In this episode of the "Ask Charlie Kirk" show, host Charlie Kirk is joined by some of his own members to talk about their thoughts on the proposed bill that would open up a lot of federal lands for sale, including the Grand Canyon, Grand Canyon National Park Service, and Yellowstone National Park.
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00:01:26.000Just my kind of question thought of the week is around this land potential grab, if you want to call it that, in the big, beautiful bill that'll open up a lot of the federal lands for sale.
00:01:40.000And I can just see this go in a particular way where it's not actually beneficial.
00:01:44.000It ends up being just, you know, who's at the trough at the moment.
00:01:49.000And these are a lot of our most beautiful vistas and federal lands and parks.
00:02:13.000Like, of course, I don't want like Yellowstone to be sold to a bunch of developers or like the Grand Tetons or Yosemite or the Grand Canyon.
00:02:21.000But as someone who lives out west, especially in Arizona, there is a ton of national land that could potentially be developed for housing.
00:02:30.000So just you understand, one of the biggest issues is that there's a look at look at how much federal, I mean, Nevada is basically like 94% federal land.
00:02:40.000We're talking about a minuscule percentage of federal land in or immediately adjacent to existing residential developments and BLM leases would be off limits for any land sales.
00:02:52.000And so it is a 29% of the land in America is owned by the federal government.
00:03:00.000I mean, look, that is the federal land map out west.
00:03:03.000Now, the better way to probably do this is just give it to the states, and then the states can then do it.
00:03:10.000Because I think that a land sale from a PR perspective sounds terrible.
00:03:15.000Now, should we preserve beautiful federal land?
00:04:57.000And thank you for the extended time on that.
00:04:59.000My thought is kind of what you're saying is, oh, more clustered, more liberal.
00:05:02.000Well, I think along with it, one way to do it is, okay, let's make the policy platform and agenda in all these states much more unpalatable for liberals to move into Utah, into Nevada, Arizona, lock down that sector.
00:05:17.000And then I think additionally, show for more kind of transparency on, like you said, if it's BLM leases that are adjacent to other residential, that supports great.
00:05:26.000And as you mentioned, there's millions and millions of acres out there that are really untouched and that aren't going to be impacted, which is beautiful.
00:05:33.000But I also think that there are massive sections, if you go through Atlanta, St. Louis, a handful of cities in the country, Baltimore, that have major, and this is not really directly impacted by the federal lands element, but if you think about just places to build, there's massive sections of these cities that have just been completely kind of run down, wiped out, forgotten over the years that also could be tied in with this.
00:05:59.000Okay, well, we're going to redevelop some of these areas in the cities that have been bladed alongside that.
00:06:05.000And then, of course, you add in deport, I don't know, 50, 60, 70 odd million illegals.
00:06:42.000It tells the truth about our history, how our nation was formed on biblical principles, and the importance of protecting our Judeo-Christian foundations as we move forward.
00:06:50.000God has given us an assignment to bring our faith into our world today, and here's the catch.
00:06:55.000It starts with focusing on our own attitudes.
00:06:58.000When you take time to understand how God has consistently blessed America, pouring his grace and mercy on us over and over again, it will give you hope for the days ahead.
00:07:06.000We cannot afford to forget our past, good and bad, or we will forfeit the best opportunities of our future.
00:08:02.000Yeah, so I was kind of wondering what kind of hopes for the outcomes for the students that are going to that.
00:08:07.000What are you hoping that we can kind of get out of that after the nine months?
00:08:11.000Well, I think, first of all, it's called Turning Point Academy Prep Year.
00:08:14.000I'm going to do my best to actually be there at the beginning of it.
00:08:17.000So basically, it's going to be nine months intensive on real scholarship on scripture, philosophy, economics, civics.
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00:08:43.000I mean, you're going to be in a very close, you know, quarters.
00:08:46.000By the way, this is all happening in Fort Worth.
00:08:52.000Our goal is that you are going to get a world-class type experience in a short period of time, in nine months, that will change you for the rest of your life.
00:09:00.000You'll be able to better defend the scriptures.
00:09:02.000You'll be better to understand what is the good, the true, and the beautiful.
00:09:06.000Who is Socrates and Aristotle and Aquinas and Augustine and Plato?
00:09:11.000And so that is the goal of Turning Point Academy, all pointing towards Jesus Christ, to give you in nine months, in a prep year type environment, what colleges should be doing.
00:09:21.000So thrilled you're doing it, my friend, and hope to see you there.
00:09:56.000But I believe that if you want to homeschool your kids, then you should be able to use your tax dollars to be able to go back to yourself because you're the ones that are then doing the homeschooling.
