The Charlie Kirk Show - February 28, 2022


Ask Charlie Anything 97: Joe Biden's SCOTUS Pick, Why Putin and Xi Cheer on American Wokeism, Should Ukraine be a NATO Member? and MORE

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Joe Biden announces his Supreme Court pick, and it's a Black woman. What does that have to do with Ukraine? And what does it mean for the future of abortion rights and abortion access in the United States Supreme Court?

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00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, happy Monday Ask Me Anything episode that was done.
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00:01:12.000 Alex from Ohio says, Charlie, can you explain or elaborate on Joe Biden's Supreme Court pick?
00:01:20.000 So in the midst of all this, as Ukraine is being invaded, and we've spent a considerable amount of warranted time on that, by the way, there's a lot happening in our own country that we cannot and should not lose sight of.
00:01:34.000 So Joe Biden, in the midst of all this, suspiciously decides to just announce his Supreme Court pick while all this is happening.
00:01:42.000 And so it is a woman, a black woman, as he promised, by the name of Katanji Brown Jackson.
00:01:48.000 And so far, there are many people that are very happy about this.
00:01:53.000 On the left, the Foxnews.com article says Katanji Brown Jackson's nomination to the Supreme Court delights progressives.
00:02:01.000 She was a public defender, and we're diving into her background.
00:02:05.000 She's described as a rather progressive individual.
00:02:07.000 We don't have a lot of evidence to show that yet.
00:02:10.000 I'm sure it's there, but the media is not really diving into her.
00:02:13.000 But I guarantee you in the next coming days and weeks, there will be oppo-dump after oppo-dump of everything that she has said before.
00:02:20.000 But here's a couple right here.
00:02:21.000 In 2019, she used the Russian collusion hoax as an excuse to justify mandating that former White House counsel Don McCann testify before the House Judiciary Committee.
00:02:32.000 More than two decades ago, Briar Apprentice penned and she was at that Briar Appendix penned an amicus brief for the National Abortion Rights League, NARAL, and other organizations that kill babies in the womb in support of a Democrat-backed law that prevented pro-life protesters from congregating outside abortion facilities.
00:02:51.000 Continues, Corey Bush, who is a radical anti-American leftist from Missouri, says this, quote, 233 years.
00:02:59.000 That's how long we've waited to have a black woman nominated to the Supreme Court. 1.00
00:03:03.000 Judge Katanji Brown Jackson is a former public defender with a record of standing up for justice.
00:03:10.000 There are no words to describe how my soul is moved by witnessing her nomination.
00:03:14.000 Now, let's just stop here.
00:03:15.000 First of all, what is a woman? 1.00
00:03:17.000 I want to ask Corey Bush, what is a woman? 0.72
00:03:21.000 Why does it matter?
00:03:22.000 I thought womanhood is completely went up. 1.00
00:03:24.000 According to Corey Bush, men can become pregnant.
00:03:28.000 The same people that are celebrating Katanji Brown Jackson coming to the Supreme Court should remind themselves that Clarence Thomas is also on the Supreme Court.
00:03:39.000 One of only two black men, if I remember correctly, two black men ever to serve on the United States Supreme Court.
00:03:44.000 Yet it's complete silence from the left on that.
00:03:46.000 Interesting.
00:03:47.000 Carrie Severino, president of the conservative group Judicial Crisis Network, says, quote, she's someone who has a record of being regularly overturned by the D.C. Circuit, including the most liberal judges on that circuit.
00:03:58.000 Now, she doesn't have a long opinion record.
00:04:02.000 However, it's very clear that she's a progressive and progressives are embracing her with open arms.
00:04:07.000 Basically, everything this woman has authored before she came to this DC circuit was always overturned. 0.58
00:04:12.000 And since she was confirmed, despite hearing arguments September, she has yet to author an opinion and she's still the nominee.
00:04:18.000 So they just don't want a long record that could get, let's say, stalled or delayed or have a potential moment where this becomes more controversial for them than it needs to be.
