The Charlie Kirk Show - The Iran Story No One Is Talking About

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00:00:47.000 Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.

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00:01:33.000 It's because I did a two-hour event with Jack Kibbs and I spoke for three hours before that with people.

00:01:38.000 So we're in a little bit of fumes today, but that's okay.

00:01:40.000 That's part of the job when you do seven hours of talk in one day and you got to do three hours of radio the next day.

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00:01:50.000 Yeah.

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00:01:55.000 Andrew, let's talk a little bit just about our podcast first.

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00:02:57.000 We get notes that they're watching what we do as an audience, what you guys do as an audience, rather.

00:03:04.000 And this is one of the most actionable audiences in the country.

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00:03:20.000 It's really tremendous.

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00:03:22.000 But it's thanks to the audience, right?

00:03:24.000 And so we're able to do what we do for you.

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00:03:27.000 So there's a lot of these kind of just stories that we can connect through, you know, a broader thesis, Andrew.

00:03:27.000 We're super grateful.

00:03:33.000 Where do you want to start?

00:03:34.000 Because there's Russia, Ukraine, there's energy.

00:03:35.000 There's the hangover COVID stuff.

00:03:37.000 Yeah.

00:03:37.000 I want to talk about energy.

00:03:38.000 Okay, let's go.

00:03:39.000 The reason I want to talk about energy is there's still, you know, Charlie's done a great job of hammering away at it this week.

00:03:45.000 I would say, you know, we were quicker to it than, and I think now that the sort of talking heads on the news are even getting to it.

00:03:52.000 But what's interesting is that we're not seeing the administration move on it yet.

00:03:59.000 And actually, as a matter of fact, we're seeing them dig their heels in on some really, really scary things.

00:04:04.000 So, there is a specific clip from Mayor Pete Butige.

00:04:07.000 I think it's clip 89.

00:04:08.000 We should play that again.

00:04:09.000 I think it's really important.

00:04:10.000 Yeah, let's play that clip.

00:04:12.000 We're basically, you know, he's talking about the difference between we have a temporary problem with Russia, what he's calling a temporary problem.

00:04:19.000 Not to mention that we've been basically in the Cold War, yeah, it took a hiatus after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union.

00:04:28.000 But it was still there, it's been simmering under the surface for a long time.

00:04:31.000 Putin certainly hasn't forgotten.

00:04:32.000 This is not a temporary war, it's a very permanent situation.

00:04:36.000 So, let's play cut 89 and we can unpack that from there.

00:04:38.000 Could the president possibly consider authorizing the Keystone pipeline, working something out with Iran?

00:04:48.000 I mean, look, the president has said that all options are on the table, but we also need to make sure that we're not galloping after permanent solutions to immediate short-term problems where more strategic and tactical actions in the short term can make a difference.

00:05:04.000 I mean, you have to be educated at the top levels of American society to say so much with big words while saying nothing.

00:05:12.000 Yeah, I think that's a really good insight, actually.

00:05:14.000 It's just a strategic and precise intercontinental.

00:05:19.000 I mean, what even is that?

00:05:20.000 But to your point, though, I mean, this is another example of how the elites have completely failed us.

00:05:24.000 And Pete Buttigeg is potentially the most obnoxious example of American elitism that there is on the national level.

00:05:24.000 Yes.

00:05:32.000 He's such a technocrat.

00:05:33.000 Yeah, he is.

00:05:34.000 And for him to say a permanent solution, why don't you just stop right there?

00:05:38.000 What is wrong with having a permanent solution to a permanent problem, by the way?

00:05:43.000 That, you know, A, we produce more energy, we make more money.

00:05:46.000 Yes.

00:05:47.000 B, prices of oil go down all around the world.

00:05:50.000 A commodities trader like Russia gets less money.

00:05:53.000 We have more price stability.

00:05:55.000 You made this point earlier in the week, and I think it still is the most important point that we can continue to bang the drum on.

00:06:01.000 And that is, in order to have a thriving middle class, you must have cheap, abundant energy and oil.

00:06:08.000 And by the way, oil is the main thing that gets traded in U.S. dollars, which keeps the United States dollar as the world reserve currency.

00:06:16.000 So that all hinges on this.

00:06:17.000 But, you know, we don't do a good job of educating our population or our citizenry of just the need for energy.

00:06:24.000 So at the most basic thing is if you don't eat, you die.

00:06:27.000 Food is a form of energy.

00:06:29.000 You actually look at it just from biology.

00:06:32.000 Yeah, exactly.

00:06:32.000 So you need calories to be able to fuel your system to continue to survive.

00:06:36.000 Okay, well, then be able to move from one place to the other.

