The Charlie Kirk Show - Glenn Beck Remembers Charlie Kirk

Episode Date: September 18, 2025

When Charlie was still in high school, he watched and listened to Glenn Beck. Now, Glenn takes up Charlie’s mantle and his microphone from Phoenix as the latest host to fill in for America’s fallen hero.Support the show: http://www.charliekirk.com/supportSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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prophetic things there. I know it. I have been looking for the next George, Washington. I can't find him. He may be eight years old, but this is the moment. And now 18-year-old, Charlie. Kirk is saying enough is enough. This is Charlie Kirk reporting from Marquette University. I like ideas. I don't like politicians. I don't like parties. I like principle. Do not go quietly when truth is on the line. I mean, democratic socialism, you know, the people social, it's socialism, which inherently means the following. It is immoral, it is evil, it is impractical and put in

practice. Do not surrender to the shadows. But I'm here for the silent majority that is Silent no longer to give them the courage, confidence, and conviction to fight on campuses. Even when, and especially if, you think the battle can no longer be won. We're not going to allow the ruling class elites, the radical left, to continue to destroy this country from within. And we are a movement here that is growing by leaps and bounds. Charlie Kirk lived that mandate. And I believe that marriage is a beautiful thing. And I believe that having children is a moral good for society.

Biggest blessing. Oh, without a doubt. I don't think you know the impact. You say, oh, Glenn, you made an impact of my life. Do you realize the impact you're having on the country? Remember when I did the thing in Washington, D.C. and restoring honor? I do. And I said, somewhere in this crowd, maybe he's seven, maybe he's 15.

Somewhere in this crowd is the next George Washington. And 25 years from now. He will come not to this stair, but to those stares. We want to overemphasize grace when in reality Christ loves us too much. To have us continue to live in sin, he wants us to try to elevate our actions to glorify God and all that we do. And he can proclaim, I have a new dream. I just went to church for the first time in several years. Today we went to church for their first time in a really long time.

I've never ever opened the Bible before, and something was calling me to my husband's Bible. Here's the line for the second service, and there's never a line. Jesus of Nazareth, and the resurrection is the pinpoint of my belief that Jesus did rise from the grave so that we may live. The light is dimming, yes, but it always does before the dawn. Hello, my name is Glenn Beck, and I am a friend of Charlie Kirk's. You may not know who I am, but one thing I am known for is my emotions, and I think we're going to need a tarp today. this is I knew this was going to be difficult but to sit in the studio right next to his chair is more difficult than I imagined than I imagined I want to talk to you a little bit about the future,

but I want to talk to you a little bit about my friend as well. I knew Charlie when he was young. I first met him. I think he was 17 years old. He was amazing. He was so well-red, so smart, so clear. I thought this is an amazing man. I remember the first time I met Ben Shapiro, I think he was 13 years old.

I interviewed him the first time. He was sitting on his family's washing machine doing an interview with me. And he said he was on a phone that, you. used to have it was a hard line so it had the phone wire that he had to pull it all the way around and he couldn't keep his sister quiet so he went in and closed it on the phone wire and sat on the washing machine stop it i'm going to be on the glenbeck show and he was impressive but there was something special about charlie kirk i want to share a story that I've never shared before, and I so regret that we ran out of time.

It's a story that I'd hope to tell Charlie myself in the next couple of months. when i first met charlie and this is the kind of guy he was he was so gracious i first met him he was young and i said so what do you want to do what is it you want what do you want to do so gracious he said i want to be you i want to do what you do let me translate i want to be rush limbaugh he didn't want to to be me. He wanted to be Rush Limbaugh. He wanted to be one of the, as Rush said, radio's greatest of all time. And I remember thinking, well, kid, maybe someday, because I think you have it. I brought something with me today that I thought was appropriate while I did the show that I would sit in front of Charlie's microphone.

It was given to me after the death of Rush Limbaugh by his wife. It is Russia's golden microphone. I think it's appropriate. but it sits in front of Charlie's microphone. What I would have said to Charlie was you were thinking too small. I want to be Rush Limbaugh someday. I'm a broadcaster. Rush was a broadcaster. But Charlie was a broadcaster and a narrowcaster.

Charlie was a pastor and a priest and listening to the way he could argue and think differently. He was a rabbi as well and one of the best. He was a political organizer. He was a political think tank himself. He was a compassionate friend. He surpassed Rush Limbaugh by Miles. We must stop calling Charlie anything other than a civil rights leader. We need to plant that stake deep. It is time that we point out that what he was doing, was not politics.

What he was doing was trying to stand up for people's civil rights to show people how a civilization is not a civilization unless you can have a dialogue with people who are diametrically opposed to you that don't believe anything that you believe in. And yet you can have a civil dialogue and how important that is. That's our civil right, our right to free speech. and that gunman was trying to take that right away from him and from you and everyone else. Shut up. You will be silenced. You will not say those things.

And there has been a force in this country to try to convince people that you don't have a right, that you have a responsibility to silence others. You don't. In this country, one of our main civil rights is we can express ourselves the way we feel we need to express ourselves. And I'm sorry if you don't like it, you have to just take it and then say, I'd like to have a discussion with you on that. I'd like to know how you got there. I'd like to have the opportunity to argue against that, and you have that right to argue against it. And hopefully, if we are more like Charlie Kirk, we're having those dialogues with each other in a civilized fashion.

But make no mistake, Charlie Kirk was a civil rights leader as much as Martin Luther King. Andrew Colvette is with us you were here a week ago we're a week away and what same time yeah we're probably about two hours or so

out from you know the exact time of being a week how are you doing how's everybody at turning point doing well after you made everybody bawled their eyes out in your first segment and you're open glenn and i mean i just i have to say thank you for that i i can't even believe i'm seated so close to russia's

golden e ib microphone i know it's crazy and charlie and i i can't say how many times we said the golden e ib yeah yeah yeah and uh it you it was beautiful we were all crying out in the control room and so i am right now in this moment very emotional and i know that you watched his story grow and that tribute about the the next george washington and and how he was charler was so aware of that speech you gave and he wasn't there in person but he watched yeah he watched it uh somewhere else uh live and um i uh i'm right now i don't have many words because of how moving that was You know, I said the other day, and I don't mean this, I mean, I'm not saying this to self-engrandized at all. But I looked at him almost like a professional son, you know what I mean?

I looked at him because I watched him from a distance, and I saw him young. and I saw his desires and how he built and everything that he did. And as I was thinking about that, as I packed that microphone up yesterday, I was singing about him and I thought, Charlie would have been president. Charlie would have been president. Rush wasn't president.

