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00:00:07.000It's my exclusive conversation with Dennis Prager.
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00:01:26.000His 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.
00:01:35.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:01:48.000So I don't want to take too much time because we have a very special guest tonight that we're going to learn a lot from.
00:01:54.000But I do want to give you a little bit of a summary of the last 24 hours and kind of everything that we experienced and everything that we were kind of going through at Turning Point USA.
00:02:08.000And so many of you know the work that we do at Turning Point USA is we do work on college campuses, so you don't have to.
00:02:15.000And our goal is to make sure that your grandkids live in a free country and to make sure that the ideas of freedom and liberty are passed down from one generation to the other.
00:02:30.000And we do this at Turning Point USA in proven and effective ways.
00:02:34.000In fact, we now have more high school chapters than college chapters at Turning Point USA.
00:02:39.000We have hundreds of thousands of students involved, some of whom are here tonight.
00:02:45.000And one of the things we do at Turning Point USA, and we believe firmly at our core, is that we should intentionally go to places where we are in the philosophical, religious, and ideological minority.
00:02:59.000That we need to go to places where we are not always going to get the warmest welcome.
00:03:03.000And in fact, I think one of the reasons that we have lost our country is that far too often conservatives are afraid to go into the left-wing bastions and speak the truth.
00:03:15.000And so we had this campus event scheduled at University of California Davis for quite some time.
00:03:22.000And what happened last night was something I've never experienced in my now 10 years of doing this.
00:03:28.000I have given over 120 speeches on campus.
00:03:31.000I've given over thousands and thousands of lectures.
00:03:34.000And as many of you know, radio and podcasting.
00:03:36.000I've never seen what has happened and what has unfolded because it wasn't just the students or the Antifa terrorists.
00:03:42.000What unfolded in the last 24 hours is so telling about how the elites and how leaders are involving themselves in the incitement of violence against conservatives.
00:03:55.000And I'll prove this to you and I'll show it to you.
00:03:58.000It's disturbing in more ways than one.
00:04:01.000So, yesterday morning, we were hosting our radio program, and they were already talking a big game at University of California Davis.
00:04:07.000And the Sacramento B, which is the local newspaper in the Sacramento area, published a newspaper article calling me a fascist speaker.
00:04:16.000And that's not true, but I can roll my eyes and say whatever.
00:04:20.000But the byline of the article took my breath away.
00:04:24.000It said, Charlie Kirk is coming to University of California, Davis, who has openly called for the lynching of trans people.
00:04:32.000I have, not only have I never said that, I haven't even remotely ever gotten close.
00:04:37.000It is a fabricated, total, completely fake lie.
00:04:44.000And so immediately we mentioned it on our program.
00:04:47.000We emailed the head of the Sacramento B.
00:04:48.000We said, hey, this is an internet rumor of somebody that's a trans activist that came after Charlie because he didn't like his strong opinion when he said, quote, in the 1950s and 1960s, men would not have allowed men to compete against women in women's sports or go into women's locker rooms.
00:05:12.000And what I meant by dealt with it is that the local district attorney would have arrested a man for going into the locker room for exposing himself to other women.
00:05:22.000And I said repeatedly, peaceful, peaceful, peaceful, peaceful.
00:05:25.000I went out of my way to say that on the program.
00:05:28.000So the Sacramento B writes this, but it didn't stop there.
00:05:31.000And I'm going to show you this video in a second.
00:05:33.000The chancellor of the University of California Davis, this whole system of schools who earns $850,000 a year, made a video where he then told the entire student body that Charlie Kirk is coming to campus and he has openly called for violence against transgender people.
00:05:53.000Now, you know, our amazing security team was fielding death threats towards me and my family all week before this.
00:05:59.000And so what happened was a planned, orchestrated campaign on complete lies, trying to gin up the activist fervor and the energy.
00:06:09.000And praise God, nobody died last night.
00:06:12.000See, I'm not, that's not an exaggeration, okay?
00:06:14.000Praise God, nobody was seriously hospitalized, okay?
00:06:17.000A police officer was injured and assaulted.
00:06:20.000They tried to gain access into the building by breaking glass, by using quasi-military type tactics, graffiti, spray painting, hurling projectiles, death threats in the face, you know, harassment.
00:06:31.000You're going to see that videos in a second.
00:06:33.000But it was so telling to me that people that are tasked with a fiduciary responsibility to run a school, they are committed to lying to the population.
00:07:43.000And I'm going to tell you how we're going to deal with it.
00:07:44.000You're going to see first the chancellor who earns $850,000 a year, say a material falsehood and a lie and repeat it to try to stoke incitement of a mob against a speaker he doesn't like.
