How Trump's New Team Members Blocked War With Iran
The Charlie Kirk Show
Charlie Kirk
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🗓️ 18 April 2025
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
JD Vance, Pete Hegseth, and Tulsi Gabbard were all big departures from President Trump's first term team. Now, they've just entirely vindicated their appointment, as new reporting suggested the teamed up to block a slide into war with Iran. Andrew and Blake react. Plus, they respond to a shocking update in the Austin Metcalf case, and Anne Funder gives a human face to the fentanyl crisis by telling the heartbreaking story of her son Weston.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Charlie Kirk Show, Andrew Colvin, in for Charlie, who is on assignment at Washington State University. |
| 0:06.0 | Honored to be with you all. We talk with Ann Funner, who lost her son, tragically to fentanyl. |
| 0:12.0 | And we talk about what is happening at the border. How is Trump dealing with fentanyl? Where is it at? How much is getting through? |
| 0:19.0 | What can be done to stop it? We also talk about the |
| 0:22.7 | tragic FSU shooting as alerts came in while we were on the air as that breaking news story |
| 0:29.4 | unfolds. And then we talk about the update in Carmelo Anthony's case out of Texas with his |
| 0:36.7 | spokesman, Dominiqueique Alexander excoriating |
| 0:40.4 | Austin Metcalf's dad, Jeff, for daring to show up at a press conference. |
| 0:45.1 | The whole thing's bizarre and insane. |
| 0:46.9 | We break it down as it comes. |
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