Hey, it's Mark Simone here for Sean Hannity. Even President Trump today presenting the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Charlie Kirk on what would have been his thirty second birthday ceremony taking place right now at the Rose Garden. Here's the President Trump.
They fold, but it includes dismantling the networks that fund them and finance them. And we're finding out who those networks are. We already know quite a few of them. When you see these violent incidents and then you see people holding this gorgeous sign with beautiful wood, beautiful cardboard, wood, everything, everything's perfect paint job, and they're all the same. There are thousands of them. You know that they weren't made in the basement out of love. They were made by
anarchists and in some cases wealthy. I'll probably find some of my nice friends that are up there being so nice to me, especially lately nice. But it surprises you who they may be, and you almost wonder why would they do it? But they're hurting our country, and we're really taking it back one by one. If we didn't go into Los Angeles early on in the administration, the Commissioner of the Chief of Police Los Angeles said, if
they didn't go in, we would have lost our city. Now, they already lost twenty five thousand houses to fire because they wouldn't let the water come in from the Pacific Northwest, which they should have done. I said her, you'd better do it. They didn't do it, and we had twenty five thousand homes where they had no water in the sprinklers, they had no water in the fire hydrants. It would have been a different kind of thing. If they did what they were supposed to do. We had to break in.
We broke in and had the water come down. They actually they said for the environment, great, they lost twenty five thousand houses. It's incredible. But the commissioner said, without the federal government and President Trump's intervention, we would have lost the entire city. And we have the Olympics going there soon.
I got the Olympics.
We have the Olympics, we have the World Cup, and we have most importantly, we have the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of our country. That's going to be most important. And all of these things are happening, and we're gonna have safe cities. We're going to have very very safe cities. So one month after Charlie's death, we still feel the terrible shock and the pain of his loss. Like just about nobody I can think of, Charlie Kirk was one of a kind. He was unstoppable and he really was boy.
When he had an idea in his head. Oh, he would call me, sir, please, you haven't done it yet, said Charlie. Relax, just relax. He didn't relax it called me the next day again. It got it done. But he was like indomitable and always will be. He's really irreplaceable. Nobody going to replace him, but they're going to do great. But you can't replace that kind of person and that kind of talent. Frankly, talent is an important word, but that kind of talent. So we hold his memory in
our hearts forever. Every single day of this administration, we will continue to carry out the mission for which he lived, and he really did. He lived for this country, lived for his wife and his family, but he lived for this country too. In Charlie's honor, we will continue like we have been, to fight, fight, fight, and to win, win, win. We're going to win so.
Much so.
The Presidential Medal Freedom is a big deal. You have the Congressional Medal of Honor military and the Presidential Medal of Freedom which is civilian. And the Presidential Medal Freedom is.
A really big deal.
Very few people get it. Very few people, frankly qualify. It's a decision of the president, but it's a qualification that's a very hard one to get. And I would like to ask if I might the military aid to read Charles James Kirk's citation for the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Thank you very much, Thank you.
The Presidential Medal of Freedom is awarded to Charles James Kirk, accepting on behalf of Charlie is his wife, missus Erica Kirk. Charlie Kirk was one of the most influential American political figures of his generation. At just eighteen years old, he founded Turning Point USA and grew it into the largest
conservative youth organization in the nation. For over a decade, he tirelessly traveled the country, leading a movement to restore respect for our founding principles, reawaken our national identity, and inspire a renewed spirit of religious devotion. He was one of the great debaters and communicators of his time. Despite receiving repeated threats, he remained undeterred and modeled courage, logic, humor,
and grace to the next generation. On September tenth, twenty twenty five, at age thirty one, Charlie Kirk was assassinated while addressing a group of students. The United States honors him of a martyr for truth and freedom.
President Trump now handing the Medal of Freedom to Eric Kirk, griddo of Charlie Kirk. The audience standing now giving her a standing ovation. You've been wiping away tears from her eyes as she works beautiful metal.
In a beautiful case, a.
Long standing ovation. Let's say she says a few words, James's wiping tears away from her face. Here's Erica Kirk, widow of Charlie Kirk, accepting the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Thank you, mister President, for honoring my husband in such a profound and meaningful way, and thank you for making this event a priority with amid the peace process in the Middle East.
