The Charlie Kirk Show

Could Cartel Kidnappings Come to America?

37 min
Feb 5, 20262 months ago
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Summary

Charlie Kirk discusses the abduction of Nancy Guthrie (mother of Today Show host Savannah Guthrie) in Tucson, Arizona, drawing parallels to kidnapping-for-ransom crimes prevalent in Latin America and arguing this represents a consequence of open border policies. The episode also covers Senator Rick Scott's push to pass the SAVE Act voter ID legislation and criticism of Olympic woke culture.

Insights
  • Kidnapping-for-ransom, common in Venezuela and Mexico, may be emerging as a crime model in the US due to porous border security and internationalization of criminal networks
  • The SAVE Act enjoys overwhelming bipartisan and cross-racial support (76-85% approval across demographics), yet Democrats block it for political reasons unrelated to actual voter concerns
  • Woke ideology persists in mainstream institutions (Olympics, media) despite political shifts, creating friction between progressive messaging and practical reality (e.g., expecting African immigrants to excel at winter sports)
  • Border security and law enforcement funding are being weaponized as political leverage, with Democrats opposing ICE funding despite documented crimes by undocumented individuals
  • High-profile cases like Nancy Guthrie's abduction expose vulnerabilities in suburban/rural areas near the border and raise questions about elderly safety in low-density communities
Trends
Internationalization of organized crime in US (burglary rings, car theft, kidnapping) linked to border permeabilityKidnapping-for-ransom emerging as potential crime model in US border states, mirroring Latin American patternsVoter ID legislation becoming central political battleground despite 76-85% public support across all demographicsPersistent woke institutional messaging in Olympic/sports media despite broader cultural pushbackFilibuster reform debate intensifying as Republicans seek to bypass Democratic obstruction on security/election billsDHS and CBP resource constraints limiting enforcement capacity on border and domestic crimePolitical weaponization of law enforcement funding (ICE, DHS) as partisan leverageSuburban/rural elderly vulnerability in border-adjacent regions due to isolation and limited law enforcement presence
Topics
Nancy Guthrie abduction case and ransom investigationKidnapping-for-ransom crime trends in US border statesOpen border policy consequences and criminal network expansionSAVE Act voter ID legislation and Democratic oppositionFilibuster reform and talking filibuster strategyICE and DHS funding battles in CongressBorder wall completion status and coverage gapsVenezuelan and Latin American crime patterns in USElection integrity and voter ID polling dataOlympic venue naming controversy (Ice House to Winter House)Team USA Olympic representation and diversity debatesTurning Point USA expansion in high schools and statesFlorida law enforcement and sanctuary city policiesInternational burglary and fencing rings in Phoenix/ScottsdaleElderly safety and vulnerability in remote border communities
Companies
NBC News
Employer of Savannah Guthrie, host of Today Show since 2011; her mother Nancy was abducted
Turning Point USA
Kirk's organization expanding high school chapters across multiple states including Montana, Texas, Tennessee, Florida
Real America's Voice
Broadcasting partner for All-American halftime show on Super Bowl Sunday
People
Savannah Guthrie
Today Show co-anchor; her mother Nancy Guthrie was abducted from Tucson home, was to host 2026 Winter Olympics
Nancy Guthrie
84-year-old abducted from Tucson, Arizona home; mother of Savannah Guthrie; subject of ransom investigation
Senator Rick Scott
Florida senator discussing SAVE Act voter ID legislation, border security, ICE funding, and filibuster reform strategy
Senator Mike Lee
Co-advocating for talking filibuster reform to bypass Democratic obstruction on SAVE Act and security bills
Senator John Thune
Senate Majority Leader facing pressure to implement talking filibuster strategy for Trump agenda legislation
Governor Greg Gianforte
Montana governor partnering with Turning Point USA to establish high school chapters across the state
Kristi Noem
DHS Secretary assisting with Nancy Guthrie search; conducting border wall visits in Tucson sector
Sheriff Chris Nano
Pima County Sheriff leading investigation into Nancy Guthrie abduction; believes she was taken against her will
President Donald Trump
Spoke with Savannah Guthrie offering federal government support; posted on Truth Social about filibuster reform
Vice President JD Vance
Arriving in Milan to greet Team USA at Winter Olympics; shown enthusiastically engaging with Olympians
Quotes
"You do not uphold civilization. Well it's interesting too we're going to have Senator Rick Scott on next in the next segment and you know Florida is a place where you mentioned Venezuelans you mentioned all of this Latin American community that is gathered in Miami and South Florida and you know they love it there because civilization law and order because they actually have a government that means business and isn't going to let crooks run the streets."
