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00:01:58.000We're going to dive into the continual coverage around Russia and Ukraine.
00:02:02.000That's not the only thing we're going to cover today.
00:02:04.000There's a lot of other news stories that I think that are being, let's say, covered up because of the fixation on Russia and Ukraine.
00:02:10.000And don't get me wrong, Russia and Ukraine, the story matters.
00:02:14.000When a superpower invades a small country, that should be something that we talk about and that we dive into, especially the ramifications and the implications here domestically.
00:02:35.000We're also going to dive deep into the preview of Biden's State of the Union address tonight as he gives his first State of the Union address.
00:02:46.000But I tried to find some commentary of what Joe Biden has been doing the last couple of days.
00:02:52.000We know he's no Teddy Roosevelt trying to broker peace as Teddy Roosevelt did between the Russians and the Japanese in the early 1900s, which won him a Nobel Peace Prize.
00:03:02.000There's a very simple solution on the table that is almost a stars aligning once-in-a-generation solution that is almost too good to be true.
00:03:12.000And it's not just a solution to the Russian-Ukrainian situation.
00:03:16.000No, rarely do you get an opportunity to end a war, punish your enemies, help your own country, create jobs, prevent future wars, all without firing a shot or providing a missile.
00:03:34.000Now, what would that solution be to end a war, punish your enemies, help your country create jobs and prevent future wars?
00:03:42.000If Joe Biden was a leader, which he is not, if Joe Biden loved the country, which he does not, if Joe Biden was competent and his group of people around him were not environmental fanatics, he'd be in Paris right now.
00:03:55.000He'd not be in Paris touring the Louvre or having a nice time with Emmanuel Macron.
00:03:59.000He'd be having an emergency meeting, and the emergency meeting would be very simple.
00:05:08.000Why are we still buying 500,000 barrels of oil a day from Russia?
00:05:16.000We're sanctioning Russia and we're trying to crush their economy.
00:05:20.000Okay, you invade a country, there should be a cost for that.
00:05:23.000But why wouldn't we do the thing that also helps our own country?
00:05:26.000You see, sanctions, by definition, hurt the recipient, but they could also hurt the person that is brokering it.
00:05:34.000But a rational question and a logical question should be: why are we not using the card at our disposal that could also create jobs here at home?
00:06:40.000Putin knows that as long as there are people in Congress that do not want to use our amazing assets at our disposal, he has leverage and he has power.
00:06:50.000Now, Putin made a little bit of a strategic miscalculation.
00:06:55.000And there's a lot of that kind of narrative on cable TV, which is Putin is not doing as well as he wants to do.
00:07:40.000Instead, this article from Newsweek.com: Putin is funding green groups that discredit natural gas fracking.
00:07:49.000According to a letter from two Texas congressmen to then Secretary of Treasury Steve Mnuchin, details a covert anti-fracking campaign with little or no paper trail.
00:08:00.000Millions of dollars flooding into our country, funding the propaganda of green energy.
00:08:13.000Russia secretly working with environmentalists to oppose fracking.
00:08:19.000NATO chief Andres Fog Rasmussen says Moscow is mounting disinformation campaigns to maintain reliance on Russia gas.
00:08:30.000So people like Alexander Yakasi-Cortez and Rashida Talib, and yes, Jill Stein are all saying the same thing that Vladimir Putin would want them to say.
00:08:42.000Jill Stein, who ran as a Green Party candidate, targeted in Russia inquiry.
00:08:47.000Quote, Jill Stein was photographed in 2015 at a dinner in Moscow at the same table as Russian President Vladimir Putin expressing a need for green energy policy.
00:09:02.000So we have an opportunity to do five things at once.
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00:10:43.000The peace card is on the table, and Joe Biden refuses to use it.
00:10:48.000Thefederalists.com writes: stop letting environmental groups funded by Russia dictate America's energy policy.
00:10:55.000It's an open secret that Russians have funded anti-fracking and anti-natural gas propaganda in America for decades.
