The Charlie Kirk Show - March 14, 2023


The Great GOP Foreign Policy Transformation


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Tucker Carlson challenges all the Republican presidential hopefuls with a simple question: How do they feel about Russia's actions in Ukraine and the situation in Eastern Europe? And how does each of them answer the question?

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00:00:00.000 Hey, everybody.
00:00:00.000 Today in the Charlie Kirk show, we talk about Tucker Carlson's challenge to all the Republicans running for president.
00:00:07.000 The Republican Party has changed over the last decade.
00:00:10.000 I think it's a positive thing when it comes to foreign intervention, especially these endless wars that we find ourselves in.
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00:01:12.000 Tucker Carlson decided to do something that the news media really used to do, but doesn't do anymore.
00:01:18.000 You see, here I have the New York Times.
00:01:20.000 I read it so you don't have to.
00:01:22.000 Avoiding war, Russia's elite flocked to Dubai.
00:01:26.000 New York Times.
00:01:28.000 Bank stocks skid despite U.S. moves to call markets.
00:01:31.000 But a real simple question is, in their own words, how do the people that want to become president feel about what's happening in Eastern Europe?
00:01:40.000 So Tucker Carlson decided to do something very simple.
00:01:43.000 He decided to ask them, gave them a couple days' lead time, and asking some very specific questions, saying, hey, is Russia, is opposing Russia in the American national security interest?
00:01:57.000 Is it a vital strategic interest?
00:02:00.000 What specifically is our objective in Ukraine and how will we know when we've achieved it?
00:02:04.000 What is the limit of funding and material you'll be willing to send to the government of Ukraine?
00:02:08.000 We asked that question, remember, of Senator Kramer of North Dakota, and he said, well, it's not really a number.
00:02:13.000 Well, we're almost up to $200 billion, which is the GDB equivalent of four North Dakotas.
00:02:18.000 Just keep that in mind.
00:02:19.000 Should the United States support regime change in Russia?
00:02:22.000 Lindsey Graham says yes.
00:02:24.000 Given that Russia's economy and currency are stronger than before the war, do you believe that U.S. sanctions have been effective?
00:02:30.000 Do you believe that the U.S. faces the risk of nuclear war with Russia?
00:02:34.000 So he asked these very simple questions, and the answers were fascinating of how the people running for office as Republicans view what's happening in eastern Ukraine.
00:02:47.000 Do they believe it is in the vital American national interest for us to be engaging in this border dispute?
00:02:56.000 Do they believe that it is important for us to continue to pour on the money and the weapons and the support and the resources?
00:03:02.000 And I would add another question, which I think is just such a simple question.
00:03:06.000 And again, every single person running for the presidency is welcome to come on this program and we'll offer you respect, uninterrupted time.
00:03:13.000 I'm going to keep on saying that because eventually somebody's going to take us up on the offer.
00:03:18.000 Another question that I would ask is: you have to choose one.
00:03:22.000 What is a greater threat to the United States?
00:03:26.000 The Mexican drug cartels or Vladimir Putin?
00:03:29.000 You got to pick one.
00:03:30.000 Which one is it?
00:03:31.000 Tucker Carlson went one by one by one with how each one of the candidates stand on this.
00:03:36.000 And I think it's interesting.
00:03:37.000 I'm going to play them and we'll riff and we'll talk about the ideological differences in the Republican Party when it comes to Russia and Ukraine.
00:03:46.000 First, the frontrunner, who actually is gaining poll and popular support, Donald Trump in polling is actually stronger than he has been in any recent memory.
00:03:56.000 Play Cut 33.
00:03:57.000 Russia would never have attacked Ukraine if I were president, he writes, not even a small chance.
00:04:02.000 Trump says he opposes regime change in Russia.
00:04:04.000 Quote, we should support regime change in the United States. 0.81
00:04:07.000 That's far more important.
00:04:09.000 The Biden administration are the ones who got us into this mess.
00:04:12.000 Trump repeatedly refers to the risk of nuclear war, which he describes as absolutely real.
00:04:17.000 And then he calls for a negotiated peace by Ukraine mediated by the United States.
