The Charlie Kirk Show - February 11, 2026


The Issues Moving Gen Z And Maryland’s Breaking Point


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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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00:00:03.000 My name is Charlie Kirk.
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00:01:09.000 All right, welcome back to the Charlie Kirk Show.
00:01:11.000 Hour two is underway, and we do these segments from time to time because you guys love them.
00:01:16.000 We get so much positive feedback about them.
00:01:19.000 And I think it's really important to involve the students that are out the front lines.
00:01:23.000 They're the tip of the spear on their college and high school campuses.
00:01:27.000 So we want to hear from them.
00:01:28.000 And I think for you in the audience, it's a really important learning opportunity to hear directly from our students.
00:01:34.000 So today we have Leona Salinas from Texas State. 0.91
00:01:38.000 She's the chapter president there at Texas State.
00:01:40.000 Welcome, Leona.
00:01:41.000 And then we have Ben Mason, Providence Academy Club America chapter president.
00:01:45.000 So we've got a high schooler and a college student as well.
00:01:49.000 Leona and Ben, welcome to the show.
00:01:51.000 Thank you so much for having me, Andrew and Blake.
00:01:53.000 I really appreciate this opportunity.
00:01:55.000 Absolutely.
00:01:56.000 Yes.
00:01:56.000 Thank you very much for having us.
00:01:57.000 Yeah, absolutely.
00:01:58.000 First thing to open with, did you guys watch the All-American Halftime Show?
00:02:02.000 Oh, of course.
00:02:03.000 And it was just a marvel to watch.
00:02:05.000 I mean, I really appreciated how they made it, I'm just going to be blunt, American.
00:02:10.000 I mean, this was our nation's sesquintennial, right?
00:02:14.000 250 years of everything that has made America great and free.
00:02:18.000 And the fact that some people had issue with that, I think is just outrageous.
00:02:23.000 I 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.
00:02:42.000 And as a Christian country, that's what we should pursue, not what the normal halftime show is going like.
00:02:50.000 Yeah, well, and I love that part that you're talking about.
00:02:53.000 It's like till you can't is is the clip.
00:02:58.000 Yeah, so this is this is the clip, 222.
00:03:00.000 Get it ready.
00:03:01.000 So 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.
00:03:13.000 There's a book that's sitting in your house somewhere that could use some dusting off.
00:03:20.000 There's a man who died for all our sins, hanging from the cross.
00:03:27.000 You can give your life to Jesus and he'll give you a second chance till you can't.
00:03:35.000 A really beautiful moment there.
00:03:36.000 Absolutely.
00:03:38.000 So did you hear your friends talking about it?
00:03:41.000 Or is this just because you guys were connected to Turning Point that you heard about it?
00:03:44.000 I mean, I couldn't turn to a place, whether on social media or in person, where someone wasn't talking about it.
00:03:51.000 This seems to be taking over our nation right now.
00:03:54.000 And I feel like as it should be, because these are conversations that we should be having.
00:03:59.000 And 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.
00:04:20.000 Yeah, people don't realize this.
00:04:22.000 It's actually the biggest social media day as well.
00:04:26.000 I mean, that's not surprising at all.
00:04:27.000 We heard that from our reps at YouTube and at X.
00:04:30.000 And so it's like, I mean, it's just a ton of.
00:04:32.000 It has to be that or an election.
00:04:34.000 Just everyone has to react to every clip of this or that.
00:04:37.000 Well, even on a very boring game like that one.
00:04:39.000 It was a terrible game.
00:04:40.000 Terrible game.
00:04:41.000 Can't be said enough.
00:04:41.000 Can't be said enough.
00:04:42.000 What about you, Ben?
00:04:43.000 Did you hear people talking about it?
00:04:44.000 Did we cut through the zeitgeist?
00:04:46.000 Yes, they did.
00:04:47.000 They loved it.
