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00:00:01.000One of my favorite Senate candidates this cycle, Hung Kao from Virginia joins the program.
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00:00:09.000And then a couple Turning Point USA representatives, one of whom is a young lady who just got punched in the face on campus for being a conservative, joins us.
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00:01:56.000And it was Hung Kao giving his RNC speech, saying, you hear that sound?
00:02:01.000That is the last sound that you hear before your home is raided in a communist country.
00:02:05.000I was like, ooh, I like this guy. Joining us now is Hung Kao, who is running for the U.S. Senate in Virginia and is within the margin of error against Tim Kaine.
00:02:26.000Well, you know, in 1975, when Saigon was falling to the communists, my mom was sewing notes into our clothes saying, this is my son, please take care of him, because there was a reality where they'd have to throw us into a helicopter just to save our lives.
00:02:39.000Because my father was a high-ranking South Vietnamese government official, so he was marked for death or going to be sent to a re-education camp.
00:02:47.000And then, so the next morning we got to the airport and my mom was like, oh my gosh, what if the Americas only took two of our five kids or three of our five kids?
00:02:55.000Who do we leave behind? Who can take care of themselves and how do we even come back to get them one day?
00:03:00.000But by the miracle of God, we all made it to the United States.
00:03:02.000I went to a refugee camp in Guam and then another refugee camp in Camp Pendleton, California.
00:03:10.000And my dad, again, being in agriculture, could not find any work over here.
00:03:15.000So they said, why don't you guys move to Africa and help develop Africa under USAID? So we picked up after six months and moved to sub-Saharan West Africa, which is Niger.
00:03:29.000That's where I learned meritocracy, by the way, because in French schools, what they do is they hand you your report cards in Nigeria.
00:03:36.000you know, by order of merit. So the top kid gets it and they sit at the front end of their seats,
00:03:41.000front right and then all the way down. So I noticed early on that the pretty French girls
00:03:47.000were at the front and the smelly French boys were in the back. And so I studied really hard to get
00:03:51.000to the front. But then at the age of 12, my parents realized that this kid doesn't speak any English.
00:03:57.000So my mom had to bring us all back here.
00:04:00.000My dad stayed in harsh countries like Chad, Guinea, Cameroon, Zaire, just to make a living.
00:04:06.000And we would see him every four to six months.
00:04:08.000But they want us to have the American dream.
00:04:10.000So I went to the top schools in the country, including the United States Naval Academy, and I have a master's in physics and postgraduate school and then fellowships at Harvard and MIT. But I paid back every dime of that American dream with 25 years of service in Navy special operations.
00:04:25.000I was a Navy deep sea diver that recovered John F. Kennedy Jr.'s plane.
00:04:28.000I was an EOD technician that defused bombs for our SEAL teams and special forces teams in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Somalia.
00:04:56.000Cowell, you've supported removing undocumented immigrants who have committed violent crime.
00:05:02.000Do you support mass deportation of all undocumented immigrants?
00:05:06.000You have 60 seconds. Immigration is very near and dear in my heart.
00:05:11.000When Vietnam fell, we had nowhere to go and America had brought us in.
00:05:15.000And my parents waited in line for seven years, we all did, for seven years to get our citizenship.
00:05:21.000The last thing that my dad had hang over his bed when he passed away two years ago was his naturalization certificate.
00:05:28.000I love this country so much that I wrote a blank check up to and included in my life to defend it for 25 years in Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia, and other parts of the world.
00:05:37.000So here's my thing to anybody who wants to come here.
00:05:41.000Don't ask for an American dream if you're not willing to debate American laws and embrace American culture.
00:05:49.000We are a very generous country, but if you're breaking in the country and you're not coming on our terms, then we have the right to repel those people from coming into America.
00:05:59.000No, you're absolutely right. And here's the thing.
00:06:02.000If you want to be an American, you've got to be an American.
00:06:04.000And right now we're allowing 13,000 convicted And if you are better off today, it turns out you're probably an illegal alien.
00:06:21.000The biggest issues for Virginia voters, we polled, includes economy, followed by housing affordability, then threats to democracy and immigration.
00:06:32.000Are you better off today than you were four years ago?
00:06:35.000If you say yes, you're probably an illegal alien.
00:06:37.000Okay, but honestly, at the end of the day, the people that got us into this mess, Tim Kaine has been in office for 30 years.
00:06:44.000Tell us more, hon. Again, we have illegal aliens that come here.
00:06:48.000They've killed people like Jocelyn Nungary and Lakin Riley.
00:06:53.000But also, within Virginia, there's a grandmother named Melody Waldecker that was carjacked up in Stirling, Virginia.
00:07:00.000And she was run over and killed by an illegal alien.
00:07:03.000Down in Chesapeake, there's this young student, 19 years old, Lauren Nicole Leonard.