00:04:30.000 Adam Herman says, quote, I don't know anything about her, but a public defender ascended to the Supreme Court is a pretty big deal.
00:04:36.000 Seems great.
00:04:37.000 Now, Judge Katenji Jackson, according to the Eli Stocles, says she'll be the first black female justice, third black justice, and the first public defender.
00:04:48.000 Now, why race matters into how you interpret constitutional decisions is beyond me.
00:04:53.000 It doesn't matter anything at all.
00:04:54.000 No matter who you are, matters who you are.
00:04:57.000 It matters your opinion of constitutional law, your character, your soul, and your spirit.
00:05:03.000 So far, every single Democrat senator has backed Jackson's confirmation to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia in June of 2021, including more moderate members such as Joe Manchin and Kirsten Sinema.
00:05:15.000 She also got votes, of course, from Lindsey Graham, Lisa Murkowski, and Susan Collins, while 47 Republicans voted against her.
00:05:23.000 Murkowski told Alaska Public Media, quote, there's a tangible difference between being on lower courts and then the Supreme Court.
00:05:30.000 Collins told ABC News that, quote, she would certainly give her consideration if she was nominated, but she wouldn't commit to supporting her.
00:05:37.000 Lindsey Graham has been a vocal proponent of another contender for the nomination, U.S. Judge J. Michelle Childs.
00:05:45.000 However, and he signaled Friday he may not support Jackson, saying her nomination over Childs, quote, says, means the radical left has won President Biden over again.
00:05:52.000 So Lindsey Graham, as you might remember, a couple weeks ago, came out and said this absurd statement, we need the court to look more like America or whatever.
00:06:00.000 And he was really excited about Judge J. Michelle Childs, who went to the University of South Carolina.
00:06:06.000 Now, if Joe Biden was smart, which he isn't, he would have nominated this person that Lindsey Graham liked, and he would have gotten the votes necessary, and this would have been really non-controversial.
00:06:16.000 Of course, we would have rolled Lindsey Graham for that. 0.90
00:06:19.000 Now, Juliana Michelle Childs, she serves as a district judge in South Carolina.
00:06:26.000 She went to the University of South Carolina Law School, and she was a frontrunner, but not the selection.
00:06:33.000 The selection right now is Katenji.
00:06:36.000 Now, Biden is doubling down on this right now.
00:06:39.000 He's saying this is a historic day, and he might just have to pass it on a 50-vote threshold.
00:06:43.000 And that is becoming more and more fragile.
00:06:46.000 Now, why Biden chose today of all days, as Kiev is being under control?
00:06:51.000 Now, I'm going to stay consistent, though.
00:06:53.000 America matters a lot more than Ukraine in the sense of what we should care about.
00:06:56.000 I'm not saying that it matters more for Ukrainians.
00:06:59.000 You should always care about your own country.
00:07:00.000 You should know the limitations of your power and have the humility to do that.
00:07:04.000 And so, as we look at what is happening in Ukraine, which Joe Biden only wanted to talk about Ukraine until Ukraine gets invaded, then he's like, I don't want to talk about Ukraine.
00:07:14.000 He did like press conference after press conference about Russia, Russia, Russia, Ukraine, Ukraine.
00:07:17.000 Ukraine gets invaded.
00:07:18.000 He's like, how about a Supreme Court pick?
00:07:22.000 Kentanji Jackson is a Democrat partisan, having worked for Obama's presidential campaign as a poll monitor and donated to Obama.
00:07:30.000 Jackson is a registered Democrat.
00:07:31.000 Her and her husband donated $1,600 to Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign.
00:07:37.000 She also blocked President Trump's executive orders to hold failing federal accountable, failing federal employees accountable, a decision that the D.C. circuit unanimously reversed.
00:07:47.000 And Jackson blocked the Trump administration for expanding its quote expedited removal program to deport illegal immigrants faster, absurdly saying the DHS does not have considerable impact on illegal immigrants.
00:07:57.000 Oh, we don't consider the impact on foreigners breaking into our country.
00:08:02.000 A liberal immigrant group applauded Jackson because she refused to use the term alien or illegal immigrant in her opinions.
