00:00:15.000And so we talk through it, what actually happened with the university, how they sabotaged the event in many ways, at least appears to be so.
00:00:23.000And then we have Charlie come in to give his exclusive reaction to the events that unfolded at the University of Memphis and Kyle Rittenhouse.
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00:00:57.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
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00:01:36.000Honored to be with you today, the executive producer of this fine show and sometimes guest host when Charlie's on assignment, which he is today at the University of Nevada Las Vegas.
00:01:45.000He's going to be doing another tabling event on campus, answering the crazy questions from the lefty students.
00:01:52.000And by the way, there's a ton of support when Charlie goes out there.
00:01:55.000That's something I want to make very clear to the audience.
00:01:57.000You know, I see some people tweeting in the aftermath of last night's craziness with Kyle Rittenhouse that they somehow think that there's no support on these campuses for conservatives.
00:02:11.000There is a ton of support when Charlie goes to these campuses.
00:02:14.000I would say it's probably about 60, 70% supporters, actually, and about 30% people or 40% people that disagree or want to ask questions, some protesters, of course.
00:02:23.000It all makes for a very lively experience, to say the least.
00:02:28.000But what happened last night at the University of Memphis is an absolute disgrace that didn't have to happen, especially the way it went down.
00:02:39.000And I'm going to tell you all about it because I was in the middle of it last night dealing with press and dealing with the school and dealing with the campus chapters.
00:02:57.000What they had to deal with, what our brave students had to deal with, what the campus chapter and the field staff had to deal with, and what Kyle Rittenhouse had to deal with at the University of Memphis, which just boggles the mind on some level because it's in a red state in a really red state in Tennessee.
00:03:12.000And yet a lot of people in the comments were saying, don't, you know, don't lump Memphis in with us in Tennessee.
00:04:08.000There are events going on all across the country at TPUSA chapters at different schools that nobody ever hears about because they don't turn into big, you know, chaotic scenes like what unfolded last night in Memphis.
00:04:24.000We're allowed to sort of vet some, sure, but we try and give wide birth to these chapters at Turning Point USA so that they're able to feel like they have some autonomy, that they have some control.
00:04:35.000A bunch of schools have requested Kyle Rittenhouse.
00:04:37.000He came out with a book, and a couple of them have already happened.
00:04:41.000As a matter of fact, you didn't hear about them because they happened in sane places.
00:04:44.000Memphis, unfortunately, is not a sane place.
00:05:04.000And apparently, 15,000 tickets were attempted to be reserved.
00:05:08.000Now, obviously, we can't put 15,000 people at these events.
00:05:12.000So there's a whole process that then ensues to make sure: A, you're not, it's not a bot.
00:05:17.000B, you're not somebody coming in bad faith, that these are actually students that get the priority that want to hear somebody like Kyle speak.
00:05:24.000Kyle is not an employee of Turning Point USA.
00:05:26.000He doesn't work for Turning Point USA.
00:05:28.000He's somebody that our chapter requested come and speak.
00:05:32.000So the university was getting a lot of local pressure from local activists.
00:05:38.000And, you know, you need to cancel this event, you know, racism, all this stuff.
00:05:44.000Kyle shot three white people in Kenosha.
00:05:48.000And there was no black people involved.
00:05:51.000But they so badly want to attach this to him that the BLM activists, local agitators, left-wingers made it all about that.
00:05:58.000And what they ended up doing, the school ended up on the day of, and this is completely unprecedented, forcing our local chapter and our field team to change the ticketing system.
00:06:08.000Now, let me reiterate: we have a very elaborate and sophisticated ticketing system to ensure that it's good faith people that are allowed to come to the events, people that actually want to hear and engage and, yeah, debate.
00:06:19.000And if you, if you have a difference of opinion, you get to come to the front of the line if you're doing it in good faith, not if you're trying to shout down our people, not if you're trying to stage a walkout protest.
00:06:29.000So the morning of, they forced a ticketing change.
00:06:32.000And their stated reason, they wanted to ensure that the ticketing was fair and equitable, fair and equitable.
00:06:42.000Now, these protesting groups, these agitators have their own group chats.
00:06:47.000Well, our savvy little students, not little, but our savvy students at Turning Point USA are in those group chats.
