Steve K. Bannon is the President of the Student Action Summit, the largest pro-American student organization in the country. He is also the co-host of the popular show "RVA Live" and is one of the most influential people in the pro-union movement.
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00:01:33.000Stephen K. Bannon, it's an honor to have you here.
00:01:36.000This was a tradition that started with Charlie.
00:01:39.000You guys would basically do this interview every Amfest, sometimes Student Action Summit.
00:01:46.000And so thank you for making the time to sit down with us.
00:01:48.000The first time it really hit me that, I think I told you, the first time it hit me that Charlie was gone was because, you know, I came to Utah those days and spent a couple days with you guys.
00:01:58.000But the first time it hit me was when you two came up to do the transition on the show, which we always do at Amfest live, right?
00:02:09.000So yeah, we were texting about it the night before.
00:02:12.000And you were the one who said it's tradition.
00:04:11.000So, anyways, he came out for that 21,000.
00:04:13.000I think that's the most we've ever fit inside the actual main ballroom.
00:04:17.000So we're going to try and do something similar because there is 31,000 people at this event.
00:04:22.000And I told people it's like, you know, somebody after Charlie died kind of thought, oh, we should probably look at Amfest tickets to see where we're at.
00:04:29.000And instantly was like, I think we should probably turn off ticketing quickly.
00:04:35.000Because of the 31,000, you still have another list who couldn't even get to it.
00:04:44.000Charlie had come to us in August to make an early announcement.
00:04:47.000In fact, I asked Charlie, I said, Are you guys going to have the stadium this year?
00:04:51.000He goes, No, no, we're the same place.
00:04:52.000I go, Early says, No, we just want to do it.
00:04:54.000So we did announce it like on August 19th or 20th.
00:04:57.000And then by the time, because normally we start selling them in October, and we always have a war room code so our people get a special deal.
00:05:04.000So by the time everything got organized to really do the things and get the code, I think our team came in there and go, Hey, it's actually sold out.
00:05:20.000You know, in all our group chats since Charlie's was killed, just more, more.
00:05:25.000So turning off the ticketing for this event was actually pretty traumatic for us because, you know, you got fire marshal stuff.
00:05:31.000I mean, you saw night one, it was people, people were getting upset they couldn't get into the main ballroom space and it was just getting congested.
00:05:37.000I mean, there is a fire marshal for a reason.
00:05:47.000Everywhere that, you know, for JD, especially, you know, guys like yourself, we want to make sure you can watch it in different various places if you can't get into the venue.
00:05:54.000But it's a good problem to have, and we're going to be creative with solutions in the future, certainly.
00:06:00.000But we've got some more surprises up our sleeve.
00:07:52.000I think this is what I tried to say last night.
00:07:54.000And this is what part of the aspect maybe everybody didn't see of Charlie, because people know Charlie from Turning Point and the summits and Amfest and doing all this stuff and going to do the and doing change my mind all around.
00:08:25.000But Charlie was also, I mean, in transition, well, first off, just in the campaign.
00:08:32.000I mean, because of his judgment and understanding how things roll, he was one of the most senior advisors to the campaign.
00:08:39.000And quite frankly, I think, given the grassroots nature and the turnout, which won everything, he was probably as influential as the campaign manager and other people because of knowing what to do.
00:08:51.000Then on the transition, Charlie Kirk, I mean, he camped out in Mar-a-Lago.
00:08:56.000That's where you guys were doing the show.
00:08:57.00072 hours after the election, he was on a plane to Mar-a-Lago.
00:09:02.000And I think stayed virtually the whole time.
00:09:05.000I think you guys were in having to juggle the show with the way he was doing.
00:09:08.000He was, I think, one of the two or three key advisors to the president of personnel, of particularly vetting and who was MAGA and who had President Trump's back.
00:09:19.000Then when the administration started, Charlie spent, you know, and people didn't really understand this.
00:09:25.000He spent so much time in the White House.
00:09:27.000In the White House, he's working with Sergio Gore on personnel also, on doing the vetting.
00:09:31.000Because remember, they got to get 3,000 people that are not, don't have to be confirmed in.
00:09:36.000You've got to hit the deck place funny to flood the zone and Days of Thunder.
00:09:40.000Also, 1,000 of the confirmation people all have to be vetted.
00:09:43.000Charlie was given senior advice, and Trump respects his advice, respects the way he thinks, his judgment at 31 years old.
