The Charlie Kirk Show - February 22, 2023


The Witch Went Down to Georgia


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22

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Emily Kors, the 4th woman on the Trump grand jury, speaks her mind. I m not sure who thought that was a good idea. And then Putin, in his own words. We react and I want your thoughts.

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00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, today at the Charlie Kirk show, the jury four woman for the Georgia investigation into Donald Trump speaks her mind.
00:00:09.000 I'm not sure who thought that was a good idea.
00:00:11.000 And then Putin in his own words, listen to it.
00:00:14.000 We react and I want your thoughts.
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00:01:23.000 The jury for woman, who is, I guess you could say, the point of contact for the entire grand jury, being a four woman, means she swears in witnesses.
00:01:36.000 She's kind of not in charge, but I guess you could say that if there was a hierarchy, she would be the most important person in a grand jury.
00:01:44.000 She is speaking out about what we may or may not expect.
00:01:49.000 And she's being rather cryptic about it.
00:01:51.000 But instead of actually what she is saying, it's going viral and being covered all over the news today because it's her style and her cavalier spirit and her attitude is really noteworthy.
00:02:06.000 So I saw a clip of her this morning.
00:02:08.000 And as soon as I saw it, I said, oh, wow, they have a Harry Potter girl running Trump's grand jury.
00:02:14.000 As soon as I saw it, I have nothing against Harry Potter.
00:02:16.000 I think it's fine.
00:02:17.000 I read all the books growing up, but there is a culture that was created, especially with millennials, where they got super obsessed about Harry Potter and they talk a certain way and they giggle a certain way.
00:02:29.000 And I was like, that girl thinks she's a witch.
00:02:33.000 And we kind of had our, you know, chat about that in our conversation this morning.
00:02:39.000 And it turns out that my suspicion actually was totally and completely correct.
00:02:45.000 That we found her Pinterest page, the Harry Potter girl's Pinterest page, and she's really into witchcraft. 0.51
00:02:53.000 That's not an insult.
00:02:54.000 Well, it is an insult, but it's not me exaggerating.
00:02:57.000 It's not hyperbole.
00:02:58.000 It's a fact. 0.97
00:02:59.000 She's big into alchemy, crystals. 0.97
00:03:02.000 So literally, the jury four woman who is now going on cable television about a potential looming indictment of Donald Trump in Georgia that has mass civilizational implications is a witch. 0.92
00:03:18.000 I want you to listen to her.
00:03:19.000 As soon as I heard her tone and her attitude and quite honestly, the cringiness of her communication, I was like, this is the worst the millennial generation has to offer.
00:03:31.000 And yes, I know many of you have been tired of me criticizing boomers. 0.85
00:03:35.000 Trust me, I can criticize all generations equally. 0.70
00:03:38.000 And today, we're going to lean right in to the very worst that millennials have to offer.
00:03:45.000 And this is Exhibit A.
00:03:47.000 This woman, her name is Emily Kors.
00:03:50.000 She's the four woman. 0.98
00:03:52.000 And she's not a serious person. 1.00
00:03:56.000 Who thought it was a good idea to put her on television to give her stage time? 0.67
00:04:01.000 I have no idea. 1.00
00:04:02.000 Even CNN is in total damage control.
00:04:04.000 CNN is in total crisis comms right now. 0.94
00:04:07.000 Maybe it was just her.
00:04:08.000 Maybe she was just, I want to go on TV.
00:04:11.000 I want to be famous.
00:04:12.000 I'm important.
00:04:14.000 Woo!
00:04:15.000 All right, you'll hear it for yourself.
00:04:17.000 Let's go to, yeah, let's just start one by one.
00:04:20.000 Let's just listen to all.
00:04:21.000 Play Cut 60, Harry Potter girl on CNN. 0.97
00:04:24.000 One of the biggest questions remaining for everyone that wasn't in that jury room with you is how many people are in trouble here?
00:04:31.000 I'm hesitant to speak to something that the judge made a decision not to share.
00:04:36.000 Is it more than 12 people?
00:04:39.000 Is it more than 20 people?
00:04:41.000 It's not a short list.
00:04:43.000 Not a short list.
