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The Donald Goes to Davos + Trump 2.0 at One Year
January 21, 2026 · 30 min
All eyes were on Davos, Switzerland on Wednesday, where President Trump delivered his remarks on Greenland, mass migration, and more to the captive audience of elites at the World Economic Forum. The team reacts to Trump's negotiation style and the strategic merits of his Greenland bid. Sean Davis reacts to the sweeping Democrat plans to transform Virginia, and assesses the accomplishments of the second Trump Admin at the one-year mark. Watch every episode ad-free on members.charliekirk.com! Get new merch at charliekirkstore.com!Support the show: http://www.charliekirk.com/supportSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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All eyes were on Davos, Switzerland on Wednesday, where President Trump delivered his remarks on Greenland, mass migration, and more to the captive audience of elites at the World Economic Forum. The team reacts to Trump's negotiation style and the strategic merits of his Greenland bid. Sean Davis reacts to the sweeping Democrat plans to transform Virginia, and assesses the accomplishments of the second Trump Admin at the one-year mark. Watch every episode ad-free on members.charliekirk.com! Get new merch at charliekirkstore.com!Support the show: http://www.charliekirk.com/supportSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. ...more Show the full description Show less All eyes were on Davos, Switzerland on Wednesday, where President Trump delivered his remarks on Greenland, mass migration, and more to the captive audience of elites at the World Economic Forum. The team reacts to Trump's negotiation style and the strategic merits of his Greenland bid. Sean Davis reacts to the sweeping Democrat plans to transform Virginia, and assesses the accomplishments of the second Trump Admin at the one-year mark. Watch every episode ad-free on members.charliekirk.com! Get new merch at charliekirkstore.com!Support the show: http://www.charliekirk.com/supportSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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0:03 My name is Charlie Kirk. I run the largest pro American student organization in the country fighting for the future of our republic. My call is to fight evil and to proclaim truth. If the0:15 most important thing for you is just feeling good, you're gonna end up miserable. But if the most important thing is doing good, you'll end up purposeful. College is a scam, everybody. You gotta stop sending0:26 your kids to college. You should get married as young as possible and have as many kids as possible. Go start at Turning Point USA College chapter. Go start at Turning Point USA High School chapter. Go find out how your0:36 church can get involved. Sign up and become an activist. I gave my life to the Lord in fifth grade. Most important decision I ever made in my life, and I encourage you to do the same. Here I am, Lord MuseMe.0:48 Buckle up, everybody. Here we go. The Charlie Kirk Show is proudly sponsored by Preserve Gold, the1:00 leading gold and silver experts and the only precious metals company I recommend to my family, friends, and viewers.1:09 Alright. Welcome to the Charlie Kirk show. It is January 20 first 20 26. We are here in the studio in Phoenix. Welcome, Blake. 1 year. 1 year. 1 year anniversary. We're actually gonna have Sean Davis,1:21 cofounder and CEO of The Federalist on in the second hour to to look back at 1 year of president Trump's second term in office, 47.1:29 These things race by, don't they?1:30 Oh, man. And, everything that happened with Charlie just felt like it like, part of it fell into a bit of a black hole for us in here, but, there's a lot to talk about a year in review. We're out with with Sean, we're
1:42 actually gonna, you know, have him review what's going on in Virginia, and his take is that it's worse than anybody has any idea about. It's it portends ill. Oh, Virginia's Virginia's doomed. That's what I'm telling
1:53 all of my friends who are there. Terrible. It's what I warned about, like, at least with a lot of other blue states, they can break it hard enough that you can leave. But in Virginia, they can just
2:03 Keep extracting.
2:04 Suck up all of the money through the federal government.
2:06 They're worse than Somali pirates there
2:08 in, North Korea.
2:10 And By, I mean, by magnitudes. And so but the big news of the morning, of course, is president Trump gave his big speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland,
2:22 and made huge news. So let's just start with the clip, and then we're gonna unpack this. So president Trump made it very clear. There's been this back and forth. We want Greenland. We'll buy it. Actually, we're gonna use
2:32 force. If you don't play play ball
2:35 A rough ruling.
2:36 And Blake, it was squirming the whole time, very uncomfortable with this. Then at Davos, he made it clear. We will not use force, but we still really want it.
2:47 3 27.
2:48 We never asked for anything, and we never got anything. We probably won't get anything unless I decide to use excessive strength and force where we would be, frankly,
3:00 unstoppable. But I won't do that. Okay? Now everyone's saying,
3:08 oh, good.
