Charlie Kirk Today

Sean Davis: February 17, 2026 | Charlie Kirk Today

February 17, 2026 | 23:29

Join Sean Davis as he breaks down the biggest news, challenges the mainstream narrative, and delivers fearless commentary on faith, culture, and politics. No spin. No censorship. Just the TRUTH.

#News #Media #Government #Politics #Culture #Military #Crime #Law #CharlieKirk #SeanDavis

Closed captions

Show Timecode

Charlie Kirk Today | Sean Davis: February 17, 2026 | Charlie Kirk Today | February 17, 2026

We got new epstein revolution revelation.
00:00:08.965 --> 00:00:11.534
We've got, updates in the savannah guthrie case.
00:00:11.534 --> 00:00:15.905
We've got
00:00:15.905 --> 00:00:18.541
All kinds of things.
00:00:18.541 --> 00:00:20.043
But the key storyline that i think we need to lead with,
00:00:20.043 --> 00:00:24.047
Because it was just too good not to lead it really in.
00:00:24.047 --> 00:00:26.749
It matters more.
00:00:26.749 --> 00:00:27.484
I just
00:00:27.484 --> 00:00:28.351
I think it does matter. and by the way,
00:00:28.351 --> 00:00:29.719
That's what our show is always asking to do.
00:00:29.719 --> 00:00:32.388
We want to focus on
00:00:32.388 --> 00:00:33.456
The civilizational stakes, the things that matter,
00:00:33.456 --> 00:00:35.925
The cultural things
00:00:35.925 --> 00:00:36.726
That matter,
00:00:36.726 --> 00:00:37.527
The political things that matter,
00:00:37.527 --> 00:00:38.461
The civilizational things that matter.
00:00:38.461 --> 00:00:40.597
Marco rubio speech at the munich security
00:00:40.597 --> 00:00:43.466
Conference was absolutely a barn burner.
00:00:43.466 --> 00:00:47.303
It was probably, as i said on ex,
00:00:47.303 --> 00:00:50.707
The single best defense of western civilization
00:00:50.707 --> 00:00:54.377
In an appeal to europe
00:00:54.377 --> 00:00:57.013
To get on board with the vision that america, president trump
00:00:57.013 --> 00:01:00.850
Has put forward,
00:01:00.850 --> 00:01:02.118
That i've heard in
00:01:02.552 --> 00:01:03.386
A generation that i think has been
00:01:03.386 --> 00:01:04.587
Articulated in a generation.
00:01:04.587 --> 00:01:06.256
Yeah, it's it's a, first of all, what it matters.
00:01:06.256 --> 00:01:09.192
This is the
00:01:09.192 --> 00:01:10.393
Munich security conference annual event related to defense
00:01:10.393 --> 00:01:13.096
And the you know, during the past few years,
00:01:13.096 --> 00:01:14.631
It's all been about ukraine and such.
00:01:14.631 --> 00:01:16.533
Secretary rubio goes and he gives a speech
00:01:16.533 --> 00:01:18.768
That's basically laying out the grand vision
00:01:18.768 --> 00:01:22.739
Of what the trump administration's attitude
00:01:22.739 --> 00:01:25.375
Towards europe is, and we'll have the clips here.
00:01:25.375 --> 00:01:28.044
But the big picture you're looking for
00:01:28.044 --> 00:01:29.279
Is he's pointing out we're not hostile towards europe.
00:01:29.279 --> 00:01:32.882
In fact,
00:01:32.882 --> 00:01:34.050
We quite literally want to mega make europe great again.
00:01:34.050 --> 00:01:37.320
And so he's pointing out when we criticize nato,
00:01:37.320 --> 00:01:40.657
It's always that we want nato to be stronger.
00:01:40.657 --> 00:01:42.759
We want european countries
00:01:42.759 --> 00:01:44.127
To have better militaries so they will be better
00:01:44.127 --> 00:01:46.963
Allies to us.
00:01:46.963 --> 00:01:48.097
We want to stop migration to europe
00:01:48.097 --> 00:01:50.400
Because we want european civilizations to survive,
00:01:50.400 --> 00:01:53.903
Just as we want our own civilization to survive.
00:01:53.903 --> 00:01:57.140
And i think the most remark and he makes these
00:01:57.140 --> 00:01:58.942
Historic appeals, he talks about world war two.
00:01:58.942 --> 00:02:00.777
He talks about the cold war, where we stood with europeans
00:02:00.777 --> 00:02:04.180
Against tyrannical anti civilizational forces.
00:02:04.180 --> 00:02:07.750
And i think the most amazing thing about it
00:02:07.750 --> 00:02:09.586
Is at the end of it, he got a standing ovation,
00:02:09.586 --> 00:02:11.387
Which is from the europeans, which apparently is rare.
00:02:11.387 --> 00:02:14.023
But he what i think the reason he did is because that
00:02:14.023 --> 00:02:17.560
When when we criticize europe, it is because we care.
00:02:17.560 --> 00:02:21.464
And he articulated that
00:02:21.464 --> 00:02:23.333
Very well and he did it over and over.
00:02:23.333 --> 00:02:25.568
He laced it throughout the speech.
00:02:25.568 --> 00:02:27.837
But let's just get into it.
00:02:27.837 --> 00:02:29.239
This was, an amazing, amazing moment.
00:02:29.239 --> 00:02:32.141
I think what whether it matter in the long
00:02:32.141 --> 00:02:35.111
Term, will this have the desired impact?
00:02:35.111 --> 00:02:37.814
Who knows?
00:02:37.814 --> 00:02:38.815
But the standing ovation was a good was a good.
00:02:38.815 --> 00:02:40.216
Let's stop right into it.
