The Charlie Kirk Show - A Debate That Could Cost Trump the Election + How to Finish the Race Strong

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00:00:08.000 Are we headed for socialism or fascism or something in between?

00:00:12.000 What is the Democrats' true agenda?

00:00:15.000 Also, what is the state of the 2020 race?

00:00:17.000 What does Donald Trump need to do in the debate?

00:00:19.000 How should he handle the Hunter Biden question?

00:00:22.000 All of that and more in a wide-ranging speech where I take over 15 questions from the audience and I give some very specific answers to what we are dealing with in a speech that people say was one of the most timely and best speeches we've had an opportunity to give in recent months.

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00:01:30.000 Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.

00:01:31.000 Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus.

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00:01:40.000 I want to thank Charlie.

00:01:41.000 He's an incredible guy.

00:01:42.000 His spirit, his love of this country.

00:01:44.000 He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.

00:01:50.000 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.

00:01:59.000 That's why we are here.

00:02:02.000 I'm going to be really direct with you guys.

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00:02:54.000 I want to ask this question first and foremost.

00:02:57.000 What is your feelings or what do you think about what is your opinion on the pastors these days that are keeping their doors closed?

00:03:05.000 I believe, I'll start with this.

00:03:07.000 I believe now is not a time to close the church doors with everything that's happening.

00:03:11.000 See, unlike the presidential debates, I haven't seen any of these questions in advance for so far.

00:03:17.000 No, I haven't.

00:03:18.000 I have no idea what you're doing.

00:03:19.000 So look, this is a really telling moment for our country and for the pastor community out there.

00:03:25.000 I think there's three types of pastors and three types of churches right now.

00:03:29.000 There's the courageous, the complacent, and the complicit.

00:03:32.000 They're three different categories.

00:03:34.000 You're looking at a courageous pastor right here in a courageous church.

00:03:37.000 That's what you're looking at.

00:03:44.000 Then there's the complacent.

00:03:45.000 There's the churches that are afraid.

00:03:47.000 They're the churches that don't think you should engage in the public square.

00:03:50.000 They're the churches that, for whatever reason, do not look deep enough in the scriptures to find numerous examples of God's people influencing secular government, whether it be Nehemiah, whether it be Daniel, Esther, Mordecai.

00:04:04.000 The examples go on and on and on.

00:04:06.000 I believe we are called to be in politics.

00:04:08.000 And then there is the group that is complicit.

00:04:12.000 This is the group that has drawn the most amount of criticism from me.

00:04:15.000 These are the churches that are bragging that they're still closed.

00:04:18.000 These are the churches that are telling you you're bad if you open your church.

00:04:22.000 These are the churches that are mobilizing their congregation to go march for BLM Incorporated.

00:04:28.000 These are the churches that are doing live streams around lies about our country yet remain silent about the 1 million abortions that happen in our country every single year.

00:04:38.000 And these are the churches that I think most of our criticism should be focused at, the complacent churches, the inactive churches.

00:04:45.000 Let's offer them a little grace.

00:04:46.000 Let's say, hey, open your church.

00:04:48.000 People need you.

00:04:50.000 If you're scared, we can tell you right now that we know the science around this virus.

00:04:55.000 If you have comorbidities, if you have underlying health conditions, you should take responsibility for your life to take the proper precautions.

00:05:02.000 But do not shut down public gatherings for other people that wish to have the liberty to gather.

00:05:10.000 I agree.

00:05:10.000 100%.

00:05:11.000 And one other thought on this.

00:05:13.000 For the group that they're bragging about how they're working with the government authorities to stay closed.

00:05:19.000 Meanwhile, cannabis dispensaries remain open in this state.

00:05:22.000 Meanwhile, BLM Incorporated can march through the streets unimpeded.

00:05:25.000 The Los Angeles Lakers celebration drew tens of thousands of people in downtown Los Angeles.

00:05:30.000 We learned that this virus cannot spread as long as you're wearing a Lakers jersey.

00:05:38.000 And so these pastors that are complicit, they are not looking at the science correctly.

00:05:45.000 They are seeking public approval from secular politicians that have nothing but contempt for them. 0.99

00:05:50.000 And they're cowards. 0.86

00:05:52.000 These pastors that keep their churches closed and mobilize their congregations for BLM Incorporated, if they continue to do this, they should resign from their pastoral authority in front of their church. 0.98

00:06:06.000 They have no standing to be pastors in our country whatsoever. 0.79

00:06:10.000 Yes.

00:06:11.000 Now, social media, I understand Mark Levin mentioned that your Twitter account got blocked.

00:06:17.000 That's true.

00:06:18.000 Yes.

00:06:18.000 Well, so I tweeted something out on Sunday that was widely reported about mail-in voting, and I tweeted out the 372,000 ballots were rejected in Pennsylvania.

00:06:28.000 The story later got updated.

00:06:30.000 It said ballot applications, but as I tweeted it, that was what the story said.

00:06:34.000 I just live in a busy, you know, I did six events in California this last weekend.

00:06:37.000 We did Jack Hibbs Church.

00:06:38.000 We were all over the place.

00:06:40.000 And so there's no edit function on Twitter.

00:06:44.000 We all know this.

00:06:45.000 And so Twitter then comes to me and they say, you're locked out of your account.

00:06:49.000 Locked out completely.

00:06:50.000 And I said, I was not trying to mislead my audience.

00:06:52.000 I was just tweeting what was publicly available at the time.

00:06:55.000 And in the typical Twitter totalitarian nature, they put me in a hostage situation.

00:07:00.000 They say, you must delete this tweet if you want to regain access to your 1.85 million followers.

00:07:06.000 And I said, hold on a second.

00:07:08.000 If I don't do exactly what you say you're going to do, the audience that has trusted me with their daily following and that we have earned over the last decade, you are now able to hold that entire audience hostage.

00:07:19.000 And so I said, I'm not going to comply to those demands.

00:07:21.000 Now, mind you, the last couple of days we've drawn a lot of attention around it.

00:07:24.000 And I think we've demonstrated how totalitarian this is.

00:07:27.000 Yes, for sure.

00:07:29.000 And by the way, Twitter says we're trying to crack down on misinformation.

00:07:32.000 So yeah, it's laughable.

00:07:34.000 Because two weekends ago, I went to Idaho and this poor man, poor young guy, I took a picture with him, just a really awesome American patriot.

00:07:34.000 It really is.

00:07:42.000 And he happened to look like one of the guys that wanted to kidnap the Michigan governor.

00:07:47.000 And so a series of reporters and journalists then said this guy was the guy behind it.

00:07:52.000 Completely fake, like unbelievably, pathologically untrue.

00:07:56.000 And I took a picture with this young man.

00:07:58.000 So the journalists, being the activist media members they are, say, oh, Charlie was involved in the plot to go kidnap the Michigan governor.

00:08:06.000 And so it was 200,000 retweets covered by every news age.

00:08:10.000 Those tweets are still up.

00:08:11.000 To this day, I'm getting people that are emailing me.

00:08:13.000 Why are you trying to kidnap my governor?

00:08:15.000 I assure you, I am not trying to kidnap the Michigan government.

00:08:19.000 Now, but that just goes to show what we're dealing with here, right?

00:08:21.000 So that misinformation, despite me appealing to Twitter stands, that is accusing me of being involved in a plot to kidnap a sitting United States governor.

00:08:29.000 Wow.

00:08:30.000 And yet I get one word that was missing from other people's reporting.

00:08:34.000 And so what was going to happen is we're probably going to have to end up bending the knee.

00:08:37.000 But I think we made the argument.

00:08:39.000 I think we showed how totalitarian, how dangerous this is.

00:08:42.000 I probably will have to do so reluctantly as much as I would like to stand against Twitter.

00:08:46.000 If I'm pragmatic about it, we're 13 days from an election.

00:08:49.000 We reach millions of people on my Twitter account every single day.

00:08:52.000 I think we're in needed voice right now.

00:08:53.000 So I'll probably end up doing it.

00:08:55.000 I will not do it happily.

00:08:57.000 I will not do it, you know, willingly.

00:09:00.000 I will do it in some ways begrudgingly.

00:09:03.000 So probably tomorrow we're going to make a video about this, and our Twitter account will be back up.

00:09:06.000 But it won't be because Twitter all of a sudden relented.

00:09:09.000 It will be because the only negotiating tactic they have is a metaphorical gun to my audience's head saying, you do what we tell you to do, and then you can regain your audience.

00:09:19.000 I hope you guys all understand, and you do, that these tech companies have way too much power.

00:09:25.000 We have two governments in our country, and this is a hard realization for conservatives to understand.

00:09:29.000 We have the federal government, which of course has the IRS, DOJ, FBI, and we should be very skeptical of them.

00:09:35.000 We as conservatives naturally are.

00:09:36.000 But we have a second government in our country, and we have no rights of redress against these governments.

00:09:42.000 And these are the tech companies.

00:09:43.000 They're more powerful than our federal government.

00:09:45.000 I can prove it to you.

00:09:46.000 Today, the Department of Justice rightly said they are going to bring an antitrust violation against Google.

00:09:50.000 That is the right thing to do.

00:09:52.000 What happens to Google's share price?

00:09:53.000 It goes up 3% today.

00:09:55.000 So what do investors basically believe?

00:09:57.000 Yeah, go ahead, try.

00:09:58.000 Google's more powerful than your lawsuit.

00:10:00.000 Google's more powerful than the DOJ.

00:10:02.000 That should scare all of you.

00:10:04.000 That when the government declares conflict against Google, Google gets more valuable, not less.

00:10:10.000 Who has the power in this country?

00:10:12.000 And if we love liberty and we love freedom of speech, we love our capacity to practice our faith, we should hate centralized power in all forms.

00:10:20.000 And it is more rare that that kind of power concentrates in the private sector.

00:10:25.000 But in the digital age, that is actually what has ended up happening.

00:10:29.000 Computer processing, artificial intelligence.

00:10:31.000 It's long past time that we recognize that there are two power sources in this country.

00:10:36.000 They're thousands of miles away.

00:10:38.000 But I can make the argument that Google's even more creepy and even more powerful and even more dangerous.

00:10:43.000 Because even if right now the FBI walked through this door and they arrested me, I could counter-sue my government.

00:10:49.000 I'm allowed a lawyer.

00:10:50.000 I'm allowed a jury.

00:10:51.000 Now, mind you, they could blur the lines on that, but there are so many different ways that we could still have some form of representative justice.

00:10:59.000 What's my right of recourse against Twitter?

00:11:01.000 Do what they tell me to do.

00:11:03.000 There is no Bill of Rights.

00:11:05.000 There is no representation.

00:11:07.000 There's no way to sue them.

00:11:08.000 We gave them Section 230, the Communications Decency Act, so it's impossible to sue them.

00:11:12.000 And so what we have is multi-trillion dollar companies that have more authority, more data, more processing power, worse ideas than the entire government.

00:11:21.000 They work harder.

00:11:23.000 We have to get very serious that power centers, when they are centralized, are a threat to our natural God-given liberties.

00:11:29.000 In my opinion, long past time to break them up and hold these companies accountable.

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00:12:46.000 I believe, and I mentioned this when I opened up, I believe we're on the brink of socialism.

00:12:51.000 And I want to get your thoughts on that regarding socialism, the way we're headed here as a country.

00:12:57.000 I believe it's so important that we go out and vote, but why don't we just talk about, if you can, socialism.

00:13:03.000 Yeah, so I think that that's where we're headed.

00:13:05.000 I think the intermediary step, though, is a lot less clear.

00:13:10.000 And I don't think we do a good enough job of talking about it.

00:13:12.000 And I wouldn't have said this a couple years ago.

00:13:15.000 And I think you're starting to see this in California: that I think that there's enough barriers within our judicial system and within the apprehension of the American populace to prevent against socialism.

00:13:25.000 I think we're actually going to head more towards a corporatist model first, where it's not a matter that they're going to nationalize everything.

00:13:31.000 It's that the Democrat Party is instead going to make friends with the top companies and the top power sources to protect their own interests.

00:13:37.000 And that's the first step.

00:13:39.000 So I think when we warn against socialism, I think that's a really important educational piece.

00:13:44.000 But I think because of the wealth and the abundance and the liberty that were afforded to by that document they wish to shred, the Bill of Rights, I think that they've looked and I think they finally solved the problem, they being the left, the Democrats, to find a bridge.

00:13:57.000 And I think that bridge is they are going to extort, they are going to take over the wealthiest, most powerful companies in our country for their own benefit.

00:14:06.000 And this is something we don't talk about enough, where we just say it's going to go straight from capitalism to socialism.

00:14:11.000 And we kind of know what socialism is.

00:14:13.000 It's horrible, right?

00:14:14.000 I mean, it's immoral, it's unbiblical, happy to build that out.

00:14:17.000 But I think the actually more turbulent transitional phase is why is it that the tech companies are doing the bidding of the Democrat Party right now?

00:14:26.000 Why is it that these multi-trillion dollar companies are not aligned with the distribution of the Hunter Biden story?

00:14:31.000 That's not socialism.

00:14:33.000 That's a kleptocratic fascist model, actually.

00:14:35.000 It's everything they say that we are, they're actually doing.

00:14:38.000 I think that's a lesson that we've learned the last couple of years.

00:14:40.000 And so I actually don't think that their first push is going to be for socialism.

00:14:45.000 I think their first push is going to be having national government mandates with certain exclusions.

00:14:51.000 I think that they are going to cut out exceptions for the companies and for the churches that they like.

00:14:57.000 I think we make a mistake.

00:14:58.000 I think we say they're going to shut down the church.

00:15:00.000 I don't think that's right.

00:15:01.000 And then they're going to shut down the churches they don't like.

00:15:04.000 I think that they're going to keep certain churches like Joseph Stalin did and say, no, no, no, I have the church open.

00:15:09.000 Meanwhile, they say, show me your sermons, take a knee.

00:15:13.000 So I think we make a mistake when we represent that because I think that, first of all, people don't always believe us.

00:15:17.000 And I actually don't think it's actually going to happen anytime soon.

00:15:20.000 But I do think that they'll try to shut down a church like this.

00:15:23.000 And they're going to use the other churches against you.

00:15:26.000 Oh, yeah.

00:15:26.000 Because the body is not united on this issue.

00:15:28.000 That's the thing: is that certain churches have said, no, no, I want to work with the government.

00:15:32.000 I'm cool with the tyrants.

00:15:34.000 They take care of me.

00:15:35.000 They're going to look out for me.

00:15:36.000 But it's the rebellious, loud, rambunctious churches that will be audited and shut down.

00:15:41.000 So I think that nuance is really important.

00:15:43.000 Because when we say when Kamala Harris takes the presidency, which is effectively will happen if Joe Biden gets them out of votes, she will become president regardless of what they say.

00:15:53.000 She's going to take the California model, which is that either you're on my team or their team. 0.99

00:15:59.000 And this is a way more corrupt way to run the government than what Bernie Sanders is advocating, right? 0.99

00:16:04.000 So Bernie Sanders, he's incredibly foolish, albeit consistent. 0.98

00:16:10.000 He wants the nationalization of all industry. 0.98

00:16:12.000 Kamala Harris doesn't want that. 1.00

00:16:14.000 She wants the nationalization of industries except the ones that benefit her. 1.00

00:16:18.000 So that you'll have less banks, but they'll be more centralized. 0.92

00:16:22.000 You'll have less telecom companies, but they'll be more centralized.

00:16:24.000 You'll have less tech companies.

00:16:26.000 You'll have less transportation companies, less food companies, less.

00:16:30.000 It's not as if they'll immediately end private enterprise as we know it.

00:16:30.000 You get the point.

00:16:34.000 I don't think that's realistic.

00:16:36.000 Instead, I think that they're going to be in a very unprecedented corporatist model, where they will use the powers of the IRS, the Bureau, to not audit, to not investigate the companies that contribute to their political campaigns, that will not go after the churches that don't speak out against their orders.

00:16:55.000 So I think that's going to be the actual divide in the country.

00:16:58.000 It's the people that align with the most powerful people in our country and those that dare to disagree.

00:17:02.000 I think people say we're divided, and I think they say right versus left.

00:17:05.000 I actually don't think that's divide in our country.

00:17:06.000 I think there's three or four other divides in addition to that.

00:17:10.000 But the one is, do you think that the ruling class and the power class in this country should go completely unchecked?

00:17:17.000 That's basically the position of the Democrat Party.

00:17:20.000 The position of the Democrat Party now is, you cannot question us, and if you do, we will ruin your life.

00:17:27.000 And by the way, they always used to be for the speech of the minority and the individual, right?

