00:00:05.000But there are people that make it possible, and that's you.
00:00:08.000When you support us at charliekirk.com slash support, like Veronica from Laredo, Texas, or like Kathy from Palm Desert, California, or Amanda from Washington, or Joanne from Rolling Meadows, Illinois, you help us hire more staff.
00:00:24.000You help us stay bulletproof against the cancellation crew.
00:00:28.000You help us stay strong against the censors.
00:02:00.000He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
00:02:07.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:03:35.000And our mission is to get our children to love America again.
00:03:40.000And we are waging the most aggressive and I would argue effective offensive strategy on high school and college campuses to inspire a love and gratitude for the greatest nation ever to exist in the history of the world, which is so desperately needed on college campuses.
00:03:58.000We have over 200 full-time people on staff, and we continue to push forward.
00:04:03.000I personally am going on a campus tour starting in about a week and a half.
00:04:08.000Go to University of Michigan, then I go to University of Minnesota, then I go to Baylor University, October 13th.
00:04:14.000And it's more liberal than you might imagine, though, just so you know.
00:04:39.000And so then Boise State, University of Vermont, pray for me that day.
00:04:44.000The University of Oregon really pray for me that day.
00:04:47.000And then Alabama and Clemson, which should be a lot of fun, which should be a little bit somewhat nicer, I guess you should say.
00:04:54.000Vermont and Oregon are going to be, those will be spectacles.
00:04:56.000So you guys can follow along on digital and social media.
00:04:59.000So there's a lot I want to talk about.
00:05:00.000We're going to do questions, but there's actually the main thing that's on my mind, and it's so, it's so applicable to all of you right now.
00:05:09.000In fact, it's right now, in the next 48 hours, 72 hours, the next couple of days, Texas could lay out the blueprint of how to save the country.
00:05:17.000And so I am not going to do what some people are doing in the national media, which is to criticize your statewide elected officials.
00:05:28.000I do have my own personal opinions about it, and you'll kind of see them laced through, but I don't live here.
00:05:33.000And so I don't go to people's home and tell you how to govern yourself.
00:05:36.000So that's up for you to kind of determine whether or not your governor is doing a good job or not, or your attorney, whatever.
00:05:42.000I can give you recommendations or suggestions.
00:05:44.000What I am going to say, though, is that whether the leadership of this state chose this or not, Texas is now in the middle of the greatest constitutional question of the modern era.
00:05:57.000And outside of the constitutional question, because the Constitution is a moral document, it is a moral question.
00:06:03.000And the moral question that Texas has in front of them is, do you do the right thing when the federal government refuses to do what they're supposed to do?
00:06:19.000So that's the question in front of you, in front of Texas right now, where we know that 1.8 million people have illegally crossed from the southern border so far this year.
00:06:29.000But I think all of us were kind of activated into kind of into a place that we haven't been in quite some time where we saw 12,000 Haitians in Del Rio, Texas, cross illegally into our country.
00:06:45.000For five hours, DHS and Border Patrol sat there and did nothing.
00:06:57.000But the people that did do something, the Border Patrol that decided to get on a horse, get criticized by the national media of whipping these criminal Haitians, even though it's a rein or a bridle of a horse.
00:07:11.000They never rode a horse in their life, so they don't know what they're talking about.
00:07:14.000And they say, Maxine Waters comes out and says, this is worse than what we saw in slavery.
00:07:31.000Well, their plan, they're actually telling the truth because their plan is open borders, as many third world people as possible to come into the country that will remain obedient Democrat Party voters and people on welfare, even though that kind of calculus has been put in jeopardy thanks to all of you as Hispanics and Latinos are actually trending more to the right than they ever would have imagined.
00:07:53.000But they're going with this strategy anyway, that they want more Guatemalans and Nicaraguans and Mexicans and El Salvadorians.
00:07:59.000And let's just throw in 12,000 Haitians, by the way, with 400 pregnant women who, if they give birth here, that child gets a U.S. citizenship birth certificate immediately.
00:08:08.000And so we have this crisis in front of us that I don't think many people here, like the leadership of Texas, I don't know if they signed up for this.
00:08:18.000But whether they like it or not, this is the question.
00:08:21.000And the left has already told us how they answer this question.
00:08:35.000It is illegal to bank according to federal law with THC-filled marijuana.
00:08:42.000Colorado, Oregon, California, Nevada, do it anyway.
00:08:46.000It is illegal, according to federal law, to tell your police officers and your sheriffs and your DA not to comply with immigration customs and enforcement to create a sanctuary city.
00:08:59.000Despite that, Illinois, California, Washington, Oregon, New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Vermont created sanctuary states in defiance to federal law.
00:09:08.000It is illegal to give illegals voting privileges.
00:09:12.000Yet in Vermont and California, illegals are voting in state and local elections.
