00:00:00.000Hey everybody, Tana Charlie Kirk Show, a trucker convoy update.
00:00:03.000Also, what's going on in Georgia with the voting election law changes?
00:00:08.000And finally, my friend Jackie Deason unpacks for us how American energy policy directly impacts Vladimir Putin, a unique wrinkle that we have not covered at all, and she does a wonderful job.
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00:01:26.000He's going all in that he's going to get a big poll boost by this.
00:01:30.000Only 26% of Americans want the United States to play a major role in Russia-Ukrainian conflict.
00:01:38.000Just 26% of Americans say that the United States should have a major role.
00:01:42.00052% say that we should have a minor role, while 20% say that we should have no role at all.
00:01:48.000So 72% of Americans want a minor or no role at all in what's happening in Ukraine and Russia.
00:01:57.000You wouldn't know that if you watched the nightly news.
00:02:01.000It seems as if it's the number one issue happening on the minds of Americans.
00:02:07.000Meanwhile, there's much more important things happening than what's happening.
00:02:11.000It's a border dispute in Eastern way, far Eastern Europe.
00:02:16.000And one of the things that I think is most important about this poll as it comes out here is we're starting to see Americans not fall victim into the media industrial complexes trap.
00:02:35.000Now, this new poll that was done by the Associated Press and NROC Center for Public Affairs Research shows that Americans are much more worried about inflation, gas prices, than they are worried about Russia or Ukraine.
00:02:51.000Americans were also found, also found to have an increasing level of concern regarding the state of the American economy.
00:03:01.000And U.S. officials warned that Russian forces could attack at any time.
00:03:05.000Yeah, of course, as if they're going to attack America, right?
00:03:16.000As we respond, my administration is using every tool at our disposal to protect American businesses and consumers from rising prices at the pump.
00:03:25.000As I said last week, defending freedom will have cost for us as well and here at home.
00:03:33.000Now, almost no mention in Biden's speech yesterday of what's happening in Canada.
00:03:39.000And we said yesterday that Canada has been a dry rehearsal, almost a dress rehearsal or a dry run of what's to come here in America soon.
00:03:48.000Play cut 40 of Neil Parmenter, president and CEO of the Canadian Bankers Association, that says Canada's banks are perfectly situated to help lead the creation of a federated digital ID system between the government and the private sector.
00:04:05.000Canada's banks are perfectly situated to help lead the creation of a federated digital ID system between government and the private sector.
00:04:13.000The World Economic Forum agrees that banks and financial institutions should lead the path forward for digital ID.
00:04:19.000Banks are highly regulated and trusted.
00:04:22.000It would have the power and security to store every Canadian's electronic identity and attributes.
00:04:27.000And it would unlock countless opportunities for Canadians to verify who they are safely, quickly, and securely.
00:05:40.000But even though the blockades are lifted across border openings right now, even though things seem to be resolving very well in Ottawa, this state of emergency is not over.
00:05:55.000One of the characteristics of a tyrant is they need to be able to organize the people in their country.
00:06:01.000They need to know who is loyal to them and who is disloyal to them.
00:06:06.000Now, one of the ways they do that is through something called a social credit score.
00:06:58.000But a social credit score is one of the ways that they're going to control your financial transactions.
00:07:05.000So the question always needs to be is, well, who's doing the judgment of the social credit score?
00:07:09.000Well, in Canada, the new social credit score is that we're going to have unlimited power and that we are not going to disclose in any way, shape, or form that we're able to shut off all of your ability to move your money in Canada, even though you might disagree, especially if you disagree, even though you might be doing absolutely, completely and totally nothing wrong.
00:07:32.000Now, this is all designed, as it says in the video, by the World Economic Forum.
00:07:35.000The World Economic Forum meets in Davos.
00:07:38.000They are the globalist coalition that comes together and is focused completely and totally on trying to deteriorate sovereignty and borders and create a one-world style government.
00:07:49.000Now, the cabinet minister, he dodged questions on Trudeau's ties to the World Economic Forum.
00:07:56.000Klaus Schwab is the head of the World Economic Forum, and he bragged how his subversive WWEF, World Economic Forum, has quoted infiltrated governments around the world.
00:08:06.000He said that his organization had penetrated more than half of Canada's cabinet.
