00:00:00.000Hey everybody, our conversation live from America Fest, Turning Point USA with Kyle Rittenhouse, Elijah Schaefer, Drew Hernandez, and Jack Pesobic live from Turning Point USA's America Fest.
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00:00:45.000He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
00:00:51.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:01:48.000Elijah, talk about the importance of citizen journalism when it came to what happened in Kenosha that one night.
00:01:54.000Well, the importance is the fact that all of you guys here have a phone in your hand.
00:01:58.000And while the media had billions of dollars of funding, they couldn't do what a millennial could do or just see with a phone in their hand.
00:02:07.000I have a fat Italian guy shirtless on the front screen, my friend eating chicken strips in Las Vegas using that phone, that device, that communist device of the company that hates us, and taking it out there and doing what the media won't do, which is to risk your life.
00:02:21.000Because you have to take a risk to get value.
00:02:25.000And you have to just be there because the media will never be in the right place at the right time because they're intentionally not telling the whole story.
00:03:43.000Do we have any patriots out there in the audience here at Turning Point USA?
00:03:51.000I've been here a couple days and I see this crowd.
00:03:53.000I see people, they're in their 30s, they're in their 20s, they're in their teens.
00:03:58.000The mainstream media does not want this to exist.
00:04:02.000The ruling class does not want this to exist.
00:04:05.000And they do not want citizen patriot independent journalists to be getting in on their scam, to be getting in on their influence operations of telling us the truth of what's going on in our world.
00:04:18.000That is why they're trying to shut you down on social media.
00:04:21.000That's why they are trying to disrupt our networks.
00:04:23.000That's why they don't want us to talk to each other because they don't want us to be making human connections and human agency and having spirituality and God at our core where we can come together and say, no, we know the truth and we're not going to listen to your lies anymore.
00:04:56.000And it is something that we must all take a step back and say, if they can indict a young boy at the time, now a young man, for simply defending himself when his life was in danger, they can come after every single one of you.
00:05:12.000So, ladies and gentlemen, please let's get loud for Kyle Rittenhouse.
00:06:21.000So, can I ask, is there anybody out there who wants to go snowboarding with Kyle?
00:06:29.000So, Elijah, you covered this trial really closely.
00:06:32.000What do you think are some of the big takeaways as we kind of look back at the overreaction when it came to Kyle and kind of some of the wisdom that we should probably try to derive from that?
00:06:44.000What do we think about the prosecutor Binger?
00:06:49.000He pointed a gun at people in the courtroom.
00:06:53.000He's lecturing a young man about misuse of a firearm while misusing a firearm.
00:07:01.000And you know, what's interesting about this is they were hoping to get the same thing that a lot of trials have been getting, was that mob justice by lies in the media would force the jury to convict an innocent young man who was defending his life, exercising the Second Amendment that did nothing wrong.
00:07:26.000I'm going to say this publicly: Kyle Rittenhouse didn't shoot black people.
00:07:34.000We just have to say that because the fake news media cartel is still saying that right now to this hour.
00:07:41.000People after the trial are calling me, calling my phone up after the testimony, saying, I had no idea that this kid didn't shoot a single black person.
00:07:50.000I'm like, I know because he's not a crazy white supremacist active shooter that decided to show up to Kenosha to kill a bunch of black people and commit a hate crime.
00:07:59.000Listen, this is why this is important.
00:08:34.000They focus on Kyle to cover up a domestic terrorist attack that took place over three days that was sanctioned by the local and state and federal governments, the deep state.
00:08:58.000They took a brick, split his head open, nearly killed him, then lit his business that had been in his family for decades on fire.
00:09:04.000And instead, they chose to focus on this man to sidestep the truth of what happened that night, which was an attack on the American people.
00:09:12.000And thank God for people like Kyle Rittenhouse being there.
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00:10:24.000What gets me is to this day, and Charlie mentioned it as well, the president of the United States, the current president, and they will call him a white supremacist.
00:10:34.000He went out and defended a car dealership that was owned by a couple of Indian immigrants to this country working out there, defending it from crazy white Antifa nut jobs who are trying to burn it down in the middle of the night, was asked to be there, and they'll lie about him.
00:10:54.000And if they could do it to him, they can do it to all of your families.
