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00:02:37.000So there's a lot of stories happening that I want to dive into.
00:02:41.000The FBI parent story is super important.
00:02:43.000Obviously, the Roe Versus Wade stuff is hitting kind of this, this breaking pitch.
00:02:48.000But I want to start with the story that is now kind of developed over the last weekend, which is why our leaders are trying to send another 40 billion dollars to Ukraine now.
00:03:00.000This is something that we deserve answers to, for very obvious reasons, not just because we don't know what success looks like in Ukraine.
00:03:07.000No one has actually told us that they say, well, you know, it's to help Zelensky and His government fight against Russia, okay?
00:03:14.000Well, where exactly are those $40 billion going to be deployed?
00:03:17.000And why is that the urgent need or why is that the urgent project of the federal government?
00:03:24.000Now, this passed through the House of Representatives with near unanimous consent.
00:03:31.000The Republicans had some opposition, but very little.
00:03:36.000It is a bipartisan agreement that we should continue to meddle further and deep into the affairs of other countries.
00:03:43.000So $40 billion, even though Joe Biden only asked for $33 billion, which will further antagonize Russia and get us closer to a war.
00:03:52.000In fact, Stenny Hoyer said, we're in a war last week.
00:03:54.000He said it very clearly and plainly, that we are in a war.
00:03:58.000He said, in a time of war, why are we attacking Joe Biden?
00:04:03.000And so while our Western inheritance is alarmingly vanishing in front of us, we have to be lectured by our leaders why we have to go spend and send $40 billion to a far-off and distant land.
00:04:16.000Now, mind you, the right is not in agreement about this.
00:04:19.000There's plenty of conservative Republicans that I have respect for and other issues that are enthusiastic about sending another $40 billion to Ukraine.
00:04:28.000Lindsey Graham has come out and he said there is no price tag in getting rid of for getting rid of Vladimir Putin.
00:04:34.000Look, I think Vladimir Putin's an awful person, obviously.
00:04:38.000But who's to say what you get after Vladimir Putin is not going to be worse?
00:05:07.000Because they don't actually consider those things to be mistakes.
00:05:10.000They consider Libya and they consider Iraq and Iran and many of the other interventions of decades past to be a glowing success of the regime.
00:05:19.000So this last weekend, and of course Pelosi did this a couple weeks ago, last weekend you had, just a couple days ago, you had John Cornyn, John Barrasso, Mitch McConnell, and Susan Collins go to where they think their time is best spent.
00:05:39.000It's not to solve the baby formula crisis.
00:05:42.000It's not to address the drug overdose epidemic, which Susan Collins and Mitch McConnell represent two states that have huge issues with drug overdoses, same with John Barrasso in Wyoming.
00:05:53.000No, instead, they took a surprise visit to Kyiv, Ukraine.
00:05:59.000This weekend, Mitch McConnell and John Barrasso and John Cornyn and Susan Collins went to basically go hand deliver to Zelensky the promise of $40 billion given to Ukraine.
00:06:17.000Now, America going to Ukraine, do you know what I see when I see that?
00:06:23.000I don't see like American values being represented abroad.
00:06:28.000You see, America is now an exporter of bad ideas.
00:06:35.000We are now the creator of these bad ideas and we are a petri dish for them in every single corner around the world.
00:06:44.000And so when we go to Ukraine, we are not bringing the ideas of self-government and respect for the individual and the protection of the weak.
00:06:54.000You see, when we establish the deep state, the State Department, the Central Intelligence Agency, when we pump money into Ukraine, what you get is more race hooksterism.
00:07:10.000You get revenge-based politics, the support of chemical castration of children.
00:07:16.000In fact, when they talk about bringing Western values to Ukraine, they're like, with our support, we'll be able to have Drag Queen Story Hour in Maripol.
00:07:27.000It's like, that's actually not what I think we should be doing.
00:07:31.000Now, some people say that's a misunderstanding, a misrepresentation.
00:07:34.000The U.S. State Department, they're more willing to put the LGBT flag up in their embassies in certain months of the year than the American flag.
