The Ben Shapiro Show - Jussie Smollett To Be Imprisoned With His Attacker | Ep. 1451

00:00:01.000 Finds himself sentenced to jail but rails against the system.

00:00:04.000 Russia continues to escalate in the body count in Ukraine as the West begins to blink and inflation hits a four decade high as the Biden administration tells us that everything is fine.

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00:01:37.000 Well, in the day's shocker yesterday, Jussie Smollett, hero of his own story, Jussie Smollett, was actually sentenced to some jail time for lying to the cops.

00:01:46.000 It's kind of a rarity because typically when you lie to the cops, you get probation.

00:01:49.000 But Jussie was actually sentenced to 150 days in jail, 30 months of felony probation.

00:01:55.000 He was ordered to pay restitution Let me tell you, Mr. Smollett, I know that there is nothing that I will do here today that can come close to the damage you've already done to your own life.

00:02:01.000 that he was the victim of a hate crime in January of 2019.

00:02:06.000 The sentencing was amusing.

00:02:07.000 Here was the judge reading the sentencing yesterday.

00:02:10.000 Let me tell you, Mr. Smollett, I know that there is nothing that I will do here today that can come close to the damage you've already done to your own life.

00:02:18.000 You've turned your life upside down by your misconduct and shenanigans.

00:02:23.000 You've destroyed your life as you knew it.

00:02:25.000 And there's nothing that any sentencing judge could do to you that can compare to the damage you've already caused yourself.

00:02:30.000 you This is a good point.

00:02:33.000 And then he sentenced him to a little bit of jail time, in which, as you see, now faces the prospect of having to share a cell with his attacker, which has to be horrifying.

00:02:41.000 Every morning, he just looks in that mirror, and there he is!

00:02:45.000 Right there in the mirror, his attacker.

00:02:46.000 It's a scary situation.

00:02:47.000 They put him in solitary, he's still in there with his attacker.

00:02:50.000 In any case, Juicy responded, with all of the grace and humility you would expect from a man who's been abjectly humiliated on the world stage for having faked a hate crime in which he, you know, actually claimed that he had been attacked by a bunch of MAGA-headed white racists at 2 a.m.

00:03:07.000 on a Chicago morning in the middle of a polar vortex.

00:03:10.000 And that they had looped a rope around his neck and poured bleach on him while shouting that he was an F word and an N word.

00:03:18.000 And then it turned out that he had hired two Africans to actually do that to him.

00:03:25.000 And then he had gone home and he had lied to the cops.

00:03:28.000 Never letting go of his Subway sandwich the entire time, because that's just how good that Subway sandwich was to Jussie Smollett.

00:03:33.000 Well, you know, after it turns out that you are humiliated as one of the world's worst liars, taking advantage of America's woke moment in order to forward your own career.

00:03:44.000 Because if you claim to be a victim in American society, this makes you a hero in American society.

00:03:47.000 And if you claim to be a victim of both homophobia and racism, that's like the hero gold crown.

00:03:52.000 That's like victim hero gold crown, a number one automatic election to the presidency stuff. 0.95

00:03:57.000 Jussie Smollett took advantage of that and then it turns out it was all bullcrap.

00:04:00.000 So now he's going to jail.

00:04:01.000 Well, he looked very humbled and he looked very contrite.

00:04:05.000 Or alternatively, he didn't look like any of that.

00:04:08.000 Here was Jussie in court yesterday.

00:04:10.000 I am not suicidal!

00:04:14.000 I am not suicidal!

00:04:16.000 And I am innocent!

00:04:18.000 I could have said that I was guilty a long time ago!

00:04:26.000 I'm not suicidal, as he raises the black power fist. 1.00

00:04:29.000 So I assume that he could only be talking to one person there, Hillary Clinton, because Jeffrey Epstein didn't kill himself.

00:04:35.000 But I'm not sure why he's saying he's not.

00:04:38.000 Is the implication that the racist white system is now going to actually?

00:04:43.000 Who's going to do this?

00:04:45.000 I mean, he's been victimized before by him.

00:04:47.000 So now he's saying, I won't victimize me anymore.

00:04:50.000 Is that what we are going for?

00:04:52.000 Here, his family came out in his defense as well.

00:04:54.000 And listen, props to the family for family solidarity here.

00:04:57.000 And really, you love your sibling enough to actually defend this kind of action on behalf of your sibling.

00:05:03.000 I'll give them family points.

00:05:05.000 Here's his sister and his brother reacting to Jussie Smollett's sentence.

00:05:09.000 He'll be spending time in jail and he'll have to pay a little bit of a fine here.

00:05:13.000 My brother, Jesse, is innocent.

00:05:14.000 This should not be a controversial statement because it is the absolute truth.

00:05:18.000 What should be controversial is the entire miscarriage of justice this whole ordeal has been.

00:05:23.000 I watched my brother go from being a complete victim, which he still is.

00:05:29.000 He was attacked.

00:05:30.000 And he is now going to jail for being attacked.

00:05:33.000 I saw my brother get locked up within two weeks for being attacked.

00:05:36.000 Do you know how crazy that is?

00:05:38.000 They want to stay in that court and say that he's the reason why folks aren't going to report hate crimes?

00:05:44.000 They're the reason why folks aren't going to report hate crimes!

00:05:49.000 Um, well, I mean, the reason that folks aren't going, I mean, I would hope that people don't report hate crimes that didn't happen is what I would hope right there.

00:05:57.000 Now, here's the thing. 0.95

00:05:58.000 There is every possibility that Jussie Smollett, if he hadn't been a moron, would have gotten away with this. 1.00

00:06:02.000 If he hadn't done the stupidest possible, like, let's say that he had just walked home, not in the area with cameras. 0.99

00:06:07.000 And let's say that he had not called the people that he allegedly, well, now apparently, not allegedly, hired to, to beat him up. 0.99

00:06:15.000 Let's say that he had not signed them a personal check.

00:06:19.000 Let's say that he had not called them from his cell phone and then refused to turn his cell phone over to the police.

00:06:24.000 Let's say that his story had not been so unbelievably implausible that he'd been able to get away with it.

00:06:29.000 The entire nation would still be going on about this.

00:06:31.000 Remember, the Vice President of the United States, Kamala Harris, Kamala Harris.

00:06:35.000 You know, remember that she actually tweeted out that Jussie was one of the greatest people she knew and she stood with him.

00:06:41.000 So did the entire Democratic Party.

00:06:43.000 The entire Democratic Party spent like a couple of days talking about how Jussie was just another emblem of racial injustice in America, particularly under Trump.

00:06:53.000 So if he had not been a person of low IQ, Jussie Smollett, then he could have easily gotten away with this.

00:07:00.000 Because we see these hate crime hoaxes on a fairly regular basis in the United States, which says something.

00:07:05.000 It does.

00:07:05.000 When you have a trend of people who are faking crimes against themselves, you have to ask, what's the incentive structure that is creating a rationale for doing this sort of stuff?

00:07:14.000 Like, I don't go around trying to fake hate crimes against myself because I have no incentive to do so.

00:07:18.000 What exactly would I get out of it?

00:07:20.000 But for Juicy, the answer was probably millions of dollars.

00:07:24.000 And if he'd gotten away with this, he gets cast in movies.

00:07:26.000 He gets cast in more TV shows.

00:07:28.000 He is made into a national hero.

00:07:31.000 Which says there's something deeply wrong with our country that goes much deeper than Jussie Smollett faking a hate crime against himself.

00:07:36.000 It's that we've set up an incentive structure where if you back the woke lie that America is generally racist and that black people are invariably the victims of that racism.

00:07:45.000 No matter how wealthy they are, like Jussie Smollett, or how prominent they are, like Jussie Smollett.

00:07:51.000 No matter what, America victimizes you.

00:07:52.000 That narrative, if you play into it, you make money, you get famous, you get power.

00:07:57.000 And so people are going to continue to do this sort of stuff.

00:07:59.000 That is why it was actually quite important that Jussi spend a little bit of time in jail with himself.

00:08:03.000 Because, after all, people should be dissuaded from faking hate crimes.

00:08:08.000 But the underlying ill, the underlying malady is not going away here.

00:08:12.000 And it is an underlying malady.

00:08:14.000 Jussi, for his part, as he left, he said, Your Honor, I respect you and I respect the jury, but I did not do this.

00:08:19.000 He did not specify what the this was.

00:08:21.000 Did he not beat himself up?

00:08:23.000 Was he not victim?

00:08:24.000 Like, what exactly was the this? 0.71

00:08:27.000 The judge said, there's a side of you that has this arrogance, selfishness, narcissism that's just disgraceful.

