The Charlie Kirk Show - The Future of the America First Movement—LIVE from SAS
Aired: 2022-08-06
Duration: 21:19


=== Taking Back Our Country (03:32) ===

[00:00:00]  Hey everybody, on this episode of the Charlie Kirk Show, a conversation brought to you by Turning Point Action, our political arm, tpaction.com.
[00:00:08]  That is tpaction.com, of three stellar young candidates who are getting involved on the grassroots level to run for office.
[00:00:16]  Anthony Sabatini, Caroline Levitt, and Anna Paulina Luna.
[00:00:21]  That is Caroline Levitt, Anna Paulina, and Anthony Sabatini.
[00:00:27]  At tpaction.com, you can learn more.
[00:00:29]  As always, you can email me your thoughts, freedom at charliekirk.com.
[00:00:33]  That is freedom at charliekirk.com.
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[00:00:46]  Buckle up, everybody.
[00:00:47]  Here we go.
[00:00:48]  Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.
[00:00:50]  Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus.
[00:00:52]  I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk.
[00:00:56]  Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks.
[00:00:59]  I want to thank Charlie.
[00:01:00]  He's an incredible guy.
[00:01:01]  His spirit, his love of this country, he's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
[00:01:09]  We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
[00:01:18]  That's why we are here.
[00:01:22]  So how many people here want to run for office one day?
[00:01:27]  So this entire afternoon is brought to you by Turning Point Action.
[00:01:31]  And at Turning Point Action, we endorse young, courageous conservatives that are running for office that we believe are going to go to Washington, D.C. and make a serious difference.
[00:01:42]  We endorsed Blake Masters in the great state of Arizona.
[00:01:46]  We endorsed JD Vance in Ohio.
[00:01:48]  And we have also endorsed these terrific two young patriots here from New Hampshire and from the great state of Florida, Caroline Levitt and Anthony Sabatini, who I want to make sure you have an opportunity to meet both of these amazing young patriots, hear about them, hear about what they're doing and what they seek to change in Washington, D.C. Caroline, you go first.
[00:02:10]  Absolutely.
[00:02:10]  Well, hello, everyone.
[00:02:12]  How are we doing today?
[00:02:14]  Fantastic.
[00:02:16]  Fantastic.
[00:02:16]  It's great to be amongst so many freedom-loving young conservatives.
[00:02:22]  This is our country, and we are going to take it back.
[00:02:24]  And it starts by taking back the House with an America-first majority this year.
[00:02:28]  So thank you, Charlie, for your support.
[00:02:30]  I'm Caroline Levitt.
[00:02:32]  I'm running in my home district, New Hampshire's first congressional district.
[00:02:35]  I grew up there in a small business family, went to college there, went to school there.
[00:02:40]  Then I had the blessing of serving our greatest president in the history of our country, President Donald J. Trump in his White House for the best secretary of all time, Kaylee McInani.
[00:02:57]  So we fought on the front lines against the fake news media that was attacking our president every single day, attacking all of us in this room for believing in him.
[00:03:06]  And it was an honor to do so.
[00:03:08]  And after that fight, after seeing what happened with the 2020 election, watching the Democrat regime rip it away from us out of our hands, I decided to step up and do something about it.
[00:03:18]  So I'm 24 years old.
[00:03:20]  I will be 25 in a few weeks, as our founding fathers require in our Constitution.
[00:03:26]  And I'm running against a far left Democrat.
[00:03:29]  His name is Chris Paubus, and he's a puppet for Nancy Pelosi.

=== Border vs Ukraine Focus (04:11) ===

[00:03:33]  And we're going to beat him this year.
[00:03:34]  So thank you, Charlie.
[00:03:36]  Anthony.
[00:03:38]  Welcome to the free state of Florida.
[00:03:42]  I'm Anthony Sabatini.
[00:03:44]  I'm a Donald Trump Ron DeSantis Republican for the last four years.
[00:03:48]  And currently, I'm a member of the Florida House of Representatives, where I've helped pass the boldest state agenda in the nation, the Ron DeSantis Freedom Agenda here in Florida.
[00:03:58]  It's been the honor of my lifetime, and now I'm running for a new seat that thanks to Governor DeSantis, we have right here in North Orlando, not too far from here.
[00:04:05]  And I'm going to be bringing the America First agenda to Congress to make sure we actually do what Donald Trump ran on.
[00:04:11]  Not the empty suit Republicans who are killing our bold conservative reforms, but get people in there who are going to do things like finish the wall and do what we did here in Florida, completely and totally ban critical race theory in the country.
[00:04:24]  It's racist, it's evil, it needs to be defeated.
