The Charlie Kirk Show - April 12, 2023


American Troops on the Ground in Ukraine—Are You Ready for War?


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Sen. Rand Paul says there are no U.S. Troops in Ukraine. What does this mean for the Ukraine crisis and why should we keep sending troops there? What kind of support should we be providing to Ukraine and what should we do about it?

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00:00:00.000 Are we ready to win a war?
00:00:01.000 Well, guess what?
00:00:01.000 We have troops in Ukraine, whether you voted for it or know it.
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00:01:05.000 There is a stream of sensitive U.S. intelligence about the Ukraine war that is finally leaking on the internet.
00:01:12.000 I say finally because we've been saying this for quite some time.
00:01:15.000 In fact, in my debates about the topic, for example, with my friend and colleague, Salem colleague Dr. Sebastian Gorka, I said, but we have troops in Ukraine.
00:01:25.000 I go, oh, no, no, no, no, we don't.
00:01:27.000 Now, there's dozens and dozens of documents, and our team has started to pour over them and to go into them.
00:01:32.000 There's one piece of information that we want to lead with today.
00:01:36.000 One of the most important leaks is a document dated on March 23rd that confirms the United States and NATO special forces are operating inside of Ukraine.
00:01:47.000 14 American special forces, 50 from the UK, 15 from France, 17 from Latvia, and one from the Netherlands.
00:01:55.000 That's just about 100 troops overall.
00:01:58.000 The Pentagon says, oh, I mean, this is no big deal.
00:02:00.000 These are just logistics, is what they say.
00:02:02.000 These are just operators that help make sure the boxes of bullets and ammunition and weapons that we're sending are going to the right places.
00:02:12.000 He says, quote, there's a small U.S. military presence at the embassy in conjunction with the Defense Attaché's office to help us work on accountability of the material that is going in and out of Ukraine.
00:02:25.000 They're doing a poor job of that because when we've asked for accountability and an audit of the military equipment, we don't really get that.
00:02:33.000 They say it's just bureaucrats doing some accounting.
00:02:36.000 Well, bureaucrats don't typically do any accountability.
00:02:39.000 That's a separate issue.
00:02:40.000 This is a patent.
00:02:42.000 This is a flagrant lie.
00:02:45.000 You do not need United States Special Forces for this.
00:02:49.000 They're trying to downplay what is obviously a smoking gun and clearly a huge deal.
00:02:55.000 The Biden regime has repeatedly said there are no U.S. troops in Ukraine.
00:03:00.000 And the press, of course, played along.
00:03:02.000 Last August, when we said this on our program, we said there's probably U.S. troops in Ukraine.
00:03:06.000 In fact, we know that there are through military service member families that have told us, you know that my loved one is in Ukraine.
00:03:13.000 PolitiFact came after us and others saying that it was false and that we were spreading disinformation.
00:03:18.000 Well, now we have an admission from John Kirby because of these documents that we do indeed have special forces.
00:03:25.000 These are not logistics.
00:03:27.000 This is not support of services.
00:03:31.000 We have active U.S. special forces on the ground in Ukraine.
00:03:37.000 Play cut 58.
00:03:41.000 There is a small U.S. military presence at the embassy in conjunction with the Defense Attaché's office to help us work on accountability of the material that is going in and out of Ukraine.
00:03:53.000 So they're attached to that embassy and to that defense attaché office.
00:03:57.000 For clarity, they are in the embassy in Ukraine, but they are not fighting.
00:04:02.000 That is right.
00:04:03.000 They are not fighting on the battlefield.
00:04:05.000 We are not providing enabling support on the battlefield.
00:04:10.000 Whether they're fighting or not is not relevant.
00:04:12.000 Are they in a hostile country?
00:04:15.000 Are they in a kinetic feeder?
00:04:18.000 The answer is yes.
00:04:22.000 This should then trigger the War Powers Act immediately. 0.59
00:04:25.000 Remember, we usually pull troops out when wars start.
00:04:29.000 We pulled our troops out when this war started.
00:04:32.000 Then we sent them back without telling anyone, without telling Congress.
00:04:35.000 Or did Congress know?
00:04:37.000 That's an interesting question.
00:04:38.000 Does your local Republican senator who talks a good game but continues to send money to Ukraine while you get poorer, did they know about this?
