>> let me hear you. [applause] >> i want to officially say,

welcome to cpac 2024, where globalism goes to die. >> it is a great honor to have you all here and it will be incredible. we launched yesterday the first cpac international summit, where a number of continents and countries were represented. it was an amazing event. let me say a couple of things. be not afraid. we need courage now more than ever before. >> amen. >> the left is trying to stop us full force using the leftist media, the propaganda machine, using legal remedies to try to take us down. they want you to feel isolated. we will not.

we are a family. we are a community. we have come together because we are going to take this country back. i want to say, while you are here, you are instruments. god has put you here right now at this time to do this great work that needs to be done. to make sure that we stop this leftist agenda and make sure that we focus on building a strong, secure america. because when america is strong the world is strong. remember, communism and the leftists that have penetrated the democratic party are all about authoritarianism tactics. they are all about oppression. we stand for liberty. we stand for freedoms. and we stand for our families.

communism pushes the culture of death. we push the culture of life. communism wants to dictate to you how you have to live, how you have to raise your children, indoctrinating your children. we stand for parents' rights. what i tell you right now, our message to you is we get started, is that you all are assembled here in front of god to be the front line. to be the front line of this battle, and we will triumph. over our enemies. >> that's right. [applause] >> i think we've got to do better. cpac is this wonderful, intimate place where we all come together. as you know, it will have a bigger impact on politics around the country and around the world than any other event. we have picked an audacious

theme, where globalism goes to die. i think you need to stand up and let the u.n., the w.h.o., the world economic forum to know what you think. can you stand up and tell them why we think this is our time? this is our moment? [applause] the gentleman there who gave the middle finger salute, i think that is fine. that is good too. keep standing up. there is an important thing going on in our country in which the whole world is watching. that is, there is a unique american who is being persecuted, who is being tortured, who is the victim of the democratic policies based on the world's worst dictators.

whether it be putin or xi. the democratic party and joe biden are doing everything they can to collude, to use the deep state to put donald trump in prison. can we send a loud feedback message to president donald j. trump and his family that we stand foursquare with him? [cheering and applause] finally, we did two things at this cpac that are special and unique. the first thing is, if you call yourself a journalist, but you spend all of your time trying to destroy america and trying to destroy americans who love america, and trying to destroy

conservatives and patriots and people from maga, and, yes, j6, if that is what you do, we don't want you here. you can buy a ticket and act like any other normal citizen. number two, we got together 20 countries yesterday and our first international summit. for the first time in our 50 plus year history, we passed three important resolutions that all of these countries and our board of directors agreed with. number one, we are calling out the election interference of joe biden. calling it criminal, and calling on the authorities to stop it. number two, we are calling out the w.h.o. and their attempt to take our national sovereignty, to take away our belief that the

individual can govern him or herself, and we are calling on the people of the world who love freedom and those nations who have elected governments who love freedom to pull out of the w.h.o., to defund the w.h.o., to make it stop. [applause] finally, cpac stands foursquare with the people of israel. [applause] too many people in the media, the democratic party, joe biden are trying to pull us into a war in europe. no talk of peace deals. no talk of sitting down and resolving age-old conflicts. but at the same time, they demand the people of israel put

up a white flag, make peace with the terrorists who are trying to destroy them. we will not put up with that. cpac around the world stands with israel, and we will continue to call out the terrorists who mean to destroy them. [applause] in conclusion, how many of you are sometimes disappointed in our own party? [applause] i have to tell you, after doing all of these international summits and cpacs, we are not alone. it is too often in these countries that the center-right party, in our case the republican party, loses its way or feels like it's not the right time. one of the most important things you can do this weekend besides giving that boost to donald trump is to help give a spine and other things to the republican party to do the right thing.

as we criticize our own team from time to time, why don't we also applaud our heroes? one of those heroes is going to join us now. has nearly a perfect record in our cpac scorecard for his votes in congress. is on the campaign trail every day for donald trump and does the right thing by all of us every day with that voting card in congress. it is my great honor to introduce congressman byron donalds. [applause] >> you stand here.

ladies and gentlemen, the conservative movement in america is alive and well. it is in part alive and well because of the tireless efforts of matt and mercedes schlapp. give them a round of applause. >> would you like us to leave now? rep. donalds: yes, you have to go now. i have to talk to the people. cpac, how is everything going? i have given a lot of speeches, but i have never given the opening speech. there is a lot of pressure appear. something -- a lot of pressure up here. something tells me you're going to get me through this. are you going to help me? a lot of key things that are ailing us around the globe. the thing that is hurting us more then anything is that we are divided here at home. we are divided as americans. we are definitely divided within

political parties and political movements. i don't know if you been paying attention to the house of representatives. we are divided there too. the thing that secures the vision is leadership. it is not governance. it is not going along to get along. it is not saying nice things. it is leadership that actually helps secure those divides. the time has come in america again for us to reassert ourselves and bring american leadership back to the forefront of our country. [applause] we talk so much about foreign policy these days, and for good reason. joe biden has been a disaster as president of the united states. he has been terrible. let's look at nato for a moment. a lot has been made about nato over the last couple of weeks.

