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00:01:33.000With 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.
00:01:41.000So, Senator, I want to get right into it.
00:01:43.000What should be the West's and America's response to the situation in Russia and Ukraine?
00:01:51.000Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Washington, they all said warm had to be in the precincts of Congress.
00:02:01.000So 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.
00:02:07.000If people want to go to war somewhere in Ukraine or Europe or whatever, there has to be a vote in Congress.
00:02:12.000That alone helps us to have input from the people and makes it less likely that we go to war.
00:02:18.000Now, 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.
00:02:28.000I 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.
00:02:36.000I do think the response to it, though, ultimately depends a lot on Europe and what Europe decides to do.
00:02:43.000I think Germany has been stronger and Europe has been stronger in coalescing in opposition to this since the invasion.
00:02:49.000And I think ultimately Putin will see this as a miscalculation.
00:02:53.000But he's gone in and he's gone in in a big way.
00:02:56.000But there are a lot of things that I think he has not foreseen.
00:02:59.000The will of the Ukrainian resistance, the will of Europe's resistance, but also the fact that energy is a two-way street.
00:03:06.000While the Europeans may think they need Soviet, not Soviet, Russian natural gas and oil, the Russians also need their money.
00:03:37.000Get started with the war several years ago.
00:03:40.000So 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.
00:03:50.000And if we keep the Constitution in mind, I think it keeps us out of a lot of war.
00:03:55.000Unfortunately, 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.
00:04:05.000So, 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.
00:04:18.000And more than that, we just need to try to get someone to cut the head off the snake.
00:04:22.000What is your take on this pretty preposterous proposal?
00:04:31.000I 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.
00:04:42.000U.S. law for a long time has been that we don't assassinate civilian leaders of other governments.
00:04:49.000And so, no, just wrongheaded on every notion.
00:04:52.000But 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.
00:05:00.000And this is, I think, careless language that doesn't really have a place in our debate.
00:05:05.000Yeah, 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.
00:05:14.000They're talking about all these different sorts of things.
00:05:17.000The drums of war are almost in complete and total unison right now when it comes to this conflict.
00:05:23.000And 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.
00:05:34.000And Ukraine is actually incentivized right now to try to get Western forces involved and engaged.
00:05:39.000Senator, 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.
00:06:41.000And he's a stickler for reading the bills.
00:06:43.000You 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.
00:06:51.000And 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.
00:07:01.000It'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.
00:07:11.000So, 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.
00:07:20.000Now, I hear that you may or may not be going to Wyoming.
00:08:25.000This January 6th Commission, the fact that Liz Cheney has been for it.
00:08:28.000But even before there was a Donald Trump on the scene, the Cheneys were a family that talked about deficits don't matter.
00:08:35.000They believe in just the glory of war and killing.
00:08:39.000They 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.
00:08:48.000And so I think it's high time we get somebody new.
00:08:50.000There's a woman running out there, her name is Harriet Hageman.
00:08:53.000People should go and look her up as far as her campaign website.
00:08:57.000She's been a constitutional lawyer fighting for property rights for years and years.
00:09:02.000She belongs to this new civil liberties group on the right that has been fighting against the vaccine mandate.
00:09:21.000Liz 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.
00:09:31.000So we have to work hard and make sure we can raise enough money for Harriet Hageman.
00:10:33.000Other scientists who are not politicians, who are not partisan, are saying the same thing.
00:10:38.000So 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.
00:10:44.000So it is incredibly important, I think, that we get people in position of power, Mike Lee, myself.
00:10:51.000We will be chairman of the committee if we can win in November.
00:11:06.000Look, I've been using ExpressVPN for about six years now, and it's the VPN that I trust.
00:11:11.000And here's something that blows my mind: these guys that actually engineered their own VPN protocol called Lightway to keep your data secure without sacrificing speed.
00:11:28.000ExpressVPN is an app that encrypts 100% of your network data and reroutes it through a secure and encrypted server.
00:11:35.000This is especially important when you're on public Wi-Fi.
00:11:37.000Not only can admins see everything you're doing, but hackers connected to that same network can also steal your account logins and financial details.
00:11:45.000Because they engineered their own VPN protocol, all the other major VPNs use the same off-the-shelf protocol.