00:07:43.000They put the BLM flag at the State Department embassies all across the world.
00:07:49.000And so you have these Republican clowns that go to Ukraine, and you want to tell me that this is the biggest issue facing our nation?
00:07:57.000A great mark of a politician is whether or not they know the limits and the barriers and the boundaries.
00:08:02.000No, what this is, is political smokescreen.
00:08:05.000And why Republicans play into this, I don't know.
00:08:07.000Okay, we expect the Democrats to be globalist-minded, to betray their voters.
00:08:12.000They don't actually care about the well-being of the nation that they're in.
00:08:16.000But why are Republicans playing along?
00:08:18.000Well, they believe in neoconservative politics for completely different reasons.
00:08:23.000The neoconservative politics that Republicans believe in is they believe in playing war games halfway around the world because it gives them a sense of purpose.
00:08:37.000They actually don't want to address the country, the issues that are facing our country right now.
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00:11:14.000They'll always care more about some far distant land than their own constituents.
00:11:20.000Is Mitch McConnell a senator from western Ukraine?
00:11:24.000Or is he a senator from Kentucky that has incredible problems right now?
00:11:29.000Kentucky's dealing with drug problems, inflation, unemployment.
00:11:34.000You see, Rand Paul, who also represents Kentucky, actually cares about his voters.
00:11:39.000Rand Paul stood up and said, I represent my voters and I swore an oath to the United States Constitution.
00:11:46.000And I'm not going to just all of a sudden authorize $40 billion to go to some far-off distant land when we do not know what success looks like.
00:11:54.000Will this bring us closer to peace or closer to war?
00:11:58.000You see, there should be solutions put forward other than just giving Raytheon Northrop Grumman and Lockheed Martin complete and total blank checks to be able to have their chance at pillaging the United States Treasury.
00:12:12.000Here's Mitch McConnell play Cut 20 saying, we can all agree that Ukraine is the most important thing right now, Cut 20.
00:12:20.000We all agree the most important thing going on in the world right now is the war in Ukraine.
00:12:25.000We need to do this Ukraine only and quickly.
00:12:30.000I think we're on the path to getting that done.
00:12:33.000Discussions are underway between the House and Senate appropriators on the crafting of the package.
00:12:40.000It needs to be clean of extraneous matters directly related to helping the Ukrainians win the war.
00:12:47.000How about you help the Americans win the war, Mitch McConnell?
00:12:50.000How about you help our invasion happening on the southern border?
00:13:26.000Then the quality of schools, illegal immigration, racism, conditions of roads, bridges, and other infrastructure, unemployment, and then coronavirus.
00:13:36.000If you go party by party, illegal immigration, only 19% of Democrats think it's a problem.
00:13:42.00065% of Republicans think it's a problem.
00:13:44.000But the issues that transcend party lines that both parties believe are a big issue, inflation and violent crime.
00:13:52.000Both parties think it's a major issue.
00:15:00.000Could Ukraine pass the metaphorical prerequisite for being able to borrow money, quote unquote, be in the countries that should actually be able to receive foreign aid?
00:15:15.000All Rand Paul was trying to do with this $40 billion bill was slow it down and get a roll call.
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00:17:24.000So when we talk about exporting American values, we have to understand we're not exporting like natural law doctrine and separation of powers and consent to the governed.
00:17:35.000No, when you go see McConnell and Barrasso and Susan Collins all the way in Ukraine, what are they really doing?
00:17:42.000They're further reinforcing the sort of anti-Western ideas that we have become experts at creating and exporting them.
00:17:52.000When you talk to foreign intellectuals, we just had Douglas Murray on this program a couple weeks ago, and I enjoyed reading his book this last week, The War on the West.
00:18:02.000When you start to talk to foreign intellectuals and you study kind of how, or you just listen to where they say these ideas are coming from, previously America used to be a net importer of bad ideas.
00:18:16.000Now we are the assembly line and the factory and a net exporter of them.
