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00:02:08.000The Democrats are using this for a reason.
00:02:11.000This impacts so many American lives from all income levels, really.
00:02:16.000When you look at the fact that since from 1981 until 2021, there has been a 360% increase in the cost of tuition for a public institution, a public college.
00:02:52.000It is still the gateway to a good job.
00:02:55.000So, when you're living in a situation where education is completely unaffordable, but it is still necessary for a good job, and people are coming out of these institutions often with degrees that are not necessarily effective in getting a job.
00:03:10.000This is just becoming this terrible cycle of debt that's going to cost them, you know, basically a lifetime of productivity.
00:03:19.000They're no longer able to have family formation.
00:03:48.000That's what this piece was getting at.
00:03:50.000was offering some ideas, basically, you know, saying we as conservatives need to think about this because right now what Joe Biden is doing is essentially he's offering student loan forgiveness now, but he's not addressing the problem.
00:04:03.000And so there's just going to be another student loan forgiveness and another one and another one.
00:04:07.000And they're going to use this as a vote buying tactic again and again and again until we address the root issue.
00:04:14.000It's sort of like basically what Ronald Reagan did when he granted an amnesty in the 1980s, but he didn't seal the border.
00:04:48.000We suggested one, that you basically target the endowments, tie these unsustainable degrees or these degrees that don't have jobs to the endowments, make these universities basically start to cough up.
00:05:02.000You know, we also talked about block granting.
00:05:05.000If you're going to do a student loan forgiveness, okay, then let's totally change the way that we distribute federal student loans.
00:05:55.000You know how we have these parents that are now at all the school board meetings, they've become really active because they started to see what their kids were learning during the COVID lockdowns and basically said, oh my God, we now have to get active.
00:06:08.000So they're all showing up at the school board meetings.
00:06:11.000As a taxpayer, when you start to have ownership of what these public institutions of higher education are teaching because we are paying for block grants for them or something like that, then we start to have a say in what they're doing.
00:06:24.000And we can basically regulate the heck out of what they're doing, make sure that their degree programs aren't stupid.
00:06:30.000The other thing that we can do is by tightening their belts, by forcing them to live within whatever we're giving them instead of just an open-ended student loan where they are able to jack up the tuition price because they know that the student loan industry will subsidize whatever tuition price they choose.
00:06:47.000If we block grant, these universities are going to have to start making very serious decisions about what they can afford.
00:06:53.000Suddenly, the liberal arts schools are going to have to stick to Shakespeare, Chaucer, and Milton instead of all these goofy, weird, woke, nonsense things that they teach now.
00:07:04.000They're going to have to get back to the basics.
00:07:06.000And they're also going to have to make really serious decisions about whether they want to have an engineering department or whether they want to have a gender studies, you know, blah, blah, blah department.
00:07:14.000So this is how you can change the situation.
00:07:17.000And we have to change the situation, frankly.
00:08:39.000But we do, I'm not suggesting, although my co-author on this, Emma Joe Morris, who's wonderful, she probably will be like, yeah, you're going to take the hell out of destroy them.
00:08:50.000I kind of am a little bit nervous about that because I do want these institutions to stay around forever.
00:08:55.000I just basically want them to be more responsible in what they're doing here.
00:09:00.000It is irresponsible for them to be sending, putting these kids into lifelong debt for degrees that they know are completely ridiculous in terms of jobs, in terms of actually having a career.
00:09:40.000That's a private, by the way, private institution as well.
00:09:43.000But at any rate, these are all things that are up for grabs.
00:09:47.000My attitude towards the endowments is that they should be held responsible.
00:09:50.000If they're putting out a number of young people who are completely unable to pay off these loans, they should be held responsible and they will become more responsible if you do that.
00:10:00.000In 45 seconds, can you capture if we don't address this politically, what do you think that will mean?
00:10:05.000It means that you're going to have a constituent, you're handing over constituents to the Democratic Party for in perpetuity.