00:04:45.000 Okay.
00:04:46.000 More than a dozen, though, I think I'd heard you say in another interview.
00:04:49.000 I believe so.
00:04:51.000 That's probably a good assumption.
00:04:52.000 Continue with the giggling and the kind of self-humoring.
00:04:58.000 Cut 61.
00:04:59.000 After everything that you've seen, what would your reaction be if the DA decides against bringing any charges after what you've seen?
00:05:06.000 I will be sad if nothing happens.
00:05:09.000 Like that's, that's about my only request there is for something to happen.
00:05:15.000 I will be frustrated if nothing happens.
00:05:18.000 And if it was just a perjury charge or perjury charges, would that be acceptable to you?
00:05:23.000 That's fine.
00:05:24.000 I will be happy as long as something happens.
00:05:29.000 Yeah, it's really funny.
00:05:30.000 Someone might go to jail and have to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to defend themselves.
00:05:35.000 But that warrants a giggle.
00:05:36.000 Now, maybe that was just a nervous giggle because you're in front of millions of people making a complete foulet of yourself.
00:05:41.000 And now we learn about her love of alchemy.
00:05:44.000 No joke.
00:05:45.000 She posts on her social media page about herbs, about casting a circle, demonic circles, how to cast spells.
00:05:53.000 Not a joke.
00:05:54.000 This is all on her social media page. 0.99
00:05:57.000 She actually is a witch. 0.96
00:05:58.000 She's into witchcraft. 0.97
00:05:59.000 And as soon as I saw a video of her, I said, whoa, that is someone who thinks they're Hermoni Granger.
00:06:04.000 Like totally.
00:06:05.000 Like she is LARPing on live television, live action role-playing, trying to be a serious person.
00:06:11.000 She just can't pull it off.
00:06:12.000 Yeah, listen, you want to go be a witch in Georgia? 0.79
00:06:16.000 Not my thing.
00:06:18.000 You could go into the hinterlands and go cast spells amongst your fellow friends.
00:06:21.000 If you're going to be a forewoman of a jury that involves a former president, you got to be a lot more serious than this.
00:06:28.000 This is not a joke.
00:06:30.000 Okay, Cut 62. 1.00
00:06:33.000 This is where just she continues her media tour.
00:06:35.000 Again, I don't know who thought this was a good idea, but if you were trying to bail Donald Trump out, this is what you would do.
00:06:44.000 Play Cut 62.
00:06:47.000 Did you personally want to hear from the former president?
00:06:49.000 I wanted to hear from the former president, but honestly, I kind of wanted to subpoena the former president because I got to swear everybody in.
00:06:56.000 And so I thought it'd be really cool to get 60 seconds with President Trump of me looking at him and being like, do you solemnly swear?
00:07:02.000 And me getting to swear him in?
00:07:04.000 I just, I kind of just thought that would be an awesome moment.
00:07:07.000 I kind of thought that would be awesome.
00:07:09.000 Donald Trump's team can submit a motion for dismissal because of grand jury malfeasance.
00:07:15.000 And guess what?
00:07:16.000 CNN is saying exactly that.
00:07:18.000 Anderson Cooper is in full crisis comms.
00:07:22.000 CNN is deploying the spin artists and the propaganda saying, what is going on here?
00:07:27.000 We had this whole Georgia narrative.
00:07:28.000 The New York Times was platforming the Fulton County DA.
00:07:33.000 They had a whole puff piece on her a couple weeks ago. 0.97
00:07:36.000 This thing was waiting for takeoff.
00:07:38.000 It was ready to go.
00:07:40.000 And you got the Pottermore blogger saying, I really wish I could have indicted him or sworn him in because I think it would have been really great to look at him in the eyes for 60 seconds.
00:07:50.000 That's really creepy and weird.
00:07:54.000 Would you want to like vex him or put a spell on him?
00:07:57.000 Play cut 63, Anderson Cooper.
00:08:00.000 He is just, they are bringing in the crisis comms.
00:08:02.000 They don't know what is going on.
00:08:04.000 They had it ready.
00:08:04.000 We were finally going to indict him.
00:08:07.000 Hex him or vex him.
00:08:08.000 I'm sorry.
