Turning Point USA is the most powerful youth organization in the country, and it's run by a man named Charlie Kirk. Charlie and his team at Turning Point USA have built one of the most impactful organizations in American history, and they are here to do it on the college campus.
00:00:49.000His 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.
00:00:57.000We 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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00:02:18.000Very few people saw the potential of what Turning Point USA would become and what, amazingly, we would help achieve.
00:02:27.000For nearly 13 years, we've been in the trenches organizing college campus chapters, organizing high school chapters, and it's very difficult for me to demonstrate The infrastructure that is necessary to make that happen.
00:02:39.000The well over 1,000 full-time people that we have on our staff.
00:03:24.000Is embracing the ideas of freedom and liberty and American exceptionalism at a rapid pace, the likes of which that is stunning, observers.
00:03:31.000What you are seeing on screen is just in the last week of well over, if you tabulate it all, 12,000 to 15,000 students that have shown up in rain, in cold, in wind, in weather, to go hear me debate college kids across the country.
00:03:50.000Now you might say, Charlie, what difference does that make?
00:03:53.000Well, the difference is demonstrated in the latest Yale Youth Poll.
00:03:58.000Yale begrudgingly published this Youth Poll.
00:04:03.000And I might add, before I continue, we get billions of online views.
00:04:25.000If you combine Turning Point USA, Charlie Kirk Show, TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, X, it is the most viral operation that is around cultural and political matters and even theological and spiritual matters.
00:04:38.000So the Yale Youth Poll is very well respected.
00:06:08.000So now the kids that are on college campuses...
00:06:11.000Are more conservative, the kids outside of college campuses aren't as conservative.
00:06:15.000And I've got to be honest, I think there's a lot of answers to it.
00:06:18.000I think it's being immersed in wokeism, political correctness, the fragility of the cultural campus infrastructure, and also what Turning Point has done is a campus revolution, the likes of which no one could have ever imagined.
00:06:33.000And understand the 18, 19, and 20, and 20-year-olds on these college campuses, they are the COVID generation.
00:06:39.000This should be the front page of the New York Times.
00:06:41.000It should be the front page of the Wall Street Journal.
00:06:43.000But they are begrudgingly covering this like, oh, it must be an outlier.
00:06:47.000What you are witnessing, everybody, is the most dramatic generational political swing in history is unfolding before our eyes.
00:07:05.000Yale, that has all the incentives in the world to basically say that young people are liberal.
00:07:12.00018 to 21-year-olds are 11.7 points more in favor of Trump, more in favor of the Republican Party, more in favor of the conservative movement.
00:07:22.000They are rejecting their professors, they're rejecting the toxicity of the anti-white hatred, they're rejecting DEI, and they're embracing our viewpoint.
00:07:33.000And we are not just reaching them on the grassroots of the campuses, from Boise State, we're going to Washington State tomorrow, from...
00:07:40.000University of Southern California, all across the country.
00:07:44.000We're also reaching them in their smartphones.
00:09:19.000So if this is the baseline starting point, this is before they're married, before they have a mortgage, this is before they have kids, and they're starting as a baseline data point as the most conservative generation in recorded data in the last 40 years.
00:09:34.000That's before they have the three M's of a mortgage, marriage, mating.
00:09:39.000So they're conservative before the three.
00:09:44.000I am by no means taking credit for this with Turning Point USA or Turning Point Action.
00:09:49.000I will say we play a substantial role.
00:09:51.000And President Trump deserves enormous credit for his grit and his fortitude and his resilience and his focus and his stamina.
00:10:00.000But I will say that what we do on this program, when you guys listen to us, when you download our podcast, when you become a member, when you follow us, you are part of what I believe is the greatest catalyzing We are a catalyst.
00:11:30.000Shouldn't you be looking into doing that, too?
00:11:35.000What does it take to get a Democrat on a plane?
00:11:39.000Do you know that there's still American citizens being held hostage by Hamas?