00:08:32.000 You're not a victim of a hate crime.

00:08:33.000 You're not a victim of a homophobic hate crime. 0.51

00:08:35.000 You're a charlatan pretending to be a victim of a hate crime. 1.00

00:08:37.000 That is shameful. 0.98

00:08:39.000 That, of course, is correct.

00:08:41.000 Sommelier's attorneys argued he should be given a more lenient punishment, such as probation.

00:08:47.000 Citing his lack of criminal history and the community service he has performed, they read several letters which attested to that part of his life.

00:08:53.000 Before announcing the sentence, the judge also spoke of the leading figures in social justice circles that asked for a lenient sentence for Smollett.

00:08:59.000 The judge said, you do have quite a record of real community service and quite a record of attaching with people. I'm mindful of pleas of mercy, particularly from people that are in that arena. But ultimately, the judge said this act showed Smollett's dark side. So Black Lives Matter, by the way, did in fact write a letter on Smollett's behalf that was then read out loud by the defense at the sentencing hearing.

00:09:18.000 It's a good thing.

00:09:20.000 It's just demonstrative, once again, of the fact that the underlying racial dynamics in the country are really, really unhealthy right now.

00:09:27.000 And unless we get a handle on that, this sort of stuff is going to be promulgated on a fairly routine basis for as long as we can possibly imagine. 0.98

00:09:36.000 Again, Jussie Smollett, this is more about Jussie Smollett being an idiot than it is about the fact that Jussie Smollett Did something wrong. 0.83

00:09:42.000 When I say did something wrong, I mean that every incentive structure drives people to do this sort of stuff. 0.99

00:09:46.000 There's a reason that Rachel Dolezal pretended to be a black woman. 1.00

00:09:48.000 There's a reason Jussie Smollett faked a hate crime against himself.

00:09:51.000 People don't do this sort of stuff when there are healthy racial dynamics in play in the United States.

00:09:56.000 Okay, meanwhile, over in Ukraine, in much more important world matters, you know, talk of nuclear war and such, The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Russia has ramped up its attacks in Ukraine in an effort to seize strategically key port cities.

00:10:09.000 Now, they are doing this presumably because at some point, Russia will have exhausted its military arsenal.

00:10:14.000 That doesn't mean that they can't do this ad infinitum.

00:10:16.000 They can do this for a very long time.

00:10:18.000 However, they are drawing down forces from pretty much everywhere else in Russia to make this happen.

00:10:22.000 They have 150,000 to 200,000 troops inside the country right now and extraordinary amounts of materiel.

00:10:28.000 Now, Russia has relied for a very long time on the fact that it is bordered by countries that are much more militarily weak than Russia is.

00:10:37.000 But as Russia pours more and more resources in, it's actually weakening itself both internally and externally with regard to its other borders.

00:10:43.000 And so they can't actually do this indefinitely.

00:10:46.000 They could if it was just a question of can they continue to pound.

00:10:50.000 Ukraine here.

00:10:50.000 They could do that.

00:10:51.000 But again, there are other costs that are associated, which means that over the course of the next few weeks, you would imagine they're going to have to do some sort of troop drawdown in Ukraine if they can't achieve some sort of victory, which means maybe there's a ramp for de-escalation here, which we'll get to in just a moment.

00:11:03.000 But for the moment, the idea is that Moscow has to ratchet up the pressure.

00:11:07.000 They must ratchet up the pressure because if they actually start to lose, then the terms of negotiation are going to be very bad for them.

00:11:13.000 So this is why they are upping the ante in terms of human rights violation.

00:11:16.000 They understand that raw power is all that matters once you are in the war.

00:11:20.000 Once the war has begun, all that matters is raw power.

00:11:22.000 Because to make it stop, people will make all sorts of concessions to Vladimir Putin, which is what he is gambling on.

00:11:27.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, after a meeting with his Ukrainian counterpart on Thursday, said that the hospital, there was a maternity hospital that was bombed by the Russians.

00:11:36.000 He said the hospital was a legitimate target because it was held by local radical militias, though Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters we don't have clear information about the incident.

00:11:44.000 Mariupol Mayor Vadim Boychenko said it's a total lie.

00:11:47.000 Everything that was said, each word was absolutely not true.

00:11:51.000 Lavrov's meeting with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kulebo in Antalya, Turkey, Was the highest level contact between the two countries since the start of the war, but the diplomats failed to reach a ceasefire agreement or any deal to protect civilians caught up in the hostilities.

00:12:04.000 Ukrainian authorities raised the casualty counts of Wednesday's hospital bombing in Mariupol to three dead and 17 wounded.

00:12:09.000 U.S.

00:12:09.000 Vice President Kamala Harris during a visit to Poland on Thursday called for a war crimes investigation we'll get to.

00:12:14.000 Kamala Harris's atrocious visit to Poland in just one moment.

00:12:17.000 Russia has been accused before of targeting hospitals.

00:12:20.000 Of course, in Syria, Russia attacked a number of hospitals along with the Assad regime.

00:12:25.000 The daily bombardment of Mariupol has left the city of more than 400,000 without food, clean water or electricity.

00:12:30.000 By the way, there are now 2.5 million refugees inside Ukraine or who have left Ukraine at this point.

00:12:35.000 Video footage of parts of Mariupol has begun to resemble cities flattened by Russia and other conflicts like Grozny in Chechnya and Idlib in Syria.

00:12:43.000 Boychenko said this week children in the city have started to die from dehydration.

00:12:46.000 Shelling on Thursday killed 36 civilians, wounded many others in the city.

00:12:49.000 According to a spokesman for a local defense regiment, the Mariupol mayor's office said more than 1,200 civilians had been killed since the beginning of the siege.

00:12:56.000 And that, of course, is just in Mariupol, not countrywide.

00:12:58.000 Meanwhile, It looks as though the Russians are launching major attacks around Kiev.

00:13:04.000 They're making a renewed push around Kiev.

00:13:07.000 They've mobilized pretty much all forces in all directions there.

00:13:11.000 And it is unclear what the endgame is going to be in Ukraine at this point.

00:13:14.000 And that's what this is all about.

00:13:15.000 How does this end?

00:13:16.000 Right?

00:13:17.000 We know what's happening.

00:13:18.000 We know it's bad.

00:13:18.000 The question is, how does this end?

00:13:20.000 According to the Washington Post, When Russia first invaded Ukraine two weeks ago, the near-unanimous global assumption was that it would score a quick and easy military victory over its neighbor to the West.

00:13:28.000 But now, with the Ukrainians waging a fierce resistance, and Russian forces bogged down outside nearly every major city, the Biden administration and its allies say they see no clear end to the military phase of the conflict, according to interviews with 17 administration officials, diplomats, policymakers, and experts.

00:13:42.000 The situation seems destined to result in an even deadlier and more protracted slog, wreaking devastation in Ukraine, causing a massive humanitarian crisis.

00:13:50.000 As the war enters its third week, President Biden and his team are also entering a murkier, more difficult stage of the conflict, where the new challenge is how to control the largely uncontrollable, Vladimir Putin and his endgame, whatever that may be.

00:14:01.000 The Biden administration has successfully encouraged NATO and other Western allies to use nearly every available lever of power to punish Putin.

00:14:07.000 Those efforts so far have had little discernible influence over the Russian president, who has only escalated his military offensive on cities and towns across Ukraine.

00:14:15.000 Any outcome represents a lose-lose proposition, as even an eventual Russian defeat is likely to leave Ukraine decimated and its European neighbors bearing the brunt of the humanitarian crisis.

00:14:24.000 So far, the UN Human Rights Office reports 516 civilians in Ukraine have been killed since February 24th, adding the actual total is probably much higher.

00:14:31.000 A senior U.S.

00:14:31.000 military official said yesterday that at least 4,000 Russian troops may have died at this point as well.

00:14:37.000 A European diplomat said the longer this goes on, the likelier it will be that Russia ends up being defeated, but also more likely that more people will die.

00:14:43.000 Jim Townsend, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for European and NATO Policy, said right now everyone is kind of feeling their way forward.

00:14:50.000 He said the endgame is going to be pretty complicated.

00:14:52.000 The endgame is going to have to deal with Putin as he is.

00:14:54.000 It's also going to have to deal with Ukraine getting back on its feet and deal with what to do with those sanctions.

00:14:58.000 The current U.S.

00:14:59.000 strategy is to ensure the economic costs for Russia are severe and sustainable, as well as to continue supporting Ukraine militarily in its effort to inflict as many defeats on Russia as possible.

00:15:07.000 But U.S.

00:15:08.000 military assistance remains limited.

00:15:10.000 And herein lies the problem.

