A Confirmation Battle for Charlie’s Legacy
The Charlie Kirk Show
Charlie Kirk
4.6 • 65.6K Ratings
🗓️ 17 February 2026
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Charlie wanted Jeremy Carl to join the Trump Administration, but Democrats are going all-our to block it. Carl joins the show to respond to Democrat smears, and the team recruits Utah listeners to contact wavering GOP Sen. John Curtis. Sean Davis breaks down the Democrats’ rebranding strategy centered on faking moderation just long enough to achieve their most radical aims.
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| 0:00.0 | My name is Charlie Kirk. |
| 0:04.6 | I run the largest pro-American student organization in the country fighting for the future of our republic. |
| 0:11.3 | My call is to fight evil and to proclaim truth. |
| 0:14.5 | If the most important thing for you is just feeling good, you're going to end up miserable. |
| 0:19.9 | 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. You would say high school chapter. Go find out how your church can get involved. Sign up and become an activist. |
| 0:39.0 | I gave my life to the Lord in fifth grade. |
| 0:41.2 | Most important decision I ever made in my life. |
| 0:43.8 | And I encourage you to do the same. |
| 0:45.2 | Here I am. |
| 0:46.1 | Lord, use me. |
| 0:48.1 | Buckle up, everybody. |
| 0:49.4 | Here we go. |
| 0:55.8 | The Charlie Kirk Show is proudly sponsored by Preserve Gold, the leading gold and silver experts, |
| 1:02.3 | and the only precious metals company I recommend to my family, friends, and viewers. |
| 1:09.0 | All right, hour two, the Charlie Kirk show is underway. Welcome back. So excited to have |
| 1:15.4 | Jeremy Carl back on the show. Welcome to the show. Jeremy Carl, you have been nominated for |
| 1:20.5 | assistant secretary of state for international organizations. I got it. It's a bit of a mouthful of a |
| 1:27.3 | title, but what an honor to be nominated. Welcome back to the show. It's so good to see you. How are you doing? I'm doing great. I had a fun time in D.C. last week, despite all the fireworks. I truly did. And, you know, I just was, as I said, as you said, it was an honor to be nominated and looking forward to hopefully being able to join. |
| 1:48.7 | Yeah. |
| 1:48.9 | Well, so, and Blake, I mean, feel free to chime in here. |
| 1:51.8 | But, you had one of the more eventful nomination hearings that we've seen in recent memory. |
| 1:58.7 | And boy, did they come after you with just, I mean, it was like hyperbole, which, which you knew was going to have. I talked to you before that hearing and you said, like, I, I'm going to have to sit there and just get, you know, raked over it for a couple hours. And that's exactly what they did. They called you every name in the book. I mean, this was, this was just, it felt like, |
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