Charlie KirkMid-episode discussion on civilization and law enforcement
"You have to have an idea to go on airplane. You ought to have an idea to vote. You should be able to register to vote if you're, you know, you can't prove your citizenship."
Senator Rick ScottSAVE Act discussion
"The only explanation is they want to cheat. Let's see. Only thing that that's that's the only explanation. By the way, kill the zombie filibuster and make them go on the floor and actually defend the indefensible."
Charlie KirkVoter ID and filibuster reform segment
"If something as simple as changing a name can do anything to make someone feel more comfortable, it's really unfortunate that the term ice hasn't ice skating. Like I'm here on this sheet of ice and saying that it's kind of like, oh, disheartening that something so negative has taken that name from us."
Amber Glenn, Team USA figure skaterOlympics Ice House naming controversy
"In the words of the great Laura Ingram, shut up and dribble. Okay, I will root for you. I will root for you team USA. But now I'm going to do it through grit teeth. I'm going to do it through begrudgingly because I just now I know how dumb some of you are."
Charlie KirkClosing Olympics segment criticism
Full Transcript
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 the most important thing for you is just feeling good, you're going to end up miserable. But if the most important thing is doing good, you will end up purposeful. College is a scam everybody. You've got to stop sending your kids to college. You should get married as young as possible and have as many kids as possible. Go start a turning point USA college chapter. Go start a turning point USA high school chapter. Go find out how your 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, use me. Buckle up everybody. Here we go. The Charlie Kirk show is proudly sponsored by Preserve Gold, the leading gold and silver experts and the only precious metals company I recommend to my family, friends and viewers. Alright, welcome back to the Charlie Kirk show. It is February 5th. Just days before the big game. Blake, good morning. I'm so excited for the physically large game. I love it. We've been finding different ways to say different things for certain reasons. A prominent national organization is very territorial about the names of its physically large games. And we're totally fine with that. We are very fine with that. I cannot wait for the All-American half time show that will be added approximately 8 p.m. Eastern right here on Real America's voice. Robin Parker SIG. Huge shout out to you gentlemen. You have believed in us and in this vision from the very get go. Real America's voice is going to be playing that live. And I think they've got some plans like before and after. Maybe I'll give my call and see how I can help. It was briefly mentioned to me. So it's going to be huge. I've seen the rehearsal. I have actually seen some of it and. It's awesome. It's it's like amazing actually. I don't want to oversell it because you know, then you there's nowhere to go but down but it's really good. Really, really good. And it's beautiful too. The team has just done a tremendous job. Another piece of news here. Erica Kirk was up with Governor Greg G and forte and the great state of Montana yesterday celebrating a new state partnership. With that state to get a club America chapter in every chapter every high school rather across that state. So add that to the list of Texas. Add that to the list of Tennessee, Florida, Indiana and Nebraska, Oklahoma. So we're making a huge huge moves there. So thank you to the governor Greg G and forte. Charlie since he was 18. So that's a long time relationship there. Very proud honor to be doing that. We've got thousands and thousands of high school chapters. That's the way you think you think about the ice walkouts. You think about the indoctrination of the Grammys and Hollywood and all that stuff. And meanwhile turning point. We've got all American halftime show celebrating faith family freedom. Amazing content that I made for TV concert experience. That's good for the whole family. So I'm writing faith family freedom. And then we've got high school chapters rolling out all across the country. So I like to think that charlotte be smiling down on us and I believe he is. We want to get into some some rather less positive news. Unfortunately for a few reasons. I actually think it has national importance. And that is the add up take out abduction of Nancy Guthrie Savannah Guthrie's mom. So Savannah Guthrie is the host of the today show. She's been hosting that show since 2011. She was a co host of the third hour chief legal correspondent later becoming a main co anchor in 2012. She previously served as a White House correspondent for NBC news from 2008 to 2011. And what's kind of tragic about this is it ties into another