[00:04:27]  So, Anthony, what are some of the policies you think we need to focus on?
[00:04:30]  It seems as if so many people feel let down when Republicans go to Congress.
[00:04:35]  What needs to be the legislative agenda when this new Congress convenes in January?
[00:04:40]  Well, I think the first thing we need to focus on is the most imminent threat, which is this corporate tyranny and this corporate wokeism that we're seeing all around us.
[00:04:47]  This wokeism is taking over every institution.
[00:04:50]  And it's actually very easily defeated if you get the policies right.
[00:04:53]  We got to de-woke the military, ban critical race theory and gender ideology in the military.
[00:04:58]  But you got to do it in the private sector, too.
[00:05:00]  We've done it in Florida, Florida passed the biggest, most robust anti-CRT law in the country.
[00:05:04]  And we could bring that to the national level.
[00:05:06]  You know, if you go to work at a company, they shouldn't be telling you, you know, in the HR department, et cetera, that you should have white guilt and all this nonsense.
[00:05:14]  And so we need federal legislation to ban that racist practice.
[00:05:18]  And I think that is something that we can do really quickly to stop this woke revolution in its tracks.
[00:05:23]  So Caroline, what do you think needs to be the top priority for this upcoming session?
[00:05:29]  Because it looks like there's going to be a big change of power.
[00:05:32]  What do you think needs to be the mandate?
[00:05:34]  First and foremost, we need to stop the illegal invasion that is taking place on our southern border right now.
[00:05:40]  We need, thank you.
[00:05:44]  We need to finish the construction of the border wall, which we've already largely paid for, by the way, the tax dollars.
[00:05:50]  And this president is allowing those resources to rot away at the southern border.
[00:05:54]  Now, I'm from New Hampshire, as I said, I'm running.
[00:05:56]  So we don't see the human impact of this invasion so much as other states on our southern border, but we do see it in the unprecedented amount of fentanyl and illegal drugs that are pouring into communities across the great state of New Hampshire right now.
[00:06:10]  So it is my goal as a young congresswoman, because this is the number one threat that our generation, my generation, faces.
[00:06:17]  It's the number one leading cause of death in America today is overdoses.
[00:06:21]  Nobody's talking about it.
[00:06:23]  I remember throughout the entire pandemic, right, when all of the media sites had a tracker for all of the COVID deaths.
[00:06:29]  Where's the tracker on every single mainstream media network in this country for the amount of people that are putting drugs in their arms and dying because of this president?
[00:06:37]  So we have to shut down the border, build the wall, end catch and release, and always vote against amnesty at all costs.
[00:06:44]  And by the way, if you come here illegally, if that's your first encounter with our great country, you're going to be sent home, period.
[00:06:53]  Now, Anthony, it seems as if the Republicans in Washington, D.C., they're more focused on trying to fix the border of Ukraine than our own border, sending $56 billion, which is the GDP of North Dakota already to Ukraine.
[00:07:10]  If you were to be elected, do you think that you would vote for sending $56 billion to Ukraine?
[00:07:17]  Why is it the Republican Party so fixated on that?
[00:07:20]  Well, I think there's a lot of the old guards still in the Republican Party who don't understand the America First policies that got Donald Trump elected and that have renewed and made the Republican Party great again.
[00:07:29]  It's time to get people in office who believe that we should only be involved in foreign affairs and foreign interventions if there's a direct and imminent threat on Americans.
[00:07:37]  If there's no real direct threat, we don't have the time or the resources to go around the world looking for monsters to destroy.

=== Defeating Woke Communism Here (10:42) ===

[00:07:44]  We need to focus on here.
[00:07:45]  So in my opinion, we shouldn't be involved in Ukraine at all, not even financially.
[00:07:49]  Let's focus on defeating the woke communism that exists here.
[00:07:55]  Caroline, there is a narrative that we have to stop talking about social issues.
[00:07:59]  Roe versus Wade was just reversed.
[00:08:02]  You know, young people, this is going to be the most pro-life generation in history.
[00:08:08]  And do you believe that the Republican Party should have a bold agenda when it comes to family, or should we just talk about tax cuts and whatever else the Republican Party focuses on?
[00:08:20]  We have to go on offense with the issues of our time, which is the culture war.
[00:08:26]  The left has been waging a culture war in our country for decades, and conservatives, I put them in quotes, conservatives have not conserved anything.
[00:08:35]  We have Republicans in office right now who are not even up there defending on Capitol Hill the most basic inherent value that we not only hold as Americans, but as human beings, is that men and women are different but equal.
[00:08:48]  And I am a woman, by the way, to any of the Democrats that are watching this, tracking me, trying to get opposition research for my campaign.