00:02:40.216 --> 00:02:41.918
Let's do 246
00:02:41.918 --> 00:02:44.053
National security,
00:02:44.487 --> 00:02:46.222
Which this conference is largely about.
00:02:46.222 --> 00:02:48.992
It's not merely a series of technical questions,
00:02:48.992 --> 00:02:52.295
How much we spend on defense or where how we deploy it.
00:02:52.295 --> 00:02:55.465
These are important questions.
00:02:55.465 --> 00:02:56.733
They are,
00:02:56.733 --> 00:02:58.201
But they are not the fundamental one.
00:02:58.201 --> 00:03:00.570
The fundamental question we must answer at the outset
00:03:00.570 --> 00:03:03.873
Is what exactly are we defending?
00:03:04.607 --> 00:03:07.176
Because armies do not fight for abstractions, armies
00:03:07.176 --> 00:03:11.481
Fight for a people, armies fight for a nation.
00:03:11.481 --> 00:03:14.917
Armies fight for a way of life.
00:03:14.917 --> 00:03:17.587
And that is what we are defending, a great civilization
00:03:17.587 --> 00:03:21.591
That has every reason to be proud of its history.
00:03:21.591 --> 00:03:24.427
That to me is such a distillation of what
00:03:24.427 --> 00:03:27.730
I believe is what's ailing the west right now.
00:03:27.730 --> 00:03:31.000
We have lost our pride and self.
00:03:31.000 --> 00:03:33.469
We have lost our pride in our own culture
00:03:33.469 --> 00:03:35.905
And our own people and our own accomplishments.
00:03:35.905 --> 00:03:37.807
We have been plagued by a guilt, a white guilt,
00:03:37.807 --> 00:03:41.144
A guilt of our own success.
00:03:41.144 --> 00:03:43.713
We have believed lies, that we are invaders,
00:03:43.713 --> 00:03:46.482
That we're evil colonialist deeds.
00:03:46.482 --> 00:03:49.218
Realist.
00:03:49.218 --> 00:03:50.286
He unironically touted colonialism during the speech,
00:03:50.286 --> 00:03:53.089
Which is an unambiguously
00:03:53.089 --> 00:03:56.059
Overall good thing on the history of the world.
00:03:56.059 --> 00:03:58.895
It is.
00:03:59.095 --> 00:03:59.962
I will defend colonialism.
00:03:59.962 --> 00:04:01.497
It's not that it was perfect. it's not that it was.
00:04:01.497 --> 00:04:03.966
It didn't have brutality or cruelty involved.
00:04:03.966 --> 00:04:06.069
Of course, we're talking about a people that understood
00:04:06.069 --> 00:04:09.739
That you had to use force if you were going to get
00:04:09.739 --> 00:04:12.108
What you wanted in a mean and cruel world.
00:04:12.108 --> 00:04:14.243
So i'm not saying it was all perfect,
00:04:14.243 --> 00:04:16.045
But if you look at where especially the english colonial
00:04:16.045 --> 00:04:18.948
Have went,
00:04:18.948 --> 00:04:20.016
Even in kenya, in africa, it's one of the most stable
00:04:20.016 --> 00:04:22.318
Countries in all of africa because it was settled
00:04:22.318 --> 00:04:25.121
By english.
00:04:25.121 --> 00:04:26.422
Same in india, same in america.
00:04:26.422 --> 00:04:28.591
You can look across the board and the british colonialists
00:04:28.591 --> 00:04:33.229
Had a, i would say, overwhelmingly good positive
00:04:33.229 --> 00:04:36.599
Impact on the world.
00:04:36.599 --> 00:04:37.467
I don't think we got this as a clip.
00:04:37.467 --> 00:04:38.735
So i want to read it.
00:04:38.735 --> 00:04:39.602
This is a line
00:04:39.602 --> 00:04:40.670
That's, secretary rubio said for five centuries
00:04:40.670 --> 00:04:44.140
Before the end of the second
00:04:44.140 --> 00:04:45.208
World war, the west had been expanding
00:04:45.208 --> 00:04:47.877
Its missionaries, its pilgrims, its soldiers, its explorers
00:04:47.877 --> 00:04:51.914
Pouring out from its shores to cross oceans,
00:04:51.914 --> 00:04:54.550
Settle new continents,
00:04:54.550 --> 00:04:55.885
Build vast empires, extending out across the globe.
00:04:55.885 --> 00:04:59.956
But in 1945, for the first time
00:04:59.956 --> 00:05:02.358
Since the age of columbus, it europe was contracting.
00:05:02.358 --> 00:05:05.528
Europe was in ruins.
00:05:05.528 --> 00:05:07.263
Half of it lived behind an iron curtain.
00:05:07.263 --> 00:05:09.799
The great western empires had entered into terminal decline,
00:05:09.799 --> 00:05:13.536
Accelerated by godless communist
00:05:13.536 --> 00:05:15.405
Revolutions and anti-colonial uprisings
00:05:15.405 --> 00:05:18.207
That would transform the world and drape the red
00:05:18.207 --> 00:05:20.376
Hammer and sickle
00:05:20.376 --> 00:05:21.511
Across the vast swaths of the map for years to come.
00:05:21.511 --> 00:05:25.047
And he basically says, it's time for us to undo that
00:05:25.047 --> 00:05:28.284
Managed decline.
00:05:28.284 --> 00:05:29.185
And that's not necessarily bring back
00:05:29.185 --> 00:05:30.853
Colonialism specifically, but certainly stop apologizing
00:05:30.853 --> 00:05:34.791
For it.
00:05:34.791 --> 00:05:35.958
Stop acting like it's the worst atrocity to ever happen.