00:07:07.000She's a young African-American girl who was going to college and she wanted to be a forensic scientist
00:07:13.000And she was killed by an illegal alien You know at what point do we say enough enough of killing
00:07:18.000our people enough of you know destroying our land and you know?
00:07:21.000Enough of coming over here and breaking our laws. I mean we waited in line and everybody should too
00:07:27.000One of the things you've been warning about is the march of Marxism in this country, something your family understands.
00:07:34.000When you see the persecution of President Trump and political dissidents, the lawfare, what is your warning to the American people of the type of country that we are becoming?
00:07:46.000I mean, you see it in churches, right?
00:07:48.000They're attacking our churches and where we worship.
00:07:51.000I'm a Christian. And so, you know, I go to Cornerstone Christian, I believe.
00:08:34.000And that's exactly what happened in Mao's China, where, you know, the Cultural Revolution, where kids turn their parents into the government.
00:08:42.000That's right. And Mao's little red guard turning in kids against their parents.
00:08:49.000Hung, please tell people how the audience can support you and your path to victory in Virginia these next 32 days.
00:09:02.000Look, you may not be able to vote for me if you're not in Virginia, but I can vote for you because my vote in the U.S. Senate will secure your liberties.
00:09:17.000Democrats are maybe going to spend more money in the state.
00:09:21.000Just very quickly, what parts of the state are you focusing and emphasizing and your closing message for voters?
00:09:27.000Again, I ran for Congress in 2022 in Northern Virginia, which includes Loudoun County, where they were attacking schools, were attacking the parents.
00:09:38.000So I've been working hard on Northern Virginia, but then also in the southern part, in Richmond, we're pretty much tied with him in Richmond.
00:09:45.000In Hampton Roads, I spent three tours of duty there in Norfolk and Virginia Beach.
00:09:50.000So the Hampton Roads area, that's where three of my kids were born.
00:09:55.000And then Southwest, my in-laws lived in Roanoke for 25 years.
00:10:00.000And so we know that area very well, too.
00:10:02.000So to tell you the truth, I'm concentrating on all of Virginia because I want to represent all of Virginians.
00:10:07.000Hung, thank you so much. It's hungforva.com.
00:10:10.000Thank you so much. Thank you, Charlie.
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00:11:16.000So we have the New York Times article here.
00:11:20.000So let's go through the story here. FEMA whistleblowers have revealed a treasonous misuse
00:11:24.000of taxpayer funds. Pre-disaster aid for Hurricane Helene was withheld, leaving first responders and
00:11:31.000service members in hotels waiting for orders that never came. Matt Gaetz is now blasting Alejandro
00:11:37.000Mayorkas for saying FEMA has wasted taxpayer money, misused funds, and left federal, state,
00:11:42.000and local responders without the orders they needed to act.
00:11:45.000Gaetz also confirms that hundreds, if not thousands, of service members were deployed to North
00:11:50.000Carolina by the Department of Defense and have been sitting idle waiting for FEMA. To make
00:11:54.000matters worse, Gaetz points out that FEMA funds were used by NGOs to buy airline tickets for migrants,
00:11:59.000even though money was really meant for disaster relief.
00:12:02.000The aftermath of Hurricane Helene is a major disaster, and your waste and lack of preparation are leaving Americans in distress without food, water, or medicine and no help in sight.
00:12:13.000Gates is demanding answers by October 11th, saying that Mayorkas is really a traitor to the country.
00:12:19.000It's really bad, and I think that needs to be highlighted a lot more.
00:12:23.000There's a lot of stuff about FEMA, like, okay, are they too fast, slow to respond?
00:12:26.000Obviously, the overall response is, like, languorous, bad.
00:12:31.000But what you really need to highlight is that FEMA has been pivoted by the Biden-Harris
00:12:37.000administration into this arm of the illegal immigration racket.
00:12:42.000So this organization that we created to respond to actual emergencies has now become a welfare
00:12:50.000agency for the engineered emergency of flying unlimited illegal immigrants into America.
00:12:58.000We need to help these people with this crisis.
00:13:00.000And they funnel billions of dollars to them.
00:13:02.000And that's why Mayorkas is going around saying, oh, we've run out of money because we've had to spend hundreds of billions of dollars on illegals.
00:13:15.000They can get free this, that, that, that, that.
00:13:17.000And they're just being distributed throughout the country People who are not legally allowed to be here, or if they are legally allowed, it's because of this bogus thing.
00:14:54.000This, if I was in Haiti, gets you access into the country.
00:14:57.000Yeah. Or, like, if you can't figure it out, you know, there's literally, like, government employees or aid workers or non-profit people who can, like, help you with this.
00:15:07.000There's an entire apparatus of NGOs who get taxpayer money themselves, of course.
