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00:01:30.000So I want to get into a story here that broke late last night.
00:01:34.000The United States Senate has approved the $1.5 trillion spending bill that expands the power of the IRS and dramatically increases the size and scope of government last evening.
00:01:47.000But also, it sends $13.6 billion to Ukraine.
00:01:57.000Senator Barrasso from Wyoming, Roy Blunt from Missouri, Shelly Moore Capito from West Virginia, Susan Collins from Maine, John Cornyn from Texas, Joni Ernst from Iowa, Lindsey Graham from South Carolina, Chuck Grassley from Iowa, Kathy Hyde-Smith from Mississippi, Mitch McConnell from Kentucky, Senator Moran from Kansas, Lisa Murkowski from Alaska, Rob Portman from Ohio, Senator Shelby from Alabama, John Thune from South Dakota, Tommy Tubberville from Alabama,
00:02:26.000Senator Wicker from Mississippi, and Senator Young from Indiana approved Nancy Pelosi's $1.5 trillion omnibus bill.
00:02:34.000What good are Republicans when we have Republicans doing the work of Democrats?
00:02:40.000So I want to focus on one part of this, which of course is us spending $13.6 billion to Ukraine.
00:02:46.000Now, I'm not going to get into whether or not we should send the money.
00:02:48.000I've already made my position clear on that.
00:02:50.000I'm going to ask a couple questions about this.
00:02:52.000Have our leaders thought this through?
00:02:55.000What does success look like with this sort of funding appropriation?
00:03:01.000So a rational way of going about spending money, any person that we have here at NRB would ask the question, before you spend $13.6 billion, before you embark on a mission, you don't have to say if it's the right or wrong thing to do, but also weigh the reality of pulling off that task and the track record associated with the entity or the organization proposing it.
00:03:23.000So I have a question for all of our listeners that support sending money to Ukraine.
00:03:35.000Does giving foreign aid to other countries give you confidence or does it give you skepticism?
00:03:41.000So just to be clear, these Republicans and a lot of people that are pushing for sending aid to Ukraine, and it might be the right choice, by the way, I have said I don't believe it is.
00:03:49.000I could be corrected, but it's already done.
00:03:52.000So the same government who let all the 9-11 terrorists in did nothing to prevent the 2008 financial crisis, messed up our response to Hurricane Katrina.
00:04:02.000They can't build an Obamacare website.
00:04:05.000They gave billions of dollars of tax benefits to dead people.
00:04:08.000They spent billions of dollars of checks to the Social Security Administration to dead people.
00:04:40.000We gave $85 billion of weapons to the Taliban.
00:04:43.000When we give money to foreign countries, we can't track that money.
00:04:46.000Quote, the $13.6 billion emergency package for Ukraine includes money for humanitarian aid, defense assistance, and economic support for the region.
00:04:54.000Lawmakers more than doubled the amount of money in the package over the past several weeks as the severity of the fighting and the humanitarian crisis in Ukraine grew.
00:05:01.000The money is divided between what lawmakers term lethal and humanitarian aid.
00:05:06.000The humanitarian section includes $4 billion for displaced people within Ukraine and the estimated 2 million people who have fled the country since the war began two weeks ago.
00:05:14.000More than $2.5 billion will go to the U.S. Agency of International Development for food and health care support.
00:05:20.000Another $1.4 billion is intended for migration and refugee assistance.
00:05:24.000The defense or lethal aid section is $3 billion to support U.S. military's European command aid to, quote, use for Operation Mission Support, deployment of personnel to the region, and intelligence support.
00:05:35.000Another $650 million will go to grants or aids or loans to the Department of Defense.
00:05:40.000So if you guys love Mark Milley, he just got a lot more powerful.
00:05:45.000The Mark Milley, who's teaching CRT, who said that white terrorism is the biggest threat to America, that's who gets more powerful when you want to get involved in Ukraine, just so we understand what's really going on here.
00:05:56.000And I'm not making an argument of whether or not we should help the Ukrainians.
00:05:58.000I've heard very good arguments about it, but we're not dealing in that sort of circumstances.
00:06:02.000The moral question aside, let's just look at the technical question.
00:06:06.000Are the people running our country capable of actually accomplishing any form of success in Ukraine?
