Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome president nixons grandson, Christopher Nixon cox. [applause] ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the nixon library, and welcome to this beautiful replica of the east room. I am Christopher Nixon cox, a board member of the Nixon Foundation as was the grandson of the 37th president , Richard Nixon i am so happy to welcome you to the library. I see a lot of new faces makes me really excited and i see a lot of young faces so we have a lot of young conservatives. [applause] its great to see and i would encourage all of you after the event today to walk around the library. Of course it is one of my Favorite Places for obvious reasons but one of my favorite in the world i think it is the birthplace, its beautiful, we have redone a lot of the exhibits so theres a lot of new stuff to see and if you come back you can visit the archives and do a Little Research into my grandfathers presidency is so much to do so i am so happy to have you here today but of course tonight, today we will begin the program by honoring the nation as we always do but first will you please welcome the special guest today, charlie kirk. [applause] [cheering]. [applause] please give another round of applause to the jrotc Navy National guard and the High School Jazz ensemble for the beautiful tribute to our nation. [applause] there a few moments in life when you realize how old you are getting. I have been coming here for decades actually and who is significantly younger than i am. We are very happy to have Charlie Couric here with us tonight a great thinker and author and political figure the founder of turning point usa im sure many of you are aware. [applause] the preeminent Education Today and founding what made the american the United States great. [applause] that the High School Elementary level. This is whats happening in the School System we did the voice of people like Charlie Couric out there to show kids and that is the right way to live the life to support your country and that is what is so exciting and that is important about the conservative movement. But when founded in 2012 i was actually at the convention with Charlie Couric and i remember foster freeze said you should come to this meeting and i said maybe i want to have to do a couple of other things that shows wise foster freeze is a success will billionaire because he made a very good decision to back charlie. We are here on [laughter] he is here today not only a great defense of growing jobs and known as the Great Peacemaker and to defeat socialism that was growing too strong in the United States. And this is what i admire most about charlie is not just policy prescription talk about edmund burke and then also compares Kathy Griffin to the elites in rome who murdered cicero. This is heavy stuff. [laughter] but then finally on a personal level i was drawn to parts of the book and then to take the sledgehammer to the elites who ran washington to both parties. [applause] into feel that my grandfather did the same thing in the seventies with allies like fox news and Charlie Couric to defend him for what he was doing to the elites in the 1970s. Im so happy to welcome him here today because we need his voice. I cant wait to hear what he has to say today. Thank you for coming. [applause] hello everybody. Thank you so much thank you to the whole Leadership Team here at the library it is tremendous a very long month this week. [laughter] crisscrossed the country a couple times from new york to dc in birmingham alabama and then florida and now here we are. We have a country to save and we have to act like it. It has been amazing. Thank you. [applause] it is still number one on amazon which is amazing. We are very pleased by that. And overwhelmed by the response. And what is important i run turning point usa the longest Student Service organization. [applause] fighting for american exceptionalism. Obviously is not always easy when we say offense to the culture war. We will go where conservatives have been losing the last couple decades and to see what they will do on campuses that would be one of the most important legacies of turning point usa have been so the way by the success of the Trump Presidency and how he can succeed but im equally anxious because i dont want to have the Republican Party go back to Big Government management and then bowing down to china. And then to positive recalibrate for generations and its important to learn from it so our generation learns from the success of the Trump Administration for the better. I wrote this book partly for that reason but i was watching cable news and i kept coming across the left wing prognosticators and pundits telling me what President Trump believes. You hate him. You hate us you hate all of us and i am supposed to listen to you . They say he does this because he wants to enrich his businesses he has no guiding philosophy his and then guided missile. I said to myself first of all i have spent time with him in the first family and i have seen what he can do for country. Why is no one articulating what the doctrine of the Trump Presidency is . He didnts don bowl accidentally largest tax cut in American History lowest unemployment, energy independence, the embassy moves to jerusalem, aku bakr albaghdadi and Qassem Soleimani are dead. Finally we can put our enemies on defense we reduce our oil and shale is not an accident it is not something you stumble into. So i was traveling the country the common question i would get is what have these people been doing the last 20 years . It looks like he is running circles around conventional wisdom. Thats and i decided to write the book. Who did you interview . I talked to the president and that is in the book but also i went to rally after rally of people that would wait hundreds of hours just for a chance to see the president of the United States speak for 30 minutes. In florida where people spend 200 hours and tsunami like conditions people waiting outside a negative 10degree weather. Im sure all of your appreciate this. It is not normal. Not bon jovi or a comedian sometimes there is with the president. [laughter] but