00:05:35.958 --> 00:05:39.829
And he calls out mass migration and he calls out,
00:05:39.829 --> 00:05:43.566
Like demilitarization. yeah.
00:05:43.566 --> 00:05:45.835
The managed decline.
00:05:45.835 --> 00:05:47.069
I thought he really honed in on it.
00:05:47.069 --> 00:05:48.871
It was very powerful. play a clip. cut.
00:05:48.871 --> 00:05:51.174
253 for we in america have no interest
00:05:51.174 --> 00:05:55.478
In being polite and orderly caretakers of
00:05:55.478 --> 00:05:58.281
The west's managed decline.
00:05:58.281 --> 00:06:00.716
We do not seek to separate,
00:06:01.317 --> 00:06:03.820
But to revitalize an old friendship
00:06:03.820 --> 00:06:06.255
And renew the greatest civilization in human history.
00:06:06.255 --> 00:06:09.225
And he goes on and basically says, yeah, to renew it.
00:06:09.225 --> 00:06:12.662
He talks about rearming.
00:06:12.662 --> 00:06:13.996
257 mass migration is not was
00:06:13.996 --> 00:06:17.867
Not isn't a some fringe concern of little consequence.
00:06:17.867 --> 00:06:21.637
It was and continues to be a crisis which is transforming
00:06:21.637 --> 00:06:25.575
And destabilizing societies all across the west.
00:06:25.575 --> 00:06:29.045
We always say on this show that mass migration, unfettered
00:06:29.045 --> 00:06:32.648
Mass migration is the switch that, when flipped,
00:06:32.648 --> 00:06:37.253
Will fix basically all the ills.
00:06:37.954 --> 00:06:40.957
And i know not perfectly humans are evil, humans are flawed.
00:06:40.957 --> 00:06:43.626
They're going to be flawed
00:06:43.626 --> 00:06:44.460
Regardless of where they come from.
00:06:44.460 --> 00:06:46.596
But mass migration is absolutely at the core
00:06:46.596 --> 00:06:50.366
Root of so many of the problems ailing the west today.
00:06:50.366 --> 00:06:53.903
And it needs to be addressed.
00:06:53.903 --> 00:06:59.001
And it needs to be addressed.
00:06:59.001 --> 00:07:03.813
I want to play one more
00:07:04.313 --> 00:07:05.114
Clip because it's just so good.
00:07:05.114 --> 00:07:07.950
285 marco rubio.
00:07:07.950 --> 00:07:09.819
While we are prepared, if necessary, to do this alone,
00:07:09.819 --> 00:07:14.090
It is our preference and it is our hope
00:07:14.924 --> 00:07:17.927
To do this together with you,
00:07:18.561 --> 00:07:20.897
Our friends here in europe,
00:07:20.897 --> 00:07:23.399
For the united states and europe,
00:07:23.399 --> 00:07:26.269
We belong together.
00:07:26.736 --> 00:07:28.037
We are part of one civilization,
00:07:28.037 --> 00:07:30.673
Western civilization.
00:07:30.673 --> 00:07:32.708
We are bound to one another
00:07:32.708 --> 00:07:34.010
By the deepest bonds that nations could share,
00:07:34.010 --> 00:07:36.879
Forged by centuries of shared history,
00:07:36.879 --> 00:07:39.248
Christian faith, culture, heritage, language, ancestry,
00:07:39.248 --> 00:07:44.654
And the sacrifices that our forefathers made together
00:07:44.654 --> 00:07:48.324
For the common civilization to which we have fallen heir.
00:07:48.324 --> 00:07:52.595
And i just love that he brings the word
00:07:52.595 --> 00:07:54.664
Christian in their little known fact.
00:07:54.664 --> 00:07:56.566
When they were doing the
00:07:56.566 --> 00:07:58.234
European union,
00:07:58.234 --> 00:07:59.268
And they were kind of establishing
00:07:59.268 --> 00:08:00.603
Some of their foundational documents, there was a debate
00:08:00.603 --> 00:08:02.672
About whether or not to include christianity in there,
00:08:02.672 --> 00:08:04.907
Something that, doctor james or talks about.
00:08:04.907 --> 00:08:07.643
They voted against that.
00:08:07.643 --> 00:08:08.878
So i don't know what defines the west
00:08:09.679 --> 00:08:11.881
If it is in our common christian heritage,
00:08:11.881 --> 00:08:15.051
Whether or not you agree, whether you believe or
00:08:15.051 --> 00:08:18.454
There's nothing that unites the west
00:08:18.454 --> 00:08:20.323
Because there's different languages, there's different
00:08:20.323 --> 00:08:22.091
Cultures, different food, different culinary traditions,
00:08:22.091 --> 00:08:25.127
What unites the west
00:08:25.127 --> 00:08:27.897
Is our christian roots.
00:08:27.897 --> 00:08:29.632
And marco was very clear to put that in.
00:08:29.632 --> 00:08:31.867
So don't believe the lies that this this is my big point.
00:08:31.867 --> 00:08:35.104
What i loved about this and why i think it stood out, is
00:08:35.104 --> 00:08:37.473
Because marco articulated a rousing speech.
00:08:37.473 --> 00:08:42.311
But it's a celebration of our history
00:08:42.311 --> 00:08:44.914
And our accomplishments and our values.
00:08:44.914 --> 00:08:46.382
So many people in that room have been fed a, heap of lies
00:08:46.382 --> 00:08:50.519
That they're supposed
00:08:50.519 --> 00:08:51.754
To be ashamed of themselves and that we should be ashamed
00:08:51.754 --> 00:08:53.656
And we should manage our declined to let other
00:08:53.656 --> 00:08:55.791
The global south rise or whatever, let china rise. no.