00:15:11.000And they get you lawyers. And they'll get you the lawyers, they get you through this whole process, and their entire purpose is, how do you present your bogus story, like...
00:15:20.000Well, okay. They have, you know, seven or eight canned asylum justifications that they'll go, oh, he has reasonable grounds to claim asylum.
00:15:53.000It is treason. This app that I just downloaded is Expedia.com for foreigners to come into our country seamlessly and easily.
00:15:59.000Maybe the hurricane victim should download this app.
00:16:01.000Maybe they could get some help. Maybe if you called the people who are fleeing their homes ecological migrants, then maybe Biden and Harris would give a crap.
00:16:09.000But they don't because they are the citizens of this country and citizens come last and foreigners come first.
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00:17:32.000Yes, and thank you for the compliment.
00:17:33.000I appreciate that. So it started at Drexel's org fair.
00:17:37.000So I'd gone with my LI rep, and we were going to set up a table.
00:17:39.000We didn't have a chapter there, but we were just going to, you know, grab a table.
00:17:43.000And I ran back to my car to get some materials.
00:17:46.000And then while I was gone, this student had come up to our table and started antagonizing these two other students that were standing at our table just trying to inquire.
00:17:55.000Not even a part of the chapter, just two prospective students just wanted to learn about our club.
00:17:59.000And he started clapping in their faces, started yelling at them, you know, getting real, you know, within inches of their face.
00:18:05.000And the student that was assaulted the worst, he actually has autism.
00:18:08.000And when the student, you know, started clapping in his face, he wanted his personal space.
00:18:12.000So he just said, you know, push it back, like, get out of my face.
00:18:14.000And the kid then proceeded to wind up and kick him in his, you know what?
00:18:19.000And then it kicked another kid in his leg.
00:18:21.000And so I came about 30 seconds after and they had told me what happened.
00:18:28.000And they pointed out to this kid, maybe about 10 yards from behind our table.
00:18:32.000And I said, hey, you can't be coming or assaulting people.
00:18:35.000Like, that's not right. And so he said, oh, yeah, well, you're next.
00:18:38.000And so he started running at me with his fist up like this and charging at me.
00:18:43.000So I grabbed him by his shirt and pulled it over his head and dragged him to the ground and kind of held him until the Capus police got there.
00:19:15.000Can you show me documentation of this policy?
00:19:18.000What happens if I stay and they answered everything was able to show me that I was in fact breaking a policy supposedly.
00:19:25.000So I was in the parking lot leaving campus packing my car up when a young man coming from further down in the parking lot as I assume he was walking to class because he had just gotten to campus saw the turning point logo on our register to vote here phone board and he looks at me and he starts saying you know Get your effin' racist organization off my campus.
00:19:50.000And it escalated further from there to him.
00:19:53.000As I started to pull my phone out to film for my safety, I told him he was scaring me.
00:19:57.000He took my phone from my hand and threw it across the parking lot, to which he then grabbed my register to vote phone board, snapped it over his knee in half, and came at me with a balled-up fist that collided with the right side of my cheek.
00:20:11.000It knocked me off the ground and he immediately bolted from the parking lot back towards his car.
00:20:16.000Has he been arrested for assaulting a woman in a parking lot?
00:20:26.000Same with the campus. They were incredibly apologetic.
00:20:30.000In the wake of what happened, I tend to cope with humor, so I had asked the people in activities when Campus PD brought me in to talk, I said, I bet you guys feel really bad for asking me to leave, and I was the only one that thought that that was funny, so...
00:20:47.000Well, God bless you for your sense of humor there.
00:20:49.000So I just want everyone to understand, this is Maddie Muller, who is just trying to start a turning point group in Merced, which is in a conservative part of the state, mind you, the Central Valley of California, just south of Modesto and Stockton, right near that kind of Sacramento Central Valley.
00:21:06.000So you got punched in the face by a man.
00:21:13.000You could probably easily identify him.
00:21:15.000There's probably cameras all over the place.
00:21:16.000Do you anticipate an arrest happening?
00:21:19.000It's my hope, and I do plan to press charges to the fullest extent.
00:21:24.000I want to know what has happened in this culture where we think it's okay to attack people and attack students, no less like what Zygmunt had to deal with, over political differences.
00:21:37.000I want to I would love to pick this guy's brain and ask him, you know, do you think you're a better person now?
00:21:45.000Are you happy to be known as somebody who hits women now?
00:21:48.000Like, I would love to be able to have those questions answered.
00:21:52.000Yeah, God bless you for your courage and your moral clarity.
00:21:55.000For both of you, Zygmunt, I'll start with you.
00:21:56.000Zygmunt, considering that our students are constantly under attack, we have students where their dormitories are firebombed, students that are knocked off and put into hospitals.