00:15:11.000 If the idea is you ratchet up the pressure so that Putin knows that this is basically a lost war and it's going nowhere.

00:15:17.000 So come to the table and let's hammer something out.

00:15:19.000 You need to not be scared of shipping in the military materiel necessary in order to fight the Russians to a standoff.

00:15:26.000 The Biden administration is not doing this.

00:15:29.000 officials right there, right now, say there are no rush to directly engage Putin.

00:15:29.000 U.S.

00:15:33.000 Antony Blinken told reporters it's important to remember throughout this crisis created by Putin, we've sought to provide possible off-ramps to Putin.

00:15:39.000 He's the only one who can decide whether or not to take them.

00:15:41.000 So far, every time there's been an opportunity to do just that, he's pressed the accelerator and continued down this horrific road that he has been pursuing.

00:15:48.000 Blinken added the Biden administration ultimately expects a strategic defeat of Putin and Russia, despite any short-term tactical gains it may make in Ukraine.

00:15:55.000 And Blinken said, we will accomplish this by backing Ukrainians in their fight, by remaining united and holding Russia accountable.

00:16:00.000 He said, we've already seen Russia's failed at its chief objectives.

00:16:02.000 It's not able to hold Ukraine.

00:16:04.000 It's not going to be able to hold Ukraine in the long term, no matter what tactical victories they achieve in the near term. 0.94

00:16:09.000 A senior State Department official said there are few indications the Russians are in any mood for serious diplomacy at this point.

00:16:15.000 But some analysts warn that the Biden administration doesn't have the luxury of sitting back and allowing others to negotiate with Moscow.

00:16:22.000 Jeremy Shapiro, no relation, Research Director at the European Council on Foreign Relations, says the Russians aren't going to make concessions when they sit across the table from French, Turks, Israelis, or Ukrainians.

00:16:32.000 Shapiro said the advantage a negotiated peace has is that it can limit the violence.

00:16:35.000 So right now the question is what Ukraine thinks.

00:16:38.000 Is Ukraine going to keep this going indefinitely in the hopes that Russia just pulls out or are they likely to negotiate some sort of exit strategy?

00:16:46.000 Here's the thing.

00:16:47.000 The Western position is the longer this goes on, the worse it is for Russia.

00:16:50.000 But the longer this goes on, the worse it is for NATO.

00:16:53.000 If Putin senses cracks in NATO, if Putin senses that there is no long term plan here and that he actually has the whip hand with regard to, for example, European energy in the long term.

00:17:03.000 If he senses that the West is so scared of his nuclear threats that we will not do what we need to do in order to rearm Ukraine, then he's just going to keep going with this. 0.73

00:17:11.000 The only way this stops is if he feels that the West can do this indefinitely and he cannot.

00:17:16.000 Right now, that's the question.

00:17:19.000 And the opposite may in fact be true.

00:17:20.000 So for example, the German ambassador yesterday, Emily Haber, she said, it's possible to function like today, but it's not going to be possible to function without Russian oil and natural gas, maybe even a couple of weeks from now.

00:17:34.000 Is it possible for Europe to function without Russian oil and gas?

00:17:39.000 It is.

00:17:40.000 At great costs, that will not be containable.

00:17:44.000 And it will be possible to function, but not today and not tomorrow.

00:17:52.000 Okay, so, for the moment, it's very difficult, in other words.

00:17:55.000 So, probably, at some point, they are going to have to readmit Russia, just that they get their natural gas and oil. 0.97

00:18:00.000 So, once again, thanks to Greta Thunberg and all of the idiots in the Green Revolution who have decided that it's very, very important to get off of natural gas and oil by importing natural gas and oil from the world's worst human being. 0.97

00:18:12.000 And again, the West is... 0.97

00:18:15.000 The incentive structure that has now been created for Ukraine is to make concessions to Putin just to end this thing on terms that the West isn't particularly going to like.

00:18:23.000 It's very easy for the West to sit there and let Ukraine fight the war and Ukrainian bodies pile up in the streets without us undertaking any real sacrifice and, by the way, cutting off Ukraine when it comes to some of the resources that they need.

00:18:35.000 And the West is making no overt overtures toward Ukraine at this point in terms of trying to integrate it into the West.

00:18:40.000 So we're basically asking Ukraine, stay independent from Russia and keep up on the possibility of joining the EU and NATO.

00:18:45.000 But we're not sure we actually want you to join the EU and NATO.

00:18:48.000 So why would Zelensky at this point not just say, OK, well, you know what?

00:18:51.000 You don't want us in the EU and NATO.

00:18:52.000 You're not going to take us anyway.

00:18:54.000 So I'm just going to tell I'm going to tell Putin that maybe he goes away.

00:18:57.000 According to French President Emmanuel Macron, he said on Thursday it would be unfair for the EU to close the membership door for Ukraine, but warned that the bloc could not open an accession process with a country at war.

00:19:06.000 Ukraine, Moldova, and Georgia each formally applied for EU membership last week, seeking to deepen their ties with the West.

00:19:11.000 But EU membership negotiations usually take a decade or more.

00:19:15.000 Macron said, we need to send a strong signal in this period to Ukraine and Ukrainians. 0.99

00:19:18.000 At the same time, we need to be vigilant.

00:19:20.000 Can we open a membership procedure with a country at war?

00:19:23.000 I don't think so.

00:19:24.000 I don't think so.

00:19:25.000 Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte said on Thursday, EU accession for Ukraine is something for the long term, if at all.

00:19:30.000 So again, what is the incentive for Zelensky not to come to some sort of agreement with the Russians that the West doesn't particularly like in which the Russians carve off large swaths of Ukraine and Ukraine formally identifies as non-aligned with the West?

00:19:43.000 What exactly is the obstacle to that deal?

00:19:45.000 The only obstacle right now is that Putin probably wants even more than that.

00:19:48.000 But that seems like the baseline minimum that Putin is going to get out of this, which is frankly not a major loss for him.

00:19:53.000 That's a fairly large win for him in terms of actual policy.

00:19:56.000 And it seems like that is the direction that this is moving.

00:19:59.000 Again, specifically because the West is not doing all that it can to prop up Ukraine.

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00:21:27.000 So as it turns out, the Biden administration, it was Joe Biden who personally, personally decided that we would not be able to allow Poland to ship jets into Ukraine flown by Ukrainian pilots.

00:21:39.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, the White House is now confirming the decision went directly to President Biden, who vetoed the jet delivery lest it provoke Vladimir Putin and risk escalating the war.

00:21:48.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, the logic seems to be that sending lethal anti-aircraft and anti-tank weapons won't provoke the Russians, but 28 fixed-wing aircraft would.

00:21:55.000 That distinction is hard to parse, especially when the Pentagon is also saying the Ukrainians don't need the jets because their other weapons are more effective.

00:22:01.000 So sending less lethal aircraft will lead to World War III, but not arms that are really deadly?

00:22:05.000 Yes, this is sort of a puzzle.

00:22:07.000 There was the State Department spokesperson, Ned Price, saying just that yesterday.

00:22:10.000 He's saying, you know, Ukraine asked for warplanes, but they don't actually need the warplanes.

00:22:13.000 Which is weird, since they are asking for them.

00:22:17.000 The Department of Defense has concluded that what Ukraine needs to take on, the Russian assets that are causing such destruction, the missiles, the rockets, the artillery, are not planes, but these are surface-to-air systems.

00:22:31.000 And these are systems that we have provided Ukraine, and we are looking at options to provide even more.

00:22:37.000 Meanwhile, Kamala Harris over in Poland demonstrating weakness.

00:22:40.000 So literally the same day that the Biden administration announced that they would not allow Poland to ship planes to Ukraine, she stood next to the president of Poland and said that we are united.

00:22:53.000 And everyone can see it.

00:22:53.000 No, we're not.

00:22:54.000 And I'm sorry, she is so bad.

00:22:56.000 She's so absolutely awful at this.

00:22:58.000 Vladimir Putin must be looking at her and thinking, my God, I can take these people to the cleaners.

00:23:03.000 Really, I may have underestimated how easily the war in Ukraine would go, but don't worry, I can always count on the Biden administration to pull my chestnuts out of the fire. 0.94

00:23:09.000 Here's Kamala Harris making a fool of herself yesterday. 1.00

00:23:12.000 The United States and Poland are united in what we have done and are prepared to do to help Ukraine and the people of Ukraine.

00:23:24.000 Full stop.

00:23:26.000 Okay, first of all, you always know that she's unsure of what she's saying when her voice inflection goes up.

00:23:31.000 What we are prepared to do to help Ukraine and the people of Ukraine.