00:04:46.000 How many Republican senators knew that we had Republican troops in Ukraine?
00:04:51.000 This is not logistical support.
00:04:51.000 Troops.
00:04:53.000 Mind you, I'm going to replay this John Kirby tape because it's very important.
00:04:58.000 He said military presence.
00:05:00.000 He said the word.
00:05:02.000 He did not say logistical support.
00:05:05.000 If it was all just about logistical support, why didn't he send somebody from the State Department?
00:05:10.000 If it was all just about accounting, why didn't he send somebody from the government accountability office, the GAO?
00:05:17.000 No, no, these are special forces.
00:05:19.000 These are stone-cold killers.
00:05:23.000 These are people that go and they operate, praise God, in very close quarters to go take out people like al-Baghdadi.
00:05:32.000 Osama bin Laden was the Navy SEALs, but that sort of high level of training.
00:05:38.000 These are special forces.
00:05:39.000 These are the studs of the U.S. military.
00:05:42.000 They're the last to go woke.
00:05:43.000 This is the hardest threshold of training, sophistication.
00:05:46.000 These are our best assets, by the way.
00:05:50.000 And between the United Kingdom has some amazing special forces.
00:05:53.000 So does France, despite their reputation militarily, they actually have a really great special forces division.
00:05:59.000 There's over 100 in Ukraine.
00:06:03.000 And we have to use them more and more because our normal forces are so messed up.
00:06:08.000 And we're going to give you an example of that.
00:06:10.000 We have a smaller and smaller core of what we could call war winners, actual fighters that are willing to bring the cause to victory.
00:06:20.000 But it's John Kirby who now says we have a military presence in Ukraine.
00:06:25.000 And so I'm going to ask the very simple question that is in front of us.
00:06:29.000 Are we at war with Russia?
00:06:32.000 That is not an out-of-bounds question.
00:06:36.000 Are we at war with Russia?
00:06:38.000 And if we are, where was the vote in Congress for the War Powers Act?
00:06:43.000 So there's two explanations here.
00:06:45.000 Did Congress know about it?
00:06:46.000 If yes, that's terrible.
00:06:48.000 If no, Biden is just deploying American troops, hoping that he will not get caught.
00:06:54.000 And the New York Times will cover for him, obviously.
00:06:57.000 CNN will cover for him, obviously.
00:07:00.000 They're all on board for a war with Russia. 0.86
00:07:02.000 Where are the congressional hearings over this?
00:07:05.000 And the reason there will not be a massive push for congressional hearings is deep down at a fundamental level, the Republicans actually want war more than some Democrats do.
00:07:16.000 Nordstream, we didn't get a straight answer.
00:07:18.000 Donald Trump all but said yesterday in his terrific interview with Tucker Carlson that it was America that bombed Nordstream.
00:07:25.000 And people just kind of roll their eyes.
00:07:28.000 Right now, there are American troops in Ukraine.
00:07:30.000 Did you vote for that?
00:07:31.000 Did you know about that?
00:07:32.000 Where are the hearings?
00:07:33.000 Where was our leaders going and saying, hey, we're going to go send American special forces?
00:07:38.000 Again, this is not logistical support.
00:07:40.000 You need logistical support?
00:07:41.000 Go send people from the Postal Service.
00:07:43.000 Well, that would ensure that the packages never get there and that they get sent to Guam.
00:07:49.000 But despite the point, if you need logistical support, any other department of the very massive multi-trillion dollar government, multi-million personnel government could be dispatched.
00:08:02.000 No, no, no.
00:08:03.000 You sent special forces for a reason, Joe Biden.
00:08:06.000 Why?
00:08:08.000 You notice John Kirby is very coy.
00:08:10.000 Why is John Kirby so coy about this?
00:08:12.000 Because he knows the implications.
00:08:14.000 Even Mark Milley in how... 1.00
00:08:19.000 How impressive his stupidity is at times, how weak of a person he is, Mark Milley. 1.00
00:08:24.000 Even he, when he's asked questions, no, no, no, we're not at war with Russia. 1.00
00:08:27.000 Just so we're clear, we're not at war with Russia, but we're at war with Russia because we're sending ammunition, supplies, training, and now troops in Ukraine.