00:09:50.000In addition, he's in big policy decisions.
00:09:56.000Because people respect Charlie's opinion.
00:09:58.000I mean, he comes at it with a certain sense of gravitas.
00:10:02.000He's really, and that shows you from 18 to 31, those years really in political combat, he just, he had a learning curve.
00:10:11.000Everything you guys did wasn't perfect at first, including when he first came to Breitbart, when you guys first did the big turnout thing in 22, everything.
00:10:22.000Your learning curve is like that, right?
00:10:23.000And it's just work and effort in Charlie and on policy.
00:10:27.000And so in these policy debates in the summer of 2025, Charlie Kirk was one of the most important people because Charlie's also a networker.
00:10:37.000He knows how to bring people together.
00:10:38.000He knows how to get the best ideas out of them.
00:10:40.000And so I think a lot of what you see on the stage, and Andrew was a big First Amendment free speech guy, and Charlie is too.
00:10:48.000I mean, there's nothing closer to Charlie's heart than open debate.
00:10:51.000But this is just not about, oh, is this guy in or that guy in or who's going to be, you know, even Vivek last night and Schneider.
00:10:59.000And I respect both those guys, but they're talking about who's in, who's out.
00:11:14.000And that's why I wanted to bring up one last night that Charlie was key on.
00:11:18.000It's one of four or five that we have to get decided, I think, relatively quickly.
00:11:24.000And that's basically who governs this country, right?
00:11:27.000And I say this, I think, from a position of strength because as someone that's actually been in the field running media companies and being a political activist, I don't think anybody out there has a record better than mine than Defense of Israel.
00:11:42.000I am a Christian Zionist and I'm a Christian nationalist.
00:11:44.000Now, I'm not a Christian Zionist like some people are, but I'm a Christian Zionist and a Christian nationalist.
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00:13:12.000At Breitbart, Bar None, at Breitbart, when I ran it, it was the biggest offender of Israel going.
00:13:20.000When I got to the White House, I was the lead on so many things, particularly trying to get the Muslim Brotherhood designated as a terrorist organization, of which I failed miserably.
00:13:28.000It was the hardest thing we did, and it got nowhere.
00:13:31.000The deep state inside the government shut it down.
00:13:34.000But really, trying to move the embassy to Jerusalem, I wanted to do it day one.
00:13:40.000My whole plan for day one, it was to have the president, because I wanted a populist.
00:14:06.000Could you, and then you have the camera view of President Trump with a million people in back of him, and he's just lecturing these guys, right?
00:14:13.000Remember, Bush said after the speech, that's some crazy, right?
00:14:17.000Just in the speech, we're going to give it to him.
00:14:21.000But instead of having the big lunch in the Capitol while people are freezing, and President Trump loved the parades, just let's start the parade.
00:14:30.000Don't spend two hours with the people freezing.
00:14:33.000Let's just do the parade immediately, get it done, go to the White House, everybody come by in the parade.
00:14:39.000Then he'd go in the Oval Office, and the very first thing we would do is he would sign an executive order moving the embassy to Jerusalem.
00:14:49.000Very first act of his presidency, because it'd be so historic.
00:14:52.000Then he would, we'd do some more work.
00:14:55.000He would go back to the Capitol and address Congress, Paul Ryan, these guys, and he'd lay out his agenda for the first hundred days and saying, this is not what I'm proposing.
00:15:25.000They had a few galas, but it was fine.
00:15:27.000People wanted to celebrate, and I thought it was great.
00:15:29.000President Trump and my plan would go to one ball, the Veterans Ball, and he and the first lady would dance, and then she would dance with one of the veterans.
00:15:36.000It's telling because the second inauguration is much closer to that.
00:15:40.000I didn't flip the podium around, but that stunt of being in the Oval Office at the desk just signing all of the executive orders, and he got to perfection two years ago.
00:16:09.000Those years in the wilderness, and this is why I keep saying 16 was providential.
00:16:14.00020, the big steal was providential, because it gave us the four years of the precinct strategy, of turning point getting up to speed.
00:16:21.000Those four years, I would say, were the most valuable years of Charlie Kirk and Turning Point, learning, learning, using the 22, not just midterms, but the Arizona races to learn more, to figure out what works and what doesn't work, to continue to learn.
00:16:36.000And then 24, have a machine that can actually deliver places like Pennsylvania and Michigan and Arizona.