00:17:31.000 We want marginalized groups to be able to speak.

00:17:33.000 No, you don't. 1.00

00:17:34.000 You want power.

00:17:35.000 You use that as an excuse to get people's votes so that you could be important.

00:17:39.000 And now we are the ones that are actually publishing stories and pursuing ideas to challenge the most powerful, wealthiest elite people in our country.

00:17:46.000 And they're the ones using the power sources to go against us.

00:17:49.000 And I can prove it to you.

00:17:50.000 The wealthiest people in this country are donating to Joe Biden by far.

00:17:55.000 It's not even close.

00:17:57.000 The wealthiest counties will all vote for Joe Biden.

00:17:59.000 10 out of 10 will vote for Joe Biden.

00:18:01.000 10 out of 10 voted for Hillary Clinton.

00:18:02.000 90 out of 100 voted for Hillary in 2016.

00:18:06.000 The wealthiest counties, the wealthiest people, Bloomberg, who's worth $79 billion, is spending $2 million a day to get Joe Biden elected, yet they call us the billionaire class.

00:18:15.000 80% of American billionaires that are participating in politics are donating to the Democrat Party or donating to Democrat super PACs.

00:18:21.000 And so there, all of a sudden, you have this convergence where we as Republicans, we didn't really ask for it, or Republicans, conservatives, whatever you want to call it, because I don't even know what a Republican means anymore.

00:18:31.000 Coming an American, right?

00:18:33.000 We kind of have kind of fallen back into this position where we're defending very basic American values.

00:18:40.000 I don't know, to be able to spread a story that has now been corroborated and verified after a week of a political opponent's international business dealings.

00:18:49.000 Like that should be a very basic, agreeable thing regardless of your political affiliation, whether you're a socialist or a leftist or a moderate or a Republican.

00:18:57.000 And so what's really happening here is the power-grabbing industry in our country, which is what I call the left, they're power grabbers.

00:19:04.000 They want power at every single turn.

00:19:06.000 We're not going to transition to socialism immediately.

00:19:08.000 That's where it eventually will head, absolutely.

00:19:10.000 Because eventually then, this is what's so incredibly ironic about all these companies and all these churches that think they can make friends with the government.

00:19:17.000 They will come to you.

00:19:18.000 They'll just eat you last.

00:19:20.000 They will absolutely eventually nationalize your industry. 0.56

00:19:22.000 They'll eventually shut down your church.

00:19:24.000 You might have a couple Christmases where you don't get bothered, but just wait.

00:19:28.000 Eventually, the totalitarians, they know no bounds.

00:19:31.000 If you know one thing about totalitarians, they do not stop.

00:19:35.000 They're incredibly bored people at times.

00:19:37.000 No, seriously, they find meaning in destroying and silencing and suppressing opposition opinions.

00:19:44.000 And so I think we have to be very clear about kind of where we're headed in our country.

00:19:47.000 Part of it is social.

00:19:56.000 I'd like to talk to you about voting for President Trump.

00:20:00.000 Christians, why would a Christian, yeah, okay, not just everybody, but why would a Christian vote for President Trump?

00:20:07.000 It's a great question. 0.67

00:20:08.000 I get it quite often.

00:20:09.000 So I'll kind of go backwards. 1.00

00:20:10.000 First of all, why should Christians care about politics? 0.90

00:20:12.000 How many times do you're a Christian should stay out of politics? 0.98

00:20:14.000 You've heard that all the time. 0.89

00:20:15.000 That's an unbiblical view.

00:20:17.000 It's that simple.

00:20:18.000 All throughout the Bible, there are people of God that influence secular government.

00:20:22.000 I mentioned a couple, Esther, Mordecai, Daniel, Jeremiah, Nehemiah.

00:20:25.000 The list is not exhaustive.

00:20:27.000 And they're looked favorably throughout the scriptures, people that wish to influence government.

00:20:32.000 It says in Jeremiah, pray and work for the welfare of the nation of which you are in.

00:20:38.000 Jesus Christ said clearly when he went up to Caesarea Philippi, he said, on this rock.

00:20:43.000 And usually people say, church, on this rock, build my, it's ecclesia.

00:20:48.000 It's a different term.

00:20:49.000 Let's be clear about what that term actually is.

00:20:52.000 Jesus did not say, on this rock, build my synagogue.

00:20:55.000 He did not say, on this rock, build my temple.

00:20:57.000 He used a secular Greek term.

00:20:59.000 We know this thanks to Tyndale, who translated the original Greek Bible into English, which was the language of the peasants in the 1500s.

00:21:07.000 Ecclesia was a real thing that was happening in Greek city-states.

00:21:10.000 And ecclesia was a political civic gathering that existed around two unifying Greek terms, isonomia and eleutheria, which are Greek terms for freedom and equality.

00:21:23.000 I wonder what country is founded on freedom and equality.

00:21:27.000 Jesus picked that term because he did not want compartmentalized Christianity.

00:21:34.000 He wanted comprehensive Christianity.

00:21:36.000 He wanted a church that would not wall itself off and say, we have the answers, but we're going to stop here.

00:21:42.000 Instead, I believe it is our biblical mandate to get into civic government, to care about the nation that you're living in, to support your politicians, to pray for them, and to, with reason and with wisdom, analyze what policies best interlock with a biblical worldview.

00:22:00.000 So that's why we should care about politics.

00:22:01.000 And I never again want to hear a pastor say that, well, politics is messy.

00:22:05.000 And I say the church isn't.

00:22:08.000 Anything that human beings are involved in is messy.

00:22:11.000 Well, it doesn't matter.

00:22:12.000 They're all the same. 0.83

00:22:13.000 How about King Nero and Diocletian that killed tens of thousands of Christians at the stake? 0.84

00:22:19.000 Martyrdom, as far as the eye can see. 0.54

00:22:20.000 Bad politics give you Mao Zong, Paul Pot, Joseph Stalin, and Benito Mussolini.

00:22:26.000 Bad politics has resulted in the human carnage in the last hundred years of 100 million innocent people dead.

00:22:32.000 We are told to look after the innocent as Christians.

00:22:36.000 So you don't get into politics, somebody else will, and they will not share your worldview.

00:22:40.000 So what should we do about that then?

00:22:42.000 Let's also say, so I think I'm clear that we should get into politics, and I'm sure most of you agree.

00:22:47.000 Well, then what kind of country do we live in?

00:22:47.000 Yes.

00:22:48.000 Well, first of all, we live in the greatest country ever to exist in the history of the world.

00:22:51.000 It's just that simple.

00:23:00.000 It's a country that was founded on freedom, not slavery.

00:23:02.000 One of the sickest lies we teach our children is that this country was founded on slavery.

00:23:06.000 No.

00:23:07.000 The abolition of bringing slaves into this country was in the first draft of the United States Constitution signed by a slave owner himself, Thomas Jefferson, the third American president in 1807.

00:23:16.000 We were the ones that were stopping slavery.

00:23:19.000 Slavery was the human norm before America, and guess what?

00:23:21.000 There are more slaves on the planet today than there were back in the times we had slaves in our country.

00:23:26.000 So before we get on our moral high horse and act as if we have abolished all slavery in all places, go to the Horn of Africa and the Middle East where slavery still exists and slavery still exists in the southern border.

00:23:36.000 So, before we act as if we were like, oh, we've completely eradicated it from the planet, that is not true, but we did in America.

00:23:42.000 Why? 0.98

00:23:43.000 It's because this country was founded by Christians.

00:23:46.000 51 out of 55 of the signers of the Declaration were Bible-believing, regular church-attending Christians.

00:23:51.000 It says it mentions God four times in the Declaration of Independence, laws of nature, and nature's God.

00:23:56.000 The recognition that rights come from God, not from governments.

00:23:59.000 The United States Constitution, not some sort of mistake, but they didn't fall backwards into it.

00:24:04.000 It was a multi-year, multi-century study of human behavior, where they came up with an idea of constitutional republic, where if you concentrate power too much, that power will corrupt.

00:24:16.000 They derive from monascu, checks, and balances.

00:24:18.000 Let's try to decentralize it.

00:24:21.000 Albeit clumsy at times, imperfect, America's story is one of a hero that starts from a position of plenty of flaws, but its capacity to autocorrect is nothing short of miraculous.

00:24:33.000 And we don't teach this to our children.

00:24:35.000 You start with slavery, you fight a bitter civil war to end it, you keep the union together, you double life expectancy, you fight two world wars, the second of which defeated totalitarian fascism in two different continents.

00:24:49.000 You put a man in the moon, you get in flight, you invent open heart surgery, create medical cures that the greatest imagination could never possibly have imagined.

00:24:59.000 And then we get to a place where we have so much abundance and so much liberty, and we remove Bible and public prayer from our schools.

00:25:08.000 All of a sudden, that liberty and that abundance becomes a vice, not a blessing.

00:25:12.000 And that's exactly where we are today.

00:25:14.000 Because if you have abundance without the moral law backing it up, if you have a lot of stuff, you can order anything at any time in that supercomputer, you can look up any image you want any single time, sin has never been so easy as it is in 2020.

00:25:25.000 And if you don't have the law, you don't have the Bible, eventually and quickly, you're going to end into chaos.

00:25:30.000 That's where we are.

00:25:32.000 And not all times are created equal in our country's history.

00:25:35.000 We act as if every election is made the same.

00:25:37.000 That's nonsense.

00:25:37.000 This election is far more important than any in my lifetime and probably the most important in well over 100 years.

00:25:43.000 And so we want the welfare.

00:25:45.000 We want what's best.

00:25:46.000 We want to make it mesh with a biblical worldview.

00:25:48.000 So what do we do?

00:25:50.000 Well, let's go back to some of those examples that were counselor to kings: Mordecai, Esther, Joseph.

00:25:57.000 They wanted to influence secular government, and they wanted what was best for God's wishes and God's law.

00:26:02.000 And I want what's best for America because it is a gift that God gave us.

00:26:06.000 Well, who has done more to advance what we care about as Bible-believing Christians?

00:26:12.000 How about the most pro-life president in American history?

00:26:15.000 How about the most Christians talk a good game about life?

00:26:24.000 A lot of Christians talk about life.

00:26:25.000 It's the one thing that pastors will sometimes do from the pulpits.

00:26:30.000 But how about with the same sort of vocal support you have for life, voice the support for the president who spoke at the March for Life, the first president to do so, who gave us Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and God willing Amy Coney Barrett on the United States Supreme Court?

00:26:52.000 200 federal judges finally putting into question Planned Parenthood's $500 million taxpayer-funded slush fund every single year, unafraid to recognize when life begins.

00:27:03.000 And albeit I understand it could be hard for certain people that the three times married, twice divorced former cover of Playboy magazine billionaire from New York who donated a Planned Parenthood is all of a sudden fighting for unborn children.

00:27:16.000 But isn't it like God to sometimes confuse the simple minds of man to be able to deliver for his purpose?

00:27:22.000 It makes perfect sense for those of us that believe in what I think God is trying to accomplish in this country and in the world. 0.53

00:27:31.000 Most pro-Israel president in American history. 0.72

00:27:33.000 Move the embassy to Jerusalem. 0.80

00:27:34.000 Recognize Golan Heights. 0.66

00:27:37.000 Canceled the Iran deal.

00:27:41.000 Negotiating peace between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, of which the entire activist media is participating in a total blackout, not even covering the peace deals that have been negotiated.

00:27:51.000 Amazing.

00:27:52.000 Amazing.

00:27:53.000 President Donald Trump allows himself to be prayed over every single day.

00:27:56.000 He is vice president of a Bible-believing, loyal Christian in Mike Pence.

00:28:00.000 And Donald Trump, let's be very clear.

00:28:02.000 I could go through his economic, his police, his police record, crime and safety.

00:28:07.000 I go through the whole thing.

00:28:08.000 I wrote a whole book on it, so I won't spend all my time speaking about it tonight.

00:28:11.000 But let's be very clear about the type of president we want, because not all times are created equal.

00:28:16.000 We're in fighting times right now.

00:28:18.000 You didn't ask for it.

00:28:19.000 You might not want it, but that's what it is.

00:28:22.000 And God tells us in Ecclesiastes, there's a season for everything. 1.00

00:28:26.000 The unrecognition that, oh, today's like it was in 1995, you're a fool. 0.99

00:28:33.000 The temperature has been raised. 1.00

00:28:34.000 The stakes are higher.

00:28:36.000 And I want someone who knows how to fight.

00:28:38.000 And most importantly, someone who knows how to win. 0.96

00:28:43.000 And the very shaky moral pietism coming from some pews across the country where they're saying, Donald Trump's an awful person.

00:28:57.000 I can never vote for him.

00:28:58.000 Meanwhile, he's saving unborn lives, securing our borders, moving the embassy, holding Iran in check.

00:29:03.000 First of all, I wish one day I can be as good of a human being as that critic of Donald Trump. 0.79

00:29:09.000 Secondly, Donald Trump has done far more than even self-professed Christians have done in the office of the president of the United States for the biblical worldview.

00:29:20.000 And so we should, as Christians, care about the welfare of our country.

00:29:27.000 We should care about the betterment of our civilization.

00:29:27.000 Absolutely.

00:29:30.000 Absolutely.

00:29:31.000 And President Donald Trump has gone out of his way to do something that people in Washington, D.C. are not supposed to do.

00:29:39.000 The reason they hate him so much, the reason that their hatred has only intensified, is he broke the first commandment of Washington, D.C. politics, which is he actually has been doing what he said he was going to do.

00:29:57.000 And I'm sure there's people out there.

00:30:01.000 I don't like the tweets.

00:30:02.000 I don't like he does this.

00:30:02.000 I don't like all of that.

00:30:07.000 However, fulfilling of promises and playing offense against an opposition activist media that has nothing but malevolence and contempt is such a moral good for Western civilization.

00:30:27.000 Focusing on tweets and him screaming at reporters is such a distraction issue.

00:30:34.000 I have no patience for that whatsoever.

00:30:35.000 Let me be very clear.

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00:31:36.000 We also have to be clear as what kind of president do we want.

00:31:39.000 What do the times necessitate?

00:31:42.000 Some people say, well, we need a healer.

00:31:44.000 I don't think we do.

00:31:44.000 We're not out of war yet.

00:31:48.000 As I said, the Bible tells us season for everything.

00:31:49.000 We are in a struggle right now.

00:31:51.000 That's why I said in my RNC speech, and I wasn't sure what part of this phrase bothered the media so much.

00:31:58.000 I could guess when I called the president the bodyguard of Western civilization, right?

00:32:06.000 So the great, the great Tito Ortiz is here.

00:32:12.000 Tito, stand up.

00:32:15.000 Amazing.

00:32:28.000 I would hire Tito in a heartbeat to be my bodyguard.

00:32:34.000 There you go.

00:32:37.000 Tito's tough.

00:32:38.000 He gets it, and he knows how to fight, knows how to win.

00:32:40.000 Guess what?

00:32:41.000 I don't care about Tito's tweet history.

00:32:43.000 I don't care about Tito's what he said to some journalist.

00:32:47.000 When I hire a bodyguard, I want someone who's tough, who's fought before, and who's going to defend what I care about, my family, and my country.

00:32:58.000 And so, and that's what I look for right now in a president.

00:33:06.000 Not the rollover and surrender caucus, not the make excuses type candidate, but the guy that might be a little rough around the edges.

00:33:15.000 But when there's a battle, you want that guy in your corner, and that is President Donald Trump.

00:33:23.000 Awesome.

00:33:29.000 Okay, lighten it up a little bit with the debate commission.

00:33:32.000 Check this out.

00:33:33.000 The debate commission's allowing the mute button to be used in the next presidential debate.

00:33:38.000 And you said something.

00:33:40.000 Listen to this.

00:33:42.000 Listen to what he has to say.

00:33:43.000 I don't love the intention.

00:33:45.000 I don't.

00:33:46.000 I did a whole podcast on this this morning.

00:33:48.000 I think, and as an unintended consequence, I think this could really hurt Joe Biden.

00:33:53.000 I think Joe Biden, I do not think Joe Biden has the physical capacity to continuously make two-minute uninterrupted arguments.

00:34:02.000 I don't.

00:34:05.000 And so while I would love Trump to have the ability to cross-examine him, I do know a lot of people that in the first debate were turned off by Trump's interruption, and I did offer that feedback to him.

00:34:15.000 And while I think that muting the microphone is childish and immature and ridiculously insulting, I think that now that that's off the table, Joe Biden is going to have to meander into a place he's never gone, which is the 90-second plus mark of having to make an argument.