current event. And that she was supposed to be hosting the 2026 winter Olympics opening ceremony in Italy. So obviously that's not going to be happening because her mother Nancy who lived in Tucson or lives in Tucson where she grew up where she grew up. So just down the road from us here really really close to the border. She was abducted from her house. It looks like some some time on Sunday. She failed to show up at church. She always did. And that was so striking to those who are used to seeing her that they immediately reported her as missing. And they went to check on her missing. So it I when I heard this story Blake. It's going to sound weird. But you were the first person I thought of. And the reason I say that is because when Charlie was here and we were living through Biden's border invasion. We kept warning you kept warning specifically about the rise of kidnappings in South America and how we were basically opening our doors to the same culture here. It's that a long term thing is that as you as the border between the US and Latin America would break down. I feared and we don't know we just to clarify we don't know all the facts here. So this is still speculative on our part. But they do think a kidnapping here is very plausible. They seem to have a ransom note of some kind. They think it might be real. I believe her pacemaker has stopped updating with her apple watch. And so it seems like she's out of range of it. So various reasons they think it's real. And I think that this got us thinking of is in Latin America. A very common crime relative to the United States is kidnapping specifically for ransom in Venezuela, for example. We do throw that up in Venezuela under the Chavez government. They had a breakdown on order. And so they started having thousands of kidnappings per year. That would be like that having thousands in a nation. The size of California. They increased under Hugo Chavez by 1,716% in the USA abduction. And that's like going into 2011. I don't know what the rate was over the past 15 years. But I think it remained high. And it's not just Venezuela, Mexico. I think in 2022 or 23. They had 100,000 missing people in a year. That's like a one in a thousand chance of going missing each year in Mexico. I think a lot of that gets resolved eventually, but that's just the thing. It's such a regular industry in the US missing people are usually like it could be a custody dispute or it could be someone kind of ran away. And they just genuinely disappeared or like tragically you have you know kidnappings that unfortunately end in murders. But you don't see too much kidnapping for ransom as a business model. This model. And I need just need to be clear for accuracy. Like we don't know who took her. They don't have any leads. They have no suspects. I mean, this is they are trying to get as much help from the community ring cameras, all of those things. The FBI has been called in cash betel is in the President Trump has spoken with Savannah Guthrie saying that you know the full force of the federal government law enforcement is going to be there helping. There's also been a rant. Yeah, there it is. There's the true social saying that the President spoke with Savannah Guthrie. I think that that's really touching. I'm sure Savannah Guthrie is a liberal person, probably not a supporter, but here in a time of need. And you know, they've even gotten a ransom note that now they can't say that it's 100% with 100% certainty that is accurate that is authentic. But there are some reasons to believe that it probably is. Let's go ahead and play this from a local affiliate in Tucson KOL D 13 news. They are the ones that received the alleged ransom note tied to the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie. And the station's anchor Mary Coleman here tells CNN why she believes this might not be a hoax for 85. There are a few things that we can share as far as what the contents were. A lot of it is information that only someone who is holding her for ransom would know some very sensitive information and things that's up. People who weren't there when she was taken captive would know. So those are things that are concerning. We immediately send that information over to the Sheriff's Department. And they're of course looking into the legitimacy of it. But also included a dollar amount to deadline and again, other specifics that only Guthrie's a doctor might know. So that definitely raised some red flags. So just to repeat, it says the alleged ransom note included a dollar amount, a deadline, and again, other specifics that only Guthrie's a doctor might know. And there is, we have an image, this is a blood splatter down. I believe on the front porch of the home, which I've been told is sort of like low velocity blood splatter. So something like maybe from a bloody nose. And you know, so it's as opposed to a gunshot