The Charlie Kirk Show - Russia, China, Ukraine and the Biden Crime Family with Peter Schweizer

00:00:00.000 I'm Alex Marlow, editor-in-chief of Breitbart News and host of the Breitbart News Daily podcast.

00:00:04.000 I'm also the author of the best-selling book, Breaking the News.

00:00:07.000 And I'm filling in for my good friend Charlie Kirk today.

00:00:10.000 And we have a great hour ahead with Peter Schweitzer, the most important investigative journalist in America.

00:00:16.000 He has a best-selling book out right now on China.

00:00:19.000 But also, you might recall he was the first to unearth the connection between Hunter Biden and Ukraine back so many years ago.

00:00:25.000 And he has a keen understanding of the connection between Putin's Ukraine invasion and the Joe Biden fecklessness.

00:00:31.000 He explains all this.

00:00:32.000 Plus, we get into his book and we reminisce about Andrew Breitbart.

00:00:35.000 All that to come.

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00:01:24.000 I'm Alex Marlow, and this is the Charlie Kirk Show.

00:01:27.000 Charlie and I are good friends, and I'm the editor-in-chief of Breitbart News.

00:01:30.000 And I think probably you've heard me on the show a couple of times, but Charlie's been kind enough to allow for me to fill in.

00:01:34.000 And I've been kind enough to fill in on Charlie's request because Charlie do me a solid right now.

00:01:38.000 He's currently at CPAC doing a tribute to my boss and friend, Andrew Breitbart, who hired me 15 years ago to be his first employee of his news Empire, which really was, I believe, the catalyst for the conservative, the modern-day digital conservative movement, of which Charlie, of course, is a major part.

00:01:54.000 And we're still a major part of Breitbart, and as is Salem Radio Network and all the great podcasts that we do.

00:02:00.000 And it is a very cool moment, I think, to be a right-of-center person in media.

00:02:04.000 And it's all thanks to Andrew, who passed away about 10 years ago.

00:02:08.000 10 years ago, exactly.

00:02:09.000 In about a week, we'll have some major tributes at Breitbart.com.

00:02:12.000 And I commend to you the opportunity to learn more about Andrew.

00:02:15.000 He's got a great book called Righteous Indignation you should read.

00:02:18.000 But tune in to see what some of the people who knew him best and learned so much from him say about him next week as tributes pour in.

00:02:25.000 And that is something I can guarantee.

00:02:26.000 It's going to be sensational.

00:02:27.000 And Charlie's already helping me out in that regard already.

00:02:31.000 So again, I'm sure you can find that speech online.

00:02:34.000 Peter Schweitzer will join me in just a few minutes, author of the book Red Handed, Government Accountability Institute, etc.

00:02:40.000 And it does feel like the news is a little bit one note, though, today.

00:02:44.000 And I'm a news junkie by nature.

00:02:46.000 And my favorite thing is talk about what's cutting edge and what's coming up.

00:02:49.000 And I don't like when the establishment media kind of dictates what we talk about.

00:02:53.000 But yet, that is the situation we are in today because of the invasion of Ukraine by Vladimir Putin and Russia.

00:03:01.000 A lot has changed over the last couple of weeks.

00:03:04.000 It did look like a couple of weeks ago that the movement of Russian-backed rebels was pretty much in the same pattern that we've seen over the years in an eight-year-long conflict that's been going on with Russia and Ukraine with these disputed Donbas regions, which are internationally recognized part of Ukraine.

00:03:22.000 Russia disagrees and has long since disagreed.

00:03:25.000 And Russia has now declared two regions there to be new republics and an airstrike rocking some 25 cities last night.

00:03:34.000 We're starting to get some casualty counts.

00:03:36.000 Again, these are subject to change.

00:03:38.000 At least 40 Ukrainians and 50 Russian mercenaries died during the attacks yesterday.

00:03:43.000 Russia is at this time attempting to seize the Chernobyl power plant through recording this, which is quite scary, but yet probably to be expected.

