The American Military, Made Great Again ft. Secretary Pete Hegseth
The Charlie Kirk Show
Charlie Kirk
4.5 • 44.1K Ratings
🗓️ 16 July 2025
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
For years, the American military prided itself on effectiveness and winning wars. Then under Biden, it mostly prided itself on, well, Pride. But that's all changing rapidly under defense secretary Pete Hegseth. He joined Charlie at the Student Action Summit to discuss throwing out DEI, raising recruitment while raising standards, and the hard work of making the American military into a force to be feared once more.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, Charlie Kirk here live from the Bitcoin.com studio. My interview with the Secretary |
| 0:05.9 | of Defense, Pete Higset, you're going to love this conversation. We go back and forth about recruitment, |
| 0:11.3 | about wokeism, and the inside story what happened with the strike in Iran. Email us, as always, |
| 0:16.5 | freedom at charleycirk.com. Become a member today, members.com, and get involved with Turningpoint USA today at tp.usirk.com become a member today members dot charley kirk.com and get involved with |
| 0:21.5 | turning point USA today at tpUSA.com that is tpusa.com buckle up everybody here we go. |
| 0:28.8 | Charlie what you've done is incredible here. Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus. |
| 0:32.4 | I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk. Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks. |
| 0:39.0 | I want to thank Charlie. |
| 0:40.3 | He's an incredible guy. |
| 0:41.4 | His spirit, his love of this country. |
| 0:43.2 | He's done an amazing job. |
| 0:44.8 | Building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA. |
| 0:49.5 | We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for |
| 0:56.1 | freedom on campuses across the country. That's why we are here. |
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| 1:27.2 | So I, this is a, you could call it a live podcast taping and all for our members here. |
| 1:32.8 | And then Pete, you'll go up on stage and you'll enjoy the 7,000 people we have for you. |
| 1:38.0 | First of all, Pete, you're doing a phenomenal job. |
| 1:40.1 | I just want to say that from the American people that you don't get the credit that you deserve obviously in the mainstream media. |
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