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00:01:42.000I want to get into the Biden press conference yesterday.
00:01:46.000I read the New York Times, so you don't have to.
00:01:48.000I also have the Wall Street Journal here, which the Wall Street Journal does a nice job, definitely in comparison to the New York Times.
00:01:54.000Wall Street Journal is not perfect, but they are very thoughtful.
00:01:57.000And 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.
00:02:07.000Instead, 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.
00:02:16.000In addition, a massive failure legislatively in the United States Senate, which we're going to get to.
00:02:23.000I 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.
00:03:25.000Internationally, they've been a complete and total joke, mockery, and disaster.
00:03:29.000So I think in their strategy meeting, they said, okay, people say that Joe Biden's mental decline is impacting his ability to govern.
00:03:38.000Let's shoot Joe up with whatever sort of kind of adrenaline that is necessary and deploy him out there.
00:03:48.000I 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.
00:05:00.000And he kind of puts both of his arms down and he looks directly at the reporter.
00:05:05.000He was, and then he whispers, you're exactly right.
00:05:08.000And he was still calling from a pre-selected list of reporters.
00:05:13.000And there were multiple blunders that came out of that.
00:05:15.000But 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.
00:05:22.000He stood there and talked for two hours.
00:05:23.000I don't think that mission was accomplished.
00:05:26.000In fact, I think that there were more questions than answers.
00:05:30.000Stumbling through words, getting adjectives incorrect.
00:05:36.000And then also basically messing up the entire White House narrative when it came to Russia and Ukraine.
00:06:21.000He doesn't even do the warmongering thing well.
00:06:23.000He contradicts the own regime's narrative that they want to go to war with Russia.
00:06:27.000Now, 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.
00:06:40.000And I think deep down he's wrestling with that.
00:06:43.000I 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.
00:07:04.000Now, 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.
00:07:14.000A 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.
00:07:31.000He continued by saying, and by the way, all the headlines are about Ukraine.
00:07:35.000That was basically the biggest takeaway.
00:07:37.000It wasn't that, wow, Joe Biden stands strong against critical questions.
00:07:41.000People are like, no, actually, you have a lot of people really worried, including the Ukrainians.
00:08:16.000Now, 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.
00:08:24.000They were supportive of the North Korean, the push, basically the creation of North Korea alongside Soviet forces.
00:08:32.000This idea that no nuclear power has invaded another country.
00:08:36.000What would you call the annexation of Crimea then?
00:08:40.000What 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?
00:09:01.000I'm not really even sure the point of that.
00:09:04.000So 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.
00:09:26.000Do we have that sound where he says he's probably going to do something?
00:09:28.000He said something of that variation where he said, yeah, look, he's probably going to invade in some way, shape, or form.
00:09:36.000Yeah, you know, only I wish Joe Biden was so concerned about the invasion of America.
00:10:02.000Why 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?
00:10:20.000However, I will tell you one thing that strong Republicans are for.
00:10:24.000I'm going to answer Joe Biden's question: play cut 69.
00:10:28.000I 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.
00:11:43.000I'm a mainstream Democrat, and I have been.
00:11:46.000And mainstream Democrats have overrun me if you notice.
00:11:49.000Mainstream Democrats, you mean ones that want to try to revolutionize the American voting system?
00:11:55.000Now, here's the most interesting one, Cut 76.
00:11:59.000How 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?
00:12:12.000So 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.
00:12:29.000You 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.
00:13:36.000What's changed is Democrats look like they are going to lose historically in November.
00:13:42.000And 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.
00:13:52.000We used to call that undermining our democratic institutions.
00:13:55.000But you see, when they say that we want to protect democracy, they don't care about democracy.
00:14:40.000You rarely see this kind of focus and commitment.
00:14:42.000They recently shared with me that they are doubling down and want to literally double their total number of happy customers in the next year.
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00:15:49.000Republicans stood united against that, as we have been from the very beginning.
00:15:52.000And Kirsten Sinema and Joe Manchin also stood with us in preserving the rules and the customs of the Senate.
00:15:59.000These rules and customs go back more than 200 years, Charlie.
00:16:02.000They 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.
00:16:14.000It's pretty amazing that 48 out of 50 Democrats were willing to blow up the filibuster.
00:16:21.000They were willing to break the rules to change the rules.
00:16:23.000And 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.
00:16:39.000It was about the rules for how every state elects its senators and other public officials as well.
00:16:45.000I 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.
00:16:59.000That would have just been the first step towards redistributing political power in this country.
00:17:04.000The 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.
00:17:13.000So the Democrats could get two more Democratic senators in perpetuity.
00:17:17.000The 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.
00:17:24.000This entire effort, Charlie, was not about just altering this or that public policy.
00:17:30.000It was about forever changing the structure of political power in our country.
00:17:35.000You sometimes heard the argument that, well, the Democrats shouldn't do this because the shoe was on the other foot.
00:17:39.000Their entire goal was to make sure, Charlie, the shoe would never be on the other foot.
00:17:44.000So it was a critical day in the history of our country and the history of the Senate as an institution.
00:17:48.000And I'm glad we stopped these radicals.
00:17:50.000That's why we have to turn them out of power in November.
00:18:11.000And you bring up a great term, the structure.
00:18:13.000And our mutual friend, Dr. Larry Arn from Hillsdale College, always talks about the structure of the Constitution being one of its defining characteristics.
00:18:21.000And 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.
00:18:34.000So I want to ask you about something you've commented on social media a little bit.