Thank you very grateful. Charlotte.
Excuse me, Charlie always admired your commitment to freedom, and that's something that both of you shared.
So thank you.
Your support of our family and the work that Charlie devoted his life to will be.
Something I cherish forever. So thank you.
To our gracious First Lady in her office for making this event possible. Thank you as well, It's beautiful. To Vice President and the lovely Usha Fance. Your friendship has been an unbelievable encouragement.
Thank you. And to all our friends and family that are here.
And watching from all around the world, thank you for loving us, thank you for praying for us, and for believing in what Charlie believed in.
And to our Turning Point.
USA staff and the Charlie Kirk Show staff, we love you more than you could ever know.
And to the Turning Point.
USA chapters that are watching all across America right now. You are the heartbeat of this future and of this movement. Everything that Charlie built, You guys, are the legacy holders of that. You are living proof that his mission did not die with him.
It lives through you.
And Charlie always said the next generation will decide whether freedom endoors, and because of you, I know.
That freedom will endure. It will, and today.
We're gathered not only to celebrate Charlie's birthday, but to honor a truth that he gave his.
Entire life to defend, and that's freedom.
The very existence of the Presidential Medal of Freedom reminds us that the national interests of the United States has always been freedom. Our founders etched it into the preamble of our Constitution, and those words are not relics on parchment.
They are a living covenant. The blessings of liberty.
Are not man's invention, they are God's endowment. Charlie lived for those blessings, not as abstract words, but.
As sacred promises.
He used to love to journal about this topic all the time, and with such a heart postured of gratitude, and he believed that liberty was both a right and a responsibility. And he used to say, freedom is the ability to do what is right without fear.
And that's how he lived. He was free from fear.
He's free from compromise, free from anything that could enslave his soul. His name, Charles literally means freeman, and that's exactly who my husband was.
He was a free man.
And from the time I met him, sitting across from him being interviewed on politics and philosophy and theology, anything that Charlie loved any topic he loved, and I just saw the fire in his soul, and there was this divine restlessness within him that came from knowing God placed him on this earth to protect something very, very sacred.
For all of us.
And he never stopped fighting for people to experience freedom.
He didn't.
Charlie often said that without God, freedom becomes chaos, and he believed liberty could only survive when anchored to truth. And I remember in one of his speeches he told the audience that the opposite of liberty isn't law. He said, it's captivity, and that the freest people in the world are those whose hearts belong to Christ.
But what's so powerful is that Charlie.
Had the ability to communicate so brilliantly across all generations. And he reminded us that in a world that tells us freedom is doing whatever you want to do, the real freedom is.
The power to live freely and to do what is right.
And in one of his journal entries, he wrote that he wanted everyone to know that you can't have liberty without moral responsibility. Freedom divorced from faith eventually just destroys itself. And what's so fascinating about all of this is looking back these past twelve years of turning Point USA and his mission, there's almost this veil of sacred.
Stations along leshawn Annity Network. We're not going to take the break. We can continue to bring you Erica Kirk and President Trump Live from the Rose Garden.
Building a movement, one that called people back to God, back to truth, and a movement that was filled with courage and ironically, for a man who impacted millions, Charlie never desired to be the center of attention.
Just wasn't.
My husband was not a man of extravagance. He loved simple but deeply meaningful things.
Truly. He loved his late night walks.
He loved buying more books than he could ever read because he felt there was no such thing as a book budget. And he loved being able to read to our kids the same bedtime story on repeat because he knew it was their favorite, but to him, that was special. And he loved to sit in the sun on a Saturday morning with his cup of decaf coffee and his phone was off because he was honoring the Sabbath, and for him, it was that moment to catch his breath and just be in peace because he was unreachable at
the moment and he preferred quiet birthdays. But that never stopped me from telling him. I told him every single year. I said, Baby, I love your birthday. I said, because it's a day that God knew.
The world couldn't go another day without you.
And so the rhythm of our usual birthday celebration for him was mint ice cream mint chocolate chip ice cream. He only had it twice a year on his birthday and fourth of July, and then after that who was back to work as usual. But last year, his one birthday wish was to see the Oregon Ducks play the Ohio State and day won. Oregon won that night, and it was by far one of the most memorable nights
of his birthday experience of his life until today. And so, honestly, President Trump, I have spent seven and a half years trying to find the perfect birthday gift for Charlie.