00:08:08.000 My witch vocabulary is a little rusty.
00:08:12.000 Play cut 63.
00:08:14.000 This person is talking on TV.
00:08:15.000 I do not understand.
00:08:16.000 She's clearly enjoying herself.
00:08:17.000 Yeah.
00:08:18.000 But I mean, is this responsible?
00:08:20.000 She was the foreperson of this grand jury.
00:08:22.000 This is a horrible idea.
00:08:24.000 And I guarantee you that prosecutors are wincing watching her go on this.
00:08:27.000 I was wincing just watching her eagerness to like, you know, hint at stuff.
00:08:32.000 It's painful in that respect.
00:08:34.000 This is a very serious prospect.
00:08:36.000 Look, the heir to the Vanderbilt family fortune, Anderson Cooper, is right over the target.
00:08:42.000 He knows this is bad, bad, bad, bad.
00:08:46.000 That if you were trying to build a serious case and not make it seem like some sort of JV operation or juvenile, you would not allow her anywhere near television.
00:08:57.000 So what is the purpose of all this?
00:08:59.000 Is she just doing this herself?
00:09:00.000 Is there someone that is pushing her?
00:09:02.000 Did someone think that she would be likable or be able to persuade people to seem as if this is a very serious investigation?
00:09:10.000 Her answer, I'll be sad if there are not indictments.
00:09:14.000 You'll be sad?
00:09:16.000 I'm glad you really thought to dive deep into the complexity of the English lexicon to be able to describe that.
00:09:25.000 But there's another, there's a deeper point here that I want to explore with you because 2024, they have tried everything they possibly can to try to derail Donald Trump, and Georgia was one of their top bets.
00:09:39.000 And is this now all being put into jeopardy?
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00:10:39.000 We have this new jury for woman that's going on.
00:10:42.000 Look, and I said this half kiddingly, but it's possible that the grand jury does not have the goods on Trump and they're deploying her as kind of the first salvo of the sabotage campaign of their own work.
00:10:57.000 It's possible.
00:10:58.000 I mean, I think that's very unlikely.
00:11:00.000 It requires a lot of moving pieces, including getting the Harry Potter girl to play along.
00:11:06.000 But let's play this right here.
00:11:08.000 CNN says that, look, this is a prosecutor's nightmare. 1.00
00:11:11.000 What is she doing on television? 0.99
00:11:14.000 Why is she talking? 1.00
00:11:15.000 Why is she opening her mouth? 0.96
00:11:16.000 Why is she doing any of this?
00:11:17.000 Play cut 64.
00:11:18.000 We're talking about potentially a former president for the first time in this nation's history.
00:11:22.000 She does not seem to be taking that very seriously.
00:11:24.000 There's no reason for her to be out talking.
00:11:26.000 No, there's a right.
00:11:27.000 It's a prosecutor's nightmare.
00:11:29.000 Mark my words.
00:11:30.000 Donald Trump's team is going to make a motion if there's an indictment to dismiss that indictment based on grand jury impropriety.
00:11:36.000 She's not supposed to be talking about anything, really, but she's really not supposed to be talking about the deliberations.
00:11:41.000 She's talking about what specific witnesses they saw, what the grand jury thought of them.
00:11:45.000 She says some of them we found credible, some of them we found funny.
00:11:48.000 I don't know why that's relevant, but she's been saying we found this guy funny or interesting.
00:11:52.000 I think she's potentially crossing a line here.
00:11:54.000 It's going to be a real problem for prosecutors.
00:11:56.000 And she finds it funny.
00:11:57.000 It's like lighthearted.
00:11:58.000 Yeah, you know, people might be able to go to jail for the rest of their life or for five years and have to spend a ton of money defending themselves.
00:12:04.000 This is humorous to her.
00:12:06.000 And this is the lead of the grand jury.
00:12:08.000 This is not just some random member.
00:12:10.000 Now, look, some people, you're emailing me freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:12:13.000 Oh, Charlie, lay off of her.
00:12:15.000 This is unfair. 1.00
00:12:16.000 Look, I would say that if she didn't decide to just put her face on cable television and to make her now the personification of this entire political witch hunt. 1.00
00:12:32.000 Witch hunt.