00:08:36.000 And here's the interesting question.
00:08:38.000 If the troops really aren't doing anything, then why are they necessary to be there?
00:08:45.000 So if they're really not doing anything that important, then why are they there in the first place?
00:08:50.000 Why risk it?
00:08:52.000 An errant bullet, a missile that shouldn't go where it's intended.
00:08:58.000 A Russian tank.
00:09:01.000 Something that goes off course could kill a U.S. active service member in the special forces, which then could trigger a sequence of events that could get us going into a catastrophic set of circumstances.
00:09:13.000 John Kirby has now admitted, the Biden regime has admitted we have a military presence.
00:09:18.000 This is exactly what we have been warning about on this program.
00:09:24.000 And the gutless wonder Republicans keep on voting for this, and they're sending hundreds of billions of dollars into Ukraine while our border remains wide open.
00:09:31.000 We said, you know, it's just a matter of time until they send troops because if you send weapons, you need people to then go train people how to use the weapons and they're going to use excuses.
00:09:39.000 This is exactly what happened in Vietnam.
00:09:41.000 John Kennedy sent reconnaissance.
00:09:46.000 JFK sent spies.
00:09:50.000 And by the way, this is all for a war that we are not close to winning, which is also getting revealed in the leaks.
00:09:56.000 These leaks are actually showing that the Western propaganda machine is overemphasizing Ukrainian success and de-emphasizing Russian success.
00:10:08.000 This is just the beginning of a bloody conflict that Russia is more than willing to grind out. 0.73
00:10:14.000 And we have troops in that theater.
00:10:16.000 We didn't vote for it.
00:10:17.000 We weren't notified from it.
00:10:18.000 This was covered up.
00:10:19.000 This was done in a secret and clandestine manner.
00:10:25.000 House Republicans need to call an immediate rule of order for a War Powers Act resolution right now.
00:10:34.000 This is impeachable stuff.
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00:11:17.000 I think there's more.
00:11:19.000 And there are more troops in Ukraine than what they're telling us. 0.93
00:11:22.000 It's just pure speculation, but these people are liars. 0.99
00:11:26.000 They are liars. 0.99
00:11:26.000 There's no accountability. 0.99
00:11:28.000 There's no check and balance.
00:11:30.000 When they lie, they get promoted and they get more money.
00:11:33.000 They've lied about this war the entire time.
00:11:36.000 I am just speculating.
00:11:38.000 And if I'm proven wrong, I'll happily correct.
00:11:40.000 There's a lot more than 14 U.S. special forces in Ukraine right now.
00:11:44.000 And does that count Central Intelligence Agency assets?
00:11:47.000 Does that count defense contractors?
00:11:49.000 Does that count mercenaries?
00:11:51.000 Does that count guns for hire?
00:11:52.000 Of course not.
00:11:56.000 No, no, no.
00:11:57.000 There's likely a lot more than what John Kirby is admitting.
00:12:02.000 He is not admitting the full truth.
00:12:05.000 He's only mentioning what he got caught doing.
00:12:10.000 Where are the Republicans on this?
00:12:12.000 Why is there no opposition party saying this is insane?
00:12:19.000 This is not in America's best interest.
00:12:22.000 The neoliberal empire that runs the American regime, the American government, they can't help themselves.
00:12:30.000 Our leaders view information as their privilege that they get to dole out only if they might get caught here and there so that they can shape the narrative.
00:12:46.000 Want to play another piece of tape here?
00:12:49.000 Docey asks Kirby what kind of questions we're getting from our allies on these classified leaks.
00:12:55.000 And I bet they're very nervous.
00:12:56.000 There might be more document leaks that Very will show we might have more troops in Ukraine than just a couple dozen play cut 59.
00:13:05.000 First on the classified document leaks, what kind of questions are we getting from our allies about that?
00:13:11.000 We are making overt attempts to reach out to the relevant allies and partners to explain to them as best we know what we know and we don't know about right now.
00:13:21.000 Was that even an answer?
00:13:25.000 We received two emails in the last week, and this is interesting.
00:13:29.000 Maybe it's just a coincidence of people saying that their son is currently in Ukraine as an active U.S. military personnel member.
00:13:38.000 Now, maybe they're wrong.