00:08:15.000I know that the member was in a really good, good question there, but the audio is really, really bad, and the video is really, really bad as well.
00:08:30.000Justin Trudeau is coming out and he's saying, we are going to stand against authoritarianism.
00:08:37.000Can you imagine the lack of self-awareness where you declare martial law on your citizens and then you have the spine to come out and say, oh, yeah, by the way, we hate authoritarianism.
00:08:49.000For media matters watching at home, I am much more concerned about what Justin Trudeau has done in the last week than what Vladimir Putin has done in the last week.
00:09:30.000Canada and our allies will defend democracy.
00:09:35.000We are taking these actions today to stand against authoritarianism.
00:09:41.000The people of Ukraine, like all people, must be free to determine their own future.
00:09:47.000We will continue working with our international partners to safeguard Ukraine's territorial integrity and prevent further Russian aggression.
00:09:57.000Yeah, we hate aggression from strong men.
00:09:59.000By the way, your bank account's gone because you have a bad social credit score.
00:10:28.000You rarely see this kind of focus and commitment.
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00:11:23.000Stocks dropped in a volatile trading session that pushed the SP 500 into correction territory.
00:11:30.000The threat of war has become the latest wildcard for investors who are already concerned with supply chain disruptions, rapidly rising inflation, and central banks plan to tighten monetary policy.
00:11:38.000I'm reading for the Wall Street Journal.
00:11:40.000The SP 500 declined 44 points the other day, leaving the index down more than 10% from its January 3rd high mark.
00:11:50.000Stocks, which were near their session lows during Biden's speech outlining the sanctions, recouped a chunk of their declines.
00:11:56.000Market is down, inflation is up, gas prices are up, all to be expected when you inflate your currency and there's not correlating value alongside of it.
00:12:09.000And one of the groups that is feeling that economic anxiety, and quite honestly, one of the reasons why the trucker convoy is happening is because they know that they're about to be displaced by technology.
00:12:21.000They know that in 20 years, if the tyrants get their way and the technological kind of puppet masters get their way, there will be no truckers.
00:12:30.000Now, I think that might be an interesting thought experiment to have, but also, what are you going to do with all these people that are working for a living?
00:12:36.000No one's actually been able to answer that question.
00:12:39.000That's the underlying anxiety of the Trucker Convoy.
00:12:42.000It's a lot bigger, a lot deeper, a lot more complicated than just mandates.
00:12:46.000It's an industry that knows they're about to become obsolete, and they're trying to draw attention to how integral they are and how hard they've worked to actually keep the American economy alive.
00:12:57.000Sir, the world is watching us because they know that if what's happening in Canada happens to us here in the land of the free, then freedom as we know it is gone.
00:13:10.000This whole convoy, this whole assembly on the national mall, it doesn't even have to happen if you just end things now and we can get on with our lives.
00:13:18.000PlayCut 43, convoy organizer, Kyle Sepjek, with a message for Biden.
00:14:07.000Part of the problem with this convoy, as I've talked to some of the truckers, is they're like, oh, yeah, we just kind of want things to change.
00:16:16.000So tell us, how does the Biden's regime war on American energy exploration?
00:16:23.000How does that actually tie into what we're seeing 5,000 miles away in Ukraine?
00:16:28.000Well, you have to know that Russia is a petro state.
00:16:31.000That means it relies on oil and gas for its revenues, to make its budget, its much of its exports.
00:16:38.000And so as the price of oil and gas goes up and down, so the Russian regime goes up or down.
00:16:44.000It's a really big deal to them, which is very different than us.
00:16:47.000We're only about 8% of our economy as fossil fuels, even though the fossil fuels factor into just about every other sector of the economy, obviously, as the foundational input.
00:16:58.000But Putin cannot misbehave or even keep the regime alive and avoid state failure if he doesn't have the right price for each barrel of oil and each unit of natural gas.
00:17:10.000So our producers here in America are his biggest competitors.
00:17:16.000When we produce heavily, we flood the globe with supply.
00:17:26.000Part of the reason is that the Biden family has aided and abetted oil and gas around the world, in Ukraine, in China, and made billions.
00:17:36.000At the same time, Joe Biden has warred against American fossil fuels every way he can to restrict the supply, which is why we're almost back up to $100 a barrel.
