Vivek Ramaswamy Honors Charlie Kirk's Vision at Montana Turning Point USA Event and Addresses Trump's Crime Crackdown

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[00:01] PRESIDENT TRUMP.

[00:02] IT'S INTERESTING.

[00:03] GARRETT, THANK YOU.

[00:04] IN "FOCUS" NOW VIVEK RAMASWAMY,

[00:07] REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE FOR

[00:08] GOVERNOR IN THE GREAT STATE OF

[00:09] OHIO.

[00:10] WE'LL GET INTO PRESIDENT TRUMP'S

[00:11] CRIME CRACKDOWN IN A MOMENT.

[00:13] I WANT TO START WITH A MASSIVE

[00:15] TURNING POINT USA EVENT IN

[00:18] MONTANA LAST NIGHT.

[00:19] WE HAVE SEEN CHARLIE KIRK'S

[00:21] VISION GROWING JUST LIKE HIS

[00:23] WIDOW ERIKA KIRK PRAYED ABOUT

[00:25] AND IS DELIVERING.

[00:26] VIVEK, YOU WERE THERE.

[00:27] WE GOT SOME OF IT, ALONG WITH

[00:31] MONTANA GOVERNOR.

[00:33] LET'S WATCH A FEW MINUTES FROM

[00:34] THAT MONTANA EVENT.

[00:39] >> HE WILL BE SORELY MISSED BUT

[00:41] THE WORK OF TURNING POINT USA

[00:43] CONTINUES AND HAS BEEN AMPLIFIED

[00:46] BY HIS PASSING.

[00:48] THE QUESTION FOR EACH OF US

[00:50] TONIGHT IS HOW DO WE CONTINUE

[00:52] CHARLIE'S WORK?

[00:54] CHARLIE WAS NOT A COLLEGE

[00:57] GRADUATE.

[00:58] HE EDUCATED HIMSELF.

[01:00] AND FRANKLY, BETTER THAN MOST

[01:03] COLLEGE GRADUATES.

[01:05] HE DISCIPLINED HIMSELF TO LEARN

[01:09] ECONOMICS, HISTORY, PHILOSOPHY,

[01:14] THEOLOGY.

[01:14] HE READ WHAT THE GREAT MINDS HAD

[01:17] WRITTEN.

[01:17] >> FOR YEARS COLLEGE STUDENTS

[01:19] WITH CONSERVATIVE VIEWS LIKE

[01:20] MANY OF YOU WERE TAUGHT TO SHUT

[01:22] UP, SIT DOWN, KEEP THEIR VIEWS

[01:24] TO THEMSELVES.

[01:24] THANKS TO ONE MAN, OVER THE LAST

[01:26] YEAR WE REACHED A NEW DAWN IN

[01:28] THIS COUNTRY.

[01:29] YOUNG CONSERVATIVES LIKE MANY OF

[01:32] YOU STARTED TO FEEL FREE TO

[01:33] SPEAK IN THE OPEN AGAIN.

[01:34] IF WE HAVE THE COURAGE TO STAND

[01:36] FOR WHAT IS RIGHT, WHAT IS TRUE,

[01:38] WHAT IS GOOD, WHAT IS BEAUTIFUL,

[01:41] THAT HAS ALWAYS BEEN THE

[01:42] AMERICAN WAY.

[01:43] >> Harris: VIVEK, IT IS GREAT TO

[01:45] SEE YOU AND LISTEN TO SOME OF

[01:47] THOSE WORDS FROM LAST NIGHT.

[01:48] TALK TO ME ABOUT THAT EVENT AND

[01:50] WHAT YOU REALLY WANT PEOPLE TO

[01:52] WALK AWAY FROM WHO ARE YOUNG,

[01:53] WHO ARE MISSING CHARLIE AND HIS

[01:57] VISION.

[01:58] >> LOOK, WE TALKED ABOUT LAST

[01:59] NIGHT IS THE WAY WE CARRY ON

[02:01] CHARLIE'S LEGACY AND THE LEGACY

[02:03] OF OUR FOUNDING FATHERS IS TO

[02:05] ASK WHAT WE ACTUALLY STAND FOR.

[02:07] I THINK THIS IS THE TOUGH

[02:09] QUESTION FOR THE FUTURE FORK IN

[02:10] THE WORD FOR THE CONSERVATIVE

[02:12] MOVEMENT.

[02:12] DO WE CARE ABOUT DEFEATING THE

[02:15] LEFT OR DO WE CARE ABOUT SAVING

[02:17] THE COUNTRY?

