The Charlie Kirk Show - March 10, 2022


A Chinese Coronavirus Accountability Audit


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It seems as if the elites are trying to make sure we don t learn our lesson from COVID. Where is the audit of our response to the Chinese coronavirus? That and so much more. Also, we re joined by my friend Rick Grinnell to go through the Russian-Ukrainian situation.

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00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, today in the Charlie Kirk show, it seems as if the elites are trying to make sure we don't learn our lesson from COVID.
00:00:06.000 Where is the audit of our response to the Chinese coronavirus?
00:00:09.000 That and so much more.
00:00:10.000 Also, we're joined by my friend Rick Grinnell to go through our response to the Russian-Ukrainian situation.
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00:01:39.000 Okay, I want to dive into this story here that I wanted to get to yesterday from the New York Times.
00:01:44.000 It's not always that we lead with stories from the New York Times, but this story is so extraordinary and it paints a broader picture, a more important point that I think we want to put forward.
00:01:57.000 So look, the New York Times article says this.
00:02:00.000 It says, good morning.
00:02:01.000 Life in Red America and Blue America is quite different.
00:02:03.000 What about COVID caseloads?
00:02:05.000 It says this, that there's a modest gap.
00:02:08.000 This is the New York Times writing.
00:02:09.000 Daily life in red and blue America has continued to be quite different over the past few months.
00:02:14.000 It is a reflection over the partisan divide over COVID-19.
00:02:17.000 So the New York Times is writing this, David Leonhart, and he goes through this article and he admits the following, quote, in the country's most liberal cities, many people are still avoiding restaurants.
00:02:29.000 The number of seated diners last month was about 40% below pre-pandemic levels in New York, Philadelphia, Minneapolis, and San Francisco and Cambridge, Massachusetts, according to Open Table.
00:02:38.000 By contrast, Nashville, Phoenix, Charlotte, and Austin, as well as in Oklahoma, Nebraska, and New Hampshire.
00:02:44.000 Residents in liberal cities like New York, Washington, and San Jose are still spending significantly more time at home and less time at the office.
00:02:52.000 In more conservative places, the rhythm of daily life has returned to nearly normal.
00:02:58.000 So the New York Times is diving into the data here, and they say, quote, during the Omicron wave, schools in heavily Democrat areas were more likely to close.
00:03:06.000 Some classrooms require students to stay at home for extended periods of time.
00:03:10.000 Mask wearing was very common in liberal areas, far more common in liberal communities than conservative ones.
00:03:15.000 These are a stark difference that have created a kind of natural experiment.
00:03:19.000 Did the Omicron variant spread less in parts of the United States where social distancing and masking were more common?
00:03:26.000 And the New York Times says the answer is surprisingly unclear.
00:03:31.000 They say, quote, the number of official COVID cases has been somewhat higher in Democrat areas that masked and had lockdowns and lower in Republican areas according to the New York Times data.
00:03:44.000 Now, the New York Times doesn't want to say this definitively, but they're shocked and they're confused.
00:03:48.000 They say this is unclear.
00:03:49.000 Now, there's a reason why this is so important.
00:03:51.000 We just locked down our civilization for two years, put vaccine mandates on people that did not need to get a vaccine against a virus that did not significantly threaten them, locked down our entire civilization and created $6 trillion as a result.
00:04:05.000 But I'm very concerned by the lack of interest from the people in charge to have an honest diagnosis of what we just put our country through.
00:04:15.000 What I'm talking about is where is the audit of our COVID response?
00:04:20.000 The New York Times is kind of stumbling into this, and this is kind of on their back page.
00:04:24.000 Like, oh, yeah, by the way, now that we compare liberal areas to conservative areas, none of the mask mandates, none of the vaccine mandates, none of the lockdowns made any difference at all whatsoever in virus transmission rates.
00:04:34.000 Actually, according to the New York Times, the red states actually had lower virus rates and did a lot better.
00:04:40.000 Now, when we jump quickly from COVID to Ukraine and all these other types of issues from one hysteria to the other, it prevents us the opportunity as a nation and as a society to learn from our own self-inflicted response.
