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00:02:44.000Okay, we are now getting to the Ukrainian-Russian situation and story.
00:02:48.000I want to get through some polling regarding that and also kind of dive in to what is Joe Biden's approval rating?
00:02:55.000Has he gotten a boost from that entire situation?
00:02:58.000And so we're going to dive right into it with my friend Richard Barris, who I'm very impressed with, who does a wonderful job with polling.
00:03:04.000And he's going to join us for a couple segments.
00:03:05.000Richard, welcome back to the Charlie Kirk Show.
00:03:08.000Hey, thanks for having me back, brother.
00:03:28.000And this month or last month, there was generally no public appetite for interfering in Ukraine or really ratcheting up what we do in Ukraine.
00:03:37.000This month we got a little bit more specific and we said, you know, aside from all airstrikes and the usual talking points, do you support defending Ukraine against Russia if Ukraine starts to lose the war?
00:03:51.000So if the tide turns, Russia looks like they're going to take Ukraine.
00:03:55.000Do you support the U.S. military stopping the Russians in defense of Ukraine?
00:03:59.000And the answer is no, and it's by a wide margin, about 33% of the public support it, which, interestingly enough, Charlie, was a weird coalition this month.
00:05:29.000And when we look at independents, where, you know, this is why, I mean, I know partisan views change, but overall, independents have been pretty consistent on this.
00:07:01.000It could be, you know, the country in southern Africa like it was in the 90s, and they still didn't like it.
00:07:06.000But in the end, when you have problems domestically at home, like we do, Americans want to prioritize those problems first.
00:07:15.000So, you know, I always tell people, if you really want to be shrewd, you know, looking at, you know, politics, COVID lockdown was a perfect example.
00:07:22.000Everybody supported the lockdowns at first, right?
00:07:27.000You're going to kill your grandmother, your Sunday school teacher.
00:07:30.000And very small number of us said it doesn't matter what the polls say right now.
00:07:34.000In a year from now, what are they going to say?
00:07:36.000And they're going to look and they're going to look at their leaders and they're going to say, who had the foresight, who had the courage to say no when it mattered.
00:08:18.000I think Republicans particularly are just afraid of the media and they're afraid of being many of them are afraid of being called the Putin wing of the party.
00:08:45.000I like to stick to my numbers, but we have a president in office right now who is full blown in the scam.
00:08:51.000We call it perfectly normal corruption.
00:08:53.000They take your money, the taxpayer, they give it to their friends overseas.
00:08:57.000Their friends domestically, Western elites go into those countries and take that money that we're sending over there, like to Hunter Biden.
00:09:18.000He led the impeachment against Donald Trump, Russia 2.0, whatever you want to call it.
00:09:23.000Adam Schiff's been knee deep in Ukrainian arms runners for years.
00:09:27.000I mean, so, you know, it's just this disconnect because the American people at home have no interest in Ukraine, but the people in Washington, D.C. absolutely do.
00:09:36.000Yeah, there's a lot of vested interest in D.C. in kind of the Petri dish for bad ideas, which is where they all go in Ukraine.
00:09:45.000It's kind of this short-term place for experimentation.
00:09:49.000Okay, so in the closing of that topic, though, does it move when people actually learn what a no-fly zone is to even be less than that?
00:10:14.000I mean, we should be protecting the skies and protecting innocent people.
00:10:18.000But when they hear that that means the minute, you know, we shoot down a Russian fighter, then Russia is going to declare war or it's going to escalate.
00:10:28.000Then they realize that, oh, that's really question one, just phrased a different way.
00:10:34.000And in fact, no, I don't support that.
00:10:44.000I mean, if I'm looking, if I'm reading between your polling, which is terrific, by the way, big data polls, it seems like America First is alive and well, despite the best attempts of the media, is that right?
00:10:55.000It's the dominant view in America right now by far, hands down.
00:11:47.000You rarely see this kind of focus and commitment.
00:11:49.000They recently shared with me that they are doubling down and want to literally double their total number of happy customers in the next year.
00:11:57.000If you're struggling with back pain, neck pain, shoulder, hip, or knee pain, even general muscle aches and pain, then I'm suggesting you order their three-week quick start, still discounted, only $19.95.
00:12:50.000I think that what maybe is going on in Ukraine, I don't even think it was the state of the union at best arrested the downward trend.