he is so much funnier than the late night comedians ever will be. [applause] did you ever notice that latenight comedy shows they applied but the audience is not laughing . Because they are not funny it is a political talk show. So i ask myself what is it that drives these people to wait so long at these rallies and take days off of work to feel they are a part of something . It goes back what was taught by the federalist papers by the Founding Fathers. Which is citizen government. For the first time in many decades people finally be believe there is someone listening to them and someone that delivers for them. You would not have been able to write this in a novel billionaire businessman who was supposed to be is disconnected as anyone from you actually represents you in the kingdom of washington dc. From the moment he came down that escalator he treated on changed american politics fundamentally for good because if you go to these rallies i felt like i was losing my country. Like both parties were participating. I felt like the Republican Party talked a good game but did nothing to fix it. And i was so sick and tired of politics as usual i wanted someone with a sledgehammer, a brawler to go blow it all up. And in fact it was poetic. And then people say i dont like his tweets and this is the best way i can address said that america was drowning in the middle of the ocean and then both parties contributed to Big Government management and the adventurism abroad and then finally in the middle of the night while we are gasping for air a rescue helicopter pulls us to life and we can breathe again in the first person you say i dont like your tweet history. We are breathing again it is totally irrelevant. So thank you for the triple bypass by the way i hate your tweets but that we are breathing again. Not to mention i could make an argument the twitter feed is a public north star for every Single Person to understand what the president is trying to accomplish and to keep people accountable because normally you have a press conference but now there is a real time standard and accountability measure for what the president is thinking and doing. I think he is hilarious i like a politician that is outside of the Cocktail Party say one thing and do another because that is washington dc. I dont care feel fence a couple people here and there i like that he punches back twice as hard. Because i do feel that we have been fighting for the last couple of decades so i am okay with this managed to climb. So i say that is the thesis. Here is the big picture doctrine. And you say give me the bad news first give me everything thats going on in President Trump is announcing we are losing. Our borders are wide open trade deals are stupid china is laughing at us. The economy is anemic obama care is a disaster. The deep state is corrupt and this was like the first 30 seconds. [laughter] it was the first an honest assessment we had received in a long time. And that is the first part of his doctrine in philosophy i will tell it straight to the american people. I will not sugarcoat it. The second thing is what ideas are rooted in the renewal of a nation and to understand the historical significance of what has been done or what he is trying to do and trying to revitalize and resuscitate a country that was in that managed to klein. It was so historically improbable because when you have a superpower with 55 Million People on food stamps, its really hard to turn that around. The Founding Fathers warned us and one of the things that is the most amazing accomplishments of the Trump Presidency that is never mentioned is that 10 Million People are now off of food stamps since the president was inaugurated. [applause] that is historic. Because for the first time in our countrys in modern history we turn that around and that is something that was the demise of the roman empire and many others before when people can vote themselves stuff but President Trump convinced the electorate theres not dignity and just voting more benefits for yourself. How about creating the greatest economy in American History and bring dignity back to forgotten america. So he runs on this the historic improbability is so amazing because what is happening on the democrat side, right now you see this everybody should kiss the ground and thank god he defied the odds because senator sanders will probably get screwed out of this the establishment does not want him to be the nominee. Maybe for good reason as a castro submit this but i hear he is a nice guy. [laughter] joe bidens political strategy is the most perfect perplexing ive ever seen computer wife with your sister dont know what state youre campaigning and do not remember brock obama or the preamble to the declaration or constitution tell people not to vote for you and then fifth and six in the first couple contest and then to have rallies and then eventually youre the last person standing as we go down one of the most puzzling political strategies in American History. Because of the failure is the worst politician how he made 60 million let alone ran a Board Meeting but that failure with the economic equivalent of what a treasury bond is a flight to safety what so one thing i could put my money and that i dont care if there is no retur return. Right there. And i actually make the argument as the minority opinion i would much rather run against joe biden than Bernie Sanders or go up against corrupt and confused i dont want to validate or elevate the marxist ideologies to the highest level of Political Parties i would go up against someone half socialist and completely and totally corrupt i would much rather have that matchup for our country some people agree in some disagree but thats the target audience that idea with senator sanders as much more appeal than joe biden. You can see the establishment on the left and how President Trump could defeat 16 republicans in the bush dynasty the media complex all the attempts to destabilize him and i talk about this in my book. I was with Governor Walker and i had my doubts he would deliver for the conservative agenda. Since he was the nominee it wasnt a question i traveled