Charlie Kirk Interviews Mike Huckabee on His Nomination as US Ambassador to Israel and the Abraham Accords

[00:00] you are now nominated uh as the US

[00:02] ambassador to Israel and I could tell

[00:04] you right now if Dennis was on the radio

[00:07] today he would be cheerleading with pom

[00:10] poms that Governor Mike Huckaby is the

[00:13] US ambassador to Israel uh Governor

[00:15] congratulations on that uh and tell us

[00:18] um the stakes what you plan to do and uh

[00:21] fill our audience in please well Charlie

[00:23] I appreciate it let me Begin by just

[00:25] saying thank you to you I'm convinced

[00:27] without uh Turning Point USA I'm not

[00:30] sure Donald Trump would have won he

[00:32] certainly would not have won with the

[00:33] landslide that he did and the Mandate

[00:36] that he goes in with is without doubt

[00:40] largely due to the efforts that Turning

[00:42] Point has done across the country so

[00:44] kudos to you my friend and all of the

[00:47] incredible people at Turning Point um

[00:50] you guys on Inauguration Day January

[00:54] 20th uh you ought to take a deep bow and

[00:57] and just recognize yes you did did it

[01:00] you did it well well thank you it's the

[01:02] Lord I really believe it was the hand of

[01:04] God but please continue well it was but

[01:07] you know God's hands sometimes need a

[01:08] little help down here and uh he calls on

[01:11] us to to be his hands and his feet and

[01:14] you guys have been just that I I'll tell

[01:16] you this has been a kind of a shocking

[01:20] 24 hours for me and it was almost

[01:22] exactly 24 hours ago when President

[01:24] Trump gave me the call I wasn't

[01:26] expecting it it wasn't something I'd

[01:28] been lobbying for uh but when he asked

[01:31] quite frankly the one position that the

[01:34] president could have asked me to do that

[01:36] I was willing and really ready to do uh

[01:39] because of my passion for the state of

[01:41] Israel which goes all the way back to

[01:44] 1973 that's when I made my first trip to

[01:47] Israel I was still a month shy of my

[01:49] 18th birthday and it was lifechanging

[01:53] for me and since that time I've been

[01:56] probably a hundred times to Israel I've

[01:58] taken tens of thousands of people to

[02:00] visit Israel gotten to know most of the

[02:03] government officials there uh I've

[02:05] walked from Dan to beerseba and have

[02:08] been throughout the country and it's a

[02:11] place I just truly love and I believe it

[02:15] is a special place because God made it

[02:17] special and so without any apology in

[02:20] saying this um you know I'm a simple guy

[02:22] I believe the scripture Genesis 12 those

[02:26] who bless Israel will be blessed those

[02:27] who curse Israel will be cursed I want

[02:30] to be on the blessing side not the curse

[02:32] side and this for me is an extraordinary

[02:35] honor but it's also a very weighty

[02:38] responsibility that the president has uh

[02:40] asked me to do and I am honored to do

[02:44] this for my country and for my

[02:47] president well governor and and let's

[02:49] not forget uh you are going to be in the

[02:51] ambassador's uh residence in Jerusalem

[02:54] not Tel Aviv and that is incredibly

[02:57] significant please explain to our

[03:00] audience well I was there when the

[03:03] embassy was moved on that incredible day

[03:05] I I wept because for years I'd been

[03:08] praying some president would actually

[03:09] have the courage to do this and every

[03:12] president and it goes back Democrats and

[03:14] Republicans Bill Clinton George Bush it

[03:16] didn't matter who all said they were

[03:18] going to move the embassy from Tel Aviv

[03:20] to Jerusalem they never did they always

[03:22] found an excuse or a reason oh it'll

[03:25] create tension and hardship Donald Trump

[03:27] did it and I'll never forget my daughter

[03:29] was press secretary I happen to be at

[03:32] the White House and I had a visit just

[03:33] one-on-one with President Trump uh in

[03:36] the Oval Office and we were chatting and

[03:39] I said Mr President thank you so much

[03:41] for moving the embassy um most people

[03:46] didn't think you'd ever do it because no

[03:47] one else has done it and I know that

[03:50] every bit of pressure was for you to not

[03:53] do it from the state department from

[03:54] other nations and its leaders um

[03:57] everywhere people said don't do it even

[03:59] the Senators and uh people in the house

[04:02] who always voted for it to happen deep

[04:04] down they were afraid of it so I asked

