00:00:47.000He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
00:00:54.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:01:36.000And as I talk about in Taking Back Trump's America, we got to get back to the White House in 2024.
00:01:42.000But in the next less than 30 days, critical that we get back to Congress, critical that we rip that gavel from Nancy Pelosi's cold, unconstitutional hands.
00:01:54.000We get the Senate back as well and begin the process of legally and constitutionally rebuilding our economy, rebuilding election integrity.
00:02:03.000And by the way, send in a few subpoenas their way to figure out why the FBI for the last six years, six years, Charlie, and I was there at the beginning, has been trying a preemptive coup on Donald Trump to keep him from being in the Oval Office or get back there again.
00:02:21.000So I always appreciate talking with you, Charlie.
00:02:24.000The folks who listen to your show, that's the future.
00:02:28.000And these are the folks that we've got to mobilize and give the appropriate information to so that they can make interesting and good choices about how to move forward.
00:02:48.000But every so often I get an email from somebody and I counter it on air, but I want your take.
00:02:53.000They say, Charlie, I live in a state where I don't have great candidate selections.
00:02:59.000And I have a Senate candidate who is a moderate rhino and a Democrat.
00:03:03.000Peter, is it the argument at this moment, a couple weeks out from the midterms when the primaries are over, for us to quote unquote take the lesser of two evils and vote for the Republican, even though we know we're not going to agree with them on everything?
00:03:18.000Is that what MAGA should do at this moment if presented with that choice?
00:03:23.000Charlie, that's certainly what MAGA should do at this point.
00:03:27.000But I think the more complete answer to that question right now with less than 30 days to the election is the internet.
00:03:38.000And so rather than whine or worry about the candidates you might be in a state or your own Congress race, there's 50 races out there, Charlie, that are toss-ups right now that we can grab.
00:03:53.000And so, what I put out in my Baker's Dozen on Bannon's War Room the other day, it's kind of some of the caught my eye.
00:04:02.000Let me just give you a few of them so we don't overwhelm the audience.
00:04:07.000But, for example, one of my favorites that we got to get is Zach Nunn in Iowa 3 to Axy Axne, Cindy Axne.
00:04:17.000She is a Pelosi puppet in a red state of Iowa, and she's hanging on by a thread.
00:04:25.000So, you can just go and Google Zach Nunn and get that done.
00:04:30.000In North Carolina, for example, we got Bo Hines.
00:04:36.000In California, there's a long shot race, which Kevin McCarthy, the Republican minority leader, has ignored for God knows why.
00:04:46.000Pete Hernandez, this guy's a great candidate in a newly formed Latino district, running against one of the kangaroo court people on that January 6th witch hunt.
00:05:00.000And if we could win that race, as we should, that would be great.
00:05:04.000You got Caroline Levitt, who I was in the White House, very young woman in the press shop.
00:05:10.000She's a firebrand, one of the most articulate young folks I've ever heard speak.
00:05:18.000There's a couple of races in Texas with really good Latino candidates, but this is the thing to do.
00:05:26.000And by the way, aside from that list, I would say it's critical to help Blake Masters, the Senate candidate in Arizona, to defeat Mark Kelly, the astronaut.
00:05:41.000That's the only thing that guy's going for him.
00:05:44.000He's Mr. Spaceman, and somehow that gets you a few votes.
00:05:47.000But if we can get that seat, we know that McConnell has done everything to stop Blake from getting in there because Blake is not going to support McConnell.
00:06:00.000And then the governor's, Charlie, the hat trick is Kerry Lake in Arizona, Tudor Dixon in Michigan, which the mainstream corporate media is trying to bury with suppression polls.
00:06:13.000And of course, Doug Mastriano, who he's a hero of mine.
00:06:17.000I go back to when the battle, I don't know if you remember this, Charlie, but when we had the original battle in Pennsylvania over election integrity, Mastriano led the charge on that in the state Senate.
00:06:32.000And this guy, Jake Corman, a Republican rhino, cut his legs out from under him, successfully cut Mastriano's legs.
00:06:42.000But karma's a Charlie, because Mastriano ran for governor.
00:06:46.000He trounced Corman, and now he's on the verge of winning a state, which, in my judgment, Pennsylvania, should always be a red state.
00:06:56.000It's a blue-collar, working-class manufacturing, fracking state.
00:07:02.000And there's no other reason other than election theft that that thing should ever be in blue land.
00:07:11.000So, when you get those calls, Charlie, it's like, yeah, you got to hold your nose, whatever.
00:07:16.000But the more important thing is to go out and win some of those toss-up races so we can have Trump Republicans in the House, in the Senate.