00:34:33.000 And those of us that have sadly dealt with people that have struggled with mental decline, when you keep interrupting, there's a shot of adrenaline that almost affords them the opportunity to look sentient for that 15 to 20 second burst.

00:34:48.000 Mr. Joe, tell me why we should elect you.

00:34:51.000 Go.

00:34:52.000 And when you hit that 100-second mark, it's you guys, you guys have the laptop when you have too many browser windows open.

00:34:57.000 It's when the computer starts to overheat.

00:35:01.000 And it's like you have to start closing windows, right?

00:35:03.000 That's Joe Biden at like 100 seconds, right?

00:35:06.000 You're like, you got to restart the computer.

00:35:08.000 You got to close it.

00:35:09.000 He just can't, that dog will not hunt.

00:35:12.000 And so I think that as an unintended consequence, it could be an incredible blessing for the president.

00:35:21.000 And I look forward to it.

00:35:23.000 I really do.

00:35:24.000 Good answer.

00:35:25.000 Good answer.

00:35:31.000 I'm curious.

00:35:33.000 The president's your friend.

00:35:35.000 And how is he off-camera?

00:35:37.000 Do you get time to spend with him?

00:35:37.000 How is he?

00:35:39.000 He's phenomenal.

00:35:39.000 What is he like?

00:35:40.000 I'm curious. 0.93

00:35:41.000 The media depiction and representation of this man is so incredibly immoral and dishonest.

00:35:47.000 It is one of the greatest injustices I think have ever been done towards any sort of leader.

00:35:54.000 I mean, I meet people and I meet them on campus, and they actually equivocally, they really believe this, that Donald Trump is morally and is similarly to a 20th century style dictator from Europe.

00:36:09.000 I mean, they actually believe this.

00:36:11.000 And the activist media is completely to blame for this.

00:36:13.000 And so the reason why I wrote this book, and again, we're going to give away books.

00:36:17.000 I'm not here to sell them, is the reason I wrote it, and praise God, it did really well.

00:36:21.000 And actually, I'm really happy I made New York Times bestseller, which was just so awesome to have that publisher.

00:36:25.000 It was so good.

00:36:26.000 So, and the reason I wrote it is I had the opportunity to spend time with him.

00:36:32.000 And I realized he asks more questions than he tells me anything.

00:36:35.000 He treats me as a subject matter expert.

00:36:38.000 I saw deeper into his philosophy than any of these other apparatchiks on the media.

00:36:43.000 And I said, wait a second, you are being paid to go on television to write books and write articles about a man's motivations and intentions who you've never spent any time with.

00:36:54.000 I said, I actually have.

00:36:55.000 And so that's why I'm going to articulate what he believes and why he believes it.

00:37:00.000 And it's the complete polar opposite as to what you might believe the activist media says.

00:37:05.000 For example, they say he only cares about himself. 0.89

00:37:08.000 He's a complete and total narcissist. 0.94

00:37:09.000 Go spend time with him.

00:37:11.000 I've been with him when people come that would just be delivering food for lunch, and he treats that person, he says, tell me what you see on the ground.

00:37:17.000 He's like, excuse me?

00:37:19.000 Tell me what you're hearing.

00:37:20.000 And this guy's like, I don't know what to tell you, Mr. President.

00:37:22.000 What's the number one issue in your neighborhood?

00:37:23.000 And out of nowhere, it's not the political pundit.

00:37:26.000 It's the server who's just bringing a Diet Coke or bringing a tray of food.

00:37:30.000 That's great.

00:37:31.000 I learned from him a very important biblical principle, and he embodies it better than any other U.S. senator or congressman I've ever met, which is that everyone you meet has a treasure trove of wisdom that you need and you should try to glean from them.

00:37:46.000 And this is something that anyone who has spent time with him has the same sort of response.

00:37:51.000 That he wants to know something that you have in your mind, in what you're thinking that could help him benefit him and make him a better person.

00:38:01.000 This is exactly why he won in 2016.

00:38:04.000 This is exactly why he was able to understand the tone of the Republican Party in the country better than all the people talking on TV is because he actually talked to human beings for 40 years.

00:38:14.000 He said he walked job sites.

00:38:16.000 He looked carpenters in the eye.

00:38:18.000 He looked HVAC contractors.

00:38:20.000 He looked architects.

00:38:22.000 He looked regular people and he said, what are you thinking?

00:38:24.000 What are you doing?

00:38:24.000 Like, well, I wish I didn't have to buy all my products from China.

00:38:27.000 And he just hears these things and he internalizes them.

00:38:30.000 And then he turns it into public policy, which is the exact opposite to what all your leaders have done for the last 40 years. 1.00

00:38:36.000 They basically say, you're stupid. 1.00

00:38:38.000 I'm going to go listen to the Stanford and the Harvard people while I make you poorer and myself richer. 1.00

00:38:38.000 I'm smart. 1.00

00:38:43.000 And President Trump's like, no, there's more wisdom in the American plumbing community than in Harvard.

00:38:48.000 And true.

00:38:53.000 And he's embodied that so well.

00:38:55.000 And I'll say this.

00:38:56.000 He's an incredibly loyal person.

00:38:58.000 More so than any other person.

00:39:00.000 I did not ask it.

00:39:01.000 I did not ask for it.

00:39:03.000 I did not call him or any of this.

00:39:05.000 But I get banned on Twitter.

00:39:06.000 And three times he stands up for me yesterday saying, this is outrageous.

00:39:10.000 This is wrong.

00:39:11.000 A couple senators said something.

00:39:13.000 Most didn't.

00:39:15.000 And I didn't ask for it.

00:39:16.000 I'm not trying to play victim or anything.

00:39:17.000 But there's something special about that kind of a guy who defends anyone who's attacked against a power source.

00:39:24.000 That tells you a lot about the type of president that he is.

00:39:26.000 A lot.

00:39:33.000 Awesome.

00:39:34.000 I just read Justice John Robertson, Roberts, excuse me, he's siding with the three liberals to permit Pennsylvania to have the ballots three days after the election.

00:39:47.000 And it just, to me, I don't get it.

00:39:49.000 So, what are you saying?

00:39:50.000 Well, that's not even the worst decision that John Roberts has made recently.

00:39:53.000 Of course.

00:39:54.000 John Roberts, who's a George W. Bush appointee.

00:39:57.000 George W. Bush was a Christian.

00:40:00.000 So for these pastors that are like, oh, I can't vote for Trump because he's a Christian.

00:40:04.000 Was it the Bush appointees or the Trump appointees that ruled in favor of Calvary Chapel, Las Vegas, when they sued and the Supreme Court came down and John Roberts broke the tie when Ginsburg was still alive back over the summer, and John Roberts said, no, no, no, church is not essential, but Caesars Palace is.

00:40:24.000 That's John Roberts. 0.60

00:40:26.000 So for any Christian out there that's like, I can't put my name behind Trump, I can't do it. 0.53

00:40:30.000 Hold on a second, you put your name behind Bush probably, and you got a closed church in Vegas. 0.71

00:40:34.000 Well, your church is probably closed too, but anyway.

00:40:38.000 But you got a forcibly closed church in Vegas, but an open Caesars Palace.

00:40:43.000 Neil Gorsuch, Trump appointee, and Brett Kavanaugh co-signed a dissent that is one of the most scathing dissents you'll ever see from the high court.

00:40:51.000 They said this is one of the most unconstitutional, egregious rulings that you value gaming and gambling over the free expression explicitly said in the First Amendment.

00:41:02.000 And so John Roberts is no surprise.

00:41:05.000 We now know he's probably compromised.

00:41:07.000 He's probably bought and paid for by something.

00:41:09.000 I don't know.

00:41:10.000 We can conjecture into that.

00:41:11.000 But he's a Bush appointee. 0.91

00:41:13.000 And so now we're about to have Amy Coney Barrett, which is awesome.

00:41:20.000 And we have Kavanaugh-Gorsich, ACB, three in the first term from the man that most of the Christian intelligentsia has told us don't support Trump, even though he has given us three judges that stand for the practice of faith and an originalist interpretation.

00:41:39.000 I actually think there's a really interesting, deeper point here for Christians to be able to learn. 0.64

00:41:43.000 So I believe in the inerrancy of scripture. 0.99

00:41:45.000 It is a Calvary Chapel belief.

00:41:47.000 I believe that the Word of God is divinely inspired.

00:41:50.000 And so I believe that words have meaning.

00:41:54.000 I believe that you can wish all you want, but you cannot move words to fit your own worldview.

00:42:00.000 It is the words as they are written.

00:42:02.000 That's no difference than Kavanaugh, Gorsuch, Amy, Kony Barrett, to how they view the United States Constitution.

00:42:10.000 They don't get to all of a sudden change the words to fit their own political viewpoint.

00:42:15.000 They say, this is what the law says, and here's how it should be applied.

00:42:18.000 That is the idea of a textualist or an originalist or constitutionalist justice.

00:42:23.000 And one of the things that you're seeing is that President Donald Trump, one of the biggest home runs that he has done, is on the judges' front.

00:42:30.000 Soon to be 300 circuit court judges.

00:42:33.000 The ninth circuit that we're in right now has been completely flipped on its head, three on the U.S. Supreme Court.

00:42:40.000 And if there is no other reason, and I encourage all of you to please communicate this to every Bible-believing Christian and every person of faith, I beg you, because they'll trust you, and that's the most effective form of contact: you go into a person who trusts you and you say, you cannot argue with this judicial record.

00:42:59.000 You might not like the tweets and you might not like all this, but look at what he's done for the high court in this country.

00:43:04.000 Look what he has done to be able to repeal Roe versus Wade, which was an unconstitutional, immoral decision done that nationalized abortion that has resulted in 61 million abortions in our country.

00:43:17.000 And so it's President Trump that did that.

00:43:20.000 And this is so incredible that if Hillary Clinton would have won that election, she would have had three justices.

00:43:30.000 The court would have been made in a liberal image for the rest of your life.

00:43:34.000 300 federal courts, and I do not say this lightly.

00:43:37.000 I don't know how we would have recovered from that.

00:43:40.000 And if Trump loses in a couple weeks, which I pray he won't, and we'll dive into that because there's evidence to show he'll win and evidence to show that he's in trouble.

00:43:46.000 We'll go through all of that.

00:43:48.000 But if he wouldn't have won in 16 and he wouldn't have been granted these four years, look at what we would not have been able to have up to this point.

00:43:54.000 Because if Joe Biden wins, at least you have five constitutional justices that can strike down anything he tries to do.

00:44:04.000 And President Donald Trump deserves enormous credit for that.

00:44:08.000 And so John Roberts is no surprise there.

00:44:10.000 But it's incredible how the courts have now been remade in a constitutional image.

00:44:15.000 I'll finish with this on that question.

00:44:17.000 The great Antonin Scalia was asked in 2011 by Peter Robinson from the Hoover Institution, phenomenal organization, great YouTube content.

00:44:26.000 He said, are you optimistic about the future of the courts?

00:44:31.000 And Antonin Scalia, the great Antonin Scalia, Reagan appointed, he said, that's an unfair question.

00:44:38.000 It's impossible to be optimistic after the last session where I dissented in all six cases.

00:44:44.000 Nine years ago, everybody, we were in the depths of despair that our courts were lost for a generation.

00:44:50.000 And nine years later, thanks to a billionaire from New York who decided to disrupt all of American politics, he's done more so that you can continue to gather as a church, that we can protect the life of the innocent, that you can have your weapons, the Second Amendment, than any other president in our lifetime.

00:45:12.000 I know you talk a lot about universities, colleges, kids going to universities, how liberal.

00:45:18.000 I'm sure there's people here that may not have heard your take on this.

00:45:22.000 So can you touch on that?

00:45:23.000 Yeah, I first want to say any turning point USA leaders, raise your hand.

00:45:27.000 I want to thank you guys.

00:45:28.000 You guys are doing unbelievable work for our country.

00:45:31.000 Incredible.

00:45:32.000 Thank you.

00:45:34.000 These are...

00:45:38.000 If you want to see courage, courage is lacking in our country so greatly.

00:45:43.000 I think it is the hardest to find trait of all the traits.

00:45:47.000 I really do.

00:45:48.000 And without courage, you can't have truth, especially in the times that we're in.

00:45:52.000 It's a very important thing to talk about.

00:45:54.000 These are the most courageous people on the planet.

00:45:57.000 They go to university campuses, and instead of obeying the dogmatic decrees or high schools, high school Pacifica, right?

00:46:07.000 Pacifica high school turning point chapter right here.

00:46:12.000 They say, I'm going to think differently.

00:46:15.000 I'm going to be proud about it.

00:46:17.000 And I'm going to organize around it.

00:46:19.000 And so Turning Point USA, we're the nation's largest organization that's fighting for American exceptionalism and freedom of thought.

00:46:24.000 We're on over 2,000 high school and college campuses across the country.

00:46:27.000 It's a truly amazing thing.

00:46:29.000 So thank you.

00:46:30.000 And it truly is the hand of God on what we have been able to do.

00:46:34.000 I absolutely believe that.

00:46:36.000 And we are a secular organization, and we are intentionally that.

00:46:40.000 We charted it, and I believe that our effectiveness is actually in the capacity of teaching a morally centered constitutional government.

00:46:49.000 And then also through that, once people start drinking from the streams of liberty, they're going to want to find its source, which, of course, God, liberty is not man's idea, it's God's idea.

00:46:58.000 However, university campuses, do I have permission to be blunt?

00:47:02.000 As blunt as you want.

00:47:06.000 And I mean no offense through any of this to anyone, but everything I say is rooted in truth and rooted in trying to create a better country.

00:47:12.000 You guys know that.

00:47:13.000 We have made an unbelievable mistake with college in our country.

00:47:16.000 Unbelievable.

00:47:19.000 We need to stop it.

00:47:20.000 We need to admit the mistake and we have to reverse course.

00:47:23.000 We have way too many kids going to college in our country.

00:47:26.000 Way too many kids.

00:47:28.000 College is ruining our country.

00:47:30.000 It's not benefiting our country.

00:47:34.000 We have a generation of young people that are borrowing money they don't have to study things that don't matter to find jobs that don't exist.

00:47:45.000 Any preconception that you have of the academy or the university, throw out.

00:47:50.000 What education should be, and I support, is around a junior or senior in high school, you start to introduce to a young person's mind the idea that truth and goodness might exist.

00:48:10.000 You start to get them on a journey of reading really good books.

00:48:14.000 You start to challenge them to go find truth in the world and see where it lines up with those books.

00:48:20.000 You take them on that journey, and that's what higher education is supposed to be, everybody.

00:48:24.000 It's supposed to be the ever-persistent pursuit of truth.

00:48:29.000 That's why, literally at Harvard, in their logo, it says Veritas, truth.

00:48:35.000 Now, certain universities proclaim truth, but almost every university should at least tempt people or at least try to interest people to say, let's try and find this together.

00:48:46.000 And maybe you'll find it, maybe you won't.

00:48:48.000 But that's why you want to read the classics in Socrates and Plato and Aristotle, Cicero, Augustine, Aquinas, and Burke and Hume and Smith.

00:48:54.000 That's why you're supposed to read this literature and dive deep into it.

00:48:57.000 The university has done the exact opposite.

00:49:00.000 And it is one of the great moral injustices done to Western civilization.

00:49:04.000 The university takes a young junior or senior in high school or even younger and they say truth does not exist.

00:49:11.000 Don't even try looking for it.

00:49:14.000 In fact, we live in such a broken, oppressed, awful world.

00:49:17.000 You're a victim.

00:49:18.000 I'm going to train you how to complain about it.

00:49:26.000 What that does to the maturity process of a young person is so incredibly, I'm going to use this word intentionally, abusive.

00:49:35.000 To teach evangelistic nihilism is one of the greatest moral injustices you can do to young people.

00:49:41.000 Now, I'm not saying you shouldn't say that the nihilistic school of thought exists, but when it is, which is a belief in nothingness, and there's plenty of writers that engage in that.

00:49:52.000 However, it is not just the predominant, it is the only viewpoint that is expressed by the American Academy now, where it creates incredibly ungrateful, unhappy, and highly motivated people to destroy the world around them.

00:50:06.000 And instead of trying to create stronger young people to be able to have a burden to go into the world, not have a burden, be able to have stronger shoulders, I should say, to have, to endure the burden that is life, which we all know exists.

00:50:21.000 Instead, we tell young people, any challenges you're going to encounter, it's not your fault, it's somebody else's fault.

00:50:31.000 So we went from a Western style of education that said America is pretty good and you're the problem.

00:50:39.000 Now we say you're pretty good and America's the problem.

00:50:43.000 So what does that mean for your civilization?

