The Charlie Kirk Show - March 01, 2022


5 Things Biden Could Do (But Won't) to Avoid WWIII


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In this episode of The Charlie Kirk Show, host Charlie Kirk is joined by former Vice President Joe Biden to discuss his State of the Union address, the crisis in Ukraine, and much more. Today's episode is brought to you by Turning Point USA and Sponsored by Sierra Pacific Mortgage.

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00:00:00.000 Hey, everybody.
00:00:01.000 What are the five things Biden could do and accomplish without firing a shot?
00:00:07.000 Rarely are you able to end a war, create jobs, and prevent future wars without having to go to war yourself.
00:00:15.000 Well, Joe Biden refuses to do that.
00:00:16.000 Why?
00:00:17.000 Why is Putin funding green energy groups?
00:00:20.000 That and so much more.
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00:01:15.000 Here we go.
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00:01:58.000 We're going to dive into the continual coverage around Russia and Ukraine.
00:02:02.000 That's not the only thing we're going to cover today.
00:02:04.000 There'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.
00:02:10.000 And don't get me wrong, Russia and Ukraine, the story matters.
00:02:14.000 When 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.
00:02:26.000 But there's inflation.
00:02:28.000 There's questions about domestic markets.
00:02:30.000 There's questions about our porous southern border.
00:02:33.000 There's a lot going on here.
00:02:35.000 We'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.
00:02:46.000 But I tried to find some commentary of what Joe Biden has been doing the last couple of days.
00:02:51.000 Now, we know he's not a leader.
00:02:52.000 We 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.
00:03:00.000 But where is Joe Biden exactly?
00:03:02.000 There'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.
00:03:12.000 And it's not just a solution to the Russian-Ukrainian situation.
00:03:16.000 No, 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.
00:03:34.000 Now, what would that solution be to end a war, punish your enemies, help your country create jobs and prevent future wars?
00:03:40.000 So it's very simple.
00:03:42.000 If 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.
00:03:55.000 He'd not be in Paris touring the Louvre or having a nice time with Emmanuel Macron.
00:03:59.000 He'd be having an emergency meeting, and the emergency meeting would be very simple.
00:04:04.000 This is what a leader would do.
00:04:05.000 This is what a Churchill would do.
00:04:07.000 This is what a Maggie Thatcher would do. 1.00
00:04:09.000 This is what a Reagan would do.
00:04:10.000 Biden is none of those people.
00:04:12.000 He'd have a meeting and he'd say to every European country: listen, we are going to be your sole provider for liquid natural gas, LNG.
00:04:20.000 You can count on us.
00:04:21.000 Turn off the pipelines to Russia, buy it from us. 1.00
00:04:24.000 We have the Permian Basin, the Marcellus Shale, and the Bakken Shale in our country, amongst many other deposits, depositories.
00:04:32.000 We will open up offshore drilling.
00:04:34.000 We will allow hydraulic fracking.
00:04:36.000 We are going to open up what we in America have.
00:04:40.000 We're going to sell it to you as a discount versus what Russia is giving you.
00:04:43.000 Turn off the pipelines of Nord Stream 2.
00:04:46.000 And instead, we're going to focus on energy dominance.
00:04:50.000 Energy dominance is our peace card.
00:04:54.000 Joe Biden has a peace card in front of him.
00:04:56.000 He has a card he can play that can broker peace.
00:04:59.000 It's very simple.
00:05:01.000 He can say to the European Union and NATO allies, we can provide it for you.
00:05:07.000 But why is he not doing that?
00:05:08.000 Why are we still buying 500,000 barrels of oil a day from Russia?
00:05:16.000 We're sanctioning Russia and we're trying to crush their economy. 0.99
00:05:20.000 Okay, you invade a country, there should be a cost for that.
00:05:23.000 But why wouldn't we do the thing that also helps our own country?
00:05:26.000 You see, sanctions, by definition, hurt the recipient, but they could also hurt the person that is brokering it.