00:06:54.000And so early yesterday morning, when the school told them they had to put out this new ticketing system and get people to reapply for tickets.
00:07:02.000So if you had the thousands of people that had attempted to get tickets, you were no longer, those were no longer valid requests.
00:07:10.000And if we had emailed you and told you that you were approved for your ticket, that was no longer valid either.
00:07:15.000You had to go through a new ticketing system the day of the event.
00:08:13.000Oh, and these agitators, as soon as they came in, they actually started reserving their own seats and taping the names of the legal defense team that defended Kyle when he was acquitted.
00:08:28.000So he started taping the names of seats of his lawyers.
00:09:36.000You know what was amazing about this, actually, to me, was that there was still that Black Lives Matter is still a thing.
00:09:42.000After they've been disgraced, after their founders have been proven to be frauds, after they've fleeced money from thousands, if not millions of donors, that there's still people in Memphis that are wearing BLM shirts.
00:09:56.000The organization that betrayed black people, you're still wearing BLM shirts.
00:10:02.000It's a remarkable, remarkable sociological observation.
00:10:09.000You know, it takes a long time for these messages to get through.
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00:11:16.000So, so really what this comes down to, folks, and I do want to play a few more pieces of tape here, but what this comes down to is essentially a lawless, chaotic city in the midst of an otherwise really pretty well-functioning state, pretty safe state.
00:11:32.000And that, you know, honestly, just makes me really sad.
00:11:35.000But all this started because the administration was pandering to petulant children.
00:11:40.000There was local politicians that were saying, you got to cancel this event.
00:11:43.000And the school said, well, we have to uphold the First Amendment.
00:11:46.000Well, that all sounds really nice in theory if you're going to allow the event to go on and not cancel it.
00:11:51.000But when you do everything you can in your power to essentially hamstring an event, to overwhelm it with protesters, to tell the protesters in advance, we're not going to do anything to stop you, and then you aid and abet the protesters, which is an open question.
00:12:05.000Did the administration leak the details of this new ticketing system to the protesters in advance?
00:12:25.000Somebody could have got seriously hurt by empowering these agitators, by refusing to secure the situation, by refusing to remove agitators when they were disrupting events.
00:14:21.000That's what he's good at for at least 30, 45 minutes.
00:14:26.000He said, this is going to be the last question.
00:14:28.000He answered the last question, and then he left.
00:14:32.000And then what he did is he went to a private room with a bunch of our Turning Point USA students and staff and hung out with them for two hours and answered all of their questions, took pictures with them, and then he left peacefully.
00:14:44.000So I don't even know what was going on outside.
00:14:46.000I don't know what they were running around doing.
00:14:49.000But a total, total breach of trust, of order, of civilized gathering in peaceful assembly by the University of Memphis.
00:15:25.000They pandered to petulant children who intentionally sabotaged an event, a legal event with somebody who'd been acquitted by a jury of his peers, who did not shoot black people, who shot a pedophile and an abuser, and he was acquitted.
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00:17:54.000You know, what is your initial reaction to what you saw take place last night with Kyle Rittenhouse at University of Memphis?
00:18:01.000Yeah, my take's a little different, not different, but just I'm used to this.
00:18:07.000I mean, I've been doing this for 10 years.
00:18:09.000I've seen this sort of behavior so often that this doesn't shock me or surprise me.
00:18:14.000I mean, we haven't seen this for a little while at Turning Point USA.
00:18:17.000We haven't seen this kind of where they hunt you down in the streets and they blockade staffers from leaving and they dox the personal information of individual students.
00:18:25.000But we have experienced very similar instances like this.
00:18:29.000Remember last year at University of California at Davis, where I went and spoke there and four people were arrested and they had hundreds of protesters and they were breaking windows and they were trying to get into the event center.
00:19:55.000Do you remember that story a year and a half, two years ago where that teacher was jogging really early in the morning and she was hunted down?
00:20:02.000Did that receive this sort of condemnation and these sort of protests?
00:21:46.000And actually, he showed incredible discipline when he, I mean, so many people, if you look back at those, the video of Kyle would have shot off a barrage of bullets.
00:21:56.000Kyle, you know, it was like three or four shots, bang, bang, bang.
00:21:58.000And he ran away, went straight to the police.
