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00:01:12.000Alex from Ohio says, Charlie, can you explain or elaborate on Joe Biden's Supreme Court pick?
00:01:20.000So 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.
00:01:34.000So Joe Biden, in the midst of all this, suspiciously decides to just announce his Supreme Court pick while all this is happening.
00:01:42.000And so it is a woman, a black woman, as he promised, by the name of Katanji Brown Jackson.
00:01:48.000And so far, there are many people that are very happy about this.
00:01:53.000On the left, the Foxnews.com article says Katanji Brown Jackson's nomination to the Supreme Court delights progressives.
00:02:01.000She was a public defender, and we're diving into her background.
00:02:05.000She's described as a rather progressive individual.
00:02:07.000We don't have a lot of evidence to show that yet.
00:02:10.000I'm sure it's there, but the media is not really diving into her.
00:02:13.000But 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.
00:02:21.000In 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.
00:02:32.000More 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.
00:02:51.000Continues, Corey Bush, who is a radical anti-American leftist from Missouri, says this, quote, 233 years.
00:02:59.000That's how long we've waited to have a black woman nominated to the Supreme Court.
00:03:03.000Judge Katanji Brown Jackson is a former public defender with a record of standing up for justice.
00:03:10.000There are no words to describe how my soul is moved by witnessing her nomination.
00:03:22.000I thought womanhood is completely went up.
00:03:24.000According to Corey Bush, men can become pregnant.
00:03:28.000The 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.
00:03:39.000One of only two black men, if I remember correctly, two black men ever to serve on the United States Supreme Court.
00:03:44.000Yet it's complete silence from the left on that.
00:03:47.000Carrie 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.
00:03:58.000Now, she doesn't have a long opinion record.
00:04:02.000However, it's very clear that she's a progressive and progressives are embracing her with open arms.
00:04:07.000Basically, everything this woman has authored before she came to this DC circuit was always overturned.
00:04:12.000And since she was confirmed, despite hearing arguments September, she has yet to author an opinion and she's still the nominee.
00:04:18.000So 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.
00:04:30.000Adam Herman says, quote, I don't know anything about her, but a public defender ascended to the Supreme Court is a pretty big deal.
00:04:37.000Now, 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.
00:04:48.000Now, why race matters into how you interpret constitutional decisions is beyond me.
00:04:54.000No matter who you are, matters who you are.
00:04:57.000It matters your opinion of constitutional law, your character, your soul, and your spirit.
00:05:03.000So 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.
00:05:15.000She also got votes, of course, from Lindsey Graham, Lisa Murkowski, and Susan Collins, while 47 Republicans voted against her.
00:05:23.000Murkowski told Alaska Public Media, quote, there's a tangible difference between being on lower courts and then the Supreme Court.
00:05:30.000Collins told ABC News that, quote, she would certainly give her consideration if she was nominated, but she wouldn't commit to supporting her.
00:05:37.000Lindsey Graham has been a vocal proponent of another contender for the nomination, U.S. Judge J. Michelle Childs.
00:05:45.000However, 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.
00:05:52.000So 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.
00:06:00.000And he was really excited about Judge J. Michelle Childs, who went to the University of South Carolina.
00:06:06.000Now, 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.
00:06:16.000Of course, we would have rolled Lindsey Graham for that.
00:06:19.000Now, Juliana Michelle Childs, she serves as a district judge in South Carolina.
00:06:26.000She went to the University of South Carolina Law School, and she was a frontrunner, but not the selection.
00:06:36.000Now, Biden is doubling down on this right now.
00:06:39.000He's saying this is a historic day, and he might just have to pass it on a 50-vote threshold.
00:06:43.000And that is becoming more and more fragile.
00:06:46.000Now, why Biden chose today of all days, as Kiev is being under control?
00:06:51.000Now, I'm going to stay consistent, though.
00:06:53.000America matters a lot more than Ukraine in the sense of what we should care about.
00:06:56.000I'm not saying that it matters more for Ukrainians.
00:06:59.000You should always care about your own country.
00:07:00.000You should know the limitations of your power and have the humility to do that.
00:07:04.000And 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.
00:07:14.000He did like press conference after press conference about Russia, Russia, Russia, Ukraine, Ukraine.
00:07:31.000Her and her husband donated $1,600 to Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign.
00:07:37.000She 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.
00:07:47.000And 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.
00:07:57.000Oh, we don't consider the impact on foreigners breaking into our country.
00:08:02.000A liberal immigrant group applauded Jackson because she refused to use the term alien or illegal immigrant in her opinions.
