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Jesse Watters Primetime (FULL EPISODE) | OCTOBER 30,2025
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00:00Welcome to Jesse Watters Prime Time. We are live tonight from Phoenix, Arizona,
00:10where we've spent the day at Turning Point, USA. We'll have more on that later.
00:15Trick or treat, Trump spent a week in Asia negotiating with the world,
00:20flew back on a red eye, and still had enough gas to hand out candy.
00:24If this were Joe, he'd be sleeping until Thanksgiving.
00:27But there's no sleeping at this White House. You can't even get a bit of shut eye on Air Force One.
00:33When you go on one of these 23-hour international trips with Donald Trump,
00:37if you're lucky, he'll sleep two hours. If you're unlucky, he'll be roaming around Air Force One,
00:43you know, busting your chops because you've fallen asleep. You're like, oh, he's low energy. Look,
00:47he's already asleep, and he's, you know, been on the plane for 18 hours.
00:50He wakes up the journalist for midnight gaggles.
00:54He wakes up the journalist for midnight gaggles.
00:57No one was sleeping on this trip back home.
01:01If the president didn't wake you up, the turbulence did.
01:05These are rough winds in Asia. I've been telling you, this is a rough flight.
01:09We could have waited an hour, maybe.
01:12These are a little tough, uh, these are tough conditions for interviews.
01:16You know, they're going to be watching Trump. They're going to say,
01:18he didn't look too good. He's got the shakes.
01:20I don't have the shakes, but people are going to think I do.
01:23The flight was bumpy, but the sit-down with Xi, smooth sailing.
01:29Overall, I guess on the scale, from zero to 10, with 10 being the best,
01:34I would say the meeting was at 12.
01:37Trump had the upper hand from the start.
01:39He made sure to win the body language battle at the first handshake.
01:43And we're going to have a very successful meeting, I have no doubt.
01:47But he's a very tough negotiator. That's not good.
01:54Trump never took his eyes off this chai-com.
01:56During the meeting, Xi kept looking down at his papers, 47, staring him straight in the eyes.
02:02Xi knows who deserves a prize.
02:05Mr. President, you care a lot about world peace.
02:10And you're very enthusiastic about settling various regional hotspot issues.
02:15China's calling Trump the peace president.
02:18But don't take it for granted.
02:20Just because 47 wants peace doesn't mean he's not prepared for war.
02:24Trump's making sure we're in tip-top shape.
02:27He's ordering the Department of War to start testing America's nuclear weapons
02:31for the first time in 30 years.
02:33And we're also helping South Korea build a nuclear-powered submarine.
02:37And we're doing it in the Philly shipyards.
02:40If China behaves, there's nothing to worry about.
02:43Trump would rather strike deals than targets.
02:46And he's leaving Asia with a China deal.
02:50I put a 20% tariff on China because of the fentanyl coming in, which is a big tariff.
02:58And based on his statements today, I reduced it by 10%.
03:01So it's 10% instead of 20% effective immediately.
03:06I believe he's going to work very hard to stop the death that's coming in.
03:14China's been promising to help us curb fentanyl for years.
03:17So we'll believe it when we see it.
03:19Trump told them, do the right thing.
03:22And if they know what's good for them, they will.
03:24Less fentanyl, more soybeans.
03:26The Chinese have agreed to buy 12 million metric tons of soybeans during this season.
03:34And then for the next three years, they're going to be buying a minimum of 25 million metric tons per annum.
03:43American farmers are thrilled.
03:46So are the taxpayers.
03:48No bailout.
03:49And it wasn't just soy.
03:50Xi wants a taste of American energy.
03:53Trump says the Chinese agreed to start buying oil and gas from Alaska.
03:57And the more China buys oil from us, the less they buy from Putin.
04:02China's also opening up their rare earths market to us.
04:05And in exchange, we're suspending tariffs on port fees.
04:08And overall tariffs on China will now be about 50 percent.
04:13This isn't meant to be a comprehensive deal.
04:15Trump's basically lowering the temperature.
04:18China's tough.
04:19And Trump is taking his time.
04:21It's why the president's going to China next year and inviting Xi to Mar-a-Lago.
04:27We're maintaining supremacy over the Chinese.
04:29So far, we still have the upper hand.
04:32Chuck Schumer, who can't cut a deal for his life, says Trump got rolled.
04:36Don't believe this BS, Trump folded on China.
04:41Folded?
04:42He's taming China.
04:44And we gave up nothing.
04:46Hakeem's a little jealous that Trump's giving other people attention.
04:50Donald Trump has spent more time talking to Hamas and the Chinese Communist Party
04:57than he has in talking to Democrats on Capitol Hill to end the Trump shutdown.
