The Charlie Kirk Show - July 20, 2023


Charlie Visits the Kingdom with Senator Mike Lee

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construction cranes in Washington wealth extraction in DC NATO Article 5
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Marjorie Taylor Greene Hunter Biden Martin Luther King Mike Lee Good Ranchers Donald Trump Tucker Carlson Mike Lindell Ron Paul McCarthy Philip Seymour Hoffman Jefferson Memorial Donald Sutherland Jennifer Lawrence Peter Strzok Greta Thunberg Rashida Tlaib James Comey Andy McCabe Josh Hawley and 12 more
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In this episode, President Donald Trump visits Washington, D.C. to meet with former Vice President Joe Biden and former White House Chief of Staff, Charlie Kirk, to remember the late civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. and his impact on the country.

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00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, today in the Charlie Kirk Show.
00:00:01.000 I visit the kingdom of Washington, D.C. Rather entertaining and important episode about what our nation's capital has become while the rest of the country largely disintegrates.
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00:01:15.000 I was watching the other day.
00:01:16.000 I'm actually not a huge Martin Luther King fan or whatever, super flawed guy, but I was watching the last, the audio, I was listening to the audio of the last speech that he gave the night before he was killed, April 3rd, 1968.
00:01:29.000 He was killed the next afternoon.
00:01:31.000 And he gave this speech, and he had just been like cheating with a bunch of different women.
00:01:35.000 Okay.
00:01:35.000 Yeah, he had a tendency to.
00:01:36.000 Oh my gosh.
00:01:37.000 No, he was like sexually out of control. 0.73
00:01:40.000 But he gave this speech in which he clearly predicted his own death.
00:01:44.000 Like there's no doubt if you listen to this that God is speaking through Martin Luther King.
00:01:48.000 And again, I don't like Martin Luther King's program.
00:01:50.000 I don't like his behavior.
00:01:51.000 There's a lot of, you know, worshiping Martin Luther King is absurd to me.
00:01:55.000 But I got to say, if you listen to that speech, God is speaking through Martin Luther King.
00:01:59.000 There's no other explanation for that.
00:02:02.000 And you're like, well, that's kind of consistent with what we know.
00:02:05.000 We're all flawed.
00:02:07.000 The people in charge tend to be more flawed.
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00:02:13.000 So let's just be honest about it.
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00:02:47.000 Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.
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00:03:28.000 We are broadcasting live from our nation's capital, Washington, D.C.
00:03:33.000 And actually, that's going to be our lead today.
00:03:36.000 I have visited Washington, D.C. probably well over 100 times for different events and meetings throughout the years.
00:03:42.000 And obviously, when we had a good president, a president who actually loved America, I was a frequent visitor here.
00:03:47.000 I have not been to Washington, D.C. in over two years.
00:03:50.000 Very proud of that fact.
00:03:51.000 I was actually here for some of our amazing student leaders.
00:03:54.000 They were getting a tour of the Capitol meeting with some leaders.
00:03:57.000 Speaker McCarthy was a very gracious host, and he met with our students and very thankful for that.
00:04:02.000 But I want to kind of walk you through some things I observed.
00:04:05.000 And it's nothing necessarily new, but it has only grown worse.
00:04:10.000 Landed in Dulles International Airport, I'm sure many of you have done the same.
00:04:14.000 You ride on the highway towards Washington, D.C.
00:04:18.000 And first of all, the streets are perfectly manicured.
00:04:21.000 It's plush, palatial, going from Dulles into Washington, D.C.
00:04:25.000 And the roads are perfect.
00:04:27.000 And I just think to myself, boy, you drive through rural Ohio or rural Indiana, they're not getting infrastructure plans like this.
00:04:34.000 You got third world airports in half of America.
00:04:37.000 You have entire electrical grids that are falling apart, but not when you land in the proximity of the nation's capital.
00:04:45.000 And so I thought East Palestine, Ohio gets ignored, but boy, you drive.
00:04:50.000 It's like the Autobahn on steroids.
00:04:53.000 So you're driving in from Dulles International Airport on the famous 267 going in.
00:05:00.000 It's called the Dulles, I think it's Dulles Access Road into downtown Washington, D.C.
