In this episode, we hear from the Young Women s Leadership Summit that made national news. We hear from speakers Pete Hegseth, Christine Elm, Tucker Carlson, Megan Kelly, Donald Trump Jr., Steve Bannon, Greg Dutfeld, Laura Ingram, Ross Ulbert, Byron Donalds, Tom Holman, Ben Carson, Brett Cooper, Michael Knowles, Brandon Tatum, Benny Johnson, Jack Pesobic, Riley Gaines, James O'Keefe, and more.
00:00:36.000We have Pete Hegseth coming, Christine Elm, Tucker Carlson, Megan Kelly, Donald Trump Jr., Steve Bannon, Greg Dutfeld, Laura Ingram, Ross Ulbert, Byron Donalds, Tom Holman, Ben Carson, Brett Cooper, Michael Knowles, Brandon Tatum, Benny Johnson, Jack Pesobic, Riley Gaines, James O'Keefe, and more.
00:01:39.000He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
00:01:45.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
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00:02:44.000And I wanted to ask just really quickly about your testimony.
00:02:47.000And I understand that it can be a very time-consuming question, so I was wondering if there was anything that you could just share quickly, or maybe was there even just a person at the beginning of your journey that you found a lot of inspiration in that brought you closer to the Lord?
00:03:09.000And this is the importance of biblical and Christian education where at a very young age, you know, I was introduced to the gospel, but around fifth grade, it was really presented that I am a sinner.
00:03:22.000There's nothing I can do to earn eternal life.
00:04:00.000The answer to that question is determinative.
00:04:04.000And if you think Jesus was like a cool historical figure, it's not going to cut it.
00:04:08.000If you think he was kind of an interesting rabbi with a lot of points, doesn't cut it.
00:04:13.000Jesus Christ is the Savior of the world who died for your sins and my sins as a suffering servant in the most brutal, humiliating way a human being could die in the ancient world.
00:04:26.000We do not have a modern equivalent of crucifixion in our world.
00:04:31.000Crucifixion was reserved for the worst of the worst criminals.
00:04:35.000Did you know that in the ancient world, Roman citizens were not allowed to be crucified?
00:04:41.000That it was only for foreigners, for really, really bad criminals.
00:04:46.000It was reserved for the worst of the worst.
00:04:48.000And Jesus Christ, our Lord, died a suffering death in a humiliating way for all of our combined sins and shortcomings.
00:04:56.000And accepting him as Lord and Savior is the most important thing that we can do in our life.
00:05:08.000And I wanted to say I'm very excited to be here.
00:05:11.000I have, I need, I guess, advice and a question on if you know people, Christians specifically in your life, who say you're un-Christian-like or not a Christian if you don't agree with what's going on with the immigration or illegal immigrants, and they use Leviticus 19, 33 through 34 as their argument to say you're un-Christ-like if you believe that illegal immigrants should be deported, what would you say to that?
00:05:36.000Well, first of all, let's see how much they actually believe the Bible.
00:05:40.000So, Say, oh, you want to talk about Leviticus 19.
00:05:42.000Do you know that in Leviticus 18, it says that homosexuality is wrong and that a man shall not lay with another man?
00:05:49.000Or are you just trying to cherry-pick Leviticus verses that fit your political agenda?
00:05:52.000So if they believe that too, then fine, respect.
00:05:55.000But I find that, and then finally, secondly, if they're a Christian, you should answer their question.
00:06:01.000If they're not a Christian, just roll your eyes, be like, why do you, who don't believe in what I believe, have to justify what I believe to you, where you're just trying to deconstruct my faith?
00:06:24.000Throughout the Bible, the verses that are most used by pastors when it comes to immigration is about Loving the foreigner and loving that person that might come into your land.
00:06:33.000Interestingly, in ancient Israel, there were two different words for foreigner.
00:06:42.000But basically, the two, one word would mean that which assimilates and that which does not assimilate.
00:06:49.000But did you know there's an equal amount of verses that that person might not tell you, like Deuteronomy 28, I think that's about right, where it says, be careful who you let into your gates, because they one day can become your masters.
00:07:03.000The whole idea of borders is a Christian and biblical idea.
