’You're Wrong' With Mollie Hemingway And David Harsanyi, Ep. 171: The Hostages Are Home

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🗓️ 15 October 2025

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Join Washington Examiner Senior Writer David Harsanyi and Federalist Editor-In-Chief Mollie Hemingway as they analyze President Donald Trump's decision to posthumously award Charlie Kirk the Presidential Medal of Freedom, discuss the return of the Israeli hostages, combat the media meltdown about the Pentagon's internal press policies, and debate the significance of Bari Weiss's CBS takeover. They also reflect on Diane Keaton's life and death and share their culture takes for the week.

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0:00.0	Welcome back, everyone to a new episode of You're Wrong with Molly Hemingway,
0:19.4	editor-in-chief of the Federalist and David Harsani, senior writer at the Washington Examiner. Just as a reminder, if you'd like to
0:25.9	email the show, please do so at Radio at the Federalist.com. We'd love to hear from you.
0:30.9	Molly, you're in New York, it looks like. Yeah, yep, up here doing some stuff for Fox.
0:37.1	I saw that Charlie Kirk was on Fox. I saw that Charlie Kirk was for Fox. I saw that Charlie Kirk was on Fox.
0:40.8	I saw that Charlie Kirk was being given the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
0:47.3	Yes.
0:47.6	So today was Charlie Kirk's birthday.
0:51.5	Right, 32nd birthday, I think.
0:52.9	Yeah, he would have been 32.
0:57.0	Sorry, we're taping this on Tuesday night. It'll be, you'll get first access to it on Wednesday at some point, but we're taping
1:01.0	on Tuesday night.
1:02.0	So he would have been 32 today and Trump is giving him the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
1:10.0	And I think that's just so fitting for someone like Charlie. It really is what the Presidential Medal of Freedom. And I think that's just so fitting for someone
1:12.5	like Charlie. It really is what the Presidential Medal of Freedom was designed for these great
1:17.7	Americans who conserve the country, even though they are not eligible for military awards or
1:26.6	commendations of that nature, but still have done great work for the country.
1:31.1	And a lot of people honor Charlie for his work defending the Christian faith.
1:35.6	And I think that's the most important thing.
1:37.4	But he also was, or they like his conservative politics, which were also important.
1:42.3	But this is a guy who was killed for his support of free speech in particular.
1:47.7	And so I think it's just fitting and appropriate that you would do this.
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