Charlie Kirk Exposes How Donald Trump Remade the Republican Party and Exiled the Neoconservative Establishment

[00:00] we we mention frequently here on this

[00:02] program how Donald Trump has remade the

[00:04] Republican party but how Donald Trump

[00:06] has kicked some of the rough edges of

[00:10] the Republican party

[00:12] out and this is more clear than ever

[00:17] given president Trump's approach to

[00:18] foreign policy unafraid to call zalinsky

[00:22] a dictator which of course he is saying

[00:24] that I'm going to go visit Russia and

[00:26] Putin should go visit America we're

[00:27] going to go broker peace and As We are

[00:30] continuing the great revealing which is

[00:33] what we are living through the great

[00:36] revealing it's more and more clear how

[00:39] not just ideologically weak but also

[00:45] unimpressive the previous ruling class

[00:47] of the conservative movement

[00:49] was this weekend of course is CPAC and

[00:54] everything happening there but also

[00:57] there is this other event that is very

[01:01] important

[01:02] to emphasize it goes to show what used

[01:06] to be within our ranks in fact included

[01:09] in this event the principal first

[01:12] summit are

[01:15] people that used to be in Trump one the

[01:19] first Trump Administration so this is

[01:21] it's this weekend it's the principles

[01:23] first summit of course they're doing it

[01:25] in Washington DC the only place they

[01:26] could draw a crowd and it is a

[01:31] very treacherous group of characters

[01:34] that are gathering some of whom I don't

[01:36] even know who they are but let's just

[01:38] emphasize a couple John Bolton John

[01:40] Bolton was the National Security adviser

[01:42] for president Trump in the first

[01:44] Administration one of them Alysa Farah

[01:47] Alysa Farah worked for Mike Pence and

[01:50] was a top level

[01:51] communications director for president

[01:54] Trump and his administration in the

[01:57] first term you got Steven Richard who we

[01:59] helped get rid of by the way in Maricopa

[02:01] County as Maricopa County

[02:05] Recorder you

[02:07] have Harry Dunn who was the January one

[02:11] of the January 6 police officers I

[02:13] believe Mark Cuban Jared polus Chris

[02:16] Christie you remember Chris Christie

[02:17] used to

[02:19] be I was going to say running around but

[02:21] that wouldn't be fair I was going to say

[02:24] he used to be running around all of our

[02:27] circles say he was uh

[02:30] what's the better word shaking around

[02:34] something like it's a bad

[02:35] visual got George Conway goodness

[02:38] gracious Adam

[02:40] kininger this

[02:42] here is the

[02:45] roster of the individuals that have been

[02:47] extr sized out of the Republican

[02:51] Party their top

[02:54] speaker being a likely Democrat

[02:57] candidate in

[02:58] 2028 says a

[03:01] lot what do these people believe now

[03:04] they're Gathering you can call them

[03:06] rhinos and all that but it it's it's

[03:08] much more interesting than that the one

[03:12] thing that unites every single one of

[03:14] these people actually the two things is

[03:16] there belief in neoconservative foreign

[03:19] policy number one and number two is

[03:23] there admiration of the security State

[03:26] the

[03:27] unquestioning gospel that is delivered

[03:30] from the Central Intelligence

[03:32] Agency from our Intel

[03:35] agencies you have ASA Hutchinson this

[03:38] here should give you such comfort of

[03:40] what Donald Trump has kicked out of our

[03:44] party and what you have kicked out of

[03:46] our

[03:47] party Michael steel who used to be the

[03:50] chairman of the Republican party in a

[03:52] Time long gone Jeff Duncan who is or was

[03:56] the lieutenant governor of Georgia

[04:01] and what they represent is a statist

[04:03] wing of the now changed Republican party

[04:06] and they know there's no place for them

[04:07] in this Republican party they know

[04:10] that they hate Doge because it might

[04:13] actually

[04:14] challenge the money train that they have

[04:16] benefited for quite some time they don't

[04:18] want an open

[04:20] border and this is an extension of the

[04:23] damage that the bush hun did to this

[04:27] country

[04:30] and they should try to do this

[04:31] conference in any other City try to do

[04:32] this conference in Scottsville or in

[04:35] Miami now you could only do this in

[04:37] Washington DC it's the only constituency

[04:40] in the country that would

[04:43] dare even entertain this

[04:47] nonsense but it's a very very important

[04:51] point because as we look at this roster

[04:54] as you put it up on screen understand