[04:06] him I said why did you do it Charlie

[04:09] I'll never forget what he said this is

[04:11] classic Trump and you know him very very

[04:13] well so you'll understand how accurate

[04:15] this

[04:16] is he looked at me he said well because

[04:20] I said I was going to do it and it's the

[04:22] right thing to do simple as that and I

[04:25] thought now that is an executive that is

[04:28] a leader that is a decision maker and I

[04:31] I just realized what an

[04:34] extraordinary blessing we had as having

[04:37] Donald Trump at the White House and I

[04:39] was hurt deeply wounded when uh the 2020

[04:43] election was called the other way but I

[04:45] got to tell you I'm ecstatic that he

[04:47] goes back in ready to go um picking some

[04:52] incredible people to be on his team

[04:55] totally and I believe he will have the

[04:57] most impactful and successful

[05:00] presidency perhaps in all of American

[05:03] History now I hope everyone understands

[05:05] some ambassadorships are ceremonial

[05:08] they're given as friends of the

[05:10] president people that kind of want a

[05:11] nice uh end to their career you could

[05:14] think of a Caribbean Island to the Turks

[05:16] and Kos Cayman Islands maybe even

[05:19] Austria ambassad to Israel is a

[05:22] completely different ball game everybody

[05:23] Governor can you explain you are

[05:25] actively involved in diplomacy in high

[05:28] stakes negotiations in representing

[05:31] American interests not just Israel but

[05:33] you are really at the tip of the spear

[05:35] for all Western Arab Communications

[05:38] because it has to go through the prism

[05:39] of American Israeli relations and so

[05:42] this is not just kind of okay Governor

[05:43] hucke you know get a nice Sunan down in

[05:47] Jamaica you are going to be on the front

[05:49] lines of some of the most consequential

[05:51] geopolitical decisions please Governor

[05:55] well it is a very strategic role because

[05:57] so much of World Peace is made or is

[06:01] broken in that little area of the Middle

[06:03] East particularly that sliver of real

[06:06] estate we called Israel no bigger than

[06:07] the size of New Jersey Israel occupies

[06:13] 1644th of the land mass of the countries

[06:16] that are controlled by Muslim leadership

[06:18] I mean that's staggering when you think

[06:20] about it so for every inch of Israeli

[06:24] land in real estate there are

[06:27] 644 pieces of land controlled by Muslim

[06:31] uh countries when people say Israel

[06:34] needs to give up some land to to attain

[06:36] peace they have no idea what they're

[06:37] talking about it's a dumb

[06:39] statement the role that I will play is

[06:42] to try to help extend the Abraham

[06:44] Accords which I don't think president

[06:45] Trump ever got proper credit for it was

[06:49] an extraordinary breakthrough truly

[06:52] amazing the Breakthrough that that

[06:54] presented and there are pieces of that

[06:57] that still need to happen particularly

[06:59] with Saudi Arabia with cter and with

[07:01] other countries and so that'll be part

[07:03] of uh what I hope to be able to play a

[07:06] role in but you know the job of the

[07:08] Ambassador is not to represent himself

[07:10] is not to uh so much put forth what I

[07:13] think uh I'll be there to represent this

[07:16] Administration this President and the

[07:18] policies that he was elected to carry

[07:21] out so as yeah I've been asked well what

[07:23] do you think you're going to want to do

[07:25] I said I'm going to want to do what the

[07:26] president wants me to do because that's

[07:28] what an ambassador does because uh one

[07:31] of the reasons he had some challenges in

[07:33] his first term there were people he had

[07:36] appointed appointed to office I think

[07:38] the first Secretary of State that he had

[07:40] is a good example who forgot that no one

[07:43] had elected him to anything the only

[07:47] person that got elected on November the

[07:49] 5th was Donald J Trump so he's the

[07:52] person that the people have said you're

[07:54] our leader anyone he appoints or

[07:58] employs it is our job to carry out the

[08:01] policies that he was elected by the

[08:04] American people to put

[08:08] forth Governor uh thank you for your

[08:11] leadership and I've always wanted to see

[08:14] this I Pray I'll see you next year in

[08:16] Jerusalem so thank Charlie I can't wait

[08:19] for you to come and I look forward to

[08:21] hosting you when you do thank you for

[08:23] all you do God bless you my friend