00:18:22.000These ideas of the woke, it's not like they're coming from France or Germany anymore.
00:18:26.000In fact, our ideas have become so radical at the top levels of American society that even parts of French society or German society, they're resisting American ideas and they're trying to de-wokify their civilization, saying American values are actually making us less free, destroying our heritage and destroying our history and our culture.
00:18:47.000Well, someone who understands that and who has just won a massive primary, I actually haven't seen him since his victory.
00:18:55.000I was with him actually at his last rally, helping him in any way I could.
00:18:58.000Is JD Vance, the U.S. Senate nominee candidate for the great state of Ohio running against Tim Ryan.
00:19:20.000I mean, look, the Biden administration has been a disaster and Tim Ryan, my Democrat opponent, has voted with the Biden administration 100% of the time.
00:19:30.000I think the Republican primary, the way that I think about it is that it was a referendum on what kind of party do we want to be.
00:19:35.000Do we want to be a nationalist America first policy or do we want our party?
00:19:41.000Or do we want to go back to the ways of starting stupid wards that we have no reason to be in and shipping our manufacturing base off to China and other countries in the world?
00:19:50.000So I'm glad that the voters of Ohio rejected the old establishment ways.
00:19:55.000And I'm excited to take the America First message and do the general election.
00:19:58.000And like I said, I feel pretty good about it.
00:20:00.000So in a couple months, if everything goes according to plan, which I believe it will, you'll be a U.S. senator.
00:20:49.000Frankly, I don't know because I don't think anybody knows what's in this $40 billion, how it will be spent, how it will actually help or hurt the Ukrainian effort.
00:20:57.000So I think Rand Paul took the right course of action.
00:21:00.000Let's at least, I mean, at the very minimum, know where this money is going before we spend it.
00:21:05.000But what I propose, Charlie, is to say that not another dollar goes to the Ukraine unless we fix the American southern border.
00:21:13.000So we need to match any amount of money we send to Ukraine with money going to the southern border to control the flow of drugs, the flow of sex trafficking, the flow of things that actually affect people right here in Ohio, which is what my obligation is towards fixing the problems of the people of Ohio, not the problems of a country 6,000 miles away, no matter how sympathetic that country might be.
00:21:34.000So, but why is it that that's such a controversial opinion?
00:21:37.000Why is it that our leaders dash quickly to Kyiv, but not to Nahalis, right?
00:21:41.000Why are they quick to go grandstand in Stockholm, but not go down to my home state of Arizona and actually say, wait a second, every state's a border state?
00:21:49.000I'm asking you just to speculate a little bit because you're running against one of these people, by the way, who kind of pretends to be kind of the pro-Midwestern guy when in reality, he isn't.
00:21:59.000Like, can you give some insight into kind of the mentality or the philosophy of what is now kind of the typical American ruling class member?
00:22:07.000Yeah, you know, it's just a guess, but my sense, Charlie, from having, you know, been involved in this world for a few years and seeing how these people think and how they operate.
00:22:15.000So I think it's a pretty good guess, is that most of them don't think that much about what they're actually doing.
00:22:20.000They all get caught up in the prevailing trends, the prevailing culture, the moment that they're in.
00:22:26.000And right now, everything from the media to our think tank world to the intellectual world is sending the message that we have to be focused on Ukraine.
00:22:35.000Of course, I don't think that's how a majority of the people in Ohio feel.
00:22:39.000They think that there are much bigger problems closer to home.
00:22:41.000But I just think that, you know, if you're a part of the American ruling class, you get caught up in this unthinking herd mentality.
00:22:49.000Right now, the herd is focused on Ukraine.
00:22:51.000Of course, a year ago, it was focused on something else.
00:22:54.000Year from now, it'll be focused on something different.
00:22:56.000And we just don't have nearly enough people who are willing to stand against the tide.
00:23:01.000As you know, Charlie, that's one of the reasons why I wanted to run is because I thought for the people of Ohio to have effective representation, there needs to be at least one person in our Senate delegation who's sort of standing up and saying, you know what, maybe what everyone in Washington is focused on is not the right thing to be focused on.
