Prince Andrew Arrested + Child Social Media Ban?

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1:02and the only precious metals company I recommend to my family, friends, and viewers. All right, welcome to the Charlie Kirk show February 19, 2026. Blake, I woke up this morning and I was like, Prince Andrew has been arrested. This is going to be great. We're going to get him on all the pedophiles stuff. It's a bad day for Andrews. It's hopefully only one Andrew. Let's, you know, a trend trend. A trend is a trend. A trend is a trend. Well, okay. Let's hope it's a good day for this Andrew and a bad day for Prince Andrews. So I thought that we were fine. I thought we were going to finally blow the doors open on this whole Epstein thing. I mean, literally, it's the first thing I looked at on my phone. My eyes are blurry. I'm just waking up. And unfortunately has nothing to do with anything, you know, sex trafficking of minors or any of the innuendo or the salacious stuff. It looks like Prince Andrew was arrested for forwarding documents, this according to the BBC, in 2010, related to his work as, I guess,

2:08let's see here. Yeah, it's a British trade envoy, but they have a specific title for him. US UK special representative for international trade and investment. So it looks like in 2010, he sent over documents to afford them over to Jeffrey Epstein, documents that he obtained in his official duties as a trade envoy, that included some investment opportunities in gold and uranium. And that's what they got him up. It's misconduct in a public office. Now, it's very, it feels a lot like the famous Al Capone thing where he was involved in murders and bootleg gain and every manner of crime, extortion, racketeering, and they got him because he didn't pay income tax on his illegal gains. And there's a lot of allegations against Prince Andrew of various levels of salaciousness and he's been arrested for forwarding the email that is linked in the New York Times right up.

3:10This is this is literally the text of the email that is linked in the airtimes. It is just a forward of an email he received from his assistant Amit Patel. Sir, please find attached the visit reports for Vietnam, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Shenzhen in relation to your recent visit to Southeast Asia. Thank you, Amit. So he forwards us over to Jeffrey Epstein. Apparently they included, like I said, gold and uranium investment opportunities, but essentially insider trading, which on the one hand does sort of, I think, shed a little light on how Epstein would make his money. Yes, he had inside sources. It's essentially insider trading at this point. If you get advanced intel on official head of state visits or heads of state, but a official government agencies in this case, visiting foreign countries, getting intel on possible investments. Okay. So that's what it is. King Charles, so the brother of Prince Andrew, his release to statement, he says, I have learned what the deepest concern, the news about Andrew Mountbatten Windsor,

4:13which is a very interesting title. And there is a backstory to why he's not called Prince Andrew or Israel. Why is this strip? It's title ain't that strip to titles, but he calls him Andrew Mountbatten Windsor. It's a suspicion of misconduct in public office. What now follows is the full fair and proper process by which this issue is investigated in the appropriate manner and by the appropriate authorities. In this, as I've said before, they have our full and wholehearted support and cooperation. Let me state clearly the law must take its course. As this process continues, it would not be right for me to comment further on this matter. Meanwhile, my family and I will continue in our duty and service to you all, Charles are. All right, so this was then followed by all of these headlines, throughout 525 from the Daily Mail, which is known to be a bit, what's the right word for the Daily Mail? The Daily Mail is the best publication in the English language. Okay. But they are somewhat... They rushed a judgment. They are headless. They are sensationalists in the best way.

5:14They've covered Ilhan Omar, the Incess story, her cheating on her husband. They get photos of everything. So here's the way it works, a little inside baseball for you watching at home because I've dealt with these scoundrels a lot. Talk about me? No. That's next segment. They basically put these headlines into multiple... They feed it out into the internet and they have ABCDE testing. And sometimes they use AI to create the biggest clickbait. They want to know what you're going to click on. So that's what Daily Mail does. That's their whole thing. You will get a headline that has nothing to do with the body of the article but they learned through actual cause and effect watching what you will click on. What gets the most clickbait? That is the whole game over Daily Mail. What headline can get you to click on it? So what do they go with today? They use AI. So they go, Trump faces furious Epstein backlash after Andrew detained. We have zero rest. All right. So now you've got Thomas Massey.