00:50:46.000 Because we keep on sending these kids to these universities and parents out there, I love you to death.

00:50:50.000 You've got to stop doing this.

00:50:54.000 The country will crumble in a decade and talk to our young turning point leaders.

00:50:54.000 Seriously.

00:50:58.000 They'll tell you, it's worse than you can imagine.

00:51:02.000 And they are training activists to deconstruct our society.

00:51:07.000 And by the way, that would be bad enough.

00:51:10.000 But maybe they're getting a skill.

00:51:12.000 They're not even getting a skill.

00:51:15.000 Only 59% of kids that go to college graduate.

00:51:18.000 41% drop out.

00:51:19.000 Out of those that graduate, 44% are employed in minimum wage jobs.

00:51:24.000 They're not even using anything they learned to apply it to the market.

00:51:28.000 So it'd be one thing if they were getting skills and they were doing this and they were learning all these bad nihilistic ideas.

00:51:32.000 It's worse.

00:51:33.000 They're filled with these bad ideas.

00:51:35.000 They have a depleted and totally diminished worldview and they have no skill or application into the marketplace.

00:51:41.000 Don't be surprised when those people start to burn down your work, your country, because they are.

00:51:46.000 And so the question, and then it's even worse than that.

00:51:49.000 It's a level deeper.

00:51:51.000 It's even worse.

00:51:51.000 It is.

00:51:53.000 Because don't be when you send your kid to college, you're playing Russian roulette with their values.

00:51:58.000 And there's five out of six bullets that are loaded.

00:52:02.000 Because there is a high chance that you send that kid to college, they will come back unrecognizable.

00:52:06.000 We were interfacing privately about this with some young people.

00:52:08.000 I see it all the time. 0.88

00:52:09.000 Do not send a Christian kid to college unless they are ready to watch six hours of Sam Harris a day and say why he's wrong. 0.85

00:52:15.000 Because atheism is very compelling to an untrained young eye.

00:52:19.000 It's incredibly compelling.

00:52:21.000 We have truth that the enemy is very, very clever.

00:52:24.000 And do not convince yourself.

00:52:26.000 They might go through apologetics, might be raised in the church.

00:52:28.000 In one year, they could be turned, and you will never get them back.

00:52:31.000 So, what are we doing?

00:52:32.000 I could tell you what we're doing.

00:52:34.000 We're feeding parents' egos across the country, is what we're doing.

00:52:37.000 Kids do not want to go to college, they're being forced to go to college.

00:52:41.000 And it's middle, upper-middle-class parents that think that their kid has to go to college to succeed, and you're wrong.

00:52:46.000 There is no data to support that.

00:52:48.000 Now, if your kid wants to be an engineer, a lawyer, or a doctor, and you can get through college quickly without being indoctrinated, that's the right choice.

00:52:56.000 Less than 10% of kids that go to college have that path.

00:52:59.000 Most kids go to college because they say, My parents made me.

00:53:03.000 It's true.

00:53:04.000 Why are you sending your kids to school?

00:53:06.000 Because they have to.

00:53:07.000 None of the data supports it.

00:53:08.000 There's more data to support.

00:53:09.000 They'll be in debt for the rest of their life and have lower income potential.

00:53:13.000 So, what's the reason?

00:53:15.000 The reason, and I'm going to be as blunt as I possibly can, is parents are unprepared to tell their neighbors that their kids are not going to college.

00:53:21.000 That's why.

00:53:28.000 And so, people say, Well, what do we do?

00:53:31.000 What do I do with my kids?

00:53:32.000 We need more entrepreneurs, gap years, welders, carpenters, HVAC police officers, firefighters, people in the military, people that work with their hands.

00:53:44.000 And I recommend this for all people, especially young men.

00:53:47.000 Maybe parents are like, Well, I really, because it's so, I have never encountered anything.

00:53:52.000 The most dogmatic thing in America is that my kid has to go to college.

00:53:56.000 It is the hardest thing for me to untrain.

00:53:59.000 It is so unbelievably compulsory.

00:54:03.000 I'm still trying to understand how it happened.

00:54:05.000 It's like I talk to these parents, like, I agree, my kids still go into school.

00:54:08.000 I'm like, why?

00:54:10.000 Because that's what we do.

00:54:11.000 You're telling me you're going $65,000 into debt to send your kid to go become a communist to get no skills whatsoever.

00:54:20.000 They might become an atheist too.

00:54:23.000 Why? 0.99

00:54:24.000 And if you have a good reason, that's a good idea.

00:54:26.000 I'm not saying every kid shouldn't go.

00:54:27.000 I gave the preface, right?

00:54:29.000 And here's the kicker.

00:54:30.000 We interview 3,000 people a year at Turning Point USA.

00:54:34.000 3,000.

00:54:34.000 We have 160 people on staff.

00:54:36.000 And sometimes I sit on these job interviews I just did recently.

00:54:39.000 And I love these kids to death.

00:54:41.000 And I sit down and I say, What's your skill?

00:54:41.000 I really do.

00:54:45.000 And they say, Well, I went to University of Southern California.

00:54:47.000 I said, What's your skill?

00:54:49.000 Or they say, I went to Stanford.

00:54:50.000 I said, No, no, no.

00:54:51.000 What can you do that my high school kids can't do at Turning Point USA?

00:54:56.000 And they said, Well, I went to universities.

00:54:58.000 I said, No, no, no.

00:54:59.000 What's your skill?

00:55:01.000 And they said, I got political science.

00:55:02.000 I said, We're not interfacing correctly.

00:55:04.000 Like, you have a bunch of debt.

00:55:06.000 You took a bunch of classes.

00:55:06.000 I get that.

00:55:07.000 Like, what can you do that I can't hire an 18-year-old for less for?

00:55:11.000 Now, mind you, when I'm hiring a plumber, the first thing I say is, What's your skill?

00:55:17.000 Well, I can make sure that thing doesn't leak.

00:55:18.000 You're hired.

00:55:19.000 You're great.

00:55:19.000 You could do something I can't do that they can't do.

00:55:22.000 When I hire a computer engineer, 18 months of coding, they come in.

00:55:27.000 We have all these IT needs at turning point, right?

00:55:29.000 We're on digital media all the time.

00:55:29.000 Incredible.

00:55:31.000 What's your skill?

00:55:32.000 Well, I can code.

00:55:33.000 Terrific.

00:55:34.000 Great.

00:55:34.000 Just go do that.

00:55:37.000 Right out of high school, I find kids that are excelling in editing, in being able to make videos.

00:55:44.000 And they're like, I have to go to college for video editing.

00:55:45.000 I'm like, why?

00:55:47.000 And they say, well, because everyone says I do.

00:55:49.000 I said, I'll hire you right now for $40,000 a year in Phoenix, a nice wage to go edit my videos.

00:55:54.000 You're really good.

00:55:55.000 Oh, my parents won't let me.

00:55:57.000 I'm literally giving you a job.

00:56:00.000 And that's the reason why the parents are saying, well, my parents say I have to go to college because I have to get it.

00:56:05.000 I'm giving you a job with health care, and you're 18 and no debt.

00:56:11.000 And you would, you know, be amazed how many parents say, no, no, this is not cool.

00:56:14.000 My kid's going to college all the time.

00:56:17.000 And I'm like, I have the jobs open.

00:56:20.000 And I'm telling you, it has to be disrupted right now.

00:56:24.000 If you are not getting a skill, do not go to college.

00:56:24.000 It does.

00:56:28.000 It's that simple.

00:56:30.000 Is that blunt enough?

00:56:31.000 Very good.

00:56:32.000 I love it.

00:56:34.000 I'm married to a Scottish woman. 0.91

00:56:35.000 I love blunts.

00:56:36.000 Okay.

00:56:37.000 I love it.

00:56:38.000 I believe at this time, let's go ahead and take some questions from you guys.

00:56:42.000 Make them pretty short, please.

00:56:43.000 Make them short.

00:56:44.000 Yeah.

00:56:45.000 For security reasons, this is going to, because we've got to get you on a mic, otherwise, you're not going to hear you.

00:56:50.000 So I've got 10 books.

00:56:51.000 This is going to be very interesting, though.

00:56:54.000 Okay, this is what the security is asking me to do, though.

00:56:57.000 If you can go out this door right here and then go out, and the microphone will be right here.

00:57:03.000 So they'll bring you back to your seat, but you've got to make your way.

00:57:06.000 Turning point leadership, that's the question.

00:57:08.000 I don't care about the trouble.

00:57:13.000 When will she be locked up? 0.99

00:57:15.000 Hillary? 0.99

00:57:17.000 Mever.

00:57:20.000 I'll actually answer that.

00:57:21.000 Thank you, though, okay?

00:57:25.000 So, what's your question?

00:57:33.000 I'll answer that question as soon as he gets quiet.

00:57:35.000 See, I got you.

00:57:35.000 There you go.

00:57:36.000 We made it ADA.

00:57:38.000 All right, I got two questions. 0.98

00:57:40.000 One is: when is Hillary going to prison? 0.86

00:57:43.000 Yes.

00:57:45.000 I love it.

00:57:46.000 And your answer was never.

00:57:49.000 Well, yeah, it was never.

00:57:50.000 Look, I'm incredibly cynical about our justice system, okay?

00:57:54.000 I believe that we, and John Edwards said this, and he's a horrible guy, but he said it when he was running for president in 2004.

00:58:01.000 He said there's two Americas. 1.00

00:58:02.000 He's absolutely right.

00:58:04.000 And there are two justice systems.

00:58:05.000 And I wish it wasn't the case.

00:58:07.000 If you are the son of or connected to a Democrat, you don't go to jail.

00:58:12.000 I wish it wasn't the case.

00:58:14.000 I want to be proven wrong unless they just want to make a show trial out of you.

00:58:17.000 Will Trump get the 300 electoral votes?

00:58:20.000 He needs 270 to win.

00:58:24.000 I don't know.

00:58:25.000 I see good things.

00:58:26.000 I see troubling things.

00:58:27.000 So I'm actually not going into the prediction business until the day before the election.

00:58:31.000 I made an accurate prediction last year because things are happening in real time.

00:58:35.000 So let me kind of give a call to action for everyone here.

00:58:40.000 You live four hours from probably the most important battleground state in the country, which is Arizona.

00:58:45.000 Yes.

00:58:46.000 Trump's path to the presidency is nearly impossible without Arizona.

00:58:50.000 I've done the math every which way.

00:58:51.000 It's less than 5% chance.

00:58:53.000 What I would love to see is California patriots get in buses and cars and go knock on tens of thousands of doors in Arizona.

00:59:01.000 Because I'm telling you right now, we need the help.

00:59:03.000 We're headquartered in Arizona.

00:59:04.000 Wow.

00:59:04.000 We're getting killed on the ground right now.

00:59:06.000 Early voting is not the way it needs to be.

00:59:08.000 It's good in North Carolina.

00:59:09.000 It's good in Florida.

00:59:10.000 Arizona's a problem.

00:59:11.000 I'm telling you.

00:59:13.000 And so I know you guys want to save California.

00:59:15.000 That's important.

00:59:16.000 But maybe dedicate one weekend to go there and knock on doors in Lake Havasu or go knock on doors in Yuma.

00:59:22.000 It's not far from here.

00:59:22.000 It's just right through the desert.

00:59:24.000 You guys know it.

00:59:25.000 And you can go through the Trump victory office, whatever you have to do.

00:59:28.000 So Arizona.

00:59:29.000 I do believe Trump will win Arizona because there are more registered Republicans, and we are going so aggressive in Arizona right now.

00:59:36.000 We are going full throttle through turning point action, our political vehicle.

00:59:40.000 Florida, I think Trump wins.

00:59:41.000 I think Trump wins Florida convincingly.

00:59:43.000 I think Trump wins North Carolina, Trump wins Ohio, and Trump wins Iowa.

00:59:47.000 That means he needs one more after that.

00:59:49.000 That is bad.

00:59:49.000 He wins Georgia and Texas, which he will.

00:59:51.000 He'll win Georgia and Texas.

00:59:53.000 The question is this: can he win one more industrial Midwest state?

00:59:56.000 Either a Minnesota, a Michigan, a Wisconsin, or a Pennsylvania.

01:00:01.000 I believe this entire country will come down to Pennsylvania.

01:00:06.000 I do.

01:00:07.000 I think it's Pennsylvania and Arizona.

01:00:09.000 I think Florida is good.

01:00:10.000 Florida early voting is phenomenal.

01:00:12.000 People are, our districts are showing up.

01:00:13.000 Our precincts are great.

01:00:15.000 Very, very happy with what I'm seeing.

01:00:17.000 And that's the thing.

01:00:17.000 You have to understand that as we're getting early voting data, we have to adapt.

01:00:21.000 And I'm telling you that we're getting killed in early voting in Arizona.

01:00:24.000 And usually Republicans win early voting in Arizona.

01:00:26.000 It's one of the few states in the country where Republicans win early voting.

01:00:29.000 So we got to, there's been a lot of confusion around mail-in ballots and all that sort of stuff.

01:00:34.000 I don't have to get into that.

01:00:35.000 So, Pennsylvania, Arizona.

01:00:38.000 Pennsylvania, I think, is actually the state where Joe Biden's laptop story matters most because it hits home.

01:00:48.000 I actually think that that laptop story doesn't really fly in certain other states.

01:00:52.000 I don't.

01:00:53.000 I don't think it does a lot for you in Florida.

01:00:55.000 I don't.

01:00:56.000 I don't think for, I think that in Florida, there's not that many persuaders all that.

01:01:01.000 I think in Pennsylvania, it has the most left of undecided voters of all the remaining states, Pennsylvania.

01:01:07.000 That story really, really resonates.

01:01:10.000 Because a guy that continually portrays himself as a Scranton boy, as Main Street, was really selling out our country intercontinentally via his son.

01:01:21.000 And so, will Trump get there?

01:01:24.000 Again, I'm not in the prediction business till the day before because it's still way too early because we're looking at ballots and all this.

01:01:30.000 But here, let me tell you some negatives for Trump.

01:01:32.000 We're getting outspent on television like I've never seen before.

01:01:36.000 And that will make a difference.

01:01:38.000 Now, whether it's a diminishing return at some point remains to be seen, but Bloomberg's spending $2 million a day in Florida, like unbelievable numbers, right?

01:01:47.000 Trump is benefiting by voter registration numbers.

01:01:50.000 We crush Democrats and voter registration numbers. 0.52

01:01:53.000 And the most black county in Florida had plus 800 Republican voter registrations and 16 Democrats voter registrations in the last 60 days. 0.85

01:02:02.000 It's unbelievable. 1.00

01:02:05.000 That's a really good thing.

01:02:07.000 And so there's a lot of really interesting, positive, what we call a deeper level of analysis political news for Trump.

01:02:15.000 Absent the early voting thing in Arizona, which can be corrected, by the way, where the election's not over.

01:02:18.000 That's the cool thing, is like you can adapt and you can kind of react to this.

01:02:22.000 So I don't mean to be the bearer of bad news.

01:02:24.000 There's a 19 million guns sold in this country so far this year.

01:02:27.000 I don't think a lot of those people are voting for Joe Biden.

01:02:31.000 I don't.

01:02:32.000 And the more that Joe Biden panders to the like, he's so incredible.

01:02:39.000 Donald Trump did an amazing thing in his rally tonight.

01:02:42.000 On loop in Pennsylvania, he showed all the footage of Joe Biden saying he was going to ban fracking.

01:02:47.000 Non-stop.

01:02:49.000 Brilliant.

01:02:50.000 Whoever on the Trump campaign came up with that campaign because in central Pennsylvania, that's 40,000 people that came to his rally or whatever.

01:02:58.000 I don't know the number.

01:02:58.000 It looked like 30,000, whatever.

01:02:59.000 They're all going to talk about that video that they saw.

01:03:02.000 And the next time fracking comes up, that is the best at non-stop.

01:03:07.000 It was just Joe Biden saying he was going to ban fracking.

01:03:09.000 You could not miss it because it's right in the heart of fracking country.

01:03:12.000 And yet he said it so many times.

01:03:14.000 President Trump will win if a couple things.

01:03:19.000 There's not widespread mail-in voter fraud.

01:03:22.000 So you got to all be poll watchers.

01:03:24.000 You guys know here in Orange County how that can flip a seat.

01:03:27.000 Yong Kim goes for orientation. 0.77

01:03:28.000 It gets flipped.

01:03:29.000 One of the most immoral things I've seen recently.

01:03:32.000 President Trump will win if the tech companies do not launch an unprecedented offense of even more than what they've already done.

01:03:39.000 The tech companies could make this thing go for Biden.