[04:55] there are still elements of the

[04:57] Republican party that

[05:01] are currently in office that agree with

[05:03] all these people but they sleeper cells

[05:05] within our ranks now of course we love

[05:08] disagreement that's never been the

[05:10] issue if you want to be Susan Collins

[05:13] and you want to disagree with us

[05:14] publicly let's have at it let's lay it

[05:16] down I'll respect you that is not the

[05:19] issue the issue is people who lie and

[05:23] say that they are from Deep Red States

[05:25] when in

[05:26] reality they're not they say that they

[05:29] are Trump faithful they say they are

[05:32] loyal to the agenda you go look at their

[05:35] website there's you know how many

[05:36] there's a lot of US senators that agree

[05:37] with this

[05:39] nonsense it's such a Time Warp back to

[05:42] 2012 you read

[05:44] this a lot of these are just

[05:49] abstractions as you go through

[05:53] this the most important question though

[05:55] is what do they

[05:56] believe is the role of American foreign

[05:59] policy

[06:00] every single person at this event

[06:02] supports sending more money to Ukraine

[06:04] every single person of this now dead

[06:06] Republican

[06:08] party believes that deportations are

[06:11] cruel and unusual and now you compare it

[06:14] with the current leadership structure

[06:16] and it's not even that the list is that

[06:18] bad of the principles on their

[06:21] website I mean you know we believe in

[06:23] the constitution of course we believe in

[06:24] all that but it's so obvious why they're

[06:26] holding a lame Rebel conference instead

[06:28] of hosting the president they're lame

[06:30] and they're weak heg Seth just announced

[06:33] an 8% annual cut at the Department of

[06:36] Defense but let me reiterate there are

[06:38] so many people in the Republican Party

[06:40] in the US

[06:42] Senate that hold these neoconservative

[06:46] neoliberal views and just so we are

[06:48] clear what is a neoconservative a

[06:50] neoconservative is a modern-day Empire

[06:52] Builder they want to invade the world

[06:55] and invite the world neoconservatism is

[06:57] an outgrowth of marxist ideology it is

[07:00] statism at its

[07:02] core that we can go bring the American

[07:05] foreign policy machine to a country near

[07:08] you and bring democracy to Baghdad or

[07:11] bring democracy to

[07:13] Kabul the project of Carl Ro the project

[07:16] of George W bush it really comes all

[07:18] down to Bush

[07:21] really there was a president who said

[07:23] all the superficial stuff that all of

[07:25] these other guys say but was an inep

[07:28] ideological and practical

[07:36] failure and the metamorphosis is

[07:38] continuing but the point I want to

[07:40] reiterate to all of you is that there

[07:41] are still a lot of senators right now

[07:42] that talk a good game when it comes to

[07:44] president Trump and they're not always

[07:45] there some that really might surprise

[07:47] you and there's been some that have

[07:49] stepped up to the plate and have done a

[07:51] great job but there's other Senators

[07:53] that there's some questions one in

[07:57] particular that is finally meet with one

[07:59] of Trump's nominees and I'm glad to hear

[08:01] it but it's been it's been a slow walk

[08:04] towards it we're going to talk about

[08:05] that in the next

[08:08] segment and he definitely comes from the

[08:11] foreign policy Camp of Bill Crystal from

[08:14] George W bush from dick

[08:17] chainy for those of you in Arkansas I

[08:19] just want to ask the question what's

[08:20] going on there we're going to we're

[08:21] going to talk about

[08:22] it vice president JD Vance has a very

[08:25] good friend his name is Elbridge Colby

[08:27] I've got to know Elbridge extremely

[08:29] thoughtful man who is against the bush

[08:33] hun philosophy as we have

[08:36] seen articulated in the previous segment

[08:38] about this ridiculous Gathering that

[08:40] they're

[08:42] doing Elbert Colby has been nominated by

[08:45] the president because he earned it to be

[08:48] basically a third in line at the

[08:50] Department of Defense it's called the

[08:53] under secretary for policy very very

[08:55] important job extremely important job so

[08:58] albertt Colby is not that controversial

[09:00] in fact he's incredibly qualified you

[09:01] can listen to his conversation with

[09:03] Tucker Carlson he's thoughtful he

[09:06] understands the issues he is as good as

[09:09] it gets and he has written the premiere

[09:13] book on the rise of the Chinese

[09:14] Communist party on the looming danger

[09:19] the clear and present danger of the

