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00:02:04.440When you say, what is the biggest existential threat to the United States of America,
00:02:12.360most people would say climate change is the very last of their list, but not with President Biden.
00:02:20.220That is the number one principle now, and upholding that principle apparently trumps human rights, common sense, and serving you, the American people.
00:02:30.360Today, we just found out the President is going to announce that America is going to ban all Russian imports.
00:03:46.720As the Republican governor of Alaska said, the gas and oil development in the Arctic is under stricter environmental standards than anywhere else in the world.
00:09:41.740And that is why we're seeing this invasion, because of Joe Biden's weakness.
00:09:47.420Ted, the insanity of weakness in the Oval Office is, I hope, quite clear to most people.
00:10:01.380But we have a lot of people now that have been, you know, ratcheted up with the screams of ban Russian oil, ban Russian oil.
00:10:11.040I'd like to ban Russian oil, but not until we open up our own supplies.
00:10:18.260And I'm not talking about the insanity at this point to go into our strategic oil reserve.
00:10:25.900We've got to open up our oil fields and get pumping again.
00:10:31.400We don't have to beg and give gifts to despots and dictators and killers.
00:10:38.060Well, let me agree with you in the following respect, which is what Biden has done with regard to domestic oil and gas production is lunacy.
00:10:49.620As you noted, in 2019, the United States became a net energy exporter.
00:10:55.100We are an oil and gas superpower, and we were exporting all around the world.
00:10:59.440In 2021, under Joe Biden, we lost that status.
00:11:04.160And the reason is, from literally the first day he became president, Joe Biden has waged a war on American energy production and on American jobs.
00:11:15.320First day in office, he killed the Keystone Pipeline.
00:11:18.380That decision alone killed 11,000 high-paying jobs, including 8,000 union jobs.
00:11:24.820He simultaneously halted all new leases on federal lands, both onshore and offshore.
00:11:31.060And as you noted, shortly thereafter, he ended production in Anwar, an incredibly resource-rich region of Alaska.
00:11:40.600All of those decisions, in addition to the EPA and the regulatory agencies waging war on oil and gas production, caused our rig count to plummet, caused U.S. production to go down.
00:11:52.440And one of the ironies, you know, Biden claims he's doing this because he cares about the climate.
00:11:59.120If the only thing you cared about was energy, then Biden has, or was the environment, rather, then Biden has been an abysmal failure.
00:12:09.920Because when you shut down American production and you increase production overseas, the production overseas is dirtier.
00:12:16.520Under Joe Biden, the world is polluting more, is emitting more carbon, because if you want less pollution, you want American production and not Russian production, not Iranian production.
00:12:27.820They actually don't give a damn about the environment.
00:12:30.660It is a religious fervor from the left to destroy oil and gas in this country, even if the result of it is more pollution and more carbon emissions, which is what Joe Biden has produced.
00:12:44.400So, Ted, I know you have I know, you know, this the world is not set up for one hundred and fifty dollar a barrel oil or one hundred and eighty or two hundred.
00:13:21.100So, Glenn, here's where here's where I'll press back with you a little bit.
00:13:25.740I think it is the right decision to go after Putin using energy.
00:13:30.880And I've been pressing on Biden to halt to boycott Russian oil and to boycott Russian gas.
00:13:36.640And so the news that's being reported this morning is that Biden finally is going to listen to that and at least halt the importing of oil, Russian oil into the United States.
00:13:48.500But but the second step, and this is critical, is that we need to pressure Europe to do the same thing, to cut off Russian oil and Russian gas.
00:13:56.100Putin believes Europe is addicted to Russian oil and gas, that he can do whatever he wants and that Europe can't break their addiction.
00:14:41.660If you want to really weaken Putin, if you want to starve his war machine,
00:14:46.100Putin needs to look and see European refineries begin buying oil from places other than Russia.
00:14:53.920And I will note, the refineries won't just buy on the spot market.
00:14:58.060The producers will demand long-term contracts, probably 10-year contracts.
00:15:02.360Nothing would do more to undermine Putin's power at home, his political strength, and the revenue to fund his war than to take away the demand for their energy.
00:15:15.060But to do that, where you're exactly right, is we need to replace it with our own production.
00:15:19.820We're blessed with the ability to produce the energy, and Biden doesn't want to.
00:15:24.260So that's the rub, because I completely agree with if you want to hurt Putin, you're not hurting him until you hurt him at the oil spigot or the gas spigot.
00:16:38.960It would remove the requirement for a presidential authorization for cross-border pipelines.
00:16:44.920There's no reason for that requirement to begin with.
00:16:47.420It would allow America to step forward as an energy superpower again.
00:16:52.000Now, I have no illusions that Joe Biden is suddenly going to support these ideas at least easily.
00:16:58.080But right now, Glenn, the Biden administration has put more restrictions on U.S. oil and gas producers than it has on Russian oil and gas producers.
00:17:11.460And as you noted, the Biden administration is literally going hat in hand to enemies of America like Venezuela, begging them to sell us oil.