00:05:05.000 And I said, Boy, that's strange.
00:05:06.000 I haven't seen a lot of those when I visit Illinois or when I visit Wisconsin or when I visit Montana or when I visit flyover country, West Virginia, or when I and I started to see one, I started to count them: construction cranes.
00:05:23.000 Big, massive construction cranes.
00:05:26.000 So I started to count them: one, two, three, four, five, 61 construction cranes from Dulles International Airport to downtown Washington, D.C.
00:05:37.000 We turned off to go get some coffee, and I kid you not, at Tyson's Corner, the buildings that have now been built in the last couple of years in Washington, D.C. are some of the most elaborate structures that I've seen.
00:05:53.000 I've been to all 50 states multiple times over, given a speech in 49 of the 50 states.
00:05:59.000 There are not buildings like this anywhere, not even in New York City.
00:06:03.000 I'm talking about the most sophisticated, elaborate architecture and expenditures.
00:06:08.000 If you have no budget whatsoever in front of you, you build buildings like this.
00:06:12.000 All glass, incredibly sophisticated engineering.
00:06:15.000 When America was a great country, one thing that set America apart was how unimportant Washington, D.C. was relative to the rest of the country.
00:06:23.000 D.C. was this kind of provincial city.
00:06:26.000 It wasn't very big.
00:06:27.000 It was a district.
00:06:28.000 But it's been bloating up for decades now, and the boom never stops.
00:06:33.000 Washington is now America's sixth largest city, and it is pouring over into the surrounding counties.
00:06:40.000 And we've said for a while that eight out of 10 of the wealthiest counties in America are around Washington, D.C.
00:06:46.000 And when you see the restaurants, to the hotels, to the Porsche dealerships, to the Mercedes-Benz dealerships, to the fashion outlets, you say, my goodness, this is beyond high income.
00:07:01.000 You would think that you are in Paris, London, Dubai, Beverly Hills.
00:07:08.000 I drove by a Maserati dealer that is right next to a Tesla store.
00:07:15.000 I stopped and I thought to myself, and I asked our team in the car, I said, guys, have you ever seen such opulence, such spending?
00:07:25.000 And then the most obvious point: what do they create here?
00:07:32.000 What do they create in the surrounding counties of Washington, D.C.?
00:07:36.000 What do they make?
00:07:37.000 Do they make cars?
00:07:38.000 Do they make phones?
00:07:41.000 Do they build big buildings?
00:07:43.000 Well, they do, but is that the industry?
00:07:45.000 No.
00:07:46.000 Washington, D.C. and the surrounding counties collect tribute from the rest of the nation.
00:07:54.000 Their cottage industry is forcibly extracting money from you so that they can get so fabulously wealthy.
00:08:03.000 There is one recession-proof city in America, one, and it's right here, Washington, D.C. 0.85
00:08:10.000 The trillions of dollars that we have borrowed, the trillions of dollars that you guys have to pay in taxes, it is not going to make East Palestine wealthier.
00:08:20.000 It's not going to make Rapid City South Dakota go through a middle-class renaissance.
00:08:26.000 The middle class and the ordinary class are poorer than before.
00:08:31.000 The Chinese coronavirus.
00:08:33.000 And I can tell you, just from an aesthetic standpoint, the surrounding areas of Washington, D.C., business has never been better.
00:08:45.000 The ruling class is not just living well.
00:08:48.000 Business is a booming, baby.
00:08:50.000 While you're getting poorer, the entire kingdom of Washington, D.C. has never been cleaner.
00:09:01.000 And that really hit me too is you drive through these suburbs of Northern Virginia, perfectly manicured streets, and you think to yourself, the cities that aren't in Washington, D.C. have become unbelievably filthy that are not around there.
00:09:19.000 You go to San Francisco, to Seattle, you go to Portland, you go to Denver, go to Chicago, Philadelphia.
00:09:25.000 The core fabric of America, which actually made America a beautiful and great country, is disintegrating, while the capital itself is growing infinitely wealthy.
00:09:38.000 So what value is produced here?
00:09:40.000 The answer is it's a cesspool of legalized payouts and kickbacks.
00:09:45.000 How do modestly paid politicians and bureaucrats like Fauci live so well?