or something like that where we're like more high velocity splatter. So the hope is is that she's still alive and that she is being held somewhere hopefully held for ransom. So let's go through this timeline. So Saturday night, January 31st, 2026 at about 930 Nancy Guthrie 84 arrives at her home in the Catalina foothills area of Tucson, Arizona. So it's kind of outside of town, a little bit remote. She had spent the evening having dinner with family, including her daughter Annie, who drove her home. It has believed Annie is the last person to have seen her mother Sunday, February 1st. So that was late at night 2 a.m. in the morning Guthrie's pacemaker sinks with her apple devices at home for the last time investigators believe she has taken out of range around this time 11 a.m. Nancy fails to arrive at regular church service, a member of which calls her family 1110 family members arrive at her home. To find it empty 1215. Pima County Sheriff Department receives a missing person called deputies respond and find Nancy's car phone and wallet still inside the home. Blood drops are found leading outside toward the driveway. The doorbell camera had been removed. So the I think that's a really important detail there that the doorbell camera had been removed by Monday. Sheriff Chris Nano says he believes Nancy got through was taken against her will approximately between 9 30 p.m. Saturday and 11 a.m. Sunday. So it's a pretty big window. Although that pacemaker sinking with the apple devices at 2 a.m. for the last time would probably indicate that it happened after 2 a.m. So the home is treated as a potential crime scene and homicide detectives are involved and now you've got all of federal law enforcement, Kristi Nome was doing some border wall visits down in the Tucson sector. So she's now been dispatched to help another key that I think is you know a lot of people I haven't heard people bring up but is that customers and border patrol are involved which again it could just be all hands on dead. We'll learn more we'll learn more but we speculate on this for a reason because it is just to cite other examples is here in Phoenix we've also seen a surge in sort of we saw especially during the Biden years we saw the surge in international burglary rings. We saw international fencing rings as it were people would steal cars up in Scottsdale and they would be in Mexico in six hours and you're never going to see him again after that there is a real there's an internationalization of crime in the United States that is entirely downstream of the fact that we have had a totally open border for so long and we hope this isn't a manifestation of that but at least in my opinion it's hard for me to not immediately think of those things. I think of those kidnappings for handsome that have happened so often in Latin America if you follow pro sports a real thing is pro athletes who came from Venezuela or from the Dominican public places like that they have to worry about their family members getting kidnapped because they know they have a rich relative in the United States. It's a real problem and you think about Savannah got three obviously on the today show huge huge celebrity and she just has this 80 octogenarian mother out kind of in the outskirts of Tucson sitting there living seemingly alone you know it was interesting my mother's reaction to this was that you know I'm not sure I would want my 80 plus your mom to be living out alone and I was like well but she's just a she's independent. She should never she should have every right to do that. You would never think about civilization is the ability for the week the elderly the vulnerable to live in safety and yes that's a great point. That steadily goes away. That's a great point. You do not uphold civilization. Well it's interesting too we're going to have Senator Rick Scott on next in the next segment and you know Florida is a place where you mentioned Venezuelans you mentioned all of this Latin American community that is gathered in Miami and South Florida and you know they love it there because civilization law and order because they actually have a government that means business and isn't going to let crooks run the streets. Anyways here's the video of Savannah Guthrie and her sister and her brother-in-law addressing the ransom note rumors and they speak directly to their mom Nancy 465. We too have heard the reports about a ransom letter in the media as a family we are doing everything that we can. We are ready to talk. We need to know without a doubt that she is alive and that you have her. We want to hear from you and we are ready to listen. Mommy if you are hearing this you are a strong woman. You are God's precious daughter Nancy. We believe and know that even in this valley he is with you. Everyone is looking for you mommy everywhere we love you mom. Yeah that is really touching