00:13:40.000 Maybe they're getting false information.
00:13:43.000 Maybe it's a coincidence.
00:13:45.000 All that is maybe.
00:13:46.000 Or maybe there's more troops in Ukraine than we're actually being told.
00:13:49.000 That's what I think is the most likely explanation.
00:13:52.000 The most likely explanation is that we probably have platoons of troops in Ukraine.
00:14:02.000 Do I think they're fighting on the front lines?
00:14:03.000 No, that's probably unlikely.
00:14:05.000 Do I think that we're flirting with that line?
00:14:07.000 Oh, yeah.
00:14:10.000 This is textbook, how you get sucked into a quagmire.
00:14:14.000 And I don't trust our leaders at all. 0.93
00:14:17.000 The Democrats are a waste of rations, okay?
00:14:21.000 They're not going to do anything helpful in this regard. 0.79
00:14:24.000 Where is the opposition party?
00:14:26.000 Well, the Turtle and Lady Graham, they're cheering for this. 0.97
00:14:29.000 They're excited.
00:14:30.000 Do you know what Lady Graham's reaction probably was? 0.88
00:14:34.000 Only a couple dozen?
00:14:36.000 What the heck is wrong with us?
00:14:38.000 Why don't we have 12,000?
00:14:40.000 I don't know if we have 12,000 special forces.
00:14:44.000 Why don't we have all of them?
00:14:46.000 Let's go to war. 0.81
00:14:47.000 Let's push the boundary.
00:14:49.000 Let's liberate Crimea.
00:14:51.000 Let's democratize Russia.
00:14:55.000 And remember, this is the same U.S. military run by woke generals.
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00:15:12.000 So while we have special forces that might get us closer and closer into a quagmire, we must realize our military is not prepared to win a war.
00:15:20.000 I have no confidence in the current military leadership.
00:15:24.000 Yes, there are some total studs in our military. 0.81
00:15:26.000 Yes, there are some stoned-cold killers.
00:15:28.000 But there's also the trans-LGBT idea contagion, idea pathogen that has overtaken academia, athletics, professional sports, the banking system, and it's in our military. 0.87
00:15:45.000 Look at this video.
00:15:46.000 Navyman Audrey Nutsten, a non-binary, speaking on how powerful it is to be in the Navy as a non-binary.
00:15:54.000 And that while they are on the ships, everything stops because they have LGBTQ spoken word night.
00:16:01.000 He's able to write a poem and read it to the whole ship.
00:16:04.000 This is a military operation where they're sharing gay poems.
00:16:09.000 Not a joke, not satire. 0.73
00:16:12.000 Play Cut 45.
00:16:14.000 For me to join as non-binary is really powerful to me.
00:16:20.000 And the coolest thing I did on board was to be able to participate in a LGBTQ spoken word night.
00:16:27.000 And I was able to read a poem that I wrote to the whole ship.
00:16:31.000 And that was probably the culmination of the whole deployment.
00:16:40.000 Yeah. 0.88
00:16:42.000 While China is doing military exercises over Taiwan, we have our Navymen bragging about how they're comfortable on military ships, military ships with missiles, to share their gay poems. 0.82
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00:19:51.000 I mean, it's a very simple calculation that obviously our leaders are too corrupt or just too stone stupid to understand. 0.98
00:20:00.000 If you can't win the war, then why are you getting close to the war? 1.00
00:20:06.000 How is this in America's interest?
00:20:09.000 How does this serve the working men and women of Iowa, Kansas, South Dakota, Idaho, Central Valley of California?
00:20:16.000 How is this in your best interest to have special forces in Ukraine?
00:20:21.000 And the cowards in the media and a lot of people in the conservative media, they're supporting this Ukraine thing.
00:20:29.000 What is their answer to this? 0.92
00:20:30.000 Oh, yeah, it's a bunch of box workers.
00:20:33.000 The same logistical incompetence that we saw in Afghanistan is now running the operation in Ukraine.
00:20:43.000 So they can't get weapons and planes out of Afghanistan, and they take that same cabal of losers of which nobody was fired to now go run logistical support in Ukraine.
00:20:58.000 And it's not just the logistical support, it's now special forces.
00:21:02.000 And I'm not doubting the brilliance or the precision of special forces.
