The Charlie Kirk Show - March 04, 2022


EXCLUSIVE: Senator Rand Paul Responds to Lindsey Graham Calling for Putin's Asssassination


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Sen. Rand Paul and Dave McCormick join the show to discuss the Ukraine crisis and why we should not go to war with Russia. They also talk about why Vladimir Putin should not be supported by the United States and why he should be overthrown.

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00:01:33.000 With us right now is a friend of mine and someone who is a courageous fighter for liberty and very wise and prudent when it comes to foreign policy matters.
00:01:41.000 So, Senator, I want to get right into it.
00:01:43.000 What should be the West's and America's response to the situation in Russia and Ukraine?
00:01:51.000 Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Washington, they all said warm had to be in the precincts of Congress.
00:01:59.000 You had to have a vote of Congress.
00:02:01.000 So I think if we keep that in mind, it sort of keeps us to our basis no matter what the actual events are on the ground.
00:02:07.000 If people want to go to war somewhere in Ukraine or Europe or whatever, there has to be a vote in Congress.
00:02:12.000 That alone helps us to have input from the people and makes it less likely that we go to war.
00:02:18.000 Now, when you look at the individual situation of Russia and Ukraine, I think it's never a good idea to be eager for letting countries invade each other.
00:02:28.000 I do think it's much more of a European problem than our problem, but I have no problem with saying that Putin should be condemned for invading Ukraine.
00:02:36.000 I do think the response to it, though, ultimately depends a lot on Europe and what Europe decides to do.
00:02:43.000 I think Germany has been stronger and Europe has been stronger in coalescing in opposition to this since the invasion.
00:02:49.000 And I think ultimately Putin will see this as a miscalculation.
00:02:53.000 But he's gone in and he's gone in in a big way.
00:02:56.000 But there are a lot of things that I think he has not foreseen.
00:02:59.000 The will of the Ukrainian resistance, the will of Europe's resistance, but also the fact that energy is a two-way street.
00:03:06.000 While the Europeans may think they need Soviet, not Soviet, Russian natural gas and oil, the Russians also need their money.
00:03:14.000 And so it goes both ways.
00:03:16.000 And I think that what you're going to see is that Putin has made himself or will make himself more of an outcast over this.
00:03:24.000 But there are some that are, I think, being reckless with this and saying we should go to war and send troops in there.
00:03:29.000 You know, there was a video that surfaced of John McCain and Lindsey Graham advocating for war and we'll do whatever we can.
00:03:36.000 We have your back.
00:03:37.000 Get started with the war several years ago.
00:03:40.000 So I think we have to realize that war is something that's an awful sort of result and that's not something we should ever be advocating for.
00:03:50.000 And if we keep the Constitution in mind, I think it keeps us out of a lot of war.
00:03:54.000 I totally agree.
00:03:55.000 Unfortunately, a lot of that power is just vested in one individual that is able to supply arms or potentially get us into a nuclear conflict with ever actually going through the Article 1 of the Constitution.
00:04:05.000 So, Senator, Senator Lindsey Graham made headlines the last 24 hours saying outright bluntly that we need to try to encourage and support the assassination of Vladimir Putin, regime change. 0.69
00:04:18.000 And more than that, we just need to try to get someone to cut the head off the snake. 0.84
00:04:22.000 What is your take on this pretty preposterous proposal? 0.90
00:04:27.000 I think it's reckless speech.
00:04:29.000 I think it inflames the situation.
00:04:31.000 I think if you're worried about your adversary being irrational, you know, saying things like you're going to assassinate him would actually make things worse.
00:04:40.000 It's actually against the U.S. law.
00:04:42.000 U.S. law for a long time has been that we don't assassinate civilian leaders of other governments.
00:04:49.000 And so, no, just wrongheaded on every notion.
00:04:52.000 But I think people in elected to office need to realize that their words have consequences and they should actually be careful, you know, with what they say.
00:05:00.000 And this is, I think, careless language that doesn't really have a place in our debate.
00:05:05.000 Yeah, it seems as if it just the West, or at least some of our leaders in our country and in the Republican Party, want to escalate this conflict even further.
00:05:13.000 They're talking about no-fly zones.
00:05:14.000 They're talking about all these different sorts of things.