00:08:55.791 --> 00:08:59.862
And it's a it's a choice.
00:09:00.429 --> 00:09:01.864
And i especially think it's this is a part i particularly
00:09:01.864 --> 00:09:04.934
Like actually, rubio is of course, cuban.
00:09:04.934 --> 00:09:08.104
His cuban heritage, hispanic heritage.
00:09:08.104 --> 00:09:10.339
And i like that he's affirming that because, as we'll see,
00:09:10.339 --> 00:09:13.376
Because we'll have clips from aoc here in just a moment.
00:09:13.376 --> 00:09:16.178
There's this popular there's actually kind of a conflict
00:09:16.178 --> 00:09:19.081
In latin american civilization where some of them,
00:09:19.081 --> 00:09:23.085
They really buy into this, like,
00:09:23.085 --> 00:09:25.388
Indigenous peoples movement, where like, everything about
00:09:25.388 --> 00:09:28.724
It was terrible and like, europe is awful
00:09:28.724 --> 00:09:30.893
And we need to, like, decolonize the world.
00:09:30.893 --> 00:09:32.828
And he's pointing out,
00:09:32.828 --> 00:09:33.896
No, like i am from western civilization as well.
00:09:33.896 --> 00:09:36.799
Cuba is a part of western civilization.
00:09:36.799 --> 00:09:38.734
He mentioned venezuela in the speech.
00:09:38.734 --> 00:09:40.202
Venezuela is a part of western civilization.
00:09:40.202 --> 00:09:42.405
It's not just europe itself and america.
00:09:42.405 --> 00:09:45.508
It's the places that europeans went, where they spread
00:09:45.508 --> 00:09:48.177
Christianity, where they spread, spread
00:09:48.177 --> 00:09:50.112
European cultural norms, where they spread
00:09:50.112 --> 00:09:52.481
European languages and all of that.
00:09:52.481 --> 00:09:54.650
And it was really nice to see him just step up
00:09:54.650 --> 00:09:57.186
And defend that all as a good thing, which it was.
00:09:57.186 --> 00:10:00.056
Because do you would you rather have mexico
00:10:00.056 --> 00:10:02.191
As it is, or mexico as a nation that sacrifices human beings?
00:10:02.191 --> 00:10:06.028
Well, and aoc tries to take a swing
00:10:06.028 --> 00:10:09.498
At secretary rubio's address in munich and misses.
00:10:09.498 --> 00:10:13.369
256 you are starting to see
00:10:13.369 --> 00:10:15.971
The ascent of the right,
00:10:15.971 --> 00:10:18.841
Even in places like munich.
00:10:18.841 --> 00:10:22.244
Marco rubio's speech was a pure
00:10:22.244 --> 00:10:25.548
Appeal to western culture.
00:10:25.548 --> 00:10:29.351
And that's a bad thing. oh, no.
00:10:29.351 --> 00:10:31.787
It's terrible.
00:10:31.787 --> 00:10:32.722
Oh, no.
00:10:32.722 --> 00:10:33.656
So this is another funny one.
00:10:33.656 --> 00:10:36.358
She she basically references, the actions we took
00:10:36.358 --> 00:10:40.429
In venezuela and said,
00:10:40.429 --> 00:10:42.465
You know, we just did it because it's below the equator.
00:10:42.465 --> 00:10:44.900
It's not below the equator.
00:10:44.900 --> 00:10:47.069
274 we look at what happened in venezuela, for example.
00:10:47.069 --> 00:10:51.040
It is not a,
00:10:51.373 --> 00:10:54.210
It is
00:10:54.443 --> 00:10:55.778
It is not a remark on who maduro was as a leader.
00:10:55.778 --> 00:11:01.083
He canceled elections.
00:11:01.083 --> 00:11:02.318
He was an anti-democratic leader.
00:11:02.318 --> 00:11:03.819
That doesn't mean that we can kidnap
00:11:03.819 --> 00:11:06.155
A head of state and engage in acts of war.
00:11:06.155 --> 00:11:09.859
Just because the nation is below the equator. and,
00:11:09.859 --> 00:11:16.332
They really?
00:11:16.665 --> 00:11:17.233
Yeah. it's very funny.
00:11:17.233 --> 00:11:18.434
It's like it's so funny
00:11:18.434 --> 00:11:19.335
That she gets it wrong specifically
00:11:19.335 --> 00:11:20.336
Because it goes basically
00:11:20.336 --> 00:11:21.203
As close to the equator as you can get.
00:11:21.203 --> 00:11:22.905
Yeah, without actually touching it.
00:11:22.905 --> 00:11:24.440
I also love she's just a classic example.
00:11:24.440 --> 00:11:26.909
So many politicians do that as soon as she mentions, like
00:11:26.909 --> 00:11:30.112
Maduro, like maduro.
00:11:30.579 --> 00:11:32.148
Venezuela.
00:11:32.148 --> 00:11:33.382
Yeah.
00:11:33.382 --> 00:11:34.283
You just got a list that in just uses
00:11:34.283 --> 00:11:35.684
A normal american accent for everything.
00:11:35.684 --> 00:11:37.353
I if you can understand what the heck she means here,
00:11:37.353 --> 00:11:41.023
Please send us an email.
00:11:41.023 --> 00:11:41.991
Freedom at charlie kirk.com 286
00:11:41.991 --> 00:11:44.960
I think
00:11:45.194 --> 00:11:46.228
What we identify is that in a rules based order,
00:11:46.228 --> 00:11:48.998
Hypocrisy is vulnerability.