00:23:19.000And just one other thing, Charlie, is the incentives of the system are set up that these people never have to reflect on their own failure.
00:23:57.000The problem is there's no reason for these people to go back, admit failure, and rethink some of the processes that led them to be wrong in the first place.
00:24:06.000That is what's most broken about a ruling class.
00:24:09.000They never have to face up to their own failure.
00:24:50.000A lot of times you get somebody who's much worse.
00:24:52.000And so you could have a situation where an even worse guy than Vladimir Putin controls their nuclear arsenal, controls the security fate of Europe.
00:25:01.000And if you think about this, this entire Russia-Ukraine situation allows us to gloss over and ignore 20 years of foreign policy failure in the West.
00:25:11.000Like, why doesn't Germany have a real army?
00:25:13.000Why has the American military been focused on white rage instead of winning wars, right?
00:25:18.000That's what the military leadership is focused on in our country.
00:25:22.000Like, why aren't we actually solving the real problems?
00:25:25.000Why are we so dependent on Russia for fertilizer and for energy?
00:25:30.000And why are we so dependent on China or any other country for that matter?
00:25:33.000Like, none of the bigger problems are being thought of in this moment.
00:25:37.000None of the bigger answers to those problems are being considered.
00:25:40.000What we're all doing is focused on this Russia-Ukraine situation to the exclusion of everything else, including some failures that we've made in Russia and Ukraine that I think would have prevented this situation from getting so bad in the first place.
00:25:53.000We have to remember that if Joe Biden hadn't given up American energy independence, America would have gone into this situation in a much stronger position to begin with.
00:26:06.000And what really has bothered me and just seeing these senators in Ukraine this last weekend is like the moral grandstanding and the urgency.
00:26:16.000Like flying to Ukraine is not exactly easy.
00:26:18.000I don't care if you have a Codel, right?
00:26:25.000Like, that's a tough trip for McConnell.
00:26:27.000Like, that's, you know, you got to put some effort in, right?
00:26:29.000And it's with Susan Collins, like, God bless him.
00:26:32.000But it's like, you don't take that effort to go down to like the Rio Grande Valley.
00:26:36.000And it's like the incentive structure.
00:26:38.000And I think part of it, though, is that the one thing that can get you kind of like a momentary kind of ceasefire from the Washington Post is go and promote neoconservative dogma abroad, right?
00:26:50.000And if you go look at how the press has covered McConnell the last couple of days, it's all about like McConnell's war with MAGA in Ukraine.
00:26:58.000Like McConnell stands up to his own party.
00:27:00.000It's like, I think he kind of gets a little bit of a kick out of this.
00:27:09.000I do think that a lot of what drives the foreign policy consensus is it's one of the few things where congressional Republicans can get away from the constant hate stream of the media, right?
00:27:20.000Like my sense, Charlie, is that there are three issues where you're not allowed to go against the neoliberal, neoconservative orthodoxy in this country.
00:27:31.000If you even suggest, if you frankly even repeat back what the Democrats have said about their immigration policies, you know, changing the political makeup of the country, then you're a crazy conspiracy theorist, right?
00:27:43.000If the Democrats say it's good and true and it's happening, if Republicans repeat their words back to them, then we're engaged in conspiracy thinking.
00:27:50.000You cannot dissent from the move towards globalization in the flow of goods.
00:27:55.000And the biggest one is foreign policy.
00:27:57.000You can't dissent from the idea that maybe the wars that we've been fighting have not been in the best interest of our country.
00:28:03.000Those are the three issues where the consensus hates your guts.
00:28:08.000And so, you know, look, I understand why these guys want to get a positive headline every now and then.
00:28:12.000Unfortunately, the consensus has been so wrong on foreign policy that if you go along with that consensus, you may very well get this country involved in a military conflict that could be catastrophic for us.
00:28:25.000Because if you notice, there's this slow ratchet that's going on, right?
00:28:28.000We're just getting a little bit more involved and a little bit more involved.