there was a time when america did have to carry all the freight for nato, because the countries in europe were rebuilding themselves from world war ii. the spirit of the american people, we were there to do that. we were willing to do that. now, the other countries have to come along for the ride as well. i equated to some of your great sports teams. everyone remembers the chicago bulls of the 1980's. they had michael jordan and not much else. michael jordan dropped to three points in the madison garden against the celtics but they lost that series against a better, deeper team. if the world is going to have security, then it can't just be america scoring all the points, grabbing all the rebounds, passing out all the assists, blocking all the shots. we need our allies in nato to step up and do their part.

[applause] because, the one thing we all know, whether it has been sports, business, when you have a great team working together with a common mission and common goal, you can accomplish so much more than when you have the one great salesperson who is just leading the way and dragging everyone else along. the success of western democracy, the success of the western way of life is predicated on all the nations who love freedom and pursue freedom for their people to do the heavy lifting together. not just relying on america to bear the burden alone. [applause] it was brought up by matt about israel. what happened on october 7 was a tragedy. not just for the people of

israel, but for the world. we were faced with a barbarism that we thought had mostly receded from the planet. they faced it head on. we in america stand with israel. we don't equivocate to the radicals who might be in our midst in america. we stand with them. for joe biden to decide that he is worried about his votes in michigan more than the safety of our greatest ally in the region is terrible leadership. it's part of the reason why our adversaries are on the move. my view is clear. israel should obliterate hamas from the face of the earth. [applause] this is not a statement. this has to be borne in fact. on capitol hill, we have to do the job of making sure israel

has everything they need to finish that job. you can't have someone come in your home, cause damage, and you do nothing. all you do is invite more of the same. if israel is our friend, and i know, cpac, israel is our friend, we stand by them, we support them, we do not stand in the way of them, and we want them to do everything they must do to secure themselves and secure the people of israel. [applause] now, we have to look at foreign in our hemisphere. the chinese are on the move in south america. while we are having these petty squabbles amongst republicans and democrats, the chinese have one mission. to put us in a box. we have to reassert our dominance in our own hemisphere. no more should we allow

communism and fascism to breed in our own hemisphere while we just argue over the stupidest things with each other. stuff that really just does not matter in the plight and success of human beings across the globe. there was a time when we focused on our hemisphere. i want to be clear, this is not a statement of isolationism versus being the world's police. it's not that. it's being sober. it's being a realist. it's understanding that america in a dominant position across the globe means the best thing for the people of the world who desire freedom and peace, who want to actually grow an economy, who want their children to be raised up. a globe where china is dominant is to the detriment of human freedom. so, we have to do the things that are prudent to make sure that we assert those freedoms in our own hemisphere. there is another statement i

want to make about foreign policy. i am not a forever more guy. never have been. i'm not. [applause] my position is very simple. go, kill the enemy, and come home. [applause] i am a kid of the 1980's, so i like g.i. joe. i just want our military to be g.i. joe again. i think that's what most people want. that's what i want. if you're going to secure america, you have to secure its borders. you have to. we have 7.3 million people who come into this country illegally. 7.3 million. joe biden wants to make it an even 10 million. that's insane.

no country would ever tolerate this. my position to my colleagues on capitol hill is clear. you either secure the border or you get no money for the government. [applause] the press would say, oh my gosh, congressman donald, you're talking about the government being closed. are you concerned about that? to the people of the press, you got your answer from cpac. i tell these reporters when they asked me this, i say the federal government has one primary job. it is to secure this nation and secure its people. that is its first job.

before anything else. [applause] the states that ratified the constitution of the united states would have never, ever ratified a constitution that would have allowed the federal government to allow an invasion into the united states. they never would have signed it. those states would have kept their militias and said we will see you guys later. maybe we can work some things out, but that document is nuts and there's no way i'm going to be part of it. so, we have to be very clear about this. joe biden has a decision to make. decide, mr. president. do you want a closed mount

rushmore so the southern border could be open? do you, joe biden, want to tell the last remaining of our world war ii vets that they cannot see the world war ii memorial on the national mall so we can have military-aged men from china and the middle east come into our country illegally? decide, joe biden. which country matters more to you? the border of the united states or the border of ukraine? [applause] [crowd chanting "usa"] i love when you chant, but you

are messing up my time, cpac. i love it. >> i love you. rep. donalds: i love you, too. we have to be serious. what is going on in detroit, denver, boston, we know what's going on in new york.you have the nypd officers. by the way the nypd officers are black, white, hispanic, men, women, and they are being beaten in the streets of their own city where they are charged to help protect the people of new york and they are being beat up by people who shouldn't be in the country in the first place. what kind of insanity is this? for my colleagues on capitol hill who are concerned about, well, byron, we don't win government shutdowns. there has never been an issue in this country that unites the people more.