00:17:53.000I believe under Netanyahu, who I think is just doing this for his own political survival, that I would say that Israel is on the path to become a Jewish Pakistan, which is more a hardcore right ethno-state.
00:18:07.000And I think you see this from who's leaving Israel and going to Portugal and going to Spain and going to Greece to live.
00:18:14.000On top of that, there is a portion of the media and people here that are Israel first.
00:18:28.000The whole intensity of having to bomb the nuclear facilities, eventually Netanyahu had to give up the documents to his cabinet, everybody go through it.
00:18:36.000And the Times of Israel said it was two years.
00:18:59.000We were an active combatant in that war from the very first, an active combatant in the war.
00:19:04.000Now, on the offensive part, it wasn't just the B-2s taking out the caves.
00:19:09.000I was in the North Arabian Sea in 1980 as a young naval officer on a destroyer that carried battle groups after the hostages were taken.
00:19:23.000We still have essentially carry battle group or submarines there today.
00:19:27.000It was the submarines, I think they were fast attack submarines, that launched 30 cruise missiles, which is a technology from the 1970s that took out all the surface facilities that the Israeli Air Force couldn't take out.
00:19:40.000And President Trump didn't call it 12-day war.
00:19:43.000The whole initial part of the, when Fox was going crazy, how much they were winning, how much they were winning on the previous Friday, was a decapitation against the regime's head because they wanted regime change.
00:19:54.000And that would require combat troops, at least commandos.
00:19:58.000Charlie Kirk understood, as all of us understood, that's not the defense of Israel.
00:20:02.000That's the expansion of this greater Israel.
00:20:19.000In the carnage in the personal lives of the United States, and what's happened in the, yes, the PTSD, the suicides, plus what's happened to the country.
00:20:29.000My recommendation, and Laura Loomer and Rabbi, you know, Rabbi Willicki is very close to Amphest.
00:21:44.000They've got now Qatar, and I'm the most anti-Qatar guy in the world.
00:21:48.000And Qatar, you should understand, has put a lot of money into Washington, D.C. to change the opinion on Qatar.
00:21:54.000Qatar is the financier of the Muslim Brotherhood, full stop.
00:21:59.000And the Muslim Brotherhood is an absolute enemy to the Christian West, to our Judeo-Christian civilization, and particularly to the United States of America.
00:22:24.000So you've now created a two, you have a proto-two-state solution.
00:22:29.000In Gaza, you're going to have 2.2 million Palestinians.
00:22:32.000You're going to have fully financed by Qatar, except for the money they're going to look from us.
00:22:35.000But you're talking hundreds of billions of dollars.
00:22:38.000And Turkey, right, who we drove out, you know, Lawrence of Arabia and the British Army in the West drove out of the Ottoman Empire, drove them out in 1917.
00:22:48.000We're basically inviting the Turks back in, who controlled the two holy sites in Jerusalem, I think for a half a millennia.
00:22:55.000We're inviting them back in as the military.
00:22:58.000And so when I look at Ben and I look at Levin, I said, you guys created this.
00:23:04.000And now you have a two-state solution.
00:23:05.000And President Trump, let's be honest, they met yesterday in Miami to negotiate Qatar, Egypt, and Turkey with Jared and with Witkoff.
00:23:14.000And what they're negotiating is both Israel and Hamas are both slow-walking, trading in arms.
00:23:23.000And the reason is both, I think, realize Netanyahu and Hamas that once they get to the conclusion of phase one, they're kind of out, right?
00:23:31.000To me, that's catastrophic, but that's what they brought on.
00:23:34.000This is why I'm an advocate and a strong advocate of a Christian state.
00:23:39.000If you're going to have two states, if you're going to have Israel, and you're going to have part of Israel is going to be the beginning of a Palestinian state, which will be Gaza with the Turks and Qatar.
00:23:50.000To me, you got to take the Christian quarter of Jerusalem with Bethlehem, and we start there.
00:23:57.000Because I think if you don't get a Christian state in Israel and get people feeling they have ownership of the Holy Land or some obligation as Christians, I'm not so sure Israel as we know it today exists in 20 or 30 years.
00:24:11.000And that's brought on not by people who are the defenders of Israel.
00:24:16.000That's brought on by people that bought into this kind of imperial Israel, expansionist Israel that was backed by what I call the Israel First Crowd.
