess that same faith,
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You are drawn to this country because of the freedoms
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That are afforded us by the fact
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That our moral framework, our laws, our customs are built
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Upon the foundation of jesus christ and the christian faith.
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And that's something that we can never lose sight of.
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That's something that charlie never lost sight of.
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We are a christian nation, and amen.
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Yes and amen. and may it always be that way.
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So here, here to jd vance again,
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The moral clarity is astounding.
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That christmas morning.
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Wise men brought gifts from outside the holy land.
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But now that the war is over,
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This holy land and her people
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Are still carrying deep wounded.
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Many of the elderly are alone and suffering
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Like the wise men or wise women.
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When you open your heart and give a special holiday food
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Box to someone here in israel
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This christmas chronicles season.
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People like hannah who can't buy food.
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That's where the fellowship is called to feed the hungry.
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Please call, scan or go online now to help rush emergency
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Food and healing to elderly jews
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And their christian neighbors struggling
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To rebuild their lives from the war.
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What will happen when we make this holy day season?
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Holy indeed.
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Holy indeed.
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Blake, we have we have to get into,
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The big surprise guests yesterday that i'm, as i'm,
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You know,
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Going through social media right now,
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It seems the whole world is still talking about.
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And that is, of course, nicki minaj on stage with erica kirk.
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It was a pretty profound moment, i have to say.
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You know, there was a lot of, you know, people were guessing.
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Was it elon musk?
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Was it was it going to be some other person?
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Was it going to be podence himself?
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Actually, the president called in, when don jr was on stage,
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And that was a really special moment.
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But, we had even more surprises in store.
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And that, of course, was nicki minaj.
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Some people might kind of scratch your head
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A little bit and go like, oh, nicki,
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You know what's, you know, what's why would she be invited
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To something like this? well, i'll tell you why.
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Because nicki minaj has shown a lot of courage.
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Actually, she, like,
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Obviously she's lived a life that i'm not here to endorse
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Or, say is is the model for young women.
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But she showed a lot of courage.
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And more recently she's been speaking out
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And advocating for the persecuted church
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In nigeria and helping get even the u.s government
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To take action
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On our brothers and sisters in christ that are suffering.
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Devastating losses, devastating attacks and murder.
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It's persecution in the truest sense of the word.
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And so, you know, i was honored that she agreed
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To come on stage and what i was struck by blake.
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And i be curious to get your thoughts
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On this is, you know, as a huge rap fan that you are.
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Is she
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She. that was a joke.
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In case people are.
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Yeah. yeah.
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The radio viewers can't see my grimace right now.
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Yeah, exactly.
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No, i'm definitely not a rap fan either.
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I have to say.
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But, you know, i,
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I do appreciate somebody in her position
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That's willing to, to have to have the courage to speak out
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And advocate for things that are unpopular
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In her position to advocate for, to cut against the grain.
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I was very impressed also with just the depth of her wisdom.
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Blake, i said to her backstage.
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I said, i have to be honest,
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I was surprised at how i was riveted by what you said,
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How i was hanging on every word that you said
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Because it felt like you have wisdom that only comes through
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Like kind of a hard knock life, only through hard fought wins
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And and courage
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And a lot of up in the face of a lot of opposition.
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That's the only time, you know, somebody
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Can really drop truth on you.
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And it it kind of makes you sit back and you're like,
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You earned every ounce of this wisdom the hard way.
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And you can you can feel that.
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So what was your take, blake?
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And then we'll play some of her clips.
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Well i think let's get into the clips first.
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I think that's what people who may have missed
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It want to see.
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We have quite a few, but, let's just start with 129.
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I've performed for huge crowds all around the world.
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And no matter
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How many songs i do on that stage,
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It didn't mean as much as this
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Because this is a direct link
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For younger people.
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This is a direct link
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Between young people and god.
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That was a good one.
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And let's,
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Let's see.
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How about let's just start let's go into 124.
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So why now?
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Have you have you been involved with speaking about politics?
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What was kind of the the turning point for you? yes.
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What was the turning point?
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I just got tired of being pushed around.
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Sometimes you just get tired of it
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And then you realize, wait a minute, i have something
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Inside of me that's stronger than what's out there.
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That's right.
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So when you've had enough,
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You realize, wait a minute, this.
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Why do i even care about these people?
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And on what they think, who are they?
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They don't even know who they are.
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So i'm not going to i'm not going to back down anymore.
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I'm not going to back down ever again.
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Hey, man.
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Any others you want to do?
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Oh, should we dive into it?
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Yeah.
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Then i just want to make a comment really quick.
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You know, i, i was talking about this with tyler boyer.
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And, you know,
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This is a position that erica kirk has not been placed in
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A whole lot, honestly, where she's the interviewer on stage.
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And it was like, you know, she was a
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She was a mix between, you know, barbara walters and
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I don't know.
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And, and, and sort of,
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Just a godly representation of a woman of christ.
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I mean, it was really amazing.
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And, of course, i mean, i,
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I don't want to call it the elephant in the room, but,
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You know,
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But here were some other things that she did
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That ended up playing into jade's, vance's speech later
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When jada was talking about, it's
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Okay to be a white american,
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It's okay to be an asian american.
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You don't have to talk around
00:21:06.830 --> 00:21:08.098
The color of your skin anymore in trump's america.
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Let's go ahead and play cut.
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Nick out 137 this nicki minaj
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If as black women, we felt.
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That we were not being
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Represented and not being.
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Admired for our beauty.
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If we felt like that as black women,
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Why would we want to do that to other women?
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Why would we now need to make other people
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Downplay their beauty
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So that we can feel know that's not how it works?
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I don't need someone with blond hair and blue eyes
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To downplay their beauty, because i know my beauty.
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Do you understand?
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It doesn't bother me that a woman
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Feels and says that she's beautiful.
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Why shouldn't she feel that?
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Why have we gotten to a point where certain colors
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Or certain kinds of people have to be afraid
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Of loving themselves and loving the way they look
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Like?
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It's isn't that wild? know?
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Yeah,
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The message is the message of everybody is equal before god.
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And we need to stop attacking
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People for, you know, this anti-white sentiment.
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She hit it right on the head.
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And as a black woman doing that as a rapper doing that,
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I thought it was a pretty profound moment of moral
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As this year draws to an end,
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I'd like to express my
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Heartfelt gratitude to our partners, the fellowship
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Of christians and jews.
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And i'd like to say thank you to our audience
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Who have supported them in prayer, with finances
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And standing strong for the people of israel.
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The fellowship is one of america's
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Most beloved
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Organizations, spanning more than 40 years of ministry,
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Providing tangible help
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And comfort to the people of israel
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In the ukraine and across the former soviet union.
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This holiday season and every day of the year,
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The fellowship is called to serve
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The elderly jewish people,
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Many of whom are holocaust survivors who are now
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Living in the shadow of past wars, poverty and loneliness.
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During this christmas time, join me and fulfill
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The prophet isaiah as cry to comfort.
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Comfort my people, says your god.
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To find out how. visit ifg.
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Org. that's if c.j. dawg.
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Andrew Kolvet & Blake Neff: December 23, 2025 | Charlie Kirk Today

December 23, 2025 | S25 E1223 | 25:2

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