00:04:22.000 Quote, both sides are weary and ready to make a deal, Trump writes.
00:04:25.000 The meeting should start immediately.
00:04:27.000 There is no time to spare.
00:04:28.000 Death and destruction must end now.
00:04:31.000 That is a prudent and wise answer.
00:04:34.000 Why are we not actively trying to broker a deal?
00:04:37.000 Because the war machine needs to turn profits.
00:04:39.000 Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, and Boeing, the people that run the military arm of our government, get poorer if there is peace in Ukraine.
00:04:50.000 Donald Trump doesn't care about that.
00:04:51.000 He says, I'm just going to negotiate it.
00:04:53.000 Now, look at the contrast.
00:04:55.000 Look at the amazing contrast because this shows the state of the conservative movement when it comes to foreign policy.
00:05:01.000 I find this to be fascinating.
00:05:03.000 The contrast between Donald Trump's answer right there and his former vice president, Mike Pence.
00:05:10.000 You have to wonder, who is Mike Pence communicating to?
00:05:14.000 Is he representing his voters or does he think that the Republican Party is still the party of invade the world, invite the world?
00:05:21.000 Listen to this contrast.
00:05:22.000 His response is so totally standard 2004, but times have changed.
00:05:27.000 You, the American people, have really woken up and said, this is insane.
00:05:32.000 Play cut 34.
00:05:34.000 What's interesting, though, is that Trump's former vice president, Mike Pence, who was also running for president this year, opposes his old boss on nearly every point.
00:05:42.000 We're paying Ukrainians to fight Russia, Pence writes, so we won't have to fight Russians ourselves.
00:05:47.000 Pence endorses even stricter sanctions against Moscow.
00:05:51.000 He dismisses the risk of nuclear war as a, quote, bullying tactic from Putin.
00:05:55.000 And then Pence suggests that anyone who disagrees with his views on Ukraine is a disloyal American.
00:06:00.000 Now, I'm just curious.
00:06:02.000 We have an amazingly engaged audience.
00:06:04.000 We have one of the most popular radio programs and television programs and podcasts out there.
00:06:08.000 Do you agree with Pence or Trump on this?
00:06:10.000 Freedom at CharlieKirk.com.
00:06:12.000 Every so often, we get an email of somebody that says, Charlie, I think it's one of the most important things that we get involved in Ukraine.
00:06:18.000 Just last on Friday, a really kind and generous gentleman that was at a coffee I was doing said, Charlie, I love everything you stand for, but I could not disagree with you more on Ukraine.
00:06:32.000 200 billion is a small price to pay. 1.00
00:06:34.000 I actually enjoy watching videos of Ukrainians killing Russians, and I think this is one of the best things that we could do. 1.00
00:06:42.000 That was also the consensus belief of some of the students that I talked to at University of California, Santa Barbara, when I was at UCSB. 1.00
00:06:51.000 And some of the students there were asking questions and basically came under the opinion that this is a wonderful opportunity to get rid of Putin, that this is a good use of money, a good use of resources, and who cares that we might have to send American troops and that we might have to get potentially involved in a nuclear armed conflict.
00:07:14.000 And meanwhile, the BRIC nations are beginning to align together to get rid of the dollar as their reserve currency.
00:07:23.000 Now, Mike Pence's wording is especially scary here.
00:07:27.000 He's evasive on the question of regime change itself, and every other leader or candidate running for office at least rejects that.
00:07:36.000 And by the way, a lot of the young students I talk to at University of California, Santa Barbara are idealistic.
00:07:42.000 Ukraine is a country that is under attack.
00:07:45.000 And therefore, they say it's a time to feel heroic, even though they refuse to acknowledge the severe and immediate threat of the Mexican drug cartel at our own border.
00:07:55.000 I would love to live in a country where our leaders take the Mexican drug cartel more seriously than Vladimir Putin.
00:08:02.000 Okay, let's keep on playing the tape here.
00:08:03.000 Ron DeSantis, DeSantis had a very, very precise response.
00:08:09.000 He's listening to the MAGA base.
00:08:11.000 You got to give DeSantis credit here.
00:08:12.000 Play cut 35.