00:05:34.000 But 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?
00:05:47.000 Well, here is why.
00:05:48.000 Radical left-wing environmentalists are to blame.
00:05:51.000 It's that simple.
00:05:52.000 And guess who is funding the radical left-wing environmentalists?
00:05:58.000 Russia.
00:06:00.000 Article after article.
00:06:02.000 If you dig into it, you can put in your search engine: Putin, Russia, green energy groups from the Daily Signal a couple of years ago.
00:06:09.000 Lawmakers cite evidence that Russia colludes with U.S. green groups to block fracking.
00:06:15.000 Another article here: Putin is funding green groups to discredit natural gas fracking by Kevin Mooney.
00:06:22.000 So Vladimir Putin is giving money directly and indirectly to the very same forces that keep him strong.
00:06:31.000 Everything about Vladimir Putin's strategy hinges on the strength of the United States environmentalist movement.
00:06:38.000 Everything.
00:06:40.000 Putin 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.
00:06:50.000 Now, Putin made a little bit of a strategic miscalculation.
00:06:55.000 And 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.
00:07:00.000 That's probably true.
00:07:01.000 We don't know how deep that is.
00:07:03.000 But here's what we do know: we do know that Putin thought Germany would remain somewhat neutral because of Nord Stream 2.
00:07:10.000 There is an opening right now for Biden to put aside his ideology and be prudent and prioritize the well-being of the nation.
00:07:23.000 There's an opportunity right now for Biden to look at things as they are, not as he wants them to be.
00:07:28.000 Solar panels everywhere and wind farms in every backyard.
00:07:31.000 No, no, no, no.
00:07:32.000 Right now, we have the technology.
00:07:34.000 We have the assets.
00:07:36.000 We have the oil and natural gas.
00:07:38.000 Use it.
00:07:40.000 Instead, this article from Newsweek.com: Putin is funding green groups that discredit natural gas fracking.
00:07:49.000 According 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.
00:08:00.000 Millions of dollars flooding into our country, funding the propaganda of green energy.
00:08:10.000 There's one article after the other.
00:08:11.000 This one from theguardian.com.
00:08:13.000 Russia secretly working with environmentalists to oppose fracking.
00:08:19.000 NATO chief Andres Fog Rasmussen says Moscow is mounting disinformation campaigns to maintain reliance on Russia gas.
00:08:30.000 So 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.
00:08:42.000 Jill Stein, who ran as a Green Party candidate, targeted in Russia inquiry.
00:08:47.000 Quote, 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.
00:09:02.000 So we have an opportunity to do five things at once.
00:09:05.000 This is the peace card.
00:09:07.000 This is the Trump card.
00:09:08.000 This is the game changer card.
00:09:10.000 And it's right there.
00:09:12.000 This doesn't take a we have to go to the moon type speech.
00:09:15.000 This doesn't take a type of massive operation.
00:09:19.000 It takes one plane ride and the willingness.
00:09:22.000 Not even a plane ride.
00:09:23.000 You could do it through Zoom.
00:09:24.000 You could wear a mask on Zoom if you want.
00:09:27.000 You can end the war, punish all of our enemies, help America tremendously, create jobs, and prevent future wars.
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00:10:43.000 The peace card is on the table, and Joe Biden refuses to use it.
00:10:48.000 Thefederalists.com writes: stop letting environmental groups funded by Russia dictate America's energy policy.
00:10:55.000 It's an open secret that Russians have funded anti-fracking and anti-natural gas propaganda in America for decades.
00:11:01.000 A 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.
00:11:17.000 Indeed, it is an open secret.
00:11:19.000 I'm reading from Samantha Dravis' terrific article.
00:11:21.000 I know Samantha Dravis. 0.90
00:11:22.000 She's phenomenal. 1.00
00:11:24.000 She served in the Trump administration.
00:11:26.000 She's great.
00:11:27.000 And it's an open secret in America for decades.
00:11:30.000 Environmental groups have funded the campaigns of Democrats and pressured them to ban fossil fuels.