Rush didn't have a desire to be president. And I don't know if Rush would have made a good president. I'd make a horrible president. I don't know. Rush would have been a better president than me. Charlie could have been a great president. He surpassed all of us. I don't know if there's another person in history on our side,

at least in the last 150 years, that was like Charlie. To replace Charlie, you need maybe six people at the top of their craft to cover everything that he has done. Yeah. You know, I can't tell you. how many times I was with Charlie and people would beg him, you have to run for president, you have to run

for president, Charlie would always you know, say, no, no, no, I'm happy doing what I'm doing. And I will say Charlie was, the existence of J.D. Vance gave Charlie a lot of emotional freedom to say that next man up is J.D.

Our job is to support J.D. And I, you know, we wouldn't necessarily be loud and proud about that on this show because we understand there's dynamics. But, you know, Charlie, was in so many ways being honed and sharpened and... He was. Yeah, for such a job.

Look at the difference in him in 10 years. Yeah. 15 years. Look at the difference in him. Can you imagine if he had 10 more years? 10 more years? To keep sharpening. Oh, my gosh. I mean, people need to understand that. Yes, Charlie was a brilliant communicator. Yes, he was an autodidact who kept studying the classics and political and philosophy and theology and all of these

things. And he was deeply, deeply sincere. his faith but he was also so skilled at the quiet things the behind the scenes things and he would honor people he was trusted if if you got into a heated discussion in private with charlie nobody would ever hear about that if anything happened he because his goal was to keep people together he understood that there are so many forces in our world and our politics that are ripping everybody apart and i said this i said this yesterday but it bears repeating he just a few weeks before his death he sent me this hierarchy of what the Greeks considered to be the highest virtues and the highest callings. And he said to me, he said, Andrew, we are not the actors and the entertainers that

are at the bottom. That's how the Greeks put it. He said, we need to strive to be statesmen and philosophers up at the top and theologians. And he said, this is what we're trying to be. Not that. Anybody could do that. Not everybody can do that. And he knew that God had put him in a position that he could keep people together. And so there would be times where everybody wanted us to go all in on this story, go all in on that, and Charlie saw three steps ahead all the time. He was always thinking long term, what will that do to the movement? And so he would craft his messaging and his strategy

and who we invited to what, you know, around how do you manage this current moment so that everybody is still a part of this thing. I can't thank you enough for inviting us. us to be here. We are. Enough for coming. No. I mean, it is an honor. I called Stu yesterday, and I said, Stu, you should come with me, and he said, this is history in the making. I mean, it's an honor to be here. Well, you honor us, and you're a beautiful tribute and open to him, and I know we're not done yet, but I can't thank you enough. Thank you. God bless. And God bless everybody at TPSA. Want to get involved? Go to TPSA.com.

Hamilton and Madison and Jay, who were the, obviously, the designers of and explainers of the U.S. Constitution, they wanted spirited tension between the branches. They wanted collision. They wanted the branches to kind of, not to be at war with each other, but to have different opinions on how governing should, this idea that the executive branch must bend a knee because Congress has appropriated the money. And so, look, in addition to that is if we can get, this is where the other thing is that I was pushing for, and I don't think it's going to happen, is if we can reauthorize the Presidential Reorganization Act,

which has been authorized in many times, which essentially says if an agency can do the work that is duplicative of another agency, it no longer needs to exist. So let's just take the Department of Education, which needs to end. The Department of Education needs to be shut down. Do you guys agree? End the Department of Education. So do you believe, do you believe Lidim McMahon, because she's a great manager?

She's phenomenal. Is she a managed to the close? She shares the president's stated plan to close the Department of Education. But let's just take three examples of how that can happen before you close it. Student loans. That should be under the Department of Treasury. Put that under Treasury. There's no reason it should be there.

Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Why do we have it? That was the problem. I agree. That's going to require Congress. What I'm getting at, though, is at least you can break apart. I agree. We should get rid of any subsidized student loans.

Yes. I'm just getting at, this is the way that you can actually weaken an agency to no longer exist through duplicative type processing. School-assisted lunch. You can make an argument for it or against it, but school-assisted lunch based so that the taxpayers need to pay for lunch. That could be under Department of Agriculture.

They do food stamps, much better done. And then finally, they have this whole separate office of the Department of Education that is Senate-confirmed tier two position that is the Office of Civil Rights. Put that under the Department of Justice. They don't need your own Civil Rights Division in the Department of Education

that goes and harasses our Christian schools and goes after conservative kids. So you can completely close that. That's three functions. All of a sudden, the Department of Education inherently weakens. And you know this, Glenn. The Department of Education actually never existed. It used to be called HEW, health, education, and welfare.

Yep. And, in fact, we could re-merge these together, and then we could find duplicative-type processes and better synergies. That is even before we get more to the fundamental question of which I have, and you have, I don't think the Department of Education is constitutional. I do not think that it's in the original intent as written, that the federal government has any role in the education of our children, period.

What progressives do understand, but the actual voter that votes usually with Democrats don't understand, is, I don't have a problem with the way you live in California. You want to live in California and you want to be as insane as you are. You can do that. Your own community can vote for that, and that's fine.

I'm not going to pay for it. And don't force me to live that way and that's unfortunately the problem we have San Francisco value in small towns that do not agree with those values at all and it's forced upon them

because it's federal the Office of Civil Rights of Department of Education and even worse I mean you guys remember this was not a very covered issue the Department Education was using school assisted lunch funding to force transgender bathrooms

do you remember this it was a less Yes. Like they said, we are not going to give money for kids that need assistance for lunch if you don't have radical transgender policy. Yes. So what we've done is we've created this insane leverage that the Department of Education should not have over local municipalities and school districts. Let me describe the scene. I got here this morning about 4.30 a.m. I do a national radio program starts at 9 a.m. Eastern time. So by six, we were broadcasting. And there wasn't anybody here. everybody is getting some well-deserved sleep. It looks like, I mean, nobody here has slept for a while.

And we got here, and there's police that barricade the road right in front, and there are police all around. And it's an enormous tribute that is on the road sitting in front of TPSA. People have kind of, it reminded me, honestly, of Princess Diana. seen the outpouring like this since Elvis died and when Princess Diana died. It's just this amazing outpouring of love. During the show, during my national radio broadcast, my staff walked in and said, you have to move to another building. There is a bomb threat. And somebody that was here in front, apparently put a package down and then gave a bomb threat. It turned out

to be just some, I don't know. I don't know. But Satan thinks that he still can win. And the more he pushes, the brighter the light is going to get. I want to go to Ryan Morrow. I talked to him earlier today because one of the things that we have to do is we have to stop the funding of all of these things that are on the left that we have honestly now started to find out. I mean, I've been exposing this stuff on chalkboards for years and years, almost two decades now, and how the George Soros's, et cetera, of the world, are funding all of the worst of the worst. And Ryan has done his work and has really come up with some smoking guns, especially on George Soros. Donald Trump can use as RICO charges.

