Join us as we hear from Turning Point USA chapter presidents Leona Salinas and Ben Mason, high school students, and college students, as they discuss the All-American Halftime Show and the symbolism behind it.
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00:01:19.000And I think it's really important to involve the students that are out the front lines.
00:01:23.000They're the tip of the spear on their college and high school campuses.
00:02:05.000I mean, I really appreciated how they made it, I'm just going to be blunt, American.
00:02:10.000I mean, this was our nation's sesquintennial, right?
00:02:14.000250 years of everything that has made America great and free.
00:02:18.000And the fact that some people had issue with that, I think is just outrageous.
00:02:23.000I loved how they made it just have American values and just spread of Christianity through with Robert Ritchie and what he said about just in the till Till You Can't, I think is the song, or Till I Can't, and just how they made the song about like God and of how like chasing him and Christ.
00:02:42.000And as a Christian country, that's what we should pursue, not what the normal halftime show is going like.
00:02:50.000Yeah, well, and I love that part that you're talking about.
00:02:53.000It's like till you can't is is the clip.
00:02:58.000Yeah, so this is this is the clip, 222.
00:03:01.000So he, it was a hit song that he's actually doing a cover of, and then God woke him up in the middle of the night and said, there's one more verse that needs to be written for this song, 222.
00:03:13.000There's a book that's sitting in your house somewhere that could use some dusting off.
00:03:20.000There's a man who died for all our sins, hanging from the cross.
00:03:27.000You can give your life to Jesus and he'll give you a second chance till you can't.
00:03:38.000So did you hear your friends talking about it?
00:03:41.000Or is this just because you guys were connected to Turning Point that you heard about it?
00:03:44.000I mean, I couldn't turn to a place, whether on social media or in person, where someone wasn't talking about it.
00:03:51.000This seems to be taking over our nation right now.
00:03:54.000And I feel like as it should be, because these are conversations that we should be having.
00:03:59.000And essentially, in comparison to bad bunnies, I think I think the representation and the symbolism that we carried in our halftime show and our all-American halftime show were absolutely everything that represents the NFL's key demographic and the fact that it was just the biggest day in American sports.
00:04:47.000They loved watching the American side of the halftime show more than the Bad Bunny.
00:04:54.000Whenever we heard about Bad Bunny going on, we were just like, okay, why is this guy going on here when he doesn't even speak English?
00:05:01.000He's promoting Puerto Rico and just wanting that culture a lot more and says that he won't have English in his music, which is crazy.
00:05:11.000And it was just super shocking for most students at my school.
00:05:15.000And because of that, they were just so excited to have where they can have incorporate American values into the song through having Turning Point USA make their own and something where it's not, because we can see in the NFL that they're just like, they become so woke.
00:05:30.000If we look back into Black Lives Matter and putting all the George Floyd signs on their back of their helmet and just the woke ideologist keeps perpetuating through having Bad Bunny on there and just having just bad kind of music where they want people to listen and just want to just instill them with this thing that's just not good for us as citizens and people who love America.
00:05:59.000And it's just great, I think, for everybody at Providence Academy at my school and from other schools that I've heard of that they just love to hear just the American value side and having just Christian, Judeo-Christian values, those kind of things incorporated into that too.
00:06:15.000So Ben, Providence Academy, are you in Minnesota?
00:06:27.000But regardless, I want to ask both of you, Charlie very much wanted to be in touch with what youth are talking about, what they think about things.
00:06:34.000So each of you in turn, maybe Ben first, just what are, when it comes to political issues, what is resonating with people at your school?
00:06:42.000How are they reacting to what's been in the news maybe with ICE, with affordability issues, any AI, any of that stuff?
00:06:50.000What are they talking about as we go into this midterm year?
00:06:52.000And you can be honest, if some of them are disappointed in the president or whatever, we want to know that.
00:06:57.000Yeah, so as we're going in the midterms, the conservatives on my school and how they're feeling with the main issues would be just the immigration enforcement.
00:07:34.000And Democrats need to start getting on the boat with that and wanting that too.
00:07:39.000Because if they don't, in the next four years or next two years, actually, we're going to see in 2028, if the Democrats win the election, they're going to completely change that.
