The Charlie Kirk Show - Translating Biden's Bizarre Presser + Taking on Chinese Communists with Senator Tom Cotton

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00:01:42.000 I want to get into the Biden press conference yesterday.

00:01:46.000 I read the New York Times, so you don't have to.

00:01:48.000 I also have the Wall Street Journal here, which the Wall Street Journal does a nice job, definitely in comparison to the New York Times.

00:01:54.000 Wall Street Journal is not perfect, but they are very thoughtful.

00:01:57.000 And you'd think after a president who has like a 35 to 40% approval rating does a two-hour press conference, that would be the lead story.

00:02:07.000 Instead, both the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, they mention it briefly, but a big takeaway was some of the blunders and some of the fumbles from that press conference.

00:02:16.000 In addition, a massive failure legislatively in the United States Senate, which we're going to get to.

00:02:23.000 I think if you were to kind of go into the strategy session of Ron Clain, who's the chief of staff, to Joe Biden, to Jill Biden, who is the wife of Joe Biden.

00:02:34.000 Oh, I'm sorry, Dr. Jill Biden.

00:02:36.000 I'm so sorry.

00:02:36.000 That's right.

00:02:38.000 Never mean any offense to the woman who has a PhD in education.

00:02:42.000 It's a doctor.

00:02:43.000 She worked very hard for that.

00:02:45.000 Dr. Jill Biden, Joe Biden, Jen Psaki, and all the kind of group of unimpressive people running our country.

00:02:54.000 I think that they had a strategy meeting.

00:02:58.000 And I think the force of gravity against the Biden regime is finally starting to be felt.

00:03:04.000 I think finally, all of a sudden, they're starting to realize that they're losing on the Fauci virus.

00:03:09.000 They're losing on the economy.

00:03:11.000 Inflation is a real thing.

00:03:12.000 They can't get their legislative agenda passed.

00:03:15.000 They're not going to get their Voting Deform Act, not voting reform, but the deformation of voting.

00:03:23.000 And the borders are wide open.

00:03:25.000 Internationally, they've been a complete and total joke, mockery, and disaster.

00:03:29.000 So I think in their strategy meeting, they said, okay, people say that Joe Biden's mental decline is impacting his ability to govern.

00:03:38.000 Let's shoot Joe up with whatever sort of kind of adrenaline that is necessary and deploy him out there.

00:03:48.000 I think the point was to try to show that Joe Biden was going to go over the top long to try to win kudos and praise from the establishment media.

00:03:57.000 This is his first press conference.

00:03:59.000 I think he's done in quite some time.

00:04:00.000 Some people said it was his first ever press conference as president.

00:04:03.000 Second, okay.

00:04:04.000 That was his second press conference.

00:04:05.000 Trump used to do these almost daily.

00:04:07.000 He did them for fun.

00:04:09.000 And I will say, for reasons that we can speculate, the media was pretty critical.

00:04:16.000 The media did not use.

00:04:18.000 So, Mr. Biden, how is the ice cream in the White House compared to when you were vice president?

00:04:24.000 Is it softer?

00:04:25.000 Do they really get the mint chocolate chips right in there beautifully?

00:04:28.000 How's the coffee?

00:04:30.000 Is it perfectly brewed?

00:04:32.000 No, actually, the questions were pretty critical.

00:04:35.000 They were direct, precise.

00:04:38.000 Now, nowhere even in the ecosystem, nowhere even in the atmosphere of questions towards Donald Trump.

00:04:47.000 And I agree with my friend Tucker Carlson.

00:04:49.000 The press conference was totally weird.

00:04:51.000 It was a strange deal.

00:04:53.000 Joe Biden leaning in, he does this thing where he kind of like hunches over the podium.

00:04:59.000 You notice that, Connor?

00:05:00.000 And he kind of puts both of his arms down and he looks directly at the reporter.

00:05:05.000 He was, and then he whispers, you're exactly right.

00:05:08.000 And he was still calling from a pre-selected list of reporters.

00:05:13.000 And there were multiple blunders that came out of that.