And Ryan is here to lay this all out. What did you find, Ryan? Well, we had some amazing findings. According to George Soros' own files from his Open Society Foundations. So myself, my colleagues at Capital Research Center, basically went through as many grants of his, as many funding streams as we could find. And here's the smoking guns that we believe that President Trump, if he's informed of it, can use to go after Soros' network of hate in various ways.

we traced over $80 million going from the Open Society Foundations to at least 54 groups engaged in crime and domestic terrorism on U.S. soil, or that are pro-terrorism, endorsing things like the October 7th attacks, or are associated with foreign terrorist organizations or explicitly pro-terror groups. And this is according to his own file, so it's rock solid. Over of that amount, over 23 million went to at least seven groups that are doing things that meet the FBI's definition of domestic terrorism, including rioting and things like that. Can you be specific, more specific than this? Absolutely. I'm happy to. So the Center for Third World Organizing, for example, is an organization that has a hub that fused together, several really extreme organizations. We found $400,000 going to them. and they openly boast of the fact that they threw down during the uprisings in Minnesota, obviously referring to the rioting and boasting of how many thousands of people they help train.

A lot of these groups have created what they'll call like a protest guide or an activism toolkit, and it sounds innocuous. Then you open it up and you'll see support for Hamas in it, but then they'll sometimes slyly say, for more information, go to these hyperlinks, and you go to the hyperlinks, and there'll be guides recommending things like. property destruction of violence, false IDs, how to obstruct justice, all of these things, and they know darn well what they're doing. They don't put that there by accident. Some of the more careful ones will just direct their readership to anarchist websites with all that material,

knowing that they'll see it when it's there. And so, yeah, I mean, it's really stunning, and some of these groups are coalitions. So when I say 54 groups, just one of those might have 300 entities in that one. So it's actually, the real number is actually much higher. Let me play something from October 2010, where I was talking about the RICO Act and George Soros. Listen to this. But this is the ABCs of Revolution.

This is only a copy of it. I only have a copy of it. I don't have the original yet. They talk about urban guerrilla tactics. the incident in any area is occupied by revolutionaries it must be appropriated forthwith according to two incontestable principles self-defense and free distribution of the goods produced the best way to avoid isolation is to attack thus one must

with an eye to the internationalist direction remember workers of the world unite create other nuclei for occupations and appropriations strengthen and protect liaison between relevant revolutionary zones isolate the enemy and destroy communications, use commando tactics to harass and rear a guard and avoid encirclement by splitting up his forces. Disorganize the counter-revolution by rendering its principal leaders and the best strategist harmless.

Do you have that one? Disorganize the counter-revolution by rendering its principal leaders and the best strategists harmless. How do they do that? Is the left threatening? Is that something that people who are in that position should worry about their lives? Or is that just render them harmless by, well, let's just see if I can come up with a crazy example. Here, some rich dude takes a million dollars and does everything they can to smear and discredit.

By the way, George, have you ever heard of the RICO statute? I just, anyway. RICO, this is 20, 10, 15 years ago, I was saying George Soros should be grabbed by the RICO Act. Donald Trump looks like he's now willing to go there. And again, we're talking to Ryan Morrow, who says he has the goods on this. How long have you been working on this, Ryan? Probably about a year. And what got you started on this?

Well, I think it started when I really, released a report breaking down the anti-Israel protests that were going on. And I saw that, that was like manufactured. It was like pushing a button. And we identified over 150 pro-terrorism groups organizing those protests. There weren't peaceful groups behind it. And so when that report came out, which is very similar to this one, this is almost somewhat of a sequel, one of the radical entities that's Hamas-friendly had this to say about the research that we released. So the same would be true of the source report that we're about to release at 1 o'clock. It said that these reports we're doing pose an existential threat that could easily mean a quick death for most of the

groups by getting their tax-exempt statuses ripped away from them. And so those that survive would suffer mass chaos. So they're saying that we have figured out how to beat them if we just get this into the right hands. And so at 1 o'clock, this is what we're dropping. about George Soros, as far of our investigation, and that's why I said on your show earlier, the counteroffensive begins today. It begins at 1 o'clock. You know, it was probably 2010 that George Soros's number two guy met with my number two guy, and they had lunch in a public place because that's what we requested when they said we want to have lunch. And I was not part of it, but it was just the second in command, if you will, meeting with each other and sending messages.

And it started, this lunch started with, you need to tell your boss, your boss, me, is hurting my boss, Soros. And it's going to stop. And my guy said, I don't think it is. I mean, if he's getting something wrong, he'd be more than happy to correct it. and he said at the time your boss needs to understand the ship is already sailed it's just pulling out of port

right now and you're either on that ship or you're not and you want to be on that ship and he said my boss is going to say he doesn't want to be on that ship and at the very end of the conversation he said I want you to hear me clearly

this is going to stop we took that as a very large threat and that is one of the reasons why I did the puppet master show on Fox I did a three-day special showing everything about George Soros that we could find at the time

you realize who you're getting into war with don't you? I do and I don't care I know I'm supposed to do this and so that ship that he was talking about we're going to sink it and all the other big billionaire funded organizations are out there that are funding this type of filth that are poisoning American civil society and spreading this type of hate that resulted in what we what happened a week ago you're on notice if you're doing this by

mistake I will volunteer my time to help you vet the organizations that you finance so you don't fund terrorism and hate if you're genuine well there's not genuine and you continue you doing it, you're next. Looking at, you know, looking at your research, there's a handful of grants that are nuts for things like children that include ideas of hierarchy, supremacy, colonialism, and to the Olinsky Institute in France, which is in honor of Solilinski, if I'm not mistaken, right? That's exactly right.

And when you go through the report, you'll see that the organizations that they're funding are so blatantly connected to foreign terrorist organizations, so. blatantly extreme. This goes on year after year. So before, when there would be reports about this and drips and drabs, I could kind of understand some people saying, well, out thousands of grants, maybe some mistakes are made. This is no mistake. We have disproven this. And I keep thinking about how when the Iranian regime allows pro-terrorism entities to fundraise on Iranian soil, what do we call that? We call that state sponsorship of terrorists. In the United States, when American nonprofits in the nonprofit sector allow pro-terror entities to fundraise on American soil,

what do we call it? We call it charity. And so that has to come to an end. The IRS code, as we talk about in the report, is being violated. You're not allowed to engage in crime. You're not even allowed to encourage crime. That can't be part of your nonprofit mission. And so these statuses need to be revoked. And just like that one extremist group said, if we go down that path, we don't even have to get into the hate speech argument. Yeah. We can beat them. We can beat them rapidly.