00:05:17.000 The drums of war are almost in complete and total unison right now when it comes to this conflict.
00:05:23.000 And it's important that the people, you know, in particular, pressure your elected officials in any way you possibly can to try to demand that we want to de-escalate this conflict.
00:05:34.000 And Ukraine is actually incentivized right now to try to get Western forces involved and engaged.
00:05:39.000 Senator, you're actually on the campaign trail right now, doing some very exciting things, trying to challenge some of the warmongers and neoconservatives in the Republican Party.
00:05:49.000 Tell us about it.
00:05:51.000 I am in Salt Lake City as we speak.
00:05:53.000 I'm here campaigning for Mike Lee, who I think is one of the best U.S. senators we have.
00:05:58.000 I'm gazing out at the beautiful mountains and the beautiful terrain around Salt Lake City.
00:06:03.000 But yeah, Mike Lee is one of the good guys.
00:06:06.000 He's one of the best that we have.
00:06:07.000 He's a constitutionalist.
00:06:09.000 He believes in a constitutional and restrained foreign policy as well.
00:06:13.000 And so he and I have a lot in common.
00:06:15.000 And when people ask me, who in the Senate are you most closely aligned with?
00:06:19.000 My response is Mike Lee, because if you look at our voting records, we're very, very similar.
00:06:24.000 And I think he's a very thoughtful, you know, voice, also a voice that knows the Constitution very well.
00:06:31.000 You know, he defended the Constitution as an appellate lawyer, you know, at the highest levels of our judicial proceedings.
00:06:39.000 He really knows the law well.
00:06:41.000 And he's a stickler for reading the bills.
00:06:43.000 You know, it'll be he and I saying, you know, we're not voting for something that we've had one hour to read that's 2,000 pages long.
00:06:51.000 And you'll often see he and I on the Senate floor putting down these 2,000-page bills and showing how enormous they are and saying we got this only moments ago and they expect to vote on it.
00:07:01.000 It's how mistakes in legislation are made, but it's also how the intent of what people tell you is in a bill or what's in the title isn't always within the actual language.
00:07:11.000 So, you know, I hope people will think about Mike Lee, go to his website, see if they can help him because he's one of the better ones and he is making a difference in the U.S. Senate.
00:07:20.000 Now, I hear that you may or may not be going to Wyoming.
00:07:23.000 Is that correct?
00:07:24.000 To challenge a certain individual there?
00:07:27.000 Yeah.
00:07:28.000 I think it's high time that Liz Cheney and her brand of warmongering are dismissed from the Republican Party. 0.85
00:07:35.000 Most of the Republicans out in her state have no use for her anymore. 1.00
00:07:39.000 She voted for this January 6th Commission, which is not just about going after Trump.
00:07:44.000 It's about going after every private phone call that congressmen or senators made.
00:07:50.000 It's about going after the people who worked in the White House and getting their private conversations.
00:07:55.000 These are things that the Constitution is absolutely opposed to.
00:07:58.000 The Fourth Amendment says you're supposed to have probable cause, and you go to an independent judge, not a bunch of politicians.
00:08:04.000 So you have a bunch of liberal Democrats who hate President Trump, former President Trump.
00:08:09.000 You have a bunch of liberal Democrats on this committee, and then two Republicans who also viscerally hate President Trump.
00:08:15.000 And then they're somehow to be a grand jury to investigate and go after the private communications of other fellow congressmen.
00:08:23.000 I think it's an abomination.
00:08:25.000 This January 6th Commission, the fact that Liz Cheney has been for it.
00:08:28.000 But even before there was a Donald Trump on the scene, the Cheneys were a family that talked about deficits don't matter.
00:08:35.000 They believe in just the glory of war and killing.
00:08:39.000 They never served in the military, but they always believed in the glory of killing, as long as somebody else had to do the fighting, whether it was our kids or who kids.
00:08:48.000 And so I think it's high time we get somebody new.
00:08:50.000 There's a woman running out there, her name is Harriet Hageman. 0.97
00:08:53.000 People should go and look her up as far as her campaign website. 1.00
00:08:57.000 She's been a constitutional lawyer fighting for property rights for years and years. 0.98
00:09:02.000 She belongs to this new civil liberties group on the right that has been fighting against the vaccine mandate.
00:09:10.000 She's the real deal.