00:07:48.000And it's going to be a place where we're going to have illegals coming back into the country, like we've seen in Biden's term, where there was about 10 million illegals that came across the border.
00:07:59.000And we need people like Tim Woltz and Jacob Frey who are attempting to subvert the will of the people.
00:08:04.000We need them to stop spreading their false rhetoric and just commenting on the ICE and saying that they're like the Gestapo and they're people who are trying to hurt the American citizen by quoting the killing of Renee Goode and Alex Pritchie and saying that's just like horrible issue.
00:08:22.000And that's like the fall of the ICE agent.
00:08:27.000What are the top issues that you're hearing about or that you're feeling personally?
00:08:32.000So a couple days ago, I was watching Fox News and they recently did a poll that said all of Americans, their biggest concern, well, at least 40%, 46% of Americans are concerned mostly about the cost of living.
00:08:44.000I mean, trying to recover from, you know, vitonomics and such.
00:08:48.000But I think the issue is specifically that Republicans, I think we have an issue with voter complacency, right?
00:08:57.000And the reason why is because the Democrats do nothing but fear monger, right?
00:09:01.000Every time they go to the ballot box, it's always, hey, it's life or death.
00:09:04.000Trump's either going to try and kill you or deport everybody who's a citizen, right?
00:09:08.000Since things have been going a little bit better for Republicans and Trump isn't on the ballot, I'm afraid that we might not be as inclined to go vote.
00:09:16.000And I think that's very intimidating because right now all I see is the Democrats are trying to impeach Trump.
00:09:24.000And I think that's a real possibility that we need to be looking out for because if we don't take action soon, we could lose everything.
00:09:45.000I'm not saying that the spirit isn't there, but when it comes down to actually going and voting, we just kind of have an issue with thinking everything is going to be okay because eggs are down 89% since Trump took office and gas is down a dollar since last year.
00:10:00.000And so we actually see these positive effects coming out from the Trump administration.
00:10:06.000So we become comfortable in that and we think we need to stop moving.
00:10:10.000But the Democrats, because they are fear-mongered by everything, they never stop moving.
00:10:17.000And my biggest personal concern, I would say, is voter fraud.
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00:12:37.000I'm going to be completely honest, being so close to Austin, we have a myriad of issues specifically with viewpoint discrimination.
00:12:43.000We have so many things we have to deal with, but especially with these upcoming midterms, voter fraud is something that is pressing on all of our minds incredibly so.
00:13:03.000We're usually more concerned on things that really, I know they do affect us.
00:13:07.000Everything that's going on right now is affecting us, but we're more concerned on things that directly affect us that we can kind of fix ourselves.
00:13:15.000Like I was saying, viewpoint discrimination, right?
00:13:18.000So we have a lot of administration and as well as professors who try and push back on us in terms of when we're trying to get speakers, when we're trying to even table or just even just have a conversation with professors.
00:13:55.000The chatter from the students, not necessarily conservative ones.
00:13:58.000What are you hearing on campus when kids are talking about political things or cultural things?
00:14:04.000Well, I would say the thing that I'm hearing a lot from students is about just the news outlets and how like the woke ones especially, how they go and they try to spread a lot of propaganda and tell this false narrative about just what's happening in society going back to ICE and just like telling stories that aren't true or half true or something that's like completely made up.
00:14:43.000Do you where are they getting their news, Ben?
00:14:45.000Is it mostly TikTok or where do they get?
00:14:48.000Yeah, TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat even has their own like thing that you can go through and you can just find the news and just like, there's some people on the like on the way radical left who just explain the news like, no, that's not true.
00:15:03.000It's just their way of putting their own thoughts into it and getting their own propaganda.
00:15:16.000Usually it's so hard to even have a conversation with somebody when they don't even understand what's going on.
00:15:22.000I mean, a lot of people get their social media, not, I mean, their news, not just from social media, but it's very watered down because someone gets it from a TikTok reel and then says it to another person and another person and it gets completely diluted.
00:16:20.000So going with voter ID, the thing that was passing in the House was the Save Act and already passed them there.
00:16:28.000And now hopefully it's going to pass in the Senate.
00:16:31.000And it's pretty funny, actually, because this is one of the issues that I'm facing at school is people talking about just voter integrity, like you were saying, Leona, and just that we need voter ID and all that.
