Glenn Beck talks about Charlie Kirk and his impact on his life and career, and how he became the next George Washington. He also tells the story of how Charlie's sister accidentally recorded his first radio show on the washing machine.
00:05:51.000He was sitting on his family's washing machine doing an interview with me.
00:05:58.000And he said he was on a phone that used to have a hard line, so it had the phone wire that he had to pull it all the way around, and he couldn't keep his sister quiet.
00:06:11.000So he went in and closed it on the phone wire and sat on the washing machine.
00:09:52.000It is time that we point out that what he was doing was not politics.
00:09:59.000What he was doing was trying to stand up for people's civil rights, to show people how a civilization is not a civilization, unless you can have a dialogue with people who are diametrically opposed to you, that don't believe anything that you believe in.
00:10:18.000And yet, you can have a civil dialogue and how important that is.
00:10:22.000That's our civil right, our right to free speech.
00:10:26.000And that gunman was trying to take that right away from him and from you and everyone else.
00:10:36.000And there has been a force in this country to try to convince people that you don't have a right, that you have a responsibility to silence others.
00:12:18.000We were all crying out in the control room.
00:12:20.000And so I am right now in this moment very emotional.
00:12:25.000And I know that you watched his story grow and that tribute about the next George Washington and how he was, Charlie was so aware of that speech you gave.
00:12:36.000And he wasn't there in person, but he watched it somewhere else live.
00:12:42.000And right now, I don't have many words because of how moving that was.
00:12:49.000You know, I said the other day, and I don't mean this, I mean, I'm not saying this to self-aggrandize at all.
00:13:02.000But I looked at him almost like a professional son.
00:13:11.000I looked at him because I watched him from a distance and I saw him young and I saw his desires and how he built and everything that he did.
00:13:24.000And as I was thinking about that, as I packed that microphone up yesterday, I was thinking about him and I thought, Charlie would have been president.
00:14:14.000You know, I can't tell you how many times I was with Charlie and people would beg him, you have to run for president, you have to run for president.
00:14:21.000Charlie would always, you know, say, no, no, no, I'm happy doing what I'm doing.
00:14:25.000And I will say, Charlie was the existence of J.D. Vance gave Charlie a lot of emotional freedom to say that next man up is JD.
00:15:25.000If you got into a heated discussion in private with Charlie, nobody would ever hear about that.
00:15:30.000If anything happened, because his goal was to keep people together, he understood that there are so many forces in our world and our politics that are ripping everybody apart.
00:15:39.000And I said this yesterday, but it bears repeating.
00:15:43.000Just a few weeks before his death, he sent me this hierarchy of what the Greeks considered to be the highest virtues and the highest callings.
00:15:51.000And he said to me, he said, Andrew, we are not the actors and the entertainers that are at the bottom.
00:16:11.000And he knew that God had put him in a position that he could keep people together.
00:16:16.000And so, you know, there would be times where everybody wanted us to go all in on this story or go all in on that.
00:16:22.000And Charlie saw three steps ahead all the time.
00:16:25.000He was always thinking long-term, what will that do to the movement?
00:16:28.000And so he would craft his messaging and his strategy and who we invited to what, you know, around how do you manage this current moment so that everybody is still a part of this thing.
00:16:41.000I can't thank you enough for inviting us to be here.
00:17:10.000Hamilton and Madison and Jay, who were obviously the designers of and explainers of the U.S. Constitution, they wanted spirited tension between the branches.
00:17:21.000They wanted the branches to kind of not to be at war with each other, but to have different opinions on how governing should this idea that the executive branch must bend a knee because Congress has appropriated the money.
00:17:33.000And so, look, in addition to that, is if we can get, this is where the other thing is that I was pushing for, and I don't think it's going to happen, is if we can reauthorize the Presidential Reorganization Act, which has been authorized them many times, which essentially says if an agency can do the work that is duplicative of another agency, it no longer needs to exist.
00:17:52.000So let's just take the Department of Education, which needs to end.
00:17:54.000The Department of Education needs to be shut down.
00:18:49.000And then finally, they have this whole separate office of the Department of Education that is Senate-confirmed Tier 2 position that is the Office of Civil Rights.
00:18:56.000Put that under the Department of Justice.
00:18:58.000They don't need your own civil rights division in the Department of Education that goes and harasses our Christian schools and goes after conservative kids.