00:12:34.000 And so, what is the case that they potentially might have?
00:12:37.000 Well, they're saying that Donald Trump had a phone call to try and demand more votes from Brad Rauffensberger, saying that I need 12,000 more, 11,000 more votes, or something like that.
00:12:53.000 It's a very weak case, honestly.
00:12:56.000 However, if you were to try to make it seem very serious, who in charge is actually deploying this person out there?
00:13:06.000 There's a couple theories here, which is she just might be going rogue.
00:13:10.000 It also makes you wonder if the process of selecting jurors are skewed or corrupted in some way.
00:13:17.000 I mean, don't they do background checks?
00:13:21.000 I mean, should someone who is engaged in witchcraft probably not be the person you put on CNN?
00:13:28.000 Not an exaggeration, not hyperbole.
00:13:33.000 You go look at her Pinterest.
00:13:34.000 She's into alchemy. 0.99
00:13:35.000 She's into herbs. 0.60
00:13:36.000 She's into casting spells, all sorts of really goofy and bizarre stuff.
00:13:42.000 And we find all this info, by the way, in just a couple hours.
00:13:46.000 We put this all together and we put this information there.
00:13:48.000 So now the Georgia district attorney is going to have to make a decision whether or not to press charges against Trump and these people, with her being the spokesperson.
00:14:00.000 And this is the kind of person proudly serving as the forewoman of many of our juries today.
00:14:05.000 I just want to reiterate this.
00:14:06.000 Juries are, you know, allegedly random selections of people.
00:14:09.000 There is some judge bias where they could decide to dismiss people and retain people, but you have a lot of people that believe this.
00:14:18.000 You get a random sampling of America, you're going to get a random sampling of witches.
00:14:23.000 It's not a comfortable truth for a lot of people.
00:14:26.000 But we should be very clear: this case is a weak case against Donald Trump.
00:14:32.000 I think it should be immediately dismissed, and this whole grand jury should be suspended and terminated.
00:14:38.000 However, it's not the weakest of all of the witch hunts that they've tried to throw at Trump.
00:14:46.000 But if you were trying to build the most serious case against Trump, you would have this person as far away from this as possible.
00:14:54.000 Instead, she's saying, I think it would be fun to subpoena him and swear him in, as if this is some sort of mock trial in seventh grade.
00:15:02.000 It'd be fun.
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00:17:41.000 I want to live in a country where being a witch is a bad thing. 1.00
00:17:44.000 People say, Charlie, what do you mean you want to make America great again?
00:17:46.000 What do you mean?
00:17:47.000 How about this?
00:17:48.000 Where it's not widely accepted to be a witch.
00:17:52.000 I just think that if you want to say, Charlie, nothing should be stigmatized.
00:17:55.000 Yeah, actually, I think if you're into witchcraft, you should be stigmatized.
00:18:00.000 Not really into Tarot cards or the drawing of circles or hermeticism or alchemy, paganism.
00:18:07.000 Not really.
00:18:08.000 I don't think that creates for a healthy society.
00:18:12.000 Ouija boards.
00:18:15.000 And by the way, I do think some things should be stigmatized in addition.
00:18:19.000 I don't know.
00:18:20.000 Like pornography presented to kids in textbooks and general mutilation.
00:18:25.000 There's got to be some standards.
00:18:27.000 Okay.
00:18:28.000 Some people are emailing us, Charlie, don't make fun of witches. 1.00
00:18:31.000 They have a lot of power. 0.99
00:18:32.000 They do not have a lot of power, but they do have some.
00:18:32.000 That's not true.
00:18:36.000 If they're really into it, I do believe there's some very dark spiritual implications and dynamics here.
00:18:42.000 And look, I've encountered witches before.
00:18:44.000 When I was once speaking, this is not a joke.
00:18:46.000 When I was once speaking at Legacy Church in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in the land of enchantment, which is, in my opinion, the most outwardly pagan state remaining in America.
00:18:57.000 A lot of great Christians, but there's a lot of weird witchcraft that happens in New Mexico.
00:19:02.000 I spoke at Steve Smotherman's church and I was talking about how I believe marriage was between one man and one woman.