6:14You've got Marjorie Taylor, Green and a lot of others out on social media saying, well, they got Prince Andrew. Why haven't you done anything, Pam Bondy and Donald Trump? And so that is the case. But here's the, here's the crux. The assumption is the same assumption I made this morning. That they were going to get that Andrew got arrested on pedophilia, on sex trafficking minors, something like this. That's not at all the case. He got arrested on a process charge for forwarding a document to Jeffrey Epstein in 2010 related to his official government. Kind of maybe alleged insider trading 16 years ago. Correct. Well, so technically official misconduct is what it is, which is a British offense. But I'm going to, you know, it's going to annoy a lot of people. But I've got to push back on this like as I like to, I like to read Michael Tracy on X because he, he gives a lot of pushback. And he points out, I think it's worth remembering. First of all, this is Britain. Britain's the sort of country where you get arrested for saying things people don't like on social media. About migrants. It is a country that has a quite 1984-esque willingness to gin up charges for political reasons.

7:19And so, yes, like Prince Andrew looks very bad because he was a big associate of Jeffrey Epstein. And that's gross. And he probably did it because he wanted to sleep with young women. Yeah. But at the same time, the main allegations against him came from Virginia Goffrey, which as our guest the other week said, J.B. Yeah, J.B. He, she's a serial fabulous. She lied about a lot of people. She's the one Virginia Goffrey, for our audience, is like, is alleged to have been the one that created this, this aura, this narrative about the list. Created the narrative. And male list. To the extent underage women were recruited, she played a central role in that and encouraged them to lie to get, like, there's a lot of negative stuff there. So she's the source of a lot of these allegations. His alleged relationship with her is the basis for this. And yet in the UK, where they met, like, she actually was of legal age, according to British laws. Yeah. And so that is what drove this. And so they are bringing this case because of big allegations. But I think it's worth remembering what the origin of this is.

8:20And then we go back to what the president himself said last summer. A lot of people are going to be getting tired and hit for things that are running ahead of what the facts are or where there's nothing proven. And we're kind of seeing this here where they're just, they're howling. Where are the arrests? What were the arrests before? The come-up hints for Prince Andrews that he was a dirty, you know, dirty old man, dirty old man. And, you know, he showed some really poor judgment. What's funny also, though, is this clip from 2015, a president Trump has surfaced now, which I think is just fantastic. Once again, Trump just has this, this knack of coming out unscathed. 524. You raised the question of Jeffrey Epstein in your remarks event in the Q&A. Well, I think he's got a problem. I mean, I don't know, but that island was really a cesspool. There's no question about it. Just ask Prince Andrew. He'll tell you about it. Just ask Prince Andrew. That's 2015. Every day, Americans make choices that shape our country's future,

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10:26This is what's interesting about the Prince Andrew thing. So the news hits. Everybody jumps on Trump because, you know, there has been no arrests over here. But what's interesting and different, I would say, about the Prince Andrew situation is two thoughts I want you to keep in your head at the same time. We have to be sophisticated consumers of information. First thought. None of this would happen if Pambondi had not released these documents in the first place. So there's one. The only reason this is happening is because the UK officials have access to documents that were released by the US Department of Justice. So that's the thing you need to think of first. Secondly, we had Mike Davis on, and earlier this weekend, he assured us that there are ongoing investigations into co-conspirators, less Wexner was labeled as a co-conspirator in these documents. And who knows who else is being investigated.

11:28My money is on Reed Hoffman. Reed Hoffman has lied repeatedly about his associations with Jeffrey Epstein. He has funded some of the most nefarious sinister attempts of law fair to get Trump over and over and over again. Reed Hoffman is a marked man, in my opinion, by the Department of Justice. And thirdly, think of this. Prince Andrew is no longer Prince Andrew. He's no longer his Royal Highness. We call him that out of sort of a vestige of the Royal past. But in 2022, in January, Queen Elizabeth II stripped him of the use of his style, his Royal Highness, H.R.H. In any official capacity, all of his military titles and royal patronages were returned to the Queen, effectively removed from him. This included honorary military appointments such as Colonel of the Grenadier Guards, other UK titles like Honorary Air Commodore of the Royal Air Force, various overseas honorary colonel and chief roles, royal patronages, his charity affiliations,

