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Charlie Kirk
Charlie, what you've done is incredible here. Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus.
Stephen K. Bannon
I want you to know we are.
Charlie Kirk
Lucky to have Charlie Kirk. Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks.
Tom Fitton
I want to thank Charlie.
Charlie Kirk
He's an incredible guy.
Ben Berkwam
His spirit, his love of this country.
Tom Fitton
He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point usa.
Charlie Kirk
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Tom Fitton
It'S over because the media had eight minutes of President Trump, asked 20 questions and didn't mention it once. So even President Trump thinks it's over.
Charlie Kirk
And so, Steve, what is your recommendation, your suggestion on how to fix this?
Tom Fitton
There's only one way to fix this. We have to come out of Tampa just like the Patriots did on doing like the Boston Resolves. We have to come out with the Tampa Resolves two or three action steps by Sunday afternoon. We're all committed to, all of us to say this must happen. And I think it's special prosecutor ever. But we have to say no more. Nothing. We have to go forward with this. And the reason we're going forward with this, we're there to assist and augment President Trump, to help save the President Trump's presidency because they are coming for another coup. You can see it happening just like the dark clouds were around Kennedy, right? They, they moved in and moved in and moved in. They assassinated Diem in Vietnam and then they blew his head off in the Middle of the day in Dallas, Texas, with a patsy named Lee Harvey Oswald that we find out 62 years later was on the payroll of the CIA after they looked your parents in the eye and lied to them for 60 years. They're going to lie about everything today and hope that 70 years from now nobody will care about it. Do you care about it? If we don't come out of here united with Turning Point, as powerful as Turning Point is, if we don't come out of here and say no more, nothing more, we must have this. Because if we don't take down the deep State, we're going to lose the entire country.
Charlie Kirk
And.
Tom Fitton
And they think they're winning. They're laughing at us right now. They're laughing at you. They're mocking you. This is the. Epstein is something. The question's very simple. Who governs this country? The American people or the deep state? Do they have the consent of the governor? And what they're doing right now, are you prepared to fight for this? Are you prepared to go to prison for this? Are you prepared to be bankrupt for this? Are you prepared to take up arms and fight for this? I hear a lot of talk now. I see some action now, Steve.
Charlie Kirk
So, special prosecutor, who would you recommend and what does that scope look like? Because special prosecutors can be kind of a dead end sometimes.
Tom Fitton
It can't be my recommendation right now. Would it be Tom Fitton? Tom Fitton is not a lawyer. He can hire all the lawyers. Is Tom Fenton have credibility with everybody? If Tom Fenton looks you in the eye after everything he's gone through and fought for and said, here's what it is, would you believe Tom Fenton? Would you believe Tom Fenton will release all the documents? It's very simple. You name Tom Fenton a special prosecutor, he brings in a team of actual prosecutors. You go to the court, and the first thing you do is petition the court to unseal all the sealed evidence. Right. Number two is you take, collect all the other evidence, not just from the FBI and the Justice Department, from every agency in our government. And you put it forward. Right. By the way, there may be some victim issues here. It just. That's going to have to be dealt with. You're going to have to deal it. Do you guys want to see everything or just some things? You want to see everything. And you're prepared to take the accountability if that happens?
Stephen K. Bannon
Are you?
Charlie Kirk
Are you.
Tom Fitton
You got to do a gut check. That's why we need these resolves this weekend. You do that also. The special prosecutor has a second mandate, and that is to be able to empanel a federal criminal grand jury that he can then bring all the evidence he finds, if he finds it, to the grand jury about the intelligence agencies and the interconnectivity of with foreign governments, whether it's British government and MI6, the Saudi government and Saudi intelligence, Mossad and Shin Ben in the Israeli government and the CIA and all the other 17 intelligence apparatuses that you're paying for. He must get to that to see if there's any interconnectivity and who actually governs the American people.
Charlie Kirk
So, Steve, for people that were watching in the Washington press corps, in the White House, let's say they say, why do people care about this so much? Explain it. Bring us into the MAGA mind why? Let's just pan the audience. Raise your hand. If the Epstein thing is very important to you, raise your hand. Can we just show that pan shot really quick, guys, Keep your hands up.
Tom Fitton
It's 100%.
Charlie Kirk
Every hand goes up. Some people have two hands up. But Steve, why is it very important? This is, by the way, this is ultra maga.
Tom Fitton
10.2.0 maga.
Charlie Kirk
As ultra maga as it gets.
Tom Fitton
Number one, it's the crimes against children, right? The trafficking of children. But number two, it's what that trafficking was used for, right? They need, they have fought this from day one. And this is President Trump's hardest core base. These are the people that didn't run away in January 21st when the election was stolen from him. He went back to Mar a Lago and they, Fox News put up Desantis and they put up Nikki Haley and every other alternative. They said, hey, how about this? Screw you, we're for Trump. This is the hardest core base and the only way this goes away, if these people, not just an answer, if they don't see a process that they can buy into, that they think are going to treat them like adults and get the information to them. You know what they're going to say? I'm out. I'm out. And if they're out, there is no MAGA movement going forward. Why do you think the press corps didn't answer my question? They hate you. They hate MAGA. They hate the power you have over Washington, D.C. that's where they're going to roll over. They want this to go away. They know why, because they know that you'll get just, okay, I'm going to go away, too. That's why there's not all the great stuff, the deportations, the tariffs, the economic Program. This is why this is so important. And one of the tells you're going to have. It's what's happening in Ukraine and what's happening in the Middle east. The, the three most powerful institutions in Washington, D.C. the Federal Reserve, the Central Intelligence Agency and CENTCOM. Right? You've got the money in the brains. You've got. You got the money, you've got the brains, you got the muscle. All three of those must be brought to heel by this audience. The way we bring it to heal is you use. Epstein is the tool to do it. We must use that tool. We must use it today. If we don't do it, let's just give up and go play. Let's just hang out, right? We'll have a concert here for two days and a picnic.
Charlie Kirk
We're not doing that. That's not what we're here. So. So Steve, walk us through the mechanics. Can the President appoint a special prosecutor without Congress?
Tom Fitton
He has to get by the way. The way because we use it. The prosecutor has to be. The special prosecutor has to be confirmed by Congress. But that's. We got the votes to do that. You don't need 60. It's 51 votes. We control that. You just tell the Republican Party. We basically get online every night and bombard their offices with emails, with text messages, say, you must do this. Tom Fenton's a known guy, he can get confirmed.
Charlie Kirk
Or Matt Gates.
Tom Fitton
Matt Gates would be the best.
Charlie Kirk
How about Matt Gates with people like Matt Gates? Matt Gates, that would be a no brainer, right?
Tom Fitton
I think, I think what you do.
Charlie Kirk
I think, I think too broad.
Tom Fitton
I think what you do is a Fenton, a special prosecutor. Maybe Matt Gates is Attorney General.
Charlie Kirk
I don't think that'll happen with Senate confirmation. But Steven closing here, there's everybody.
Tom Fitton
There's not anybody. If the process showed us with Hegseth and Bobby Kennedy and Tulsi, if you fix bayonets, there's nobody we can't get confirmed, right? You put the fear of God in Joni Ernst. You put the fear of God in Thom Tillis. You put the fear of God in anybody. We can get him confirmed. Maybe Gates is better at holding the bullpen, but. Or Gates for Finn.
Charlie Kirk
He'll be ready for a line change. I think Gates is right because there will be a line change at some point. Steve, in closing, going into the midterms and beyond, if the anger that I am getting from the audience on Epstein continues, what will that mean politically if.
Tom Fitton
These people sit down? If these people stay home? We're going to get blown out. We're going to lose 40 or 50 seats. President Trump's going to be impeached. They're going to sit there and they'll plot and plan to steal 28. It'll be over. The country will be over. And half of you people will be in prison. The other half will be bankrupt. That's why it's all.
Charlie Kirk
That's how important you think this is.
Tom Fitton
This is nothing more important. By the way, tonight at right after the 5:00 clock show, I'm going do a meet and greet with all of you. So I appreciate.
Charlie Kirk
God bless. Thank you.
Tom Fitton
Is Charlie Kirk the best? Is this guy the greatest warrior we got? Love you guys.