00:06:38.000 You could walk everywhere or you could try to find more efficient ways to do that or to power your homes.

00:06:43.000 And only us in the West, because we become so desensitized to how abundant energy is, do we start to go on these ridiculous crusades of trying to sunset oil and natural gas, LNG, and trying to bring in this idea of solar panels on every car or wind farms everywhere?

00:07:03.000 And not only is it unrealistic, it's really bad for us geopolitically.

00:07:06.000 So the U.S. Energy Information Administration estimated in 2016 that there were about 2,462 trillion cubic feet of technically recoverable resources of dry natural gas.

00:07:18.000 Now, what's so interesting about this, though, is that you look at new studies, is that it shows that there's over 3 trillion.

00:07:24.000 Now, how's that possible?

00:07:25.000 It's because we keep on discovering that we have more natural gas.

00:07:28.000 That's what's amazing.

00:07:29.000 I mean, they were predicting peak oil in the 90s.

00:07:32.000 That's right.

00:07:33.000 And then the shale revolution and the fracking revolution completely twisted.

00:07:38.000 The fracking revolution, we should do a whole show explaining hydraulic fracking, how it works, how you're able to explore these assets.

00:07:45.000 It's incredible.

00:07:46.000 And so we are the world's leader in LNG.

00:07:49.000 But if you just look at oil in general, we have enough oil to fuel the entire world for decades.

00:07:55.000 Just us.

00:07:56.000 We have enough oil to be able to do that.

00:07:57.000 People don't understand.

00:08:00.000 President Trump said this on the show this week.

00:08:02.000 He said, We have enough oil and we were on pace to produce enough oil that we would be double the size, double the size of the Saudis and the Russians, just America alone, double the size, which is a tremendous thing to say.

00:08:17.000 And by the way, they keep finding more and more ways to extract more and more oil.

00:08:20.000 And the other part of this that I think is so important, I think we should play one of these other clips if we have time, Charlie.

00:08:26.000 But is our emissions went down?

00:08:30.000 That's right.

00:08:30.000 We were the only major power in the world where this was true.

00:08:33.000 It might even be the only major power in the West where this was true.

00:08:38.000 It went down like 10%.

00:08:39.000 Our emissions went down because we were using natural gas.

00:08:41.000 And yet you see in these.

00:08:42.000 More environmentally friendly.

00:08:43.000 Yeah, more environmentally friendly.

00:08:45.000 And you see these states like California.

00:08:47.000 There's a now new buildings in California are not able to use natural gas.

00:08:52.000 They banned it from new buildings.

00:08:53.000 That's right.

00:08:54.000 New York City, the same.

00:08:55.000 I mean, so you see this climate cult is in full effect all across the country, and they happen to be running the White House right now.

00:09:01.000 So I think this would be a really interesting clip to play.

00:09:04.000 Actually, we're talking about being in an energy transformation.

00:09:07.000 This, again, Pete Buttigieg, clip 72.

00:09:10.000 Drill more, open up more U.S. land to drilling.

00:09:15.000 What's the administration's response to that idea?

00:09:19.000 Well, look, the president has laid out and taken a number of steps, including addressing the strategic petroleum reserve.

00:09:26.000 Let's also be clear that we are in the middle of a long-term transformation that is already fast underway, especially when it comes to vehicles.

00:09:36.000 And yet they're okay with buying more oil from Iran, but not extracting more oil from Alaska.

00:09:41.000 Yeah, that's right.

00:09:42.000 He made that statement, I believe, this morning, where he basically said, yeah, nothing's off the table because I guess that would be another short-term solution.

00:09:50.000 Meanwhile, the Biden administration, and this has been very much underreported, the Biden administration is rushing to get the Iran nuclear deal.

00:10:00.000 It was brokered by Russia.

00:10:02.000 We should talk about it.

00:10:03.000 We haven't talked about the Iran nuclear deal in a while.

00:10:06.000 They're rushing for it right now.

00:10:07.000 About a year and a half ago, we did a lot on Iran.

00:10:09.000 We dove into it, kind of the origins of the Iranian revolution and the Shah and the Sagday and all that. 0.84

00:10:14.000 It's important that people realize what you're dealing with when you're dealing with Iran. 0.69

00:10:17.000 Iran is going to be part of this new axis that is being created. 0.94

00:10:21.000 And Russia is now willingly kind of finding their new partners with Iran and China.

00:10:26.000 And they think that they are going to be able to kind of create the world in their image.

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00:11:46.000 We had 6,000 people last night at Calvary Trader.

00:11:49.000 Yeah, if you haven't checked that event out, you definitely should.

00:11:51.000 It's going to be great.