01:03:42.000 They could.

01:03:42.000 They could shut down accounts.

01:03:44.000 They could shut down ads.

01:03:45.000 They could manipulate search results.

01:03:46.000 5 million people Google the night before the election, who should I vote for?

01:03:55.000 If that doesn't give you a crisis and confidence, I don't know what will.

01:03:59.000 I know we have other questions, but let me just finish by saying this.

01:04:02.000 There's two outcomes.

01:04:03.000 We're on for record voter turnout.

01:04:05.000 There's lines like we can't believe Republicans are doing well in early balloting.

01:04:10.000 Here's the only two outcomes that I see.

01:04:12.000 Republicans and Trump supporters are so excited that we're this outcome is not the good one.

01:04:22.000 That we're voting.

01:04:24.000 We're so excited we're voting early and there will just be kind of a tapering off effect and we're going to lose.

01:04:30.000 That's possible.

01:04:32.000 Or that it's going to be this ever-building crescendo that we're voting early that's not going to stop and this thing is going to get wildly out of control for Biden.

01:04:48.000 There's 9% of voters that are undecided.

01:04:50.000 I'm surprised it's that much.

01:04:52.000 Why?

01:04:52.000 If you still haven't made your mind up about Donald Trump, you're like, I don't know after all the negative coverage, the impeachment, still giving them a chance.

01:05:02.000 They're waiting for a reason to vote for Trump.

01:05:05.000 Typically, when you're trying to beat an incumbent, the late breakers go to the challenger.

01:05:10.000 I think it's the exact opposite this election.

01:05:12.000 I think the late breakers are going to go to the incumbent.

01:05:15.000 I think that since the arbitrage and deluge of information, that the base for Trump is so motivated, I do not think there will be late breakers for Biden.

01:05:24.000 Who are those people?

01:05:26.000 I don't know them.

01:05:27.000 Like, I don't know.

01:05:28.000 Now finally, I've made up my mind.

01:05:30.000 I think that these are Republicans that have said they don't like Trump style.

01:05:34.000 I don't like that.

01:05:35.000 But please give me a policy reason to vote for you.

01:05:38.000 That's why I'm barnstorming the country and doing two podcasts a day and two hours of radio.

01:05:43.000 Here's why.

01:05:44.000 Because it's not a persuasion election.

01:05:50.000 It is an election of turnout.

01:05:52.000 And I just got to get those 9% of people to hold their nose, mark Trump, and save the country.

01:05:57.000 Like, that's it.

01:05:58.000 Thank you for your question.

01:06:00.000 Okay.

01:06:00.000 All right.

01:06:02.000 There you go.

01:06:03.000 First question.

01:06:06.000 I'm currently a high school student.

01:06:07.000 Student, and so I was wondering what we should do to try and fix our failing public school system, as well as college students.

01:06:13.000 What should they try to do to fix it?

01:06:14.000 It's a great question.

01:06:15.000 Thank you.

01:06:16.000 What year are you in high school?

01:06:18.000 I'm a senior.

01:06:19.000 You're a senior.

01:06:20.000 Awesome.

01:06:21.000 Thank you for being here.

01:06:24.000 It is very difficult to be a high school conservative.

01:06:27.000 You all know this.

01:06:28.000 And God bless these young people.

01:06:30.000 So for the adults out here, please go out of your way to bless, defend, and support young conservatives.

01:06:38.000 You could do that through Turning Point USA.

01:06:40.000 You could do that through these local groups.

01:06:42.000 They need your help.

01:06:43.000 And I don't just mean financial help because they need that too.

01:06:47.000 But they need your reinforcement.

01:06:48.000 They need your prayers.

01:06:49.000 They need your text messages.

01:06:51.000 They need your don't stop fightings because they are under attack right now.

01:06:55.000 And there are not, I'm going to tell you, we run over a thousand of these groups across the country.

01:06:59.000 There are not enough adults that are going out of their way to shepherd young people through what they're experiencing.

01:07:04.000 Say, hey, I'm going to have the turning point group over for a home-cooked meal at my house just to tell them they're not alone.

01:07:10.000 Have you guys done that?

01:07:12.000 Start doing that, right?

01:07:14.000 Because they need it.

01:07:15.000 Because they will drop off if this continues.

01:07:18.000 Not our kids, but a lot of them.

01:07:20.000 Our kids are fighters.

01:07:21.000 They are.

01:07:22.000 But a lot of these kids in the middle will be like, screw it.

01:07:24.000 I'm done.

01:07:25.000 Because it is so culturally impossible.

01:07:28.000 I shouldn't say impossible.

01:07:29.000 Difficult to be unconservative.

01:07:30.000 What can we do?

01:07:31.000 We need school choice.

01:07:32.000 We need all those things.

01:07:33.000 We got to take back our school boards, everybody.

01:07:35.000 Run for school board.

01:07:36.000 Support your local government candidates like Tito.

01:07:39.000 So important.

01:07:41.000 I love that Tito's running for city council.

01:07:43.000 Everyone go knock on doors, get a yard sign, donate to his campaign.

01:07:46.000 I love local government.

01:07:48.000 I think that we as Republicans think that our salvation is coming in Air Force One.

01:07:52.000 Well, we got 900,000 homeless people in Huntington Beach or whatever it is, right?

01:07:57.000 All politics is local.

01:07:59.000 We lost the country because we lost the locals.

01:08:01.000 And the other thing about schooling, we got to double our homeschooling population in our country in the next five years.

01:08:08.000 I agree.

01:08:09.000 And homeschooling has got to get back to how it was in the 1700s.

01:08:15.000 The whole community stepped up.

01:08:16.000 If you guys are retired and you're looking for something to do, try to find a homeschooling family where you can pitch in a couple hours to give the mother a breather, right?

01:08:26.000 Like, maybe she just needs a couple hours just to decompress.

01:08:30.000 It's hard to be a homeschooling parent.

01:08:32.000 And maybe you're retired and maybe you used to teach history and you're like, I'm looking for a way God can use me in my local community.

01:08:39.000 Then go find that homeschooling family.

01:08:40.000 You're like, every Thursday, I'm going to come in and we're going to do civics for 90 minutes. 0.69

01:08:43.000 The mom can then go, you know, do whatever she needs to do to make her life a little bit easier that day.

01:08:48.000 Because I get emails from thousands of families across the country of homeschooling moms that are like, I might not be able to do this anymore.

01:08:55.000 I don't know if I can do it because it's financially and it is socially, not socially, but it's psychologically and spiritually hard.

01:09:03.000 So that's where I think the body of Christ and the country needs to step up and we need to help those homeschooling parents because it is a moral good that they are doing.

01:09:13.000 Awesome.

01:09:13.000 Yes.

01:09:14.000 Awesome.

01:09:15.000 All right, next question.

01:09:16.000 Next question.

01:09:17.000 Hey, Charlie, just a real quick question.

01:09:19.000 Pretty simple, but I don't think it gets asked enough.

01:09:21.000 Okay.

01:09:22.000 Do you believe in a flat tax?

01:09:23.000 And if so, how would you implement it?

01:09:25.000 Great question.

01:09:25.000 So thoughtful.

01:09:26.000 You're probably homeschooled.

01:09:29.000 So, yes, I do. 0.97

01:09:32.000 Ideally, I believe in a biblical tax.

01:09:34.000 I believe 10% across the board, no exceptions, no carve-outs, no loopholes, nothing.

01:09:40.000 It's never going to happen.

01:09:41.000 Okay, so we can kind of use it as a nice shot to open up our argument.

01:09:45.000 It says there's so much cronyism, there's so much favoritism, but I like it as a way of how we should actually talk about what taxation should be.

01:09:53.000 And I think that we should use it as a standard of to work from, right?

01:09:56.000 So if that's a good working beginning, but yes, I absolutely believe that taxation should be the same number.

01:10:03.000 And I do believe that every person should pay something in tax.

01:10:07.000 I don't believe there should be any person in a country that pays $0 in tax.

01:10:12.000 I don't.

01:10:13.000 And by the way, they say, oh, the rich pay too much.

01:10:15.000 You guys know the truth.

01:10:16.000 It's working people that end up paying the most of these taxes. 0.88

01:10:20.000 It's the muscular class. 0.93

01:10:21.000 It's the small business.

01:10:22.000 It's the carpenters, the plumbers, the welders, the delivery people.

01:10:26.000 It's the teachers.

01:10:27.000 It is the backbone of our country that end up paying for these pipeline wishes for the ruling class in our country.

01:10:33.000 They don't feel any of this. 0.97

01:10:34.000 It's all rounding error.

01:10:35.000 They don't look at their tax bill.

01:10:36.000 It's all the same.

01:10:38.000 It's you guys that end up paying the taxes for the rich.

01:10:40.000 You pay it for higher prices of goods, sales tax, property tax, you name it.

01:10:44.000 So yes, ideally, but just to be quite honest and concretely, it's not going to happen, I don't think, anytime soon.

01:10:49.000 However, that doesn't mean I have to stop advocating for it.

01:10:52.000 Great question, though.

01:10:52.000 Thank you.

01:10:55.000 Turning point leader.

01:10:57.000 Yes.

01:10:58.000 What do you think are key points Trump should make in the next debate?

01:11:03.000 It's a great question.

01:11:04.000 Wow.

01:11:05.000 You know, I've spent a fair amount of time in California, and we're headquartered in Phoenix, and we spend a lot of time here.

01:11:14.000 And my goodness, what these people have done to this state is so incredibly awful and immoral.

01:11:18.000 It's such a beautiful state, it's a beautiful state, it really is.

01:11:20.000 And they've destroyed it.

01:11:21.000 They absolutely have.

01:11:23.000 But you know, it's one thing that I've seen that's missing from this state.

01:11:27.000 And maybe you guys can inform me.

01:11:29.000 You have your U.S. Senator running for the vice presidency.

01:11:32.000 I think your state really hates her. 1.00

01:11:35.000 And the rest of the country does too.

01:11:38.000 And I think that the president has to play a little bit of a chess game here.

01:11:42.000 The president has to say something that all voters know, but hasn't been articulated correctly.

01:11:49.000 And the president should continue to say the Harris administration will do this.

01:11:54.000 The Harris administration will criminalize faith.

01:11:57.000 Sometimes the obvious needs to be said.

01:12:00.000 And I think the president needs to say this in the upcoming debate and say that the Harris administration will pack the courts.

01:12:07.000 This will have two impacts.

01:12:09.000 The first of which it will horrify decent people.

01:12:11.000 They'll be like, wait, I'm voting for that.

01:12:13.000 Like, where's my ballot?

01:12:14.000 Trump?

01:12:14.000 Like, as soon as I possibly can, right?

01:12:17.000 Because sometimes the obvious needs to be articulated.

01:12:20.000 The second of which, it'll bother Joe Biden a lot.

01:12:23.000 It will.

01:12:26.000 And he should say it at every answer.

01:12:29.000 Because it's actually something that even the activist media will not be able to refute.

01:12:34.000 We all know who will be in charge.

01:12:36.000 We know this, right?

01:12:38.000 We know this guy's not going to be running our government.

01:12:40.000 But let's start saying it.

01:12:42.000 Let's start articulating it.

01:12:43.000 So in front of 75 million people, let's start to manifest through words exactly what we're going to be living through.

01:12:51.000 The Harris administration, the Harris administration will keep our borders open.

01:12:58.000 The Harris administration will close the embassy in Jerusalem.

01:13:03.000 The Harris administration will take our guns away, so on and so forth.

01:13:06.000 The other thing I think he needs to do, he needs to handle the Hunter-Biden thing correctly.

01:13:12.000 Because he has an opportunity to do this 10 out of 10, and he has an opportunity to really screw this up.

01:13:18.000 Now, I'm going to be honest, this is completely as bluntly as I can say this.

01:13:22.000 If he handles the Hunter-Biden thing incorrectly, he could lose the election.

01:13:27.000 Because every situation and polling we do, if you attack Hunter too hard, sympathy votes for Joe and he goes up.

01:13:35.000 So he has to frame it correctly.

01:13:37.000 And we know he's going to mention it.

01:13:39.000 We know the president will go straight in on it.

01:13:41.000 But he has to do it this way.

01:13:43.000 He has to make it not about Hunter, but about Joe.

01:13:46.000 And he has to say, look, Joe, we know that your son's been going through a lot of problems.

01:13:52.000 And actually, we're praying that he actually has some recovery.

01:13:54.000 But this is not about Hunter.

01:13:56.000 Hunter right here is actually the victim.

01:13:59.000 All this stuff on the laptop is about you.

01:14:03.000 This stuff is about what you enabled.

01:14:05.000 These are the meetings that you set up.

01:14:07.000 And you used your son to get rich.

01:14:10.000 And none of this is about Hunter.

01:14:12.000 In fact, I hope Hunter finds healing.

01:14:14.000 I hope he finds reconciliation.

01:14:16.000 And actually, I feel bad for Hunter because I feel bad that he had a father like you that paraded him around the entire country.

01:14:27.000 That's how he has to handle it.

01:14:30.000 Because then the psychological brilliance of that is disunity, right?

01:14:37.000 It is making it as if Joe Biden was financially benefiting from it, which he was.

01:14:44.000 We know he is.

01:14:46.000 But I think you have to separate the two.

01:14:48.000 The American people do not look fondly on a relentless focus on a person running for office's son.

01:14:56.000 It's just not popular.

01:14:57.000 And we know that's actually not the whole story.

01:15:00.000 We know Hunter was just doing what his father told him to do.

01:15:04.000 That's what needs to be articulated.

01:15:05.000 Okay, next question.

01:15:13.000 We're working on it.

01:15:16.000 Hi, Mr. Kirk.

01:15:17.000 My question for you is: with America, we face a lot of problems right now, but they're not universalized only within America.

01:15:23.000 What is your stance on Agenda 21 and Agenda 23?

01:15:27.000 You're exactly right.

01:15:29.000 Look, there's a globalist agenda behind all of this.

01:15:33.000 And the globalists want the erosion of American sovereignty.

01:15:37.000 They want the imposition of very dark things.

01:15:42.000 I'm going to stop there.

01:15:42.000 You guys can do your own research there.

01:15:45.000 That is, I really believe that we are in a struggle of good versus evil in this.

01:15:50.000 And it's spiritual in nature, by the way.

01:15:52.000 I really believe it is spiritual.

01:15:56.000 The president has done a lot of things that have bothered the ruling class.

01:16:00.000 One of which, as I mentioned, is the reassertion of American sovereignty.

01:16:06.000 The other is the fact that he has challenged these transnational organizations that were in an unimpeded fashion destroying the existence of America.

01:16:20.000 Trans-Pacific Partnership, the Paris Climate Accord, are complete and total surrender to the United Nations.

01:16:28.000 And President Donald Trump, through the MAGA Doctrine, which I wrote about in my book, is saying, no, no, no, America does not take orders from Brussels.

01:16:37.000 We don't take orders from the United Nations.

01:16:39.000 We are self-determiners.

01:16:42.000 We make laws for ourselves.

01:16:44.000 And if you're going to try to put us into some sort of globalist coalition that makes America weaker, that destroys our competitive advantage, and tries to have rules outside of our borders that come into our country, we're not going to stand for that.

01:16:58.000 And that is also on the ballot because Joe Biden will put us back into all of those globalist organizations instantaneously.

01:17:05.000 And it's very scary what they want, everybody.

01:17:08.000 The erosion of American sovereignty is one of the greatest threats to everything that you hold near and dear because our courts will be invalidated by a global tribunal court.

01:17:21.000 It doesn't matter if we'll have the Supreme Court, they'll have some sort of super global court that will come in and say you can't do certain things and he'll just hand over the sovereignty.

01:17:31.000 And a lot of our framework doesn't know how to deal with a global unibody.

01:17:37.000 So President Donald Trump is all that stands between American exceptionalism and American sovereignty and some of the darkest, most sinister forces implementing their viewpoint into this country.

01:17:50.000 Just another reason why he must get re-elected.

01:17:52.000 Thank you for your question.

01:17:53.000 Great question.

01:17:54.000 Great question.

01:17:56.000 Next question.

01:17:58.000 Charlie, good to meet you again.

01:17:59.000 I'm Earl Weber.

01:18:01.000 And on my running for Congress.

01:18:04.000 And let me say this.

01:18:07.000 I want to say this.

01:18:08.000 I don't know if you'll win or not.

01:18:09.000 You're in a tough district.

01:18:10.000 Tough one.

01:18:11.000 But we need to run Republicans in every seat because even if he only, let's say he loses.

01:18:18.000 I don't know if you lose or not.