00:03:51.000 Ukraine's declared martial law and is giving citizens guns to try to defend their country.

00:03:56.000 We have all the latest info at Breitbart.com, which I do believe is the best source for news.

00:04:01.000 We're also tracking oil prices, which are at $105.

00:04:04.000 That is the highest in at least nine years or so.

00:04:06.000 It's not quite the highest ever due to inflation, but we might literally see the highest numbers that we've ever seen.

00:04:12.000 And sadly, so much of this is because of the West, because of the mistakes the West made.

00:04:18.000 And we all know everything about Vladimir Putin.

00:04:21.000 We know that he's a bad guy.

00:04:22.000 We all know that he's got an authoritarian streak.

00:04:24.000 We know he's a KGB guy.

00:04:26.000 All of that we know, but we also know that the West and our priorities have just been so backwards.

00:04:33.000 And it starts with the green stuff, the obsession with climate change, and it starts with the denial that there is evil in this world that walks among us.

00:04:41.000 And we do need to be vigilant in opposing it.

00:04:45.000 And occasionally with force and occasionally with strength.

00:04:48.000 And Donald Trump's peace-through-strength foreign policy was pretty much A-plus.

00:04:53.000 And people who are familiar with me, I'm not a Trump sycophant.

00:04:56.000 I'm pretty willing to criticize President Trump on my show, Breitbart News Daily, which is a podcast and also on Sirius XM, every morning, 6 a.m. Eastern Live.

00:05:05.000 And but I'll tell you one thing where it's very hard to criticize him: his foreign policy.

00:05:09.000 And despite all of the talk that he was Putin's puppet, he kept Putin at bay easily, it seems, for four years, with simply because he was, I think, a force of nature.

00:05:19.000 I think that's a big deal.

00:05:20.000 Joe Biden, not so much.

00:05:22.000 Joe Biden has broadcast clearly to the world he does not have any formal plan to sanction Putin, to push back on Putin, and there's very little he intends to do if Putin invades Ukraine.

00:05:33.000 That's been made very clear.

00:05:35.000 And sadly, much of the world community, if not all of the world community, has basically had the exact same policy.

00:05:46.000 The EU is warning that the harshest sanctions are coming.

00:05:49.000 Like, well, where are they?

00:05:50.000 He's already invaded.

00:05:51.000 You guys weren't organized for this?

00:05:52.000 Where were you, EU?

00:05:53.000 Where's the UN?

00:05:54.000 Well, oh, yeah, Russia is actually in charge of the UN Security Council right now.

00:05:58.000 Where's NATO?

00:05:58.000 Well, Ukraine's not in NATO.

00:06:00.000 So are we going to get people to do a hot war halfway around the world over this?

00:06:03.000 No.

00:06:04.000 It does seem like the strategy, as we discussed a little bit last hour, is to divide Zelensky, the president of Ukraine, from his people.

00:06:11.000 And if they are able to do that, it'd be fairly easy for Putin to install a pro-Putin puppet in Ukraine.

00:06:17.000 And that will just be a process of annexing the country. 0.84

00:06:21.000 And I think that that is something that is just the path to stop it seems very weak right now.

00:06:27.000 Seems like Putin is on a bit of a glide path at the moment.

00:06:31.000 And it just does not seem like the West has any idea of how to stop him or slow him down.

00:06:36.000 So, again, a good moment to remind everyone that we kind of miss Trump a little bit right now.

00:06:41.000 He would be a good guy to have in the situation.

00:06:43.000 Stocks are also plunging.

00:06:45.000 Some of that is baked in, though, because remember, the top stop stock traders really are, some of the top stock traders really are savvy on this stuff and they see this stuff coming a mile away.

00:06:56.000 So some of the stock prices are down, but maybe not down as much as you think, because I think they people saw this coming and people saw that there was at least a potential for chaos in the region.