00:19:11.000The Department of Education actually never existed.
00:19:13.000It used to be called HEW, Health, Education, and Welfare.
00:19:17.000And in fact, we could remerge these together and then we could find duplicative type processes and better synergies.
00:19:25.000That is even before we get more to the fundamental question of which I have and you have, I don't think the Department of Education is constitutional.
00:19:32.000I do not think that it's in the original intent as written that the federal government has any role in the education of our children, period.
00:19:41.000What progressives do understand, but the actual voter that votes usually with Democrats don't understand is, I don't have a problem with the way you live in California.
00:19:53.000You want to live in California and you want to be as insane as you are.
00:20:36.000Like they said, we are not going to give money for kids that need assistance for lunch if you don't have radical transgender policies.
00:20:43.000So what we've done is we've created this insane leverage that the Department of Education should not have over local municipalities and school districts.
00:22:21.000I talked to him earlier today because one of the things that we have to do is we have to stop the funding of all of these things that are on the left that we have honestly now started to find out.
00:22:32.000I mean, I've been exposing this stuff on chalkboards for years and years, almost two decades now, and how the George Soros's et cetera of the world are funding all of the worst of the worst.
00:22:45.000And Ryan has done his work and has really come up with some smoking guns, especially on George Soros, Donald Trump can use as Rico charges.
00:23:04.000Well, we had some amazing findings according to George Soros' own files from his Open Society Foundations.
00:23:11.000So myself, my colleagues at Capital Research Center basically went through as many grants of his, as many funding streams as we could find.
00:23:19.000And here's the smoking guns that we believe that President Trump, if he's informed of it, can use to go after Soros' network of hate in various ways.
00:23:30.000We traced over $80 million going from the Open Society Foundations to at least 54 groups engaged in crime and domestic terrorism on U.S. soil or that are pro-terrorism, endorsing things like the October 7th attacks, or are associated with foreign terrorist organizations or explicitly pro-terror groups.
00:23:55.000And this is according to his own files, so it's rock solid.
00:23:59.000And overall of that amount, over 23 million went to at least seven groups that are doing things that meet the FBI's definition of domestic terrorism.
00:24:18.000So the Center for Third World Organizing, for example, is an organization that has a hub that fused together several really extreme organizations.
00:24:30.000And they openly boast of the fact that they threw down during the uprisings in Minnesota, obviously referring to the rioting and boasting of how many thousands of people they helped train.
00:24:41.000A lot of these groups have created what they'll call like a protest guide or an activism toolkit.
00:24:47.000Then you open it up and you'll see support for Hamas in it, but then they'll sometimes slyly say, for more information, go to these hyperlinks.
00:24:55.000And you go to the hyperlinks, and there'll be guides recommending things like property destruction, violence, false IDs, how to obstruct justice, all of these things.
00:25:06.000And they know darn well what they're doing.
00:25:08.000They won't put that there by accident.
00:25:10.000Some of the more careful ones will just direct their readership to anarchist websites with all that material, knowing that they'll see it when it's there.
00:25:19.000And so, yeah, I mean, it's really stunning.
00:25:21.000And some of these groups are coalitions.
00:25:23.000So when I say 54 groups, just one of those might have 300 entities in that one.
00:25:30.000So it's actually the real number is actually much higher.
00:25:33.000Let me play something from October 2010, where I was talking about the RICO Act and George Soros.
00:25:50.000They talk about urban guerrilla tactics.
00:25:57.000The incident in any area is occupied by revolutionaries, it must be appropriated forthwith according to two incontestable principles: self-defense and free distribution of the goods produced.
00:26:09.000The best way to avoid isolation is to attack.
00:26:11.000Thus, one must, with an eye to the internationalist direction.
00:28:00.000And we identified over 150 pro-terrorism groups organizing those protests.
00:28:06.000There weren't peaceful groups behind it.
00:28:09.000And so when that report came out, which is very similar to this one, this is almost somewhat of a sequel.
00:28:14.000One of the radical entities that's Hamas friendly had this to say about the research that we released.
00:28:20.000So the same would be true of the source report that we're about to release at one o'clock.
00:28:25.000It said that these reports we're doing pose an existential threat that could easily mean a quick death for most of the groups by getting their tax-exempt statuses ripped away from them.