00:23:34.000 I mean, honestly, I'm not even great at poker, but playing poker against this lady would be the easiest thing in the entire world. 0.88

00:23:40.000 She doesn't even know where she is.

00:23:41.000 We're not talking about Joe Biden, who's senile.

00:23:44.000 We're talking about the vice president who's not senile.

00:23:46.000 She's just terrible at this job and not particularly bright. 0.98

00:23:48.000 So here she was today, yesterday, not knowing where she was in Poland.

00:23:53.000 Remember, This is the same woman who once said that she went down to the southern border and then was corrected that she had not been there and then admitted that she had not been there.

00:23:59.000 She's great at this. 0.96

00:24:02.000 I am here, standing here on the northern flank, on the eastern flank, talking about what we have in terms of the eastern flank and our NATO allies and what is at stake at this very moment.

00:24:19.000 Yeah, she's terrible at this. 0.95

00:24:20.000 The clip that went viral yesterday, of course, was Kamala Harris laughing hysterically when asked about Ukrainian refugees.

00:24:27.000 Now, to be somewhat fair to her, there was some confusion about who was supposed to answer this question, but her reaction is so outsized.

00:24:35.000 It's just this clip prompted a former aide to Zelensky to say, I hope this woman never becomes president.

00:24:41.000 She then deleted it because, after all, wouldn't want to piss off the Biden administration.

00:24:44.000 But yeah, I think we all hope that Kamala Harris never becomes president.

00:24:48.000 Is the United States willing to make a specific allocation for Ukrainian refugees?

00:24:54.000 And for President Duda, I wanted to know if you think and if you asked the United States to specifically accept more refugees.

00:25:05.000 Okay.

00:25:09.000 A friend in need is a friend indeed.

00:25:16.000 Okay, so this time...

00:25:22.000 Hilarious stuff.

00:25:24.000 It's like being at a Louis C.K.

00:25:27.000 My God, these people are great at that.

00:25:27.000 show or something.

00:25:29.000 That's some funny stuff.

00:25:31.000 Nothing as funny as talk about Ukrainian refugees. 1.00

00:25:33.000 In the meantime, is there movement on the sort of negotiation front?

00:25:36.000 I mean, at this point, there really should be, because again, I think that the stakes have become pretty clear here for Ukraine.

00:25:40.000 The stakes are that the West is going to supply you with just enough weaponry that a lot of Ukrainians will die in this war, but not enough weaponry that you can actually fully beat back the attack and have the confidence of knowing that eventually you will win. 0.93

00:25:52.000 And then we will ask that you maintain your posture that you would like to join the EU and NATO, but we will never let you into the EU and NATO.

00:26:01.000 And meanwhile, we're going to cut off Russian natural gas and oil to hurt Putin.

00:26:05.000 And also we know that within a couple of weeks, Germany needs the gas back on.

00:26:09.000 So if you're Vladimir Putin, why aren't you going to go for broke?

00:26:13.000 Really?

00:26:13.000 I mean, well, you have to game this out as though the people involved are rational.

00:26:18.000 You do. 0.93

00:26:18.000 I'm very tired of people saying that Vladimir Putin is insane. 0.93

00:26:21.000 He's not insane.

00:26:22.000 He made a rational miscalculation.

00:26:24.000 It was a calculation.

00:26:25.000 It turned out to be a miscalculation about the invasion of Ukraine.

00:26:27.000 But now he looks at the set of factors that are on the table and he figures, I have two choices.

00:26:30.000 If I pull out, it's an abject loss for me.

00:26:33.000 My administration loses face.

00:26:34.000 Maybe I get cooed.

00:26:35.000 It's a real disaster for me.

00:26:36.000 If I stay in, and if I keep ratcheting up the pressure and the human rights violations, if I keep killing as many Ukrainians as possible, maybe Zelensky gets tired of listening to the West's promises and says, I will give you something so you can save face, and also I achieve most of my strategic objectives without actually having to change the administration in Ukraine. 0.89

00:26:54.000 Because that really is the sticking point at this point, is what Zelensky does. 0.51

00:26:57.000 Putin would just like to kill Zelensky and have it be done with, and then put another puppet back in place in Ukraine.

00:27:01.000 But if you can't kill Zelensky, getting them to enshrine in their constitution that they are not aligned with the West, and getting it through the Ukrainian head, that the West doesn't care that much about them, that would be a win for Putin as well. 0.91

00:27:11.000 And that is his game here.

00:27:13.000 That is the strategic game.

00:27:15.000 Meanwhile, allying himself more tightly with China and saving his economy, because the minute that a peace agreement is signed, one of the provisions of that peace agreement is going to have to be that Western sanctions are relieved.

00:27:26.000 Ukraine will end up going and begging on behalf of the Russians that the sanctions be relieved just so they can get to some sort of peace deal.

00:27:32.000 And that is in the Russians' interest, because if you're Russia, you actually don't want China buying up all of your assets at bargain-basement prices, which is what is happening inside the Russian economy right now.

00:27:41.000 So according to the Wall Street Journal, the top diplomats of Russia and Ukraine failed to reach a ceasefire agreement or any deal to protect civilians caught up in hostilities during talks on Thursday.

00:27:49.000 However, there are high-level contacts between the warring neighbors.

00:27:53.000 Several rounds of talks between lower-ranking representatives had similarly failed to gain traction, but there were signs that Russia's position could be shifting, as its forces have met fierce resistance.

00:28:02.000 Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Monday, Russia would halt its offensive if Ukraine enshrined a neutrality in its constitution, acknowledged that Crimea, which Moscow seized in 2014, was Russian territory, and recognized the independence of two Russian-backed breakaway regions.

00:28:15.000 Now, remember, I thought that that was originally going to be Putin's plan, is that he actually was not going to invade, that he was going to pour troops across the border in a quote-unquote minor incursion.

00:28:25.000 He wasn't going to invade full scale into Kiev.

00:28:26.000 He was just going to stay in that Donbass region and in Crimea and just arm those up and dare the West to do something bad. 0.68

00:28:32.000 I thought that was his original move.

00:28:33.000 And then he went for broke.

00:28:35.000 Peskov's comments made in an interview with Reuters suggested the Kremlin could be open to achieving some of its aims, such as preventing Ukraine from becoming a member of NATO through negotiations rather than by toppling Kiev's government.

00:28:45.000 Dmitry Suslov, an international relations specialist at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow said, Putin is expecting victory.

00:28:50.000 His whole legacy depends on this.

00:28:51.000 Russia is placing a bet on diplomacy.

00:28:52.000 I don't see changes in the goals Russia wants to achieve in Ukraine, but I see a certain change in instrument." Alexander Bonov, senior fellow at Carnegie Moscow Center, said, Putin is expecting victory.

00:29:01.000 His whole legacy depends on this.

00:29:02.000 He's very reactive, but he's not flexible.

00:29:07.000 When Putin announced that he was launching a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, he said the goals of the military campaign were to demilitarize Ukraine and remove its government.

00:29:13.000 Putin has not backed down from his goals in the days since, but he's added diplomatic efforts to his arsenal.

00:29:17.000 The shift has been gleamed through changing rhetoric by lower-level officials.

00:29:20.000 Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said Wednesday Russia's military goals don't include, quote, either the occupation of Ukraine or the destruction of its statehood or the overthrow of the current government, which is a shift in the rhetoric.

00:29:32.000 Russian foreign policy analysts concede signals don't actually reveal the Kremlin's true intentions.

00:29:36.000 Suslov says the decisions are still being held by one person.

00:29:39.000 The foreign ministry doesn't actually play a role in making the decisions.

00:29:43.000 And in Turkey on Thursday, Kuleba said that Lavrov appeared to lack authorization from Kremlin to make decisions on critical matters.

00:29:51.000 But it does seem like there is some movement happening.

00:29:55.000 There's still a vast gulf between the Ukrainian and Russian diplomats.

00:29:57.000 Lavrov said the issue of a ceasefire should instead be discussed in a separate series of talks taking place in Belarus.

00:30:02.000 The Russian foreign minister denied that Russia had even invaded Ukraine in a news conference following that meeting.

00:30:08.000 Lavrov said we have no plans to invade other countries.

00:30:09.000 We didn't invade Ukraine, which is always a good starting point for, you know, a negotiation over the invasion of Ukraine.

00:30:15.000 But what this comes down to, when it comes to the West's perspective on all of this, is how do we create an incentive where we get what we want?

00:30:23.000 And right now, it seems like all the incentive structures are for Putin to continue going and for him to get basically what he wants here.

00:30:31.000 The more cracks we show, the less solidarity we show.

00:30:34.000 The more weakness we show, the more Putin is going to push.