00:11:36.000 These same environmental groups relentlessly attack President Trump as anti-science and enemies of the EPA.
00:11:44.000 So we have Russian-funded green groups that have captured the entire White House. 0.90
00:11:49.000 Now, we would call that Russian collusion, but that just sounds a little bit too cliche.
00:11:54.000 When Jensaki was asked directly, and by the way, Biden is not answering any direct questions about this.
00:11:59.000 If this was Trump, he would be out there directly answering questions.
00:12:03.000 For better or for worse, he'd be out there.
00:12:06.000 Jensaki was asked directly about this.
00:12:09.000 There's two pieces of tape here that I want to play.
00:12:12.000 Let me play the longer one.
00:12:14.000 Okay, so let me do a little bit of a lead up before Cut 39.
00:12:16.000 It's her on George Stephanopoulos.
00:12:19.000 And 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.
00:12:41.000 Play Cut 39.
00:12:42.000 Senator Tom Cotton is coming up on the program next.
00:12:45.000 He says the United States should be doing more to crack down on the Russian energy sector.
00:12:49.000 Here's what he had to say.
00:12:51.000 How 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.
00:13:09.000 President open to those proposals?
00:13:12.000 Well, 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.
00:13:28.000 And so energy sanctions are certainly on the table.
00:13:31.000 We 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.
00:13:39.000 I would say that the congressman's recommendations there, the Keystone Pipeline, was not processing oil through the system.
00:13:45.000 That does not solve any problems.
00:13:47.000 That's a misdiagnosis or maybe a misdiagnosis of what needs to happen.
00:13:52.000 I 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.
00:14:06.000 One 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.
00:14:16.000 So I'm not sure we agree with that assessment of what needs to happen, but energy sanctions remain on the table.
00:14:21.000 What the heck was that?
00:14:24.000 I mean, first of all, Tom Cotton's a senator.
00:14:27.000 Yes, the Keystone XL pipeline is an oil pipeline.
00:14:30.000 It's not a pipeline just the, yeah, we're going to transport air.
00:14:33.000 No, actually, it's an oil pipeline.
00:14:35.000 And if you completed it, it sure would help our energy dominance and our partnership with Canada.
00:14:41.000 And she's all over the place here.
00:14:42.000 She's like, well, energy sanctions aren't off the table, but we want to make sure we protect the consumer.
00:14:47.000 So what is she really saying here?
00:14:48.000 She's saying that temporarily, oil prices will go up if we put energy sanctions on Russia.
00:14:55.000 She's correct.
00:14:57.000 But that's only if you don't do the second part of the dance, which she doesn't want to do.
00:15:02.000 Well, we want to help the American consumer.
00:15:04.000 But 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.
00:15:18.000 I'm just going to keep on saying random words until I filibuster and I'm Strom Thurman, actually Jensaki.
00:15:25.000 And it didn't make any sense. 0.94
00:15:26.000 And like George Stephanopoulos is like, thanks so much for joining us with that very wise pile of garbage. 0.80
00:15:34.000 It was a complete contradictory mess. 0.93
00:15:37.000 So that's the position of the White House.
00:15:39.000 They know that they are captured at this point of tension.
00:15:44.000 The point of tension is very simple.
00:15:46.000 They know they could end the war, create millions of American jobs, make us not dependent.
00:15:51.000 They 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. 0.50
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00:17:55.000 A lot happening in the world right now that we want to get to, and actually a lot happening in our country.
00:18:04.000 There is a report that Russia is contemplating carpet bombing parts of Ukraine.
00:18:15.000 Play cut 40.
00:18:17.000 There 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.
00:18:27.000 Now, if this happens, Lukashenko, the leader there, says that carpet bombing is a possibility, not only in this city, but across Ukraine.
00:18:34.000 The devastating toll on civilians would be incalculable.
00:18:38.000 Play cut 41, Kaylee McEniny reacts to the report that carpet bombing threats, and there are reports that Putin is losing his mind.