3:09 That's probably the biggest statement I made because people thought I would use force. But I don't have to use force. I don't wanna use force. I won't use force. All the United States is asking for is a place
3:20 called Greenland.
3:23 All we're asking for is a place called Greenland.
3:25 All we're asking for, just, 560000 square miles.
3:29 No. I listen. There is, there's guy named Josh Wolfe on X. He's the partner at Lux Capital, founding chair, sci prep.
3:41 Anyways, smart guy, got got a lot of followers. This is this this article is getting a lot of traction. And what he's doing is he's breaking down a classic Trump negotiation tactic. That's why it's getting a lot of
3:52 traction. So I want to give attribution where it's due to this gentleman. Again, name is Josh Wolfe. And he says, you know, he's kind of observing that the press thinks it's a spectacle.
4:04 Europeans say it's a breaking with international norms and a rule based order. He calls that all a mirage, by the way, which I tend to agree. There is a part of this where Trump is actually doing the math correctly
4:16 that NATO doesn't work without America. That doesn't mean we want to mistreat our allies. We Trump is a saber rattler. He's a negotiator. And I think he sees through a bunch of the rule based
4:28 order, which is really they get their way, America pays for it. And I think people are sick of it. And so what he says is this quote, What is actually underway, it's not all the noise, listen to this, is
4:39 supply chain annexation dressed in cost the costume of territorial ambition. The target is not an island. It is 2 geological formations in southern Greenland, and I'm gonna
4:51 pronounce these terribly, but Kvaejefeld and Tanbreeze, that contain the heavy rare earth elements without which no advanced weapon system can be built. Dysprosium,
5:02 Terribium, names that mean nothing to the public but everything to the Pentagon. These elements are irreplaceable in the actuators of f 30 f 35 fighters, the guidance fins of precision munitions, the
5:14 sonar arrays of Virginia class submarines, and the permanent magnets of every electric vehicle motor. China controls over 90 percent of global processing. The United States controls almost none. The
5:26 quote, unquote purchase of green land is not a land deal. It's attempt to break a chokehold. That's 1 of the very key elements. There's also the fact that Trump is now signaling to
5:38 Canada that this is about building the Golden Dome, and he's warning Carney up in Canada. Great white North neighbor saying, you know, why don't you
5:50 watch your mouth when you're when you're talking about these things and flirting with the CCP? Mr. Carney 3 12.
5:56 Canada gets a lot of freebies from us, by the way. They should be grateful also, but they're not. I watched your prime minister yesterday. He wasn't so grateful. But they should be grateful to us. Canada
6:09 Canada lives because of the United States. Remember that, Mark, the next time you make your statements.
6:15 A direct shot across the bow to
6:17 He's mad. He's very mad. But it does it shows why this is a double sided thing, believe. Because he's being very forceful, he's being very assertive
6:29 about America, and I know that guy you were just reading and others like Josh
6:33 Wolfe.
6:33 Yeah, Josh Wolfe. They're very skeptical of that international order, they say it's fake and all of that, but a lot a lot of it was if it is fake, it was fakeness that did benefit the United States in a lot of ways, I
6:44 think. It was the the presumption that nations would look to the United States, that they would orbit around us, and we had to subsidize them a lot. A lot. But I think President Trump
6:56 had a lot of success in basically saying, you guys are free riding too much, you need to pony up more. In fact, Denmark is a good example of that. Denmark I was checking this, in 20 15 Denmark was paying, I think, 1
7:07 percent of their GDP towards defense. They were they were totally not not spending money to defend things. And during President Trump's first term, he says to Europe, this is NATO's an alliance. It's not just us. You
7:18 guys have to point out. And they tripled the amount they were spending on defense. We have had some success getting these guys
7:23 Yeah. Certainly. To spend more. I think I think the there's 2 points. Think Josh Wolf makes some good points with the rare earth, the heavy rare earth minerals that China largely controls around the world and that
7:35 Greenland has apparently a lot of. There's that point. There's also the point that Trump wants to build the golden dome, which will protect Canada as well. And if you look at a map that is, you know, I think
7:47 we we yeah. This map, 3 31. If you see this map, if the US acquires Greenland, if you you know, because oftentimes we see those maps that are laid out sort of long ways as opposed to the
7:59 globe where it's properly positioned. See how far north of the lower 48 and how well positioned it is to defend against attacks that might come over the Arctic
8:11 from Russia, from China, with their ICBM stations that could reach the US, that could reach Canada. That position is very strategic in building a global
8:22 dome. And it was interesting in the speech, President Trump made this point. He said it's not just, you know, you got to understand it's a psychological difference. Nobody wants to invest hundreds of billions of dollars
8:34 in something that they're leasing that could go back to an original owner. You know, so that part actually makes a lot of sense. But if the U. S. Controls those 2 fronts, Alaska and
8:45 Greenland, the ability to defend the Lower 48 becomes extraordinarily robust, especially from ICBM attacks coming over the Arctic. So listen, there's a lot of stuff that makes sense here.