00:08:09.000In 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.
00:08:19.000Jackson worked as a lawyer for several terrorists.
00:08:21.000So then they say, oh, yeah, she's a public defender.
00:08:38.000Jackson's advocacy for these terrorists was zealous, going beyond just giving them a competent defense.
00:08:46.000Despite 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.
00:08:54.000So I actually have nothing against public defenders.
00:09:00.000They have to represent some scumbags, honestly, that are not able to afford or no lawyer wants to represent them.
00:09:06.000And so these lawyers have to sometimes really kind of push the boundaries of representing people that have done really, really bad things.
00:09:12.000But 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.
00:09:37.000That is a beginning introduction into Judge Katanji Brown Jackson.
00:09:43.000They want her to become the 116th Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court.
00:09:52.000Again, I do not hold it against public defenders if they get clients that they disagree with, that they just represent.
00:09:58.000But if you continue to do that post your career, post at that time there, that's something you should absolutely be held accountable for.
00:10:05.000This is not a flip seat, but I'm going to venture a guess.
00:10:08.000This is going to be a little bit rockier than I think Joe Biden might have anticipated.
00:10:13.000We'll see if Mansion and Cinema go along.
00:10:17.000Look, meat is hard to come by right now, and you might get meat from overseas.
00:10:21.000And look, 85% of grass-fed beef in stores and online is imported.
00:10:25.000Don't pay a premium for low-quality foreign meat.
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00:10:32.000Producer Connor, he gets his elbows out.
00:10:34.000He gets people, so get out of the way, is what producer Connor says.
00:10:36.000He gets the fresh cuts, 100% American meat, T-bones, New York strips, ribeyes.
00:10:41.000In fact, producer Connor was doing an Instagram live stream, and he was grilling T-bones, New York strips, and all sorts of different types of things.
00:10:49.000Producer Andrew fed his entire family with good ranchers and it actually mended fences.
00:10:54.000It was people in his family that otherwise would have been very politically divided.
00:13:16.000Joe Biden's reckless energy policies have already driven up the price of oil and gas over the last year.
00:13:22.000So 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.
00:13:32.000Well, 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.
00:13:49.000Tom 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?
00:14:00.000What's the thought process behind that?
00:14:02.000Biden 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.
00:14:12.000So as Greta Thunberg and Leonardo DiCaprio and AOC started to capture the entire energy policy of the Western world, Putin took advantage.
00:14:23.000Putin mercilessly and aggressively expanded his oil and natural gas capacity, pipelines, and so on and so forth.
00:14:32.000Why we did not sign a deal with Germany for our own LNG is beyond me.
00:14:36.000Now, it might have been a logistical issue.
00:15:24.000Joe Biden has removed the full ability to hold adversaries like Russia accountable because Joe Biden actually wants to get rid of fossil fuels.
00:16:35.000Low, cheap oil, big SUVs, do whatever we want to do.
00:16:40.000And 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.
00:16:55.000To be more blunt, people are dying because we had environmental ideology prioritized more than American energy dominance.
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00:19:23.000Eric 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.
00:19:33.000They said it made universities less competitive.
00:19:36.000I'm so angry right now, and I need you to explain to me why they would do this.
00:19:39.000Do they intentionally want China to spy on us?
00:19:42.000Politico.com, Department of Justice shuts down China-focused anti-espionage program.
00:19:50.000The China initiative is being cast aside largely because of perceptions that unfairly painted Chinese Americans and U.S. residents of China origins as disloyal.
00:20:01.000The 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.
00:20:13.000Officials 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.
00:20:56.000If 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.
00:21:11.000Actually, the problem with holding China accountable is you might profile Chinese people as being held accountable.
00:21:19.000We are not a serious nation when we do things like this at all.
00:21:23.000And it is because of a different virus, a virus of wokeism and political correctness.
00:21:31.000One 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.
00:21:41.000We 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.
00:21:59.000And 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.
00:22:11.000For example, Franklin Tao, a University of Kansas chemical engineering professor, who faces trial next month for espionage.
00:22:20.000Harvard Chemistry Department, Charles Lieber, was found guilty of making false statements to federal officials, as well as filing false tax returns, found him guilty.
00:22:30.000So 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.
00:22:43.000So China is going to read this from Politico and their jaws are going to drop to the ground, which goes to this point.
00:22:50.000Who are going to be the biggest cheerleaders, advocates of American wokeism?
00:23:01.000Vladimir Putin spends $45 billion a year on his military.
00:23:05.000China, I think, spends around $50 billion a year on their military.
