00:07:07.000They're trying to get the live coverage.
00:07:10.000Once they start the official stream, I think we'll switch over to that.
00:07:13.000If there's an official stream from Turning Point USA on YouTube, we'll probably switch over to that so we have better video and audio quality.
00:07:20.000But for now, we've got a picture of what's happening on the ground here.
00:07:28.000And I'm told by Vince James, better known as the Red Elephants, that the program for tonight is that they will have two lines for the QA.
00:07:39.000I'll actually, I have it right here on my phone.
00:07:45.000He says, quote, reportedly there will be two lines for the Charlie Kirk QA one line for left wing people and one line for, quote, alt right people.
00:07:55.000This is according to a Turning Point USA employee who is at the event right now.
00:07:59.000And of course, we want you to get in the left wing line.
00:08:02.000If you are there, if you are going to ask a question, we want you to get into the left wing line because clearly I don't think they'll be taking questions from the other line.
00:08:24.000I don't know if they'll go through with the QA.
00:08:26.000I don't know if they'll do the two line program.
00:08:28.000That is what they tried at ASU on Friday with Dan Crenshaw they split it up into a line for left wing questioners and a line for right wing people.
00:12:53.000Also, please remember to be optical in the chat.
00:12:57.000I remember I did get an email earlier this week.
00:12:59.000I didn't get a chance to respond to it yet, which I will, but one of the DLive moderators sent me some screenshots from one of our earlier streams and said, Can you control your chat?
00:13:09.000And I don't really have too many people moderating right now.
00:13:11.000I've tried to get rid of all the naughty words, but if you guys could just sort of self regulate, that would be all right.
00:14:07.000Our chapter here at the University of Florida has been blown away by the response from the community for this event.
00:14:13.000So many people have shown such excitement and willing to give up their time and resources to support us to make this culture war the best culture war it can be.
00:14:27.000We'd like to thank the University Auditorium.
00:14:29.000I think there's some audio problems, but it's coming from the stream.
00:15:03.000I could not continue without thanking a few more instrumental people to our chapter.
00:15:07.000Thank you to Brandon Schubert, the Mountain Regional Manager, Drana Sixto, our Regional Manager, Christian Clemente, our Field Rep, Browning Sandusky.
00:16:12.000And this is all because you have been there for us week in and week out and helped us grow to what we are today.
00:16:17.000So, thank you to all of you for your support, and especially I'd like to thank Turning Point USA for supporting our chapter, giving us the resources, tools, and training possible to make an event of this size.
00:16:31.000If you'd like to get involved with us at our chapter here at UF, you can add us on social media.
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00:16:45.000With that, thank you all for joining us, and we're going to get started in a minute.
00:21:02.000There are two things that we believe at Turning Point USA.
00:21:04.000And they shouldn't be widely controversial things.
00:21:06.000The first thing, and you don't always hear this on a college campus, is that America's the greatest country ever to exist in the history of the world.
00:21:20.000America's by far the most productive country, the most entrepreneurial.
00:21:24.000Entrepreneurial country, the most creative country, the most generous country.
00:21:28.000I think our generosity is actually being taken advantage of at times.
00:21:31.000I think that our generosity actually is, you know, I think that there's some, we'll talk about that in just a bit.
00:21:36.000I think that our generosity, which has always been a virtue, I think that we also need to kind of think about how we're going to not just, or $22 trillion in debt, be endlessly generous on our own citizens.
00:21:48.000Half the citizens in the state of California that are in fourth and fifth grade.
00:21:51.000What about foreign aid to Israel then?
00:22:25.000But there's some very just thought exercises, right?
00:22:30.000They want to make America a socialist country or they think socialism is the best thing ever.
00:22:35.000I mean, just to think about, if socialism was so great, why, when the caravan decided to move, why did it go south for Venezuela but it went north for America?
00:22:44.000Why is it that you have to prevent people from leaving socialist countries but you never have to prevent people from leaving prosperous free market countries like the United States of America?
00:22:55.000America brings in half of the world's immigrants every single year.
00:23:05.000There's only two million legal immigrants every single year worldwide.
00:23:12.000America brings in half of those immigrants every single year.
00:24:27.000But there has been a pattern in Western democracies that all of a sudden go tyrannical.
00:24:33.000People that are able to defend their freedom, defend their liberty against tyranny is something that the Founding Fathers put specifically in the Federalist Papers.
