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Speaker 1: Live from Phoenix, Arizona. This is America Fest. Turning Point

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Speaker 1: USA brings you the voices shaping the future of this

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Speaker 1: nation as we honor the legacy of Charlie Kirk and

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Speaker 1: ignite the next generation of American leadership featuring Vice President JD. Vans,

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Speaker 1: Erica Kirk and Revs Verry, owned Steve Bannon and Jack Psobek.

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Speaker 1: This is where faith, freedom and the America First Movement collide.

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Speaker 1: America Fest starts now.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to Turning Point usays m Fest twenty twenty five.

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Speaker 3: Y'all give it up. Who's pumped? Who is ready? I'm Boda.

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Speaker 4: This guy's a pump Yeah, I love it.

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Speaker 2: Well, I'm Bo Davidson along with Ben Berkwam, Betty Ray Harmony,

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Speaker 2: and Brian.

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Speaker 3: We are the four Bees hosting Today's.

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Speaker 4: Not that He's quad, the four Bees, but the A'squady Squad.

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Speaker 3: Hey squad. Okay, there you go.

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Speaker 2: And we were honoring Charlie Kirk's wonderful leg You see

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Speaker 2: here Amfest twenty twenty five.

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Speaker 3: It is day one. We have just begun.

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Speaker 2: Brian, you've seemed very pumped up since we've been here,

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Speaker 2: because you're noticing the energy and the crowd of all

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Speaker 2: these people lining up to go into the auditorium right now.

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Speaker 5: I said this earlier on a Thursday at one o'clock.

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Speaker 5: This place is full. I asked a question by a

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Speaker 5: show of hands, who's skipped work today to come out

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Speaker 5: to Amfest?

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Speaker 3: Raise your hand? Yeah, there go it. That's right.

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Speaker 5: Yep.

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Speaker 3: We just we just have a spike in the unemployment

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Speaker 3: rate just went up. Don't tell their work, don't tell

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Speaker 3: their faith.

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Speaker 5: And then of course kids can skip work or skipped

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Speaker 5: school to come here. But it's fired up. It's so

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Speaker 5: early on Thursday, but yeah, we have a big crowd.

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Speaker 6: It's great.

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Speaker 3: And Benny, you were new to the RAF family.

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Speaker 2: We welcome you so delightfully because you're a wonderful lady

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Speaker 2: with wonderful professional experience. You've been covering Congress, you've been

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Speaker 2: covering the White House, You've been doing so much right

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Speaker 2: off the bat. Tell us what it's meant to you

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Speaker 2: to come to turning point now working for RAB and

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Speaker 2: covering the greatest president of lifetime, for sure, but just

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Speaker 2: what it's meant to you over the course of your career,

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Speaker 2: what recently happened with you and certain in terms of

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Speaker 2: honoring Charlie Kirk getting castigated for that and then now

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Speaker 2: come in here.

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Speaker 7: Well, it's funny because I wouldn't be at RAB if

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Speaker 7: it wasn't for Charlie. Because if I wouldn't have went

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Speaker 7: on my show that day and did a tribute and

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Speaker 7: showed his face and cried ugly pride on television, I

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Speaker 7: would not be standing here with Real America's Voice.

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Speaker 8: But it's just it's super special.

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Speaker 7: And getting to be in DC with Brian and his

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Speaker 7: intelligence and just the experience that he's his pride with

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Speaker 7: the political sphere. You know, I went from working in

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Speaker 7: a congressional office with Matt Gates and Paul Gosar to

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Speaker 7: now being on the media side of things, and it's

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Speaker 7: a lot different. But getting to carry on Charlie's legacy

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Speaker 7: with Real America's Voice, with the network that gave him

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Speaker 7: a platform, with the network that gives us all a platform,

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Speaker 7: it's just exceptional.

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Speaker 2: And then we haven't heard any any speaker speak tonight yet,

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Speaker 2: but we're gonna have Erica Kirk, We're gonna have Ben Shapiro,

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Speaker 2: Russell Brand, Michael Knowles, Tucker Carlson. This is the first

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Speaker 2: MFS without Charlie, so what's the tenor going to be? Like,

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Speaker 2: what do you expect speakers to speak about?

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Speaker 4: Well, you know, that's the big unknown. I mean, all

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Speaker 4: of this coming into this is that sense of cautious optimism,

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Speaker 4: unknown uncertainty.

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Speaker 3: Where do we go from here?

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Speaker 4: And in particular with all of the crazy infighting and

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Speaker 4: things attacks that have been coming from some outside, you're

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Speaker 4: looking at that saying Okay, what are we going to hear?

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Speaker 4: And I can't tell you, I mean honestly.

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Speaker 3: Until until we actually see it.

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Speaker 4: I think obviously we're there's gonna be a message of

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Speaker 4: some sort of unity coming together.

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Speaker 3: But I also think there's people that.

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Speaker 4: Have legitimate questions. And I mean that goes back to

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Speaker 4: still where people say, Okay, we voted for this, we

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Speaker 4: all of that. How do we get to where we're getting?