00:07:08.000Let's look at one of my favorite books of the Bible, which I think is Trump's favorite book of the Bible, because it's all about building the wall.
00:07:15.000It's literally called, it's build the wall.
00:07:18.000The entire book of Nehemiah is about building the walls around Jerusalem, building the walls of Israel.
00:07:25.000Now, did they build the walls because they hated people outside or because they loved the holy covenant that God gave them and they need to protect it against the threats outside?
00:07:34.000The whole idea, though, of expelling those in your land, it says very clear in the book of Deuteronomy that these are the guidestones of your nation.
00:07:43.000If you are to move a single stone, you'll be expelled outside of the nation.
00:07:47.000So let's kind of go through the thinking when it comes to immigration, which is very important.
00:07:52.000We are a nation, and nations are a godly idea.
00:07:56.000We know this because in Genesis 12, Genesis 11, I'm sorry, Nimrod wanted to create a city and a tower to his own name.
00:08:05.000We call this the Tower of Babel story.
00:08:07.000And he says, I want to have a one world government all collected together.
00:08:14.000He scattered them amongst the peoples and the languages of the world.
00:08:18.000Nations and border states has always been a uniquely biblical idea.
00:08:24.000You see, the Roman Empire wanted to take over the entire world.
00:08:27.000Alexander the Great wanted to take over the entire world.
00:08:30.000The idea of boundaries and borders is actually rooted in humility, that we don't run the entire planet, that we have a jurisdiction that we are here to steward and we're here to look after.
00:08:40.000So now let's go to this issue of justice and fairness.
00:08:43.000Also in Leviticus 19, it's funny, they love to use Leviticus 19.
00:08:46.000You should say, wait a second, what if I told you that in the administration of justice, you shall not favor a rich person or a poor person?
00:08:57.000So you should respond to your friend and say, do you believe that when we administer justice, the laws, we should not give favor to poor people because they're poor?
00:09:05.000And if they say no, then they don't believe in Leviticus 19.
00:09:07.000Meaning, immigration law must be enforced to everybody regardless of the sob story that they give.
00:09:13.000Otherwise, you do not have immigration law.
00:09:26.000In fact, stealing is wrong regardless of the story that you tell yourself.
00:09:29.000We are a nation of laws because we are a Christian country that believes that the law is a teacher and a law is a civil instrument towards a free and orderly society.
00:09:40.000Under no biblical context is it God's wishes for our nation to have chaos and uneasiness or unruliness.
00:09:48.000Do you think that God smiles when 20 million people come into the country uninvited?
00:09:54.000When girls are sex trafficked across the southern border or the cartels are wreaking havoc over the border?
00:10:00.000Then understand, there's a variety of laws that people break when they come across the southern border.
00:10:10.000These are a variety of laws, not just breaking into the country.
00:10:12.000Do you know that if you come into America by federal law, you have to then tell the federal government your address within 30 days, and you have to do so every single year?
00:10:22.000And unfortunately, that is not done by a lot of people that come into America.
00:10:36.000The person who is doing that is they're cherry-picking scripture because they think they're nicer than God.
00:10:43.000They're cherry-picking scripture because they can't ever confront the idea that if you break into somebody else's country, you are a criminal and you should be returned back to your country of origin, period.
00:10:55.000You do not have a right to break into somebody's home.
00:10:57.000You do not have a right to cut in line.
00:10:59.000We're a nation of laws, and finally we have a president that's enforcing those laws, and every person that has broken into America will be returned back to their country of origin.
00:11:15.000We're honored to be partnering with the Allen Jackson Ministries, and today I want to point you to their podcast.
00:11:20.000It's called Culture and Christianity, the Allen Jackson Podcast.
00:11:24.000What makes it unique is Pastor Allen's biblical perspective.
00:11:27.000He takes the truth from the Bible and applies it to issues that we're facing today, gender confusion, abortion, immigration, Doge, Trump, and the White House.
00:12:17.000Hi, so I'm a high school student from Massachusetts, and I've been following you for a very long time, so I'm super excited to be here.
00:12:24.000I was wondering if you could clarify what the mission of this summit is, because it's a young women's leadership summit, and all of the women that spoke on that stage today and yesterday were there because they pursued a career.