00:11:01.000A congressional investigation in 2017 found that the NRDC, the Sierra Club, and Climate Action Network were all found to have received millions of dollars in funding and grants from a shady San Francisco-based group called SeaChange, then a money trail linked back to Russians.
00:12:19.000And you can imagine the kind of calisthenics, the kind of, let's say, linguistic sort of dodging she has to do because she has to try to hate Vladimir Putin while also pandering to the far left-wing environmental groups that are funded by Vladimir Putin.
00:12:51.000How about we impose those sanctions, but we lift all those restrictions on the production of American oil and gas so we can start drilling on federal lands again and putting out new leases so we can reopen the Keystone Pipeline, which would bring more oil into America every day from Canada than we import every day from Russia.
00:13:12.000Well, first, George, I think on the energy sector, the way that the President Biden has approached sanctions is we want to take every step to maximize the impact and the consequences on President Putin while minimizing the impact on the American people and the global community.
00:13:28.000And so energy sanctions are certainly on the table.
00:13:31.000We have not taken those off, but we also want to do that and make sure we're minimizing the impact on the global marketplace and do it in a united way.
00:13:39.000I would say that the congressman's recommendations there, the Keystone Pipeline, was not processing oil through the system.
00:13:47.000That's a misdiagnosis or maybe a misdiagnosis of what needs to happen.
00:13:52.000I would also note that on oil leases, what this actually justifies in President Biden's view is the fact that we need to reduce our dependence on foreign oil, on oil in general, and we need to look at other ways of having energy in our country and others.
00:14:06.000One of the interesting things, George, we've seen over the last week or so is that a number of European countries are recognizing they need to reduce their own reliance on Russian oil.
00:14:16.000So I'm not sure we agree with that assessment of what needs to happen, but energy sanctions remain on the table.
00:14:57.000But that's only if you don't do the second part of the dance, which she doesn't want to do.
00:15:02.000Well, we want to help the American consumer.
00:15:04.000But we also want to stop having dependence on foreign oil, but we really don't want to actually have dependence on American oil because I don't want to make the Sierra Club really mad at me and AOC might tweet something mad at me.
00:15:18.000I'm just going to keep on saying random words until I filibuster and I'm Strom Thurman, actually Jensaki.
00:15:46.000They know they could end the war, create millions of American jobs, make us not dependent.
00:15:51.000They say they want to do that, but they can't because the Russians made strategic investments to take over the Democrat Party via the environmentalists.
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00:18:17.000There are some reports today that the Ukrainians could consider targeting inside the territory of Belarus since many of the missiles and fighter jets are taking off from there.
00:18:27.000Now, if this happens, Lukashenko, the leader there, says that carpet bombing is a possibility, not only in this city, but across Ukraine.
00:18:34.000The devastating toll on civilians would be incalculable.
00:18:38.000Play cut 41, Kaylee McEniny reacts to the report that carpet bombing threats, and there are reports that Putin is losing his mind.
00:18:46.000So we have presented the binary choice yesterday, and we're going to do it again.
00:18:51.000It's either Putin has a strategy here of allying with China or he has completely and totally lost it.
00:18:59.000You hear of carpet bombing and just your heart sinks.
00:19:01.000And you couple that with what we know: that a veterans rehab facility was shelled, a maternity hospital was shelled, schools have been hit, nurseries have been hit.
00:19:09.000And then you couple that with the reporting from NBC that there's a U.S. intelligence assessment that says Putin's been exhibiting unusual bursts of anger and that he might see his only option way out of this is doubling down on the violence.
00:19:23.000So there's an important question here, which is why is Putin able to do this?
00:19:28.000Well, it's obvious because their structure of government is fundamentally different than our own.
00:19:33.000And this is one of the benefits of having checks and balances.
00:19:38.000And that's also one of the reasons why I support that if, hey, Americans want to go into war with Ukraine, they want to supply weapons, then have Congress authorize it.