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Speaker 4: And these are the two things I want. Mass deportations

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Speaker 4: and mass prosecutions against the enemies of our with within

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Brian, what are some things that you hope to

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Speaker 2: hear from the massive speakers this weekend, because it could

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Speaker 2: be anything. It could be remembrance, it could be legacy,

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Speaker 2: could be where do we go from here? It's next generation.

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Speaker 2: You've already seen how young some of the people are here. Yeah, well,

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Speaker 2: what do you hope comes out of these next four days?

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Speaker 5: I think we're gonna build upon what Charlie left for

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Speaker 5: his entire organization to push forward, is to inspire a

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Speaker 5: generation of young leaders to take the torch and move

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Speaker 5: it on. You know, if you've got the boomers moving out,

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Speaker 5: I'm almost right behind the Browmers and away all right,

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Speaker 5: But there's a new generation coming up, and I think

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Speaker 5: that as long as you know, we continue that conservative torch,

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Speaker 5: that faith, family, God, that's what's important.

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Speaker 3: And we want to remember Charlie.

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Speaker 5: He would want us here to talk about the moments

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Speaker 5: that we've had.

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Speaker 3: I remember I.

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Speaker 5: Need to share this earlier, but on the twenty twenty election,

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Speaker 5: the election day in twenty twenty, I was in Grand Rapids, Michigan,

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Speaker 5: sitting at a hotel getting ready to fly back to Dallas, Texas.

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Speaker 5: He walked by me and said, Charlie, what do you

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Speaker 5: think is gonna happen tonight. He goes, well, we'll win

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Speaker 5: the selection if they don't steal it. Loan behold, that's

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Speaker 5: exactly what happened. But it's it's he was so insightful

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Speaker 3: That's why he went, Hey, we got some olen states.

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Speaker 1: We do.

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Speaker 3: We've got Pastor John Amonshuku.

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Speaker 9: Let's take a look in thankful unholy without natural affection,

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Speaker 9: truth breakers, false accusers, incontinent fears, despises of those that

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Speaker 9: are good traders, heady, high minded, lovers of pleasure more

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Speaker 9: than lovers of God, having a form of godliness, but

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Speaker 9: denying the power thereof from such turn away, Lord, we

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Speaker 9: turn away from the culture, but we turn towards You.

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Speaker 6: We turn away from fear, but we turn.

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Speaker 9: Towards the power of the whole Spirit and God. We

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Speaker 9: turn our hearts in this moment towards you, because we

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Speaker 9: need your help. You are the God of Charlie Kirk.

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Speaker 9: You are the God of Erica Kirk, and God, we

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Speaker 9: pray that you would place a hedge of protection upon Erica,

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Speaker 9: that you would place a hedge of protection upon her children,

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Speaker 9: that you would place a hedge of protection upon turning

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Speaker 9: point us shame. God, we prayed that you would get

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Speaker 9: the glory out of every talk, out of every message,

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Speaker 9: out of every sermon this week, God, we know that

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Speaker 9: America is in need of you. Your word says that

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Speaker 9: righteousness exhausination, but sin is a reproach towards any people. God,

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Speaker 9: we turn towards you because we need your help.

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Speaker 8: The Lord.

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Speaker 9: We want to pick up the microphone, but help us

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Speaker 9: to pick up your word first. Help us to pick

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Speaker 9: up the anointing versho. Help us to pick up a

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Speaker 9: relationship with you first, so that when we get the

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Speaker 9: mic we will know what you want us to shame

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Speaker 9: in a day like today. Lord, you are the God

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Speaker 9: of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Lord, you are the God

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Speaker 9: that goes before us, and your word tells us to

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Speaker 9: pray for the peace of Israel, for they will prosper

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Speaker 9: that love thee God, Your word is right and your

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Speaker 9: word is true. So our next I set out tonight

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Speaker 9: and expecting you to do great and mighty things, and

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Speaker 9: we give you honor them because you are God, and

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Speaker 9: that there's no name under Heaven given among men wherebow

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Speaker 9: we must be saved. But at the name of Jesus,

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Speaker 9: every nie shall bound, every talk shall confess that Jesus

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Speaker 9: is Lord in Jesus' name. Brave amen, come on and

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Speaker 9: help me lift up the name up Treesus on tonight?

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Speaker 10: Would you please remain standing for the national anthem?

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Speaker 11: Oh say, can you see by the toms.

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Speaker 12: Food the light?

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Speaker 11: What's so proudly we heard? Are the twilights last week?

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Speaker 8: Who's brought stripes?

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Speaker 11: Handwrite stars through the pervers fight for the run by

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Speaker 11: sweet watch? Was Catree Street thing and the rock cats

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Speaker 8: Brood through the night that our plac was to per.

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Speaker 11: Who say dotar spangled Bannet or the.

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Speaker 11: And the horri.