00:07:07.000 But when you have countries that are so dependent on Russia, like Germany is for energy, and they've basically crafted their whole economy dependent on Russian buying energy from Russia, then you know you're going to be incredibly vulnerable and you're not really going to be able to do all that much to push back against Russia should they make moves aside from the most absolutely severe moves. 0.64

00:07:32.000 There's so much else going on in the world that we just cannot dig into in adequate amount of time, which is one of the things that I find so frustrating about this Russia-Ukraine news cycle is we are forced to talk about it for better or for worse.

00:07:44.000 And I think sometimes for worse.

00:07:46.000 Republicans are pushing right now for transparency in the classroom.

00:07:49.000 I think this has been one of the silver linings of the horrific coronavirus pandemic that we've had that China brought upon us. 1.00

00:07:56.000 And it is that parents who are looking over their kids' shoulders, watching them get educated on Zoom, realized they weren't getting reading, writing, and arithmetic.

00:08:04.000 They weren't getting the wisdom of our founding documents and our founding fathers.

00:08:07.000 They weren't getting Judeo-Christian principles and the underpinnings of our society.

00:08:12.000 Those weren't being conveyed to them.

00:08:13.000 We weren't getting the great Enlightenment thinkers.

00:08:15.000 What were people getting?

00:08:16.000 They were getting a lot of Ibram X Kendi and anti-racism and wokeness and critical race theory and all that stuff and the trans ideology, which has just been so rampant. 0.67

00:08:26.000 And so parents said, wait a minute, this is bogus.

00:08:29.000 I'm not down with this.

00:08:31.000 And now, all of a sudden, that they want more transparency when it comes to curricula.

00:08:39.000 They want parents to be able to watch the classes.

00:08:42.000 Teachers should be recorded.

00:08:43.000 Every one of them should be recorded and good for parents for standing up.

00:08:46.000 And that is one of the few silver linings of the coronavirus.

00:08:49.000 One of the things that's not a silver lining, one of the brown linings, I guess that's the opposite of silver, is the CDC withholding COVID news, the amount of faith lost in Americans' central institutions, in which I have very little faith anyway in a lot of these places.

00:09:03.000 The CDC has just disgraced itself, every sense of the word.

00:09:07.000 Throughout the whole pandemic, they're now withholding essential information.

00:09:12.000 The United Kingdom now believes it was the lab that created the coronavirus.

00:09:15.000 So it came from the lab after all, after years of everyone denying that that was even a possibility, shaming people who thought perhaps that, you know, that coronavirus virology lab right there in Wuhan might somehow be connected.

00:09:27.000 It wasn't when a pangolin made love to a turtle and then ended up in a soup and the soup was undercooked and then people ate it.

00:09:34.000 That wasn't the nature of the pandemic.

00:09:36.000 It might have just been the manipulation of coronavirus in that lab.

00:09:39.000 Well, now the UK is saying that's a possibility.

00:09:41.000 And why did we cover this up for so long?

00:09:43.000 To protect China, unfortunately, because we have so much big business tied to China and we don't get to spend adequate time on that.

00:09:50.000 We will today with Peter Schweitzer, with Peter on the show.

00:09:53.000 And it is something that it is worth emphasizing over and over and over again. 0.95

00:09:58.000 That those of you who have a family member who will still go to school today with a stupid mask, a made-in-China face diaper made of cloth or paper that does absolutely nothing, or for the Source Fund of Freaks monitoring show, close to absolutely nothing. 0.95

00:10:13.000 Okay. 0.99

00:10:13.000 How about that? 0.99

00:10:14.000 That's the caveat I'll give you.

00:10:15.000 It's a these sort of torture that is done to our young people.

00:10:21.000 All this is because of China, and we've completely ignored this.

00:10:24.000 And now we will spend a bunch of time focused on Putin and Russia.

00:10:27.000 And I'm not saying we can't talk about it.

00:10:29.000 I'm not saying we can't talk about it at all.

00:10:30.000 But the fact of the matter is there's a genocide going on in China and we can't talk about that because we're doing the Olympics there and we're focused on Putin.

00:10:37.000 Very, very irritating.

