Steve Bannon joins us live from AmericaFest to celebrate the life and career of Charlie Kirk, the founder of Turning Point USA, a political organization dedicated to fighting for freedom on college campuses across the U.S. President Donald Trump delivers the keynote address at AmericaFest in San Francisco.
00:00:00.000Hey everybody enjoy this episode become a member members.charliekirk.com that is members.charliekirk.com email us as always freedom at charliekirk.com Charlie what you've done is incredible here.
00:00:12.000Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus.
00:00:14.000I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk.
00:00:17.000Charlie Kirk's running the White House folks.
00:00:24.000He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA. We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
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00:02:31.000Hold on, I sat in, I think I sat in for Charlie Kirk's first pitch.
00:02:34.000When Charlie Kirk came with Turning Point, and I sat in for some pretty big donuts, they asked me to sit in, and Charlie's sitting there pitching, and at the time, you're going to take over student government, student government, president, and I go, that's about the wackiest idea I've ever heard.
00:02:48.000But the energy this guy had, this young man had, and...
00:02:52.000Make note, you weren't even going to college.
00:02:54.000I mean, you made a big deal as I had only to do this.
00:02:57.000And to think of just the arc of where you guys have come, because it was Elon Musk that had everybody's back, but it was the turning point, and you focused on get out the vote with the war room posse in the blue wall.
00:03:10.000Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, but you focused on Arizona and Pennsylvania, and look at that.
00:05:32.000And now he is coming for his momentous address celebrating the greatest victory in American history.
00:05:38.000That's when the media actually realized, hey, at first they thought it was Trump coming down, and he was really...
00:05:43.000Because people were telling me, particularly Ailes and the guys at Senior Fox, they go, look, he's just trying to negotiate a better deal with The Apprentice.
00:06:38.000This will also be the first one that the first MAGA rally, really, when he's not an active candidate, unless we get into the 2020 April, we'll do that.
00:06:47.000Yeah, so what is your whole theory on that?
00:07:07.000When it says you're going up, maybe a few minutes because of applause or like that, but you're going up.
00:07:13.000The trains run on time at 30.USA, okay?
00:07:16.000In New York Young Republic, Gavin Waxrahim, I love you guys, but I'm an hour and a half late going to the stage, and it's 2,000 people, and they've been drinking since 6 o'clock in the afternoon.
00:07:26.000It feels like a 747 engine you're hitting.
00:07:29.000So I had a speech about the bond market and everything President Trump had to do, the things that are engulfing Washington, D.C. today.
00:07:36.000But I had to kind of throw that out and start throwing bombs.
00:09:01.000Or you add $10 billion for the farmers, some money for the FEMA, and you get on with it.
00:09:09.000Johnson didn't tell Elon, didn't tell Vivek, didn't tell President Trump, he went to the UFC, he went to the Army-Navy game, never told him 1,500 pages, all Democrat.
00:09:22.000And look, folks, it's going to be a little messy because what the country's in, you've got wars in Ukraine, wars in the Middle East, deportations on the border.
00:09:30.000We're going to try to get this to be a close-run thing.
00:09:33.000We're going to help here at AmFest over the next couple of days of the breakout session, get everybody up to speed.
00:09:59.000I know, but what is something we could tolerate?
00:10:01.000Well, I think the most we could tolerate is some money for the farmers, desperate, you know, a couple of billion dollars for the farmer to bridge him into President Trump, a couple of billion dollars for whatever FEMA needs to do now if there's not money there, and then sign it and kick it into President Trump's, and then next Congress.
00:10:15.000And I think there is wisdom to this idea that Trump should not inherit the dysfunction of this Congress.
00:10:22.000And I don't like talking like that, but Trump day one should not have to fix the problem of this madness.
00:10:29.000Okay, so Steve, some people are talking.
00:10:32.000I think you might have said motion to vacate on this new speaker's race because we got to get through this and hopefully we can get debt ceiling CR together.
00:10:39.000The reason I think the president is wise to push the debt ceiling is that he doesn't want Schumer to be able to have leverage with him in future months.
00:10:47.000Now, do you think it's time that we get a new speaker?
00:11:42.000He came on Fox and said, hey, you know, it was a simple bill, one page until some, you know, acts of God happened with the hurricane and about the farmers.
00:12:06.000Then, as they spent overnight, Elon was up at 4 o'clock in the morning or 4.30 dropping bombs on this thing as he went through this and said, so, look.
00:12:16.000We have to have somebody that has leadership and courage and can be straightforward.
00:12:21.000President Trump, this next, and this is why I tried to give the speech on Sunday night about the bond market.
00:12:26.000If you look at the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, if you look at the deportations, the border, everything has to happen there.
00:12:43.000You have to line up and go down with OMB, the Secretary of Treasury, the National Economic The Speaker has to be, and his team have to be hardwired into that, because as the Constitution tells us, all taxes, by the way, the taxes, all taxes, revenue generation comes from the House, and all spending comes from the House, and only the House.
00:13:06.000This is why the Speaker, Johnson's just not up to his task.