stuff. I have heard it for the first time on a drive into the office and it is emotional stuff. There is no doubt. I think everything we have lived through to makes it harder for some reason because these high profile cases where you are forced to be strong in a public sense like that. It is just excruciating stuff. Our hearts and prayers are with Savannah Guthrie and her family and with Nancy. Her mom pray that she is okay. The couple more clips here. This is Kristi Nome saying DHS is assisting with the search for Nancy Guthrie 466. We have asked us to help with some of our K-9 teams and CBP has partnered with the other agencies involved. We are all just heart sick about this and hope she is found soon and that she is found safely and that we can get to the bottom of what really happened. It looks like the search for Nancy has picked up backup at Guthrie's house so I don't know if they are sweeping for more details here or more clues for 64. The Sheriff's Department announced yesterday that they had cleared the crime scene at Nancy Guthrie's home and handed it back to the Guthrie family. The Sheriff's Department announced that the search for Nancy Guthrie 466 was a long time ago. The sheriff's department announced that the search for Nancy Guthrie 466 was a long time ago. We believe that there is a search ongoing in part of the area around the back of that property right now. We don't know exactly what they are all looking for but certainly there is suddenly very intense activity back at Nancy Guthrie's house. That is an interesting thing where they clear the house, they give it back to the family and then they move back in and tape it all off. I want to show this image though kind of back to your earlier point 492 this is a pick of map of Tucson's proximity to the border and corresponding border wall. So if you look at this map the red portions of it are finished wall at new border wall from present Trump orange are older border wall yellow is like vehicle fence green is damaged border wall. It's a pretty I mean goes stretches into New Mexico a lot of that land where there isn't border wall is either very second second priority border wall area very remote or its mountainous but I do believe the plan is to complete it all the way through so just something to keep in mind as we talk about that story. 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I recommend that you go to balance of nature dot com and order the whole health system supplements as a preferred customer today that's balance of nature dot com. All right senator rick Scott I got to start with a question here that I did not prep you for but we were just covering the Savannah Guthrie her mom Nancy has been abducted in Tucson Arizona and it reminded me of a lot of conversations Blake here had with Charlie Charlie mentioned on the show a couple times that when you have an open border you're going to have a rise in these abductions because it's very South American is very Mexican like the cultural phenomenon in South South of the border. Now you are a senator informally the governor of the state of Florida where you have a lot of Latin Americans a lot of Venezuelans Cubans you know is this something that you see there now to be fair we don't know who did this but is this something that you guys have to wrestle with in Florida just with with the types of populations that have moved in well I mean we always were we're always cautious but you know we have great chair of departments we you know we great police departments we we don't have a sanctuary cities. In Florida and we've got tough enforcement laws so if you're convicted in Florida you serve 80 you have to serve 85% of your sentence and so there was I saw something on what CNN a couple years ago and they said oh yeah we don't commit a crime in Florida because they put you in jail we just go down there to party. And I think what's happening around our country is people know where to go at the crimes you know they know where to go so but no we we don't have you know first off you're right you know a lot of the kidnappings it's sort of common in Latin America and and you know the nice thing is to come to our state you know we don't have it you know we got a lot of water between us in that so we we haven't had the same issues that they've had in some other places and I think this is what this is what this is. the other thing we're not a sanctuary city and we have tough enforcement laws. Yeah. Well, our hearts and prayers are with the Guthrie family. It's really just a terrible story and it's their video they released is just heartbreaking and so we are praying for Nancy Guthrie that she would be reunited with her family. Hopefully she's safe and well. I agree. I want to turn our attention Senator to the Savact. Now, there was a clip yesterday. I believe our team is pulling it. I'm not sure if we have it yet. We