00:21:07.000 I'm doubting their bosses.
00:21:10.000 They're bosses that are using the special forces as little chess pieces.
00:21:16.000 The other theory is that these leaks might be intentional as a way to try to show Putin that we have troops in Ukraine and maybe he should get scared over that. 1.00
00:21:26.000 If that's the case, their stupidity is even greater than I could have even imagined. 0.99
00:21:34.000 I want you to email me, freedom at charliekirk.com. 1.00
00:21:34.000 I'm curious. 1.00
00:21:37.000 Do you think our military, with all the LGBT stuff, with all the trans stuff, with that gay poem reading on battleships, do you think we are ready to go win a war against China or Russia? 0.99
00:21:50.000 Military enrollment is down 20 to 25 percent.
00:21:55.000 I'm not doubting the courage of the rank and file.
00:22:00.000 I am doubting the ability of that trans person who should not be in the military. 1.00
00:22:06.000 You can go find something else to do. 0.99
00:22:07.000 You shouldn't be in the military.
00:22:08.000 I'm sorry.
00:22:09.000 If you're non-binary making TikTok videos about reading poems on a battleship, you should not be in the military. 1.00
00:22:14.000 It's not a social experiment.
00:22:15.000 This is not a college campus.
00:22:17.000 Go join the Chicago teacher unions.
00:22:20.000 They have plenty of job openings now that they have a Marxist running the city.
00:22:25.000 There's a plethora of jobs open in Portland or Seattle.
00:22:28.000 You can go do gay poem readings at any sort of dwindling coffee shop in Portland.
00:22:35.000 I'm sure you'll find plenty of other people. 0.90
00:22:37.000 Battleships are not for gay poems. 0.66
00:22:40.000 Battleships are there to defeat our enemies. 0.60
00:22:42.000 And anything that distracts you from the mission of which LGBTQ Appreciation Hour largely does, it's a waste of time.
00:22:51.000 It's not necessary.
00:22:53.000 You see, this is one of the seeds of liberalism.
00:22:57.000 Liberalism emphasizes the individual over duty.
00:23:02.000 And at times, that's actually really helpful.
00:23:03.000 There are parts and there are elements of classical liberalism we all enjoy.
00:23:07.000 I appreciate due process.
00:23:09.000 I appreciate my own personal ability to speak freely.
00:23:14.000 At the same time, when you have a military, it's not as much about your own individual rights as it is the mission.
00:23:20.000 The military, by definition, has always been one of the most totalitarian communities.
00:23:27.000 I tell you what to do.
00:23:28.000 You get an order and you do it.
00:23:29.000 That's not a democracy, okay?
00:23:30.000 You don't get to vote on it.
00:23:31.000 For better or for worse, it has to be that way or else you can't win a war.
00:23:35.000 You don't want to design your society that way.
00:23:38.000 But the military in particular, you need to have standards and rules, of which might seem arbitrary or irrational, but they're there for the mission.
00:23:47.000 Donald Trump had a fabulous interview yesterday with Tucker Carlson.
00:23:52.000 It was so refreshing.
00:23:53.000 If he could be president again, he could turn this stuff around quickly.
00:23:56.000 Milley, Lloyd Austin, all these people need to be fired. 0.51
00:23:58.000 This non-binary trans stuff, they need to be kicked out of the military completely. 1.00
00:24:02.000 Trump had it right. 0.93
00:24:04.000 Trump actually signed an executive order saying this trans stuff is nowhere in our military.
00:24:08.000 Again, the military needs to have specific standards designed toward the pursuit of excellence to crush our enemies and defend the homeland.
00:24:17.000 Period.
00:24:20.000 Play cut six.
00:24:21.000 Well, actually, yeah.
00:24:21.000 So then Donald Trump was asked about Nordstream, and he all but said America did it, right?
00:24:27.000 I mean, by the way, you might say, well, how does Donald Trump know? 0.98
00:24:30.000 That's what one of these lunatics on Twitter says. 0.96
00:24:32.000 How would Donald Trump know? 0.94
00:24:33.000 He still gets classified briefings unless they revoked it, and I don't think they did.
00:24:36.000 He still gets classified briefings as a former president.
00:24:39.000 And you're trying to tell me he doesn't know a lot of people that are still in government outside of government.