00:24:42.000That freedom must be able to be preserved by a free and virtuous people and the capacity for citizens to defend themselves, not just against crime in their local communities.
00:24:51.000And by the way, I always find it interesting, especially on college campuses, some of the biggest advocates against private gun ownership are the feminist groups.
00:24:58.000And I say, you guys should be the most pro Second Amendment group because that is the great equalizer.
00:25:04.000If college campuses were as dangerous as they say they are, wouldn't it make sense that you would want to be able to correctly and legally own the firearms that would make you?
00:25:15.000Be able to protect yourself on a college campus.
00:25:18.000And the Constitution is so brilliant because it was admitting that we were not going to create utopia.
00:25:24.000See, the Constitution was not saying we're going to try to create perfection.
00:25:31.000It was saying that we are going to protect government from infringing upon your rights that are natural upon your birth and your creation.
00:25:39.000And this is so fundamentally important because for a thousand years or, you know, two thousand years, any kind of experiment in government was either a tyrannical king or queen that would allow no freedom or liberty for the people underneath them, or people would try to create some form of a utopia like the French Revolution tried to create in 1792.
00:26:00.000When they tried Robespierre, they took over the French government, and they said, now we're going to try to create a perfect people, and people are not inherently flawed, and we're going to perfect individuals.
00:26:09.000And the founding fathers said, you know what, we're going to create something that is good enough.
00:26:14.000We're going to create something that will never be perfect, but it will be good, and will only be good if the people within the country are good.
00:26:21.000And this is such an important point, because our country has been the most successful, most incredible country in the history of the world, also because of where these ideas stemmed from.
00:26:31.000And this is one of the great lies of the left.
00:26:33.000They just think these ideas came out of thin air and the founding fathers drew no inspiration.
00:27:22.000Because if you fail to recognize where you come from, then you're not going to be able to try to get success effectively moving forward.
00:27:29.000So, the third thing that we believe at Turning Point USA, we believe that the free market or free enterprise capitalism is the most moral, proven, and effective economic system.
00:27:38.000Ever discovered in the history of the world.
00:28:18.000Well, it's been tried a hundred times over the last 100 years on every continent, in every country, in every civilization possible, resulting in the death of 100 civilians.
00:28:29.000It destroyed cultures and civilizations in Africa to Asia.
00:31:44.000Our generation that sometimes gravitate towards the left.
00:31:48.000They are upset at a DC political class, which goes to my second point.
00:31:54.000The DC political class that continually makes empty promises, that does not admit failure when they come across it, and sees themselves in those zip codes get more and more rich, gets more and more votes for themselves.
00:33:12.000Stable financial condition over the last 20 or 30 years.
00:33:16.000And yet, the people in Washington, D.C., everything's just fine.
00:33:18.000There was no recession in 2008 around Washington, D.C.
00:33:22.000They did not see, I mean, their housing prices went down a little bit, but median income rose.
00:33:26.000They saw their wealth go up, and the richest zip codes are concentrated around a part of our country that are not creating things of value.
00:33:34.000And that goes to the third thing, which is the other side of the coast, which is, well, where's the other, you know, where is all the wealth kind of being created in our country?
00:33:42.000And this is a very serious issue, and I'm going to be the first one to admit, I don't know the correct way to go about solving this.
00:33:49.000But I think the power that is vested in some of these social media companies is very, very concerning.
00:33:55.000How they can ban people at a moment's notice.
00:33:59.000And it's a very important test on what we see on social media, where you should be able to say what you want to say and be able to even say, I might not like that person, that person might attack me personally, and God knows there's plenty of those people.
00:34:13.000But they should still be allowed to be able to be and have a voice.
00:34:47.000Are able to socially engineer an election, or they're able to have 92% of all search results.
00:34:53.000This is a very, very difficult thing for us to admit, and we have to solve it in some way, especially when almost every single human being that works for these social media companies is an outright Marxist and hates the President of the United States and thinks in a left wing fashion.
00:35:08.000What's to say that they're not going to abuse that power?
00:35:10.000In fact, we have evidence that they have abused that power, that they have shadow banned, and they have shut people down, and they have taken videos.
00:35:19.000Off the internet that shouldn't have been that way.
00:35:51.000Where you could walk freely back and forth, where kids are getting sex trafficked and drugs pouring across the border and the amount of guns that come in.
00:36:00.000That means the vampire power is at an all time high.
00:36:03.000Adrenochrome vampire power is at an all time high.