00:11:49.598 --> 00:11:53.035
And so i think what we are seeking is a return to a rules
00:11:53.035 --> 00:11:56.205
Based order that eliminates the hypocrisies
00:11:56.205 --> 00:12:00.009
Around when too often in the west,
00:12:00.009 --> 00:12:03.145
We look the other way for inconvenient populations,
00:12:03.145 --> 00:12:07.983
To act out these paradoxes
00:12:07.983 --> 00:12:11.320
Should the us actually commit u.s.
00:12:11.320 --> 00:12:14.023
Troops to defend taiwan?
00:12:14.023 --> 00:12:16.192
If china were to move?
00:12:16.192 --> 00:12:18.060
You know, i think that,
00:12:18.060 --> 00:12:22.631
This is such a, you know, i think that
00:12:22.631 --> 00:12:27.870
This is a,
00:12:28.170 --> 00:12:31.173
This is, of course, a,
00:12:31.640 --> 00:12:32.675
A very long standing,
00:12:32.675 --> 00:12:35.778
Policy of the united states.
00:12:36.378 --> 00:12:38.447
And i think what we are hoping for
00:12:38.447 --> 00:12:41.584
Is that we want to make sure that we never
00:12:41.584 --> 00:12:43.786
Get to that point, and we want to make sure
00:12:43.786 --> 00:12:46.856
That we are moving in all of our economic research
00:12:46.856 --> 00:12:51.560
We'll be back.
00:12:51.894 --> 00:12:55.999
We'll be back.
00:12:55.999 --> 00:13:04.975
Sean davis,
00:13:05.308 --> 00:13:07.878
Co-founder ceo of the federalist.
00:13:07.878 --> 00:13:09.713
Good man. joins us now. so what?
00:13:09.713 --> 00:13:12.515
I wanted to get in here. sean, is.
00:13:12.515 --> 00:13:14.251
There was a couple of clips
00:13:14.251 --> 00:13:15.685
That i couldn't help noticing and drawing a pattern.
00:13:15.685 --> 00:13:19.489
First one up, let's just start with obama because he went on
00:13:19.489 --> 00:13:22.525
This podcast, made a little bit of news. 242
00:13:22.525 --> 00:13:25.962
That the same would be true, let's say, here in los angeles
00:13:25.962 --> 00:13:28.465
Around the homeless issue, the average person,
00:13:28.465 --> 00:13:32.269
You know, doesn't want to have to navigate around
00:13:32.269 --> 00:13:36.106
A tent city in the middle of downtown
00:13:36.106 --> 00:13:39.776
And that we're not going to be able to build
00:13:39.776 --> 00:13:42.646
A working majority and support
00:13:42.646 --> 00:13:46.883
For the resources that we need to help folks like that.
00:13:46.883 --> 00:13:50.520
We're not going to be able to generate support for it
00:13:50.520 --> 00:13:53.423
If we simply say, you know what?
00:13:53.423 --> 00:13:55.425
It's not their fault.
00:13:55.425 --> 00:13:56.693
And so they should be able to do whatever they want because
00:13:56.693 --> 00:14:00.130
That's a losing political strategy.
00:14:00.864 --> 00:14:02.999
Okay, so my ears perked up when i heard that.
00:14:02.999 --> 00:14:05.468
But then i heard another clip. sean
00:14:05.468 --> 00:14:08.338
From held the beast.
00:14:08.805 --> 00:14:11.207
241 think we need to call it for what it is
00:14:11.207 --> 00:14:14.945
A legitimate reason to have a debate
00:14:14.945 --> 00:14:17.814
About things like migration.
00:14:17.814 --> 00:14:20.483
It went too far.
00:14:20.483 --> 00:14:21.651
It's been disruptive and destabilizing,
00:14:21.651 --> 00:14:25.355
And it needs to be fixed in a humane way,
00:14:25.355 --> 00:14:27.958
With secure borders that don't torture and kill people.
00:14:27.958 --> 00:14:31.628
Sean, you noticed
00:14:31.628 --> 00:14:32.729
She was doing the thumb thing, the clinton thumb point
00:14:32.729 --> 00:14:35.165
So that i really yeah,
00:14:35.632 --> 00:14:37.167
My ears perked up and then it all came together.
00:14:37.167 --> 00:14:39.836
It all crystallized with andy beshear,
00:14:39.836 --> 00:14:43.473
The touted renowned moderate from kentucky.
00:14:43.473 --> 00:14:47.110
Play at 240.
00:14:47.444 --> 00:14:48.578
How do you respond to a democratic voter who might say,
00:14:48.578 --> 00:14:51.247
I like you, i like your track record in a red state
00:14:51.247 --> 00:14:53.817
Or red commonwealth, but you're too soft spoken.
00:14:53.817 --> 00:14:56.920
Yes, that message is working.
00:14:56.920 --> 00:14:58.555
Look at abigail spanberger and mikie sherrill,
00:14:58.555 --> 00:15:01.358
Who ran great
00:15:01.358 --> 00:15:02.125
Campaigns in races
00:15:02.125 --> 00:15:03.827
That should have been structurally difficult
00:15:03.827 --> 00:15:05.729
And they both won by double
00:15:05.729 --> 00:15:07.564
Digits.
00:15:07.564 --> 00:15:08.565
They are the dga and our candidates are winning
00:15:08.565 --> 00:15:10.567
Everywhere.
00:15:10.567 --> 00:15:11.234
Many americans
00:15:11.234 --> 00:15:12.002
Feel like the pendulum swung
00:15:12.002 --> 00:15:13.603
Too far
00:15:13.603 --> 00:15:14.371
During the biden administration,
00:15:14.371 --> 00:15:15.672
And it swung way too far during the trump administration.
00:15:15.672 --> 00:15:18.608
And what they want is an america
00:15:18.608 --> 00:15:20.510
Where they can wake up every morning
00:15:20.510 --> 00:15:22.178
And not be worried about its future.