00:16:41.000And that's coming from the SAVE Act, hopefully in the coming few months.
00:16:46.000And it was pretty funny from this one guy who said, Chuck Schumer, exactly, and he complained the SAVE Act to be the same thing as the Jim Crow laws.
00:16:59.000And to me, there's no rational way to speak like that unless you're making it seem as if black people are less intelligent and that they can't think clearly enough to get their citizenship proof for the voter ID and just their voting process in the election.
00:17:22.000And it was also that CNN came out and said that 86% of blacks and 82 or 83% of Latinos want the voter ID to pass and then that our election process is fair and there's no questioning for there to be fraud or anything like that.
00:17:45.000So stay tuned on the Charlie Kirk show because we're bringing in, I think we have, there's a vote that's going to happen tomorrow and then we're going to have Chip Roy on Thursday to talk more about it.
00:19:30.000What stands out to me, too, is that remember how much we've talked about that area and how dark it is and that you can barely see what's in front of your own eyes.
00:19:41.000And I know it was a full moon, but he's under the portico there where it's probably very dark.
00:19:47.000He has no trouble identifying that there's a camera there.
00:19:50.000It's almost as if he knows there's a camera there because it does appear as though he's trying to block the camera's vision of his face.
00:19:57.000This to me, I think you can easily kind of draw some conclusions here.
00:20:02.000It might be reasonable to say that he was familiar with that area, was familiar with the camera's location, and came prepared.
00:21:56.000I think I'll just let you kind of narrate this story here, but basically we've got a story in Maryland in a suburb right outside the nation's capital where they allowed a homeless encampment to spread so much.
00:22:08.000And rather than evict, you know, shut down the homeless encampment, they are shutting down the actual homes next to it because they have destroyed it.
00:22:19.000So the story begins two to three years ago when this homeless encampment first started to coalesce behind the Marylander condominiums in Prince George's County, Maryland.
00:22:31.000Basically, over time, the encampment evolves from a few tents into something more like a shanty town/slash open-air drug market.
00:22:41.000Drug dealers are dropping off packages of crack and fentanyl to the encampment in broad daylight.
00:22:53.000And soon enough, people from the encampment start to break into the condominium and defecate in the stairwells, do drugs in the hallways, cause all sorts of problems.
00:23:08.000And eventually they allegedly appear to have broken the heating system, which meant that half of the building was left without heat for the entirety of winter, including now when it's, you know, like sub-freezing temperatures in Washington, D.C.
00:23:29.000As a result of this, the county, which had allowed the encampment to fester for years and refused to arrest the people who were constantly trespassing on this condo's property, the county decides to evict not people from the encampment, but to evict residents of this condominium, saying that the lack of heat has rendered it unfit for human habitation, or rather, it rendered half of it, the half without heat, unfit for human habitation.
00:23:58.000And so as a result, in the next couple of weeks, hundreds of low-income, predominantly non-white families are likely to be forcibly evicted from their homes, all because of this massive homelessness and really criminal and drug problem that a blue county allowed to fester.
00:24:23.000And I should note here that I think it was 86% of Prince George's County voted for Kamala Harris.
00:24:29.000Yeah, which is the reddest it's been 20 years.
00:24:57.000So there's a video I have in my story where the property manager is basically asking a police officer to arrest a homeless woman who's trespassing in the parking lot.
00:25:07.000And he says, well, there's so many of them and they're just kind of constantly coming through this hole in the fence that they created, going back and forth, that there's just really too many of them for us to arrest.
00:25:19.000And in the same breath, he acknowledges that if he just tells her to leave, gives her a warning, she's going to come right back.
00:25:27.000So they know that just giving them warnings isn't sufficient.
00:25:32.000There's one case I talk about in my story where the police come, give someone a warning, and then 90 minutes later, they're back in the same stairwell smoking crack.
00:25:41.000So not arresting them doesn't solve the problem.
00:25:44.000It's not enough to just temporarily kick them out, right?
00:25:46.000And it looks like we still just won't.
00:25:49.000It looks like we also have a video where they almost seem to be like blaming the locals for this problem existing because they, you know, they do the do-gooder thing and give some food to them.
00:26:00.000We do have information from some of our officers that have been doing surveillance that more than one of your residents have actually been coming out of their condo and delivering food to the unhoused population.