8:57 And it was interesting to me because you have been raising the alarm, Blake, I think in a lot of ways. You're worried that we're alienating our most tried and true partners in Europe, which you acknowledge have a lot of
9:09 problems. I get that. I'm not saying you're giving them a free ride here. But it was interesting that your take was that his you actually appreciated the tone this morning. Why you thought it was more measured.
9:20 Well, so as I said, I think the biggest risk here, as I've explained, is that they look at what President Trump is doing, and not- it's not just, Oh he's being assertive like he is before, it's the sense, Is he being
9:32 unreliable? Because, for example with NATO, you can say, NATO, you need to spend more on your defense. But if you're straight up saying, we are going to take territory from you abruptly, make this
9:43 new demand, and if not, any number of things can happen, at that point you're basically saying, this isn't a military alliance anymore. This is a thing this is we can extort you we can extort territory from you. So I
9:55 like him saying, okay, we're not going to attack you. We're going to operate through the normal means. We we don't want there's always that risk that president Trump will kinda you drive your partners away so much they
10:06 say, we're gonna make partnerships with other people. If only because we just don't like you anymore.
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11:22 We have a very interesting video from Yes.
11:25 Well, you gonna play the the actor 1? Or No. No.
11:27 We'll we'll we'll well, if we if
11:28 we feel like it because it's funny feel like it.
11:30 But we should probably shouldn't spend a whole minute on a fake video. But so we have Mark Root or Roota or however you say his name. Roota. And he is a senior official with NATO. Yep. And he's at Davos.
11:42 And he's kind of I I sympathize with him because you know he's clearly must be having a hard time
11:47 He's a NATO realist.
11:48 He's a NATO realist. Yeah. And so but he did say something, which a lot of people are not happy about, and he basically said Donald Trump is right that Greenland is strategically important. And I think he's make gotta
11:59 make the case, if you're not going to give it to him, you have to really up the defenses for it in a way that makes the security argument less credible. Let's play clip 3 32.
12:09 We need to defend the Arctic. We know that the sea lanes are opening up. We know that China and Russia are increasingly active in the Arctic. There are 8 countries bordering on the Arctic. 7 are a member of
12:21 NATO. That's Finland and Sweden and Norway and Denmark, Iceland, Canada and the U. S. And there's only 1 country bordering on the Arctic outside NATO, and that's Russia. And I would argue there is a ninth country, which
12:32 is China, which is increasingly active, in the Arctic region. So president Trump and other leaders are right. We have to do more there. We have to protect the Arctic against, Russian and Chinese influence.
12:44 I've had this thought. I feel like it's so frustrating. The Europeans, they have to act a certain way because they just don't like Trump a lot. And so for example, this drama we had where they sent their troops up,
12:56 did you follow this?
12:57 It was so silly that Germans Germans It was like they sent like 5 people.
13:00 The best 1 the best 1 was Germany which sent 13 soldiers, but they didn't want to aggravate us by getting making it too military. So what they did is they took a big military plane and they landed it in Denmark and then
13:12 they put the troops onto a commercial flight and they flew them to Denmark on the commercial plane and they stayed there for 2 days, they cancelled a planned sightseeing trip because it was too cold, and then they got on
13:23 a commercial flight and they flew home. And they did all this as an obvious gesture, Oh, we're standing with Denmark against America. I feel like they would create a President Trump loves wins. If
13:35 they really don't wanna give away Denmark, what they should've just or Greenland, they should've just said President Trump is right, here, we're calling a meeting, here's the 5000000010 billion some big amount of money
13:47 and like deployment of troops are ready to do in the Arctic, and we're going to pay for it. We'll pay for America to expand their bases in the Arctic, we'll pay for this Golden Dome base he wants to build. There you go.
13:59 And then President Trump, he loves to tout wins, comes back and he's like I made this great deal, we're expanding our bases in the Arctic, and they're paying for all the- we've seen how he does this. President Trump
14:09 loves making deals on things, and it's so frustrating that they're not reacting that way, and instead we're we get both sides digging in their heels, and we might get a renewed trade war out of this, potentially.