00:07:39.000But, Peter, I think Kerry Lake could be a transformational governor in a very positive way and have a really optimistic, forward-thinking message and agenda for all people.
00:07:51.000And she's running up against a very poor candidate.
00:07:54.000And Carrie has done things so unconventionally.
00:07:56.000She doesn't really do big fundraisers.
00:08:21.000I suppose I could ask from now to the midterms.
00:08:24.000I think the Taking Back Trump's America book is important because it really is a textbook on how to run a MAGA campaign.
00:08:33.000And the problem we had in 2020 because of termites in the White House, we weren't able to fully embrace that.
00:08:40.000But, Charlie, if I may, the difference, as I explained in Taking Back Trump's America between the traditional Republicans and MAGA is this: we agree with the rhinos on a low tax burden for families, on a low regulatory burden for businesses, on strategic energy dominance.
00:09:02.000Where we diverge from the McConnell, Wall Street, Silicon Valley multinational corporation, corporate love China people is on the end endless wars, on securing our southern border.
00:09:16.000The rhinos love bringing that cheap labor across and on manufacturing and supply chains on U.S. soil, not in the sweatshops of Asia.
00:09:28.000And so, if you're a candidate running wherever you are in this country, that's a working-class message.
00:09:37.000Bring our manufacturing home through good trade policy, through buy American, secure our southern borders so we don't have our wages driven down, our schools and emergency rooms overrun, and people being shot in the street or raped by illegals.
00:10:00.000You can make the argument as Steve Bannon and I always do: like these people are just acting rationally, they're coming to the promised land.
00:10:36.000It's all in the Taking Back Trump's America.
00:10:38.000Well, when Pat Sipalone and the president came up with an idea in 2018 that solved that problem, Biden undidded it, Charlie.
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00:12:08.000We have been warning about how extra constitutional measures are being used to be able to isolate and punish people with certain beliefs, things that the government would not be able to do.
00:12:20.000And what if I told you that the bank that you use might just be able to deactivate your account at any moment?
00:12:27.000This is one of the reasons why at Turning Point USA, we've been moving all of our funds away from J.P. Morgan Chase.
00:12:34.000You should never use J.P. Morgan Chase because yesterday, J.P. Morgan Chase comes out and they have cut all ties with Kanye West.
00:12:41.000They say, we don't want your business anymore, which I can't imagine would be a good business decision to cancel a guy worth $2 billion.
00:12:49.000And look, you might not like what Kanye had to say recently.
00:12:51.000I certainly believe he could have said it differently.
00:12:53.000I don't even know what he was trying to say, but I met Kanye years ago.
00:13:17.000And that's for whatever reason why J.P. Morgan then sends him a letter where JPMorgan says, Dear Yay, we're sending this letter to confirm our recent discussion that J.P. Morgan Chase has decided to end its banking relationship with Yeezy LLC.
00:13:32.000Now, what's so amazing to me is that I was told for years by the market Puritans, which I love free markets, it's great, that companies will never do anything that is not in their profit interest.
00:13:51.000They stand to lose millions of dollars in fees and commissions to close the Yeezy LLC.
00:13:57.000To provide the company with sufficient time to transition, we will obviously keep your account open for another month.
00:14:03.000By the way, I know of at least 10 conservatives, 10 conservatives that have been canceled by BOA, by Wells Fargo, and J.P. Morgan Chase in the last couple of days.
00:14:32.000I don't love what he said, but to indict all of his character and everything there because of one social media post, I just don't like it at all.
00:14:43.000And by the way, give him a chance to explain it.
00:16:42.000It's not because he said something wacky or something outlandish or something reprehensible, of which any of those things are potentially, you know, in the realm there.
00:17:02.000And they know that if Kanye West is able to continue to speak against the Democrat Party and calls abortion a genocide on the black community, it's a threat to the regime.
00:17:11.000That's why they have to debank Kanye West.
00:17:13.000Again, very similar to Alex Jones story.
00:17:15.000You do not have to like what Kanye said.
00:17:17.000You don't have to like what Alex Jones says.
00:17:19.000A lot of things Alex Jones says I don't like.
00:17:28.000You can't remain silent just because somebody says something you don't like.
00:17:31.000The question is: do your rights evaporate and disappear to be able to bank, to be able to have private property, just because all of a sudden you're a threat to the regime?
00:17:43.000The southern border is wide open, and we have to tell the world about it.
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00:17:57.000Our team at Turning Point USA has been working so hard on this through amazing frontline footage that shows the border patrol agents, shows people crossing the border, the illegal drug trade, the economic and societal fallout that illegal immigration has on the United States.
00:18:15.000And we here being headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona, want the rest of the country, want you all across America to see what we are living through in Arizona.
