00:00:21.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:01:15.000Steve, you gave an epic speech yesterday.
00:01:17.000Takeaways, for those listening on radio that can't be here, give them just some of a window into what we've been experiencing here.
00:01:24.000Well, it's the Army of the Awakened, right?
00:01:26.000And what MFEST is is the 12 to 15,000 people at the tip of the spear.
00:01:30.000You're the Pathfinders, you're Force Recon, you're the Rangers, you're the ones leading the way.
00:01:36.000Every revolutionary movement has a vanguard.
00:01:39.000And 250 years ago on Saturday was the Boston Tea Party with Hancock and Sam Adams and John Adams and the entire crew.
00:01:48.000If they came back today, they would say this movement is the direct descendant of our revolutionary generation, right?
00:01:57.000That's the whole message: that if this group does not falter, does not retreat, does not back up, and look, we're going to have victories and we're going to have defeats.
00:02:18.000The first stop is victory next November, House, Senate, and Donald J. Trump back in the White House.
00:02:24.000So, Steve, I'm glued to your speech last night.
00:02:29.000And what was so unique about it is I felt more empowered afterwards, not as a lawmaker, but just as an American.
00:02:37.000And Charlie, I haven't even told you this yet, but all the gossip and talk on the House floor was about which members of Congress even got to take the stage here.
00:02:52.000The lawmakers understand that even the chance to cast a vision and see your reaction and response is really what drives this movement more than any boring meeting in a conference room with the RNC.
00:03:05.000Well, and I got to tell you, I got lots of calls from members of Congress that I know, and you say, you know, why wasn't I invited?
00:03:22.000And they said, well, what do you mean?
00:03:24.000I said, well, you voted for the NDAA and you voted for all this nonsense.
00:03:27.000And, you know, look, we're very careful about who we platform here at the Turning Point Action Conference, Turning Point USA, because if you don't have, and by the way, we have a scorecard, Turning Point Action, go to tpaction.com.
00:03:39.000And so, but this is a whole new development, Steve.
00:03:42.000And I love hearing that, Matt, because lawmakers are starting to realize that the grassroots is leading the party, that it's starting to set the tone.
00:04:23.000And that's why, by the way, and that's why you see guys like Gates in Congress, these fighting, hey, we're not winning every battle, but we got to plan eventually to win all the battles and to take the house with MAGA Republicans.
00:04:39.000Listen, I'm just glad we're not losing every battle.
00:04:41.000You know, it feels so often, as I said yesterday, like the leaders in both parties work for the same special interests.
00:04:49.000And we've got to show a distinction, a vision, something that draws people in in a positive and inclusive way.
00:04:56.000But that doesn't mean painting in the pastels.
00:04:58.000We draw people in by being bold, by offering bold solutions like we see from President Trump.
00:05:04.000And they don't have to be complicated.
00:05:05.000Oftentimes, it's the application of common sense, and that gets drained out of how we make decisions because so many of them sell out to the lobbyists and special interests and the donor class, and they forget all about their connection to the people.
00:05:19.000And so if we restore that connection by empowering this group, we will see better governance, a stronger Republican Party, and more victories on the way.
00:06:07.000Listen, if I had to give Speaker Johnson a grade, it would be an I, incomplete, because there is a great deal of work ahead that we must endeavor upon.
00:06:15.000But keep in mind a few facts, where we were and where we've come to.
00:06:19.000Kevin McCarthy told us that we could release no more January 6 tapes, that that was completely over.
00:06:25.000Now there's more work to do, but we got more tapes out.
00:06:29.000Kevin McCarthy, for seven months, had bottlenecked all the subpoenas.
00:06:34.000Did you really believe the investigations of these folks was serious in the absence of sending the first subpoena for seven months?
00:06:42.000We got the first subpoenas to Hunter and Frank Biden out in days under Speaker Johnson.
00:06:46.000More work to do, but that's directionally correct.
00:06:49.000Now, and on the spending matters, we had only passed two single-subject appropriations bills for seven months under Kevin McCarthy.
00:06:59.000Out of the 12, we've only got, I think, three left to get to under Speaker Johnson.
00:07:33.000If it shoots, send it, was the doctrine under McCarthy.
00:07:37.000Now, Johnson might not be where I am, but he's at least said we're not sending money to Ukraine without a plan for victory or the border.
00:07:45.000And by the way, we're not going to deficit spend.
00:07:47.000We're not going to borrow money from China to send it to Ukraine.