00:09:18.000The Democrats have already figured out a long time ago that what we view as the rule of law is dead in this country.
00:09:32.000I miss the country where we didn't talk about skin color all the time.
00:09:36.000I miss the country where everyone stood for the flag.
00:09:39.000I miss the country where I could watch an NFL football game and not have to be propagandized with these ridiculous two-word virtue signaling statements.
00:11:11.000So the moral question in front of us: what would you tell your children?
00:11:15.000Something bad and something evil and something immoral is happening in front of you.
00:11:19.000Do you say, though, I got to trust the process on this, there's a very protocol, or do you stop the robber that is trying to hold the store at gunpoint?
00:11:29.000Do you stop the mugger that is abusing the woman on the side of the street?
00:11:32.000The moral question for Texas is: do you put the nation on your back and do what everyone wants you to do?
00:12:34.000They signed CDC eviction moratoriums despite what the Supreme Court of the United States says.
00:12:38.000The social contract says that you are going to respect separation of powers, checks and balances, an independent judiciary, and the consent of the governed.
00:12:50.000The Democrats haven't cared about that for a long time.
00:12:54.000Well, we are in the midst of something that makes a lot of Republicans uncomfortable, which is why we need a Churchill or a Lincoln right now, because they were not uncomfortable with this.
00:13:02.000We are in a power struggle of who's going to control the country.
00:13:16.000Now it's a question of are you going to stop 2 million people from waltzing into your nation or are you going to write a bunch of press releases and go on cable television and complain about it?
00:13:25.000I watch on cable television while three governors, not yours, from other red states, smirked.
00:13:31.000And as Harris Falkner, who does a wonderful job on Fox News, by the way, asked them, have you heard back from Biden?
00:13:37.000And they said, no, we haven't heard back.
00:14:48.000I think if we don't do this, we're going towards a civil war.
00:14:52.000I think if we don't show the other side we mean business, and there's an equal and opposite reaction for keeping the borders open and telling DHS and Border Patrol not to do anything with 12,000 criminal Haitians come into the country, then all of a sudden you are going to get to a point where everything gets combustible.
00:15:08.000You are going to get to a place where you become a pressure cooker.
00:15:11.000So the question is, what's stopping us?
00:16:13.000Well, the second reason, I'll actually go to the second reason, is that there is this question that no one wants to be blamed for escalation.
00:16:22.000That no one wants to be blamed as the person that took us past the point of no return.
00:16:30.000Could you imagine Winston Churchill on June 4th, 1940, when he gave one of the most beautiful speeches ever given in the English language in front of Parliament, where he said, we will fight them on the beaches, we will fight them in the streets, and we will fight them in the hills.
00:16:53.000Abraham Lincoln, who gave the famous Cooper Union address, who said that if slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.
00:17:00.000And we as a nation, if we do not have our moral guardrails at our North Star united around freedom and equality, then we don't actually have a nation.
00:17:09.000Could you imagine people accusing Abraham Lincoln of escalating the conflict?
00:17:13.000Some people still do, actually, believe it or not.
00:17:16.000And so we're at this moment where Texas could inspire every Republican across the country, every state across the country, to change the whole way we view.
00:17:30.000This would be the paradigm shift in Overton window that all of you have been asking for and been praying for.
00:17:36.000Because what it would do would be a humiliating deathblow to this regime.
00:17:43.000So governor of this state needs to mobilize every Texas Ranger that possibly has idle time or is willing to do what they want to do.
00:17:51.000Send them down to the southern border, give them a pair of handcuffs, go charter 20 planes, load them up on the planes, and take videos of them flying nonstop to Port-au-Prince.
00:18:06.000Now, mind you, the other side, when they do dramatic things, they burn down Walgreens, Wendy's, and smash windows.
00:18:14.000When we do dramatic things, we enforce the law.
00:18:18.000What a great image to show the rest of the country.
00:18:21.000And sure, you'll have CNN getting pictures of women screaming, getting on the plane.
00:18:27.000They're doing that when you have a guy on horseback with a bridle or a rein that they can't identify saying that he's whipping some sort of Haitian.
00:18:36.000They're going to DEF CON 10 when we're doing border patrol on horseback.
00:18:40.000Maxine Waters, this is worse than slavery.
00:18:42.000Stop operating as if it matters what the other side says.
00:18:51.000The images of one plane after the other taking off from Del Rio, Texas, would send shockwaves and a seed of doubt would grow into an ocean of activism against this regime.
00:19:04.000What would happen next is North Dakota would send the workers back to work to go build the Keystone XL pipeline.
00:19:14.000And one after the other, all of a sudden, we would fulfill the mandate that we all have, which is the states created the federal government.
00:19:22.000The federal government did not create the states.