00:11:52.000 I mean, what is it at?

00:11:53.000 It's already probably like 100,000.

00:11:54.000 100,000 on YouTube.

00:11:55.000 It's going to keep 100,000 views on YouTube.

00:11:57.000 Yeah, with Pastor Jack Hibbs.

00:11:58.000 That thing will probably do a million before it's for sure. 1.00

00:12:02.000 It was a massive event.

00:12:04.000 And if you haven't, I think you said this earlier, Charlie, but it begs repeating.

00:12:08.000 Pastor Jack Hibbs Church in Chino Hills, outside of Los Angeles, is a phenomenal place.

00:12:14.000 It's one of the best.

00:12:15.000 Yeah, that is.

00:12:15.000 He does such a beautiful job.

00:12:17.000 He really does.

00:12:17.000 Activated audience to talking, speaking of which.

00:12:20.000 That's right.

00:12:21.000 Someone just sent us an email.

00:12:23.000 They said, Alaskans say, quote, please lift the sanctions on us.

00:12:26.000 We can help fix the energy problem.

00:12:27.000 So we're sanctioning our own energy exploration.

00:12:30.000 Yeah.

00:12:31.000 More so than even our adversaries.

00:12:32.000 But yet we're open to buying more oil from the Ayatollah.

00:12:37.000 That's correct.

00:12:38.000 Read that story.

00:12:39.000 Well, the story is basically that it wasn't really much of a story.

00:12:42.000 It was, it was Budajej saying that, yeah, we're open to, you know, that is on the table, I think, was the direct quote, right?

00:12:50.000 And time and time again, the administration is talking about this, right?

00:12:55.000 So we've got Granholm, energy secretary.

00:12:58.000 I think that's a cut worth playing 96.

00:13:00.000 Let's go ahead and play that cut. 0.74

00:13:02.000 But the bottom line is that this president and this administration are looking at every single tool to shield American families from the impact of rising energy prices.

00:13:14.000 And we're working through an energy transition.

00:13:18.000 And we've got to start by adding energy.

00:13:21.000 And the reality is we have to take some time to get off of oil and gas.

00:13:26.000 We recognize this.

00:13:27.000 This is a transition.

00:13:29.000 It's a transition.

00:13:30.000 They keep on re-emphasizing that.

00:13:32.000 And that kind of plays into the Great Reset goals.

00:13:34.000 Remember, the eight goals of the Great Reset, what we talked about yesterday with Jack Hibbs, we're going to post that whole episode.

00:13:38.000 But one of them is carbon emissions will be no more.

00:13:42.000 Fossil fuels will be done.

00:13:43.000 This is part one of the goals of the Great Reset.

00:13:45.000 Yeah, absolutely.

00:13:46.000 And they, you know, and it, again, the failure of the elites, I think Secretary Grandholm is another shining example.

00:13:56.000 I mean, just two more mediocre people have you ever seen between Budajej and Granholm.

00:14:02.000 And these are the people in charge of our energy policy.

00:14:05.000 And yet, what they are doing, to your larger point, is that they are all singing from the same song sheet that they know is pre-approved from Davos, the World Economic Forum.

00:14:14.000 This is what, if you are an elite, if you are in polite society, or if you are allowed to go on CNN and MSNBC, you have to be saying, hey, we know there's a temporary problem with Russia starting a war in Eastern Europe, but listen, we want to stay committed to our long-term climate goals.

00:14:30.000 This is one of the central pieties you're not allowed to violate, right?

00:14:33.000 Friedrich Nietzsche said that every society has a couple pieties you're not allowed to violate.

00:14:37.000 One of them you're not allowed to violate is you are not allowed to question green energy.

00:14:41.000 You're just not.

00:14:42.000 The same way you're not allowed to question CRT or question that men can become pregnant.

00:14:46.000 It's the same sort of thing.

00:14:47.000 It's a religious fervor. 0.97

00:14:48.000 It's like if you go to, and you know this, you lived in Hollywood for a while, you go to like a cocktail party or whatever of upper middle class people and you start to kind of go on about the benefits of LNG and the Keystone Pipeline, they will treat you the same way as if all of a sudden you said like CRT is garbage.

00:15:05.000 Yeah, no, it's the same sort of intensity.

00:15:08.000 Totally.

00:15:08.000 And you'll become that guy or that guy.

00:15:10.000 That guy's a fracking apologist.

00:15:12.000 They'll talk behind your back and eventually you won't get invited back to parties. 1.00

00:15:15.000 You're a white supremacist. 0.98

00:15:16.000 We're talking about energy. 0.89

00:15:17.000 I'll never forget, actually, on this note, when Rush Limbaugh came to a turning point USA event, he comes up to the stage.