Ryan, thank you so much. I really appreciate your conversation with us. Thank you. How many people on earth this last week became a Christian on the killing field? They saw Charlie Kirk and they thought, you know, I wasn't a Christian before, but I think I understand what it means to be a Christian today. Abraham Lincoln said, I'm not a Christian. Little Abraham Lincoln, six, seven, eight years old.

He would get in trouble and his dad would get drunk and he would take his belt and he would whip him while quoting the scriptures. Well, there's nothing that makes somebody want to be a Christian more than that. And so Abraham Lincoln rejected Christianity. And he said later in life, he said, when I became president, I wasn't really a Christian. When my son died, I wasn't a Christian. I didn't become a Christian until Gettysburg. Gettysburg happened in the summer. And we think, oh, then Abraham Lincoln went up there right after.

or he went up a couple of months later after they cleared out all the fields and buried all the dead. He comes in November, and they were still stacking bodies up like cordwood. Imagine the scene, imagine the smell of Gettysburg. He says, that's when I became a Christian. That event brought him to his knees where he begged the Lord and said, what is it you want? I'll do it. Just tell me.

We were losing the war like crazy. He issues a proclamation and a request for the nation to go in, to prayer, fasting, and humiliation, meaning asking God for forgiveness for all of our sins. And he basically said, whatever God wants, he's just. This was wrong. We did it. Let's pray, fast, and beg for forgiveness. That's how we won.

It was the moment of Gettysburg. This may be the moment of Gettysburg in our generation. The number of people who are saying, I'm committing to Christ, I'm going to church, I'm going to change. It's sweeping the nation. It is sweeping the world. This indeed was a turning point. We have something special that we made for Charlie and the staff here at TPSA coming up in just a minute.

I haven't even heard it. My daughter, who is 19 years old, made it with David Osmond last night, and she was there about 10 feet away from the tent when Charlie was shot and will. tell you a little bit about this next hour. Glenn, talk to me about the path forward from here because I think a lot of people right now have that moment where they're so thankful for everything that Charlie had done and appreciated his approach to everything, this open approach, open debate, and they want to continue that approach. I do think there's also a lot of people who look at it and say, for everything that Charlie tried to do, look at what the price he paid.

and we can't just do that anymore we have to go farther we have to change this we have to there's a there's a righteous anger that people want to uh to to to move upon how do you balance those things so the righteous anger that is righteous and right and natural i mean it is one of the phases of grief um and we went through the first phase you know day one denial i mean we saw the video i did unfortunately i saw the video and i called a surgeon friend of mine right away and I sent him the video and I said is there any way and he's like you know then no way no way and yet for two hours I was on the air with Megan Kelly and I was saying well no there's there's there's a chance there's a chance because I wanted to believe that anger is part

of that and we're going to go through it but I have been so amazed and so proud of our side I'm going to tell you next hour of a private conversation that I had with Charlie about a session destinations. And so far, everybody is handling it exactly the way he would have hoped. And I know it to be true because I talked to him about it. Well, certainly not everybody is handling it the right way. Yeah. It's funny because I had a conversation with a friend of mine yesterday and we were talking about the reaction to all of this. And we kind of said, are you encouraged by what you're seeing or are you despondent? I'm very encouraged. It's fascinating. My, my, instant reaction was despondent because I don't know maybe I've tortured myself with too much of the negative reaction maybe however talking it out I think I've I've changed my mind on it look how many people have gone to church for the first time see this is the difference Charlie wasn't just a political guy Charlie was an evangelical preacher yeah in the end and he was talking about universal things and things that people are starving for and look at the real look at the God

movement that is happening. He short-circuited a lot of stuff, and now God is moving with his people. And I find that extraordinarily optimistic. I think what we have to be careful of is, you know, I'll start to worry about the people of TPUSA. I mean, we've already been praying for you, but I'm going to start worrying about you next week and the week after. Because I've had enough people in my life die. once company goes home, then you're left alone with the reality. And that's when that despair or hopelessness can start to play games with you. Don't let it. I mean, there is, I know what Charlie, I'll tell you in a minute.

I know what Charlie would have wanted. And what he would have wanted was move forward, keep moving, keep pressing forward, keep staying true to the principles that we have laid out. And that's the only thing I worry about on our side is if anybody gets angry and somebody's going to do something stupid. And I hope that doesn't happen. I pray that doesn't happen. I don't think it will, quite honestly, but I could be wrong. But if we have real discipline and then constitutional discipline, you know, this hate speech debate, Charlie wouldn't have been for that, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever.

that he tweeted explicitly about it. Hate speech. There is no such thing as hate speech. There is speech. There's uncomfortable speech. There's evil speech. There's bad speech. There's speech you don't like at all.

There's speech you would just want to say to somebody, shut up. But there's no such thing as hate speech. There is no legal position for in this country. The only kind of speech that requires protection is the kind of speech that everybody hates. so there is no place for hate speech and it bothers me this Pam Bondi movement of going after people with hate speech

no we don't do that you have a right to speak and I will fight to my dying breath for your right to say what you believe I don't necessarily agree with you but it's more important for me to fight for your right of freedom of speech if I don't agree with you I don't need to fight for freedom of speech that agrees with me.

You led the Tea Party movement in 2011. Those are my words, not yours. Okay. So 2010, 2011, you were a big part of it and you were a very vocal piece of it. And President Trump, in a lot of different ways, has led the revitalization, has had given a lot of Americans hope that they thought that this country could not be turned around. You know, it's really strange. He has the same thing that Tulsi Gabbard has.

And they don't agree on anything. Basically anything. You know what I mean? But Tulsi is a, she's so far out of the mainstream. And she is so far left. But at no time do I believe she hates America. I believe she loves America. We just disagree.

