Charlie Kirk on President Trump's Executive Order Protecting Free Speech on College Campuses

[00:00] President Trump recently issued a

[00:02] much-needed executive order protecting

[00:04] free speech on college campuses Donald

[00:08] Trump jr. acknowledged how much my first

[00:10] guest had to do with that I want you to

[00:12] welcome the founder and the executive

[00:14] director of turning-point USA charlie

[00:17] Kirk

[00:18] [Applause]

[00:22] [Music]

[00:25] so Charlie how big a deal was it that

[00:29] the President issued the executive order

[00:30] about free speech on college campuses it

[00:33] was historic and for those that are not

[00:37] as into the college campus controversies

[00:40] as I am these campuses have become

[00:42] islands a totalitarianism where if you

[00:45] disagree with the predominant left-wing

[00:48] viewpoint on campus you could be

[00:50] disinvited you can be shut up you could

[00:53] be silenced you have been on many many

[00:55] times whether it be DePaul University in

[00:57] Chicago or Cornell University in Ithaca

[01:00] New York

[01:00] and what this executive order did is

[01:02] very simple it's not a conservative or a

[01:04] liberal issue it's an issue of

[01:06] constitutional freedom that if a

[01:08] university fails to protect the First

[01:10] Amendment rights of its students their

[01:12] federal funding could potentially be put

[01:14] in jeopardy when you've been on college

[01:16] campuses you have actually been shouted

[01:19] down you've been disinvited you've been

[01:21] escorted off the campus what was the

[01:23] reason you were given for being shown

[01:26] the door well the universities they

[01:29] they're careful not to blame viewpoint

[01:31] they all values oh it's too expensive to

[01:34] bring him to campus because of all the

[01:35] protests now mind you the professor's

[01:38] are telling their students to go protest

[01:39] me the administration does nothing to

[01:42] prevent this sort of incitement amongst

[01:46] the students and then they blame the

[01:47] high security cost because of the very

[01:48] students that are being told to go

[01:50] protest us but the common denominator is

[01:53] this is that college campuses should be

[01:55] a marketplace of ideas we're gonna have

[01:57] debate and dialogue and discussion where

[01:59] you can hear something that is different

[02:01] than the point of view that you're

[02:02] entering with that college campuses are

[02:04] a place where students shall leave

[02:05] should leave more mature than when they

[02:07] enter and right now that's not the case

[02:09] students are actually isolated there

[02:12] they're sheltered away from any sort of

[02:13] opposition viewpoint their safe spaces

[02:15] for example are common on universities

[02:18] across college campuses and you've had

[02:20] some brilliant commentary on this

[02:21] governor where students if they hear an

[02:24] opinion they might find objectionable

[02:25] quite honestly if they hear something

[02:27] they disagree with they can retreat to a

[02:29] physical safe space where there's milk

[02:31] and cookies it sounds like almost like a

[02:33] joke but this is something that our

[02:34] college campuses are pushing the

[02:36] colleges should be about career

[02:38] preparation and getting students

[02:39] hardened for the real world not

[02:41] sheltering them from differing opinions

[02:43] when turning-point USA started back in

[02:46] 2012 I mean it was just a dream you had

[02:50] now you and Candace Owens and others in

[02:52] turning point you have chapters all over

[02:53] America explain to us the vision of

[02:56] turning-point what is it that you guys

[02:58] are doing on campuses to give people a

[03:01] sense of their freedom and their

[03:03] constitutional rights

[03:04] well thank thank you for the kind words

[03:06] I started this in I was 18 years old

[03:08] with a no connections no money and no

[03:11] idea what I was doing but only in

[03:13] America could a kid with no money no

[03:15] connections and no idea what he was

[03:16] doing risk it all not even go to college

[03:19] be an entrepreneur at heart with with a

[03:21] vision and hard work and succeed only in

[03:23] America is that possible and for the

[03:25] last six and a half years now we've seen

[03:27] this organization grow from just my idea

[03:30] just an idea in my head to now 1,400

[03:32] college and high school absences hundred

[03:34] that's correct is fantastic what a

[03:37] legacy and our vision our vision is to

[03:42] win America's culture work now what does

[03:44] that mean well it's to answer the really

[03:46] big questions what kind of country are

[03:48] we gonna be are we gonna be a country

[03:49] that embraces the Latin phrase a

[03:51] pluribus unum which means out of many

[03:52] one which your beautiful monologue

[03:54] touched on are we gonna be a country

[03:56] that is divide and conquer which is what

[03:58] the American Left is really striving

[04:00] down or are we gonna be a country of

[04:02] victims or victors are we gonna be a

[04:04] country that is thankful that we live

[04:05] here our country that were angry that we

[04:07] live here these are the fundamental

[04:09] questions that will determine the

[04:10] current culture conversation that were

[04:13] and we call a culture war obviously a

[04:14] metaphorical culture war and right now

[04:16] you have an entire political party an

[04:19] entire sector of the American cultural

[04:21] conversation that wants to make us

[04:23] centered on victims divide and conquer

[04:25] and angry that they live in America so

[04:26] what are the key things that you're

[04:27] trying to say to these students three

[04:29] really big things America is the

[04:31] greatest country ever to exist in a

[04:32] history of the world the Constitution

[04:34] thank you

[04:36] can't argue that second thing is the

[04:39] constitution's the greatest political

[04:40] document ever written and the third

[04:42] thing and the third thing is that free

[04:47] enterprise capitalism is the most moral

[04:49] proven and effective economic system

[04:51] ever discovered these are the three big

[04:53] things that we bring the campuses I'll

[04:55] tell you these are not political issues

[04:57] governor we have been given a gift by

[04:58] God to live in this country and as we

[05:01] prayed that we are on a path of losing

[05:04] that because of a lack of appreciation

[05:05] of the fundamental values and the

[05:09] improbability that we're able to exist

[05:10] in this country at this time I love your

[05:12] enthusiasm and even your optimism

[05:15] because a lot of us are looking at

[05:16] college students and particularly the

[05:18] entire millennial generation and we're

[05:19] seeing them say we want socialism you

[05:22] know we don't want free speech but

[05:23] you're giving me a little bit of hope

[05:25] charlie that once they understand what

[05:27] the options are they're not averse to

[05:30] taking the right path not at all and the

[05:33] importance of our fight is is so

[05:35] critical right now because whatever

[05:36] happens on campus today will happen in

[05:38] Congress tomorrow the radicals that

[05:40] might give you unease that you see in

[05:42] Congress they were trained on college

[05:44] campuses and that's where they got these

[05:46] negative ideas and so the culture battle

[05:48] that we're fighting today is gonna have

[05:49] both short and long term ramifications

[05:51] my thanks to Charlie Kirk for helping

[05:54] just fight the battle for free speech

[05:56] against mobs and the thought police and

[05:59] America's campuses if you want to learn

[06:01] more and see how you can help and you

[06:03] can help and I hope you will if you like

[06:06] what Charlie's saying visit Turning

[06:08] Point USA online at TP usa.com you can

[06:13] also follow him on twitter at charlie

[06:15] kirk 11 and i tell you something his

[06:17] twitter account

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