05:06Whose fault's that, Hips?
05:08Trump just came home with peace deals and trillions in new business.
05:12What have Denz done besides shut down the government?
05:15Fetterman's not mad.
05:16He's disappointed.
05:17As a Democrat, I am incredibly, you know, I've been disappointed and I refuse to have
05:25a political gamble that's going to put those kinds of food security for 42 million Americans
05:30at risk on this.
05:32Now, some people might be afraid of the extreme left, but I am not one.
05:39I am not one of those Dems.
05:40Maybe Democrats are mad that Trump was lavished with special gifts by all his new friends.
05:47The South Koreans literally drenched him in gold.
05:50Mr. President, can we offer you this beautiful golden necklace?
05:55That is really beautiful.
05:57I'd like to wear it right now.
06:03Thank you so much.
06:06We'll cherish it.
06:07It was a nice gesture, but Trump had his eyes on something else, the golden crown.
06:14And they asked, Mr. President, may we do the honor?
06:19The Cheon Ma Chong gold crown symbolizes the divine connection between the authority of the
06:23heavens and sovereignty on earth.
06:26It symbolizes the spirit of Shiloh, which brought peace to the Korean peninsula for the
06:30first time and the opening of the golden age of the Korean-U.S. alliance.
06:34The divine connection between the heavens and sovereignty on earth.
06:41Wow.
06:42Are the South Koreans calling Trump the new messiah?
06:44Not even Barry got a crown.
06:47And the South Koreans just gave this president a crown to a dynasty that goes back to the
06:52first century B.C.
06:54Don't worry.
06:55Trump's not actually the king of South Korea.
06:57The crown's only a replica.
06:59Trump's just the king of America.
07:01Not our words.
07:03Pocahontas said it.
07:05Donald Trump wants to politicize everything in America because he thinks he's the king
07:10in charge.
07:12A king?
07:13Democrats say, yeah.
07:14And he's building a big, beautiful palace.
07:17And he's never going to leave.
07:19I personally think that an infrastructure is being built to allow Donald Trump to stay
07:26in office indefinitely.
07:27I don't think that what's being done to the White House, you don't do that if you think
07:31that anybody else is going to inhabit this thing after you and if you are planning on leaving
07:35power.
07:36You know who's really mad about Trump's big, beautiful ballroom?
07:41Mad Al.
07:42She's fuming that her boss paid for it.
07:44For every corporation, like our parent company for another hot minute, Comcast, that wants
07:50to pay for Trump to take a literal wrecking ball, excuse me, I mean an excavator to the
07:56White House.
07:57Those public-facing companies should know there's a cost.
08:03What would happen to you if you told your boss that he's going to pay?
08:07I don't think you'd be clocking in the next day.
08:09Kamala's ballroom derangement syndrome is off the walls.
08:14Are you f***ing kidding me?
08:15This guy wants to create a ballroom for his rich friends while completely turning a blind
08:22eye to the fact that babies are going to starve when the SNAP benefits end in just hours from
08:28now?
08:29Come on.
08:29So what, I'm not going to be distracted by, oh, does the guy have a big f***ing hammer?
08:36What about those babies?
08:37Newsom says he's demolishing it if he becomes president.
08:43The changes at the White House, the demolition of the East Wing, all the gold in the Oval
08:47Office, all the, is all this going to, I mean, first of all, this is like a metaphor
08:52for how the stuff he is doing now.
08:53The wrecking ball presidency, I mean, it's going to, is going to last, outlast him.
08:57Well, I mean.
08:58Is the next Democratic president going to get rid of all that stuff?
09:00Yeah, I think they will.
09:01I hope they will.
09:02I mean, God forbid they don't.
09:04Democrats just don't like nice things.
09:08All they want to do is throw the king in a gulag.
09:11He will, you know, be in violation of the Constitution and he should be arrested if he attempts to
09:15do that.
09:17Do you think he should be arrested if he attempts to have a third term in any way?
09:22He's a violation of the Constitution of the United States that he should be arrested.
09:25Would he, though?
09:26Even CNN is saying there may be a chance.
09:30The 22nd Amendment says no person shall be elected to president more than twice.
09:35But there's arguably a difference between elected and be the president or serve as president.
09:40So that gives rise to this theory.
09:41Maybe he'll run as the vice president and then the president will resign.
09:44Well, someone needs to tell Trump because he still thinks he can't.
09:50I would say that if you read it, it's pretty clear I'm not allowed to run.
09:54It's too bad.
09:56Now, if Trump keeps this hot streak going, maybe he should run again.
10:01Every day he's king.
10:02It's more moolah in our pockets.
10:05Trump just came home with trillions of dollars in minerals, investments and open markets,
10:09plus stronger military alliances against China and a more self-reliant America.