00:08:09.000 In 2015, Jackson ruled in favor of Hillary Clinton aide Felipe Rines, shielding him from having to explain why he used a private email account for work.
00:08:19.000 Jackson worked as a lawyer for several terrorists.
00:08:21.000 So then they say, oh, yeah, she's a public defender. 1.00
00:08:23.000 Okay, for who?
00:08:24.000 Public defender for like wrongly accused people in Detroit?
00:08:28.000 No, no, no.
00:08:28.000 She was a public defender for terrorists in Gitmo, including a Taliban intelligence officer who was likely a leader of a terrorist cell.
00:08:37.000 Oh, okay.
00:08:38.000 Jackson's advocacy for these terrorists was zealous, going beyond just giving them a competent defense.
00:08:46.000 Despite Jackson's claims that she did not get to choose her clients as a public defender, she continued to advocate for Gitmo terrorists when she went into private practice.
00:08:54.000 So I actually have nothing against public defenders.
00:08:56.000 I feel sorry for a lot of them.
00:08:57.000 They have really tough cases. 0.99
00:08:58.000 Their pay is garbage. 0.99
00:09:00.000 They have to represent some scumbags, honestly, that are not able to afford or no lawyer wants to represent them. 0.99
00:09:06.000 And so these lawyers have to sometimes really kind of push the boundaries of representing people that have done really, really bad things. 0.92
00:09:12.000 But doing it with a zealous fervor and going beyond that and then advocating for Gitmo clients after you do that, I don't think you should be on the United States Supreme Court if you advocate with ferocity for terrorists that were the Taliban intelligence officer, likely the leader of a terrorist cell, and spent some time in Gitmo.
00:09:37.000 That is a beginning introduction into Judge Katanji Brown Jackson.
00:09:43.000 They want her to become the 116th Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court.
00:09:49.000 She's represented terrorists enthusiastically. 0.54
00:09:52.000 Again, I do not hold it against public defenders if they get clients that they disagree with, that they just represent.
00:09:58.000 But if you continue to do that post your career, post at that time there, that's something you should absolutely be held accountable for.
00:10:05.000 This is not a flip seat, but I'm going to venture a guess.
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00:12:01.000 Okay, let's get to some more questions here.
00:12:03.000 Let's get to Larry from Toledo.
00:12:05.000 Charlie, how does what's happening in Ukraine impact America and America freedoms?
00:12:11.000 So that's a very interesting and important question.
00:12:13.000 The answer is it really doesn't.
00:12:15.000 And it might impact American energy prices.
00:12:17.000 It might impact inflation slightly.
00:12:20.000 The media says that that's going to be blamed for inflation.
00:12:23.000 No, it's the $6 trillion we created out of thin air.
00:12:26.000 But we got to also understand that this is not something that impacts the day-to-day lives of many Americans.
00:12:32.000 I'm not saying we should not talk about it.
00:12:36.000 Obviously, we've talked about it a lot.
00:12:37.000 Let's not say we shouldn't ask how we got here.
00:12:39.000 Humans are suffering.
00:12:41.000 People are suffering right now under the totality of Vladimir Putin's regime.
00:12:52.000 But it's not something that is going to directly impact our own country.
00:12:58.000 Tom Cotton says, how about we impose sanctions on Russia oil and gas sectors, but lift all restrictions on American oil and gas?
00:13:06.000 Tom Cotton brings up a great point, which is, why are we sanctioning ourselves and allowing oil and gas to flow from Russia?
00:13:13.000 That's a logical question.
00:13:14.000 Play cut 60.
00:13:16.000 Joe Biden's reckless energy policies have already driven up the price of oil and gas over the last year.
00:13:22.000 So even he and his administration is admitting they don't want to impose oil and gas sanctions on Russia because they're afraid it's going to add to the inflation they've already created.
00:13:32.000 Well, how about we impose those sanctions, but we lift all those restrictions on the production of American oil and gas so we can start drilling on federal lands again and putting out new leases so we can reopen the Keystone Pipeline, which would bring more oil into America every day from Canada than we import every day from Russia.