[00:08:55]  But we as conservatives have to fundamentally preserve and protect the traditional social values that make this the greatest country in the history of the world.
[00:09:04]  The left has been waging this war for decades.
[00:09:07]  They have seized every institution in our country to do it.
[00:09:10]  Public education systems with these woke liberal teachers pushing this indoctrination in our classrooms.
[00:09:16]  The corrupt higher education university that is then doubling down.
[00:09:19]  Hollywood, big tech, social media.
[00:09:22]  Every single institution in this country is pushing Marxism down the throats of our young people, stripping our nation of masculinity and family values that are the bedrock of our society.
[00:09:33]  We must protect them at all costs.
[00:09:34]  That means going on offense and speaking truth.
[00:09:36]  So yes.
[00:09:37]  Anthony, your thoughts on that?
[00:09:40]  Absolutely.
[00:09:41]  You know, we need to, you know, this gender ideology is going to destroy the family.
[00:09:45]  You destroy the family, the whole society is gone.
[00:09:47]  That is literally the center of everything.
[00:09:50]  And so, you know, getting Republicans to take the pledge to push back on what the EEOC and other agencies have done to stuff gender ideology into the private sector has got to be a top priority.
[00:10:03]  Because I'm telling you, if you lose the family, all we have is the state and the individual.
[00:10:07]  And that's basically the recipe of Marxism and extreme socialism.
[00:10:11]  And there's no coming back from that.
[00:10:12]  So Caroline, a lot of young people are wondering kind of where they should go politically.
[00:10:18]  As I mentioned yesterday, this generation is the most, unfortunately, most depressed, the most suicidal, the most drug-addicted, the most alcohol-addicted generation in history.
[00:10:29]  There's a lot of young people that are suffering right now.
[00:10:31]  And I believe largely because there's been an intergenerational kind of crusade, if you will, a betrayal of the promise to create a freer America through lockdowns, vaccine mandates, mask mandates.
[00:10:44]  What is necessary to win over younger voters?
[00:10:47]  If you were to become a member of Congress, you would be the youngest ever.
[00:10:52]  Is that right?
[00:10:52]  That's right.
[00:10:53]  Young history.
[00:10:54]  Yes, sir.
[00:10:55]  So if you were to win, what is required to win over the next generation that is more cynical, more addicted to their screens, and addicted to drugs than ever before?
[00:11:07]  Well, when we win this race, Charlie, not if.
[00:11:10]  When we win this election this fall, thank you very much.
[00:11:14]  We will make every effort, as I already am on my campaign, to reach out to young people.
[00:11:20]  And there's no more effective way to do that.
[00:11:22]  Two ways.
[00:11:23]  One, in-person conversation.
[00:11:25]  We have to throw ourselves into the lion's den, as you have with your organization, Turning Point USA.
[00:11:31]  Go to these college campuses, go to these high schools, reach out to young people.
[00:11:35]  There's never been a better time to do it because we as young Americans are facing the very devastating and very real consequences of this socialist agenda in Washington, D.C. With skyrocketing inflation, gas prices higher than they've ever been in our lifetime as Generation Z Americans.
[00:11:51]  Rents absolutely through the roof.
[00:11:53]  I'm stuck in the rental rabbit hole.
[00:11:54]  I'm not afraid to say it, right?
[00:11:56]  I'm renting, can't afford to buy a home in New Hampshire right now because these markets are insane.
[00:12:00]  These are real consequences of this socialist spending spree in D.C. Reaching out to young people with in-person conversations, meeting them where they are on social media and speaking truth.
[00:12:09]  That's how we're going to get through to them.
[00:12:10]  And Caroline, you just admitted something which is important, which a lot of older Americans say, oh, just work harder.
[00:12:15]  Go buy a piece, go buy a piece of property or a home.
[00:12:18]  So we lock down the country.
[00:12:20]  We prevent job opportunities for young people unnecessarily for 18 months.
[00:12:25]  By the way, we never should have locked down the country.
[00:12:27]  It was completely and totally unnecessary.
[00:12:29]  And I hope we put Anthony Fauci in prison for what he did in our country and lock him up for a very long time.
[00:12:38]  And it was intergenerational warfare.
[00:12:41]  And then by the time we reopen America, everything is two or three times more expensive in the housing market.
[00:12:47]  Anthony, do you think that the Republican Party should be talking about the fact that BlackRock and the CCP are coming in and buying single-family homes for that young people can't buy them?
[00:12:59]  I think it should be a staple of the Republican Party.
[00:13:02]  Stop talking about the abstractions and start talking about the realistic.