00:07:50.000We're going to take it right out of the rear end of the IRS, and we force the Democrats to say that they'd rather fund the army of IRS agents than the Army fighting Hamas.
00:08:00.000So the grade is incomplete, but I can't turn this battleship 180 degrees.
00:08:05.000I think we're turning it in the right way.
00:08:07.000Help me understand why he said no CRs, and then he lied about that.
00:08:12.000Well, because he didn't have the votes.
00:09:01.000So here is the unfortunate trigger that was in the debt limit deal.
00:09:06.000In the event that we exercise max leverage because of what was already approved, not by me, but by the Republicans under McCarthy and McConnell, that that triggers an automatic CR at a 1% reduction across the board.
00:09:21.000I don't support across the board 1% reductions as some massive victory.
00:09:26.000I think we need deep vertical cuts to entirely abolish unconstitutional agencies like the Department of Education and the ATF and the EPA.
00:09:38.000So, but Matt, really, really quick, do you have any hope that when you guys come back January 15th or January 9th, that we're going to, are we really going to get spending cuts?
00:09:48.000Look, you don't have a majority that supports spending cuts.
00:09:52.000When we put up hundreds of amendments to cut spending, you get a lot of the New York Republicans and a lot of the California Republicans that will not vote with the Freedom Caucus and with the fiscal hawks.
00:10:04.000So the answer to your question is you do not have a majority in the United States House of Representatives that really wants to cut spending.
00:10:11.000Now, I'm doing everything I can to motivate and persuade them.
00:13:30.000I know you wanted to for Thanksgiving and Christmas break, not really, you know, let's just say working extra hours while the country's in crisis.
00:13:38.000We come back, you guys come back January 9th.
00:15:31.000I love our military, and I would support a 5% pay raise for them.
00:15:36.000But the service members in my district are more worried about what is happening to our military than anything else.
00:15:42.000So while I love and support our military, I am not going to vote for these authorizations for more DEI and CRT and all these things that are changing the military in a really dramatic and negative way for the country.
00:15:55.000So, but why did Elise Stefanik and Jim Banks, what are they thinking?
00:16:04.000I don't believe there was any strong conservative case to make for this NDAA outside of the 5.5% pay increase, which who among us would want to vote against that with all of it that our service members have to go through.
00:16:16.000But I made a commitment to the families in my district that I'm not voting to reauthorize weapon systems and new programs if we do not restore the 8,600 people who were separated from the military over an experimental vaccine with their full rank and back pay.
00:16:33.000And if you get more people to commit to those demands, then you create political momentum for those objectives.
00:16:40.000But look, Raytheon and General Dynamics and Lockheed, they all got theirs in the NDAA, but I think we left our service member.
00:16:54.000I mean, when I did that to McCarthy, I undertook a tremendous amount of political risk that, I mean, we have a two-seat majority right now, okay?
00:17:02.000On any given day, one of these octogenarians I serve with, if they're not on the last hole, they're on the back nine, and we get it to ourselves.
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00:19:01.000Diversity means diverse against the American values and free enterprise system.
00:19:06.000So it means outside of the American value system.
00:19:08.000So you have to bring in people who are against that.
00:19:12.000It's an excuse to hire people who are against America and against the values of your company or your institution or university.
00:19:17.000And inclusion is a bunch of policies to make sure they feel welcome and like they belong all the time, which means removing people who disagree with them, giving them special accommodation, giving them special policies and rules, letting them have a seat at the table, letting them take over your thing from the inside.
00:19:33.000How widespread is the DEI virus in American society?
00:20:13.000Bureaucrats that are similar, and you're the only one, James, and you deserve great credit that I've heard and other people have copied you.
00:20:20.000Similar to the Mao model, which is not only do you have bad ideas, but you have a red guard to enforce those ideas.
00:20:29.000Yeah, so the idea there is that Mao had this formula called unity, criticism, unity, and he enforced it through identity politics, which should sound really familiar.
00:20:40.000He had categories relevant to communism, like rich farmer, counter-revolutionary.
00:20:44.000We have racist, transphobe, homophobe.
00:20:47.000Those are called the enemies of the people back in Mao's time.
00:20:50.000And then there are the people, the allies, the activists, the administrators.
00:20:55.000And like I said, we're talking 100, 150 of these on the taxpayer dime at every university.
00:21:01.000Every corporation, if they want their ESG score to be good, has to have these people to make sure their policies are all in.