00:09:11.000 So it's important that she's not Liz Cheney, number one, but number two, she is a real deal and will be a great asset to us in Washington.
00:09:20.000 And this is not a done deal.
00:09:21.000 Liz Cheney's popularity is virtually zero, but you know, there's rumors that she's trying to get Democrats to vote for in the Republican primary, which could mess up the primary out there. 0.93
00:09:31.000 So we have to work hard and make sure we can raise enough money for Harriet Hageman.
00:09:34.000 But I'll be there on Monday.
00:09:36.000 I'll be in Cheyenne, Wyoming on Monday.
00:09:38.000 I love it.
00:09:39.000 So, Senator, I got to ask you an unrelated question, but you're more qualified than anyone else to answer it.
00:09:43.000 Where is Dr. Fauci?
00:09:45.000 He seems as if he's just kind of vanished and disappeared.
00:09:49.000 You know, he's still for the mandates.
00:09:51.000 He's still for centralized planning.
00:09:54.000 He still is a menace to the country.
00:09:56.000 And I can promise you one thing: if we take over in November, I'm going to investigate every piece of paper he's laid his hands on.
00:10:03.000 We're going to find out about the gain of function research in the Wuhan lab in China.
00:10:07.000 We're going to also investigate the cover-up of Fauci and Dr. Collins to try to make sure nobody knew what was going on in that lab.
00:10:14.000 And we're going to get to the bottom of this, not because I have any sort of dislike for him.
00:10:19.000 I have a dislike for what he stands for, but I want to make sure that we never have this happen again.
00:10:24.000 I think they could create a virus in a lab that could destroy our country, that could destroy the world.
00:10:30.000 I mean, it could destroy civilization as we know it.
00:10:32.000 I'm not alone in saying this.
00:10:33.000 Other scientists who are not politicians, who are not partisan, are saying the same thing.
00:10:38.000 So I can promise you this: we are going to get to the bottom of it, but I don't have the power to investigate unless we were to take over the Senate.
00:10:44.000 So it is incredibly important, I think, that we get people in position of power, Mike Lee, myself.
00:10:51.000 We will be chairman of the committee if we can win in November.
00:10:54.000 And we will.
00:10:55.000 And I think it's going to be large in part thanks to what you're doing.
00:10:58.000 Senator, enjoy Utah and have a great time in Wyoming as well.
00:11:01.000 Thank you so much.
00:11:02.000 Talk to you soon.
00:11:03.000 Thanks.
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00:12:23.000 Let's go to Cut 86.
00:12:24.000 Zelensky says that he does not want Ukraine's history to be filled with war, but peace, so he wants the fighting to stop.
00:12:31.000 Play Cut 86.
00:12:33.000 Not want the history of Ukraine as a legend about 300 spartan men. 0.91
00:12:38.000 I don't want this.
00:12:39.000 I want peace.
00:12:41.000 I want this peace to be in my country.
00:12:45.000 We're on our land and we're ready to for anything.
00:12:49.000 Cut 79, just to reinforce the alliance between Russia and China.
00:12:54.000 China asked Russia to wait after the Olympics to invade Ukraine, and they agreed. 0.98
00:12:59.000 We actually predicted that the Olympics were going to be the centerpiece if an invasion was going to occur.
00:13:04.000 And something I really want to dive into, not this segment, but with Dave McCormick, who is an expert on China.
00:13:09.000 I want to really talk about Taiwan.
00:13:11.000 It interests me to a great extent.
00:13:13.000 But first, let's play Cut 79.
00:13:15.000 European official confirming to Fox News that Beijing asked Moscow to delay its invasion of Ukraine until after the Olympic Games were done and dusted.
00:13:23.000 And Russia apparently said, okay, Beijing now responding.
00:13:27.000 Here it is.
00:13:27.000 Quote, these claims are speculation without any basis and are intended to blame shift and smear China, end quote.
00:13:34.000 And so China and Russia work together in one way or the other on this invasion. 0.80
00:13:40.000 That surely shows a recalibration of what would be the world order right now.
00:13:46.000 They say it's a new world order.
00:13:48.000 It doesn't look like that at all.
00:13:49.000 It looks like actually an older world order in more ways than one.
00:13:52.000 Fox News reports in Cut 84, Russian oligarchs are fleeing in their yachts.