00:08:14.000 DeSantis is adamantly opposed to the position that most Republicans in Washington have taken on Ukraine.
00:08:19.000 DeSantis is not a neocon.
00:08:21.000 Who knew?
00:08:22.000 Quote, while the U.S. has many vital national interests, DeSantis writes, securing our borders, addressing the crisis of readiness within our military, achieving energy security and independence, and checking the economic, cultural, and military power of the Chinese Communist Party, becoming further entangled in a territorial dispute between Ukraine and Russia is not one of them.
00:08:42.000 Without question, he writes, peace should be the objective.
00:08:46.000 The U.S. should not provide assistance that could require the deployment of American troops or enable Ukraine to engage in offensive operations beyond its borders.
00:08:55.000 F-16s and long-range missiles should therefore be off the table.
00:08:59.000 These moves would risk explicitly drawing the United States into the conflict and drawing us closer to a hot war between the world's two largest nuclear powers.
00:09:08.000 That risk is unacceptable.
00:09:10.000 DeSantis goes on to oppose the policy of regime change in Moscow, which is very popular in Washington.
00:09:16.000 And he points out that the Biden administration has created an alliance between Russia and China, and that's a disaster for the United States.
00:09:23.000 Quote, we cannot prioritize intervention in an escalating foreign war over the defense of our own homeland, especially as tens of thousands of Americans are dying every year from narcotics smuggled across our open border, and our weapons arsenals, critically for our own security, are rapidly being depleted.
00:09:40.000 Boy, the Republican Party has changed, hasn't it?
00:09:45.000 And by the way, for any of you that have any questions or mystery, Ron DeSantis is probably going to run for president after reading that statement.
00:09:51.000 That is not a statement just as the governor of Florida.
00:09:53.000 Hey, governor of Florida, what do you think about Ukraine?
00:09:56.000 That answer reads as somebody who wants to be right in the middle of the presidential race.
00:09:56.000 No, no, no.
00:10:02.000 DeSantis is listening to his voters.
00:10:03.000 Mike Pence is out on a different universe, different planet.
00:10:06.000 Yeah, more weapons, more.
00:10:08.000 You should read my emails I'm getting from your voters right now.
00:10:11.000 They don't want that.
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00:11:19.000 It's funny, one of our amazing listeners, Doug, Charlie, make sure you ask the students tonight, how many of them are signing up to go kill Russians? 0.99
00:11:27.000 That is a very wise point. 0.68
00:11:28.000 It's an obvious point, but it's a very smart point, which is it's the same sort of moral dilemma that drives the young socialists, which is it is easy to be generous with other people's money, socialism, and it's easy to be generous with other people's kids, neoliberalism, when you send them into conflicts that you yourself would actually never serve in.
00:11:53.000 So I want to continue to go through this, and I find this so interesting because the Republican Party of 2012, when Willard Mitt Romney was the nominee, was there was no debate allowed on foreign policy.
00:12:06.000 Do you know the only people that were voicing heterodox or contrarian foreign policy ideas?
00:12:11.000 It was the Ron Paul people.
00:12:12.000 And God bless the Ron Paul people.
00:12:16.000 I have more courage in the political movement thanks to Ron Paul.
00:12:21.000 I got into politics, not only because of Ron Paul, but he was an influence.
00:12:25.000 He was just so outspoken.
00:12:26.000 And I have so much respect for him.
00:12:28.000 I think one of the great one of the great losses in America is how we have forgotten about Ron Paul.
00:12:36.000 Ron Paul still does a podcast.
00:12:37.000 We can have him back on the show.
00:12:38.000 I don't think anyone understands or remembers how powerful Ron Paul was back in 2011, 2012.
00:12:46.000 In fact, it was the Ron Paul anti-cult of personality.
00:12:49.000 It was one of the most amazing political phenomenons.
00:12:51.000 Whatever you say about Trump being a cult of personality, Ron Paul was a cult of ideas.
00:12:57.000 One of the most amazing pieces of video ever is to see Tucker Carlson when he was a reporter for either Rolling Stone or one of these other places.
00:13:05.000 No, it wasn't Rolling Stone.
00:13:06.000 Anyway, he embedded with Ron Paul for a couple of days.