00:18:03.000Yeah, I remember we had a guest on about a couple of years ago, someone you would know, Harold Hamm, who's a good man.
00:18:10.000He's a great person, one of the original Wildcatters.
00:18:14.000And he was concerned oil was too cheap under Trump.
00:18:18.000He said that it was going to put producers up.
00:18:20.000Can you just, Jackie, walk us through that?
00:18:22.000Two years ago, there was a real movement about potentially the Russians and the Saudis playing a bloodletting strategy against Americans, right?
00:18:35.000Yeah, so the issue is that American producers, shale producers who frack, have a very expensive price per barrel to get that oil out of the ground.
00:18:45.000The Russians and most OPEC countries do not.
00:18:56.000So we need about 50 to 60 barrels or dollars a barrel to make money and have a healthy U.S. production environment where the investors know they're going to make their money back.
00:19:11.000Knowing that the OPEC Plus, which is 13 countries plus Russia, essentially, we believe, colluded to flood the world with oil, bring down the price, and put the frackers out of business because they could not make money at the same price that OPEC and Russia can.
00:19:46.000So that too was a death shot to American frackers.
00:19:49.000But I think the biggest threat right now is actually Biden's ESG policies.
00:19:54.000Bottom line, this is a move by Wall Street and the government to divest from American fossil fuels on the basis that it's green.
00:20:04.000Well, if you can't get capital, you can't operate.
00:20:08.000It is starving the U.S. oil patch, which is why prices are as high as they are right now.
00:20:14.000If the ESG policies would stop and the other problems like opposing pipelines, opposing leasing on federal lands, opposing fracking, opposing production offshore on federal land, there are a lot of problems.
00:20:28.000Trump was the opposite on all of those.
00:20:30.000So American oil and gas could hit the accelerator totally.
00:20:35.000And we'd have a completely different oil price right now.
00:20:38.000If Biden would back off and adopt the Trump policies, gasoline would go way down.
00:20:44.000The cost of everything would go way down because the cost of oil and gas is built into every product you buy.
00:20:49.000I challenge anyone to name a product you buy that either isn't made from oil and gas or transported with oil and gas, or there's electricity from natural gas used to make the product and sell the product.
00:21:02.000And Putin would have his revenues slashed if American producers, who are the number one, we're the top country in the world when times are good, when the government's not restricting our production.
00:21:15.000Putin would not be able to wage war right now if Trump were in office because he wouldn't have the money.
00:21:37.000So I want to dive into this for a second, Jackie, which is fracking is an existential threat to the Saudi Arabias and the Irans and to the Russians because it empowers entrepreneurial, highly technological engineering technology to be able to extract otherwise, let's say, dormant oil and natural gas reserves.
00:21:58.000You just wouldn't be able to get every part from the reservoir.
00:22:02.000But fracking allows you to go to places that otherwise you think, oh, we already drilled that well.
00:22:06.000Well, maybe you didn't actually, because you could go through it horizontally.
00:22:09.000Talk about the technology of fracking and then talk about how what we're seeing unfold here is like a relentless campaign to destroy the American energy entrepreneur, basically.
00:22:21.000So imagine back in 2005, the Federal Reserve Chair, Alan Greenspan, told Congress, we have a natural gas crisis in this country.
00:22:30.000We don't have enough natural gas, even though this country sits on an ocean of natural gas.
00:22:36.000The problem was we couldn't get to it economically, as you just alluded to.
00:22:40.000We didn't have the fracking revolution come along yet, and which is really a technological revolution.
00:22:46.000It was innovation changing how we get the natural gas out of the ground, oil as well.
00:22:52.000And it took us from producing about 5 million barrels a day of oil to, you know, eight, nine, 10 million barrels a day.
00:23:01.000And then Harold Hamm says we could go up to 15 million barrels a day.
00:23:05.000Well, the Saudis and the Russians are at about 10 million barrels a day over time average.
00:23:10.000So if you bring another player on to the world stage with fracking that brings on that much supply, it really has a hard to appreciate impact worldwide on the price.
00:24:53.000I mean, some people think that the oligarchs have the advantage because they can turn their economy on a dime, as Trudeau said, as he admired them.