00:13:12.000And you see this thing about Liz Cheney and Loudermilk sending this criminal referral to FBI. That committee should have been dealt with A year ago or a year and a half ago, we should have done the whole J6 on anything you can look at.
00:13:59.000A CR should either be two lines, or the alternative would be two lines.
00:14:05.000You add a couple of billion dollars for the farmers just to bridge them, and a couple of billion dollars for FEMA, and then a two-year, if President Trump wants a two-year runway on the debt ceiling, you give him two years.
00:14:14.000The way that it was presented is that this was like a last-minute rush deal, but you read it, this has been negotiated intimately.
00:14:20.000No, we had three or four months of this in September.
00:15:54.000The war on Posse has done an amazing job of fixed band as your show has to every day, having their back, making sure that he gets the team.
00:16:02.000I also think on the speaker, it's what President Trump thinks.
00:16:05.000You know, he was a Johnson guy, but it's about performance.
00:16:08.000And what he had not seen that early in the morning was what a fiasco this was.
00:16:34.000If Elon Musk, if the president wants Elon Musk, let's try it and see what the constitutional scholars say because, you know, the Speaker of the House Is, I think, obviously much more powerful than the Senate pro tem and much more powerful than the Vice President.
00:18:29.000People are already in now wanting the details of what's going on, and they're already thinking downrange of the primaries in 2026. Isn't it a little bit encouraging, though, Steve?
00:18:41.000I mean, the CR is super frustrating, that we were able to kill it so quickly.
00:18:44.000Would that have been the case eight years ago or even a decade ago?
00:18:56.000But even the old classic conservative, just Fox News, everybody trying to get on there, it doesn't work.
00:19:02.000You know, with all the different venues, when you have Turning Point, your show, your podcast, your radio show, all of it, this audience, Here's what they're thirsty for.
00:19:12.000Inside baseball, details, and they'll show up and do the work.
00:19:15.000But to do the work, they want to feel like they're part of it, and they are part of it.
00:19:18.000So the ecosystem on the right, and I might add the far right, is now driving the conversation.
00:19:23.000This thing was dead in a couple hours, and today you're hearing snarky, anonymous quotes saying, well, you know, Elon Musk are these, you know, the right-wingers are Charlie Kirk and Steve Bannon.
00:21:47.000Educate the audience on this remarkable and historic win.
00:21:50.000Yeah, well, let's start with how we got involved.
00:21:52.000So I always have to give you this credit, Charlie, because very few people understood the idea of these Trump supporters becoming Trump voters, which Turning Point Action is just championed and led on for a year, if not longer.
00:22:06.000And so this idea that we have to hit low propensity, you came to me, Tyler came to me and said, hey, listen, Pennsylvania is a mammoth.
00:22:16.000Can you guys take your door knocking apparatus and just we'll help with infrastructure, we'll help with data and just double down and do what we're doing in these states?
00:22:25.000So in Pennsylvania, the problem was in 2020, right, we weren't adapting to the rules.
00:22:30.000We weren't out there chasing ballots and talking to these low propensity folks to request and to get people in.
00:22:36.000So if you guys look here at the map, I mean, now that's a beautiful map.
00:22:40.000I gotta be honest, that is a beautiful map.
00:22:42.000So how much did we lose Center County by?
00:22:54.000That was like the heat-seeking missile.
00:22:57.000So Center County, Penn State University, Charlie goes out there, does a barn burner event, he's tossing MAGA hats, registers all these voters at Pennsylvania State University.
00:23:58.000I'm going to need Charlie every single week in Pennsylvania in a swing county doing these events because it does have such an impact with the registration.
00:24:22.000I was not always a believer, but we did pull off Erie, which was huge.
00:24:25.000And major, major ramifications there were the state senate seat that we were able to hold in Erie County.
00:24:31.000But then if you look southeastern PA, you got Philadelphia and the Collar Counties.
00:24:37.000The Democrats lost, not only because we turned out Trump supporters and made them Trump voters, but man, was there no joy for Kamala Harris.
00:24:46.000And black men, Charlie, I'm telling you, we have done door knocking for a while.
00:24:50.000I have never seen black men so, one, excited for Donald Trump, and two, absolutely loathe Kamala Harris's policies.
00:24:59.000I want to celebrate what you guys did at P.A. Chase, but emphasize it even more.
00:25:03.000Because the election results actually were a little bit closer in the final tally than I think people will really realize.
00:25:10.000I mean, the final margin was 120,000 votes.
00:25:15.000How many votes were you guys responsible for at P.A. Chase?
00:25:18.000And I'm trying to build you up here because there's this belief it was a landslide would have happened automatically.
00:26:35.000Donald Trump received 34.5% of the mail-in vote.
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00:27:47.000I can proclaim to you right now, we do not have 53 Senate seats, and Trump's cabinet would be in jeopardy, and it would not be Senator Dave McCormick without Cliff Maloney at P.A. Chase.