00:15:25.000 He's about to introduce President Trump.

00:15:28.000 And we're in Palm Beach, Student Action Summit.

00:15:30.000 He comes up.

00:15:31.000 It's in December.

00:15:32.000 I know that.

00:15:33.000 It was 2019.

00:15:33.000 I can't remember.

00:15:34.000 I think it must have been 2019.

00:15:36.000 He comes up on the stage.

00:15:37.000 And the first thing he does is he gets to the podium and he looks out at everybody.

00:15:41.000 And he's so excited to see all these young faces in the crowd.

00:15:44.000 And he goes, he goes, everybody.

00:15:48.000 He said, climate change or global warming or climate change is a myth.

00:15:52.000 And then the crowd erupts.

00:15:54.000 And he's like, I've been wanting to say that for so long.

00:15:56.000 It was the first thing.

00:15:57.000 That was one of his last speeches he ever gave was at a Turning Point USA event.

00:16:01.000 Yeah.

00:16:01.000 And it was interesting because I rode with Rush in the car to that event.

00:16:05.000 We picked him up at his studio.

00:16:07.000 So I had a chance to spend some time with Rush in the car, and I got to know him pretty well even before that.

00:16:11.000 But obviously, and all he wanted to talk about was climate change.

00:16:13.000 He's like, you don't understand?

00:16:14.000 This is civilization-ending stuff.

00:16:16.000 This is their new thing.

00:16:18.000 And if you listen to the Limbaugh commentary towards the end of his life, the end of his shows, it was this repetition, this fascination with how the left wanted to use climate change as a way to restructure society.

00:16:30.000 You got to think, man, the guy who's in the radio business for 30 years with that kind of combined wisdom, he really saw this coming.

00:16:37.000 And he mocked them intentionally to try and warn the base and warn decent people about it.

00:16:37.000 He did.

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00:17:48.000 We're going through some of the news items that you might not hear on your nightly newscast.

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00:17:57.000 Tomorrow, I'm going to Pastor Juergens Church in California.

00:18:00.000 Next week, I am going to Naples, Florida, speaking at the Florida Citizens Alliance, and then we'll be at NRB next week, National Radio Broadcasting Society.

00:18:06.000 In Nashville, which is going to be great for a couple of days.

00:18:08.000 And then we're hitting the road.

00:18:10.000 This is still to be finalized, but I'm going to just kind of give a little bit of a teaser of some of the campus and church stops we're doing.

00:18:15.000 Looks like we're going to Colorado Springs to Fervent Church.

00:18:18.000 We will be going to the University of Arkansas, Auburn University, Grace Church in St. Louis.

00:18:22.000 Still finalizing the logistics.

00:18:24.000 We may or may not be going to Berkeley, may or may not be going to Cal State Fullerton, UW, Milwaukee, and potentially a church in Baltimore, and Fresno, and a couple other stops in between.

00:18:34.000 It's excellent.

00:18:35.000 You don't travel enough, Charlie.

00:18:36.000 I'm convinced of it.

00:18:37.000 But I've actually really scaled it down.

00:18:39.000 I was going to say, I know that people don't understand it.

00:18:42.000 When we first launched the podcast and the radio show, you were traveling 300 days a year.

00:18:47.000 Yeah, we scaled it down.

00:18:49.000 And I have to say that, you know, January and February, most of the month, I was actually in town.

00:18:52.000 And it's but it's not that I wasn't working.

00:18:55.000 I was actually working harder.

00:18:56.000 Yeah, we had to not do that Fox thing, that education thing, and a couple other things.

00:19:00.000 Yeah, we said notice some stuff intentionally just to try to.

00:19:03.000 It was big.

00:19:04.000 We do have that clip, by the way.

00:19:05.000 101.

00:19:06.000 Okay, so yeah, this was the great Rush Limbaugh, where he was one of those last public appearances at a Turning Point USA event.

00:19:12.000 I was really honored to be able to get him for that event.

00:19:16.000 Him and Trump were there together.

00:19:17.000 It was really amazing.

00:19:18.000 Okay, let's play it.

00:19:19.000 Cut 101.

00:19:20.000 I'll tell you, I have been dying to talk to high school students about so much about what's happening.

00:19:26.000 I just want to tell you, I don't have time tonight, but I just want to tell you, climate change is a hoax.

00:19:32.000 Please don't believe it.

00:19:35.000 Whatever you do, I beg of you.

00:19:39.000 As the whole climate change, climate change contains every issue the left wants in their bid to transform this country.

00:19:49.000 So please, I know it's susceptible.

00:19:51.000 They're scaring you.