00:13:49.000 Tom Cotton is spot on here, which is, wait a second, why are we restricting our own energy exploration while allowing the country we're supposed to hate to be able to do whatever they want?
00:14:00.000 What's the thought process behind that?
00:14:02.000 Biden deputy national security director Dalip Singh says, quote, our sanctions are not designed to cause any disruption to the current flow of energy from Russia to the world.
00:14:12.000 So as Greta Thunberg and Leonardo DiCaprio and AOC started to capture the entire energy policy of the Western world, Putin took advantage.
00:14:23.000 Putin mercilessly and aggressively expanded his oil and natural gas capacity, pipelines, and so on and so forth.
00:14:32.000 Why we did not sign a deal with Germany for our own LNG is beyond me.
00:14:36.000 Now, it might have been a logistical issue.
00:14:37.000 I mean, it is 4,000 miles away.
00:14:39.000 If that's the case, I'm sure there could have been another solution other than buying the oil and natural gas from Russia.
00:14:47.000 Play Cut 59.
00:14:48.000 To be clear, our sanctions are not designed to cause any disruption to the current flow of energy from Russia to the world.
00:14:56.000 They do not want any disruption for Russia.
00:15:00.000 Then what exactly are we doing here?
00:15:01.000 What kind of sanctions are we putting in place here?
00:15:05.000 We have another question here that is similar, which is, Charlie, if it's not going to...
00:15:14.000 They respond to this whole thing.
00:15:16.000 It's Paul from South Dakota.
00:15:18.000 Charlie, if we're not going to put sanctions, if we're putting it on sanctions and it doesn't impact them, what are we doing here?
00:15:23.000 And that really is the answer.
00:15:24.000 Joe Biden has removed the full ability to hold adversaries like Russia accountable because Joe Biden actually wants to get rid of fossil fuels.
00:15:34.000 He does.
00:15:35.000 He said it.
00:15:35.000 He campaigned on it.
00:15:37.000 In fact, Joe Biden made it a core promise of his campaign.
00:15:42.000 Play Cut 18.
00:15:44.000 But kiddo, I want you to just take a look, okay?
00:15:48.000 You don't have to agree, but I want you to look in my eyes.
00:15:52.000 I guarantee you, I guarantee you, we're going to end fossil fuel.
00:15:56.000 And I am not going to talk.
00:15:59.000 It plays right into the hands of our adversaries.
00:16:02.000 Putin was cheering for Biden to become president because energy is everything.
00:16:07.000 We take it so much for granted. 0.92
00:16:08.000 We're worried about such ridiculous things. 0.98
00:16:10.000 Systemic racism and climate change.
00:16:12.000 When countries that have been through brutal times and have to suffer through some really difficult winters, energy is everything.
00:16:19.000 Energy is life.
00:16:20.000 It's energy, food, safety, energy, food, safety.
00:16:23.000 And because America is so energy dominant, we've never really had an energy crisis in our generation.
00:16:28.000 Post-1970s, when we had the Iranian hostage, Iranian hostage crisis alongside the oil embargo that was executed back then.
00:16:35.000 We've had it nice.
00:16:35.000 Low, cheap oil, big SUVs, do whatever we want to do.
00:16:40.000 And green energy policies and the environmentalists, the radical environmentalists, the keep-it in the ground type, the Bernie Sanders people laid the groundwork, reshaped the entire paradigm.
00:16:53.000 For now, what is happening?
00:16:55.000 To be more blunt, people are dying because we had environmental ideology prioritized more than American energy dominance.
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00:19:23.000 Eric from Norman, Oklahoma, Charlie, just found out that the Biden Department of Justice ended a Trump-era program designed to target Chinese spies infiltrating our universities.
00:19:33.000 They said it made universities less competitive.
00:19:35.000 Why did they do this?
00:19:36.000 I'm so angry right now, and I need you to explain to me why they would do this.
00:19:39.000 Do they intentionally want China to spy on us?