And what used to bring us together is that we can disagree, but we have a fundamental understanding that this kind of, country is a positive force, and you can make it. Well, I have a working theory about this. This is why Bernie Sanders has a group that really appreciates him and follows him, and why even some people on the right will say, oh, I don't like Bernie Sanders, but I think he really believes what he believes. I think the new era of politics in the bipartisan cartel that has ruined this ruling class,

essentially, you know, a series of destructive policies that have borrowed too much money and eroded our freedoms and liberties and grew the fourth branch of government, I think the American people would much prefer someone who's authentic, who says why they believe what they believe, like that conversation you have with the president on trade, even if you might fundamentally disagree with terrorists. I respected it. You say, I'll deal with that way more than an establishment Republican in a heartbeat. I made argument after argument, and he tried to dismantle in a vote, but wait a minute, Mr. President, this, blah, blah, blah. And in the end, he said, I'm just going to shoot straight with you. I love them. I love them. I love it.

I love trade barriers. I love the fact that we can get things from people if we just use our muscle a little bit. I fundamentally disagree, but I hung up the phone going, at least you told me the truth. Yes. He was not pandering to me. Well, and that's clarity over agreement. Yes. Which and or the false agreement that the bipartisan coalition that has really, like I said, ruined our country in so many ways, not completely. but I find the American people have this yearning in this interest, especially young people for authenticity and our candidates,

and that's been deteriorating. So I have a question for you. And then in 10 years, do you think America will be more or less socialist? I ask this question of everybody, by the way. Can I answer with a caveat? Of course. If we can. continue the spending, and if we continue the erosion of who we are and the truth,

we will be much more socialist. If we have this real collapse, an actual depression, people who right now say, I am absolutely against socialism, they will want it to be able to weather that storm. And I'm afraid that we're on that track. However, I've been really heartened. I mean, Charlie, I don't think you know the impact. You say, oh, Glenn, you made an impact of my life. Do you realize the impact you're having on the country?

I mean, your organization didn't exist five years ago. It didn't exist. tonight I'm talking to 5,000 people and I, in this place it paid to come across the country. I was on a plane with all kinds of 18 to 24 year olds yesterday and I realized the people you have. You remember when I did the thing in Washington, D.C. and restoring honor. I do.

Right on the Washington Monument. Right. And I said that day, somewhere in this crowd, There is, maybe he's seven, maybe he's 15. I saw that speech. Yeah. Somewhere in this crowd is the next George Washington that will feel it right now. And I am so overwhelmed with the people that I have met from your organization and the people who are coming.

You're raising the next generation. You are, you and your organization really responsible for, what I think will be the next great generation, but also some real sucky ones are going to come out of this group, too, you know? I want to tell you something that Charlie and I spoke about. I have been saying for a while now, because I've been tracking this since really 2004, 2005, I've been tracking this slide into Marxism and communism,

socialism, radicalism, and I studied revolution all over the world to see how does it happen. And play cut 353. This is May of 2024. Listen to this. You and I both know, and I hate to even address stuff like this, but you and I both know, there are those people, and I don't know who, they are and I don't know how many there are. But there are those people that hate Donald Trump so much because they will destroy, because he will destroy their plans for a new world order. They will they would at least consider an actual assassination if this doesn't work. And that's terrifying. This is something that I had been saying for a while that we were going to go into a a period of assassination.

When I talked about assassinating the president or attempted assassination of the president, I was always very hesitant because I just always want to be very, very careful on what you say about a president or a candidate. But I knew they were coming because that's what happened in the 1960s and everything had been repeated. And Charlie and I, on one day, maybe 2018 or 2019, I can't remember, he said, what's coming? next and we were on this balcony in Miami and it was just the two of us and we had a really amazing conversation about what was what what our responsibilities were and what we had to look

out for and he said what is coming next and I said Charlie assassinations and I he said how do you see that and I said well Donald Trump is probably the biggest target but I don't know I don't know I mean you know last time in the 60s it was Malcolm X it was RFK and it was MLK and there were three of them and with an exception of our FK they were just they were people that were you know in the arena if you will and so Charlie and I talked about you know what do we what do we do if that starts happening and that's why I am so happy to see the way people that knew Charlie loved Charlie worked with Charlie were part of of T.P. USA were just fans of Charlie. I think everybody felt like they knew him because he was so

personal, but the way everybody is reacting. I wanted to play something that I have not even heard yet myself. This is something that was written by David Osmond because I knew these times were coming in. Probably 2018 is when this song was first written. for these days and here we are and last night my my daughter Cheyenne who was about 10 feet away from the tent in Utah last week thank God she turned her head and turned around because she was hearing people screaming at Charlie and she thought what are these idiots saying and she turned around and that's when she said she heard what she thought was a firecracker and by the time she turned back to look at charlie she was pushed to the ground so she didn't thank god to see it

firsthand last night she and david osman went into the studio to record this in honor of charlie kirk I know we don't see. I know we don't see everything in the same way. But I know we won't be. really free if we don't stay united because divided we will fall for anything it's true so i have decided i will stand for you and i will make us stand i will raise my voice I will hold your hand Because we are one

I will beat my drum I have made my choice We will overcome Because we are one Some we are one Some say There's no way Your way will ever be okay.

They say the best days are behind so wide and you will find. The times when the best man defend every friend, neighbor country man. But now there's nowhere. you can speak your mind but I will I will make a stand I will raise my voice I will hold your head

because we are one I will beat my drum I have made my choice we will overcome because we are one times may change but truth remains We won't be silence, won't be changed.

Because injustice anywhere threatens justice everywhere. I will make it stand. I will raise my voice. I will hold your hand because we are one. I will beat my drum. I have made my choice. We will overcome Because we are one

I will make a stare I will raise my voice I will hold your hand Because we are one I will beat my drum I have made my choice We will overcome Because we are one

When that song, I asked, I asked David to write that song, I asked David to write that song. I never thought it would be sung by my daughter for Charlie Kirk. it's amazing how the Lord works that song is so appropriate for Charlie because that's what he was doing standing up for your right to speak standing up for your right to be you standing shoulder to shoulder and being united

and I think that's why this is taking America and the world by storm. I think it's why we are uniting with people in South Korea and England and Kentucky and Tennessee and even California and New York. Because there's some basic principles and some basic truths that Charlie stood for. And the Lord is bringing us back to those. today I'm going to try to say this without tearing up I spent my first day in church in many years so tomorrow morning is my first time to go to church in many years we went to church today it was the

first time in 20 years the first time for our children I don't come from any kind of money and I've never owned a suit before day we went to church for their first time in a really long time is so powerful so many people it was beautiful beautiful service and i think we're going to keep going i didn't know charlie kirk never met that guy before in my life and something else that i've never done before in my life is believing god i'm going to wear this suit to church i'm going to go to church I'm going to try to be a better father, husband, and leader for my family. But what happened to Charlie Kirk made me angry and sad all at the same time? But at that time, it made me feel like I was missing something that I never realized I was missing.