00:19:52.000 They're making you think the planet's not going to support life in 20 years.

00:19:56.000 It's bunk, folks.

00:19:59.000 It just bunk.

00:20:00.000 He saw the whole thing coming.

00:20:02.000 Yeah.

00:20:02.000 How important is that clip now when you play it back and you see everything that's happening with the Biden administration that we're in an energy transformation?

00:20:09.000 So just suck it up.

00:20:10.000 Take $5 gas, which, by the way, San Francisco is now above $5 on average.

00:20:15.000 That's right.

00:20:15.000 And L.A.

00:20:16.000 Yeah.

00:20:16.000 LA, I think, is like at $4.98.

00:20:18.000 Yes.

00:20:18.000 It's like two cents behind.

00:20:20.000 But yeah, I mean, you see all the damage that has been done.

00:20:23.000 And now we're about to buy more fuel or gas from Iran.

00:20:29.000 And we're still buying energy from Russia.

00:20:34.000 Now, they're saying that some of that hasn't been able to get into our ports lately.

00:20:37.000 So maybe there's some movement on that front.

00:20:39.000 But nevertheless, they had to take massive amounts of incoming from senators, from shows like this, to even get that far, right?

00:20:45.000 And a lot of that is just because in the private energy markets, there's a stigma attached to buying energy, Russian energy.

00:20:52.000 So a lot of that is still private.

00:20:53.000 And let's just go through the implication of this.

00:20:55.000 Producer Connor, who just, you know, he just keeps on taking hits.

00:20:58.000 His rent went up by $600 a month.

00:21:00.000 It cost him $72 to fill up his four-door Nissan sedan.

00:21:05.000 Yeah.

00:21:05.000 $72.

00:21:06.000 Yeah.

00:21:06.000 So he's paying $600 more in rent per month than he's probably filling up for like $40, $45.

00:21:13.000 You get poorer as prices go up.

00:21:14.000 No, you get poorer as Democrats come into power and they say, just suck it up, middle-class Americans, especially white Americans, not to make it racial, but that's really the way it feels in the last couple of years.

00:21:24.000 And they say, hey, listen, if you're part of what we consider the privileged class, then we really don't care if it's hard for you or if you have to take something on the chip.

00:21:32.000 But think about who drives the most.

00:21:34.000 Rural voters.

00:21:35.000 Totally.

00:21:36.000 If you live in New York City, car ownership is low, record low in New York City.

00:21:40.000 That's true.

00:21:41.000 Most people don't own cars.

00:21:42.000 Or they're taking public.

00:21:43.000 Well, that's what I'm saying.

00:21:43.000 That's it.

00:21:44.000 Well, you're taking public transportation, and then they simultaneously defund the police and demonize the police in front of subways.

00:21:52.000 We put you on a subway where crime is spiking over 200% on New York.

00:21:57.000 They rubbed it.

00:21:57.000 CCs in people's eyes.

00:21:58.000 Real story that's right.

00:21:59.000 Yeah, no, I mean, it's just insane.

00:22:00.000 So they say, well, you know, listen, we're going to take out your ability to be self-sufficient, drive your own car, drive your own vehicle.

00:22:07.000 We're going to make it so expensive.

00:22:08.000 You're not going to want to do it.

00:22:09.000 And then, by the way, if you take the public option, you're going to get mugged or worse.

00:22:13.000 It's great.

00:22:14.000 This is the world we're living in.

00:22:15.000 So all of this is kind of around this Ukrainian-Russian situation.

00:22:19.000 But the Ukrainian government, I just want to make sure everyone knows what you're supporting if you're doing like the let's stand with Ukraine stuff.

00:22:25.000 This is so important.

00:22:25.000 I'm saying that.

00:22:26.000 And I'm not saying Putin is a good guy. 0.99

00:22:28.000 I think he's a thug. 0.98

00:22:29.000 I've denounced him. 0.98

00:22:30.000 Not saying Russia is good.

00:22:31.000 I don't like it.

00:22:32.000 I don't like what they're doing at all.

00:22:33.000 You shouldn't invade a country.

00:22:34.000 However, a sovereign country.

00:22:36.000 That's obvious, though.

00:22:37.000 But I need to say it, or else.

00:22:38.000 Yeah, no, I mean, but that's the point.

00:22:39.000 It's obvious.

00:22:40.000 So, what's a more interesting question?

00:22:42.000 What's more interesting is who is Ukraine and why are our leaders posing with this posing with a blended flag of Ukrainian and American flag together, right?

00:22:51.000 Desecrating the flag.

00:22:52.000 So what does President Zelensky stand for?

00:22:56.000 What is Zelensky's worldview?

