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00:00:01.000The most common question I receive and the second most common question I receive, coupled with our conversation with Senator Tuberville, otherwise known as Coach Tuberville.
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00:01:33.000If I were to have a list of the most common questions I receive, I would say the number one question, and it's a great question, by the way.
00:01:41.000It's not that I'm exhausted hearing it.
00:01:44.000But it shows that the conservative community, donors, activists, all are kind of thinking the same.
00:01:50.000Despite all the divisions of moderate and establishment and rhino and conservative and MAGA, there is a question that I without a doubt receive more than any other question, which is, Charlie, is Biden really going to be the nominee?
00:02:09.000Is Biden really going to be the horse that the Democrats ride on?
00:02:15.000I get that question daily, sometimes multiple times a day.
00:02:19.000I was just at Foothills Church, great event in El Cajon, California, great spot.
00:02:24.000And we were taking pictures and people came up, Charlie, do you think Biden's going to be the nominee?
00:02:26.000Do you think Biden's going to be the nominee?
00:02:28.000And they're thinking it for good reason.
00:02:30.000Because Joe Biden was just recently at Catholic Mass and a source told us that he was kind of doing like the Super Bowl shuffle.
00:03:21.000If Biden can't keep up with the schedule of a typical sitting president running for reelection or is prone to making errors when he does, voters in the media are going to notice that and Biden will wear his 80-plus years like an albatross around his neck.
00:03:34.000So this is a lot easier said than done.
00:03:37.000Vivek Ramaswamy, who's great credit, eloquently pinpointed this in the debate.
00:04:42.000Are they trying to ride Biden out just enough so that the window of the primary closes, so they don't have a messy Democrat Party, a primary, where they have Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders?
00:04:55.000So are they going to lead this all the way up to the convention in Chicago with big J.B. Pritzker, governor of Illinois, comes in and kind of plays power broker because it's going to be in his city, his state?
00:05:10.000The Democrats have always had superdelegates.
00:05:13.000The Party of Democracy has a permanent Roman Senate that effectively operates like a Pullet Bureau who gets to choose who is going to be the nominee.
00:05:23.000Not choose, but they have an outsized say.
00:05:27.000Hillary Rodham Clinton's path to the Democrat nomination in 2008 was largely dependent on superdelegates.
00:05:35.000Obama cut deals, and Obama was so overwhelmingly winning that Democrat primary, the superdelegates backed off.
00:05:42.000Hillary Rodham Clinton thought that she could have enough insiders in the Democrat Party, and guess what?
00:05:47.000She needed those superdelegates in 2016 when Bernie Sanders actually won the primary.
00:06:47.000Joe Biden will say in the private meetings via his proxies and his surrogates, Ron Clain and Jill Biden, why wouldn't he just say, you guys figure out the political machinery?
00:06:58.000Will Joe Biden be able to withstand the administrative state?
00:07:06.000Will the administrative state put some extra slippery, slippery oil on Air Force One next time, the small stairs now?
00:07:16.000The comments from Silver, who had previously voiced doubts about Biden's political prospects, come as Biden and his aides have worked to quell bedwetting within, it's a weird way to put it, within their ranks and criticism in the media about the president's age and physical fitness, as well as his electoral prospects against former President Donald Trump.
00:07:35.000Now, I find this line of questioning to be a little bit shallow.
00:07:41.000The circus just did this with the Creole guy, the crawdaddy guy.
00:08:13.000Joe Biden in his campaign seemed to shrug off polls from the New York Times and CNN that suggested he was trailing Trump in key battleground states.
00:08:20.000David Axelrod landed in hot water with Biden allies after he made comments on social media, questioning whether or not Joe Biden was the right candidate to lead the Democrats forward.
00:08:30.000I'm careful not to make economic prognostications that are rooted in apocalypse.
00:08:37.000But I find it very unlikely, I'll be very honest with you.
00:08:40.000And this is not, I don't rejoice in this, I'm not Bill Maher.
00:08:44.000I find it unlikely that from now to election day, the economy is going to have some major improvement.
00:08:52.000The border certainly is not going to improve because Joe Biden wants it open.
00:08:58.000Our economic agencies lie about inflation.
00:09:01.000And mind you, if you actually go deep into the economic data, they are backwards adjusting a lot, downgrading a lot of the economic data.
00:09:10.000So for example, in July, they might say, oh, we have this kind of economic growth.
00:09:13.000And then you go back 90 days later, like, oh, no, we're adjusting that number.
00:09:16.000So you just wanted the headline, and then you downward adjust it.
00:09:21.000So what is the path forward for Joe Biden?
00:09:25.000Honestly, if we were to just kind of play this fairly, what is the advantage that Joe Biden has?
00:09:29.000He has an unbelievable machine, incredible machine.
00:09:33.000Joe Biden actually does better than Trump with some older voters.