Charlie Kirk
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Ben Berkwam
Yeah, well, real quick, Charlie, to answer Steve's question about what needs to be done, just as important as Epstein is to your point, no amnesty. Zero amnesty. If you sell out on amnesty, you lose the base as well. Let's go around here. By the way, I want to start right here. I've got this young lady here. Tell me your name.
Amelia
My name is Amelia.
Ben Berkwam
Amelia. And you're from Kazakhstan. From Kazakhstan. Could you do vent in Kazakhstan?
Amelia
No, it's illegal.
Ben Berkwam
It's illegal. And you're a Christian. Why are you here? What matters the most? Why are you maga?
Amelia
I am maga. Because first of all, it's a privilege that you as Americans, you have this privilege. Of hosting this event, because in my country, it's impossible hosting this event. So I would really love to be. Be a part of Turning Point usa maybe one day as my job. So I came here and I'm really proud of being. You can consider me. I guess so. Yeah.
Stephen K. Bannon
That's why I came here.
Ben Berkwam
I love that.
Tom Fitton
Do you guys love that?
Ben Berkwam
Is that amazing? Amazing. All right, so we have an. Charlie, we have an answer for you here. So about Epstein, why does this matter? And to somebody who still supports President Trump, what should we do?
Alex Clark
We just need to pray for President.
Charlie Kirk
Trump and if we have any way to reach out to him, like, I know Steve Bannon's got his ear.
Ben Berkwam
I think Charlie might too, but go.
Charlie Kirk
Yes, yes, absolutely. So, sir, if President Trump was listening, what would your message be to him on this topic? You're an ultra MAGA guy. Yes.
Tom Fitton
The same people that tried to coup you and steal the election and maybe.
Charlie Kirk
Tried to kill you are the ones.
Tom Fitton
Telling you to cover up for Epstein.
Stephen K. Bannon
It's as simple as that.
Charlie Kirk
Why does Epstein, anyone in the audience, why does it matter to you? Anyone could, like, raise your hand. Why is this important?
Stephen K. Bannon
So Epstein is important because if we can do everything before, but they can still blackmail your politician, it does not matter because they will control your politician. We need the politicians who care about our voice, our values, our rights, our liberties.
Charlie Kirk
That does not matter if they get blackmailed. We need to expose this and get.
Stephen K. Bannon
Rid of it entirely.
Alex Clark
We cannot have a system in blackmail.
Charlie Kirk
That controls our politicians and makes them work against us, no matter how good.
Tom Fitton
They are, no matter how nice they are.
Stephen K. Bannon
It does not matter if they are blackmailed and controlled.
Charlie Kirk
Ben, find some other voices here.
Ben Berkwam
Right over here.
Alex Clark
Yeah. To me, there's a threefold reason.
Charlie Kirk
You have.
Tom Fitton
First, you have the moral reason.
Alex Clark
First of all, there was kids victimized, so that needs to be. There needs to be justice for those kids.
Charlie Kirk
Second of all, there's the political reason we can't have President Trump dragged down.
Alex Clark
Into this mess caused by Epstein and ruin any Republican chances of.
Charlie Kirk
Of running this country.
Alex Clark
And third of all, there's the national reason we need details on Epstein because.
Charlie Kirk
We need to know who's running our country and your.
Ben Berkwam
Your name and where are you from?
Charlie Kirk
My name is Silas Hudson. I'm president of the West Florida Young Republicans up in the Panhandle.
Ben Berkwam
I love that.
Tom Fitton
I'm jumping.
Ben Berkwam
I know you got it.
Charlie Kirk
On that topic, I got a question for you. Is that all right? Sort of. Yeah. That's not what we're doing right now, but sure. All right, so my question is, do you think that all these politicians that refuse to release the Epstein files, do you believe it's not only because some of them are obviously guilty, but also because it could completely and totally destroy things like the economic side of it and then also just cause such a big head butting in our, in our country, which is already happening? Yeah, look, I have no idea. First of all, I don't think President Trump is in the Epstein files. If they were, Biden would have leaked them three years ago instead of all the other lawfare. So this whole situation has just left me profoundly confused. That's the best answer I have. And I know Cash, and I know Dan. I'm confused as many of you in the audience because we were told that something was on Pam Bondi's desk. We were told that there were truckloads of documents coming. We were told that it was such an egregious revelation by other people in the administration. And so look, we ran on transparency and I think a lot of you guys in the audience are demanding it in big numbers. So thank you.
Ben Berkwam
What would you say to President Trump if you could, on this topic?
Stephen K. Bannon
So in my personal opinion, President Trump has been the most transparent president in American history. You saw what he did with Ukraine and Zelensky at the White House. We've never seen something like this before where you have an American president sitting in the Oval Office and basically telling the American people, this is what we are doing in our administration. This is what's happening to you, the American people. So I am a die hard supporter of President Trump. I run the Turning Point USA program in, in California. I'm the president there. And I have my own show called the Roman Madero Show. I'd love to have you on, sir. Okay, we've grown it. And I guess I'm going off topic. My bad. But I guess what I'm saying here, ladies and gentlemen, is he's such a transparent president and I'm concerned just because I'm like Mr. Trump, this isn't a great look on you. Because he was being a little weird in the meeting with his staff. And I just thought, come on, this isn't you. This isn't a great. Look, we need to replace Pam Bondi. Remember, she was a lobbyist for Qatar. Let's get that. I don't know, maybe I'll get canceled right now. The show's gonna go down, ladies and gentlemen. No, but remember, she's a lobbyist for Qatar, so that's all I have to say is you're a transparent president. We love you. We know that you're working for us. Just be open. Give us the honest answers. I don't believe you're on it. And I believe most of the people I talk to on my show, when I go and do street interviews, they don't believe you are on it. We just want. We want to see it. We want to see it, but we don't. We don't. We don't want to see the, you know, the graphic videos or all that. We just want to see the list. Release it.
Charlie Kirk
Thank you, man. Okay, everybody, the legendary Alex Clark is with us. Give it up for Alex Clark, everybody. She was Maha before it was cool. She was drinking raw milk lattes before it was fashionable. She was leading people to question the childhood vaccination schedule before it was mainstream. It's Alex Clark, everybody. Give it up for Alex Clark. So, Alex, you are one of the primary leaders of the Maha movement, Make America Healthy movement. My opinion on Maha, and I got this from Jack Posobec and I think this is right. We're having a little bit of, let's just say, disagreement on foreign policy, disagreement on immigration. But Maha has really held strong and is doing what they said they were going to do. Bobby Kennedy, Jay Bhattacharya, Dr. Marty Makary. What has the Maha agenda achieved so far in our government and what, where do you think this movement is going?
Julio Rosas
Yeah. So first of all, Maha should not be underestimated. This is one of the most powerful political arms of the Trump administration and it's going to transcend maga and this is going to keep going throughout multiple presidential administrations. So you should be very excited. If we can cinch the midterms, I think Maha will have a large part to do with that. So we should not lighten up on the Maha conversation at all as a political party. That being said, achievements so far, I mean, first of all, we just axed a bunch of people on the CDC committee that were compromised, whose primary job is working on the childhood vaccine schedule. So we want people with unbiased opinions getting in there, finding out the facts. The other thing is we're removing fluoride from our water in several states, which is huge. It was actually an Obama appointed judge who finally came out and admitted that fluoride is lowering your child's iq. So we've got to get that out of the water, stop using fluoride, toothpaste, et cetera. And then also we're getting soda off of snap in Multiple states. That is supposed to be supplemental nutrition. Coca Cola makes the most money from SNAP than anything else.
Charlie Kirk
Can I interject? So SNAP is food stamps. Right? So SNAP and ebt. Right. And so in no way should American taxpayer dollars go towards the obesity epidemic.
Julio Rosas
Yeah, we're literally funding the obesity epidemic, and then we're having to pay for that. So the whole thing is super backwards and diabolical and evil. If you want to eat junk, then pay for that. But we should be finding ways, which we are, for Americans to get healthier, real organic food. We're also looking into the baby formula industry, checking out the nutritional guidelines on baby formula.
Charlie Kirk
This is huge.
Julio Rosas
That's a big one. Operation Stork Speed, which is cute. And of course, we banned artificial food dyes officially.
Charlie Kirk
Now the big one for me, Alex, that I'm pushing Bobby Kennedy on. We need to say no more pharmaceutical advertisements on tv. Do you guys agree? No more pharma ads on tv. Why is that one so important?
