The New York Times has finally admitted, at long last, that the information on the Biden laptop, the hard drive that we recovered two years ago, is authentic. Next, war in Ukraine enters day 23. Third, 30% of Ukrainian refugees are reportedly from other countries. And finally, Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown-Jackson we re going to dig into some of the rulings and the way that Senator Hawley is also looking at this for her upcoming confirmation hearing.
00:00:13.600So Charlie sits down across the table debating literally an Antifa professor, Rachel Biddecoffer.
00:00:22.200Some of this stuff, it's completely, to my mind, kind of insane.
00:00:25.920But do you want to go and actually watch this thing and listen as they go back and forth on all these things about critical race theory, systemic racism, all these topics that we discuss, they go head to head.
00:00:38.340And this thing, I just watched some of it, it gets absolutely heated.
00:00:42.360The other thing that I want to mention that's coming up very soon, very soon.
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00:09:16.440So we just heard there that is Russian President Vladimir Putin holding a massive rally in the center of Moscow to commemorate what today is.
00:09:30.820Today in Russia is the eighth anniversary of the annexation of Crimea, or as they call it, the reunification, right, of Crimea with the rest of Russia.
00:09:52.160Russian forces continued to make steady territorial gains in and around Mariupol, and they are increasingly targeting the residential areas of the city.
00:10:00.720What they're doing, they've divided the entire city of Mariupol into four quadrants.
00:10:05.800I think, by the way, I think our program is actually one of the first ones to correctly analyze this, that they first cut it north-south along the river basin and then east-west along that main road, the M14, down the center of Mariupol.
00:10:19.020And so we have seen images now of thousands and thousands of civilians that have finally been able to leave Mariupol.
00:10:27.240It does also look, if you watch some of these videos, it looks like the DPR militia, the separatist groups, are actually vetting people as they come out.
00:10:34.980They're, you know, pulling up their shirts.
00:10:45.900They're looking for improvised explosives because they are worried, of course, about terrorist attacks or militia members getting out.
00:10:52.320But you are still seeing extremely heavy fighting.
00:10:56.340Also, last night, and I saw a lot of reporting on this, and ISW has it as well, Ukrainian forces northwest of Kiev and also in the Nikolaev area launched several counterintacts
00:11:06.100and inflicted heavy damage on Russian forces.
00:11:08.980So these are probably the largest counterattacks that we've actually seen since the beginning of this war, since all of these movements have been made.
00:11:17.360And, of course, that area, I want to keep people to understand, the Russian operation is focused on that eastern flank of the country.
00:11:24.000But what they're doing in Kiev is keeping so many of those Ukrainian defenders and Ukrainian forces bogged down in Kiev so that they aren't able to support the rest of the country, right?
00:11:36.100This is very similar, by the way, to Grant's strategy when he attacked in the Civil War, attacked the South, because when you have more forces, you create this massive, wider front.
00:11:47.540And, you know, I know everybody's looking at those maps where they can see that Ukraine is much smaller than the territory of Russia.
00:11:53.220Of course, Russia's the largest country in the world.
00:11:55.000But also understand that Ukraine is a massive country.
00:11:58.260So Ukraine, if you put it on the map, it would stretch between New York City on the east coast all the way out to Chicago.
00:12:04.320So this is a massive, massive front, and the Ukrainian army has to defend all of it, while the Russians are the ones who are invading.
00:12:13.800So because they have superior numbers, what they're doing is they're advancing on multiple fronts and demanding that the Ukrainian forces have to defend all of them at once.
00:12:23.760So if you keep that strategic focus on the city of Kiev, that enables them to make—it splits their forces, right?
00:12:31.460So it splits their forces and then has to make them defend all of that territory at the same time simultaneously.
00:12:39.180That's the operation that you're seeing here.
00:12:41.180We're also seeing reports of Ukrainian forces repelling Russian operations around Kharkiv.
00:12:46.700And there's reports that they killed a regimental commander.
00:12:49.060A lot of these reports, they go back and forth.
00:12:50.600And I do also say that when you see these headlines coming out of Ukraine, remember, it is the 24-hour rule, maybe even 48-hour rule in effect, because we're not sure exactly what's going on.
00:13:02.360Ukrainian intelligence, they're putting out that Russia may have extended its entire—or expended its entire store of precision cruise missiles in the first 20 days of the invasion.
00:13:12.320That being said, you know, we're not sure exactly sure how many they have in reserve.
00:13:16.760And keep in mind, they've also got their naval elements involved in this.
00:13:20.020The Russian forces we're now seeing have deployed unspecified reserve elements of the 1st Guard's tank army and Baltic fleet naval infantry to northeastern Ukraine on March 17th.
00:13:30.940You could potentially be seeing a reserve force that could conduct an amphibious operation along the Black Sea.
00:13:37.200They could be conducting that in addition in support of their assault on Maripol.
00:13:41.340Or you could see that, by the way, of a likelihood of a Russian amphibious assault on the city of Odessa.
00:13:48.360Now, actually, one thing that I've noticed in terms of all this, it looks like the—Odessa seems to be more of a feint right now, because you're seeing—you know, this has happened a couple of times over the past three weeks, where you've seen Russian naval forces, you know, they'll conduct presence operations, they'll come very close to the coast of Odessa, and then they'll go back out to sea.
00:14:10.740They're not going to conduct an amphibious operation or amphibious landing on Odessa without having their troops in the area.
