00:00:50.000His spirit, his love of this country, he's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
00:00:58.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:01:57.000Federal regulators are taking over the bank.
00:02:01.000We have said for quite some time, $200 billion.
00:02:05.000And look, I don't want to go overboard.
00:02:06.000I don't want to overly panic, but I'll show you this email here.
00:02:10.000Literally, one of the vendors that uses, that we use for our show has told us to stop sending the money to the Silicon Valley Bank because they don't think the money is any good.
00:02:20.000So we'll talk about that, but I want to reflect first on the evening we had at the University of Illinois Chicago.
00:02:27.000Last night, we had an amazing event at the University of Illinois Chicago, and it is one of the most powerful examples that I have ever lived through regarding the lies and the power of the media against reality.
00:02:47.000The Chicago Sun-Times and the Chicago Tribune, the Tribune, which used to be a respectable paper, which is now a rag, covered our event.
00:02:57.000The event was attended by well over 1,000 students.
00:03:00.0001,000 students in downtown Chicago came to hear a lecture, came to come here a speech about America, about liberty, about freedom, about the Constitution, about separation of powers, consent to the governed, about why wokeism is such a destructive force to our society.
00:03:20.000We had a couple of people that came up to the question line and they disagreed.
00:03:24.000We had one guy that was shouting out stuff throughout the speech.
00:04:05.000I love what Turning Point USA stands for.
00:04:07.000By all objective measures, it was a very diverse group.
00:04:13.000Now, I only mention that because if you were to read the news articles about what happened, like the Chicago Sun-Times, you'd get a completely different impression.
00:04:24.000The Chicago Sun-Times leads with the article: Student Groups Protest Charlie Kirk Appearance at UIC by Emmanuel Camarillo.
00:04:34.000Protesters say Candace Owens and Charlie Kirk promote anti-LGBTQ views.
00:04:40.000Quote, I think it's disgusting that the university has these people on campus.
00:04:45.000And effectively, the entire article goes through just doing the press work for the activists.
00:04:51.000But what bothers me is that it's so far from the truth.
00:05:21.000How about you guys cover Chicago Tribune or Chicago Sun-Times?
00:05:24.000That a thousand students of all different backgrounds, of all different walks of life, attended a conservative speech, not the fact that there were 40 or 50 protesters outside.
00:05:36.000You see, the Chicago Tribune and the Chicago Sun-Times are so intellectually and morally bankrupt that they can't get themselves to admit that our ideas might actually resonate and be popular.
00:05:50.000Here's my response to the Chicago Tribune live at the event yesterday in front of a thousand-plus-person crowd in downtown Chicago.
00:05:59.000And all they want to talk about is Antifa outside.
00:06:01.000They don't want to talk about how popular ideas are, about how people said repeatedly, we had an amazing young black woman come up and talk about her testimony for pro-life values.
00:06:11.000Not a mention of that by the Chicago Tribune or Chicago Sun-Times.
00:06:14.000I'm going to tell you the significance of this, but play cut 140.
00:06:18.000Somebody sent me this article of the Tribune's coverage of our upcoming event here, which was basically a press release for the Apparatch outside.
00:06:26.000Students at UIC are planning to protest a Turning Point USA College Event Thursday featuring far-right speakers, Charlie Kirk and Candace Owens' past use of hate speech and discriminatory language against marginalized groups indicates that these figures are in search of furthering divisions and triggering people rather than engaging in meaningful discussion.
00:06:48.000We don't care about race around here, we care about your ideas and your values.
00:06:52.000So I just think it's been one of the most beautiful question lines we've ever done that make those idiots outside look like what they are.
00:06:59.000Normally, I don't give these people any oxygen, but these people are my hometown papers.
00:07:05.000But also, you know, I had a coffee this morning with some of our supporters at Turning Point USA.
00:07:11.000And one of them did not attend the event.
00:07:13.000And he said, wow, I read the article in the Tribune.
00:08:52.000Because there's something really exceptional that happened in Chicago that is noteworthy.
00:08:56.000That in one of the bluest, most Democrat cities in America, on a college campus, mind you, a college campus where the violent extremists were able to cancel Donald Trump's appearance seven years earlier.
00:09:07.000We're able to have an event that is focused on core American ideas where we fill up an entire auditorium and we are very well received and people are encouraged and they're filled up and they want to do something positive for their nation.
00:09:29.000You can have your snarky one-liners in there, but maybe they should say, wow, this is one of the largest conservative events in the city of Chicago of the last couple of years.