00:30:37.000 That is the pattern throughout, and that pattern does not change today.

00:30:40.000 Meanwhile, the White House is now warning that Russia could use chemical weapons in Ukraine.

00:30:45.000 They're warning us because Russia has ramped up all of its talk about bioweapons facilities in Ukraine.

00:30:50.000 According to the Washington Post, the Biden administration warned on Wednesday Russia could use chemical or biological weapons in Ukraine as it rejected Russia's claims that U.S.

00:30:57.000 biological weapons labs are operating in the war-torn country.

00:31:00.000 White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki on Wednesday called Russia's claim preposterous and warned of disinformation campaigns.

00:31:07.000 She said, we took note of Russia's false claims about alleged U.S.

00:31:09.000 biological weapons labs and chemical weapons development in Ukraine.

00:31:12.000 We've also seen Chinese officials echo these conspiracy theories.

00:31:15.000 And she said, Russia has a history of inventing outright lies about this particular matter.

00:31:19.000 Now, this claim that the United States has been fostering biological and chemical weapons labs in Ukraine for the purpose of developing these weapons for deploying against enemies of Ukraine or enemies of the United States, that theory has gained an enormous amount of credence in sort of weird parts of the online right.

00:31:37.000 Jennifer Griffin was on Fox News yesterday rejecting those claims.

00:31:40.000 Here's what Jennifer Griffin had to say.

00:31:42.000 Remember the Nunn-Lugar bill and trying to deal with proliferation when the Soviet Union ended?

00:31:49.000 That is part of this effort to try and clean up those Soviet-era labs and make sure that nothing escapes from those labs. 0.91

00:31:56.000 And so the U.S.

00:31:57.000 has been very open about its involvement there with that, but what Russia does is they take that information, distort it, turn it around, and turn it into disinformation.

00:32:09.000 So, in the aftermath of about 2005, there was a national agreement and it was pushed by Republican and Democratic senators for the United States to get involved in taking over Soviet-era biolabs and attempting to essentially demilitarize them. 0.72

00:32:21.000 According to CNN, there are no U.S.-funded biolabs in Ukraine.

00:32:24.000 Sorry, there are U.S.-funded biolabs in Ukraine, that's true, but they're not building bioweapons, they're actually trying to take apart the bioweapons or figure out ways to counter-program things like anthrax. 0.87

00:32:34.000 And by the way, during the Trump administration, This is not like a partisan CNN says it so it's not true kind of thing.

00:32:39.000 During the Trump administration, U.S.

00:32:40.000 Embassy in Ukraine put out a statement decrying Russian disinformation about the labs, noting that the Pentagon's program works with Ukraine to secure pathogens and toxins in those facilities while allowing for peaceful research and vaccine development.

00:32:52.000 So listen, Russia is now playing on suspicions about the fact that the United States was in fact funding, through a series of cutouts, the development of change of Change of function research in places like Wuhan.

00:33:06.000 And so now they're extending that logic to Ukraine, suggesting that the United States is funding the development of bioweapons in Ukraine. 0.66

00:33:12.000 The evidence that that is the case for offensive use, for example, is extraordinarily scanty or non-existent.

00:33:20.000 That's not just the United States saying that, that's the UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson saying that.

00:33:23.000 Here he was yesterday.

00:33:25.000 They start saying that there are chemical weapons that have been stored by their opponents or by the Americans, and so when they themselves deploy chemical weapons, as I fear they may, they have a sort of a maskirovka, a fake story ready to go.

00:33:44.000 And you've seen it in Syria.

00:33:46.000 You saw it even in the UK when... This is what you expect next then?

00:33:50.000 Look, I just note that that is what they're already doing.

00:33:58.000 So, we should always take what the Russians say about bioweapons labs with a grain of salt because everyone has an incentive to lie during war, but this sort of peculiar lie, this sort of bringing up an ancillary issue, as the Russians are shelling places around Chernobyl and nuclear facilities, Russians are not trustworthy on this sort of matter. 0.70

00:34:20.000 The Russian government and Russian agencies and Russian cutouts, they're not trustworthy on these sorts of matter.

00:34:26.000 So our economy is on the rocks pretty clearly.

00:34:28.000 I mean, there's a lot of chaos out there in this Biden administration.

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00:37:47.000 So meanwhile, we have the new inflation statistics and yeah, they're bad.

00:37:57.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, rising energy, food, and services prices pushed already elevated U.S.

00:38:01.000 inflation to a 7.9% annual rate last month, another four-decade high.

00:38:05.000 Remember, that's year over year, meaning, like, From February of Joe Biden's administration to February of Joe Biden's administration.

00:38:12.000 That's another four-decade high.

00:38:14.000 Oil and commodity markets disruptions from the Ukraine crisis are expected to add more cost pressures as well.

00:38:19.000 The Consumer Price Index, measuring the cost of goods and services across the economy, hasn't been this high since it was 8.4% in January 1982 when the nation was in recession and trying to tame what had been double-digit inflation.

00:38:30.000 Higher energy prices, including gas, helped push the inflation reading up.

00:38:34.000 But there are also cost gains for groceries, restaurant food, transportation services, and apparel, according to the Labor Department.

00:38:39.000 So, again, we have supply chain crisis.

00:38:42.000 We have massive overspending into the economy.

00:38:45.000 And let's talk about that for just a moment, because that spending is not coming down. 1.00

00:38:48.000 We just continue to spend in this country $4, $5, $6 trillion a year, depending on just how stupid our legislators are. 0.99

00:38:55.000 And it's a both parties problem. 0.97

00:38:57.000 Neither party seems willing or able to cut down the spending in this country in any serious way because, again, in the prisoner's dilemma, in which you're in the worst case situation, when you say cut and the other guy says grow, then everybody just grows.

00:39:09.000 Everybody just says, okay, well, we'll grow.

00:39:10.000 I mean, why not?

00:39:11.000 We'll just take out some more debt.

00:39:12.000 That's what happened yesterday when the House passed a $1.5 trillion, 2,727-page bill to fund the government this year.

00:39:22.000 Hey, this is wild.

00:39:23.000 Republicans and Democrats agreed to $730 billion, not million, billion dollars in discretionary spending.

00:39:29.000 That is a 6.7% increase over last year.

00:39:32.000 Now remember, last year we were supposedly still recovering from the pandemic.

00:39:35.000 That's a 6.7% increase over last year.

00:39:38.000 $782 billion for defense, a 5.6% increase.

00:39:41.000 At least you understand the defense increase, given the fact that the world has become massively less safe under Joe Biden.

00:39:47.000 The bill includes $13.6 billion in humanitarian and military assistance for Ukraine and pretty much no dollars for the southern border, as many on the right have pointed out.

00:39:54.000 This agreement is still better than the budget that Joe Biden was proposing.

00:39:58.000 He sought a 17% increase for non-defense programs and 2% more for defense.

00:40:04.000 Mercifully, according to the Wall Street Journal, the bill does not include $40 billion for the restaurant industry or an extension of the pandemic employee retention tax credit, which members of both parties wanted.

00:40:14.000 Another short-term funding bill would have restrained spending, but at the cost of long-term defense planning, the good news is the Omnibus provides $145 billion for military procurement, which is a little bit more than Biden requested, including money for 13 Battle Force ships and money for F-35s and for KC-46 tankers.

00:40:32.000 But in order to get that, Republicans also had to concede to a massive amount of domestic spending, including the IRS receiving a 5.6% raise because they do an amazing job every year.

00:40:40.000 So why wouldn't we give a raise to the people who steal your money every year?

00:40:43.000 Democrats also scored more climate spending.

00:40:46.000 $3.2 billion for energy efficiency and renewable energy subsidies.

00:40:50.000 $3.1 billion for Pete Buttigieg's feckless Department of Transportation.

00:40:54.000 $1.5 billion for climate diplomacy.

00:40:55.000 I have a question.

00:40:56.000 What is climate diplomacy and why do you need $1.5 billion for it?

00:41:00.000 What does that involve?

00:41:01.000 What is climate diplomacy?

00:41:02.000 Is that so John Kerry can fly around the world talking like this?

00:41:07.000 Apparently we have a hundred million bucks that we just spent for environmental justice.

00:41:11.000 Which is so we can hire a Captain Planet to go beat up the bad guys. 0.87

00:41:14.000 A hundred million dollars for environmental justice.

00:41:17.000 Earmarks made a big comeback as well.

00:41:20.000 Richard Shelby, Alabama's ranking member retiring after this year, gave himself a retirement gift with $60 million for the University of South Alabama College of Medicine in Mobile, $32 million for dredging in Mobile Harbor, $100 million for Mobile Downtown Airport.