14:20 Yeah I think today was a step back from that but you know what I what probably would make sense on your line of reasoning is you do it in sort of like a Guantanamo Bay Cuba scenario where you, you know, Charle or if this
14:32 is what Charle would say, at least I'm I'm suspecting because Charlie went to Greenland, you know, this is going in the back of my head. Charlie experienced firsthand all the love that the folks of nuke had, for
14:43 president Trump. I think Greenlanders want their independence. They want to be able to vote on a referendum. But the point is you could you could give or sell portions of Greenland
14:55 to the United States almost in a Guantanamo Bay fashion where you where we actually do own the land. It can't be taken back. Mhmm. And, you know, Denmark could retain ownership of the rest. I don't think Trump would be
15:06 happy with that because we do wanna mine it. We do wanna, you know, take these rare earth minerals out of it. But in defense of a strong US imperial economic military
15:17 force, I just have to say I love it because Trump is calling BS on a lot of this stuff where, you know, Europe is weak. They haven't grown. The you you've got Germany that's
15:29 de industrialized itself over the last few years. Energy prices are soaring. They produce less energy than they did. I think energy prices up, like, 75 percent in Germany, and they produced 20 percent less than they did
15:41 in 20 17. Huge, huge strategic mistake. Meanwhile, president Trump's bringing in 17, 18000000000000 dollars of direct investment, foreign direct investment, businesses investing in the country. We've got nuclear
15:53 plants, the brand new ones that are a lot safer, a lot more efficient, smaller, building those all over the country, building new plants, building new factories, GDPs could very well be over 5 percent.
16:04 We have a lot going for us and we're investing a lot in our military. Alright, listen, I'd love to cut the debt, I'd love to decrease spending. Those are let's put those to the side. Those are problems. But there's a lot
16:16 going for America that is not going for Europe, and Europe knows it. America is strong. It's aggressive. It's robust. It's muscular, especially under president Trump. Europe is in malaise. Europe is stagnant stagnant
16:27 growth. Europe has a migration problem that is not going away anytime soon. They lack political will. They're fighting a rise of right wing populism and nationalism in their own countries, and they're distracted. And
16:38 they have a fertility problem. So you've got all of these things. And candidly, Europe knows that they can't fight America on this. They can't even out negotiate America on this. Trump is right to call their bluff and
16:49 say you would be nothing without us. As a matter of fact, think we have a clip that says just that, that NATO would be nothing and we we asked for nothing. He kind of mentioned that before. But this is this is the truth
17:01 of the the the situation. I love that president Trump is calling it. You know, here's here's another, clip that I think is really important here, actually. It sort of plays into it. 3 29.
17:11 Recent decades, it became conventional wisdom in Washington and European capitals that the only way to grow a modern western economy was through ever increasing government
17:23 spending, unchecked mass migration, and endless foreign imports.
17:29 So why that plays in is that Trump has reversed the trend on those pieces. We have re reversed migration. Europe has not
17:37 been there for it.
17:38 But you have to
17:38 be careful. For example, he says, we've never asked for anything, but the Danes certainly remember they did send troops to Afghanistan. 43 of them died there. That's a lot for a country of 5000000 people.
17:50 Well And I mean, you if you humiliate
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19:10 So I believe we are still working on getting Jack Posovic here, but I wanted to kinda I think I'm gonna set this up here with for Jack here. There's these 2 clips that just need to be
19:21 juxtaposed side by side. So you've got this Finland president, Alexander Stubb, says Europe can defend itself unequivocally without the Americans. 3 16.
19:32 First is a direct answer to the question of this panel. Can Europe defend itself? My answer is unequivocally, yes. Without the Americans? Without the Americans. I mean How? Liz well, look. But you're relying on them
19:44 for these key elements. How would you how would you do it scale and at duration and at intensity? That the United States would cut off completely any kind of Yeah. Well, if we look at the defense composure
19:55 of Europe by and large in a country like Finland, my you know, the the the bottom line is that if you ask me the question that can the Finnish military defend itself against a Russian attack, the whole defense composture
20:07 of the way in which we do it, yes, we can.
20:10 Then he gets asked about it later, and he says, oh, I love journalists. That's not what I said. 3 35.
20:16 You've said earlier that Europe can defend itself without the Americans. If it comes down Not not exact, Mike. So that's not a quote, Mike.