00:13:09.000 And it's fascinating because no matter what you would say to Ron Paul, he'd always deflect like, oh, is this all about you?
00:13:14.000 Nope, it's about the ideas. 0.83
00:13:15.000 We just don't want foreign wars.
00:13:17.000 We don't want regime change.
00:13:19.000 And again, Ron Paul had some very wacky and nutty ideas beyond anything that I would believe, like closing all military bases, keeping borders relatively open, decriminalizing and legalizing all drugs.
00:13:29.000 However, Ron Paul was right on getting rid of the Federal Reserve.
00:13:33.000 Ron Paul was right in predicting an end to the fractional banking reserve system.
00:13:37.000 Ron Paul was right about hyperinflation.
00:13:40.000 He was right about the national security apparatus coming after people like you and I because they're going to call people terrorists I don't like.
00:13:50.000 So anyway, I didn't plan to go this long on Ron Paul, but he was the only voice.
00:13:56.000 And what people like Willard Mitt Romney and other people did is they would smear Ron Paul as the crazy guy who's like on the side of the street with a sign and says that chemtrails are infecting you.
00:14:09.000 And that's Ron Paul and whatever.
00:14:11.000 They get 20 delegates and we run the party.
00:14:13.000 Thanks so much.
00:14:15.000 But now the entire Republican Party, outside of people like Pence, are actually listening to their voters.
00:14:21.000 This is a massive and meaningful and tangible and serious change in the Republican Party.
00:14:30.000 Now, the people in Washington, D.C. aren't listening to this, but you know what's interesting?
00:14:34.000 These people are power hungry, which is actually okay at times, because when people are power hungry, they're going to actually listen to the people that give them power, the voters. 0.96
00:14:46.000 And since they're so power hungry, as they listen to their voters, they realize that the song that their voters are giving them is, I want to get the heck out of Ukraine. 0.90
00:14:57.000 Okay, Vivek Ramaswamy, Cut 36. 0.97
00:14:59.000 What does he have to say about this?
00:15:00.000 Play Cut 36.
00:15:01.000 Vivek Ramaswamy, meanwhile, who you just saw, who announced for president on this show a few weeks back, responded with what was effectively an essay.
00:15:08.000 It was so tightly argued and sharp, it probably should be a Wall Street Journal piece.
00:15:11.000 We hope it becomes one. 0.71
00:15:12.000 China wants the Ukraine war to last as long as possible to deplete Western military capacity before invading Taiwan. 1.00
00:15:19.000 It's working. 0.94
00:15:20.000 We think we appear stronger by helping Ukraine, but actually become weaker vis-a-vis China. 0.88
00:15:26.000 We've spent 20 years droning people in caves in the Middle East and Central Asia and have little to show for it. 0.62
00:15:31.000 We should be taking out the people who have caused the deaths of more than 100,000 Americans every year, the Mexican drug cartels.
00:15:38.000 If I were president right now, I would limit any further funding or support to Ukraine.
00:15:43.000 Ukraine is not in the top five of American foreign policy priorities right now, and yet merely questioning whether the money we spend on the war is being done effectively or perhaps even prolonging the war is seen as disloyal.
00:15:54.000 We get accused by both Democrats and Republicans of being, quote, Putin sympathizers.
00:15:59.000 The Washington Uniparty and defense contractors want this conflict to go on forever.
00:16:03.000 For the sake of the global economy and peace, we should be doing everything we can to end it tomorrow.
00:16:08.000 Show me you went to Harvard and Yale without showing me you went to Harvard and Yale.
00:16:11.000 All kidding aside, Vivek is super smart, way smarter than I am.
00:16:14.000 And I mean, I could just see he was probably just typing this on his phone as he was going to an event.
00:16:20.000 And by the way, the theme that Vivek is hitting on is exactly the same thing as Trump.
00:16:25.000 Pence is the only outlier.
00:16:26.000 We'll get to some of the other outliers.
00:16:28.000 But it is promising.
00:16:29.000 It shows that they're starting to listen to you, the voters.
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00:17:36.000 So I'm going to keep going through the list of candidates here, but I find it to be really interesting before we go any further.