00:24:42.000 He hears a lot of stuff.
00:24:44.000 They did revoke his security briefings.
00:24:46.000 That's amazing if they did.
00:24:48.000 If they did, I stand corrected.
00:24:49.000 Play cut 67.
00:24:52.000 Who blew up the Nordstream pipeline?
00:24:56.000 I don't want to get our country in trouble, so I won't answer it.
00:25:00.000 But I can tell you who it wasn't was Russia. 0.63
00:25:04.000 How about when they blamed Russia?
00:25:05.000 You know, they said Russia blew up their own pipeline.
00:25:08.000 You got to kick out of that one, too.
00:25:10.000 It wasn't Russia. 0.51
00:25:13.000 It wasn't Russia. 0.51
00:25:17.000 Oh, Trump has been barred from receiving intelligence briefings, citing erratic behavior.
00:25:23.000 I stand corrected.
00:25:24.000 That's not to say that somebody within the government or within the proximity of government could also share it.
00:25:29.000 So I stand corrected on that.
00:25:31.000 Wayne, email us, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:25:33.000 Charlie, I have no faith in the United States military.
00:25:35.000 I'm a retired Air Force.
00:25:37.000 I have no faith in the leadership of the military today.
00:25:39.000 I live in one of the largest military areas in Okaloosa, County, Florida.
00:25:43.000 We cannot sustain currently, much less the two-theater campaign of the past.
00:25:47.000 This is a mistake.
00:25:49.000 Somebody that has been really good, but I'm going to play a piece of tape here.
00:25:52.000 Kevin McCarthy is wrong here.
00:25:53.000 I disagree with him vehemently.
00:25:55.000 Play cut 33.
00:25:58.000 I think what's happening in Ukraine is an atrocity. 0.92
00:26:01.000 And I think Ukraine, not just Ukraine, the world has to win there.
00:26:04.000 What Russia has done is wrong.
00:26:06.000 In a phrase that I use a blank check, I use that for anything.
00:26:09.000 I look at every dollar of taxpayers that we would use.
00:26:13.000 But the one thing I know that in Ukraine, we have to win because it also would save Taiwan at the same time.
00:26:22.000 It is correct in what he's saying.
00:26:23.000 It's atrocity what's happening.
00:26:25.000 What does success or victory look like?
00:26:27.000 I don't know.
00:26:29.000 I think Speaker McCarthy's been terrific across the board.
00:26:31.000 He's done a fabulous job.
00:26:32.000 Oversight, the pace, empowering the Freedom Caucus.
00:26:36.000 I disagree with him here.
00:26:37.000 Janet Yellen says U.S. taxpayer funding of Ukraine will lay the foundation for Ukraine's long-term reconstruction.
00:26:44.000 This should infuriate you.
00:26:47.000 This should just make you pound the table.
00:26:49.000 This should make you want to become a school board member.
00:26:51.000 This should make you want to run for office, be a precinct committeeman, be a ballot chaser, take over your local Republican Party, donate to the good causes.
00:26:59.000 This should make you so angry towards action.
00:27:04.000 Janet Yellen is talking about the economic future of Ukraine.
00:27:11.000 How about rebuilding an airport in Pittsburgh?
00:27:16.000 Have you tried to drive on a highway in the center part of America right now?
00:27:20.000 Potholes, deteriorating infrastructure?
00:27:22.000 How about rebuilding our schools and firing the teacher unions where you can't find a single kid that can read at grade level in Baltimore? 0.60
00:27:30.000 No, no, no.
00:27:31.000 Our leaders, the Treasury Secretary of the United States, is saying that we need to build a basis.
00:27:38.000 U.S. taxpayers need to build a basis for Ukraine's long-term reconstruction.
00:27:44.000 And again, I just ask the question: where is the opposition party on this?
00:27:48.000 Play Cut 53.
00:27:51.000 The program will also lay the foundation for Ukraine's longer-term reconstruction.
00:27:58.000 As President Biden has said, the United States will stand with Ukraine for as long as it takes.
00:28:06.000 I'm encouraged that the IMF, multilateral development banks, and our partners are also standing with Ukraine in its time of need.