20:28 More or less. More or less. Let's We'll go back to the transcript. Yeah. Or less. More or less. I love journalism. See,
20:37 I love this juxtaposition because it's a total tell. They they saber rattle, they play big, they peacock, they puff up their chests, and they say, we don't need Trump, we don't need the Americans.
20:49 They don't really mean that. They don't really mean it because it's not true at all, actually.
20:52 It's not true. Though, I would say, it's better for us if we're interacting with them, we much more want them to start paying up but still be basically reliant on us, versus if they decide
21:04 America's
21:05 getting a
21:05 little wacky, they're taking land off of us. We need to toughen up and also make a new alliance that's not with them or worse yet with someone else.
21:14 Well and that's the whole China threat that they're they're putting out there. Email us your thoughts. Freedom at Charlie Kirk dot com. I wanna hear what you think. Are we is Trump playing too rough with the Europeans?
21:23 Not not rough enough? Are you do you think that they are bluffing in these entreaties, this flirtation with China? Wanna hear your thoughts. Freedom at Charlie Kirk dot com. Blake will be reading those in the next
21:33 segment.
21:33 Oh, yeah.
21:34 And so Freedom at Charlie Kirk dot com. Wanna hear what your thoughts are on Trump's, tone, his presentation at Davos this morning. But why those 2 clips, I think, are really interesting, Blake, is listen to and now
21:45 okay. I'm gonna grain assault this 1. This come from RT, which is state run media with Putin. So you gotta trust the translation here, but we'll we'll play it. We'll give you the translation. And
21:57 but I think that Putin, when you think about it in terms of this Finnish president, makes a lot of sense here. 3 38.
22:21 So what he says there is you'll see it will happen quickly soon. They, being the Europeans, the leaders, will all stand at the feet of the master, America, will gently wag their Everything will
22:33 fall into place. You'll see. So he's he's basically observing that they're playing tough now. They're signaling strength in all of this because they don't like Trump. They don't like they feel like they're getting
22:43 bullied. But Putin says they'll all fall in line. Joining us now is Jack Posobic. He's live from Davos, Switzerland. He's been, providing some behind the scenes clips that have been really fascinating to
22:55 watch. Jack, we're talking about this dynamic between European elites, the leadership, and president Trump. Obviously, there's tension. There's tension about Greenland. There's tension about NATO, NATO funding. There's
23:06 flirtations with China. Tell us what you're feeling and seeing in the room, this this this dynamic between Atlantic allies.
23:15 Yeah, Andrew guys, that's exactly right. And, you know, we're here. We're in the room. I remember 4 years ago, my very first Davos calling into the Charlie Kirk show right after getting detained by the World Economic
23:26 Forum Police. So, you know, here we are 4 years later. We're inside the building. We're we're they're in the room with president Trump, and he and the US team, they're still kind of going around here. So he's holding
23:36 those sideline meetings as we speak. There's gonna be a reception a little bit later. But you're right. There there really is this sort of tension. There's this sort of, you know, I I I would I would say even kind of a
23:47 cynicism of some of the European leaders saying that, oh, Trump is so ridiculous. This will never work. This will never happen. We can, you know, we can be rude to him. But at the same time, you've come to understand
23:57 that in certainly in the room we saw this, there were a lot of people laughing at his jokes. They were sort of rolling with the punches, rolling with the laughter. And I think that at this time around, given that he's
24:06 been on the world stage for so many years, they they've started to, take that that old Scott Adams phrase where they they take him seriously, but they don't take him literally. And what that means
24:18 is that they're serious about his intentions, but they understand that a lot of what he's doing, he's going into a salesman pitch. He's going into his art. He's saying things for effect over and over again. And it seemed
24:30 that at least in the room, a lot of people got that.
24:32 Yeah, it's very, nice that you mentioned that Jack. I was no joke, I was reading the other day the members of the Norwegian Nobel Prize Committee, and 1 of them is this foreign policy blogger, and he actually had a thing
24:43 he wrote on the Greenland drama, and he basically said, Trump is always in negotiation mode, and that means he's always trying to keep people off balance, he's like he'll like shock them
24:54 by being really aggressive with what he says. He'll consider any offer. He's always ready to make a deal and it's just so disorienting compared to how a normal person is. It shocks them and it and it
25:06 kind of relies a bit on, you know, the old Nixon idea, the madman theory. Like, part of his negotiation position is to basically be like, I'm super serious, I'm ready to invade, I've I've thrown out the brakes on my car,
25:18 I've thrown out the steering wheel, nothing can stop me, and then, oh, he actually can just stop and make the deal very abruptly.