00:09:49.000 This disparity, everybody, is unsustainable.
00:09:54.000 If you're a Republican consultant out there and you say, boy, why is Donald Trump so popular?
00:10:01.000 Drive through the suburbs of Washington, D.C. from Dulles International Airport to the United States Capitol, and then drive from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to East Palestine, Ohio, and you have your answer.
00:10:14.000 There used to be factories in East Palestine, Ohio, where we made stuff.
00:10:20.000 And Washington, D.C. was kind of this, you rolled your eyes, you go there if necessary, but now it's a destination.
00:10:28.000 Now it's a place where you make a career of how much graft can I extract from the United States taxpayer?
00:10:35.000 How much can I siphon off?
00:10:39.000 While you are getting poorer, your leaders are living the high life.
00:10:44.000 The wealthiest counties are surrounding Maryland and Fairfax and Loudoun, and they don't create a darn thing.
00:10:53.000 What they do is they peel it from you and they extract it.
00:10:57.000 You want to know why there is a populist nationalist movement that is brewing in this country?
00:11:02.000 You can taste it here.
00:11:05.000 You can feel it here.
00:11:09.000 Very thankful for Speaker McCarthy for how he hosted us today.
00:11:11.000 He was great for all of our student leaders.
00:11:14.000 400 of our top student leaders were treated really well.
00:11:17.000 But I'll be honest, I looked at our Capitol and I stood there outside this morning after we were done with some of our meetings and we had a really great speech and gave the students a tour of the Capitol.
00:11:27.000 It was incredible.
00:11:28.000 And these are fighters.
00:11:29.000 They're great kids.
00:11:31.000 And I stood there and I just kind of put my phone in airplane mode and I looked at the Capitol building and something was missing.
00:11:36.000 I did not have the reverence for that capital that I did 10 years ago.
00:11:42.000 Not that I don't respect it, but I felt like an outside regime is currently occupying our government.
00:11:52.000 It felt as if an un-American pathogen has taken over the host, consumed the Constitution, and consumed the instruments of power, and that the promise of America is currently in jeopardy from an outside force.
00:12:13.000 The holiness that many of us have once felt when looking at that beautiful Capitol building feels like it has been desecrated and profaned.
00:12:22.000 And that idealism has been chipped away.
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00:14:08.000 If you don't get the reference, I do recommend you watch these films.
00:14:11.000 They're well acted and well written.
00:14:12.000 I have no idea the intent behind Hollywood's production of these films.
00:14:17.000 But regardless of the intent, the actual product is a perfect picture of what we are living through.
00:14:24.000 If you don't know the Hunger Games films, the framing is that there are several external districts that work hard in manual labor, coal, natural resources, that constantly send their hard-earned resources to the Capitol while the Capitol is perfectly manicured, living opulent lives.
00:14:41.000 And again, I don't know if the intent of that film or the books before the film were to actually display what is happening right outside the window here in the kingdom of Washington, D.C.
00:14:51.000 But I'm a big believer that when there is a piece of art that confirms something true, you should pursue that piece of art because then all of a sudden you see it differently and you're able to look at it more analytically.
00:15:01.000 It doesn't always happen.
00:15:02.000 Again, there's plenty wrong with the Hunger Games, but I will say Philip Seymour Hoffman, one of America's greatest ever actors, fortunately passed away.
00:15:09.000 He gives a great performance, and so does Donald Sutherland, who I think is now 88 years old, gives a first-class performance.
00:15:15.000 I'm not a fan of Jennifer Lawrence, but she actually did a really good job in that.
00:15:18.000 And so I'm reflecting on this, and I remember the first time I came to Washington, D.C., and I was struck with awe and grandeur.
00:15:26.000 Now, maybe I was naive.
00:15:27.000 That was 10 years ago.
00:15:28.000 Maybe I was just young, naive, 18 years old, whatever.
00:15:31.000 But honestly, in the years that followed, there was a sense of the holy.
00:15:34.000 And I do not mean holy in a spiritual way, okay?
00:15:37.000 But holy, if you actually use the word in the Hebrew, means separate, elevated.
00:15:42.000 You take it seriously, okay?
00:15:44.000 And before I get a bunch of hate mail, oh, Charlie, how dare you call government institutions holy?