00:25:01.000And they can unilaterally make their own policy.
00:25:04.000Whereas in this country, Joe Biden doesn't tell the millions of Americans who own minerals and own oil companies what they will or will not do.
00:26:10.000The concern is obviously the federal lands, the transportation of it, right?
00:26:15.000The exporting, the pipelines, all those things, you know, play into it.
00:26:19.000And then I want to, I meant to kind of ask you about this, which was such a smart point.
00:26:24.000The ESG, which stands for environmental sustainable governance.
00:26:29.000So let's pretend that you are, you know, continental resources, or let's just say you're a Wildcatter out in Midland, Texas, a place you know very well.
00:26:39.000And you're like, okay, I'm an entrepreneur.
00:27:03.000That's where it hurts the oil patch where the incentives are to invest in green technologies as opposed to traditional fuels that actually work around the clock.
00:27:12.000But at the same time, it's all the woke stuff.
00:27:15.000So the social is diversity on a board, for example, or governance.
00:28:03.000They're totally at the mercy of Wall Street most of the time.
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00:29:31.000What happened in Georgia and what's the latest?
00:29:33.000Okay, so in Georgia, I was a volunteer for Donald Trump on his legal team.
00:29:37.000And you might recall the video where you saw one of the election workers pulling ballots out from under a table and scanning them multiple times after the press and Republican observers had left the room after officials had told the press and observers that counting was finished for the night.
00:29:54.000It would begin again at 8:30 in the morning.
00:29:56.000In fact, in the state of Georgia, by law, they're required to hold open all proceedings to the public.
00:30:15.000Among other things, there was a lawsuit by voters and Voter Georgia, a nonprofit, to inspect those ballots that you see on that video.
00:30:24.000They brought in a forensic auditor from Ernst ⁇ Young who found a 21% error rate in the scanning of the ballots.
00:30:33.00021% error rate, Fulton County ballots.
00:30:37.000That's 147,000 ballots, I believe, he looked at.
00:30:41.000So then David Perdue, who ran for Senate, you'll remember, and barely lost, files his own lawsuit, also seeking to review those ballots because they didn't get to do a good forensic review to see if the ballots were legitimate.
00:30:56.000They simply scanned them and looked at their results and could see that there were thousands of ballots that had been scanned multiple times and things like that.
00:31:04.000That is in plain view on the Secretary of State's website.
00:31:08.000You can see the duplicate ballots right there.
00:31:10.000So then there was a person who's just a private citizen sent a report to Governor Kemp showing 36 categories of irregularity with those ballots.
00:31:22.000Kemp sent a report. to the Georgia State Board of Elections saying, my staff has spent weeks going over this.
00:31:30.000We cannot reconcile all these irregularities.
00:31:34.000And he said, I'm not asking you to change the results of the election, but you've got Governor Kemp now on record and Robinsburger, the Secretary of State, has opened his very own investigation because he had no choice.
00:31:45.000A group here in Texas called True the Vote in Houston did an open records request of all kinds of video of those drop boxes and found over 200 people making over 5,000 deposits in the group between the hours of midnight and 5 a.m.
00:32:08.000And that is ballot harvesting, which is illegal in Georgia.
00:32:11.000They're dropping multiple ballots into these drop boxes at a time.
00:32:16.000In Georgia, you can only drop your own ballot.
00:32:30.000Yeah, so the Secretary of State is now investigating that and almost apologizing for doing so.
00:32:35.000He's like, well, we can't just let this lie there.
00:32:38.000Like he's apologizing for doing his job over a year too late.
00:32:42.000So where do you think this all ends up in Georgia?
00:32:45.000We have elections coming up in just a couple months.
00:32:48.000I think the first thing you'll see is that Georgians will take this election seriously and take it into their own hands.
00:32:54.000Rather than trusting the Secretary of State or the police department to investigate or the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, I think you're going to see what you saw in Virginia with Youngkin for the first time.
00:33:06.000Republicans got their act together and actually staffed each precinct and had teams in each county who were ready to respond where there were reports of irregularity or people being threatened or whatever it was.
00:33:20.000And just having sets of eyes on the process of participating and showing up is a big part of it.
00:33:26.000I can tell you, I've lived in eight states and I've never seen that before.