00:04:56.000 Now, we've never received a mea culpa or an apology or any form of a audit from the people in charge or from the public health officials.
00:05:07.000 Many people are starting to ask, where is the justice?
00:05:09.000 And I would join that chorus.
00:05:11.000 But instead, it seems as if there's an intentional and a deliberate cover-up campaign to make sure you don't associate the sort of tyrannical government action that we just lived through with the pain and suffering that you just experienced.
00:05:25.000 So here's the New York Times saying, quote, nationwide, the number of official COVID cases has recently been somewhat higher in Democrat areas than in Republican ones.
00:05:37.000 And they say, quote, the lack of a clear pattern in itself is striking.
00:05:40.000 Remember, not only have Democrat voters been avoiding restaurants and wearing masks, they're also much more likely to be vaccinated and boosted.
00:05:48.000 Combine these factors seem as if they should have caused a large difference in case rates.
00:05:56.000 The New York Times writes, quote, but they have not.
00:06:00.000 They have not offered any sort of clarity about the real effectiveness or the efficacy of COVID interventions.
00:06:09.000 So wait a second, the New York Times just said that the COVID interventions that we went through over the last two years might have just been all for nothing.
00:06:15.000 This is the New York Times writing this.
00:06:19.000 And instead of a nationwide moment of pause and of reflection, it seems as if we're moving on to the next crisis and the hysteria.
00:06:28.000 And this is where I'm really concerned.
00:06:30.000 The people in charge are intentionally interrupting the collective learning process of our country.
00:06:38.000 Nations need to learn things just like human beings need to learn things.
00:06:42.000 Same, in a micro level, it's when you touch the stove and you burn yourself, you associate the action with the pain.
00:06:50.000 I'm not going to do that again. 1.00
00:06:51.000 That was really stupid. 0.99
00:06:54.000 But we don't actually, we've not afforded ourselves that similar type of opportunity when it comes to our COVID response. 0.98
00:07:01.000 The New York Times, quote, not only do we not have clarity about the effectiveness of different COVID interventions, but red states seem to have substantially reduced the chance of infection.
00:07:14.000 If we as a civilization or a country do not gain a proper understanding of the implications of our actions, lockdowns, vaccine mandates, and mask mandates, not only will we repeat the same sort of absurd and ignorant response, but it will prevent other lessons from being learned.
00:07:34.000 Societies can learn lessons.
00:07:35.000 They can.
00:07:37.000 Countries that embrace communism and socialism and then reject it, they learn lessons the hard way.
00:07:43.000 Meet any sort of immigrant from Cuba or Venezuela, they learned their lesson.
00:07:48.000 Fortunately, their leaders continue to participate in these experiments.
00:07:53.000 Americans in the recent time in modernity post-1980, lessons seem to not want to be conveyed properly to our population.
00:08:03.000 It's as if we don't want to associate massive government intervention or certain public policy decisions because if America were to internalize the mistakes being made by our leaders and rulers actually might interrupt the very same sort of programs or ambitions that they have for our country.
00:08:24.000 They don't want other lessons to be learned alongside of it.
00:08:26.000 And it's not even a question of it.
00:08:28.000 The New York Times is writing extensively that every one of the interventions that we did in the last two years made zero difference.
00:08:36.000 In fact, the Republican states that have open restaurants, open schools, no mask mandates, no vaccine mandates are doing better than the blue states.
00:08:42.000 It's their own writing.
00:08:45.000 Do we have an apology from Anthony Fauci or Francis Collins or the CDC of the NIH?
00:08:49.000 Of course not.
00:08:50.000 They don't want you to learn that lesson.
00:08:51.000 They don't want you to be like, touch the stove, I get burned.
00:08:54.000 We lock down the nation.
00:08:55.000 Things get really bad.
00:08:58.000 And the reason, of course, is this is because they're going to keep on making the same sort of pattern of mistakes.
00:09:03.000 They don't want the population to say, no, no, no, I know what happens when we do that.
00:09:07.000 We're not going to put up with it anymore.
00:09:09.000 Societal improvements occur.