00:15:49.000 What I'm trying to, here's a great example.
00:15:51.000 If you see someone throw a flag on the ground, you get upset.
00:15:55.000 You don't do that to the flag.
00:15:56.000 It should be separate.
00:15:56.000 It's holy.
00:15:57.000 It should be elevated.
00:15:58.000 There should be a flag code.
00:16:00.000 I'm total in agreement with that, right?
00:16:02.000 And I think we've all felt that way about our government institutions.
00:16:05.000 Washington Monument, Lincoln Memorial, Jefferson Memorial, White House, Capitol Building.
00:16:10.000 You want to have that be a place where there's a little bit sacred.
00:16:14.000 But if I'm being honest with you, walking the streets of Washington, D.C. this morning, I feel as if it's been desecrated, that it's not the center of liberty, that it's kind of this heartbeat of degeneracy, the center of payoffs and back slapping deals and debt and avarice and pride, literally.
00:16:36.000 And I, and I, a cronyism, and I'm driving by these remarkably ugly government buildings, Department of Interior, Department of Labor.
00:16:44.000 And so we stop at a stoplight this morning in Washington, D.C.
00:16:47.000 And I look out the window, and Mikey and our team say, So what's this building?
00:16:51.000 What do they do?
00:16:52.000 I said, they make you poor.
00:16:54.000 He said, what?
00:16:55.000 I said, it's the Federal Reserve.
00:16:59.000 So they're in charge of making you poor.
00:17:02.000 We go to the next building.
00:17:03.000 What is it?
00:17:03.000 Department of Education.
00:17:04.000 He said, what does that do?
00:17:05.000 They say, they groom your kids.
00:17:08.000 And we go to the next building.
00:17:09.000 He says, what's that?
00:17:09.000 I said, that's the EPA.
00:17:11.000 They make sure that our beautiful gifts of fossil fuels are not able to be used.
00:17:15.000 And we go after our entrepreneurs in Midland, Texas, and in the Balkan Shale.
00:17:20.000 And then we go to the next stoplight and he says, oh, that's the White House.
00:17:23.000 I said, well, we know what happens there.
00:17:25.000 We don't need too big of an explanation there.
00:17:28.000 And then we go by the Treasury Department.
00:17:29.000 He says, oh, what's that building?
00:17:31.000 I said, they're the ones that have covered up for Hunter Biden and they send IRS agents against patriot-loving Americans.
00:17:39.000 They're the ones that cover up for the international bribery scheme.
00:17:42.000 Then we drive on past that.
00:17:44.000 And he says, what's that building?
00:17:45.000 I said, that's the J. Edgar Hoover FBI building.
00:17:48.000 I said, you see that on the sixth floor?
00:17:50.000 That's where they concocted the coup against Donald Trump.
00:17:53.000 No one got held accountable.
00:17:54.000 Right up there.
00:17:55.000 That's where James Comey, Andy McCabe, Bruce and Elliot, Peter Strukstroke, Smirk.
00:18:00.000 That's where they all convened.
00:18:01.000 That's where they conspired.
00:18:02.000 Seventh floor, up there.
00:18:04.000 I said, they're probably doing it again right now.
00:18:06.000 No one went to jail.
00:18:08.000 You see right up there?
00:18:09.000 Those are the guys, probably Jack Smith has a standing office right in that building right there.
00:18:13.000 Currently going after someone running for the presidency.
00:18:17.000 So I was driving through Washington, D.C. What once I had a sense of reverence and the holy at every building I could pinpoint how they're at war against you.
00:18:28.000 Federal Reserve is destroying your purchasing power.
00:18:31.000 The Treasury is covering up the international crimes of the Biden family.
00:18:35.000 The FBI is coming after moms and dads and school boards and infiltrating Latin mass.
00:18:43.000 Driving through Washington, D.C. this morning, it was a museum of tyranny, authoritarianism, degeneracy. 0.86
00:18:50.000 I was not struck with awe and wonder.
00:18:56.000 Hey, everybody, Charlie Kirk here.
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00:19:59.000 Joining me now is one of my favorite people.
00:20:02.000 And honestly, he's been so awesome to our country.
