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00:04:12.000We'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.
00:04:19.000Not 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.
00:04:28.000But it was still there, it's been simmering under the surface for a long time.
00:04:32.000This is not a temporary war, it's a very permanent situation.
00:04:36.000So, let's play cut 89 and we can unpack that from there.
00:04:38.000Could the president possibly consider authorizing the Keystone pipeline, working something out with Iran?
00:04:48.000I 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.
00:05:04.000I mean, you have to be educated at the top levels of American society to say so much with big words while saying nothing.
00:05:12.000Yeah, I think that's a really good insight, actually.
00:05:14.000It's just a strategic and precise intercontinental.
00:05:55.000You 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.
00:06:01.000And that is, in order to have a thriving middle class, you must have cheap, abundant energy and oil.
00:06:08.000And 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.
00:06:32.000So you need calories to be able to fuel your system to continue to survive.
00:06:36.000Okay, well, then be able to move from one place to the other.
00:06:38.000You could walk everywhere or you could try to find more efficient ways to do that or to power your homes.
00:06:43.000And 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?
00:07:03.000And not only is it unrealistic, it's really bad for us geopolitically.
00:07:06.000So 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.
00:07:18.000Now, what's so interesting about this, though, is that you look at new studies, is that it shows that there's over 3 trillion.
00:08:00.000President Trump said this on the show this week.
00:08:02.000He 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.
00:08:17.000And by the way, they keep finding more and more ways to extract more and more oil.
00:08:20.000And 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.
00:09:10.000Drill more, open up more U.S. land to drilling.
00:09:15.000What's the administration's response to that idea?
00:09:19.000Well, look, the president has laid out and taken a number of steps, including addressing the strategic petroleum reserve.
00:09:26.000Let'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.
00:09:36.000And yet they're okay with buying more oil from Iran, but not extracting more oil from Alaska.
00:09:42.000He 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.
00:09:50.000Meanwhile, the Biden administration, and this has been very much underreported, the Biden administration is rushing to get the Iran nuclear deal.
00:13:02.000But 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.
00:13:14.000And we're working through an energy transition.
00:13:18.000And we've got to start by adding energy.
00:13:21.000And the reality is we have to take some time to get off of oil and gas.
00:13:46.000And they, you know, and it, again, the failure of the elites, I think Secretary Grandholm is another shining example.
00:13:56.000I mean, just two more mediocre people have you ever seen between Budajej and Granholm.
00:14:02.000And these are the people in charge of our energy policy.
00:14:05.000And 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.
00:14:14.000This 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.
00:14:30.000This is one of the central pieties you're not allowed to violate, right?
00:14:33.000Friedrich Nietzsche said that every society has a couple pieties you're not allowed to violate.
00:14:37.000One of them you're not allowed to violate is you are not allowed to question green energy.
00:14:48.000It'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.
00:15:05.000Yeah, no, it's the same sort of intensity.
00:16:18.000And 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.
00:16:30.000You 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.
00:16:37.000And he mocked them intentionally to try and warn the base and warn decent people about it.
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00:20:02.000How 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?
00:21:14.000No, 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.
00:21:24.000And 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.
00:22:00.000So 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.
00:22:15.000So all of this is kind of around this Ukrainian-Russian situation.
00:22:19.000But 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.
00:22:40.000So, what's a more interesting question?
00:22:42.000What'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?
00:25:47.000When we say that, it doesn't make him right about invading a sovereign country.
00:25:50.000But 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.
00:26:01.000To just simply say one is good, one is bad is completely.
00:26:14.000But 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?
00:26:21.000The child pedophilia, the outward child pornography, the movies like cuties, right?
00:26:26.000The 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?
00:26:35.000Where Russians are far more socially conservative as a people.
00:26:39.000Now, that's not to say all of them are.
00:26:41.000There's plenty of people in Russia that are atheists and kind of live a degenerate lifestyle.
00:26:47.000But it is a rallying cry for Putin that has allowed him to hold on to power.
00:26:52.000Yeah, 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.
00:27:03.000You 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.
00:27:14.000But 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.
00:27:27.000And I think Ukraine is a perfect example.
00:27:29.000Now, right after we got done with Colonel McGregor, he sent me a text from somebody that sent him a note on his website.
00:27:39.000And it's basically, it's an American that was living in Ukraine in 2013.
00:27:43.000He was saying, listen, corruption was everywhere.
00:27:46.000But after he went back in 2017, he said in 2013, it was livable.
00:27:51.000By 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.
00:28:39.000And 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.
00:28:53.000That is just such adolescent thinking.
00:28:56.000There is more nuance to this story, though.
00:29:03.000If you actually just look at the demographic breakdown of religion in America versus Russia, we're technically a more Christian nation than Russia is.
00:29:13.000There's a huge atheist population in Russia from communist areas.
00:29:18.000From the communist area, a lot of hangovers.
00:29:28.000I will say, though, it is far more Christian, though, than most Western European countries, though.
00:29:33.000It'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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00:30:49.000Okay, let's get what other stories, Andrew, we got.
00:30:52.000I mean, there is this negotiation that's happening.
00:30:56.000I 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.
00:31:06.000And apparently, the negotiation is going so poorly about the, so he negotiated the JCPOA in 2015.
00:31:14.000So 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?
00:31:29.000So 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.
00:31:44.000She 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.
00:31:54.000This is all happening while we're worried about Putin launching nuclear weapons.
00:31:57.000Like, oh, let's go give another authoritarian nuclear weapons in the Middle East.
00:32:02.000And 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.
00:32:22.000What's happening in Vienna is a total disaster, one warned.
00:32:25.000The entire negotiations have been filtered and essentially run by Russian diplomat Mikhail Ulyanov.
00:32:32.000The concessions and other misguided policies have led three members of the U.S. negotiating team to leave.
00:32:38.000They'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.
00:32:52.000We'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.
00:33:02.000And now we've got basically JCPOA number two.
00:33:05.000So 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.
00:33:15.000And 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.
00:33:24.000We were so focused on that in the 2020 election that foreign policy was really not a big part of the 2020 election.
00:33:32.000And I mean, it was a, I can't find one theater that he was not in A in.
00:33:44.000He or his team did a good job telling that story of his amazing accomplishments.
00:33:47.000I 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.
00:34:26.000I 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.
00:34:35.000We've got to create some order because these bad actors will fall into the void.
00:34:38.000There'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.
00:35:04.000But the point is, it was like a month or two later that the pandemic hit.
00:35:08.000And then basically the trade deal with China kind of fell apart.
00:35:11.000But 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.