00:13:56.000 Play Cut 84.
00:13:57.000 Hi, Bill.
00:13:58.000 So we are seeing an exodus of Russian oligarchs moving their assets and trying to flee by private yacht as officials are trying to track them down.
00:14:07.000 Since we saw the Russian invasion of Ukraine, at least three of these massive yachts are sailing for the Maldives, which currently does not have an extradition agreement with the U.S. Another one is currently in the Seychelles.
00:14:21.000 Another yacht is reportedly sailing to Montenegro as the U.S. and European Union impose sanctions targeting those who are close to the Kremlin.
00:14:30.000 Anthony Blinken, failed rock star, says, don't worry.
00:14:33.000 Hey, our response, we're going to go take the assets in the yachts.
00:14:35.000 What is it with these Russian oligarchs and the fascination with yachts?
00:14:38.000 I don't understand this.
00:14:39.000 Like, really big into yachts.
00:14:41.000 Play Cut 85.
00:14:43.000 We and our allies and partners are launching a task force to identify, track down, and freeze the assets of sanctioned Russian companies and oligarchs.
00:14:54.000 We will freeze and seize their yachts, their private jets, their opulent estates in world capitals.
00:15:02.000 Some of these yachts are $600 million yachts.
00:15:04.000 Is that right?
00:15:06.000 Now, that is going to definitely, let's say, send a message back to Vladimir Putin as soon as these rich guys are going to be without their yachts and without their planes.
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00:16:40.000 With us right now is David McCormick, who is running for the United States Senate in Pennsylvania.
00:16:46.000 We had the opportunity to go to Yuma together and see the open border for ourselves.
00:16:51.000 David joins us right now.
00:16:52.000 David, welcome to the Charlie Kirk Show.
00:16:54.000 Hey, thanks, Charlie.
00:16:55.000 Good to be with you.
00:16:56.000 You're doing really well in Pennsylvania.
00:16:57.000 I'm getting messages from people.
00:16:58.000 Let's just start there.
00:16:59.000 Tell us a little about your background.
00:17:00.000 You're running for office in Pennsylvania.
00:17:02.000 The polls are looking really good for you.
00:17:04.000 Yeah, thanks.
00:17:05.000 Well, listen, I don't pay much attention to the polls at this point.
00:17:07.000 It's sort of a day-to-day fight.
00:17:09.000 But I grew up in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, deer hunting and playing football and bailing hay and trimming Christmas trees.
00:17:17.000 I had a great, great Pennsylvania upbringing.
00:17:19.000 And then I went to West Point.
00:17:21.000 Wrestling got me to West Point and then the 82nd Airborne Division and then the first Gulf War.
00:17:25.000 Then I came back to Pennsylvania and ran a company and created jobs.
00:17:29.000 And so for me, I think the country's, you know, you and I talked about this when we were together.
00:17:33.000 The country's going in a terrible direction.
00:17:36.000 And the wokeness and the weakness are on the march.
00:17:40.000 And we need people to stand up and fight.
00:17:42.000 And so this is my decision to go and try to go to Washington and fight for the people of Pennsylvania, the great Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
00:17:50.000 And that, just for our audience's sake, that's the understatement of the century.
00:17:54.000 You ran a very successful business, one of the most successful international businesses, very complex, very high pressure, and you did a great job of it.
00:18:00.000 So I want to ask you, Dave, you and I both saw the southern border for you.
00:18:04.000 I think it was the first time going down there.
00:18:06.000 Just kind of, what was your impression?
00:18:08.000 What from a business perspective, from just the perspective as an American patriot?
00:18:14.000 I mean, just tell us how you processed all of that.
00:18:17.000 Yeah, I mean, Charlie, I've been driving around Pennsylvania and people keep talking about open borders.
00:18:23.000 And it was a big deal to them.
00:18:25.000 And the fentanyl that's coming into our state has doubled in the last 12 months under Joe Biden's open borders policies and the crime in our sanctuary cities of Philadelphia.
00:18:35.000 There's been more than 15 flights in the middle of the night coming into places like Harrisburg and Philadelphia.
00:18:41.000 It's on people's minds.
00:18:43.000 But as much as I expected the border to be really in terrible shape, it was so many times worse what you and I saw than what I expected.
00:18:52.000 It was complete and utter chaos.