00:15:22.178 --> 00:15:24.247
Okay, so i was virginia is the motto, sean, you know
00:15:24.247 --> 00:15:28.051
All about virginia and you know all about spanberger.
00:15:28.051 --> 00:15:30.987
What?
00:15:30.987 --> 00:15:32.022
What are you gleaning from that series of clips
00:15:32.022 --> 00:15:34.324
We just played?
00:15:34.324 --> 00:15:35.425
Yeah, it's fascinating to watch.
00:15:36.159 --> 00:15:37.427
Especially all of them together.
00:15:37.427 --> 00:15:38.995
To me, it's obvious what they're doing.
00:15:38.995 --> 00:15:40.764
And it's that they understand these these democrats,
00:15:40.764 --> 00:15:44.134
They understand
00:15:44.501 --> 00:15:45.735
They cannot get elected saying the things that they believe.
00:15:45.735 --> 00:15:48.805
So now there's a long campaign
00:15:48.805 --> 00:15:50.440
To get them to say things that they don't believe.
00:15:50.440 --> 00:15:53.209
But that sound
00:15:53.209 --> 00:15:54.210
Good in the hopes that they can get elected
00:15:54.210 --> 00:15:55.845
And then not do any of those things.
00:15:55.845 --> 00:15:57.580
So you have obama talking about
00:15:57.580 --> 00:15:59.883
Dealing with the homeless problem.
00:15:59.883 --> 00:16:01.451
Democrats don't care
00:16:01.451 --> 00:16:02.719
About dealing with the homeless problem.
00:16:02.719 --> 00:16:04.154
But you have to say that people are sick of it.
00:16:04.154 --> 00:16:06.689
They don't like being accosted
00:16:06.689 --> 00:16:07.891
By crazy drug addicts on the streets.
00:16:07.891 --> 00:16:09.626
So, yeah, we'll pretend to care about that.
00:16:09.626 --> 00:16:11.694
With hillary, you have to pretend
00:16:11.694 --> 00:16:13.329
To care about the borders, because that sounds sane.
00:16:13.329 --> 00:16:16.099
No, they don't care about the borders at all.
00:16:16.099 --> 00:16:18.501
And then you had beshear. who?
00:16:18.501 --> 00:16:19.936
Who's really.
00:16:19.936 --> 00:16:21.037
I don't even want to say he's a left wing nut job.
00:16:21.037 --> 00:16:22.772
He's kind of a nothing.
00:16:22.772 --> 00:16:23.840
He's he's the son of, a popular former kentucky
00:16:23.840 --> 00:16:27.377
Politician.
00:16:27.377 --> 00:16:28.311
And that's the only reason he's in office.
00:16:28.311 --> 00:16:30.113
But he let the mask slip there, especially with spanberger,
00:16:30.113 --> 00:16:33.016
Who's a total left wing,
00:16:33.016 --> 00:16:34.350
Nutjob, saying, look, we just have to pretend,
00:16:34.350 --> 00:16:36.986
To believe these things and say things that sound nice.
00:16:36.986 --> 00:16:39.355
And then
00:16:39.355 --> 00:16:40.457
When we get in offense, we don't have to do any of it.
00:16:40.457 --> 00:16:41.724
It's a total contract.
00:16:41.724 --> 00:16:43.159
Yeah, well, and remind folks about virginia.
00:16:43.159 --> 00:16:46.129
I mean, virginia,
00:16:46.129 --> 00:16:47.297
Like when i say you're going full virginia in 28, like,
00:16:47.297 --> 00:16:51.434
That's basically radical leftist communist dsa.
00:16:51.434 --> 00:16:56.139
Certainly.
00:16:56.139 --> 00:16:57.107
I mean, they are taking virginia and d6 state.
00:16:57.107 --> 00:17:00.844
I mean, kamala held it by six points.
00:17:00.844 --> 00:17:02.545
They're taking it into a
00:17:02.545 --> 00:17:03.880
Into a direction like it's a deep 40 state.
00:17:03.880 --> 00:17:06.049
This is absolutely radical stuff.
00:17:06.049 --> 00:17:08.351
And this is the playbook. go away.
00:17:08.351 --> 00:17:10.386
So what are they doing in virginia?
00:17:10.386 --> 00:17:13.590
Yeah.
00:17:13.823 --> 00:17:14.891
So i mean, they're they're, all but banning ice,
00:17:14.891 --> 00:17:18.261
They're undoing everything youngkin did,
00:17:18.261 --> 00:17:20.630
To reform schools and on the trans issue.
00:17:20.630 --> 00:17:23.233
But i will have to say, in the,
00:17:23.233 --> 00:17:24.701
In a certain just real politic sense,
00:17:24.701 --> 00:17:27.036
I admire the democrats
00:17:27.036 --> 00:17:28.471
For what they're doing because they don't
00:17:28.471 --> 00:17:29.806
Get stuck in this trap that republicans get in
00:17:29.806 --> 00:17:32.609
When they get in office.
00:17:32.609 --> 00:17:33.843
If they only win
00:17:33.843 --> 00:17:34.944
By a single vote, they do a 100% of their agenda.
00:17:34.944 --> 00:17:38.781
And it's why they're able to make such massive, sweeping
00:17:38.781 --> 00:17:41.317
Cultural and political gains
00:17:41.317 --> 00:17:43.219
In the country. you look at obamacare,
00:17:43.219 --> 00:17:45.155
That thing was a political disaster.
00:17:45.155 --> 00:17:47.190
They didn't care.