00:37:42.000I basically said that if anyone goes through, and this is my fourth or fifth point, I will get to it, anyone who goes through the highly corrupt college cartel, then all of a sudden they should be gained entry into the United States.
00:37:53.000And that was an incorrect thing to say.
00:37:55.000That goes to my fourth point, which is I believe all of you, if you go to a four year college or universities, you are participating in a game that is rigged against you.
00:38:05.000I believe that higher education is another cartel.
00:38:08.000How many people out there are being forced to take classes that have no relevancy to your degree or major that have two hands?
00:38:45.000Well, they'll sell their book back to you.
00:38:47.000And yet college tuition keeps going up, the value of a college degree continually goes down.
00:38:53.000And I believe this is a very negative cycle that, again, both sides have basically ignored for a very long period of time that makes you go into debt and, quite honestly, makes you more likely to become a socialist voter in the future.
00:39:10.000If you're piling up tens of thousands of dollars in student loan debt, when you are getting into debt in a way that you never thought possible.
00:39:19.000In fact, there was a study that showed that something along the lines of like 50% or maybe 40% of students don't even know the specific number of how far into debt that they are.
00:39:30.000It's a stunning, it's an absolute stunning study.
00:39:32.000And by the way, I'm not against people going to college for a very specific reason, but I believe we have too many people entering four-year college.
00:39:41.000We need more people taking gap years, more people becoming entrepreneurs, carpenters, plumbers, electricians, welders, our great military, our veterans, police officers, first responders, firefighters, boilerplate talking about.
00:40:21.000So the black community, if you look at it, a lot of individuals in the black community are told by high school counselors, hey, you've got to go to four-year college immediately.
00:40:30.000And unfortunately, they, because of the socioeconomic status on average that they're at, they take on huge levels of student loan debt.
00:40:37.000And if they drop out, they come back to their communities, and they're actually in a worse off financial condition than when they actually went to college in the first place.
00:40:47.000And even if they graduate with a degree sometimes, that, and let's just be honest, some of these degrees have no, I mean, some of them are just fine, but I think there has to be a whole conversation of is that the only place that you could possibly study these particular things?
00:41:03.000To actually, you know, I look at the degrees out there and I say, boy, the national, you know, unemployment rate in psychology, which is fine.
00:41:12.000Nothing against studying psychology or history.
00:41:14.000I'd say if you're going to get into debt, I don't know if that's the best place to actually go.
00:41:18.000Again, I think college should be about career preparation, not ideological or life exploration.
00:41:24.000I think that college, if you guys were put first, maybe three year college was entertained, or if we had some form or fashion of more appreciation for AP credit or online learning, then all of a sudden there would be some pushback where there's a consumer base, you guys, the students, to be able to push back against this college cartel that has done so much damage to our country and damage to you guys and your generation.
00:41:48.000And so the fifth thing that I do want to talk about, and I'm going to invite our great friend, Graham Allen.
00:42:24.000The trade deals have something to do with it.
00:42:25.000The amount of taxation on the middle class is significant.
00:42:28.000So, for example, all of you entry level workers that might, you know, that you see your paycheck, you see on your paycheck the FICA tax that takes away 7 or 8% of your earnings before you even get out of the gate.
00:42:43.000What also happens, and this is a very important thing, that as our country spirals further and further into catering to the needs and wants.
00:42:53.000Of those around Washington, D.C., you see this great separation begin to happen.
00:42:58.000It was President Trump, the most unusual person some would possibly say, a billionaire from New York, who was able to speak to the anxieties of people in Wisconsin and Michigan and Ohio, and yes, of course, Florida, that felt so disenfranchised by people in both political parties that lied to them over such a repeated and regular period of time.
00:43:18.000And so, look, I think that if we are serious about making America great again, which I think a lot of you are, and we're finally seeing some great positive effects of that.
00:43:27.000It has to begin and end with empowering the middle class.
00:43:30.000And that also means taking on the teacher unions that prevent people from going to better schools in our inner cities.
00:43:43.000You look at all those things that I mentioned earlier, they contribute to the decline and, in a lot of ways, the stagnation of the American middle class, which is something that conservatives do not talk about enough.
00:43:54.000Conservatives do not talk about the value and the need of the American middle class.
00:43:58.000And so, we will get to questions, I promise.
00:44:02.000But I want to introduce my great friend.
00:49:53.000Or whether it be where you work, or even a relationship.