Julio Rosas
Okay, so when you see a golden retriever frolicking through a field and then you're hearing something about diarrhea, it's not so that you'll actually go to your doctor and say, hey, can I take this medication? It's so that the pharma companies can control the news and the information that they are reporting. There is a reason why during the pandemic, you did not see any alternative information about, you know, the different medical products that they were forcing us to take. Because every single broadcast was sponsored and bought and paid for by Pfizer, for example. That is hugely corrupt. Only America and New Zealand do that worldwide. Everyone else in the world thinks that we're crazy for that. It's truly demonic. And so that is something that we are. Yeah, I'm glad that you're pushing Bobby on that because we need to get that done. I think we could move a little faster on that, honestly.
Charlie Kirk
Yeah, we need. We need no more pharmaceutical ads. By the way, you know how much better it will be to watch a football game without these ridiculous pharma ads that are inserted every other commercial? And without. Without their ability to buy the media, we're gonna get more honest media. And you're right. When. When they advertise, do you notice the production value is so low of these pharma ads? They don't even have celebrity endorsers. Like, they don't care. It's just like B roll of, like, people hugging in a barn because they're buying the news company. They're not trying to sell A product.
Julio Rosas
So by and large, pharma is funding the news networks basically entirely on their own. So when that crumbles and we take their ability to advertise on mainstream news away, I think we're going to see a lot of these corrupt mainstream news organizations completely crumble and go away. So we should also be very excited for that. More reliance on independent journalists out there, like Charlie.
Charlie Kirk
Yeah. And so. And then on top of that, by the way, you have super fans out there. He says, alex, marry me. You got big fans out there, Alex. Big Maha fans.
Alex Clark
So.
Charlie Kirk
And you can follow Alex Clark on social media. Is it. What is it on. What is it on social? It's like, yo, Real. Oh, no, no.
Julio Rosas
On Twitter, on X, it's yo, Alex raps with a Z. Don't judge me. I was in eighth grade and, you know, it was a plan. Yo, MTV Raps.
Charlie Kirk
That's hilarious. Other parts of maha, the childhood vaccination schedule. Are we making progress on informed consent and hepatitis B, et cetera, for moms to learn more about the childhood vaccination schedule?
Amelia
I hope.
Julio Rosas
I think with hepatitis B, that would be the one vaccine that would be very easy and universally accepted for Bobby Kennedy to come out and be like, hey, we're taking this completely off the schedule. Your brand new perfect baby does not need the Hep B vaccine. That is for somebody who's going to be exposed to prostitutes and STDs and sharing needles. So a brand new baby just by and large doesn't need that. I think most of America agrees that would be a very easy one to take off. So, yes, I'd like to see that happen.
Charlie Kirk
Now let's. Let's go deeper into the whole MAHA move. So part of it is nutrition, and then it's also pharmaceuticals, but it's also personnel. So Bobby Kennedy is trying to realign the entire federal bureaucracy to be more in the MAHA mold. And he has done a remarkable job of executing on this. What would you say are some of the other big goals for the movement in government with Bobby Kennedy at the helm?
Julio Rosas
Well, I know that we.
Charlie Kirk
Obesity is a big one.
Julio Rosas
Yeah, obesity is a big one. I would say fixing the food in our government schools. That's, by and large, I think, probably the first thing that they're tackling this year for year one. And of course, we're only, I mean, halfway through year one, we still got three more years. And I know that President Trump had a conversation with Bobby that said, hey, I need to see a significant difference in the chronic disease epidemic that Is reversing within two years. We're to going gonna have a different conversation. So far so good. I think so. I think we've got a lot more ahead of us.
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Julio Rosas
I don't know. Women in the audience. Do you care about the Epstein stuff? Yeah, I think it's actually massive. I, I was a little surprised to see everyone's kind of trying to brush this under the rug. We have been baited on this for years, told that we were going to get the information this year. They keep pushing the timeline, moving the goalpost, and then we don't have it yet. And a lot of people are asking questions because we are talking about abused children, abuse children. So people do want answers. I have tons of questions myself and things that just are not adding up at all. I don't understand, I don't understand acting like, oh, we can just move on.
Charlie Kirk
So, so why is it let's just say Maha moms. Why would you say it's massive? Explain it to a White House staffer right now. That is not as in touch with the grassroots. What is it about this story that has people so interested in it?
Julio Rosas
Sexually abused children. There is nothing more powerful politically than an angry mother. And you have angry mothers across the United States who want answers because they know that there were raped and abused children by Epstein, by his friends. If there was no list, how do you explain what Ghislaine Maxwell was doing? I don't understand what her role was. What is she in prison for? So these are things that don't add up to me. They don't add up to moms across America, and it makes them. That was also a. That was a core campaign promise that we were going to get this information, and now we're being told no. So that's ruffling feathers quite a bit.
Charlie Kirk
Yeah. And so what would you say is the feedback you're getting? Let's just synthesize it. Confusion, anger, disappointment. What would you. How would you categorize it?
Julio Rosas
They feel confused, they definitely feel gaslit, they feel lied to and they're. They're not understanding why. For months now, we've been told the list is coming. You know, you have the binder debacle, like, so there's a lot of things here that it's been, like, dangled in front of us like a carrot and then pulled away. And so, inevitably, that's going to leave people with a feeling of there's something they're not telling us. That is a dangerous feeling to let simmer and sit with a voter base, because then they're going to start focusing on that and wondering why? What else are we not being told? Is everything we're being told truthful? So it's sowing seeds of doubt in the mothers. And the mothers won you the 2024 election. Maha won us the election, by and large. I knew in young people, of course, but I knew when the Harris campaign refused to sit down with Bobby Kennedy, I knew that that was going to be a big mistake for them, if not one of the biggest. And the fact that Trump was willing to sit down with him, I think really gained us millions of female voters. So if we are trying to keep them, especially looking at the midterms, we have to take this seriously. And we cannot just say, oh, we're done talking about Epstein. Who cares about this? Aren't we moved on? That will be one of the biggest mistakes heading into midterms.
Charlie Kirk
Yeah. And let's just add on to that and just more broadly, government transparency. Talk about it also, not just from a mom standpoint, but also from a younger voter standpoint, because you talk to a lot of our younger voters. Why are younger voters also so interested in this story? What you see online, what you are consuming. Talk to a White House staffer again, that's watching this. That isn't on social media all the time.
Julio Rosas
All right, so Gen Z values more than anything, authenticity. That is why Gen Z's social media feeds are not super aesthetic and curated. And TikToks are really wild and unfiltered and kind of crazy. It's because they love authenticity. That's what they love about President Trump. So as soon as theme as, as soon as things start seeming sort of inauthentic, that's going to be a dangerous boat to rock.
Charlie Kirk
So, yeah, go deeper. But so for a young person that is hyper online, they look at this story as you tell me the truth, basically. Is that right? Yeah.
Julio Rosas
I think this is a really big opportunity to get something right. And personally, it makes me wonder, is Candace Owens right. Is Israel implicated in the files? And that's why we're not getting the files.
Charlie Kirk
And by the way, Alex is not off on some sort of separate track here. Foreign intelligence like Jeffrey Epstein, we don't know was it. We don't know if it's Mossad, is it Saudi Arabia, is it MI6? Or was he an intelligence asset for the CIA? It could be any one of those. And so you have to wonder, like, because here, here's I will die on this hill. President Trump is not in the Epstein files with anything incriminating. If he was, Joe Biden would have leaked it and he would have tried the end the campaign the way that hill. I will die on anyone that's suggesting that. And I think you all should be in agreement that way. However. However, I don't. Maybe there is some intelligence connection here. Foreign intelligence, domestic intelligence. Because I know we were told that there's a list on a desk. Right. And that we were going to get a list.
Amelia
Yeah.
Julio Rosas
So you can't tell voters we have the list. You're going to get it and then say, I don't understand why you're still talking about this. Let's move.
Charlie Kirk
Move on.
Julio Rosas
So, yeah, hopefully we get some answers. Because you guys want to know who's on the list. Right?
Charlie Kirk
Really quick, Alex, one minute remaining. What is your favorite new health hack that you want everyone to do? Is it raw milk? Fasting? Saunas? What is, what is your one health hack for the audience?
Julio Rosas
Red light therapy. Red light therapy is a game changer.
