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00:02:27.000Well, frankly, it's kind of sad that I have to be here talking about this because I had a little hope in the beginning that this youth advisory committee was going to be something worthwhile.
00:02:39.000And I was warned by several people that might not be.
00:02:42.000And that's exactly what it turned out to be.
00:02:44.000You know, I was contacted back in March, you know, by the political director at the RNC to join this youth advisory council that they were putting together to reach the youth vote and try to perform better than we have in these past elections, primarily the midterm elections that we did very poorly in.
00:03:05.000You know, wanted to make sure that I was doing my part in the movement.
00:03:10.000And I'm involved in, you know, with you guys, of course, but decided to do my part to help and was asked to also recruit other state reps that I knew to join this board.
00:03:24.000And unfortunately, it's turned out to really be an optical illusion to be able to raise funds from donors to give to the RNC, which, as you've seen this past week, they are not doing too well on fundraising.
00:03:39.000But this was not something I was going to continue to participate in and make sure that they could utilize folks that are good people that are actually elected officials that are doing stuff in their respective states to raise funds for this movement.
00:03:52.000So just kind of educate our audience on this.
00:03:55.000What is the culture like in the RNC versus, I mean, no, not say turning point, but five of you guys step down.
00:04:00.000Do you get the sense that the culture at the RNC is one to win or kind of more just kind of shuffle paper around, bring in money, pay some salaries?
00:04:08.000Do you get the sense of urgency from the Republican National Committee?
00:04:13.000Well, I'll let the viewers decide that.
00:04:17.000I had one meeting I attended in March through Zoom.
00:04:22.000And in May was the next scheduled meeting, which my link did not work to even join that committee meeting and asked several times to get a new Zoom link sent to me, which shouldn't be too hard.
00:04:33.000And wasn't able to join that committee meeting because those technical difficulties on their side, where I talked to other friends of mine that are also members that have resigned from this committee now, it was more like a brainstorming session where there was no strategic goals that were set out or timelines that were put in place, which is unfortunate.
00:04:55.000And since then, I've not been sent any meeting notices and of course will not be in the future.
00:05:03.000But, you know, when I do stuff with other groups, and I will use turning point for reference, you know, when you guys tell me there's a timeline to get things in or to do things or, you know, dates for conferences, that sort of thing, you guys follow through on things.
00:05:18.000And so, you know, obviously, if this is happening with this, you know, subcommittee at the RNC, I don't think that it's a coincidence.
00:05:27.000I think it's, you know, probably rule and not the exception, unfortunately.
00:05:32.000And that what's, you know, really made me upset and took the initiative to contact the other members that I had recruited through our circle to ask if they wanted to resign from this committee.
00:05:46.000What is the consensus then amongst you five?
00:05:48.000And what do you think materially can be done or what the RNC could have done besides just having these stupid Zoom call meetings where like actual action that you would recommend because you are a very young lawmaker from Iowa, you got elected, have a really great thing.
00:06:01.000What can be done that they ignored or they were too bureaucratic to actually do?
00:06:07.000Well, you know, unfortunately, you know, I was twisting arms to get my other members to actually join this because they don't have a very good view of the RNC.
00:06:16.000And so they're doing that a favor for me, essentially, when they first initially joined.
00:06:25.000They're state lawmakers in their respective states, the youngest state lawmakers.
00:06:29.000And I think the most disappointing part of this is that I had the, you know, the youngest female state reps from Florida, Texas, and Missouri.
00:06:37.000And I had Caleb Hanna from West Virginia, who's going to be the youngest statewide elected official in the country.
00:06:50.000They've, you know, they don't have 10,000 followers on Twitter.
00:06:54.000They've gotten tens of thousands of votes in their respective districts.
00:06:58.000And so you would think those are the folks that you would want to point out to help actually lead this committee, be spokespeople for that.
00:07:05.000But they were choosing 17, 18-year-olds that, in my opinion, it was probably either their parents or grandparents' money that really got them on to that committee and not the people that have actually been in the trenches, knocked on doors, worked with the grassroots to make sure to actually turn people out for their own elections.
00:07:23.000And so that's what made me really disappointed and discouraged overall, you know, with this is that we had some folks that had incredible knowledge on actually how to turn out vote from somebody that's actually a youth elected official and they didn't utilize that.