00:22:58.000 Zelensky believes in the following: he believes in the free distribution of marijuana.

00:23:04.000 He believes in free abortion in Ukraine, the legalization of prostitution and gambling, and he opposes the legalization of weapons.

00:23:14.000 So I don't know if most Americans agree with that.

00:23:16.000 Well, most conservatives agree with that.

00:23:18.000 I think, obviously, on the weapons issue, at least, he's probably changed his tune.

00:23:23.000 But again, this is what the liberal world order does.

00:23:26.000 They love rules.

00:23:27.000 They love rules for law-abiding people until they get an emergency use authorization.

00:23:32.000 They like rules unless they deal with pleasure. 0.93

00:23:34.000 They want you to be able to pursue pleasure without any restriction.

00:23:37.000 By virtue, they're going to strike you.

00:23:39.000 They'll tear up a constitution if they think, you know, you saw this with the tyrant Trudeau in Canada.

00:23:44.000 I mean, he used the Emergencies Act.

00:23:46.000 We saw this in the United States with These vaccines and different mandates and lockdowns during the pandemic.

00:23:53.000 So there's Nancy Pelosi and a couple other people.

00:23:56.000 I can't really recognize most of it.

00:23:57.000 Let me pull it up here.

00:23:58.000 Let me see who I can recognize.

00:23:59.000 Dan Crenshaw.

00:24:00.000 Yep.

00:24:00.000 He's in the picture there.

00:24:02.000 Let me see who else is in that picture that I recognize.

00:24:04.000 Looks like Don Bacon.

00:24:07.000 Who else is in that picture?

00:24:09.000 Oh, Burgess Owens is in that picture.

00:24:11.000 Now, in all fairness, I'm going to defend some of these people.

00:24:14.000 I don't know if they know that this flag was actually being used.

00:24:17.000 And who knows?

00:24:18.000 I could, maybe they did.

00:24:18.000 Maybe that they said, hey, we're going to take a picture.

00:24:21.000 Or maybe they said, hey, we're going to go do a protest in support of Ukraine or whatever.

00:24:24.000 But I don't know.

00:24:26.000 I mean, basically, that's Denny Hoyer, of course.

00:24:28.000 Yeah, it's a good point, though.

00:24:29.000 I mean, because we know that Pelosi rules the house with an iron fist.

00:24:32.000 And they might have just pulled this flag.

00:24:34.000 They probably just said, hey, let's go take a picture in solidarity with some of these diplomats from Ukraine or whatever.

00:24:40.000 And they go take it.

00:24:41.000 And then she rolls it out.

00:24:42.000 And these people in the back row have no idea.

00:24:43.000 They have no idea.

00:24:44.000 There's Peter Meyer, of course.

00:24:46.000 That's totally possible.

00:24:48.000 Yeah, I mean, whatever.

00:24:49.000 I mean, the point is, you don't do that to the American flag.

00:24:51.000 And these people are not going to be able to do that.

00:24:52.000 But no, I mean, it goes to show, but it's really important.

00:24:54.000 They did this with the African thing, too.

00:24:57.000 And part of the project of Ukraine from the U.S. State Department was trying to impose our woke, socially left-wing values into Ukraine.

00:25:07.000 This is very important.

00:25:07.000 And this is not why Putin is invading Ukraine, but it's a component of why he detests NATO.

00:25:13.000 He detests the West.

00:25:14.000 Yeah, Putin is super socially conservative, right? 0.95

00:25:16.000 He's so socially conservative that he's a legitimate authoritarian fascist.

00:25:20.000 It goes beyond even restraints towards virtue.

00:25:22.000 He's like, I don't believe in any sort of fruits of the Enlightenment.

00:25:27.000 You disagree, I'm going to lock you into prison.

00:25:28.000 Like, thuggery.

00:25:30.000 You're totally right.

00:25:31.000 He's very publicly on the record said that the West is pushing upon the world a degeneracy.

00:25:37.000 It's lying about genders.

00:25:40.000 The fact that there are two genders, all of these things that, you know, us on the political right, we say, well, Putin's not wrong. 1.00

00:25:46.000 It doesn't make him right.

00:25:47.000 When we say that, it doesn't make him right about invading a sovereign country.

00:25:50.000 But here's what people need to understand: is that to call White Hat black hat in this geopolitical mix-up, this invasion, it is an invasion.

00:26:01.000 To just simply say one is good, one is bad is completely.

00:26:05.000 It's way murkier than that.

00:26:06.000 It's cloudier.

00:26:07.000 And hero worship is way too far.

00:26:09.000 Yeah, and I don't want to live in Russia.

00:26:11.000 I have no aspiration.