00:10:56.000And by the way, and the one thing that Elijah just said, not only was it sanctioned, but over at Human Events, what we did, we were able to uncover that the FBI that night, and this was unbeknownst to you, unbeknownst to anybody who was there that evening, they had an eye in the sky that very evening watching and surveilling Kyle and every single piece of it in high definition video.
00:11:22.000And when we got the low definition video, we made a request and we said, could the FBI please give us the high definition video?
00:11:39.000They knew for 14 months that this was an attack on a young man, and they kept it hidden because they didn't want that narrative to come out until Turning Point USA and Human Events Daily uncovered the video and we showed the world the truth.
00:12:00.000So Kyle, you have any plans to sue some media companies soon?
00:12:34.000And so, Kyle, we have a whole audience and group of young people, and so many students looked at what you had to go through, going to trial every single day, having your whole life really kind of put into jeopardy.
00:12:49.000What people don't know about Kyle Rittenhouse is, Kyle, you dropped out of high school to actually go support your family with an extra income, is that Kyle Rittenhouse was always looking to try to help people.
00:13:00.000Is that nowhere in any intent could they have found in Kyle Rittenhouse anything but trying to always be the better person and the bigger person.
00:13:09.000And Kyle, what was so amazing is throughout this entire process, you know, despite everything they threw at you, you know, you trusted it and you came out on top.
00:13:18.000Talk a little bit about kind of just how that has developed you as a person over the last, you know, year, year and a half.
00:13:50.000And my mentors that have been in my life who's helped me through this, such as Dave, LT, Kenny, TC, guys who are here with me today protecting me.
00:13:59.000They've helped guide me and make me the person I am today.
00:14:07.000And Kyle, you know, being able to hang out with you and spend time with you, I'm always most fascinated by the stories of people that become well known that don't want to be well known.
00:14:20.000That's always a very interesting thing.
00:14:22.000And how you handle that and how you manage that.
00:14:25.000And so for so many people in this room, you know, they want to be social media influencers or whatever, you just wanted to do the right thing.
00:14:33.000And by wanting to do the right thing, you got thrown into the midst of all of this.
00:14:38.000And while the case was proceeding and unfolding, talk about kind of what happened off camera a little bit.
00:14:50.000I mean, it was going through your head that the other side has the power that if they convinced 12 human beings, I could spend the rest of my life in jail for doing nothing wrong and defending myself.
00:15:05.000I mean, that's enough to break most people.
00:15:08.000Well, Charlie, those were really long days, especially during trial.
00:15:12.000And there was a lot of prep that went into this, spending three, four hours at Mark Richards in a phenomenal attorney's office going through prep and preparing for trial and going home.
00:15:24.000And during trial, I got maybe like six hours of sleep, the entire thing would have felt like.
00:15:29.000But just trying to find something to decompress, if that's playing video games like Call of Duty Vanguard or.
00:15:37.000Now, Kyle, they tried to hold that against you.
00:16:21.000So when they attack people like Kyle, they try to rob him of his humanity as well.
00:16:26.000Whenever they target anybody, because they hate themselves, they pour that hatred on other people and they try and suck the life out of another human being in order to prove a political point.
00:17:51.000But I met, I met, you know, it's crazy because they're going, how dare you in the media make this look like he's a regular 18-year-old guy?
00:17:58.000And it's like, yeah, because all the lies, all the slander, and all of the media coordination could not hide the truth that Kyle is an innocent young man, that he did not do anything wrong, and that he is just a normal person.
00:18:25.000That if, and we must say that he did everything right that night is that Kyle acted properly and morally and lawfully when someone tried to kill him.
00:19:15.000Because so people knew that when I was covering the trial day in, day out, minute in, minute out, the whole thing, you know, following on Twitter, doing epic day-long Twitter threads.
00:19:26.000Well, you're up there obviously experiencing it.
00:19:28.000I hope you know how many people you had supporting you during all of that.
00:19:36.000But and I haven't ever actually had the opportunity to say this publicly as anybody, but I did actually get a very brief phone call with you.
00:20:03.000And I'm thinking, man, this is the night, the Saturday night before you are going to be put before a jury of 12, and they are going to judge you.
00:20:12.000They are going to stand and judge you.
00:21:10.000He said, Jack, I would love to come to America Fest and be with all the people there.
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00:23:37.000So Kyle, one of the most moving moments, and I'll be honest, one of the most surprising moments for so many people is when you waived your Fifth Amendment rights and you decided to take the stand.
00:23:48.000And this is an unusual thing in court proceedings.