do. So this is leader Thune and he's talking about the pushback that he's getting from Democrats on the Savact in the Senate, 4.95. Their political base is demanding they fight with anything that President Trump wants. It is Trump derangement syndrome. It is on steroids around here these days and even logical, common, sensical things like ensuring that if you're going to vote in an American election, you ought to be an American citizen. They're going to just instinctively opposed. So that's what we're up against. So no mention there, Senator of, you know, maybe the getting rid of the zombie filibuster as Senator Lee has called it. There's no talk of putting it in a reconciliation bill did not inspire a lot of confidence for me. The floor is yours. What's the status of this highly popular policy? Well, we're going to get a past. I don't know how we're going to get it done, but Senator Mike Lee and I are focused on this every day. A lot of our friends of the House are focused on this. You have to have an idea to go on airplane. You ought to have an idea to vote. You should be able to register to vote if you're, you know, you can't prove your citizenship. I can't vote. I mean, I can't vote. I wouldn't vote for Macron and France or Starmer in the UK, but I'm going to vote for them. So you can get votes if you're illegal. We have to use the talking filibuster. It's not changing the rules. It's enforcing the rules. It's just saying if you want to stop, if you want to slow down the process, you can go talk. But this idea that you don't have to talk and we have to wait for 60 votes to show up is wrong. So we're going to, you know, we're going to keep talking about it. You saw the president posted about it last night. If the Democrats, you know, want to slow stuff down, you're going to have to talk on the floor, but we have got to get things passed that are good for this country. We've got to, you know, we've got a secure border. We got to get home and security funded. We got to get ice funded. We've got to pass the Save America Act. There's a lot of things like that. And we, if we, you know, if the Democrats are not going to work with us, then we have to use the talking filibuster to get it done. Yeah. So let's go into what the talking filibuster is. And we had Senator Lee kind of when he first floated this idea on the show talking about it. It's always pretty straight forward. Yeah. But, but, but, but, but, but take a step back. You know, we, we think of 60 votes to breakclosure is it's kind of like we just assume you need 60 votes to do anything in the Senate. That's not really true. Obviously, we have reconciliation. But when you actually look the history, it started in like 1917 when they really kind of started using this, but it was used very sparingly. But in our modern era, it's, we just think 60 votes. You got to have 60 votes. And basically in our divided world, we can't get 60 votes on anything. Explain to the audience what it's like in the Senate is what's the work around? How do you get this done? Is there support to get rid of this zombie filibuster? The floor is yours, sir. Well, number one, if this is important to you, you need to call your senator. Let them know that the Save America Act or any other bill you think is important. Haskep passed and you've got to use the talking filibuster you've done. So all we're going to do is require the Democrats to do what they should do. The filibuster was simply a decision by the Senate to say, okay, at some period of time, we're going to stop talking and we're going to vote. I think Clarence Thomas got votes. All right. So, but they didn't use the filibuster process to prevent him from ever having any vote. So the bottom line is is that we've got to, we've got to, you know, do what do we want to talk? If you want to go talk, have out it. But when you're done talking, we are going to vote and it's going to take 50 votes plus the vice president to pass legislation or pass norms. That's way to do that. The norms we've already changed because the Democrats wouldn't block everything. So, and this is just they don't want Trump to get anything done. They want, you know, it's right now where he want to shut down the government. They don't want, they don't want to go to economy. So we have got it. We have to do this. And by the way, if we want to save this country, we've got to make sure people feel comfortable that our elections are fair. I mean, if, I mean, the, just the concept that you don't have to show your ID to vote is foreign Americans, believe it, Republicans, Democrats, we all believe you have to do this. And so that's where it's, we're going to get this done. I'm going to keep fighting. I know Senator Lee's going to keep fighting to get this done. The president is on board. Right. He knows we have to use the talking filibuster to get his agenda done. So, so that's your