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Speaker 13: In life, you will realize the more rewarding thing to

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Speaker 13: do might be the more difficult thing to do. That

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Speaker 13: is a guaranteed way that you will experience opposition.

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Speaker 12: The most important question is not whether it is easy

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Speaker 12: or not. Is it worth it? And the more often

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Speaker 12: you choose the deep the difficult, but the right path.

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Speaker 13: Over the easy path is one that will reward you,

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Speaker 13: your family and this beautiful nation.

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Speaker 14: He fell believing America was worth dying for.

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Speaker 12: And for two hundred and fifty.

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Speaker 14: Years, our history has been written by those who stood

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Speaker 13: We are in a spiritual war everybody that is beyond

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Speaker 13: just the material that we are seeing. This country was

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Speaker 13: founded by courageous Bible believing Christians Jeremiah twenty nine seven.

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Speaker 13: Seek the welfare of the nation that you are in,

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Speaker 13: because your welfare is tid it's your nation's welfare. What

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Speaker 13: makes this movement different is that you are here as

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Speaker 13: a grassroots response to the top down revolution happening in

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Speaker 13: this country. Disobedience the tyrants is obedience to God, because

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Speaker 13: liberty is not.

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Speaker 12: Man's idea, it is God's idea.

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Speaker 13: Will the people who are the sovereign in this country

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Speaker 13: do everything they possibly can't with.

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Speaker 12: This incredible blessing? Give it to us by God to

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Speaker 12: to peach?

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Speaker 8: You and I have the courage to say to our enemies,

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Speaker 8: there is a price we will not pay.

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Speaker 12: There is a point beyond which they must not advance.

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Speaker 13: When Turning Point USA was started, I could not have

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Speaker 13: imagined what God had in store for this organization. My

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Speaker 13: political journey was in the midst of the Obama craze

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Speaker 13: in Chicago. As someone who was generally conservative, I realized

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Speaker 13: this generation millennials is going to be the most progressive

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Speaker 13: We're acting in about fifteen campuses and we're growing very

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Speaker 13: very quickly.

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Speaker 12: And keep in mind, this is not just a flash

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Speaker 13: We're going to become an institution to give them the

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Speaker 13: power and the confidence to stay up and let their

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Speaker 13: traveling the country doing this pure grit, peer energy. We

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Speaker 13: are an organization committed to ideas and to principles, not

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Speaker 12: Parties or politicians.

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Speaker 13: We are in a generational battle right now that the

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Speaker 13: stakes could not be hunted, and the experiment and the

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Speaker 12: Rule is over, the martyr dies in his rule has

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Speaker 12: We have only begun to fight.

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Speaker 13: A lot of this could be done without me and

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Speaker 16: And Charlie always said the next generation will decide whether

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Speaker 16: This is a full Circle moment for me. Two years ago,

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Speaker 16: so many ways to get involved. That's why Charlie built

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Speaker 16: Turning Point USA the way he did. He didn't care

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Speaker 16: your race, your age, your background. If Charlie listened to

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Speaker 16: every single person that told him you're too young to

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Speaker 16: make a difference, you don't have enough connections, you're not

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Speaker 16: going to do it, he would have let that noise

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Speaker 16: consume him, and he would not have built the machine

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Speaker 16: that he has built today. So don't you dare let

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Speaker 16: anyone tell you you're too young, you're not smart enough, and.

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Speaker 6: You're not connected enough.

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Speaker 16: As long as you're a part of Turning Point usay,

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Speaker 16: we will empower you and give whatever you need to

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Speaker 16: be able to make that come to life. Okay, Charlie

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Speaker 16: wasn't just a speaker, He wasn't just a political thinker.

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Speaker 16: He wasn't just a thought leader again. He was a bridge,

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Speaker 16: He was a pathway. He was a connection point to generations.

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Speaker 16: He was a pathway and connection point communication to inner politics.

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Speaker 16: And he also looked at a generation that has been mocked,

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Speaker 16: that has been dismissed, that has been discouraged, and told

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Speaker 16: them you matter, your ideas matter, your decisions matter. And

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Speaker 16: he would say this country is still worth defending and

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Speaker 16: still worth sacrificing for. So, like all of you, this

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Speaker 16: is our turning point as well, especially as we move

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Speaker 16: into twenty twenty six.

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Speaker 6: And I want to share with you off this paper.

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Speaker 16: I'm not going to wing at this one because I

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Speaker 16: want all of you guys to absorb the magnitude of

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Speaker 16: these numbers. The number of student requests to get involved

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Speaker 16: since nine ten, One hundred and forty thousand plus get

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Speaker 16: involved request have been submitted since nine ten, one hundred

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Speaker 16: and forty thousand.

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Speaker 6: Total number of students involved this is involved within Turning

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Speaker 6: Point USA. One million plus students involved in Turning Point US.

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Speaker 16: Current chapter numbers as of December eighteenth, twenty twenty five,

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Speaker 16: three thousand and eighty two Club.

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Speaker 6: America Chapters.