00:24:24.000And that Charlie Kirk, you know, people say, well, all the stuff, you know, Nick Fuentes and stuff like that, that's the surface.
00:24:34.000And below, you have deep policies on the oligarchs, on artificial intelligence, on Israel, on the globalists about Ukraine.
00:24:43.000There are five or six fundamental basic issues about who governs this country.
00:24:50.000President Trump walked into a catch-22 when taking office.
00:24:53.000Do nothing, and America would be staring at a ticking debt bomb, the kind of crisis that could cripple our future.
00:24:58.000Instead, he's taken action with strong policies to slow the train and buy us some time.
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00:25:46.000President Trump is fighting for America's future.
00:25:48.000Now it's your turn to help protect yours.
00:25:53.000And one thing I can tell you about Charlie is that to his core, although he came out of a very traditional Republican training, to his core, he was a populist nationalist.
00:26:02.000America first and American citizens first.
00:26:05.000And that's why he built Turning Point like he built it, right?
00:27:01.000Remember, we won 63 House seats in 2010, 63 House seats.
00:27:06.000Now, most of those members pretty quickly flipped into be Republican establishment.
00:27:11.000But at least it showed you there was a thirst out there, an appetite for peace.
00:27:14.000Grassroots that wanted change and wanted pretty fundamental change.
00:27:17.000So in 15 and 16, when Trump came along, you know, Matt Ball, Tony Lee, and I was running it, and you had Joel Pollack and Alex Marlowe, you know, all these people today who were very junior at the time.
00:27:28.000And, you know, Ben hated Trump, and he was open about that.
00:27:34.000And I didn't have a problem with that.
00:27:35.000I don't have a problem with other voices talking.
00:27:38.000He worked for never part of the company, but a contractor as an editor.
00:27:41.000And then you had this incident in Mar-Lago, which was a very marginal incident with Corey Lewandowski in a stringer that we had hired.
00:27:50.000You know, he shoved her arm or her hand or something like that.
00:28:09.000So the story goes, he either quit or I fired him.
00:28:13.000And there's probably a two-minute gap between both of those happening.
00:28:17.000And he said, Bannon's turned Breitbart into Trump Pravda.
00:28:21.000And Megan Kelly, I know she told the story last night when she asked those questions, which we would think would be pretty innocuous today in the first debate on Fox.
00:28:53.000And Breitbart was his most powerful media thing.
00:28:55.000In fact, later, Harvard, a year after the election, Harvard did a study on all media in the 2016 election because they hadn't figured out how they won.
00:29:04.000And they realized that with the Pepe's and the Meme Wars.
00:29:09.000It was the Meme Wars because Trump really had no money and had no organization.
00:29:12.000So he had the Mike Cernovich, like Mike Cernovich, the Meme Wars, the Pepe's, were all in social media.
00:29:18.000And Hillary Clinton gave an interview about two months ago.
00:29:20.000She said, Bannon and those influencers at the time, before influencers were a thing, over and she had a huge operation.
00:29:27.000We just ran circles around him because it was self-organizing and people would just, you know, intention Trump.
00:29:31.000And they said later that the most important media outlet by an order of magnitude was not the New York Times or not the Washington Post or not the Nation or MSNBC, was Breitbart for Trump.
00:30:20.000It was just like a video, but it got like 14 million views because we put it up for free.
00:30:25.000A lot of the Bernie Bros, because remember, if you just get people to stay home, that's a vote.
00:30:29.000If you actually get them to come and vote for you, that's two votes.
00:30:32.000And all we wanted was those kind of Bernie Bros, disaffected Democrats and Union Democrats and Independents who leaned working class or populists who weren't prepared to vote for a Republican just to stay home.
00:31:09.000And now we have a two-state for people that were adamantly against a two-state solution.
00:31:14.000Just look at the Wall Street Journal today.
00:31:16.000They're going to build a city of the future there with $300 billion of Qataris money and other money from the Gulf Emirates and from Saudi Arabia with a security force led by the Turks that have Egyptians and Saudi troops on that strip in Israel.
00:31:57.000And so when we're up there siding with them, a lot of the Israelis are saying, well, hang on, that's not helping us and not helping the Druze.
00:32:04.000So I think they need their total, full independence.
00:32:25.000So let me ask one last question here, though.
00:32:27.000One of the most common critiques that I've heard, even just walking the floor, people talk to me about Israel, but before that as well, is there's a feeling that from the pro-Israel side, even if they are Israelis, but it could be Mark Levin, it could be whatever, that they want to get as much out of Trump out of these next three years.