10:15No wonder 47's smiling.
10:18We should smile because we had a great time.
10:21But I've been doing this for five days, so it's always a little bit tougher.
10:25Is everybody happy?
10:26I'm happy.
10:27You have a good time?
10:31U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick is here.
10:34All right, Mr. Secretary, you were there in the room with the Chinese.
10:38How did it all go down?
10:42Well, the president is bringing respect to America everywhere in the world.
10:48I mean, you've never seen the respect the president gets on the world stage.
10:52It's the greatest thing to be with him.
10:55And then he brings home over a trillion dollars of investments,
11:00which is going to create over 100,000 jobs in America.
11:03We're bringing millions of jobs to America.
11:06I mean, Donald Trump is delivering for this country in a way that nobody's ever seen before.
11:12Chuck Schumer says Trump folded.
11:15Did he?
11:15I have to tell you, the strength and power that comes from my president, I mean, I can't be prouder to sit with him.
11:26I mean, President Xi showed him so much respect, so much respect.
11:31It was impressive.
11:32It was, you know, excellent.
11:35I mean, the president set out.
11:37What did he set out to do?
11:38He set out to make sure that rare earths kept flowing because this economy is on fire and we don't want anything to get in our way.
11:45He made a great deal with President Xi, and that's going to keep rolling.
11:50It was a master class on how to be classy, elegant, and the most powerful politician in the world.
11:58So this isn't over.
12:01Trump will be going to China next year, and then is the Chinese president coming to Mar-a-Lago or the White House?
12:08What's going on?
12:10I think he's coming to visit.
12:12I mean, that's what the president talked about.
12:14He said, I'll go visit you, you know, and they talked about it.
12:18It was kind of funny.
12:19He said, you should come in sort of April, May when the weather's nice, and then I'll come visit you after.
12:25So the relationship, you know, the relationship between the two leaders was excellent.
12:30And what that does is it means that the president can make sure he delivers for the American people.
12:35And that's the key is the president's using the power of the presidency, the power of his relationships to make sure that things go well for the United States of America and the American people.
12:47I mean, we see video of you sitting across from your Chinese counterparts.
12:51I know there's a lot of respect at the table, but are you kind of, like, kicking these guys a little bit, you know, maybe, like, just a little bit?
12:59I mean, what's the atmosphere in that room?
13:03Well, you know, look, the atmosphere in the room is that you feel the power of your man.
13:10You know, the president's power, the guy on your side of the table, he's washing all over you.
13:14So when he is strong and making the points, you know, you feel good and we're up.
13:20So our president is really the strongest, most confident, able to deliver for the American people.
13:27And that's why it's so much fun to be on our side of the table.
13:30Now, President Xi holds his own, and there's a guy who just doesn't smile much.
13:34He is a strong character.
13:35And the president likes to say, you know, this is a strong character.
13:39But I tell you what, the president of the United States holds his own more than holds his own.
13:45He holds the room.
13:46He is the most important leader in the world.
13:49And we felt it everywhere we went, in Japan, in Korea, and then with President Xi.
13:55It is fantastic to have Donald Trump be our president, the way he brings respect,
14:01and he brings the power of our economy everywhere in the world so he can deliver jobs to the American people.
14:08And did he let you sleep on the ride home on Air Force One?
14:12I slept for an hour.
14:14I did.
14:15I slept for one hour.
14:19He is the strongest human being that I know.
14:24I mean, you know, he can wear me out.
14:26And I tell you, I've got plenty of energy.
14:28And he just works and works and works.
14:31It is a pleasure to be here.
14:33Well, go get some sleep, Secretary.
14:35I think you guys need it.
14:37Great job over there.
14:38And this fight with China continues.
14:40It's a battle.
14:41Kamala Harris, like you've never seen her before.
14:48Straight ahead.
14:53Trump's not the only one on the world stage this week.
14:56Kamala went down under.
14:58The How to Lose in 107 Days tour made a pit stop on Aussie TV.
15:04And things got spicy.
15:05Wasn't Joe Biden then to put it on him?
15:07Wasn't his refusal to recognize his own frailties the reason that you faced a nearly impossible task?
15:15I ran against Donald Trump for president.
15:18And Donald Trump ran on a platform that was in large part, I believe, misrepresenting his intentions to the American people.
15:31That is a world-class pivot.
15:34But it is not the question that I asked you.
15:37Aye, aye, aye.
15:38Answer the question, Mamala.
15:40Did you or did you not know Biden was an auto pen?
15:45Are you still reluctant to criticize the former president?
15:49In what regard, please?
15:50Well, just in terms of that question.
15:52So, you went on...