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Speaker 16: One thousand, four hundred and thirty two college chapters, So

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Speaker 16: that leaves four thousand, five hundred and fourteen total chapters

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Speaker 16: as of today, and we are starting fifty chapters per

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Speaker 16: day at turning Point USA.

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Speaker 6: It's amaza.

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Speaker 16: Something I also love right now is how we are

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Speaker 16: getting some amazing state partnerships with Club America.

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Speaker 6: I want to give a huge shout out to Oklahoma.

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Speaker 16: Oklahoma's in the house, Florida, Indiana, Texas of course, and Tennessee.

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Speaker 16: Another turning point for us for twenty twenty six is

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Speaker 16: the Make Heaven Crowded Tour, something I'm very excited about

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Speaker 16: for those of you who attended the memorial service, that

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Speaker 16: revival is a slice of Heaven that I'm going to

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Speaker 16: make sure we take around this whole entire country. So

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Speaker 16: we have different tour stops that are going to be

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Speaker 16: coming up that I want you guys to be aware of.

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Speaker 16: Feel free to take a picture whenever they put it

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Speaker 16: up there, But if you're in any of these cities

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Speaker 16: we are bringing that to you. It's going to be amazing.

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Speaker 6: God is so good. God is so good.

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Speaker 16: I also want to note that our church partnership, since

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Speaker 16: nine ten, we have over eight thousand church partnerships and counting.

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Speaker 16: This one's very special to me. Charlie's love for debate

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Speaker 16: will always be the DNA of Turning Point USA. We

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Speaker 16: believe in debate because we believe in truth, and we

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Speaker 16: believe in civil discourse because we believe that truth.

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Speaker 6: Can withstand scrutiny.

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Speaker 16: So that is why we will be launching the Pick

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Speaker 16: Up the Mic initiative and getting back on campus for

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Speaker 16: Prove Me Wrongs and campus tour events this spring and

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Speaker 16: fall of twenty twenty six. I'm also really excited about

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Speaker 16: everything that we're doing at Turning Point Action.

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Speaker 6: We are logged in.

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Speaker 16: And mission focused for both to six and twenty twenty eight.

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Speaker 16: We're investing in states and not just in races. So

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Speaker 16: what I mean by that is we are building the

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Speaker 16: Red Wall Arizona, Nevada, New Hampshire.

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Speaker 6: That's going to be very important to us.

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Speaker 16: We're going to ensure that President Trump has Congress for

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Speaker 16: all four years. We are going to get my husband's

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Speaker 16: friend JD Vance elected for forty eight and the most

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Speaker 16: resoundinglycostable and for our hometown Arizona. Folks, are you guys

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Speaker 16: in the house, Arizona, Go bigs or go home?

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Speaker 6: Is where we're at right now mentally.

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Speaker 16: But my husband didn't build this movement so people could

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Speaker 16: feel comfortable. He built this movement so people could feel

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Speaker 16: brave and to be brave with action, so people could

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Speaker 16: see on full display that when you stop talking to people,

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Speaker 16: especially those that you disagree with, you are the one

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Speaker 16: that actually becomes weaker.

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Speaker 6: Let that sink in.

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Speaker 16: So you may not agree with everyone on this stage

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Speaker 16: this weekend, and that's okay, Welcome to America.

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Speaker 6: Charlie would have welcomed that. He believed disagreement was something

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Speaker 6: not to be canceled. It was something to.

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Speaker 16: Confront with clarity, courage, and grace. And Charlie loved truth

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Speaker 16: way more than conformity. So this weekend for me personally

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Speaker 16: is laced with nostalgia and it's.

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Speaker 6: Laced with hope.

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Speaker 16: But deeper than that, it's about carrying forward what Charlie

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Speaker 16: built and ultimately what he gave his life for. And

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Speaker 16: I've said it before and I'll say it again. The

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Speaker 16: mission didn't end with Charlie's life. It's being lived out

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Speaker 16: through each and every one of you in your own way. Again,

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Speaker 16: it doesn't matter, your age doesn't matter, your race doesn't matter.

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Speaker 6: Your background.

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Speaker 16: Amfest is not about echo chambers. It's very important to

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Speaker 16: know that because it's about sharpening one another. It's about

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Speaker 16: digging deeper into ideas instead of retreating into slogans, and

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Speaker 16: it's about remembering that freedom requires responsibility and truth requires courage.

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Speaker 6: So my challenge to you this weekend is very simple.

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Speaker 6: Just attend Amfest. Let it mark you, let it stretch you, Let.

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Speaker 16: It challenge assumptions, strengthen convictions, and maybe even make you

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Speaker 16: a little uncomfortable, because that's where growth happens in those moments.

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Speaker 16: Let it be another turning point in your life, another

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Speaker 16: moment where you decide not to drift, not to disengage,

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Speaker 16: not to give into cynicism, but to stand up boldly,

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Speaker 16: to be brave, to speak clearly, because.