00:04:47.000 They loved watching the American side of the halftime show more than the Bad Bunny.
00:04:54.000 Whenever 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?
00:05:01.000 He'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.
00:05:11.000 And it was just super shocking for most students at my school.
00:05:15.000 And 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.
00:05:30.000 If 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.
00:05:59.000 And 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.
00:06:15.000 So Ben, Providence Academy, are you in Minnesota?
00:06:17.000 Is that the one in Plymouth?
00:06:19.000 No, no.
00:06:20.000 We're actually located in Tennessee, Johnson City.
00:06:23.000 Oh, already, already.
00:06:24.000 Well, it's a good name for a school.
00:06:26.000 Yeah.
00:06:27.000 But 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.
00:06:34.000 So 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?
00:06:42.000 How are they reacting to what's been in the news maybe with ICE, with affordability issues, any AI, any of that stuff?
00:06:50.000 What are they talking about as we go into this midterm year?
00:06:52.000 And you can be honest, if some of them are disappointed in the president or whatever, we want to know that.
00:06:57.000 Yeah, 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.
00:07:07.000 It needs to be bipartisan.
00:07:09.000 It has to be a bipartisan issue because there's just so much polarization between the Democrats and the Republicans.
00:07:16.000 And the Democrats don't want the build and don't want to have the AUS code 1325.
00:07:22.000 They don't want to kick out the people that are illegally here.
00:07:26.000 And we need that to happen because of all the horrible things that come from having illegals here. 1.00
00:07:31.000 And they're coming here illegally. 0.83
00:07:33.000 They're committing crimes.
00:07:34.000 And Democrats need to start getting on the boat with that and wanting that too.
00:07:39.000 Because 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.
00:07:48.000 And 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.
00:07:58.000 And we need that to change.
00:07:59.000 And we need people like Tim Woltz and Jacob Frey who are attempting to subvert the will of the people.
00:08:04.000 We 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.
00:08:22.000 And that's like the fall of the ICE agent.
00:08:26.000 What about you, Leona?
00:08:27.000 What are the top issues that you're hearing about or that you're feeling personally?
00:08:32.000 So 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.
00:08:43.000 Who isn't right now?
00:08:44.000 I mean, trying to recover from, you know, vitonomics and such.
00:08:48.000 But I think the issue is specifically that Republicans, I think we have an issue with voter complacency, right?
00:08:57.000 And the reason why is because the Democrats do nothing but fear monger, right?
00:09:01.000 Every time they go to the ballot box, it's always, hey, it's life or death.
00:09:04.000 Trump's either going to try and kill you or deport everybody who's a citizen, right?
00:09:08.000 Since 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.
00:09:16.000 And I think that's very intimidating because right now all I see is the Democrats are trying to impeach Trump.
00:09:24.000 And 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.
00:09:32.000 Do you feel Leona?
00:09:33.000 Do you feel that complacency has taken hold?
00:09:36.000 Like, do you see that with conservatives on your own campus?
00:09:39.000 Like, is that a real concern?
00:09:41.000 Is the fire flagging compared to last year?
00:09:44.000 Absolutely.
00:09:45.000 I'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.
00:10:00.000 And so we actually see these positive effects coming out from the Trump administration.
00:10:06.000 So we become comfortable in that and we think we need to stop moving.
00:10:10.000 But the Democrats, because they are fear-mongered by everything, they never stop moving.
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00:12:17.000 Leona, you were saying you're worried about voter fraud.
00:12:20.000 Have you been paying attention to what's going on in Fulton County, Georgia?
00:12:23.000 I'm vaguely familiar, but I don't know the in-depth details of it.
00:12:28.000 Fair enough.
00:12:29.000 But being in Texas, this is still something that you're concerned about.
00:12:32.000 Is this what other students are talking about in your chapter?
00:12:35.000 I try and bring it up to the chapter.
00:12:37.000 I'm going to be completely honest, being so close to Austin, we have a myriad of issues specifically with viewpoint discrimination.