00:05:15.000 But if the point was to try to show the nation, look at, hey, if you have any concerns about how sharp this guy is mentally, I mean, come on.

00:05:22.000 He stood there and talked for two hours.

00:05:23.000 I don't think that mission was accomplished.

00:05:26.000 In fact, I think that there were more questions than answers.

00:05:30.000 Stumbling through words, getting adjectives incorrect.

00:05:36.000 And then also basically messing up the entire White House narrative when it came to Russia and Ukraine.

00:05:44.000 Let's start with Cut 67.

00:05:48.000 Biden on Russia invading Ukraine, saying it depends on what it does.

00:05:51.000 It's one thing if it's a minor incursion, Cut 67.

00:05:55.000 So I think what you're going to see is that Russia will be held accountable if it invades. 0.95

00:06:02.000 And it depends on what it does.

00:06:03.000 It's one thing if it's a minor incursion and then we end up having to fight about what to do and not do, et cetera.

00:06:10.000 So that's all of a sudden where the neoconservatives and the media began to lose their mind.

00:06:17.000 Now, Biden plays the role of a neocon.

00:06:20.000 He doesn't even do that well.

00:06:21.000 He doesn't even do the warmongering thing well.

00:06:23.000 He contradicts the own regime's narrative that they want to go to war with Russia.

00:06:27.000 Now, I have my own personal opinion of kind of Joe Biden's, let's say, 45 years in D.C., that I think he deep down knows that a ground war with Russia is actually really bad for his presidency right now.

00:06:40.000 And I think deep down he's wrestling with that.

00:06:43.000 I think deep down, Joe Biden and Jill Biden are trying to push back against the Jake Sullivan, Jen Psaki, the Tony Blinken, and the Lloyd Austin kind of beat the drums of war that we need to kind of posture and send Tomahawk missiles to some meadow in Western Russia to prove how strong we are or whatever it is the National Security Establishment does.

00:07:04.000 Now, I'm no fan of Russia, and we've gone through this in great detail, but a nation in crisis is not a nation prepared for war.

00:07:12.000 I want to say that again.

00:07:14.000 A nation in crisis that we are, we are not prepared, nor should we be prepared to try and deter, which comes from a Latin word, push back or to reject, Vladimir Putin's incursions on Ukraine.

00:07:31.000 He continued by saying, and by the way, all the headlines are about Ukraine.

00:07:35.000 That was basically the biggest takeaway.

00:07:37.000 It wasn't that, wow, Joe Biden stands strong against critical questions.

00:07:41.000 People are like, no, actually, you have a lot of people really worried, including the Ukrainians.

00:07:45.000 Cut 79, he continued on this.

00:07:48.000 Play cut 79.

00:07:50.000 Of course, you have to be concerned when you have, you know, nuclear power invading.

00:07:57.000 If he invades, it hasn't happened since World War II.

00:08:01.000 Now, I don't know who on earth gave him that talking point, but it's so wrong.

00:08:07.000 Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan.

00:08:09.000 Soviet Union had proxies in then Rhodesia, which eventually became Zimbabwe.

00:08:14.000 China basically invaded. 0.65

00:08:16.000 Now, I guess you could make an argument that China wasn't a nuclear power at the time, but China was heavily supportive of the North Vietnamese cause.

00:08:24.000 They were supportive of the North Korean, the push, basically the creation of North Korea alongside Soviet forces.

00:08:32.000 This idea that no nuclear power has invaded another country.

00:08:36.000 What would you call the annexation of Crimea then?

00:08:38.000 What would that be?

00:08:40.000 What would you call back in 2000, if my memory serves me, 2009 or 10 or 7 or 8, right when Bush was president, when Putin pushed the boundaries on Georgia?

00:08:51.000 Remember that?

00:08:52.000 When Russia basically annexed parts of Georgia.

00:08:55.000 Now, maybe there's some sort of technicality that he's talking about here.

00:08:58.000 I'm not really sure.

00:08:59.000 That was 2007.

00:09:00.000 Yeah.

00:09:01.000 I'm not really even sure the point of that.