securing our border and our nation is not a conservative position. it is not a liberal position. it is not a white position or black position, it is an american position and that is what everyone in our country wants to see happen, and they want to see it happen today. [applause] in our economy, we need leadership too. this nutty green new deal stuff, which, by the way, isn't even that green. it isn't that green. when you read the studies the solar panels are dirtier than natural gas. the wind turbines, there have been more men and women who have died from wind turbines than nuclear power. that is a fact. more people have died from maintaining wind turbines than nuclear power plants. when you have leadership that will tell the truth and set america on the path going forward. we shouldn't be chasing green technology just to chase read technology. -- chase green

technology. we should be chasing the most readily available form of energy so all our people can be successful. [applause] when they figured out how to do fracking, they tried to blame fracking and found out they were liars about claiming fracking. when we started using natural gas we realized we cut america's emissions in half over a decade and it still wasn't enough for the radical left, because it will never be good enough for the radical left. the only way you defeat them is you have to have leadership willing to stand up for them -- stand up to them at every point. we have that leadership in donald j. trump. [applause] we have new things on the horizon. we have this great new technology called digital assets. i know some of you, a lot of

you, myself included are concerned about that being used by the federal reserve and the treasury with the central digital bank coin. i don't want the federal anything like that. but if people decide, of their own free will, to have bitcoin or any other type of cryptocurrency, or any type of tokens or stable coins, if that is what a free people decide to do it is not the position of the american government to stand in their way. it should be the position of the american government to allow them to be free and make their own choices, because that is the essence of human liberty. that is the reason the framers wrote our constitution and ratified our constitution, to protect you, not to protect government. [applause] one of the biggest areas we are going to need a resurgence in american leadership is our own government. these people are crazy.

you have an fbi that has been spying on the american people against federal law. you have a department of justice that is picking and choosing who they are going to prosecute and when. joe biden has violated the espionage act. he violated it as a united states senator. he violated it as a vice president of the united states. and he should be prosecuted for violating the espionage act. [applause] i have a security clearance. if i take classified information out of the skiff do you think the democrats wouldn't prosecute me? yes, they would. what you have to have his leadership who will stand for the rule of law, who will stand for lady justice. lady justice is supposed to be blind, not political. lady justice is supposed to be

evenhanded, not deciding that a green deal is way more important than a basic rule of law that everyone can see and follow. you've got this stupid judge in new york with the $400 million fine. what kind of craziness is this? by the way, you business owners in new york, come to florida. [applause] if you are a real estate guy in new york, you might want to come down to the sunshine state. we would love to have you. i had to do that quick plug for my state. i love my state, now. >> make america florida. rep. donalds: did you say make america florida? oh, we are going to do that. i want to make one clear point

because we talk about a two-tiered justice system. in america's history there has been a two-tiered justice system. there is a reason why a lot of black americans don't trust the justice system. there was a time when the justice system was abused against black people in this country. it was wrong then. it is still wrong today. [applause] our country is best, but we are -- is best when we are not a respecter of ideology or race. our country is best when everyone is treated equally under the law. when you're dealing with radical democrats who think that they know better, who subscribe to the thoughts of barack obama who said they want to fundamentally transform america, i got news for them.

this america we are going to fundamentally transform the united states government. [applause] the last major area where we need a resurgence in american leadership is our culture and with our children. let kids be kids. let them be kids. little boys are little boys. little girls are little girls. when i was a little boy, i liked little girls. this is a good thing. this is the natural order that keep society progressing. we also have to understand that the greatest environment for the success of a child is a two parent household. look, cpac, families aren't

perfect. we all know this. nobody clap. families are not perfect. everybody's family got something going on, ok? even in that imperfection, it is better to have two parents in the home then not. -- than not. i am the product of a single parent home. my mother did everything for me. things between my mom and my dad didn't work out. i love them both, but it didn't work out. i know firsthand having two parents in the house is better than one. it isn't to diminish the sacrifices, love, and strength my mom had. if you want to see strong, meet a single black mother. they are strong. tough. but we have to understand that the formation of the family, that is the thing that sets the basis of culture in our country. so kids grow to be adults and they form their own families.

their success in the family unit breeds america's success in our country. our success actually breeds success in a much better world, a much safer world. this isn't about nationbuilding. this is about doing first things first at home. making sure america is in position at home. being focused on and solving our issues here at home. when we do that, the chinese can't stop us, the russians can't stop us, the iranians can't stop us, no one can contend with a strong, prosperous america. [applause] cpac, this is where i leave you. i just want to tell you this. the type of leadership we need is not leadership that looks to just get along with everybody. if you look back at michael jordan, tom brady, bill

belichick, mike shanahan, they were tough. they would say things you wouldn't like if you were on those teams, but they held everyone accountable. they were focused on the mission of success. we would cheer for them if you were a patriots or a bulls fan. if not you were viewing them -- booing them. but you would cheer them because you would say, look what they are accomplishing. if it works in sports and business, shouldn't we have that type of leadership in our country? we should. we have to have leadership that holds our government accountable. we have to have leadership that will have a bold vision of what we should do and not be afraid of polls go foot people think we might need to do. we have to have leadership that will say tough things when we need to hear them and we have that leadership this november in donald j. trump. [applause] god bless you, cpac. god bless america.