00:12:43.000 We 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.
00:12:54.000 Got it.
00:12:54.000 Are you guys worried about AI, H-1Bs?
00:12:58.000 You're thinking about going into the workforce.
00:13:00.000 Is that something kids are talking about?
00:13:02.000 Not as much.
00:13:03.000 We're usually more concerned on things that really, I know they do affect us.
00:13:07.000 Everything 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.
00:13:14.000 Okay, like what?
00:13:15.000 Like I was saying, viewpoint discrimination, right?
00:13:18.000 So 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.
00:13:32.000 They don't want to engage with us.
00:13:33.000 And not only that, but then they do want to shut us down.
00:13:36.000 And they let socialist organizations run amok and do whatever they want and cause quite literally anarchy on campus.
00:13:42.000 In the great state of Texas, San Marcus, right?
00:13:45.000 Isn't that where you guys are at?
00:13:46.000 Yep.
00:13:48.000 I call it Austin by extension.
00:13:50.000 Yeah, exactly.
00:13:51.000 The greater Austin area.
00:13:52.000 What about you, Ben?
00:13:54.000 What are you hearing?
00:13:55.000 The chatter from the students, not necessarily conservative ones.
00:13:58.000 What are you hearing on campus when kids are talking about political things or cultural things?
00:14:04.000 Well, 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.
00:14:28.000 And that's pretty much.
00:14:29.000 Does it succeed?
00:14:30.000 Like is that unfortunately?
00:14:32.000 Like is it getting in people like do you hear people say the oh, you know, oh, I saw this thing about TV.
00:14:39.000 They're killing people.
00:14:40.000 Exactly.
00:14:41.000 Do people repeat that?
00:14:42.000 Yeah.
00:14:42.000 Yes.
00:14:43.000 Do you where are they getting their news, Ben?
00:14:45.000 Is it mostly TikTok or where do they get?
00:14:48.000 Yeah, 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.
00:15:03.000 It's just their way of putting their own thoughts into it and getting their own propaganda.
00:15:09.000 Leona, are you feeling the same?
00:15:11.000 Is that most people are getting their news from social media, TikTok, Instagram?
00:15:15.000 Oh, absolutely.
00:15:16.000 Usually it's so hard to even have a conversation with somebody when they don't even understand what's going on.
00:15:22.000 I 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.
00:15:36.000 That and Dean Withers, unfortunately.
00:15:38.000 Oh, geez.
00:15:39.000 Well, just remember, employ Charlie's method when you're having these conversations.
00:15:43.000 Ask questions, drill down on kind of their core assumptions.
00:15:47.000 And once they reveal themselves, then you can sort of dismantle that core assumption.
00:15:52.000 So ask a lot of questions.
00:15:53.000 Where did you get that?
00:15:54.000 Who told you that?
00:15:54.000 What was their source?
00:15:56.000 That kind of thing.
00:15:56.000 And then you'll get to the root of the issue most often.
00:16:00.000 Leona and Ben, thank you guys so much for making the time and joining the Charlie Kirk show.
00:16:05.000 It's so important to hear from you directly from the source, the students out in the field.
00:16:09.000 You are the front lines, tip of the spear, and we salute you.
00:16:09.000 You are brave.
00:16:12.000 Thank you for your courage.
00:16:14.000 Thank you.
00:16:14.000 Thank you.
00:16:15.000 And could I add one more thing actually about what she was saying earlier about voter ID?
00:16:20.000 Yeah.
00:16:20.000 So going with voter ID, the thing that was passing in the House was the Save Act and already passed them there.
00:16:28.000 And now hopefully it's going to pass in the Senate.
00:16:31.000 And 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.
00:16:41.000 And that's coming from the SAVE Act, hopefully in the coming few months.
00:16:46.000 And 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.
00:16:56.000 And he says Jim Crow 2.0.