00:17:42.000 The old Republican Party, and Obama actually used this against Mitt Romney, was one where he was saying Mitt Romney was too anti-Russia.
00:17:54.000 Now, interestingly enough, Obama represented, he was an awful president, one of the worst presidents in American history, period.
00:18:02.000 I think Obama hated America.
00:18:04.000 Obama, though, did represent the base of the Democrat Party that was war fatigued.
00:18:09.000 Remember, the energy of the Democrat Party in the 2000s was anti-Iraq war protests.
00:18:17.000 The life force of the Democrat Party in the 2000s was not racial politics.
00:18:22.000 It was not medically mutilating children.
00:18:25.000 It was not even wealth confiscation of billionaires.
00:18:29.000 It was anti-war protests.
00:18:33.000 What brought George W. Bush's approval rating down to 36, 38%?
00:18:38.000 It was one of the strongest critiques against John McCain in the 2008 election.
00:18:43.000 So Obama knew that.
00:18:44.000 So Obama was trying to keep together the anti-war coalition, even though he himself was launching drone strikes and wars all across the Middle East.
00:18:53.000 But even he thought that Mitt Romney was going too far.
00:18:57.000 Remember, Putin annexed Crimea when Obama was president.
00:19:03.000 Wasn't that big of a deal.
00:19:05.000 I mean, it happened.
00:19:05.000 They're like, well, we don't want to stop him from doing it.
00:19:08.000 But now we have to try to re-liberate Crimea.
00:19:12.000 Just an interesting flashback to how things have changed.
00:19:14.000 Play Cut 42.
00:19:15.000 Governor Romney, I'm glad that you recognize that Al-Qaeda is a threat because a few months ago, when you were asked what's the biggest geopolitical threat facing America, you said Russia.
00:19:24.000 Not Al-Qaeda. 0.64
00:19:26.000 You said Russia.
00:19:27.000 In the 1980s are now calling to ask for their foreign policy back because the Cold War has been over for 20 years.
00:19:34.000 But, Governor, when it comes to our foreign policy, you seem to want to import the foreign policies of the 1980s, just like the social policies of the 1950s and the economic policies of the 1920s.
00:19:46.000 Now, he obviously rehearsed that and was successful against Mitt Romney.
00:19:50.000 And by the way, you look at the picture of them, you almost ask yourself the question, in 2023, what's the difference?
00:19:56.000 They basically agree on everything.
00:19:58.000 Open borders, awful trade deals, except in that clip, Mitt Romney was more of a neocon than Obama.
00:20:07.000 And the Democrat Party used to get this.
00:20:09.000 Now they're completely lost.
00:20:10.000 Now it's the opposite.
00:20:11.000 But let's keep on going through this.
00:20:13.000 How do the Republicans that want to be president stand on this?
00:20:16.000 Christy Noam responded, interesting.
00:20:18.000 Is she going to run for president or is she kind of running for vice president? 1.00
00:20:21.000 Her stock seems to be going up recently.
00:20:24.000 Play cut 37.
00:20:25.000 Governor Christy Noam of South Dakota echoed some of these points.
00:20:29.000 The primary external threat to the United States is communist China, she writes.
00:20:33.000 And then she added another point that you rarely hear and not often enough.
00:20:36.000 Quote, the United States has come to rely far too heavily on financial sanctions as a weapon of deterrence.
00:20:42.000 Now the nations that hate America are consciously moving away from the U.S. dollar as the world's reserve currency.
00:20:48.000 Sanctions against China, Iran, and Russia have bolstered the Russian ruble and enabled China to establish trade in Chinese money rather than in U.S. dollars. 0.80
00:20:57.000 That is true, provably true.
00:21:00.000 And you wonder why so few in Congress, which passed these sanctions, will acknowledge it.
00:21:05.000 Now, Christy Noam is carving out a very interesting niche for herself, and I think it's really exciting and important where she vetoed a bill last week that would have excluded cryptocurrency from being used in the South Dakota's commercial code.
00:21:23.000 It didn't get a lot of coverage.
00:21:24.000 She went on Tucker Carlson to discuss that, which is interesting because Christy Noam and Tucker kind of had some acrimony a couple years ago.