12:32and then in 2025. So just last year, his brother, King Charles, removed the title Prince. And that included Duke of York, Earl of Iverness, and Baron Kelly Hale. So all of these had been removed from him. And that was in October 17th. And then again, like I said, on October 30th, they officially removed the titular dignity of Prince. And that is why he will now forever be known as Andrew Mont-Bountain Windsor. So they have been on this Prince Andrew train for a long time. But it's the first arrest of a British royal, basically in living memory or in recent modern. I think I saw somewhere they said it was the first ever. And all I can remember is that they once beheaded a king. I was going to say I saw that talking point as well. And yeah, it's like, okay. But at least in modern history, this is the first arrest. I think it would be a very big, it would be very unfortunate if one of the world's oldest monarchies

13:34and one of its last really big monarchies were to fall over something like this. Which it very much, in my, there's a, there is a Republican movement in the UK to abolish it and just retire the royal family. I think it's definitely a movement in other countries. You know, a very funny thing is one of the biggest supports of the British royal family is not who you think it's the Canadian left. Left wingers in Canada like the British royal family because they hate America. And so they see having a royal family as something that makes Canada not America. It's like a, just a pool. Like when King Charles visited, a bit as first visit after becoming King. Justin Trudeau went all out for it. He was a big fan of it. But it is a distinguished group. I think it's easy for us to dump it. I mean, where America, where a republic, we don't have kings, we shouldn't have kings. But as conservatives, we do respect and honor traditions, old things. We realize they have value that's not always obvious. And I think there is a real value in the fact that there has been a king or queen of England in London

14:40for over a thousand years that they are the descendants of those people who were there during the blitz who were there when Napoleon might have invaded, who were there when the Armada was sailing for England. Same line of people. Well, and listen, I'm a big fan of the British royals. I think Western civilization needs institutions that stand up and that help guide the west back to a sense of its tradition, of its identity. But listen, there are things happening in the background at the DOJ that we just need to keep our eyes on. And we need to sort of say, listen, the wheels of justice turn slowly sometimes, but they are happening. Okay. And again, I would mention the name Reed Hoffman. You've seen this just this morning that Bill Gates has dropped out of a speaking engagement due to increased scrutiny over the Epstein files. Kathy Rummler has stepped down at Goldman Sachs because of her connections to Jeffrey Epstein.

15:41And it was worth mentioning that she was Obama's longest serving White House Council. So the DOJ's release of these documents obviously spurred on by Rokana and Thomas Massie who have attempted to weaponize the release of these documents for their own political ends. It remains unclear what their ultimate intentions are here. But the whole point is, is that there is a very large faction of people that want to use these documents to get Trump. All right. And time and time again, as we saw in that 2015 document, or the video, Trump comes out looking pretty darn good. He looks amazing. Yes, but it's, you know, I think we should, again, be careful on that run. It's like, yes, Bill Gates has stepped away from things and Bill Gates should feel embarrassed. He was very clearly close with an individual who, regardless of whatever crimes he committed, was a gross figure. It was just, it's ugly that he was so close to them. And we should feel that same way with Reed and a bunch of others that they felt no shame about endlessly associating with a guy who basically clearly

16:44his life revolved around state about teenagers. And many of them lied about this, but it's not, frankly, it's not illegal to lie about who you're friends with. It's illegal to lie under, oh, to law enforcement, but we don't know if he did. So we should remember that for a lot of people, this has become a political cause out of proportion to what is actually proven, what is actually proven. And yeah, more might be coming, but we should remember that there is a lot of, we've been through a few rounds of law fair in our time. Folks, let me tell you something straight up. I'm extremely picky about what I put in my body and what companies we support here. Blackout Coffee checks every single box. This is a family run American company roasting fresh coffee in the USA, built by people who believe in hard work, freedom, and America. No global corporations, no fake activism, no lectures, just darn good coffee made by Americans for Americans. This is coffee that actually stands for something and I drink it every day right here on the show.

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18:51And it involves a young woman. And I guess, you know, a lot of families are out there. A lot of families are linking hands, hands outside of the courthouse. And they are alleging that social media is destroying their lives. Getting them addicted. That it's engineered to be addictive and that it's causing suicidal ideation. It's causing depression. And they say that it has been intentionally designed this way. Alan, break down the court case here. What's being alleged? What are the defenses? Give us the 30,000 foot view. Well, look, obviously social media is addictive in a way. And being complaints about addictive media for a long time before social media. There were similar complaints about TV and how that was ruining people's health. But I must say this framing that social media could be a health hazard is quite dangerous. And, you know, asking social media to be less addictive is asking them to make their product less effective. They're an information product. And the big winner at the end of the day, if that happens, is going to be legacy media. So you always have to look at the who stands to benefit from this framing of social media as a health hazard.