00:06:12.000Ask yourself that at a very fundamental.
00:06:13.000When you see Mark Milley, do you think General Patton or do you think a circus clown?
00:06:18.000The legislation also gives President Biden the authority to transfer an additional $3 billion in defense equipment to Ukraine and other allies supporting Ukraine.
00:07:23.000It needs to be passed, and it needs to be passed quickly.
00:07:25.000We need urgency to help a foreign country.
00:07:29.000And look, it's completely evil and wrong what Vladimir Putin is doing in Ukraine.
00:07:33.000I'm not going to get into the moral part of this.
00:07:35.000We've built that out completely and totally.
00:07:37.000I'm just asking the question that for those of you that enthusiastically support arming Ukraine, who's to say the weapons will actually go where they're intended?
00:07:46.000So we spent $85 billion in weapons in Afghanistan, and now the Taliban have helicopters.
00:07:51.000They don't even know how to fly, thanks to our taxpayer dollars.
00:07:55.000So, if you don't have trust in the American elites, if you don't have trust in the people that run our country, what's to say that they will actually be able to manage a successful course of action in Ukraine?
00:08:08.000If we were not able to properly handle the Chinese coronavirus and we locked down our own country, who's to say that we'll be able to handle a nuclear-armed power?
00:08:20.000So, the Republicans that voted for this bill, they just empowered Lloyd Austin and Mark Milley.
00:08:24.000Remember Lloyd Austin and Mark Milley, people that run the Department of Defense.
00:08:29.000They just made them some of the most powerful people in Washington, D.C. If you don't trust the government to accomplish basic tasks, to be able to do basic things, then I would love to have anyone contact our show to tell me why you have confidence that they can broker a resolution in Ukraine.
00:08:49.000Funding Ukraine is very similar to what we saw in the summer of Floyd Apalooza after the death of St. George Floyd when everyone decided to lose their mind for 90 days.
00:09:01.000There was a push by corporations to go fund BLM because it felt like it was the right thing to do.
00:09:48.000So we have to ask ourselves the technical question, which is, if you don't trust the elites to do things that are basic, why would nuclear conflict be something we'd want to throw ourselves into?
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00:10:59.000Last evening, Senate Republicans approved a $1.3 trillion, $1.5 trillion bill, I'm sorry, omnibus bill, which funds the government through September 30th.
00:11:10.000It allocates $13.6 billion to Ukraine.
00:11:13.000It's a 2,700-page bill, kind of a wish list of Nancy Pelosi.
00:11:18.000These Senate Republicans voted to expand the IRS.
00:11:21.000The IRS, through this bill, is getting the largest increase of funding in 20 years.
00:11:25.000So you can thank the Senate Republicans of Barasso, Blunt, Capito Collins, Cornyn, Ernst, Graham, Grassley, Hyde Smith, McConnell, Moran, Murkowski, Portman, Shelby, Thun, Tuberga, Wicker, and Young for your upcoming audit.
00:11:36.000So when you guys get audited because of your wrong politics, these Republicans just gave $600 million more to the Internal Revenue Service for, quote, enforcement.
00:11:46.000Something tells me they're not going to be auditing BLM.
00:11:48.000They'll be auditing everyday Americans.
00:11:50.000Those are Senate Republicans that were enthusiastic to go fund what's happening in Ukraine, but not so quick when all of a sudden our southern border was wide open.
00:12:01.000Of course, the priorities are backwards.
00:12:16.000So when you have a group of leaders that have messed up every major decision that has implicated humanity over the last couple of years, lockdowns, virus, early treatments, vaccines, masks, immigration policy, and then we say, well, you know what?
00:12:33.000Now we want to have our leaders involved in the highest stakes thing that we could possibly imagine.
00:12:39.000I'm wondering for the senators that voted yes for the $16 billion to $13 billion to Ukraine or the people that want us to get involved, what in particular gives you the peace of mind our rulers won't make this worse.
00:12:53.000So what is the downside of heavily intervening in Ukraine with weapons and ammunitions?
00:13:00.000Well, the downside could be nuclear war.
00:13:34.000And even the best case scenario, what's the chance of the probability our leaders won't be too corrupt or too stupid to not actually have that best case scenario be pulled off?