00:28:37.000And so those that survive would suffer mass chaos.
00:28:41.000So they're saying that we have figured out how to beat them if we just get this into the right hands.
00:28:48.000And so at one o'clock, this is what we're dropping about George Soros as part of our investigation.
00:28:54.000And that's what I said on your show earlier.
00:30:41.000And so that ship that he was talking about, we're going to sink it.
00:30:46.000And all the other big billionaire-funded organizations are out there that are funding this type of filth that are poisoning American civil society and spreading this type of hate that resulted in what happened a week ago.
00:31:01.000If you're doing this by mistake, I will volunteer my time to help you vet the organizations that you finance so you don't fund terrorism and hate.
00:31:13.000And you continue doing it, you're next.
00:31:16.000Looking at, you know, looking at your research, there's a handful of grants that are nuts for things like children that include ideas of hierarchy, supremacy, colonialism, and to the Alinsky Institute in France, which is in honor of Sololinsky, if I'm not mistaken, right?
00:31:36.000And when you go through the report, you'll see that the organizations that they're funding are so blatantly connected to foreign terrorist organizations, so blatantly extremist.
00:31:46.000So before, when there would be reports about this in drips and drabs, I could kind of understand some people saying, well, out thousands of grants, maybe some mistakes are made.
00:31:58.000And I keep thinking about how when the Iranian regime allows pro-terrorism entities to fundraise on Iranian soil, what do we call that?
00:32:06.000We call that state sponsorship of terrorism.
00:32:09.000In the United States, when American nonprofits in the nonprofit sector allow pro-terror entities to fundraise on American soil, what do we call it?
00:32:50.000How many people on earth this last week became a Christian on the killing field?
00:32:56.000They saw Charlie Kirk and they thought, you know, I wasn't a Christian before, but I think I understand what it means to be a Christian today.
00:33:03.000Abraham Lincoln said, I'm not a Christian.
00:33:05.000Little Abraham Lincoln, six, seven, eight years old, he would get in trouble and his dad would get drunk and he would take his belt and he would whip him while quoting the scriptures.
00:33:15.000Well, there's nothing that makes somebody want to be a Christian more than that.
00:33:18.000And so Abraham Lincoln rejected Christianity.
00:33:21.000And he said later in life, he said, when I became president, I wasn't really a Christian.
00:33:27.000When my son died, I wasn't a Christian.
00:33:29.000I didn't become a Christian until Gettysburg.
00:34:02.000He issues a proclamation and a request for the nation to go into prayer, fasting, and humiliation, meaning asking God for forgiveness for all of our sins.
00:34:12.000And he basically said, whatever God wants, he's just.
00:34:48.000My daughter, who is 19 years old, made it with David Osmond last night.
00:34:56.000And she was there about 10 feet away from the tent when Charlie was shot.
00:35:03.000And we'll tell you a little bit about this next hour.
00:35:09.000Glenn, talk to me about the path forward from here, because I think a lot of people right now have that moment where they're so thankful for everything that Charlie had done and appreciated his approach to everything, this open approach, open debate.
00:35:23.000And they want to continue that approach.
00:35:26.000I do think there's also a lot of people who look at it and say, for everything that Charlie tried to do, look at what's the price he paid.
00:37:37.000And now God is moving with his people.
00:37:42.000And I find that extraordinarily optimistic.
00:37:45.000I think what we have to be careful of is, you know, I worry, I'll start to worry about the people of TPUSA.
00:37:52.000I mean, we've already been praying for you, but I'm going to start worrying about you next week and the week after because I've had enough people in my life die.
00:38:00.000Once company goes home, then you're left alone with the reality.
00:38:04.000And that's when that despair or hopelessness can start to play games with you.
00:38:41.000I don't think it will, quite honestly, but I could be wrong.
00:38:45.000But if we have real discipline and then constitutional discipline, you know, this hate speech debate, Charlie wouldn't have been for that ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever.
00:39:00.000I know that he tweeted explicitly about it.
00:40:14.000And President Trump in a lot of different ways has led the revitalization and had given a lot of Americans hope that they thought that this country could not be turned around.
00:40:48.000And what used to bring us together is that we can disagree, but we have a fundamental understanding that this country is a positive force and you can make it.
00:40:59.000Well, I have a working theory about this.