00:07:56.000And then you'll see the activity of violence that's happening.
00:08:02.000Many of you have reached out to me and others regarding tonight's event organized by the registered student organization Turning Point USA, or TPUSA, at UC Davis.
00:08:12.000Thank you for sharing your distress at a student group hosting a speaker who is a well-documented proponent of misinformation and hate and who has advocated for violence against transgender individuals.
00:08:23.000Under UC policy, campuses may not prohibit student organizations such as TPUSA from inviting these speakers, even if the speaker's intended speech is loathsome and hurtful to me and to others in our campus community.
00:08:36.000With respect to concerns related to violence, UC policy permits denial of requests if the speaker will present a clear and present danger to the campus.
00:08:44.000Our council also notes that there is a similarly heavy burden for criminal prosecution for incitement of violence.
00:08:50.000Please be assured that we are monitoring the event closely to determine if a threat or incitement develops that meets that threshold.
00:08:57.000We can't control how these groups operate, but we can work together to neutralize and negate their influence.
00:09:03.000So having to speak to an empty room would make a powerful state.
00:10:56.000Footage goes on for a while and praise God the police did their job because that really could have got out of control.
00:11:03.000But let me summarize a couple lessons.
00:11:06.000And a police officer did have to have medical care treated.
00:11:09.000A couple lessons from this that I think are important.
00:11:12.000Because some people say, well, Charlie, why do you do this?
00:11:14.000Well, number one, we do this to encourage the conservative students that we have on campus there that they are not alone and that you have to stand for your beliefs regardless of what they try to do to you.
00:11:45.000The university president would never mention that.
00:11:47.000But the third reason we do this, which is the most important reason, because I got a couple emails today from people saying, Charlie, you're the one stoking the violence by attending.
00:13:17.000But I want to also say this for all of you: which is they are now running for the hills, doing retractions and apologies, and they've been silent.
00:13:25.000And it's a reminder for all of you that the truth wins.
00:13:28.000And that is the cornerstone of Christianity, everybody, is that the truth will set you free.
00:13:48.000Instead, he's inciting it because there's a brokenness, there's a darkness there.
00:13:52.000We have to be salt and light to these people.
00:13:55.000But for all of you that are experiencing some form of your own individual torment, I want you to know that the reason we do these events is to remind you you're not alone, to show you that there's many people that share your values.
00:14:05.000That's why we do what we do at Turning Point USA.
00:14:07.000And it's also to show that we can beat these people, that these people are beatable when we embrace the truth and we go to places where we're not always comfortable.
00:14:18.000That's when we make the biggest impact.
00:14:20.000And I can't think of a better segue to introduce someone who has taught me so much.
00:14:24.000I encourage everyone out here, whether you are religious or not religious, you need to take this man's Bible commentary seriously.
00:14:32.000I'm telling you, as a Bible-believing Christian who believes in the inerrancy of scripture, listening and walking through his Genesis commentary significantly enriched my faith in Jesus Christ, in God, in the scriptures, understanding the history and the inerrancy of the word of God, and not to mention the necessity of believing in God.
00:14:56.000This man that you're about to hear from tonight has spoken with more human beings than any other person on the planet on radio and otherwise.
00:15:04.00040 years on radio, thousands of columns.
00:15:08.000He speaks fluent biblical Hebrew as well as other six other languages.
00:15:12.000There is not a question you can ask him about the Torah that he will not be able to answer with whimsy and joy and be able to understand the specifics.
00:17:22.000Because the moment the draft stopped, all the demonstrations stopped.
00:17:26.000So what Paul Putt did in Cambodia, which is unknown and unspoken of, the Hitlerite massacres of a third of the Cambodian people by the communists that took over, didn't have one demonstration on one campus in the United States of America, because it didn't matter.
00:17:45.000They cared about Vietnamese like I care about, I don't know, some extraterrestrial group.
00:18:03.000And again, I find no joy in this, but we're probably going to sue him and sue him for a lot of money because he caused a lot of good for what he did.
00:19:29.000So, Dennis, there's so many important things we could talk about, but I do want to focus on your remarkable work on the first five books of the Bible, the Pentateuch, the books of Moses, the Torah, which I think you understand better than almost any living person on the planet today and how it applies to today's time, which is honestly the most important.
00:19:49.000But one of the things you talk about that I think can frame this discussion is something I have repeated: the first 11 books of Genesis in particular lay out distinctions.
00:19:58.000You were talking about this earlier, which is God created a world where distinctions matter.
00:20:04.000And since the 1970s, the left has done everything they can to destroy distinctions.
00:20:09.000Talk about what distinctions God set up in creation and why does it matter?