Charlie Kirk
I agree.
Julio Rosas
It will grow your hair, it will clear your skin.
Charlie Kirk
That's why I need haircuts so often is because I'm doing red light therapy. I need a haircut like every three weeks.
Julio Rosas
Because you're doing red light therapy. Charlie's doing. You're doing hyperbaric changes.
Charlie Kirk
I'm like a biohacker extraordinaire.
Amelia
Yeah.
Julio Rosas
Him and Gary Breca, they're like this.
Charlie Kirk
It's how I'm able to, you know, work for 14 hours non stop. Alex, you're the greatest. Thank you so much. Give it up for Alex Clark, everybody. We're here with the legendary congresswoman Ana Paulina Luna. Give it up for Anna. But first I want to throw to Ben Berkwam. Ben, what are we hearing? We got a minute.
Ben Berkwam
So what do you guys think? We got a young guy. How old are you?
Amelia
I'm 15.
Ben Berkwam
15 out here. What matters to you? Does this Epstein matter to you? What issues matter to you?
Amelia
Yeah, I think the Epstein matters to.
Stephen K. Bannon
Me a lot because I think the fate and the trust of the government is on the line here.
Amelia
I think President Trump should tell Pam.
Stephen K. Bannon
Bondi to do a press conference. The American people have a lot of.
Amelia
Questions and I think they need to be answered.
Charlie Kirk
Yeah.
Ben Berkwam
And should we be in there or the mainstream media?
Amelia
I think what the White House. Yeah, I think what the White House.
Stephen K. Bannon
Is doing with all this new media is great. I think the legacy media is fading. It's getting old. Nobody watches it. This new media is really great.
Ben Berkwam
And yeah, Charlie, I think too what Alex said about authenticity, I think that's so key. That's what people want, authenticity. Coming over here, young lady. What about you, Epstein? Does it matter to you?
Amelia
Yes, I think it's to super important and Trump needs to help bring light to that. Yeah.
Ben Berkwam
Will he lose his base if he doesn't?
Amelia
Yeah, I think he will. Yeah.
Charlie Kirk
Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna is here. So, Anna, you are a transparency missile, like a Tomahawk missile. What do you make of this Epstein situation?
Ana Paulina Luna
I think that the rollout has contributed to a lot of the reason why Americans have are so upset because there's so much conflicting information. And although I've exhausted all of my legislative abilities to obtain any information pertaining to Epstein, I'm going to be reaching out on behalf of the American people because this is not just a Republican based issue, it's an independent issue, it's a Democrat issue. There's an issue of trust that's been created because of how this optically looks right now. And so I'm going to be asking for information. No one wants CSAM material, no one wants victim information, but they do want to know who was involved. And I think that that's something that the administration needs to dive.
Charlie Kirk
Yeah. And so, I mean, there's. There's a lot of questions surrounding this. When you hear from voters, what is that? Would you say it's one of the top issues you've heard about in the last week?
Ana Paulina Luna
When I. Yes, most certainly last week I go online, my office is being called about it. And actually, when I initially ran for Congress, one of the top issues in my community that I represent is government transparency and ending government corruption. So this is not just, you know, a fundraising thing for me. This is a legitimate issue. And I think, you know, when you say that there's a lot of children that have been harmed, I think as a parent, it's a very serious issue. You want to make sure that people that were doing those bad things are being held accountable.
Charlie Kirk
Yeah, without a doubt. And I think that's what makes people so angry about this, that I'm here hearing from you guys, is that there's one rule of co. There's basically one standard for the elites and then a standard for us. And one of the powers of our movement was that we wanted the people to be back in charge. And I'm sorry, the fact that none of the super elite people that raped kids are in jail, but that we had January 6th prisoners that were facing years in jail, there's something deeply unsettling about that. There's something very wrong about that. Because from the best of my knowledge, did any of those billionaires that raped kids go to jail? No.
Ana Paulina Luna
And I think, though, when you don't release information, even information that might not necessarily like there is information, photos from the crime scene, all of it, all that should be out there, because when you don't talk about it, it creates a void for conspiracy theories. And the thing is, is that if you're trying to be transparent, you're trying to disprove that, then there needs to be, be total, complete transparency in regards to those topics. What I will say is that the model on how the administration rolled out jfk, massive success, there's going to be document drops on Martin Luther King soon as well. They need to do the same thing.
Charlie Kirk
For Jeffrey Epstein, and transparency needs to be the goal. You have other announcements to things you're working on. Tell us about it.
Ana Paulina Luna
Well, I can tell you that just on Friday, kudos to the CIA Director Ratcliffe. He actually released previously hidden files, and I'm talking for decades a file on a CIA operative operative known as Joe Needies, who actually had known contact with Lee Harvey Oswald prior to the assassination on jfk. And per our findings, Charlie, a lot of people are saying, well, was there success in the investigations? Most certainly what we know now for a fact is that the CIA engaged in a cover up in the assassination of John F. Kennedy. We know that according to witness testimony and also to. According from documents actually from the CIA in those document drops that the CIA rejected the lone gunman theory, that there were multiple shooters. And that in my opinion, a rogue faction of the CIA engaged in cover up of the Kennedy assassination and had contact with those that pulled the triggers. And triggers meaning both multiple shooters.
Charlie Kirk
And so when you start to look into this, I think this is one of the reasons why people are so fired up about it, is that Kennedy was one of the great violations against our own country's sovereignty by the Intel Agency agencies. Do you think Epstein had Intel Agency ties?
Ana Paulina Luna
I think when you're looking at. The Daily Mail just did a great article that came out that said he had passports with his identity and bags of diamonds. I don't know about you, Charlie, but I'm not rolling around with passports and bags of diamonds. And that does smell of intel operations. And I know that I've seen on the Internet there's been admissions that he had ties to the intel community. So look, if that's the truth there, it needs to be out there. I don't, I don't believe in covering up for things. And it's not in my job description to cover up for the. Those types of people.
Charlie Kirk
Well, God bless you for that. Anna Paulina is doing amazing work fighting on Capitol Hill. And so much of this is hidden from Congress, unfortunately.
Alex Clark
Right.
Ana Paulina Luna
Yeah, we were, I. We made multiple inquiries and didn't receive response. And I want to just also clarify too though. I'm seeing a lot of people get caught up in this. Director Patel, Dan Bongino. They can't release anything unless the DOJ gives them authorization. The press secretary is not, you know, she's not a bad person. So I see a lot of people that are angry, but they're, they're misdirecting their fire. I think.
Charlie Kirk
Well, I think that we need to. I know what the audience wants and I know what the American people deserve more than anything else. This confusion has. Unfortunately, we signed the big beautiful bill last week. No one's talking about the big beautiful bill at this conference. Right. They're all talking about this situation. Would you agree?
Ana Paulina Luna
I have gone and I've done media all morning. The only question I'm getting is on this. And so what I will say is that there is information that we are going to be asking to be released. Obviously, I think that it's creating a trust issue. And I would argue that the biggest trust issue we had prior to this was the assassination of jfk.
Charlie Kirk
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Stephen K. Bannon
It's getting crazy out there. I just got back from Los Angeles. It is getting dangerous. It's not just crazy, it's getting very, very dangerous. And it's something that I've been worrying about for a while because the issue of immigration was going to be the issue that the far left was going to mobilize to get out back out into the streets, you know, after 2020 and 2021. So we've seen Ventura county, they raided a weed farm. You know, they found unaccompanied miners working there along with other. And you see the community, the local community getting violent with the federal agents. And so it is without an exaggeration that we are in the early stages of a left wing insurrection, but like a real insurrection.
Charlie Kirk
Tell us more. What are you seeing for the audience that doesn't understand the grasp or the depth of the tenacity of left wing activists? Tell us more.
Stephen K. Bannon
Yeah, so I mean, I was in Los Angeles, Portland and Seattle, and they. So the riots in 2020, which I covered, were vast and extensive. Right. Very few people relative to the people that participated in those were held accountable. And most importantly, the left wing networks remained intact to this day, which is why they're so easily able to mobilize and get people out using social media, using group chats, and of course, distorting what's happening out there. So they are very effective in being able to mobilize people and to get them to be violent. And it doesn't take a whole lot now, these days.
Charlie Kirk
What is the one thing you've learned about these insurrectionist forces on the ground that are anti immigration enforcement that you think the grassroots should know about?
