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00:01:14.000There was a close call that happened thousands and thousands of miles away from here.
00:01:20.000It's a close call between an unmanned American aircraft and a Russian fighter jet.
00:01:25.000What transpired in the last couple of days, we're still getting clarity on.
00:01:30.000We have B-roll of the drone being hit.
00:01:33.000But the immediate reaction that I think all rational patriots have is: are we really thinking out the potential escalating steps that could happen here?
00:01:44.000This is happening in an area where most Americans cannot identify on a map.
00:01:49.000And as soon as I saw this story, this is the way that I've been trained to look at these news stories.
00:01:54.000The first thing I said, I asked myself, do we have military drones over the southern border right now?
00:04:05.000I am repulsed by how the Republican Party is in harmony with the Biden regime on this.
00:04:11.000The Democrat Party is now the party of war.
00:04:14.000The idea of the Democrats being against the Iraq war and foreign imperialism, the American Democrat Party is fully on board with what is going on in Ukraine.
00:04:25.000The $200 billion spent, the money laundering that's probably occurring, the weapons that are just flooding that entire region.
00:04:32.000The American Democrat Party used to have anti-war elements and they have been eliminated.
00:04:37.000So now the voice of anti-war, not an anti-war, because that sounds really hippie.
00:04:42.000How about the voice of pro-America lives in a portion of the Republican Party?
00:04:49.000It lives on programs like this on War Room on Tucker Carlson.
00:04:52.000And you, the voters, are overwhelmingly disgusted by what you are seeing.
00:04:58.000You see your own beloved country invaded.
00:05:02.000And then you see your leaders send money abroad to go secure other people's borders while yours, 5,000 people a day, pour into our country.
00:05:11.000And a piece of criticism I get is, oh, Charlie, those are separate things.
00:05:24.000And America's border should matter more than foreign adventures abroad, period.
00:05:29.000If you can't do that, then do not do the other thing.
00:05:32.000Securing our border is considered to be racist and bigoted, but securing Ukraine's border is considered to be the Winston-Churchillian cause of the 21st century.
00:05:42.000And Congress and Republicans have been just shredding the Constitution by doing this.
00:05:48.000But I think there's finally, finally, some signs that people are pushing back on the uniparty totalitarian dogma that we must send unlimited money, unlimited arms, and not question at all.
00:06:04.000And there are some very simple questions.
00:08:30.000When in reality, we're loyal to our own nation.
00:08:34.000The philosophy behind America First is that if we do not make urgent action to solve the homeland, then we're going to be nothing more than a colony posing as a country.
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00:09:57.000I want to just play an element of this, and then I want to get into it because Ron DeSantis answering Tucker Carlson's questionnaire has been so interesting.
00:10:18.000So DeSantis responded to Tucker Carlson's questionnaire about all the stuff on Ukraine.
00:10:23.000And the Uniparty in D.C. is very bothered by it because DeSantis is supposed to be, for some people, the place where establishment moderates can feel comfortable.
00:10:32.000And DeSantis is like, yeah, this is a border dispute.
00:10:38.000But I do want to just remind you: one of the reasons we're in the mess that we are in is because Lady Graham and John McCain and A.B. Klomichar and many of these neoliberal Republican and Democrats were poking the Russian bear for years.
00:10:55.000Now, let me be very clear about my position.
00:10:58.000This does not justify invading a smaller sovereign country.
00:11:04.000Putin did a bad, immoral, evil thing to invade a smaller sovereign country.
00:11:12.000However, you must also understand how we set the table for him to do that.
00:11:19.000I want you to imagine if Russia or China went to Mexico with some of their equivalents of senators and gave speeches to the cartel and would say, this is the year of offense against America.
00:11:35.000We're going to take out the American president.
00:11:37.000How do you think we would respond to that?
00:11:40.000The answer is the American left would probably invite them to go speak on college campuses, but that's a separate issue, meaning that it would poke the American bear.
00:11:49.000So, Lady Graham goes to Russia and directly provokes Russia.