00:12:58.000And next month, we'll definitely know more about whether or not that goes down again, because the fundamental issues that we always poll every month, foreign policy, the economy, COVID.
00:13:11.000That could have helped him a little bit as well, but it's still negative.
00:13:14.000And overall, with inflation continuing to rise being the number one issue, hands down, I just don't know how he maintains that level, even if this was a minor bump.
00:13:24.000The survey sampling error too is 2.1%.
00:13:27.000So it's still within the sampling era, you know, from 38 to 40.
00:13:32.000So I'm not sure that it's a really large, discernible bump.
00:13:36.000Well, next month, we'll really see a little bit and we'll know.
00:13:39.000But, you know, in those head-to-head matchups, Charlie, I think the big news in this poll, and people tell me to shut up when I say this, but it's just the truth.
00:13:49.000Against Donald Trump, he doesn't stand a chance.
00:15:56.000I don't know how they in the world they thought they were going to pull this off, even though gas prices are just really one component of the CPI.
00:16:04.000For months, we've been asking people who chose cost of living and inflation as their number one issue.
00:16:13.000Is it housing and shelter, utilities, transportation?
00:16:16.000We mimic the CPI because we want to know what people are feeling.
00:16:19.000And it's been gas for months, Charlie, months before Ukraine.
00:16:23.000Groceries, too, was also a very, very big deal.
00:16:26.000Gas and groceries have kind of been battling it out.
00:16:29.000The last month or so, gas has really started to pull away.
00:16:33.000But the bottom line is people know this started well before this issue in Ukraine.
00:16:38.000I've said for a while that there just needs to be kind of a public service campaign done on conservative groups, just fairly explaining how we created $6 trillion in the last year and a half and how inflation was created by the government.
00:16:50.000Because I'm glad your polling is reflecting that because it's true, not just because it helps Republicans and conservatives, because it's true.
00:16:58.000It's just not fair to say that things were getting remarkably more expensive well before the war in Ukraine, especially in cities like Phoenix, Atlanta, many cities in Texas and Florida.
00:17:09.000Richard, right of time, thank you so much.
00:19:30.000Where did all that money go where we spent on Ukraine?
00:19:35.000So it was $14 billion, and it breaks it down piece by piece by piece.
00:19:41.000Now, some of it is pretty conventional, and some of it you're probably not going to find too controversial.
00:19:45.000For example, food and foreign aid, even though the foreign aid industrial complex is very corrupt, it rarely ever goes to the intended recipient.
00:19:54.000Rarely does foreign aid actually help the people you think it's helping.
00:22:41.000What activists exactly are going to get that $120 million?
00:22:44.000You see, this is one of the things that we tried to warn against a week and a half ago, where we walked through and said, I hope these Republican senators have thought this through.
00:24:31.000Republicans who just voted for this bill and Democrats just gave the FBI, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, according to the New York Times, $43.6 million to investigate cyber threats, perform counterintelligence, and monitor cryptocurrency activities.
00:24:53.000Did you know that was part of the Ukrainian relief bill?
00:24:56.000That Republicans and people that supported it decided to give $43.6 million to the Federal Bureau of Investigation so they could monitor your cryptocurrency activities.
00:25:08.000If you own cryptocurrencies, you very well might have your transactions now monitored by the FBI thanks to a Ukrainian assistance bill.
00:25:19.000What does that have to do with one another?
00:25:20.000It goes back to why I was so curious in the first place.
00:25:22.000The New York Times says, related to Ukraine's fight, somehow cryptocurrencies, I guess their fear is that Russian oligarchs are going to be sending assets into America via cryptocurrency.
00:25:37.000Another $25 million on top of the $120 million, this one just plainly, no Russian propaganda, $25 million to combat disinformation and support independent journalism.
00:26:19.000$4 million for oversight of emergency funds and the operations of USAID.
00:26:24.000$1.1 million for the National Security Division to support the Department of Justice Task Force on export control, sanctions, and cyber-related cases to the conflict.
00:26:35.000So we have a total in this spending bill for left-wing activist groups, $145 million that have now been appropriated.
00:26:45.000$145 million that have now been allocated towards fighting disinformation and Russian propaganda.
00:26:54.000Of course, it all is how do you define disinformation?
