Dating, AI, and Iran with TPUSA Chapter Leaders Live from CLS

**Charlie Kirk** (0:03)
My name is Charlie Kirk. I run the largest pro-American student organization in the country, fighting for the future of our republic. My call is to fight evil and to proclaim truth. If the most important thing for you is just feeling good, you're going to end up miserable. But if the most important thing is doing good, you will end up purposeful. College is a scam, everybody. You got to stop sending your kids to college. You should get married as young as possible and have as many kids as possible. Go start a Turning Point USA college chapter. Go start a Turning Point USA high school chapter. Go find out how your church can get involved. Sign up and become an activist. I gave my life to the Lord in fifth grade. Most important decision I ever made in my life, and I encourage you to do the same. Here I am, Lord, use me. Buckle up, everybody. Here we go.
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**Andrew Colavetti** (1:17)
All right. Welcome, everybody. We are at Chapter Leadership Summit 2026 in Washington, DC., our nation's capital. We have over 2,500 of our top student leaders from Turning Point USA gathered together, doing training, workshops, hearing from amazing speakers. And we wanted to get their views and opinions on what's going on in the world. There's a lot going on. There's a lot of opinions that we think the older generations and a lot of people in power really need to hear from younger Americans, people that are voting, that actually have real opinions that might diverge from the more establishment view, the more Washington, DC centric view, or from an older generation's view. And they are critically important to understand where the country is going and what's going to happen next. So gathered around this table are some of our amazing student leaders at Turning Point USA, and we're going to have them introduce themselves to you.

**Sephora Cremone** (2:05)
Hi, my name is Sephora Cremone, and I'm a senior at the University of Miami.

**Jacob York** (2:10)
My name is Jacob York. I am going to be a junior this fall. I'm the president of the Turning Point chapter of the Nazarene University.

**Sephora Cremone** (2:16)
Morning, guys. I'm O'Ryan Musial. I am a junior at Clunson University.

**Jacob York** (2:20)
Awesome.

**Andrew Colavetti** (2:20)
I'm Andrew Colavett. This is Slate.

**Jacob York** (2:23)
I'm Noah Aydu. I was the previous president at Lafayette College and I'll be attending Salve Regina.

**Sephora Cremone** (2:29)
I'm Kennedy Wetzel, and I have been the president at Liberty University for the last year and a half.

**Michael Giannino** (2:34)
I'm Michael Giannino, and I'm the founder and president of Turning Point USA at Baruch College in the heart of New York City.

**Andrew Colavetti** (2:41)
You don't seem like you're from New York at all.
No, so, okay, guys. So there is so much going on, both internationally, domestically, but I think we'd probably find broad agreement in this group that we want to focus more domestically, right? There's a lot of issues that we need to address right here at home, but there are nagging things abroad. And there's been a lot of news lately coming out of Iran. They're trying to get the MOU across the finish line. It looks like there's been some issues, some complications. We started striking Iran again. Let's go back to the whole Iran topic. And anybody can go first. But were you guys supportive of the initial strikes against Iran? I'm not talking about Midnight Hammer. I'm talking about the second wave that started earlier this year.
It was very controversial with young people. We know that. Who was here was supportive, who was not? And if it's a gray area, that's fine, too. You were supportive.

**Sephora Cremone** (3:44)
Well, that's kind of the thing. It's always going to be a little bit of a gray area, because there's so many different layers to everything. I'm never going to be 100% yes, other than for America. 100% for America. And then all of the other decisions, there's going to be wiggle room.

**Andrew Colavetti** (3:56)
I worry you support.

**Sephora Cremone** (3:57)
I think it was absolutely a necessity. I think part of why people who are anti it, they don't irritate me. But I guess the ideas behind it do a little bit. The people who are complaining about it, a lot of it, it's not about what if we lose. It's not about what if we lose all these people. It's about how long is this going to inconvenience me as an American? I think that is so insane.