00:10:39.000 You get the full story of Breitbart.com.

00:10:41.000 The balance is there.

00:10:42.000 The Breitbart News Daily Show.

00:10:44.000 I believe it's a great book.

00:10:44.000 I have a great book.

00:10:45.000 It's called Breaking the News.

00:10:47.000 That's out that I recommend to everyone to pick up if you want more analysis and breaking news on why the media is the way it is.

00:10:53.000 All that to come, plus Peter Schweitzer.

00:10:55.000 This is Alex Marlowe in for Charlie.

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00:11:49.000 All right, Peter Schweitzer is on with me.

00:11:51.000 Red-handed is the book now, sadly, nearly number two in the New York Times bestseller list.

00:11:56.000 Down after three weeks of number one, Peter, congratulations on all the success with the book.

00:12:01.000 But I've been talking a little bit about today with Andrew Breitbart.

00:12:05.000 And you've been a longtime contributor to Breitbart.

00:12:07.000 And one time, you were a big piece editor where you actually headed up our national security and foreign policy coverage.

00:12:15.000 And it's such an amazing tie-in today with what's going on with Russia and Ukraine, because I do think that we can kind of talk a little bit about the news of the day and then segue into the book.

00:12:25.000 But I can't resist.

00:12:26.000 I'm just going right off the top with the big one.

00:12:28.000 Is there any chance there's a Hunter Biden connection to all of this?

00:12:32.000 I think there is a Hunter-Biden connection in a lot of respects.

00:12:36.000 If you look at the fact that when Joe Biden was vice president, Hunter Biden's entire business model was predicated on collecting money from this veritable United Nations of corrupt people.

00:12:48.000 That includes Russian oligarchs.

00:12:50.000 Some of those oligarchs are close to Vladimir Putin.

00:12:54.000 Certainly the money that came from Ukraine, $4 million, certainly the money from China. 0.86

00:12:59.000 And the idea that somehow Joe Biden is going to detach himself from the fact that his son is vulnerable, that there is this leverage that these oligarchs have over him, and he's not going to take that into account is just ridiculous.

00:13:12.000 And let's stop pretending that these events are not connected in some way.

00:13:16.000 And it would make Joe somewhat superhuman.

00:13:19.000 That's why it's not a conspiracy theory, Peter.

00:13:20.000 It's just that if your son is as deeply tied and just deeply implicated with the foreign government and you have the power to single-handedly change our policy with that government, of course you're going to consider it.

00:13:32.000 Any human being would.

00:13:33.000 Low integrity humans would act on it, like Big Joey Biden.

00:13:36.000 But of course, that's going to be a consideration.

00:13:38.000 There's also a timeline issue.

00:13:41.000 And I do want you to go through the timeline of when Hunter was making most of his money in Ukraine and then when Zelensky came into power and why this did not bode well for the Hunter Biden business operations within Ukraine and how this is something that's probably a level of bitterness.

00:13:58.000 And there's lots of evidence that Big Joey Biden is bitter about this, the big guy as he is known.

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00:16:15.000 We were talking about Hunter Biden's perhaps his connection to what's going on with the Russia-Ukraine conflict right now, whether or not he might be influencing President Big Joey.

00:16:25.000 And it was very striking to me how Big Joey, who has announced America's back, has had no ability to navigate the situation diplomatically.

00:16:32.000 Seems like everything he said thus far has egged Putin on and not shown adequate support to Ukraine and not sent the signal to the world.

00:16:40.000 America is a strong player here and is one where you can't help but think of Hunter.

00:16:46.000 Talk about what you're observing as an expert researching the subject matter.

00:16:50.000 No, I think you're exactly right.

00:16:52.000 I mean, the problem is, is that Joe Biden's handling of the situation goes beyond incompetence, if that's possible.

00:17:01.000 And part of the problem are, I believe, these entangling relationships.

00:17:05.000 So look at, for example, his response with these sanctions that have been proposed.

00:17:11.000 They're really not something that Russia is particularly concerned about.

