Ask Charlie Anything 77: Who Killed Ashli Babbitt? Would Replacing Biden with Harris be Worth it? Reconciling Anti-War Position and the Disastrous Withdrawal, and MORE
00:01:45.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:02:34.000Now, you might remember Ashley Babbitt was a veteran from San Diego who traveled to Washington, D.C. for the protests on the 6th of January.
00:02:46.000Ashley Babbitt entered the United States Capitol and was killed unarmed by someone who we now know his name.
00:02:55.000Now, I was one of the first people to mention his name on television.
00:03:00.000I was one of the first people to talk about him.
00:03:05.000And he is now doing a massive press campaign to try and save his reputation.
00:03:13.000He said he has been cleared by all the authorities.
00:03:16.000And he's saying that he saved countless lives.
00:03:20.000The only deaths that we know of from that day are either people that died of unrelated injuries afterwards, suicides that happened afterwards, or Lieutenant Bird killing Ashley Babbitt, shooting her as she was unarmed.
00:03:39.000Now, we have been lectured for years that we need to rein in police officers who have too much force that kill their own citizens.
00:03:53.000And usually we side with the police on this because usually the police act prudently.
00:03:59.000But we look at every situation independently and come to our own conclusion.
00:04:03.000We're not ideologues when it comes to this issue, and no one should be, but the left is.
00:04:09.000And they have been silent on the killing of Ashley Babbitt.
00:04:13.000In fact, they're almost supportive of it.
00:04:16.000In fact, some Republican senators, and if you're listening on the Flag Radio Network, I was texting back and forth with Senator Kramer.
00:04:24.000He is supportive of this officer who killed Ashley Babbitt, which I think is an inexcusable position.
00:04:32.000And I think very highly of Senator Kramer.
00:04:34.000I just couldn't disagree more with this idea that it's okay to shoot an unarmed person who's a veteran, who's not even coming near you, who just puts her head up in a window.
00:04:48.000First, my conversation with the wonderful and the terrific and the impressive Maria Bartaromo, where I said six weeks ago, it looks like that it is Lieutenant Michael Bird.
00:05:16.000We're still in the allegedly phase, but according to Real Clear Politics and Real Clear Investigations, it looks like we're pretty certain to believe that it's a man by the name of Lieutenant Bird, Michael Bird, and there's more information that's going to come out around this, I think, in the coming weeks and months.
00:05:33.000So we were the first people to mention on cable television, and we were right.
00:06:02.000That is a very vital point, and it's something that is frightening.
00:06:09.000I believe I showed the utmost courage on January 6th, and it's time for me to do that now.
00:06:17.000So it's courage, and I can't believe the media is tolerating this.
00:06:21.000There's an obvious reason why the media is tolerating this.
00:06:23.000It's because it's a person who shot a Trump supporter.
00:06:26.000That's why the media is tolerating this.
00:06:28.000The media is tolerating this entire narrative because it's a black police officer who shot a white Trump supporter who's a veteran and a deplorable.
00:06:35.000Of course, that narrative doesn't bother them.
00:06:38.000In fact, deep down, some members of the media are cheering that on.
00:06:42.000The fact that this interview was what it was is disgusting.
00:07:28.000Ashley Babbitt is climbing up to a window, unarmed, no weapons, and he is all the way down the hall, and he just kills her.
00:07:35.000That does not equate to saving countless lives.
00:07:39.000How many people did Ashley Babbitt kill that day?
00:07:41.000How many people did the Trump supporters kill that day?
00:07:43.000In fact, despite all of the narratives, the police officers did not die at that moment due to the related injuries that happened because of what happened that day.
00:08:00.000We'll get the exact specifics on it, but some of them died because of heart attacks or trauma afterwards.
00:08:07.000Killing a person does not equal saving countless lives.
00:08:10.000And I'm going to say this again: the reason why the media is covering for this guy, it's because it's a black liberal person who shot a white Trump supporter.
00:08:19.000If it was the other way around, could you imagine if a white cop shot a BLM activist last summer when they burned down our country, when dozens of Secret Service agents were injured at the White House?