00:20:15.000I wrote this first in the 1980s, so this is not new.
00:20:18.000And I knew then how dangerous the left was.
00:24:26.000Holy and distinctiveness are synonymous.
00:24:30.000And Dennis, part of what we're living through is the destruction of the distinctions.
00:24:35.000And explain, give some details for that, because every one of the six, and there also is the distinction between life and death, if you wanted to add a seventh.
00:24:44.000Well, and if I were to add an eighth between beautiful and ugly.
00:25:04.000I remember when I was at college, kids would get up and say, oh, the Catholic Church spends all this money, all these impoverished people in South America, and they spend all this money on cathedrals.
00:25:17.000And I thought, what a stupid argument.
00:25:20.000Let's say you melted all the gold in any cathedral.
00:25:24.000How much would it help the poor people in any given city in Latin America or wherever else it might be?
00:25:35.000The one thing that gave them uplift and inspiration is now done with because the nihilists of the left have destroyed it in the name of giving people some money, which would be spent in such a tiny amount of time.
00:25:54.000Anyway, beauty, there is a war against every one of the distinctions.
00:25:57.000So since you asked me, I'll be very brief.
00:26:00.000So what does the serpent say in the Garden of Eden story?
00:26:04.000Eat from the tree of knowledge and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.
00:26:09.000And what it really means is determining good and evil.
00:26:15.000The left determines good and evil, not God.
00:26:19.000That is why they hate God as a belief, because God is the determiner of good and evil.
00:26:25.000That's why they hate us religious people.
00:26:27.000We are their biggest enemy, and Christians in particular, because it's so much more numerous.
00:26:31.000I, as a Jew, constantly say the most persecuted religious group in the world today are Christians.
00:26:38.000With the exception of one Muslim group in China, which is a terrible, terrible thing, but that's one confined place.
00:26:48.000But in Africa, massacres of Christians take place by Muslim fanatics regularly.
00:26:54.000And the hatred of Christians in the United States is completely understandable because you are the only organized opposition.
00:27:06.000There are individual opponents of the left, but organized is only Christians, and not enough Christians, by the way, just to say the least.
00:27:14.000The Anglican church in England has just announced that it wants to refer to God in non-binary terms.
00:28:37.000So by the way, the male-female one is the most dramatic, perhaps, but it is not new.
00:28:47.000When I was in college, I was taught men and women are basically the same.
00:28:51.000The war against male-female distinctions is now generations long.
00:28:57.000I heard that men and women are basically the same.
00:29:01.000And I didn't put two and two together realizing how significant it was, but I knew it was nonsense.
00:29:08.000And it's when I came up with the idea that my grandmother, who never went to high school, understood life better than most PhDs do.
00:29:17.000And she knew that men and women were basically different.
00:29:20.000You have to go to college not to know that men and women are basically different.
00:29:26.000And by the way, one of the reasons that I oppose same-sex marriage, and I testified in Congress against it, and by the way, I say this, I just want you to know, my wife and I are godparents to a gay couple's children.
00:29:44.000In private life, these people are dear souls in my life, and I want to make that clear.
00:29:51.000But that doesn't mean we redefine marriage for the first time in history.
00:29:57.000I have a motto which I think is worth adopting.
00:30:00.000Everyone should adopt: compassion in the micro, standards in the macro.
00:30:06.000That's a very important distinction to keep.
00:30:09.000Anyway, I knew there was something very wrong because of the key argument that was made, and the key argument that was made for same-sex marriage is gender doesn't matter.
00:34:17.000You know, I write a column every week, and I hope you'd look this up because there are a thousand of them on the internet.
00:34:26.000And they're really not dated because I write about big themes.
00:34:30.000And I've written about this on many occasions on the need to fight and how America is in the fight of its life and we have never had a fight like this.
00:34:47.000This is a unique period in American history.
00:34:52.000I said to Charlie on the way here, I said, I don't know who it's worse for.
00:34:58.000Those of us old enough to remember America when Superman was Superman.
00:38:27.000And you could cry when you read that column.
00:38:31.000So Dennis, a couple thoughts here before we open it up for some questions that I think is really important, especially when it comes to today's time.
00:38:41.000So you talk about, we talk about distinctions, we talk about order.
00:38:45.000Can you just speak a little bit about America's founding roots and how the American founders knew the Torah and in fact, how Deuteronomy was the most quoted of any book, secular or religious, in the writing of the Constitution, the Federalist Papers, and the Declaration of Independence.
00:39:05.000We teach our kids in government schools that America was a secular nation.
00:39:11.000But in reality, it was the Bible that founded the philosophical tradition of the greatest nation ever to exist in the history of the world.