00:09:12.000 Society gets better when mistakes are admitted and responsibility is taken.
00:09:20.000 Humanity is at its best when we say that was a mistake.
00:09:24.000 We're not going to do that anymore.
00:09:26.000 Slavery, a mistake.
00:09:27.000 We're not going to do that anymore.
00:09:29.000 Instead, the public propaganda campaign that we're all experiencing right now, it's deliberate, is trying to make you forget about the last two years.
00:09:39.000 But this New York Times article is screaming in detail that everything your child went through, everything that your school went through, the local community was all basically for nothing.
00:09:52.000 There's another lesson from that that I want to dive into.
00:09:55.000 And we're going to put that article on charliekirk.com.
00:09:57.000 And the lack of humility from our leaders is just striking.
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00:11:06.000 It's really difficult for me to go through this story because I know the damage that these lockdowns did to our society.
00:11:12.000 I know the young people that suffered.
00:11:16.000 I know the families that lost young people to suicide.
00:11:18.000 I know the events, the, let's say, generationally impactful events of prom and spring and fall sports and summer camps that were canceled.
00:11:29.000 All for what?
00:11:30.000 The data says nothing.
00:11:31.000 That's what the New York Times now says.
00:11:32.000 No difference.
00:11:34.000 The Republican response actually lowered virus rates.
00:11:37.000 Now, we're not even getting into not just not having the intervention, not just having the lack of lockdowns, but also the lack of interventions, azithromycin, ivermectin, vitamin D, hydroxychloroquine.
00:11:51.000 So, here we have a tape I want to play.
00:11:54.000 CDC director Cut 14, Rochelle Walensky, says, Look, the science is gray.
00:11:58.000 It's not black and white.
00:12:00.000 Now, people like Rochelle Walensky need to start to be held accountable. 0.99
00:12:03.000 There needs to be responsibility taken for the mass societal pain and suffering that was inflicted.
00:12:10.000 And I understand that some people say, Charlie, it's time to move on from COVID.
00:12:14.000 It's over.
00:12:15.000 And this is not about COVID.
00:12:17.000 It's not.
00:12:18.000 It's about whether or not a lesson will be learned collectively by a society, whether or not the truth will be properly conveyed to a population to associate the disruption, the inflation that we're seeing is largely because of our response as well.
00:12:32.000 By the lack of wisdom from our leaders and the malevolence from our leaders.
00:12:37.000 If we do not gain a proper understanding of the implications of our action, then not only will we repeat it, but we won't learn lessons from any sort of issue or campaign that we get behind.
00:12:49.000 Play cut 14.
00:12:51.000 And then maybe the other thing I'll say is this area of gray.
00:12:55.000 I have frequently said, you know, we're going to lead with the science.
00:12:59.000 Science is going to be the foundation of everything we do.
00:13:01.000 That is entirely true.
00:13:03.000 I think public heard that is science is foolproof.
00:13:07.000 Science is black and white.
00:13:10.000 Science is immediate and we get the answer.
00:13:12.000 And then we, you know, make the decision based on the answer.
00:13:15.000 And the truth is, science is gray.
00:13:17.000 And science is not always immediate.
00:13:19.000 And sometimes it takes months and years to actually find out the answer.
00:13:25.000 And now another extraordinary piece of tape that I want to play from Florida Governor Ron DeSantis' roundtable.
00:13:32.000 So there's Dr. Joseph Freeman, very similar to the New York Times article.
00:13:36.000 He comes out and he says, Look, I want to apologize to the other scientists with me here on Zoom, the proponents of the great Barrington Declaration.
00:13:46.000 You guys were right.
00:13:48.000 Now, thankfully, this doctor has the courage to admit that the people that were talking about the lockdowns that are going to harm, the need for interventions, this Dr. Joseph Freeman, has the courage to take responsibility and to apologize and to be a better human being because of it.
00:14:04.000 Our public health officials are doing no such thing.
00:14:08.000 And the data is there in striking colors.
00:14:11.000 Now, I know the temptation to want to say, let's move on.
00:14:15.000 It's time to get past it.
00:14:16.000 We just went through a civilization altering event that we did to ourselves.