00:09:04.000 So he kind of contradicts himself, but here comes what was the major takeaway of this entire press conference where Joe Biden half-threatened Putin, but at the same time, it's like, well, it depends what he does, and he's probably going to do something.

00:09:26.000 Do we have that sound where he says he's probably going to do something?

00:09:28.000 He said something of that variation where he said, yeah, look, he's probably going to invade in some way, shape, or form.

00:09:36.000 Yeah, you know, only I wish Joe Biden was so concerned about the invasion of America.

00:09:43.000 Isn't it telling?

00:09:44.000 And I just want you to think about this.

00:09:46.000 And maybe you're listening to this and you support a ground war with Russia.

00:09:49.000 Maybe you think that it would be wonderful for the American project to have a hot war with probably top five military on the planet. 0.63

00:10:00.000 I want you to think deeply, though.

00:10:02.000 Why is it the entire press corps relentlessly asked questions about whether Putin is going to invade Russia, and yet no one seems to care about 2 million people invaded America across our southern border this last year?

00:10:14.000 Why is that?

00:10:16.000 Now, I am no fan of most Republicans.

00:10:20.000 However, I will tell you one thing that strong Republicans are for.

00:10:24.000 I'm going to answer Joe Biden's question: play cut 69.

00:10:28.000 I did not anticipate that there'd be such a stalwart effort to make sure that the most important thing was that President Biden didn't get anything done.

00:10:39.000 Think about this.

00:10:40.000 What are Republicans for?

00:10:43.000 What are they for?

00:10:44.000 They mean one thing they're for.

00:10:47.000 I will.

00:10:48.000 The Constitution.

00:10:49.000 Most of them actually care about the Constitution.

00:10:51.000 And I know you love freedom and want to defend it.

00:10:53.000 And I know you love the Constitution, unlike Joe Biden.

00:10:56.000 And we just answered his question.

00:10:57.000 Joe Biden was asked about Afghanistan and he said this: play cut 70.

00:11:02.000 There is no way to get out of Afghanistan after 20 years easily. 1.00

00:11:09.000 Not possible, no matter when you did it.

00:11:13.000 And I make no apologies for what I did.

00:11:16.000 The way he was talking is so bizarre, wasn't it?

00:11:19.000 I mean, he was kind of like stretching out his vows.

00:11:23.000 No easy way.

00:11:25.000 It's just really bizarre.

00:11:26.000 Joe Biden was asked about his legislative agenda.

00:11:28.000 He says, I'm not Bernie Sanders.

00:11:30.000 I'm not a socialist.

00:11:31.000 Play cut 68.

00:11:33.000 Convinced me that I am Bernie Sanders.

00:11:39.000 I'm not.

00:11:39.000 I like him, but I'm not Bernie Sanders.

00:11:41.000 I'm not a socialist.

00:11:43.000 I'm a mainstream Democrat, and I have been.

00:11:46.000 And mainstream Democrats have overrun me if you notice.

00:11:49.000 Mainstream Democrats, you mean ones that want to try to revolutionize the American voting system?

00:11:55.000 Now, here's the most interesting one, Cut 76.

00:11:59.000 How many times did we hear the media say that Donald Trump was trying to delegitimize elections, that Republicans were trying to undermine the integrity of elections?

00:12:12.000 So Joe Biden now went from saying that the 2020 election was the most secure, safest, best election in history, to now saying that the midterms could potentially be illegitimate if they don't pass the voting laws that we want.

00:12:27.000 Play Cut 76.

00:12:29.000 You were asked whether or not you believed that we would have free and fair elections in 2022 if some of these state legislatures reforms their voting protocols.

00:12:40.000 You said that it depends.

00:12:44.000 Do you think that they would in any way be illegitimate?

00:12:48.000 Oh, yeah, I think it easy to be illegitimate.

00:12:52.000 That the 2022 midterms can now be illegitimate.

00:12:56.000 They used to call that a threat to our democracy.

00:13:00.000 That this is how democracy dies.

00:13:03.000 We are not exaggerating, the people would say on television.