00:12:35.000And a key takeaway that I took from most of the speeches, especially on Friday, was that I should, quote, get married and have babies.
00:12:52.000Look, if you, I mean, but you should actually, I could flip it on you.
00:12:54.000The people that have pursued a career are telling you to pursue kids.
00:12:58.000Maybe they know something you don't know.
00:13:01.000Because they could actually tell you, so they're the ones that have all this career success, and then they're also telling you maybe there's something more beautiful.
00:13:11.000So I understand that, but don't you think that they had children and got married to their wonderful husbands because of their career?
00:13:19.000Like if they didn't pursue that career, that wouldn't have happened.
00:13:22.000I thought that one of the speakers today was really cool about this, and she talked a bit about how you can have a child and a family while also pursuing your career.
00:13:48.000You aim at what is right and what is good.
00:13:50.000I think the purpose of this conference is whatever takeaway you want to have, it's a resurgence of patriotism first and foremost, of true femininity, not this toxic type that is being pushed down, of traditional norms and roles, that if you want to be a mom, you are a superhero and we want to encourage you and we want to promote that and we want to help you in that regard.
00:14:50.000I wanted to thank you for sharing your incredible wisdom with us this weekend.
00:14:55.000You've impacted media and culture in powerful ways, but I'm wondering, how can Christians in the arts, journalism, and media reclaim their platforms effectively for the conservative movement and for Christ?
00:15:08.000How do we as Christians in media relate and connect to culture, but yet not compromise our beliefs being in the world but not of it?
00:15:17.000I think there's a lot of examples of that that was on display from Lila Rose to my wife Erica to Allie Stuckey to Riley Gaines, which is we don't want you to just retreat from the culture and never come in contact with it, but go and occupy all of culture.
00:15:31.000We need more people that are artists and more people that are making films, but always bring the gospel alongside of you and bring the promise of the gospel with you.
00:15:42.000That doesn't mean you have to make every movie about the nativity, right?
00:15:49.000But everything should have a couple key qualities.
00:16:12.000I'm from Fort Worth, Texas, and I'm 16.
00:16:14.000And my question is, how can I stay true to my values and beliefs when I'm openly criticized by teachers and professors who have control over my grades?
00:17:04.000There's a difference between wisdom and knowing facts.
00:17:06.000Wisdom is the understanding of things that do not change.
00:17:09.000But look, you have a decision to make, and I'm not going to tell you the right or wrong decision.
00:17:13.000I'll present two options in front of you.
00:17:15.000Option A is you hide your beliefs and you kind of cut corners and you tell the teacher or the professor what they want to believe.
00:17:25.000Option B is you refuse to do that and you have a risk that your grades might be jeopardized and you stand for truth regardless of the cost.
00:17:34.000In option A, your career will be better, but you'll quietly be miserable.
00:17:38.000In option B, your career might take a detour, but you'll end up figuring it out.
00:17:43.000That's what happens when you end up standing courageously, but you'll be able to be the same person in private that you are in public.
00:17:48.000You'll learn to stand up for yourself, and other people will follow suit.
00:17:52.000So you have a decision to make, and by the way, some people choose option A, and so be it.
00:17:59.000That's your path, and you've decided it.
00:18:01.000You have to live with those consequences and those choices.
00:18:04.000And so the balance of those two things, and raise your hand if you think teachers grade you differently because you're Christian or conservative.
00:18:44.000Instead, you know what will keep your job and will get you to move up?
00:18:47.000If your boss thinks that you're a person of high integrity, more so than high report card grades.
00:18:54.000A boss wants to find someone where they could trust you with their phone while they're giving a speech, that they can give the bank account information to.
00:19:05.000That's a person who's going to be consistent, who's going to be loyal, not necessarily somebody that can always write the essay the way they like.
00:19:14.000And finally, not all, but some teachers will actually respect you more if you stand up to them.
00:19:58.000Phenomenal book, like a 10 out of 10, one of the most important books.
00:20:01.000It's actually not a Christian book, but it's incredibly Christian, meaning it's not written by a Christian, but everything he's talking about is Jesus.