00:28:18.000 We have to rebuild Ukraine. 0.80
00:28:20.000 Not our own country, not build the southern border, not have functioning schools, not have airports that are a mockery.
00:28:26.000 Have you tried to fly into LAX?
00:28:28.000 The whole place has fallen apart.
00:28:33.000 Fly into Miami, forget it.
00:28:34.000 You might as well just book out your entire afternoon before you get your checkbag.
00:28:38.000 Your entire, it's an entire afternoon.
00:28:40.000 Atlanta, I think that thing's been under construction since the Mesozoic era.
00:28:44.000 I don't think I've ever flown into the Atlanta airport without some sort of lane not being used, some closed area.
00:28:52.000 You got construction workers hanging.
00:28:53.000 I mean, it's taken them a decade since I started Turning Point USA.
00:28:57.000 Atlanta, Hartsfield, Jackson International Airport has been under construction.
00:29:08.000 LaGuardia Airport has been under renovation so long, it's probably been under construction since before the invention of the airplane.
00:29:14.000 It's never not been under construction.
00:29:21.000 Let's play Cut 48.
00:29:25.000 Who's the biggest problem, sir?
00:29:26.000 Is it China?
00:29:27.000 Could it be Russia?
00:29:28.000 Could it be North Korea?
00:29:29.000 No, I said the biggest problem is from within. 0.95
00:29:32.000 It's these sick, radical people from within, because we can handle if we're smart, we can handle Russia, China. 0.90
00:29:40.000 I did. 0.97
00:29:42.000 He's right.
00:29:45.000 Donald Trump is correct.
00:29:46.000 The true threat is within.
00:29:49.000 We are being taken over.
00:29:50.000 The tumor is metastasizing.
00:29:54.000 The threat is within.
00:29:55.000 The threat is from the Marxists, from the wokies. 1.00
00:29:59.000 And of course, Adam Kinzinger and Joe Scarborough attack Trump for that because they refuse to acknowledge that Nicole Hannah-Jones and Robin DiAngelo and Iber Max Kendi, Mark Milley, Lloyd Austin, Tony Blinken, the administrative state, the tech companies, the banks.
00:30:20.000 Those represent a bigger threat.
00:30:22.000 What are the ties that bind us together with them?
00:30:26.000 Almost nothing.
00:30:27.000 We can handle Russia and China as long as we remove the ever metastasizing cancerous tumors of the woke that are destroying the country. 0.97
00:30:40.000 The mark of a declining civilization is you're always more worried about what's happening abroad.
00:30:46.000 They're more worried about sowing racial discord domestically than uniting the homeland.
00:30:52.000 You want to unite the homeland?
00:30:55.000 Wage an all-out cultural response on the wokies. 0.98
00:30:58.000 That's how you unite the homeland.
00:31:01.000 I want to dive into this Elon Musk dialogue he had with the BBC.
00:31:08.000 Okay, I want to play this here.
00:31:10.000 So Elon Musk sat down with an interview with a BBC journalist.
00:31:13.000 By the way, Elon, you're welcome on our program anytime.
00:31:15.000 You'll be treated very fairly.
00:31:17.000 We'll ask you some tough questions.
00:31:19.000 I promise you it will go viral.
00:31:20.000 This is a BBC reporter James Clayton. 1.00
00:31:22.000 James Clayton is a dim-witted fool. 1.00
00:31:24.000 And I don't enjoy saying that. 1.00
00:31:26.000 Not everyone is dumb. 1.00
00:31:27.000 He's a really stupid person. 1.00
00:31:29.000 So this guy is a BBC reporter. 1.00
00:31:33.000 He thinks he's really smart.
00:31:35.000 He's a nice person, but he's just really, really not smart.
00:31:38.000 He's not.
00:31:39.000 People say he's a nice person.
00:31:40.000 I don't know about whether how nice or mean he is, but zero depth, incredibly shallow, not smart.
00:31:50.000 So here he is talking about with Elon Musk, and he asked the question: there's been a rise in hateful content on Twitter.
00:31:56.000 He just repeats it.
00:31:56.000 There's just no depth.
00:31:58.000 You would think that if you're going to do an interview with Elon Musk, now they said this was a surprise interview, so there was no prep.
00:32:06.000 Musk confirmed one hour before the interview, but even still, maybe you should come prepared or have your team come prepared to some information.