00:23:09.000Xi 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.
00:23:24.000To 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.
00:23:36.000It's about the Chinese Communist Party.
00:23:39.000Just goes to show the strength that American wokeism has been able to amass.
00:23:45.000Okay, let's get to the next question here.
00:23:49.000Charlie, what's the latest out of Ukraine?
00:23:52.000Well, 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.
00:24:06.000Now, casualties can mean severe injuries and also death.
00:24:09.000So that does not mean all of them are death.
00:24:13.000It 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.
00:24:23.000The announcement came 3 p.m. local time.
00:24:28.000One 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.
00:24:45.000If they wanted Kiev, it should be an afternoon operation.
00:24:49.000They can't control the sky over Ukraine.
00:24:52.000Vladimir Putin's military is nowhere near as strong as he pretended it to be.
00:25:01.000We don't know if they're throwing all their assets.
00:25:02.000We don't know if they're truly diving deep into their reserves.
00:25:08.000Estimates show that Russia has allocated one-third of all of their troops going into Ukraine.
00:25:16.000It's becoming increasingly clear that Vladimir Putin wanted to do this quickly.
00:25:23.000You do not send one-third of your entire military somewhere if you're just kind of a casual operation.
00:25:29.000He might have to throw even more at it.
00:25:32.000The 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.
00:25:42.000Quote, Russian invasion has already taken long and has been costlier than Putin expected.
00:25:46.000Almost certain his military and intelligence leaders knew this ahead of time, but no one dared tell him his expectations were unrealistic.
00:26:19.000There are 28 European countries and two North American countries.
00:26:22.000It 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.
00:26:32.000NATO's cardinal sin was the Bush administration's decision to nominate Georgia and Ukraine for NATO membership at the 2008 Bucharest summit.
00:26:40.000Former 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.
00:26:53.000So 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.
00:27:00.000He's like, oh, they're getting too close to me.
00:27:02.000Okay, well, if you take over Ukraine, you're going to be bordering NATO countries.
00:27:49.000So, this is really going to be a question, and it's going to be a question of what is Europe's appetite for this.
00:27:54.000And 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.
00:28:11.000So, 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?
00:28:42.000So, 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.
00:28:53.000Now, 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.
00:29:15.000That 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.
00:29:30.000And 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.
00:29:37.000I don't think World War II was pointless.
00:29:38.000It was about eradicating evil, institutional evil, at least America's intervention in there into World War II.
00:29:48.000It was a moral war on behalf of the United States.
00:29:51.000And 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.
00:30:03.000You'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?
00:30:32.000He already has Belarus through a puppet government.
00:30:35.000And 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?
00:30:46.000Vladimir Putin prepares to use father of all bombs as brave Ukrainians hold up advance.
00:30:52.000West warns Russia could use terror weapon that vaporizes bodies alongside a massive amphibious assault as invaders run into fierce resistance in Kyiv.
00:31:04.000The people of Kyiv are holding the line.
00:31:06.000It is hardly an immediate operation, which, by the way, is a humiliating embarrassment for the supposed great military of Russia.
00:31:14.000Okay, 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.
00:31:24.000Credit to the Ukrainian people, not the Ukrainian government, which is incredibly corrupt.
00:31:28.000The Ukrainian people for their resolve.
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00:33:26.000We should rebuild our own strength, unshackle the United States energy.
00:33:29.000Here'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.
00:33:40.000We are sanctioning ourselves, we're putting restrictions on our own American energy capacity every single day.
00:33:47.000We're making it harder for us to be able to explore oil and natural gas.
00:33:54.000Actually, that's what Alexander Solsenitsyn said before the fall of the Soviet Union.
00:33:59.000Thanks to ideology, that all of this happens.
00:34:04.000Get to another question here that is emailed as freedom at charliekirk.com, which is it.
00:34:11.000There'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?
00:34:18.000Now, 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.
00:34:30.000CDC has come out and has said the following: The CDC will be updating its masks since Friday afternoon.
00:34:36.00070% of Americans will be able to take their masks off indoors, including in schools.
00:34:40.000Masks will still be required on public transit for the time being, and his mask mandates expire on March 18th.
00:34:47.000The CDC has created new metrics to determine when people should mask up.
00:34:51.000The agency will move away from case counts and concentrate on hospitalizations and hospital capacity in its new guidance.
00:34:58.000ABC News has reported: 70% of Americans will be able to remove their masks indoors, including in schools, under new guidance from the CDC.
00:35:05.000Under the new metrics and updated guidance, more than half of the U.S. countries will make up 70% of where Americans live.