00:00:16.000The University of Memphis is complicit.
00:00:19.000In all likelihood, though we can't prove it yet, there needs to be an investigation.
00:00:22.000In all likelihood, it aided and abetted the protesters to sabotage the Turning Point USA chapter at the University of Memphis and really honestly put a lot of people at risk and put people's safety at risk.
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00:02:07.000And so we knew that there was, I guess, some left-wing energy, some protest energy that did not want to see you come to campus.
00:02:17.000But then everything got crazy the morning of.
00:02:20.000The university changed the ticketing system.
00:02:23.000So we had thousands of ticketing requests that went that were voided, basically.
00:02:29.000So a lot of people, and people don't understand this.
00:02:32.000Turning point has a really elaborate ticketing system to make sure that we get people that really want to be there in good faith and that are able to get tickets, students.
00:02:42.000And then the protesters were tipped off and given the tickets.
00:02:46.000They had advanced notice of when those tickets would become available.
00:02:50.000So Kyle, you walked in to not only protesters on the outside of the event, but they were basically had almost nearly all the seats inside the event, thanks to the University of Memphis.
00:03:02.000I want you to walk through with our listeners what you were hearing on the ground.
00:03:23.000But I talked with my security team and we had a guy on the ground already, Byron, with his dog, who's a dual-purpose canine, who swept the building and made sure everything was safe.
00:03:34.000But I was just shocked on how the administration and the University of Memphis can do that to where they can go ahead and revoke the ticketing system last minute and give a heads up to the protesters/slash rioters.
00:03:48.000Because if we're being honest here, it turned into a borderline riot as they were spinning and chasing down the TPUSA students vehicles yesterday.
00:03:58.000And I walk out there and I'm just met with a bunch of nasty people calling me a murderer, a white supremacist.
00:04:07.000And that one doesn't make any sense to me.
00:04:08.000None of them make sense to me, but especially the white supremacist part and just saying all these nasty things about me.
00:04:17.000And I just took it and I argued with people in the crowd.
00:04:36.000They didn't like what I had to say because a bunch of people walked out.
00:04:41.000Well, that's so we have screen grabs from these protester group chats, Kyle, where they literally say, Hey, we were just told that the tickets are going to be made available at this link at 8:30.
00:04:54.000So everybody make sure you grab your tickets so that we can stage a walkout of Kyle's event.
00:04:59.000So they knew exactly what they were doing.
00:05:01.000Somebody, whether it was the administration themselves or a staffer, there was very few people who knew that this was the new plan, right?
00:05:09.000And they forced this plan after originally agreeing to using our ticketing system.
00:05:15.000Again, we have an elaborate system in place because, you know, this is nothing new.
00:05:20.000We're used to people trying to buy up all the tickets.
00:05:23.000They're free, but to reserve all the tickets and then, you know, either not show up and leave the event empty so they control the event or do other types of things.
00:05:33.000So we have a system in place where we can combat those kind of attacks.
00:05:39.000We had the tickets were all going to be handled in a really professional, stand-up way.
00:05:44.000And people that really wanted to hear you, by the way, I want you to know this, Kyle.
00:05:48.000The response to the event was overwhelming.
00:05:51.000I mean, we had thousands and thousands of requests.
00:05:54.000And I would say the vast majority of those were good faith requests.
00:05:58.000And the event was going to be packed with, yeah, the event was going to be packed with people that appreciate your story, wanted to hear from you.
00:06:05.000I'm sure some would disagree, but they were good faith, right?
00:06:07.000It was not going to be a room full of 300 protesters just screaming at you.
00:06:13.000And unfortunately, the university gamed the system, changed it last minute, and set this up.
00:06:22.000They set up the potential for a riot to happen, which if you know anything about the city of Memphis, it's not surprising that that same kind of cultural rot would be infesting the administration of the University of Memphis.
00:06:35.000So honestly, I'm sorry that that happened to you.
00:06:46.000It happened to the students who took the time out of their days to either come into town or clear their schedules to come and listen to me speak because they have every right, just as any other protester, to come there and listen to me and to be censored in a way.
00:07:03.000In a way, it is censorship to censor me and the students of Turning Point US4.
00:07:16.000And one of the other aspects of this story, and there's so many moving parts, it's hard for people to fully understand what happened.