00:19:26.000That the balance of power comes to this state, Texas.
00:19:31.000And this is why I'm saying all of you right now have the opportunity of a lifetime.
00:20:13.000And we, as Republicans, when we decide to do things that have not been done, we don't go do a billion dollars of damage in downtown Minneapolis.
00:20:22.000We don't create our own sovereign country, Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone.
00:20:26.000And by the way, they're the secessionists.
00:20:27.000They're creating new countries in downtown Seattle, for goodness sake.
00:21:48.000All of a sudden, you would then have a reference point where the governor of Texas or whomever would then become the true leader when things get tough.
00:22:01.000People say, well, Charlie, how do we remove Biden?
00:24:01.000The one thing that is missing is the thing that actually matters the most.
00:24:05.000As George S. Patton said, may he rest in peace, one of the great Americans ever to live, that moral courage is the most absent yet necessary characteristic in men.
00:24:17.000Aristotle famously said that courage is the ultimate virtue because without courage, there are no other virtues.
00:24:23.000George S. Patton also had another great expression: lead, follow, or get out of the way.
00:24:31.000And so the question is: one, of the will.
00:25:19.000Because voters in Bangor, Maine, and citizens in Billings, Montana, and in Leeds, North Dakota are hoping for and praying that this state, this beautiful state with some of the greatest people in the country with an independent streak of freedom that I see no other state across the country, they're saying, I pray at this moment, they will humiliate and start the counteroffensive against this regime.
00:25:42.000The eyes of the nation are on Texas to do this.
00:25:45.000So where do you all come and come and contact the people that can make this happen?
00:26:18.000If this does happen, you will start to see an historic and I believe unprecedented challenging of a regime that has seemed untouchable until now.
00:26:34.000One, a good answer for a good idea for the energy pipeline and what maybe some of the governors should do about that.
00:26:46.000Number two, us leaving here today, what I'm hearing is maybe we should all call Abbott and say, send the entire guard down there.
00:26:57.000Yeah, I mean, it's pretty, yeah, I don't think we have to overcomplicate it.
00:27:01.000Send the guard, send Texas Rangers, fly them to Port-au-Prince, and then also deputize a citizen force to do this at every single sector across the southern border.
00:27:12.000Again, I don't think you need, and the problem is a bunch of lawyers are probably preventing him from doing this, right?
00:27:18.000Lawyers that think we're living in the 1990s.
00:27:20.000You think lawyers are preventing Seattle from saying, you know what, we actually are not going to comply with federal immigration law.
00:27:46.000And I've said this for a couple of months and I'm going to keep on saying it.
00:27:49.000There is no reason whatsoever why every governor, North Dakota, Christine, Kansas, Nebraska, they should just send the hard hat workers back to work.
00:27:59.000Make the federal government go arrest a bunch of middle class welders and people that are working with their hands.
00:28:05.000Now people say, well, Charlie, that's defiance.
00:28:32.000Now, this makes some people uncomfortable because they have this bizarre attachment to this idea that we're still living under the rule of law.
00:28:45.000We can bring it back with the will of the people.
00:28:47.000Hey, Charlie, you were definitely, if not the first, definitely the youngest thought leader to get behind Donald Trump, hop on the Trump train, get on the MAGA bandwagon, be an America first young conservative.
00:29:32.000He was like 2016 Trump, one of the greatest political kind of candidates I think ever.
00:29:37.000He was freewheeling and unfiltered and honest and brazen and somewhat chaotic, but incredibly entertaining and genuine, just awesome.
00:29:46.000And there was one speech where he was just going freewheeling and the whole thing.
00:29:49.000And I think it was that he was like talking to the black community and he said something where he said, what do you have to lose?
00:29:56.000And I said, anyone that has the courage to say that, that guy should be in charge of something.
00:30:01.000And it was right near there that I kind of just got behind the whole thing and got to know him very well.
00:30:06.000I think he did some things terrific in his presidency.
00:30:09.000I think he made some things that I think there's some things that could have been done differently and better in the last year of his presidency.
00:30:33.000He would have become a martyr and just as dangerous on cable television.
00:30:36.000You should have put him out to pasture on a committee of 35 people and say all of your rights to go on television have been rescinded by executive order of the president.
00:31:02.000The legacy of Donald Trump is one of restoring the moral argument that we have an obligation to our country and our fellow countrymen unapologetically above some sort of esoteric bumper sticker, some global organization, is that we as a compact, as a nation, have to look after who we call our fellow citizen, which goes back to this Greek word citizen, which means co-ruler, that we are all the sovereign in this country.
00:31:30.000And then I personally love how Donald Trump also inspired conservatives to be able to fight and challenge the left.
00:31:39.000And he did the one thing that you are not supposed to do is he actually did everything he said he was going to do once he got elected.
