The Russian advance in Ukraine continues as they take the strategic city of Kharkiv, while their advance continues in the north, a reaction to the feckless State of the Union delivered by President Biden, a new list of DOJ subpoenaed list of activists, and a Supreme Court nominee, Ketanji Brown Jackson.
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00:01:35.020Today's top story is the Russian invasion of Ukraine continues as Russia has taken the strategic city of Kursan in southern Ukraine while their advance continues in the north.
00:01:44.480Next, a reaction to the feckless State of the Union delivered by President Biden, low energy and, quite frankly, ridiculous.
00:01:51.460Next, the January 6th committee has subpoenaed a new list of lawyers and activists while they think nobody is looking.
00:01:59.120And then finally, President Biden's Supreme Court nominee, Ketanji Brown-Jackson.
00:02:03.420We're going to dig into her a little bit.
00:02:04.620All this and we're ahead to Human Events Daily.
00:02:17.000Well, the Russian advance in the invasion of Ukraine continues.
00:02:20.180And we are now getting reports as early of this morning that the strategic Ukrainian city of Kursan, located in southern Ukraine, has fallen to Russia.
00:02:29.880Now, this is a strategic city for them because this is really that city that connects the Dnieper River with the Black Sea on the south.
00:02:37.980This is right just north of Crimea, and this is from the Russian southern advance out of Crimea into that strategic area, that Azimuth, around that southern delta of the Dnieper River.
00:02:48.200All the way up in the north of the Dnieper River is what, of course, is Kiev.
00:02:51.640That will be the scene of potentially the final encirclement and the final battle of all of this.
00:02:57.780Whether or not Kiev is going to capitulate is really the story right now.
00:03:01.420And a lot of that, the question there, remains on President Zelensky of Ukraine and, of course, President Putin of Russia.
00:03:41.740If you do this and if those side is ready, it means that they are ready for the peace.
00:03:47.480So you see there, Zelensky, of course, is doing everything he can to rally Western support behind his cause and rally support for Ukraine and for the Ukrainian people.
00:03:56.820And, of course, our hearts go out to the Ukrainian people that are caught in the middle of all of this.
00:04:01.280But we've heard, of course, as well from Prime Minister Boris Johnson, as well as from the White House here in the United States, that it does not appear that NATO is going to be getting involved in this from a military perspective.
00:04:11.660And, of course, that's exactly what Putin calculated.
00:04:15.940So the Russian leaders – and keep in mind that Russia has an authority structure.
00:04:22.540They have an entire establishment the same way the United States does.
00:04:26.360Obviously, they have different forms of it.
00:04:28.980Their forms of power are very much more top-down where ours are more amorphous.
00:04:33.480But they certainly don't just have one person who's making all these decisions.
00:04:36.620If Vladimir Putin didn't have the support of that establishment in making this move, Russia never would have conducted this invasion.
00:04:43.880So this really is something where the strategists, the security oligarchs, the leaders of the military, the generals, decided to look at this.
00:04:51.800And from a security and economic perspective, they're basically looking at it from a perspective of saying, look, we don't want these foreign wars, these foreign militaries to come onto Ukraine's forces.
00:05:01.180We want that buffer state, and we believe that because we have such a stranglehold on natural resources that are of strategic interest to Western Europe, namely oil, natural gas, as well, by the way, of having a massive stockpile of gold in Russia, they knew that there would be sanctions.
00:05:18.240They knew that all of this would take place.
00:05:19.800But they're banking on the fact that, number one, while the sanctions are able to hurt in the near term, that in the long term, Western Europe is going to need those resources.
00:05:31.800And Gazprom just yesterday, I saw an article on Zero Hedge, they were offering gas for $15 a barrel to anybody who wanted it, just $15 a barrel.
00:05:41.980So eventually, you're going to have people around the world, as gas prices go up, as oil prices go up, they're going to come around and say, you know what, at the end of the day, we need this.
00:05:52.560And it doesn't matter where it comes from, because we need this for our country, and we can't afford to get it any other way.
00:06:16.780They saw U.S. natural gas as a threat.
00:06:19.040They did everything they could to stop that and to fight it.
00:06:22.260And I remember that we used to have people in the White House.
00:06:26.580There used to be a guy in there who said that he wanted to expand fracking in the United States, that he wanted to go into the Permian Basin and the Marcellus Shale, that he wanted to go up to Anwar.
00:06:37.840But instead, we didn't do that because we're foolish and because we were reckless.
00:06:42.760And instead, we drove China and Russia together, which will still, I still keep saying this, this will become to be looked at in the annals of history as one of the most foolish foreign policy blunders in United States history, that we drove Russia and China together by choice.
00:07:03.080We could have played them against each other because we're stupid and we don't have the self-awareness to step outside of ourselves and realize, by the way, that Russia isn't going for a blitzkrieg.
00:07:13.960They're not going for asymmetric warfare.
00:07:15.320This is a slow envelopment operation and it is going to keep continuing, as President Biden even said last night at the State of the Union, until Kiev itself is completely surrounded.
00:07:26.000And our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan have faced many dangers, one being stationed at bases breathing in toxic smoke from burn pits.