00:11:55.000I mean, he goes to Ukraine and directly provokes Russia.
00:12:00.000Right on their border, you have the strongest country in the world saying, We're going to go play offense against Russia.
00:12:05.000And I will repeat it again: how is Vladimir Putin a serious or significant or material threat to the United States homeland in any way, shape, or form, especially while we are being invaded daily?
00:12:20.000And our children are dying from fentanyl straight from the CCP via the cartel.
00:12:31.000How many teenagers has Putin killed in America in the last five years or the Russian Federation?
00:12:39.000I can say without any exaggeration: 50 to 75,000 teenagers have died in America the last five years because of the cartel in the Chinese Communist Party.
00:12:51.000Washington, D.C. is really focused on the abstractions abroad.
00:12:56.000All right, let's play Graham here in Ukraine.
00:13:37.000It's like in every theater of America, every theater of the world, we have American senators going to try to turn up the temperature.
00:13:45.000So now here's John Fune from South Dakota responding to Ron DeSantis.
00:13:50.000Look at the disconnect between you, the voters, and the people you send in Washington, D.C. Can we start to get some primaries of these people?
00:13:58.000Seriously, can we start to primary these Republicans that just ignore their voters?
00:14:10.000What message does it send to Blammer Putin when one of the leading contenders, potential contenders from the Republican presidential nomination, says that this is not a vital interest for the United States to push war in Ukraine and that it's merely a territorial decision?
00:14:25.000Well, I mean, I think that there are lots of different opinions on the U.S. involvement in Ukraine, but I think the majority opinion among Senate Republicans is that the United States has a vital national security interest there in stopping Russian aggression.
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00:18:13.000And George Washington warned us about having lifelong alliances.
00:18:20.000Now, one of the reasons why Washington, D.C. is so disconnected from its voters and why you feel as if you have no voice, especially senators.
00:18:32.000I think the House is better, is because of the 17th Amendment.
00:18:39.000The 17th Amendment is without a doubt one of the worst ideas that ever has become a constitutional amendment in history.
00:18:50.000I think it actually is the worst amendment to the United States Constitution.
00:18:54.000The 17th Amendment, which was ratified thanks to the progressive movement and Woodrow Wilson and all that nonsense in 1913, allowed voters to cast direct votes for U.S. senators.
00:19:08.000Now, this sounded like a very simple and good idea.
00:19:16.000Okay, the senators are now going to be directly responsive to voters because the way it used to work was that state legislatures used to appoint the senator through a process and they'd say, okay, here's who we like and we'll appoint them.
00:19:33.000They also had the ability to recall them though.
00:19:36.000So basically the senators, United States senators, the way the founding fathers designed the system, the senators had to go through a filter process.
00:19:48.000They had to go through a vetting process of the hyper local way of government.
00:19:57.000Senators could not just autopilot to reelection if they betrayed their party and its priorities.
00:20:07.000I have no big complaints with John Thune except the fact he's totally wrong with Ukraine and he doesn't fight on the issues we care about and he votes for omnibus.
00:20:25.000Because John Thune is in Senate leadership.
00:20:27.000John Thune is going to go raise $20 to $30 million.
00:20:30.000You couldn't spend $20 to $30 million on television in South Dakota.
00:20:35.000You could buy the local TV station in Rapid City for $20 million, right?
00:20:40.000I mean, that is a full, complete blanket media operation where you could basically control the entire state with $20 or $30 million.
00:20:49.000Okay, so he's probably going to win reelection.
00:20:52.000If he gets primaried, that person will probably have no money.
00:20:55.000And John Thune will just keep on running ads and running ads and running ads and running ads saying that he's pro-life and he's all this.
00:21:01.000Nobody can compete with John Thune because getting 200,000 votes gets you to be a U.S. senator.
00:21:08.000However, if John Thune had to go up for a hearing to get recertified as a senator in front of the South Dakota legislature, now we're talking.
00:21:22.000The South Dakota legislature is super conservative.
00:21:26.000They're doing a really good job right now.