00:11:44.000That's a lesser reported element, that there are American citizens that are still being held hostage by Hamas.
00:11:51.000It's a real thing, that American passport holders, American citizens.
00:11:55.000And I do think that is a lesser appreciated element of the entire Hamas situation, is that when Americans are held hostage, Certainly is noteworthy.
00:12:06.000So this is a Democrat senator from Maryland.
00:12:16.000Well, Van Hollen, because he's held captive by the lunatic wing of the Democrat Party, in order for him to get on a plane, he wants to make sure that an MS-13 member can come back to the interior of the United States.
00:12:31.000Van Hollen is boarding a plane to San Salvador.
00:12:35.000He's going to El Salvador to talk to the government of El Salvador, advocating, encouraging, and requesting the return of an MS-13 member back to the United States.
00:13:50.000I'm about to board my flight for San Salvador.
00:13:54.000The goal of this mission is to let the Trump administration, to let the government of El Salvador know that we are going to keep fighting to bring Albrego Garcia home until he returns to his family.
00:14:08.000I hope to meet with representatives of the government.
00:14:11.000I hope to have the chance to actually see Kilmar and see what his condition is.
00:14:17.000We are going to keep fighting because this is a miscarriage of justice.
00:14:21.000The Supreme Court has ruled 9-0, 9-0, that he was illegally taken out of the country and put in a prison in El Salvador.
00:14:49.000Why is it that the Democrat Party seems to be filled with these 65-year-old men that walk around in cargo shorts and New Balance sneakers and that are slightly effeminate in their approach?
00:15:15.000The illegal act was not by the U.S. government.
00:15:18.000The illegal act was when he came into our country.
00:15:22.000Van Hollen, this guy who thinks that jogging once a year is a fitness plan, that's the type of guy that he is, he never tweeted once about Rachel Morin.
00:16:08.000If he wasn't a person who obviously should be here.
00:16:12.000Did you know the wife of the deported MS-13 gangbanger dad, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, petitioned for a domestic violence protective order against him in 2021?
00:16:24.000Looks like the Maryland father also liked to beat up his Maryland wife.
00:16:29.000This is the person that Van Hollen is getting on a plane to go fight for.
00:16:35.000This is the type of individual that he feels is worthy of his advocacy, not American citizens.
00:16:42.000Not U.S. passport holders, not members of our nation, but foreigners who broke in, committed crimes, part of MS-13, and he could not be even bothered to tweet or mention the name of Rachel Morin.
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00:19:29.000Of course, that's terrific, knowing our debt and deficits.
00:19:33.000Then he's talking about bringing manufacturing to America, and that's another reason that he's looking at tariffs.
00:19:39.000So today, we've got tariffs on fentanyl, which is under the international emergency economic powers that the president is using, which of course allows the president to regulate foreign and business activity internationally.
00:19:59.000And place those tariffs on partners or wherever.
00:20:04.000And then he's got the tariffs having to do with aluminum and steel.
00:20:08.000And he's talking about tariffs there being a national security issue.
00:21:25.000They cornered the market on things, you know, like masks and gloves and this and that.
00:21:29.000And I remember reporting that at the time because I had my hospital sources call me and say, Maria, ships were on their way to America with all this stuff that we need.
00:21:35.000They were told, turn around, go back to China.
00:21:37.000So they totally cornered the market on PPE and the products that we needed.
00:21:44.000Stopped, you know, stopped flights going out.
00:21:47.000I'm sorry, stopped flights coming in, but allowed people to go out of China, out of Wuhan, right to Italy, where they had their Belt and Road Initiative.
00:21:55.000All those people were working in Italy, and then it spread globally.
00:22:05.000Not to mention the spy balloon that travels the country, thanks Joe Biden, for the whole week of having the surveillance balloon send information back to the Chinese Communist Party in real time.
00:22:15.000But you also have spies galore coming in all the time.