00:16:59.000 And 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.
00:17:22.000 And 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.
00:17:39.000 So I'm excited about that.
00:17:41.000 Hopefully that will pass.
00:17:42.000 Yeah, we've been following it closely.
00:17:44.000 We've been following it closely.
00:17:45.000 So 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.
00:17:54.000 So stay tuned with that.
00:17:56.000 Thank you guys again.
00:17:57.000 God bless you.
00:17:58.000 Stay courageous.
00:17:58.000 Stay safe.
00:17:59.000 Stay bold.
00:18:00.000 Stay firm.
00:18:01.000 We got your back.
00:18:02.000 All right.
00:18:02.000 Thank you so much.
00:18:03.000 Appreciate it.
00:18:04.000 Thank you guys.
00:18:05.000 So I want to bring some breaking news here, guys.
00:18:07.000 We have, there has been new images released by Kash Patel, 341342, of the suspect in the Nancy Guthrie kidnapping case.
00:18:19.000 This guy is fully masked, gloves on his hand, removing the ring doorbell.
00:18:24.000 And we've got videos now.
00:18:27.000 Yeah, this is very creepy.
00:18:28.000 So this looks like somebody that knew exactly what they intended to do, knew exactly what they were going to do.
00:18:34.000 And this is the video now.
00:18:35.000 They have retrieved this from remnant data that they collected from the ring doorbell that was actually removed.
00:18:42.000 So they're obviously using pretty technical data specialists to retrieve this video.
00:18:48.000 In the middle of the night, this guy came up, methodically removes the ring doorbell.
00:18:52.000 Really, really creepy stuff.
00:18:54.000 I mean, this is, you know, they're describing it as a needle in the haystack kind of situation.
00:18:59.000 So we got to pray that they figure this out and they find this person because this guy's completely masked.
00:19:06.000 No fingerprints, no nothing.
00:19:08.000 Yeah, he clearly knew exactly what he was going for, but we can hope.
00:19:12.000 You know, the FBI releasing footage from Utah Valley is what ultimately led to Tyler Robinson being turned in.
00:19:20.000 Hopefully something very similar here.
00:19:22.000 So there's another video here that the team has.
00:19:26.000 Yeah, it's weird that they knew where the camera was.
00:19:29.000 Go ahead and play this 348.
00:19:30.000 What 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.
00:19:41.000 And I know it was a full moon, but he's under the portico there where it's probably very dark.
00:19:47.000 He has no trouble identifying that there's a camera there.
00:19:50.000 It'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.
00:19:57.000 This to me, I think you can easily kind of draw some conclusions here.
00:20:02.000 It might be reasonable to say that he was familiar with that area, was familiar with the camera's location, and came prepared.
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00:21:16.000 He's an investigative reporter with the Washington Free Beacon.
00:21:20.000 You might remember he was a guest in this studio, met with Charlie last August.
00:21:25.000 And we've been following his work with great interest.
00:21:28.000 He's done a lot of great work on sort of the DEI stuff that's been out there.
00:21:33.000 He exposed a lot of racial discrimination and COVID stuff.
00:21:36.000 And he has this story last week.
00:21:38.000 It's a little off-brand from some of his prior stuff, but it's very interesting.
00:21:41.000 I think it's worth keeping a good focus on the practical ramifications of far-left governance.
00:21:48.000 And this is a great example of it.
00:21:50.000 Aaron, are you there?
00:21:51.000 I am.
00:21:52.000 Howdy, Aaron.
00:21:53.000 Welcome back.
00:21:53.000 Yeah, welcome back to the show.
00:21:56.000 I 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.
00:22:08.000 And 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.
00:22:16.000 Can you tell that story to us?
00:22:18.000 Absolutely.
00:22:19.000 So 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.
00:22:31.000 Basically, over time, the encampment evolves from a few tents into something more like a shanty town/slash open-air drug market.