♪ >> there is a concerted effort to intimidate and censor conservative thinkers. the very freedoms secured by our constitution are being threatened by the most liberal progressives america has ever seen. it seems like everything they do is to the detriment of our great nation, but there are plenty of patriots with the courage to stand up to the left. amac is a voice for conservatives that can't be ignored. stand with over 2 million america loving patriots by joining today. >> this president is calling my family, is calling me, is calling maga supporters the enemy of america. i am the daughter of a cuban

political prisoner who fought for freedom, fought against authoritarians and dictators. he sounds just like fidel castro did. he would target the enemies of his government and try to take them down. that is exactly what we are seeing with joe biden. he should be ashamed of himself. no american should be called a nazi or enemy of the state. those of us who love this country, and i have spent my whole life defending freedom in america. ♪ matt: hey, everyone. we do a great show called america canceled several times a week. you should tune in. ♪ >> in an era marked by climate change activists, new technology, and massive geopolitical instability, we have seen energy policies have

profound implications. the last three years have seen record high gas prices and once in a generation inflation. energy has been in the center of all of it. during president biden's first month in office american oil production fell 27% from the previous high. by the summer of 2022 a gallon of gas averaged more than five dollars for the first time. all the while, biden drained our oil reserves, looked the other way on iranian oil sanctions, and begged other countries to produce more oil and threatened to take away your car, gas stove, and hot water heater. as the election years, stay tuned for more updates because in 2024 energy is on the ballot. >> ladies and please welcome the host of the ben ferguson podcast, ben ferguson. [applause] ben: good morning, cpac. how are you guys?

how are my favorite deplorables? i was talking to a reporter before cpac. they call you and they try to bait you. donald trump is looking old. i said, man, how nervous are you that you are asking me about the competency of donald trump who has a 21-hour schedule compared to the guy in the white house who works may be from noon to 4:00? that is how nervous they are. i walk in every year in this is a gut check moment for the country. it is how i know, are we in a good spot or a bad spot? is the country in a bad spot right now? absolutely. the country is in a terrible spot because we have an incompetent president that i'm not sure he knows where he is or what country he is the president of. we are also in a bad spot because we have a deep state

turning against the conservatives in this country. we are public enemy number one. it is not al qaeda or isis, it is parents who go to school board meetings. they say that they are domestic terrorists. they are spying on our financial transactions. they are looking at the transactions of people who want to buy a firearm, which is our god-given right in america. you look at where we are right now as a country, it is a disaster. but, you look at where we are right now is a conservative movement, i think we are one of the best moments of my entire life, because we have president donald trump who is running for president of the united states of america again, and i believe there's nothing they will be able to do to this man that will make patriots like you stay home in november. can i get an amen on that one? i think they have made us more angry than they ever thought of

the maga right. remember, we are the deplorables. every time they come out and say we are going to take his building. that is what they do in communist countries, in china, russia, venezuela. this is the united states of america. i don't live in a communist country. we will remind them of that in november. [applause] there is also something else that is important. it is the family. the family in this country and our kids are under attack like we have never seen before. whether it is indoctrination or not telling parents about what is going on with their kids and their mental health, or transgender, forcing you to accept dudes in the locker room with young girls taking away the opportunity for young athletes to succeed in life. you have to understand we have

seceded the public schools in this country, something we should have never done. we better wake up and get it back. it is more than just the white house coming in november or getting good people elected to office. we are at a war right now and a war to control our children because they believe our children are part of the united states government. they are not yours. your kids, your grandkid, these communists, socialists, marxists. they talk about your kids as property of this country. hillary clinton says that it takes a village because she doesn't like your own, in her village she wants to indoctrinate your children. we have to wake up and pay attention about our kids. which brings me to someone fighting this good fight in a way that is so important. that is united states senator from alabama tommy tuberville, a coach, man who fights for kids. we will have a conversation about the american family. senator, come out if you are back there.