00:24:28.000And Kyle, talk about the prep that goes into that.
00:24:33.000But I mean, I can't imagine what's going through your mind that if I say one misstatement, they're going to capitalize on it immediately.
00:24:41.000Just knowing what Binger's going to ask me, just being three steps ahead of him at all times.
00:24:50.000And also, though, he was, the thing that shocked us, Elijah and Drew as well, and you guys can get in on this, he was attacking you for trying to say that you're waiving your rights.
00:25:02.000I mean, what's going through your head at this point?
00:25:04.000You're like, I know law better than you, and I didn't even finish high school at the time.
00:25:07.000So I'm sitting there on the stand, and then he starts asking about my post-arrest silence.
00:25:12.000And I'm like, I'm not an attorney, but I don't think you could go down there.
00:25:16.000I don't think you could ask somebody that.
00:26:55.000Can we just give it up for Kyle Rittenhouse, a free man walking, sitting right here in front of us, showing us that justice is still alive in the great country of the United States of America?
00:27:40.000I don't think he had any idea who he was dealing with.
00:27:43.000But when you're dealing with someone that has the absolute truth on their side, they're unbeatable.
00:27:48.000The only thing you can do is lie, right?
00:27:51.000So the reason why I decided to testify.
00:27:54.000It's not because I have some political bias.
00:27:56.000It's because I was obviously there watching everything unfold in the trial, watching the mainstream media lie about Kyle, watching the prosecution peddle those lies in a so-called trial in the so-called justice system.
00:28:10.000I knew that I not only had the eyewitness testimony, but I also had a lot of body cam footage.
00:28:17.000Okay, there was body cam footage that the entire world didn't know existed of Kyle Rittenhouse de-escalating a situation with rioters outside of CarSource 2.
00:28:49.000And I just wanted to end with this is this is what needs to be done because obviously thinking about this decision, thinking about should I do this?
00:28:59.000Obviously, I'm a born-again Christian.
00:29:00.000Jesus Christ receives all glory and honor to God for all of this.
00:29:06.000But watching all this unfold, I mean, this is what I keep hearing, Charlie, in this particular conference, event, whatever you want to call it is.
00:29:32.000I hope what happened in this trial, the part that I was able to play and testify to the truth.
00:29:38.000I hope that inspires every single one of you out here right now.
00:29:41.000Because listen, there's so many people out here.
00:29:43.000They're afraid to get canceled, afraid to get called a white supremacist, a racist, afraid to do the right thing.
00:29:50.000But that's exactly what we need to do.
00:29:52.000If you get put into position where nothing but fear fills your hearts, know that the opposite of that is to just do what is right and let God take care of the rest.
00:30:52.000I met him, and his concern was, please leave, because he needed to go administer aid to people who had pepper sprayed him, people who were tearing down the city.
00:31:00.000He went out and told me, you need to go because I need to go help other people.
00:31:54.000The most fair and free election in American history, COVID, the BLM rights, lots of stuff going on that went out there.
00:32:01.000And we have challenges, censorship, everything.
00:32:04.000But let Kyle be an example that even if you're young, even if you're 17, even if all the odds are against you, that every institution is against you, that the truth will set you free.
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00:34:26.000And I would, you know, and Kyle, when you came over and we sat down with Charlie, we did the interview before, you know, and I said this to you that I don't know if people realize this, but, you know, I was in the military.
00:34:42.000I've worked with, you know, SEALs and everything else.
00:34:44.000And I had guys reaching out to me saying, they watched that video and they said, I don't know if I could do that.
00:34:51.000I don't know if I could do what he did.
00:34:52.000And I said, and I said, well, Kyle, what kind of training did you have on that AR-15?
00:34:58.000You've been through courses, were you certified?
00:35:00.000So Kyle, tell us, what kind of training did you have with the AR-15 prior to that evening?
00:35:04.000I didn't have much training with that rifle.
00:35:07.000I probably put maybe like 500 rounds through it, but I'm not like a rifle expert or something.
00:35:14.000I just knew how to like the basics of it.
00:35:16.000Advanced training whatsoever prior to that evening.
00:35:20.000And when I heard that, I said that was divine providence that kept you alive through that night and I firmly believe I I do firmly believe that it was also divine providence that brought people like Drew and Elijah Bg on the scene Julio, everyone who was there that night to be there, to get that footage of what happened out,
00:35:48.000because then that carried forward so that God could be with you in the courthouse and then in that jury room where those 12 they were touched by that truth and they were touched by your actions and touched by the words that you gave on that stand, that you walked up there and said, I was not attacking people, I was defending my home.