00:22:41.000 Drug dealers are dropping off packages of crack and fentanyl to the encampment in broad daylight.
00:22:49.000 There's MS-13 activity in the area.
00:22:51.000 There's tons of crime.
00:22:53.000 And 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.
00:23:08.000 And 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.
00:23:29.000 As 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.
00:23:58.000 And 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. 0.84
00:24:23.000 And I should note here that I think it was 86% of Prince George's County voted for Kamala Harris.
00:24:29.000 Yeah, which is the reddest it's been 20 years.
00:24:32.000 Yeah, it's yes, it is.
00:24:34.000 It is the most Democratic county in the country.
00:24:38.000 Technically, Washington, D.C., which is not a county, has a higher Democratic vote.
00:24:41.000 Exactly, exactly.
00:24:42.000 And so you're saying they're doing drugs out in the open.
00:24:45.000 They're getting drug deliveries out in the open.
00:24:47.000 There's gang members.
00:24:49.000 And what was the statement of local police?
00:24:53.000 I assume this had to be brought to their attention.
00:24:55.000 Did they say anything about this camp?
00:24:57.000 Yeah.
00:24:57.000 So 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.
00:25:07.000 And 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.
00:25:19.000 And 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.
00:25:27.000 So they know that just giving them warnings isn't sufficient.
00:25:32.000 There'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.
00:25:41.000 So not arresting them doesn't solve the problem.
00:25:44.000 It's not enough to just temporarily kick them out, right?
00:25:46.000 And it looks like we still just won't.
00:25:49.000 Yep.
00:25:49.000 It 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.
00:25:57.000 Let's play this clip.
00:25:58.000 265.
00:26:00.000 We 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.
00:26:13.000 We have more than one verified sighting of that.
00:26:16.000 So as we know, if we're going to have residents enabling this behavior, this unfortunately complicates and adds an additional burden.
00:26:25.000 They should not be delivering food to the unhoused population. 1.00
00:26:29.000 That's only going to incentivize the unhoused population to return and ask for more. 1.00
00:26:34.000 I am losing my mind here.
00:26:37.000 By 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.
00:26:46.000 It's just unreal.
00:26:48.000 So that's literally their justification that someone felt maybe moved by Christian impulse or humanitarian impulse.
00:26:55.000 Probably Christian. 0.93
00:26:56.000 Maybe to give food to this person.
00:26:59.000 And like, it's the job of the police to say, okay, but this is an illegal encampment.
00:27:03.000 We can't allow this to spiral out of control.
00:27:05.000 And that's their, that's their argument.
00:27:07.000 Well, it gets even worse.
00:27:10.000 So you lose your home.
00:27:11.000 Yeah, tell us.
00:27:12.000 Well, it gets even worse because at the same time that the police were telling residents of the condo, don't feed the unhoused population.
00:27:20.000 The county itself for years has been delivering food to this very encampment through a street outreach program organized by the Department of Social Services.
00:27:32.000 And furthermore, the police department itself also organized an outreach program sponsored by Wegman's grocery store that delivered food.
00:27:42.000 It 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.
00:27:53.000 We were trying to build trust and get people connected with shelters and services.
00:27:58.000 We 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?
00:28:14.000 They didn't have to deal with the rules and regulations of homeless shelters.
00:28:18.000 And 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?
00:28:25.000 So the county knows that this doesn't really work to get people out of there.
00:28:32.000 It's a good impulse.
00:28:34.000 It's well-intentioned, but it doesn't work by their own admission.
00:28:38.000 And yet they kept doing it for years.
00:28:40.000 And I'm going to be a little bit condo.
00:28:43.000 I'm waiting for the reveal that the crack is also supplied.
00:28:47.000 Like the government has a crack lab and they're manufacturing that.
00:28:51.000 And like the tents are all going to be DHS issue or something.
00:28:54.000 Well, so this might feel to the audience is like a very niche story.
00:28:58.000 It might feel, but I think it's really important.