00:09:37.000And I will challenge somebody, find me a larger, more successful conservative event in Chicago over the last couple of years.
00:09:47.000But no, instead, they want to mention that a couple people are protesting on the side of the street because they're trying to build up the resistance and crush the actual truth.
00:09:58.000It's one of the most dishonest things I've seen in quite some time.
00:10:02.000These are activists that masquerade as journalists.
00:10:05.000And they're afraid to acknowledge the reality that our ideas are resonating, that Turning Point USA is building a movement, that what we are saying is rational, what we are saying is reasonable.
00:10:15.000They don't have a single quote in these articles about what we talked about, about the dialogue, about how we invited people who disagree with us to go to the front of the line.
00:10:25.000Instead, the Chicago Sun-Times only has pictures of the protests.
00:10:29.000If you're going to cover the protests, why don't you walk into the room and see what people are saying in there?
00:10:35.000This does serious damage to our country.
00:10:38.000The media was called the enemy of the American people by Donald Trump.
00:10:42.000And boy, when they act like this, that is certainly true.
00:10:51.000When you introduce a girl to her baby by providing an ultrasound, you are giving her the truth at the most important time in her life.
00:10:58.000And more than 85% of the time, she will choose life.
00:11:01.000You're also giving her access to a two-year mentorship program and a chance to receive free maternity clothes, baby clothes, diapers, parenting classes, but perhaps, and most importantly, someone to walk alongside her and be a friend during the most crucial time of her life.
00:11:16.000$140 gives five mothers a free ultrasound and saves babies.
00:11:49.000So let me just show you why they have to lie about us.
00:11:53.000Let me show you the power of what we are doing on these college campuses, of what our Turning Point USA students are accomplishing every single day, what courage can do, why bravery is needed.
00:12:06.000Let me tell you and let me show you why they have to protest us, why the Chicago Sun-Times has to misrepresent and not even cover us, not even ask for comment, because they know that conservative ideas have the potential to be persuasive and popular.
00:12:28.000Cut 115 is a student comes up to the question line to ask me a question, but he makes a comment that I respond, and I will say it again on this program.
00:13:48.000That's why the Chicago Tribune has to lie about me.
00:13:51.000That's why the Chicago Sun-Times has to lie about me.
00:13:55.000That's why the Anti-Defamation League has to lie about Turning Point USA because of that clip right there.
00:14:01.000Because when our ideas are given a short hearing, a YouTube clip here, a Rumble clip there, a tweet here, a one-off dialogue here or there, all of a sudden we are able to challenge the lies that have been filling our society.
00:14:17.000The lights turn on and they say, maybe I have been lied to my entire life.
00:14:22.000The truth has a pattern of being able to do that.
00:14:26.000And that should give you hope, everybody.
00:14:27.000He literally said, I was a Bernie Sanders liberal.
00:14:30.000And thanks to the work of Turning Point USA and your videos, I have now been able to wake up.
00:15:11.000People that aren't just getting braver, but people are actually changing their worldview to be properly anchored in truth.
00:15:21.000Political enlightenment is a threat to the regime.
00:15:25.000Their narrative is built on a total and complete house of cards.
00:15:29.000And if the Chicago Tribune or the Chicago Sun-Times or any of these left-wing papers had a shred of honesty or integrity, which they don't, they would have mentioned that I had an open mic for 50 minutes last evening and anybody could have come to the front of the line and asked a question.
00:15:47.000Could say all the things you were saying outside, and I would have allowed you to do it, but I would have responded respectfully and firmly and factually.
00:15:54.000But no, dialogue is not a value to the left.
00:15:58.000No, they're trying to stop speech at every single turn.
00:16:01.000They're trying to shut us up because they know that speech is actually a threat.
00:16:05.000And by the way, they're trying to do it now next week.
00:16:08.000We're going to University of California, Davis, on Tuesday.
00:16:24.000It's actually, it is really slanderous in one way.
00:16:31.000He says, Charlie Kirk, a far-right grifter who fronts Turning Point USA, an organization of Hitler, enjoyers with a special animus for trans people.
00:16:41.000We're going to do everything we can to hold this guy legally accountable, writing in a paper of an upcoming campus event saying that Turning Point USA is an organization of Hitler, Hitler Enjoyer, Hitler Enjoyers.
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00:19:34.000He literally, that's why I love the professor watch list because we actually capture what these people say.
00:19:40.000He said as a direct quote, he said, it's easier to shoot police officers when their backs are turned.