00:19:42.000 Politico.com, Department of Justice shuts down China-focused anti-espionage program.
00:19:50.000 The China initiative is being cast aside largely because of perceptions that unfairly painted Chinese Americans and U.S. residents of China origins as disloyal.
00:20:01.000 The Biden administration is shutting down a Justice Department program that focused on countering Chinese espionage following stumblings in a series of criminal cases and accusations that it accounted that amounted to racial profiling.
00:20:13.000 Officials said Wednesday that the three-year effort, known as the China Initiative, was being cast aside because of perceptions that it unfairly painted Chinese Americans.
00:20:20.000 Okay, let me ask you a question.
00:20:21.000 How could you possibly counter Chinese espionage without going after Chinese Americans or Chinese people? 0.96
00:20:28.000 It's impossible.
00:20:29.000 It's by definition, you have to profile Chinese people.
00:20:33.000 It's a counter effort of the Chinese Communist Party.
00:20:36.000 It's not even about, it's not about race, by the way.
00:20:39.000 It's about nationality.
00:20:40.000 It's about a counter-espionage network.
00:20:43.000 I'm going to say this as nicely as I can.
00:20:46.000 Nicaraguans are not trying to infiltrate the United States university system.
00:20:51.000 They say it's racial profiling.
00:20:53.000 Well, no, it's a countermeasure.
00:20:54.000 So let me get this straight.
00:20:56.000 If China dropped bombs on America, or I don't know, released a virus on the entire world that resulted in over 750,000 deaths, and I should dare I say needless deaths, many of them, an entire lockdown craze and all of this. 0.66
00:21:10.000 And we're like, you know what?
00:21:11.000 Actually, the problem with holding China accountable is you might profile Chinese people as being held accountable. 0.53
00:21:19.000 We are not a serious nation when we do things like this at all.
00:21:23.000 And it is because of a different virus, a virus of wokeism and political correctness.
00:21:31.000 One of the reasons, and this is important, that I said we should stay out of Ukraine is we do not have the cultural stomach to fight a war right now. 0.90
00:21:39.000 No way.
00:21:41.000 We shut down a counter-espionage operation because we're afraid that we're going to be triggering Chinese Americans for racially profiling them, even though the entire part of the project is to, by definition, find Chinese people that might be infiltrating our country. 0.52
00:21:59.000 And there's dozens of examples of this, by the way, of the Chinese Communist Party intentionally trying to infiltrate and trying to take advantage of America. 0.92
00:22:11.000 For example, Franklin Tao, a University of Kansas chemical engineering professor, who faces trial next month for espionage.
00:22:20.000 Harvard Chemistry Department, Charles Lieber, was found guilty of making false statements to federal officials, as well as filing false tax returns, found him guilty.
00:22:30.000 So there's been a lot of progress made by the Department of Justice doing actually what they're supposed to do to find the flow of money and the flow of information coming into America on behalf of China.
00:22:43.000 So China is going to read this from Politico and their jaws are going to drop to the ground, which goes to this point.
00:22:50.000 Who are going to be the biggest cheerleaders, advocates of American wokeism?
00:22:58.000 Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping.
00:23:01.000 Vladimir Putin spends $45 billion a year on his military.
00:23:05.000 China, I think, spends around $50 billion a year on their military.
00:23:09.000 Xi Ji Ping and Vladimir Putin are going to realize that instead of building new missiles and tanks, any dollars spent to advance American wokeism is the greatest investment to have America commit suicide.
00:23:24.000 To disassemble a domestic law enforcement operation against Chinese spies because we're worried that it's going to target Chinese people, which of course it will target Chinese people. 0.92
00:23:36.000 It's about the Chinese Communist Party.
00:23:39.000 Just goes to show the strength that American wokeism has been able to amass.
00:23:45.000 Okay, let's get to the next question here.
00:23:49.000 Charlie, what's the latest out of Ukraine?
00:23:50.000 I'm seeing conflicting reports.