00:20:07.000It's a guy who lost his entire family in concentration camp, and he realized the most important thing in life outside of food and water is meaning.
00:20:18.000It's not, it's actual connection to a purpose above yourself.
00:20:21.000And that purpose, of course, we believe is Jesus.
00:20:23.000So man's search for meaning would be number two.
00:20:26.000The third one is you have to get parental permission for this one because you can laugh, but it has a scene that some parents are not comfortable with.
00:20:35.000And there's a way to actually read the book without the scene because it's actually not that important to the book, 1984.
00:21:07.000Everybody belongs to everybody, right?
00:21:10.000So Brave New World is also a good one.
00:21:12.000So that kind of gives you a little bit of anything by C.S. Lewis, I recommend, but Mere Christianity especially.
00:21:20.000Mere Christianity actually was originally delivered as radio addresses during the bombing blitz of London, and it got turned into and translated into a book.
00:21:30.000Probably the best-selling Christian book over the last 100 years.
00:21:33.000The last book I would recommend is that we lose so many young Christians to atheism and secularism because we have not armed them with the robust archaeological, historical, theological, and philosophical, and apologetic basis of our faith.
00:21:51.000The best book to give a high schooler is called The Case for Christ by Lee Strobel.
00:23:46.000Yes, so let me also speak to some of the young ladies here in high school where your top, if you're, who's here where your top priority, your top priority is get married and have kids.
00:24:34.000But I always laugh, because, and by the way, we should bring back the celebration of the MRS degree, which is, no, seriously, I mean, if you think about it, like, I say college is a scam, but if you're going to find your life partner, like, that's actually a really good reason to go to college.
00:24:50.000You have a bunch of people that are single, you know, they're at the prime of their, you know, let's just say attractiveness.
00:24:59.000The dating pool is as robust as you'll ever find, and they all live together over a four-year period.
00:25:04.000Like, you don't get much better than that, okay?
00:25:07.000It doesn't get better after college there.
00:25:09.000And so, yeah, you could go learn some stuff.
00:25:45.000Number one, there's two things in journalism that are missing the most.
00:25:48.000Commitment to truth overall and not narrative and courage.
00:25:52.000Those two things will make you a great journalist.
00:25:54.000They will not teach you that at college.
00:25:55.000Now, maybe you want the credential or whatever, but those two things, if you have an unwavering commitment To truth and courage.
00:26:01.000You think about it, during COVID, all of these people had journalism degrees and they lied to us about the masks, they lied to us about the lockdowns, they lied to us about six feet that saw the spread.
00:26:13.000How about all these people have journalism degrees that refuse to cover Joe Biden's mental decline?
00:26:21.000All these people have journalism degrees, and they lied to us about the Hunter Biden laptop.
00:26:27.000All these people have journalism degrees, and they lied to us about the open border.
00:26:31.000They lied to us about the origin of COVID.
00:26:34.000And so if you want to learn how to be a propagandist, maybe go to a journalism school, but you yourself can become a journalist like today.
00:26:43.000You could hold your school board accountable.
00:26:45.000You can hold your state representative accountable.
00:26:47.000What is the equation for a journalist?
00:26:49.000Find something corrupt and tell the story.
00:27:00.000My question for you is, as women who want to stay at home, but the economy of the last decades make that very hard, what are some current policy changes or solutions to encourage single-income households?
00:27:16.000I actually had a little bit of, let's just say, a heated exchange a couple weeks ago where this woman is a, you know, she's very sweet, but she had a perspective that I disagreed with.
00:27:31.000And she wants to, you know, have other people be traditional moms, which I'm so for.
00:27:36.000But I said, you know, what is your argument if a woman has married a police officer and he's earning $60,000 a year and they have three kids?
00:27:45.000Like, I'm sorry, like, that's just not going to cut it in Dallas, right?
00:27:48.000Or, I mean, I don't know what police officers make here, maybe 70, 75, right, Don, right?
00:27:52.000The great Don Huffins, by the way, fully endorsed him.
00:27:59.000The first answer is the man needs to do everything imaginable that he possibly can to not force his wife into the workforce.
00:28:10.000It's easier said than done if you work as a firefighter or as a paramedic or if you work in a salary-scale job where you will not reach high salaries for 10 or 20 years, right?