00:18:56.000 No notion of government control whatsoever.
00:19:00.000 The Border Patrol, those great public servants are overwhelmed by the terrible policies that you and I saw.
00:19:08.000 We walked.
00:19:09.000 You and I looked at that wall and we both said, whoever says you can get over that wall has never seen the wall.
00:19:14.000 But you look at that wall, it's overwhelming.
00:19:16.000 And you and I went to that spot where the wall ended and there was all of that steel piled up because Biden had stopped it.
00:19:23.000 And then we both saw the contractors still being paid to complete the wall that the Biden administration had put on hold.
00:19:30.000 So it was such a overwhelming experience of recognizing that there is literally no sovereignty.
00:19:38.000 Protection of our sovereign borders is absolutely gone.
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00:19:50.000 And the terrible damage.
00:19:52.000 And then finally, the thing you and I both talked about is the cartels and how the cartels have grown in enormous power and that the fentanyl manufactured in China unchecked is flowing across our border.
00:20:05.000 And it's honestly, I think the threat, even though I knew it was a large threat, the threat to our society, the threat to America that we saw together is beyond anything I might have imagined.
00:20:16.000 Yeah, and that's exactly right.
00:20:18.000 And you and I saw those cars over the ridge that were cartel cars.
00:20:22.000 And there were illegal migrants coming in and out of the cars.
00:20:26.000 And the cartel guys were glassing us with binoculars, looking for the right opportunity to go through.
00:20:32.000 And just for everyone to understand, we went to Yuma, which is in the southwest corner of Arizona.
00:20:36.000 It's like the agricultural breadbasket of almost the entire country.
00:20:40.000 A lot of your lettuce comes from there, very fertile area.
00:20:44.000 And there used to be about 50 illegal border crossings a day while Trump was president.
00:20:50.000 Year later, there's a thousand border crossings a day in Yuma.
00:20:54.000 And Dave, I was really struck when we visited about how there's the gotaways, there's the 400,000 people that don't want to get caught, but it seems as if a lot of people are okay with getting caught.
00:21:04.000 It's like a paper, it's like a paperwork processing operation.
00:21:08.000 That was the thing I didn't fully understand until I saw it.
00:21:11.000 But as you say, they come in, they cross the border, and there's bus stops and they wait and go to the bus stops and then they're processed for asylum.
00:21:21.000 One of the key things that we learned, Charlie, was that they can't have an ID with them that shows they're a citizen in good order in another country.
00:21:31.000 So when we were walking along the border, we saw these piles of ID cards.
00:21:38.000 And they come, they get processed into the system for asylum.
00:21:42.000 They're given court dates and the future to check in.
00:21:46.000 And then they're essentially left wide open.
00:21:49.000 And they can go at their leisure to wherever they're going to go.
00:21:53.000 And of course, what's happening is the cartel, the cartels are then managing their distribution across the country.
00:22:01.000 Most of them have some sort of obligation they have to pay off, sadly, either in the drug trade or prostitution.
00:22:07.000 And that's how we see them in Pennsylvania 24 to 48 hours later.
00:22:12.000 And it's a nationwide challenge.
00:22:16.000 And the numbers are staggering.
00:22:18.000 We also learned that those cartels do this indentured servitude where they're given a loan, somewhere between $6,000 and $20,000, and then they pay off that loan.
00:22:29.000 And of course, they never pay it off.
00:22:31.000 The human suffering is a Christian. 1.00
00:22:33.000 Think about the charity, the charitableness of what's going on.
00:22:37.000 The Biden administration, President Biden talked about all the terrible behavior and suffering at the border under the Trump administration.
00:22:44.000 The human suffering now is orders of magnitude beyond anything we might have imagined.
00:22:50.000 That's really well said.
00:22:51.000 And it's important what I want to reemphasize that you said.
00:22:54.000 The cartels will go into these Nicaraguan neighborhoods or these Guatemalan neighborhoods or these Mexican neighborhoods.
00:23:00.000 These people have nothing.
00:23:01.000 And they'll say, hey, sell everything you have and we'll take you up to the border.
00:23:06.000 And it's a form of indentured servitude.
00:23:09.000 And then you get billions of dollars in remittances.
00:23:11.000 It's this entire scheme that is put together.