word to the audience is that this will get done. Do you believe that Senator Thune is ready for that type of battle? Well, we haven't done it yet. So I tell everybody the way the way I think DC works is until it happened, be hopeful, but take action. So what I would do is I would call everybody every Senator and say that you have got to get the save America passed. If you can't get Democrats, which they're not going to help us, then you've got to do it through the talking filibuster. And we can. Is it a pain? It's a pain the rear, right? But so why? And you know, this is a full time job that we ought to be busting about every day for the American people. This is a very important piece of legislation that's going to save this country. Yeah, I mean, I completely agree. But by the way, it's just massively popular. This is this is the wild thing. Even Democrats own voters support it. It's worth reiterating. Let's play the clip again. Even even by the way, Black Americans voted. This is their big pushback. It's Jim Crow 2.0 355. Take a look here. Favorite photo ID to vote. 85% of white people favorite 82% of Latino 76% of Black Americans favorite. So the bottom line is this voter ID is not controversial in this country. A photo ID to vote is not controversial in this country. It is not controversial by party. And it is not controversial by race. The vast majority of Americans agree with Nicki Minaj that in fact, you should have a photo ID to be able to vote. So something to be not. So, you know, I guess they're just going with, you know, Black people and married women are too dumb to get voter ID and, you know, Republicans are racist. No, they want to fraud. They want to know Andrew, you're being too nice. The Democrats know they can't win with their policies. This is they want fraud to win. I love it when you tell me I'm big, too nice. This is great. Yes, continue. I totally agree. The only explanation is they want to cheat. Let's see. Only thing that that's that's the only explanation. By the way, kill the zombie filibuster and make them go on the floor and actually defend the indefensible. Make them do it. They want to defund ICE. They don't care about the American public. Think about how could you want to defund ICE when you have stories that Lincoln Riley or Johnson and Gary are Rachel Moran, are you here to the stories of these little girls being raped and then you're saying you don't want ICE to have have the ability to get rid of these criminals. This is crazy. No, world. No, in center, I mean, listen, again, I just want to reiterate out of abundance of caution, we do not know who abducted Nancy got three. We don't. But if we find out that it was cartel related or if it was, you know, people that shouldn't be in this country, it's going to add a really important wrinkle to this. Really quick question for you, Senator, on the DHS funding, where do we stand? No, where? I mean, they're not getting funded. I mean, you know, this is, I mean, the Democrats, they want to shut down this stuff. They want to destroy the Trump presidency. They don't, they don't care about all the crime that come in this country. They don't care. I mean, they are in for the Democrats are in for open borders with criminals and gangs. They're all okay with that. Look, there's some wonderful people who want to come in this country, come in legally as we have a process for that and we can improve that. But no, the Democrats will not fund ICE. Their proposals make no sense. Right? So they don't ask local law enforcement to do these things. Why are they asking ICE to do it? Senator, you know, listen, we've got leader Thune. He's the leader of the majority in the Senate. We backed you to be leader. And so I'm just going to hang our hat on your assurance that you're going to get this done because I believe it is existential to get in the Savak pass, the future of this country. You know, we had Coach Tuberville on saying that, that, you know, the republic, as we know it could be over if we don't get election integrity basic measures, like an ID. Thank you for fighting. I mean, we're going to take your word to the bank and we believe you can do it. Get the Savak pass. We'll be right back. Bye. Bye. Hi folks. Andrew Colvet here. I'd like to tell you about my friends over at Y-Refi. You've probably been hearing me talk about Y-Refi for some time now. We are all in with these guys. If you or someone you know is struggling with private student loan debt, take my advice and give them a call. Maybe you're behind on your payments. Maybe you're even in default. You don't have to live in this nightmare anymore. Y-Refi will provide you a custom payment based on your ability to pay. 