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Benny Johnson

Benny Johnson

American commentator and YouTuber

Jul 8, 2026

5:41
I don't get more on that yet.
5:42
We do.
5:42
So it grew out of our early days.
5:44
We were the birth of two professional associations.
5:48
Oh, was it? Okay.
5:49
A practitioner one and an academic one came together about 75 years ago.
5:53
Oh, okay.

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25:25
Or not
19:22
Why shouldn't conservatives forgive her for occasionally voting against the president?
19:29
Well, hold on, because this gets the timing wrong, Mark.
19:33
The timing, the world that we're living in today, the issue of most import is the survival of Western civilization.
19:40
What does it mean to be an American? Can we have a country? Can we have a culture? Can we protect ourselves from the ravages of uncontrolled, unlimited, illegal third world migration for the benefit of of strip mining the American experience and welfare state in absurdium.
20:03
And that is the ultimate question.
20:05
That is what 2024 was about more than anything.
20:08
Democrats admit this, that opening the border was really something that cost them.

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Scott WienerSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
29:10
At least one
24:14
Yeah
24:14
... on, uh, violent conquest and on, uh, men doing honorable and dignified- Uh, and extremely heroic things.
24:24
And so it was, like, bringing the Colosseum forward.
24:26
It was like re- a restoration of Western civilization, which was always built on masculine conquest, and, uh, it was really neat to see.
24:35
It w- well, like, what I saw from the...
24:37
Uh, it's the final thing I'll say on this.
24:38
What I saw from my vantage point, which I'm not sure could be translated in T- on TV, is there were so many rappers there, so many rock stars, so many tech titans, so many actors, actresses.
26:41
the Newsom investigation? Yeah.
19:28
Yeah.
19:28
And you see that throughout the emails.
19:29
Like, everyone who has a filthy, dirty job, they would go to Epstein.
19:33
He would get involved.
19:34
He was known as a guy who could just, like, he could, like, get...
19:36
You know, he could take care of this stuff.
19:38
But as, but in order to facilitate business with these a govern- you know, with, with people who are under mass surveillance or billionaires who can't just go...

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34:49
Wow, yeah.
20:55
[chuckles]
20:55
Uh, he's still American, right? He has an American passport, but nonetheless, like, he's scared.
21:00
He said that.
21:00
He said he's scared of that.
21:02
He won't speak in English.
21:04
Entire show was not in English.
21:06
Not only that, the show couldn't even be viewed from the stands.

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Please, help the audience understand just how significant this was when it comes to, to those metrics.
36:18
I want you to give us your unfiltered, unadulterated vision, version of what just took place last night.
36:28
Well, thank you, Andrew, and huge congratulations, obviously, to the entire Turning Point family.
36:35
You broke the streaming record of the most streamed entertainment performance in the history of YouTube.
36:44
So that's monstrous.
36:48
The world will never be the same after this.
36:50
I don't think that there will ever be another NFL halftime show that has ever seen the same way.
36:54
I think the NFL has so disgraced their core constituency, their customers.

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51:30
Every other country gets to be its own thing, but not America.
33:58
W- what do you make of that?
34:00
Yeah, you're exactly right.
34:02
There is two different, distinct timelines for people that were dealing with Jeffrey Epstein.
34:07
There's pre-prosecution in Florida for pedophilia, child trafficking, uh, underage abuse of young women.
34:14
This is what Jeffrey Epstein was charged with.
34:16
And then there's dealing with him after those prosecutions, and of course, he pled to those charges.
34:23
Uh, he, he then was put inside of his own wing of a, uh, low-security prison.

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46:52
Benny.
4:25
When did you realize that, uh, that California was worse than Minnesota?
4:33
Yes, so California is the fraud capital of the world, and here's how you know.
4:39
Let's go ahead and look at just one program in California that the state budget, which is enormous, is supposed to solve, the homelessness crisis.
4:49
Now, you can travel to any city in California, and you will find tent cities, broken-down RVs-
4:55
Yeah
4:55
... people living on the street, people defecating on the street, people behaving in dangerous ways towards children and towards families and towards the taxpaying citizens of California.
5:06
You shouldn't allow that in America.
5:08
California knows that this is a problem.
speaker_7ADVERTISER
34:59
What's up? Turning Point USA! What's going on? What's up?
35:42
Who can feel that in the house tonight? You got spiritual energy.
35:46
It's a good energy.
35:47
Positive energy.
35:49
Good aura.
35:50
Positive energy.
35:51
Greg Gutfeld.

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51:32
You have kids yet? You have kids? You have kids?
46:57
Prostate cancer.
46:57
Prostate cancer, yes.
46:58
Uh, uh, yes, prostate cancer, metastasized to his bones, which takes, according to medical experts, 12 years or more.
47:06
They knew that Joe Biden had this terminal illness.
47:09
They knew that he was suffering from it.
47:11
He was most likely being prescribed an enormous amount of medication to deal with it, and that's what made Joe Biden so zoinked out of his brain, falling directly on his ass in front of, uh, military graduations.
47:25
Right? Like this was a- this was one of the largest scale lies ever perpetrated on the American people, and that's a long list to be at the top of.