00:41:36.000 So everybody's just going to spend and spend and spend and spend.

00:41:39.000 The House plans to vote next week on another standalone COVID spending bill that excludes the $7 billion in state offsets.

00:41:44.000 It's unclear whether the Senate will agree.

00:41:46.000 So they are just going to continue spending.

00:41:48.000 So we're in the middle of an inflationary cycle.

00:41:50.000 Tremendous insecurity.

00:41:51.000 A lot of worries about the possibility of recession.

00:41:53.000 There are some analysts who now say there's a better than 50% chance that we end up in a recession here.

00:41:58.000 And we are just going to continue spending up the wazoo.

00:42:00.000 Meanwhile, Janet Yellen assures you that everything is fine.

00:42:03.000 Everything is fine for Janet Yellen.

00:42:05.000 So here's Janet Yellen explaining everything is just fine.

00:42:08.000 And if you have a problem with this, it's because, you know, you don't understand your own interests.

00:42:13.000 We really protected most Americans from severe financial consequences of the pandemic so that they're, by and large, in good financial shape.

00:42:28.000 Everybody's great, guys.

00:42:29.000 What are you so worried about?

00:42:30.000 I mean, yeah, everybody seems really worried.

00:42:33.000 Yeah, inflation is now charting 8% year-on-year pretty much every month now.

00:42:38.000 But what are you worried about?

00:42:39.000 You worried about those interest rate increases that might actually undercut the economy in a moment when we have a foreign crisis that is ratcheting up the price?

00:42:46.000 Are you worried about stagflation?

00:42:47.000 Don't worry.

00:42:48.000 Everything is fine.

00:42:49.000 In fact, Jen Psaki says inflation is temporary.

00:42:52.000 We're back to this talking point.

00:42:53.000 Remember, we went from inflation is temporary to inflation is good, because it means that you're spending a lot of money, to inflation is caused by Vladimir Putin.

00:43:01.000 And now it seems like from time to time we're back to inflation is temporary.

00:43:04.000 So that's exciting.

00:43:05.000 Here's Jen Psaki from the White House yesterday.

00:43:06.000 You said this is temporary.

00:43:09.000 You've noted before that inflation is going to wane or is expected to wane by the end of the year.

00:43:13.000 Is that still your belief?

00:43:15.000 That continues to be the projection of the Federal Reserve, of outside economists, and we really rely on them for their projections.

00:43:23.000 But there is also no question that inflation may be higher for the next few months than it would have been without President Putin and Russia's further invasion into Ukraine.

00:43:34.000 So yeah, the administration keeps claiming this is all about Vladimir Putin.

00:43:37.000 President Biden claims high inflation rates on Russian sanctions and the costs we are imposing on Putin and his cronies are far more devastating than the costs we are facing.

00:43:44.000 And Stephen Ratner responded by saying, well, no, these are February numbers and only include small Russia effect.

00:43:51.000 This is Biden's inflation.

00:43:52.000 He needs to own it.

00:43:53.000 But he's not going to own it.

00:43:55.000 He's never going to own it.

00:43:57.000 And the pain is about to get worse because the thing is that a lot of the things that are being done right now on the international front are actually going to be permanent in their impact.

00:44:06.000 So let's talk about oil for a second because that is temporary and that will be alleviated.

00:44:10.000 But when it comes to the generalized breakup of globalization, that's going to have a major impact on your pocketbook.

00:44:16.000 If you like inflation, then get ready for some, because there are gonna be real supply chain problems from here on out, as the world separates into spheres of influence.

00:44:24.000 And you don't miss American hegemony until it's gone.

00:44:28.000 When everybody perceives that America is the biggest bully on the block, everybody seems a little bit more willing to trade with one another and have globalization and to have supply chains that are located in 10 different countries.

00:44:37.000 And that means cheaper products for you.

00:44:39.000 It means, because they're cheaper products, more money in your pocket and all the rest.

00:44:43.000 I know a lot of people oppose globalization, but let me just tell you, there's a lot less stuff available to you at a lot more expensive prices, and a lot crappier, before globalization.

00:44:51.000 Globalization is a very, very good thing economically, yes, for you.

00:44:55.000 And all the talk about us shipping jobs overseas, the reality is that most of the jobs that we've shipped overseas are low-level jobs making t-shirts in Vietnam.

00:45:03.000 Engineering jobs are not being shipped overseas.

00:45:07.000 Trucking jobs cannot be shipped overseas because we still need truckers in the United States because we have to get things from point A to point B. And the fact is that we now have more jobs in this country that are being filled than at any time in American history.

00:45:18.000 So for all the talk about how globalization was really bad, yeah, autarky is way worse economically speaking, but...

00:45:23.000 Let's talk about the oil prices for a second.

00:45:25.000 So the oil prices continue to skyrocket.

00:45:27.000 That, of course, is no shock because, of course, the Biden administration has made very, very clear what its priorities are.

00:45:35.000 And this is pressed forward by the left.

00:45:37.000 The New York Times has a piece today titled As War Rages, A Struggle to Balance Energy Crunch and Climate Crisis.

00:45:43.000 Or, alternatively, you could make clear that all of the measures that you guys have taken with regard to the quote-unquote climate crisis have been almost completely useless all the way through.

00:45:52.000 The only thing that is going to help here is adaptation by human beings.

00:45:56.000 Mitigation is only going to occur when you develop technologies that are superior to carbon-based energy.

00:46:02.000 And that all of the pouring money that you've done, all the restrictions that you've created, have only emboldened states that actually provide us under the table the cheap energy.

00:46:10.000 Again, all the West is, with regard to environmentalism, is the rich Hollywood starlet who says that they want to pay everybody a $15 minimum wage and then hires an illegal immigrant under the table for $7 an hour to do the gardening. 0.95

00:46:22.000 That's all the West is when it comes to environmentalism.

00:46:25.000 It's like, yes, carbon emissions must be cut.

00:46:28.000 Also, can you bring in some of that cheap Russian oil?

00:46:30.000 Can we have some of that?

00:46:31.000 Please, please, please.

00:46:33.000 It's all been, not only for naught, it's actually just shifted the mode of production outside of areas that are more environmentally friendly into areas that are way less environmentally friendly.

00:46:41.000 And that's leaving aside the fact that as we shift over to things like electric vehicles, you need lithium for that.

00:46:47.000 Who owns all the lithium?

00:46:49.000 Places like Russia, places like China, rare earth's minerals are largely controlled by some of the worst people on earth. 0.92

00:46:55.000 In any case, the New York Times is saying we still have to balance climate change.

00:46:58.000 Don't forget about climate change.

00:46:59.000 Don't forget about the incrementally rising temperature over the course of the next century, while 2.5 million Ukrainians try to flee for their lives.

00:47:07.000 According to the New York Times, as the world reels from spikes in oil and gas prices, the fallout from Russia's invasion of Ukraine has laid bare a dilemma.

00:47:13.000 Nations remain extraordinarily dependent on fossil fuels and are struggling to shore up supplies precisely at a moment when scientists say the world must slash its use of oil, gas, and coal to avert irrevocable damage to the planet.

00:47:24.000 While countries could greatly reduce their vulnerability to wild swings in oil and gas markets by shifting to cleaner sources of energy like wind or solar and electric vehicles, that transition will take years.

00:47:32.000 Okay, so first of all, if you think Europe didn't try this, they did.

00:47:35.000 And they are more vulnerable to swings because it turns out that these sources of energy are not reliable.

00:47:41.000 Wind is not reliable.

00:47:42.000 This is what Texas found out during the Great Freeze, when it turned out they needed to ramp up oil and natural gas and coal production in order to make up for the fact that wind and solar were not reliable.

00:47:53.000 According to the New York Times, many governments are more urgently focused on alleviating near-term energy shocks aiming to boost global oil production to replace the millions of barrels per day Russia has historically exported.

00:48:03.000 But the two goals aren't necessarily at odds, say officials in the United States and Europe.

00:48:08.000 They say instead, no, maybe the high oil prices will drive the green energy revolution.

00:48:12.000 So the pain is the plan.

00:48:14.000 In other words, the pain is the issue.

00:48:17.000 The New York Times, for its part, is trying to simultaneously say that we need to cut energy production in the West for environmental purposes.

00:48:24.000 And also, it's not our fault if the prices go up, which is why you have a fact check from The New York Times claiming that Republicans are wrongly blaming Biden for rising gas prices, although he...

00:48:32.000 He has nothing to do with it.

00:48:33.000 It's just magic that's been doing it.

00:48:35.000 Yes, there are external forces that Biden is not in control of.

00:48:37.000 The recovery from the pandemic means more people traveling more.