00:19:07.000 This was back in July of 2021.
00:19:10.000 I'm not making a word of this up.
00:19:11.000 Mikey could tell attest to this.
00:19:13.000 Our whole team can.
00:19:14.000 And three witches came up and they started saying stuff at me.
00:19:17.000 And maybe it was a coincidence.
00:19:18.000 Maybe it wasn't, but I got super sick right after that.
00:19:22.000 Again, maybe it's just a coincidence.
00:19:23.000 Who knows?
00:19:23.000 Maybe you think it's all a bunch of horse pucky and all that.
00:19:27.000 But that was pretty chilling.
00:19:30.000 And so they came into the church.
00:19:33.000 And by the way, Steve Smotherman, great friend in Albuquerque, tells me they have witches that come into their church all the time.
00:19:40.000 And you might think it's all a bunch of nonsense and it's all just a bunch of vapor.
00:19:43.000 Or you might think that there's actually a spiritual war playing out.
00:19:46.000 Obviously, I believe that those unclean spirits are subservient to truth, to Christ, and to the one God, but we will put that at bay.
00:19:59.000 By the way, there's a lot of new age centers in the American Southwest.
00:20:02.000 Sedona has a lot of that kind of energy up there: crystals, palm reading, tarot cards, all that sort of stuff.
00:20:08.000 Same in New Mexico and Albuquerque.
00:20:10.000 And by the way, some of you in our audience are saying, well, Charlie, I do those things and I'm fine.
00:20:13.000 Okay, great.
00:20:14.000 Terrific.
00:20:14.000 Be careful with that.
00:20:15.000 Those things can be portals into some really dark things.
00:20:18.000 And I hope you know what you're doing because I stay far away from that stuff.
00:20:21.000 Okay, let's shift gears from the witch that is trying to indict Trump allegedly.
00:20:26.000 Okay, so we're going to do something we're not allowed to do.
00:20:29.000 And we're going to do this with intentionality and with fairness and call balls and strikes.
00:20:34.000 We are getting very close to be involved in a kinetic war, American troops on the ground.
00:20:40.000 We are stumbling towards that because of what's happening in Ukraine. 0.99
00:20:44.000 And basically, the premise of this entire thing is that Vladimir Putin is a madman. 0.99
00:20:50.000 He is Hitler reincarnate. 0.93
00:20:53.000 And we must do everything we possibly can because if he takes eastern Ukraine, he'll take all of Ukraine and then he'll take Poland and then he'll take Germany.
00:21:00.000 And then before you know it, Vladimir Putin will be sipping sherry in Lisbon, Portugal, and we'll never be able to visit Europe again.
00:21:08.000 That's effectively the argument, right?
00:21:10.000 Domino theory: the man who can barely take over Ukraine is soon going to be colonizing Spanish wine country.
00:21:21.000 So Vladimir Putin just delivered a state of the union address to the Russian people.
00:21:25.000 It's two hours long, and I think it's really interesting.
00:21:28.000 Now, again, I do not think highly of Vladimir Putin at all.
00:21:33.000 However, I think every American deserves to know what the heck the person we're supposed to hate is saying to his people.
00:21:41.000 So we thought it was worth listening to this.
00:21:43.000 It's two hours again.
00:21:45.000 What is the Russian leader saying to the Russian people about this war?
00:21:49.000 Now, does it mean that everything in this speech is true?
00:21:52.000 No, there's a lot of falsehoods in this speech.
00:21:54.000 I think there's a lot of exaggerations.
00:21:56.000 There's a lot of hyperbole, and there's flat-out lies.
00:21:59.000 But there's also things in this speech that are true that I think you should hear.
00:22:03.000 But it's a good guideline to be able to go through the actual speech and say, is this worth going to war against him?
00:22:14.000 What is his motivating factor? 0.90
00:22:16.000 Is he nothing more than a frenetic madman?
00:22:19.000 Is this something that we could have negotiated peace over?
00:22:22.000 Again, I am not a supporter of a lot of what Vladimir Putin does.
00:22:27.000 I want to live in a free society.
00:22:29.000 I think dissidents should be able to speak freely in the public square.
00:22:32.000 I don't think political opponents should be put in prison.