Stephen K. Bannon
Well, like I said at the beginning, they're dangerous. We're seeing now that they're targeting other undercover officers. I mean, just the other day in Los Angeles county, county, they attacked the county sheriff's department because they thought that they were ice, even though they're clearly marked as being sheriffs. So I don't necessarily have concerns. I live here. My home state is Florida. So I don't have necessarily concerns about things getting out of control here in this state. But the illegal immigrant population is spread out all across the country. And so, yes, the focus is on Los Angeles, Chicago and other sanctuary cities. But that doesn't say that there's not a other red state like Iowa or Nebraska where those same open border advocate forces can mobilize there to cause problems. So basically, you have to be prepared for anything.
Charlie Kirk
So that's Julio Rosas, everybody. So then, Jack, let me ask you. You've covered frontline riots. You've covered kind of the up. You know, let's just say the uproar that's happening in the cities, it's bad out there right now. What should our audience know about?
Alex Clark
There was a piece that ran in Axios yesterday, and I know Axios isn't exactly a right Wing site. But I want you to read this because this is something where they have Democrat congressional members on record saying this, five of them. And what are they saying? They said what we're hearing from our constituents on the issue of ICE is chilling to the bone to us. They're saying their constituents are calling, and these are left wings, Democrat liberals saying, we want blood, we want blood in the streets. They said you must, and this is Axios is not me. They said, prepare for violence. They said, you should be ready to storm Trump's White House. That's how feral and deranged they are. Because we've put them out of power, you understand? We put them out of power and they had power at every institution and every level of government. What we did with the greatest populist revolution this country has seen since 1776 was to put them completely out of power. But that doesn't mean they've gone away. So since they've lost soft power, since they've lost governmental power, now they've turned to insurrectionary power, they've turned to, to hard power, to violence, to gunshots. We've got the piece right there, you can go see it. I'm quoting directly from this Axios piece. And what did we see yesterday? The minute that ICE agents started showing up at this raid in California, they started opening fire. That was an assassination attempt on these ICE agents. And so now look, and by the way, I know everybody wants to make fun of Antifa, and I've gone in and I infiltrated Chaz and Juli was there and so many other people and all this. I know, I get it, they're weird looking, they're misshapen, they're impotent. But, but they are more willing to use violence than the right is. And they will, they will show up with guns. They're already showing up with guns. And they're using them to shoot. And I hate to say this, they're using to shoot law enforcement, they're using to shoot firefighters to go after ICE agents. And they're going to continue. And they're all across this country.
Stephen K. Bannon
They're dangerous in large numbers. That's why they like, that's how their tactics are.
Charlie Kirk
So, so then, Jack, let's, let's go a step deeper. Who is funding this? Who. Where the, where's the money coming from for this entire network?
Alex Clark
Well, Charlie, unfortunately, you know, you've got American billionaires, many cases who are involved in multinational corporations who actually benefit from the workforce of these illegal aliens or people coming in, they're Hiring them en masse. Many of this, unfortunately, worked in the agricultural sector. You see it in other labor sectors as well. Purdue gets hit on this again and again. And so when you start peeling back the layer of the, the infrastructure, the merger of this corporate power that wants the cheap labor force, which, and let's just call it what it is, folks, it's slave labor, okay? It's slave labor. And in many cases. What was Gavin Newsom yesterday? Right. Gavin Newsom comes in and says, hey, you can't use tear gas on these farms because there's children there. I said, gavin, why are there children working on the cannabis farms? Those are child slaves that were trafficked from Mexico and other parts of Latin America. That's happening on your watch. And you're trying to turn around and say that it's Trump's fault. No, Trump is the one trying to save these children with Tom Homan. And you've seen Tom Homan give interview after interview about how it emotionally affects him. And I hate to say this, folks, but there are American billionaires and corporate, just these corporate overlords that are absolutely funding these things because there are billions and billions of dollars at stake with this.
Charlie Kirk
I want to play some pieces of tape here. Let's go to cut 344. Hakeem Jeffries, one House Democrat, saying, quote.
Alex Clark
And I'll read it to you, our own base is telling us that what.
Tom Fitton
We'Re doing is not good enough.
Alex Clark
There needs to be blood to grab the attention of the press and the public.
Tom Fitton
How do you respond to that, Leader Jeffries? Are Democrats not meeting the moment, not doing enough to fight these developments?
Charlie Kirk
Well, we are in a more is more environment in terms of the unprecedented.
Tom Fitton
Assault on the American way of life.
Charlie Kirk
And our country that has been launched.
Stephen K. Bannon
By Donald Trump and compliant House Republicans.
Charlie Kirk
Jack, explain what he was saying here.
Alex Clark
So he's co signing. I don't know how else to explain this. He did not denounce it. He did not say no. He said, we have to understand. No, we don't have to understand. We have to start doing mass arrests of all of these networks, all of the people that are involved in this.
Charlie Kirk
Absolutely.
Alex Clark
Arrest the people hiring these illegals and.
Charlie Kirk
Go all the way as far up.
Alex Clark
The chain as you possibly can. And maybe, I don't know, maybe we'll see some of those names involved in these Epstein files. Who knows? But at the end of the day, this is absolutely horrific when you've got. So imagine if, I know, doing the conservative cliche, but imagine if that was Jack Posobic and Charlie Kirk. Right. Coming out and saying things like this when you had some right wing reactionaries saying that we need to go mow down people. This is sick. It's disgusting and it's going to lead to dead cops.
Charlie Kirk
Julio, do you think that there's a funding network behind all of this?
Stephen K. Bannon
Oh, absolutely.
Charlie Kirk
I mean, we need Cash Patel and Dan Bongino to cut off the money that is funding these attacks on our law enforcement immediately.
Stephen K. Bannon
Yeah.
Charlie Kirk
So why has that not been done yet?
Stephen K. Bannon
I mean, that is a question that needs to be asked. And I know that a lot of people are interested in the Epstein files and all that, but what I've been saying is that right now we are, like I said, we're in the beginning stages of a left wing insurrection. And that is a clear and present danger to not just the federal agents, but regular Americans as well.
Charlie Kirk
Yeah. No, everyone, this is important. We've been so focused on Epstein the last couple of days that we're missing that there were people pushing President Trump for amnesty. We covered that extensively on our show. And Jack, the future of America goes through its cities. If you cannot control your cities, you don't control the country.
Alex Clark
The cities are the economic engines of the United States. States of America. And I know that there's this idea that, hey, we're conservatives, we don't live in the cities. But guess what? If you lose your cities, you will lose your entire country. So at the end of the day, if our cities are out of control, then it's incumbent upon us to put them back under control. Ladies and gentlemen, we're going to take back the cities. Because it wasn't liberals that built the cities, it was us.
Charlie Kirk
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Ben Berkwam
Yeah, no, I've been covering it for years. I got these stitches in Berkeley. I've been with Julio and a lot of the guys out there from the beginning. And so for people to understand this, this is all connected. It's the same organizations, it's the same indivisible act Blue now the no kings. It's all the same apparatus as Julio was talking about. None of that has been dismantled. And one of the things going back to the Epstein list and everything we're talking about this morning, until we have equal protection under the law, until we actually have just justice against the criminals, the real insurrectionists that want to destroy this country, we don't have a country. And I think that goes back to the larger point. We need prosecutions on all of these individuals, organizations that are actually actively working to destroy our country from within. It was antifa blm. Now it's millions of illegals and jihadists that are working against our country. And so until we actually dismantle those organizations and apparatus, we don't have a country. And it all ties back to everything else. We're talking about the same people that are pushing illegals in the chambers of commerce, all of it. We've got to expose it all.
Charlie Kirk
You're the best, Ben. Stay right there. Email us Freedom. Charlie Kirk dot com. We have some breaking news about the FBI.
Alex Clark
All right folks, this is breaking news out of the FBI. Another shout out to Axios. We got Axios guy here, by the way. And listen to this, folks. FBI's Dan Bongino is clashing with AG Bondi over handling of the Epstein files. And in fact, it says that according to four sources, Bongino did not show up to work today at the FBI after this huge argument that he got into with AG Bondi. And this is what I'm hearing this now for the first Time. The dispute erupted Wednesday amid the falling out. So this has been brewing for a couple of days now. Now it's spilling out into to the media. They're saying Dan Bongino potentially could walk from the FBI over this.