00:08:33.000Could you imagine if a white Secret Service agent shot a black activist?
00:08:38.000And this all had to come out on the liberal media's terms.
00:08:41.000I'm sure he has the best press person from Pelosi's office managing it.
00:08:46.000And the other reason why he did this, this is all because of Pelosi.
00:08:50.000You have to understand the game that's being played here, is that Pelosi's running the January 6th Commission, and she doesn't want to have Republicans have a complaint be like, well, what about Ashley Babbitt?
00:09:02.000So she decided, and this is the Barack Obama strategy, and it worked in his book, Audacity of Hope, which is to lead with the negative and propagandize the public around it so then it's no longer news.
00:09:15.000So now when you bring it up, everyone's like, oh, that's old news.
00:09:30.000It's a tactic that politicians who have media cover do where they will expose themselves to the most negative coverage, get sympathy for it, and they get protection from the regime.
00:09:41.000And then after a week, everyone thinks it's old news and you move past it.
00:09:44.000Hunter Biden did this as well, by the way.
00:09:46.000Oh, yeah, I was smoking cocaine out of the carpet.
00:10:24.000People are just praising him, including Republican members of Congress who should be ashamed of themselves.
00:10:28.000But if we call that courage, we've devalued the term.
00:10:35.000And there are Republican members of Congress that are saying it's a wonderful thing that Michael Byrd killed an unarmed Trump veteran supporter.
00:13:00.000Understand that Senators Hawley and Blackburn are asking for Biden's resignation, and Madison Cawthorne is calling for Harris to invoke the 25th Amendment.
00:13:08.000Is this the liberal agenda coming to fruition?
00:13:11.000Getting Biden to step down so that Harris would be president will actually happen.
00:13:15.000I'm troubled because Biden should be impeached and removed from office immediately.
00:13:18.000But Harris is not the answer to America's pleas for a wise and strong leader.
00:17:44.000Now, do I think Joe Biden's going to resign?
00:17:46.000I think he'll resign if we keep the pressure on enough.
00:17:48.000I don't think he can physically or mentally handle many more days like this.
00:17:52.000Joe Biden cannot handle the stress or the pressure, obviously.
00:17:56.000He took 11 days off as the Taliban took over Afghanistan.
00:18:01.000And look, before we go any further, the AMA, you guys know that I want all of you to learn from great books.
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00:19:14.000My kids attend school in San Antonio in Northside ISD, and they are deliberately disobeying the Supreme Court ruling of abiding by Governor Abbott's executive order banning mask mandates.
00:19:29.000My high school daughter stood her ground and refused to wear a mask today.
00:19:33.000She has had eight asthma attacks this week.
00:19:36.000The principal told her that I will need her to wear her mask or leave campus.
00:19:40.000I asked how NISD thinks they have the legal authority to enforce masks, and he said he didn't have an answer for that.
00:20:08.000The reason why your daughter is being forced to wear masks, regardless of what the Texas legislature has passed and Governor Greg Abbott has signed into law, is because leftists, Democrats, and liberals that run these schools, they are not afraid of the consequence.
00:20:25.000They're not afraid of the potential penalty that will come down if they violate the law that Republicans pass.
00:20:34.000We're experiencing this right now in Scottsdale.
00:20:37.000I just gave my speech at the Scottsdale Unified School District a couple days ago, where I told the Scottsdale Unified School District that they are breaking Arizona law by mandating masks on children, despite what Governor Doug Ducey has signed into law.
00:20:52.000And they basically shrug it off and they say, Delta variant, we could do whatever we want.
00:20:57.000So, Amber, let me connect two things for you.
00:21:00.000The reason why the head of the San Antonio School District thinks they can do whatever they want is because when they see Democrats flee the state of Texas to try to block quorum and no one gets arrested, it plays into the narrative that the regime of the media will protect you if you rebel against Republicans.
00:21:23.000But if Republicans rebel against Democrats, they will crush you.
00:21:27.000For example, my friend in Chicago is one of the people at the board at Timothy Christian School.