00:22:34.000 I don't think of any of those things.
00:22:35.000 I think there's a lot of problems with Putin, obviously.
00:22:38.000 But I also don't think that, A, it's our business, nor do we have the ability, nor do I think that it's in our best interest to saber-rattle of every dictator or leader that does something wrong.
00:22:53.000 I don't support poisoning political opponents or disappearing them.
00:22:56.000 Obviously, I could go through the exhaustive list of that.
00:22:59.000 But it's also a fact that Russia could be very helpful as a neutralized country against the true enemy, the Chinese Communist Party. 0.61
00:23:10.000 And a good lesson of history is that you do not need to finance conflicts against every leader that might not fit perfectly into the Western tradition of constitutional governance.
00:23:24.000 Putin certainly doesn't. 0.97
00:23:26.000 He's a gangster. 0.96
00:23:27.000 So what is he saying to his people?
00:23:28.000 Now, just to reiterate, even playing this speech, I'm going to get attacked from every direction.
00:23:34.000 How dare you play Putin's speech?
00:23:35.000 How dare you?
00:23:36.000 You deserve to know.
00:23:38.000 Your government is financing a proxy war anywhere between $100 to $200 billion.
00:23:45.000 That could involve U.S. troops.
00:23:47.000 Joe Biden was just there.
00:23:49.000 So you deserve to know.
00:23:50.000 What is Putin saying to his people? 0.98
00:23:52.000 Is he just a madman, a megalomaniac? 0.99
00:23:54.000 Okay, let's start. 0.99
00:23:55.000 Let's go piece by piece.
00:23:56.000 We have Putin's speech broken into pieces.
00:23:58.000 We're going to give you our take on it.
00:24:01.000 Let's play Cut 51.
00:24:02.000 Putin begins his speech.
00:24:04.000 The goal of the West is unbridled power.
00:24:06.000 He is attacking and criticizing the West.
00:24:08.000 Play Cut 51.
00:24:09.000 The goal of the West is unbridled power.
00:24:12.000 They have already spent more than $150 billion to supply weapons to the Kiev regime.
00:24:18.000 Just compare, according to the Economic Operation and Development Organization to help the poorest countries in the world.
00:24:24.000 G7 allocated in 2020 and 2021 some $60 billion.
00:24:31.000 And they are not stopping this flow of money to support war.
00:24:35.000 And they are spending more money on coup in the other countries all across the world.
00:24:41.000 Okay, so I think it's a little unfair, but I think it's in his best interest, obviously, to misrepresent the West as a whole.
00:24:47.000 There's plenty of people in the West that find this war to be insane and egregious.
00:24:52.000 And quite honestly, I think most Americans are in that space.
00:24:56.000 $150 billion.
00:24:57.000 Yeah, that's about right.
00:24:58.000 So he is telling the truth in that regard.
00:25:00.000 It could be upwards of $200 billion.
00:25:02.000 Now, he says that the goal of the West is unbridled power.
00:25:06.000 That's his take.
00:25:08.000 I do think that some of the leaders of NATO want to expand NATO and to strengthen their hold on the kind of North Atlantic treaty organization project.
00:25:19.000 So, I mean, there's some things that I think are misrepresented there, but let's play Cut 52.
00:25:23.000 Putin talking about how Western leaders do not care about the Ukrainian neo-Nazis.
00:25:28.000 Is it true that neo-Nazis are serving in the Ukrainian military?
00:25:33.000 Play Cut 52.
00:25:34.000 Neo-Nazis, they are not even hiding who they consider themselves.
00:25:39.000 It's astonishing that no one in the West is noticing this, taking notice of this.
00:25:44.000 Because they do not care.
00:25:44.000 Why?
00:25:47.000 They don't care about who to place a bat on when it comes to fighting Russia, fighting us. 0.80
00:25:54.000 The main thing is that they are waging war against us, against Russia, and that means they need to use everyone. 0.99
00:26:01.000 Terrorists, neo-Nazis, devil if they have to. 0.89
00:26:06.000 All right. 0.96
00:26:07.000 So it is a fact that there are neo-Nazis that are fighting in the Azov battalion in Zelensky's effort.