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00:19:14.000It is just heartbreaking to me as somebody who grew up in Chicagoland and still believes that Chicago is one of the great cities in the world, although I don't think it certainly was when I was growing up.
00:19:26.000I'm not so sure you could say that today, given the out of control, the inflation is, I mean, the taxes are so high in Chicago now.
00:19:36.000The schools are horrific, corrupt leadership.
00:19:40.000And a lot of the business leaders who I've talked to who've moved out of Chicago, Charlie, they're telling me they could even, they could put up with all of that, but what they can't put up with is the danger that they face and their employees face having a business located in Chicago with the shootings, with the muggings, with the crime that is so rampant.
00:20:32.000The Chicago Bears can't even stay at Soldier Field.
00:20:35.000I mean, look, it's just 565 murders this year.
00:20:38.000Lori Lightfoot is just, she's just continuing the destruction here.
00:20:42.000And, Steve, I don't want to dwell too much on this, but something that I can't quite get clarity on is: is there zero self-awareness amongst Chicago Democrats?
00:20:51.000I mean, they have to have some sort of memory of the beautiful city of Chicago of what it once was, which was a world-class city, a safe place, hardworking people, great sports, you know, really amazing businesses.
00:21:03.000Is it they don't care or they're so prideful and all they care about political power?
00:21:09.000Well, the interesting thing is that I'm older than you are, but you know, when I was growing up, it was the boss, it was Mayor Daly who ran that city.
00:21:16.000And he was a Democrat, but he was an old-fashioned Democrat.
00:21:24.000But it was called the city that worked.
00:21:26.000So they got rid of the crime and they made Chicago a place where you could do business.
00:21:31.000I mean, today, the Democrats like Lightfoot are just too incompetent to be able to run anything.
00:21:38.000You know, they don't have any business experience and they don't know how to, they're so driven by a left-wing ideology that they can't make this city a place where people want to live.
00:21:48.000And unfortunately, it's going to decline.
00:21:51.000Incidentally, Charlie, the same thing is happening right now in San Francisco.
00:21:55.000People are moving out of San Francisco in droves.
00:21:58.000It's the same thing that's happening in Los Angeles.
00:22:01.000It's the same thing that's happening in Baltimore.
00:22:03.000It's the same thing that's happening in New York.
00:22:06.000I mean, our great cities, our iconic American cities, are being destroyed as liberal laboratories.
00:22:15.000And I, you know, we're here in Texas Hill Country at an undisclosed location.
00:22:19.000And I got to tell you, Steve, it's that they destroy the cities and then they want to go live in the beautiful places that conservatives built.
00:22:32.000I mean, the solutions to these things are very simple.
00:22:35.000They have to cut taxes so that they're competitive places for businesses to be.
00:22:39.000They have to do what Rudu Giuliani did and get crime off of the streets.
00:22:43.000I mean, by the way, I saw within 18 months, Rudy Giuliani fixed that city of New York and it had an incredible renaissance.
00:22:51.000And then you've got to have school choice.
00:22:53.000You've got to allow parents in those cities because you can't have a family if you live in Chicago or New York or Baltimore because you can't afford to send your kids to a private school and the schools are so rotten in our inner cities.
00:23:06.000And if you did those kinds of things, I think cities could make a comeback, but not with the leadership that we have today.
00:23:12.000Yeah, I mean, just the most simple thing that could be done is reduce the crime.
00:23:19.000I mean, and by the way, starting in January, again, I didn't plan to spend too much time on this, but if you guys look at what's starting in January, I have it saved on my phone.
00:23:26.000It's called the Safety Act in Illinois, which is that if you are guilty of second-degree murder, arson, kidnapping, you can no longer be held with any sort of bail.
00:23:50.000I know where this comes from, though, and I hate to complete the point too much, but I was at the campus of University of Texas, Austin yesterday, and I act one after the other, and they said, Prisons are, we should not have prisons, got to get rid of the police.
00:24:41.000So, there's kind of a funny story behind this article.
00:24:45.000I gave a speech at a Freedom Works conference with several hundred free market conservative activists.
00:24:55.000You do that kind of thing all the time.
00:24:57.000And so, I really got on the stage and I didn't even kind of know what I was going to talk about.
00:25:02.000And so, I started this kind of riff with the people.
00:25:05.000I said, Well, because the first thing people start asking me about is, you know, is what Biden is doing, is this intentional?
00:25:11.000Are they trying to destroy the American economy?
00:25:14.000I don't know where you stand on that one, but you know, I get audience.
00:25:19.000This is all this destruction of the economy is intentional.
00:25:22.000I think 90% of the people raised their hand.