00:23:52.000 Well, depending on when you listen to this, because this is going to be playing throughout the day and also in podcast, Ukraine official claims Russian troops have suffered nearly 3,000 casualties and lost hundreds of military vehicles.
00:24:06.000 Now, casualties can mean severe injuries and also death.
00:24:09.000 So that does not mean all of them are death.
00:24:12.000 All that is death.
00:24:13.000 It says the Ukrainian government has claimed that Russia has suffered 3,000 troop casualties and lost 516 kinds of different various vehicles, 80 tanks, 10 airplanes, and seven helicopters.
00:24:23.000 The announcement came 3 p.m. local time.
00:24:26.000 Well, let me say this.
00:24:28.000 One thing that I am personally learning in my very pedestrian knowledge of international military strength, but looking at things, basically consuming information 10 to 12 hours a day on this stuff, which is Russia's military is nowhere nearly as strong as they postured it to be.
00:24:45.000 If they wanted Kiev, it should be an afternoon operation.
00:24:49.000 They can't control the sky over Ukraine. 0.94
00:24:52.000 Vladimir Putin's military is nowhere near as strong as he pretended it to be.
00:24:58.000 I'm not saying that they're weak.
00:24:59.000 I'm not saying that they're throwing the best.
00:25:00.000 We don't know.
00:25:01.000 We don't know if they're throwing all their assets.
00:25:02.000 We don't know if they're truly diving deep into their reserves.
00:25:08.000 Estimates show that Russia has allocated one-third of all of their troops going into Ukraine.
00:25:16.000 It's becoming increasingly clear that Vladimir Putin wanted to do this quickly.
00:25:23.000 You do not send one-third of your entire military somewhere if you're just kind of a casual operation.
00:25:29.000 He might have to throw even more at it.
00:25:32.000 The latest figures appear to confirm what Marco Rubio, vice chair of the U.S. Senate Select Committee, relayed on Thursday, stating that the Russian conquest of Ukraine was taking longer than Russian Vladimir Putin expected.
00:25:42.000 Quote, Russian invasion has already taken long and has been costlier than Putin expected.
00:25:46.000 Almost certain his military and intelligence leaders knew this ahead of time, but no one dared tell him his expectations were unrealistic.
00:25:53.000 Next question here.
00:25:54.000 Charlie, what is NATO and why does it matter?
00:25:57.000 Is Ukraine part of NATO and should it be?
00:25:59.000 I keep hearing it brought up in the media, but I am confused.
00:26:02.000 Okay, so NATO is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, also called the North Atlantic Alliance.
00:26:08.000 NATO was founded on April 4th, 1949.
00:26:11.000 It's headquartered in Brussels, Belgium, and it is spread amongst many member countries.
00:26:17.000 Ukraine is not part of NATO.
00:26:19.000 There are 28 European countries and two North American countries.
00:26:22.000 It was established in the aftermath of World War II, and the organization implements the North Atlantic Treating Organization, was signed on the 4th of April, 1949.
00:26:32.000 NATO's cardinal sin was the Bush administration's decision to nominate Georgia and Ukraine for NATO membership at the 2008 Bucharest summit.
00:26:40.000 Former National Security Council Fiona Hill recently revealed that the intelligence community opposed this step, but then President George W. Bush ignored its objections for reasons that have never really been explained.
00:26:53.000 So Vladimir Putin's case, which I don't think is that good of a case, and I'll tell you why Vladimir Putin's argument is actually awful in just a second.
00:27:00.000 He's like, oh, they're getting too close to me.
00:27:02.000 Okay, well, if you take over Ukraine, you're going to be bordering NATO countries.
00:27:05.000 Okay.
00:27:05.000 So you're going to be bordering a NATO country anyway.
00:27:09.000 I don't support Ukraine coming into NATO, but if that's really the argument, it's like, oh, he's getting too close to me.
00:27:13.000 You take over Ukraine, then you'll be bordering Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, and Romania. 0.55
00:27:13.000 Okay. 0.55
00:27:18.000 Now, the strength of NATO is Article 5.
00:27:22.000 Article 5 is the Mutual Defense Agreement, which is basically a commitment clause that defines something very, very clearly.