00:29:02.000 And here's why.
00:29:03.000 This is so indicative of left-wing, far-left governance.
00:29:08.000 We're not talking like Mayor Daly in Chicago that was a Democrat, but the city ran and the trains ran on time.
00:29:13.000 No, that's not what we're talking about.
00:29:14.000 We're not talking about that.
00:29:16.000 This is a pathology of a certain ideology when it comes to, you see this in New York.
00:29:24.000 You see this in San Francisco.
00:29:26.000 You see this in LA.
00:29:27.000 I saw it when I lived in LA.
00:29:29.000 These cities become completely ungovernable because they refuse to enforce basic law and order.
00:29:36.000 Basic order does not.
00:29:38.000 There's a related story that I saw.
00:29:40.000 Bart in San Francisco.
00:29:42.000 They just installed new gates that you can't jump, turnstiles so that you can't jump them.
00:29:46.000 And they were showing like the maintenance and fix-its that they had to do.
00:29:50.000 And it's literally fallen by over 90% or completely stopped.
00:29:54.000 Like 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.
00:30:10.000 Yes, actually.
00:30:11.000 Well, and that's an example of a city that's very far left doing something.
00:30:15.000 And so, yeah, we wanted to have Aaron on about this, both to highlight his work.
00:30:18.000 And just, I think it is a perfect symbol.
00:30:19.000 Like, this could be your city if you give in.
00:30:22.000 This is the whole country.
00:30:25.000 I mean, candidly, I mean, it's just, we don't enforce our law.
00:30:27.000 Like, half the country just, like, is giving up and enforcing the laws, but it is an anarcho-tyranny.
00:30:32.000 This 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.
00:30:43.000 They get punished while their local leaders completely drop the ball.
00:30:46.000 And it's a really disgusting story.
00:30:48.000 Good work on this, Aaron.
00:30:49.000 This 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.
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00:32:12.000 I really like to highlight it because I think it's very important to flag that there's actually so much stuff out there.
00:32:19.000 I remember talking to Andrew when we met a few years ago, like, oh, how do you find stuff?
00:32:23.000 And I think you would tell me, Andrew, like, there's actually just tons of stuff out there.
00:32:27.000 And you just, you poke it a little bit, and there's so much you can find.
00:32:30.000 And I want to remind people some of your hits.
00:32:32.000 You uncovered Minnesota, Utah, I think New York State, all of them were doing racial discrimination with their COVID stuff.
00:32:40.000 And 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.
00:32:49.000 They've done a lot of discriminatory stuff illegally in California with their admissions to their medical school.
00:32:57.000 And this is actually producing positive developments that aren't getting headline news yet.
00:33:04.000 Stuff is moving forward.
00:33:05.000 Can you tell us a bit about that, Aaron?
00:33:07.000 Yeah, 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.
00:33:22.000 And 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.
00:33:36.000 The latest update is that the Trump administration has now joined the lawsuit against UCLA.
00:33:43.000 The Justice Department filed a brief in the case.
00:33:46.000 And 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.
00:34:02.000 I 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.
00:34:17.000 So that's a huge gap, and that is racial discrimination.
00:34:21.000 It's, I, I, we sometimes act exasperated, but we probably shouldn't because it is everywhere.
00:34:27.000 But 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.
00:34:37.000 And it's the exact opposite.
00:34:39.000 And I think you've played a big role in really just calling that out for the flagrant lie that it is.
00:34:45.000 Yeah, 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.
00:34:55.000 I don't see any other way.
00:34:56.000 They're trying to change the law again.
00:34:58.000 They voted against it in 2020.
00:34:59.000 Yeah, they voted against it in 2020.
00:35:01.000 They're trying again now.
00:35:03.000 And this time they would leave it illegal in colleges officially.
00:35:07.000 But as we see, they do it anyway.
00:35:09.000 They do it anyways.