00:13:43.000So we have a question here, which is: if they mismanage this, if they don't handle this properly or prudently, the stakes of the game could go even further.
00:13:53.000If we can't get out of Afghanistan after 20 years and we can't properly support a country that does not have a sophisticated military, then something tells me a $13.6 billion funding bill is probably going to be not even a challenge, but very well could be used in a corrupt and wrong manner.
00:14:18.000So Lloyd Austin and Mark Milley are the people that are now going to be calling these shots.
00:14:22.000The very same people that said we should shut down Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan so we lost all air support before we withdrew.
00:14:28.000The very same people that gave brand new Black Hawk helicopters and tens of thousands of rifles and very heavy munitions to the Taliban.
00:14:37.000So if we were not able to secure our own weaponry in Afghanistan, who's to say that the weaponry in Ukraine is going to go into the right hands?
00:15:00.000Remember, we spent $6 trillion to bail us out of COVID policy for lockdowns that never should have happened in the first place because we were told it urgently needed to be done.
00:15:09.000We spent hundreds of millions, if not billions of dollars, to go give money to charities to go eradicate systemic racism, and none of that money actually went where it was desired.
00:15:19.000And what's been so shocking to me is how few Republicans are willing to speak up and say, wait a second, if we have an unlimited list of a train of abuses and deceit and corruption and ignorance from the people that actually call the shots, wouldn't this be the time for us to maybe say, hey, if Ukraine needs some help, then would a couple hundred million just to start, just to see where that money would go?
00:15:47.000If that's the answer, I don't even think that's the right answer, but it's done.
00:15:50.000But there's this massive thing where what if this actually gets worse?
00:15:55.000And there is this open question of whether or not we are actually wanting to be drawn into this conflict.
00:16:04.000And this has happened many times before.
00:16:06.000The Vietnam War started as us sending military advisors and equipment against the Viet Cong and escalated into a massive conflict where thousands, tens of thousands of Americans lost their lives.
00:16:19.000It's a pretty high-stakes game, and I certainly don't trust the people in charge to pull this off.
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00:17:20.000Got a good email from Jeannie or Jean from Kansas where she agrees with what we're saying, but she disagrees with the timing of our comments, saying that, look, just because there's corruption in D.C. doesn't mean that we shouldn't help Ukraine.
00:17:34.000That's the point: who's to say that the people that are corrupt in D.C. will be able to pull off anything meaningful or helpful or meaningful in Ukraine?
00:17:42.000An Inspector General report said the United States wasted billions a year on cars and buildings that were never visited in Afghanistan.
00:17:49.000Quote, a report released by the U.S. government over 20 years shows that in Afghanistan found that America wasted billions of dollars in the war-torn country on buildings and vehicles that were abandoned or destroyed.
00:17:59.000In fact, on multiple instances, hundreds of bridges were built just to be destroyed months later.
00:18:04.000The agency said that $7.8 billion were spent on buildings and vehicles that were never used.
00:18:11.000Over $340 million worth of buildings and vehicles were maintained in good condition, said the Special Inspector General report.
00:18:19.000So the email from Jeannie here is: look, people are getting slaughtered.
00:18:26.000I've already said that there are opinions on both sides.
00:18:29.000I come down on the side that this could escalate out of control and that these are two very corrupt countries.
00:18:35.000What I'm instead getting into is what's to say this funding appropriation will make it better, spent properly, prudently, won't escalate the conflict, and the management of those dollars will actually have some sort of desired success.
00:19:22.000So, okay, I want to get to some more tape here.
00:19:26.000Representative Rosendale says he voted no on providing aid to Ukraine because of the invasion of our own border and because of how corrupt Ukraine is.
00:19:34.000I'm playing this because it is rare to actually hear a member of Congress prioritize action here domestically over something happened 5,000 miles away in a foreign country.
00:19:46.000When your own country is falling apart, I would like to see concentric circles of prioritizing the obligation to our people above injustices happening abroad, and they are injustices.
00:19:58.000When they brought the resolution forward, as you said, it was uncapped, unlimited military, monetary, and humanitarian support for the Ukraine.
00:20:08.000And there is no way that I was going to support that at the exact same time that we're experiencing an invasion on our own southern border.