00:28:32.000If you think about our policy today, it's not all that different from a couple of weeks ago.
00:28:36.000But you add up all these little differences, and we could be in a situation where by the summertime, by August, right, are we in a full-scale military conflict with the Russians?
00:28:45.000Because that's the thing that I've been warning against.
00:28:48.000And by the way, that's the thing they've been saying I'm crazy for warning about.
00:28:51.000No one wants to get involved in a war with Russia.
00:28:53.000Well, the way you get involved in a war with Russia is by these stupid little decisions that we keep on making.
00:28:59.000I mean, you don't want to get into war.
00:29:18.000JD, what are the other issues you're hearing from voters in Ohio on the top of their mind as you travel the state now in the general election that aren't Ukraine?
00:29:27.000Like, what else are people actually caring about?
00:29:29.000Of course, the southern border issue, Charlie, you mentioned Arizona, but really every state's a border state because of the amount of drugs and sex trafficking that's coming across the southern border.
00:29:40.000The thing I hear most about, of course, is not just inflation in the goods that we have, but also an inability to find goods that we need.
00:29:48.000So that's baby formula for young mothers.
00:29:50.000I still can't believe it's sort of a sign of a third world country is mothers not being able to find formula for their kids.
00:29:56.000I can't believe it's true in the United States of America.
00:29:58.000But it's also true of a lot of manufacturers who can't find components they need because our leaders decided to make themselves dependent on China and now China is in a state of lockdown.
00:30:07.000And so our businesses can't get the supplies they need.
00:30:10.000So it's a lot of just, are we making stuff in the country?
00:30:18.000Are people dying of preventable diseases and overdose deaths because our leadership has decided to throw open the gates at the southern border?
00:30:27.000Those are the things that I hear the most about.
00:30:29.000It's funny, we started to hear more about abortion, of course, with the draft Roe versus Wade opinion coming out.
00:30:36.000And Charlie, I'm 100% pro-life and proud to be pro-life.
00:30:41.000Tim Ryan is trying to paint me as a sort of radical on the abortion question because of my pro-life viewpoint when he himself has defended abortion up to 40 weeks, full-term babies defending abortion in this country.
00:30:54.000It's so barbaric and so outside of even, I mean, look, there are pro-choice people.
00:30:58.000We can agree to disagree on the abortion question, but even the pro-choice friends that I have are not defending abortion up to 39, 40 weeks of gestation.
00:31:07.000It's so barbaric and it's ridiculous that Tim Ryan is trying to paint me as a radical when his opinion is basically the most left-wing version of abortion opinion that exists anywhere in this country.
00:31:18.000Yeah, and on the baby formula thing, it's actually created by the government.
00:31:21.000This is again, I mean, so you have a government that is unable to deploy prop withdraw properly from Afghanistan, leaving $85 billion of weapons behind.
00:31:29.000They're not able to notify the proper agencies when you shut down a baby formula facility or factory based on health concerns.
00:31:36.000But all of a sudden, they're going to masterfully be able to implement $40 billion in the middle of a war zone against a nuclear-armed nation that has a tendency not to really lose wars just because they don't lose them, not necessarily win them.
00:31:47.000Like that's all of a sudden going to be like we should trust that all of a sudden that's the government that we want to send to Keeve.
00:31:55.000That's how they want us to see it, but unfortunately that just ain't the way it is.
00:31:58.000I mean, look, you know, we often criticize, and rightfully so, government's inefficiency, the fact that, you know, we're not always, meaning the government isn't always a good steward of people's resources.
00:32:11.000And yet you're right, we sort of think that $40 billion of unchecked no strings attached resources are somehow going to get to the right hands in the Ukraine.
00:32:21.000It's just a crazy, it's just a crazy thing.
00:32:26.000I can't believe that anybody would push back against even having an inspector general who would at least observe and keep some tabs on how that $40 billion is being spent.
00:32:36.000I mean, that is a ton of money, Charlie.
00:32:38.000I know that we have $100 billions of dollars worth of deficits every single year in this country.