[02:18] THE QUESTION WE ANSWERED LAST

[02:19] NIGHT RESOUNDINGLY IS WE CAVE

[02:20] ABOUT SAVING THE COUNTRY.

[02:22] THIS ISN'T ABOUT OWNING THE

[02:26] LIBS, IT IS OWNING

[02:27] RESPONSIBILITY FOR OUR NATION,

[02:28] INDIVIDUAL, FAMILY, NATION AND

[02:30] GOD, STAND FOR THAT INSTEAD OF

[02:31] WORRYING ABOUT RACE, GENDER,

[02:33] SEXUALITY OR CLIMATE.

[02:34] I THINK A LOT OF THOSE YOUNG

[02:37] PEOPLE.

[02:37] I UNDERSTAND WHY GEN Z HAS LOST

[02:39] THEIR CONVICTION IN THE AMERICAN

[02:41] DREAM.

[02:42] HOUSING FEELS OUT OF REACH,

[02:43] YOUNG WORKERS ARE WORKING HARD

[02:44] YET THEY FEEL LIKE THEY AREN'T

[02:46] ABLE TO GET AHEAD.

[02:48] FREE SPEECH EVEN FEELS LIKE AN

[02:50] ILLUSION WHEN THE GUY WHO GAVE

[02:52] YOU INSPIRATION WAS ASSASSINATED

[02:54] IN COLD BLOOD.

[02:55] MY MENTION TO GEN Z.

[02:57] YOU CAN'T BE CYNICAL ABOUT OUR

[02:59] COUNTRY.

[02:59] IT'S THE LAST BEST HOPE WE HAVE

[03:00] ON EARTH AND OUR JOB AS LEADERS

[03:02] TO REVIVE A NEW AMERICAN DREAM

[03:04] IN THIS COUNTRY.

[03:05] NOT WHAT WE'RE RUNNING FROM, BUT

[03:07] NOW THE QUESTION IS WHAT ARE WE

[03:09] RUNNING TO.

[03:10] IT IS TO THAT NEW AMERICAN DREAM

[03:11] AND THAT'S THE VISION WE LAID

[03:13] OUT LAST NIGHT.

[03:14] IT WAS A BEAUTIFUL DISCUSSION

[03:17] WITH ABOUT AN HOUR AND A HALF OF

[03:19] Q & A THAT FOLLOWED.

[03:20] >> Harris: I'VE INTERVIEWED MANY

[03:21] TIMES.

[03:22] WE DID A VOTERS' VOICES GROUP

[03:24] LIVE IN STUDIO.

[03:25] ALL THE THINGS.

[03:26] I HAVE TO ASK YOU IN POLITICS

[03:28] AND WHAT THEY ARE TODAY AND IN

[03:31] TEACHING THOSE YOUNG PEOPLE HOW

[03:32] DO YOU STAY SO POSITIVE AND SO

[03:34] OPTIMISTIC AND GET THEM TO DO

[03:38] IT?

[03:38] >> WELL, I'M GUIDED BY GRATITUDE

[03:40] TO THIS COUNTRY.

[03:41] YOU THINK ABOUT IT.

[03:44] MY PARENTS CAME TO THIS COUNTRY

[03:47] WITH NOTHING.

[03:48] I'VE FOUNDED SUCCESSFUL COMPANY,

[03:51] MARRIED MY LIFE, A SUCCESSFUL

[03:55] SURGEON WHO COME.

[03:56] IMMIGRANTS WHO CAME WITH NOTHING

[03:57] TO THEIR NAME AND RAISING OUR

[03:58] KIDS NOW IN CIRCUMSTANCES OUR

[04:02] PARENTS WOULD HAVE NEVER

[04:03] IMAGINED 45 YEARS AGO.

[04:04] THE EXTRAORDINARY THING ABOUT

[04:05] THAT STORY IN THIS COUNTRY IS

[04:07] IT'S NOT THAT EXTRAORDINARY IN

[04:09] THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

[04:10] LOOK AT PEOPLE AT THE HIGHEST

[04:11] LEVELS OF THIS COUNTRY FROM

[04:13] POLITICS TO BUSINESS.

[04:13] THESE ARE PEOPLE WHO HAVE LIVED

[04:15] THAT AMERICAN DREAM.

[04:16] I KNOW IT EXISTS AND IT'S REAL

[04:18] BECAUSE I'VE LIVED IT AND

[04:20] GRATEFUL AND GUIDED BY GRATITUDE

[04:22] AND I WANT TO SHARE THAT

[04:23] GRATITUDE WITH YOUNG PEOPLE MANY

[04:25] OF WHOM ARE UNDERSTANDABLY

[04:27] STRUGGLING.