00:21:34.000And at Timothy Christian, they said, you know what?
00:21:40.000We're going to look at all the data before we make a decision.
00:21:43.000Without even a phone call, the Illinois State Board of Education revoked their charter immediately, full penalty.
00:21:51.000So, Amber, if the governor of Texas or the attorney general was serious about protecting children and actually enforcing the law, they would use political power to go after the San Antonio School District.
00:22:05.000Be happy to connect you with some legal support.
00:22:07.000I don't know how successful that will be.
00:22:09.000Your daughter had eight asthma attacks this week, probably because she's being forced to wear a mask all day long, which is child abuse.
00:22:16.000And there is no epidemiological reason for it.
00:22:18.000Instead, mask mandates are basically being pushed by these social control freaks that love to control their people's lives.
00:22:29.000Cicero, who was a one-year Roman counsel and wrote extensively about political power and was one of the people that helped frame the American system of government thousands of years before, he was a contemporary of Julius Caesar.
00:22:43.000He was actually killed by a different triumphant, but I think Brutus was involved in that.
00:22:57.000I wrote in my book, The MAGA Doctrine, that Cicero was Trump before Trump.
00:23:01.000Anyway, Cicero had a quote, and James Madison had his own version of the quote where it said, The more laws, the less justice.
00:23:10.000And James Madison had his own quote, one of the fathers of the American Constitution, where he said, The more voluminous the laws, the less likely justice will occur.
00:23:21.000So, I have my own quote building on the backs of the great Cicero and James Madison, which is, the more rules, the more tyrants.
00:23:31.000The more rules there are, the more very sad people are all of a sudden going to feel empowered and emboldened to try to micromanage your child's masking behavior.
00:23:43.000She had eight asthma attacks this week, and the principal told her that she has to wear the mask or leave campus.
00:23:52.000And your daughter chose to stand her ground.
00:23:55.000The only way this gets fixed, everybody, is if Republicans who have political power decide to be a legitimate check and balance.
00:24:05.000I was on a flight the other day on an American Airlines flight, and this flight attendant came up to me.
00:24:10.000And again, I have a very good relationship with flight attendants.
00:24:38.000She said that it was not fully covering it.
00:24:41.000I wore the mask on planes multiple times.
00:24:44.000And she was so insistent and angry and mean about it.
00:24:49.000I thought to myself, that's when the quote said, the only reason that she is as important as she is as far as managing what goes on my face is because of all these ridiculous rules that are passed.
00:25:12.000Consistent bad policy decisions, which reward our enemies, such as China, Russia, and OPEC.
00:25:18.000Now is the time to find out before this president does any further damage to our country.
00:25:24.000Look, I've said for quite a while that Joe Biden is being puppeteered and is, quite honestly, being controlled by the Chinese Communist Party.
00:25:35.000We know that Hunter Biden did extensive business dealings with the Chinese Communist Party.
00:25:40.000We know that Tony Bobulinsky came out and said that there was 10% for the big man to be put aside in dealings with the Chinese Communist Party.
00:25:47.000We know that Hunter Biden is selling garbage pieces of art for hundreds of thousands of dollars.
00:25:54.000So yeah, I believe that there Muriel might be a blackmail operation against Joe Biden.
00:25:58.000Very well might be that Joe Biden is being controlled and is being blackmailed for behalf of the Chinese Communist Party.
00:26:09.000And a Taiwan moment is coming, everybody.
00:26:13.000We have predicted this for a couple months.
00:26:15.000There is going to be a moment of reckoning with Taiwan.
00:26:21.000Will Joe Biden side with Taiwan and America or with the Chinese Communist Party, his owners, his employee, his employer, who is, they've invested in him for quite a while.
00:26:34.000You're trying to say he's all of a sudden going to back down?
00:26:56.000And so let me make sure that you know that my position is clear and how our own opinion on this program is different than some of the neoconservative orthodoxy of some of the Republicans you are going to see paraded on television over the next couple days.
00:27:12.000Ending the war in Afghanistan was the right move that Donald Trump had.