00:26:11.000 I think Russia's awful, honestly.

00:26:14.000 But the point is that one of the rallying cries for the Putin troops is like, hey, the degeneracy that you see in the West, right? 0.98

00:26:21.000 The child pedophilia, the outward child pornography, the movies like cuties, right?

00:26:26.000 The outward transgender stuff, the men that could become women, they air that stuff on Russian television as a way to try to turn Russians against the West, right? 0.96

00:26:35.000 Where Russians are far more socially conservative as a people.

00:26:39.000 Now, that's not to say all of them are.

00:26:41.000 There's plenty of people in Russia that are atheists and kind of live a degenerate lifestyle. 1.00

00:26:47.000 But it is a rallying cry for Putin that has allowed him to hold on to power.

00:26:52.000 Yeah, I mean, I think there's a lot of questions about Putin's ability to wage this offensive in Ukraine and potentially beyond Ukraine in the long run.

00:27:03.000 You know, we had Adam Korzynitsky, Korzy, Korzy, who is speculating that he might be facing a legitimacy crisis back home, especially if this becomes a prolonged endeavor.

00:27:14.000 But to your point, I think there is a majority within Russia that are certainly supportive of his worldview about what the West is propagating in terms of social values on values.

00:27:27.000 And I think Ukraine is a perfect example. 0.98

00:27:29.000 Now, right after we got done with Colonel McGregor, he sent me a text from somebody that sent him a note on his website.

00:27:39.000 And it's basically, it's an American that was living in Ukraine in 2013.

00:27:43.000 He was saying, listen, corruption was everywhere.

00:27:46.000 But after he went back in 2017, he said in 2013, it was livable.

00:27:51.000 By 2017, the corruption had got so bad that basically bragging in Ukrainian culture about fleecing Uncle Sam, America, by using our money that we're pumping into Ukraine, which is essentially our vassal state in Eastern Europe. 0.76

00:28:07.000 It became a status symbol.

00:28:09.000 So if you had a Land Rover, you were walking around.

00:28:11.000 It was like, look at me.

00:28:13.000 Uncle Sam and Department of State hooked me up with this Land Rover, meaning you can't touch me.

00:28:18.000 You can't hurt me.

00:28:20.000 I am so powerful that I'm above the law.

00:28:23.000 Okay.

00:28:24.000 And this was flaunted.

00:28:25.000 This is flaunted everywhere in Ukrainian culture. 0.99

00:28:28.000 So don't give me that this is all good and all bad and all virtue and all evil.

00:28:34.000 It's just simply not that true.

00:28:35.000 Does that mean that I support Putin invading Russia?

00:28:38.000 Of course not.

00:28:39.000 And this knee-jerk reaction to a binary at all junctures of this story as it's unfolded, and you see this with the media erupting on McGregor, you see him erupting on Tucker.

00:28:53.000 That is just such adolescent thinking.

00:28:56.000 There is more nuance to this story, though.

00:28:59.000 No doubt.

00:28:59.000 And so some people say Russia is a Christian nation.

00:29:02.000 I think that goes too far.

00:29:03.000 If you actually just look at the demographic breakdown of religion in America versus Russia, we're technically a more Christian nation than Russia is.

00:29:13.000 There's a huge atheist population in Russia from communist areas.

00:29:18.000 From the communist area, a lot of hangovers.

00:29:20.000 There's a fair amount of Muslims.

00:29:21.000 There are some people that are just kind of generally believers that believe in something.

00:29:26.000 So I don't love that argument.

00:29:28.000 I will say, though, it is far more Christian, though, than most Western European countries, though.

00:29:33.000 It's far more Christian than Spain, far more Christian than Italy, far more Christian than France, far more Christian than Germany, which they've become basically complete and total secular nations in Europe.

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00:30:49.000 Okay, let's get what other stories, Andrew, we got.

00:30:52.000 I mean, there is this negotiation that's happening.

00:30:56.000 I mean, we touched on it before, but there is basically Robert Malley, who's the U.S. special envoy to Iran, is currently in Vienna.

00:31:06.000 And apparently, the negotiation is going so poorly about the, so he negotiated the JCPOA in 2015.

00:31:14.000 So he is the guy that basically was responsible for the document that Trump came in, ripped up, and got the United States out of the Iran nuclear deal, right?

00:31:25.000 It was an unbelievably bad deal.

00:31:26.000 Yeah, it was an unbelievably bad deal.

00:31:28.000 Well, guess what?

00:31:28.000 He's at it again.

00:31:29.000 So when we talk about our elites failing us and we talk about how America deserves better elites, at least we like to think we deserve better elites.