[04:27] WE HAVE TO REVIVE THAT NEW

[04:30] AMERICAN DREAM, WE BRING DOWN

[04:32] THE COST OF HOUSING BUILDING

[04:33] MORE HOMES AND CELEBRATING FREE

[04:35] SPEECH AND CULTURALLY AS

[04:37] CONSERVATIVES.

[04:38] THE HARDER PART FOR US, HOLD

[04:40] OURSELVES TO OUR OWN STANDARDS.

[04:42] DON'T PLAY BY THE RULES OF THE

[04:43] OTHER SIDE SILENCEINGS,

[04:45] CANCELING, BERATING.

[04:48] WE HOLD OURSELVES TO THE

[04:50] FOUNDING FOUNDERS, THAT'S HARDER

[04:52] TO DO BUT OUR CALL TO ACTION

[04:54] GOING FORWARD AND WHAT WE SPENT

[04:55] MOST OF LAST NIGHT TALKING ABOUT

[04:57] IN MONTANA.

[04:58] >> Harris: WE'LL APPLY THAT

[05:00] OPTIMISM TO SOMETHING THAT

[05:01] PRESIDENT TRUMP IS TRYING

[05:02] MIGHTILY TO ACCOMPLISH.

[05:04] THAT IS TO CRACK DOWN ON CRIME

[05:08] PARTICULARLY IN BLUE CITIES.

[05:09] CHICAGO AND PORTLAND IN "FOCUS."

[05:12] A OPINION PIECE DARING USE

[05:15] DEMOCRATS HAVE THEMSELVES TO

[05:16] BLAME FOR TRUMP'S NATIONAL GUARD

[05:18] PATROLS.

[05:19] WE LED INTO IT WITH A BIT OF

[05:20] REPORTING.

[05:22] THIS IS NOW TRUMP AGAINST THE

[05:24] CRIMINALS AND THE DEMOCRATS

[05:25] AGAINST TRUMP.

[05:25] THEY ARE NOT FIGHTING THE RIGHT

[05:28] PEOPLE HERE.

[05:31] >> LOOK, I THINK ON ONE HAND I

[05:33] DON'T DISAGREE IT'S TRUMP

[05:34] AGAINST THE CRIMINALS.

[05:36] IT'S 90% OF THIS COUNTRY AGAINST

[05:38] CRIMINALS.

[05:42] 90% OF US AGREE YOU WANT TO

[05:44] ENJOY A WALK OF YOUR CITY

[05:47] WITHOUT THE FEAR OF LOOKING OVER

[05:49] YOUR SHOULDER FOR BEING BEATEN

[05:51] UP OR MURDERED.

[05:52] THAT'S A RIGHT VERSUS WRONG

[05:54] ISSUE, NOT LEFT VERSUS RIGHT.

[05:56] KEEPING THE SPIRIT OF POSITIVITY

[05:58] AND SOLUTIONS WE CAN FIX IT,

[06:00] RIGHT?

[06:00] HARD FACTS ON VIOLENT CRIME IS

[06:02] WORTH REMEMBERING THIS.

[06:03] THE VAST MAJORITY OF CRIMES ARE

[06:05] COMMITTED BY A TINY, TINY, TINY

[06:07] NUMBER OF PEOPLE AND EVEN IF YOU

[06:09] LOOK AT THE LOCATIONS OF THE

[06:10] CRIMES IN A CITY, OVER 50% OF

[06:13] CRIMES ARE COMMITTED IN A 5% OR

[06:15] LESS LOCATION IN A CITY.

[06:16] SO THE FACT OF THE MATTER IS WE

[06:19] KNOW HOW TO SOLVE THIS PRESAGS

[06:21] POLICING GETS THIS DONE.

[06:22] MOST OF US AGREE.

[06:23] THE FACT THAT THE DEMOCRATIC

[06:25] PARTY IS HELD HOSTAGE TO A TINY

[06:28] FRINGE OF THE COUNTRY OF THEIR

[06:29] BASE IS A SHAME BUT IT IS UP TO

[06:32] OUR SIDE TO LEAD.

[06:34] >> Harris: POLICY IS COMING FROM

[06:35] ONE SIDE, YOUR SIDE, THE

[06:37] REPUBLICANS AND THE PRESIDENT.

[06:39] JUST ARGUING AND A WHOLE LOT OF

[06:41] NAME CALLING AND SOMETIMES

[06:43] VIOLENCE FROM