00:22:06.000We have students that are concussed every single semester, students that are bear sprayed.
00:22:11.000It's just kind of part of being a conservative on campus, which is that you are open for targeting, harassment, hospitalization.
00:22:18.000Are you guys more enthused to keep on fighting for conservative ideas?
00:23:27.000I joined the assault club, I guess you can say, and it has me so fired up to keep going back to these campuses because those are the campuses that need our voices the most because that means those students that are conservative on campus know that that is the polarization that's happening and we need to be that beacon of light for them.
00:23:46.000I want to compliment and commend both of you and talk about your students.
00:23:50.000Your students go through so much harassment to keep on fighting Zygmunt, and yet they don't give up.
00:23:55.000Talk about the type of student that we are attracting and training at Turning Point USA. I really got to say, we really are attracting the best that the colleges have to offer because the students that I work with, they're always, you know, they're working on their own.
00:24:09.000They're fighting back against these administrations that we know are very hostile to them, you know.
00:25:09.000They're putting everything on the line right now.
00:25:12.000And I'll be honest, if you in the audience are not getting constantly harassed or not, you guys aren't in the fight.
00:25:17.000You're not in the game. That's how you know you're making a difference.
00:25:20.000Maddie, talk about the type of student that we are attracting at Turning Point USA that you're empowering and encouraging every day.
00:25:27.000Absolutely. I tell all of my chapter executives and all of the members that they are the up-and-coming generation that is going to take over the movement.
00:25:36.000And we are bringing in all these people that had no idea that there were other students just like them going through the same struggles.
00:25:44.000And now we're creating unity across not just campuses, but across the entire nation through our movement.
00:25:51.000We are being able to identify students who Who have personal testimonies, who have been through the struggles with administration, who have been supremely targeted by their other fellow students.
00:26:04.000I mean, we have one student in particular who is at CSUMB who is targeted daily on social media by pro-Palestinian and the Democratic Socialist clubs on campus.
00:26:17.000She's being raked over the coals, and she goes out every single day and tables nonetheless.
00:26:25.000I love that kind of resolute spirit and that fortitude.
00:26:30.000Zygmunt, you first. Kind of talk about how people can get involved with Turning Point USA and some of the great successes that you've enjoyed this semester.
00:26:38.000Well, the first thing they need to do is go directly on our website and fill out the Get Involved form.
00:27:40.000Matty, really quick, talk about some of the successes and your commitment to keep fighting despite getting punched in the face.
00:27:47.000Absolutely. I am proud to say that on National Voter Registration Day, we had 68 people across my territory change their party to align more conservatively.
00:28:01.000We will be bringing Riley Gaines to campus at Cal Poly on October 10th for Real Women's Day.
00:28:08.000So we are very excited for that as well.
00:28:11.000And another huge win is, despite what happened at UC Merced, I have, as of today, have three students who are now willing to sign a charter to chapter their, or a chapter to charter their campus.
00:28:23.000That is the best response, Maddie, is that they punch us in the face, we start a chapter.
00:28:27.000God bless you guys both, Zygmunt and Maddie.
00:28:32.000It's the best, I'm telling you. Turning Point USA is the most important organization in the country.
00:28:35.000Prove me wrong. What other organization is more important?
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00:29:39.000By the way, we are getting tons of emails about people saying, Charlie, did you just download the CBP1 app?
00:29:44.000Yes, we did. And you can do it yourself.
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00:29:50.000Blake, what's on your mind? I was just scanning for possible stories.
00:29:55.000Howard Schultz, the Starbucks CEO, apparently he violated federal labor law by telling an employee, if you're not happy, you can go work for another company.
00:30:54.000How scammy this is. You know that if Trump wins, they'll bring it back on January 15th and they'll just be like, oh, Trump!
00:31:01.000Already in meltdown crisis his first day.
00:31:04.000Exactly. And they don't want it to be up against the election.
00:31:06.000This is such a scam what they're doing.
00:31:08.000They're like, oh, we'll delay our strike until five days before the inauguration.
00:31:13.000What is great is, you know, if that were to come to pass, I think Trump would have a great opportunity to, you know, pull a Reagan and say, okay, National Guard is going to run the courts.
00:32:32.000The other thing they're demanding is they deliberately keep it very backwards in technical terms.
00:32:39.000So if you go to China, a country that we have to worry about competing with them, China, their longshoremen sit in a kind of air traffic control-like office, and they have computers, and you can do it all with cranes and stuff.
00:32:51.000And it's as advanced as it could possibly be.
00:32:54.000And here they deliberately keep it high manpower, lower tech, Yes.
00:33:06.000Yes. This is a scam where, like, a few of these people, do you think those jobs are doled out in a fair way, or do you think that's all, like, mobbed up?
00:33:27.000And also, it was just really, really bad optics during the hurricane disaster.