19:59It's other information services, especially the media companies that have been displaced by social media. Now, social media victimist is a real problem and there are major concerns, genuine concerns about the effect on children. But when you have to pay attention to who's latching onto this cause, it's often progressive governments like the UK that are committed to online censorship, not because they care about children. The UK government, you know, is embroiled in a scandal right now because one of their top appointees, Peter Mandelson, the former US ambassador, was connected to the Jeffrey Epstein. But what they, what they, what they, they, they see in this, in this agenda in this narrative about addictiveness and, and the harm that social media can cause to children, a potential Trojan horse for what they actually want, which is political censorship, which is punishing social media companies that don't ban who they don't like, that don't ban their political opponents. That's what I mean.

21:01And then if you look around the world, governments are latching onto any excuse they can find, you know, the EU has is launching a probe into X over, you know, allegations about grok being used to generate deep fakes, the UK has done the same thing. They even tried to team up with Australia and Canada to ban X over that issue. And why they're going after X because that's for all the political opponents are that's where their narratives are being challenged. So when we think about the addictiveness issue, we have to think not just about the issue itself, but who's championing the cause and what the second order of facts are going to be of designating social media or public health hazard. It will make it much easier to regulate and much easier to regulate those algorithms that the establishment are really quite afraid of because those algorithms are how citizen journalists can challenge mainstream media narratives. Well, you're definitely right. It's very clear the British government, the German government, the French government, they want excuses to to ban X to find X and presumably other social media outlets that they aren't out of their control.

22:03But I think it's also clearly the case that a lot of these apps are designed to be addictive in a way that clearly is damaging young children's health. I think the rise of Facebook, Instagram, other social media is clearly correlated with young, especially teenage women's mental wellbeing going off a cliff. We can see that with the rise of the smartphone. And it strikes me that there must be some things that could be legally relevant here that don't put you in danger of widespread censorship. I think one of the most obvious is just doom scrolling, the infinite scroll that a lot of these apps use that clearly seems to be linked to addictive behavior and I don't see how banning that would immediately imperil speech. And I just go back to you're almost certainly familiar with this, the famous Sean Parker comment all the way back in 2017 where he basically just got on a stage and said, we engineered the app to give you a little dopamine hit every once in a while because if someone liked or commented on a photo or a poster whatever and it would get you in a feedback loop and you would be hooked on it.

23:09Apparently we have that. Yeah, let's go ahead and play that Sean Parker clip. You know, if the thought process that went into building these applications, Facebook being the first of them to really understand it, that thought process was all about how do we consume as much of your time and conscious attention as possible. And that means that we need to sort of give you a little dopamine hit every once in a while because someone liked or commented on a photo or a post or whatever and that's going to get you to contribute more content and that's going to get you, you know, more likes and comments. It's a valid, it's a social validation feedback loop that it's like a, I mean, it's exactly the kind of thing that a hacker like myself would come up with because you're exploiting a vulnerability in human psychology. And I just, I think that we, you know, the inventor's creators, you know, and it's me, it's Mark, it's the, you know, Kevin system and Instagram, it's all of these people understood this consciously and we did it anyway.

24:26That's super, I mean, that's very chilling actually to watch that they intentionally engineered their platforms to your point. They have a financial incentive to do so, Alan, to make their products as addictive as possible to get you to spend as much time on those apps as possible, but this is hurting kids. So I guess the question, I have two full question, what are the broader implications if this lawsuit is successful, they're calling it a bell, whether I can only imagine this is going to, if it's successful, it's going to result in billions of financial losses for these platforms. But secondly, let's, let's concede the point that we would like to see some guardrails on these apps. What would be a positive outcome? Well, I would, I would always want to look at who's in charge of the regulations and who's in charge of the guardrails rather than what they necessarily are. I think Conservatives really have to get involved and take charge of the child safety agenda, much like Adam Kandayev did when he was campaigning for age verification laws is now that in the Trump administration, NTIA, because the problem is when you let progressives take on the child safety agenda, they're just going to use it as a smokescreen for political censorship.