senator, good to see you. sen. tuberville: good to be here. ben: you have been a coach first. we have something in common. we both had a stent at a place called ole miss. if there are any rebels out there, hottie toddy. there's always one out there somewhere. when you ran, there were a lot of people, i am one of them, that were like, what the hell are you doing? why would you leave this great life? you got to be involved in the arena of sports. you got to mentor young man. you got to have an impact on their lives. you got to sit back and enjoy it a little bit and you decided i'm going to run for senate. why did you do that? sen. tuberville: my wife asked

me the same thing. what in the hell are you doing? it is good to see you, it is good to be here. i saw through education and traveling as a head coach going into high schools and homes, i saw the indoctrination process. we are indoctrinating our kids and the government schools across the country. that is the reason we need school choice. can i get an amen on that? we have to change direction. if we don't, we are going to lose. our country is in bad trouble. i've been here for three years. it starts with what is going on with your family, with our kids, and with this crazy idea of gender. they want everybody to be the same. and you can't make up what is going on. you really can't. i am for school choice. we have to get that. it is a necessity. we have unions.

unions at one time or good for this country, but not unions for our teachers in our schools, because they have absolutely been the ones who drag our country down because they want to teach this woke, dei, socialism agenda that our parents don't want. of course, the government has attacked our parents for years. they want to divide the family, they want the dad gone, they want the mom to get a check for every kid and beyond welfare. it is a disaster. it goes back to christian and moral values. ben: you mentioned the home. this is what communists, socialists, and marxists want. they don't want a dad in the home. they want the government to be the dad. my hometown, they think 84% to 86% of all african-american children this year -- born this year will be born into single parent households in memphis.

the government has become the father you seem crime -- become the father. you see crime rampant in memphis. you see they have taken over the local government, they are letting criminals out of jail. the other day we had a man who shot a woman four times and was back on the streets in memphis while she was in surgery, a life-saving surgery, at the hospital. that is american now under the democratic party. they love the fact that they are controlling these mothers and their kids. sen. tuberville: exactly. it is getting worse. just look at the migrant situation that we are having, the open borders. there is a reason for that. they are overwhelming all states in the country. they want to overwhelm the red states. how are they doing that? i have a couple of high schools in the state of alabama, where i represent, and because of the illegal immigration they have gone from 15% to 30% hispanic to

70% to 80%. we are having to educate. that is a hard job when they don't speak our language. it is atrocious with the government is doing. joe biden's administration -- it isn't him. he doesn't know what day it is. ben: or what year he was the vice president, but let's not stop there. sen. tuberville: there are people behind the scenes running the show. being a non politician, being an educator all my life, seeing this clown show up here -- my dad died on active duty in the military, but all the things being attacked from our education to our family, transgender in sports just don't get me talking about that. ben: we are about to, don't worry. sen. tuberville: in the military, the law enforcement, our debt, there is no answers.

they want to know answers up here. they want-- want no answers up here. one government to take over. that is their number one goal, they want to control everybody . the economy is good because we are borrowing on your credit card $80,000 a second. $4.6 million a minute is how much we are putting on the credit card for the taxpayers, money being flushed out, the economy looks great. grab ahold and hold on because it is going to get bad. sooner or later that credit-card debt is going to be paid. ben: you have a unique perspective as a coach. i played sports in college at ole miss. it is not hard to figure out there's a difference between men and women in sports. there is a reason you have men's basketball and women's basketball, men's football in college and you don't have women's football in college.

doesn't mean that one is better than the other, but this idea that we are going to blend these together and anybody can wake up on any given day and go "i'm the opposite sex," track stars breaking women's records, swimmers breaking women's records, trophies being taken away. what worries me more than that is a scholarships. when you work your tail off, there is a lot of kids working out of poverty because of sports into college, may not be an sec school, maybe division iii, may be combination of scholarships. but-i've witnessed scholarships give kids a better life. i was one of them. i knew he was going to be hitting that yellow -- it was going to be eating that yellow ball really hard. they are having scholarships taken away from them, and not only that, they are in a locker room with a man. did you think when you were a coach we would be having this conversation now? sen. tuberville: no, we've lost it.

i will tell you why we are doing it -- we are not doing this. the democrat socialist party is dividing family -- we've talked about that -- dividing the family, they are dividing gender, or actually they are trying to bring gender together because they think men can have babies note, which is another story -- babies now, which is another story. now they want to tear down our sports, because sports is one of the things that made this country great, because kids at a young age learn how to compete against each other, they learn how to win, they learn how to lose. but that's been a golden idea in the united states of america for years. now they are trying to tear it down. they want men to play in women's sports. people are going to get hurt. i had a bill on the floor -- you're not going to bring it up, but at least we had it out there, protect women and girls in sports act. that didn't make it to the

floor, schumer could care less, because he believes in that. ben: this is not a crazy bill, it is protecting women in sports. you think every liberal, every feminist, every women's group would be running to your office to support you. what was the reaction of your colleagues in the senate, specifically democrats and female senators, when you're doing something that used to be -- this would be feminism 101. did any of them call you and go "i want to cosign, i want to help you protect women's sports"? or was a totally silent because you are a republican and an evil person? sen. tuberville: wen yu the democrats wouldn't support me but even republicans were against this. don't you have daughters condoning of granddaughters?-- don't you have daughters, don't you have granddaughters? those of you who haven't are this, the olympic committee has decided that all the sports can