00:21:29.000So the South Dakota South Dakota legislature would basically say, Mr. Thune, we don't think you're representing the voters of South Dakota when it comes to Ukraine.
00:21:40.000We don't think that you're fighting hard enough.
00:21:45.000Now, the counter argument is that when you used to have this process, that the state parties kind of controlled it like a mob, but isn't that what's happening now?
00:22:38.000And this is a wonky constitutional provision or amendment that doesn't get enough attention.
00:22:44.000America became less free and more Washington, D.C. centric as soon as we removed the state legislatures from being able to appoint and hold the United States senators accountable.
00:22:58.000They became national celebrity figures instead of proxies and extensions of the state capitals.
00:23:06.000Remember, the states created the federal government.
00:23:09.000The federal government did not create the states.
00:23:11.000So now all of a sudden you run for the U.S. Senate.
00:23:14.000You don't have to talk to your voters in Rapid City.
00:23:18.000You don't have to go talk to your voters in Peer.
00:23:21.000You don't have to go talk to the wonderful people all across South Dakota.
00:23:25.000You just go raise money from New York and California and from lobbyists, run some very neatly tailored television advertisements, and you get reelected and rinse and repeat, and the regime goes untouched.
00:23:38.000The way the founding fathers wanted it to be, they wanted the states to have a direct voice, a direct check and balance, as it says in the Federalist Papers.
00:23:51.000We now have these pseudo-national celebrity figures like Graham, like Romney, like some of these others that they are not held accountable in any way, shape, or form.
00:24:01.000And the counterargument is: well, Charlie, why don't the voters do it?
00:24:05.000Again, the reality is in America today, because of the amount of money in politics, these senators, they do a couple show votes on issues people care about, pro-life, this, that, and nothing actually gets done.
00:24:20.000And then they just blanket the state in advertisements, destroy the Democrat opponent, and they say, okay, I guess John Thune is better than some Democrat, which is true, by the way.
00:24:28.000I mean, I would vote for John Thune over a Democrat, obviously.
00:25:07.000There's a money problem, a name ID problem.
00:25:09.000And it shouldn't have to be difficult because the American founding fathers never wanted the system to exist the way it is.
00:25:16.000And so I remain convinced that one of the reasons you're living in a country where the voters, you, are saying, what the heck are we doing in Ukraine?
00:25:29.000And you feel as if your senators don't listen to you because they don't, it's because the system, the structure that the founding fathers set up was obliterated by the 17th Amendment.
00:25:40.000And now they're discovering other weapons that Republicans are embracing, uniparty Republicans, like ranked choice voting, making it even harder.
00:25:49.000The founding fathers and the framers wanted a bottom-up grassroots model and system.
00:25:54.000So I mean, I fully support the repeal of the 17th Amendment.
00:25:59.000But I would prefer the legislatures, the state legislatures, to have a direct voice, to be able to recall John Thune and say, you're not doing your job.
00:26:08.000I know I'm probably picking on him too much, but it just so happens he was on the clip.
00:26:11.000And again, I agree with him on a lot of stuff.
00:26:14.000On Ukraine, he's not listening to his voters.
00:26:16.000In fact, he's just parroting these talking points of the Washington, D.C. war machine while our country becomes poorer and our country becomes less likely to pass down a free society to the next generation.
00:26:29.000This is a major reason why we have lost our freedoms and liberties over the last 20 or 30 years.
00:26:35.000It is almost like a single point of failure.
00:26:38.000You get this wrong, you get another thousand, two thousand, three thousand other things wrong.
00:26:43.000And people say, well, Charlie, why can't we get all these other things done?
00:26:47.000Why can't we get voter integrity and voter ID and close the border and all of that?
00:26:51.000And it would be depressing if the voters didn't believe this.
00:26:57.000What is infuriating is that because of shows like ours and Bannon and Tucker and Daily Wire and the new social media stuff and Turning Point Action and all the educational work that goes, what gives you hope but should be infuriating is this, is it's a two-part equation.
00:27:18.000A plus B should equal C. Voters with good ideas should be plus representatives that listen to their voters equal good policy, right?