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Speaker 6: That is how we are going to honor Charlie. We

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Speaker 6: are going to honor him not just with words, but

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Speaker 6: with action. So with that, welcome to Amfast. How about you, guys.

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Speaker 6: Mhm h.

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Speaker 12: M m.

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Speaker 8: Well, I couldn't be more excited to be here today.

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Speaker 8: The Golden Age of America is just in the beginning.

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Speaker 8: I really believe that America right now is divide it

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Speaker 8: between what I like to call the lions and the scavengers.

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Speaker 8: Lions are people who want to build.

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Speaker 12: Things, people who are productive.

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Speaker 8: The scavengers believe that if you fail, it's probably somebody

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Speaker 8: else's fault. Donald Trump and the American people are about

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Speaker 8: to make our economy dynamic again. Free markets our merit.

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Speaker 8: Free markets are justice. Free markets are innovation, and they

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Speaker 8: are dynamism. How do we retain the momentum? And the

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Speaker 8: answer is we do the right things. The future of

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Speaker 8: the country is not just President Trump. The future of

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Speaker 8: the country is in this room, these young people here.

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Speaker 8: It's the people who are in the audience. The future

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Speaker 8: of the country is beginning right now.

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Speaker 15: Ladies and gentlemen there, Ben shapirokay.

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Speaker 8: Thank you so much, Thank you so much. It's obviously

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Speaker 8: a massive honor to be here at Turning Point USA.

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Speaker 8: It's even more of an honor to follow Erica Kirk,

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Speaker 8: a heroic figure and a true American patriot. I really

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Speaker 8: believe that the best way to judge a goodness of

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Speaker 8: a man is to see the goodness of his wife

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Speaker 8: and his children, and on that measure, Charlie was unsurpassed.

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Speaker 8: Erica and her children are in all of our hearts,

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Speaker 8: and of course this is an incredibly bittersweet moment. It's

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Speaker 8: absolutely bitter because of the murder of our friend Charlie Kirk,

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Speaker 8: an irreplaceable human being. I knew Charlie from the time

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Speaker 8: who was eighteen years old, and I watched him build

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Speaker 8: himself into one of the most powerful exponents of conservatism

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Speaker 8: in America, one of the most powerful coalition builders in

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Speaker 8: American history. But it's also sweet to see the number

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Speaker 8: of people who continue to remember Charlie each and every

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Speaker 8: day to carry on his mission. Well, today, I want

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Speaker 8: to talk about the future of the country, and the

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Speaker 8: future of this country, this amazing country relies on the

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Speaker 8: future of the conservative movement. It relies on what TPUSA

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Speaker 8: defines as its core mission, freedom, free markets, and limited government.

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Speaker 8: And most of all, most of all, the future of

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Speaker 8: this country relies on truth. This country relies on truth

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Speaker 8: because victory, true, real, lasting victory cannot be achieved without truth.

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Speaker 8: Victory without truth is victory for a lie, and that

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Speaker 8: is no victory at all. And unity without truth is

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Speaker 8: no unity. It is merely solidarity and falsehood. You see,

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Speaker 8: we live in a chaotic time and a time when

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Speaker 8: lots of people are asking lots of legitimate questions about

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Speaker 8: the conservative movement. What ought we to think about the

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Speaker 8: relationship between free markets and traditional virtue. How should we

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Speaker 8: craft a pragmatic foreign policy that spreads our interests and

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Speaker 8: upholds our ideals. What governmental means are appropriate to achieve

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Speaker 8: political ends. All these questions aren't new, of course, They've

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Speaker 8: been asked for as long as human beings have been

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Speaker 8: talking about politics thousands of years. And over the course

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Speaker 8: of this conference you'll hear a lot of opinions on

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Speaker 8: a lot of these questions. I have my own perspectives

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Speaker 8: on them, of course, you can hear them every single

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Speaker 8: day on my show. My fundamental values have been the

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Speaker 8: same for twenty five years. Peace through strength on foreign policy,

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Speaker 8: traditional values on social policy, free markets with regards to economics.

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Speaker 8: But today I want to talk about something even more important.

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Speaker 8: How to discern those attempting to speak truth from frauds

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Speaker 8: and grifters. Because something is new, an informational environment rife

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Speaker 8: with both opportunity and chaos. Opportunity because the legacy media

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Speaker 8: gatekeepers are no longer in charge of what we see

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Speaker 8: and what we hear. And chaos because an anarchic informational

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Speaker 8: environment means we actually have to be smart in how

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Speaker 8: we assess the information and arguments that we hear. Why

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Speaker 8: does that matter well, because today the conservative movement is

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Speaker 8: in serious danger. It is in danger not just from

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Speaker 8: a left that all too frequently excuses everything up to

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Speaker 8: and including murder. The conservative movement is also in danger

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Speaker 8: from Charlatans who claim to speak in the name of

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Speaker 8: principle but actually traffic in conspiracism and dishonesty, who offer

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Speaker 8: nothing but bile and despair, who seek to undermine fundamental

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Speaker 8: principles of conservatism by championing enervation and grievance. These people

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00:45:53,520 --> 00:45:55,440
Speaker 8: are frauds, and they are grifters, and they do not

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Speaker 8: deserve your time. And they are something worse than that,

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Speaker 8: a danger to the the only movement capable of stopping

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Speaker 8: the left from wrecking the country wholesale. So today I

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Speaker 8: want to discuss five obligations that people who speak to

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Speaker 8: you on matters of importance have to you. I want

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Speaker 8: to speak to you about our duties. Our first duty

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Speaker 8: is truth. We owe you the truth. That means we

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Speaker 8: should not mislead you. It means we shouldn't hide the ball.