00:26:13.000We have more than one verified sighting of that.
00:26:16.000So as we know, if we're going to have residents enabling this behavior, this unfortunately complicates and adds an additional burden.
00:26:25.000They should not be delivering food to the unhoused population.
00:26:29.000That's only going to incentivize the unhoused population to return and ask for more.
00:26:37.000By the way, if you, what you're talking, Aaron, just to watch Blake's facial expressions as you're describing the incidents, it is a show unto itself.
00:27:12.000Well, it gets even worse because at the same time that the police were telling residents of the condo, don't feed the unhoused population.
00:27:20.000The county itself for years has been delivering food to this very encampment through a street outreach program organized by the Department of Social Services.
00:27:32.000And furthermore, the police department itself also organized an outreach program sponsored by Wegman's grocery store that delivered food.
00:27:42.000It sounds like at some point, at least in 2023, there's a video we had in the story where the police officer who's describing this says, yeah, you know, we did this for a while.
00:27:53.000We were trying to build trust and get people connected with shelters and services.
00:27:58.000We stopped because the, this is his words, the severe drug addicts just didn't want to get off the street because they liked their spot behind the condo where drug dealers would just drive through the parking lot and deliver them drugs, right?
00:28:14.000They didn't have to deal with the rules and regulations of homeless shelters.
00:28:18.000And this police officer is quoted on video as saying that to get them off the streets, you literally would have to put them in handcuffs, right?
00:28:25.000So the county knows that this doesn't really work to get people out of there.
00:29:42.000They just installed new gates that you can't jump, turnstiles so that you can't jump them.
00:29:46.000And they were showing like the maintenance and fix-its that they had to do.
00:29:50.000And it's literally fallen by over 90% or completely stopped.
00:29:54.000Like they went from, you know, we needed 80 visits to fix stuff at this one station and it's down to two or one or zero because they just got rid of by making sure you couldn't break into the BART, you got rid of all the people who just go and randomly I bet it's a lot safer then.
00:30:25.000I mean, candidly, I mean, it's just, we don't enforce our law.
00:30:27.000Like, half the country just, like, is giving up and enforcing the laws, but it is an anarcho-tyranny.
00:30:32.000This is a perfect anarcho-tyranny story because the law-abiding residents that pay their rent and that were doing Christian good deeds to try and help these people, giving them food, they get punished.
00:30:43.000They get punished while their local leaders completely drop the ball.
00:30:49.000This is, we follow your stuff a lot, just so you're aware, because you always come up with these stories that just like You think they're parody, but they're actually true.
00:31:27.000And for those under 16, direct messages are turned off.
00:31:30.000Only their friends can comment on their videos.
00:31:33.000And that kind of approach matters because feeling confident and comfortable about these platforms your teenagers are on shouldn't mean digging through a bunch of menus and trying to set everything up yourself and worrying that you got it wrong.
00:31:45.000TikTok is taking a proactive approach.
00:31:47.000Their protections are built in from the moment those teenagers join, so that safety and peace of mind for parents is there right from the start.
00:31:55.000All of this is to say, when safety comes first, discovery and creativity can follow without fear.
00:32:01.000Learn more by going to tick tock.com/slash guardiansguide.
00:32:12.000I really like to highlight it because I think it's very important to flag that there's actually so much stuff out there.
00:32:19.000I remember talking to Andrew when we met a few years ago, like, oh, how do you find stuff?
00:32:23.000And I think you would tell me, Andrew, like, there's actually just tons of stuff out there.
00:32:27.000And you just, you poke it a little bit, and there's so much you can find.
00:32:30.000And I want to remind people some of your hits.
00:32:32.000You uncovered Minnesota, Utah, I think New York State, all of them were doing racial discrimination with their COVID stuff.
00:32:40.000And then another story that there's been a recent update in, you have really made a punching bag out of the University of California, Los Angeles.
00:32:49.000They've done a lot of discriminatory stuff illegally in California with their admissions to their medical school.
00:32:57.000And this is actually producing positive developments that aren't getting headline news yet.
00:33:05.000Can you tell us a bit about that, Aaron?
00:33:07.000Yeah, so there was recently a lawsuit against UCLA Medical School by Students for Fair Admissions, which is the group behind the Harvard affirmative action case that outlawed racial preferences and college admissions nationwide.