00:41:01.000This is why Bernie Sanders has a group that really appreciates him and follows him and why even some people on the right will say, oh, I don't like Bernie Sanders, but I think he really believes what he believes.
00:41:12.000I think the new era of politics and the bipartisan cartel that has ruined this ruling class essentially series of destructive policies that have borrowed too much money and eroded our freedoms and liberties and grew the fourth branch of government.
00:41:26.000I think the American people would much prefer someone who's authentic, who says why they believe what they believe, like that conversation you had with the president on trade, even if you might fundamentally disagree with terrorist say, I'll deal with that way more than an establishment Republican in a heartbeat.
00:41:41.000I made argument after argument, and he tried to dismantle and be like, but wait a minute, Mr. President, this, blah, blah, blah.
00:41:48.000And in the end, he said, I'm just going to shoot straight with you.
00:42:14.000Or the false agreement that the bipartisan coalition that has really, like I said, ruined our country in so many ways, not completely, but I find the American people have this yearning and this interest, especially young people, for authenticity in our candidates, and that's been deteriorating.
00:42:49.000If we continue the spending, and if we continue the erosion of who we are and the truth, we will be much more socialist.
00:43:06.000If we have this real collapse, an actual depression, people who right now say, I am absolutely against socialism, they will want it to be able to weather that storm.
00:44:38.000You are you and your organization really responsible for what I think will be the next great generation, but also some real sucky ones are going to come out of this group, too.
00:44:55.000I want to tell you something that Charlie and I spoke about.
00:45:02.000I have been saying for a while now, because I've been tracking this since really 2004, 2005.
00:45:11.000I've been tracking this slide into Marxism and communism, socialism, radicalism.
00:45:20.000And I studied revolution all over the world to see how does it happen.
00:45:36.000You and I both know, and I hate to even address stuff like this, but you and I both know there are those people, and I don't know who they are, and I don't know how many there are, but there are those people that hate Donald Trump so much because they will destroy, because he will destroy their plans for a new world order.
00:45:57.000They will, they would at least consider an actual assassination if this doesn't work.
00:46:08.000This is something that I had been saying for a while, that we were going to go into a period of assassination.
00:46:16.000When I talked about assassinating the president or attempted assassination of the president, I was always very hesitant because you just always want to be very, very careful on what you say about a president or a candidate.
00:46:32.000But I knew they were coming because that's what happened in the 1960s and everything had been repeated.
00:46:38.000And Charlie and I, on one day, maybe 2018 or 2019, I can't remember, he said, what's coming next?
00:46:46.000And we were on this balcony in Miami, and it was just the two of us, and we had a really amazing conversation about what our responsibilities were and what we had to look out for.
00:47:18.000And with an exception of RFK, they were just, they were people that were, you know, in the arena, if you will.
00:47:29.000And so Charlie and I talked about, you know, what do we, what do we do if that starts happening?
00:47:35.000And that's why I am so happy to see the way people that knew Charlie, loved Charlie, worked with Charlie, were part of TPUSA, were just fans of Charlie.
00:47:48.000I think everybody felt like they knew him because he was so personal, but the way everybody is reacting.
00:47:54.000I wanted to play something that I have not even heard yet myself.
00:48:01.000This is something that was written by David Osmond because I knew these times were coming.
00:48:10.000And probably 2018 is when this song was first written for these days.
00:48:19.000And last night, my daughter, Cheyenne, who was about 10 feet away from the tent in Utah last week, thank God she turned her head and turned around because she was hearing people screaming at Charlie.
00:48:38.000And she thought, what are these idiots saying?
00:48:42.000And she turned around, and that's when she said she heard what she thought was a firecracker.
00:48:47.000And by the time she turned back to look at Charlie, she was pushed to the ground, so she didn't, thank God, see it firsthand.
00:48:57.000Last night, she and David Osmond went into the studio to record this in honor of Charlie Kirk.
00:49:37.000But I know we won't be really free if we don't stay united.
00:56:02.000So if you are someone also that went to church for the first time ever or for the first time in a very long time today, I am with you and I'm so proud of you for being bold enough to go do that or to just take a stance and say, this is wrong.
00:56:34.000We've had death threats before, but I've never actually had to shut down my national radio show and evacuate the studio during a bomb threat.
00:56:41.000That was, that happened, well, I don't even know, two hours ago.