with donald trump junior and put everything on the line there is no choice. Its not even a conversation but from the moment i spent more time with donald trump junior and eric trump i give them huge amounts of credit because it takes a lot of courage. We started to see the primary was remarkable he won the general was even more incredible i talk about in the book and the media ridicules me i do truly believe it was a godsend that donald trump was elected to the United States. [cheers and applause] i really do. I believe it was nothing short of divine intervention that allowed america to have a second chance. He gets elected, he gets inaugurated 17 minutes later they say the case to impeach donald trump now begins. Seriously. This is so important i talk about in the book he very easily could have hedged and could have become a vanilla republican to get them off of his back. The Mueller Investigation was a hoax i hope you all understand this it was a warning shot to say stop it mr. Trump or else we will come after you. Dont the embassy dont cancel the iran deal maybe we will not put all your friends in prison maybe we wont investigate your son for a couple years. If you think im over exaggerating, i am from chicago i know the way chicago politics works. That is how they run washington dc. President trump and his hair was encourage said i will not be bullied into not doing what is best for the american people. He very easily could have done what other past republican president s refuse to do, which is not move the embassy to jerusalem or not recognize goal on heights or planned parenthood are not do the tax cut and it all came to a very big head and i write an entire chapter on this with the kavanaugh fight with President Trump very easily could have pulled the nomination of Justice Kavanaugh. In fact a lot of people wouldve said i get it instead he is the first president and a lot of your lifetime since Ronald Reagan to put the left on defense and actually push back where they are disoriented and confused we call that the trump derangement syndrome. We saw that with the Justice Kavanaugh fight which was one of the most important moments since anita hill especially with the Supreme Court where there were fabricated accusations elevated legitimacy the most boring person in the history of maryland. He literally had his journals from high school. His calendars to prove it. It was unbelievable. I dont even know. That should have been nomination 100 zero if he still has his journals from high school but on june 18 and 19 i was at carls house. [laughter] really amazing. [laughter] actually impressive. You deserve to be on the Supreme Court for that and nothing else. [laughter] [applause] and then the gallivanting with senator harris and senator , and jeff flake who was part of the problem i do name some names in the book. Not too many but jeff flake was opposed to trump elevated the worst aspects to the highest level with that circus and President Trump did not waver 1 inch. He understood what the left was trying to do he had been fighting the left in different forms his entire life. It didnt call itself the left but when President Trump tried to build trump tower and he came up across corrupt bureaucrats and democrats that is the left he tried to build an i. C. E. Skating rink that was delayed and delayed, that was the left. He has a playbook for this. Its like he was chosen for a time like this because he is one of the few people outside of politics that has a track record to actually beat these tactics time and time again and yes sometimes you need a street fighter to go after them. So he wins the election gets inaugurated and actually does something that confused everybody. And in fact with this bizarre thing that aides come into his office to say the decision is coming if we want to renew nafta and its a process what did i say i was going to do and thats what im going to do. We are not used to this by the way. Both parties they will do one thing and then another to renegotiate nafta usmca is one of the most legislative accomplishments and put china on defense and praise god if we have a better term to put on defense but its as if the Washington Cartel was perfectly fine to get limitlessly rich at our expense with the only politician with the guts to call them out. Look at those traditional victories just that alone course such an kavanaugh thats it but also his indifference with people before him did it one of the most important fights the fight for the unborn. So look at President Trump if you would is said a man who donated to planned parenthood on the cover of a Playboy Magazine and was a prior devon on democrat to come in every decision with an open mind to say look at the evidence before me his story of prolife is very moving a woman contemplated abortion and decide not to and this child rose to stardom and that person would not exist if for that abortion sees the first president to speak at the march for life thats amazing. And again they did not speak at the march for life. They do not put planned parenthood funding and to be a conservative individual and we have some questionable justices on the Supreme Court but President Trump did a bizarre thing i will tell you the list of people i will nominate and he actually picked from that list. [laughter] and a lot of people voted for President Trump based on that list. A lot of people because thats a third branch of government. And everybody learns that there is the consented one consensus we will be triggerhappy and invade a lot of Different Countries and when we had a balance budget and really bring liberty to the middle east its pretty much a consensus we will not turn libby into louisiana anytime soon. And then to spend hundreds of billions of dollars and then i dont like that. And the doctrine and to send billions of dollars of cash the middle the night and then to a nuclear weapon. Thats the other side of the extremism. So that is silly. Targeted and tactical and agile strikes or not have the endless bridge building to put the most prized possession with ptsd issues and veteran suicide and not to democratize the region with no end in sight so he said