00:23:15.000 And Dave, basically every single state has now become a border state.
00:23:19.000 No doubt.
00:23:20.000 No doubt about it.
00:23:21.000 It's a top three kitchen table issue in Pennsylvania.
00:23:24.000 As you know, Charlie, Pennsylvania is likely to be the Senate seat that determines whether the Republicans win back the Senate or the Democrats keep it.
00:23:34.000 It's going to be one of the biggest, maybe the biggest Senate race in history.
00:23:38.000 And this issue, this issue of open borders is on the minds of just about every primary voter I meet.
00:23:45.000 It's front of mind for them.
00:23:47.000 And now I know why, because the open borders are truly undermining the safety, security, and health and well-being of the people of Pennsylvania.
00:23:59.000 It's a huge burden that they're experiencing, and they're deeply, deeply frustrated.
00:24:06.000 They feel like they've been sold a bill of goods.
00:24:08.000 They feel like they've been let down.
00:24:09.000 They feel like their leaders aren't hearing them.
00:24:11.000 And they're disgusted with the weak ineptitude of Joe Biden.
00:24:15.000 So I want to shift gears for a second here, Dave, about a topic you've been talking a lot about.
00:24:18.000 You and I had a chance to talk about this while we were visiting the border, which is the issue of China.
00:24:23.000 So we see Putin's invasion of Ukraine, which is reprehensible.
00:24:26.000 And the United States response has been mixed.
00:24:30.000 I don't think troops going into that theater is the right move.
00:24:33.000 However, all eyes really need to be on Taiwan and China.
00:24:36.000 I'm very worried that China is going to use this as an opportunity to go after Taiwan.
00:24:41.000 What should we do right now as Americans?
00:24:44.000 What should we do from a foreign policy perspective to try to prevent that?
00:24:47.000 Should we put an aircraft carrier in the South China Sea?
00:24:49.000 I mean, is that even our fight?
00:24:51.000 Should we even care at all?
00:24:53.000 Yeah.
00:24:53.000 Well, thanks.
00:24:54.000 You know, I think it has to start with why are we in this precarious moment?
00:24:58.000 I agree with what you're describing, absolutely, in terms of Putin's invasion of Ukraine, but also in terms of the likelihood of a more aggressive move on China's part.
00:25:07.000 And the weakness of the Biden administration is inviting thugs and tyrants around the world to test us.
00:25:12.000 And Afghanistan, which I told you, Charlie, is really the thing that got me thinking about running was as a combat veteran watching that debacle happen and the ineptitude, the lack of accountability, the weakness that it projected.
00:25:25.000 And so we're going to be tested.
00:25:26.000 And now is the time that we're being tested.
00:25:28.000 I agree with you 100%.
00:25:29.000 My old unit, the 82nd Airborne Division, has been deployed to Poland.
00:25:33.000 I think we have to take every step to not get our troops engaged in a land or in Europe.
00:25:39.000 Even putting them close to that proximity creates risk.
00:25:43.000 And I also think that if we got somehow dragged into a more extensive engagement in Europe, it would even heighten the likelihood of the Chinese moving. 0.97
00:25:51.000 I think two things.
00:25:52.000 One, we need a whole of nation strategy in terms of how we take the fight to China, economically and from a national security perspective.
00:26:02.000 We need to reduce our dependence on China by bringing home key strategic supply chains like semiconductors and pharmaceuticals.
00:26:10.000 Tom Cotton has a good piece of legislation on this.
00:26:12.000 Very good.
00:26:14.000 We absolutely need to hold them accountable for the fentanyl crisis that I mentioned and for the lack of transparency on COVID.
00:26:22.000 I mean, we lost a million lives and trillions of dollars of economic value.
00:26:25.000 We should have reparations.
00:26:27.000 We should probably eliminate sovereign immunity and let the families who lost people in COVID sue the Chinese people, the Chinese government. 0.91
00:26:35.000 We should continue the trade policies of President Trump in terms of keeping the steel tariffs in place and making sure whatever trade we do have is fair.
00:26:43.000 And we need to make sure no company or investor is doing anything in China that's going to enable the Chinese military modernization.
00:26:50.000 On Taiwan, my view on this is that we need to exhibit strength.
00:26:55.000 And what I mean by that, I think we need to make sure that Chinese, the Taiwanese rather, are armed to be able to defend themselves.