00:17:16.000 The challenge that we're facing is that this war has been started by one man, Vladimir Putin.

00:17:22.000 He's the one that made this decision, not the Russian state, not the Russian government, Vladimir Putin.

00:17:27.000 And so what you want to do is you want to punish Putin.

00:17:30.000 You don't want to just try to punish the Russian government because that really means you're just punishing the Russian people. 0.61

00:17:36.000 The problem is, is that we know that Hunter Biden has received millions of dollars from Russian oligarchs, some of whom are connected to Vladimir Putin.

00:17:45.000 The most effective way you could hamstring Putin would be to put sanctions on Russian oligarchs, those that have massive holdings in the West.

00:17:56.000 And the reason is simple, Alex.

00:17:58.000 Everybody who observes and follows Russia knows those oligarchs are holding money for Vladimir Putin.

00:18:06.000 You need to seize the assets of these pro-Kremlin oligarchs that are operating out of London, the United States, Israel, Western Europe.

00:18:14.000 The problem is, I don't think we're going to slap sanctions on those people because some of those people have done business deals with Hunter Biden.

00:18:21.000 And they no doubt probably have very embarrassing material on Joe Biden's one and only living son.

00:18:28.000 Wow.

00:18:29.000 And this is so remarkable because I think that Putin, who is a much better chess player geopolitically than pretty much anyone other than perhaps Xi Jinping at this point, which again, I'm not complimenting either policies.

00:18:41.000 I detest them as human beings, but I'm just saying in terms of the realities of how power is wielded on this planet, they're much better at it than anyone in this country at this moment.

00:18:51.000 And I do see when Joe Biden makes statements like that, it's one thing if it's a minor incursion and then we might end up having a fight about what to do or not to do.

00:19:02.000 He's so wishy-washy.

00:19:03.000 This to me sends a signal to Putin that he gets a free shot on goal and he can do what he wants and we're going to just react to it.

00:19:10.000 We don't have a plan.

00:19:11.000 We don't have contingencies in place, let alone the EU and the UN and NATO, which are all, I mean, one of the UN ambassadors was saying for Putin to give peace a chance.

00:19:22.000 It's insane.

00:19:24.000 It's like a joke.

00:19:25.000 These are not serious people.

00:19:26.000 And as much as I admire what Vladimir Zelensky is trying to do, I do think he's trying to bring democracy.

00:19:31.000 I do think he's not an oligarch.

00:19:33.000 I think he's got best intentions.

00:19:34.000 He is not able to, I think, marshal any sort of support for himself on the world stage, whether that's his fault or not.

00:19:41.000 It just seems to be the reality.

00:19:43.000 And we're just giving Putin free passes.

00:19:45.000 And Big Joey Biden is a huge part of this.

00:19:48.000 No, I think you're right.

00:19:49.000 I mean, the two fatal flaws in, and there are others, but two that I will mention in the communication strategy of Joe Biden in this is number one, the vagueness.

00:20:00.000 He's been vague from the beginning, just talking in general terms that people aren't going to like it if you go into Ukraine.

00:20:06.000 You have to be explicit.

00:20:07.000 I'm not saying you have to do it publicly, but you have to be explicit.

00:20:11.000 If you cross the border into Ukraine, here is what we are going to do to you. 1.00

00:20:16.000 And they better be very serious things.

00:20:18.000 There's no evidence that was ever done.

00:20:20.000 The second problem is, and it's the same thing coming out of Europe, is this emphasis on communicating moral condemnation.

00:20:28.000 If you do this, you will be a wretched world leader.

00:20:33.000 Well, you know, news to Joe Biden and the leaders of Europe. 0.97

00:20:36.000 Vladimir Putin doesn't care what your opinion is of him.

00:20:39.000 Yes, exactly.

00:20:40.000 It's an ineffective strategy.

00:20:42.000 I mean, I've known people in my life, they didn't care at all what other people thought about them.

00:20:48.000 So you can't get them to reconsider a decision by saying people will look poorly upon you because of this.