00:20:05.000 I'm so glad he won re-election.
00:20:07.000 And he has been one of the few voices on this Ukraine disaster to offer moral clarity.
00:20:13.000 It's Senator Mike Lee from the great state of Utah.
00:20:15.000 Senator, thank you for joining the program.
00:20:17.000 Walk us through your tweet yesterday on Ukraine and NATO.
00:20:20.000 Take as much time as you need, Senator Mike Lee.
00:20:23.000 Well, thanks so much, Charlie.
00:20:25.000 Thanks for having me on the show.
00:20:26.000 Now, it's hard to know which tweet, so I'll try to combine the best of the messages of the 18,000 tweets I sent yesterday because I was fired up about this.
00:20:37.000 Here's what happened.
00:20:38.000 Article 5.
00:20:39.000 Yeah.
00:20:40.000 Exactly.
00:20:42.000 Well, yeah, I had 18,000 tweets on Article 5 of NATO.
00:20:46.000 That's what I'm referring to.
00:20:47.000 But I'm going to combine those and tell you what I was referring to generally.
00:20:51.000 So just 16 Republican senators, only 16, and not a single Democrat voted to affirm a very simple principle, one offered up as an amendment to the Defense Authorization Act by Senator Rand Paul.
00:21:06.000 And that amendment was just one sentence long.
00:21:09.000 It just affirmed that Article 5 of the NATO Treaty doesn't supersede the constitutional process ordained by Article 1, Section 8, in which it's Congress that decides whether to engage the United States in war.
00:21:24.000 So not only is this just taking this out of Congress where it belongs, that's typically where we see this power eroded, is at the expense of or in deference to the executive branch, to the President of the United States.
00:21:36.000 But here, it's to an international treaty, an international body, a group of other nations.
00:21:43.000 Now, look, even a plain reading of the text of the NATO treaty makes clear that under Article 5, the United States agrees to nothing specific.
00:21:55.000 It certainly doesn't have an ironclad agreement to go into a full-blown war or to do anything more than, quote, take such action it deems necessary, close quote, to help an ally under attack.
00:22:11.000 And so this is hardly tantamount to an unqualified agreement to go to war.
00:22:17.000 And Article 5 qualifies that.
00:22:19.000 But it goes even further.
00:22:21.000 In another tweet, Charlie, I referred to the fact that Article 11 of the NATO Treaty adds to this by saying that the treaty should be ratified and its provisions carried out by the parties in accordance with their respective constitutional processes.
00:22:37.000 This completely refutes the underlying assertion that they were making.
00:22:42.000 Does that make sense?
00:22:44.000 The opposition you saw in the United States.
00:22:45.000 It does.
00:22:47.000 I mean, the obvious, sorry to interject, Senator, the obvious kind of initial reaction I have is we have an experience about 100 years ago, 105 years ago of World War I starting because of a chain reaction of kind of interlocked alliances.
00:23:02.000 And I'm afraid that NATO Article 5 could stumble us into an all-out kinetic war against Russia, which then does beg the question, Senator, aren't we technically at war against Russia?
00:23:16.000 We're financing weapons.
00:23:18.000 We're sending weapons.
00:23:19.000 We're propping up the Ukrainian government.
00:23:22.000 We are also sanctioning Russia to great extent.
00:23:25.000 Are we at war with Russia by all objective measurements?
00:23:30.000 Not by all objective measurements, and I wouldn't describe us as being at war with Russia.
00:23:35.000 There is a difference.
00:23:37.000 It doesn't mean that those, what we are doing isn't serious, because it is serious.
00:23:43.000 Doesn't mean that what we're doing uh doesn't carry substantial risk.
00:23:48.000 That scares me to death, so much so that it's uh caused me to uh publicly express, and and and vote reflecting those concerns, uh my, my reluctance to do this.
00:24:00.000 But there is a difference at this point between us providing weapons, uh material training, money and so forth, but it becomes a difference by degree What these guys are trying to do, and it's far too close to comfort for me.
00:24:16.000 I'm not comfortable with where we are and have indicated that publicly and have voted accordingly.
00:24:20.000 I'm not comfortable with where we are.
00:24:22.000 What I'm saying is these guys want to take us, they want to close the loop, Charlie.