00:21:06.000It is, in fact, the implementation of a crude social credit system without the digital aspect yet.
00:21:12.000So, but James, let me ask you: do our elites or the people are they consciously copying Mao or accidentally copying Mao?
00:21:19.000There are very good reasons to believe that many of the people who are at the, I guess, elite of the elite status know they are copying Mao.
00:21:29.000We know, for example, that they followed the theories of Herbert Marcuse, who appealed to Mao in his writing over and over and over again as neo-Marxist writings of the 60s.
00:21:38.000We know that they built their education system around the critical pedagogy of Paul O'Fredi, who came from Brazil.
00:21:44.000Well, in the foot, I don't know if I ever told you, it's in the footnote of the first chapter, Paul O'Fredi says his education system, his model, is based off of Mao Zedong and what he's doing in China.
00:22:08.000Take over education, build their social and emotional lives out so that they're going to always enforce the new set of policies, the new values, so that they can be part of the people and they can denounce and hate the enemies of the people.
00:22:21.000That's an intrinsic part of the entire program.
00:22:23.000So let me ask you: the Mao takeover, the Cultural Revolution, they had a little red book.
00:22:54.000A lot of the radicals from the 60s who went into education, went into the different institutions, went into employment, went into HR, they were Maoists in the 60s and 70s.
00:23:06.000Would you say what Turning Point is doing is one of the great threats to the Maoification of America?
00:23:12.000Yeah, let me tell you a story, as a matter of fact.
00:23:14.000I got invited to speak on the campus of Northwestern, which they told me while I was there, has 8,700 students, 100 of whom are conservative.
00:23:22.000So they're outnumbered 86 to 1 on campus.
00:23:24.000And they let the woke in to heckle me during my talk.
00:23:40.000When I said Mao would round up the landlords and have them killed, they cheered.
00:23:44.000When I said that, you know, Mao unleashed a red guard from the youth to transform the society and to destroy people's lives and humiliate them, they cheered.
00:23:52.000And I said, if you really like Mao, cheer for your dictator.
00:23:55.000And a whole bunch of the kids in the back clapped with the masks on.
00:24:01.000And so, but what Turning Point is doing is a threat to Maoism because if there can be even some disharmony with the kind of youth, we have a shot, right?
00:24:36.000We're seeing something, and I haven't asked you about this, but it's certainly not according to the plan with this Israel Hamas donors pulling money, Bill Ackman asking questions.
00:24:48.000How should we think about this, James?
00:25:32.000And so you see Bill Ackman asking questions.
00:25:34.000In fact, asking very pointed questions, very vigorous questions.
00:25:37.000You see people all of a sudden that were just kind of sleepily giving money again and again and again, huge endowments to these universities, saying, I'm not going to.
00:25:46.000Harvard's down a billion in donations.
00:26:18.000It's our job to get educated enough so these people who are starting to see through it and they have questions can find people they trust that have answers that make sense.
00:26:28.000If we can't give them answers that make sense, they're going to get sucked back into the distortion field.
00:26:32.000They're going to say, oh, well, we need DEI to just include Jews now too.
00:26:38.000So let's talk about that because there was somebody on our show recently and her argument, and I just heard her out and I didn't challenge her, was we need a new civil rights just for Jewish students.
00:27:07.000We need to start talking about people being individuals, seeing people as individuals, and protecting everybody's civil rights, which is a Christian idea.
00:27:16.000It's a Western idea that neither slave nor Greek nor Jew, but you are all one in Christ Jesus, made in the image of God, not part of your tribe, not part of your sect, not part of your group.
00:27:26.000That sort of thinking is very destructive and it's anti-Western at its core.
00:27:59.000So, like, if somebody says, you know, oh, it's black versus white, it's black versus white, black versus white, long enough, people will say, well, I'm on the white team, okay.
00:28:06.000And then all of a sudden, you're affirming the identity politics that my group is more important than the individual.
00:28:12.000And so it's an operation to get people to play the part of reinforcing the entire intersectional mindset.
00:28:20.000What we need to be doing is saying, no, I want to know you for your character.
00:28:58.000In theory, whiteness as a form of cultural property that white people gave themselves, what Marx called bourgeois cultural property, is something that has to be abolished.
00:29:07.000So they technically, the goal of critical race theory isn't necessarily to get rid of white people or something like that.
00:29:14.000It's to shame white people into joining the revolution.
00:29:17.000It's to shame white people out of holding cultural values toward capitalism, toward freedom.
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