00:07:42.000And so that's where we're going to spend our time with groups like yourself that do have a clear plan in place to be able to not only win the next election, but also engage those youth voters that we need.
00:08:25.000And I'm afraid that there's some of these young, and I say this all the time to our turning point kids, like there's too much glitz and glam with the TikTok and the Instagram thing.
00:08:32.000You got to get out in the streets and actually earn votes.
00:08:34.000So contrast that even further, there was this group, the five people that resigned.
00:08:41.000So that's where it was coming from is if you look at the 16-member board, which if you guys ever created something like this, don't have 16 members because it's just too many people.
00:08:52.000And that creates it, you know, makes it bureaucratic.
00:08:55.000You know, but they had 16 members on this thing.
00:08:57.000And a third of us were actually folks that had been elected or are currently elected.
00:09:02.000And that means that these folks had went out, they've formed coalitions with grassroots folks, you know, with people like Turning Point USA, with, you know, Moms for America, you know, these different groups that they've worked with.
00:09:14.000They've went out, they've knocked on doors, they've talked to voters about what those issues are, but they've also worked with other young people that have helped them with their raise and know how to get the turnout on, you know, college campuses, for instance, and how to work with these other youth groups to be able to get that turnout out.
00:09:31.000So that was the thing is my folks were frustrated.
00:09:34.000They weren't asked to have a bigger role and actually put out metrics and goals to be able to lead this council.
00:09:44.000And they relied on these people that literally one of them, 17 years old, God bless him.
00:09:50.000Charlie, me and you were involved in this at 17 as well, but they haven't actually done anything of substance and they're the spokesperson for this.
00:10:00.000I went to several different RNC donor meetings and I was messaging Tyler about this at the time.
00:10:06.000I was like, they're having these donor meetings and they're not going to ask one single elected official from the committee to actually come and speak at the donor meetings, like the people with credentials.
00:10:16.000Like it just, it was baffling to me, you know, the approach they had, you know, towards this and the lack of, you know, really the mismanagement of relationships from that side of things as well, to not want to have the people that actually have the knowledge on how to win elections that would be speaking to your donors that would actually be participating and be the spokespeople for this, you know, youth advisory council.
00:11:25.000But I'm going to say, guys, for every time you do a tweet, you should knock on 10 doors and then you can like, you got to work yourself up.
00:13:03.000You know, I will say this last thing again: you know, about, you know, if you're 17 years old, you're 16, 15, I'm not saying that you shouldn't be involved with what you do.
00:13:14.000That was a leadership thing from Rana, where she should have known, okay, we're going to put the co-chairs as people that, you know, have more of these credentials.
00:13:23.000So that was kind of my last thought on this on the last segment.
00:13:27.000But absolutely, Charlie, we need people to start as young as possible.
00:13:32.000We want them to be involved on these sports.
00:13:33.000It's just, you know, you know from experience that she does not know how to pick the right leaders to lead these initiatives and how to work with the right folks.
00:13:43.000No, and look, and this is in this article, this Fox News article, they attack Turning Point by name.
00:13:47.000The RNC attacks Turning Point by name instead of defending their record.
00:13:50.000And this is, we're used to this, right?
00:13:51.000So I just want everyone in the audience to know this: is that when people send money to the RNC, they are spending their time, their energy, and their attention on attacking grassroots groups, Turning Point USA, Turning Point Action.
00:14:04.000And by the way, I think you're coming this weekend, right, Joe, to Amfest.
00:14:35.000Let's just take the RNC out of the picture.
00:14:37.000Okay, what needs to be done, you know, technically and a messaging standpoint to win over younger voters and also get younger people in elected office.
00:14:45.000And then also just riff on your story.
00:14:47.000You were one of the youngest elected people in the country in Iowa.
00:14:56.000So, you know, Charlie, I ran for the state house when I was 20 years old.
00:14:59.000That's when I officially filed to run for the House of Representatives here in Iowa.
00:15:05.000And, you know, I was a junior in college at the time, you know, had worked, you know, in several different capacities and internships at the Capitol.