15:53What exactly would you like to ask?
15:54Be more specific, if you don't mind.
15:56Was it Joe Biden's decision, his failure to recognize his own frailties in that position,
16:03that put you in the position that made it almost impossible to win that race?
16:06He was not frail as president of the United States.
16:09But he had frailties.
16:10We all saw the debate.
16:13Crikey.
16:14Kamala got kangarooed.
16:16That stung.
16:17So, she came out swinging in the next sit-down.
16:20It had big F.U. energy.
16:22Right.
16:23Like, am I just like, f*** it?
16:32Yeah, exactly.
16:32Don't ask the question with pretense.
16:34Yeah, exactly.
16:35That's exactly what I mean.
16:36Are you just like, f*** it?
16:37No, it doesn't matter.
16:37Because the book had f*** energy.
16:40Yeah, I think there is that energy in the book.
16:43Then came the crime scene.
16:45Kamala ran Joe over with her electric bus.
16:48Viewer warning.
16:50Are you friends with Joe Biden?
16:51Yes.
16:53Is the relationship good?
16:54It's a good relationship.
16:55I just talked to him two days ago.
16:58He called me for my birthday.
16:59There were times that I've been quite candid about where he greatly disappointed me.
17:05And frankly, you know, angered me.
17:10What made Kamala so mad?
17:12A phone call from her boss right before the debate.
17:16I was so sure it was to buck me up and go get him.
17:21And he did say that for the first beat.
17:26And then he went on to talk about a group of people in Pennsylvania who were saying bad things about me.
17:34Because they heard I was saying bad things about him.
17:38And when I hung up the phone, I was just...
17:42I was...
17:44It was unbelievable.
17:45And I was...
17:47Yes, I was angry.
17:48And deeply disappointed.
17:49Whoa!
17:51Kamala didn't just break up with Joe.
17:54She tried to break his hip.
17:55Then she called him a selfish SOB.
17:59My takeaway is his motivation was all about himself.
18:04That's what I would assume from that.
18:06Yeah.
18:06I would assume that.
18:06Yeah, right.
18:08Obviously, right.
18:09Yeah.
18:11It wasn't about my performance at the debate.
18:15Do you think he wanted you to win the election?
18:18I do because I was the only one who would be able to preserve his legacy.
18:26Careful, Kamala.
18:28Keep talking like this and you'll get a race from Biden's imaginary library.
18:32But there is one Biden cheerleader still standing.
18:35The it girl.
18:36That's Gavin.
18:37Newsom pom-poms are going loco for Joey Boy.
18:40Watch.
18:41And we'll continue to build on the legacy, I would argue, of our former president,
18:46who I think was one of the most successful presidents in the last century.
18:51And that is Joe Biden.
18:52And I will defend that to my grave.
18:55Newsom thinks he's America's leading man.
18:58And he is.
18:59But it's a horror movie.
19:01What do you make of all the Patrick Bateman talk?
19:03I don't know, but...
19:04I mean, people say that you are, like, American psycho.
19:07Yeah, yeah.
19:07Jesus.
19:08Yeah.
19:08Like I said, new scum.
19:10I mean, look...
19:11But even your friends, like, say this.
19:12Oh, do they?
19:13Yeah, I...
19:14I'm going to reevaluate my guest list.
19:16I mean, there was a comedian that said a literal comic book villain from Central Casting,
19:21Patrick Bateman vibes.
19:22He definitely had someone killed or may have killed someone himself.
19:25Gavin Bateman's already measuring drapes for the big, beautiful ballroom.
19:31But not so fast.
19:32CNN isn't buying Gavin's California dream.
19:35They're moving away.
19:36Democrats might be underestimating how difficult it may be for Gavin Newsom to tell his story
19:41of California outside of California.
19:43I just think he's going to struggle.
19:45He is a coastal Democratic elite.
19:47And he does not have a strong story of governorship.
19:51And just like that, the Democrat DEI Olympics has begun.
19:55Gavin better watch out.
19:56He's got white privilege, and there's always a better DEI hire waiting in the wings.
20:02Are you going to run again?
20:03I don't know.
20:03Because I looked at the polls.
20:04I looked at the polls, and you're leading for the Democratic side.
20:07And there isn't really a clear Democratic candidate.
20:10I interviewed Gavin Newsom as well.
20:12But when I look at the polls, you're still leading.
20:14Yeah.
20:15You don't know?
20:16I don't know, honestly.
20:16I feel like you know in your heart.
20:19What do I know in my heart?
20:20I feel like you know if you're going to run in your heart.
20:24Let's bring in Outkick.com founder Clay Travis.
20:27She knows she's running.
20:29She knows.
20:30What is this?