00:28:10.000Now, one of the reasons why the war on terrorism is such a threat against America is because of our foolish immigration policies.
00:28:16.000We let in way too many people into our country, including on traveler visas.
00:28:20.000If we had a stricter regulation on the flow of people into our country, it wouldn't matter as much.
00:28:26.000But Leon Panetta is part of the globalist project, and open borders is part of that entire kind of worldview.
00:28:34.000So therefore, you need a neoconservative foreign policy perspective to justify the open borders and vice versa with it, internationalist global trade.
00:29:01.000So, yeah, you know, I understand that we're trying to get our troops out of there, but the bottom line is we can leave a battlefield, but we can't leave the war on terrorism, which still is a threat to our security.
00:29:18.000We can leave the battlefield, but we cannot leave our war on terrorism.
00:29:24.000So we got to keep the perpetual war machine going.
00:29:27.000And Leon Panetta is probably paid by a lot of these think tanks that are compromised, that are constantly arguing for perpetual war in a country halfway around the world.
00:29:39.000I have a fear right now that we are now going to hear the neoconservative warmongers to say, now we got to go right back in.
00:29:48.000The reckless, imprudent withdrawal from Joe Biden is actually opening the door for the war machine to get even more involved in the region.
00:29:59.000Were the military generals so angry that we had to withdraw that they did it intentionally wrong to try to justify another invasion to fight our own weapons for another 20 years?
00:30:11.000To give you an example of how reckless this withdrawal has been, Cut 89, General McKinsey reveals that the United States is sharing intelligence with the Taliban and relying on them for protection.
00:30:24.000You would only share intelligence with the Taliban if maybe General McKinsey wants another 20-year war in Kabul.
00:30:33.000The other thing we do is we share versions of this information with the Taliban so that they can actually do some searching out there for us.
00:30:42.000And we believe that some attacks have been thwarted by them.
00:30:45.000Again, we've been doing this for a long, we've been doing this since the 14th.
00:30:49.000This is an attack that's been carried out.
00:30:51.000We believe it's possible that others have been thwarted.
00:30:54.000We cut down the information we give the Taliban.
00:30:56.000They don't get the full range of information we have, but we give them enough to act in time and space to try to prevent these attacks.
00:31:03.000Now, remember, the Taliban is going around killing Afghans and Christians.
00:31:26.000Before we go any further, I want to tell you, I want to play a short clip from a Hillsdale online course with Dr. McClay, the great American story, Land of Hope.
00:31:35.000And again, you guys have heard me plug Hillsdale before.
00:31:41.000Take the Aristotle course, take the Constitution course, take the Federalist Papers course, take the Winston Churchill course, charlieforhillsdale.com.
00:32:00.000There wasn't much time after the victory over Germany and Japan for popping champagne corks and celebrating.
00:32:08.000Just as the 50 nations that had joined in defeating the Axis powers were drafting a charter for the United Nations in San Francisco, the victorious alliance between the United States and the Soviet Union was falling apart.
00:32:25.000War alliance between the United States and Britain and the Soviet Union was tactical exclusively.
00:32:32.000There was no other ideological or sentimental attachment between the nations.
00:32:37.000And as the war appeared to be won in Europe, spring of 1945, the Red Army began occupying more and more portions of Eastern Europe with the clear intention of establishing a Soviet empire.
00:32:55.000This is exactly what Churchill was worried about.
00:32:58.000In March of 1946, Winston Churchill gave a speech in America in which he uttered a phrase that would live on for a long time.
00:33:07.000He said that from Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the continent.
00:33:17.000So what to do about this expansionist tendency short of fighting a war?
00:33:24.000Well, what Truman arrived at was a conclusion heavily influenced by the writings of George Kennan, an American diplomat in Russia, who believed that Soviet expansionism was actually a result of the insecure, unstable nature of the regime itself, and that the process of expansion was actually a way of holding that regime together.
00:33:50.000And that if expansion was prevented, if it was contained, then the regime in due course would turn in on itself and collapse.
00:34:00.000This doctrine came to be known as containment because it was a way of fighting the Soviet regime by containing it rather than by defeating it.