And it's so difficult.
And those of you that to have spouse as or loved ones, you know how difficult it is sometimes to buy a gift for someone that you love. Because he wasn't a materialistic man, so that also did not help. But now I can say with confidence, mister President, that you have given him the best birthday gift he could ever have. It's such an honor and the recognition of
a life lived for defending freedom. And that's what Charlie fought were until his last breath, And it was written across his chest in those final moments on one of his simple T shirts that always carried a message, and this one bearing a single word freedom, that was.
The banner over his life.
And that shirt was a declaration, the same declaration he made it every speech, every campus visit, every time he shared the gospel at a church, every sleepless night, that he would.
Spend praying for the youth of this nation.
And planning for the future of our country, and just oppressing upon them that when we defend liberty, we defend the soul of our nation. And my husband never told anyone what to say. He never did. He never told anyone what to say.
He would just encourage them to think.
He would encourage them to think outside of the traditional political labels. He would want them to think in a way that was anchored in wisdom and truth.
But he would never tell anyone what to.
Say, Charlie wasn't content to simply admire freedom.
He wanted to multiply it. He wanted to multiply freedom.
He wanted young people to taste it and to understand it and defend it. He wanted them to see that liberty isn't self indulgence, it's self governance under God.
He wanted them to see that. And every day I'd see him getting ready for work. He'd put on his crossed.
Necklace, he'd put his ring on his finger, and the boldness in his demeanor was ah hiss fearlessness.
He wasn't afraid. He was never afraid.
And his daily actions, whether an office or on campus or at a church, it was always without fear. That was his creed. That is how he lived out every single day. He didn't fear being slandered.
He did not.
He didn't fear losing friends. I can tell you that he didn't. He didn't care.
He stood for truth and stood for freedom, and he did not.
Everything else was just a noise to him.
And it's because his confidence in Christ was absolute.
That's why there was no limit, no limit to what he would have sacrificed to defend freedom for all and if the moment had come, he probably would have run for president, but not out of ambition. He would only have done it if that was something that he believed that his country needed. From a servant's heart standpoint, and Charlie lived only thirty one short years.
I was thirty two, but on this side of heaven. But he lived. He lived every single second he lived.
He filled every single day with purpose, and he fought for truth when it was unpopular, and he stood for God when it was costly.
But that's what we're called to do.
Surprisingly enough, he did pray for his enemies, which is very hard, but he did.
He did. He did no one else. I mean I saw him do it. No, he never did it in front of anyone else, but I can attest to that.
But he also loved people.
When it was inconvenient, and he ran his race with endurance, and he kept the faith.
And now he wears the crown of a righteous martyr. And for me and for our.
Children, the truth really studies our grief, because Heaven gained what earth could no longer contain, a free man made fully free.
To all watching. This is not a ceremony, This is.
A commissioning and My message is simple. I want you to be the embodiment.
Of this metal.
I do. I want you to free yourself from fear. I want you to stand courageously in the truth, listen for the still small voice of God, and remember that while freedom is inherited in this country, each of us must be intentional stewards every single day. God began a mighty work through my husband, and I intend to see it through. And the torch is in our hands. Now, it's in mine, it's in yours, it's in all of yours,
it's in all the students with turning Point USA. And before I close, I'll share with you that I asked our daughter what she would like to say to Daddy for his birthday.
Excuse me, She said, Happy birthday, Daddy. I want to give you a stuffed animal.
I want you to eat a cupcake with ice cream.
And I want you to go have a birthday surprise. I love you.
That's what she said.
And while our son, he's precious, he can't yet speak in classic Kirk family fashion, his actions spoke louder than his words. And his gift to you, Charlie and myself for that matter, was deciding to become the man of the House and be fully potty trained at sixteen months.
Continuing the mission of saving America, as we return to the Sean Hannity Show.