00:21:32.000 A couple years ago, you might remember Christy Noam went on Tucker's program about the medical mutilation of children, and the segment didn't really go that well, and there was some back and forth.
00:21:40.000 The fact that Tucker invited Christy Noam back shows that Tucker is magnanimous and also memories are short in politics.
00:21:46.000 But more importantly, it shows that Christy Noam did something noteworthy, which she absolutely did, and it deserves to be celebrated, where her statement about Ukraine was about currency.
00:21:57.000 She vetoed this bill in South Dakota because she said, quote, it opens the door to the risk the federal government can more easily adopt a centralized digital currency, which then may become the only viable digital currency.
00:22:09.000 The head of the South Dakota Bankers Association said, we're disappointed.
00:22:13.000 We disagree at the points that she stated in her veto message.
00:22:16.000 Well, you can be disappointed, but we have to take a big stand against digital currency.
00:22:22.000 And I'm afraid, by the way, as a corollary to this, before we go even deeper, this Silicon Valley Bank and the bailout of the Silicon Valley companies and the depositors there, I think the buried lead here is that post this banking crisis, they're really going to push for a one-size-fits-all digital currency.
00:22:41.000 A great reset, if you will, which we have been warning about and called conspiracy theorists by people on the right and the left.
00:22:47.000 You'll own nothing and you'll be happy.
00:22:49.000 Well, maybe one way you get people to own nothing is you break the American banking system.
00:22:54.000 Greg Abbott, who may or may not be running for president, but I would like to see Greg Abbott focus on the invasion on the United States southern border happening at Texas.
00:23:03.000 Why is Greg Abbott, the Republican governor, not solving that?
00:23:06.000 Just putting up barricades, mobilize the military, arrest them all, deport them back to the place of origin, and declare war on the cartels.
00:23:16.000 It's not hard.
00:23:16.000 You're the governor of a state.
00:23:17.000 You're being invaded.
00:23:19.000 Anyway, play cut 38, Greg Abbott.
00:23:21.000 Texas Governor Greg Abbott, meanwhile, was not quite so bold or precise, but in spirit, he seemed to agree with most of the rest of the Republican candidates.
00:23:28.000 President Biden's blank check foreign policy in Ukraine has diverted funding from essential needs of the United States.
00:23:33.000 Throwing money at Ukraine with no accountability or objective is clearly failing.
00:23:38.000 End quote.
00:23:39.000 Tim Scott is also running for the presidency.
00:23:41.000 He is much, he's more in the kind of mold of a neoliberal play cut 49.
00:23:47.000 Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina, by the way, did not send a statement, but instead a transcript from a hit he did on Trey Gowdy's weekend show here on Fox.
00:23:55.000 Not many details in it, but Scott did call for, quote, degrading the Russian military.
00:23:59.000 He did not explain what the point of that might be.
00:24:02.000 And finally, Chris Christie, PlayCut 40, has comments on the Ukraine-Russia situation.
00:24:08.000 You can start to see as we get more and further, further away from Trump, it becomes more and more milquetoast.
00:24:15.000 As you kind of get back into that neoliberal DNA, you're like, boy, this is just a bunch of abstractions.
00:24:21.000 There's no details.
00:24:22.000 I don't think I should trust you with power.
00:24:24.000 Play cut 40.
00:24:25.000 And finally, Chris Christie is still around.
00:24:27.000 It's still full of bombast, still a sporty character.
00:24:30.000 In fact, if anything, Christie seems to become even more orthodox as a neocon.
00:24:34.000 He calls in the U.S. military to fight and win a war against both Russia and China simultaneously.
00:24:40.000 Otherwise, he warns Iran and North Korea could take over the world. 0.77
00:24:46.000 Yeah, that's the biggest concern: Iran and North Korea is going to take over the world if we don't fight China and Russia simultaneously. 0.85
00:24:52.000 The party is changing for the better, and you hold the power.
00:24:59.000 And so, as these candidates, as they start to come to your states, here's what I want to encourage the Charlie Kirk show audience to do.
00:25:05.000 Here's what I want to encourage you to do: you can change the Republican Party for the better.
00:25:10.000 And I say, oh, Charlie, how?