00:33:22.000And the lawsuit concerned UCLA medical school's admissions policies, which are, as I've reported on at length, extremely discriminatory against white and Asian applicants.
00:33:36.000The latest update is that the Trump administration has now joined the lawsuit against UCLA.
00:33:43.000The Justice Department filed a brief in the case.
00:33:46.000And what makes this interesting is that the Justice Department managed to get its hands on MCAT data broken out by race for UCLA, which provides really, really strong circumstantial evidence of discrimination.
00:34:02.000I think you have the tweet up there right now, but yeah, it's something like Hispanic matriculants, you know, on average is scoring in the 66th percentile on average to get in for Hispanic applicants, and an Asian applicant would need 90th percentile.
00:34:17.000So that's a huge gap, and that is racial discrimination.
00:34:21.000It's, I, I, we sometimes act exasperated, but we probably shouldn't because it is everywhere.
00:34:27.000But I feel like it's worth pounding the table on this, that America has racial discrimination under the guise of equality, under the guise of this is anti-racism.
00:34:39.000And I think you've played a big role in really just calling that out for the flagrant lie that it is.
00:34:45.000Yeah, well, and Aaron, it's worth bringing up again that California has repeatedly voted against affirmative action policies, which this is, you know, akin to that.
00:35:45.000So, so I mean, I mean, they're suing, I believe, under both the precedent created in Students for Fair Admissions in 2023 and California's Prop 209.
00:35:55.000You asked what the lawsuit's based on.
00:35:57.000I mean, the factual allegations in the lawsuit are basically almost entirely derived from a series of stories I did in the spring of 2024, where I got not just internal data and emails indicating discrimination, but also testimony from admissions officers, four admissions officers, and some other people close to the process who all said,
00:36:23.000yeah, they're lowering standards like crazy, depending on the race of the applicant.
00:36:52.000All right, tell us about, can you, do you have the details?
00:36:56.000I don't remember all the details, but I think basically that is the one that, you know, kind of established that you can do affirmative action to some extent, but only as a plus factor.
00:37:12.000You can't do quotas, but you can consider race because diversity has these supposed pedagogical benefits.
00:37:22.000Yeah, that's the case where they established it, but there was actually a different one where there was basically a black doctor who it's famous case because he ends up botching all of these up as this like, you know, this success story.
00:37:38.000And then he turned out having he, yeah, he was doing like illegal medical procedures.
00:37:44.000So this is like, you know, it kind of not to bring up a touchy subject.
00:37:48.000It reminds me of when United Airlines basically declared that they were going to make 50% of their new pilot core, you know, minority or female.
00:37:57.000And then Charlie says, well, if they start doing that, then I'm going to start looking in the cockpit and going like, boy, I hope you're qualified.
00:38:03.000Everybody took it as like a racial thing.
00:38:05.000He was saying, I don't do that now because we don't have these insane quotas in place.
00:38:09.000But if you're going to start lowering the standards for minority applicants at medical schools, this is a huge potential problem and liability.
00:38:18.000And we have historical precedent, which proves that it's a problem.
00:38:38.000A lot of our people, our viewers, people who follow us are students themselves, high school, colleges, law schools, and so on.
00:38:45.000Do you have any advice for someone who's thinking, I might be interested in this field, how they could, like, what could they look for in their own school?
00:38:55.000Yeah, what should they look at if they wanted to try to find examples of bad behavior in their own school or community?
00:39:01.000So it used to be easier because the schools would just post the illegal stuff online and they stopped doing that once Trump started suing them and taking away all their money.
00:39:10.000What you should probably do now, and there's no guarantee this will yield fruit, but it's the best thing you can do, is make friends with a lot of professors.
00:39:20.000You're going to have a tough time making friends with administrators, frankly, if you're right-wing and want to have an adversarial relationship to the school.
00:39:27.000But make friends with the professors or administrators, if you can find them, who are closet skeptics or outspoken skeptics of DEI and kind of left-wing radicalism, because they're the ones who are going to know where the bodies are buried.
00:39:45.000I mean, that's the best thing you can do.
00:39:47.000And establish a good, trusting relationship where the professors will feel comfortable telling you things off the record or on background.