00:10:10.000Because, you know, when people are strapped for life with this kind of debt and they can't get out of it, when somebody says, hey, I'm going to forgive that for you, you're going to vote for them.
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00:11:59.000This election can be decided by one electoral vote, and that one electoral vote may be in Nebraska.
00:12:04.000Former President Donald Trump and Nebraska Governor Jim Pillen are calling on the state's legislature to change the way Nebraska dolls out that electoral college vote.
00:12:13.000That is, to get it back to winner-take-all.
00:12:16.000But despite the pressure from Republican heavy hitters, the push could fall short as the legislature draws close to a close after previously introduced bills languished unnoticed before the sudden rush of attention.
00:12:30.000Levin continued last night on his The Great Ones program to endorse winner-take-all in Nebraska, the growing support of national figures, Donald Trump, Mark Levin, and many others.
00:13:39.000You have lost more freedoms and liberties under the guise of national security than anything else in the last couple of decades.
00:13:50.000The Patriot Act created these secret FISA courts that allowed the federal government the ability to spy on all of your communications, to track and monitor your internal political chatter.
00:14:02.000The FBI, the Central Intelligence Agency, the Department of Justice, this is mainly an FBI tool, and they say it is necessary for national security.
00:14:11.000If that really is true, then go in front of a judge and get a warrant.
00:14:17.000This document, the United States Constitution, and more specifically, the Bill of Rights, was written for a reason.
00:14:25.000The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures shall not be violated.
00:14:37.000And no warrants shall issue but upon probable cause, support by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched and the person or things to be seized.
00:14:50.000And in the great, the legendary 1984 book by George Orwell, he demonstrated this very well.
00:14:57.000You cannot be free if you don't have privacy.
00:15:02.000That privacy and freedom are linked together.
00:15:07.000You cannot have a free society if you do not have the ability to have anonymous speech, thoughts to yourself, and not be monitored, viewed, or spied upon by the Leviathan.
00:15:22.000The Founding Fathers understood this, which is exactly why in the greatest political document ever written, they wrote the need for you to have a natural right to your own effects, your own thoughts, your own papers, that the government does not have the right to trample in and to take your private details.
00:15:43.000So now there is going to be a vote in front of the U.S. Congress.
00:15:47.000What is the actual date of expiration, guys?
00:15:49.000I think it's coming up either tomorrow or later in the week.
00:15:52.000Speaker Johnson could get this done if he teamed up with Democrats, if he teamed up with Democrats to get this done, which I fully support.
00:16:15.000Well, in this case, you actually might have the votes.
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00:16:34.000It was used by the deep state regime to threaten and intimidate political adversaries and opponents.
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00:18:29.000Oh, well, I mean, Speaker Mike Johnson is going to be bringing up the funding bill for Ukraine.
00:18:35.000This is, I guess I should say, the next funding bill for the $61 billion that the Biden administration has been asking for.
00:18:40.000This is on top of the $113 billion they previously passed.
00:18:44.000So I think you're hearing an amping up of the rhetoric in order to try and justify this bill.
00:18:51.000So we're being told that if you dare oppose more funding to Ukraine, then you are a Russian asset and saying that Russian propaganda has infected a portion of the GOP.
00:19:06.000Here is Mike Turner saying this, CUT 43.
00:19:09.000We see directly coming from Russia attempts to mask communications that are anti-Ukraine and pro-Russia messages, some of which we even hear being uttered on the House floor.
00:19:19.000I mean, there are members of Congress today who still incorrectly say that this conflict between Russia and Ukraine is over NATO, which of course it is not.
00:19:26.000Now, to the extent that this propaganda takes hold, it makes it more difficult for us to really see this as an authoritarian versus democracy battle, which is what it is.
00:19:36.000President Xi of China, Vladimir Putin himself have identified it as such.
00:19:41.000We need to make certain that we know that authoritarian regimes never stop when they start in aggression.