00:25:24.000And what I said was, Well, I don't know if it's intentional.
00:25:27.000I don't usually get into people's motives, but I said, You know, if let's assume for a minute that you did want to destroy America, what would you do?
00:25:45.000And so, very quickly, number one is you'd destroy its energy supply.
00:25:49.000Wouldn't you agree that they're doing a pretty good job of that?
00:25:52.000Well, yeah, I mean, not only have they done a good job of it, I think it's all intentional.
00:25:56.000I mean, they have a green energy, they have this pathological green energy agenda that is so morally morally corrupt, in my opinion, where it puts it puts human dignity and flourishing aside for some sort of far-off, abstract dream that they can't even specify to try to prevent against some sort of sky is falling clamoring of global anthropogenic climate change.
00:26:19.000And so, you have here in this list destroying the energy supply.
00:26:22.000I mean, if there was one thing that could create jobs, create wealth, be a tax cut for the regular American, probably end the war in Ukraine, secure American security, have American security, it's energy.
00:26:34.000And, you know, I think conservatives have played defense on this for far too long because we're afraid of the climate change debate.
00:26:40.000I think we got to play offense on this.
00:26:42.000I think decent Americans understand we've been blessed by the Lord to have these unbelievable natural resource assets, and we're deciding just to give it up and allow the worst actors of the third world to go beg Venezuela for oil.
00:26:55.000Let me just add something to what you just said, even with respect to the environment.
00:26:59.000Because, look, we as conservatives, we believe in clean air, we want clean water.
00:27:03.000And so, by all we're doing under Biden, is shifting the energy production out of the United States, out of Texas and Oklahoma, North Dakota, and Alaska, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia.
00:27:14.000And we're transferring that production to countries like Iran, Venezuela, Russia, you know, the Middle Eastern countries.
00:27:22.000Now, not only are most of those countries enemies in the United States, but do you think that those countries have any environmental standards whatsoever?
00:27:30.000So we're actually making the world more polluted, not less polluted, by shifting production outside of the United States.
00:27:39.000We're losing hundreds and hundreds of billions of dollars for America and $100,000 a year jobs here in the United States because we're not producing it.
00:27:48.000But just very quickly, Charlie, number two, lose control of your border.
00:27:53.000You got to agree that that's something Biden's doing.
00:28:21.000You know, I cannot explain that because I saw the same thing.
00:28:24.000You know, the Dow was down 600 points this morning.
00:28:26.000So you've had, you've had about a, I don't know, 1,100 point swing in the Dow in three hours.
00:28:33.000And so I don't have a good explanation for it, but I do have an explanation for what's happening to this country's finances.
00:28:40.000You know, we're looking at one of the worst bear markets we've seen since the 1970s.
00:28:45.000When you adjust for inflation, Charlie, people have lost about, especially seniors have lost about 20% of their lifetime savings when you adjust for inflation.
00:28:57.000Because remember, inflation's run over since Biden's come into office about 12%, plus you've got about 6 or 7% nominal reductions in the stock market.
00:29:14.000And the proximate cause of this, Charlie, is that since COVID hit, the developed countries of the world, the advanced countries of the world, the United States and Europe and others have spent and borrowed and printed $22 trillion.
00:29:30.000The chickens are coming home to roost.
00:29:48.000One of the things you mention here in your piece, and I'm reading from zerohedge.com, Steve, is you say you would weaponize government agencies by going to imprison or punish your political enemies.
00:29:57.000Steve, they're rating political opposition and dissidents from Peter Navarro, Bannon.
00:30:03.000They just raided another pro-life leader a couple of days ago because he was singing hymns outside of an abortion clinic.
00:30:10.000Steve, just really quick, I mean, you've been in this business longer than I have.
00:30:13.000Have you ever seen this kind of just blatant, unapologetic, blunt weaponization of government against political dissidents?
00:30:23.000I haven't seen it, but you know, Charlie, I read about it when I was a kid when we learned about what was happening behind the Iron Curtain in these Stalinists.
00:30:51.000By the way, I don't know about you, Charlie, but you should be worried because I am.
00:30:55.000I'm worried there's going to be a knock on my door someday at my home, and there's going to be six FBI agents that are going to want to arrest me.
00:31:44.000They're okay with the FBI showing up with 30 agents with guns on a weekend to a father of 11 because he sung a hymn outside of an abortion clinic.
00:31:53.000Meanwhile, you burn down entire cities and no one gets arrested.
00:32:09.000Email us your thoughts, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:32:11.000I want to make sure I repeat the tour stops for all everyone that is up there in North Dakota as well because Candace Owens is going to North Dakota next week for us at Turning Point USA.