25:36We've seen this so many times before and it's a genuinely difficult issue because, you know, social media apps are addictive and particularly addictive for kids when you know their brains are still developing. But you look at what foreign governments are doing, like the UK, France, Spain, many other countries, they're simultaneously trying to ban social media for kids just a blanket ban while also trying to lower the voting age to 16. So what they want really, you see the end girl here, they want a voting demographic that's a power to vote, but also doesn't have access to the social media platforms where mainstream pro government narratives might be challenged where they might encounter information that the government and the allied NGOs and civil society organizations and mainstream media users don't want to see so that that is the real danger. So when we're trying to protect kids from addictive social media, we also have to think about how can we make sure they still have access to that independent media ecosystem that exists on social media and that governments around the world are working so hard to just completely shut down because the same technology that makes social media addictive that causes engagement is the same technology that allows citizen journalists to go viral.

26:54That is the technology that governments around the world are so afraid of the same technology that allows a random person to make a post get millions of views and share information that the media doesn't want to be shared that NGOs don't want to see share the governments don't want to see shared. So that's the balance you have to strike and it's a very difficult balance to strike. We have to be constantly aware of these organizations that have an agenda that they're not telling you about when they talk about addictiveness. And I want to say there's like the left things, you know, you know, drag queen drag queen story hours appropriate for children, you know, they think gay pride parades are appropriate for children, they think gender reassignment surgery is appropriate for children, so we should not take any concerns coming from left wing progressives about the dangers of social media to children and child welfare seriously. They don't really care about that issue, they care about political control, they care about control of the internet and social media platforms and that is the danger.

27:58It's hugely tough. I will say if you look at what they auto feed to children on YouTube, if you make a new child's account, you definitely start worrying about more possibly some need for regulation, but thank you, Alan. Mike Lindell and my pillow employees want to thank you for your great support this past year and they're looking to make 2026 the best year yet as a thank you to our listeners, my pillow is exclusively offering free shipping on your entire order and at wholesale pricing. That means they're bringing back the mega sale exclusively for our listeners, for example, the classic my pillows are regularly 4998 and now are marked down to only 1498 turn any mattress into the best mattress ever with the maid in the USA, my pillow, my mattress topper and save up to $100. Get a set of my pillow Giza dream sheets for as low as 2998 or the six back towel set for only 3498 order now and your entire order ships absolutely free.

29:01Go to my pillow.com today and use promo code Kirk. Don't wait. Be sure to order now call 800 875 0 425 or use promo code K I R K that is my pillow.com promo code Kirk. We wanted to get to the latest on Iran president Trump is saying that he is going to make up his mind a final decision about a strike on Iran within the next 10 days, but we are told that he is yet to make his final decision JD Vance is simultaneously warning Iran saying this is deadly serious and they better come to the table. So this is ongoing conversations that are happening in Iran. Meanwhile, president Trump is saying that he has yet to make up his mind this all echoes very clearly what we saw in the 12 day war where Trump said I'm going to make up my mind in the next two weeks. I feel when I saw that headline all the side within the next 10 days my immediate thought was he has already decided, frankly, because that's what he did last time and there's this element you're going to decide within the next 10 days. Well, okay, you reach day 10.

30:05And you kind of know if he's decided by then if he hasn't struck and then you kind of progress back from there. It's such a strange thing to announce it feels like a very Trumpian tactic. It's sabre rattling. It's sort of saying, listen, if past his prologue, you know what I chose to do that time. I did strike. And you know, I'm serious about this strike. Let's go ahead and play president Trump. He spoke about Iran just this morning 538. Our country is like nobody could have signed you could have had that threat nobody could have had you couldn't had peace in the Middle East. So now we may have to take it a step further or we may not maybe we're going to make a deal with you're going to be you're going to be finding out over the next probably 10 days. Or it could be even if you know as you say they remember what happened last time when they hear 10 days Iran should be hearing the planes are literally taking off right now and you have 12 hours to decide. It continues 539 hours of time for Iran to join us on a path that will complete what we're doing and if they join us that'll be great if they don't join us that'll be great too.