00:25:12.000 Well, especially if you live in Iowa and especially if you live in New Hampshire, and I'm not talking about voting, that's important.
00:25:17.000 I'm talking about something actually more fun than voting.
00:25:20.000 If you live in South Carolina, if you live in Nevada, when these candidates come to your state, take out your phone and go up to them and say, I am a conservative America first MAGA voter.
00:25:31.000 Hello, Chris Christie.
00:25:33.000 Hello, Tim Scott.
00:25:34.000 Hello, Nikki Haley.
00:25:36.000 How are you?
00:25:37.000 Can you please explain to me specifically how much money is too much money to spend on Ukraine and film it?
00:25:44.000 Do it respectfully, but get involved in the process.
00:25:47.000 These video clips will go viral, everybody.
00:25:49.000 These candidates are not used to the new party that has been born, which is a grassroots party.
00:25:55.000 Ask them questions.
00:25:58.000 Do so in a way where, you know, it's not, don't do it tastefully.
00:26:03.000 Let me put it that way.
00:26:04.000 Go to the town halls.
00:26:06.000 They want power so badly.
00:26:08.000 Oh, these people want power.
00:26:09.000 So they got to talk to the voters that they're asking for power from.
00:26:13.000 I want power.
00:26:13.000 Okay, well, then answer me the question: how much money is too much money to send to Ukraine?
00:26:17.000 If you can't answer enough, if you can't give me a number, well, then we got a problem.
00:26:21.000 If you can't give me a specific dollar figure, then why exactly do you want to be president?
00:26:27.000 Or are you just trying to say the right thing to become president and then stab us in the back?
00:26:33.000 Joe Rogan has been, he's all over the place on certain issues, but he's certainly been right on a couple in the last couple of weeks. 0.55
00:26:40.000 This is the muscular class, working class consensus.
00:26:45.000 Why are Republicans in D.C. so disconnected from the everyday man, Joe Rogan, who's far from a right-winger, play cut 13?
00:26:54.000 It's a very strange time where I don't think people have a lot of faith right now in institutions, and I don't think they have a lot of faith in authority.
00:27:06.000 I don't think they really believe that there is someone who is wiser than them that has a grand plan that's logical, that's workable, where they're looking out for all of us.
00:27:20.000 So I think there's like a feeling of chaos that exists today that I don't think has ever existed in my life like this before.
00:27:27.000 You see Pete Bodig and Kamala Harris and Biden can't get a sentence out.
00:27:32.000 You're like, this is badness. 1.00
00:27:33.000 These people are utter fools. 1.00
00:27:36.000 And I don't have any faith in them. 1.00
00:27:37.000 And I think most people don't.
00:27:39.000 I don't have faith in them either, Joe Rogan.
00:27:40.000 And that is well said and properly communicated.
00:27:45.000 And that's not good, by the way.
00:27:46.000 I don't want to live in a country where I have no faith in any of my leaders.
00:27:49.000 I want to be able to trust my public health authorities.
00:27:52.000 I want to be able to trust my national security apparatus.
00:27:54.000 I want to trust our border policy.
00:27:57.000 I trust Border Patrol, but I don't trust the border policy.
00:27:59.000 It's not sustainable.
00:28:03.000 I wrote the book College Scam.
00:28:05.000 In fact, it's right back there next to my Rumble.
00:28:08.000 I got Rumble sent me this nice thing because we have a million subscribers now on Rumble, R-U-M-B-L-E.com.
00:28:15.000 And so you might see that little green thing in the back.
00:28:17.000 That's our little Rumble thing.
00:28:18.000 Depending on the definition of how you're watching this program today, also, the college scam is back there.
00:28:23.000 And one of the arguments I make on the college scam is that we are creating a generation of angry activists who are getting degrees in ingratitude.
00:28:30.000 And I remember being in Jackson Hole, Wyoming with the great Foster Freeze.
00:28:34.000 May he rest in peace.
00:28:36.000 Oh, what a great man Foster was.
00:28:38.000 And we were at, we were doing a fundraiser for Turning Point USA, and I kind of wear my beliefs on my sleeve.
00:28:44.000 And I was very clear to a gentleman who is many years my senior.