00:36:13.000Just wanted to give a quick shout out to Richie Mcguinis as well from Daily Caller and Jorge Ventura and the work that they did.
00:36:18.000I know they're not up here, but but but Richie Man, with the testimony of Richie, of course yeah, and and and, just just being there, I mean i'm telling you, if God had not intervened, I like I swear the only other person who has as many cameras chasing them in a moment is Kim Kardashian.
00:36:40.000I mean he had every angle, every sidestep, people from all different political leanings.
00:36:44.000I've never seen any event in in history of that that was getting that little mainstream media coverage, that had that many angles and that many pieces of evidence.
00:36:53.000God's got your back Kyle, and he's got you destined for mighty things in this world.
00:37:03.000Now so many people ask Kyle and we touched on this a little bit earlier so you won, you're free.
00:37:10.000Um, and to the great disgust of so many different people, to give an idea of what Kyle still has to go through, is that the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee congressman, Jerry Nadler, want to talk about this Kyle, the one that's calling for a DOJ investigation against me and completely lied on that twitter post.
00:37:54.000So Jerry Nadler is calling into a do for a DOJ investigation into and the DOJ already investigated me, i'm sure they did and you got exonerated.
00:38:05.000But what is more important and Kyle, you can comment on this at you know, at your choosing, the rest of the panel, I know Will, will love to talk about this is that they keep on mentioning this on tv in a really bizarre way.
00:38:17.000It's almost like an incantation, Kyle Rittenhouse, who brought a gun across state lines.
00:39:00.000So I grew up in the suburbs of Chicago.
00:39:02.000They say all of Chicago gun violence, 825 homicides a year, is because of state lines from Indiana gun laws.
00:39:07.000What they're trying to do, everybody, is destroy states that have allowed themselves to have better gun laws and then be able to have federal gun registration.
00:39:16.000Kyle, do you think the Second Amendment plays any role into this?
00:39:20.000Do you think that there was broader things at play?
00:39:22.000Well, I think my trial was an example of them trying to come after our Second Amendment rights, a right to defend ourselves and trying to take our weapons.
00:39:46.000We were only happened to be able to cover Kenosha, the riot, so quickly because we were in Chicago covering another riot as the other riot broke out.
00:40:14.000And to show you really what that even means, guys, like Kenosha, it's like a 45-minute car ride out of central Chicago, right?
00:40:19.000We're not talking about anything crazy out there.
00:40:22.000But honestly, what I knew about this, and people might not know this, but I've told you, is, you know, I had just saw my mom pass away right before this had happened.
00:40:32.000And when I saw Joseph Rosenbaum, you know, dying, I knew he was dying.
00:41:33.000Listen, if they can do this to Kyle, you're an adult now, but at the time, a kid that's just trying to live his life protecting his community.
00:41:44.000Look at all the constitutional rights and freedoms that we get to live with here in the United States.
00:42:12.000This is why we're here to get you guys engaged because today, yesterday it's Kyle.
00:42:16.000Today it's you and every single one of you.
00:42:18.000So I hope you guys are emboldened by what we've been able to do.
00:42:22.000And you guys can take this, be inspired, and go to your own communities and do what needs to be done in the power of Christ.
00:42:29.000So, Kyle, closing thoughts, you reflect back on this year, lessons you want to share with this audience, lessons for fellow 18-year-olds, 19-year-olds here.
00:42:41.000You have lived a lifetime of pressure, stress, backlash, intimidation.
00:42:49.000What do you have to share especially for the fellow members of your generation?
00:42:54.000Always be humble and look at the positive in life and focus on today, not tomorrow.
00:43:05.000And I'll just say one thing to the mainstream media that doesn't want us to have this panel, that doesn't want America Fest to exist, guess what?
00:43:21.000And the next time that you try to turn another situation like Kyle Rittenhouse or someone else, you are going to have to go through Turning Point USA and Human Events and Drew Hernandez and Elijah Schaefer and Charlie Kirk and the Blaze and tens and thousands of patriots.
00:43:39.000Every single one of us is going to be standing in your way.
00:43:44.000And one last thing for all the media watching.
00:43:51.000Kyle Rittenhouse is about to be super rich, so you better be careful about what you write.