00:48:40.000 That is true.

00:48:41.000 The fact that there was a pandemic and that shut down large swaths of the oil sector means that there is less production.

00:48:47.000 But that stuff could come online faster if people knew that to borrow money to reopen a refinery or to borrow money to open up new drilling would not be regulated heavily by the administration in the near future.

00:48:58.000 If I'm going to invest in a stock, I do so because I think that in 10 years that stock is going to be worth more than it is today.

00:49:03.000 I'm not going to invest in a stock I think will be worth less.

00:49:06.000 The Biden administration is overtly saying we don't want to produce energy over the course of the next 10 years.

00:49:10.000 And if we do so right now, it's only temporary.

00:49:12.000 Why would you sink money into that if you're an investor?

00:49:14.000 Why would you sink money into that if you're a natural oil and gas producer?

00:49:17.000 Why would you do any of that?

00:49:19.000 And this is the whole point.

00:49:20.000 The Biden administration is driving this.

00:49:23.000 Jen Psaki yesterday said that Biden has no plans to meet with anyone from the U.S.

00:49:26.000 oil industry.

00:49:27.000 No plans.

00:49:28.000 We're in the middle of an energy shortage and he has no plans.

00:49:32.000 President Biden has hosted electric vehicle stakeholders here at the White House.

00:49:36.000 Would he host oil and gas producers, the people who are the most affected by the Putin price hike?

00:49:44.000 Well, the oil and gas, I have nothing to preview or predict for you in terms of him hosting oil company executives.

00:49:52.000 And then she just continued to lie and say oil companies have what they need. 0.91

00:49:55.000 Which is weird because every oil executive in America is clamoring for less regulation, cutting of red tape, faster granting of permits, more pipelines.

00:50:02.000 But she's saying you have everything you need, you're fine.

00:50:04.000 It's just like Janet Yellen telling you during inflation everything is fine.

00:50:07.000 Jen Psaki is telling the oil industry everything is fine.

00:50:09.000 And yet then calling the oil industry greedy.

00:50:11.000 Here we go.

00:50:13.000 The president has been clear that he believes they have the tools they need, 9,000 unused permits, they have the capacity they need to go get more oil here in the United States, and he'd encourage them to do that.

00:50:30.000 Oh, well, they do, do they?

00:50:31.000 Because they are saying that they do not.

00:50:33.000 Because they don't.

00:50:35.000 And then she was asked about the high gas prices.

00:50:38.000 She says, don't worry, those will be temporary too.

00:50:39.000 Whenever these people say something will be temporary, you should hold your wallet.

00:50:42.000 Here is Jen Psaki saying, high gas prices will be temporary, not long lasting.

00:50:45.000 Weird, because the high gas prices preceded Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine.

00:50:51.000 We do anticipate that gas prices and energy prices will go up.

00:50:54.000 That is something that the president has conveyed very clearly to the American public.

00:50:59.000 We also believe it will be temporary and not long-lasting.

00:51:04.000 And she says, of course, the gas prices are all Putin.

00:51:07.000 The line right now is everything is Putin.

00:51:09.000 Everything bad that happens is Putin.

00:51:12.000 Which I guess has been their pattern since Donald Trump was elected.

00:51:14.000 It's all Putin's fault.

00:51:16.000 You may have noticed this week that your gas prices have gone up.

00:51:20.000 I want to talk to you a little bit about why.

00:51:21.000 A lot of it has to do with Vladimir Putin.

00:51:27.000 The reality is that Russia is one of the three largest oil producers in the world.

00:51:31.000 And the fact that they have started this conflict, invaded a foreign country, and they are such a big producer of oil in the world, is the reason why the global oil markets are disturbed right now and why your gas prices are going up.

00:51:44.000 Yes, but why were you dependent on Russian oil in the first place?

00:51:46.000 Hmm, hmm, question, question.

00:51:48.000 So Peter Doocy yesterday, he asked Jen Psaki, is your plan just to blame Putin for everything?

00:51:52.000 Is that what you guys do here professionally?

00:51:55.000 Inflation goes up today.

00:51:56.000 The president's statement blames the Putin price hike.

00:52:00.000 Are you guys just going to start blaming Putin for everything until the midterms?

00:52:05.000 Well, we've seen the price of gas go up at least 75 cents since President Putin lined up troops on the border of Ukraine.

00:52:14.000 Last month, the statement didn't mention the Putin price hike.

00:52:17.000 It mentioned inflation because of the pandemic.

00:52:19.000 Why is that?

00:52:21.000 Well, Peter, last year, last two years, there was a global pandemic.

00:52:25.000 Everyone who's a global economist have all agreed that that has been the biggest contributor to date of inflation because of the impact on the supply chain.

00:52:37.000 So it's always everybody else to blame.

00:52:39.000 No problem is ever their problem.

00:52:41.000 CNN's MJ Lee even was pressing Psaki on Biden saying, well, you guys keep saying that you're doing everything you can, but then you also say you can't do anything.

00:52:49.000 The president said yesterday, I'm going to do everything I can to minimize Putin's price hike here at home.

00:52:56.000 And then hours later, as he was getting off Air Force One, he said, I can't do much about that right now.

00:53:02.000 Can't do much right now, was the exact words from the president.

00:53:06.000 For anyone that might have been confused seeing the two statements from the president within a couple of hours, what would be your explanation?

00:53:12.000 Does the president believe there is action that he can take to address gas prices, or does he believe there's not much that can be done?

00:53:19.000 Well, I would say that the short gaggles when the president is getting off the plane and getting into a car are not always super comprehensive.

00:53:29.000 Oh, they're not?

00:53:30.000 Okay.

00:53:30.000 So really, don't listen to what the president has to say because he doesn't speak English anymore.

00:53:35.000 The best moment of yesterday's press conference with Jen Psaki who, again, being press secretary for Joe Biden is a terrible job.

00:53:40.000 Being press secretary for Trump was a bad job.

00:53:42.000 Being press secretary for Biden is even worse because you're expected to be serious.

00:53:46.000 In any case, Jen Psaki was asked whether Joe Biden, you guys have all been encouraging everybody to get an electric car.

00:53:51.000 Does Joe Biden have an electric car?

00:53:52.000 Because we've seen video of him driving around and like, You guys are pushing electric vehicles today.

00:53:57.000 This is a president who always talks about the power of our example.

00:53:59.000 Does he own an electric vehicle?

00:54:00.000 because he might lose control of the car and drive into a crowd of people because he's not with us anymore.

00:54:04.000 She can't say that part. So here she is about electric vehicles.

00:54:07.000 You guys are pushing electric vehicles today.

00:54:09.000 This is a president who always talks about the power of our example.

00:54:12.000 Does he own an electric vehicle?

00:54:14.000 Presidents of the United States don't do a lot of driving.

00:54:17.000 He's posted videos where he's revving the engine of his Corvette in Wilmington.

00:54:20.000 He owns cars.

00:54:22.000 And he also has driven electric vehicles as president as to give a model to the rest of the country.

00:54:27.000 Does he own one?

00:54:28.000 I think the president's record on this is clear, Peter.

00:54:31.000 Presidents of the United States current and when they are no longer typically are not doing a lot of driving.

00:54:39.000 Yeah, bad answer right there.

00:54:41.000 Again, there are long-term impacts to everything that is happening right now.

00:54:44.000 So when they say it's temporary, the answer is it really is not temporary.

00:54:47.000 The reason it's not temporary is because, again, World Trade, which has made you a lot richer.

00:54:52.000 It has.

00:54:52.000 It has made everybody a lot richer.

00:54:54.000 Like, across the world, it turns out that comparative advantage is one of the great benefits of free markets.

00:54:59.000 And the more people engaged in comparative advantage, the better the products, the more competition, the lower the prices, the new services that are created, the innovation.

00:55:06.000 All of that is good.

00:55:07.000 When you break all of that up, bad things happen.

00:55:09.000 The Wall Street Journal points out that that vision is coming to an end.

00:55:12.000 Quote, the U.S.-led effort to expel Russia from the international commerce community Marks another fracture in the free trade vision that guided American policy for nearly 30 years, signaling a future where nations and companies shift away from trading with adversaries and focus on more like-minded partners.

00:55:26.000 Now, as a security matter, that's not a bad thing.

00:55:29.000 But this is the whole point, is that more people wish to be drawn into your camp when you are the strongest bully on the block, when you have the military that's willing to guarantee free trade, when you have a military that is willing to fight battles on behalf of your citizens who do have an interest in free markets.

00:55:47.000 When you're willing to do that, it turns out that people get better stuff.

00:55:51.000 When you're not willing to do that, it turns out that people form their own spheres of influence.