00:17:47.190 --> 00:17:48.057
They wanted to remake the country,
00:17:48.057 --> 00:17:49.292
And they had to do it by remaking health care
00:17:49.292 --> 00:17:51.394
And so i think republicans actually
00:17:51.394 --> 00:17:53.229
Can learn a little something from this
00:17:53.229 --> 00:17:55.165
Is that if you get in and you use power,
00:17:55.165 --> 00:17:57.700
For your ends to reward your friends and constituents,
00:17:57.700 --> 00:18:02.172
You will be rewarded long term.
00:18:02.172 --> 00:18:04.574
And so democrats, they lie and they cheat and they steal,
00:18:04.574 --> 00:18:07.477
But it works for them.
00:18:07.477 --> 00:18:09.379
The justice department has just released
00:18:09.379 --> 00:18:12.215
A number of, names
00:18:12.649 --> 00:18:16.786
So that over the weekend was a six page letter
00:18:16.786 --> 00:18:20.190
From the doj signed by pam bondi and todd blanch,
00:18:20.190 --> 00:18:23.626
And it released a series of names.
00:18:23.626 --> 00:18:26.029
And this is apparently all keeping
00:18:26.029 --> 00:18:27.697
With this transparency act.
00:18:27.697 --> 00:18:30.033
And it gave them a 30 day
00:18:30.600 --> 00:18:31.968
Statutory like guideline to to get this stuff out.
00:18:31.968 --> 00:18:35.805
And they have and it feels like all hell is breaking loose.
00:18:35.805 --> 00:18:38.241
If you just look on acts, it's
00:18:38.241 --> 00:18:39.442
Like allegations are flying everywhere.
00:18:39.442 --> 00:18:41.477
People like janis joplin's in their elvis.
00:18:41.477 --> 00:18:44.247
Like if you've been mentioned at all in like a in a,
00:18:44.247 --> 00:18:47.517
A link of a of an article in an email
00:18:47.517 --> 00:18:50.420
From jeffrey epstein or somebody else.
00:18:50.420 --> 00:18:51.888
You are mentioned in this.
00:18:51.888 --> 00:18:54.123
What do we make of this?
00:18:54.123 --> 00:18:56.726
And like, how should we think about it?
00:18:56.726 --> 00:18:59.529
Yeah, it's been really interesting
00:18:59.529 --> 00:19:00.964
Looking at all the stuff that's coming out.
00:19:00.964 --> 00:19:02.899
And yeah, there's a bazillion names in there,
00:19:02.899 --> 00:19:05.068
But there are some very, key trends that we see.
00:19:05.068 --> 00:19:09.138
The main one is that, through kind of his entire career of,
00:19:09.138 --> 00:19:13.276
Of all this influence stuff, jeffrey epstein was
00:19:13.276 --> 00:19:16.946
It was a tried and true democrat.
00:19:16.946 --> 00:19:18.514
The people who were talking to him
00:19:18.514 --> 00:19:20.116
The most often and going to his island were democrats.
00:19:20.116 --> 00:19:23.653
You had people like reid hoffman.
00:19:23.653 --> 00:19:25.655
This is a guy who's
00:19:25.655 --> 00:19:26.856
Been funding hoax after hoax on behalf of the democrats.
00:19:26.856 --> 00:19:29.325
You have reid hoffman, who is bffs with, jeffrey epstein.
00:19:29.325 --> 00:19:32.629
You had, kathy rambler, who was obama's ethics czar
00:19:32.629 --> 00:19:36.666
And his white house counsel, who was, epstein's fixer,
00:19:36.666 --> 00:19:40.236
Who was involved in, working with him to help
00:19:40.236 --> 00:19:44.107
Mitigate scandals facing the obama
00:19:44.107 --> 00:19:46.042
Administration, even a secret service scandal.
00:19:46.042 --> 00:19:48.311
And you look at all this and you're like, man, this is
00:19:48.311 --> 00:19:50.380
This is a pretty common theme here.
00:19:50.380 --> 00:19:52.215
Like, democrats were completely in bed with this guy.
00:19:52.215 --> 00:19:55.652
And it's
00:19:55.652 --> 00:19:56.786
Been really interesting to watch the media cover this
00:19:56.786 --> 00:19:58.721
And do everything they can to not mention reid hoffman,
00:19:58.721 --> 00:20:02.258
Who is in up to his neck in epstein nonsense
00:20:02.258 --> 00:20:05.161
And now wants to pretend, oh,
00:20:05.161 --> 00:20:06.496
He was just a casual pen pal with the guy.
00:20:06.496 --> 00:20:09.432
So he's literally used his
00:20:09.432 --> 00:20:11.934
So they emailed each other over 1700 times.
00:20:11.934 --> 00:20:15.605
I don't think i've emailed anybody 1700 times.
00:20:15.605 --> 00:20:18.308
Like legitimately, they emailed each other 17.
00:20:18.308 --> 00:20:21.444
They called each other very close friends, discussed
00:20:21.444 --> 00:20:25.248
The visits to epstein's properties, private jet
00:20:25.248 --> 00:20:27.750
Shopping, gift exchanges and talks,
00:20:27.750 --> 00:20:29.952
Talked about how much they missed each other.
00:20:29.952 --> 00:20:32.188
That is
00:20:32.188 --> 00:20:33.423
That is five years of emails if they email once every day.
00:20:33.423 --> 00:20:36.459
Wow. i mean, so it's this is, it's apparently
00:20:36.459 --> 00:20:39.696
The craziest email again.
00:20:39.696 --> 00:20:41.164
Shout out to kind of co the great on x in january 2015
00:20:41.164 --> 00:20:45.368
Is allegations that epstein trafficked
00:20:45.368 --> 00:20:47.637
Virginia roberts to prince andrew went global.