Hey, welcome back. It's Mark Simone here for Sean Hannity. Today. We're in the middle of a big mayor race here in New York City. You got Mom Donnie, the socialist communist mayor everbrace terrified this guy could win. You got Andrew Cuomo, the failed governor. He was a disaster to a governor running on a third party ticket. You got the Republican candidate, Curtis Sliwa, who we want to be mayor, who would do a great job. And he's with us right now. Curtis Sliwa, how are you.
I'm doing great. They just picked lots for the first debate. The whole country will be watching this debate on Thursday night. And guess who's right in the middle, Mark Simon, who fill of Johan Mandami to my left and Andrew Cuomo to my right? Yours truly, Curtis Sliwa.
All right now, this debate is Thursday night. This could decide the election. Mamdani's a very good debater. You are a professional debater for like thirty five years. Cuomo is a horrible debater. How's he going to do against you two guys.
He's got to come with high energy. Remember that's been his problem. He's low energy Andrew Cuomo, and he fades out after the first twenty minutes or so. So that's really his problem. My job is to tie both of them together, because you have Andrew Como, who was the arsonist who basically took this state down with his no cash beare raised the age and closing prisons, and side by side with him was assemblymen Zorhan Mandami. They agreed on everything, and they agree on most things now, especially
when it comes to law and order. They're soft on crime, they're pro criminal, and I'm the only one who's pro victim. I mean Mark Simon. For people listening all over the country, they're the Sean Hannity Show. We are now best known in New York City for locking up two fast and not locking up criminals. And I'm the only person that can get it back to where Rudy Giuliani brought us in nineteen ninety three. So if you needed to know who Curtis Leewer is, I was the apprentice for Rudy
Giuliani for many years. I am Giuliani two point zero. If people want to know who Johan Mondami is, there was that songs by Shade Smooth operator. He clearly has taken a page from the book BARACKA. Obama, the smoothest of all operators. But he's really for people who remember the worst mayor in the history of New York City. He's built the Blasio on steroids.
Yeah, build the Blasio's people are running the Mondani campaign. And by the way, Rudy Giuliani has fully endorsed Curtis Sliwa. Now you're gonna have to hit him hard in that debate with some real knockout punches. Do you have that ready to go?
Oh? Absolutely? Just to give you a sort of a precursor, he's talking about free bus fayre. Half the people don't pay their bus fan to begin with. As you know, Marc Simone, I'm the only one who's talking about. Wait, is they get there's fair evasion. We got to make people pay their fare. That's where everything begins to dissolve. That's why you had a billion dollars of fair evasion just in twenty twenty four alone, and the situation is
just getting worse. He wants city owned the supermarkets. Well, I'm going to turn to zor Mondami Market. I'm going to say, and how are you going to stop the shoplift this from shutting you down like they shut down most of the other stores in New York City because the shoplifter is aret going to come wherever they can steal the product. And I'm sure your store's or on you'll have an easy pass for them to steal everything.
Yeah, hey, you know it was one of his people. Well, Curtis, you get out of the race for Cuomo. Should it be the other way around. Shouldn't Cuomo get the hell out of the race. He's in your way.
Well, Mark, he already had his chance and he took a dive. He admitted when he tossed in the towel at the end of the Democratic primary at June twenty fourth that he didn't run a good campaign. He's not running a good campaign now. He's not out in the streets. He's not in the neighborhoods he needs to be. And remember in June twenty fourth, when he capitulated the Zora on Mondami then The drum beat was, Curtis, you got to drop out for Eric Adams that failed New York
City mayor drop out? How did that? How would that have worked out? Mark? What it done?
Hey? We were at this big Galla dinner Saturday night, thousand people. Cuomo walking around the room. Nobody paid that much attention to him, But you were getting mob Nobody could get near you. There were so many people trying to take pictures with you.
What does that tell us, Well, it tells you that I have a feel for average, everyday people. And also I am the first person to actually find a Christopher Columbus statue that had been warehoused. Remember in the summer of twenty twenty, George Floyd, when then Governor Andrew cmo was letting Antifa and Black Lives Matter run wild in the streets. I was out there battling Black Lives Matter
and Antifa. But I've located one of the many statues that were taken down because they were being desecrated, vandalized, and destroyed. And we're bringing it to the most Italian of all places in America, Staten Island, the fifth borough of New York City, which is referred to as sate in Italy. You won't believe this. Mark. People on Staten Island always thought that they had a Christopher Columbus statue. There's never been one there. I know everything about this city.