00:19:45.000He says, quote, I am thankful that every living police officer will one day be dead, some by their own hand, some by others, too many of old age.
00:19:55.000This is a professor at University of California, Davis.
00:19:58.000I don't, maybe he doesn't like when people actually mention that he's calling for the open killing of police officers.
00:20:03.000Praise God for our turning point USA team.
00:20:05.000That's why they hate the professor watch list.
00:20:07.000But you're welcome to come, Professor Clover.
00:20:09.000Come tell me why you think police officers should be killed because that's your openly stated position.
00:20:53.000Give an idea of how fragile the situation is.
00:20:57.000One of our vendors that we use to help produce our show for some of our technology says, as of today, we kindly request that you hold any pending payments to Silicon Valley Bank for us and instead follow the instructions below.
00:21:10.000For bank transfer, go to this bank and send us a check here.
00:21:14.000We also have team members that have loans and mortgages with Silicon Valley Bank that are very nervous because the entire bank has collapsed.
00:21:23.000Let's play a news clip of this, PlayCup 117.
00:21:26.000To go from the headlines yesterday to now the bank officially failing.
00:21:29.000Anybody who lived through 2008 remembers that when you have a crisis of confidence, things can move pretty quickly here.
00:21:35.000But yes, the FDIC is taking the bank into receivership.
00:21:38.000This, guys, is one of the largest bank failures in history.
00:21:42.000Remember, it's one of the top 20 banks in the United States.
00:21:45.000At the end of December, it had more than $200 billion in assets.
00:21:49.000By comparison, Washington Mutual was about $300 billion.
00:21:53.000So just a little comparison there about what kind of a moment we are sitting in here.
00:21:58.000Now, look, I don't want to be cruel, but let me read something from Silicon Valley Bank's website.
00:22:07.000Silicon Valley Bank is dedicated to expanding our commitments to create a more diverse and equitable and inclusive company culture and innovation ecosystem.
00:22:15.000Is this the Silicon Valley collapse the beginning of the collapse of the woke economy?
00:22:23.000You see, if you read Silicon Valley Bank's website, they have an entire portion of their website and their company culture dedicated to DEI, diversity, equity, inclusion.
00:22:34.000How's that working out for you, Silicon Valley Bank?
00:22:43.000They say that they're very proud of how diverse their workforce is, about how many people they have in their senior leadership, about how they have an equal opportunity supplier diversity score.
00:22:54.000Oh, really, Silicon Valley Bank, maybe you should have been more, I don't know, concerned about whether or not you're able to make good loans and keep your depositors secure.
00:23:03.000Now, it's very possible that I am overly exaggerating the woke component here, but I do find it fascinating because if you go to Silicon Valley's website, it is not de-emphasized.
00:23:52.000It was down 500 or 600 points yesterday.
00:23:55.000This is one of the largest bank collapses in American history that funds a lot of venture work and a lot of startups and a lot of entrepreneurs.
00:24:04.000We might be seeing the first domino of what we have predicted as a 2023 economic calamity and recession.
00:24:11.000Silicon Valley Bank was one of the top 20 banks in America.
00:24:16.000Well, hundreds of billions of dollars in assets.
00:24:18.000And now the bank has officially been shut down by California state regulators because it is now insolvent.
00:24:25.000You got to wonder, what were they, who were they underwriting loans to?
00:24:40.000And I sure hope we don't see more bank collapses.
00:24:44.000The collapse has now occurred because on Wednesday night, the bank made a surprise announcement that it needed to raise more than $2 billion in stock.
00:24:51.000A month ago, did they not see this coming?
00:24:54.000Well, apparently the bank had a cash shortfall because it had a large number of startup companies as depositors, and those startups have pulled out their funds.
00:25:03.000Oh, you mean that the startup companies that are all in the tech space that is hyper-inflated, fragile, and ready to collapse?
00:25:11.000Venture capital then pulled out its money and Peter Thiel's founder fund told people to get out and the cascade went from there.
00:25:17.000There's a lot of fear that this could turn into a wider contagion event dragging down the financial industry.
00:25:23.000Bank stocks are all off in Europe and down 4% in a single day.
00:25:59.000How, first of all, is one of the most heavily regulated industries, post-Lehman Brothers and post-Bear Stearns and post-08, how does a bank collapse in just a couple of days?
00:26:11.000How, what, what are you giving loans out to?
00:26:14.000Oh, no, no, but you go to their website.
00:26:25.000We are intentionally and strategically working for a world where every client and employee learn about our commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion.