00:27:03.000 Be very, very generous in terms of military sales to Taiwan.
00:27:07.000 Second, I do think we need to project strength in the South China Sea.
00:27:11.000 And I think we, as President Trump did, need to keep a high degree of uncertainty and not nail ourselves down into how we're going to respond in the event that the Chinese move in Taiwan, but make it very clear that we have the capacity to respond in a wide range of ways.
00:27:26.000 I think what was one of the things Trump did extremely well, in my opinion, was he kept his opponents guessing.
00:27:32.000 And I think we need to keep the Chinese guessing in Taiwan while exhibiting lots of potential to do lots of different things. 0.77
00:27:39.000 And also with a series of steps that I described, reducing our dependence on them day by day.
00:27:44.000 It's well said.
00:27:45.000 So Dave, just about a minute remaining.
00:27:47.000 Talk about your website.
00:27:48.000 And I want you to reiterate one thing.
00:27:50.000 We do not get the Senate back if we do not win the Pennsylvania Senate race.
00:27:53.000 It's almost impossible.
00:27:55.000 Yeah.
00:27:56.000 Thank you.
00:27:56.000 It's DaveMcCormickPA.com.
00:28:00.000 It's my website.
00:28:01.000 And I've got my issue paper there and all the things that people can learn about my campaign.
00:28:06.000 I'm running as a battle tested, both in combat and in business.
00:28:11.000 I'm running as a Pennsylvania True.
00:28:14.000 Someone's a seventh generation Pennsylvania, grew up there, have a family farm there.
00:28:17.000 And I'm running as an outsider.
00:28:19.000 I've got no desire to be a senator other than to go to Washington and make change.
00:28:24.000 Winning the seat is not the goal.
00:28:26.000 Winning the seat and making a huge difference and fighting for Pennsylvania is.
00:28:30.000 And it could not be more important.
00:28:31.000 Chuck Schumer is going to throw everything but the kitchen sink at this seat.
00:28:36.000 And we need a strong candidate who can persevere and win.
00:28:39.000 And I'm that guy.
00:28:40.000 Very important.
00:28:41.000 Dave, I really enjoyed our time together in Yuma.
00:28:43.000 I was very impressed.
00:28:44.000 And I think Pennsylvania would be well served by you.
00:28:47.000 And you're doing very well.
00:28:48.000 The polls are speaking.
00:28:48.000 I know you're not talking about the polls, but I'm looking at them.
00:28:50.000 So, Dave, keep fighting hard.
00:28:52.000 And thanks for the great words today.
00:28:54.000 Thank you.
00:28:54.000 Have a great day.
00:28:55.000 Talk to you soon.
00:28:56.000 Thank you.
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00:30:05.000 This Ron DeSantis story will not end.
00:30:07.000 And when we stand 100% with Ron DeSantis, this is all COVID theater.
00:30:11.000 Let's go through a series of tapes here and analyze it together.
00:30:14.000 And then I want to give you a short update on the truckers and some other news happening in the U.S. Senate.
00:30:19.000 Play Cut 78.
00:30:20.000 You do not have to wear those masks.
00:30:22.000 I mean, please take it off.
00:30:23.000 Honestly, it's not doing anything, and we got to stop with this COVID speed. 0.65
00:30:27.000 So if you want to wear it, fine, but this is ridiculous.
00:30:33.000 All right.
00:30:34.000 Well, it's good to be a USF.
00:30:36.000 Alpha Maya leader.
00:30:37.000 That's what Ron DeSantis is.
00:30:38.000 He doesn't care.
00:30:39.000 Cut 122, the saga continues.
00:30:42.000 Well, Tucker, none of the adults were wearing masks, and it seemed to me that someone told those kids they had to do it.
00:30:48.000 So I just wanted to make it very clear.
00:30:50.000 They do not need to be doing it.
00:30:51.000 Obviously, in Florida, it's a free state.
00:30:53.000 You can.
00:30:54.000 And I think it needs to be said because people have been lied to for two years.
00:30:58.000 And so I was, I didn't want it to be thinking that like they were told to do this by me because I certainly wouldn't do that.
00:31:05.000 And, you know, they talk about, oh, by letting someone have a choice to take off their mask and welcoming that choice, that that's somehow bullying.