00:35:09.000 That's 10 points.
00:35:10.000 But they want to make it legal for elsewhere.
00:35:13.000 They seem addicted to trying to legalize racial discrimination.
00:35:18.000 It is.
00:35:18.000 Yeah.
00:35:20.000 What's the basis of the lawsuit?
00:35:21.000 Is it the 2020 vote on, I believe it was, let's see here, it was Prop 209?
00:35:29.000 No, they reaffirmed it.
00:35:30.000 The basis of the lawsuit is that we have the Supreme Court has left more of an opening to this.
00:35:36.000 Correct, Aaron, that the Supreme Court has sort of said this is bad, but they're leaving it to lawsuits to really make schools.
00:35:44.000 Right, right.
00:35:45.000 So, 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.
00:35:55.000 You asked what the lawsuit's based on.
00:35:57.000 I 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,
00:36:23.000 yeah, they're lowering standards like crazy, depending on the race of the applicant.
00:36:28.000 Yeah, and they're lowering standards.
00:36:29.000 And then they told you that they're getting students as a result who are not prepared for a medical school curriculum.
00:36:36.000 And then they're also going out of their way to make sure they don't fail classes.
00:36:40.000 It causes a little damage everywhere down the line.
00:36:43.000 Wasn't there a famous case in California medical school?
00:36:46.000 What was that case?
00:36:47.000 I can't remember off the top of my head.
00:36:49.000 Faki. 0.90
00:36:50.000 Baki. 0.79
00:36:51.000 Yeah, he knows.
00:36:52.000 All right, tell us about, can you, do you have the details?
00:36:56.000 I 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.
00:37:12.000 You can't do quotas, but you can consider race because diversity has these supposed pedagogical benefits.
00:37:20.000 I think that was the case.
00:37:22.000 Yeah, 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.
00:37:38.000 And then he turned out having he, yeah, he was doing like illegal medical procedures.
00:37:42.000 Killed some people.
00:37:42.000 Yeah, I think eventually people died.
00:37:43.000 He killed some people.
00:37:44.000 So this is like, you know, it kind of not to bring up a touchy subject.
00:37:48.000 It 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.
00:37:57.000 Exactly.
00:37:57.000 And 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.
00:38:03.000 Everybody took it as like a racial thing.
00:38:05.000 He was saying, I don't do that now because we don't have these insane quotas in place.
00:38:09.000 But if you're going to start lowering the standards for minority applicants at medical schools, this is a huge potential problem and liability.
00:38:18.000 And we have historical precedent, which proves that it's a problem.
00:38:22.000 It actually is life altering.
00:38:25.000 Aaron, I hate to put you on the spot, but I'd love to use you as an example of just what people can do if they investigate things.
00:38:31.000 So do you have any advice?
00:38:33.000 Like, obviously, there's so much.
00:38:34.000 UCLA is a school.
00:38:35.000 It has campus reporters.
00:38:38.000 A lot of our people, our viewers, people who follow us are students themselves, high school, colleges, law schools, and so on.
00:38:45.000 Do 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?
00:38:55.000 Yeah, what should they look at if they wanted to try to find examples of bad behavior in their own school or community?
00:39:01.000 So 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.
00:39:10.000 What 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.
00:39:20.000 You'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.
00:39:27.000 But 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.
00:39:45.000 I mean, that's the best thing you can do.
00:39:47.000 And establish a good, trusting relationship where the professors will feel comfortable telling you things off the record or on background.
00:39:54.000 That's old school.
00:39:55.000 It sounds hard, but it's really, it does work because everyone is conservative about what they know best.
00:40:00.000 So a ton of Democrat College professors hate what's happened in these schools.
00:40:04.000 Aaron Siberium, your work at the Washington Free Beacon.
00:40:07.000 Thank you for coming on.
00:40:08.000 Check him out.
00:40:09.000 We'll see you all tomorrow.
00:40:11.000 Thank you.