00:26:15.000 However, Putin is way over-exaggerating this.
00:26:19.000 That's not a majority of Ukrainian forces.
00:26:21.000 That's not a majority of Ukrainian leaders.
00:26:23.000 It is a single battalion, but it is true.
00:26:26.000 So he's taking something that is factually true and way overblowing.
00:26:30.000 Now, why would Putin do that?
00:26:32.000 Well, because Russians have no love of anything Nazi. 0.58
00:26:39.000 Anything that is even close to German Nazi symbolism or imagery.
00:26:44.000 That's a good way to animate your homeland for good reason because Hitler almost took over Mother Russia, got awfully close, got within, what, Blake would know, 30 miles of Moscow. 0.98
00:26:55.000 I think that almost took over Stalingrad in one of the most brutal battles ever.
00:27:00.000 It was at 10 miles from Moscow.
00:27:01.000 Oh my gosh, it's amazing.
00:27:02.000 So yeah, as soon as Putin uses Nazi imagery, not Nazi imagery, but that word, yes, he's going to get more support in the homeland, but he is overexaggerating it.
00:27:13.000 Putin is overblowing a factual element of what's happening in Ukraine.
00:27:17.000 Okay, 53, Putin says they're suppressing freedom of thought in their own countries.
00:27:22.000 That's really rich coming from him, but play cut 53.
00:27:25.000 They are suppressing freedom of thought in their own countries.
00:27:28.000 They try to distract around people from the corruption scandals because we can all see it on the screens on television from growing inner social, international, and other kind of problems.
00:27:44.000 So I'm not exactly sure what Putin is talking about here.
00:27:48.000 Again, the lack of self-awareness makes me chuckle.
00:27:51.000 Putin is not exactly someone who can claim a moral high ground on freedom of thought with political dissidents being poisoned and put into prison.
00:28:00.000 So he should probably sit that one out.
00:28:03.000 But is it true that in Western countries, freedom of thought is being suppressed?
00:28:07.000 Yeah, that actually is true.
00:28:09.000 And again, so he's not exactly, why don't you look in the mirror, man?
00:28:15.000 But at the same time, for Putin to say the West does not allow freedom of expression and thought is completely true.
00:28:21.000 Just look at the Twitter files.
00:28:23.000 Just look at what Facebook and Google have done.
00:28:24.000 Just look at the suppression of thought through our own social media companies.
00:28:28.000 Now, for him to say that to the Russian people, they're probably like, well, we're not allowed to speak out against you.
00:28:33.000 You as an American taxpayer, the funder and hopeful, and God forbid we ever send troops there.
00:28:39.000 I hope that doesn't happen.
00:28:40.000 You have a right to know who you're supposed to hate.
00:28:44.000 You have a right to know what your enemy is saying, your enemy is saying.
00:28:48.000 And the media doesn't like this.
00:28:51.000 They're going to come after this program right here.
00:28:52.000 You can't play the speech.
00:28:53.000 You're a Russian agent. 0.84
00:28:55.000 No, actually, I'm an American patriot. 0.98
00:28:56.000 And I don't want our servicemen to go die for some silly family dispute 5,000 miles away.
00:29:01.000 I think information is power here.
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00:30:03.000 Cut 55, Putin talks about the West waging information war as it can't defeat Russia on the battlefield.
00:30:11.000 That's not totally true, but play cut 55.
00:30:14.000 It cannot ignore the fact that Russia cannot be defeated on the battlefield.
00:30:17.000 So they're waging increasingly aggressive information attacks.
00:30:21.000 First of all, targeting the young generations, lying on every step, distorting historical truth, attacking our culture, the Russian Orthodox Church, and other traditional religious institutions in our country. 0.99
00:30:35.000 So not exactly sure all of what he's mentioning here.
00:30:38.000 The West is waging information war, but if you're at war, that's kind of normal.
00:30:42.000 And we'll see.
00:30:44.000 Look, in the next 90 days, we'll actually learn how strong the Russian military is.
00:30:49.000 Putin is mobilizing 300 to 500,000 people to the front lines of Ukraine.
00:30:53.000 We're going to see.
00:30:54.000 Is it true that you guys have a strong army or not?