00:10:28.000He's still in very serious condition, but he's mentally all there.
00:10:32.000And Dennis, the number one message he wanted me to share with you guys, and I have to say it every day on the show for a couple days, Dennis said, Charlie, make sure you remind people the moral differences between Israel and Iran.
00:10:43.000So that is the message I'm carrying from Dennis Prager to you.
00:10:46.000And you should keep on praying for Dennis Prager.
00:10:50.000Well, the reason that I'm calling is more of a domestic issue.
00:10:53.000I spend probably too much time on X, but that's where you have to go to get independent journalists.
00:10:58.000And I guess what can be done about these insane democratic lawmakers abusing ICE agents and ICE facilities like they are tweens performing a bad TikTok challenge?
00:11:11.000When I look at what they are doing, it is reprehensible, and dare I say the word tyrannical, that they have the audacity to show up to these people's place of work while they are employed at their workplace and physically assaulting them or demanding that they drop everything as soon as they get there to let them in.
00:11:32.000And it is galling that they're doing this for ICE facilities and this has not gotten enough press coverage.
00:11:38.000Rikers Island has been taken out of New York City control.
00:11:42.000There were 6,784 stabbings in Rikers Island just in 2023 alone and 33 deaths since 2022.
00:11:52.000How come all of these I'm so righteous, I'm so worried people never visit American prisons to look at American prisoners and see the quality of their conditions?
00:12:13.000The New York City mayoral candidate, Brad Lander, who was arrested a few days ago for abstracting ICE agents, is now back at the same courthouse doing it again.
00:12:22.000And so these left-wing Democrats, they're trying to get social media virality and they're trying to get, let's just say, more notoriety.
00:12:35.000Representative LaMicah McIver has been indicted on three federal charges related to an incident outside of the Delaney Hall Federal Immigration Facility in Newark, New Jersey on May 9th, 2025.
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00:14:38.000Because the chairwoman of Formosa Alliance, the small political party that funds this membership, is interested in flying out here from Taiwan.
00:14:47.000And she wants to know what's going to be on the agenda.
00:14:50.000Well, we haven't announced it yet, but I can imagine some very big speakers.
00:14:54.000Last year, we had President Donald Trump right there.
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00:16:59.000If you want to pursue a family, I can also advise you on that.
00:17:03.000I mean, I got in a lot of trouble at the Young Women's Leadership Summit.
00:17:06.000Again, everyone is very deceptive in the way I said that.
00:17:08.000I said, if your top priority in life is finding a husband, which it might be, then don't discount going to college with the intent of finding a husband.
00:17:28.000I saw Jordan the other day here in Arizona, where you can literally take a test and a quiz and will help you figure out what you want to do at a young age.
00:17:57.000So when we're dealing with possibly the end of civilizations, we know it.
00:18:00.000If things go wrong, if things go as bad as they could, but if we do have some neutron bombs hidden, if we took out Tehran with a neutron bomb and took out the Mosi Aitoa, all the leadership, and they don't even know what hit them.
00:18:53.000How many people would die if we left this film to World War III?
00:18:57.000Hold on, first of all, there's no guarantee this is going to go to World War III.
00:19:00.000Second of all, I reject the premise that we should drop an atomic or nuclear weapon on the way a neutron bomb works, that's an enhanced radiation weapon.
00:19:15.000It's a type of thermonuclear weapon designed to have maximum lethal radiation while minimizing blast damage.
00:19:22.000So basically, you would kill the entire population with radiation over a period of time.
00:19:27.000And yes, it is a type of a thermonuclear weapon, okay?
00:19:30.000So a neutron bomb is just a semantical difference, okay?
00:19:33.000So maybe not, maybe not on maybe not on Tehran.
00:19:36.000But I mean, if we don't stop them from what they're doing, I think it's leading to World War III.
00:20:14.000So I would have you probably try to reconsider that view that indiscriminate killing of civilians and women and children, regardless of what story you're telling you that it's going to prevent World War III, is probably not God's intent for the people of Persia.
00:20:30.000Well, I'm a Christian, but I believe the Old Testament too.
00:20:52.000So again, there's no guarantee anything's going to World War III.
00:20:55.000And even if we were going to go to World War III, there's no world that I could justify dropping a nuclear neutron bomb for the annihilation of a city to solve our problems.
00:21:07.000I don't think Christ would favor the annihilation of a city.
00:21:11.000In fact, I remember the teaching is blessed are the peacemakers, not blessed are the nuclear bomb droppers.