[09:23] CCP and for whatever reason we haven't

[09:27] been able to get a good answer his

[09:29] nomination has been stalled and is being

[09:33] opposed by Senator Tom Cotton now

[09:38] thankfully we're we're moving in the

[09:39] right direction here Senator Tom Cotton

[09:42] I've known him for quite a while I have

[09:44] nothing personal against him I don't I

[09:47] think he's phenomenal on immigration I

[09:49] think he's great on crime he's the one

[09:52] that was encouraging the president to

[09:55] invoke the Insurrection act during all

[09:58] of the Floyd CA stuff so he's great on a

[10:01] lot of issues on foreign policy we are

[10:04] on completely different planets I've

[10:05] said that before on this program uh Tom

[10:08] Cotton's foreign policy views are

[10:10] indecipherable from that of Dick Cheney

[10:13] and Bill Crystal and you don't have to

[10:14] take my word for it you can go look at

[10:16] the information and see what he says his

[10:18] criticism when it comes to Ukraine is

[10:21] that Joe Biden did not do

[10:24] enough he said we did not send enough

[10:26] money we did not send enough weapons

[10:29] that that was his criticism on Ukraine

[10:30] you can look it up he's please find the

[10:32] Tweet guys I could read it on here and

[10:34] so what's really going on here with the

[10:36] Elbridge Colby Tom Cotton Collision is

[10:41] that it's a philosophical and a

[10:43] worldview Schism that is

[10:46] unfolding I've I've now sent out two

[10:48] tweets they've been seen millions of

[10:50] times about seven or eight million times

[10:51] asking the question why Senator Tom

[10:54] Cotton is getting in Elbridge col's way

[10:57] to become third in line it's one of

[10:59] Trump's picks we don't know the answer

[11:02] to that question it's probably because

[11:05] Senator Tom Cotton is getting a little

[11:07] worried that the bill Crystal George W

[11:11] bush foreign

[11:14] policy regime is coming to an end it is

[11:17] sunsetting now of course every Senator

[11:19] is able to ask robust questions to get

[11:22] assurances all of that is fine but it

[11:25] goes beyond that Senator cotton has

[11:28] called the president directly trying to

[11:30] undermine Elbridge col's nomination

[11:34] Senator Tom Cotton has been trying

[11:35] everything he possibly can to derail

[11:38] this and saying oh I'm actually not

[11:39] trying to derail it a lot of this is

[11:41] behind the scen stuff that is now of

[11:43] course publicly reported I'm happy to

[11:44] say though that Elbridge Colby is now

[11:47] meeting with Senator Tom Cotton and

[11:50] hopefully that will

[11:51] proceed but I would love for those of

[11:54] you in the great state of Arkansas to

[11:55] chime in and to give your opinions or

[11:58] anyone how would you feel if Senator

[12:01] cotton or other Senators like him decide

[12:04] to vote against President Trump's

[12:06] nominees it's not enough just to do

[12:08] Bobby Kennedy and cash all that is great

[12:09] Tulsi gabard but now we are talking

[12:12] about the inner workings of these

[12:14] departments and elrige's book which you

[12:16] guys should all check out the strategy

[12:18] of denial American defense in an age of

[12:21] great power conflict is one of the most

[12:24] thoughtful pieces of work he is

[12:28] resolutely pro-israel obviously America

[12:30] First and the criticism that they have

[12:32] against Elbridge kby is that Elbridge

[12:36] basically has written that he does not

[12:37] want to go to war against Iran that's it

[12:40] that that that is their criticism he has

[12:41] been very clear that we should not get

[12:44] into a connetic bombing campaign a

[12:47] ground war against Iran and for

[12:50] that it has

[12:54] resulted

[12:57] in a

[12:59] tension point and you're seeing the

[13:02] ideological Rift unfold and I have

[13:04] been helping lead the X and the Twitter

[13:07] chatter here and again I I hope Senator

[13:09] cotton does the right thing this is not

[13:11] against him personally but I can tell

[13:12] you if he does oppose some of these

[13:14] nominees that the Grassroots of Arkansas

[13:16] are not going to like

[13:18] that they they're not going to like the

[13:21] fact that President Trump won a

[13:24] declarative mandate election and he's

[13:26] not able to get his cabinet positions in

[13:28] and his sub cabinet positions in

[13:30] deputies third in control fourth in

[13:33] control we have we have one tweet from

[13:36] Senator cotton about Ukraine no timidity

[13:38] and half measures time to send Ukraine

[13:40] the weapons needed to end this Invasion

[13:41] well we did send the weapons did The

[13:43] Invasion end of course not