00:32:09.000Like the other things that Trump really liberated, though, that I think was so incredibly important is that he gave us an opportunity to go represent and win back what has always made America the greatest nation ever, which is the common man.
00:32:28.000It is the plumber, the electrician, the welder, the police officer, the firefighter, the person that will hunt a couple weekends a year, earn $65,000, and has three kids.
00:32:39.000They did not feel as if the Republican Party spoke to them or for them before him.
00:32:43.000He came in and totally changed the Republican Party from a party with no identity to the working person's party.
00:32:50.000And I think that legacy is a very significant one, truly.
00:35:00.000So, look, I wouldn't have called myself a conservative in like high school.
00:35:07.000I was, but my love was always of the country and our history and kind of a common unified American story.
00:35:15.000And as soon as that started to become controversial and the other side, you know, really kind of starting with Barack Obama in some ways, but he wasn't nearly as outwardly radical as kind of what we're seeing now.
00:35:26.000I started to become very defensive and very worried that the next generation is not going to be telling the same story of what it means to be American as the generation before it.
00:35:35.000This is one of the major reasons why mass third world immigration is not sustainable.
00:35:40.000A nation is the stories you tell to yourselves and your children, amongst other things.
00:35:45.000It's a people, it's a custom, it's a history, it's a tradition.
00:35:48.000And when all of a sudden half the country thinks your history is racist, or 61% of students in college think that America is a terrible country, it's unsustainable.
00:37:09.000I think these things are awful and terrible.
00:37:11.000In fact, I think it's child abuse and especially against the child's will.
00:37:16.000And so what I'm getting at is that we've kind of been paralyzed in the last decade of thinking as if the opposition party, the Democrats, they kind of want the same sort of America we want to live in.
00:37:50.000They're no different than what they've been.
00:37:51.000I mean, they're worse, but we have two realities that are diverging.
00:37:55.000And no matter what crazy thing happens, the MSM paints it in a certain way.
00:38:01.000If it's horses with reins, it's guys with bull whips driving people into the water to drown.
00:38:07.000If we did all these things you say to do, they're good things and we need to do them.
00:38:11.000MSM will merely paint them in such a way that everybody who listens to the five horsemen of the apocalypse is going to see it entirely different.
00:38:40.000The only way to challenge it is to understand that they're going to have 10 to 11 million people that still subscribe to the New York Times, still watch CNN, still watch that.
00:38:50.000And we just have to have more people than they do.
00:38:53.000The different realities is not going to change.
00:40:15.000We can fix that by getting back from the brink and building a 60 or 70% consensus amongst the normal men, which I still believe is possible.
00:40:23.000In fact, I think it's there if our elections were done correctly and if we were able to communicate.
00:40:29.000But the only thing I would say is we have to completely dismiss what the other side will say about us.
00:41:19.000I mean, I have a strong dislike for some of them, but I don't, I really don't.
00:41:23.000Instead, my belief is that you need to do the right thing.
00:41:28.000And that, like, once the truth is allowed to spread, time and time again, conservatives win elections and we win arguments when we do the bold and courageous thing, regardless of what we think the papers are going to write about us.
00:41:57.000The question is, my son is the president of the Turning Point Kingwood chapter here in Houston, and it's very strongly condensed with Republicans and conservative children.
00:42:08.000But today we held a meeting right before this one, and only two boys showed up.
00:42:13.000So what advice do you have for us to be able to invigorate the communities and have young people just kind of like flock to us and say, hey, you do have a place where you can be a conservative and you can be, you know, a young teenage, you know, Republican and there is no repercussion and there is absolutely nothing that is going to happen to you.
00:42:31.000So what advice do you give us as community and as parents to embrace the children?
00:42:41.000But I mean, look, and then first of all, they shouldn't lose spirit or lose momentum.
00:42:47.000There's more conservatives than that out there.
00:42:48.000And I'm sure there might have been logistical reasons, other sports or things that were happening.
00:42:53.000But I will say this, that the fact that they're even bold enough to try to start a turning point USA group, that's something that they deserve to be applauded for, is that they're in high school and they're willing to be a vocal and outspoken conservative.
00:43:06.000I don't care if two people or 200 people show up.
00:43:09.000And if those two people, by the way, this is something that I think we need to get a little bit better at.
00:43:13.000And at Turning Point, I say all the time, I care about the quality of the leader I'm rising up.
00:43:57.000I have a question from a lot of us students.
00:43:58.000We are doing a lot of campus activism and bringing in the students.
00:44:02.000But one question we fail to have a tactic for is how do we plan to hold our professors and the administration accountable for teaching these very progressive policies on campus?
00:44:13.000So thank you, by the way, and thank you for your courage for speaking out.
00:44:19.000Yeah, I have some very contrarian views on college.