00:11:51.000This level of bespoke technology is exactly what allows ExpressVPN to provide superior speeds and enhanced privacy and protection.
00:11:58.000It's 2022, and you need a VPN every time you go online.
00:12:02.000Use the VPN that I trust that I have on my phone right now.
00:12:06.000It's expressvpn.com slash Charlie, and you can get three extra months free.
00:13:15.000European official confirming to Fox News that Beijing asked Moscow to delay its invasion of Ukraine until after the Olympic Games were done and dusted.
00:13:23.000And Russia apparently said, okay, Beijing now responding.
00:13:58.000So 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.
00:14:07.000Since 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.
00:14:21.000Another yacht is reportedly sailing to Montenegro as the U.S. and European Union impose sanctions targeting those who are close to the Kremlin.
00:14:30.000Anthony Blinken, failed rock star, says, don't worry.
00:14:33.000Hey, our response, we're going to go take the assets in the yachts.
00:14:35.000What is it with these Russian oligarchs and the fascination with yachts?
00:14:43.000We and our allies and partners are launching a task force to identify, track down, and freeze the assets of sanctioned Russian companies and oligarchs.
00:14:54.000We will freeze and seize their yachts, their private jets, their opulent estates in world capitals.
00:15:02.000Some of these yachts are $600 million yachts.
00:15:06.000Now, 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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00:17:21.000Wrestling got me to West Point and then the 82nd Airborne Division and then the first Gulf War.
00:17:25.000Then I came back to Pennsylvania and ran a company and created jobs.
00:17:29.000And so for me, I think the country's, you know, you and I talked about this when we were together.
00:17:33.000The country's going in a terrible direction.
00:17:36.000And the wokeness and the weakness are on the march.
00:17:40.000And we need people to stand up and fight.
00:17:42.000And 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.
00:17:50.000And that, just for our audience's sake, that's the understatement of the century.
00:17:54.000You 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.
00:18:00.000So I want to ask you, Dave, you and I both saw the southern border for you.
00:18:04.000I think it was the first time going down there.
00:18:06.000Just kind of, what was your impression?
00:18:08.000What from a business perspective, from just the perspective as an American patriot?
00:18:14.000I mean, just tell us how you processed all of that.
00:18:17.000Yeah, I mean, Charlie, I've been driving around Pennsylvania and people keep talking about open borders.
00:18:25.000And 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.
00:18:35.000There's been more than 15 flights in the middle of the night coming into places like Harrisburg and Philadelphia.
00:19:09.000You and I looked at that wall and we both said, whoever says you can get over that wall has never seen the wall.
00:19:14.000But you look at that wall, it's overwhelming.
00:19:16.000And 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.
00:19:23.000And then we both saw the contractors still being paid to complete the wall that the Biden administration had put on hold.
00:19:30.000So it was such a overwhelming experience of recognizing that there is literally no sovereignty.
00:19:38.000Protection of our sovereign borders is absolutely gone.
00:19:41.000That people from around the world, Uzbekistan and Russia, are flying into Mexico City, going to Mexicali, and then coming across our border unchecked.
00:19:52.000And 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.
00:20:05.000And 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.
00:20:18.000And you and I saw those cars over the ridge that were cartel cars.
00:20:22.000And there were illegal migrants coming in and out of the cars.
00:20:26.000And the cartel guys were glassing us with binoculars, looking for the right opportunity to go through.
00:20:32.000And just for everyone to understand, we went to Yuma, which is in the southwest corner of Arizona.
00:20:36.000It's like the agricultural breadbasket of almost the entire country.
00:20:40.000A lot of your lettuce comes from there, very fertile area.
00:20:44.000And there used to be about 50 illegal border crossings a day while Trump was president.
00:20:50.000Year later, there's a thousand border crossings a day in Yuma.
00:20:54.000And 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.
00:21:04.000It's like a paper, it's like a paperwork processing operation.
00:21:08.000That was the thing I didn't fully understand until I saw it.
00:21:11.000But 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.
00:21:21.000One 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.
00:21:31.000So when we were walking along the border, we saw these piles of ID cards.
00:21:38.000And they come, they get processed into the system for asylum.