00:20:56.000 That's, I think, you know, the situation that we're in.

00:20:59.000 And this has been the approach that Joe Biden has used pretty much his entire professional life.

00:21:05.000 When he was a senator, you know, he met with Putin back in 2001, 2002, you know, and he thought he would flatter him.

00:21:11.000 He compared Putin to Peter the Great, who was going to modernize Russia.

00:21:16.000 Vladimir Putin doesn't care.

00:21:17.000 He doesn't care what he thinks.

00:21:19.000 Same thing when he was vice president.

00:21:20.000 And it's important to point out here on this, the vagueness for all the criticism that people could level at Donald Trump and the things that he would tweet about and the things that he would say.

00:21:32.000 Let's note, Vladimir Putin has moved into Ukraine under two administrations, the Obama administration in 2014.

00:21:40.000 He skipped the Trump administration and now with the Biden administration as well.

00:21:45.000 And the reason is for any criticism you want to lodge against Donald Trump, he emitted strength.

00:21:51.000 And even if there was a certain unpredictability with what he would do, the fear was that unpredictability could mean he would really go after you aggressively.

00:22:01.000 And that deterred Vladimir Putin.

00:22:02.000 Now, we do not have any of that with Joe Biden.

00:22:06.000 Yeah, we certainly don't.

00:22:07.000 And it is striking to see how Biden has been kind of a hard nose on Ukraine, not on Russia over the years.

00:22:15.000 And again, Trump was portrayed as Putin's puppet, but look at what happened with Putin under with the Trump regime or the Trump administration.

00:22:22.000 Nothing happened.

00:22:22.000 Nothing.

00:22:23.000 It's a, you know, Trump deserves lots and lots of credit for his foreign policy, as I've been saying on the show.

00:22:30.000 It is striking, though, that this media that is starting to increasingly fetishize authoritarianism when it comes to China, and you write about this deeply in red-handed, one of the most horrifying themes throughout the book, among many themes, is how a lot of our oligarchs here in America, namely big tech and Hollywood, they're very impressed with how Xi Jinping wields power and how efficient he is.

00:22:53.000 Well, that's the nature of dictatorships.

00:22:55.000 We're noting here, Peter, as we're having this conversation live, that there's hundreds of protests that are breaking out in Russia to protest war because they don't really want to go to war right now.

00:23:04.000 The people don't necessarily want to do it.

00:23:06.000 Who cares?

00:23:06.000 It doesn't make a difference because Putin is a dictator, essentially.

00:23:10.000 And that means that he is, you know, their sham elections.

00:23:14.000 So about, right?

00:23:15.000 I mean, exactly the same, but it's basically the same.

00:23:18.000 And he doesn't care about that at all.

00:23:20.000 He's got, he sees red.

00:23:21.000 He sees the former Soviet Union getting rekindled over time and through a process, but the process begins now. 0.66

00:23:28.000 Yeah, no, exactly.

00:23:29.000 And, you know, I noted Breitbart has a story up, which I sort of think is a classic of the sort of thing we're talking about.

00:23:36.000 It involves John Kerry and his comments about the Russian invasion of Ukraine, where he laments the human toll.

00:23:45.000 But then he goes on to say, let's not take our eye off the ball of climate change.

00:23:50.000 That's right.

00:23:52.000 And this is a guy, by the way, who in the past has said doing climate deals with China might be easier than it would be with other countries because it does have a dictatorial regime.

00:24:03.000 But they're falling into this common trap, which is they feel like somehow Vladimir Putin and President Xi of China have common values with them.

00:24:15.000 They, John Kerry, is concerned about climate change.

00:24:19.000 Putin says he's concerned about climate change.

00:24:22.000 Ergo, he's going to act on climate change.

00:24:25.000 Guess what?

00:24:26.000 As Ukraine should show us, these guys lie. 0.74

00:24:29.000 They lie all the time because they don't have political opponents and they don't have an independent media to hold them in check.

00:24:36.000 But they don't seem to learn that lesson.