20:33First of all, you asked why the change from the Aussie interviews.
20:38Did we zoom in?
20:38Is that a drink?
20:40I don't know what that is on the table next to her.
20:42I think that's full of vodka, Jessie.
20:43I think that explains everything.
20:45She started to get honest.
20:46If I were Dougie, I'd be a little bit nervous.
20:49She seemed to have a little bit of an interest in the guy who was interviewing her there.
20:53And look, she's 100% going to run.
20:56She's 100% going to run.
20:59She has nothing else.
21:00She's going to run.
21:01Gavin Newsom is going to run.
21:03It's going to be the real Housewives of Sacramento.
21:05I can't wait to watch it.
21:07They're going to be fighting like crazy.
21:09And I think Gavin Newsom is going to win because he's more diabolical.
21:13He's a better liar.
21:14And frankly, he is willing to do things that even Kamala, I think, is not willing to do.
21:21I mean, I think Gavin Newsom is going to run, Jessie.
21:24Here's a prediction.
21:25People can flag it.
21:26You can play this in a few years when it becomes true.
21:29He's going to pick AOC as his running mate.
21:31They are going to run thinking that America is like California and like New York.
21:36And they're going to be popular there.
21:38And they're going to get smoked in the same parts of the country by J.D. Vance and Marco
21:44Rubio, who are going to have a great ticket in 2028.
21:47I'm just telling you how the next three years are going to go.
21:49And I can't wait to watch.
21:52Wow.
21:53That is a bold prediction.
21:55Clay Travis predicting the Democrat ticket.
21:58Newsom, AOC.
22:00That is a good looking ticket, but a dumb ticket.
22:03We'll see how it shakes out.
22:05I love how Jonathan Karl says, you're basically a serial killer and holds up a picture of Bateman
22:12from American Psycho.
22:14I love that.
22:16That was one of the best questions I've seen.
22:18A couple of things.
22:19One, what does it say about American left-wing media that Kamala has to go to England and
22:24Australia for people to actually ask her difficult questions?
22:28Maybe we just need to outsource our presidential campaigns when it comes to Democrats and let them
22:33go to Australia and England so they actually get questions.
22:36Jonathan Karl, how about the reaction when Newsom tried to tell him that Biden was the
22:42best president of the 21st century?
22:44And even Jonathan Karl, who basically doesn't have a gag reflex when it comes to interviewing
22:50Democrats, is like, dude, come on.
22:52That's a ridiculous position.
22:53But credit to him.
22:54That was a fantastic Patrick Bateman question.
22:57I would watch that.
22:59All right.
23:00We are going to clip this and make sure it lives forever.
23:03And when you're wrong, we'll just make fun of you because it's very easy to do.
23:07I'm a genius.
23:07I just nailed the next three years.
23:09There you go, Jesse.
23:10Prognostication perfection.
23:11We'll see.
23:14Johnny goes to Ole Miss.
23:16That's straight ahead.
23:17Ole Miss was electric last night.
23:26Turning Point came to town and blew the roof off the arena.
23:30Erica Kirk brought up J.D. Vance.
23:32He was so inspired, he had to change plans.
23:36I got this whole speech written, and I'm not going to deliver any of what I had written.
23:40I'm just going to speak from the heart because that's what Charlie would so often do.
23:44The place went bananas.
23:50The crowd was so pumped up, they gave him the nomination.
23:54I'm in the fight, and I know every single one of you are with me.
23:57God bless you, and thank you for having me.
24:03I appreciate that, but we're not even halfway done.
24:07So here's, I don't know what you're saying, but it sounds awesome.
24:14Let's, uh, let's, let's, let's not get ahead of ourselves, ladies and gentlemen.
24:29Charlie dedicated his life to debate and dialogue.
24:32He died doing it.
24:34Vance grabbed Kirk's mic and picked up where Charlie left off.
24:38The assassin tried to snuff out Charlie's movement.
24:40Instead, he made it bigger.
24:42Thousands of college kids lined up in the rain to be there.
24:46Millions more watched on Fox, even more online.
24:50The tide is turning.
24:52Liberals used to have an iron grip on young voters, and that's slipping away.
24:57I think Gen Z is going to be a lot more conservative.
24:59I think that just my experience, knowing Gen Z kids, my kids and their friends and whatever,
25:05I think it is a reaction to, uh, Gen Xers, uh, and millennials forcing on them progressive
25:15views in school.
25:17I also think it is a reaction to, uh, the failures of progressive movements to achieve
25:28what they wanted to achieve.
25:30Tapper might be right for once.
25:33You feel it when you talk to young people.
25:35Johnny came to Ole Miss to see for himself.
25:37Watch.
25:38We're at Ole Miss.