00:31:12.000 Tucker, bullying is locking kids out of school, which they did.
00:31:16.000 Bullying is forcing kids to wear masks for eight hours a day, which they did for two years.
00:31:22.000 Bullying is discharging members of the military because they don't want to take a vaccine.
00:31:26.000 Bullying is segregating unvaccinated kids into separate rooms.
00:31:30.000 But Joe, don't worry, Joe Scarborough from his house in Mount Desert Island, Maine.
00:31:36.000 He's just screaming at the camera, play tape.
00:31:40.000 I mean, serious.
00:31:41.000 No, I'm serious.
00:31:41.000 Was that guy raised in a barn?
00:31:44.000 That's what we say in the South when somebody is a bit.
00:31:48.000 I really do.
00:31:49.000 You know, a guy, Willie, being rude to kids.
00:31:55.000 I mean, seriously, this is a question I asked.
00:31:58.000 Who raised him?
00:32:00.000 Like, who, who, who would want their child to behave that way toward other children?
00:32:11.000 They're not children.
00:32:12.000 They're college kids.
00:32:14.000 These are 18, 19, and 20-year-olds.
00:32:15.000 He was at the University of South Florida, not the second grade preparatory school in Boca Raton.
00:32:23.000 These are legal adults.
00:32:25.000 You want to talk about bullying?
00:32:26.000 How about locking January 6th protesters in solitary confinement?
00:32:30.000 Play cut 119.
00:32:32.000 Beginning Monday, March 7th, we will be suspending the requirements under key to NYC.
00:32:40.000 And so folks can come in and enjoy the restaurants, enjoy the businesses, and be a part of this great city without having to show proof of vaccination.
00:32:51.000 Hey, I can go back to New York.
00:32:53.000 I'm not going to, though.
00:32:54.000 But I could go back to it.
00:32:57.000 I could do it without showing proof of vaccination.
00:33:00.000 I wonder if there was actually a very big business hit.
00:33:02.000 I bet there was.
00:33:03.000 I bet there was a tourist hit that was happening because of all this.
00:33:06.000 And by the way, do you know what I love about the fact that they're revoking all these mandates and stuff?
00:33:09.000 I love how it's showing to the people that said, I must get it or else I'll never be able to do anything.
00:33:14.000 Like, actually, no.
00:33:17.000 You fell for the tyranny and we did not.
00:33:20.000 And I have beautiful natural immunity.
00:33:23.000 And all you had to do was hold out.
00:33:26.000 These people said, well, Charlie, how are you ever going to go to New York?
00:33:29.000 Maybe I won't.
00:33:30.000 Okay, so I didn't go to New York for like nine months.
00:33:32.000 Big deal.
00:33:33.000 I wasn't planning to go to New York anyway.
00:33:36.000 All you had to do was hold out.
00:33:39.000 The trucker convoy is continuing across the country.
00:33:42.000 It's allegedly 70 miles long, which is really hard to believe.
00:33:46.000 It's amazing.
00:33:48.000 And they're protesting against the continued mandates.
00:33:51.000 Now, there is a bill that is being discussed in front of Congress right now, which the Senate is passing to end the COVID national emergency because it would be reckless.
00:34:04.000 But Biden says he'll veto it, even though after the State of the Union, he says that we're back to normal.
00:34:10.000 Remember, if no emergency, then you can't get emergency use authorization.
00:34:14.000 If no emergency use authorization, then no mandatory vaccines.
00:34:18.000 If no vaccines, no vaccine mandates or passports.
00:34:21.000 If no passports, no social credit score.
00:34:24.000 If no social credit score, no great reset.
00:34:27.000 That's why this bill in front of the Senate is so important that if we are able to get rid of the emergency powers that Biden has, we might be able to thwart and choke point the unfolding of events, the bottom line chain reaction that might result in the great reset.
00:34:46.000 No emergency use authorization, no EUA, no vaccine, no social credit score, no great reset.
00:34:52.000 It's already passed the Senate, by the way, it's update.
00:34:56.000 But Biden is saying he's going to veto it, even though he says we're back to normal, but I'm not going to sign a bill that says we're back to normal.
00:35:02.000 Huh.
00:35:03.000 We're going to keep our eyes on that.
00:35:05.000 It's very important.
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