00:07:22.000The administration in coordination with campus police basically said they weren't going to do anything if protesters were shouting at you, if they were being unruly.
00:08:40.000This is a form of censorship by another name.
00:08:43.000Yes, they technically allowed the event to move forward, but not any semblance of the event that we had envisioned, not any semblance of the event where you would actually get an opportunity to speak.
00:08:53.000They created a situation that could have become unsafe, that could have become a lot more riotous than it did.
00:09:01.000But certainly, you look at some of those videos, like somebody could have very easily been injured in all of this.
00:09:09.000And yeah, this is them walking out, the Black Lives Matter t-shirt, walking out of the event because they didn't like what you had to say.
00:09:16.000And then there were scenes from outside of them spitting on cars, kicking cars, chasing people around, blocking roads, trying to block cars from exiting.
00:09:26.000I mean, this is a massive group of people.
00:09:30.000And the cops and the administration enabled this by giving them such a wide, wide berth and such a long leash.
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00:11:23.000And I tried to get into that in my speech a little bit yesterday while in my QA and debate with some of these unruly demonstrators inside that building, talking about the murder rate in Memphis and how most of those murders come from people who legally cannot possess a gun to begin with.
00:11:40.000So what does adding more gun control do to help your city?
00:12:22.000But yeah, you're somehow a white supremacist.
00:12:25.000And the other thing I want to fact check here, Kyle, they're saying is you stormed off the stage and because you couldn't answer questions.
00:12:39.000If you watch the video, I'm not going to dox the field rep's name, but you see my security team walk off stage, go to the field rep because I gave my single, hey, I had my timer on.
00:12:48.000I was going to go out there for 30 minutes.
00:12:50.000The schedule time that I promised turning point, 30 minutes, had my timer.
00:14:03.000I mingled around with them and I hung out with them for a couple hours and spent some time with them because they didn't deserve to be treated like that by the university.
00:14:12.000And it was a really wonderful after event.
00:14:14.000And I'm glad I got to be able to do that with them.
00:14:17.000And I hope it meant a lot to them because it meant a lot to me.
00:14:23.000And then just in terms of your own physical safety, did you, at what points before, during, or after the event exiting the university, did you feel unsafe as you were in any of those settings?
00:14:41.000So after the after event, we went out to this place called Hui's and it's kind of in the hood.
00:14:46.000And I didn't really feel unsafe there, but there were definitely some sketched characters there taking pictures of me.
00:14:52.000But we had a canine Odin with us and nobody really wants to mess with the dog.
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00:16:53.000So, and that's the other part of this story that I think is underappreciated.
00:16:57.000You know, Charlie goes to campus and he experiences like so much love, so much like appreciation.
00:17:05.000Like, crowds come around him, and they want to like, you know, shake his hand and take pictures with him.
00:17:09.000I mean, when he does these table event tabling events, he's usually got about like 60, 70% of people that like really support him or there to encourage him.
00:17:17.000You have a similar situation where a lot of people want to paint it as if all you have is haters.
00:17:22.000But talk about some of the people that support you.
00:17:25.000Like, I mean, I was on the phone with you earlier, and you had to like pause the conversation because some I could hear the gentleman came up to you and just like, I just want to shake your hand, Kyle, and tell you I appreciate you.
00:17:43.000Especially at turning point events and then like going on in public.
00:17:47.000Of course, there's some negative people out there, but a majority of the people are nice, everyday patriots who just want to see the same society that Turning Point wants to see, that I want to see, and see people not get indoctrinated or have our rights stripped.
00:18:13.000And I do find a little bit of appreciation in that in a way because it shows me that not everybody is out to get me.
00:18:21.000No, we're dealing with a very loud, very weak minority group of people that act like petulant children to get their way.
00:18:31.000And anyways, Kyle, I just, you know, appreciate you going through with the event.
00:18:36.000The university really needs to be held accountable.
00:18:38.000We're going to be working as hard as we can to make sure that this incident gets investigated.
00:18:44.000Again, the university sets you up with a stacked deck of protesters in that crowd by changing the ticketing system, by refusing to use ours, by refusing to honor our weeks of work that went into promoting that event and getting people registered and good faith and confirming tickets and texting people and emailing people.
00:19:03.000I mean, people have no idea how much work our staff puts in, how much our chapters put in to host an event like this.
00:19:09.000And they undermined it and they put you and our students and honestly that university at risk.