25:39What do we say here?
25:40Hotty toddy.
25:41Hotty toddy.
25:43Hotty toddy.
25:44What does that mean?
25:45It's just kind of a greeting.
25:46It's kind of just a phrase.
25:47Like, hotty toddy.
25:48You see someone with an Ole Miss hat on and you're like, hotty toddy.
25:51Hotty toddy, everybody.
25:52Hotty toddy, America.
25:53Turning points, campus tour, hitting Ole Miss.
25:56The line goes on, what looks like forever.
26:00Why'd you show up?
26:01Who doesn't want to be a part of this movement?
26:02What is Charlie Kirk's legacy?
26:04Charlie Kirk's legacy is what you're looking at right here.
26:06Um, not only was he politically influencing the youth, he was also spiritually influencing
26:11the youth.
26:12You can see my shirt right there.
26:13I love Jesus.
26:13Jesus loves you.
26:14That's the most important thing right there, and that's what he preached every single day.
26:16When he died, I was like, I want to model.
26:19I want to model my life after that guy.
26:21Charlie changed the way everybody in my generation thinks.
26:25I think the nuclear family is better for what he said.
26:28I think that women's sports and women's rights are protected more because of what Charlie said.
26:33And, um, I think the future is brighter because of Charlie Kirk.
26:35He loved to debate, so are we going to convert some liberals tonight?
26:38Fingers crossed.
26:39Fingers crossed.
26:40One lip at a time.
26:41One lip at a time.
26:43But there is a portion of the left that no matter what Trump does, he's always wrong.
26:47Are we going to cure TDS?
26:49Maybe.
26:49Hopefully.
26:52Are you going to get in trouble for your liberal professors who are being out here?
26:56We'll see.
26:57I hope not.
26:58And if I do, that's what it is what it is.
27:00Do you have liberal professors here at Ole Miss?
27:03Yeah, I'll plead the fifth on that one.
27:05What has been your favorite part of the Trump-Vance administration?
27:08I think President Trump's protection of women.
27:11Right.
27:11President Trump says he's going to protect you whether you like it or not.
27:14That's what I'm talking about.
27:15What's been your favorite thing that the Trump-Vance administration has done so far?
27:20Closing the borders.
27:22That's my favorite thing.
27:23Securing our borders.
27:24I think border security for me is the number one thing.
27:27I mean, you look at what happened to college students like Lake and Riley, and it just,
27:29like, hits such a heartstring.
27:31Like, we can't let that happen again.
27:33You know, we know Charlie Kirk's looking down tonight.
27:36What would you tell him?
27:37Thank you for your legacy.
27:38Thank you for being willing to put your life down on the line for people like me, for the youth.
27:42Thank you for everything that you did.
27:43You were one of the best things to ever happen in this country.
27:45That we love you, Charlie, so much, and that we're all here to support you today.
27:49Thank you for teaching us that we have our own voice and we can share our own opinions.
27:54Alex Clark is a TPUSA contributor and host of the Culture Apothecary podcast.
28:02By the way, what is an apothecary?
28:04It's an ancient, original place you would go to for healing in your community.
28:08Okay.
28:09Will you heal me later?
28:10Well, we can discuss that.
28:12I have a lot of problems.
28:12Okay.
28:13I don't know if that's in your contract, but we can make it safe.
28:15So, it seemed like the crowd was really fired up for J.D.
28:20You hear what they were chanting?
28:2248.
28:23And here's what's interesting about J.D.
28:25So, right before walking out, he asked our staff, he was like, Charlie asked the dissenters,
28:30the leftists that disagreed, to come to the front of the line, right?
28:32And we said, yeah, you know, that's what he typically did.
28:35And he said, okay, I'm going to do that.
28:37First of all, a sitting vice president doing unfiltered Q&A like that with college students
28:41has never happened in the history of the United States.
28:44But on top of that saying, I want the leftists to bring their best, most powerful arguments against
28:49me, and I want them to go first.
28:51That's never happened.
28:52So, he got some fastballs about Israel, about raising his children as Christian while his
29:00wife is Hindu, and handled everything perfectly.
29:03What kind of experience do you think that gives him if he does want this nomination?
29:08I think that that shows that he's a man of the people, and that is exactly what President
29:12Trump embodies and why he's so beloved, especially with the youth.
29:15And so, if J.D. Vance is able to keep that up going into 2028, I think it's in the bag
29:20for him.
29:21Why do you think your generation is more conservative?
29:25Because I think we were given the short end of the stick with President Obama, and our
29:30lives did not get any better.
29:32They got exponentially worse, and we wanted a totally different situation.
29:36I would say Trump is the opposite of Barack Obama.
29:40Yeah.