00:22:18.000They have exploited the student visa process.
00:22:21.000They have exploited and capitalized on anything they can.
00:22:24.000And it's because the Communist Party of China wants to overtake the United States as the number one superpower.
00:22:56.000We all know that China wants to reunite with Taiwan.
00:22:58.000So in three seconds, China will be able to shut the lights off and on in the world if they go in and get all of those 90% of advanced semiconductor chips.
00:23:08.000So President Trump is making it so expensive and so hard for companies not to want to produce in America, not to want to manufacture in America, They're all going to immediately start talking like patriots, and that's what should happen.
00:23:31.000Look at NVIDIA on the left-hand side of the screen.
00:23:33.000They've announced they will manufacture AI supercomputers in the United States.
00:23:39.000They'll be building more than a million square feet of manufacturing space in Texas and in Arizona.
00:23:45.000So we're seeing more and more investment here domestically, Maria.
00:23:48.000When you're talking to the CEOs, both on your great program or privately, how are they internalizing all of this?
00:23:55.000Some say they're panicking, but are they understanding that they have probably indulged the Chinese beast far too much?
00:24:04.000Is there a private admission by the corporate class that they have made a mistake, they've made an error?
00:24:12.000And even for their own best interest as a company, they should start to decouple their marriage with the Chinese Communist Party.
00:24:24.000Companies are going to do whatever is lawful.
00:24:26.000And they may very well push it to the edge because it's quote-unquote lawful.
00:24:31.000Now what happened was, you know, when Clinton and, well, when Nixon first went to China and then Clinton, you know, supported China into the World Trade Organization, it was a pivotal moment for America.
00:24:45.000And what happened then was the Americans felt, well, maybe, you know, we open up the world to trade with China.
00:24:53.000You know, maybe they'll recognize how great democracy and capitalism is, and they'll sort of come to the middle.
00:25:20.000Companies, I think, are talking about it, and they do know privately.
00:25:24.000One CEO of a financial services company said to me, well, I told my people, make sure you're always ready to leave the keys and walk out the door.
00:25:36.000Make sure you're always ready to, I'm out of here, and get out when you need to.
00:25:42.000China has been very smart and very aggressive with its Belt and Road strategy, taking it all over the world and aggressively utilizing shipping lanes across the world to, you know, producing products for the world at very cheap prices and taking over,
00:25:59.000you know, complete huge infrastructure projects with various countries across the world, knowing that they'll never be able to pay the debt.
00:26:06.000And then ultimately the Chinese saying, well, then we're going to just acquire this, acquire this port, take over that.
00:26:11.000And so the good news is that President Trump understands all of this.
00:26:15.000And the fact that he came in swinging with, you know, the Panama Canal, the Greenland idea, just shows you how in tune and brilliant he is about this issue.
00:26:26.000You know, on the one hand, he's saying, oh, Xi Jinping's my friend, blah, blah, blah.
00:26:29.000On the other hand, he's putting 145% tariffs on the nation.
00:27:07.000We need clarity because these companies are public companies.
00:27:11.000Their CEOs need to communicate to shareholders.
00:27:13.000They need to communicate to their business partners about how much money they're going to put into IT and how much money they're going to do R&D and make capital projections.
00:27:22.000And they can't because they don't know how much it's going to cost them on tariffs.
00:27:26.000So the lack of clarity is what is undermining the confidence in this.
00:27:31.000But I think slowly but surely people are recognizing that this is not just an economic issue.
00:27:37.000This is a national security issue and everybody needs to get on board.
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00:32:24.000These were productive talks yesterday.
00:32:26.000I don't want to get ahead of our skis.
00:32:28.000Steve Widkoff does a fantastic job, but it was a good step, and they're going to go at it again on Saturday.
00:32:33.000But he's also dead serious that if we can't figure this out at the negotiating table, then there are other options to include my department to ensure that Iran never has a nuclear bomb.