00:24:26.000 They want to take us to the next step where we would be at war the second Russia does anything with regard to any NATO ally, anything that they can characterize as a war, because they're characterizing Article 5 as Article 5 not only allows but compels us to go to war the second that happens.
00:24:48.000 And so there are two huge problems with that.
00:24:52.000 Number one, NATO treaty refutes that.
00:24:55.000 And number two, even if the NATO treaty did not refute that, the Constitution isn't modified.
00:25:03.000 It's not suspended.
00:25:04.000 It's not repealed.
00:25:05.000 It's not amended by a treaty.
00:25:08.000 Remember that the constitutional process for adopting an amendment requires two-thirds supermajority vote from both houses of Congress, followed by ratification by three-fourths of the states.
00:25:20.000 You can ratify a treaty just by two-thirds supermajority in the Senate, and that's all.
00:25:25.000 It's a lot easier.
00:25:26.000 You can't allow that to modify the Constitution, and we have never purported to do so.
00:25:32.000 But ultimately, what you saw yesterday didn't even have to do with the misunderstanding of the plain language of the NATO Treaty.
00:25:38.000 No, it had everything to do with protecting the interests of Ukraine and of our European allies, doing so with reckless disregard to our own interests.
00:25:49.000 And the Department of Defense even had the audacity to publicly officially oppose the Rand Paul Amendment because they said it could, quote, send an inappropriate signal to NATO allies and potential adversaries.
00:26:06.000 This is nuts.
00:26:08.000 Our own Pentagon seems to be more concerned about the interests of Berlin and Paris and London than upholding the laws that these leaders swore to defend.
00:26:20.000 And I think every American ought to be very concerned about this.
00:26:24.000 So, Senator, I want to ask, where is all this money going?
00:26:28.000 It's between $150 and $200 billion.
00:26:30.000 Has there been a forensic audit of this?
00:26:32.000 And do you have confidence that this money is being well spent and actually being deployed in the way they say it is?
00:26:38.000 I don't think we should be spending the money at all.
00:26:40.000 But even to add insult to injury, I'm not even confident that it's going toward its intended endpoint.
00:26:49.000 Senator Mike Lee.
00:26:50.000 No. 0.92
00:26:51.000 No.
00:26:52.000 We have very little visibility into that.
00:26:54.000 This is not set up to be transparent.
00:26:58.000 There are some fig leafs in that direction, but I don't think we have adequate visibility into what they're doing to be able to assess that.
00:27:06.000 And in any event, when you're dealing with sums that large, you know, between $120 and $200 billion, or whatever sum it actually is, the sum keeps changing in part because our Department of Defense and others have acknowledged that they made some accounting mistakes that dramatically inflated, dramatically escalated the amount of aid that we gave them.
00:27:35.000 And it's just yet another indication by the fact that we don't know what's going there.
00:27:40.000 Even if there weren't other problems, even if we had full visibility, which we don't, the mere fact that it's half a world away and that we're dealing with sums this large, and that we're dealing with a country that, let's just say, to put it really mildly, doesn't have the best anti-corruption record on the planet.
00:27:59.000 Yeah.
00:28:00.000 Means that is a virtual certainty that a whole lot of this is not even going toward what we wanted.
00:28:06.000 Right.
00:28:07.000 And so to kind of put a cap on this, Senator, you're one of the few voices that is speaking out against this, Senator JD Vance's, Senator Josh Hawley, Senator Rand Paul.
00:28:17.000 So there's a growing chorus of you that are asking the critical questions.
00:28:22.000 But amongst your colleagues, Senator, can you fill us in into what success looks like here?
00:28:27.000 I mean, this feels as if we're about to get into another quagmire of decades of proportion of trillions of dollars spent.
00:28:35.000 We're well on our way.
00:28:36.000 What do your colleagues say in the hallway in private as to what a, let's just say, a reasonable level of success would be here in our involvement in eastern Ukraine?
00:28:47.000 Okay, most of them don't talk about it.
00:28:50.000 Most of them say to speak only in generalities, those who support this effort by saying, hey, we're weakening Russia. 0.62
00:28:56.000 This is good for us because it's wearing down Russia.