00:19:47.000Put forward a clean bill in front of Congress, pass a bill saying how much you want America to be involved in Russia or Ukraine or whatever, whether it be weapons or whether it be supplying Ukrainians' arms, have Congress vote on it.
00:20:35.000It's an empire run by one man who's able to do what he wants to do when he wants to do it.
00:20:41.000Now, when you have a system of government that has checks and balances, you're supposed to be able to hold those types of people accountable.
00:20:49.000And this is something that we actually have in common with Russia.
00:20:53.000Russia has a leader that is declining mentally, and America has a leader that is declining mentally.
00:21:02.000Thankfully, though, we have two other branches of government that can hopefully hold them accountable.
00:21:07.000The issue, though, is the emergency use authorization of the War Powers Act, which I think was 1973, 1974, where presidents can basically get into wars very quickly.
00:21:18.000So people are saying, look, the American people want to get involved in the conflict in Ukraine.
00:21:23.000And look, I have a lot of friends that are Ukrainian.
00:21:54.000If you want to get involved in Ukraine, if you're listening to this, you're like, hey, Charlie, it's a moral obligation for us to get involved in Ukraine.
00:22:44.000Maybe fighting alongside Ukraine, a very corrupt country, albeit clumsily trying to go in the direction of democracy, maybe it's the right choice.
00:23:16.000If you can impeach a president in 24 hours or less after what happened on January 6th, you can debate in Congress before we send stinger missiles into a conflict with a nuclear-armed nation.
00:23:28.000If you can impeach the 45th president of the United States basically overnight, When there were so many facts that we did not know, there were so many things that were moving, you can have Congress then put themselves into the position we put them as the people's representatives and then go back and run on with their constituents.
00:23:46.000Yes, I voted to get into a conflict in Ukraine.
00:23:53.000Congressional authorization is instrumental.
00:23:55.000Now, one of the reasons why public opinion is moving is because the Western press has decided to go all in on the cause of the Ukrainian, let's say, government.
00:24:06.000Now, I think there's an important distinction.
00:24:20.000That just kind of the normal everyday Ukrainian citizen that is rising up and trying to fight for what they believe is correct, which is some form of a representative government.
00:27:10.000Hit him at the gas pump is exactly right.
00:27:12.000If you want to declare war and supply weapons, go to Congress.
00:27:16.000If you want to actually end the war and broker peace, which is an Article II, Let's say responsibility, commander-in-chief, you are responsible for diplomacy and for brokering peace.
00:27:30.000Then open up the American energy entrepreneur.
00:27:34.000This entire Russia-Ukrainian debacle has exposed the fraud and the quasi-treason of the American green energy movement.
00:27:46.000They are literally doing Russia's bidding, literally.
00:27:51.000He has an opportunity to create millions of jobs, supply Europe with LNG.
00:27:56.000It could be a massive stimulus right now.
00:28:00.000We could be in charge of our own energy, and we were under Trump.
00:28:04.000But that was before the entire left wing of the Democrat Party, which wants to keep everything in the ground, no new fracking, captured the Democrat Party.
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00:30:46.000Whether or not this has turned into some kind of physical or mental problems that he either had or has in some way come down with, we don't know.
00:30:59.000But his behavior is dangerous and it's dangerous to the future of Russia.
00:31:06.000So in more ways than one, we are seeing the entire bipartisan national security apparatus unite around this sort of talking point.
00:31:18.000Let's go to Mitt Romney here, where he says there has never been a clear picture of good versus evil.
00:31:53.000And it just makes me ill to see some of these people do that.
00:31:57.000But of course, they do it because they think it's shock value and it's going to get them more eyeballs and maybe make a little more money for them or their network.
00:32:04.000I don't know who he thinks is siding with Vladimir Putin, but it's no one that I know.
00:32:10.000Joe Biden has an opportunity to end this conflict, punish his enemies, help his country create jobs and prevent future wars, all without firing a shot.
00:32:20.000Energy dominance is our Trump card, is our peace card.