00:49:58.000There's a lot of spouses today and family members that disagree on things to the point in this toxic climate that we find ourselves in that they feel like they can't say what they really believe.
00:51:03.000For me, when it comes to immigration, and we've actually talked about this before, I take a more very basic approach, a military style approach.
00:51:11.000And it's very much like this if you don't have control of the military area in which you operate, then you don't have control.
00:51:19.000If we don't know who's coming in, who's coming out of our country, we don't have control over our country.
00:52:34.000Hopefully, you know, the QA doesn't disappoint you.
00:52:36.000If anything, I think the veteran community and the first responder community, too, they get left out a lot.
00:52:42.000And God bless our men and women in Berlin, in RAA, in DRS, in everything that happened.
00:52:48.000So, what we decided to do was take that fight full circle, and so we actually have the Dear America Foundation now, which its sole purpose is to, I like to describe it as the make a wish for veterans and first responders and their families.
00:53:10.000We identify needs, whether that be someone is injured on the job and they can't pay bills, or you find people that are struggling with depression that need help, or Police need new cruisers or firefighters need new turnout gear, so the Dear America Foundation goes in there and we try to alleviate some of that stress that these amazing men and women have to deal with every single day.
00:53:32.000So, Graham, would you say the president has made some real strides and some victories for the veteran community?
00:53:52.000Now, Graham, I only served under President Trump for A little less than a year because it was about time for me to get out right about the time he was elected.
00:54:00.000But even in that very short period of time, there was a total atmosphere within the community because we knew.
00:54:36.000I mentioned in my opening remarks that, Graham, you're an American hero, and that we should not, yes, you are, and we should not send our American heroes out to war unless we can have clearly defined victory and not have perpetual, endless conflict in the Middle East.
00:55:43.000If we're discussing Syria and things like that that have been going on, I will say that there are, if you were ever in the military or you served in the military, you understand that there are so many things that I was an NCO.
00:55:57.000There are so many things, boots on the ground, that you just aren't privy to the information.
00:56:02.000You don't know the intelligence that goes behind things.
00:56:05.000You don't understand the decision making process.
00:56:07.000But what I will say is I'm hopeful that our men and women that are in charge of our military have weighed the options versus an endless war as opposed to pulling out and possibly a new rise come up and we have to go back.
00:56:25.000And I believe that our president and our leaders have our men and women's best interests in mind.
00:56:31.000So, Brent, any other specific thoughts to people out there that might want to join the military, might want to serve their country, and just say I look up to our veteran community.
00:56:42.000What's your message out to 18, 19, 20 year olds, even some of the high schoolers we have in the audience here that might want to join the United States military?
00:56:50.000I will say that serving your country, no matter what the capacity in the United States military, is one of the greatest honors that you can have as an American.
00:57:01.000And I will say that what I did in the United States, the people that we know Dan Crenshaw, Medal of Honor recipients, Dakota Meyer, Medal of Honor recipients, Kyle Carpenter, and the Sons.
00:58:49.000Hold on, let's turn on your mic first.
00:58:53.000Hi, I'm an engineering student here, and it puzzles me that an organization that claims to be in my best interest in America First, pushing and advocating for bringing in the best and the brightest, which translates into hordes of legal STEM workers.
00:59:10.000Anyone who understands supply and demand will know that if you increase the number of STEM workers in an area, it creates havoc on the wages and employment of STEM workers already in that area.
00:59:21.000So, why should I, Charlie Kirk, and other STEM students in the room continue to get excited for conservative movements that will introduce us at the workplace before we even get there?
00:59:30.000In other words, what can your brand of conservatism do for American graduates besides directions to the unemployment line?
01:00:23.000So I'm going to tell you what I believe.
01:00:25.000Ending birthright citizenship, ending the visa lottery, making English the official language of the United States, building the southern border wall so that we can once and finally secure our country from people illegally entering into the United States.
01:00:37.000I clarified earlier that I said something a couple weeks ago.
01:00:55.000But let me ask you a question, though.
01:00:57.000Since you admit that there will be an immigrant or some immigrants coming to America in the next year, do you want those immigrants to be qualified or unqualified?
01:01:52.000So, in general, I call this the game of loans.
01:01:55.000So, the federal government's involvement in higher education has directly been correlated with the rise of tuition.
01:02:03.000So, the more federal Pell Grants, the more subsidizing of a bad product, you're going to get more of that bad product, and that price is not going to get lowered over time.