00:29:00.000 And we got to make sure we don't send the wrong signal to Russia. 0.84
00:29:03.000 But they don't often articulate what it is that they think that looks like that's reasonably possible.
00:29:10.000 For a long time, many of my colleagues have said that, you know, what could happen is that after we wear down Russia long enough, Putin gets tired of it, he gets weary, and he decides to accept some sort of cessation of hostilities in which he walks away and maybe there's some form of more formal recognition of Russia's position,
00:29:37.000 say, in Crimea and Crimea, in order for Russia to walk away from the Donbass.
00:29:43.000 I bet they've been talking about that sort of thing for over a year, and it hasn't materialized.
00:29:50.000 I don't know how realistic it is.
00:29:51.000 And that's one of the reasons why not a lot of talk about specific details as to how this ends.
00:29:56.000 Look, their best case scenario still is kind of abstract.
00:30:00.000 Our worst case scenario, or even just the reasonably likely scenario, is potentially horrific. 0.99
00:30:08.000 Because you just, when dealing with a foreign advertising, this is why I have concerns about even doing what we're doing without taking the additional steps of formally going to war. 0.95
00:30:17.000 Every step we take in this direction are steps in the direction of a nuclear-armed geopolitical adversary. 0.89
00:30:26.000 It doesn't mean that their military top to bottom is as good as ours, but their nuclear weapons program is in many ways second to none.
00:30:35.000 I mean, it's at least huge. 0.89
00:30:38.000 Some would argue that it is more capable of even more destruction than ours, in part because of personnel and part because of equipment and the cultures of our respective governments.
00:30:54.000 But regardless, any way you look at it, whenever you're getting into a fight of one sort or another, whenever you're moving in the direction of something that could easily turn to war with a nuclear-armed adversary, you've got to tread cautiously.
00:31:11.000 And we're not showing any caution at all.
00:31:14.000 We're acting with reckless disregard for the safety of Americans and ignoring the fact that this isn't, not every war is our war.
00:31:26.000 It's as though they want to lead us into a land war in Europe by blatantly ignoring the Constitution, elevating the NATO treaty to do something that it doesn't do and doesn't say, contrary to what it says, in fact, let alone the Constitution, and putting American blood and pressure on the line despite decades of European indifference toward prioritizing their own security.
00:31:48.000 So, in many respects, one could argue what we're doing, what we've been doing, is subsidizing Western European socialism because we provide so many needs.
00:31:57.000 They don't have 2%, most of them.
00:32:01.000 And we therefore make it easier for them to provide their social programs because they can rely on us.
00:32:07.000 Senator Mike Lee, we are out of time.
00:32:09.000 Thank you for your clarity on this topic.
00:32:11.000 For your colleagues that think you are going to outlast Russians, Russians are good at a couple things: chugging vodka, writing long, depressing novels, and suffering for long periods of time in military environments. 0.88
00:32:24.000 I wouldn't want to fight a long war against Russia. 0.55
00:32:26.000 Senator Mike Lee, God bless you.
00:32:27.000 You're a great American.
00:32:28.000 Thanks so much. 0.99
00:32:31.000 So it's well known that the Democrats are the party of sexual anarchy, and they really are the party of outright pornography. 0.83
00:32:37.000 Whether it be the trans individual that was stripping on the White House lawn, whether it be supporting the perverts that dance nakedly in front of children, and they call that pride parades, whether it be the widespread proliferation and acceptance of quote-unquote sex work as real work, AOC, Rashida Talib, Corey Bush, they would keep on tweeting sex work is real work or the decriminalization of prostitution. 0.97
00:33:05.000 The Democrat Party is the pro-pornography party. 0.96
00:33:07.000 They're the pro-sexual anarchy party. 0.74
00:33:09.000 They have been for quite some time. 1.00
00:33:11.000 So Marjorie Taylor Greene really broke the system yesterday in a brilliant way.
00:33:17.000 So Marjorie Taylor Greene holds up a picture in the hearing of pictures from the Hunter Biden laptop, blacked out, mind you, showing all of the sex acts that Hunter Biden engaged in.
00:33:30.000 And of course, they are profane, but it goes to show these are real things.