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Speaker 8: We shouldn't be deliberately obscure about what we're telling you.

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Speaker 8: We have an obligation to clarity and to honesty. This

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Speaker 8: means that we actually have to be clear in the

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Speaker 8: language that we use. We should not traffic in generality.

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Speaker 8: We should not say things like they shot Charlie without

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Speaker 8: specifying whom we mean by they. The person who allegedly

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Speaker 8: shot Charlie Kirk and whom all the evidence points at

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Speaker 8: all of it is a gay, trans loving furry. If

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Speaker 8: we are going to target ideological movements, we should talk

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Speaker 8: about the fact that the radical trans movement treats all

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Speaker 8: those who oppose it as existential threats, or if we're

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Speaker 8: going to talk about the Democratic Party making room for

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Speaker 8: the radical trans movement and echoing its inflammatory rhetoric, while

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Speaker 8: we should talk about that those are specific problems and

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Speaker 8: that require specific responses. When people say they shot Charlie, however,

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Speaker 8: they are instead trafficking in vagary that results in increased

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Speaker 8: hatred without proposing any effective response. They are fostering to

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Speaker 8: spare and rage, and that makes things worse. We must

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Speaker 8: also be honest about what people say and do, regardless

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Speaker 8: of what that means. Coalitionally, it is the job of

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Speaker 8: politicians to build coalitions. It's the job of those of

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Speaker 8: us who try to shape public opinion to hold politicians

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Speaker 8: to account and to hold them accountable to our values.

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Speaker 8: We must not let fear of audience deter us from

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Speaker 8: telling the truth. We must not let fear of other

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Speaker 8: hosts deter us from telling the truth. So, for example,

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Speaker 8: if Candace Owens decides to spend every day since the

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Speaker 8: murder of Charlie Kirk. So if Candace Owens decides to

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Speaker 8: spend every day since the murder of Charlie Kirk casting

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Speaker 8: aspersions at TPUSA and the people who work here who

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00:48:28,200 --> 00:48:31,040
Speaker 8: worked with Charlie every single day, his best friends, to

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Speaker 8: cast aspersions at Mikey McCoy and Andrew Colvin and Blake

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Speaker 8: Neff and Tyler Boyer and yes at Erica Kirk, and

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Speaker 8: to imply or outright claim complicity in a cover up

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Speaker 8: over Charlie's murder, to spew absolutely baseless trash implicating everyone

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Speaker 8: from French intelligence to Masad to members of TPUSA in

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Speaker 8: Charlie's murder or a cover up in that murder, then we,

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Speaker 8: as people with a microphone, have a moral obligation to

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Speaker 8: call that out by name Erica Kirk and TPUSA. Never

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Speaker 8: never should have put, never should have been put in

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Speaker 8: the position to have to defend themselves against such su

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Speaker 8: specious and evil attacks, particularly in a time of morning.

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Speaker 8: And the people who refuse to condemn Candace's truly vicious attacks,

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Speaker 8: and some of them are speaking here, are guilty of cowardice, Yes, cowardice.

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Speaker 8: The fact that they have said nothing will Candace has

691
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Speaker 8: been vomiting all sorts of hideous and conspiratorial nonsense into

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Speaker 8: the public square for years is just as cowardly. Second,

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Speaker 8: because we owe you the truth, we owe you the

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Speaker 8: duty to speak out of not personal feeling. It should

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Speaker 8: not matter whether we despise someone or whether we love someone.

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Speaker 8: The question is what they say and what they do,

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Speaker 8: and whether those things are morally decent or not. On

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Speaker 8: a political level, do they foster freedom, justice and prosperity.

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Speaker 8: On a personal level, do they treat others as they

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Speaker 8: would wish to be treated. Personal feeling is not a

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Speaker 8: substitute for moral judgment. To take again, the Candade's own

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Speaker 8: situation as an example. Friendship with public figures who say

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Speaker 8: or do evil things is not an excuse for silence

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Speaker 8: on the matter. Politics is not the sisterhood of the

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Speaker 8: traveling Pants. Politics is about principle, and if you are

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Speaker 8: willing to sacrifice basic truth and simple principle in favor

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Speaker 8: of emotional solidarity, you have betrayed your fundamental duty to

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Speaker 8: the American people. First off, I should break the omerita

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Speaker 8: here and just be a little bit clear. The notion

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Speaker 8: that people in our industry are close friends, like we

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Speaker 8: all take holiday breaks with each other and go to

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Speaker 8: each other's kids graduations and stuff, is generally untrue. Some

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Speaker 8: people do that, most of us don't. We see each

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Speaker 8: other conferences, and we talk on the phone and all

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Speaker 8: the rest. We're business colleagues. But even if it were

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Speaker 8: true that other public figures were our best friends, our

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Speaker 8: very best friends, that does not relieve us of our

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Speaker 8: duty to speak out of principle and not to cover

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Speaker 8: up evil or shy away from addressing it out of friendship.