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72:31
Same.
12:03
(laughs)
12:03
Um, George Washington, his final words to the American people, his final words, his last speech before he went off into the sunset, something Barack Obama refuses to do-... uh, but he went off into the sunset and lived out his, uh, his days.
12:18
He said, "Don't, don't get embroiled in foreign entanglements.
12:20
That's how we lose this place.
12:22
That's how we destroy our country.
12:24
These countries have problems of their own.
12:26
They have blood feuds..." I'm talking about Israel and Ukraine here, by the way.
13:34
(laughs)
speaker_0UNKNOWN
79:57
(upbeat music) (audience cheering)
80:04
Yo, what's up, Moms for Liberty? (audience cheering) What's going on? (laughs) What is happening this morning, Orlando? Hey, I feel the energy, you can hear it out back.
80:18
That's amazing.
80:20
What is it, 9:00? Everybody's rip-roaring.
80:25
Good energy, got that spiritual revival energy in the country right now, right? (audience cheering) We got my Dads for Liberty, also, in the house? (audience cheering) We got Dads for Liberty? Do we have that? Have we started that group yet? Can we start Dads for Liberty? Can we start it up live on stage? Kinda racist that we don't have Dads for Liberty, right? (audience laughing) (laughs) You'll, you'll see the difference between my speech and a Charlie Kirk speech.
80:58
(audience laughing) We love Charlie so much.
81:02
What a martyr.
speaker_9UNKNOWN
85:52
Whoo.
speaker_19ANNOUNCER
16:45
We don't like being
16:46
healthy.
16:48
I'll show you the alternative, actually.
16:51
The alternative to the maha mom is actually the view and Dylan Mulvaney.
16:56
That's what the libs have.
16:59
That's what libs have.
17:00
These are the women that libs are offering to the culture.

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speaker_14SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
27:07
I spilled my soy latte in the litter
34:37
Yeah.
34:37
And I have breaking news for your program because I know this is a breaking news show.
34:42
Now let's do it.
34:44
All right.
34:45
So I and I didn't have time to send you the video to your producer, but I just looked at the Charlie Kirk Presidential Medal of Freedom and I saw it with my own eyes.
34:57
I looked there as Erica Kirk showed us and something historic happened with this Presidential Medal of Freedom.
35:05
For the first time in the history of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, there has been a Christian cross, a Christian crucifix emblazoned on the back of the medal with Charlie's name on it to honor his march for Christ and the Kingdom of Christ and Christendom.
36:37
What made him so magnetic? What made him so ability that in a short period of time, he could actually change a conversation, change a life, change a position that you had?
66:36
Benny, thanks so much for being here.
66:39
It's my honor.
66:40
I'm actually walking out of the White House at this very second.
66:45
And I have breaking news for your program because I know this is a breaking news show.
66:50
Let's do it.
66:52
All right.
66:53
So I didn't have time to send you the video to your producer, but I just looked at the Charlie Kirk Presidential Medal of Freedom.
68:44
What made him so magnetic? What made him so ability that in a short period of time, he could actually change a conversation, change a life, change a position that you had?
8:08
Uh, can you tell us about it and the impact, uh, to your family, sir?
8:13
Yes, Steve.
8:14
That's exactly right.
8:16
Charlie Kirk killed exactly one month ago today.
8:20
This was something that we all watched.
8:22
A, a good man, a peaceful man, a loving husband, and a devoted father, a dear friend of mine, and a brother to me.
8:30
And we sent them the peaceful guy.

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17:23
What's your message to this movement, and what's your message particularly to the leaders of this movement?
8:09
Can you tell us about it and the impact to your family, sir?
8:13
Yes, Steve, that's exactly right.
8:15
Charlie Kirk killed exactly one month ago today.
8:19
This was something that we all watched.
8:22
A good man, a peaceful man, a loving husband, and a devoted father, a dear friend of mine, and a brother to me.
8:29
We sent them...
8:31
the peaceful guy.

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16:47
What's your message to this movement, and what's your message particularly to the leaders of this movement?
6:36
Mm-hmm.
6:36
Which is exactly what Elon Musk told me.
6:39
So backstage, Elon Musk embraces Erika Kirk, and they're- the, the she's crying in his arms and they're hugging, and it's really profound.
6:46
This was after the speeches, this was after the program.
6:49
And this is the words that Elon Musk said to, to us in this small little group with Erika Kirk.
6:55
And he said, he said thi- like, "This is why I was proud to sit with my pres-" This is what he called Trump, "My president today." He accepted Trump's invitation to go up there, and he's- the majority of the event, Elon Musk sat- sitting there with Donald Trump, chewing it up, everyone's- as you can see, the...
7:12
Here's the photos of Elon embracing Erika, and then there are photos of Elon with Trump and they seem to be having gr- a great time.