00:07:38.480And they come home, many of the world's fittest and best trained warriors in the world, never the same headaches, numbness, dizziness, a cancer that would put them in a flag-draged coffin.
00:07:53.360I know, to our fellow Ukrainian Americans who forged a deep bond that connects our two nations, we stand with you.
00:08:06.880Putin may circle Kiev with tanks, but it'll never gain the hearts and souls of the Iranian people.
00:08:12.280So those are just a couple of the highlights or lowlights, I guess, of the State of the Union from last night, delivered by President Biden, talking about the Iranians, Iranians, nobody can understand what he's saying, Representative Boebert, that I would like to thank for bringing up Afghanistan, bringing that up because the 13 honored dead of Kabul airport in the botched pullout, I guess, operation, whatever you want to call that.
00:08:39.920It wasn't really much of an operation that was conducted by the Biden administration.
00:08:57.640He wants you to completely forget what he did to America on the world stage.
00:09:02.280And he wants to make you forget about the families of those fallen 13 that didn't have to die because they shouldn't have been there in the first place.
00:09:13.340And he's going to wave his hands and act like it didn't matter the same way, by the way, that he's standing back after for years, for years of saying, I stand with Ukraine.
00:09:23.920The United States stands with Ukraine.
00:09:25.820The United States will be there for Ukraine.
00:09:28.380We're going to bring you into NATO and we're going to give you all this money and all you have to do is just, you know, say that you're with us.
00:09:34.740And yeah, maybe maybe give my son a couple of million dollars working for one of your working for one of your oligarchs.
00:09:56.840All the politicians, they're wearing lapel pins.
00:09:59.820Where are the people who are calling for leadership?
00:10:03.340Show me some actual leadership, not just for the people of Ukraine, but the people of the United States as well.
00:10:11.880Where was any point of that speech that President Biden felt like, and it certainly didn't feel like to me, that he was the leader of the free world?
00:10:21.100He didn't feel like he was a leader of anything.
00:10:22.780He seemed like a guy who's been completely in over his head.
00:10:58.640The people, the hundreds and thousands of people that are trying to escape to Poland, and God bless Poland for doing that, by the way, taking in the refugees, giving them food, giving toys to the children.
00:12:40.400So if the government starts spending more, and the government starts printing more so they continue to spend more, then you're going to increase demand.
00:12:47.720If you increase demand without increasing supply, what do you get?
00:12:50.680You get higher prices, and that leads to more inflation.
00:12:52.920The same way the printing more money leads to more inflation.
00:14:02.960You spend up to—you're supposed to spend eight hours a day in bed.
00:14:06.600Now, I know, especially if you're in D.C. like me, you're not spending a full eight hours, and especially you've got little kids like I do, but you are spending a lot of time in that bed.
00:14:14.540And if you are spending all that time in your bed, you owe it to yourself.
00:14:32.800So we've been talking about things that take place overseas a lot lately.
00:14:38.020We've been talking about things that take place thousands of miles away in the Eurasian steppe, the killing fields of the borderlands between Ukraine and Russia.
00:14:47.960It's always—but the word Ukraine itself means borderlands.
00:15:10.760We're talking about something that's happening right here at home, right in the city of Washington, D.C., where I'm in, the regime-occupied national capital region, where you have this group of people called the January 6th Committee.
00:15:22.960And what's the point of the January 6th Committee?
00:15:25.920Well, the point of the January 6th Committee is to demonize and weaponize the federal government, the power of the U.S. Congress, against the political opposition of the regime.
00:15:36.620And they think that because there's so much going on overseas, because that's completely gone to chaos, and there's so much happening here at home domestically, because this has all gone to chaos as well, by the way.
00:15:47.000The inflation, the unemployment, all of those things, all of those problems that existed prior to this, the lockdowns, the mandates, those all still exist, by the way.
00:15:55.900The trucker convoy, you remember them?
00:16:21.200The committee on Tuesday issued six letters to witnesses demanding documents and testimony for what it described as their role seeking to overturn the election in the lead up to, of course, the insurrection.
00:16:31.680They just claimed it was an insurrection.
00:16:33.840Since being formed last year, the committee has turned its attention in recent months to how efforts by Trump and his inner circle tried to stay in power allegedly played into the attack.
00:17:27.040This is what our entire system is supposed to be all about.
00:17:30.320We want to have elections to decide who's in control.
00:17:35.160And if you look, if you follow me for long enough, you know that I don't necessarily believe that it's the politicians who are in control in this country.
00:17:43.260But but follow me through just in terms of argument here.
00:17:46.200That if you're following filing a legal petition, you're not breaking the law.
00:17:51.080You're saying that we want there to be a fair and open process in that election, that we want fairness.
00:18:00.620We don't want the referees to be bought off.
00:18:03.360We don't want them to be making calls for one side or the other.
00:18:06.080We want them to call balls and strikes.
00:18:07.800We want the same set of rules for everybody.
00:18:09.500We want it to be an even playing field.
00:18:11.540And if you go and talk to most Americans, you'll find that that's exactly what they want when it comes to elections, when it comes to sports, when it comes to everything.