We are raising three boys that will one day be. men. And we want those boys to be as strong in their convictions as Charlie Kirk was. You don't think it's crazy to get in church. Here's the line for the second service. And there's never a line. By the way, there's never a line. So if you are someone also that went to church for the first time ever, or for the first time in a very long time today. I'm with you and I'm so proud of you for being bold enough to go do that or to just take a stance and say this is wrong. It has been an exhausting day. We got here about 4.30 in the morning to do my national radio program. I have had bond threats before. We've had death threats before, but I've

never actually had to shut down my national radio show and evacuate the studio during a bomb threat that was that happened why don't even know two hours ago um we're now filling in for charlie kirk uh and uh i'm going to see erika here for the first time and uh i don't know i mean that might not be good for her to see me because i'm going to be a soppy mess i've had her you're surely going to embarrass yourself i am uh but my wife wife and I my wife is just obsessed she can't stop watching the kids and everything and just she's I can't watch it I can't watch it I'm having a hard time looking over in this corner because Erica did her speech right there last week anyway Anna Paulina Luna is here uh here uh hello Anna

how are you hi Glenn uh you were a dear dear friend of Charlie Kirk's. How are you holding up? I don't think anyone can ever anticipate something like this happening, but what I can tell you is Charlie would not want us to throw in the towel. And so I know that right now, everyone in the country, for good reason, is still kind of grappling at what happened. But what I am happy to see is the overwhelming support, not just in voter registration,

but the amount of young people, especially over 30,000 requests. for college campuses. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, don't diminish that. It's now 56,000 chapters that have been requested to be open, not new members, 56,000 chapters. That's incredible. It is, and I know that in the end, no matter what, Charlie really did win, because even half of that number would make an incredible difference on these college campuses.

and just a little bit, I guess, Glenn, of how I initially found turning point. This was a little quantum breadcrum, right? Like everyone, at some point in your life, you're going to see these little kind of Godwinks that will pop up and let you know that you're on your right path. But I remember being in my finals week when I was getting ready to graduate from college at University of West Florida, and I saw these two girls and they were tabling, and they had these pins that said big government sucks. And I remember going into the library and grabbing this pin, I was like, you know, that's

pretty cool. I'd even think, you know, that later on, fast forward, you know, a year later that I'd be working with Charlie and that turning point, but what I will tell you is that, you know, a lot of people, there needs to be action outside of the legislative and the federal branch. And, you know, what we're finding is that what Charlie was fighting, this indoctrination that was taking place on college campuses, these weren't just, you know, liberal professors from the 60s that had been radicalized, right? Like, this is actually a foreign government. funded operation. And a lot of these left-wing organizations that have been pushing these violent riots, the targeted campaigns, a lot of the people that have associations with these groups that are calling for assassinations of the president, of conservative commentators, and even of, you know, Charlie's family are tied to these organizations. And I guess what I'd like to share today is so, you know, Glenn, that we were on the show talking about Neville Shingham, how he was funding the party of socialism and liberation.

Code people, a lot of the stuff. Comer signed on a letter to the U.S. Treasury to freeze all of his assets, and I just met with Judge Deneen, and he's guilty of a FAR violation. I think the Department of Justice is going to be charging him with that. So, you know, for Charlie. Miracle of miracles. Yeah, we were just talking about this new George Soros information that Ryan Morrow has just released, or is it 1 o'clock Eastern yet? And it, I mean, you're going to be able to get George Soros information that Ryan Morrow has just released, or is it one o'clock Eastern yet? And it, I mean, you're going to be able to get George Soros. Soros on Rico charges, something I've been asking for for 15 years and it's happening. I think, you know, there's just no better name to name Charlie's movie than turning point. I mean, we are truly at a turning point and I couldn't be happier. I'm glad that everyone is doing what needs to be done because Charlie ultimately was a freedom fighter and everything that he was doing, you know, the GOP failed to recognize and he was able to transcend politics, but then also. the two able to share his message. And so, yes, it's been extremely hard.

It's been even harder to see some of the commentary coming out of people that I have to walk by every single day up here on the hill and not knowing him and then continuing this rhetoric. But what I will tell you is a lot of them know the truth and that he was not what they painted him out to be. And I am happy that he has the team in place that's standing with Turning Point because I know that this organization is going to continue, not just for voter engagement and for youth engagement, but to really help fight back.

And I think that there are a lot of very powerful people now that are listening to what needs to be done. And this is the change that we needed. Anna Paulina Luna, thank you so much. You know, the one thing that has come to me in prayer several times is these are not enemies of yours, Glenn. These are not enemies of yours. These are enemies of mine.

And he will deal with them. We just have to do the next right thing and stand exactly where he asks us to stand. Anna Paulina Luna, thank you so much. Thanks, Glenn. What I think is really promising about the kind of conservative movement is we don't all have to agree. We don't even all have to agree on tactics at times. It's almost as if the leftist media is attacking Donald Trump for not having everyone be exactly the same in the room,

almost as if that's what they're used to. They're used to looking at a press pool where there's no disagreement whatsoever, which is completely antithetical to. what journalism and expression should be. And so I actually applaud the fact that not everyone in the room agrees on every issue or sees eye to eye on even the way to go about advancing those issues. That's something that should be celebrated. We have Mike Lee, the senator from Utah on, Mike is a dear, dear friend, and I know

is a dear friend of Charlie's, and is one of the strongest constitutionalists in our our Senate and the man that I hope someday will be appointed as Supreme Court Justice. Welcome. Mike, how are you? Thank you, Glenn. It's good to be with you, as always. Can I talk to you just about Utah here for a second? I mean, if this is happening in Utah, this is everywhere. It is shocking to me that it came from Utah,

although maybe not so much seeing the response of UVU and the president of UVU. Do you have any comments on that? All of this is shocking. The events of last week are still echoing through our minds, many of us. Don't think that it happens, feeling that the killer was from Utah. There are things within Utah that don't make sense right now. There are, I think one could say that Utah is fairly mismatched in several respects. It's mismatched with its own media institutions, which lean overwhelmingly radically left.

It's mismatched with a lot of elements within its educational system, primary and secondary and higher education, where you've got a very conservative populace on the whole. Of course, there are exceptions everywhere. But these institutions in education and in the media are stand in stark contrast. It's almost like we've got the media of Mother Jones in a state that's much more in line with National Review or. Fox News or something else like that. And so that really is creating some turmoil within the state and some disagreements and cognitive dissonance at times on the part of the left, which still refuses to acknowledge some of the problems that we're facing. And it's deeply concerning. Mike, let me switch.