01:02:13.000And so, if you look at it from a college perspective, you look at the University of Florida.
01:02:17.000Why would the University of Florida cut costs?
01:02:20.000They have a record number of people that want to come to this school.
01:03:08.000And the Veterans Administration fails them.
01:03:11.000So they were promised free health care, taxpayer funded health care.
01:03:15.000But when the government got involved in the VA, what you have is waiting lines.
01:03:18.000You have tens of thousands of vets waiting for care and they die for care, waiting for it.
01:03:23.000You have low quality doctors and really, really high costs.
01:03:27.000What's needed in higher education is a cataclysmic nation.
01:03:31.000And it has not happened in a long time.
01:03:33.000Students are actually treated as if they're more important than the administration that keeps on raising their own salaries and building more buildings.
01:03:41.000And students continually get filibustering.
01:03:44.000And they're selling back their textbook to students that are already in this downward spiral of debt.
01:03:50.000And I think what needs to happen before we pump more trillions of dollars that we don't have, by the way, into a failed system where only 59% of students that go through a higher education are graduated.
01:04:05.000Graduate and they will leave with debt.
01:04:07.000That is a disservice to our students, and that's even with pumping in the federal Pell Grants and pumping in this tuition assistance.
01:04:14.000Instead, there has to be a real analysis of what is the quality of education, should we keep on sending our kids to education, and how we do that at all whatsoever.
01:04:22.000So thank you so much for your question.
01:05:05.000Thank you, everyone, for loving Israel.
01:05:08.000And I want to say, though, that I am not, though, I am not a socialist, okay?
01:05:14.000In the last couple of weeks over here, what's his end game?
01:05:18.000We've seen America First Christians and Catholics smeared.
01:05:22.000These are the same stock of people who built this country.
01:05:26.000Over the last couple of weeks, over the last couple of weeks, conservatives like yourself and other conservative gatekeepers have smeared them as racist, homophobic, and anti Semitic.
01:05:39.000This cannot be further from the truth, and these are leftist dog whistle tactics.
01:06:07.000Wait, you did not address the ED5 piece of the So, the question is given all this, why should we trust you to be a leader in the conservative movement over someone who values America first, like Nicholas J. Bush?
01:06:54.000I will not do that and I refuse to do that.
01:06:57.000When a specific individual says something that is detestable, I will call that person out for that.
01:07:06.000And let me say this just more broadly and generally.
01:07:11.000I believe that this country is the greatest country in the history of the world because we're able to have this kind of debate and we're able to have this kind of discussion.
01:07:24.000You're able to come up and we have this kind of civic engagement and have this kind of civic dialogue.
01:07:30.000And I have now traveled the country for five and a half years going to college campuses, getting screamed at by leftists.
01:07:40.000Saying, you know, all these sorts of things.
01:07:42.000And I want to say, Turning Point USA focuses on those big three things that we talked about American exceptionalism, America being the greatest country ever to exist in the history of the world, the Constitution being the greatest political document ever written, free enterprise capitalism being the most moral, proven, and effective economic system ever discovered.
01:08:01.000And then I also went through the five or six leading things that I think a lot of people here have a lot of understandable anxiety about endless wars, DC getting more powerful, the college cartel, you know, ripping students off.
01:10:55.000It's a very secret, not secret, but it's a very duplicitous tool that is used by the big social media giants.
01:11:01.000They say, Oh, yeah, we want more privacy protection and we want to protect.
01:11:05.000Our consumers, and you'll see some of the big tech billionaires go to Capitol Hill and say that.
01:11:09.000And everyone in this room should be very skeptical because they want to use government power to then prevent the next Facebook from coming up.
01:11:15.000And they want to prevent government power from preventing the next Google from rising up because they can actually comply with the government regulation.
01:11:22.000Because they are able, I mean, $100 million in legal fees, $100 million in regulatory costs, $100 million, it's not a lot of money for a publicly traded company.
01:11:33.000But for a startup that wants to compete at the highest level, that's enough to take them out of business.
01:11:38.000And so far too often, you see these oligopolies and these monopolies use government power as a way to suppress competition and as a way to, in a lot of ways, silence entrepreneurs that might actually want to go up against them.
01:12:22.000My main question for you now is Are you censoring America First Patriots because you don't have a satisfactory answer or for your donors who don't want the questions asked at all?
01:14:02.000And even the New York Times and Washington Post wrote an op ed in the last couple days saying that mass immigration contributed to Virginia becoming very so good.