00:28:23.000Or if you're like a football coach in Lubbock, Texas, or a high school football coach.
00:29:38.000Actually, I don't know the solution as much that we're going to be really, like, we have a tendency to figure things out if we get loud enough about the problem.
00:29:48.000And I don't think we've articulated this as a problem where literally 10 million women are forced back into the workforce and they have to hand their six-month-old baby over to strangers to raise their kid all day long.
00:30:01.000And again, if you use daycare, I'm not judging you.
00:30:44.000It's the number one reason that is given in surveys.
00:30:46.000I think it's a little bit of an excuse, honestly, because you should have kids even if you can't, you should have more kids than you can afford, honestly.
00:30:54.000But it's easier for us to say that than for most people, because they don't actually have the conviction a lot of people in this room have.
00:31:00.000They come from families that might have declared bankruptcy.
00:31:03.000They come from families they lost their business in 2008.
00:31:28.000I'm currently working on getting my license in massage therapy and my certification in nutrition.
00:31:34.000And I wanted to know how I, as a 19-year-old who's not in college, can be involved in the political scene and make an impact on young people.
00:31:44.000Well, first of all, you have found a job that will not be replaced by AI.
00:31:50.000So I hope anyone here who is career-driven, I hope you understand that large language models and artificial intelligence are probably going to take your jobs away in the next five to ten years.
00:32:04.000I'm just saying, this is a displacement and a revolution economically that people have not even comprehended.
00:32:10.000Now, you might find new jobs and you might find new ways to earn livings, but this is also one of the reasons why I say college is a scam.
00:32:16.000These kids are going into debt to study things that don't matter to go find jobs that will not exist in five years.
00:32:34.000Find a good church that speaks about these issues and support that church and be a light in that community around, you know, moral righteousness and truth and goodness.
00:32:44.000And so, and then also, you know, in your line of work, wherever you have an opportunity to share the gospel or share, you know, principled conservative teaching, that's a great opportunity to do that.
00:33:01.000If you want to make sense of the change and the chaos happening around us, you're going to need God's help.
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00:34:18.000You kind of stole my thunder a little bit, but my question was going to be, how do you think AI is going to change the world over the next 10 years?
00:38:01.000And most importantly, it's not made in the image of the divine.
00:38:05.000And one day the AI will not see its creator.
00:38:07.000It's nothing more than a bunch of numbers in a little chip that's going back and forth very fast.
00:38:13.000So look, everybody here needs to be on your guard about artificial intelligence.
00:38:16.000I believe this is going to be the greatest change of civilization that we have seen since we went from agrarian to the Industrial Revolution.
00:38:24.000And it's going to happen even quicker and faster.
00:38:28.000But we as Christians, everybody, if you do not have a pastor that knows this problem, talks about this problem, and is willing to engage with it alongside abortion and transgenderism and the border, leave that church and find a pastor because it's going to get very real very quickly.
00:39:12.000And if you want to make career your focus, that you have the agency to do that.
00:39:16.000But also, most importantly, I hope there is some affirmation for you out there because look, career affirmation, that's not lacking in society.
00:39:25.000But I hope simultaneously, those of you that kind of feel a knot in your stomach, you're like, I want to be a mom.
00:39:35.000And I hope you leave here not with guilt or shame, but with a sense of confidence that you can go to the world, that you're going to do the most important thing, which is to raise godly children in this world.
00:39:49.000Because far too often, young ladies tell me, they say, I don't know, you know, if I become a mom, if I get married, my family will be upset.
00:39:58.000You should always have the confidence that that is the right thing, the biblical thing, and the courageous thing.
00:40:04.000And that's the last note that I will give you.
00:40:06.000We are biblically commanded, even if your parents are liberals, even if your parents, you don't like your parents, unless your parents abuse you and are like in prison.
00:40:16.000The only commandment that involves your nation and a promise is honor your mother and father so that you may live long in the land of which you are in.
00:40:25.000For the rest of your life, it's good for you and good for your parents to honor your parents.
00:40:30.000Because if you cannot honor your earthly father, you will not be able to honor your almighty father.