00:32:47.000And it's a feeling like they're trying to maximize everything they can, even if it's going to torpedo the administration.
00:32:59.000I try to, how to say this, not bug the president by calling you on every topic, et cetera.
00:33:06.000When we talk, we talk for a length of time, and I go see him very, very rarely.
00:33:12.000But when I do, it's something important.
00:33:14.000And so people had asked me to come back, and I went back two days before the bombing, and we'd spent, I don't know, like three or four hours.
00:33:21.000And with President Trump, one thing I will tell you, he is the, and my experience at Goldman Sachs of at Goldman Sachs, you're there to work with CEOs and chairmen, right?
00:34:03.000Charlie Kirk had been there on and off for two weeks, right?
00:34:06.000You guys had to juggle all this stuff.
00:34:08.000And when Charlie was back at the White House, Charlie's working 12 and 14 hour days.
00:34:15.000And part of it was still vetting and helping people to vet, but a lot of it was working on ideas that he felt the administration had to capture.
00:34:24.000On this one, when I got there, we had been talking, and he had a very definitive plan on this very topic.
00:35:40.000We have so many problems here that we have to solve.
00:35:43.000We don't have the ability to get the public's attention, but more just the work of people there because they're working 16, 18-hour days anyway.
00:36:21.000And then when Netanyahu, because remember, Netanyahu decapitated the team that Witcoff was negotiating with, the Iranians, on that first night.
00:36:30.000And then when Netanyahu tried to go and decapitate the team negotiating for Hamas in Qatar, it crossed the line with Trump.
00:36:38.000Ever since then, just reality, Israel's been kind of a sideshow in this.
00:37:20.000And we have to figure out how to work around that.
00:37:23.000And so, no, I think there's going to be, and I think if you walk around here and just talk to people, you'll get the feel that certain forces are trying to get the most out of it in the time.
00:37:31.000And we have to be ever vigilant to make sure.
00:37:34.000Yeah, and it's also about the access of the president to information.
00:37:38.000That's one of the great things about that.
00:37:39.000This is a huge untold part of the Trump admin, Trump 2020.
00:37:47.000Listen, you have an operation that could put on a 31,000, that could double the size of already the most important conference in all the world for conservatives.
00:37:56.000And you've doubled the size of that in a couple weeks, given the tragedy you guys had and the work you have to do to keep the show going at the level.
00:38:03.000And Erica, everything on her plate, and you can do it.
00:38:06.000And Charlie built that organization, had all that, was starting to did the college tour in the spring and started another one.
00:38:12.000Like I told Charlie, I said, dude, do you need another college tour in the fall?
00:38:23.000When I said he's a networker, Charlie was always making sure that the right people at the right time with Sergio were getting in front of the president.
00:38:32.000That lunch, they had tried to schedule that lunch for months, and I just wasn't in D.C. that much.
00:38:37.000And it was Sergio that came to me, and Charlie was working there the week before and said, hey, we need you here on Thursday.
00:38:43.000And I go, okay, this is the thing that the shooting is star says.
00:38:46.000It's Thursday at noon, but come or come right after the show at noon and we'll get you in there at 1 or 1.30 and we'll be here.
00:38:54.000Because Charlie was working with Sergio to make sure the president was getting a broader access.
00:38:58.000And another person who works in this too is the vice president, the vice president's team, Sarabian and those guys, constantly trying to get more voices in front of the president.
00:39:07.000And so I think that that is a thing we have to fight going forward.
00:40:53.000So as somebody who- Your dad's a man of discernment.
00:40:58.000So as somebody who was born in 2003, I was a day old when Osama bin Laden was killed.
00:41:02.000It feels like my entire life it's been this confusing mess of endless wars in the Middle East.
00:41:08.000Other than, as a Christian, I do want to protect our holy sites.
00:41:12.000Why does it feel like even in the conservative movement, we're constantly being dragged into all of these conflicts rather than focusing on all of our problems here and worrying about the midterms and putting America and American citizens first?
00:41:32.000One of the biggest issues, it seems like, is that so many of the problems that we have failed to solve or gotten dragged into have blown back and have come here now.
00:41:40.000I mean, the central issue we have today is who actually runs the country, right?
00:41:56.000You watch the show, we've been adamant about that.