And one of the reasons why I'm so glad that you are in the Senate and beg you to stay every time election comes up, please, Mike, please run again. um is i am afraid that and i'm already seeing signs of it that there are those that like big government who are also conservative or say they are conservative but they're big government um and i'm so afraid of a patriot act coming out of this and there was something put up on change what is it change dot org and I read through it it was about a new Smith Munt Act and it was honestly

it was terrifying the way it was written and got a lot of likes a lot of people are saying yeah that's what we got to do and the Smith can you explain the Smith Munt Act on what it did it actually stems back from World War I and World War II

but what it was keeping at bay and then why it was repealed in 2011 yes it was It's interesting how this is unfolded. During the old war era in particular, as you point out, this all started in World War I. I think it grew to a much bigger size during World War II

and in the aftermath on the Cold War. But the US established a fairly sophisticated propaganda system for use overseas, for use in other countries to deliver the messages we wanted, consistent with America's interests abroad. The Smith-Mund Act, among other things, prohibited the U.S. government from using that same propaganda machine for domestic political propaganda. In other words, find for us to use this in our foreign adversary nations or direct it to them. Don't use it on our own citizens,

because a big government already does enough to influence what we do. It tells us what we do are supposed to do at every turn. We don't also need our government telling us what to think. So that's why Smith Monk was adopted. I think it's really important before you move on to the repeal. I think it's really important. That happened in 1946. But it really stems from World War I. The I Want You poster was not a Smith, I mean, not a Creel creation.

However, the Creel operatives, they were the ones in the government that put that in every post office and every, you know, every theater, everywhere. They did all these kinds of things to get Americans hyped into World War I. When World War I ended, they felt betrayed by their own government. They were like, you lied to us about all of this stuff. And they realized propaganda was being used. That's why we were so isolationists up until 1941 when they brought it home to us. And we were very isolationist because we felt our government lied to us because of this propaganda. So as we're turning on propaganda overseas for the Russians and, you know, the voice of America, the Democrats were the ones who led this, said you cannot use any of this propaganda on the American people.

We signed it in, and then 2011, what happened? Well, as part of the Defense Authorization Act during the Obama administration, the Senate, this piece in there didn't get much attention at the time. I voted against it, of course, but it undid it. Nobody really offered much of a defense as to why it needed to happen, and they hoped that it would go through largely unseen, largely undiscussed, and it did. And it's time to bring it back. It's time to bring back the prohibition. Look, there's no good reason in a free society like ours for our government

to be manipulating its own people. And that's why I've introduced a bill to bring back this prohibition in Smith Month. And in honor of our friend, lost his life a week ago, I'm naming it the Charlie Kirk Act. Charlie was a big fan of limited government, was a deep skeptic of the brooding omnipresent government that we often face today and would have been thrilled to be honored by a measure to bring back Smith Munt bearing his name, and we've got to get this passed. Yeah, this is so important. I mean, you saw it firsthand.

If you were, you know, if you were alive during COVID, you know the propaganda that was done by our government in league with big pharmaceuticals and the media. That was all propaganda. And they could get away with it because the Smith Munkdak was. had been repealed. All of the stuff that you have gone through with propaganda, where they are setting up, you know, truth squads, where the government will say what's true and what's not. All of that happened because of the repeal of this act in 2011. You want to stop it. You have to put that back in. And he is calling it the Charlie Kirk Act. And when did you introduce or when will you introduce this? We introduced it this week. I believe it was yesterday.

that it was formally introduced may have been the day before but it's time for it to happen look i have yet to hear a really good effective defense of the repeal of smith month not in 2012 when it was passed as part of the of the national defense authorization act for for fiscal year 2013 and not since then people are actually afraid to defend it and they're afraid with good reason You just think, the American people don't take kindly to that. The American people don't take kindly to their overly paternalistic, sort of a dark overlord government trying to tell them what to think, trying to tell them, here's the official position of the United States government. We're not actually going to tell you that that's what's doing it. We're just going to use the same techniques that we use overseas to try to get what we want in other countries on American voters.

That's wrong. because you're taking money from the American people, you're spending it, and tell them what to think and therefore how to vote, and that's wrong. And I really don't think there are very many Americans. I suspect this one would poll overwhelmingly in favor of restoring the prohibitions of Smith-Mont,

and that's what we've got to do. It's amazing because I've been so concerned that we'll go the wrong direction, we'll do another Patriot Act, and this one is in the right direction, and it actually handcuffs our government, puts the chains back on the government, which is exactly the opposite of what happened last time, you know, with the Patriot Act. We unleash the government, and this is such a good sign that this is coming.

How many sponsors do you have for it, Mike? You know, I am not sure on that. I should know that, and I don't, but we're gathering sponsors still. We can use all the sponsors we can get. And so if you're listening today and you're not sure whether your senator supports it, ask him or her to get behind it and to co-sponsor the Charlie Kirk Act. Heaven knows we need it. Where do we go from here, Mike?

What do you see in the cards? As far as where we go from here, with this particular bill, we've just got to continue to send a message that if we learned anything from COVID, If we learned anything from who knows how many other incidents, how many other episodes or seasons when the government got too involved in telling us things that turned out to be true, that turned out to be very untrue and turned out to be manipulative, the more we can get that message out and just remind people of the fact that governments are there to do some very simple tasks to protect life, liberty, and property. This government in particular is there to provide for our national defense and perform. a handful of other tests, identified in Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution. Happy Constitution Day, by the way. That's right.

More we can get people focused on that, the greater our chances are going to be to get this thing done. As far as where we go from here more broadly, I do think this is a great opportunity for Americans to refocus on the fact that our government and what it does could never be something that's big enough that's a significant enough part of people's lives to where they define themselves and their significance in this life according to what does, even to the point where people feel compelled to murder someone who doesn't share their political worldview, simply because other people happen to be listening to that person. Part of what was so tragic about this event is it was a parent a week ago. Charlie Kirk wasn't.

taken down because the shooter didn't like, I don't know, his choice of apparel or what he likes to eat. It was based on his political views. That should by itself be a signal to us that something's gone terribly wrong. This government has gotten way too big. It's gotten way too prominent and we need to bring it back. And it's a good way of wrapping it back into Constitution Day. When we celebrate Constitution Day, we have to remember the whole point of the Constitution is to restrain government. Laws typically restrain individuals. The Constitution's whole purpose is to restrain government. Every provision in it is there as a restraint on government, and we need to accept it as such. Senator Mike Lee from the great state of Utah, thank you so much for talking

to me, Mike. I appreciate it. Thank you so much. On this election, we want to try to lose by less with younger voters, and then we are going to create the most sophisticated, low propensity, get out the vote turnout machine in modern political history for the right. And here was our theory of the case, first on the get out the vote, which is that we believed that there were millions of people that were Trump supporters that were not Trump voters. The people that would say, yay, Trump, and they would be with them, but they weren't putting a ballot in a box. They weren't casting a vote. And we tested the theory of the case when I started to go to Trump rallies, and I would ask people, and I'd take a lot of selfies. People are super nice and they love the country.