00:09:37.000Older voters find nothing wrong with Joe Biden's age.
00:09:40.000Older baby boomers that don't like Trump.
00:09:42.000Joe Biden has serious problems with Hispanics.
00:09:45.000And Joe Biden has a political issue they think they can win on, which is abortion.
00:09:49.000The entire 2024 election, he's going to micro-target the abortion issue as I am an empty vessel just so that you can be able to have abortions.
00:10:01.000I still think, though, that there might be a game.
00:10:12.000The full faith and credit of the United States dollar is based on our economy, our strength, and also our ability to kill our enemies and have sophisticated military technology and also have the people to staff the military.
00:10:30.000I was recently landing in Tucson International Airport.
00:10:34.000And as you land in Tucson, especially at night, you see lit up, it's amazing, and this is probably because of John McCain, he probably got this done.
00:10:44.000Hundreds of yards of what I believe is F-16 fighters lined up, ready to go.
00:10:49.000And by the way, the way they present it is actually very powerful.
00:10:52.000It's like they have a light on it, like kind of a spotlight.
00:10:57.000And I thought to myself, I said, you know, one of the reasons why people aren't dumping their dollar bills en masse, they are, but not as much as at some point you have the ability to kill your enemies.
00:11:10.000But who knows how to fly those planes?
00:11:17.000You could make military technology all day long, but if you don't have the leadership that have the right ideas of not just the sophistication or the ability to use them, but the willingness to win the war, then you have nothing more than a museum of high-priced Northrop Grumman and Lockheed Martin collateral.
00:11:41.000One man has been very concerned about the military and how woke forces are coming into the United States military.
00:11:49.000As we've said before, our military has become a massive social experiment.
00:11:53.000They're doing gay poems on aircraft carriers.
00:11:57.000There was a real story that we reported on, this program, of a flight simulator happening in Coronado, where an individual in the military was reprimanded because, not because he did the mission incorrectly, but because he misgendered somebody that he was participating in the experiment with or the exercise with, I should not experiment the exercise with, misgendered.
00:12:21.000We have video after video after video that we could show you.
00:12:26.000We are not a fighting force that is prepared to win a war.
00:12:30.000Senator Tuberville, Coach Tubberville from the great state of Alabama, has made this a primary concern.
00:12:37.000The root of all this was Biden, the Biden regime's response to the Dobbs decision overturning Roe v. Wade.
00:12:43.000The Biden military has implemented a policy of providing free leave and taxpayer-funded travel for any service member who wants to travel and get an abortion, as if that's like the top priority.
00:12:53.000This flagrantly violates the Hyde Amendment, which is supposed to ban taxpayer funding of abortion.
00:12:58.000In protest against this policy, Tuberville has been placing a hold on all military promotions that require Senate confirmation.
00:13:06.000Remember, under Senate rules, a single member can radically slow down appointments by blocking unanimous consent votes and forcing full votes on everything.
00:13:18.000Nearly 300 promotions have been blocked or delayed by these holds.
00:13:22.000Now, rarely, very, very rarely, does this happen with military appointments?
00:13:30.000Typically, military appointments get easy votes, and it's no problem.
00:13:35.000But Senator Tuberville has not received answers about the broad wokeness of the military.
00:13:40.000Why is Mark Milley, now retired, say that white rage is one of the greatest threats facing the homeland?
00:13:46.000When has a single one of these generals ever won a war?
00:13:51.000Members of the Republican Party are getting very mad.
00:13:54.000They want Biden's war machine and promotions to keep going.
00:13:58.000Senator Joni Ernst, who might be one of the most disappointing members of the U.S. Senate from Iowa and Dan Sullivan from Alaska, has trashed him on the Senate floor in just the last few weeks.
00:14:08.000Senator Lady Graham suggests that Tuberville is a Chinese agent.
00:14:12.000And neocon Nikki Haley is, of course, furious.
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00:16:37.000The most important, and obviously, the one at the top of the list is the continued fight over your hold, which we completely support on this program, over the wokeification of the U.S. military.
00:16:47.000What is the latest and talk about the response you're getting from some of your colleagues?
00:16:51.000Well, Charlie, thanks for having me on.
00:17:36.000Senator, what would a resolution look like that would satisfy you?
00:17:41.000And we support the attention at the very least that you're drawing to this because what's happening to our military is a threat to our kids and grandkids' future.
00:18:53.000I just hate holding all these promotions up.
00:18:56.000But again, like you said, we've lost the DOJ, we've lost the FBI, the CIA, and they're working on the military, trying to make them woke as they possibly can.
00:19:05.000And, you know, we're keeping our eye on that also.
00:19:08.000What I'm struggling to understand, Senator, is some of the people that are in your Republican conference who are enthusiastic about supporting the military and using the military, I think, far too aggressively at times internationally, are the ones that are against your spirit to reform the military.