00:14:22.000 It wasn't like an asteroid came from outer space and hit us.
00:14:25.000 We said, you know, next time we could break apart that asteroid a little bit differently, or maybe we could consolidate our programming and our response.
00:14:32.000 No, no, no, we did this to ourselves.
00:14:34.000 Has the lesson been learned?
00:14:35.000 Do you think our public health officials and our government officials are now less likely or more likely to put forward a response that we just lived through?
00:14:43.000 Play cut 51. 0.96
00:14:45.000 Personally, I would like to apologize to the three other scientists sitting with me here on Zoom, the proponents of the Barrington Declaration, because initially I did think you all were crazy or dumb, or maybe you just didn't understand what I was seeing.
00:15:02.000 But I now realize actually I'm sorry, because I believe now you guys were correct.
00:15:09.000 And you were correct from the beginning.
00:15:12.000 And I wish that more people, including myself, have realized that sooner.
00:15:19.000 So that's a doctor that has come out and has said the signers of the Barrington Declaration, which of course was censored by social media, which said, as infectious disease epidemiologists and public health scientists, we have grave concerns about the damaging physical and mental health impacts of the prevailing COVID-19 policies.
00:15:34.000 Almost a million people signed it, 928,000 public health experts, and the doctor signed it.
00:15:39.000 Most people didn't even know it existed. 0.95
00:15:41.000 Now, this doctor said, Look, I was told to believe that you guys were nuts and crazy, but in reality, you were right. 0.94
00:15:49.000 You're going to start to see crumbs of this and little signs of this.
00:15:53.000 But the question is: the people, the stakeholders in charge, have they issued the public polology report?
00:15:59.000 Have they issued the audit to the American people saying clearly, we not only messed up, we promised to you we're never going to do it again.
00:16:07.000 That was the purpose of Nuremberg, by the way, was to make sure that we never do that again. 0.71
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00:17:08.000 With us right now is a friend of mine who has guts.
00:17:10.000 I got to tell you, he was one of the most important members of the Trump administration and quite honestly, one of the least appreciated members of the Trump foreign policy successes, especially in Europe and deterring Putin's aggression during Trump's term.
00:17:26.000 And that is Rick Grinnell.
00:17:27.000 Rick Grinnell was the U.S. Ambassador to Germany and was also the former acting director of national intelligence.
00:17:32.000 I've got to know Rick really well over the last couple of years.
00:17:34.000 And I could tell you that the difference between what our government has right now and the wisdom and the work ethic and the prudence of Rick Grinnell, it really, it's not just night and day.
00:17:46.000 It's also the difference between war and peace is really the difference.
00:17:50.000 So he's with us right now.
00:17:51.000 He's a great friend.
00:17:52.000 Rick, welcome to the Charlie Kirk Show.
00:17:54.000 Charlie, thanks for having me.
00:17:55.000 It's a pleasure to be here.
00:17:56.000 So, Rick, the floor is yours.
00:17:59.000 Just walk us through just some of the history in the last couple of years when you were U.S. Ambassador to Germany of the differences in policy and also tone of how Trump was able to prevent Vladimir Putin from ever making a single incursion into Ukraine versus what this regime is unfortunately doing right now.
00:18:17.000 Yeah, Charlie, I mean, as you know, from 2016 to 2020, Putin was not on the offense like he is now in Europe.
00:18:27.000 And we have to look at what's been happening in Europe over the last decade or so.
00:18:35.000 And what I would say is that Merkelism, the idea that Chancellor Merkel put forward of being friends with everybody, and I would argue, moving away from the Western alliance and trying to change the transatlantic alliance, which has traditionally been Western-facing, to just a transatlantic alliance.
00:18:56.000 And the difference is: if you have an alliance between Europe and America that just is on paper that we're friends, that's one thing.
00:19:04.000 If you have an alliance that clearly says we're going to be Western-facing, we're the Western government, and we are going to stand up for the West and stand against the East, then there's no other way to say it other than Merkel moved away from a Western-facing alliance and just tried to paper over it with this phony transatlantic alliance.