00:41:58.000That was one of the things in the years in the wilderness that Russ Voten guys came up with, that we've got to maximize the Article II powers of the chief executive because that's ways to get things done, particularly in crisis.
00:42:09.000You still have a network, this kind of globalist system, that people make an awful lot of money and have an awful lot of power in having the United States as the kind of the security guarantee around the world.
00:42:20.000If you look at, just take the Eurasian landmass quickly, you look from Europe to the Gulf and the Gulf Emirates, the Middle East, around to the South China Sea, and then up to Japan and Korea.
00:42:31.000Those four big nodes are the basic trading parties of the United States.
00:42:36.000We have trading relationships, commercial relationships, capital markets, but it's also an American security guarantee.
00:42:41.000We have NATO, we're in the Middle East, and this is why we have a $1.2 trillion defense budget.
00:42:49.000Now, those trade deals are upside down because we've shipped all the jobs.
00:42:53.000It's worked to the detriment of the American people, the middle class and the working class.
00:42:57.000But the elites have made a tremendous amount of money in this system, and they continue to make a tremendous amount of money in this system.
00:43:03.000And they're going to continue that until we actually take power away from them.
00:43:07.000And that's one of the reasons I have to fight.
00:43:08.000So they always want to focus on everywhere else.
00:43:13.000They don't care about the American worker.
00:43:14.000They don't care about the American family.
00:43:16.000And you can tell this by their policies of immigration.
00:43:19.000They're always trying to, whether it's mass illegal immigration from Mexico and from Latin America to drive down the wages of African Americans and Hispanic American citizens at the lower end, are flooding the zone with these bogus H-1B visas and all these visa programs so that kids coming out of college have to compete against the world here in the United States and drive their wages down 50%.
00:43:42.000So the problems that we have been involved in the world have kind of come back to us.
00:43:45.000Now, one of the biggest problems we have here today is that we've looked the other way for years on this Marxist-Jihadist coalition.
00:43:53.000And this red-green coalition that people like Frank Gaffney and Trevor Loud and others have been warning people about for 20 or 30 years is now a reality.
00:44:02.000You see that in New York City with the new elected mayor.
00:44:05.000You see that in Chicago where they forced out ICE.
00:45:30.000Look, the message of Charlie Kirk and his work, if you cut through everything, is that Charlie, and this is what I said last night, he's a Christian martyr and therefore a Christian saint, even more than an American patriot.
00:45:42.000He understood that the country's gone through a de-Christianization process over the last 60, 70, 80 years, and that the purpose of power is not power for power's sake.
00:45:55.000The purpose for power is the re-Christianization of our institutions.
00:46:00.000And that is the work, that is the task for us at hand.
00:46:03.000And so I think that, and I think we can not just think, I know we can do it.
00:46:11.000Since 2015, when Trump really came on the scene, there have been eight national elections, either primaries, off-year elections, which is a national election for Congress, or presidential elections.
00:46:29.000I believe the bets we've made on the economy are going to stop paying off.
00:46:33.000And that's when it's going to get ugly.
00:46:34.000When they can't fall back on affordability or playing by the rules and some economic argument, it's going to get Charlie Kirk type of nasty, the way they treated him everywhere he went.
00:46:46.000So we just have to hunker down, understand we had one of the greatest leaders.
00:46:51.000I think if you look at history, that Charlie is as close to the revolutionary generation where you had many of the stars of the revolutionary generation who were in their 20s, early 20s to maybe early 30s.
00:47:04.000Charlie Kirk has had more impact on our country for his age than anybody really from the revolutionary generation.
00:48:03.000The most formative decade of your life is your 20s.
00:48:07.000It's one of the reasons of the crisis we have today because we are taking away opportunities from people in this late family formation, late home ownership, and even learning as an apprentice, as an artisan, a profession in your 20s.
00:48:23.000The best thing you can do is in the military.
00:48:25.000Don't worry about your political future going forward.
00:49:26.000And the sacrifices that have to come with that, because working as a team means sublimating some natural human tendencies.
00:49:33.000The Marine Corps is the perfect institution.
00:49:36.000You know, as a naval officer, we're pretty good and the Army's pretty good, but the Marine Corps has perfected taking basic American citizens, young kids, and turning them into something that's very special and very lethal.
00:49:51.000So don't worry about your career going forward.
00:49:54.000Maximize every day you're in the Corps and you'll turn out fine.