00:18:38.000And there's two parts to this question also included with the Chinese Communist Party.
00:19:10.000I mean, it showed a depraved moral indifference to the terrible suffering of millions of ethnic and religious minorities in China.
00:19:20.000Let's not make or have any illusions about what China is doing to these people.
00:19:25.000These women are being forcibly sterilized, Charlie.
00:19:29.000And if they're not being sterilized, they're being systematically raped by Han Chinese soldiers in a kind of intergenerational ethnic cleansing.
00:19:37.000These people are being forced into concentration camps where they get re-educated in the thought and ways of Xi Jinping.
00:19:44.000Doing forced slave labor, unfortunately, oftentimes for Western companies.
00:19:50.000But 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.
00:19:56.000This was not something where he misspoke.
00:20:00.000And, 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.
00:20:11.000It all gets back to him just being a greedy, woke CEO who wants to make a buck.
00:20:16.000He 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.
00:20:28.000He wants access to the Chinese market.
00:20:29.000That's exactly what this is all about.
00:20:31.000The NBA has a history, Charlie, of taking action when someone states an unpopular opinion.
00:20:38.000You know, they made an owner sell the Clippers a few years back because of prejudiced comments he made.
00:20:44.000If 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.
00:20:55.000They just won't say anything, anything critical of the Chinese Communist Party because they are so desperate for access to the Chinese market.
00:21:03.000That seems to be a pattern and a theme.
00:21:05.000Speaking of which, I haven't been able to track down your thoughts on this, so I'm super curious.
00:21:11.000The Olympics, I think, should be delayed, postponed, or canceled.
00:21:14.000The fact of putting the Olympics in mainland China, especially with the recent events of the virus originating from there.
00:21:23.000I 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?
00:21:39.000Charlie, I called a couple months ago for a complete and total boycott of these genocide Olympics.
00:21:44.000I too hate to see athletes deprived of the chance to compete.
00:21:48.000But last summer, I sent a letter to the Biden administration.
00:21:51.000I asked them for their plan to keep our athletes safe.
00:21:55.000They 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.
00:22:10.000And 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.
00:22:24.000And 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.
00:22:43.000And 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.
00:23:01.000We did it just a couple of years ago, Charlie.
00:23:02.000They postponed the Summer Olympics in Tokyo from 2020 to 2021.
00:23:07.000And the Summer Olympics, Charlie, are vastly larger and more complicated and complex.
00:23:13.000If 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.
00:23:22.000So that's why I have respect for you, Senator.
00:23:38.000All of a sudden, more people identify as Republican than Democrat.
00:23:42.000It's almost like a once-in-a-generation shift.
00:23:44.000You mentioned we need to displace these people from power, and you're exactly right.
00:23:48.000What do Republicans need to do, though, to keep up the momentum?
00:23:51.000Because just kind of doing the same old kind of Republican talking points, I don't think it's going to be enough.
00:23:56.000You've been leading the charge on talking about Soros-funded DAs, talking about the rise of crime, talking about some of these other issues.
00:24:02.000What 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?
00:24:10.000Charlie, the simplest thing for us to promise is that we will stop the madness.
00:24:14.000We will stop trillions of dollars of wasteful spending that are enriching Democratic donors and client groups.
00:24:21.000We'll get supplies back on the shelves of stores.
00:24:24.000These are the things that have caused that massive swing towards the Republican Party and sent Joe Biden's approval ratings plummeting.
00:24:33.000More broadly, though, as we look forward to the future, we have to remember where this new support is coming from.
00:24:38.000It's coming almost entirely from working class Americans across the country of all races.
00:24:42.000We 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.
00:24:54.000And it's not because we started promising amnesty and threw our borders open.
00:24:58.000It'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.
00:25:15.000These are the things that appeal to the broad majority of Americans of all races.
00:25:21.000That'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.
00:25:34.000I'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.
00:25:46.000Talk a little bit about this bill and whether or not you think it has a chance of success in the Senate.
00:25:51.000Charlie, universities, by definition, should be a place where you can engage in robust debate.
00:25:56.000They 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.
00:26:12.000Increasingly, though, that's not what we're seeing.
00:26:14.000We see censorship and cancel culture has started on college campuses and now it's emerged out of campuses into the broader public square.
00:26:23.000We 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.
00:26:34.000But 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.
00:26:49.000At 2 o'clock in the morning, that's right.
00:26:52.000So, 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.
00:29:01.000The president said yesterday, among other things, that he thinks that Putin probably will invade Ukraine.
00:29:07.000Later, he said he wasn't sure, but he said he probably will go in.
00:29:11.000Is 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?
00:29:25.000Well, 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.
00:29:36.000Well, yeah, obviously, the decision in his hands.
00:29:38.000This is the problem with American neoconservative foreign policy.
00:30:15.000This is the problem with 20-year occupations in Afghanistan.
00:30:18.000This 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.
00:30:31.000I mean, that's not the role of American foreign policy.
00:31:13.000And what I think we must recognize is that when you triage, you must prioritize because you only have limited resources, limited time, limited people.
00:31:25.000Now, the neoconservative lobby in Washington, D.C. doesn't want to admit this.
00:31:30.000They think that a border dispute between Ukraine and Russia actually matters a lot more than the southern border in our country.
00:31:37.000And some people say, well, we could do both.
00:31:42.000If 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?
00:32:00.000And the other part of neoconservatism that starts to fall apart really quickly is also they know we are not going to see this through.
00:32:10.000We are not prepared to make good on any deterrence threats.
00:32:54.000Now, 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.