00:34:10.000At any rate, a sustained confrontation between the two remaining superpowers in the world that would come to be called the Cold War.
00:34:20.000The Cold War turned hot in 1950 on the Korean Peninsula, which had been divided since the end of the war between communist forces in the North that were aligned with the Soviet Union and Democratic forces in the South that were aligned with the United States.
00:34:37.000This led to an invasion on June 25th, 1950, of some 80,000 North Korean troops that swept into the South, very nearly conquering it.
00:34:50.000And Truman invoked the United Nations, and the American response was funneled through the United Nations.
00:34:59.000So it was called a police action rather than a war.
00:35:05.000The war went very badly until General Douglas MacArthur got involved, performed a brilliant amphibious invasion at Incheon, which cut off the North Korean troops and led him quickly to be able to round them up, defeat them, and then head north.
00:35:24.000And he kept going north and finally approached the Chinese border.
00:35:29.000And at that point, a quarter of a million Chinese troops swept in on MacArthur and drove him back into South Korea with the battle line finally stabilizing around the 38th parallel.
00:35:45.000At this point, MacArthur and Truman got deadlocked in a conflict because MacArthur thought the time was right.
00:35:56.000The justification was there for what he called a whole new war, a war against China, against communist China, that would succeed in overthrowing this unfriendly, hostile, noxious communist regime that had just taken power and thus avert the prospect of a Sino-Soviet, Chinese,
00:36:24.000and Soviet alliance that could come to dominate the world.
00:36:30.000Truman, on the other hand, thought this was absolutely the wrong thing, that it would be, he called it a booby trap to go into a war in China and rejected the idea.
00:36:44.000MacArthur criticized Truman publicly in an official letter to the House Minority Leader and said there is no substitute for victory.
00:36:54.000In other words, a rejection of the containment doctrine.
00:36:58.000There is no printifying the fact, though, that the Korean War was at best a stalemate.
00:37:04.000It remains a people divided to this day.
00:38:12.000But saying that we need another 200,000 troops back in Afghanistan, Senator Mitch McConnell sent out a tweet saying we need to stay in Afghanistan for, quote, as long as it takes.
00:38:24.000Well, if you give General McKinsey as long as it takes, his great-grandchildren will be saying we need another 20 years in Afghanistan.
00:38:34.000I want to get to some more questions here.
00:38:36.000You guys have been emailing us some very good ones.
00:39:16.000What I have heard from my government sources about this evacuation is horrifying.
00:39:23.000Over 100,000 Afghan nationals have been removed from the country, the vast majority of whom have rendered no meaningful assistance to the United States government in the war effort.
00:39:33.000The only common threat among them is the Taliban let them through and they want to leave Afghanistan.
00:40:07.000The country is falling apart right now.
00:40:11.000So, Joseph, now you at a young age have to step up and fix the mistakes that were made before you.
00:40:17.000Lead your parents towards political activism and engagement.
00:40:21.000Professor Azarad from Claremont Institute and Chris Bedford said this on our podcast earlier this week, which I thought was a phenomenal point, which is we have only started to fight.
00:40:33.000I want you to think about a New York Times headline: Homeschool Revolution helps steer America revolution post-COVID-19 in 2019, 2020, 2021 steered America back to conservative roots.
00:40:53.000Now, I do want to say, those of you that are interested in homeschooling, the best curriculum is k12.hillsdale.edu.
00:41:52.000Spend at least an hour a day with your kids and grandkids, an hour a day, maybe an hour a week, going through the great ideas that built this civilization, the books that inspired this 5,000-year miracle.
00:42:16.000I can tell you for the adults out there, I'm getting thousands of emails from 15, 16, and 17-year-olds that don't think they're going to have a country to grow up in.
00:42:24.000That should motivate everyone to start fighting more.
00:42:27.000And I believe we have just started fighting back.
00:42:31.000And we have laid over for the last 50 and 60 years.
00:42:33.000And finally, there's a counteroffensive, a sabotage campaign launched against the insidious aims and objectives of the left.
00:42:42.000Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
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