00:19:30.000 And I blame Charlie a lot of the NGOs, to be honest, the German Marshall Fund and others that sat by and allowed this slippery slope to happen.
00:19:39.000 And you ask, what is that slippery slope?
00:19:41.000 Well, it's the idea that we keep saying that America and Germans are great friends and we have a long history, but we let the Germans not pay their fair share at NATO. 0.83
00:19:52.000 We let the Germans build a pipeline of not only gas, but a pipeline of influence in with Russia.
00:19:59.000 And by the way, I think one big mistake that the NGOs in America make and the media in America make and a lot of the official Washington types make is that they look at Europe and they just think that it's Berlin, Paris, and Brussels.
00:20:14.000 And Europe is much more diverse and much different.
00:20:18.000 Remember that the European Parliament on multiple occasions told the German government, don't build this Nord Stream 2 pipeline.
00:20:25.000 It's unacceptable.
00:20:27.000 You should do some other things to diversify your energy.
00:20:31.000 And they made some specific proposals, including buying liquid natural gas, not only from America, but from other sources.
00:20:39.000 There are some Middle East countries that are selling liquid natural gas now.
00:20:43.000 And there was a move to push Germany to have a diversification, but Merkel was really hell-bent on keeping the Green Party in Germany from getting close to her party and toppling her.
00:20:57.000 And to do so, she had to triangulate on some of these green issues.
00:21:01.000 She got rid of nuclear power.
00:21:03.000 She has committed to getting rid of coal, which I highly doubt they'll ever be able to do.
00:21:10.000 But Merkelism put Germany in the position of being able to get leveraged by Putin.
00:21:18.000 There's no other way to say it, and there's no question about it.
00:21:22.000 And so there's now beginning to be a very healthy argument in Germany to say, did Merkel put us in this position of being at the mercy of Russia and causing this Ukraine crisis?
00:21:37.000 And I would say yes.
00:21:38.000 You think about beholding to the Russians on energy.
00:21:45.000 And make no mistake, the Germans are.
00:21:47.000 They've put themselves in the position where they rely on Nord Stream I and Nord Stream II.
00:21:52.000 I like to remind people that our U.S. policy of diversification of energy for Europe does include some Russian oil.
00:22:01.000 We agree that there should be some Russian energy, and that's Nord Stream I.
00:22:06.000 But that Nord Stream II goes too far and gives the Russians too much leverage.
00:22:10.000 Thank God for Ted Cruz standing up and trying to really push hard on sanctioning this issue.
00:22:16.000 But let me just finish this part by saying we have to be very clear that the German government, the then German government of Angela Merkel, and the Senate Democrats and the Biden administration all came together to drop the sanctions.
00:22:32.000 And they did this because Joe Biden wanted consensus with the Europeans.
00:22:37.000 He felt like having an agreement with the Europeans is better than having a strong U.S. policy.
00:22:43.000 And so he sacrificed America first for consensus with the Europeans.
00:22:49.000 That was the strategic mistake.
00:22:51.000 Now that the Germans have flipped in this new government from a socialist leader, Olaf Schultz, has said, we made a mistake with Merkelism.
00:23:02.000 We got to scramble to pay our 2%.
00:23:04.000 We've got to now stop the Nord Stream 2 pipeline.
00:23:07.000 That admission from the Germans has not permeated to the Senate Democrats or the Biden administration yet.
00:23:14.000 They've flipped on Biden from Merkel to Olaf Schultz.
00:23:18.000 This is an enormous story to go from the Christian Democrats to the socialists having a better policy in Germany.
00:23:26.000 There is more information, Rick, in that answer than anything I've heard from the State Department or anything that we have running our government.
00:23:34.000 So, Rick, I want to ask you: there's been a lot of back and forth on this very specific topic.
00:23:38.000 And if you're not at, if you're not able to dive into some of the details, I understand, but I'm personally confused about it.
00:23:45.000 We did a podcast on it yesterday and a broadcast on it yesterday when Senator Marco Rubio asked Victoria Newland about the biolabs in Ukraine, asking, does Ukraine have chemical or biological weapons?