00:19:48.000Ukraine needs our help and assistance now, and this is a very critical time for the U.S. Congress to step up and provide that aid.
00:19:54.000Are you parroting Russian propaganda, David Sachs?
00:19:57.000Well, what you're hearing there is pretty par for the course.
00:19:59.000Basically, our political discourse, especially on the Ukraine question, is just drenched in McCarthyism.
00:20:05.000I mean, anybody who brings up any, you know, any argument that's not in favor of unlimited funding for Ukraine is basically a foreign agent.
00:21:04.000But secondly, he says that this is about democracy versus authoritarianism, which I always laugh, which is that the American foreign policy of the last 30 years has been far more adventurous than the authoritarian regimes that we criticize.
00:22:01.000But to go back to your point about what this war is really about, this is a war for NATO expansion.
00:22:06.000The Biden administration had the opportunity to prevent this war.
00:22:10.000The Russians explained in 2021 very clearly that bringing Ukraine into NATO was a red line for them.
00:22:17.000They viewed it as an existential threat to have American troops, weapons, and bases, including potentially nukes, under a NATO flag on their most vulnerable border.
00:22:27.000They made it clear, and they've been making that clear since 2008, that that is completely unacceptable to them.
00:22:33.000Biden had the chance to take that issue off the table.
00:22:37.000And now we know that in the first month of the war, there was a peace deal available at Istanbul that the Zelensky regime was interested in.
00:22:44.000And what it required was not Ukraine giving up its freedom or even giving up territory to Russia.
00:23:14.000We've already spent over $113 billion, just the United States, with the EU a lot more on top of that, in trying to prepare the Ukrainians to fight the Russians.
00:23:43.000It's going to take us years to replenish our stockpiles of Patriot air defense, of stingers, of javelins, of 155 millimeter artillery shells.
00:23:52.000We simply don't have the weaponry to give them anymore.
00:23:56.000On top of that, Israel, our ally in the Middle East, is also clamoring for those same weapons.
00:24:02.000We're at a point now where we need to make trade-offs.
00:24:05.000And the $61 billion funding bill doesn't recognize that fact.
00:24:09.000So this is basically, it's fundamentally a futile endeavor.
00:24:16.000It's not going to prevent Ukraine from losing this war.
00:24:20.000And the best thing we could do is to engage in diplomacy to try and reach a negotiated settlement.
00:24:25.000And that is the one thing the Biden administration has absolutely refused to do since the beginning of this conflict.
00:24:30.000And David, I want to zero in on something you said that I hope gets more attention.
00:24:34.000It was my hope, and we haven't done this yet, that we would have hearings about the details regarding the blowing up of the peace deal in Istanbul.
00:24:42.000My belief is this is one of the most evil and sinister things the American foreign policy regime has done in the last couple of decades, if not the most evil.
00:24:50.000And so, David, I'm going to ask you the question that many lawmakers cannot answer that Tucker tweeted about, which is how many Ukrainians have died in this war so far?
00:25:00.000Well, the estimates I've seen are that the Ukrainians are losing about 1,000 troops a day.
00:25:08.000That probably includes wounded as well as KIA, so it's total casualties.
00:25:14.000But the numbers I'm seeing are somewhere in the 20 to 30,000 range per month.
00:25:20.000And it's hard to get exact numbers because the Ukrainian government doesn't provide them.
00:25:24.000We actually have much better numbers for Russian casualties.
00:25:28.000On the Russian side, there's a BBC-related outlet called MediaZona, which has been carefully compiling the number of casualties based on obituaries and social media profiles.
00:25:38.000But there has been no analogous effort on the Ukrainian side.
00:25:42.000I mean, the Zelensky government, if it were to be honest about the number of casualties that have taken place, it would be obvious to their allies and to the Ukrainian people that they are suffering horrific casualties.
00:25:55.000And again, I think it's going to be north of half a million already.
00:25:59.000You know, one point on this, one further point I should say, is that in a war like this, most of the casualties are caused by artillery.