00:22:01.000So, but beyond that, to your point, 398 murders.
00:22:06.000They broke a record in Memphis last year.
00:22:09.000And so, yeah, there's bigger problems in Memphis than a guest speaker at a college that would have been completely, completely safe and normal and orderly had the university not jettisoned our ticketing system the day of the event.
00:22:25.000And instead, somehow these protesters were tipped off and they were allowed to scoop up large chunks of these tickets and then turned it into a chaotic scene, staging walkouts, shouting down Kyle.
00:22:37.000Kyle did a tremendous job, I thought, acquitting himself brilliantly in the face of that.
00:22:43.000And then he spent two hours with our students afterwards, just taking private questions, trying to have a constructive dialogue and exchange with them.
00:22:50.000And they had a bunch of questions for him.
00:23:02.000Memphis is an outlier, if there ever was one.
00:23:06.000I don't know if you have friends that you can call to get this looked into, but I certainly believe it needs to be looked into because whatever happened was complete sabotage.
00:23:17.000And we very well might file a lawsuit.
00:23:18.000And we might file a lawsuit just on technical grounds.
00:23:21.000Because again, the way that campus speech is supposed to be administered is from viewpoint neutrality.
00:23:27.000The taxpayer-funded universities, especially state universities, they are not allowed to say, well, you know, we really don't like Kyle Rittenhouse.
00:25:06.000They wanted to turn him into teenage Derek Chauvin is what they wanted to do.
00:25:10.000They wanted to try to send a message that if you dare try to defend yourself or try to protect your community against lawlessness or anarchy or disorder, we're going to throw you in prison and we're going to racialize it even when it doesn't exist.
00:25:22.000Because again, everyone who Kyle interacted with that evening was white.
00:25:25.000And Kyle Rittenhouse got away and Kyle Rittenhouse made them all look bad.
00:25:29.000But the Moscow style show trial that they've done against many other people in these instances where they say, look at this racist person, 50 years in prison.
00:25:37.000Look at this racist person, 30 years in prison.
00:25:40.000And it's too toxic and no one talks about it.
00:25:42.000They tried to do that to Kyle Rittenhouse.
00:25:43.000And now Kyle Rittenhouse is doing a speaking tour where he's talking about how the mob justice system tried to throw him in jail and how he was not given a fair hearing in the press.
00:25:54.000And thankfully, we still had this little pocket of decency and normalcy and civility where he was able to get a fair trial in Wisconsin.
00:26:01.000And so, you know, we deal with this every day at Turning Point USA.
00:26:04.000And that's the other point I want to make, is that every single day our Turning Point students are experiencing the backlash, the smearing, the slander, the doxing.
00:26:12.000And that should give all of you inspiration and hope.
00:26:15.000You know, people ask all the time, they say, Charlie, you know, what can I do to get involved?
00:26:18.000Well, try to do something as important as our Turning Point students who every single day are putting online.
00:26:23.000Imagine having our Turning Point USA chapter leader at Memphis had his personal apartment information put public so anyone could go there and either harass him or do violent harm to him.
00:26:34.000All of it just made public immediately.
00:26:36.000And that's the playbook that they operate from, which is full-out warfare.
00:26:42.000They want physical harm to happen to our students.
00:26:44.000And thankfully, we have the toughest kids in the conservative movement who do not back down.
00:26:50.000Well, and our ranks are growing, Charlie.
00:26:52.000I mean, you know, you talk about this sometimes, but you're going to be at UNLV.
00:26:56.000I would suspect that UNLV is going to be a lot like San Diego State and Cal State Fullerton and Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, where the vast majority, hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of people show up to these tabling events.
00:27:08.000The vast majority of them are going to be supportive of Turning Point USA in a view.
00:27:13.000You know, you've got these clowns on social media like Philip Kowski or whatever that say, you know, that these campuses hate Turning Point or whatever.
00:27:22.000There is an army in a peaceful sense of inspired young people that are calling BS on the regime and all of this woke nonsense that they've been force-fed since an early age.
00:27:38.000And it's voices like Turning Point USA on campus that are giving them a home, that are giving them a voice to share with, to fight alongside.
00:27:45.000And it's been incredible watching your tour and these tabling events and how many hundreds and hundreds of supporters are coming out.