And one out of 30 people, I'd say, hey, are you registered to vote? And they'd say, oh, yeah, I think so, yeah. And I'd get this kind of, you know, half answer. And so I went back to my team. I said, guys, I think there's a lot more in this reservoir than we realize. And so we compared it with the data, with the Trump campaign, which we were allowed to do, thanks to a FBC ruling back in the spring. And we said, guys, let's beat the left at their own game. Let's engage. in early voting, even though it's a flawed system, in a way that has never been done before, because it gives us actually more days to get low, likely voters to go vote. If you have 30 days to do it, you can then get someone who is not as easy to persuade to vote, because then you can get

five or six touches on them. So we hired well over 1,000 full-time people. It's the greatest ground force that's ever done. We raised tens of millions of dollars, praise God, from our donors. And we pitched them on this saying, hey, the road to the White House is going to be going through these states. We know that. We're going to need to first register a ton of voters, build relationships in communities, and then drive a turnout machine over a 30-day period to get Donald Trump across the finish line. And the states that we primarily focused on was Arizona, Wisconsin. We had some work, of course, in Pennsylvania, in Georgia, but really Arizona, Wisconsin.

And in Wisconsin, I can tell you that if it wasn't for our effort, Donald Trump would have fallen short. We chased in excess of over 70,000 low propensity voters in Wisconsin. Wow. Donald Trump won by 28,000 votes. Here in Arizona, as we are speaking, we still have 850,000 votes left to count. We like to take at least 90 days to count our ballots here. It's a joke. And Carrie Lake is only down 40. It's really something else. I know it is. I know it is. By St. Patrick's Day, we'll find out who won the Senate race. But Carrie Lake is down 44,000 votes here in Arizona. And she might fall 10,000 votes short or win by

10,000 votes, but thanks to our effort and the team, we closed an eight-point polling gap for Carrie Lake. And so, look, basically what we did is we took this movement that Donald Trump created, that Donald Trump led, and we added machinery to the movement. And we were able to successfully turn Trump supporters into Trump voters. My name is Glenn Beck. It has been a true honor to fill in for Charlie today. And we're going to be kind of hanging around for a few days until Sunday. But the feeling here is godly, very godly. Tyler Boyer's with us.

He is the CEO, C-O-O-O of Turning Point Action. We just played a clip of Charlie and I talking right after the election last time. And I've talked to people who said, what you guys have planned for the midterms and even looking forward to 2028 is awesome, going to make it. look like child's play what happened last time are you concerned at all you know uh glan thank you for that i mean i'm obviously this has been a lot to process this whole last week uh you know i'm the c o because charlie's the CEO so losing you know the the head of the the household here

has been has been tough i think for all of us but the the beautiful part about what we've done and we've been doing is we've been putting our pen to paper this entire time, really focused on what the plan is, like you mentioned, focused on 2028 and working our way backwards from that, looking at 2032 and working our way backwards. And when you do it, when you take that process, I mean, that's the way that the left does it. When you take that process, you can actually formulate a plan pretty quickly. And that's what we've done with our Chase the Vote initiative. You know, the really great thing is Charlie was not a guy. You weren't, you weren't joining because you were a fan of him. I mean, he was teaching principles.

So the base is principle-based. That's right. And that's really a healthy thing. Yeah, I mean, that's at the core of the elections. 2028 in particular is really focused on the grassroots. We are our number one culture point that we have at Turning Point USA and Turning Point Action is what we call grassroots humility. If you focus on the grassroots, then you get candidates that the grassroots wants to work for. And then therefore it kind of builds the program for you.

And that's really the beauty of turning point and where we felt like we had to step up really coming out of the 2022 election when we realized that, you know, everybody was not being honest that the, what I call the Republican establishment, the core at the, you know. I like to call them the evil empire. The national Republican apparatus. Yeah. The evil empire, whatever you want to call them. But the apparatus itself was kind of lying to people and saying, hey, we've got this handle. We've got this handle. We can do this.

we could do this red wave red wave and they didn't show up with anybody and so we knew and this is the beauty of of charlie and what we had done was we had seen the culmination of of how many people kind of became disciples a turning point and we knew that we could take that and we had to take that talent and convert it into action and so that's what really built the c4 plan heading into It was really interesting thinking about the coverage leading up to the election. Turning point, I think, was really put on the line by the coverage. And I think this was intentional. There was a big belief that if Trump lost, if this didn't turn out the right way,

there was someone to blame at it. And it was you and Charlie. It was turning point. That was the big setup beforehand. Oh, you're going to put Charlie Kirk ahead of your turnout operation. I mean, was there a moment where you were like, This is really a moment that's going to make or break not only the country, but also this organization. The beautiful part about being right next to Charlie Kirk for as many years as I've been is that it's a pressure cooker unlike anything else.

Even with the small stuff in the early days is that we live for this pressure. I mean, that's at the end of the day. You talk about Super Bowls, the Super Bowls. That's what you have to, you know, that's what you want. You want the coverage. You want to invite in all of that. I think the real beauty in the story from this last election cycle, and I'm so glad everything worked out the way it did, you know, not knowing at the time that it was going to be the last time that we would, you know, run a race together, right? Like, do the work? Because that, that wasn't the plan. That was never the anticipated outcome here. But looking back, it's now, it's been really hard thinking about all this last week was this is, I value that. And those individual experiences,

where it was tough, where people did put all that pressure on us, I wouldn't have it any other way. I really would not have it any other way at all because, excuse me, because had it not been positioned that way, I don't know if the celebration of what we were able to accomplish for this last election would feel the same. And what that would lead into for this next election cycle in the future.

out what the legacy of Charlie Kirk will be. And so that's what we have to live up to. That's what we have to do. We are your friends because we're your friends, but we also believe in your mission. And we know what you guys are doing. We are here for you at any time, anything you need. Thank you very much, William.

I appreciate that. We love you. And we love everybody at Turning Point. If you want to get involved, go to TurningPoint.com. Thank you. Thank you.