00:30:57.000 So far, it's been pushing to an extent and a stalemate.
00:31:01.000 We will find out.
00:31:02.000 Play cut 56, Putin says, look what they're doing to their own people.
00:31:05.000 They're destroying the institution of the family and their cultural historical identity.
00:31:11.000 Interesting.
00:31:11.000 Play cut 56.
00:31:13.000 Now, look at what they're doing with their own peoples.
00:31:16.000 They're destroying the institution of family, their cultural and historical identity, and various perversions with regard to children up to pedophilia are accepted as the new norm.
00:31:28.000 And priests are forced to recognize and officiate same-sex weddings.
00:31:34.000 Now, this is a little bit of a distraction.
00:31:36.000 What he is saying is obviously true, but it's rather irrelevant to the conflict in Ukraine.
00:31:43.000 He's doing this to create a villain abroad to say, look how degenerate the West has become.
00:31:49.000 They're mutilating children. 0.98
00:31:51.000 They got all this trans stuff. 0.88
00:31:53.000 We are going to be the defenders of the family.
00:31:55.000 We are going to be the defenders of the tradition of monogamous marriages and against kind of this huge gay marriage movement across the world. 0.97
00:32:11.000 That really, in my opinion, is a distraction from why did you invade Ukraine and why are you trying to still take land in Ukraine?
00:32:20.000 But Putin is trying to frame this using social issues.
00:32:25.000 And as leader of Russia, it's rather in his interest to do that as a dictator because that's one of the things that can animate the continuation of the war.
00:32:36.000 Look at them. 0.86
00:32:36.000 They have gay pride flags at embassies. 0.86
00:32:38.000 We're the defenders of the family.
00:32:41.000 It's a very powerful, powerful one-liner there.
00:32:45.000 Okay, this is not true.
00:32:47.000 What he says here, play cut 57.
00:32:49.000 People can live however they want.
00:32:52.000 And we in Russia have never intruded into people's private life.
00:32:57.000 And we're not going to do that.
00:32:59.000 But what we want to say is maybe they should take a look in the scripture into the holy book.
00:33:06.000 It says that the family is a union between woman and man.
00:33:10.000 And these holy texts are now being increasingly doubted in the West.
00:33:16.000 The Anglican Church is now considering the idea of a gender-neutral God.
00:33:23.000 What can we say?
00:33:24.000 God forgive them.
00:33:25.000 They don't know what they're doing.
00:33:28.000 We have said for quite some time, and the media has ridiculed us, that the proxy war in Ukraine is a proxy war in some ways over social liberalism in the West and social conservatism from Russia.
00:33:42.000 That's not the only dynamic there, but that is certainly an emphasis that Putin makes to his people as a reason to continue the war.
00:33:52.000 Putin says you could do whatever you want.
00:33:54.000 He says, what?
00:33:55.000 You can do what you wish.
00:33:56.000 People can live however they want in Russia.
00:33:58.000 That's not true.
00:33:59.000 They ban a lot of, let's just say, gay actors and gay scenes and movies and stuff and such.
00:34:09.000 So that's not totally true.
00:34:11.000 Let's end with Cut 59 and I'll give you final thoughts.
00:34:14.000 Play Cut 59.
00:34:15.000 And we will continue to work with our partners on creating a sustainable and safe system of international settlements that would be independent from dollar and other Western reserve currencies.
00:34:29.000 Because with these policies by the Western elites and Western leaders, it will lose its universal role.
00:34:36.000 With their own hands, they are doing this.
00:34:39.000 They're decreasing the settlements in dollars and other so-called universal currencies.
00:34:45.000 So after listening to the two-hour speech of Vladimir Putin, at least my conclusion is this is not a good person, but it's not someone that I think we should be doing a proxy war against.
00:34:55.000 Peace could have been negotiated easily.
00:34:59.000 He's trying to make himself seem a lot more powerful than he really is, but this is not a good fight for the United States.
00:35:07.000 I encourage you to listen to him in his own words and ask yourself the question, are you willing to have your grandchild potentially die fighting in a war against Russia?
00:35:16.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
00:35:18.000 Email me your thoughts as always freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:35:22.000 Thank you so much for listening and God bless.
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