Holding America Hostage For Foreign Criminals

**Charlie Kirk** (0:03)
My name is Charlie Kirk. I run the largest pro-American student organization in the country fighting for the future of our republic. My call is to fight evil and to proclaim truth. If the most important thing for you is just feeling good, you're going to end up miserable. But if the most important thing is doing good, you will end up purposeful. College is a scam, everybody. You got to stop sending your kids to college. You should get married as young as possible and have as many kids as possible. Go start a Turning Point USA college chapter. Go start a Turning Point USA high school chapter. Go find out how your church can get involved. Sign up and become an activist. I gave my life to the Lord in fifth grade. Most important decision I ever made in my life, and I encourage you to do the same. Here I am, Lord, use me. Buckle up, everybody. Here we go. The Charlie Kirk Show is proudly sponsored by Preserve Gold, the leading gold and silver experts, and the only precious metals company I recommend to my family, friends, and viewers.

**Andrew Colvett** (1:09)
All right. Welcome to The Charlie Kirk Show. It is Monday, March 23rd, 2026 Good to be back in Phoenix.

**Blake Neff** (1:16)
Welcome back. It's not just that you're back in Phoenix, it's that you have once again regained access to, you know what?

**Andrew Colvett** (1:23)
To... Oh!

**Blake Neff** (1:25)
Certain orange goo that will revitalize.

**Andrew Colvett** (1:28)
Yeah, we're not there yet. We're not there yet. You got to, you know, it's true. Strong sell. I have it here.

**Blake Neff** (1:33)
Everyone's thinking about it.

**Andrew Colvett** (1:34)
All right. So, yeah, we've got a really full show. Lots of guests coming up. I want to address something that emerged over the weekend. And really, it's kind of been a storyline, I guess, for the last week or so, after the resignation of Joe Kent. We had touched on it a couple of times last week. Obviously, it's consumed a lot of media. President Trump's being asked about it and whatnot. The central claim, though, that I want to get to is, was Joe Kent leaking certain information? And over the weekend, a clip came up, and it's gone a little bit viral. I want to address it. Let's go ahead and play it. Cut 16

**SPEAKER_5** (2:15)
The way that those screenshots got to Candace is via Joe Kent. Andrew Colvett, Andrew was in the chat group as well. He was one of the nine people in the group, and he admitted at first, to be perfectly honest, at first he was denying it. We didn't know how Candace got them, but then he admitted on the air, on his show, that he had given these text messages, and he gave them to... he said on the show that he gave them to someone in the government. He told us that, that he gave them to someone in the government. Joe Kent was someone that we... we knew that there was a relationship there between Charlie and Andrew and Joe. We knew that when Charlie would visit Washington DC., he would talk to Joe. We kind of verified that the messages had been given by Andrew to Joe Kent, and that Joe Kent had been the one to pass them on to Candace.

**Andrew Colvett** (3:08)
All right. So verified is doing a lot of heavy lifting there. I do want to confirm what I can confirm, and that is that yes, in the immediate aftermath, I did provide the group chat to Joe Kent.
We don't throw around accusations recklessly here. We don't. There's a lot of people that do that online. We don't do that. We think that's keeping in the spirit of Charlie's spirit, and the way we choose to do things is we try and be responsible. So, yes, in a spirit of looking at every lead, turning over every stone, we wanted everybody that needed to know to know anything that we knew. And by the way, we've been accused of not being interested in the truth.

**Blake Neff** (3:49)
And just to remind people what this is referring to, this is after Charlie's murder, there were text messages from a private group chat that were made public and were used to, frankly, kick off the big conspiracy theory that we've run into over and over again, which is that Israel or the Jews had Charlie murdered.

**Andrew Colvett** (4:13)
Yes. So which we do not believe, which we do not believe, but we have been accused of trying to or we're not interested in the truth.
The actual fact of the matter is that behind the scenes, we have given everything we know to give every single piece of information. This was one of them. I was told I could trust Joe Kent. I provided the screen grabs to Joe Kent, and I don't know what happened to them at that point. I just want to make that very clear. Eventually, Joe did message me and suggest that I make those screen grabs public. I declined because those were shared privately. I didn't want to be reckless with them in the public. There could be innocent people on that group chat that would then be harmed. So I declined. But then, fast forward another week or two, and they were made public. So that's what I know. Is that Joe suggested that they be made public, I declined, then they were made public. Can I 100% categorically say that he leaked them? No. But those are the facts. Maybe somebody on his team, maybe they got passed around, maybe somebody else leaked them. But those are the facts of the matter, and that's what I know.