01:18:19.000 But if you only lose by 10 points instead of the traditional Republican losing by 40, that helps everyone.

01:18:24.000 And these are people that are exposed.

01:18:26.000 So you should give him a round of applause for running on this side of the district.

01:18:29.000 A very important thing.

01:18:36.000 Over the past two years of running for Congress, I've gone through the district asking people basic questions like, Do you know who your congressperson is, your state assembly member, your state senator?

01:18:46.000 Nine out of ten people can't tell me who their lawmakers are.

01:18:49.000 Yes, that's right.

01:18:50.000 But then they vote Democrat, down ticket, and then they don't recognize the dangerous legislation that gets passed here on the state level by these people they've enabled, this Democrat suit majority that has been enabled in California.

01:19:04.000 So, what can we do, especially in the religious community, to get more people civically engaged and excited about learning about our history, learning about civics and also how important their conservative values are, and voting on those conservative values is subscribing to the leftist ideologies.

01:19:24.000 So, the first thing you can do, and it's terrific, thank you.

01:19:28.000 Great question.

01:19:30.000 And we don't talk about this enough, but I'm starting to see this happen naturally and organically.

01:19:35.000 So, let's do more of it.

01:19:37.000 We, as conservatives, need to learn more.

01:19:41.000 We need to be on fire for knowledge.

01:19:44.000 We have not done a good job of this for 20 years.

01:19:47.000 We haven't.

01:19:48.000 We thought the universities would do this for us, and we've done a poor job.

01:19:52.000 Understand what critical race theory is.

01:19:54.000 Know what Herbert Marcuse is.

01:19:56.000 Know who Michelle Foucault is, Jacques Derrida, the Frankfurt School.

01:19:59.000 Dive deep into their literature and our literature.

01:20:01.000 Because I can tell you, the more you learn, the deeper you go, that is what will lead us to an awakening in our country.

01:20:07.000 I'm telling you.

01:20:09.000 And so, that's the first thing we have to do.

01:20:11.000 Not you getting to other people, you yourself.

01:20:14.000 You'll see things with more clarity.

01:20:16.000 You'll be able to process confusion better.

01:20:19.000 It's the first thing.

01:20:20.000 The second thing is that in the church, we need to have a very serious boy, how do I word this correctly?

01:20:28.000 We need to have a very serious moment in the church where we decide the church's proper role in the public square.

01:20:36.000 And I encourage all of you that do not currently go to a church that is engaging in politics and talking about politics, give them a moment of grace and then leave that church.

01:20:46.000 It's that simple.

01:20:48.000 The moment of grace should be: please speak up, say it privately to your pastor.

01:20:54.000 We're called to be in politics by Jesus Christ, the Ecclesia.

01:20:58.000 There's numerous examples in the Bible of people after God's heart that were involved in politics, being counselor of the king, and we, the people, are counselor of the king, and the church is the counsel of the king, and the king is the government in this sense.

01:21:10.000 And if you will not get involved in politics, you are disobeying your biblical commandment, and I'm disengaging from your church.

01:21:16.000 Vote with your feet in that way.

01:21:18.000 And then you need to lift up pastors like this that do their job.

01:21:27.000 And so, my friend James Cadiz is backstage from Calvary Chapel, Signal Hill.

01:21:33.000 There's my pastor, my pastor is Pastor Rob McCoy from Thousand Oaks, California.

01:21:40.000 Pastor Jack Aries.

01:21:41.000 There's phenomenal pastors out there.

01:21:43.000 So, if you're in Southern California, you're like, I don't, there's this church, James Cadiz, Jack Hibbs, Rob McCoy.

01:21:50.000 And I just want to take this moment.

01:21:51.000 Tom Hughes.

01:21:52.000 And maybe some of you are like, I don't know about this whole religion thing.

01:21:55.000 I don't get this.

01:21:56.000 By the way, first of all, welcome.

01:21:57.000 I mean that.

01:21:58.000 I'm a Bible-believing Christian.

01:21:59.000 I talk about it openly.

01:22:01.000 It's the most important thing in my life.

01:22:02.000 The most important thing you could do in your life is accept Jesus Christ in your life.

01:22:07.000 And I'm sure all of you know.

01:22:09.000 And allow me the moment to, I'm sure all of you have experienced that.

01:22:14.000 Maybe the more I just try to check boxes, I'm not enough.

01:22:17.000 And you're exactly right.

01:22:19.000 That the gospel of Jesus Christ is the only way for human beings to be able to come into relationship with God without checking the proper boxes, just accepting Him in.

01:22:28.000 The gospel in four words, three words, two words, one word.

01:22:30.000 Four words, Jesus took my place.

01:22:33.000 Three words, Him for me.

01:22:35.000 Two words, substitutionary atonement.

01:22:38.000 One word, grace.

01:22:40.000 What is grace?

01:22:41.000 We say it a lot.

01:22:42.000 We don't always articulate it.

01:22:43.000 Let's pretend that you did something bad because we all do.

01:22:46.000 Sin, distance from God.

01:22:47.000 You're in front of a judge.

01:22:49.000 Let's first go through justice, then mercy, then grace.

01:22:52.000 Justice, you go to jail.

01:22:54.000 Punishment, because you deserve it.

01:22:56.000 Mercy, you go to jail for half the amount of time.

01:23:00.000 Grace.

01:23:01.000 You get sentenced and someone comes up and says, I'm going to do that prison sentence for you.

01:23:05.000 That's what Jesus did for you.

01:23:06.000 He served that prison sentence for you.

01:23:10.000 So I encourage all of you, if you're confused, there's two things that I ask you guys to do.

01:23:15.000 If you're like, maybe God is talking to me, maybe I want to do something with religion, but I've had a bad experience.

01:23:21.000 There was a pastor that did something I like.

01:23:23.000 I grew up in a weird church.

01:23:24.000 I don't know.

01:23:25.000 I hear these things all the time.

01:23:26.000 Read two books of the Bible.

01:23:28.000 Read Proverbs in the book of John.

01:23:30.000 And do what Proverbs says for a month and see if it improves your life.

01:23:35.000 And read the book of John as if it's a compelling story and believe it.

01:23:40.000 Entertain in your heart that maybe this is true.

01:23:43.000 Maybe what is written in the book of John is not some mythology.

01:23:46.000 It's not just some sort of narrative, but maybe it actually happened.

01:23:51.000 If you do those two things, I pray that you'll be able to accept Jesus Christ in your life.

01:23:55.000 So anyway, I'm just going to make sure I got colour.

01:23:58.000 Thank you.

01:23:59.000 Next question.

01:24:02.000 Hi, Charlie.

01:24:03.000 I recently walked away from the Democratic Party five months ago.

01:24:17.000 So I'm sorry to interrupt you.

01:24:23.000 Five months ago.

01:24:27.000 So in 2016, you voted or no?

01:24:29.000 I did vote.

01:24:31.000 Okay, so I voted for President Trump because my wonderful husband here, he was raised in Oklahoma and he said, trust me, just trust me.

01:24:38.000 But you were still on the left.

01:24:39.000 But I was still on the left.

01:24:40.000 So thank you.

01:24:41.000 Amazing.

01:24:41.000 I love you.

01:24:43.000 So tell me, what made the shift five months ago?

01:24:49.000 The riots.

01:24:51.000 Tell us more.

01:24:51.000 Yes.

01:24:54.000 I was watching TV and I shed a tear and I said, there is no way you can put anything justice in front of it to basically approve this and make it seem okay.

01:25:02.000 Burning down buildings, assaulting people, hurting people.

01:25:04.000 There is no way. 0.59

01:25:05.000 That was a turning point for me.

01:25:07.000 And actually, I want to say that you were one of the first people that I turned to.

01:25:10.000 You are one of my political idols, and it's an honor to be here.

01:25:13.000 You're on my Instagram as one of my political idols, along with Candace Owens, Stephen Crowder, Officer Tatum.

01:25:24.000 So let me just say, I do what I do because of people like you.

01:25:28.000 I do.

01:25:30.000 I do.

01:25:31.000 I travel the country, sometimes sleep two hours a night, do two podcasts a day, radio shows.

01:25:36.000 We did six events in California, praying and hopefully obediently that someone who is not yet of my opinion is listening and will one day believe what we believe.

01:25:46.000 And that's really a message of hope.

01:25:47.000 So I just want to say how touched I am by that.

01:25:49.000 And thank you.

01:25:49.000 Thank you.

01:25:50.000 So what's your question?

01:25:51.000 Yes, of course, of course.

01:25:52.000 Okay.

01:25:53.000 So my question is, do you think California will become a Republic again?

01:25:57.000 And what can we do to regain our values?

01:25:59.000 In other words, how can we truly wake up the woke?

01:26:04.000 So the reason why, in the long term, not necessarily the short term, I have hope for all states in our country is people like you.

01:26:13.000 You were on the left.

01:26:14.000 You were a Democrat.

01:26:15.000 And you moved.

01:26:17.000 We convince ourselves wrongly, and it's a very, very dangerous thing.

01:26:21.000 The way things are is the way they will always be.

01:26:23.000 And the way things will be is determined completely and solely on human action, on you.

01:26:29.000 The fact that we as conservatives are contesting in the state of Minnesota is an amazing thing.

01:26:35.000 It's one of the only states, Minnesota and D.C., that Ronald Reagan lost in 1984.

01:26:39.000 It was considered to be the most liberal state in the entire country.

01:26:41.000 Now Donald Trump's within two points of winning it.

01:26:43.000 Things can change.

01:26:44.000 This state used to be Republican and conservative.

01:26:47.000 Now it's Democrat.

01:26:49.000 And with good effort and the right conversions and the right arguments and persistence, why can't the state turn?

01:26:55.000 That's right.

01:26:56.000 I see no reason why not.

01:26:57.000 And some people say it's a lost cause.

01:26:58.000 It might be a lost cause for you.

01:27:00.000 It's not a lost cause for those people that believe that things can move towards truth, which is a biblical Christian idea.

01:27:07.000 So I don't know when, but I do know how.

01:27:10.000 The how is by more people like you being exposed, being communicated to, and more people like all of you communicating, believing like stories like this can happen.

01:27:22.000 That's right.

01:27:23.000 Not being hopeless, not being despondent, dismissing this.

01:27:28.000 Everyone around me believes nonsense.

01:27:30.000 Stop it.

01:27:31.000 They might today, but why not tomorrow?

01:27:33.000 Because people can change.

01:27:34.000 That's the Christian story, is a story of conversion.

01:27:36.000 And so for my message to people in California, is don't give up on this great state.

01:27:40.000 Start small, think big.

01:27:41.000 Get Tito elected, for example.

01:27:45.000 Right?

01:27:46.000 Win back. 1.00

01:27:48.000 Win back these state assembly races. 0.99

01:27:50.000 Win back these congressional races.

01:27:53.000 And incrementally start to notch up wins. 0.99

01:27:56.000 For example, the woman that got in all that trouble.

01:28:01.000 Yeah, exactly.

01:28:02.000 Katie Hill, thank you. 1.00

01:28:03.000 We won that seat by like 11 points. 1.00

01:28:06.000 You're not supposed to be able to do stuff like that.

01:28:08.000 Mike Garcia, right?

01:28:10.000 That's his name, Mike Garcia.

01:28:12.000 Mark Garcia.

01:28:13.000 Mike, I'm sorry.

01:28:15.000 Mike Garcia.

01:28:16.000 That's a great victory.

01:28:18.000 Let's duplicate it. 0.87

01:28:19.000 They want a ballot harvest.

01:28:21.000 We'll ballot harvest at our church.

01:28:22.000 That's what we're doing.

01:28:23.000 Right?

01:28:24.000 And that's what we're doing.

01:28:25.000 And so don't give up hope.

01:28:29.000 As soon as you lose hope, that is when the left truly knows they have won.

01:28:34.000 Their strategy is a strategy, according to Saul Linsky's rule for radicals, keep the pressure on, is one of waterboarding cultural submission.

01:28:43.000 They want to keep you under long enough where you say, I give up, I'm never going to survive this.

01:28:48.000 When in reality, we will.

01:28:51.000 We will win.

01:28:52.000 As soon as we give up, they have won everything.

01:28:57.000 So I'm so touched by your story.

01:28:58.000 And thank you for being here.

01:29:00.000 Let's get a picture after, okay?

01:29:01.000 So thank you.

01:29:02.000 Next question.

01:29:05.000 Hi, Charlie.

01:29:06.000 This is my first time witnessing your works, and you're amazing.

01:29:09.000 Oh, thank you.

01:29:10.000 Appreciate that.

01:29:11.000 Just recently on Sunday, I went to the Orange County front rally.

01:29:15.000 It was my first one.

01:29:19.000 And the sense of unity for the United States, the love, it's just something that was just so amazing to witness.

01:29:28.000 And the biggest thing I noticed was the Armenian community was out there just supporting for Trump.

01:29:34.000 And I mean, it was, they were everywhere.

01:29:37.000 And it was just, and they were just praying.

01:29:39.000 And, you know, I just, I want to know your insight, if you can provide us a little information of what's going on there.

01:29:44.000 I mean, it's, I know, I don't know if it's like a channel.

01:29:46.000 No, it's very geopolitically in play right now.

01:29:50.000 To be honest, I don't know that much about the situation, except I have a lot of people trying to call me about it.

01:29:55.000 And I just, you know, there's a little bit more pressing issues.

01:29:58.000 However, I think it's an absolute disgrace that we have not taught and recognized the Armenian genocide in our country. 0.62

01:30:03.000 What the Turks did to the Armenian people is so incredibly immoral and awful.

01:30:07.000 So that I will comment on that it is my position that the Armenian people were targets of any sort of classification of genocide.

01:30:15.000 And any sort of Turkish influence in our country or our government that tries to prevent the history and the teaching of the Armenian genocide is evil.

01:30:23.000 And so I stand with the Armenian people in properly classifying the aggression of the Turkish government back when they were slaughtered as a genocide.

01:30:31.000 And we must recognize it as such.

01:30:32.000 And it's not a little thing.

01:30:33.000 It's a very big thing for a lot of different reasons.

01:30:36.000 I'm not as well versed, quite honestly, what's going on right there right now.

01:30:40.000 I will do a podcast on that.

01:30:41.000 I've been told by the State Department that the people that are connected to the State Department, they're analyzing it, they're looking at it.

01:30:47.000 But I do know that the Armenian community loves Trump, that his stance for the Manian community has been amazing.

01:30:52.000 Thank you for your question.

01:30:53.000 I appreciate it.

01:30:56.000 Hi, Charlie.

01:30:57.000 This is Jennifer Sterling, or I'm Jennifer Sterling.

01:31:00.000 I'm the president of the Republican Women's Federated.

01:31:04.000 Orange County has been super strong here in California.

01:31:08.000 The mask has been a very big deal here.

01:31:12.000 We have 3.2 million people in Orange County.

01:31:14.000 We've lost 1,400 lives.

01:31:16.000 51% are living that died.

01:31:18.000 We're in skilled nursing homes.

01:31:20.000 The average age, 78 years old, brave patriots to be out here using their rights.

01:31:27.000 I'm one of the first people in the country that was arrested at Mother's Market in Costa Mesa.

01:31:33.000 And I'll bring them out.

01:31:36.000 Wow.

01:31:40.000 I found out Friday night.

01:31:42.000 You guys are all going to be the first to know that Todd Spritzer, our Republican DA, has decided to file charges against me for trespassing.

01:31:49.000 Yet they don't file charges against the burning and the looting and the rioting, but they go after people like herds.

01:31:55.000 So my question to you is this.

01:31:58.000 Knowing that the right to a speedy trial has now been compromised in the Supreme Court, we've had judges who have decided that we're not able to offer the speedy trial, 30 days for a felony, 60 for a misdemeanor.

01:32:13.000 Some judges are dropping everything and just letting victims.

01:32:16.000 We've got to get to the question.

01:32:17.000 We're running out of time.

01:32:17.000 Yeah.

01:32:18.000 What do you think we should do?

01:32:19.000 Should we just settle and say I was wrong for trespassing or do we fight the fight?

01:32:24.000 I don't know the specifics of your case.

01:32:27.000 You got a trespassing cause for wearing a mask?

01:32:29.000 Yes, sir.

01:32:29.000 That doesn't make a lot of sense.

01:32:32.000 Oh, for not wearing a mask.

01:32:33.000 A trespassing cause.

01:32:34.000 Look, here's my general rule.

01:32:37.000 And I don't know the specifics of your case, and I'm not a lawyer.

01:32:40.000 However, if you don't fight the little fights, they will manifest into big tyranny.

01:32:44.000 Problems that are not confronted multiply.