31:13But it'll be a very different path. They cannot continue to threaten the stability of the entire region and they must make a deal. If that doesn't happen I maybe can understand if it doesn't happen it doesn't happen but bad things will happen. All right so again this is very Trump. If they don't join us that'll be good too. So here's here's things we know. Let's separate fact from fiction here. We know that there has been a very serious and significant build up in recent days of military assets in the region. And this would include air and naval assets in the Middle East. But insider sources in the White House have told multiple outlets that Trump is privately argued both for and against military action. And he's polling advisors and allies on what the best course of action is. Now here's the insider scoop is that there are significant voices within the White House that are against military action. They're against foreign intervention. They stand firmly on the America first side saying we don't want to invade Iran.

32:18We do not want a kinetic military strike in Iran. There are other voices that are very very much tromping at the bit to do so. They see this as the one opportunity with the uprising, the organic uprising of protesters in the streets to take out the mullus. It's Sean Hannity. The mullus. So you've got competing factions within the White House. You've got the hawks and you've got the you've got the doves. It's like I said yesterday. I think what could be tilting him is we've have had several of these escalations over the past year. Mostly President Trump has pushed toward peace, but where they have done things they did the strike on Iran. It was limited. It was successful. They did the raid in Venezuela. It was limited. It was very successful. And we had these reports that President Trump was asking for military operations that were like limited in scope, limited in duration. That had a very clear cut thing. And so I think we agreed. Charlie did not want worth Iran. We are very skeptical of that.

33:20But what we have seen a pattern from the president is in comparison to prior administrations. He is very resistant to scope creep. He's very resistant to open ended missions. And so I think I think the president will be wise enough to say we don't want a bunch of troops occupying Iran. We don't want troops capturing into Trump is not going to telegraph his moves. He won't. What we can tell you is that based on the assets that have been moved into the region. It does not look like a ground force is part of the equation right now. But we are getting an airstrikes. What we are getting is we're getting the resources for a much larger air campaign than we've seen before that you have. They're sending all these F-22 fighters. That's a bunch of fighters who could shoot down every jet that goes into the sky that they could send off. And sending enough bombers that you could actually you're not just striking nuclear plants. You're hitting every military base. You're hitting every city. I presume if that happens, the intent would be you bomb them until the government agrees to leave power.

34:22Now, can that be done if they are adamant about refusing to do so? How long would it go on? That is where it becomes a stickier question. How many how much resources are we willing to invest in toppling a government on the far side of the world? And politically, if we do it, even if it's successful, will they make the case that this is a good use of America's time that it's justified? I feel even in comparison to last summer, that might be the biggest challenge for the administration. If we were to go to war with Iran tonight, I think most Americans would be asking what had prompted it. Yeah, so this will sum it up here. It is a political mess for the administration to go into the Middle East. It is much trickier from a polling standpoint, from a grassroots support standpoint, than actions in Venezuela. I understand the opportunity that has been presented by this popular uprising against the mullahs in Iran. And I understand just the carnage that the regime has exacted upon the population of Iran.

35:27However, this is the Middle East regime change is always messier than you anticipate. And at some point, you have to ask the question, why? Why now? Is it just because Lindsey Graham, Lady Graham, is working his magic, his charms in the ear of the president? Or what is the deeper incentive? Now, the deeper incentive President Trump will say is to ensure that Iran does not have a nuclear weapon. Well, then if that is your incentive, then what's going on with the B2 strikes that happened last summer? Were those effective or were those not effective? You have to remember, for some people, they see this as maybe their last opportunity to get a regime change in Iran. You always have to be wary of that. Charlie had a lot of thoughts on this, we talked about it a lot. This is one of his tweets, 558. This is back in 2019. He said, lots of rumblings, we might be preparing a ground war with Iran. This would be a massive mistake. Sanctions, preventing funding, canceling Iran deal are all strategic good moves.

36:28But another ground war with U.S. troops is not the answer and the endless senseless wars. I think that ground troops line is the key one and I think that would be a bright line for the president that I think he'll be wise enough not to... Yeah, I think most of us feel assured of that. The question is how this is the largest build-up since 2003. And so, I mean, the voters, all the polling says we're desperate for domestic reform and domestic focus. I hope we can do that. For more on many of these stories and news you can trust, go to CharlieKirk.com