00:14:18.180So their troops currently in the south are near Kherson.
00:14:21.420You've got those troops all up by Kiev.
00:14:23.100They do not have the land elements nearby to Odessa to conduct any type of major operation.
00:14:30.260But what they're doing as well, it's splitting the force of the Ukrainians.
00:14:34.220And so they're forcing the Ukrainian army or more Ukrainian forces to have to stay behind in Odessa on that port city and that coastal town, very strategic, right on the border with Moldova, but then also requiring them to be there while they can't be in the fight elsewhere in the country.
00:14:49.620Now, keep in mind that if they're able to clean up Mariupol and conclude operations there, then those same forces could potentially be moving west to the area with Odessa.
00:15:01.840The fighting continues here, day 23 of this war.
00:16:22.680I know the immigration of Ukrainians are a Christian European people and are therefore much closer to our French people than the waves of migration from Arab Muslim or Middle Eastern countries.
00:16:38.140So I know very well that it would pose less a problem in terms of assimilation and acculturation.
00:16:44.400What I don't want is for there to be a tsunami based on emotion as there was for little Alan.
00:16:51.420And we had one million or even more Syrian immigrants besides countless Algerians, Moroccans, Africans.
00:16:58.760Now, we know over two million refugees have left Ukraine at this point.
00:17:04.540About 5,000 have already arrived in France from Ukraine, with some being transported by bus from Berlin and others arriving by rail and air.
00:17:12.220However, of those arriving, this is Le Figaro, about 30% are migrants of other nationalities.
00:17:20.1403.5% are from the Ivory Coast or Morocco.
00:17:22.840There's also Indians, Kyrgyzstan nationals, Congo, Cameroon, Pakistan, Nigeria, China, all of whom we're claiming to be Ukrainian.
00:17:31.760The incentive for economic migrants is to obtain asylum in France.
00:17:36.160And it's clear, given the immediate blanket refugee status, guaranteed accommodation, as well as education, financial, and medical support.
00:18:13.920It would be Poland or Hungary or Romania, Moldova, or, by the way, also back into Russia and Belarus, because you do have a lot of people fleeing the fighting and going into Russia.
00:18:25.960This also represents part of the issue with this whole situation to begin with, because some of the people do identify as Russian, and some of them are, nearly all of them are Russian-speaking as well.
00:18:35.900So understand, though, you've got a situation where, I think we get this, right?
00:18:41.620A lot of those people who left saw it as a free ticket to the EU, and you've got people who also probably, by the way, made it, you know, why do we have so many of these people from other countries in Ukraine in the first place?
00:18:56.140Well, they got there through these migrant programs that were being pushed by the EU, pushed by Angela Merkel back when she was still in power, all the way starting in 2015, right, when over 1 million refugees made it from Syria and Turkey and other parts of the Middle East into the EU.
00:19:15.820And now you're seeing more of that because people are saying, well, they had come to Ukraine in the first place.
00:19:19.880Now they're moving across Europe because they've got a free ticket, because remember, Ukraine is not a member state of the EU, right?
00:19:27.720So they do have a visa program, but in order to go into the EU, right, to be in the EU, keep in mind, that you get a tax status, you get benefits, you get education, you get financial support, very, very generous social programs, right?
00:19:41.840So this is going to be, again, a very strong situation the EU is going to have to deal with, not only for the people who are from these third countries, but also for the Ukrainian national refugees to begin with.
00:19:55.640Because the question is going to become, will the EU be able to sustain that through their social programs, or will the social welfare system lead to more financial problems for the EU?
00:20:07.580I've been a federal judge for eight years, and I have a duty of independence.
00:20:18.260I clerked for three federal judges before I became a judge, and they were models of judicial independence.
00:20:27.400And what that has meant is that I know very well what my obligations are, what my duties are, not to rule with partisan advantage in mind.
00:20:41.980Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown-Jackson is facing some blowback from Senator Josh Hawley, who put out a tweet thread, and he wrote,
00:20:50.620I've been researching the record of Judge Ketanji Brown-Jackson, reading her opinions, articles, interviews, and speeches, and I've noticed an alarming pattern, especially when it comes to Judge Jackson's treatment of sex offenders, especially those preying on children.
00:21:05.420Obviously, those are clearly the worst type of sex offenders in the entire country, the worst type of sex offenders there could be, the people who would abuse children.
00:21:16.240He goes through and says she has a pattern of letting child porn offenders off the hook for their appalling crimes, both as a judge and a policymaker.
00:21:23.700She's been advocating it for it since law school.
00:21:28.360I'm concerned that this is a record that endangers our children.
00:21:31.680As far back as her time in law school, Judge Jackson has questioned making convicts register as sex offenders, saying it leads to stigmatization and ostracism.
00:21:40.620She suggested public policy is driven by a climate of fear, hatred, and revenge against sex offenders.
00:21:48.980And so there's a very interesting comment that she made in one of her statements where she goes, listen to this.
00:22:22.740I don't know what's going on here, but I do hear someone that it sounds like
00:22:47.060is making excuses in the name of reform, in the name of social justice, for covering up these people who are conducting acts of trafficking, possessing, distributing child pornography,
00:23:03.900which obviously has a victim, the victim being the child being abused, and thus creating a market and facilitating that market for them, right?
00:23:14.140That's not her job as a judge to dig into what the person's motivations are, in a sense.
00:23:21.760I understand for sentencing guidelines, right, that does become an issue.