00:21:42.000They're given court dates and the future to check in.
00:21:46.000And then they're essentially left wide open.
00:21:49.000And they can go at their leisure to wherever they're going to go.
00:21:53.000And of course, what's happening is the cartel, the cartels are then managing their distribution across the country.
00:22:01.000Most of them have some sort of obligation they have to pay off, sadly, either in the drug trade or prostitution.
00:22:07.000And that's how we see them in Pennsylvania 24 to 48 hours later.
00:22:18.000We 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.
00:22:33.000Think about the charity, the charitableness of what's going on.
00:22:37.000The Biden administration, President Biden talked about all the terrible behavior and suffering at the border under the Trump administration.
00:22:44.000The human suffering now is orders of magnitude beyond anything we might have imagined.
00:23:21.000It's a top three kitchen table issue in Pennsylvania.
00:23:24.000As 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.
00:23:34.000It's going to be one of the biggest, maybe the biggest Senate race in history.
00:23:38.000And this issue, this issue of open borders is on the minds of just about every primary voter I meet.
00:23:47.000And now I know why, because the open borders are truly undermining the safety, security, and health and well-being of the people of Pennsylvania.
00:23:59.000It's a huge burden that they're experiencing, and they're deeply, deeply frustrated.
00:24:06.000They feel like they've been sold a bill of goods.
00:24:54.000You know, I think it has to start with why are we in this precarious moment?
00:24:58.000I 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.
00:25:07.000And the weakness of the Biden administration is inviting thugs and tyrants around the world to test us.
00:25:12.000And 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.
00:25:29.000My old unit, the 82nd Airborne Division, has been deployed to Poland.
00:25:33.000I think we have to take every step to not get our troops engaged in a land or in Europe.
00:25:39.000Even putting them close to that proximity creates risk.
00:25:43.000And 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.
00:26:27.000We should probably eliminate sovereign immunity and let the families who lost people in COVID sue the Chinese people, the Chinese government.
00:26:35.000We 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.
00:26:43.000And we need to make sure no company or investor is doing anything in China that's going to enable the Chinese military modernization.
00:26:50.000On Taiwan, my view on this is that we need to exhibit strength.
00:26:55.000And 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.
00:27:03.000Be very, very generous in terms of military sales to Taiwan.
00:27:07.000Second, I do think we need to project strength in the South China Sea.
00:27:11.000And 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.
00:27:26.000I think what was one of the things Trump did extremely well, in my opinion, was he kept his opponents guessing.
00:27:32.000And I think we need to keep the Chinese guessing in Taiwan while exhibiting lots of potential to do lots of different things.
00:27:39.000And also with a series of steps that I described, reducing our dependence on them day by day.
00:30:54.000And I think it needs to be said because people have been lied to for two years.
00:30:58.000And 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.
00:31:05.000And, 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.
00:31:12.000Tucker, bullying is locking kids out of school, which they did.
00:31:16.000Bullying is forcing kids to wear masks for eight hours a day, which they did for two years.
00:31:22.000Bullying is discharging members of the military because they don't want to take a vaccine.
00:31:26.000Bullying is segregating unvaccinated kids into separate rooms.
00:31:30.000But Joe, don't worry, Joe Scarborough from his house in Mount Desert Island, Maine.
00:31:36.000He's just screaming at the camera, play tape.
00:32:32.000Beginning Monday, March 7th, we will be suspending the requirements under key to NYC.
00:32:40.000And 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.
00:33:48.000And they're protesting against the continued mandates.
00:33:51.000Now, 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.
00:34:04.000But Biden says he'll veto it, even though after the State of the Union, he says that we're back to normal.
00:34:10.000Remember, if no emergency, then you can't get emergency use authorization.
00:34:14.000If no emergency use authorization, then no mandatory vaccines.
00:34:18.000If no vaccines, no vaccine mandates or passports.
00:34:21.000If no passports, no social credit score.
00:34:24.000If no social credit score, no great reset.
00:34:27.000That'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.
00:34:46.000No emergency use authorization, no EUA, no vaccine, no social credit score, no great reset.
00:34:52.000It's already passed the Senate, by the way, it's update.
00:34:56.000But 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.