29:41COVID had a lot to do with it, too, didn't it?
29:44COVID had a lot to do with it, especially for me and my audience, right?
29:46We care about health and wellness.
29:47Our eyes were open during the pandemic because of these tyrannical vaccines that were required
29:52for us to participate at work or in a civilized society.
29:56And we just thought that that was demonic, basically, to put it easily.
30:01And we wanted a different scenario.
30:03And so, I think a lot of us, that's why we got on board with the Maha movement.
30:06And I think that as long as J.D. Vance keeps on trucking with the Maha movement, we keep
30:11the women for 2028.
30:13I think that's going to be one of the most powerful factions of the GOP going forward.
30:18Young women, what percentage would you say lean right?
30:23Right now, it's less.
30:24Right now, it's definitely less with young women compared to young men.
30:27We know that young men are graduating high school, 18 years old, staunchly conservative
30:30right now.
30:31And so, I keep being asked by a lot of people, well, what does that say about the women?
30:34Because they're still staying left.
30:35And I said, give it time.
30:36Give it just a little bit of time because women follow the strong men.
30:40And we've got young male leaders that are good looking, they're attractive, they're conservative,
30:44and women want to follow that.
30:45Women do take a long time to come around.
30:49Trust me, when my wife gets ready for dinner, I do wait.
30:53It does take a while.
30:55Apothecary, am I saying that correctly?
30:56You're saying it correctly.
30:57Okay, very good.
30:57Sean Hannity, he needs some work on that.
30:59Okay, we'll see what we can do with Sean.
31:01Thank you so much, Alex.
31:02Behind the scenes, a Turning Point with Erica Kirk, a Primetime exclusive.
31:07I don't know.
31:07It's all right.
31:08I don't know.
31:09I don't know.
31:39It's been seven weeks since Charlie Kirk was taken from the world,
32:07but the movement he created is bigger than ever.
32:10His wife, Erica, just staged her great American comeback,
32:13picking up right where Charlie left off,
32:16addressing a packed stadium with students hanging on every word.
32:21I love you guys, truly.
32:23This whole...
32:29You guys have no idea how helpful it is to have all of you in my life
32:36because you helped me feel even more deeply connected to my husband.
32:41And I thank you for that.
32:43I thank all of you for that.
32:51Her address wasn't just a love letter to the TPSA community.
32:55It was a call to action.
32:57Earn your voice.
32:59Charlie loved the word earn.
33:01Earn your voice.
33:02This is about your legacy.
33:05Each one of you in this room, everyone watching,
33:07when you earn your voice and you stand up for what is right,
33:11that is a part of your legacy, your family's legacy,
33:15just as much as it is part of Charlie's legacy.
33:20I was honored to be with Erica backstage
33:22moments before her emotional tribute to Charlie.
33:25You feel Charlie here right now.
33:29I know you do, too.
33:30I feel him, too.
33:32Well, God bless you.
33:35Jesse, you're blessed.
33:36And God bless Turning Point USA.
33:40What do you hope to achieve for Charlie and for the country?
33:43Oh, my goodness.
33:45All of his wildest dreams for this organization and more.
33:48He left me a blueprint in all of his journals.
33:52But more so than that, I was his bulb for literally everything.
33:57He shared everything with me, his vision, his dreams.
34:01And I know now more than ever, I mean, he was always a hard worker,
34:06but now more than ever, he's up in heaven orchestrating and sitting and strategizing.
34:11And I can just feel it.
34:12I can feel it.
34:13And so all I want is to be able to make sure we honor Charlie,
34:16we keep fighting the good fight, and we do it in such a bold and powerful way.
34:22We're not afraid.
34:23I'm not afraid.
34:24I'm not.
34:26Erica's right.
34:27Charlie was with us last night.
34:29Right before Erica hit the stage, we heard a familiar tune.
34:33This song is so sweet because my daughter sings this every night.
34:38So to be able to hear this now, and so she's watching,
34:41and so I know that she's going to be singing along to this.
34:44So I'm hoping they're taking a video of this because she sings this to my son.
34:48It's his lullaby at night with Jesus Loves Me.
34:51And so little God winks.
34:54That's how I know Charlie's here, of all songs to sing.
34:57It's the perfect song.
34:58Yeah.
34:58It's the perfect night.
35:00God bless you.
35:01You're ready for this.
35:03God bless you.
35:04Thanks, Tracy.
35:04That's just a small taste of my interview with Erica Kirk,
35:10which will air on primetime next Wednesday and also on Fox Nation.
35:14Executive producer of The Charlie Kirk Show, Andrew Colvid,
35:17and Turning Point USA's vice president of field operations, Andrew Cipher.
35:22They're both here.