01:14:51.000I'm not going to disagree with the analysis of what you're saying, but I'm not as cynical because I don't believe that demographics are necessarily destiny.
01:14:59.000I believe that any individual can end up believing anything with a proper argument.
01:15:06.000For those of you that are doing, that's a very cynical worldview.
01:15:14.000That worldview that you have, and you're allowed to have that opinion, Is that you believe that just because someone looks a certain way, they will never end up being a conservative?
01:15:22.000You're not saying that, but the people who are booing saying it.
01:15:32.000I said the individuals that booed, and you did not boo.
01:15:34.000But I will say this there was a proposition in California in the mid 1990s that heavily contributed to a lot of the disruption and a lot of the left wing kind of swing in California in particular.
01:15:48.000So look, I think you bring up a very fair point.
01:16:15.000Let me start off by saying that I don't think I agree with you 100% on everything, but nevertheless, I'm really glad you're here because I'm a strong proponent of free speech.
01:16:23.000I know you are too, and I think we can all agree that everyone has a right to speak, right?
01:16:27.000So, my question comes in response to some of the homophobia, transphobia, and general queerphobia I've seen at conservative events, in particular most recently during the QA section that we had at Ohio State.
01:16:42.000My question for you is Do you feel the need and obligation to appeal to and recruit from the LGBTQ community?
01:16:49.000And I have a follow up, but I want to hear your response to that first.
01:17:06.000I also believe that government should never have gotten into the business of marriage at all whatsoever.
01:17:12.000Marriage should have been left to the church.
01:17:17.000Marriage should have been libertarian tape from like five years ago.
01:17:20.000Within a religious context, a church or a synagogue, so on and so forth.
01:17:24.000As soon as that came within a government prison, if you will, Then all of a sudden it became something that was never intended to be, which all of a sudden included tax benefits, all these other sorts of things.
01:17:38.000Secondly, as a Christian holding that biblical personal view of marriage, and I go to a church that believes that marriage is between one man and one woman, I do not believe in isolating myself and never associating with somebody that also might be a gay individual, such as Rob Smith or Dave Rubin.
01:17:55.000I believe, and that's fine, you can boo the fact that I have individuals that are on our staff that are gay, but I also don't believe, I do not believe in a conservative movement that continually walls itself off.
01:18:12.000Peter Thiel is one of the most successful tech entrepreneurs that spoke at the Republican National Convention and received a standing ovation.
01:18:28.000Tammy Bruce is someone who is a favorite of the President of the United States, an openly lesbian individual.
01:18:36.000And so while I hold this view that government should never have gotten involved in the government, it's a pre planned answer, of course.
01:18:41.000While I hold this view that in a biblical context, if that's the discussion that certain individuals want to have, fine, but also understand Turning Point USA is a secular organization, and I said the three big things that we talk about as an organization American exceptionalism, constitution, and free markets.
01:18:57.000But I will push back against the belief that the conservative movement should excommunicate individuals simply under the fact that they are gay or they are lesbian.
01:19:08.000I do not believe that should be the future of public conservatives.
01:19:24.000I'd wager that most people in this room weren't blessed with family connections, netting them a six-figure salary, and direct connections to the president and his family.
01:19:31.000For those of us who aren't going to be living in gated communities sequestered away from the degradation of the middle class and the gleeful destruction of everything that this country used to hold dear, immigration is not just a question of upholsters, the GDP.
01:19:43.000An immigration stance based on economics is quite literally selling out your fellow Americans.
01:19:49.000Do you have any case for legal immigration in a time where your own countrymen are struggling that does not stem from your own economic self-service?
01:20:38.000should limit the amount of legal immigrants.
01:20:40.000Overcrowded schools in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Minnesota, Texas, and Florida.
01:20:47.000I believe that our own citizens in our inner cities should be given precedence and preference over people that illegally entered into the United States or people that were recently granted green cards through an overly generous immigration proposal.
01:21:03.000Now, I commented, I will say this one of the virtues of our country is our generosity, and we should be proud of that.
01:21:11.000However, there are limitations on all things.
01:21:21.000It's taken advantage of by the rest of the world.
01:21:24.000And so this is why I support the President of the United States' MAGA doctrine.
01:21:27.000This is why I have a book coming out called MAGA doctrine, which is, for once, instead of catering to the needs and wants of the rest of the world, why don't we talk about how in Baltimore, a part of the country that the President of the United States publicly commented on, Recently, in the last couple months, they could not find one person in fifth grade that was in predominant black schools that could read at the fifth grade level.