00:15:13.000But, you know, when my state representative of 24 years had decided to retire, you know, I had had to make a decision.
00:15:19.000You know, was this my time to run or not?
00:15:22.000And ultimately, it came down to there's never a perfect time to run for office.
00:15:28.000And, you know, I knocked on thousands of doors across my district.
00:15:31.000I had a four-way primary, incredibly tough primary.
00:15:34.000And I won by 100 votes in June of 2018, went on to the general election in November of 2018 and won against my Democrat opponent.
00:15:44.000Graduated college the next month and got sworn into the Iowa House the following month as the youngest member ever.
00:15:50.000And really, what I learned from that is that if you go out, you do the hard work and you work with the grassroots advocates and supporters in your county, your near districts, they will help you.
00:16:03.000And they will show up for you to vote if you show up for them.
00:16:06.000And so that's exactly what I took with my story.
00:16:09.000And we created Run Gen Z, which is the organization I founded back in 2020 to help empower, recruit, and mentor the next generation of conservative leaders across this country to run for office.
00:16:21.000Because I believe if we have young conservatives that are elected to office with a platform, we can reach more young voters.
00:16:29.000And that's exactly who is on this youth advisory committee I had.
00:16:32.000Caroline Harris, the youngest female ever elected as a Republican to the Texas state legislature.
00:16:38.000Maisie Boyd, the youngest female legislator in Missouri.
00:16:41.000Kayla Panna, the youngest African-American ever elected to a state office in American history.
00:16:47.000These are the kind of folks that we're getting elected that are standing up for the truth.
00:16:52.000They're standing up for America first policies.
00:16:54.000And we have to make sure that more people are running for office, running for precinct committeemen and committee women.
00:17:01.000They're running for the RNC committee woman and committee man spots, but also running for elected office on the local level, on the state level, and the federal level.
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00:19:15.000Well, it's a book I started writing on October 7th.
00:19:19.000As soon as I heard about the disaster, and I finished it in 32 days, and it may break the Guinness Book of Records for the fastest book ever published, but it deals with everything that has gone on.
00:19:32.000It deals with October 6th, why there wasn't sufficient preparation, intelligence.
00:19:36.000Obviously, the events of the 7th, but more importantly, the events of the 8th, when radical hard leftists started to attack Israel, even before Israel sent a single soldier into Gaza, they were attacked.
00:20:12.000It's how to end Hamas Barbarism is also part of it, but war against the Jews.
00:20:17.000So, Professor, part of the war against the Jews is happening domestically.
00:20:22.000And I just can't wait to get your thoughts on this.
00:20:24.000Thanks to Congresswoman Elise Stefanik's cross-examination, her questioning at the hearing on anti-Semitism, we have seen a historic eruption of donors and alumni holding MIT, Harvard, and Penn accountable.
00:20:40.000For those that don't know, we're getting the clip.
00:20:41.000Elise Stefanik asked a rather simple question about if somebody calls for the genocide of a group of people, does that go against Harvard speech policy?
00:20:51.000And they said, well, it's context specific.
00:20:53.000Professor, what was your reaction when you saw that dialogue between Congresswoman Stefanik and the university presidents?
00:22:09.000I mean, if you're in a leadership position and the word genocide comes up, that's not context specific.
00:22:14.000Now, Professor, I want to ask you, because I think you're uniquely positioned to help us navigate this.
00:22:19.000This last weekend, I spent time with some major supporters of Israel, and they're so troubled by what happened, obviously, on October 7th, as they should be.
00:22:29.000And they're equally as troubled as what's happening as the universities.
00:22:33.000And one of these amazing, amazingly brilliant Jewish Americans said, it's time for us to prevent hate speech at Harvard, hate speech at Penn.
00:22:42.000Do you think that is the proper reaction, Professor?
00:22:45.000Because you can understand where they're coming from.
00:22:53.000What is hate speech to you is love speech to somebody else.
00:22:57.000And I don't think we should be banning speech on college campuses.
00:23:00.000Let anybody say whatever they want and let it be answered in the marketplace of ideas.
00:23:06.000The problem with Harvard, Penn, MIT, and other places is, for example, I can't speak at Harvard in favor of the two-state solution for Israel.