00:20:16.000And so now, I will assure you, the request will be coming for billions of dollars of relief to be sent to Ukraine, which, by the way, everyone has been talking about for the last two years that it's one of the most corrupt nations on earth.
00:20:31.000We don't even know where that money is going to go, how it's going to be fully utilized.
00:20:35.000And I wasn't going to sign off on that resolution.
00:20:39.000Yeah, I'm really proud of Congressman Rosendale for saying that.
00:20:43.000And so someone just sent us, Charlie, it's very simple.
00:21:20.000Hunter Biden might get some of that money.
00:21:21.000No, list the organizations where that money is going to go.
00:21:24.000Meanwhile, I can name the defense contractors that are going to make a ton of money off of this.
00:21:28.000The missiles that will be purchased, the airplanes that will be supplied.
00:21:31.000It's the same sort of mentality where people say, no, we're just going to figure it out.
00:21:34.000Well, that's a lot of money just to kind of figure out.
00:21:36.000You know, $14 billion, that's a significant sum to go into a war-torn country.
00:21:41.000What's to say that won't go to oligarchs?
00:21:43.000Now, for people that have traveled internationally, especially to African countries, when you travel to poor countries, one of the great tragedies is the good intentions of the American taxpayer and how that gets corrupted through foreign aid.
00:21:55.000You know, for example, U2 and Bono, they'll do all these concerts to go try to feed Africa.
00:22:00.000Unfortunately, studies show that very little of that money actually gets down to the villages and the people themselves.
00:22:06.000It gets laundered through government, through governments.
00:22:09.000It goes to oligarchs and to corrupt leaders and rulers to fund the lifestyles of the world's ruling elite.
00:22:16.000Ukraine, kind of built into the internal operating system of the Ukrainian mob, is corruption.
00:22:23.000I mean, I'm not going to say any names here or else one of my team members is going to get upset, but let's just say someone who has been very close to me, who was born and raised in Ukraine, was even imprisoned in the Soviet Union, he himself says, you got to be really careful sending money to Ukraine.
00:22:39.000You have no idea where that money is actually going.
00:22:42.000It could actually make things much worse.
00:22:44.000Now, if I'm wrong, I want someone to put forward the plan.
00:22:47.000Put forward the plan that why in two weeks, something thoughtful and precise as far as funding allocation in Ukraine was something that was, that's meaningful, that our leaders are so brilliant that, hey, they messed up COVID.
00:23:14.000In fact, they're no longer corrupt and they're brilliant.
00:23:18.000Overnight in the last two weeks, our leaders, they get everything right.
00:23:22.000We got an email, quote, in early 2013, my wife and I were in Kyiv and ultimately Kearson for about a two-month stay in order to facilitate the adoption of a special needs child.
00:23:31.000Corruption was rife and everywhere in Ukraine, including in the judiciary that oversaw adoptions.
00:23:36.000But life seemed manageable for the average Ukrainian, and they were able to get a U.S. dollar for seven Hirvarni.
00:23:40.000All transactions of substance were undertaken in U.S. dollars.
00:23:44.000When we returned in mid-2017, again to adopt a child and again for two months, the post-Maiden pooched regime had noticeably ruined the country with the U.S. dollar now costing $27 to Hervey.
00:23:55.000Regardless of the hilarious signs at the Bolson airport, that corruption was actually seen as a status symbol in Ukraine.
00:24:01.000Quote, people in Ukraine would brag, saying, look at me, I have the latest Range Rover, courtesy of Uncle Sam and the United States government, and you don't.
00:24:09.000I can break the speed limit or any rule I want to.
00:24:12.000No one can touch me because I'm connected.
00:24:14.000In other words, there was a new entitled class built via the means of the U.S. taxpayer of terrible policy emanating from the State Department and the United States Department of Defense.
00:24:23.000And they were above the law, while the average Russian-speaking person out of Ukraine and the other regions were far worse off.
00:25:30.000Today, I hope on the Senate floor we will pass a $13 plus billion dollar Ukraine bill that will give them more lethal assistance as well, as we see from the pictures that just took place on your program, humanitarian assistance.
00:25:49.000And I believe there will be strong bipartisan support for that as well.
00:25:53.000And then finally, we need to keep finding every way to tighten the noose around Putin's neck so that this barbaric war can stop.