00:13:05.000 This is how democracy dies in real time, saying that elections could potentially be illegitimate.

00:13:12.000 So what has changed exactly from our elections the last time?

00:13:15.000 Georgia passed some very vanilla bill saying that you can't ballot harvest.

00:13:22.000 Arizona, they decided to do a moderate audit of Maricopa County.

00:13:25.000 What exactly has changed?

00:13:27.000 What's changed is not voting laws.

00:13:30.000 No.

00:13:31.000 What's changed is not people's ability to participate in elections.

00:13:35.000 No.

00:13:36.000 What's changed is Democrats look like they are going to lose historically in November.

00:13:42.000 And so Joe Biden is already trying to prime the pump, trying to say that, hey, if we lose in November, it could be an illegitimate election.

00:13:52.000 We used to call that undermining our democratic institutions.

00:13:55.000 But you see, when they say that we want to protect democracy, they don't care about democracy.

00:14:00.000 They care about Democrats.

00:14:01.000 They want to protect Democrats in power.

00:14:04.000 Whenever you hear democracy, it is a code word for Democrats having perpetual power.

00:14:11.000 Legitimate representative democracy in a constitutional republic actually doesn't work well for them.

00:14:16.000 They tend to lose elections, especially when the elections are fair.

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00:15:18.000 With us is one of the courageous senators.

00:15:22.000 We criticize the Republican Party quite often, but this senator, he's a fighter and he's terrific.

00:15:28.000 Welcome back to the show, Senator Tom Cotton.

00:15:30.000 Senator, how are you doing?

00:15:32.000 Hey, Charlie, it's good to be back on with you.

00:15:33.000 Thank you for those kind words.

00:15:34.000 Happy New Year to you and all of your listeners.

00:15:37.000 Thank you so much.

00:15:38.000 Yesterday was a historic day in the Senate.

00:15:40.000 It seems like the Democrats tried their best to try to eliminate the filibuster and it failed.

00:15:46.000 What are your thoughts on that?

00:15:48.000 Well, thankfully, it did fail.

00:15:49.000 Republicans stood united against that, as we have been from the very beginning.

00:15:52.000 And Kirsten Sinema and Joe Manchin also stood with us in preserving the rules and the customs of the Senate.

00:15:59.000 These rules and customs go back more than 200 years, Charlie.

00:16:02.000 They are directly downstream from where our founders created a Senate in the first place to provide the sober second thought against radical sweeping change to our country.

00:16:14.000 It's pretty amazing that 48 out of 50 Democrats were willing to blow up the filibuster.

00:16:21.000 They were willing to break the rules to change the rules.

00:16:23.000 And Charlie, it wasn't about something like taxes or gun control or abortion, as important as those issues are, as much as the Democratic Party would like to mandate nationwide late-term abortion or confiscate guns or raise your taxes.

00:16:39.000 It was about the rules for how every state elects its senators and other public officials as well.

00:16:45.000 I can't think of a much better reason to have the rights and privileges of extended debate in the Senate than to protect that right to conduct our elections and our states consistent with the Constitution and the views of our people.

00:16:59.000 That would have just been the first step towards redistributing political power in this country.

00:17:04.000 The Democrats' next stop probably would have been to make Washington, D.C. a state, our federal city that is by far the most liberal jurisdiction in America.

00:17:13.000 So the Democrats could get two more Democratic senators in perpetuity.

00:17:17.000 The next stop would have been to pack our federal courts to include the Supreme Court to stop the courts from overturning any of these unconstitutional actions.

00:17:24.000 This entire effort, Charlie, was not about just altering this or that public policy.

00:17:30.000 It was about forever changing the structure of political power in our country.

00:17:35.000 You sometimes heard the argument that, well, the Democrats shouldn't do this because the shoe was on the other foot.

00:17:39.000 Their entire goal was to make sure, Charlie, the shoe would never be on the other foot.

00:17:44.000 So it was a critical day in the history of our country and the history of the Senate as an institution.

00:17:48.000 And I'm glad we stopped these radicals.