00:27:53.000Charlie, what's that like on your side from when you started to where we are now?
00:27:59.000I mean, today we're expecting major crowds at UNLV.
00:28:04.000And typically we used to do these outdoor campus events.
00:28:07.000You know, we'd get maybe a couple dozen people, 30 or 40 people, some passerby.
00:28:12.000Now there's hundreds of kids and they wait like two hours just for us to come on campus and they stay there for another couple hours and uninterrupted.
00:28:19.000And today I think we're going to get more protesters because UNLV is pretty left-wing and pretty liberal, but that's fine.
00:28:30.000And it's so, it is so challenging to the liberals because they've never had anyone so or a group of people so confident or, and I don't mean confident in a cocky way, but just kind of just comfortable in your right in their ideas that they invite discourse straight up to the microphone.
00:29:10.000But this is what's going to save the country, which is open air, unscripted, real-time debates and dialogue about the most consequential ideas that are facing our country.
00:29:22.000It's not going to be just like, oh, we're going to put you in jail or restrict your speech because I think you're a racist.
00:29:29.000And, you know, for anyone, by the way, you know, one of the kids last night, you know, said, oh, Charlie Kirk's a racist to Kyle Rittman.
00:29:34.000I was like, okay, come and find me and tell that to my face.
00:29:39.000Let me go through every single thing that you think I said and say it verbatim.
00:29:43.000But a lot of them won't, Andrew, because for obvious reasons.
00:29:48.000Charlie, I want to fixate on one piece of this because you've probably interacted with more college administrators than just about anybody else in the country.
00:29:59.000And there's a good way to do this and there's a bad way to do this.
00:30:02.000My read on this is that the University of Memphis essentially empowered petulant children.
00:30:09.000And, you know, you look at the larger problems within Memphis and the crime and how murderous it is.
00:30:45.000University of California Davis is a great example of that.
00:30:47.000I remember last year, we were the ones that hosted Riley Gaines at the University of San Francisco or San Francisco something, where she got helped hunted down in the hallway.
00:31:39.000And if that's the case, then, yeah, Governor Bill Lee and the entire legislature, they should hold hearings on this.
00:31:46.000On was this technically administered the right way?
00:31:48.000Because this is a bad look for the state of Tennessee.
00:31:51.000And for those of you that haven't seen the videos, they're literally hunting down students in the streets, hunting down supporters in the streets.
00:32:07.000And in the great irony, and it's a terrible, tragic irony, is they're protesting Kyle Rittenhouse, but they were recreating some of the bedlam that Kyle Rittenhouse was trying to stand up against in his hometown.
00:32:18.000And, you know, thankfully, again, no one got hurt.
00:32:20.000The police did their best job to try to normalize this, but you must understand the police are kind of guests on these campuses.
00:32:26.000They always have to kind of follow orders from the campus administration unless they see an active crime taking place and they're very hesitant to intervene.
00:32:34.000And so, you know, this is just another example of some of the administration that acts like this.
00:32:41.000You know, some university campuses, they do stand up to the activist class.
00:32:45.000They give them their First Amendment rights, as they are due, but they don't pander to them.
00:32:49.000They don't give them inside access to ticketing.
00:32:51.000They don't give them a cheat code to be able to disrupt our presence on campus.
00:32:56.000And so it is still a tragedy that there are university faculty and administration, people in leadership that pander more to a petulant minority than to the reasonable majority on these campuses.
00:33:11.000And you're actually, we haven't mentioned University of New Mexico, which you personally went out of your way to speak outside of any tour at that campus because they had previously succeeded in getting an event.
00:33:23.000And by the way, these are outside agitators.
00:33:25.000A lot of these at University of New Mexico specifically, they were not students.
00:33:30.000They were sort of like Antifa groups or whatever.
00:33:32.000Same at UC Davis, but they had locked up Tommy Larin in a room and she had to be sort of rescued out of being barricaded in a room as well.
00:33:42.000You went back and sort of looked the mob in the eye and we had a successful event.
00:33:46.000But that would be another example that I'm thinking of.
00:33:48.000Charlie, let's go ahead and play Cut 98.
00:33:51.000This is, these are activists stomping, spitting on cars, hitting cars as people were trying to leave the parking garage last night.
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