00:26:08.000That artillery is the main cause of death and serious wounding.
00:26:16.000Finally, the mainstream media is reporting the truth on this.
00:26:18.000I've seen estimates that the Russians have a five-to-one artillery advantage, seven to one, 10 to 1.
00:26:24.000So if the Ukrainians are being pounded by the Russians, again, by a, let's call it 7 or 10 to 1 artillery ratio, and that's causing most of the deaths, what do you think the casualty exchange ratio is?
00:26:36.000So in any event, to answer your questions, I think the bottom line is at least half a million.
00:26:41.000I mean, that's an extraordinary number, David.
00:26:44.000How many Americans do you think can even comprehend that?
00:26:46.000And it has kind of been this lacking component in the media coverage.
00:26:54.000Have they moved the line significantly one way or the other?
00:26:57.000Or is it five miles here and five miles there?
00:26:59.000And five, this is the closest to World War I trench warfare I think we have seen in 100 years in the sense where it's basically an impasse with a ton of suffering.
00:27:10.000I think you're analyzing it correctly.
00:27:14.000But also I would point out that with World War I, there was three years of this sort of stalemate trench warfare, but then the line suddenly broke.
00:27:22.000The Germans became exhausted and they became brittle.
00:27:25.000And then all of a sudden the Allies started making rapid advances.
00:27:28.000I think that's the stage we're at now is that the remember, we armed the Ukrainians in 2022 for this 2023 summer counteroffensive.
00:27:40.000And the idea here was that the Ukrainians would basically charge these Russian lines, the so-called Serebikan lines.
00:27:48.000They would be like a blitzkrieg, and they would punch through and pierce those lines and create a land bridge to Crimea, meaning they would sever this sort of northern and southern parts of the territory that the Russians had held.
00:28:00.000And we heard generals like Petraeus and Hodges tell us this would be successful.
00:28:04.000And within a few days or weeks, we would see major progress.
00:28:08.000Well, that summer counteroffensive completely failed.
00:29:21.000And I think most military experts are expecting a Russian offensive this summer in the next couple of months when the ground dries over there.
00:29:35.000We had last month saving babies with pre-born by providing ultrasounds.
00:29:39.000And we're doing again this year what we did last year.
00:29:41.000We're going to stand for life because remaining silent in the face of the most radically pro-death administration is not an option.
00:29:46.000As Sir Edmund Burke said, the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing, and we're not going to do nothing.
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00:31:01.000Well, the outcome is going to be much worse than what Elon proposed because Ukraine now is going to lose all of the territory that he mentioned.
00:31:11.000It's not only going to lose the Donbass, it's going to lose the four territories that Russia has already annexed.
00:31:16.000And this war is not over yet, and the Russians are gaining ground.
00:31:20.000So, you know, what we could end up with here is a landlocked rump state where Ukraine loses access to the Black Sea.
00:31:29.000It's, again, over the, like I said, last year and a half since he posted that, they've lost something like 10 million people, women and children who have fled the country and may never come back.
00:31:40.000They've lost something like half a million men, casualties in this war.
00:31:44.000So since Elon posted his poll, things have only gotten much worse for Ukraine.
00:31:49.000And you'll remember that no less a figure than Zelensky himself denounced Elon's proposal and called it pro-Russian.
00:31:56.000But the reality is that was the best deal the Ukrainians were ever going to see.
00:32:01.000So David, I got in a discussion or a debate, I should say, with, let's say, a regime ruling class member who came to me and he was very upset with my stance on Ukraine.
00:32:11.000And he said, it's the most important thing happening in the world.
00:32:13.000And he says, we can't give Putin a win.
00:32:56.000I mean, this is what the summer counteroffensive was all about, was basically creating a land bridge to Crimea, and they would isolate Crimea and cut it off from the Russians.
00:33:02.000And this is why they keep trying to bomb that Kerch bridge is they think they're going to isolate and cut off Crimea.