00:26:51.000And it'll be better than anyone could ever seem.
00:26:53.000So President Trump with a Republican House and Senate was asking for the same amount of money, nearly the same amount of money, that our Republicans rushed and were enthusiastic to go send to a country in a far distant land that we do not have an allegiance or an alliance to, that is corrupt, launders money, and full of oligarchs.
00:27:09.000And yet when Trump asked for it, no Republican leader was willing to fund a southern border wall as we saw 2 million people cross into our country illegally last year.
00:28:33.000We don't have the ability or the willingness to go invade every country and liberate them from their leaders.
00:28:38.000Sometimes regime change can get very messy.
00:28:41.000Things can get a lot more complicated, more murky than just kind of playing a video game and saying that we can easily take this person out, as Lindsey Graham says.
00:29:20.000Expanded funding for the Internal Revenue Service for enforcement and to be able to go after tax-paying Americans, an increase in a lot of government dependency programs, a 6% increase across the board for the federal regulatory state.
00:29:34.000It's a massive bill, $1.5 trillion spending bill.
00:29:38.000Someone also is asking, is this going to impact inflation?
00:29:50.000I mean, spending $1.5 trillion into the economy is going to increase the debt and the deficit and definitely will not help inflation by any means whatsoever.
00:29:59.000So I want to go towards one other kind of topic here, which is, does the United States fight to win anymore?
00:30:05.000Not the amazing veterans and military service people who are just phenomenal.
00:30:09.000I'm talking about the Mark Milley, the CRT, the woke regime running our military.
00:30:14.000Do you have trust that if they get involved in a combat theater, that if they get involved in a kinetic conflict, which is what we are doing right now, whether you like it or not, we are now involving ourselves in a war.
00:30:26.000Supplying $3 billion of weapons is now being currently viewed by the Russian Federation as the United States directly involving ourselves in the war.
00:30:36.000Now, will that mean we're going to get further involved or less involved?
00:30:40.000What's the extent are we going to fight to win?
00:30:43.000This is one of the things that we warned about very early on about the Russian-Ukrainian situation.
00:30:48.000That in the Russian-Ukrainian situation, if we are not willing to see it all the way through, and the other side is, then we have already lost.
00:30:56.000This is one of the reasons why we were able to achieve victory in World War II.
00:31:00.000As soon as we were bombed in Pearl Harbor, as soon as our fleet was sunk on the Pacific, we said we're an all-out war.
00:31:07.000We're willing to see this all the way through.
00:31:09.000We're willing to supply millions of troops.
00:31:23.000Fortunately, right now, the answer is no, is that the way we involve ourselves in military conflicts today is almost under the guise of the same sort of political correctness that plagues our society.
00:31:34.000The rules of engagement, for example, have been widely changed for the worse.
00:31:38.000I know many people that have served as SEALs, frontlines.
00:31:41.000We have Marines that work on our security detail, and they say that the rules of engagement have been so sorely changed in combat theaters that it almost disallows us to be able to fight the way we need to fight to fight to win and eliminate the enemy.
00:31:57.000All these things need to go into the calculus of whether or not our leaders have the capacity and the ability to be able to achieve what would be called success and victory.
00:32:07.000Let's get to another piece of sound here.
00:32:41.000A lot of energy from Senator John Tester to try and make sure that we further involve ourselves in this conflict.
00:32:49.000So I just want to reinforce this, though, which is the lack of trust that I have in our leaders and our elites.
00:32:56.000When I hear that the Department of Defense or Mark Milley or the Central Intelligence Agency or the entire security apparatus is going to be given more funding and more power, I get very concerned, and you should too.
00:33:07.000Have they built up a track record of credibility?
00:33:11.000If you're going to send billions of dollars, tens of billions of dollars of additional funding into a very contentious situation, you're going to want to see the people who are actually involved.
00:33:20.000This is an argument that I've used with a lot of conservatives, and they agree.
00:33:23.000I say, okay, you might want to get involved in Ukraine, but do you actually think the people in charge have the prudence and the wisdom to be able to successfully pull it off?
00:34:01.000And I'm very afraid that in the zeal of the moment, under this mass hysteria, our leaders and Republicans might have well gotten us into something that we're going to massively screw up.
00:34:12.000Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
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