00:23:56.000 And Victoria Newland answered, Ukraine has biological research facilities, which in fact we're now quite concerned Russian troops, Russian forces may be seeking control of.
00:24:05.000 So we're working with the Ukrainians on how to prevent any of those research materials from falling into the hands of Russian forces should they approach.
00:24:12.000 Senator Rubio responded by saying that there's Russian propaganda groups putting out that these have been uncovered and America might be connected with them.
00:24:20.000 So Rick, can you help us separate fact from fiction on this topic?
00:24:23.000 There's been a lot of chatter about this.
00:24:25.000 Some people say it's no big deal.
00:24:27.000 Other people are so outraged.
00:24:29.000 Is the U.S. involved in this?
00:24:30.000 Are we funding this?
00:24:32.000 Walk us through this, please.
00:24:34.000 Well, as you pointed out, it's going to be a challenge to talk about this issue as the former acting director of national intelligence.
00:24:42.000 But let me give it a shot of trying to talk generally about this to give some direction without going into any intelligence.
00:24:52.000 I think the short answer for what you just said is it's a little bit of all of the above.
00:24:58.000 And there are too many sides that are trying to pretend like it's all or nothing.
00:25:03.000 I think the Pentagon's briefing and the media swallowing everything that the Pentagon said, dismissing this, calling it just simply Soviet-era labs.
00:25:16.000 You know, look no further than the Pentagon statement where they say this is just Soviet-era labs.
00:25:23.000 And then they say, well, in 2015 or 2005, so they really go into modern times.
00:25:32.000 And I would say that we also need to resist the attempt to think that this is totally nefarious.
00:25:41.000 I think it's like the situation where the United States partners with other countries and over time loses the regulatory and responsibility of making sure that what that joint partnership is doing today is the equivalent to what we wanted it to be originally.
00:26:05.000 I give you a specific example of the United Nations.
00:26:08.000 In theory, 50 plus years ago, the UN was a great idea of, oh, let's have countries come together and solve problems.
00:26:17.000 The way that it is today, the UN is literally a total failure unless there is total U.S. leadership.
00:26:26.000 Without U.S. leadership at the UN, the programs tend to immediately become problematic and a waste of money.
00:26:34.000 And so what I would just say simply is: unless we stay on top of our partnerships in labs around the world, we don't know exactly what's happening.
00:26:46.000 And I think that we have a situation where we haven't been watching enough and working closely enough.
00:26:55.000 And so the simple answer is sometimes these partnerships get away from us.
00:27:01.000 And Rick, we appreciate you answering that because I know there's some sensitivities there given your former job.
00:27:07.000 So that was very helpful.
00:27:08.000 So we have about a minute and a half remaining.
00:27:10.000 Rick, you're in charge.
00:27:11.000 Let's say Trump was president right now.
00:27:13.000 What do we do right now to respond to the Russian-Ukrainian situation?
00:27:16.000 Is the Biden regime doing anything right?
00:27:18.000 And what on the table is the obvious point of action that is not currently being done to stop Russian aggression?
00:27:24.000 It's such a good question, Charlie.
00:27:25.000 And I really, honestly, I have to start and I have to say that, you know, first of all, we wouldn't be in this position.
00:27:31.000 I'm really saddened and maybe even pissed off that we have to answer questions like, well, what would you do now?
00:27:40.000 And now we have a terrible and a really terrible choice.
00:27:43.000 And so my first reaction is to say, well, we wouldn't be in this position.
00:27:46.000 We certainly wouldn't have had the disastrous Afghanistan look and withdraw because that sent a powerful message. 0.85
00:27:55.000 And I always have to say when talking about these issues, there's an issue that nobody is covering.
00:28:00.000 And that is that the Biden administration took the Houthis off the terrorist watch list.
00:28:06.000 And in a short period of time, the Houthis were bombing Abu Dhabi.
00:28:11.000 Think about that.
00:28:12.000 The consequences of weak foreign policy are played out.
00:28:16.000 Our allies see it.
00:28:18.000 It's really hard to answer the question of what would you do now?
00:28:21.000 Because we wouldn't be in this position if Donald Trump were in charge.