00:41:43.000Yes, he's heard me note, I did not know this.
00:41:48.000The founders quoted Deuteronomy more than any other biblical book and any other secular book.
00:41:54.000The second most quoted author was Montesquieu.
00:41:57.000And by the way, you'll find this of interest.
00:42:00.000Jesus cites Psalms the most, and second most, Deuteronomy.
00:42:06.000The founders knew the Bible, the Torah in particular, so well that Jefferson and Franklin suggested that the great seal of the United States depict the Jews leaving Egypt.
00:42:22.000And these two were the least religious in the sense of being, they were not doctrinally Christian.
00:42:33.000They were God-centered, even Jefferson.
00:42:36.000But it just shows you how much the Torah meant to the founders of this country.
00:42:42.000So it is very important to know those books.
00:42:47.000So the final thing, Dennis, and then we'll do some questions.
00:42:50.000One thing I think you deserve repeated credit for was your moral clarity when it really mattered.
00:42:57.000And you're sitting right here, Dennis, on a stage where this church was tested and a relationship and a friendship was formed that has now impacted millions of people and this local area.
00:43:10.000I'll tell you, Dennis, the story and for some other people, but it's directly connected with what you called in the spring of 2020.
00:43:18.000So, Dennis, in the spring of 2020, for those that do not know, had the moral clarity and courage to write a column and go on his radio program and say that the lockdowns were the worst mistake in human history.
00:43:38.000But as you know, far too many churches shut down and were not willing to do the right thing.
00:43:44.000Well, Dennis, I got to know the amazing pastors here at Dream City Church, and we had an opportunity to host President Trump in the summer of 2020.
00:43:53.000I think some of you were at that event.
00:43:59.000Dream City Church, under a lot of threats and a lot of pressure, a lot of public health stuff, they stood by us and we had that event.
00:44:06.000And it was a major turning point in the local area, and it was just amazing.
00:44:12.000And so, Dennis, you should feel comfortable speaking freely about the churches that didn't do the right thing, because this church did do the right thing, and they were bold and courageous.
00:44:22.000But, Dennis, talk about how disappointed you were in so many pastors and churches that rolled over and did not fight for liberty with the lockdowns.
00:45:34.000The damage done to the society with the lockdown, with the lockdowns, what was done by shutting schools, children are not recovered yet from what happened.
00:54:26.000Because I don't measure people by their beliefs, but by their behavior.
00:54:32.000Now, Christians have a slightly harder time with that because theology is truly central to the Christian mission and outlook and so on.
00:54:43.000But I have brought, I have no doubt, tens of thousands of people back to church.
00:54:51.000This Jew has brought tens of thousands of people back to church.
00:54:56.000And I am thrilled that I have done so.
00:54:59.000And sometimes Christians hearing this person on the radio say, Dennis, just want you to know it was you, a Jew, who brought me back to church.
00:55:08.000And they then say, then I will get a call.
00:55:55.000Okay, having, so that was my long preface to a short answer.
00:56:00.000The Messiah plays a much bigger role in Christian faith than in Jewish faith.
00:56:07.000The Christian Christianity got it from Judaism, that they didn't invent it, as Christians are the first to note.
00:56:15.000But while it is one of the 13 principles of the Jewish faith, according to Maimonides, the greatest Jewish thinker who ever lived, and those 13 principles are generally accepted among Jews who take Judaism seriously, nevertheless, it is not as central.
00:56:36.000So what will, and one final, what will happen?
00:56:42.000It's like when people ask me, I am adamant that there is an afterlife.
00:57:33.000In October of 2019, there were all the freedom fighters, freedom protesters in Hong Kong, and all the world's leaders said, leave them alone.
00:58:28.000I know Satan appears in Job, for example, but Satan in Hebrew just means adversary or prosecutor.
00:58:37.000So I will tell you, and I'm only one person.
00:58:43.000It's not the most important thing, but I will tell you that the last three years Started me understanding why people would believe in a metaphysical evil figure who brings evil on the earth.
00:59:05.000It is hard for me to imagine that so many terrible things happen so quickly and there isn't something diabolical about it.
00:59:21.000I mean, This country was doing really well.
00:59:24.000I don't care if you hate Donald Trump.
00:59:27.000I don't care if you love Donald Trump.
00:59:45.000And whether or not there was mischief in the last election, he would have won by a landslide that even cheating could not have undone were it not for COVID.
01:00:19.000Even if you don't believe in God or the devil, it's diabolical.
01:00:24.000What we are doing to young people in this country, the creme de la creme, Boston Children's Hospital, the most well-known children's hospital in the country affiliated with Harvard Medical School, takes out ads.