00:55:55.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, the actions taken by the U.S.

00:55:58.000 and Western European allies since Russia invaded Ukraine have been swift and punishing.

00:56:02.000 The West has also moved to oust Russian banks from international financial networks, while a bipartisan coalition of U.S.

00:56:06.000 lawmakers has introduced legislation calling on the U.S.

00:56:09.000 to press for Russia's suspension from the WTO.

00:56:12.000 Jennifer Hillman, trade lawyer, former jurist on the WTO's trade court, says the trading system as we've known it, with the World Trade Organization at its core, with the basic set of rules everyone traded under, is coming apart.

00:56:22.000 The concept of globalization, nations trading with few barriers, focused on the industries and services they do best, has been under pressure for years.

00:56:29.000 Driven by economic rivalries, this would be like China cheating, stealing intellectual property, factory closings in wealthy countries, and those who say open commercial borders aren't in the best national interest, particularly in times of emergency.

00:56:41.000 But here is the problem.

00:56:43.000 America's post-Cold War dominance of the globe allowed for a lot of great stuff to be created.

00:56:51.000 And when that dominance wanes, what you end up with is competition.

00:56:54.000 And when you end up with open military competition, and people attempting to essentially create spheres of autarky in which they trade just with their friends, life gets worse for all those people.

00:57:04.000 Now, you may need to do that on a security level, but the problem is, why do you need to do that on a security level?

00:57:08.000 Do you need to do that on a security level because that threat was going to eventuate anyway? 0.96

00:57:13.000 Or do you need to do that on a security level because your own stupid and feckless policy gave credence to places like China, gave credence to places like Russia, and then when you cut it off, it's extremely painful. 0.98

00:57:23.000 In other words, things are about to get more expensive for the long term. 0.99

00:57:26.000 This is not a temporary problem.

00:57:27.000 This is now part of the permanent.

00:57:29.000 And that is the fault of bad American foreign policy over the course of the last 30 years, and bad American foreign policy in the now, where we continue to, on the one hand, play footsie with some of the world's worst regimes, and on the other hand, when it turns out those world's worst regimes are then emboldened to take actions antithetical to those of American interest, then we don't do enough to stop them.

00:57:53.000 American strength is the solution to a lot of problems, and when it is not demonstrated, things get a lot worse on pretty much every front.

00:57:59.000 Well, folks, as you know, we have a very special relationship with our friends over at Birchgold.

00:58:04.000 It's hard to think of a time where it has been better to talk about investing in precious metals than right now.

00:58:09.000 We have global chaos, massive inflation, basically the conditions under which you definitely should have diversified into precious metals.

00:58:15.000 Joining us online to discuss is Philip Patrick.

00:58:17.000 He's a precious metal specialist over with Birchgold.

00:58:19.000 Philip, thanks so much for joining the show.

00:58:20.000 Great to talk to you.

00:58:22.000 Thank you very much for having me.

00:58:23.000 So let's talk about the impact on gold and precious metals with regard to the Russia-Ukraine war that is now broken out.

00:58:29.000 Oil obviously is running out of control, inflation is running out of control.

00:58:32.000 So how does this war impact the price of gold?

00:58:36.000 Yeah, you're absolutely spot on.

00:58:37.000 I think the biggest effect is it's created is increasing the inflationary pressures here in the United States.

00:58:43.000 Things were already bad enough.

00:58:45.000 They are now getting much, much worse.

00:58:47.000 In fact, the latest inflation report came out yesterday.

00:58:51.000 Official inflation here in the United States is officially now at 7.9%, so rising consistently.

00:58:58.000 I think sanctions on Russia, what they've achieved is created a massive supply shock.

00:59:04.000 Let's not forget Russia are the largest producers of oil and natural gas in the world.

00:59:09.000 They provide 25% of the world's wheat as well as other commodities.

00:59:13.000 As you mentioned, there is now a huge push to ban Russian oil purchases and rising energy costs are highly inflationary.

00:59:21.000 Banks are now predicting oil potentially hitting $200 a barrel by the end of the year.

00:59:28.000 That's bad news, of course, for everyone here in the United States.

00:59:31.000 But there's worse news.

00:59:33.000 The inflation, as well as questionable political moves, I think have accelerated the decline of the dollar as a global reserve currency.

00:59:41.000 That's dangerous longer term.

00:59:43.000 Let's talk about the dollar's reserve status.

00:59:45.000 So one of the things that keeps the value of the dollar holding steady is the fact that so many countries, so many banks all over the world hold all of their savings in denominated dollars because, of course, it's a stable currency.

00:59:55.000 But one of the things that the West did in its attempt to fight Russia here was they basically froze dollar currency and dollar assets for the Russians, which is going to make a lot of countries think twice about investing in dollars rather than investing in, say, precious metals.

01:00:09.000 I mean, you hit the nail on the head.

01:00:11.000 I think what that does is it leaves every central banker in the world questioning what is money, right?

01:00:17.000 If the U.S.

01:00:17.000 can unilaterally decide to essentially financially cancel Russia, couldn't they do the same to any other nation at any time, right?

01:00:26.000 As you mentioned, central banks have dollar reserves to facilitate international trade.

01:00:31.000 They don't have bank accounts like citizens.

01:00:34.000 They have money on deposit with the U.S.

01:00:36.000 Treasury.

01:00:36.000 I think central bankers now will start to look at a pile of IOUs from the U.S.

01:00:42.000 government as liabilities rather than assets.

01:00:45.000 And if they want to take some risk off the table, sorry, I think it makes sense for them to protect themselves by diversifying outside of dollars.

01:00:53.000 And that, of course, starts to become a self-fulfilling prophecy.

01:00:56.000 It's dangerous for us here in the U.S.

01:00:58.000 So what are central banks doing right now to protect against a decline in the dollar?

01:01:03.000 Look, I think the process has already started to some degree.

01:01:07.000 At the end of last year, Global Central Bank's dollar holdings are now at 25-year lows.

01:01:16.000 This is what happens when the Federal Reserve goes on a money printing spree.

01:01:20.000 World central bankers, at the end of the day, they're smart.

01:01:23.000 They understand that every single dollar bill being printed devalues or reduces the value of every other dollar bill in existence.

01:01:31.000 So they're slowly now tiptoeing towards the exit.

01:01:34.000 And it's happened before, right?

01:01:36.000 In the 1970s, high inflation caused the world to doubt the dollar's future.

01:01:41.000 That was until Reagan and Volcker stepped in and essentially saved the American economy.

01:01:47.000 The problem is I don't see that happening anytime soon here.

01:01:50.000 We just don't have those types of leaders in office.

01:01:54.000 So, you know, we've got some tough times to weather and we'll see how things end up in terms of global reserve longer term.

01:02:00.000 Now, the fact that we are now breaking down in terms of the global order into a variety of sort of spheres of interest and the fact that you have non-aligned countries that are trying to figure out their own policies.

01:02:10.000 We have supply chains that have been broken.

01:02:11.000 We have rapid inflation.

01:02:13.000 Obviously, I mean, it's self-serving, but now is a good time for you to diversify at least a little bit into precious metals.

01:02:19.000 It certainly is, and it applies to individuals, right?

01:02:22.000 The inflation we're hearing, feeling here in the United States, you know, issues we're seeing in the stock market.

01:02:28.000 Gold is a very good way to protect.

01:02:31.000 It also applies to central banks, right?

01:02:33.000 What have they been doing shorter term to protect?

01:02:36.000 They've been buying gold.

01:02:37.000 In fact, central bank gold holdings are now at a 31-year high.

01:02:41.000 I thought the president of the National Bank of Poland summarized why very well.

01:02:47.000 He said, look, gold is not directly linked to any nation's economy, and it can withstand global unrest in financial markets.

01:02:55.000 In other words, it's a safe haven for nations as well as individuals in uncertain times.

01:03:00.000 It's the only financial asset that isn't somebody else's liability.

01:03:04.000 It's not an IOU.

01:03:06.000 It's not a promise to pay.

01:03:07.000 It's an asset that's always held its value throughout history.

01:03:11.000 That's why central banks are buying it today.

01:03:13.000 It protects against inflation and currency decline.

01:03:16.000 It's very conducive for the issues that we have.

01:03:20.000 Well, folks, as you know, I've been trusting Birch Gold with my own precious metals investing for years.

01:03:24.000 At this point, you should give folks like Philip Patrick a call over at Birch Gold.

01:03:28.000 Philip, thanks so much for your time.

01:03:30.000 Thank you for having me.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - March 11, 2022

Jussie Smollett To Be Imprisoned With His Attacker | Ep. 1451

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