35:23All right, Andrew, you know Erica so well.
35:26Seeing her take the stage last night after everything she's been through,
35:30what's going on?
35:33Eric, last night was the moment for Erica to step in to that shadow that he's left.
35:41We wanted to surprise Erica.
35:43And so her intro video, she didn't see this prior.
35:47We wanted Charlie to introduce Erica where he's passing the mic to her.
35:53She hadn't seen that prior.
35:54And so right before she went on stage, you saw it.
35:56She was highly emotional as she realized Charlie was calling her on stage to step into the light
36:02to then usher in this new wave of conservatism for young women,
36:07the same as Charlie did with young men.
36:10When she came on stage, I've never seen the audience ever anywhere just go so quiet.
36:17And they were on the edge of their seats and they were just so inspired and they wanted to hear what she had to say.
36:29I've never seen anything like it.
36:31Yeah, you could hear a pin drop.
36:33And what people maybe don't understand from home is that they remained standing for 30 minutes as she gave her remarks.
36:4030 minutes, a bunch of college kids that you can't get to do anything for 30 minutes, let alone 30 seconds.
36:46They stood there captivated.
36:48And this is really, you know, the things that we've learned watching Erica in the aftermath of 9-10
36:53is that she speaks with such authority and such humanity.
36:58And it's hard to explain unless you've seen it up close, which you now have.
37:02But it is something that you just have to say, God is working through her right now.
37:07God is speaking through her.
37:09And I know that we can feel the prayers of all the people around the country praying for Turning Point and praying for us.
37:14And you can just feel that when you're around Erica.
37:17And I think that the students in that audience felt it last night.
37:20You've seen Erica change over the course of the last couple weeks.
37:26Describe that for us.
37:27You know, my relationship with Erica, her, their eldest is the same age as my son.
37:34And so our relation was very much talking about kids, raising the kids to where she is now.
37:39And she realizes the mantle that's been passed to her.
37:43I think we all realize that after 9-10, the world was looking to us.
37:49Charlie's gone, but what are we going to do next?
37:51And no one has led stronger than her.
37:54From the very day after, when she spoke to the world saying, we are not going anywhere.
38:00I am going to carry on.
38:01Yes, we're going to find the killer.
38:03We're going to make sure that justice is served.
38:06But just in the same way that Charlie would want us to fight, fight, fight, we will do that with her at the helm.
38:12What does that mean, fight, fight, fight?
38:14Is that next?
38:14It means that we are going to make this the biggest thing that anybody's ever seen, just like Erica said on that Friday after it happened.
38:23And I will tell you that she has been so determined.
38:27She's been so just clear-eyed, straightforward, and laser-focused on this.
38:32And I will tell you, we've got lots of plans.
38:34Charlie left us a lot of plans, by the way.
38:36People need to know that.
38:37We have a vision all the way through 2030 that Charlie was working on, that I saw firsthand, and that Erica saw firsthand.
38:44And, you know, we've got lots of different things that we're working on, Jesse.
38:47And that's what it means.
38:48It means to make sure that we do not squander one ounce of this energy, this outpouring of love and support for Charlie.
38:55We're going to press forward and make sure.
38:56It's a sacred duty, as I said once before with you.
38:59And it really is.
39:01We feel that more than ever.
39:02Someone else captured the energy last night, J.D. Vance.
39:06How did you think he did?
39:08Remarkable.
39:09When Charlie and I sat down planning out this fall campus tour, one of the first people he said,
39:14I want to be on campus with me, was president or vice president.
39:18Well, they were president.
39:20Yeah, yeah, yeah.
39:21They wanted to be president, and so do we.
39:23But vice president J.D. Vance was someone he wanted to be on campus.
39:27Because he knew, if the world could see him the way that he knew that man, that this new wave would be ushered in, and this momentum would be unstoppable.
39:38You've seen these campuses up close and personal.
39:41Just from September 10th, how have you seen college campuses change?
39:47I mean, it's been night and day.
39:49I mean, there was already a lot of momentum, I will say.
39:51And that was, thanks large in part to Charlie and the work of our field team and the chapters.
39:56But, you know, you go to Ole Miss, that's a chapter that's got 2,000 members at that Turning Point chapter now.
40:032,000.
40:04And, I mean, these are stories that we're hearing all across the country, that the membership is ballooning, that new chapters are forming.
40:12We're forming almost 50 new chapters a day right now.
40:15It's a crazy clip that we're keeping, and the team's doing heroic work.
40:18All right, well, keep up the great work.
40:19I know you guys have a lot on your plate.
40:22You're doing a great job.
40:23Thank you so much, Andrew.
40:24Andrew, can't get that confused.
40:26More Primetime, straight ahead.
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