00:33:34.000 And by the way, it ties together with what Hunter Biden used as legitimate tax deductions, not legitimate, illegitimate tax deductions on his IRS tax returns.
00:33:44.000 He deducted prostitutes.
00:33:45.000 So Marjorie Taylor Greene wanted to remind people what these tax deductions were, showed 123 of the behavior the Hunter Biden engaged in. 1.00
00:33:53.000 And the Democrats lose their mind.
00:33:56.000 Washington Post has an article.
00:33:59.000 Marjorie Taylor Greene's explicit visuals at Hunter Biden hearing draws rebukes.
00:34:03.000 Hold on a second.
00:34:04.000 These are not Marjorie Taylor Greene's visuals.
00:34:07.000 These are Hunter Biden's visuals.
00:34:09.000 Marjorie Taylor Greene's just holding them up.
00:34:14.000 Now, it says, it's so rich to me to see the American Democrat Party and the regime media get angry about somebody showing grotesque images in public.
00:34:30.000 Whether it be the Hollywood films, the textbooks that they put forward, and Marjorie Taylor Green should know the only acceptable place to put pornography is in an eight-year-old's book.
00:34:42.000 That's where pornography belongs, Marjorie Taylor Greene. 0.98
00:34:45.000 How dare you show pornography at an adult congressional hearing where no children are around? 0.92
00:34:51.000 How dare you do such a thing?
00:34:52.000 No, no, pornography belongs in the hands of children.
00:34:57.000 Just show picture after picture after picture guys on screen.
00:35:00.000 These are textbooks that the Democrats are defending and say, you want to ban, you want to ban books?
00:35:05.000 I'm Gavin Newsome.
00:35:06.000 You want to ban books. 1.00
00:35:08.000 Genderqueer. 1.00
00:35:10.000 This book is gay. 0.88
00:35:11.000 Let's talk about it. 0.95
00:35:12.000 And if it's making you angry on screen, this is what we put in front of children.
00:35:16.000 And the Democrats are in full Greta Thunberg mode.
00:35:20.000 How dare you, Marjorie Taylor Greene, show pornography at a congressional hearing. 0.89
00:35:27.000 Meanwhile, you got trans people taking off their clothes. 1.00
00:35:31.000 You got drag queens at public libraries. 0.98
00:35:34.000 You have outright pornography in the textbooks. 1.00
00:35:37.000 Everyone's fine.
00:35:39.000 No big deal.
00:35:40.000 They're screaming from the rooftops. 1.00
00:35:42.000 Sex work is real work. 1.00
00:35:45.000 You look at these pride parades. 1.00
00:35:47.000 It makes Sodom and Gomorrah look like a picnic.
00:35:50.000 And they're angry that Marjorie Taylor Greene committed the ultimate crime, the crime of noticing.
00:35:59.000 They're not mad that it's pornography.
00:36:02.000 They're not mad because those images, they are full defenders of it.
00:36:06.000 It's the sexual liberation.
00:36:08.000 They bow the knee to the statue of Dr. Kinsey.
00:36:13.000 They pay their tithe and offering to the false god of John Money. 0.99
00:36:19.000 They believe that sexual liberation opens up the soul and the spirit, all that crap that they teach you in college. 0.99
00:36:24.000 No, They are not angry that it's pornography. 0.99
00:36:27.000 They are angry that it is explicit images of the president's son.
00:36:33.000 That's what they don't like.
00:36:35.000 And they have this false and fake outrage.
00:36:39.000 How dare you show this?
00:36:41.000 We, the holy priests of the Democrat Party, we are the good.
00:36:46.000 We're going to morally virtue signal.
00:36:48.000 By the way, let's keep on having naked people dance in front of kids at a library. 0.88
00:36:52.000 By the way, she blacked out all the images. 1.00
00:36:54.000 And maybe you should be more disgusted at Hunter Biden's activity rather than the congresswoman who is exposing that activity.
00:37:02.000 Are they concerned about pedophilia and the decriminalization of pedophilia in California?
00:37:07.000 This is the same media that tells us that Sound of Freedom is a QAnon adjacent film.
00:37:13.000 Marjorie Taylor Greene, you get 10 out of 10 in a standing ovation for exposing these low-life degenerates that call themselves Democrats.
00:37:22.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
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