[00:13:05]  We have hegemonic woe corporations which are hoarding power, hoarding money, and stealing the dream of the middle class.
[00:13:11]  You know, people are more miserable, like you said.
[00:13:14]  Why is it?
[00:13:14]  Because the left has destroyed the country.
[00:13:16]  And so the country is less, you know, they're less likely to love the country.
[00:13:19]  We got to restore the middle class, restore the American dream.
[00:13:22]  For me, America first means restoring the middle class, stopping the systematic destruction of the middle class.
[00:13:27]  So everybody, there's been some bad weather, as you know.
[00:13:29]  There's someone that was supposed to be on this panel that actually just arrived who's also running for Congress here in Florida.
[00:13:35]  So we're going to add a chair.
[00:13:36]  Join me in welcoming Ana Paulina Luna as we pull up a chair.
[00:13:44]  Come on up here, Ana Paulina.
[00:13:45]  I wouldn't miss this for the world.
[00:13:47]  Hey, guys.
[00:13:50]  Hey, how you doing?
[00:13:52]  So.
[00:13:53]  Hey.
[00:13:54]  All right.
[00:13:55]  Good to see you.
[00:13:56]  Ana, welcome.
[00:13:57]  Thank you.
[00:13:58]  Fresh in from Hollywood, Florida.
[00:13:59]  We're at the Sunshine Summit.
[00:14:01]  Good.
[00:14:01]  So, Ana, we're talking about the future of the Republican Party.
[00:14:05]  And I know that President Trump endorsed your race.
[00:14:09]  And I'm being told things are going very well.
[00:14:11]  What policies do you think we need to embrace when, let's say, a power change happens in Washington, D.C.?
[00:14:19]  What is necessary for this new right movement to embrace?
[00:14:24]  Anything that's America first.
[00:14:26]  Right now, the Communist Chinese Party is really pushing hard for the great reset because they don't like us.
[00:14:31]  And so it's time that we take a strong stand and tell them the United States of America is not for sale.
[00:14:36]  And any person in Washington, D.C. that pushes that terrible legislation needs to go out.
[00:14:40]  That's right.
[00:14:41]  Now, I hope you all understand this, though, that we applaud for these lines.
[00:14:46]  Your Republicans right now in Washington, D.C., when I ask them this, sometimes when they come on the show, I say, oh, I have to get back to you on that.
[00:14:54]  I ask them, I say, do you think the Chinese Communist Party should be able to own farmland?
[00:14:57]  They say, well, it's a free market.
[00:14:59]  If you elevate corporate profits above the American nation, get the heck out of the Republican Party.
[00:15:06]  You should be nowhere in leadership.
[00:15:09]  Caroline, do you think we should allow multi-billionaires like Bill Gates to be able to buy up our farmland?
[00:15:16]  That why is this such a hard thing for Republicans to get their head around?
[00:15:20]  Absolutely not.
[00:15:21]  And you know why?
[00:15:22]  It's because for far too long, our party has embraced and elected establishment Republicans who are paid for by the wrong people.
[00:15:29]  I am proud to be in my race supported by the people of New Hampshire, patriots across this country.
[00:15:34]  And those are the types of folks that we need to elect who are not going down to Washington to make friends, but to stand up for the needs of their constituents and then go the hell home because we need term limits as well, by the way.
[00:15:44]  And I'm a huge supporter of those.
[00:15:47]  Anna, so you have a military background.
[00:15:51]  How is it, by the way, if you guys see a theme of me bashing the Republican Party, you're right.
[00:15:57]  There's a reason for this, though.
[00:15:59]  I get angry at a fundamental level when Republicans who have political power allow the abuse of our beautiful country to continue while they keep on getting our votes and our dollars and they allow this country to crumble.
[00:16:15]  We know the Democrats.
[00:16:16]  They're here to destroy America.
[00:16:18]  The Republican Party needs to be put on notice that every one of these people are going to be primary to replace sometime soon.
[00:16:25]  So Ana, why is it Republicans are okay with people in active military to be discharged if they don't take an experimental gene therapy that they call a vaccine?
[00:16:33]  Because these people don't have skin in the game.
[00:16:36]  I can tell you there's people here today to include my husband that got out of military because they stood for their religious freedom and we need to honor that in our U.S. military.
[00:16:50]  Now, when you guys are traveling in your areas of when you're campaigning, what are the issues that you are hearing the most from your constituents?
[00:16:59]  Caroline, we'll start with you.
[00:17:00]  Absolutely.
[00:17:00]  First and foremost, election integrity.
[00:17:03]  That is the number one issue, and that needs to be a major part of the Republican Party's platform when we take back the House this year.