i will end the wars but if Qassem Soleimani continues to go after americans i will take him out with drone strike. Now he is gone. [applause] aku bakr albaghdadi gone. And isys was on the rise and President Trump took office the destruction of isis one of the most amazing accomplishments and did it with minimal loss to American Life liberating the generals to go back to american enemies on the ground. And with the americans spirit what does not want western values and when we spend 5 billion per year with the Afghan Security forces and hundreds of thousands of kids in the inner cities that cannot read i think the priorities are backwards and President Trump recognizes that and wants to reset priorities. [applause] now i will summarize and get to questions. I wrote this with a sense of urgency because i dont know if President Trump will be elected. He should live one win in a landslide but but this into your vocabulary with tough love. He will not win in a landslide. It will not be easy. Everywhere i go, even some people in this room. It is closer than you think. There was a Misinformation Campaign there was a lot of work left to do and party after party to think they planned the transition of the second term and i say okay president hillary clinton. Humble yourself and lets get to work. Because this is not over. I hear this a lot. There is a way. If google wants him to lose, he will lose. Voter fraud. Just this state alone could be the blueprint for the rest of the country. [laughter] and by the way they are sending that mischief they are teaching them in milwaukee how to do the same three in the battleground states vote by mail not to mention the media will be against him not to mention i really believe the democrats will try to encourage a bad economic climate. I know he should win in a 1972 nixon style win or 84 style. He should it will not happen. Whether he will win electorally in a majority way remains to be seen but they will not be taken by surprise this time. Bloomberg will spend whatever he will spend and the Tech Companies so i want to see an animated and engaged in worried conservative base not confident you are quietly certain what he has done but you should be worried because they are working their tails off that i see it every single day. That is the sense of urgency i hope all of you leave with. Because one year from today he cannot be president. Realize that. It is conceivable. In fact i give it a 5050 split right now. 5050. It is a coin flip you could be here gathering and it could be president joe biden. A lot of people laughing speed 12 but it could happen. Thats why we have to operate with a sense of urgency. Im honored to be here. Thank you so much. [applause] we do have time for a couple of questions my first, thank you for your presentation of colors. Good afternoon im in high school we dont have a lot of exposure and to maintain educated in modern new politics. Thank you for the question. Thank you for being here today. [applause] i know Dennis Prager will be here tomorrow what we are dirt are doing at turning point usa. But just be curious and hungry. It is true it is not always taught the way i want it to be taught but i would encourage you to take five minutes a day to read the news or the right form of news but be curious and openminded. And the patriotism should inform your politics never forget that. Thank you for being here. [applause] on College Campuses what do you see right now . This is my day job. I wrote this book as a singular project that we have 160 fulltime staff on high school and College Campuses across the country working very hard i think im the only conservative to speak at uc berkeley and ucla and lived to tell about it. [laughter] [applause] i have spoke all across the country and to be perfectly honest the greatest threat is on College Campuses and we need to recognize that. Its more about rebellion. These are multibilliondollar cartels i dont care about the students going to their halls that are not interested in teaching students core american values. A couple of thoughts. Ask yourself the question why am i going to school not where. You do not go to a Fouryear College to succeed in our country. We need plumbers and Police Officers and firefighters and veterans and entrepreneurs and far less people that go to the elite schools that prognosticate and tell us how horrible and awful america is there is a massive multibilliondollar window for those were specifically trained in skills and that deficit needs to be filled by high schoolers. And i will give you some hard truth unfortunately more times than not it is the parents ego not the kids future if you are not prepared to look at your friend or Family Member or your neighbor in the eye is a my kid is not going to college and im perfectly okay about it then its more about your ego than their future. I say that with love and compassion for their future because with the california admission scandal what world is okay to fabricate that your child is not involved with any Athletic Competition . That was the parents. Million dollar industry where parents were fabricating records with moral and illegal things to go to usc. So what . I dont mean this as a way to insult anyone but i see these parents would be embarrassed of my kids had a sticker. Like my kid is a good person. [laughter] it doesnt fascinate me like who could claim the academic ladder the quickest. And for someone to go to the highest level but i care more about your character and work ethics and the degree that you got. [applause] i do feel like you are an ambassador for common sense and the biblical prophecy as a Small Businessman one of the biggest shams that we face in california all of these ideas come with a cost to do businesses into the general public actually it is probably concealed so what it does to the economy. They are the backbone of the american economy. We should be pro Family Business in california is a test case how to destroy the american entrepreneur it protects the corporate status quo. So for example going to sacramento or washington dc we need more regulation it is a rounding error. They could afford more lawyers and Regulatory