00:28:51.000 He said, Charlie, I think you're totally wrong on college.
00:28:54.000 He said, my grandkids are going to go to college.
00:28:57.000 College is one of the greatest things in America.
00:29:01.000 College is great.
00:29:02.000 It enriches people's experience.
00:29:03.000 College is fabulous.
00:29:06.000 And I said, well, be careful because you might send your kids to college and they may no longer, or grandkids, they may no longer share your values.
00:29:13.000 So last Thursday, Stanford Law School Federalist Society hosted an event with Fifth Circuit Judge Kyle Duncan.
00:29:19.000 Well, it was supposed to, but the event was derailed by an army of law students who want to become lawyers, who screeched and hollered to keep it from happening.
00:29:30.000 This isn't some big state school.
00:29:32.000 This is a top three law school in America.
00:29:36.000 Kids who have a fast track to Supreme Court clerkships and jobs at top firms.
00:29:39.000 By the way, at Yale, they did the same thing last year.
00:29:42.000 Most inexcusably, though, after the students were disruptive, they were joined by Tyrion Steinbeck, Stanford's quote, associate dean for diversity, equity, and inclusion, who was supposed to be running the event.
00:29:54.000 Instead of chastising the students, Steinbeck actually delivered a babbling six-minute speech attacking the federal judge.
00:30:01.000 She said that Duncan's work had caused harm to students there, asking the question: is the juice worth the squeeze?
00:30:08.000 Do you have something so incredibly important to say about Twitter and guns and COVID that this has impact on these people?
00:30:14.000 So basically, a federal judge traveled all the way to Stanford to give a speech and instead ran into a calculated play by a member of Stanford staff where they threw student activists after them at one of the top law schools in the country.
00:30:28.000 This is not Oberlin.
00:30:31.000 This is not UC Berkeley.
00:30:33.000 And by the way, hilariously, when I go to UC Berkeley, they treat me with more respect.
00:30:37.000 Play cut 44 to watch it yourself.
00:30:39.000 A federal judge being heckled in real time by law students at Stanford.
00:30:44.000 These are your future FBI agents.
00:30:47.000 These are your future Supreme Court clerks.
00:30:50.000 These are your future federal judges.
00:30:52.000 Play Cut 44.
00:30:55.000 And I'm just asking for the minister to sign up.
00:31:08.000 If you want a marketplace right here, this is probably what you want.
00:31:11.000 Take it.
00:31:12.000 Your advocacy, your opinions from the bench land as absolute disenfranchisement of their rights and Dusland.
00:31:29.000 And it's uncomfortable to say this to you as a person.
00:31:31.000 It's uncomfortable to say that for many people here, your work has caused harm, has caused harm.
00:31:39.000 And I know that must be uncomfortable to hear.
00:31:42.000 She's interrupting a federal judge. 0.97
00:31:44.000 Again, these are not just random sociology students.
00:31:46.000 These are not just random students studying North African lesbian poetry.
00:31:50.000 These are not just random students that are freshmen and intro to how to burn America.
00:31:57.000 Okay.
00:31:57.000 These are students that are in the law school.
00:32:02.000 They are in the law school.
00:32:05.000 They're supposed to be learned of one of the top law schools in the country.
00:32:12.000 And these are people that are going to be running our society.
00:32:16.000 The response has been promising from this judge.
00:32:18.000 This judge said that this administrator should be fired.
00:32:21.000 And by the way, every single one of these students that participated in this, their names should be made public, the same at Yale Law School, and they should be prevented from getting clerks.
00:32:32.000 They should be prevented from ever passing the bar.
00:32:34.000 There are moral and ethical complaints that can come on your resume or your, what's the word I'm looking for?
00:32:41.000 Just, there's a character review board of the bar.
00:32:45.000 Every one of these students, you're done.
00:32:46.000 Sorry, go be something else.
00:32:47.000 Go teach elementary school.
00:32:49.000 Go become a social worker.
00:32:52.000 You have crossed the line to show that you have no integrity.
00:32:54.000 Done.
00:32:55.000 Game over.
00:32:58.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
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00:33:03.000 Thanks so much for listening, and God bless.
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