00:33:07.000It's an absolute obsession of the neocons and the Zelensky regime to try and retake Crimea.
00:33:13.000I think there's a sort of a history to this idea.
00:33:17.000The Russians have a very important naval base at Sevastopol within Crimea.
00:33:30.000And it is basically the home of their power in the Black Sea.
00:33:35.000And I think some of these people have had, on the neocon side, have had this crazy idea that if Ukraine can retake Crimea, they'll kick the Russians out.
00:33:46.000And then we will be able to raise a NATO flag over Sevastopol.
00:33:52.000And instead of being owned by the Russians, the Black Sea will now become a NATO lake.
00:33:58.000I mean, this is a crazy idea, but it's been written about by neocon think tanks like ISW.
00:34:14.000I think the other thing one could say about this is why does NATO need to take the Black Sea?
00:34:20.000The Russians consider this absolutely existential for them.
00:34:23.000It's existential for their security to hold on to Crimea, to hold on to Sevastopol, and to maintain their naval power in the Black Sea.
00:34:31.000We do not need to get into World War III over this.
00:34:35.000It's never been important to American security or even to NATO security for us to have this presence in the Black Sea.
00:34:44.000Elon Musk, I think, deserves a Nobel Peace Prize for thwarting the Ukrainian sabotage.
00:34:50.000Can you walk our audience through that there was some sort of like a Starlink-assisted drone attack that wanted to happen in Crimea?
00:34:56.000It very well could have prevented a nuclear war.
00:34:58.000Yeah, this is in the Walter Isaacson book is that Elon got a call in the middle of the night from Ukrainian authorities who were demanding that Elon turn on Starlink that they were using over Crimea and over these sort of Russian areas.
00:35:15.000And again, Crimea has been under Russian control since 2014.
00:35:18.000And Elon refused to do it because he felt like this could create war three.
00:35:23.000And this is not the purpose of Starlink.
00:35:25.000Starlink was never meant to be a military system.
00:35:27.000He donated it to them for humanitarian purposes.
00:35:30.000At the same time, Elon said that if he had received a call from the American president, then he would have done it.
00:35:36.000But he got a call in the middle of the night from Ukrainian authorities telling him to do this highly risky thing.
00:35:40.000And I hope people understand that, that Elon very well, if he didn't, if Elon would have been agreeable to the powers to be, we could have seen a nuclear war.
00:36:07.000I guess it's also worth pointing out that the only reason why the Ukrainians were using Starlink is because Elon donated to them at the beginning of the war.
00:36:15.000And somehow they thought they were entitled to essentially unlimited use, including using Starlink as a weapon, which was not part of the deal.
00:36:23.000It was not part of the terms of service.
00:36:28.000Yeah, I mean, if I can make just one final point on Crimea, something like 80% of the people living in Crimea are ethnic Russians and want to be part of Russia.
00:36:40.000And in addition to that, even if you think somehow the elections are rigged, polling by Western firms has shown that they want to be part of Russia.
00:36:49.000What happened to the principle of self-determination?
00:36:51.000Why are we so hell-bent on trying to pry away this territory?
00:36:56.000Because that, hold on, neocons never want the will of the people to ever be factored in.
00:37:04.000It doesn't matter that, yes, Saddam Hussein was a bad guy, but generally popular and cut three warring factions, the Sunni, the Shia, and the Kurds, living in relative harmony.
00:37:14.000It doesn't matter that Qaddafi was actually rather well liked in Libya, albeit not a good person.
00:37:20.000The neocons don't care about self-determination.
00:37:24.000And I think that's the answer to your question is that the neocon project is hubris and pride to parachute in to another country and tell them how to live their life.
00:37:34.000It's an imperial project that doesn't care about the wishes of the citizens who actually live in these places.
00:37:40.000The majority of people living in Donbass or living in Crimea want to go with Russia.
00:37:45.000What business is it of ours to tell them that that should not happen?