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71:30
Right out here in the HQ.
57:56
Let me just get your reaction now, less than 24 hours after the news.
58:02
Well, Megyn, I have not slept, and I stayed up into the small hours of the morning pondering Charlie and what he would want next, and I have two thoughts on that.
58:18
They begin like this.
58:20
One, Charlie died as he lived, sharing salt and light in the darkest corners of our country and in our culture, and it is a culture that has been overcome by darkness, and Charlie was a beacon of light.
58:41
Charlie would want us to carry that beacon forward.
58:45
Charlie was cut down in the moments...
58:52
His last words were decrying violence and radicalization of the political left.
62:57
Yeah.
18:48
Your- your- your thoughts?
18:51
Yeah, he was Van Helsing to the vampire, Steve.
18:54
He was the sunlight and the silver bullet to the werewolf.
19:01
Bobby Kennedy is somebody who, in his confirmation hearings, had the single most viral clip that I've seen on the internet for any confirmation hearing ever.
19:11
And there were a lot of bangers from everyone from Tulsi, to Cash, Patel to Pete Hegseth.
19:15
But Bobby Kennedy looking straight dead in the eye, Bernie Sanders, and saying, "Oh you're gonna, um, you're gonna accuse me of going after Big Pharma? Well, you have a giant Big Pharma receipt stamped right on your ass that says that they've given you multiple millions of dollars.
19:35
You are the Big Pharma shill." And he not only did that, he also scalped, with a tomahawk, Elizabeth Warren for saying the exact same thing.
21:49
What- what would be your recommendation to Secretary Kennedy and the folks over at HHS?
13:21
Yes.
13:21
I think the American public is... has had enough of pretentious people that take themselves too seriously and have no self-deprecation and can't look at the landscape and perhaps come to, like, a conclusion that we agree on probably far more than we actually, uh, disagree on.
13:39
And the people that are willing to have those conversations are doing great with their careers.
13:44
There, there are individuals that are willing to have this wide range of conversations and do it in good faith, and have a laugh and make fun of themselves and there are some comedians like Tim Dillon, Joe Rogan, who of course explo- Theo Von, they've blown up because of their ability to do this.
13:59
Uh, there are some people like, uh, Bill Maher from the other side, right? Who would be on the, you know, absolute centric other side, who has also found a brand new wider audience being able to do this.
14:10
And it's not saying that they're MAGA.
14:11
They're not, they're not MAGA.

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41:03
Worst day of your life, but it also made you realize how fortunate you are because you survived it.
6:57
Benny, why don't you kick us off and thanks for being here.
7:01
As a DC resident of 15 years, I lived on Capitol Hill.
7:05
I witnessed so many muggings and so much theft.
7:08
I lost track.
7:09
I was carjacked.
7:10
I have murders on my ring camera and mass shootings.
7:14
I witnessed a woman on my block get held up at gunpoint for $20.
9:34
Very
21:29
Benny, what did you learn when you went to Cuba? We have more pla- pacyip, uh, pieces of tape to play but Benny, you went to Cuba, what did you learn about government run grocery stores?
21:40
Yeah.
21:40
I mean, I, you know, I understand why people would flee Cuba and risk being interned in aligator Alcatraz because it is truly hell on earth.
21:52
It's, uh, like a bizarro world video game, Charlie.
21:56
Uh, it's like when you see a post-apocalyptic scene inside of a Hollywood movie, where there was once a thriving society, there was once a functional people, a functional, uh, architecture of the city, but it's all been rotted and it's all been crumbled down to its lowest common criminal denominator.
22:19
It's very sad to go through Havana, it's very sad to see these old beautiful Spanish castles that have just decayed and are now truly just crumbling directly into the street.
22:31
And the people there in the nation of Cuba are also eternally depressed.

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34:25
What else did you learn? And what did you see at Alligator Alcatraz you want our audience to know about?
49:41
I'm excited.
49:41
All right.
49:42
Okay.
49:42
There's a man named Donald Barr.
49:44
He served his country honorably during World War II as a spy.
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He was part of the OSS.
49:49
The OSS was the predicate for the...

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72:08
And
speaker_13UNKNOWN
30:37
1995.Damn.
30:39
And he's just going off on Japan at the time, because China wasn't in the World Trade Organization.
30:44
But it was, it was Japan at the time.
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He's like, "They're ripping us off," and he's talking about Japanese vehicles.
30:48
And he's saying, "We, w- why are we so weak? Why are we such pussies? And why can't we tariff Japanese vehicles back?" Uh, and w- all you have to do is then reapply that to China entering the World Trade Organization that has rules.
31:00
There's rules.
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We let them into the WTO.

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speaker_33UNKNOWN
61:52
Yeah.

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