25:25 I completely agree. This is what, again, this we we talked about this guy, Josh Wolfe, Jack, who kind of you know, he said this is classic Trump negotiation sequence. It goes like this.
25:37 Signal acquisition. Denmark scoffs. Mention force. Denmark recoils. Insist on force. Loudly, repeatedly. Denmark reaches peak indignation. Others come to their side, then pivot. A purchase offer that eliminates
25:48 Denmark's entire national debt, 142000000000, and nearly doubles Greenland's GDP, 450000000000. And suddenly the question is no longer how dare you, but wait, how much? So what do you think,
26:00 Jack?
26:01 No. I I think that's exactly the path that I'm trying to see this. And if anyone wants to know what this is called, it's literally called the art of the deal. President Trump wrote a book about this about 40 years ago
26:10 where he outlined that specific policy in great detail. He says it's what he does every single time he's in a high stakes negotiation. I think it's really interesting that so many people either haven't actually
26:22 read that book, haven't seen him do it 1000000 times already, and that they still seem to fall for the same exact trick. Now 1 of the things that I did think was interesting, you know, coming at it from a military
26:33 perspective as well, that he did talk about the need for Greenland, not just we've heard for, you know, the Arctic shipping routes. We've also heard it from the national security in terms of those sea lanes, but he also
26:43 talked about ballistic missile defense and really talked about the golden dome, those intercontinental ballistic missiles, whether they're fired off from China, Russia, North Korea. Even if Iran, if they were able to
26:53 develop the those long range ballistic missiles, they would be flying them over the top, targeting Washington DC, and they would inevitably fall within the territory of Greenland, making Greenland a key
27:04 position, key point for the United States in any type of missile defense. And I haven't really seen him use that phrasing and use that phraseology, put it all together on the world stage. He kind of presaged it in
27:16 an interview yesterday, but today was the really big 1. And I think that for anyone who's looking at it seriously, he makes some very solid military points there.
27:25 Yeah. No. I agree. I think the ICBM argument is pretty strong, and I I loved him name checking Carney, telling him to to know his role, know his place. I think that's important, actually. And
27:36 there's another dynamic that's a little bit more on the domestic home front here, Jack. There's you got Gavin Newsom wandering around. He's calling Scott Besson smug. Scott Besson had the line of the day, I think,
27:46 hitting him back. 3 14.
27:49 I think it's very, very, ironic that, you know, governor Newsom, who strikes me as Patrick Bateman meets Sparkle Beach Ken, may be the only
28:00 Californian who knows less about economics than Kamala Harris. The, he's here this week with his billionaire sugar daddy, Alex Soros.
28:12 I've seen you behind the scenes. You've gotten iPhone video of Gavin Newsom. What the heck is going on with this? What does he think he's gonna accomplish? Is this just all about 20 28 for him?
28:21 I I think it is. He's bird dogging. He's trying to get his name out there. He wants people to put him in the same conversation as Trump. He's trying to put himself on the same level as, Mark Carney. Trudeau here as well.
28:33 Actually, Alex Soros just walked by a couple of minutes ago. I saw him just kind of darting out the out the way before he could see me. And funny enough, I I actually went up to that that interview where I, you know, he
28:43 was coming out here doing a gaggle. I walked up, you know, his his press guy was trying to say, oh, no, Jack. No. Not him. Not Posobic. I said, Al, you know, guys, it'll be fine. Let me in. And I asked him a question. Do
28:55 you have any comment regarding Don Lemon and the agitators at the Minneapolis church up there in, when they were barging in? He said he hadn't heard about it. I explained the situation. Once again, he said he hadn't
29:07 heard about it. So we'll we'll we'll see what kind of what kind of situation that is. But I did very quickly, you know, he caught my name, and I I saw this press guy sort of saying, oh, that's Jack Posovic. And I I
29:17 mentioned to him, I said, hey. Hey, governor Newsom. I was friends with Charlie. And and and Gavin, you know, he kinda kinda touched his heart for a second there and said he said, wow. Wow. And, you know, I think that
29:27 was a really, you know, really humanizing moment. I remember Charlie and he had had that that incredible interview that they had done together. So I thought maybe a little little way to break the ice a little bit.
29:35 Jack Posobic, god bless you, man. Stay safe. Keep getting those questions in with the with the world leaders. We appreciate, man. Talk to you soon.
29:44 We'll do it. Thanks, guys. For more on many of these stories and news you can trust, go to Charlie Kirk dot com.
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