make their decisions on who to plate women's sports. the boxing committee decided that men can box against women in the olympics. yes. somebody is going to get hurt. ben: somebody is going to get killed. sen. tuberville: they have no common sense. zero common sense in the clown world. nobody looks out for anybody else other than their power and obsession of turning this country into a globalist, socialist country. nobody cares. ben: when you look forward five, 10 years from now, what is going to break the back of this insanity? is it going to be women getting hurt? is it going to be no more women's sports at the ncaa level because it will all be covid? -- co-ed? even people -- martina navratilova, one of the greatest tennis stars in history, one of the first athletes to come out

of the closet, she has come out and has been attacked by the lgbt community because she said women should not be playing with men, this is insane, and they are trying to destroy her entire life work in sports. sen. tuberville: oh yeah. ben: what is going to happen? do you see it? sen. tuberville: you see it bubbling. caitlyn jenner, i talked to her all the time, she is totally against this. i told caitlyn you were one of my heroes growing up -- ben: back when he whispers. sen. -- was bruce. sen. tuberville: they know the difference. the only thing that will change this is leadership. we have no leadership. you know what i am coming to . we had a leader for four years and they ran him out. they stuffed the ballot box on him four years ago. we have got to get donald trump elected president of the united

states. [applause] folks, you have got to do everything you got to do to get everybody to vote. i'm an average country boy from the south that came to the big city, and has been amazed -- if you don't have that white house, i don't care if you have got the senate, i don't care if you have got the house. if you don't have the white house with the power that the president of the united states now has, if we don't get him back in the white house, it is going to be tough for any of us to survive in the greatest country -- 248 years. that has got to be our step forward for the next 10 months. it is going to be rough. you're going to have the groups coming out on the left that we saw a few years ago tearing down cities, burning buildings. hey, we got to wipe our hands of that and understand that no matter what happens in the next 10 months, he has got to be reelected, because he is the only thing that is going to save us from losing this great country that we live in.

ben: amen. [applause] i want to ask you about the deep state. i have the privilege to cohost a podcast with wendy for colleagues -- one of your colleagues, senator ted cruz. we talk a lot about the weaponization of the fbi, the deep state against americans. we have seen something i never thought we would see in our lifetime. i mentioned this at the beginning, we have a deep state coming after parents and taking kids away from parents who won't let their kids transition. we saw that this past week, a child who was actually taken. we have teachers who are basically spying on parents and turning them into child protective services because they are teaching their kids in wrong and basic issues in life that deal with faith and religion. we have a doj and fbi that looks as parents as thomistic terrorists because they show about 6 -- domestic terrorists

because they show up at school board meetings. they sent out memos. they never apologize for it, never rescinded it officially -- they say "we are not doing that," fbi director playing a word game. as parents that concerns me, but as a senator, what else do we not know they are doing to the american family? sen. tuberville: that's a good point. and for those here, you go back home, the area it starts is not the federal government, not the state government, is local government. ben: amen. sen. tuberville: you have got to run for your school board, you have got to run for your city council. those are the groups that are going to make our country better or destroy our country. we have all seen a couple years ago about governors and school board members saying "we own your child, you don't own your child, we are going to indoctrinate them." that is the direction we are headed. they want to control everything we do. they hate christianity. they hate it. it's something that if you pull

the constitution out on them, they run like it is a crucifix. [laughter] it's unbelievable. the entire thing is globalization overtaking everything that we do, being able to control everything in your life. how do you do that? the bankruptcy, number one -- they bankrupt you, number one. we already bankrupt. we are printing more money than you can ever imagine, but that is how they are making things work. you have got to go back to the local level and start over. it starts at the top with a leader who is going to give you the opportunity to do that, and that is donald trump, but also going to give people opportunities to go back into the cities and into communities and take over what they have stolen from us. it's the rights of the american people. the greatest country ever. and we are not going have many more chances. i hope we can get it back to this point. the next 10 months is really

going to be a test for all of us here. it is going to be a huge test. they are going to come after you, they are to vilify you. you will see everything in the world said about donald trump and your local conservative politician. we got to stand strong. this is going to be the toughest thing in the world you are going to see. they are going to come after you, come after your churches, anything to do with any kind of discipline, your law enforcement. it is going to be a tough time, because they can't give up -- they know a lot of these people are going to go to jail when donald trump gets elected, and i'm going to be right there helping him. [applause] ben: i'm going to be glued to the tv when that happens. i'm going to pivot and ask you something that is an important issue, important policy. you guys had an important vote in the senate on ukraine funding. a lot of people don't realize you went to ukraine before everything broke out and he met with zelenskyy before every thing happened. can you tell us what that