00:27:10.000Right now, the New York Times is working on a story about our program trying to say that we are parroting Kremlin talking points, even though we've been very clear that Vladimir Putin is a scumbag, satanically inspired, evil, and the invasion is totally on him.
00:27:25.000Yet they say, oh, you're parroting Kremlin talking points.
00:27:42.000Or maybe if they did, they're like, oh, yeah, whatever, $145 million to counter disinformation and Russian propaganda and to support independent media and activists.
00:27:51.000What is this money going to go to the ACLU?
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00:28:59.000What would you think about a company like American Express bashing capitalism?
00:29:04.000Well, that's exactly what happened recently.
00:29:08.000American Express of all credit cards, I mean, it's not like MasterCard.
00:29:12.000American Express kind of services the top levels of the American business community.
00:29:18.000They came out, American Express, and they started to parent, parrot, I should say, ideas and talking points that were so incredibly radical.
00:29:29.000Well, a new organization is fighting back against them.
00:29:32.000It's called Color Us United, a nonprofit that advocates for a racially blind America, a morally good cause, on Monday announced that the public relations effort to expose the credit card company's, quote, harmful woke policies, including hiring and promoting employees based on race and instituting critical race theory training that teaches employees that, quote, capitalism is racist.
00:29:54.000The group is calling on American Express.
00:29:56.000I'm reading from thefreebeacon.com, by the way.
00:29:58.000The group is calling on American Express to rescind the, quote, un-American policies, such as giving bonuses to managers who hire minorities and plans to place television and radio advertisements along with a social media campaign.
00:30:12.000Following the summer of riots in 2020, American Express created a, quote, anti-racism initiative and hired a consultant to conduct training sessions on privilege and race for their employees.
00:30:24.000Manhattan Institute Senior Fellow and Color Us United board member Christopher Ruffo reported last year in the New York Post, among other exercises, employees were asked to determine their own privilege by analyzing factors such as race, sexual orientation, faith, and citizenship.
00:30:39.000The corporation, which made $42.2 billion in profit last year, also invited a speaker to discuss inherent racism of a capitalist economy.
00:30:50.000American Express, who made $42.2 billion, is lecturing you about how capitalism is racist.
00:30:57.000Several past and present employees of American Express last year told the company's top leadership that it discriminates against white employees during its hiring process.
00:31:05.000One employee said, quote, it would be very rare for a white man to be tapped for a senior leadership position.
00:31:11.000Quote, how can a company like American Express claim American part of its name if it consistently drives policies that are incredibly un-American, like promoting the idea that capitalism is racist and offering bonuses for people to hire by race?
00:31:24.000Kenny Zhu, president of Color Us United, said, quote, our choice to brand the company on American Express is designed to wake up to be a wake-up call for the company.
00:31:33.000Most Americans oppose politics and divisive worldviews in the workplace.
00:31:36.000If you guys use American Express, you need to cancel it immediately.
00:31:41.000You should not have American Express, not after this.
00:31:43.000No individual should be judged on the color of their skin or their group status, Watson told of Free Beacon.
00:31:48.000Not only does this create a toxic work environment, but also rejects everything America stands upon.
00:31:55.000Good for Color Us United for pushing back against this totalitarianism and the anti-American inclinations of American Express.
00:32:05.000Okay, I want to get to another piece of sound here.
00:32:09.000It's actually kind of very similar to this.
00:32:18.000But free markets and more importantly, private property and the ability to trade and the liberty to do so is the best way to organize society.
00:32:26.000Well, AOC has something to say about that.
00:32:28.000And she kind of whispers to her followers on an Instagram video.
00:32:32.000She says most people don't know what capitalism is.
00:33:10.000She has said she's going through some mental health issues.
00:33:12.000So I pray for her to be able to get her mind back because that was just a weird video.
00:33:17.000And yes, she doesn't know what capitalism is, obviously.
00:33:20.000Would love the opportunity to have a discussion with AOC about anything meaningful.
00:33:23.000It'd be a dream of mine one day to be able to do that, to be able to have a discussion about what markets actually are and what they have done for people and how she is recording live on an iPhone on Instagram, who saying that people don't know what capitalism is.
00:33:38.000It's just, it's just really, it's deliciously ironic.
00:33:44.000Everyone benefits from markets in one way or the other.
00:33:54.000But it still remains the best way to organize society, to lift people out of poverty, to empower the individual so that all people can flourish to new heights and to be able to succeed.