00:28:24.000 And we certainly now have terrible choices.
00:28:26.000 I will finish by saying this.
00:28:29.000 We cannot do a no-fly zone in Ukraine.
00:28:33.000 We should not have American boots on the ground. 0.99
00:28:36.000 But everything changes if a member of NATO is attacked.
00:28:41.000 If this conflict moves into Poland, then unfortunately, America is going to have to deal with the terrible weak responses of the Biden administration getting us into a conflict.
00:28:54.000 Man, I think I speak for our entire audience, Rick.
00:28:57.000 You know, we wish you and your team was in charge.
00:28:59.000 I mean, you did some phenomenal things.
00:29:01.000 The world was a safer place, and America was strong, and there was less war.
00:29:06.000 Go figure.
00:29:08.000 So, Rick, you're a great friend.
00:29:09.000 Thank you for that wise analysis, and thank you for being so generous with your time.
00:29:12.000 We'll talk to you soon.
00:29:13.000 Thanks, Charlie.
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00:30:18.000 Okay, I want to get to this tape here.
00:30:20.000 So when we teach our children the Pledge of Allegiance, we want them to pledge to their nation, to their fellow countrymen, and of course, pledge to God that has given them their natural rights.
00:30:30.000 When you take a pledge, it's a big deal.
00:30:32.000 Taking a pledge to something can tell you a lot about the society and the culture that you live in.
00:30:36.000 It can tell you about the type of nation we want to be, the nation we have been, and the nation that we currently are.
00:30:41.000 It reinforces the three-tied knot of what has happened before, what is happening now, and what will happen in the future of many different generations working in tandem and working together for a broader and specific purpose.
00:30:54.000 A new video has now come out of this man by the name of Chastin Bootedjej, who is the husband of Pete Bootedjej of Transportation Secretary.
00:31:02.000 It's such an extraordinary video, it's hard to even comprehend.
00:31:05.000 It's hard to even process.
00:31:08.000 And it is a video that it appears that Chastin Boutijej is leading children in the gay Pledge of Allegiance.
00:31:17.000 This is happening more and more at schools across the country.
00:31:21.000 This further reinforces why everyone should get involved and engage with Hillsdale College, CharlieForhillsdale.com, and also Turning Point USA and the work we are doing.
00:31:28.000 I'm going to play this tape right here.
00:31:30.000 And if you send your child to public school, there's a risk, there's a chance that they might have already been exposed to this very sort of type of activity of Chastin Buttigedge, the husband to the Transportation Secretary of the United States government, leading children in the gay pledge of allegiance. 0.98
00:31:46.000 Play cut 10.
00:31:47.000 All right.
00:31:48.000 I pledge my heart.
00:31:50.000 I pledge my heart to the rainbow.
00:31:52.000 To the rainbow.
00:31:53.000 The not-so-typical gay camp. 0.99
00:31:55.000 The not-so-typical gay camp. 0.99
00:31:57.000 One camp, one camp.
00:31:59.000 Full of pride, full of pride.
00:32:01.000 Indivisible, indivisible.
00:32:03.000 Affirmation and equal rights for all.
00:32:06.000 Affirmation and equal rights for all.
00:32:08.000 Watch your heads.
00:32:13.000 So these are children. 0.97
00:32:15.000 So this is Chastin Bootedge, who was doing this for gay teenagers in a pledge of allegiance to the gay pride flag.
00:32:23.000 He said that we pledge allegiance to the gay pride flag of allegiance or something.
00:32:29.000 This is during an Iowa Safe Schools Pride Camp that says, quote, campers will meet with other LGBTQ and allied youth who are passionate about creating change in their communities through activism and building relationships.
00:32:41.000 It's called Pride Camp, an annual camp held in Iowa, hosted by the nonprofit organization Iowa Safe Schools.
00:32:51.000 What you pledge allegiance to matters a lot.
00:32:54.000 You have children pledging allegiance to the gay flag, not the United States of America. 0.98
00:32:59.000 That's where identity politics leads you.
00:33:02.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
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00:33:09.000 God bless.
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