meeting was like and what you saw coming down the pipe and where we are? sen. tuberville: about three or four months before it started, and he was begging a few of us senators who went to see him, saying "we need help. they are going to come unless you give us weapons to put on our border, help us, show them that we have a show of strength and that you are going to help." joe biden wouldn't do it. that allowed them to come in. we kept forcin -- we are the ones who forced this war because we kept forcing it on ukraine and we are going to -- forcing nato on ukraine. now i have a bunch of my people i am in the republican party with who voted for this $60 billion. i haven't voted for any money to go to ukraine, because i know they can't win. [applause] you hate that they have had 300,000, 400,000 people killed, some russians also. you hate that we supported this, pushing them in front of the

guns. it's an atrocity.but they can't win. we need to get diplomacy. there was nobody in his white house, secretary of state or biden, who can go over and negotiate. we have done more negotiating in one month with israel and hamas, our group has, then we have for two years with ukraine and russia. we have got to get it over with. donald trump will stop it. he knows there is no winning for ukraine pit he can work a deal -- no waiting for ukraine. he can work a deal with putin. then you have china on the other side, our number one adversary. this is a mess, all crated by joe biden and his blundering foreign relations. in the one thing that really counts is us. they are destroying us from within. they are accomplishing a lot of goals in three years. the next year is going to be tough, but we will overcome this, donald trump is going to get elected, we are going to put

christian values back in this country and tell these people to get at the back line. [applause] ben: final question. when i got into radio, and i started when i was 12 -- my goal was to make a difference in the country. every day when i do my podcast come every day when i do my show, every day when i do the show with senator cruz, the other one, i try to give people a game plan and hope. you are a coach first, senator second. way better resume than senator first, coach second. what is the game plan for the rest of this year? what is the goal you would tell them? what do they need to do getting ready for november? sen. tuberville: first, you got to know the goal you are shooting for. our goal is to take back our country. we have got to take back our country and renew it. we have a constitutional republic that is hard to hold onto. we are the longest-running democracy ever, and people try

to take it from us. we have communists, socialists, people trying to divide the country. we have got to take our country and make it better. to do that, we got a regain control. our game plan is from the ground up, the grassroots, to the counties, the cities, small neighborhoods, to understand the direction this country is going and reverse it. we got to take back over, as we talked about earlier. the education part of our communities. but remember, our number one commodity in this country, our number one commodity is our young people. that is the future. we got to make sure that they understand, because now this generation z, used to they didn't vote. now they vote. we are going to have to do a lot of discussion. our game plan is to go back to our communities and make sure however they vote, people have an understanding of what this is

about. these young kids -- i've got a kid that is 27, 28, they never watch news. what do they look at? their phone. they get the news off their phone. a lot of it is not very good. we have got to get out and speak to the young groups and get them to vote and understand their future is about our constitution. game plan and save our constitution from young kids on up in every community. ben: sorry your ndc,-but- -- you are in dc but thankfully we got you to dc. round of applause. you guys are going to have one heck of a cpac. [applause] ♪ >> champions are not born. they are made for the moment

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>> ladies and gentlemen, please welcome north carolina lieutenant governor mark robinson. ♪ [applause] lt. gov. robinson: all right, the big bad timer says i only have 12 minutes. now i have 11 minutes, 30 seconds. the very first thing we gotta do is give thanks to our lord and savior jesus christ. [applause] lord, every time i speak, because we live in a blessed and prosperous land, where americans get up out of bed, i believe the first thing they should do is thank god, because god is the reason why we are the way we are, the reason why we have our freedom. our freedoms came from him, they don't come from man.

we should give thanks every day for the blessings we have. we give him thanks first and foremost. let's get right into this. my name is mark robinson. i'm the 35th lieutenant governor of north carolina, first black lieutenant governor of north carolina, and i'm running to be the governor of north carolina. [cheers and applause] that's right. and as we travel the state, we like to tell people the story of how republicans have turned north carolina around. prior to 2010, north carolina was $3 billion to $6 billion in debt to the federal government. we were furloughing state workers because we didn't need them, but we couldn't pay them. teachers didn't get a raise for six years. nobody wanted to come to north carolina to do business. taxes were too high, regulations were too stiff.

then republicans took over in 2010, and now 13 years later not only do we find ourselves not one dime in debt to the federal government, we have a $5 billion surplus. [applause] and for two years running, north carolina is the number one business destination according to many major publications. we are on firm financial footing. everyone wants to come to north carolina to do business. and despite the ills we see at the federal level with inflation, workforce issues, the supply chain issues, small business filings in north carolina are at an all-time record high for the last two years. why? it's not by happenstance. it's not like this article that the abc news did the other day that said red states are doing better economically, but it's because they are warmer.