I am the genuine New Yorker. I'm the only one who can get things back on track. And remember Mark, for everybody out there who remembers Rudy Giuliani saving New York City in nineteen ninety three. A year later, a guy who couldn't have picked out of a police line up, George Bataki beat the better Cuomo. That's right, Andrew, I'm going to tell you you know Mariocormo. I knew Mario Coomo well. George Bataki not only beat Mariocormo, but he gave us great times with Rudy as the Republican mayor,
Patakias the Republican governor. No chaos, no corruption, crime, reduced great quality of life. Everybody wanted to come to New York. Now we're falling into the abyss. Curtis Lee a Republican mayor, and next year a lease the Fonic the congresswoman gets elected governor and we can do it all over again.
Jan If you want what do you want people to do. Donate a volunteer, What can they do for you? What's the website?
All of the above. With twenty one days to go, I'm campaigning twenty days out of a twenty four hour day. Just go to sliwa for NYC dot com, up for NYC dot com. Please help me save New York City, because whether it's Jorhan Mandami or Andrew Cmo, there's going to be the flight, hysteria and constant exodus of New
Yorkers into your state. My job is to keep them here, improved, don't move because I don't want to see the sequel to Kurt Russell's escape from New York and Old New York is coming down your way to North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Texas, Tennessee, and parts unknown.
Now I see a lot of commercials for you all over the place on TV here and during the Big Yankee playoff game there were your commercials. I don't see a lot of Cuomo commercials. And as far as I know, he hasn't even opened a campaign headquarters yet, has he?
Now? In fact, I opened my eleventh campaign headquarters today. They're sleeward signs everywhere slee with for mayor. I have an energetic campaign, Orhan Mandami has the orneasters. We know they're energetic. It really should be one on one. It should be Curtis Sleewood, the mayor from the streets and the subways, taken on Zoran Mandami, who wants to be the mayor representing the white collar graduates of college in the suites. That's really where the battle is. Andrew celmost
trying to remain relative. He should be one and done. He escaped from Albany when he was under impeachment. You know, Mark, I'm only responsible for the deaths of fifteen thousand l of the people because of his executive order. He never apologized, and God only knows if you're a woman in twenty two, we'd have to have hr constantly in the office of mayor. And sure he was keeping his hands off the young ladies working in his administration.
Well, but you have give him credit though. In this little little comeback of his he is convinced some of these big donors that he's the traditional mainstream, middle of the road democrat. When he was governor, he was the most far left. He was as bad as Mondamie, wasn't he.
Mark friends with a lot of these money people. They may know Wall Street, but they don't know politics. They've proven that time and time again. They ran from Cuomo to Eric Adams. They gave Eric Adams millions. Where's that money? Now? Mark someonment. What they're done. Nobody wants to find out. And now they're back with Cuomo. Mark. When you sit down with your friends the billionaires, tell them focus on
Wall Street. Let Curtis Sleewood, the man of the people, the blue collar, working class, Republican populace, focus on saving the city, and just stay out of my way. I can do it. They can't. They failed.
Yeah, Well, one thing with these billionaires when it comes to politics. They're geniuses in their own profession, but when it comes to politics, they're crazy. Cuomo gets wiped out into debates by Mom Donnie. Culomo gets slaughtered in the primary Byron Donnie, and then they tell you only Cuomo can win. It's absolutely ridiculous. But you when it comes to crime, would you say that's going to be the number one issue in the debate? Oh?
No, out, we need to hire seven thousand cops immediately. They've been stripped of the insurance that every civil servant has. It's called qualified immunity. We have to get that back so that the cops don't fear getting involved in making arrest. Plus, our recruitment is dismal because the many women who work police officers are never recommending any longer that their children or grandchildren or nieces and nephews following their footsteps. We're
facing dire circumstances here. And I got to tell you I've been doing this for forty six years. As leader of the Guardian Angels, I helped save the subway system that was crime infested in the seventies, eighties and nineties. I fought the crack cocaine epidemic along with Rudy Giuliani, the greatest mayor we ever had. I learned from the best, and so as Rudy Giuliani two point zero, I can do exactly what he did did so many years ago. Rescue this city that is in dire need. The socialists
will destroy it. And Andrew Cuomo has said, if somehow Johan wins, he's going to flee to Florida. What kind of leader is that? This guy's always dropping out? In fact, Mark he dropped out of running for governor against Comic Coal. He dropped out when he feed an impeachment from his own Democratic Party and ran to the Hamptons. The man
is not a for Augh. Fight to beat Zoran and the zorn Easters and the Democratic Socialists of America, you gotta go neighborhood by neighborhood, subway stop by subway stop, get the voters to the polls, and that's how we'll have victory on January January first, twenty twenty six, when I get sworn into office to save this city with the help of all your listeners.