00:31:37.000 He's at it again and he's in Vienna.

00:31:38.000 And basically there's a sub stack from Melanie Phillips.

00:31:42.000 She published it 21 hours ago.

00:31:44.000 She basically says that it's going so poorly that she was, you know, she felt obligated to write this and that she had permission from some people on the ground.

00:31:54.000 This is all happening while we're worried about Putin launching nuclear weapons.

00:31:57.000 Like, oh, let's go give another authoritarian nuclear weapons in the Middle East. 1.00

00:32:02.000 And so she highlights a Twitter thread from Gabrielle Norona that says, one, my former career at the State Department, NSC, and EU colleagues are so concerned with the concessions being made by Rob Malley in Vienna that they've allowed me to publish some details of the coming deal in hopes that Congress will act to stop capitulation.

00:32:02.000 Yeah.

00:32:22.000 What's happening in Vienna is a total disaster, one warned.

00:32:25.000 The entire negotiations have been filtered and essentially run by Russian diplomat Mikhail Ulyanov.

00:32:32.000 The concessions and other misguided policies have led three members of the U.S. negotiating team to leave.

00:32:38.000 They're basically stripping away different sanctions of all of these leaders within Iran, including the Iranian military that has murdered people all around the world, apparently, according to this thread.

00:32:52.000 We're about to be not only in a geopolitical cluster in eastern Ukraine and Russia, but we're also going to have Taiwan coming on board.

00:33:02.000 And now we've got basically JCPOA number two.

00:33:05.000 So Biden, when you think about former Secretary of Defense Gates saying that Biden has been on essentially the wrong side of every geopolitical issue in the last 40 years.

00:33:15.000 And if I were to offer some feedback, constructive feedback for when Trump runs for president, again, because he will in 2024, everyone was so focused on COVID.

00:33:24.000 We were so focused on that in the 2020 election that foreign policy was really not a big part of the 2020 election.

00:33:32.000 And I mean, it was a, I can't find one theater that he was not in A in.

00:33:39.000 Asia, Middle East, historic peace.

00:33:39.000 Yeah.

00:33:42.000 And I don't think he did a good job.

00:33:44.000 He or his team did a good job telling that story of his amazing accomplishments.

00:33:47.000 I remember when you said when you said that about the Abraham Accords, when you were like, my only problem in the debate, I think it was his first debate in 2020, you said he didn't bring up the Abraham Accords.

00:33:57.000 I remember what you said.

00:33:57.000 That's right.

00:33:58.000 It's literal peace in the Middle East.

00:34:00.000 It's that we got a peace deal done between the United Arab Emirates and between Israel.

00:34:06.000 And we have peace in the Middle East.

00:34:07.000 And somehow, you know, that wasn't communicated.

00:34:10.000 And not to mention, you know, it kept Russia in check. 0.86

00:34:13.000 They weren't invading anybody.

00:34:15.000 So I think that there was a big missed opportunity because you see right now, the world's a catastrophe, right?

00:34:19.000 It's a basket case.

00:34:20.000 Everyone's doing everything.

00:34:21.000 If America doesn't lead, then the world falls into absolute chaos.

00:34:24.000 I want to be an isolationist.

00:34:26.000 I am so in my gut to be an isolationist, but there is a point where you have to say, listen, we've got to keep the sea lanes open.

00:34:35.000 We've got to create some order because these bad actors will fall into the void.

00:34:38.000 There's a prudent middle ground that you can get to, which is not total isolationism and also not trying to drop bombs on every mountain village.

00:34:47.000 Absolutely.

00:34:48.000 To your earlier point, though, Trump's accomplishments were myriad.

00:34:50.000 I mean, the accomplishment in China, people don't forget this.

00:34:54.000 It was like May, I was in the White House, actually, when the second, or the Chinese deal got signed.

00:35:00.000 I remember that was there that day.

00:35:02.000 It's a long story while I was there.

00:35:04.000 But the point is, it was like a month or two later that the pandemic hit.

00:35:08.000 And then basically the trade deal with China kind of fell apart.

00:35:11.000 But Trump got major concessions in there, and it sort of re-established the balance of power between China and the U.S.'s economic partners.

00:35:19.000 That's right.

00:35:20.000 To your point, you're absolutely right.

00:35:21.000 We've got to keep our eye on this Iranian story.

00:35:23.000 They're getting closer to a nuclear weapon, everybody, and it's happening very quietly.

00:35:23.000 It's very important.

00:35:27.000 And they're going to make a lot more energy, too, and sell it on the open market.

00:35:29.000 That's exactly right.

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The Charlie Kirk Show - March 04, 2022

The Iran Story No One Is Talking About

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