00:56:45.000We're now filling in for Charlie Kirk.
00:56:49.000And I'm going to see Erica here for the first time.
00:57:40.000I don't think anyone can ever anticipate something like this happening.
00:57:44.000But what I can tell you is Charlie would not want us to throw in the towel.
00:57:49.000And so I know that right now everyone in the country, for good reason, is still kind of grappling at what happened.
00:57:56.000But what I am happy to see is the overwhelming support, not just in voter registration, but the amount of young people, especially over 30,000 requests for college campuses.
00:58:24.000And I know that in the end, no matter what, Charlie really did win because even half of that number would make an incredible difference on these college campuses.
00:58:34.000And just a little bit, I guess, Glenn, of how I initially found Turning Point.
00:58:38.000This was a little quantum breadcrumb, right?
00:58:39.000Like everyone, at some point in your life, you're going to see these little kind of God winks that will pop up and let you know that you're on your right path.
00:58:45.000But I remember being in my finals week when I was getting ready to graduate from college at University of West Florida.
00:58:51.000And I saw these two girls and they were tabling and they had these pins that said big government sucks.
00:58:56.000And I remember going into the library and grabbing this pin.
00:58:59.000I was like, you know, that's pretty cool.
00:59:00.000I'd even think, you know, that later on, fast forward, you know, a year later, that I'd be working with Charlie in that turning point.
00:59:08.000But what I will tell you is that, you know, a lot of people, there needs to be action outside of the legislative and the federal branch.
00:59:16.000And, you know, what we're finding is that what Charlie was fighting, this indoctrination that was taking place on college campuses, these weren't just, you know, liberal professors from the 60s that had been radicalized, right?
00:59:28.000Like this is actually a foreign government-funded operation.
00:59:32.000And a lot of these left-wing organizations that have been pushing these violent riots, the targeted campaigns, a lot of the people that have associations with these groups that are calling for assassinations of the president, of conservative commentators, and even of Charlie's family are tied to these organizations.
00:59:51.000And I guess what I'd like to share today is: so, you know, Glenn, that we were on the show talking about Neville Singh, how he was fighting the party of socialism and liberation, code painting, a lot of the stuff.
01:00:02.000Comer signed on a letter to the U.S. Treasury to freeze all of his assets.
01:00:06.000And I just met with Judge Janine, and he's guilty of a FARA violation.
01:00:10.000I think the Department of Justice is going to be charging him with that.
01:00:27.000And it, I mean, you're going to be able to get George Soros on RICO charges, something I've been asking for for 15 years, and it's happening.
01:00:36.000I think, you know, there's just no better name to name Charlie's movie than Turning Point.
01:00:43.000I mean, we are truly at a turning point, and I couldn't be happier.
01:00:48.000I'm glad that everyone is doing what needs to be done because Charlie ultimately was a freedom fighter and everything that he was doing, you know, the GOP failed to recognize.
01:00:58.000And he was able to transcend politics, but then also to able to share his message.
01:01:02.000And so, yes, it's been extremely hard.
01:01:04.000It's been even harder to see some of the commentary coming out of people that I have to walk by every single day up here on the hill and not knowing him and then continuing this rhetoric.
01:01:14.000But what I will tell you is a lot of them know the truth and that he was not what they painted him out to be.
01:01:20.000And I am happy that he has the team in place that's standing with Turning Point because I know that this organization is going to continue not just for voter engagement and for youth engagement, but to really help fight back.
01:01:32.000And I think that there are a lot of very powerful people now that are listening to what needs to be done.
01:01:38.000And this is the change that we needed.
01:02:03.000What I think is really promising about the kind of conservative movement is we don't all have to agree.
01:02:10.000We don't even all have to agree on tactics at times.
01:02:14.000It's almost as if the leftist media is attacking Donald Trump for not having everyone be exactly the same in the room, almost as if that's what they're used to.
01:02:23.000They're used to looking at a press pool where there's no disagreement whatsoever, which is completely antithetical to what journalism and expression should be.
01:02:32.000And so I actually applaud the fact that not everyone in the room agrees on every issue or sees eye to eye on even the way to go about advancing those issues.
01:02:41.000That's something that should be celebrated.
01:02:43.000We have Mike Lee, the senator from Utah on.