00:20:47.637 --> 00:20:50.940
Hoffman
00:20:50.940 --> 00:20:52.141
Offered to help epstein with his negative press coverage.
00:20:52.141 --> 00:20:56.713
Very very fascinating.
00:20:57.180 --> 00:20:58.748
This is from cnn here.
00:20:58.748 --> 00:21:00.149
It says this new doj document.
00:21:00.149 --> 00:21:02.051
It also mentioned prominent individuals
00:21:02.051 --> 00:21:03.720
Who had previously been linked to epstein,
00:21:03.720 --> 00:21:05.121
Including president donald trump, former
00:21:05.121 --> 00:21:06.689
President bill clinton, former trump adviser
00:21:06.689 --> 00:21:08.391
Steve bannon, former white house counsel kathy rambler
00:21:08.391 --> 00:21:11.494
And billionaire business magnate les wexner.
00:21:11.494 --> 00:21:14.330
There's 3.5 million documents.
00:21:14.931 --> 00:21:19.769
People are still pouring through them.
00:21:19.769 --> 00:21:22.238
Sean.
00:21:22.238 --> 00:21:23.039
So we're still getting new details.
00:21:23.039 --> 00:21:24.941
People keep
00:21:24.941 --> 00:21:26.075
Coming up with new colonels and new new allegations,
00:21:26.075 --> 00:21:28.845
And it just seems like it's a frickin mess out there.
00:21:28.845 --> 00:21:32.515
And it feels like everything that our friend mike davis
00:21:32.515 --> 00:21:36.252
Warned about, earlier in the year,
00:21:36.252 --> 00:21:38.654
Last year
00:21:38.654 --> 00:21:39.789
Has basically become true, that there is so much lack
00:21:39.789 --> 00:21:42.592
Of context, there's so much there's a lot of stuff.
00:21:42.592 --> 00:21:46.396
There's a lot of information,
00:21:46.396 --> 00:21:47.530
And there's not a whole lot of guidance on what's true,
00:21:47.530 --> 00:21:50.533
What's out like mere hearsay, what's,
00:21:50.533 --> 00:21:53.369
You know, out of context, just mentioning of names.
00:21:53.369 --> 00:21:56.339
And it does feel like a lot of the people
00:21:56.339 --> 00:21:58.641
You didn't want to listen to them at
00:21:58.641 --> 00:21:59.709
The time have been proven right, that
00:21:59.709 --> 00:22:01.811
People are just getting smeared and, like, out of nowhere,
00:22:01.811 --> 00:22:05.982
Innocent people are getting hurt
00:22:05.982 --> 00:22:07.350
And some of the victims are getting hurt too.
00:22:07.350 --> 00:22:09.852
Yeah, well,
00:22:09.852 --> 00:22:10.787
And you had ro khanna, another reid hoffman
00:22:10.787 --> 00:22:12.989
Democrat ally, go to the floor,
00:22:12.989 --> 00:22:14.857
You know, along with thomas massie.
00:22:14.857 --> 00:22:16.793
And they outed, you know, six people who are on there
00:22:16.793 --> 00:22:20.396
As people on, who were doing stuff with epstein.
00:22:20.396 --> 00:22:23.099
They were random people in a in a lineup
00:22:23.099 --> 00:22:25.802
That was tangentially related to epstein.
00:22:25.802 --> 00:22:29.205
These were random people.
00:22:29.205 --> 00:22:30.039
They didn't do anything wrong.
00:22:30.039 --> 00:22:31.841
They apparently just had
00:22:31.841 --> 00:22:33.009
Their photos taken at the wrong time.
00:22:33.009 --> 00:22:35.111
The thing that i find so exasperating is, yes,
00:22:35.111 --> 00:22:38.014
We have a bazillion documents now,
00:22:38.014 --> 00:22:39.749
And we're able to learn a lot.
00:22:39.749 --> 00:22:41.184
The one thing that i want to know
00:22:41.184 --> 00:22:43.319
Is, which intel agencies was he working for?
00:22:43.319 --> 00:22:46.355
Which ones?
00:22:46.355 --> 00:22:47.256
I don't believe anyone when they tell me.
00:22:47.256 --> 00:22:49.192
Oh, he wasn't doing anything with the cia.
00:22:49.192 --> 00:22:51.427
He wasn't doing anything with mossad.
00:22:51.427 --> 00:22:53.029
He wasn't doing anything with the saudis. nope.
00:22:53.029 --> 00:22:54.730
He was just a weird guy doing stuff.
00:22:54.730 --> 00:22:56.933
No one believes that.
00:22:56.933 --> 00:22:58.167
And i guess my frustration is, after all this time,
00:22:58.167 --> 00:23:01.137
After all these years,
00:23:01.137 --> 00:23:02.171
I just assume all the documents they had,
00:23:02.171 --> 00:23:04.607
If they ever even had them, that tell us
00:23:04.607 --> 00:23:07.343
Those things that answer those questions are gone.
00:23:07.343 --> 00:23:10.213
And i just find the whole thing maddening and frustrating,
00:23:10.213 --> 00:23:13.382
Because i feel like that's the one thing people want to know.
00:23:13.382 --> 00:23:15.651
Tell us who he was working for.
00:23:15.651 --> 00:23:17.220
And that's the one thing
00:23:17.220 --> 00:23:18.421
Apparently we're never going to get to know for certain.
00:23:18.421 --> 00:23:20.256
Got to leave. got to leave it there.
00:23:20.256 --> 00:23:21.724
We'll see you guys tomorrow. thank you, sean davis.
00:23:21.724 --> 00:23:21.724

Sean Davis: February 17, 2026 | Charlie Kirk Today

February 17, 2026 | 23:29

Closed captions

Share