00:24:39.000 And what we have to be cognizant of now is the very real reality that this may be an opening for China to potentially move on Taiwan or take other aggressive actions.

00:24:50.000 They see, they smell the weakness in the air and they may see this as an opportunity.

00:24:55.000 You know, and it's also notable that they moved on Hong Kong just because we were all distracted by the coronavirus and we all kind of just watched it happen and we watched it play out and we were horrified and nothing was done.

00:25:05.000 And of course, China has designs on Taiwan.

00:25:08.000 All of this is just so dark, Peter.

00:25:10.000 And one of the things that bothers me the most is how interconnected we all are.

00:25:16.000 Because when the globalist experiment gets extended to its logical end, when we have this sort of one world system that we increasingly have, it really does favor the people who are the most ruthless with power.

00:25:32.000 And when you've got Putin and Xi Jinping cutting deals around the world, Xi Jinping is essentially colonizing Africa right now.

00:25:39.000 And we're not only letting them do it, Bill Gates is actively helping.

00:25:42.000 You write about this very powerfully and red-handed.

00:25:44.000 But look at what Putin's doing is Putin, do you think he's intimidated by Russia shutting down?

00:25:48.000 I'm sorry, by Germany shutting down a pipeline temporarily?

00:25:51.000 He's intimidated.

00:25:52.000 Germany's completely dependent.

00:25:53.000 The German people will be so frustrated with their own government if they get the Russian energy slowed, the delivery to Germany.

00:26:01.000 Yeah, I mean, this is a brilliant point that you're making that we have to highlight because the whole premise behind globalism was if we are engaging in trade and commerce, these sort of semi-rogue or rogue countries like Russia or China will become more wedded towards us.

00:26:20.000 They'll become less aggressive.

00:26:22.000 Actually, the opposite's happened.

00:26:24.000 Look at the situation in Europe right now.

00:26:26.000 So the idea is we're going to wed Russia to Europe by setting up these gas pipelines and creating this lucrative European market for Russia. 0.71

00:26:35.000 The theory is this is going to mean Russia is not going to want to invade because they don't want to lose the market.

00:26:41.000 The opposite's happened.

00:26:42.000 Europe does not want to give up Russian gas.

00:26:46.000 It has not deterred Russia. 0.92

00:26:47.000 It has deterred the weak European democracies from taking strong action when they need to.

00:26:55.000 So, you know, they send a couple of helmets to Ukraine rather than military equipment because they don't want to have the gas shut off.

00:27:01.000 Or now they say we're going to delay the Nord Stream pipeline, which, by the way, isn't supposed to be certified till this summer anyway.

00:27:08.000 So all that this globalism has done is given these autocrats, these authoritarians, leverage over these weak, vassal democracies in the West that are fearful of doing anything of offending these powers.

00:27:23.000 Globalism has not only failed, it's ended up doing the opposite of what it was supposed to do.

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00:28:52.000 And I want to ask you about Andrew Breitbart, who you were one of the first employees, at least first 10 employees.

00:28:58.000 I was the first, of course, which will be on my epitaph, I'm sure, at some point.

00:29:04.000 But tell me about what drew you to Andrew, because you are, you do have a great sense of humor and you're a fun guy, but you're a very serious journalist.

00:29:13.000 And Andrew was, you know, half jocularity, half righteous indignation.

00:29:18.000 It is, you're generally neither of those things.

00:29:21.000 And what made you think this is the guy I want to ride this horse into the sunset?

00:29:25.000 And you have just really done an amazing job taking the baton from him in a lot of ways.

00:29:32.000 Well, I appreciate that.

00:29:33.000 I mean, I look at the success that I've had and a lot of it, I think, was something that Andrew really made happen because I learned a lot from Andrew.

00:29:42.000 You're right.

00:29:42.000 I mean, we're different in a lot of ways.

00:29:45.000 Andrew always acknowledged that.

00:29:46.000 I always acknowledged that.

00:29:47.000 But I was drawn to Andrew because, and it's a description that you gets overused way too much.