01:21:53.000I mean, they could not read at the fifth grade level or do math at the grade level.
01:21:58.000And so that is a very concerning trend as a country where all of a sudden you're saying we can't even get our own, you know, we can't even solve our own problems in our own country and somehow the solution will be to continually grant endlessly while we have strain on resources in our country.
01:22:15.000In a lot of ways, in our inner cities in particular, in Los Angeles, more filibustering, you won't answer the questions.
01:22:21.000A serious problem right now of schools that are currently being jammed, lots of public services that are being strained.
01:22:29.000And so, to answer your question, yes, and that is why I support the RAISE Act, ending visa lottery, and I support what I mentioned earlier, which is, of course, reform when it comes around the entire legal immigration system.
01:22:41.000And I do want to say this because I think a lot of times we kind of forget about it the wall before all.
01:22:47.000The wall on the southern border, which is where drugs come into our country, people illegally enter, where individuals that.
01:22:57.000And I was very vocal about this, and I was very disappointed by some people on the right that were very quiet about it, and I'm not sure why.
01:23:06.000But you saw nine American citizens killed by Mexican cartels last week.
01:23:12.000And the media was basically silent, and they did nothing.
01:23:15.000And that is why I tweeted, and I believe firmly, That the United States military should go straight into Mexico and declare whatever form you want to call it, conflict on the cartels that have been making traffic on our country.
01:24:00.000The media was more concerned about the president's outrage about nine Americans being killed than the fact that nine Americans were actually killed in that situation.
01:24:33.000I made the video about how we did the wall and it was completely open.
01:24:38.000Open and I want to also compliment you for bringing the issue of legal immigration because that at times is not always given the same platform that it should.
01:24:48.000Because that, as well, has a very significant contribution to the conversation as well.
01:24:53.000So, thank you very much for the question.
01:24:58.000If I may, if I may, and forgive me, I'm from Mississippi, so sometimes it takes me a minute to process things the right way.
01:25:04.000I want to go back to the LGBTQ question just really fast because I heard a lot of booings.
01:25:09.000In the back, and there's something I want to talk about.
01:25:11.000I heard a lot of booings in the regards of Christian conservatives associating or not associating with people that we disagree with their lifestyle and religiously.
01:25:23.000And to hear you boo in the back as a Christian conservative, I feel the need to say this.
01:25:27.000I heard you boo Rob Smith, I heard you boo Dave Rubin, etc.
01:25:31.000Don't tell me, as a Christian conservative, what my God can and cannot do.
01:26:30.000I'm not the guy who asked the audience a question, but I'm sure your response would have been like, love the sinner, hate the sin, and don't promote it.
01:26:37.000Accept them as a person who don't promote it, but I have one question.
01:26:40.000Given that the economic benefits of migrants overwhelmingly go to the migrants themselves.
01:26:45.000Migrants have a negative fiscal impact on the country, costing over $100,000 per immigrant over their lifespan.
01:27:01.000All of this backed up by leading immigration economists like George Borjas.
01:27:06.000Is the reason why you continue to push mass migration just because your donors like paying lower wages to foreigners at the detriment of middle class Americans who voted for Trump?
01:27:26.000Is the reason you continue to push mass migration just because your donors like paying lower wages to foreigners at the detriment of middle class Americans who voted for Trump?
01:27:36.000All right, so something about the race that I support, allegedly support something I don't support because of what?
01:27:55.000I went up to a, and some of you guys were there, at a booth that individuals had the, it was this center that was funded by a lot of different groups.
01:28:03.000And I went up and I said, I support the RAISE Act, I support ending the visa lottery, ending chain migration.
01:28:08.000I said, Oh, you are on the fringe of the immigration debate, that we should not even have that conversation.
01:28:13.000So I don't support mass immigration, I support the RAISE Act, which Senator David Perdue from Georgia and Senator Tom Cotton from Arkansas champion and the President of the United States.
01:28:43.000So, for those of you that really care about getting less legal immigrants, which is a correct thing to believe in, I hope you guys show up to every other senator town hall with the same sort of.
01:28:58.000Two United States senators believe in, and the President of the United States believes in, and Vice President Pence believes in.
01:29:05.000And so I also believe in what the President has said, which is to limit refugee resettlement and to have some sort of recalibration and some sort of point system, which is part of the RAISE Act of how we legally bring individuals into our country.