00:27:47.000I don't want to delight in somebody's economic misfortune.
00:27:51.000But when you have ridiculous statements like this, Silicon Valley Bank is creating a more diverse, equitable, and inclusive and accessible environment within Silicon Valley Bank and the innovation ecosystem.
00:28:04.000In the broader innovation economy, we're focused on breaking down systemic barriers to entry and success, investing in opportunities that ensure more founders and investors with a range of experiences, ideas are represented in our ecosystem.
00:28:18.000I want to ask a very simple question the media will ignore.
00:28:22.000Did Silicon Valley Bank prioritize diversity over competency when building a business and issuing out loans?
00:28:30.000Did Silicon Valley Bank get more distracted about the mirage and the hologram of diversity, equity, inclusion rather than running a business?
00:28:40.000Is this the first modern era woke bank collapse?
00:28:44.000The very same thing that we have been warning about, that you cannot run businesses in a capitalistic free market society when you prioritize diversity, equity, inclusion.
00:28:55.000And by the way, if you go through this page after page after page after page, they brag at Silicon Valley Bank, 100% of their employees participated in DEI education.
00:29:06.000Well, guess what, Silicon Valley Bank?
00:29:08.000Now 100% of your employees don't have a job.
00:29:10.000Well, I'm glad they all have diversity, equity, inclusion training.
00:31:05.000So according to four different people who spoke to the New York Times, prosecutors in Manhattan recently invited Trump to testify before a grand jury.
00:31:13.000According to their legal analysis, this is a sign that prosecutors are very close to bringing charges against Trump because in New York, all potential defendants have the right to testify before a grand jury before an indictment.
00:31:32.000But the Manhattan DA inquiry has centered on Trump's alleged hush money payment to Stormy Daniels.
00:31:37.000Of course, we're waiting on Fulton County charges as well.
00:31:40.000Now, mind you, here you have the New York Attorney General that's worried about some hush money payment that Donald Trump allegedly did.
00:31:48.000And Hunter Biden is allowed to sell out our country to China for tens of millions of dollars.
00:31:55.000We won't know until the actual charges materialize, but we can guess the gist here.
00:31:59.000These investigations have been politically charged and motivated from the beginning.
00:32:04.000And the charges are going to be politically motivated as well.
00:32:07.000And you could tell because the left is bringing charges at all, because literally everywhere else in American life, their drive is to charge less, prosecute less, and convict less.
00:32:15.000For example, in Maryland, the Hyper Democrat state legislature is considering a bill that will eliminate the charge of felony murder for anybody under 25.
00:32:28.000So if you deliberately burn down a building and someone else dies, that's murder, even if you weren't specifically trying to kill that person because you killed a person in the commission of a crime.
00:32:38.000They're going after Donald Trump for a variety of reasons, but I am curious.
00:32:44.000If Donald Trump is indicted, does that make you more or less likely to vote for him?
00:32:53.000If Donald Trump is indicted by the New York district attorney, does that change your opinion?
00:33:01.000The New York Times said in this case, the second crime, well, first of all, let me read the whole thing.
00:33:05.000If Mr. Trump is indicted, this is from the New York Times.
00:33:07.000Convicting him or sending him to prison will be challenging.
00:33:10.000The case against the former president hinges on an untested and therefore risky legal theory involving a complex interplay of laws, all accounting to a low-level felony.
00:33:44.000Mr. Trump's lawyers are sure to attack Mr. Cohen, who in 2018 pleaded guilty to federal charges related to hush money.
00:33:49.000In New York, falsifying business records can amount to a crime.
00:33:53.000To elevate the crime to a felony charge, Mr. Bragg's prosecutors must show that Mr. Trump had intent to defraud, including an intent to commit or conceal a second crime.
00:34:01.000In this case, the second crime could be a violation of New York's state election law.
00:34:06.000While hush money is not inherently illegal, the prosecutors could argue that $130,000 payout effectively became an improper donation of Mr. Trump's campaign under the theory that because the money silenced Ms. Daniels, it benefited his candidacy.
00:34:19.000This whole thing is such a ridiculous waste of time, twisting themselves into legal pretzels.
00:34:24.000Meanwhile, crime is up, rape is up, murder is up, carjackings are up, arson is up, and what is your law enforcement focused on?
00:34:34.000Real criminals are terrorizing the streets of New York City, and they're focused on something Donald Trump maybe did six or seven or eight years ago in some sort of strange, in their own words, exotic legal theory.
00:34:50.000Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
00:34:52.000Email us your thoughts as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.