00:27:33.000 It makes every member state to consider an armed attack against one member state an attack against them all.
00:27:39.000 It has been voked only once in NATO history by the United States after September 11th in 2001.
00:27:46.000 It's an attack on one.
00:27:48.000 Is an attack on all.
00:27:49.000 So, this is really going to be a question, and it's going to be a question of what is Europe's appetite for this.
00:27:54.000 And this is an interesting point, which is, listen, if Canada was being, let's not use Canada, if Honduras was being invaded or if Mexico was being invaded in our hemisphere, my appetite for U.S. military intervention would heighten dramatically.
00:28:09.000 But Ukraine is not in our continent.
00:28:11.000 So, the question is: why is it that other countries like Czechoslovakia or Chechya, Denmark, Germany, France, and Italy, are they going to start to mobilize?
00:28:22.000 How about Turkey?
00:28:23.000 Is Turkey worried at all about this?
00:28:25.000 Turkey is an increasingly autocratic country with Erdogan as their president.
00:28:31.000 The point is, why does it have to be America's obligation to do this?
00:28:34.000 Because NATO has been a project built on the shoulders and built on the world reserve currency of America.
00:28:39.000 That's the entire thing.
00:28:42.000 So, Senator Mark Warner has said that if Russia engages in a cyber attack against any NATO country, namely America, it would trigger Article 5 and lead to widespread war.
00:28:51.000 I think that would be a mistake.
00:28:53.000 Now, if you look at the preconditions of what is happening with NATO, it is very, very close to the preconditions that led to the outbreak of World War I, which with the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand, and I believe Sarajevo, Bosnia, is, I believe, where he was when he was assassinated.
00:29:15.000 That set off a chain of events of the Austrio-Hungary Empire having to go to war with Britain and France, and it basically split Europe into what was probably one of the messiest. 0.79
00:29:30.000 And I don't want to say pointless because almost all wars, I don't want to say all wars are pointless, but wars can get increasingly pointless.
00:29:37.000 I don't think World War II was pointless.
00:29:38.000 It was about eradicating evil, institutional evil, at least America's intervention in there into World War II.
00:29:45.000 It was setting the captives free.
00:29:48.000 It was a moral war on behalf of the United States.
00:29:51.000 And what we have seen, though, is NATO has set the precondition that all of a sudden every NATO country might have to start to send troops and resources very soon.
00:30:02.000 So let me get this straight.
00:30:03.000 You're trying to tell me that the Dutch, no offense, they're going to go kind of put their bikes away and go get into tanks to go fight Vladimir Putin?
00:30:12.000 I don't think so.
00:30:14.000 And the next two countries that are going to be very interesting to look at, Moldova, for one, for sure, but Finland.
00:30:24.000 Putin might want Finland.
00:30:26.000 He definitely wants Lithuania, definitely wants Latvia, definitely wants Estonia.
00:30:32.000 He already has Belarus through a puppet government.
00:30:35.000 And this will be another question for Putin, which is, is he going to install puppet governments or is he just going to absolve it as part of the new Russia or the new Soviet Union?
00:30:44.000 This all remains to be seen.
00:30:46.000 Vladimir Putin prepares to use father of all bombs as brave Ukrainians hold up advance.
00:30:52.000 West warns Russia could use terror weapon that vaporizes bodies alongside a massive amphibious assault as invaders run into fierce resistance in Kyiv.
00:31:02.000 It's not easy.
00:31:04.000 The people of Kyiv are holding the line.
00:31:06.000 It is hardly an immediate operation, which, by the way, is a humiliating embarrassment for the supposed great military of Russia.
00:31:14.000 Okay, you're going to go invade Ukraine, which is a poor peasant country, and you can't take over, you can't take it over with tanks and air supremacy. 0.95
00:31:24.000 Credit to the Ukrainian people, not the Ukrainian government, which is incredibly corrupt.
00:31:28.000 The Ukrainian people for their resolve.
00:31:30.000 It's really remarkable.