01:02:47.000Mike is a dear, dear friend, and I know is a dear friend of Charlie's and is one of the strongest constitutionalists in our Senate and a man that I hope someday will be appointed as Supreme Court Justice.
01:03:29.000The events of last week are still echoing through our minds.
01:03:34.000Many of us feeling that it happens, feeling that the killer was from Utah.
01:03:40.000There are things within Utah that don't make sense right now.
01:03:44.000There are, I think one could say that Utah is fairly mismatched in several respects.
01:03:51.000It's mismatched with its own media institutions, which lean overwhelmingly radically left.
01:03:59.000It's mismatched with a lot of elements within its educational system, primary and secondary and higher education, where you've got a very conservative populace on the whole.
01:04:10.000Of course, there are exceptions everywhere.
01:04:13.000But these institutions in education and in the medium stand in stark contrast.
01:04:21.000It's almost like we've got the media of Mother Jones in a state that's much more in line with National Review or Fox News or something else like that.
01:04:32.000And so that really is creating some turmoil within the state and some disagreements and cognitive dissonance at times on the part of the left, which still refuses to acknowledge some of the problems that we're facing.
01:05:00.000Is I am afraid that, and I'm already seeing signs of it, that there are those that like big government who are also conservative or say they are conservative, but they're big government.
01:05:13.000And I'm so afraid of a Patriot Act coming out of this.
01:05:17.000And there was something put up on change, what is it, change.org.
01:05:26.000And it was honestly, it was terrifying the way it was written and got a lot of likes.
01:05:31.000A lot of people are saying, yeah, that's what we got to do.
01:05:33.000And the Smith, can you explain the Smith-Munt Act on what it did?
01:05:40.000It actually stems back from World War I and World War II, but what it was keeping at bay and then why it was repealed in 2011.
01:05:49.000Yeah, so it's interesting how this has unfolded.
01:05:53.000During the Cold War era in particular, as you point out, this all started in World War I. I think it grew to much bigger size during World War II and in the aftermath and the Cold War.
01:06:05.000But the U.S. established a fairly sophisticated propaganda system for use overseas or use in other countries to deliver the messages we wanted consistent with America's interests abroad.
01:06:20.000The Smith-Munt Act, among other things, prohibited the U.S. government from using that same propaganda machine for domestic political propaganda.
01:06:29.000In other words, it's fine for us to use this in our foreign adversary nations or direct it to them.
01:06:35.000Don't use it on our own citizens because big government already does enough to influence what we do.
01:06:42.000It tells us what we do, are supposed to do at every turn.
01:06:45.000We don't also need our government telling us what to think.
01:06:48.000So that's why Smith Month was adopted.
01:06:55.000Before you move on to the repeal, I think it's really important.
01:06:57.000That happened in 1946, but it really stems from World War I. The I Want You poster was not a Smith, I mean, not a Creole creation.
01:07:09.000However, the Creole operatives, they were the ones in the government that put that in every post office and every, you know, every theater everywhere.
01:07:18.000They did all these kinds of things to get Americans hyped into World War I. When World War I ended, they felt betrayed by their own government.
01:07:27.000They were like, you lied to us about all of this stuff.
01:07:31.000And they realized propaganda was being used.
01:07:33.000That's why we were so isolationist up until 1941 when they brought it home to us.
01:07:42.000And we were very isolationist because we felt our government lied to us because of this propaganda.
01:07:47.000So as we're turning on propaganda overseas for the Russians and the voice of America, the Democrats were the ones who led this, said, you cannot use any of this propaganda on the American people.
01:08:07.000Well, as part of the Defense Authorization Act during the Obama administration, the Senate, this piece in there didn't get much attention at the time.
01:08:18.000I voted against it, of course, but that undid it.
01:08:23.000Nobody really offered much of a defense as to why it needed to happen.
01:08:29.000And they hoped that it would go through largely unseen, largely undiscussed.
01:08:38.000It's time to bring back the prohibition.
01:08:40.000Look, there's no good reason in a free society like ours for our government to be manipulating its own people.
01:08:49.000And that's why I've introduced a bill to bring back this prohibition in Smith Monk.
01:08:54.000And in honor of our friend who lost his life a week ago, I'm naming it the Charlie Kirk Act.
01:09:02.000Charlie was a big fan of limited government, was a deep skeptic of the brooding, omnipresent government that we often face today, and would have been thrilled to be honored by a measure to bring back Smith Monk bearing his name.