Charlie Kirk
So what would you, what would that make things better? We kind of want Dan there, don't we? So we'd hate to lose him over something like this. Give me your instant analysis, Jack Posoba.
Alex Clark
Well, Charlie, my instant analysis is as a movement, right? As a movement, as a figure in the movement, as Dan is here, huge. He's been a leader in this movement, he's been an absolute champion of this movement. But he's only as strong as his word and his word is only rest on his integrity. President Trump's integrity, AG Bondi's integrity, your integrity, Charlie, my integrity, that's all we have left. And so at the end of the day, this isn't necessarily about Dan Bongino or me or any or binders. No, it's about the victims of a serial industrial level pedophile and the people who are being protected that were involved in this network. And so what I think Dan is doing is using any leverage that he has to be able to try to fight for those victims. Now, I would love, of course, if this could be handled in a manner where obviously we want Dan to be there. We want an ag there like Pam Bondi, who's going after all of the incredible things that she's doing on the ICE raids and the, the investigations and the cartels. But at the same time, this has become such a firestorm of an issue. And, and still this was promised to the American people over and over and over again.
Charlie Kirk
So, Julio, I know you've been too busy covering the insurrection in our cities, but this is a big issue, I think, on social media. Would you say this is. How primary is this amongst your audience?
Stephen K. Bannon
It's top of mind for sure. I mean, obviously when, when, when people want results, right? They want results on immigration, they want results for the economy. And this was something that the president campaigned on, you know, having more transparency. It is unfortunate that people's reaction to when that memo was, was, was reported on that. The, the reaction is, well, of course that was what was going to be the end result. We kind of, there was never really a hope that this was ever going to be seen through. And understandably, yeah, the federal government just in general just has that deficit in trust and credibility. And so I think I understand why people are so invested in this because of the crimes, the nature of the crimes that were committed.
Charlie Kirk
Ben, what is your instant reaction to the Dan Bongino news? Ben Berkwum?
Ben Berkwam
Yeah, I love Dan, but I think that's the point, to Jack's point. It's all about integrity. If, if he sees something going on there that he can't stand behind, the right move is to be loud about it or walk. And I, I respect him immensely. Same with Cash. I mean, I'm looking at these guys and I'm saying, the American people see it, we see through it. We know you guys see it. So you better do something, because if you lose that integrity, you got nothing left.
Charlie Kirk
Yeah. And so on top of that, Ben, you talk to the grassroots. For people that are just tuning in, would you say this is top of mind for most of the people here in the audience right now?
Ben Berkwam
Yeah, I mean, it's top of mind in particular because it's top in the news right now. It's one of the big things. But it's also because we've been hearing about it for so long, we understand, and it affects both sides, and that's the difference. The MAGA base, I think, really doesn't care if you're a Republican or a Democrat. If you're on that list and you were raping children, you need to be in prison, at minimum, if not executed. This is the mindset of maga. I don't care if you're a Republican or Democrat. And so all of this, it all goes back to if we don't have equal protection, if I don't trust that I'm getting the same level of constitutional rights and justice that some billionaire is getting, then I don't trust my government. And so it's bigger than just the Epstein list. It's about trusting our government. And if we don't have that, you lose all of those people, at least enough of them to make it to where you hand the country back to the Republican elite class and the Democrat elite class that drove us into this hell that we lived in under Biden.
Charlie Kirk
Final thoughts, Jack. And then Julio, really quick.
Alex Clark
At the end of the day, look, this is, this is Donald Trump's movement, all right? This is his movement. And there's been a lot of signal. There's the back, there's the fourth, and at the end of the day, this is a movement about justice for the things that the Biden administration, the Obama administration, that they did, okay? This is about things that they did. And for President Trump, he understands above all that all of these messes that by the Way, folks, he didn't have to do any of this. He did it because he cares about this country, he cares about the children, and he cares about the American people. And that's why we've got his back through thick and thin.
Charlie Kirk
Julio, final thought. 10 seconds.
Stephen K. Bannon
Yeah, I would just say that on the issue of immigration, you know, definitely don't, don't let up. There's been a lot of sob stories. There's been a lot of manipulation. I covered the border crisis the entire four years. We do not want to go back to that. I can assure you we do not want to go back to that issue because we will lose the country.
Charlie Kirk
Amen. So I think it would be great for the audience to hear from some of our top students at Turning Point usa. What are they thinking? What are they fighting for? What is it like on campus? I thought no better way to do that. With the legendary Ben Berkwam, who will walk us through it. Ben, you are surrounded by some of our superstars that are all running Turning Point USA chapters. I want everyone in the audience to know that Turning Point USA is the biggest and most important organization of the country. I know I'm biased, but what could be more important than winning over the next generation, right?
Ben Berkwam
And, and by the way, Charlie, I know you get a lot of accolades, but I've been watching you since you were a young buck like two years ago. No, I mean like, you know, when you started this thing. People don't realize how young you were when you started this.
Charlie Kirk
This.
Ben Berkwam
We've been talking a lot about Epstein, a lot about the border, a lot about these issues that really matter. This is what matters. If we don't get this right, we lose our country. My biggest fear is that the David Hogs and the communist leftists take over our country. But this gives me hope. This group of people. So tell me, student action, you guys are the leadership of Turning Point usa. Where are you from? What matter, what's your name? Where are you from? And what are the top issues for you guys?
Amelia
Yes, sir, my name is Sloan Wayman. I attend Stanford University in California. And the biggest issue that we face is definitely social. So the culture war is real. The culture war is absolutely real. And the main problem that we face is concerned conservatives being way too afraid to speak up and speak out against the loud left that is so pervasive on our campus.
Ben Berkwam
What would you say is the percentage of conservative, in particular MAGA people that are willing to speak at Stanford versus the radical leftist blue haired nut job commies?
Amelia
Very Very small percentage of people. There is actually a pretty large population of conservative students at Stanford, more than people would imagine. But many people just do not want to speak out. And so there's a small percentage of us who are proud, proud Trump supporters, proud conservatives. And we support him, we support the movement. And we need to get more people involved, more people not afraid to speak out. And that is exactly what Turning Point at Stanford is going to do. We're working on it.
Ben Berkwam
And as much of that we were just talking about Antifa and these groups as they get away with violence, that was actually, I believe, by design is to scare people into submission. So God bless you for standing up. Go from Stanford to Berkeley.
Stephen K. Bannon
That's right. My name is John Paulion and I am the president of my chapter at UC Berkeley. And I think the issue that is most important, or at least for me, that I like to focus on, is the issue of abortion, which is that we have this new upcoming movement from the left that is trying to deprive our most fundamental human life from our most vulnerable people. And so I think it's something that's very much opposing God. And we need to bring back God into our university and bring back God into our lives and into our politics.
Ben Berkwam
So to the elitist Republicans. Are you listening to that? You want to take it off the ballot? You don't want to talk about. Are you guys afraid to talk about any of these topics? That would scare off some of the people on the Republican side?
Stephen K. Bannon
In my experience, I found many, many.
Charlie Kirk
People that are afraid.
Stephen K. Bannon
But all it takes is one forthright person just stand up and hold his belief strongly and you'll rally up your base.
Amelia
There are many conservatives hiding in the.
Stephen K. Bannon
Shadows at Berkeley, too scared to speak out, but they're coming. And it's all because of Charlie Kirk. It's all because of our movement today. And we are going to make huge waves and bring God into our lives.
Ben Berkwam
Amen. Amen. I love that. That is key.
Charlie Kirk
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Ben Berkwam
Okay. Your story is incredible.
Amelia
Yes. Hi, I'm Hazel Roberts. I'm the president at Tomball High School, a high school student and one of my biggest beliefs is anti trans youth. Because as a Christian now back then When I was 13, 14 years old, I was actually a part of the community and I tried to go behind my mom's back and I tried to do all this stuff. I thought it was non binary because people were telling me I was this and I didn't get to think for myself. And whenever Jesus Christ came into my life, he changed me. He changed my beliefs to start tearing up talking about this. But my life was completely flipped. I was one from once going from a complete raging leftist and now I'm a leader at turning point in my high school. I'm one of the, I'm the most outspoken person at my high school and I'm not scared to share my beliefs. I'm not scared to share the truth of Jesus Christ and I'm not scared to share that minors should not be transitioned, that should not be allowed at all. And obviously parents having their children taken away from them in California because they won't let them get this is beyond disgraceful and it should not be allowed at all.