00:17:50.000 That's why we have to turn them out of power in November. 0.98

00:17:52.000 That's such a smart point.

00:17:54.000 And I don't really understand why Sinema and Manchin are the only ones.

00:17:58.000 It would have been smart if Warnock and Kelly would at least pretend to participate there up in November.

00:18:04.000 I haven't had anyone be able to explain that to me, but it is what it is, I suppose.

00:18:09.000 And the filibuster remains.

00:18:11.000 And you bring up a great term, the structure.

00:18:13.000 And our mutual friend, Dr. Larry Arn from Hillsdale College, always talks about the structure of the Constitution being one of its defining characteristics.

00:18:21.000 And they basically wanted to just break apart Madison's vision for the separation of powers and basically say, we want to be able to do whatever we want with no sage deliberative body process at all whatsoever.

00:18:34.000 So I want to ask you about something you've commented on social media a little bit.

00:18:38.000 And there's two parts to this question also included with the Chinese Communist Party.

00:18:42.000 I can't pronounce this guy's name.

00:18:43.000 He's one of the Warriors owners, Chamoth Palatapaya.

00:18:47.000 I mean, no offense.

00:18:48.000 It's a tough one.

00:18:49.000 And I'm sure maybe you know how to pronounce it.

00:18:51.000 He basically says with no remorse, I don't care about the Uyghurs. 1.00

00:18:54.000 I don't care about the Uyghurs. 1.00

00:18:56.000 It's a horrifying clip. 0.90

00:18:57.000 You've been going pretty hard against him calling for the NBA to force him to sell his ownership and how they're hypocrites if they don't.

00:19:05.000 Tell us about your take on this.

00:19:08.000 It was a shocking interview, Charlie.

00:19:10.000 I mean, it showed a depraved moral indifference to the terrible suffering of millions of ethnic and religious minorities in China.

00:19:20.000 Let's not make or have any illusions about what China is doing to these people.

00:19:25.000 These women are being forcibly sterilized, Charlie. 0.80

00:19:29.000 And if they're not being sterilized, they're being systematically raped by Han Chinese soldiers in a kind of intergenerational ethnic cleansing. 0.53

00:19:37.000 These people are being forced into concentration camps where they get re-educated in the thought and ways of Xi Jinping.

00:19:44.000 Doing forced slave labor, unfortunately, oftentimes for Western companies.

00:19:50.000 But for this guy to go out there and say he just doesn't care, and don't make any mistake, this was not an accident.

00:19:56.000 This was not something where he misspoke.

00:19:58.000 This is exactly what he thinks.

00:20:00.000 And, you know, this is a guy whose investment firm is named Social Capital, and he saddles up his moral high horse and rides it hard on things like climate change and green energy.

00:20:11.000 It all gets back to him just being a greedy, woke CEO who wants to make a buck.

00:20:16.000 He knows he can make a buck from all of his Democratic pals to whom he's given millions of dollars and are going to give him tax breaks and other incentives or green energy.

00:20:24.000 And he wants to make a buck in China.

00:20:26.000 He wants Chinese money to invest.

00:20:28.000 He wants access to the Chinese market.

00:20:29.000 That's exactly what this is all about.

00:20:31.000 The NBA has a history, Charlie, of taking action when someone states an unpopular opinion.

00:20:38.000 You know, they made an owner sell the Clippers a few years back because of prejudiced comments he made. 0.95

00:20:44.000 If they don't step forward and make this guy sell his stake, I think they'll be exposed for the hypocrites and the panda huggers that they are. 1.00

00:20:55.000 They just won't say anything, anything critical of the Chinese Communist Party because they are so desperate for access to the Chinese market. 0.96

00:21:03.000 That seems to be a pattern and a theme.

00:21:05.000 Speaking of which, I haven't been able to track down your thoughts on this, so I'm super curious.

00:21:11.000 The Olympics, I think, should be delayed, postponed, or canceled.

00:21:14.000 The fact of putting the Olympics in mainland China, especially with the recent events of the virus originating from there.

00:21:21.000 What are your thoughts?