01:09:26.000If you were, you know, if you were alive during COVID, you know the propaganda that was done by our government in league with big pharmaceuticals and the media, that was all propaganda, and they could get away with it because the Smith Monk Act had been repealed.
01:09:48.000All of the stuff that you have gone through with propaganda where they are setting up truth squads where the government will say what's true and what's not.
01:09:59.000All of that happened because of the repeal of this act in 2011.
01:10:21.000Look, I have yet to hear a really good, effective defense of the repeal of Smith Month.
01:10:30.000Not in 2012 when it was passed as part of the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2013, and not since then.
01:10:41.000People are actually afraid to defend it, and they're afraid with good reason.
01:10:44.000Because the American people don't take kindly to that.
01:10:47.000The American people don't take kindly to their overly paternalistic, sort of dark overlord government, trying to tell them what to think, trying to tell them, here's the official position of the United States government.
01:11:02.000We're not actually going to tell you that that's what's doing it.
01:11:05.000We're just going to use the same techniques that we use overseas to try to get what we want in other countries on American voters.
01:11:12.000That's wrong because you're taking money from the American people.
01:11:15.000You're spending it to tell them what to think and therefore how to vote.
01:11:39.000And this one is in the right direction.
01:11:41.000And it actually handcuffs our government, puts the chains back on the government, which is exactly the opposite of what happened last time with the Patriot Act.
01:12:01.000I should know that, and I don't, but we're gathering sponsors still.
01:12:05.000We can use all the sponsors we can get.
01:12:07.000And so if you're listening today and you're not sure whether your senator supports it, ask him or her to get behind it and to co-sponsor the Charlie Kirk Act.
01:12:26.000As far as where we go from here, with this particular bill, we've just got to continue to send a message that if we learned anything from COVID, if we learned anything from who knows how many other incidents, how many other episodes or seasons when the government got too involved in telling us things that turned out to be true, that turned out to be very untrue And it turned out to be manipulative.
01:12:51.000The more we can get that message out and just remind people of the fact that governments are there to do some very simple tasks to protect life, liberty, and property.
01:13:00.000This government in particular is there to provide for our national defense and perform a handful of other tasks identified in Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution.
01:13:13.000The more we can get people focused on that, the greater our chances are going to be to get this thing done.
01:13:18.000As far as where we go from here more broadly, I do think this is a great opportunity for Americans to refocus on the fact that our government and what it does could never be something that's big enough,
01:13:36.000that's a significant enough part of people's lives to where they define themselves and their significance in this life according to what does, even to the point where people feel compelled to murder someone who doesn't share their political worldview simply because other people happen to be listening to that person.
01:13:57.000Part of what was so tragic about this event is it was apparent a week ago.
01:14:05.000Charlie Kirk wasn't taken down because the shooter didn't like, I don't know, his choice of apparel or what he likes to eat.
01:14:51.000On this election, we want to try to lose by less with younger voters, and then we are going to create the most sophisticated, low-propensity, get-out-the-vote turnout machine in modern political history for the right.
01:15:05.000And here was the theory of the case first on the get-out the vote, which is that we believed that there were millions of people that were Trump supporters that were not Trump voters.
01:15:16.000So people that would say, yay, Trump, and they would be with them, but they weren't putting a ballot in a box.
01:15:43.000I said, guys, I think there's a lot more in this reservoir than we realize.
01:15:48.000And so we compared it with the data with the Trump campaign, which we were allowed to do thanks to a FBC ruling back in the spring.
01:15:55.000And we said, guys, let's beat the left at their own game.
01:15:58.000Let's engage in early voting, even though it's a flawed system, in a way that has never been done before, because it gives us actually more days to get low-likely voters to go vote.
01:16:08.000If you have 30 days to do it, you can then get someone who is not as easy to persuade to vote, because then you can get five or six touches on them.
01:16:15.000So we hired well over 1,000 full-time people.
01:16:18.000It's the greatest ground force that's ever done.
01:16:20.000We raised tens of millions of dollars, praise God, from our donors.
01:16:24.000And we pitched them on this thing, hey, the road to the White House is going to be going through these states.
01:16:29.000We're going to need to first register a ton of voters, build relationships in communities, and then drive a turnout machine over a 30-day period to get Donald Trump across the finish line.