00:19:28.000I mean, Senator Lindsey Graham called you a Chinese agent.
00:20:38.000And if you do that, you'll end up being sent back up there if that's what you want.
00:20:43.000But we got too many people that worry about that.
00:20:46.000Yeah, first of all, I just love your attitude and your approach.
00:20:48.000And, you know, I think that if we had more Republicans that would stand alongside you, just kind of what names can you say of other Republicans that have been allies with you?
00:20:58.000I know Senator JD Vance seems to be a kindred spirit.
00:21:01.000Who else has been helpful in your fight here?
00:21:42.000I know the direction we want to go with this.
00:21:44.000We just got to find a way to make this all work.
00:21:47.000But again, it's just, I've been out on the limb, and I'm going to stay out there until we get some kind of resolution and get this policy back where it's sensible, where the American people can accept it.
00:22:04.000We've seen military recruitment down 20 or 30 percent to the lowest level since Vietnam.
00:22:10.000We obviously are seeing military preparedness in question and morale at lower levels than we've seen in a couple decades.
00:22:18.000And at least how I view this as kind of a non-technical legislative standpoint, what you're doing is you're also trying to get answers from the military as to why they are embracing abstract political issues while things are not great.
00:22:32.000When you are privately dialoguing with people in the Pentagon, if they'll even talk to you, or even some of your other colleagues, is there at least some form of an acknowledgement that the introduction of these controversial political ideas is actually harming national security?
00:23:01.000We all see what's going on in the military.
00:23:04.000What's happened, Charlie, is in the past, 48% of our military has been from past families that were in the military.
00:23:12.000Now that's down to below 30% because the parents are saying, I don't want my kid involved in this.
00:23:19.000They've absolutely intoxicated our military, and it's going to get worse.
00:23:25.000We have got to get somebody back in the White House that understands national security.
00:23:30.000We've got to get somebody back or we've got to take back the Senate also and the House all together to get this country back on the right track.
00:23:42.000I don't know whether we can put up with another year of this, what's happening at the border, the crime, the inflation, or our foreign relations decisions.
00:23:50.000Nothing is going right for us in this country.
00:25:24.000They sent you as a Republican, as a pro-life senator that's going to stand up for the rule of law, our border, and fight big government.
00:25:34.000And, you know, most of us up here are like that.
00:25:37.000You know, I've got some, I've, in three years, watched this from afar and from close by.
00:25:44.000And I've been really excited about a lot of people up here, especially these new people that just came up, Ted Budd, Eric Smith, Mark Wayne Mullins.
00:25:52.000You know, they've all come up here and really put their best foot forward.
00:25:57.000You know, they're more like me than I am some of the other people.
00:26:02.000But some of the other senators come from states that I guess it's harder to get elected if you're not closer to the middle.
00:26:09.000But again, I grew up in a military family.
00:26:11.000I believe in this country, but also smart enough to understand as I've traveled all my life to look and see where we're at right now.
00:26:18.000And we are declining at a very fast rate.
00:26:21.000And we've got to get a hold of this runaway train because if we don't, it's going to be very, very hard to get it back.
00:26:28.000But I think it's all but design, Charlie.
00:27:28.000Tells you that they're doing it because they believe it's the right thing to bring this country to its knees where they can run it and get it to the point where it's what they want and not what it is today.
00:28:03.000We can make a difference standing for life by giving free ultrasounds with our friends at pre-born.
00:28:08.000In a Dobbs world, states decide about abortion, and so many liberal states are taking extreme stands, even allowing abortion up to literally the second before a baby is born.
00:28:19.000And in California, the demand for abortions has increased 400% in part because the state is inviting women and girls to come to California for the sole purpose of aborting their baby.
00:29:14.000I think that if we come to blows, that will not be a good thing.
00:29:20.000But there have been two stories that have broken today that go to show that we might be getting closer to throwing punches than I think people realize.
00:29:33.000If you lock political dissidents in jail, call them fascists in the name of democracy, spy on them, censor them, and conduct illegitimate elections, you create a pressure cooker where eventually people are going to react like a volcano.
00:30:27.000The West introduced the idea of human equality, and just because you're bigger, stronger, you have a larger army doesn't necessarily mean you're going to be in charge of society.
00:30:38.000We are seeing evidence that we are regressing a little bit.
00:30:43.000Now, I have to say, this one piece of tape is absolutely hilarious.
00:30:47.000But it does show that the line between having a speech and dialogue-based society and just outright going to blows, that line we are flirting with, everybody.
00:31:00.000And by the way, I kind of love what Mark Wayne Mullen did here.
00:31:05.000What I'm getting at is a more macro take is that you cannot do what the regime has been doing and expect it to be peace, love, happiness, and John Lennon world of there is no sin, there is no suffering.