Hey, yeah, go to sliwa for NYC dot com. You can donate volunteers sliwa for NYC dot Com. Now, Momdani came out of nowhere somehow he's got forty million or whatever. We know this money a lot of George Sorows types. But what about this rumor talk of foreign money that poured into his campaign.
Mark Simone, You remember it was two months ago on Marie butter Loma show on the Fox News business station that I said there's foreign money that has come into contact with zoron Mondami's campaign fund. You know what happens. It is the same thing that happened to Eric Adams. He got Turkish money that went to Turkish businessmen in New York City who then had straw donors make those donations, which is illegal, which is why Eric Adams should have
gone to jail. So on Mondommi with his smoke this fire, the Department of Justice should do a full scale investigation. He's already admitted he collected thirteen thousand dollars of illegal campaign contributions from foreign sources. Why wouldn't we do a deeper dive. He's collected millions, Mark Simone, thirteen thousand may just be the tip of the iceberg.
Yeah, well, the dive is being done by some people. We'll see. Hey, we don't have much time. Have one more question. Last time you had that debate four years ago, Channel for they rid the debate. They said we're only having yes or no questions for this segment. They're only allowed to talk thirty seconds. How do you know they're not going to do that again this year.
Well, I learned from that mistake of allowing the moderators to dominate the discussion. Since I'm in the middle. Andrew Como's position to my right and Johan Mandami obviously to my left. I am going to dominate this debate. I'm not going to let the moderators and the inquisitors try to make it appear that this is their time to shine. People don't want to hear from them. They want to hear from the candidates. They want to hear our ideas, our concepts, and most importantly, they want to hear good
arguments back and forth. And you know, the moderators, they're constantly trying to break that up. Mark, I'm not going to let them do it this time. All right, the start of this debate, I am going to be at Zoran Mandami and his mini me Andrew Como.
Well, good luck. We want you to win, and everybody to go to Slee Wha for NYC dot com. Donate volunteer Slee Wha for NYC dot com. Curtis have a big victory.
Thursday night, Help me save New York City. Everybody listening and a Sean Hannity show, Help me save New York City.
All right, take care, Yeah, we hope he wins. Thursday Night. Slei Wha for NYC dot com. Take a break. Hey, we'll take some calls next, it's Mark Simone here for Sean Hannity. Hey, it's the Sean Hannity Show. Mark Simone here. Sean off today, but it'll be back tomorrow. You have what's at silly show, The View that you have high IQ shows, you know, like some MSNBC show, then you
got these low IQ shows like The View. But there's one of those wacky co hosts, Alissa Farah Griffin, who said a while back, she said, if Trump gets those hostages out, I'll wear a mega hat right here. She thought there was no chance, no chance that he could make this deal, and she said, if he does, I'll wear maga hat. Well he did, and she's not wearing the hat. Donald Trump Junior trolling her on Twitter today about wearing that hat. So far nothing, She hasn't set
a peep yet about wearing that hat. I predict. No, she won't wear it. She won't do it. She won't do it because then there'll be the picture of her with the hat on will be used against her forever and ever, and her viewers are crazy wacky viewers will never ever ever get over it. Hey, we're just about out of time. But it's been quite a day here if you heard the Charlie Kirk ceremony, quite powerful, quite moving, and well, I'm glad we could bring it to you.
But don't forget check out hannity dot Com the website. There's always great news stories and coverage there. Watch Hannity on the Fox News Channel tonight nine. If you want to listen to me, I'm on seven to ten wor and New york Er. iHeart and thanks for listening. Talk to you soon.