00:21:22.000 Do you think Team USA should compete?

00:21:23.000 I do see an argument that potentially it's okay to send them to, you know, you don't want to deprive athletes from their ability to achieve success, but is it the right place, right time to give China this international platform for the Winter Olympics?

00:21:39.000 Charlie, I called a couple months ago for a complete and total boycott of these genocide Olympics. 0.95

00:21:44.000 I too hate to see athletes deprived of the chance to compete.

00:21:48.000 But last summer, I sent a letter to the Biden administration.

00:21:51.000 I asked them for their plan to keep our athletes safe.

00:21:54.000 They got back to me in November.

00:21:55.000 They had no plan whatsoever to protect our athletes from DNA harvesting under the pretext of COVID testing or to protect them from around the clock electronic surveillance or just to protect them from arbitrary arrest and detention.

00:22:10.000 And now when you add to that, Charlie, the fact that the coronavirus is once again raging across China, China is lying about the extent of the coronavirus, but we know that's the case because they won't even sell tickets to their own citizens. 0.92

00:22:24.000 And the threat that our athletes face of being put into arbitrary quarantine, or if they say something that's critical of the Chinese party, Chinese Communist Party, just being arrested, I do not think it's safe to send our athletes there, nor do I think that we should be endorsing the Chinese Communist Party and their crimes against civilization. 0.97

00:22:43.000 And you raise a very, very feasible option, Charlie, which is to postpone these games, wait until next winter, and have these games in another country, a civilized democratic nation that has not committed the crimes against the civilized world that the Chinese Communist Party had. 0.91

00:23:01.000 We did it just a couple of years ago, Charlie.

00:23:02.000 They postponed the Summer Olympics in Tokyo from 2020 to 2021.

00:23:07.000 And the Summer Olympics, Charlie, are vastly larger and more complicated and complex.

00:23:13.000 If you can postpone the Summer Olympics, you can certainly postpone the much smaller Winter Olympics and have them in another nation a year from now.

00:23:22.000 So that's why I have respect for you, Senator.

00:23:24.000 You actually answered the question.

00:23:25.000 Most politicians would dodge, we need a committee, we need a study or something.

00:23:29.000 You got right to it.

00:23:30.000 I have a lot of respect for that.

00:23:32.000 So there's been this dramatic 14-point shift in party preference just in the last couple months.

00:23:37.000 I'm sure you saw this.

00:23:38.000 All of a sudden, more people identify as Republican than Democrat.

00:23:42.000 It's almost like a once-in-a-generation shift.

00:23:44.000 You mentioned we need to displace these people from power, and you're exactly right.

00:23:48.000 What do Republicans need to do, though, to keep up the momentum?

00:23:51.000 Because just kind of doing the same old kind of Republican talking points, I don't think it's going to be enough.

00:23:56.000 You've been leading the charge on talking about Soros-funded DAs, talking about the rise of crime, talking about some of these other issues.

00:24:02.000 What do Republicans need to do to achieve victory in November and also put strong Republicans in office that are actually going to do what they say they're going to do?

00:24:10.000 Charlie, the simplest thing for us to promise is that we will stop the madness.

00:24:14.000 We will stop trillions of dollars of wasteful spending that are enriching Democratic donors and client groups.

00:24:20.000 We will stop the inflation.

00:24:21.000 We'll get supplies back on the shelves of stores.

00:24:24.000 These are the things that have caused that massive swing towards the Republican Party and sent Joe Biden's approval ratings plummeting.

00:24:33.000 More broadly, though, as we look forward to the future, we have to remember where this new support is coming from.

00:24:38.000 It's coming almost entirely from working class Americans across the country of all races.

00:24:42.000 We saw in the last election that President Trump and the Republican Party in 2020 performed as well with Hispanic voters as we have since George Bush's reelection in 2004.

00:24:54.000 And it's not because we started promising amnesty and threw our borders open.

00:24:58.000 It's because we had a strong working class agenda that promised good jobs at good wages, that controlled inflation with sound monetary policy, that didn't excuse criminals, but locked criminals up, and that got control of our border.