01:01:47.000We also got basically the nationalization of our student loan industry.
01:01:50.000We got universal, not universal healthcare, but Obamacare.
01:01:54.000I'm very afraid that with this new bank crisis that we're seeing, which by the way, credit suisse might collapse in the next couple of hours, which is really scary.
01:02:13.000It might be CDBC, which is centralized bank digital currency.
01:02:17.000This is effectively a way to erase the dollar and to go to a one-world unilateral currency.
01:02:24.000One of the reasons why I'm such a proponent, though, of decentralized blockchain technology and why I really support Christy Noam's veto of the bill in South Dakota is that cryptocurrency and decentralized currency is one of the few ways we can push back against the Klaus Wab great reset elites to try to put in this CBDC currency.
01:02:44.000I know it's very wonky, everybody, but I encourage you to really be vigilant about a new digital dollar they're trying to bring soon.
01:02:54.000It's wonky, it's abstract, it's in the clouds.
01:02:57.000And for those of you that care about eschatology and end times, I'm not an expert, but it talks about in great detail about the attempt to try to unify the world through a one-world currency.
01:03:08.000And we should do everything we can to push back against that.
01:03:10.000So I'm a big fan of crypto for that reason, even though it's rather unstable.
01:03:15.000Let me add a biblical proof to what Charlie said.
01:03:18.000God doesn't want this one-world thing.
01:03:20.000Yes, he wants everybody to worship him and his moral law.
01:04:10.000I didn't spend the last eight years, and it will end up 10 years, writing a commentary on the first five books of the Bible to get wealthy.
01:04:20.000In fact, I regarded nobody writes a commentary on Deuteronomy to make money.
01:06:44.000This is what would happen on your television set if you were up at midnight.
01:06:49.000They would show the American flag, they would play the national anthem, and then the screen went blank until, I don't know, 6 a.m., 5 a.m., whenever they resumed.
01:07:00.000So I remember I loved staying up till midnight to seeing the flag and hearing the national anthem.
01:10:45.000If you don't hate evil, you don't love God.
01:10:50.000That's why when Berkeley announced this, I don't know if this is new to you because you really know me well and I'm honored, really honored by that.
01:11:00.000But Berkeley City Council announced about 25 years ago that Berkeley was a hate-free zone.
01:11:09.000So I announced on my radio show, I can't visit Berkeley anymore.
01:12:54.000Oh, a book recommendation for a seven-year-old?
01:12:58.000In the classical tradition, obviously outside of the Bible?
01:13:03.000Well, this is not in the classical tradition, so it may or may not be helpful to you, but Praetor You, it's all free, has a huge number of books for little kids.
01:13:25.000Do you have an answer to what's happening?
01:13:27.000I don't know if your kids are old enough, but I'm still a big believer in Mark Twain.
01:13:32.000I think the fact that we got rid of Mark Twain in our school system has been one of the big mistakes.
01:13:36.000But I don't think your kids are old enough yet, but I would consider that to be in the tradition of especially American literature of kind of adolescent development and boys becoming men.
01:14:07.000So I've been involved in activism for quite a while already, but I actually see a lot of new faces in this room when it comes to a lot of kids, teenagers, young adults.
01:14:16.000There's quite a few here that I've never really seen before.
01:14:19.000So my question is for if they were to ever get involved, and from your experience, how do biblical principles and teachings motivate you to continue to be involved, even when the days get hard?
01:18:33.000So whenever people die, not any, but Abraham, Isaac, Moses, Jacob, and they die and it says, and they were gathered unto their kin or their people.
01:19:57.000I'm on the town council over in Fountain Hills.
01:20:00.000And being involved in the local level, I realized that there's a big push to get Republicans or Independents or people that are still having these American morals involved.
01:20:13.000However, with events like this and even at the local level, we're not making much progress in flipping people.
01:20:22.000So I guess my question is, how do we spread the message of American morality of Christianity?
01:20:29.000How do we stop preaching to the choir?
01:22:07.000I have been in public life every day of my adult life.
01:22:12.000And I remember in my 20s speaking to adults and looking at them, this was all the World War II generation.
01:22:19.000And I said to them in my 20s, I wish I had recordings of it, folks, or ladies and gentlemen, when you were still allowed to say ladies and gentlemen.
01:22:30.000So, ladies and gentlemen, you have devoted your lives to giving my generation everything you didn't have.
01:25:18.000Well, thank God, I think best under pressure.
01:25:22.000And I actually came up with an answer at the fireside chat, which I had never thought to give before, and is really something you should share.
01:25:34.000This is how you know who's lying and who's telling the truth.