01:29:59.000That's exactly what we said yesterday on the show.
01:30:02.000I believe demographics are not destiny.
01:30:08.000We got that observation that mass immigration, uncontrolled mass immigration, is a very fair point.
01:30:15.000The New York Times and the Washington Post gloated about how they turned Virginia into a once blood red state and then into now a deep just a bloodbath.
01:31:24.000So here's the thing I do not believe a certain individual's melanin in their skin or where they come from dictates exactly how they're going to vote or what they believe in the future.
01:31:53.000I will say that I think conservatives have done a poor job of communicating our values and going into these communities where I think that we can do a much better job of winning the Latino community and the black community.
01:34:13.000They try to get that guy out of the line.
01:34:15.000Not saying it's you, but some people that have come to some of our events previously, and I don't know if any of them are here, use the kind of white privilege lie and the affirmative action policies as an excuse.
01:34:31.000To create a fringe white identitarian movement that is evil and that is wrong.
01:38:37.000And we can agree on some of the root causes and we'll disagree on others, and we've kind of talked about some of those today, and that's a good thing.
01:38:45.000And about to the Israel thing, I'm not really sure what the question was.
01:38:51.000So you don't support the president's view of Israel, I would imagine.
01:39:26.000If that was true, why is President Trump, who had no official fundraising apparatus, basically leading up to the election and was a billionaire from New York and sees things as they are and defies conventional wisdom, why is he the most pro Israel president in American history?
01:41:13.000He was a very vocal critic of your organization, and I wanted to ask you don't you think this is kind of contradictory to free speech?
01:41:19.000Don't you think this sends a message to all the other members of Turning Point that if they engage with critics or the wrong ideas, they'll get the same treatment that Ashley did?
01:41:56.000So, and we are a fantastic organization as exhibited tonight where you're able to have a marketplace of ideas, different opinions, different worldviews able to play.
01:42:17.000Thank you, everyone, for coming tonight.
01:42:19.000This is what makes our country so great.
01:42:21.000I hope all of you that might have agreed or disagreed take that energy and that enthusiasm and go to your local official and representative and make them feel like you're a great country.
01:43:28.000That was our event at the University of Florida.
01:43:33.000Couldn't have gone better, I don't think.
01:43:35.000There was one question, obviously, towards the end that kind of.
01:43:39.000Cool the vibe a little bit, but the femoid.
01:43:41.000But hey, saved by the femoid with the great question about Ashley St. Clair.
01:43:46.000I counted, and I don't know if my count is exactly right, but I think we had something like 13 or 14 questions, and it looked like all except for two of them were from Groypers.
01:43:55.000Almost all of them about immigration, a couple about free speech, a couple about LGBT.
01:44:24.000You know, we circumvented this dual line and the moving plants ahead of other people, moving or profiling people based on their appearance.
01:45:55.000You know, I was going to say at the outset that it would have been a victory in itself had we just forced them to not stream the event.
01:46:03.000You know, it might not have gone very well, but at the bare minimum, we had forced their hand in not streaming the event because they knew we would be there.
01:47:59.000And moreover, the optics on the questions couldn't have been better, not only because we had a mix of women, and obviously we had a Cuban and a Jewish person.
01:48:09.000But also, virtually all the questioners reiterated their support for Donald Trump, said they were Christians.
01:48:15.000They called out the smear campaign, they called out leftist tactics.
01:48:18.000You know, so I think we really, in a like miraculous fashion, we hit every note that we needed to hit.
01:48:27.000We hit the note in terms of substance, in terms of the questions themselves and the policies we were asking about.
01:48:33.000We hit the note in terms of getting, I think, a multi dimensional attack.
01:48:38.000You know, that it was focused on issues like immigration, and there was also some variation with affirmative action and LGBT.
01:48:45.000We hit the note on the optics of supporting the president, calling out the tactics.
01:48:50.000I don't think an event like this could have gone better.
01:48:52.000You know, the audience throughout the monologue was respectful, but also heckled when Charlie Kirk is being hypocritical or not conservative.
01:49:01.000I think we're victorious from this one, and we will move along tomorrow.
01:49:05.000Tomorrow's our last turning point event before SAS.
01:49:09.000Hopefully, we can end on a high note and on a strong note.
01:49:12.000We'll have to do some strategizing about how we're going to finish it off tomorrow, how we're going to finish the job.
01:49:17.000But I would say this is a job well done.