00:18:46.000 So we have presented the binary choice yesterday, and we're going to do it again.
00:18:51.000 It's either Putin has a strategy here of allying with China or he has completely and totally lost it.
00:18:57.000 Play Cut 41.
00:18:59.000 You hear of carpet bombing and just your heart sinks.
00:19:01.000 And 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.
00:19:09.000 And 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.
00:19:21.000 We certainly hope not.
00:19:23.000 So there's an important question here, which is why is Putin able to do this?
00:19:28.000 Well, it's obvious because their structure of government is fundamentally different than our own.
00:19:33.000 And this is one of the benefits of having checks and balances.
00:19:38.000 And 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.
00:19:47.000 Put 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.
00:20:03.000 It should not be done unilaterally.
00:20:05.000 Now, separation of powers and checks and balances are an insurance policy against a president losing their mind.
00:20:14.000 Putin acts alone. 0.96
00:20:16.000 He is a dictator. 1.00
00:20:17.000 He is a despot. 0.52
00:20:18.000 Any form of, let's say, any mirage that Russia has, a check and balance, it's all a basically hangover effect from the Soviet Union. 0.93
00:20:29.000 Their democracy is a joke.
00:20:30.000 It's not a democracy.
00:20:31.000 It's not even a constitutional republic.
00:20:33.000 It's loosely a federation.
00:20:35.000 It's an empire run by one man who's able to do what he wants to do when he wants to do it.
00:20:41.000 Now, 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.
00:20:49.000 And this is something that we actually have in common with Russia.
00:20:53.000 Russia has a leader that is declining mentally, and America has a leader that is declining mentally.
00:21:02.000 Thankfully, though, we have two other branches of government that can hopefully hold them accountable.
00:21:07.000 The 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.
00:21:18.000 So people are saying, look, the American people want to get involved in the conflict in Ukraine.
00:21:23.000 And look, I have a lot of friends that are Ukrainian.
00:21:25.000 Mikey and our team, his fiancé is Ukrainian and their whole family is Ukrainian.
00:21:29.000 They're like the greatest people ever.
00:21:31.000 And Joseph Bondarenko, who wrote a phenomenal book, is Ukrainian.
00:21:35.000 They love America.
00:21:36.000 They love freedom.
00:21:37.000 All the Ukrainians I've met are awesome.
00:21:39.000 They're entrepreneurial.
00:21:40.000 And so I get that public opinion is moving in that direction.
00:21:46.000 I am obviously very, very war-wear and do not want to get into a conflict that could entangle us further.
00:21:52.000 But let's do it the right way.
00:21:54.000 If 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.
00:22:02.000 Okay.
00:22:02.000 Then let's get a clean bill in front of Congress and do it the right way.
00:22:07.000 Let's have them go stay up all night. 1.00
00:22:12.000 Have Congress go through committees.
00:22:14.000 What I'm trying to say, though, is let's do this intentionally, constitutionally.
00:22:20.000 Joe Biden signing a couple papers and doing it unilaterally would be a mistake.
00:22:26.000 So look, what I'm saying is if you're listening right now, we get a lot of emails from people and a lot of messages from people.
00:22:31.000 Charlie, we have to help Ukraine.
00:22:32.000 It's a moral obligation.
00:22:34.000 I'm not exactly there.
00:22:36.000 I don't see it that way.
00:22:37.000 I think Putin is a thug and I think Russia is trying to tempt us into a war.
00:22:41.000 But you know what? 0.94
00:22:42.000 Maybe you see something I don't see.
00:22:44.000 Maybe fighting alongside Ukraine, a very corrupt country, albeit clumsily trying to go in the direction of democracy, maybe it's the right choice. 0.98
00:22:51.000 Why is Congress not involved?
00:22:53.000 That's the question.
00:22:54.000 Whether it be the supplying of weapons or military reconnaissance or technology, this cannot be done with just one branch of government.
00:23:04.000 Congress has the power of purse and the power to declare war.