00:23:14.000I was probably their most well-known professor when I retired 10 years ago.
00:23:18.000I have never been invited back to speak on Israel.
00:24:01.000We just think the only nation state of the Jewish people off the face of the earth, Palestine should be free of Jews from the river to the sea.
00:24:48.000I think it does call for genocide, but I wouldn't ban it.
00:24:53.000I wouldn't ban it as long as you didn't ban anything else.
00:24:55.000The one thing that's intolerable, intolerable, is to rescind admissions because a student said something that might be interpreted negatively.
00:25:04.000Or the president, the previous president of Harvard two, three ago, Larry Summers gets fired because he raised questions at a meeting about the possibility that gender may influence the ability in math and science.
00:25:57.000If you quote Martin Luther King, I dream of the day when my children will be judged not by the color of their skin, but by the content of that character.
00:26:54.000So then, Professor, just to get a little bit specific, but I want to make sure some understand because some people, we get some emails or some people would say, but what about if Jewish students feel unsafe based on some of the protests or the chanting?
00:27:08.000Do we have to censor speech based on the feelings of a recipient?
00:27:12.000That's where it starts to get a little bit murky or unclear, right?
00:27:17.000So I think when you come to college, when you come to law school, when you go to university, you have to develop a thick skin.
00:27:23.000I used to teach a seminar in which I told my students: if you want to feel good at the end of the class, there's a very good massage place down the block.
00:27:33.000You can, if you want your most sacred views to be challenged, if you want to go out of this class sweating and upset and concerned, this is my class.
00:27:44.000I don't think any idea should be safe.
00:27:46.000I don't think students should feel safe.
00:27:48.000They should feel safe from physical attacks, but not from attacks on their religion, on their politics, on their ideology, on anything else.
00:28:04.000Just don't intimidate and don't hassle people and don't push them to the floor, is what happened at Harvard, and don't block them from entering classes and don't shout other people up.
00:28:16.000For example, the National Lawyers Guild all over the country, it has law school branches all over the country.
00:28:22.000Its goal is to silence conservative speakers.
00:28:29.000But you can't have a rule that applies only to some groups and not to other groups.
00:28:33.000That's been the biggest failing that Harvard has had.
00:28:36.000And that's the biggest failing of the women's movement today.
00:28:39.000The women's movement today says, me too, except if you're a Jew.
00:28:44.000Me too, believe women, except if you're an Israeli.
00:28:48.000Almost no feminist groups have spoken up today against the rapes, the mutilations, the sexual assaults that not only occurred, but probably are still occurring among the hostages.
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00:32:06.000Just today, 10 Israeli soldiers, including a commander, was killed because Israel chose not to bomb because they didn't want to kill civilians.
00:32:14.000And yet they're accused of genocide by people on the extreme left.
00:32:19.000Israel takes more concern for not killing civilians than anybody else, even putting their own soldiers at risk.
00:32:26.00010 of them died today, who could have been saved if they had just dropped a bomb on the building instead of going in and getting ambushed.
00:32:34.000So I don't know whether we're closer or not.
00:32:37.000I hope President Biden doesn't start putting restrictions on Israel because the only way to end the barbarity is the way we ended the barbarity in Germany and Japan.
00:32:51.000And then the people will realize that Israel is strong and can help rebuild the way we rebuild Germany and Japan.
00:32:58.000And maybe we can have peace in the Middle East.
00:33:00.000But if there is a ceasefire, which is a unilateral surrender, which many in the Democratic Party have called for, that will be simply an invitation for Hamas to read the label on your shampoo, which says, wash, rinse, repeat.
00:34:14.000What is to be made of the nearly 2 million civilians of Gaza?
00:34:18.000Because the PA has shown time and time again, they're incapable of self-government.
00:34:24.000And of the 2 million people in Gaza, some 70% supported the atrocities of it's not going to be easy.
00:34:33.000It has to be done by force and intimidation, not by compromise.
00:34:37.000Every time Israel is compromised and withdrawn, it has ended up getting victimized again.
00:34:42.000There has to be total and complete victory with an assurance that it will happen again and again, that Israel will simply not tolerate rockets.
00:34:51.000My cousin is the chief rabbi of Stay Rote.