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Speaker 8: So no, Tucker Carlson, it is not an excuse to

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Speaker 8: go silent on Candace's targeting of TPUSA or to mirror

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Speaker 8: her bullshit lines of questioning because you love Candace personally.

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Speaker 8: The same holds true of Megan Kelly, a person I

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Speaker 8: consider a friend characterizing Candace as a young mother and

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Speaker 8: thus shying away from condemning her actions or feeling about them.

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Speaker 8: That is a non starter. Megan Markle is a young mother.

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Speaker 8: Ilhan Omar is a young mother. That doesn't matter. And

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Speaker 8: when Megan said this week quote, my goal and my

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Speaker 8: job here is to try to understand, yes, where Candace

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Speaker 8: is coming from on this and says she sees no

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Speaker 8: purpose in inserting herself quote into this. On one side,

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Speaker 8: that is a moral and logical absurdity. There is only

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Speaker 8: one moral side here, Erica Kirk's side, you know, the

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Speaker 8: side of the widow with two children whose husband was

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Speaker 8: shot live on camera in front of all of us.

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Speaker 8: Friendship with the person accusing TPUSA of a cover up

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Speaker 8: of Charlie's murder is no excuse for cowardice. Third, and relatedly,

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Speaker 8: we have a duty to take responsibility for what we

739
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Speaker 8: say and do if we hire awful people responsible for that.

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Speaker 8: I have some experience there, as you might suspect. That

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Speaker 8: means that if we offer a guest for your viewing,

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Speaker 8: we owe it to you to ask the kinds of

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Speaker 8: questions that actually get at the truth. If we agree

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Speaker 8: with the guests, that's fine. But we should own it. So,

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Speaker 8: for example, if you host a Hitler apologist, Nazi loving

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Speaker 8: anti American piece of refuse like Nick Flentes. You know,

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Speaker 8: the Nick Flentes who said that the Vice President of

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Speaker 8: the United States is a quote fat, gay race trader

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Speaker 8: married to a jeet. The person who said that Charlie

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Speaker 8: Kirk was a quote retarded idiot. The person who said,

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Speaker 8: and pardon my language here, it's his quote that he quotes,

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Speaker 8: took turning point USA and fucked it. And that's why

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Speaker 8: it's filled with Graper's. If you have that person on

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Speaker 8: your show and you proceed to blaze him, you ought

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Speaker 8: to own it. There is a reason that Charlie Kirk

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Speaker 8: despised at Nick Flintes, and indeed even chied into Nashkusuza

757
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Speaker 8: for debating him. He knew that Nick Flentes is in

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Speaker 8: evil troll and that building him up is an act

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Speaker 8: of moral imbecility. And that is precisely what Tucker Carlson did.

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Speaker 8: He built Nick Flintes up, and he ought to take

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Speaker 8: responsibility for that, just as he ought to take responsibility

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Speaker 8: for glazing pornographer and alleged sex trafficker Andrew Tate or

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Speaker 8: for mainstreaming fake historian and pseudo Nazi apologist Darryl Cooper

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Speaker 8: as America's best and most honest popular historian. Hosts are

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Speaker 8: indeed responsible for the guests they choose and the questions

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Speaker 8: they ask those guests. Fourth, because we have a duty

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Speaker 8: to truth, we also have a duty to provide you

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Speaker 8: with evidence of the claims that we make. Emotive accusations,

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Speaker 8: can s piracy theories, and just asking questions. That's lazy

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Speaker 8: and stupid and misleading. None of them are a substitute

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Speaker 8: for truth. None of them are a substitute for evidence.

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Speaker 8: So when Candice Owen says I don't know no, but

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Speaker 8: I know that is retarded and we are all more

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Speaker 8: retarded for having heard it. When Steve Bannon, for example,

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Speaker 8: accuses his foreign policy opponents of loyalty to a foreign country,

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Speaker 8: he's not actually making an argument based in evidence. He's

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Speaker 8: simply maligning people that he disagrees with, which is indeed

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Speaker 8: par for the course from a man who is wants

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Speaker 8: a pr flag for Jeffrey Epstein check the record. Our

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Speaker 8: duty to provide you evidence means we actually have to

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Speaker 8: do much more than just ask questions. Just asking questions

782
00:55:57,080 --> 00:55:59,200
Speaker 8: is something my five year old does, and it's really

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Speaker 8: cute when it comes from my five year old. But

784
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Speaker 8: when grown men and women spend their days just asking

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Speaker 8: questions without you know, seeking answers, they are lying to you.