Charlie Kirk
So Ben, Ben, let me interview Hazel. Can you talk more about. Because it shouldn't be glossed over. You were 14, you, you thought you were trans or non binary and you were sucked into this. What were you sucked into? This happens to thousands of young girls every day across the country. Tell us more about it. And what saved you from going under that horrendous transition?
Amelia
I have to say my parents definitely saved me. My parents are the ones. They grew up, they helped me grow up in a Christian household. And yes, I did go behind their backs. And it was extremely hard because right after Covid, that's whenever all this started getting pushed onto me. I kept seeing on social media that all these people were transitioning. All these people were coming out of the closet. And for me, I just looked at that and I thought, oh yeah, I guess that's me, me. And people started pushing that on me. And I. I'm not the only one at my school that has gone through this. I've seen multiple girls saying that they're. They're coming out of the closet saying that they're different genders and then coming back. And then they're not. They're. They're. They're the true selves. They were born with XX or XY chromosome and that is it. There is no they them. There is no Z zer. There's no animal. If I identify the dragonfly or something like that, you are a girl or you're a boy. That is it. And it's all because of my parents and my parents pushing me to go to church and pushing me to go to different church camps. They are the reason why I am the way I am.
Charlie Kirk
One more question, Hazel. So, Hazel, there are moms across America, dads that are being told by their pediatricians, you must affirm your kids gender dysphoria. They are being told by their pediatricians that your kid will commit suicide if they don't. What is your blunt and direct message to parents that are being told this message from their pediatricians right now?
Amelia
Parents, all I have to say is pray. Pray and make sure that your children do go to church. Take them to church, because they will. Their lives will get changed by Jesus Christ. I know that for a fact because he has changed my life. And he has changed so many people's lives that I know. And the girls that I know that try to transition because, because of Jesus Christ coming into their lives, they were able to see a major transformation from being a left into a raging. Not a raging, but a right on the right side. And so it's amazing just to see.
Charlie Kirk
You could be raging on the right. We're a bunch of raging right wingers here, aren't we, everybody?
Amelia
Oh, yeah.
Charlie Kirk
Hazel, you have a great way about you. God bless you and everybody. We will not rest until every single gender affirming care clinic in America shut down. And those doctors are imprisoned for what they have done to our children. We will end the medical mutilation of our kids in our country. Hazel, God bless you. Thank the Lord you're not one of those people that went under the breast reduction surgery or a hysterectomy at 14. Can you believe what they do to these kids?
Ben Berkwam
Evil.
Charlie Kirk
Evil. Ben, who else do we have here, by the way?
Ben Berkwam
I just want to. This is. I just feel God's presence. Holy Spirit, we just pray for the armor of God over all of these young people in America. We, Jesus, we Invite your revolution in this nation to come back in revival across this country. And I pray you just lift them up. Give them supernatural power to stand, even when no one else is standing in Jesus name. Young young lady, tell me where you're from and what got you into this.
Amelia
So my name is Ariana Maniego, and I'm the chapter president of Turning Point USA at North Carolina State University. My most important issue is getting more black voices in the conservative movement. Because I feel like many black people have just been led. They've never really thought for themselves. They just follow their ancestors. And we're not thinking like, everyone just everyone wants to be Democrat, but they're not actually thinking, why are you Democrat?
Ben Berkwam
Like, and what. That's such a great point. What issue for you? What are the issues in the black community that you think are holding them back? And what are the issues that. The reality that woke you up?
Amelia
I would say, for one, I really liked listening to Charlie's, like, about how black families are no longer together anymore. Like, in the 60s, they were way more together than they are now. Like, black on black crime, gang violence, drugs, all of those things.
Charlie Kirk
Ben, let me interject. Let me ask. Would you agree that the black community is actually not on board for the transgender stuff? They're not on board for all this social liberal stuff. I think the black community is actually more socially conservative than some white communities are. Would you agree with that?
Amelia
I would definitely agree. I have people in my family that have conservative, conservative views but still call themselves Democrats because they think being a Republican means I'm racist. I don't care about my race. I'm whitewashed, when actually those values are what the conservative movement is about. It's not about being racist. Conservatives are not racist. I feel very comfortable around conservatives. You know, like, it's not about race. It's about.
Charlie Kirk
It's about character. It's about what's in your soul. God does not care about the color of your skin. And I hate the race obsession. Ariana, so let me ask you on campus, how are you treated as a black conservative?
Amelia
As a black conservative? Many black people on my campus look at me as whitewashed or like, I hate my race. I don't care about black people, stuff like that. They don't really. They don't like me.
Ben Berkwam
But it matters enough for you to stand up and even say that, even in the face of that.
Amelia
I have been a hardcore Republican for forever. My parents are Republican, so I've never cared about what people have thought about me.
Ben Berkwam
Charlie, what a great I mean, all of this is. Parents are such a key, good parents, teaching values and communities.
Charlie Kirk
That's why Turning Point USA matters so much. Everybody, you just heard from four students right there. And by the way, if anybody watching online, if you want to start a high school chapter or a college chapter, go to tpusa.com or if you're in the audience right now and you came to this event and you're not involved with your Turning Point chapter, literally go up the steps and start a Turning Point chapter. It's not enough just to come to an event like this and, you know, give a bunch of applause and have fun. It is about action to retake the country. Ben, who else do you have around us?
Ben Berkwam
All right, we got. We got the hat and the mustache. Let's get over here. What's your name? Where are you from?
Amelia
My name is Duke Denman.
Stephen K. Bannon
I'm the president of the Founders Classical, or I'm a president, the president of my Turning Point chapter at Founders Classical.
Charlie Kirk
Academy in Leander, Texas.
Stephen K. Bannon
So just north of Austin.
Ben Berkwam
Austin, the California of Texas.
Stephen K. Bannon
So this is Democratic Socialist Republic of Austin.
Charlie Kirk
Yeah.
Ben Berkwam
Are you seeing that shift? The big concern is if we lose Texas, we lose our country. How concerned are you about that?
Stephen K. Bannon
I think it's important that people really under that conservatives in Texas really understand who they're voting for and what they actually stand for. We see this in Texas state politics.
Charlie Kirk
A lot, where the people we elect.
Stephen K. Bannon
Into the Texas state House of Representatives or senators do not actually vote the way they tell their constituents they are going to vote. So it is very important that we look at the voting records of people that we elect, and we compare that to their campaign promises, and we primary the people who don't keep their campaign promises 100%.
Ben Berkwam
All right, mustache, come up here, brother.
Charlie Kirk
I'm Levi Hubs.
Stephen K. Bannon
I'm the Turning Point Chapter president of Oklahoma State University. And we actually hosted Charlie. We had, like, 4,000 people show up, and it was awesome. I think one of the biggest things challenging our youth is the, like, hookup culture that we have. And, oh, you get on Snapchat, you get on quick add, and you add 25 people, and you go that whole week of just going through those people, and then you do it the next week, and that's terrible for our culture.
Charlie Kirk
And talk more about that. So let's just say some of the adults in the audience. What is hookup culture? Explain.
Stephen K. Bannon
Hookup culture is literally like, you literally don't know the person you're getting in bed with. You don't know who they are. You're not going to church with this person. You're not going on a first date with this person. You're not. It's just a chivalry that it is dying. It's sad that we're not. We're losing these things. And Charlie made a good point about it earlier of what couples need to be doing to make strong relationships and build a better foundation in our country.
Charlie Kirk
And how common is that in Stillwater?
Stephen K. Bannon
Hooked up to it. It's really sad. It's just that it's almost popularized and it's cool.
Charlie Kirk
And it's not cool.
Stephen K. Bannon
It's a sad thing. And it's sad to watch our country have this toxic.
Charlie Kirk
Is it making young people happier?
Stephen K. Bannon
No, definitely not. And I think they realize that way too late. They go through two or three of these relationships and then they realize now.
Charlie Kirk
We have a problem. I shouldn't have done that.
Stephen K. Bannon
And then that's where they have their other issues.
Charlie Kirk
That's why we gotta bring God back into our country big time. Go to church. Follow what God wants for your life.
Stephen K. Bannon
100.