01:16:40.000And the states that we primarily focused on was Arizona, Wisconsin.
01:16:44.000We had some work, of course, in Pennsylvania, in Georgia, but really Arizona, Wisconsin.
01:16:49.000And in Wisconsin, I can tell you that if it wasn't for our effort, Donald Trump would have fallen short.
01:16:54.000We chased in excess of over 70,000 low-propensity voters in Wisconsin.
01:17:17.000By St. Patrick's Day, we'll find out who won the Senate race.
01:17:19.000But Kerry Lake is down 44,000 votes here in Arizona.
01:17:24.000And she might fall 10,000 votes short or win by 10,000 votes.
01:17:28.000But thanks to our effort and the team, we closed an eight-point polling gap for Kerry Lake.
01:17:35.000And so, look, basically what we did is we took this movement that Donald Trump created that Donald Trump led, and we added machinery to the movement.
01:17:43.000And we were able to successfully turn Trump supporters into Trump voters.
01:18:08.000He is the CEO, COO, COO of Turning Point Action.
01:18:13.000We just played a clip of Charlie and I talking right after the election last time.
01:18:18.000And I've talked to people who said, what you guys have planned for the midterms and even looking forward to 2028 is awesome, going to make it look like child's play, what happened last time.
01:18:36.000I mean, obviously, this has been a lot to process this whole last week.
01:18:41.000You know, I'm the COO because Charlie's the CEO.
01:18:44.000So losing, you know, the head of the household here has been tougher, I think, for all of us.
01:18:52.000But the beautiful part about what we've done and we've been doing is we've been putting our pen to paper this entire time, really focused on what the plan is, like you mentioned, focused on 2028 and working our way backwards from that, looking at 2032 and working our way backwards.
01:19:09.000And when you do it, when you take that process, I mean, that's the way the left does it.
01:19:13.000When you take that process, you can actually formulate a plan pretty quickly.
01:19:17.000And that's what we've done with our Chase the Vote initiative.
01:19:19.000You know, the really great thing is Charlie was not a guy, you weren't joining because you were a fan of him.
01:19:34.000Yeah, I mean, this is, that's at the core of the elections.
01:19:37.0002028 in particular is really focused on the grassroots.
01:19:43.000Our number one culture point that we have at Turning Point USA and Turning Point Action is what we call grassroots humility.
01:19:49.000If you focus on the grassroots, then you get candidates that the grassroots wants to work for.
01:19:55.000And then therefore it kind of builds the program for you.
01:19:58.000And that's really the beauty of Turning Point and where we felt like we had to step up really coming out of the 2022 election when we realized that everybody was not being honest at what I call the Republican establishment, the core at the, you know.
01:20:28.000And so we knew, and this is the beauty of Charlie and what we had done was we had seen the culmination of how many people kind of became disciples at Turning Point.
01:20:38.000And we knew that we could take that and we had to take that talent and convert it into action.
01:20:44.000And so that's what really built the C4 plan heading into 2024.
01:20:47.000You know, it's really interesting thinking about the coverage leading up to the election.
01:20:52.000Turning point, I think, was really put on the line by the coverage.
01:21:10.000Oh, you're going to put Charlie Kirk ahead of your turnout operation?
01:21:15.000I mean, was there a moment where you were like, this is really a moment that's going to make or break not only the country, but also this organization?
01:21:22.000The beautiful part about being right next to Charlie Kirk for as many years as I've been is that it's a pressure cooker, unlike anything else, even with the small stuff in the early days, is that we live for this pressure.
01:21:46.000So I think the real beauty in this story from this last election cycle, and I'm so glad everything worked out the way it did, not knowing at the time that it was going to be the last time that we would run a race together, right?
01:21:59.000Like do the work because that wasn't the plan.
01:22:03.000That was never the anticipated outcome here.
01:22:07.000But looking back, it's now, it's been really hard thinking about all this last week was this is, I value that and those individual experiences where it was tough, where people did put all that pressure on us.
01:22:22.000I really would not have it any other way at all because, excuse me, Because had it not been positioned that way, I don't know if the celebration of what we were able to accomplish for this last election would feel the same.
01:22:43.000And what that would lead into for this next election cycle in the future, now what the legacy of Charlie Kirk will be.
01:22:48.000And so that's what we have to live up to.