00:29:54.000 But in Andrew's case, it absolutely applied.

00:29:57.000 He was the happy warrior.

00:29:59.000 He was the consummate happy warrior.

00:30:01.000 I loved the fact that he was uncompromising.

00:30:05.000 He didn't care if it was the biggest person in the bar, if that person was engaging in something corrupt.

00:30:11.000 He was going to throw a chair at that guy and he was going to fight him.

00:30:14.000 That takes enormous courage, but he wasn't an angry, bitter man.

00:30:20.000 He was fun to be with.

00:30:21.000 He was humorous.

00:30:23.000 He understood his own limitations.

00:30:25.000 When he hired me to handle Big Peace and National Security, I remember him telling me now, let's just be clear, that's not a strength of mine.

00:30:32.000 So I'm expecting you to kind of run with the baton.

00:30:35.000 Very few people that are editing publications that big will be that candid with you, but Andrew was like that.

00:30:41.000 So it was his spirit.

00:30:43.000 It was the fact that it didn't matter who was needing to be called out, who was doing something wrong.

00:30:49.000 He encouraged me to do it.

00:30:51.000 And I'm just thankful for the spirit that he left me with and that I still like to carry today.

00:30:59.000 And you certainly do.

00:31:00.000 And the Government Accountability Institute is doing, I believe, the most important research in the world right now.

00:31:06.000 And you are taking on targets that a lot of people would be afraid to take on.

00:31:12.000 Not just, you know, Mitch McConnell and people like that who are wield unfathomable amounts of power and also deep ties to China, but also people who are kind of who are throughout the Republican establishment and people who could otherwise be friends of yours and perhaps give you donations, Peter, to support your research.

00:31:28.000 But you take these people right on because they deserve it.

00:31:31.000 And this is exactly the integrity the conservative movement needs.

00:31:35.000 And it does, frankly, start with Andrew.

00:31:37.000 No, it does.

00:31:38.000 And in fact, that reminds me of another thing that Andrew offered me insight to, which I thought was very powerful, is I haven't lived in Washington, D.C. since the mid-1990s.

00:31:48.000 And of course, Andrew always lived in LA.

00:31:50.000 That's where his home was.

00:31:52.000 And I remember him telling me, look, I can take on all these people in Washington, D.C., because they're not my friends.

00:31:59.000 They're not my neighbors.

00:32:01.000 Andrew was a very loyal guy.

00:32:04.000 So if he was your friend, you know, he would be torn up if you were doing something that he, so his way of avoiding that was, I'm just not going to really be friends with a lot of people in the political class.

00:32:14.000 And I've done the same thing.

00:32:15.000 I've lived in Florida, and that was a valuable lesson I've learned from him.

00:32:18.000 And it does allow you to do these things.

00:32:21.000 You know, it's a lot easier to throw rocks a thousand miles away than throw a rock at somebody across the street.

00:32:28.000 It helps keep you honest.

00:32:30.000 It helps keeps you focused.

00:32:32.000 And that's one of the things that Andrew, you know, taught me as well.

00:32:35.000 Peter Schweitzer, The Drill Down Podcast, The Red Handed Book, any of Peter's books are must reads, and most of them are bestsellers.

00:32:41.000 And the most recent few have been number one bestsellers.

00:32:44.000 My book is Breaking the News, also a New York Times bestseller.

00:32:46.000 If you guys want to check that out, I think it provides a lot of detail around what is happening throughout the country at this time in terms of our media missing so many of the big stories and continue to try to convince the public to follow their agenda and not actually report what really matters.

00:33:01.000 To all of you, Breitbart.com all day, every day.

00:33:03.000 Share our content all over the social web is a big help.

00:33:06.000 And thanks again to Charlie Kirk for letting me fill in.

00:33:08.000 I'm Alex Marlow and thanks for listening.

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The Charlie Kirk Show - February 25, 2022

Russia, China, Ukraine and the Biden Crime Family with Peter Schweizer

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