00:23:07.000 So they have a major war.
00:23:08.000 To debate in Congress would allow for public debatant input.
00:23:11.000 Now, this is what I think is hilarious.
00:23:13.000 Someone said, we don't have time for Congress to act.
00:23:16.000 Wait a second.
00:23:16.000 If 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.
00:23:28.000 If 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.
00:23:46.000 Yes, I voted to get into a conflict in Ukraine.
00:23:49.000 No, I did not.
00:23:50.000 Justify it.
00:23:53.000 Congressional authorization is instrumental.
00:23:55.000 Now, 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.
00:24:06.000 Now, I think there's an important distinction. 0.75
00:24:08.000 Zelensky is super corrupt.
00:24:10.000 Some of the Ukrainian people that are throwing Molotov cocktails, they're so underarmed. 0.96
00:24:16.000 They're so outgunned.
00:24:18.000 My heart goes out for them.
00:24:19.000 It really does.
00:24:20.000 That 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.
00:24:30.000 I sympathize with that.
00:24:33.000 Play Cut 26 is one of the reasons why American public opinion is shaping and moving.
00:24:38.000 Play Cut 26.
00:24:40.000 Well, we were talking with my husband.
00:24:42.000 What should we do?
00:24:44.000 And there were two scenarios.
00:24:45.000 One is to escape and survive.
00:24:49.000 Another one is to stay and take the battle.
00:24:52.000 And we decided to stay.
00:24:54.000 And what is going to happen?
00:24:56.000 The worst happened to us in both cases.
00:24:58.000 This is that we can die.
00:25:00.000 And we decided that we can die anyway.
00:25:03.000 So let's just use the time that has lapsed.
00:25:07.000 Now, she's very articulate.
00:25:10.000 She's very articulate, very persuasive.
00:25:13.000 Now, I'm sure she's genuine.
00:25:15.000 However, my skeptical, cynical antennas kind of raise a little bit.
00:25:19.000 She always has perfect cell reception in the bunker, and sometimes she's holding a child.
00:25:23.000 But look, maybe it's all legit.
00:25:26.000 And why am I skeptical for Media Matters watching?
00:25:29.000 Because in war, the information propaganda side is sometimes curated and designed to elicit empathy and sympathy.
00:25:40.000 We know that Snake Island and the ghost of Kyiv were largely false propaganda pieces.
00:25:47.000 Okay.
00:25:48.000 Why is public opinion moving?
00:25:52.000 Well, it's because Putin continues to double and triple down.
00:25:58.000 Let's go to cut 38. 0.94
00:26:00.000 Now, new information from our national security correspondent, Jennifer Griffin.
00:26:04.000 A senior defense official is telling Fox that 80% of those pre-staged Russian troops are now inside Ukraine.
00:26:13.000 And the Russian military convoy heading toward Kyiv is not making any real movement at this point.
00:26:20.000 We can watch this by satellite, obviously.
00:26:22.000 And that's because of Ukraine's resistance.
00:26:26.000 And again, we talked about the smog of war.
00:26:28.000 We talked about the uncertainty behind all of this and how some of this is true, how some of this is not true.
00:26:34.000 It does seem definitively that Russia has a 40-mile convoy, a 40-mile convoy stretching back from Kyiv.
00:26:45.000 Ron DeSantis had some pretty sharp words for Vladimir Putin.
00:26:50.000 Let's play that cut 30. 1.00
00:26:52.000 This is a guy who's basically an authoritarian gas station attendant, okay, with some legacy nuclear weapons from the old Soviet Union.
00:27:01.000 Their whole society is hollowed out except for that energy. 0.98
00:27:05.000 And so if you want to hit them, hit them at the gas pump. 0.99
00:27:08.000 Hit them with energy. 1.00
00:27:10.000 Hit him at the gas pump is exactly right. 0.90
00:27:12.000 If you want to declare war and supply weapons, go to Congress.
00:27:16.000 If 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.
00:27:30.000 Then open up the American energy entrepreneur.