00:28:18.000I mean, we obviously chased it all, but him, Scott Pressler, the whole Turning Point team registering voters was just a huge one-two punch in the state.
00:28:27.000But Charlie, once again, we knocked 510,000 doors to only win by 120,000.
00:29:11.000I don't want to announce anything too soon.
00:29:13.000We've got some things coming in January.
00:29:16.000We are going to relaunch, and we're going to really have some concrete goals for 25. And the messaging campaign, Make Pennsylvania Ohio, is not great.
00:29:24.000That's not exactly going to fire up the...
00:29:26.000We'll just make Pennsylvania the red wall.
00:29:39.000We just have to continue to make those America first supporters voters and consistent voters, not just one out of fours, not only showing up when Trump's on the ballot.
00:30:08.000Yes, but you guys put out a really good, like the top 10 swing districts expected for 26. Three of them are in Pennsylvania, nationally.
00:30:15.000It's the three that we won this cycle.
00:30:17.000So seven and eight we flipped with Bresnahan and McKenzie, took Democrats out.
00:30:22.000Scott Perry, obviously our number one patriot in Pennsylvania, 10th district.
00:30:27.000So those are going to be the three strongholds.
00:30:30.000Charlie, the Democrats have already announced Shapiro is going to have people in those districts January 1 of 2025. So let me get this straight, though.
00:30:57.000Scott Perry won by 1%, less than a percent.
00:31:00.000And so it's really cool when you're an activist on the ground, you know this from all the thousands of activists, hundreds of thousands of activists you guys have.
00:31:07.000To see that look in their eye on election night, Charlie, it is an amazing experience when they know they made the difference for such a huge win.
00:31:30.000Because if we seize 2025, we are going to be able to defray any sort of Democrat counterattack in 26. Number one, permanent infrastructure, right?
00:31:40.000If you're an activist out there, the battle has been won, but the war has just begun, right?
00:31:45.000We have to triple down, get involved with Turning Point, get involved with a local chapter, come work with us to Doorknock.
00:31:52.000The idea that we can now go home, I mean, what an amazing thing just happened on X to be able to shut down a continuing resolution.
00:33:29.000So can the president, by executive order, or at least instruct his DOJ to expand whistleblower protections?
00:33:35.000I think the executive branch of government can be helpful to ensure they're not retaliated against.
00:33:41.000So if there was maybe a memorandum signed on the first couple of days, theoretically, and the president says there will be amnesty given, no retaliation to any whistleblower of things you saw during the Biden administration, and he proclaims that, could you imagine the incoming?
00:33:58.000I mean, based on your reporting, what would that result in?
00:34:02.000I think it's going to result in 10x, 100x more people coming forward and commitments from the heads of these agencies, some of whom I've had conversations with, and they're going to fire anybody who retaliates against that person.
00:34:14.000Also, I think the capacity for reform is going to encourage more people to come forward.
00:34:29.000I think people who are witness to crimes, corruption, like, for example, the IRS, if you've seen people targeted because of their politics, that's illegal.
00:34:39.000If you have evidence of that, incontrovertible video recordings or images, that's what we're looking for.
00:34:45.000So talk about some of your recent reporting that you have found.
00:34:47.000You had a guy on the National Security Council who basically said Biden is a corpse.
00:35:01.000A lot of deep state actors in the government, Charlie.
00:35:04.000If you're one of the good guys, blow the whistle.
00:35:06.000If you're one of the bad guys, you might be on a date with one of my swipers.
00:35:10.000Let's play Cut 91. This is Harry Appel, part of the NSC. I hope you guys understand, this is not some sort of dog-catching enterprise in D.C. The NSC, this is the President's personal national security apparatus.
00:36:06.000So, for those that couldn't hear, can you transcribe that for us?
00:36:10.000He was saying that Biden is dead, quote, dead, and can't complete a sentence.
00:36:15.000And then he says he's concerned that Trump is going to come after them.
00:36:18.000I say, maybe they should come after them, because you work for the National Security Council, and you're talking in a public restaurant to a stranger.
00:36:25.000The Wall Street Journal says how the White House functioned with a diminished Biden in charge.
00:36:29.000That's a nicer way to harmonize with your reporting.
00:36:33.000By the way, This is the power of James O'Keefe.
00:36:35.000James O'Keefe comes out with this story and then creates the intellectual permission for the Wall Street Journal to write that.
00:36:40.000Have you seen that pattern before, James?
00:37:22.000The executive branch of government, if there's any way that they can be protected, because congressional whistleblower, they don't really enforce that.
00:37:29.000So I think there's an opportunity right now to have their backs and have them come forward.
00:37:52.000And on your stage tomorrow, I'm going on stage, I'm going to bring a few of these people out, federal whistleblowers, you're going to meet them here.
00:37:59.000I think that your emphasis, your focus, your life's work has been in and around this idea of courageous truth-tellers, but the description of whistleblowers looking retroactively at an outgoing, unpopular, treasonous and criminal regime...
00:38:13.000James, I think you could reform government for a generation.
00:38:16.000Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
00:38:18.000Email us, as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.