[00:17:10]  We need people to trust that their votes matter, and we need to fight with every inch of our body to push back against federal election steals.
[00:17:18]  No coincidence, right, that Nancy Pelosi, the first piece of policy that she introduced with this new Congress was HR1, which is a federal radical steal of our elections.
[00:17:29]  And there's Republicans at the state, local, and federal level that are enabling that.
[00:17:33]  We need to ensure election integrity, or none of these other issues that do matter will matter at the end of the day if our votes don't count.
[00:17:40]  Inflation, gas prices, none of it matters if we don't have election integrity.
[00:17:44]  Anthony.
[00:17:45]  I would say right now, it's this general sense of the decline of the rule of law, the rise of administrative law, this agency throughout the country like the FBI declaring war on the American people, telling parents they're domestic terrorists, this sort of thing.
[00:18:00]  You know, institutions that the left has captured and then turned on the American people.
[00:18:05]  So the Republicans need to turn all of our committees in Congress into an oversight function, like my good friend Congressman Gates says, and literally root out and destroy the corruption in the Biden administration because they've destroyed our institutions and destroyed people's belief in government.
[00:18:19]  I think that's an existential threat to the country, Ana.
[00:18:22]  I'd have to say it's American energy independence right now.
[00:18:25]  Who likes the gas prices?

=== Stand Firm Against Corruption (02:52) ===

[00:18:27]  No one.
[00:18:28]  Boo.
[00:18:28]  Yeah, boo, Biden.
[00:18:30]  Okay, look, it's time for us to get back to American oil from American soil.
[00:18:36]  We have the cleanest gas in the world here in the United States of America.
[00:18:40]  We don't need anyone else.
[00:18:41]  We don't need Saudi.
[00:18:42]  We don't need Venezuela.
[00:18:43]  We have it right here at home.
[00:18:44]  And if we don't reopen our pipelines, we're going to get our butts handed to us by China.
[00:18:49]  See how we go back to China?
[00:18:50]  Boo on China.
[00:18:52]  So let's go down the line one last time.
[00:18:55]  We have 5,000 students from across America here, many of whom that are under attack on high school and college campuses.
[00:19:01]  We have three young leaders here.
[00:19:02]  You're being attacked by major Democrat machines or Republican machines, right?
[00:19:08]  Which means, by the way, the fact they're getting attacked by Republican machines, that's why they're on the stage, by the way.
[00:19:13]  And what advice do you have one after the other for the young person that says, I don't know if I want to get involved.
[00:19:20]  I don't know if I want to do it.
[00:19:21]  You three have really gone all in to save America.
[00:19:25]  Ana, we'll start with you and go down the line.
[00:19:26]  Stand firm and don't back down ever.
[00:19:29]  No matter if you're the only one standing there, never back down.
[00:19:33]  I joined Turning Point USA when I was in 2018, right out of the military.
[00:19:37]  I turned down medical school so I could fight for this country.
[00:19:40]  This is a great organization.
[00:19:41]  And I can tell you, every single one of you here could be on this stage.
[00:19:44]  Keep working hard, fight, and never give up.
[00:19:49]  I would say the single most important piece of advice I can give you is just take that first step.
[00:19:53]  Become a pre-SIC man or a pre-SIC woman or go work in a campaign of a candidate that you believe in and get involved.
[00:20:00]  Because I tell you, once you take that first step and you get in, it'll be the best decision you ever made and it'll take over your whole life.
[00:20:05]  Like it has for many years.
[00:20:07]  Caroline.
[00:20:08]  Believe in yourself.
[00:20:09]  If I listened to every single swamp creature in Washington, D.C. who told me to sit down, shut up, and wait my turn, I would not be sitting up here with a winning campaign going to flip one of the most competitive districts in this country on our way to saving our country.
[00:20:23]  Believe in yourself every single day.
[00:20:27]  Ana Paulina, Anthony Sabatini, Caroline Levitt at Turning Point Action, which is Turning Point USA sister organization we're hosting this afternoon.
[00:20:36]  We are here to transform the Republican Party into a party that fights and then holds our elected leaders accountable.
[00:20:43]  We need to make sure the America First movement that Donald Trump started continues and that we prioritize the American people and that we have a Republican Party that understands what we're up against.
[00:20:54]  You just heard from three incredible leaders, and that's a little snapshot, everybody, of what is to come.
[00:20:59]  If the old Republican Party is watching, your time is up.
[00:21:03]  God bless you guys.
[00:21:04]  Thank you so much.
[00:21:07]  Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
[00:21:08]  Email me your thoughts as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.
[00:21:11]  Thanks so much.
[00:21:12]  Talk to you soon.
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