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Speaker 8: In fact, they're doing something even worse. They are seeding

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Speaker 8: distrust in the world around you, and they are enervating

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Speaker 8: you in the process. So, for example, if many speakers,

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Speaker 8: including Tucker Carlson and others, get on stage here at

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Speaker 8: TPUSA and claim without proper evidence that Jeffrey Epstein was

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Speaker 8: running a Masad rape ring being covered up by the

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Speaker 8: Trump administration, they are not actually uncovering a conspiracy or

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Speaker 8: effectuating a solution. They are claiming a special providence to

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Speaker 8: information they won't let you see, which builds their power

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Speaker 8: and leaves you with none. They are also implicating in

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Speaker 8: their speculation actual human beings, good human beings like Cash

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Speaker 8: Patel and Dan Bongino and Pambondi and yes, the President

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Speaker 8: of the United States, even if they're too cowardly to

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Speaker 8: say President Trump's name, and that means you won't trust

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Speaker 8: those good people in the future. You haven't gotten smarter,

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Speaker 8: You've just beenulated. When forced to demonstrate their evidence, these

802
00:57:03,000 --> 00:57:06,120
Speaker 8: same people will often refuse to provide it. They'll claim ignorance,

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Speaker 8: they'll pretend they're outside the system and they don't have

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Speaker 8: access to actual information. You know, they're just asking questions.

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Speaker 8: But many of these same people have direct pipelines to

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Speaker 8: informational sources. So, for example, if Tucker wants answers to

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Speaker 8: his questions about, say, Jeffrey Epstein, he could call the

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Speaker 8: Vice President of the United States, he's quite close with him.

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Speaker 8: But he won't because that might undermine the empty speculation.

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Speaker 8: None of this means there aren't actual, real conspiracies in

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Speaker 8: the world. Of course there are, but actual conspiracies require

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Speaker 8: actual evidence. Yes, there was a Russia Gate conspiracy, and

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Speaker 8: we know the names of the people involved in what

814
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Speaker 8: they did. We know Hillary Clinton, infusion GPS, and James

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Speaker 8: Goleme and Loretta Lynch and Adam Shipp, we know all

816
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Speaker 8: of those people. Yes, there was a COVID nineteen conspiracy.

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00:57:50,080 --> 00:57:52,640
Speaker 8: We know that Anthony Fauci worked to shut down alternative

818
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Speaker 8: solutions from people like Jay Boticharia. But when people posit

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Speaker 8: a conspiracy and then provide, you know, evidence, they are

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00:58:00,280 --> 00:58:03,040
Speaker 8: doing you a fundamental disservice and they are making you

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Speaker 8: stupider in the process. Finally, because it is our job

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Speaker 8: to make the lives of our audience better, right, That's

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00:58:15,320 --> 00:58:17,280
Speaker 8: really our job is to give you more information to

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00:58:17,400 --> 00:58:21,680
Speaker 8: make your lives better. We have a duty to propose solutions.

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00:58:22,640 --> 00:58:24,600
Speaker 8: That's why we have to talk about our problems in

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Speaker 8: order to find the solutions. That's what politics was supposed

827
00:58:27,760 --> 00:58:30,680
Speaker 8: to be about, after all, finding solutions to our common problems.

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Speaker 8: If we speak endlessly about the problems we face without

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Speaker 8: ever positing a solution other than wrecking the system or

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Speaker 8: centralizing power in ac cult like figure, we are not

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Speaker 8: finding solutions. We are merely making problems worse, just asking questions,

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Speaker 8: positing vague conspiracies, raving like Alex Jones about the secret

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00:58:50,880 --> 00:58:54,000
Speaker 8: confederacies that control your life. None of it makes your

834
00:58:54,040 --> 00:58:57,120
Speaker 8: life better. None of it, in fact, it makes your

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00:58:57,200 --> 00:59:00,840
Speaker 8: life markedly worse. That's because if you truly come to

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Speaker 8: believe that nothing in your life is in your control,

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Speaker 8: you can't even take control of your own life. You

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00:59:06,000 --> 00:59:08,920
Speaker 8: despair of your ability to change your own circumstances, and

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Speaker 8: then you fail. And you must not fail, because here

840
00:59:20,600 --> 00:59:23,040
Speaker 8: is the most fundamental truth of all in the United States,

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Speaker 8: for all of its problems, many of which a huge

842
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Speaker 8: number of which are real and serious. The United States

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Speaker 8: is still the greatest country in the history of planet Earth.

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Speaker 8: We have the greatest constitution ever devised by man. We

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Speaker 8: have the greatest founding philosophy ever puts a paper in

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Speaker 8: the Declaration of Independence. In this country, you can make

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Speaker 8: of yourself what you will, and if there are true

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Speaker 8: obstacles standing in your way,