Compliance but its a small guy with eight employees that goes out of businesses. I think what President Trump has done so well with those Small Business startups and with the corporate status quo. Because Small Business people could not find qualified labor that they need i talk to Small Business people all the time and to have a degree in essentially what things dont matter for jobs that dont exist. There is a huge market out there right now there was a huge market for applicable jobs that the lie that manufacturing would always be dead but President Trump prove there was a multibilliondollar manufacturing opening in our country and he filled it and he fell that well. We have an increase of manufacturing jobs since he has been an office. And i encourage everyone in this room to take this to heart and those that go to college are wiser than those who didnt they do that through public approval polls. The Approval Rating for collegeeducated people is this a non colored collegeeducated they are saying this is what the smart people think of the dumb people think if you give me 100 people that did not go to college for those that did my experience those that didnt or more wise if you want to be a lawyer or doctor or architect or engineer then college is for you it should be about career preparation not ideological thoughts but you will send your kid and play russian roulette and they may come back so when you do not recognize. I am from yorba linda. Thank you for being here. I had the pleasure to meet anthony from the National Hispanic assembly of california and it was so amazing to hear his story. And then to get the latino vote. And then to support him also the africanamerican vote so what have you seen on the campuses with the lineman of been sacramento so thank you so for what you see on campuses how we get the vote. And virginia is our red state unless they have the out of control immigration policy and thats a big problem and i will say that california turned in the wrong direction the last 20 or 30 years. I think the latino vote could be one over in particular with the Prolife Committee and i see something happening in the black community, i really do what we are really proud of and there really is the ideological revolution happening in our country but i talk about this earlier President Trump should be a champion for School Choice. Is one of the most important issues in the entire country. [applause] five words that could get him reelected is School Choice for black kids. Charter schools to allow parents to choose better education options. What the black community has been so horribly treated by the Democratic Party over the last many decades especially since lbj. So to tell the story those policies President Trump accomplished and with criminal Justice Reform many of whom are in the black community its far more than obama did. Also about reaching out and showing up in there is something where they are more open to it than ever before. With pay back the dignity but that was cast aside by the ruling class elite. I am cautiously optimistic but it will have to be generational. Especially in the black community republicans really competed and went after the black church and they are making huge gains of those communities. Can you reassure us your political aspirations . [laughter] [applause] no. [laughter] i love what i do at turning point usa i have the opportunity to spend time with people who are running for reelection. That is great for a lot of people like to empower people to do that i get so much fulfillment from what we are doing. We have seen the dial move so much say you have to run for congress. No. That is not in the cards for me. I think the culture war and battle is far more important than that. [applause] thank you. We see a great opportunity happening with a lot of people rising up in candidates im perfectly happy where i am. If you listen to the media they will say that christians dont exist or as a College Professor conservative. [cheers and applause] so my question for you is how to prevent school shootings. Do you have suggestions . I have my own ideas and i would love to talk to about them but i am curious. The whole discussion comes down to if you are School Shooter would you go to a school that had armed guards are not . The whole argument and with those armed guards and machine guns that we dont protect our kids that way. It is a much deeper cultural issue if we look at the parkland shooting there was a misdiagnosis and failure at the fbi investigating the lunatic that did that. We cannot let that happen. And then we also have an overmedication problem and the pharmaceutical companies have way too much power and overmedicating our kids that is causing problems we are talking about chemically addictive substances that play games so just to give an example if they tried to give me drugs because i was a little bit type a and pushing the boundaries. [laughter] thank you to their great credit they would push back and say he is fine. But i worry so now that are fed the cocktail of drugs. He is eight years old what you expect . Seriously. And i get a lot of garbage for that but it is true. And then to rebuild the american family. [applause] i would like to wrap it up we get quite a few authors that come through here. And the New York Times last night so go to amazon get your Christmas Shopping done we would greatly appreciate that. Also a couple of things also those that helping out at turning point usa and my girlfriend erica was traveling with me. [applause] and all the people that support turning point and so many others. And i love that socialism kills. Do something about it. [laughter] we covered this book for a reason his doctrine and he treats this country something he cares so much about that he is willing to sacrifice everything for and then just embody that so well in that is that protective instinct we have for the country every decision he makes to say to sacrifice for this and picture speak a thousand words and the book articulates that. Charlie kirk. Thank you so much. [applause] as a bicultural Community San antonio is here because of these missions. This is airpower central