01:32:46.000 That's my general rule.

01:32:48.000 Problems that are not directly confronted when they rear their head, they will multiply into something bigger.

01:32:52.000 And the small fights for liberty absolutely matter.

01:32:55.000 And so without knowing the specifics of your case or what that means for you, all I can tell is just kind of impart some general wisdom of fights that were not done at the local level and they thought it was not a big deal and it grows to the state and the federal level and you lose those liberties in the future.

01:33:10.000 So I don't know if that is helpful to you at all, but I do think that we need to fight at every single level.

01:33:16.000 And look, I think the lockdowns will go down as one of the dumbest mistakes in American history.

01:33:22.000 It really will. 0.98

01:33:24.000 And immoral.

01:33:25.000 And just, I know we have a couple, we have questions we have to get to here.

01:33:29.000 But thank you.

01:33:31.000 One out of four of young people have contemplated suicide in the last 90 days.

01:33:34.000 Alcoholism, suicide, depression, social isolation, domestic abuse, sexual abuse.

01:33:39.000 100,000 businesses have closed in the last six months.

01:33:43.000 Another 100,000 are probably going to close in the next 30 days.

01:33:45.000 Billionaires have expanded their net worth by $682 billion.

01:33:49.000 The average middle-class family has gone $5,000 or more into debt.

01:33:52.000 These lockdowns were a luxury of the rich.

01:33:54.000 They're unproven.

01:33:55.000 They did not help slow the spread.

01:33:56.000 They only temporarily stunted the inevitable.

01:33:59.000 Countries that did not do mass lockdowns now have herd immunity, lower hospitalizations, lower death rates. 0.81

01:34:04.000 The one-size-fits-all trying to kill a mouse with a missile will go down as one of the dumbest mistakes that we let this happen.

01:34:12.000 We should have protested earlier. 0.91

01:34:13.000 We should have sued more.

01:34:15.000 We should have never allowed them to close our schools.

01:34:17.000 And I think that it's a learning lesson for all of us and a teaching moment that when they take our freedoms away, we have to say no way unless there's a very good reason and there wasn't.

01:34:27.000 So anyway, I'll end with that.

01:34:28.000 The lockdowns were a total mistake.

01:34:33.000 Hi, Charlie.

01:34:34.000 Hi, Charlie.

01:34:35.000 What is your best advice to productively communicate with our liberal friends and loved ones and not damage the relationship?

01:34:42.000 Okay, so it's a very good question.

01:34:46.000 Yes, it is.

01:34:47.000 I can be somewhat helpful in this question.

01:34:51.000 And I mean this with no joking, and I say this to young people all the time.

01:34:55.000 And I say, if you want to get involved with Turning Point, if you want to take up the banner, be prepared to lose all your friends.

01:35:01.000 Not because you will lose them, but they will leave you and they will tell you awful names and they will come after you.

01:35:06.000 It is an attribute of the left, which is that your political identity is some sort of a moral ruler or some sort of moral yardstick on how good of a person you are.

01:35:18.000 And so just be prepared to lose those relationships.

01:35:22.000 The best thing that we can do to interface with those people on the left is to ask questions.

01:35:27.000 Do not tell them anything.

01:35:28.000 Just endlessly ask questions and listen.

01:35:31.000 Make them explain to you why they believe what they believe.

01:35:34.000 Who is informing them of that?

01:35:36.000 What is their factual basis?

01:35:38.000 Has it ever worked before?

01:35:40.000 Why do you believe that?

01:35:42.000 And so the more you could dive into that, a great example is this.

01:35:45.000 Here's how you can kind of short-circuit a socialist in 10 seconds or less.

01:35:48.000 It's a magic trick.

01:35:49.000 It's like Houdini.

01:35:51.000 People say it's the closest thing to a magic trick I can get to, which is someone says they're a socialist, and that's fine.

01:35:56.000 I mean, there's plenty of them out there. 0.99

01:35:59.000 And it's mostly because they've been taught it by some sort of self-righteous, foolish, deceitful, arrogant instructor in the academy. 0.99

01:36:06.000 And generally, so they'll say, I'm a socialist. 0.98

01:36:11.000 I say, okay, do you trust the government?

01:36:14.000 And they'll say, no, I don't trust the government.

01:36:16.000 Then why do you want to make the government bigger?

01:36:20.000 And at that moment, they'll have a decision to make.

01:36:23.000 They'll either say, no, no, I actually want the government bigger, or no, I don't.

01:36:27.000 And if they say they don't, they say, you're not a socialist.

01:36:29.000 You might not know what you are, but you're definitely not a socialist.

01:36:32.000 So maybe let's start to unpack what you are.

01:36:35.000 Do you think freedom's important?

01:36:37.000 Yes.

01:36:38.000 Well, who gives you freedom?

01:36:40.000 The government?

01:36:41.000 No.

01:36:41.000 Try again.

01:36:44.000 No.

01:36:44.000 The government?

01:36:45.000 Try again.

01:36:46.000 Do you think you have freedom naturally?

01:36:48.000 Yes.

01:36:49.000 Who's supposed to protect it?

01:36:50.000 Government.

01:36:51.000 Good.

01:36:52.000 Do you think governments ever get out of control?

01:36:54.000 Yes.

01:36:55.000 Do you think governments can grow tyrannical?

01:36:57.000 Yes.

01:36:58.000 Do you think it's important we make sure that doesn't happen?

01:37:00.000 Yes.

01:37:01.000 So would you believe in a framework that makes sure that doesn't happen?

01:37:04.000 Maybe you're far more conservative than you ever might have imagined.

01:37:04.000 Yes.

01:37:08.000 Questions, everybody, is how Jesus Christ communicated with every human being that's ever written the greatest book ever to exist in the history world, the Bible.

01:37:16.000 Stop telling, start listening, and start asking.

01:37:18.000 That's how you communicate.

01:37:19.000 Thank you for your question.

01:37:22.000 Very good.

01:37:24.000 I know you have a flight.

01:37:25.000 So I know you have a flight.

01:37:26.000 I want to take things.

01:37:26.000 I'm doing all the things.

01:37:27.000 No, no, no, that's good.

01:37:28.000 Hey, we want to hear from you.

01:37:30.000 You ready?

01:37:31.000 You're okay to take a few more questions?

01:37:32.000 We can go 20 more minutes.

01:37:34.000 I'll be generous tonight.

01:37:34.000 Okay.

01:37:37.000 The only problem, and I mean this note, is that I just lose my voice and then it shoots off my whole week.

01:37:42.000 So I have to, I know my limits on my, because I'm talking seven hours a day.

01:37:46.000 Other than that, I would literally stay till 10 p.m.

01:37:49.000 So I just, I got about 20 minutes left and then I got to stop talking for the night.

01:37:52.000 Hey, Charlie, so great to meet you.

01:37:54.000 You just actually hired my nephew, so we're very happy about that.

01:37:57.000 Well, congratulations to him.

01:37:59.000 Thank you.

01:38:00.000 You're going to like him.

01:38:01.000 I was on a high too from this weekend, and then I listened to your video.

01:38:06.000 Which one?

01:38:06.000 I heard you cover Harris just now, but people don't care about Biden.

01:38:11.000 Yes, that's correct.

01:38:11.000 And I am an active door knocker.

01:38:13.000 I'm door knocking back the next two weeks heavily.

01:38:16.000 And I'd like to have...

01:38:18.000 I was so depressed that I had all my girlfriends try to get me off the cliff.

01:38:22.000 But can you give me a solution to that?

01:38:23.000 Because I'm going to be utilizing that as I do.

01:38:26.000 Yeah, so.

01:38:27.000 Well, let me say this.

01:38:29.000 Please go knockdoors in Arizona.

01:38:30.000 We need you.

01:38:31.000 Yes. 0.99

01:38:32.000 Well, please go to someone drive her. 1.00

01:38:36.000 Take a bus.

01:38:37.000 Well, Trump's not going to win to California.

01:38:39.000 I'm sorry.

01:38:39.000 It's not going to happen.

01:38:40.000 In the future, maybe it's not going to happen here.

01:38:41.000 We need you in Arizona.

01:38:43.000 But no, but it's important for other races and stuff here.

01:38:46.000 And thank you for knocking on doors.

01:38:47.000 I wish every conservative patriot knocked on 10 doors.

01:38:49.000 It's so important.

01:38:50.000 Seriously, it's awesome.

01:38:51.000 I'll first say this.

01:38:54.000 I get these messages all the time where it's like, I feel really good about Trump at 9 a.m. and I feel really bad at 9:30.

01:38:58.000 It's like, you know, it's kind of the most bipolar election.

01:39:00.000 It's like, good news, bad, right?

01:39:01.000 No.

01:39:02.000 And I'm not excluded from that because I have this deluge of information that is so incredibly contradictory.

01:39:08.000 Yeah, look, I'll say this again: that we need to lean in on who's actually going to be running the government.

01:39:14.000 And I think the Joe Biden laptop thing is an exclusion to my argument, but I think it actually reinforces that Joe Biden's not going to serve out his first term.

01:39:23.000 With this kind of corruption, this kind of questions, Pelosi will invoke the 25th Amendment and get him out of there.

01:39:30.000 That 25th Amendment stuff is not for Trump.

01:39:32.000 It is for Biden.

01:39:33.000 And Pelosi and Kamala Harris are like this.

01:39:36.000 Pelosi comes from the Bay Area. 0.84

01:39:38.000 She runs the Bay Area.

01:39:39.000 Kamala Harris was the DA.

01:39:40.000 She's from there.

01:39:41.000 She's a creature of the Pelosi political crime family.

01:39:44.000 And so you have to understand that we need to, in my opinion, when you're talking to swing voters, communicate that Kamala Harris is going to be running the government.

01:39:56.000 And I think we should be unafraid to say that.

01:39:58.000 Biden is, some people still like him.

01:40:00.000 No matter how much you throw at him, he's like, oh, I love Joe Biden.

01:40:02.000 It's like, oh, my gosh.

01:40:03.000 So, and I think it's true.

01:40:05.000 It's the more we've gone negative against him, the more his numbers have gone up.

01:40:09.000 I think this story might actually break that.

01:40:11.000 I do, because it's so bad.

01:40:12.000 It's so bad, everybody.

01:40:14.000 It just is.

01:40:15.000 You read the emails, you're like, oh, my gosh.

01:40:17.000 Like, our foreign policy is being just completely steered by the wallets of the Bidens.

01:40:23.000 It's worse than anything Hillary did.

01:40:24.000 It really is.

01:40:25.000 It's worse than Uranium One.

01:40:27.000 It's worse than all of that stuff.

01:40:28.000 And we have far more evidence of it.

01:40:30.000 I mean, the Clintons at least destroyed their laptops.

01:40:32.000 I mean, I mean, Hunter Biden, Hunter Biden, never went through the Clinton school and bleach bit him.

01:40:45.000 I mean, the first thing they teach you at the Clinton Foundation is you bleach bit everything and you never go to a computer repair shop with your psych and I tell this to the drug, the anti-drug advocacy groups.

01:41:02.000 I told them this.

01:41:03.000 I say, if you want to tell kids why they shouldn't do drugs, show them this story of Hunter Biden dropping off the computer. 0.99

01:41:09.000 No one should ever do cocaine again after you see how foolish you are when you do. 0.99

01:41:14.000 It's incomprehensible that you would do this. 0.99

01:41:16.000 And so, but it's really bad, everybody.

01:41:18.000 I mean, I could go through it.

01:41:19.000 You guys know it.

01:41:20.000 Just follow the reporting that our entire foreign policy portfolio was being directed at the financial benefit of a certain family.

01:41:27.000 It is everything that we wished was went true and then more.

01:41:31.000 So, next question.

01:41:32.000 Thank you.

01:41:33.000 Hi, Charlie.

01:41:34.000 I was actually in Arizona knocking doors this weekend.

01:41:37.000 There you go.

01:41:37.000 Good.

01:41:42.000 So, my name is James.

01:41:43.000 I'm the president of Turning Point USA Institute for Trump at UC Irvine.

01:41:46.000 Right.

01:41:47.000 And my question for you is: What are your thoughts on universities forcing students to take vaccines in order to return back to campus?

01:41:57.000 Take back what?

01:41:58.000 Vaccines.

01:41:58.000 Take vaccines.

01:41:59.000 No way.

01:42:00.000 Absolutely not.

01:42:00.000 Don't take it.

01:42:02.000 It's unconstitutional, and we should fight it through the state, local government, through lawsuits.

01:42:07.000 They have absolutely no right whatsoever to force a vaccine on adults.

01:42:12.000 None whatsoever.

01:42:14.000 Zero.

01:42:15.000 And I'm a big believer.

01:42:18.000 And by the way, you should just buy a shirt.

01:42:21.000 My body, my choice.

01:42:26.000 That simple.

01:42:27.000 It's amazing.

01:42:29.000 The left, they want to give you the false freedom that you could terminate somebody else's DNA within you.

01:42:35.000 Then they want to say that you don't have the freedom not to inject somebody else's DNA into you.

01:42:42.000 Because a lot of vaccines in this country are made from aborted fetuses.

01:42:45.000 Not all of them, but a lot are.

01:42:46.000 A lot are from the fissile material from an aborted fetus.

01:42:50.000 Think about that incredible philosophical and moral contradiction.

01:42:54.000 It's okay to terminate, but it's not okay to reject the injection. of that very same DNA that you were okay to terminate.

01:43:03.000 So yeah, I mean, you should absolutely fight it.

01:43:05.000 And I wouldn't, oh my gosh.

01:43:08.000 I mean, I would do everything I possibly could to reject it.

01:43:10.000 So thank you for your question.

01:43:11.000 Next one.

01:43:13.000 Good evening, Charlie.

01:43:14.000 My name is Israel, and I'm a huge fan of your politics.

01:43:16.000 I think we've met before.

01:43:17.000 Maybe.

01:43:18.000 Okay.

01:43:20.000 I'm a first-time generation Mexican-American.

01:43:23.000 Yeah, thank you.

01:43:25.000 No surprise, I come from a huge family, and we meet every Sunday me and my siblings.

01:43:31.000 And it's frowned upon that I speak about Trump's policies and the reason they are that he's going to get my vote this year.

01:43:39.000 Now, my question to you is: what advice would you give me that I'm trying to break out of my circle and become a bridge of information to my family?

01:43:47.000 So it's great.

01:43:49.000 First of all, don't be belligerent, but don't be silent.

01:43:53.000 Continue to communicate.

01:43:55.000 Point out things to people that sometimes they don't want to hear it that intersect their daily life.

01:44:00.000 So I don't know what your parents or your sisters or your brothers or nieces or nephews or cousins do, but find specific news items that impact their life.

01:44:08.000 So they might be small business owners about how 100,000 small businesses went under because we locked down our country.

01:44:14.000 There's nothing controversial or political about that.

01:44:16.000 And this is a big thing I want all of you guys to realize: is that the number one form of censorship in our country is self-censorship.

01:44:22.000 It is not tech censorship.

01:44:24.000 It is not other people shutting you up.

01:44:25.000 It's you shutting up you.

01:44:27.000 It's you not wearing that beautiful MAGA hat into the grocery store.

01:44:32.000 And by the way, I'm glad you wore it tonight.

01:44:34.000 And I hope you'll wear it to the local convenience store.

01:44:38.000 And I'm the first one to admit that I self-censor.

01:44:42.000 I am just as guilty as you guys are.

01:44:44.000 Sometimes I don't want the fight.

01:44:46.000 Sometimes I'm like, I got to go pick up dinner.

01:44:49.000 You know, I'm not going to wear the MAGA hat in.

01:44:52.000 And that's me saying that.

01:44:53.000 I've had a long day.

01:44:54.000 I'm exhausted.

01:44:55.000 And then I stop myself afterwards.

01:44:56.000 I'm like, next time I will.

01:44:58.000 And I should.

01:45:00.000 Because then I am already immediately judging a scenario that hasn't happened and I'm letting them win.

01:45:07.000 So I'm not acting like I'm above you guys in this, right?

01:45:10.000 I'm not.

01:45:10.000 But it's not that I'm afraid of it.

01:45:12.000 It's like I don't want to deal with the lunatics like just screaming at me.

01:45:15.000 But now I'm like, no, the minute I take that hat off when I go into the grocery store or into the gas station, that is a sign that the tyrant is winning.

01:45:28.000 That self-censorship.

01:45:28.000 Right?

01:45:29.000 Something as simple as, I'm going to cover up my God is real shirt.

01:45:33.000 I'm going to put the crucifix under my shirt, right?

01:45:37.000 I'm going to take that bumper sticker off.