00:25:15.000 These are the things that appeal to the broad majority of Americans of all races.

00:25:21.000 That's the way we're going to continue to build on what I think is going to be a new majority for the Republican Party.

00:25:27.000 Well, I love the sound of that.

00:25:29.000 So we have about a couple minutes remaining.

00:25:30.000 I want to be respectful of your time, Senator.

00:25:32.000 You have introduced a bill.

00:25:34.000 I'm not sure if Democrats are going to kind of flock to support it, but we've talked about this before, and you've introduced legislation protecting free speech on college campuses very close to my heart and with the work we do at Turning Point USA.

00:25:46.000 Talk a little bit about this bill and whether or not you think it has a chance of success in the Senate.

00:25:51.000 Charlie, universities, by definition, should be a place where you can engage in robust debate.

00:25:56.000 They should encourage a variety of viewpoints, many of which we're not going to agree with because let's face it, the left controls universities today, but conservatives or even moderates should be able to speak out and voice their opinion in these debates without fear of censorship or harassment or official condemnation.

00:26:12.000 Increasingly, though, that's not what we're seeing.

00:26:14.000 We see censorship and cancel culture has started on college campuses and now it's emerged out of campuses into the broader public square.

00:26:23.000 We need our colleges and universities to teach our kids to be thick-skinned, to be intellectually tough and rigorous, and to hear genuine debate of opposing viewpoints.

00:26:34.000 But too many of them, too many of these colleges have undermined First Amendment rights by imposing free speech codes, I'm sorry, speech codes or what you call free speech zones, where they give you a small little square of land, usually off by the power plant, the corner of the campus, to voice.

00:26:49.000 At 2 o'clock in the morning, that's right.

00:26:50.000 At 2 o'clock in the morning.

00:26:52.000 So, what our legislation would do is force these colleges, many of which are public universities, almost all of which get federal dollars to respect the free speech rights of their students, to let them have those rights at appropriate times and places, and to not treat their students like a nuisance and act like left-wing speech police.

00:27:14.000 That is well said.

00:27:15.000 Senator, thank you for being so generous with your time.

00:27:17.000 And I want to see a coalition built to at least postpone these Olympics.

00:27:22.000 And also, any way we can help with that piece of legislation, let us know.

00:27:25.000 Senator, thank you for fighting.

00:27:26.000 We need more of you.

00:27:27.000 We appreciate it.

00:27:28.000 Thank you, Charlie.

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00:28:43.000 Let's go to cut 72.

00:28:46.000 Savannah Guthrie asking Kamala Harris about Biden thinking that Russia will invade Ukraine.

00:28:53.000 This is the top news story because we're supposed to really care about Russian-Ukrainian borders, but not have any concern for our own.

00:28:59.000 Play cut 72.

00:29:01.000 The president said yesterday, among other things, that he thinks that Putin probably will invade Ukraine.

00:29:07.000 Later, he said he wasn't sure, but he said he probably will go in.

00:29:11.000 Is that for all intents and purposes acknowledging that this threat of severe sanctions that the administration has made is having no effect on Putin, that he's actually not deterred by it?

00:29:25.000 Well, I'm not going to psychoanalyze President Putin of Russia, but I will tell you this: it is clear to us that the decision is probably in his hands.

00:29:36.000 Well, yeah, obviously, the decision in his hands.

00:29:38.000 This is the problem with American neoconservative foreign policy.

00:29:43.000 Look, I'm not a fan of Russia.

00:29:45.000 I'm not a fan of their form of government, obviously.

00:29:48.000 Do I consider them to be an existential threat of the United States?

00:29:51.000 Absolutely not.

00:29:52.000 They're a declining population, and they're concerned about some sort of language dispute with Ukrainian borders.

00:29:58.000 And part of Ukraine is just kind of a fictitious border that was built anyway.

00:30:03.000 Now, with that being said, here's the problem with neoconservative American foreign policy.

00:30:08.000 Putin knows this.

00:30:10.000 Putin knows that we're not going to make good on our threats.

