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And welcome to the program on your Monday afternoon. Glad to have you along with us. All right. Now, look, OK, I got to admit, I'm a little disappointed. There's a little disappointed here. I told you when I left to go up on my trip. I said, when I this is the only thing I asked. Is the only thing I asked. I said, when I get back. I want you to guy you guys to have taken care of.
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the government shutdown, I want you to pass the Save America Act, I want you to open TSA, get that fully up and running. All of this stuff that I asked, I wanted the Iran thing over, and I get back and nothing's changed? And I left you people in charge? Very disappointed. Very disappointed in this. I really am. Anyway, there you go. That's what we've got right now. We've still got ...
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a shut down government, partially shut down government, and that's all thanks to Chuck Schumer and the Democrats. Now, I am going to say that John Thune does have a little responsibility here, but not as much as they do because they're the ones that are asking for the unreasonable, if you will. So, government's still shut down. Flying into Hartford,
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Well, first of all, let me tell you, we left at six o'clock on Thursday night. wife and I did and had absolutely no problems whatsoever leaving Greenville, Spartanburg Airport. No delays, no anything like that. We breezed right through. Landed in New Haven. That was fine. Coming back,
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through New Haven to Greenville. uh We did experience a little bit of delay, but not as much as everybody else. I knew some people were there. I know their delays were like two and three hours, but mainly that was because of weather. Now, I do want to say that, and listen, I don't know if you've ever flown into New Haven. It's not the world's greatest airport by far.
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But they were very conscientious because they were taking, were like, everybody that's going to Greenville, come on to the front of the line. And we were able to do that and get through. it was a good, and by the way, to the gentleman who recognized me in the New Haven airport and said, hello, hello back to you, sir. It was great to see you. I'm sorry I didn't get your name, but everybody was in a hurry to make their flights, but it was an absolute pleasure. So I had a good time with my mother-in-law and all is well there.
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Thank you for allowing me a few days off. Well, President Trump is now saying that we are in talks with Iran. He put this out on Truth Social. I'm pleased to report that the United States of America and the country of Iran have had over the past two days very good and productive conversation regarding a complete and total resolution of our hostilities in the Middle East. Based on the tenor and tone of these in-depth details and constructive conversations,
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which will continue throughout the week. have instructed the Department of War to postpone any and all military strikes against Iranian power plants and energy infrastructure for a five day period. Now remember, he gave that 48 hour deadline. said, listen, if you guys don't clear up the Strait of Hormuz, you guys don't start letting ships through and unencumbered, if you will.
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then we're just going to bomb the living snot out of your electric infrastructure and you're all going to be in the dark. Well, apparently somebody wanted to do some talking even though they are now denying it. is uh President Trump earlier today. What was this? The day he was leaving for Memphis. Hold on. Let me see if I can find this clip. But now Iran is saying that we're not talking with anybody. We're not talking to Donald Trump.
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And these people in the mainstream media, they're going right along with it, which is really weird. It really is. I mean, it is so strange that our mainstream media and the folks on the left hate Donald Trump so much that they will believe
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a brutal regime dictatorship over our own president. Now, if you had bombs dropped on you, no end, for the past few weeks, wouldn't you kind of be willing to talk? I know I would.
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So, I mean, it's ridiculous how these people are acting. It really is. I mean, it's as if they actually want us to lose this war, and they do. That's the weird thing. Let's take a listen to this reporter talking to President Trump as he was about to leave for Memphis today. Foreign ministry says you're not telling the truth when it comes to productive conversations to end the Well, they're to have to get themselves better public relations people.
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We have had very, very strong talks. We'll see where they lead. We have points, major points of agreement. I would say almost all points of agreement. Perhaps that hasn't been conveyed. The communication, as you know, has been blown to pieces. They're unable to talk to each other, but we've had very strong talks. Mr. Witkoff and Mr. Kushner had them. So there you go. So, I mean, I believe that's happening. I absolutely do.
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who I don't believe are these people over on Morning Joe and on the mainstream media. go, oh, this is just, this is another taco. Trump always chickens out, this is another taco. Well, maybe Morning Joe ought to ask the folks at the network why they cut his show by an hour. uh Maybe, maybe you want to ask that? Because nobody can put up with you lying for that long. So, but again, um we'll see what happens with this.
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Price of oil has gone down a little bit. think it was last time I looked about an hour ago, it's about $80 a barrel. had gone up to 100 and right when I checked it last night, I was right around $100 a barrel. So it dropped about $20 today. We will see where that ends up and how that translate to the gas pump. Charlie, he's talking to the Prince's son of the Shah and the new regime, not the Mullers.
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The Mullers? It's Mullers. ah Okay, well, there you go. It's a... We're all a bunch of rhinos, Charlie. You know that. There you go. Charlie, happy to have you back. Good to be back. I appreciate that. Charlie, don't forget the Hellfire missiles. There you go. ah So anyway, that's where we are right now, but we still got a government shutdown. Oh, and by the way, starting today, ICE agents...
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going to be handling some TSA duties. We'll tell you a little bit more about that coming up because even even the people over there on the left, like, I can't believe you're doing that. Well, even Elon Musk. Elon Musk offered to pay the TSA agents and the Democrats lost their minds because according to the Democrats, and I've got proof of this coming up in just a few minutes, according to the Democrats, your pain is their leverage.
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Your inconvenience is nothing but a tool for them to use against good common sense legislation. That's coming up. It's the Charlie James Show, News Talk 98.9, WORD, The Voice of the Carolinas.
Mar 23, 2026