00:27:29.000A plus B equals C. That's very simple political math.
00:27:32.000We have voters that are angry, that are seeing the world the right way, that are tired of these silly foreign wars, that want to see China held accountable, that want to see us energy independent.
00:27:43.000But the B is the actual representatives that couldn't care less about what their voters are actually saying.
00:27:50.000It's because the structure our founding fathers gave us was put in jeopardy.
00:27:55.00029 states have full GOP control of the legislature.
00:27:59.000If we did not have the 17th Amendment, we would have 58 Republican senators and Chuck Yu Schumer would be the minority minority leader.
00:28:09.000And we'd have a Senate majority leader that would be closer to Josh Hawley and not like Mitch McConnell.
00:28:14.000The further we get away from the brilliance and the internal wisdom of the founding fathers, the less free our country becomes.
00:28:26.000I had a question yesterday from a wonderful supporter of Turning Point USA, and she said something about Charlie.
00:28:33.000You know, we got to stand by our military.
00:28:35.000And I agree, we do have to stand by our veterans.
00:28:37.000We got to stand by the active military members.
00:28:39.000But I do not currently stand by the leadership of this military.
00:28:43.000I have lost faith in the United States military's ability to not just fight wars, but to be rational and sane.
00:28:54.000I want to live in a country where we have the greatest military ever.
00:28:57.000But the ideas that started in college campuses, as I have warned for a decade, I was mocked, I was ridiculed, I was scorned and ignored by the American ruling class.
00:29:11.000When I used to be in dinners in Palm Beach or New York, and I was the kid that didn't go to college, and I told them five or six years ago, I said, guys, these ideas are going to metastasize into our military corporations.
00:29:22.000And I remember one guy who was a military defense contractor, never gave turning point money.
00:29:25.000He said, Charlie, the military is the greatest ever.
00:29:29.000We're never going to have these woke ideas in the military.
00:29:32.000I've tried to follow up with him and get his opinion, but he doesn't return my call now.
00:30:15.000What are your organizations doing to improve diversity when it comes to recruiting and retaining your workforces?
00:30:20.000I think there is no question that we have to do better on diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility.
00:30:26.000And I think you'll see in our budget requests and our proposals and all of the work that we're doing that we are that we see this as an area that we need to focus more intense resources and efforts.
00:30:40.000We need to dedicate more intense resources on diversity, equity, and inclusion.
00:30:49.000That's the head of the director of national intelligence.
00:30:51.000Not more resources about finding Chinese spies.
00:30:54.000Not more resources about how the cartel is moving goods and trafficking children.
00:30:59.000Not more resources into securing the homeland.
00:31:03.000No, no, no, more resources into strengthening diversity, equity, and inclusion.
00:31:12.000When I wrote my book, The College Scam, I warned that the United States military and the intelligence community and corporations, the entire country is becoming one major college campus.
00:31:24.000Diversity, equity, inclusion is one of the most damaging and dangerous programs that the left is pushing.
00:31:59.000I believe that their pathological focus on racism is a conspiracy theory because they can never tell me what it is.
00:32:06.000It's everywhere, but you can't see it, and it's in the structure, but you have to wear like super goggles and read Robin D'Angelo's book, and then you can maybe see it.
00:32:16.000And once you see it, you can't get rid of it and you can't eradicate it because it's like original sin, but you got to apologize for it, all that it is.
00:32:21.000But don't question it because if you do, if you're a race, if you're a racist, we'll cancel you.
00:32:25.000But trust me, it's everywhere, even though you can't see it and I can't prove it.
00:32:45.000Same in hiring of practices, the federal government.
00:32:48.000So I'll grant you that there's racism there, but diversity, equity, and inclusion is the same immoral premise of critical theory that was brought into South America and apartheid, reconfigured against white people.
00:33:02.000And now it's not just maybe in the military.
00:33:05.000Our entire national security apparatus is dominated by the very same ideas that I've been warning people about for a decade at Turning Point USA on college campuses.