01:45:39.000 You guys all have been through there.

01:45:40.000 I've been there with you, right?

01:45:42.000 And the biggest complaint I have about the phrase the silent majority is the silent part.

01:45:48.000 Because what if we were no longer the silent majority?

01:45:51.000 And that's exactly where we should be in our country.

01:45:53.000 So I started here.

01:45:54.000 I ended up answering the question.

01:45:57.000 Next question.

01:45:58.000 We'll take a couple more.

01:45:59.000 Yes.

01:46:00.000 Hello, my name is Sonia Green.

01:46:01.000 It's a pleasure to be here and seeing you, Charlie Kirk.

01:46:04.000 My question is: now that many are aware, what do you think is going to happen to the current processes of indoctrination in our primary schools all the way through high school?

01:46:15.000 I wish more people were aware.

01:46:18.000 It is stunning to me how bad it has gotten in public education in our country.

01:46:24.000 Critical race theory, white fragility, 1619 project, teaching every white person that they're racist, teaching people that black people can't be racist because they're not in power.

01:46:34.000 And I discovered something, and there's a fundamental truth to this. 0.63

01:46:37.000 You guys ever notice how the left changes the meaning of words?

01:46:41.000 You notice this?

01:46:43.000 And this is a very important and it's a very dangerous thing.

01:46:46.000 They do this intentionally because when they're able to change the meaning of words, they're able to change whether or not we're able to find truth.

01:46:57.000 This is why, in those of us that believe in the Bible, we're so focused on what exactly the original text said.

01:47:06.000 That's why the Hebrews, in the Hebrews, the Jews, in Hebrew, I should say, in Hebrews, and also the book of Hebrews and throughout the Bible, the actual meaning of words had so much weight.

01:47:16.000 So, for example, racism.

01:47:18.000 I grew up believing that racism was one person of one skin color discriminating against another person of a skin color and having prejudice.

01:47:26.000 That is what racism is.

01:47:27.000 Don't let them say anything different.

01:47:29.000 That is not what we're teaching our children.

01:47:31.000 They believe racism is a power struggle.

01:47:34.000 That it is impossible for a black person to be racist. 0.82

01:47:38.000 That only white people can be racist.

01:47:40.000 This is part of what critical race theory teaches.

01:47:42.000 Like this, they have changed the meaning of racism.

01:47:45.000 Same words, different definition, and they're using them flippantly.

01:47:48.000 And they're teaching your children that.

01:47:50.000 They've even changed the meaning of what it means to be a black person in this country. 0.68

01:47:55.000 Joe Biden does not think you're black. 1.00

01:47:57.000 You are right.

01:47:58.000 He doesn't think I'm black. 0.85

01:47:59.000 That's right.

01:48:07.000 This is why they go after people like Candace Owens and Brandon Tatum with such harsh, you know, such incredible venom.

01:48:16.000 They think your identity is solely linked to whether or not you're a leftist, that you suddenly don't become a black person if you don't agree with us. 0.70

01:48:24.000 That is totalitarian and racist.

01:48:27.000 And they're teaching your children that.

01:48:29.000 They're teaching your children things that will result in a clash.

01:48:37.000 They want it.

01:48:38.000 They're pre-programming it.

01:48:39.000 They're writing the script, everybody. 0.92

01:48:41.000 The American experiment worked for a couple decades really well, post-civil rights era, 80s, 90s, early 2000s, when I grew up and when I was born, in the ideas of E pluribus unum, out of many one, that your skin color does not matter. 0.97

01:48:59.000 I believe this. 0.96

01:49:00.000 I was raised like this.

01:49:02.000 We are now doing the opposite.

01:49:03.000 We're teaching young people that skin color matters.

01:49:07.000 We're now teaching people to find the differences.

01:49:09.000 We're teaching people to divide one another based on skin color.

01:49:12.000 We all know how this leads, where this leads. 0.99

01:49:16.000 There is no harmony to this.

01:49:17.000 There's just division.

01:49:19.000 Let me be perfectly clear.

01:49:20.000 Your skin color means nothing to me. 1.00

01:49:23.000 Absolutely nothing. 1.00

01:49:24.000 I don't care about the color of your skin.

01:49:26.000 I care about your character.

01:49:28.000 I care about your worldview.

01:49:30.000 I care about your values.

01:49:31.000 I don't care about what you look like. 0.58

01:49:33.000 It is completely and totally irrelevant. 1.00

01:49:35.000 And as soon as we start to say, I care about your skin color, the moment that we bend that knee, we have lost the civilization that we live in. 1.00

01:49:42.000 It is that simple. 0.99

01:49:44.000 Next question.

01:49:48.000 Hello, Charlie, Kenny Strawn.

01:49:51.000 Great to see you again.

01:49:52.000 Good to see you.

01:49:53.000 In the three years since I last saw you at the Newport Beach Western Regional Conference, what new challenges have arisen for Christians in this country?

01:50:04.000 That's a great question.

01:50:05.000 Thank you for being here again, by the way.

01:50:06.000 Yeah, it's awesome.

01:50:08.000 So some new challenges are a very thoughtful question, actually, because a lot has changed in the last three years.

01:50:18.000 And I actually think that for Christians, so many of you are being misled by your pastors.

01:50:27.000 You just are.

01:50:30.000 I've made many exclusions for you this evening.

01:50:35.000 And you agree with me.

01:50:36.000 I know, exactly.

01:50:39.000 And I think that it's harder to be a disagreeable Christian than ever, and it's easier to be an agreeable Christian.

01:50:47.000 And that's a very dangerous moment for American Christianity when Christianity all of a sudden becomes completely harmonic with the Hollywood culture. 0.51

01:50:55.000 But they just don't want to touch the Old Testament stuff.

01:50:58.000 We don't like that.

01:50:59.000 That's what some pastors say.

01:51:00.000 That guy from Georgia says that.

01:51:03.000 Or where they say, oh, no, no, we just want to focus on the, we're okay with whatever anyone wants to do at all times stuff.

01:51:12.000 Hold on a second.

01:51:13.000 This is not a new phenomenon, but it's become very predominant in our country.

01:51:17.000 And so I think the challenge right now in the body of Christ is going to be, do we believe in the inerrancy of scripture?

01:51:25.000 Do we believe in the totality of the Bible?

01:51:27.000 Do we believe that Jesus Christ actually lived, died, and rose again on the third day?

01:51:35.000 Or do we just kind of say it?

01:51:37.000 And so the challenge is this, and this is the biggest challenge.

01:51:40.000 This is the question for the church is, and I think God is testing the American church right now.

01:51:44.000 I really do.

01:51:47.000 The question is this.

01:51:48.000 Do you actually believe what you say?

01:51:50.000 Because if your church is still closed, if you're pandering to these ridiculous lockdowns, and if you are going out of your way to mobilize your congregation, a critical race theory and BLM Incorporated, I'm not the judge, but I doubt you actually believe what you say you believe.

01:52:09.000 And that's a very, very difficult thing for me to say.

01:52:12.000 But I find no other way to reconcile a closed church and a racially pandering church at this moment if you actually believe in the totalitarity, totality, and the inerrancy of scripture, divinely inspired, and the triune God. 0.91

01:52:27.000 Very hard. 0.89

01:52:28.000 So I think God is testing us.

01:52:30.000 And I think that this church and many others will step up to the plate.

01:52:33.000 Great question.

01:52:34.000 I think this will be the last question.

01:52:36.000 Thank you.

01:52:36.000 Last question.

01:52:37.000 Sorry, guys.

01:52:37.000 This will be the last question.

01:52:39.000 Sorry.

01:52:40.000 I go to UC Berkeley.

01:52:41.000 Give it up for a UC Church.

01:52:42.000 Wow.

01:52:43.000 Now, wait, hold on.

01:52:45.000 You're not a communist, right?

01:52:47.000 No.

01:52:47.000 She's not a communist.

01:52:48.000 That's the big thing.

01:52:54.000 And I'm very outspoken about my conservative Christian beliefs.

01:52:57.000 You're very outspoken at UC Berkeley.

01:52:59.000 Wow.

01:53:00.000 And students refuse to speak to me when they realize I'm conservative.

01:53:02.000 So how can I start and maintain a dialogue with very liberal students?

01:53:07.000 So great.

01:53:07.000 First of all, thank you for what you're doing.

01:53:08.000 It's so incredible.

01:53:10.000 And by the way, I'm going to say this, and I hope it gets cut up and sent to all the pastors out there.

01:53:16.000 She has way more courage than most pastors in our country.

01:53:20.000 Right?

01:53:21.000 Yeah, absolutely.

01:53:23.000 Far more courage.

01:53:24.000 Good for you.

01:53:26.000 Spectacular.

01:53:28.000 I'm going to tell you something that you might not want to hear.

01:53:30.000 You're not going to be popular with those views at Berkeley.

01:53:33.000 But do this.

01:53:34.000 You're a Christian, right?

01:53:36.000 Understand that you're going to be held to a higher standard through your peers and friends.

01:53:40.000 Do all things with 100% grace, 100% truth.

01:53:44.000 Gruth.

01:53:45.000 It's a long week today.

01:53:49.000 I'm only on my eighth hour of talking today.

01:53:50.000 I think I'm doing okay, right?

01:53:52.000 So 100% grace, 100% truth, right?

01:53:55.000 That was who Jesus was.

01:53:56.000 Don't get angry.

01:53:57.000 Love hopes all things.

01:53:59.000 But do not compromise on your beliefs.

01:54:01.000 Do not hedge.

01:54:02.000 Don't put yourself in physically compromising situations because those things will arise.

01:54:06.000 Be very, very aware of that because they will try to hospitalize you for your beliefs, which happens all the time.

01:54:13.000 It happened to our Turning Point USA leader this last weekend of the Women's March.

01:54:17.000 I just happened to a black conservative in San Francisco. 0.91

01:54:19.000 And if those of you with your mouths wide open, that's a real thing, right?

01:54:22.000 So we just have to tell our turning point leaders: don't put in positions so that you'll end up in the ER, because that happens.

01:54:27.000 I know you guys laugh, but that's the part of our training.

01:54:30.000 That's the country we live in.

01:54:32.000 And my biggest piece of advice is: you might not think you're changing minds.

01:54:38.000 You might not think you're flipping opinions, but you might be the only exposure that certain people have to a Christian and a conservative.

01:54:47.000 So make sure you take that with a great deal of responsibility.

01:54:52.000 You don't go to Auburn, right?

01:54:54.000 You don't go to a campus of lots of conservatives, right?

01:54:57.000 So you might be the only point of contact that these people ever have to the gospel, to Christianity, and to conservatism.

01:55:05.000 That's a lot of responsibility for you.

01:55:07.000 But I think you're up to the task.

01:55:09.000 So thank you and do not back down.

01:55:13.000 10-year-old. 0.78

01:55:14.000 Yeah, she wants.

01:55:16.000 We have a little 10-year-old.

01:55:18.000 What is your name?

01:55:19.000 Hi, my name is Indy DeBose.

01:55:21.000 I'm 10 years old, and I would like to know how I can make a difference in my community.

01:55:29.000 It's amazing.

01:55:35.000 I think that's the best question we had all night.

01:55:37.000 It's phenomenal.

01:55:38.000 Very good.

01:55:41.000 So, young people really give me hope.

01:55:44.000 And I'm going to be very honest with you guys.

01:55:46.000 And this is, if I can be blunt, the older generation does not.

01:55:54.000 Oh, I'm going to be honest, though.

01:55:55.000 She said.

01:55:57.000 And people like her give me hope because most old people vote for Biden.

01:56:01.000 Most 65 plus are going that way. 0.78

01:56:03.000 It's just, and I'm just telling you guys, generally, there's a country, and I'm not trying to blame you.

01:56:10.000 I'm just telling you that this really gives me hope.

01:56:13.000 That 10-year-olds and 11-year-olds and 12-year-olds, it's amazing.

01:56:17.000 And so here's what you can do: learn.

01:56:25.000 Learn all the time.

01:56:27.000 Seek wisdom.

01:56:28.000 And at 10 years old, the best thing you parents can do to grandkids and young people is teach the stories of America to young people.

01:56:39.000 Make it personal.

01:56:40.000 Tell them the names.

01:56:42.000 Tell them the complications.

01:56:44.000 Create the founders of our country into heroes in the eyes of America's youth.

01:56:48.000 Because guess what?

01:56:49.000 The Thomas Jefferson that she will end up hopefully loving at 10 years old will be under attack when she's 16.

01:56:56.000 And she'll lean back on that: hey, I remember learning about Thomas Jefferson.

01:57:00.000 I like that guy.

01:57:01.000 I remember learning about George Washington.

01:57:03.000 I grew up admiring, or Abigail Adams, or the great women that helped build this country, because there's so many of them.

01:57:09.000 That's the first thing: learn.

01:57:10.000 The second thing is be active.

01:57:12.000 You're not too young to knock on doors.

01:57:14.000 You actually, I think you could win some votes for Trump.

01:57:20.000 And the third thing is this.

01:57:23.000 You're homeschooled, right?

01:57:24.000 Which is why you're so clear in your thinking.

01:57:27.000 No, it's true.

01:57:28.000 The most amazing people I meet are homeschooled.

01:57:30.000 They're steeped in wisdom.

01:57:31.000 I'm such a fan of homeschooling.

01:57:33.000 I can't even tell you it's the solution to so many things.

01:57:35.000 It's incredible.

01:57:36.000 God bless those at homeschool.

01:57:37.000 It's so incredible.

01:57:38.000 The third thing is this: that the people you talk to and your friends, as you grow older, never back down and always stand with courage.

01:57:48.000 Be someone rooted in courage, it is so hard to find in America right now.

01:57:52.000 So hard.

01:57:52.000 That's why I love the young people that are standing up for things right now, despite the criticism, and our pastors that go through this.

01:57:59.000 It's so easy right now not to stand with courage.

01:58:01.000 It's so easy just to kind of retreat, wait for it to pass, like tyranny is a hurricane, and all of a sudden you could wait for it to go over.

01:58:08.000 No, it's here to stay unless we stand with courage.

01:58:10.000 So thank you for what you're doing and for your incredible clarity at your young age.

01:58:16.000 And I think one day I'll be working for you.

01:58:21.000 So he wants to take one more, but I think we send everyone off already.

01:58:27.000 No, I'm going to say one more thing.

01:58:28.000 Oh, yeah, absolutely.

01:58:29.000 Go ahead.

01:58:29.000 I want to thank you guys for coming tonight and all the other overflows.

01:58:32.000 Couple takeaway items.

01:58:33.000 One way that you guys could really help me out and help us out.

01:58:36.000 As you can tell, I'm working myself into the ground.

01:58:39.000 I think we're doing pretty well with certain things.

01:58:42.000 We're the hardest working podcast team in the country.

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01:58:57.000 So, one way you could bless us is we're in an ever-present struggle against the multi-billion dollar New York Times in the podcast charts.

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01:59:17.000 Now, you might not know how to do this, so just ask the 10-year-old how to subscribe on your smartphone.

01:59:24.000 So, and for 10 people here tonight, I'm going to give out another 10 signed copies of my book.

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01:59:37.000 That's the email, okay?

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01:59:48.000 Can I do two more takeaways?

01:59:49.000 Yeah, please.

01:59:50.000 Second is this: guys, we're in the crunch time right now.

01:59:53.000 Commit yourself to do something new that you otherwise would not have done in the next 14 days to help save our republic.

01:59:59.000 Maybe it's a road trip to Arizona.

02:00:01.000 Maybe it's I'm going to make phone calls every night, which you guys can do to Battleground States through Trump Victory, 20 phone calls a night.

02:00:07.000 Maybe it's $5 to Donald Trump.

02:00:09.000 Maybe it's $10.

02:00:10.000 It's something.

02:00:11.000 Maybe it's bringing friends to the polls, whatever it might be.

02:00:13.000 Do it.

02:00:14.000 We need your help.

02:00:15.000 And the last thing is this: win or lose on election night.

02:00:17.000 We can't survive this many more close calls in our country.

02:00:21.000 We're losing the culture.

02:00:22.000 43% of our generation thinks America is a good country.

02:00:25.000 Only 43%.

02:00:27.000 We got a lot of work to do.

02:00:29.000 So win, lose, draw.

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02:00:56.000 I'm just a kid from Chicago who never went to college, who decided to speak out and work harder than other people.

02:01:02.000 All of you have the power to do this.

02:01:04.000 It's a republic if you can keep it.

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The Charlie Kirk Show - October 22, 2020

A Debate That Could Cost Trump the Election + How to Finish the Race Strong

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