00:32:14.000 He didn't.
00:32:14.000 They don't think these things through.
00:32:16.000 It's an amazing window into the lack of sophistication, the lack of intellect that just dominates the media.
00:32:26.000 Elon Musk is a very smart man.
00:32:28.000 He's very quick.
00:32:31.000 Play cut 54.
00:32:34.000 Well, you've asked me whether my feed, whether it's got less or more, I'd say it's got slightly more.
00:32:41.000 That's why I'm asking for examples.
00:32:43.000 Can you name one example?
00:32:45.000 A lot of people are quite similar.
00:32:46.000 I only hang on a second.
00:32:48.000 You said you've seen more hateful content, but you can't name a single example, not even one.
00:32:53.000 I'm not sure I've used that feed for the last three or four weeks.
00:32:56.000 Well, then how did you see the hateful content?
00:32:58.000 Because I've been using Twister since you've taken over for the last six months.
00:33:02.000 Okay, so then you must have at some point seen that you for you hateful content.
00:33:05.000 And I'm asking for one example.
00:33:07.000 Right.
00:33:07.000 You can't give a single one.
00:33:08.000 And I'm saying, I've.
00:33:10.000 Then I say, sir, that you don't know what you're talking about.
00:33:12.000 Really?
00:33:13.000 Yes, because you can't give me a single example.
00:33:15.000 That's a false.
00:33:16.000 No, what I could just lied.
00:33:18.000 No.
00:33:20.000 That's just 30 seconds of the back and forth.
00:33:22.000 And Elon is punching back against, pushing back against, which might, he might be a sweet person.
00:33:27.000 I have no idea.
00:33:28.000 But he's very shallow.
00:33:32.000 By the way, every Republican should watch this and take a masterclass from the world's richest man on how to disassemble parasitic press propagandists.
00:33:43.000 It's a masterclass.
00:33:44.000 Calm, collected, stoic, firm, questioning, using the Socratic method, pinpointing, saying, wait, where's an example of that?
00:33:53.000 What's an example of that?
00:33:53.000 Show me an example.
00:33:56.000 The BBC guy was so out of his league because the BBC guy is used to going to unprepared right-wingers, using the power of the taxpayer fund of BBC to just kind of throw the full weight of the power of the British Broadcasting Corporation, maybe selectively editing it and moving on.
00:34:12.000 He's not used to Elon.
00:34:14.000 Not used to that kind of wit, that kind of speed at all.
00:34:20.000 Elon Musk has also waged war on the propagandist network, the government-funded arm of NPR, National Public Radio.
00:34:31.000 So this whole kind of, let's just say, drama started when Twitter labeled NPR as an instrument of the American government.
00:34:44.000 This is the terminology I need to find.
00:34:47.000 And so NPR has come out and they've said NPR's organizational accounts will no longer be active on Twitter because the platform is taking actions that undermine our credibility by falsely implying that we're not editorially independent.
00:35:00.000 You're not editorially independent.
00:35:02.000 You guys are provda for the entire uniparty neoliberal regime.
00:35:06.000 You guys haven't published anything interesting in the last decade.
00:35:11.000 You guys used to be really fun to listen to.
00:35:13.000 Wait, wait, don't tell me, that car show that no one listened to on the morning, but everyone found it really interesting.
00:35:18.000 And NPR, the greatest accomplishment of NPR is how they're able to train an otherwise very normal American male to talk like this about something that is so interesting.
00:35:36.000 And today on NPR, we join the Trans Parade in Brooklyn.
00:35:45.000 Besides that, NPR has not been able to accomplish anything.
00:35:52.000 Elon is a tough man.
00:35:54.000 Twitter's going through all sorts of different changes.
00:35:59.000 But I stand with him 100%.
00:36:01.000 The way he handled that BBC guy, he's fighting for truth.
00:36:05.000 Because these BBC, VOA, NPR, PBS, they're all funded by our taxpayer dollars.
00:36:10.000 Remember, your Republicans gave a bunch of money to NPR.
00:36:13.000 Remember that during the COVID relief, they just gave hundreds of millions, $100 million to NPR.
00:36:17.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
00:36:19.000 Email us your thoughts as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:36:22.000 Thanks so much for listening, and God bless.
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