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Charlie loved the Olympics. He loved all things that were America competing for America. He even loved the World Cup, which I always hated on because I hate soccer and I don't want soccer. Trump is very excited about the World Cup. He loved to compete. I didn't like the World Cup because I'm like, it's soccer. We can't allow soccer to get a foothold in America. If we won the World Cup, that would let it happen. Well, I will tell you the one bit of soccer that I enjoy watching is the World Cup. I can't help it. Don't do this because I'm like Charlie. I want America to win. Vice President Vance has been arriving at his in Milan to greet the team USA. You also got the whole Vance family is arriving in Italy. They post from a photo with team USA. By the way, I saw the clips of JD with the the Olympians. And legitimately, he seems the most excited. I've seen him in a long time. Like, excuse me, like legitimately geeking out on being with them and the way he was talking about it. But of course, there, you know, is some controversy. Apparently was called the ice house. Yeah, they're mad that they called the ice house because it's winter. But then now ice is a bad word. We can't have that. So they had to change it to the winter house. Oh boy, which is just very cringe. But there's an even more revealing thing. And I think this it shows how we really have not defeated the the woke abomination that's been around forever. It's still lurking always wants to jump back. This is an associated press news report on the extremely pressing fact that Sweden has sent a winter Olympics team to the winter Olympics and they are too Swedish for 63. Immigration from Africa and the Middle East is changing the demographics of Europe's top winter sports countries. But that hasn't really translated their largely white rosters heading to the Milan Cortina winter Olympics. For instance, team Sweden is almost entirely made up of ethnically Swedish athletes, which is hardly a reflection of the country's diversity. As Sweden has welcomed historic numbers of asylum seekers in recent decades, experts also believe that more needs to be done by winter sports to improve accessibility, specifically for immigrants and underserved communities. Experts experts what experts does in one in a long time experts in what I so I did not see that experts say more needs to be done to improve assessments. So so what's hilarious about this? Okay, you get immigrants from Africa. I just I'm just asking questions here. Is there a lot of snow in Africa? I guess there's Mount Kilimanjaro I think, but is that like full of like Bob Sleds and ski resorts? I have not heard about that. So do you think immigrants, refugees from warmer climates moving to Sweden are going to be good skiers? Do you think they're going to be good ice skaters? Do you think they're going to be good curlers? Is there a lot of curling in Africa that I'm unaware of in the Middle East? That is the dumbest video I have seen in a really long time. It's so bad. Experts weigh in experts and it's too ethnically Swedish. Experts are remaining silent entry. The experts are saying a thing. This is so dumb. Like think about how dumb this is. I'm literally okay. We have a lot of dumb stuff in America. We do. We have Jasmine Grocket. We have Alexandria, Acastio Cortez. We have Ilhan Omar. We've got dumb for days. That was truly one of the dumbest things I've ever seen. That was stupid. That was really stupid. Okay, so sorry. The team says I missed some stuff that I need to play on this ice house story. So we're going to revisit the ice house that is now the winter house. This is Amber Glenn figure skater on team USA changing the name of the Olympic venue for my house to winter house for 90. If something as simple as changing a name can do anything to make someone feel more comfortable, it's really unfortunate that the term ice hasn't ice skating. Like I'm here on this sheet of ice and saying that it's kind of like, oh, disheartening that something so negative has taken that name from us. But that is something so minute in comparison to the struggles and the atrocities that people are facing back home. And my heart's really with the people back in the US. Your heart atrocities. Her hearts are with them. Okay, so that that the sweetened video was the dumbest thing I'd seen in a long time. That actually might be dumb. So I in the words of the great Laura Ingram, shut up and dribble. Okay, I will root for you. I will root for you team USA. But now I'm going to do it through grit teeth. I'm going to do it through begrudgingly because I just now I know how dumb some of you are. Just shut up and dribble. Shut up and skate. Nobody stole the word ice from you. They're saving American lives. You should say thank you. God bless our law enforcement officers and you know, thanks for your service. That's what you say. And you don't you don't do that. Whatever that was, Amber Glenn. Dear Lord. For more on many of these stories and news you can trust go to CharlieCurk.com.