Charlie Kirk
Save yourself for marriage. Thank you, my friend. Thank you, Ben. Who do we have?
Ben Berkwam
All right, right here.
Amelia
Hi, my name is Elise Lockwood. I'm from Tustin in Orange County, California. Shout out St. Cecilia's mom, dad, Nikki and Adam and I go to school at California State University, Northridge. I'm a deaf studies major there. What I'm most passionate about regarding the conservative movement, I mean, I'm Catholic. That's my biggest identity point. I'm completely against abortion when it comes to those who are disabled. Approximately 26% are aborted due to hearing impairment or deafness. 70% of deaf. 70% of deaf, deafblind, deaf, disabled and hearing hard of hearing people don't have complete access to language. This is an entire group of population. This is an entire group of people that have so much dignity. The Lord, he's created. He creates us with our own dignity, our own. In his image. And the fact that these people are being aborted or don't have access to language is completely. It's terrible. It's terrible. And I believe that. Sorry. There's nothing wrong with being deaf. There's nothing wrong with being deaf. As someone who is.
Ben Berkwam
You shouldn't. You shouldn't be murdered for it.
Amelia
You should not be murdered. Nobody should be murdered for a disability or anything they can't control. We as Americans need to protect our.
Charlie Kirk
Most vulnerable, all women in the image of God. God bless you. You're Totally right.
Ben Berkwam
Hey, my name is Matthew Sosa.
Charlie Kirk
I go to Bakersfield College in California.
Ben Berkwam
And I'm shout out to the conservative part of California.
Charlie Kirk
Yeah, yeah, no, go Kern County. Something I'm super passionate about is the spiritual warfare that's going on in America. It's like, it's something we don't see, but it just interacts with everyone. It's something we see every day through either the. The leftist especially is like, through the.
Stephen K. Bannon
Trans community, the hookup culture. Everything is like Satan's lies are just seeping into our children, seeping into our schools, into church, some. Some churches.
Charlie Kirk
It's just, just. It's super sad to see that happening. But I also do believe that our generation is very starting to learn. Learn who God is, Love God, and.
Stephen K. Bannon
Just seeing what his love can do for us.
Charlie Kirk
So I'm super excited to see what next, especially next decade, what God can do through our generation. So. So, Ben, can we ask amongst the group here, how many in the group would they say amongst their friends online that are Trump voters care about the Epstein thing? Can you ask?
Ben Berkwam
Yeah, well, that. You heard it there. How many of you guys care? Is that an issue for you amongst.
Charlie Kirk
Their friends as well? Lower. Lower propensity Trump voters. We all care. We want accountability. We want to know the facts. We don't want any of the files hidden. We don't want any redactions.
Ben Berkwam
Yeah. How important is that? Authenticity and just transparency?
Stephen K. Bannon
It's very. For your generation, it's very important.
Charlie Kirk
I think the DOJ should be upfront and honest. There shouldn't be any redactions, like I said. And I hope we can find out the facts in the near future.
Ben Berkwam
And your name and what chapter?
Charlie Kirk
My name is Chase Manoogian. I volunteered with the SAC State chapter. I originally graduated from UC Irvine.
Ben Berkwam
Anyone else want to jump in on that? We got two dei.
Stephen K. Bannon
My name is Julian Cohen. I am born, raised in California. I go to college, and I did go to college last year in Minnesota, right across the river from the University of Minnesota at Augsburg. I found my own chapter there. My biggest issue is DEI and the transgenderism. If you want to, you know, when you're out and you're an adult, you want to do what you want to do, that's totally fine, but you shouldn't. We shouldn't have these things being forced into our, you know, systems, especially the military. I just enlisted back in February and I go to training in September. I'm going to go after duty after that. I want to know that the Military I'm going to serve in and the country I'm going to serve for, respects all other people, respects all their citizens and doesn't discriminate for any, any reason whatsoever. No race, no whatever. I want to know that I'm going to serve a good country and serve my people well.
Charlie Kirk
Amen. I love that. Ben. Next question, next thought. Hey, everyone. My name is Derek Smith. I'm from Jacksonville, Alabama.
Stephen K. Bannon
I'm the secretary of the Jacksonville State University chapter.
Charlie Kirk
My biggest issue is immigration. And I think we're lucky enough to have President Trump, Trump and him be so on top of it.
Alex Clark
But the issue with the left, it really makes me mad is the fact.
Charlie Kirk
That they say we should be so humane to these people who are bringing in fentanyl and tons of drugs to kill children and adults across the United States and it just can't be put up with anymore. And we have to really crack down on these drug dealers and the cartel that are making their way into our country.
Ben Berkwam
So, so top, so top issues, guys. Top three just go around. You know, we've got. We were talking about the Epstein files. We got immigration, we got the wars, we got Israel, we got all this stuff going on rapid fire. We're going around. Top three.
Amelia
The CCP in China is the biggest threat to our country.
Ben Berkwam
And it can be top one, top two, top three. Okay.
Charlie Kirk
Yes. I think we need to really bring the make America healthy again movement up front.
Stephen K. Bannon
Over half of Americans are overweight.
Charlie Kirk
A third are obese. We have kids scrolling their phone all day. They're eating processed food. They eating junk food. They're not exercising. We need to bring phys physical fitness.
Ben Berkwam
Back to America so no commies. Get people healthy.
Stephen K. Bannon
I think my top three issues are protecting kids, protecting kids and protecting kids. Protecting kids from abortion, protecting kids from transgender religion and protecting kids from woke ideology.
Ben Berkwam
We got Berkeley is on fire over here.
Tom Fitton
All right, come on.
Amelia
My top issues are definitely D chants. Not making sure that. Making sure, sure the kids are not transitioning, making sure that people are not having abortions. And then of course, I obviously have to talk about Maha and making sure that America is healthy and we're not just eating junk food and scrolling on our phones.
Charlie Kirk
My top three is making sure that the world and the children know who.
Stephen K. Bannon
Jesus is stopping abortions because it's just wrong in all the ways. And just like Maha, obviously, he's like.
Charlie Kirk
We need to get America back in a healthy.
Ben Berkwam
Like that.
Stephen K. Bannon
It's just, it would help everything.
Julio Rosas
My top issues are all with the.
Amelia
Black community getting more black fathers in the home, stopping so many abortions in the black community. Our black people have the most abortions. And getting more black people in in Catholicism as well.
Ben Berkwam
I would say yeah, we're sensing a trend here, Charlie. God is back.
Charlie Kirk
Well, and but if you talk to the Republican consulting class like Karl Rove, they say no longer don't talk about.
Ben Berkwam
Abortion, all of these issues, they would.
Charlie Kirk
Say it's a non negotiable. We are a pro life party, period. Am I right? We are a pro life party. We will not waver on that. If you can't fight for the unborn, then so be it.
Ben Berkwam
All right, we're going around.
Charlie Kirk
So my top three issues, 22nd, like I said, has to be immigration, number two, abortion. And number three, we have to keep.
Alex Clark
The United States of America, the best country in the world, like it is.
Charlie Kirk
Amen. Thanks so much for listening everybody. Email us. As always, freedom. Charliekirk.com thanks so much for listening and God bless. For more on many of these stories.
Tom Fitton
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Podcast Summary: The Charlie Kirk Show – "Live From Tampa at the Student Action Summit"
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Overview: In this high-energy episode of The Charlie Kirk Show, host Charlie Kirk convenes with key figures such as Stephen K. Bannon, Tom Fitton, and Ben Berkwam at the Student Action Summit in Tampa, Florida. The discussion revolves around pressing national issues including the Jeffrey Epstein controversy, the threat of left-wing insurrections, the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement, and the pivotal role of youth activism through Turning Point USA. The episode is peppered with passionate testimonies from students and advocates dedicated to conservative values and governmental transparency.
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Conclusion: In this episode of The Charlie Kirk Show, the focus remains steadfast on combating perceived threats from left-wing organizations, advocating for health and cultural reforms through the MAHA movement, and empowering the next generation of conservative leaders. The hosts and guests passionately argue for transparency, accountability, and the preservation of traditional values, urging listeners to take actionable steps to support and expand the conservative movement across the nation.
Disclaimer: This summary captures the key points and discussions from the provided transcript of The Charlie Kirk Show. It is intended to inform readers who have not listened to the episode and does not endorse any particular viewpoint.