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00:32:55.000 Okay, let's go right here.
00:32:57.000 Freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:32:58.000 You guys can email me and let's see this question that we have, which is this: Hi, Charlie.
00:33:07.000 My name is Arjun from Virginia.
00:33:09.000 I have two questions: What should the United States do to respond to the invasion?
00:33:12.000 And will the Russian invasion and rumors of China invading Taiwan cause World War III?
00:33:17.000 I'm really kind of tired of the World War III thing.
00:33:19.000 No offense to the question is just kind of overdone and it's a little bit, I think, over-exaggerated.
00:33:25.000 So, what should the United States do?
00:33:26.000 We should rebuild our own strength, unshackle the United States energy.
00:33:29.000 Here's the thing: Republicans should not give quorum on the United States Senate until we get some concessions to, let's say, unsanction the American energy machine.
00:33:40.000 We are sanctioning ourselves, we're putting restrictions on our own American energy capacity every single day.
00:33:47.000 We're making it harder for us to be able to explore oil and natural gas.
00:33:51.000 Why?
00:33:52.000 Because of ideology.
00:33:54.000 Actually, that's what Alexander Solsenitsyn said before the fall of the Soviet Union.
00:33:59.000 Thanks to ideology, that all of this happens.
00:34:04.000 Get to another question here that is emailed as freedom at charliekirk.com, which is it.
00:34:11.000 There's a lot of different things happening here, but it says, Charlie, did you see the latest study or the latest announcement from the CDC regarding masks?
00:34:18.000 Now, this is not network news because obviously, what we are seeing in Ukraine, but the CDC is to loosen COVID masking guidelines for most Americans.
00:34:30.000 CDC has come out and has said the following: The CDC will be updating its masks since Friday afternoon.
00:34:36.000 70% of Americans will be able to take their masks off indoors, including in schools.
00:34:40.000 Masks will still be required on public transit for the time being, and his mask mandates expire on March 18th.
00:34:47.000 The CDC has created new metrics to determine when people should mask up.
00:34:51.000 The agency will move away from case counts and concentrate on hospitalizations and hospital capacity in its new guidance.
00:34:58.000 ABC News has reported: 70% of Americans will be able to remove their masks indoors, including in schools, under new guidance from the CDC.
00:35:05.000 Under the new metrics and updated guidance, more than half of the U.S. countries will make up 70% of where Americans live.
00:35:12.000 Counties.
00:35:13.000 A CDC requirement that people continue to wear masks, however, on transportation will continue.
00:35:19.000 And that is a new story there.
00:35:21.000 Julie from Carson City, Charlie, I've heard a Moderna patent string of DNA was found in the spike protein of the COVID-19 virus.
00:35:27.000 What does this actually mean?
00:35:29.000 Did China steal this DNA or did Moderna supply it? 0.90
00:35:33.000 Did Fauci have something to do with this?
00:35:35.000 Did the vaccine companies create a virus that could get rich from vaccinated against?
00:35:38.000 Well, we're on YouTube, so I got to be very careful the way I answer this.
00:35:41.000 But Daily Mail says this: that more evidence COVID was tinkered within the lab.
00:35:46.000 Now, scientists find virus-containing tiny chunk of DNA that matches sequence patented by Moderna three years before the pandemic began.
00:35:56.000 This genetic match discovered in COVID's unique furin cleavage site on a spike protein.
00:36:02.000 And researchers say it's one in three trillion chance that COVID developed the code naturally.
00:36:07.000 Now, I want to get Ryan Cole on this podcast to be able to unpack that.
00:36:15.000 Ian from Twitter has a question.
00:36:17.000 Why isn't Russia disabling Ukraine's power grid and removing access to the internet?
00:36:20.000 They're not doing anything to prevent journalists from documenting what's happening either.
00:36:24.000 Very interesting.
00:36:25.000 Why is that?
00:36:27.000 Maybe they don't want to create a fury in the Western world.
00:36:30.000 We're not sure.
00:36:31.000 We're going to keep our eyes on that.
00:36:35.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
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