00:27:34.000 This entire Russia-Ukrainian debacle has exposed the fraud and the quasi-treason of the American green energy movement.
00:27:46.000 They are literally doing Russia's bidding, literally. 0.79
00:27:51.000 He has an opportunity to create millions of jobs, supply Europe with LNG.
00:27:56.000 It could be a massive stimulus right now.
00:28:00.000 We could be in charge of our own energy, and we were under Trump.
00:28:04.000 But 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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00:29:20.000 I don't understand where is Joe Biden in the midst of all of this.
00:29:23.000 I mean, Vladimir Putin is threatening nuclear war and we're getting like press releases.
00:29:30.000 The pursuit of peace takes work.
00:29:32.000 Peace is not normal.
00:29:34.000 Conflict is normal.
00:29:37.000 Let's go to Cut 35, Mike Pompeo on Vladimir Putin.
00:29:42.000 Play Cut 35.
00:29:43.000 Mr. Secretary, do you consider Byron Putin a shrewd or a reckless leader overall?
00:29:49.000 Very shrewd.
00:29:50.000 Very capable.
00:29:51.000 I have enormous respect for him.
00:29:53.000 I've been criticized for saying that that was always well-informed and deeply clear about what Russian interests were.
00:30:02.000 I appreciated that.
00:30:04.000 It required the same from us, from me, from my team.
00:30:07.000 We had to be equally prepared and equally protective of the interests that matter to the United States.
00:30:12.000 He is very savvy, very shrewd.
00:30:15.000 And so he's under great attack for that.
00:30:17.000 I find nothing wrong with what he said.
00:30:19.000 He's saying that he's capable. 1.00
00:30:20.000 We're up against a legitimate adversary, not someone who's stupid or dumb. 0.99
00:30:26.000 I mean, would the media be like, oh, yeah, we feel better that Pompeo says he's dumb, even though he's not dumb. 1.00
00:30:33.000 Let's go to another piece of tape here. 0.99
00:30:35.000 Hillary Clinton on Rachel Maddow says Putin has physical or mental problems.
00:30:40.000 Interestingly, she never says that about our current president.
00:30:42.000 Play cut 25.
00:30:44.000 They need to stop him.
00:30:46.000 Whether 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.
00:30:59.000 But his behavior is dangerous and it's dangerous to the future of Russia. 0.52
00:31:06.000 So in more ways than one, we are seeing the entire bipartisan national security apparatus unite around this sort of talking point.
00:31:18.000 Let's go to Mitt Romney here, where he says there has never been a clear picture of good versus evil.
00:31:26.000 Let's play, whichever one that is.
00:31:28.000 Play Cut 20.
00:31:30.000 Look, this is one of the greatest demonstrations of good versus evil that we've seen during our lifetimes.
00:31:38.000 And the demonstration of courage.
00:31:40.000 But how anybody, how anybody in this country, which loves freedom, can side with Vladimir Putin.
00:31:49.000 It's unthinkable to be.
00:31:51.000 It's almost treasonous.
00:31:53.000 And it just makes me ill to see some of these people do that.
00:31:57.000 But 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.
00:32:04.000 I don't know who he thinks is siding with Vladimir Putin, but it's no one that I know.
00:32:10.000 Joe 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.
00:32:20.000 Energy dominance is our Trump card, is our peace card.
00:32:24.000 It would end this thing immediately.
00:32:26.000 Putin thought he could break up Europe.
00:32:28.000 He thought Germany would side with him because of Nord Stream 2.
00:32:34.000 Biden should be in Europe giving guarantees that we will support and supply LNG.
00:32:38.000 There are millions of jobs and billions of dollars of wealth that could be created in one meeting.
00:32:43.000 We could be a net exporter of something for once.
00:32:47.000 But the current regime is uninterested in that because of ideology.
00:32:53.000 Thank you so much for listening, everybody.
00:32:54.000 Email me directly, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:32:57.000 Thanks so much for listening.
00:32:58.000 God bless.
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