it's because conservatives do this little pesky thing that leftists don't like, we put principles inside of our policies and they yield a desired result. and it shows. --and it shows in how our states operate. yet still the news media, they never want to talk about that. i can give a 25-minute speech, 24 minutes of it will be about what i just told you. it will be about that, it will be about making reformations in our education system, giving parents the right to control their children's educational destiny, it can be about raising the stature of people all across our state and taking them on a journey that sees them increase their financial fortunes, educational fortunes, and their futures. i can mention 30 seconds about why men shouldn't be competing

in women's sports and that meant ought to go in there-- men on ago own bathroom, not the women's bathroom. and when the leftist news media reports the next day, guess what the article is about. the article is about that 30 seconds. you see, they don't want to talk about the fact that california is falling apart and floated is flourishing -- florida is flourishing. they don't want to talk about the fact that new york is in a shambles and north carolina is on firm financial footing. they don't want to talk about the great things that are going on in arkansas and other places, where great conservatives are at the helm doing great things. when it comes to that, their news media, it is silent, because they don't want to admit one thing, the left is wrong. they are wrong on every topic come on every issue. they don't have a political leg to stand on.

they don't have a social leg to stand on. i don't have a spiritual leg to stand on -- they don't have a spiritual leg to stand on. they don't have nothing to stand on, because they do nothing right. every state they are running, they are running straight into the ground it is a pesky problem for our news media. they despise that. whenever they mention my name, they mention my name in conjunction with social issues and how i hate everybody. according to them, i hate everybody. i hate people who walk and talk, i hate people who drive cars. i don't hate anybody. because what i am doing is not about hate. what you're doing shouldn't be about hate, either. we should be operating because of what we love. let me take it biblical for you. you know the battle between david and goliath.

you know why david won. he didn't win because he hated goliath. he won because he loved god, and god was with him. we have to focus on what we love. what do we love? one word, freedom. that's what we love. we love freedom. and if you notice, that same news media doesn't want to talk about how bad california is doing. it's always demonizing a guy like mark robinson or ron desantis or that fellow that needs to be in the white house right now, donald trump. [applause] they don't ever want to talk about freedom. they want to talk about freedom when it comes to what they like. the freedom for you to choose your gender. the freedom for your minor child to choose their gender behind her backs -- your backs without

your permission. the freedom for a grown man to compete against women in sports. there for those kinds of freedom. -- they are for those cancer freedom. they are not for real freedom of speech, they are not for the right for you to defend yourself with firearms, they are not for the right for you to express yourself through your religion. we have got to get back to that, folks. that is the reason why we are here today. that is why we are here today. we are not here today to see celebrities and politicians and see ourselves on television. we are here to spread the message of freedom. we are here to stand up for the freedoms we love. [applause] the other night, i was watching a documentary about world war ii. seven-part documentary about world war ii.

i turned on an episode of it. right from the very beginning of the episode, tears start to stream down my face. i was sitting there watching this thing asking myself, what's wrong with you? are you turning into an old man? what is wrong with you? are you going soft, what is wrong with you? why are you crying watching this? and then it hit me like a ton of bricks. i wasn't watching a movie. i wasn't watching "saving private ryan" or "full metal jacket." i wasn't watching some hollywood war movie. i was watching the stories of the people who have sacrificed their lives, not their fortunes, not their jobs, not their political careers. sacrificed their lives for our freedom. do you know how many people are

laying in their graves right now, gave up the opportunity to marry, gave up the opportunity to have children and a family, gave up the opportunity like i have to see their grandchildren come on this earth? and they gave it up so we could sit here today. you know how many sacrifices that have been made for this country have been great and terrible. now it is the time for us to sacrifice. when i hear a politician, a left official say, "you know, i don't want to speak about that issue because it did affect my reelection -- it might affect my reelection campaign," i have no use for you! you stand on the shoulders of young men and women who when it was time to face down the enemy were willing to give their lives for you. you stand as a coward who won't do your duty in congress, or the

senate, or back at home in your house, or your senate, or even on your city council or board of education, or as the mayor refused to stand up with the guts to fight against the people who want to destroy this nation. [applause] we need warriors. we need warriors like president trump, who is literally spending his golden years fighting for the survival of his nation, fighting for the survival of this nation. because we need to get back to standing up for the freedoms we believe in. the freedoms we believe in, the same freedoms christmas -- crispus attucks gave his life for at the boston massacre, that the minute bunker

hill stood in defiance against the british for, same once at valley forge, and the same once work fortunate enough to stand at -- same ones who were fortunate enough to stand at yorktown and see victor. the battles of gettysburg and fredericksburg and all of those terrible battles of our civil war. they are the same freedoms that the red ball express and the tuskegee airmen and those boys from bedford, virginia, at d-day fought for in the marines at iwo jima fought for. they are the same freedoms. i urge every one of you as we move forward this year, we think about what is at stake. when you think about the wide open border, when you think about out-of-control crime, when you think of this dastardly government who has its head in its rear and instead of being at the helm of the government like it should be, you think about

the people who sacrificed you came before you. you get ready to sacrifice and then let's all get together and do the thing we need to do, protect freedom in this nation. god gave it to us, now it is time to defend it. god bless you all, god bless the great state of north carolina, and god bless the united states of america. thank you. ♪ [applause]