00:30:13.000 He knows America is war-weary.

00:30:15.000 This is the problem with 20-year occupations in Afghanistan.

00:30:18.000 This is the problem with, as John Quincy Adams, the fifth president of the United States, said, Americans need not go around the world in search of demons to destroy.

00:30:31.000 I mean, that's not the role of American foreign policy.

00:30:33.000 It isn't.

00:30:34.000 Now, when you are in crisis, America's in crisis, we can't put supplies on our shelves.

00:30:39.000 Our borders are wide open.

00:30:41.000 We have double-digit inflation.

00:30:42.000 You must do the medical equivalent, or I should say the political equivalent of a medical issue, triage.

00:30:49.000 You must triage.

00:30:52.000 Those of you that ever been to a hospital, you know that if you have a runny nose or a gunshot wound, you're treated a lot differently.

00:30:57.000 You go to the front of the line.

00:30:59.000 I've been to an emergency room a couple times.

00:31:01.000 Producer Andrew actually brought me to an emergency room once when I had that awful back pain, never doing that again.

00:31:07.000 I thought I was having a blood clot because my left leg was just totally shaking.

00:31:11.000 Different story for a different time.

00:31:13.000 And what I think we must recognize is that when you triage, you must prioritize because you only have limited resources, limited time, limited people.

00:31:25.000 Now, the neoconservative lobby in Washington, D.C. doesn't want to admit this.

00:31:30.000 They think that a border dispute between Ukraine and Russia actually matters a lot more than the southern border in our country.

00:31:37.000 And some people say, well, we could do both.

00:31:38.000 Can we?

00:31:38.000 We haven't done one.

00:31:39.000 How could we do the other?

00:31:40.000 And why haven't we done one?

00:31:42.000 If we're willing to have press conference on press conference analyzing military movements of Vladimir Putin's Russia trying to go to Ukraine, why don't we have satellite images, drone reconnaissance, or a daily tracker of how many Hondurans or Nicaraguans are walking into our country?

00:32:00.000 And the other part of neoconservatism that starts to fall apart really quickly is also they know we are not going to see this through.

00:32:10.000 We are not prepared to make good on any deterrence threats.

00:32:14.000 We aren't.

00:32:17.000 If you make a threat saying, such as, hey, this is a red line, don't cross it, you better be willing to go to war.

00:32:23.000 You do not say that lightly.

00:32:26.000 And it'll actually make us weaker as a result.

00:32:28.000 Russia doesn't believe it, obviously.

00:32:30.000 Why would they?

00:32:30.000 Vladimir Putin knows how the West works.

00:32:33.000 The West talks a good game.

00:32:35.000 And then all of a sudden, we kind of look around and we're like, yeah, I'm not sure if we're ready to go lose 600,000 people over this.

00:32:42.000 Putin knows that, obviously.

00:32:46.000 And so this is not a negotiation.

00:32:47.000 It's a hostage situation.

00:32:50.000 Sanctions don't move him.

00:32:51.000 He wants Ukraine. 0.82

00:32:54.000 Now, if we were smart, we would actually have some sort of bilateral summit with Putin, not the way Biden was doing, sit down with Putin and say, hey, listen, you're a Christian country, overly autocratic for our taste. 0.90

00:33:09.000 We're whatever.

00:33:10.000 China's the problem. 0.98

00:33:12.000 You don't touch Ukraine. 0.96

00:33:14.000 We unite.

00:33:15.000 We give you a couple concessions.

00:33:17.000 You give us a couple concessions.

00:33:19.000 Let's make sure that our grandchildren don't speak Mandarin. 1.00

00:33:21.000 Cool?

00:33:22.000 Fist bump.

00:33:23.000 That's what a mature society would do.

00:33:25.000 You want to know a thought crime?

00:33:28.000 You can't win a world war without the support of Russia. 0.92

00:33:31.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

00:33:32.000 Email us your thoughts as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:33:35.000 Thank you so much for listening.

00:33:36.000 God bless.

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The Charlie Kirk Show - January 20, 2022

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