00:17:20.980That they're in Vienna right now trying to negotiate a deal with Iran, begging the Ayatollah to sell us oil, trying to send hundreds of billions of dollars to a theocratic despot who chants, death to America and death to Israel.
00:17:36.660It is lunacy that they would rather enrich enemies of America who want to murder us than actually have good, high-paying jobs in America that produce energy more cleanly and better for the environment than Iranian or Venezuelan or Russian oil.
00:17:54.000Real quick, because I know you've got to run and I do too, but what do the people do?
00:18:25.160He did at least talk about inflation and gas prices going up.
00:18:29.820And so they're seeing the concern, but he didn't acknowledge his own policies or what's causing it.
00:18:35.360He didn't acknowledge the trillions in spending, the trillions in debt that is fueling inflation.
00:18:39.840But what we can do is speak up and make clear to our friends and family and colleagues, you know, the little stickers that people are putting on gas pumps with a picture of Joe Biden pointing at the price saying, I did that.
01:11:56.040As a member of the State Freedom Caucus Network, we have the built, we've got people helping us dig through and find a lot of this information and background.
01:12:07.080And we were able to tie, like I said, these people to the Urban Land Institute, to BlackRock.
01:12:15.560And like I said, it's scary because you're basically giving all this power to this commission of people.
01:12:24.220Now, Glenn, you know, this is why we're elected, because we can be held accountable for bad decisions.
01:12:31.760Well, this would give cover to bad politicians where they could just say, hey, you guys make that decision, and I just want to be the good guy on all the good stuff.
01:13:29.100You can go to our website, freedomcaucus.ms.
01:13:32.540That's freedomcaucus.ms, and we've got a form on there where people can use the form to email the representatives.
01:13:42.400We need people to contact the Speaker of the House, the Chairman of the Workforce Development Committee, and all the representatives, and plead with them to vote no on this.
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01:19:16.180They've been in business for almost 60 years now.
01:19:18.800You don't stay in business in this business that long unless you're telling people the truth and shooting straight up.
01:20:40.900With Mike Lee, you're getting something different, which is a guy who actually stands up for the Constitution when it's hard, when everyone else is saying, eh.
01:31:27.500If you really, truly believe that you can't do this, you have to you have to punish America and reward Russia or Iran or Saudi Arabia or Venezuela.
01:33:37.120And if it doesn't happen before the election, I can guarantee you today the Democrats are going to scream fraud that it's a stolen election if Republicans win.
01:33:47.860They will do everything times 10 that they've accused Donald Trump of doing, and there will be riots in the streets.
01:33:56.860They will riot in the streets, and nothing will happen to them.
01:34:01.360And that's just going to push us over the brink even more.
01:39:50.480And here's a guy who who started his own his own 501 C3 is his own, you know, charity and then paid himself three million dollars from the charity fund.
01:40:31.200I mean, because you see, I mean, I did know that he they were throwing a lot of money at him and I just feel like the people of Utah are going to come through when it actually counts.
01:40:40.020But, you know, I think if they feel that Mike Lee is going to win and they don't have to worry about it, they don't show up and he could he be vulnerable.
01:40:49.800Yeah, that's the risk is not whether Mike Lee is doing a good enough job as a senator for the people of Utah.
01:40:55.540I don't think that's a borderline issue to most of them, but there is and there is that worry that a well-funded candidate coming up against him in opposition again with a with a voting populace that just thinks he's going to win and doesn't need to do anything to make it happen.
01:41:27.000No, the worry is basically what happened if you if you remember this race.
01:41:30.940Yeah, Lieberman ran in the primary and lost in the Democratic primary because he was seen as, you know, too friendly to the war and fighting terrorism, basically.
01:41:41.380So they brought in a far left candidate and Lieberman decided to run as an independent.
01:41:46.900Well, as it got closer to the election, everyone realized that Republican candidate had no chance of winning.
01:41:52.280So the Republicans basically said, hey, vote for Lieberman.
01:41:56.740And the Republican got almost nothing.
01:41:59.660Today, I'm announcing the United States is targeting the main artery of Russia's economy.
01:42:03.620We're banning all imports of Russian oil and gas and energy.
01:42:08.340That means Russian oil will no longer be acceptable at U.S. ports and the American people will deal another powerful blow to Putin's war machine.
01:42:17.020This is a move that has strong bipartisan support.
01:42:21.120The Congress and I believe in the country.
01:42:23.060Americans have rallied to support, have rallied to support their Ukrainian people and made it clear we will not be part of subsidizing Putin's war.
01:42:32.120This made we made this decision in close consultation with our allies and our partners around the world, particularly in Europe, because a united response to Putin's aggression has been my overriding focus to keep all NATO and all the EU and our allies totally united.
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01:44:18.200But the details of everything Joe Biden's blabbing about right now and Senator Mike Lee coming up in just a minute on the Glenn Beck program.
01:44:42.820Mike, I don't know if you've been following the president this morning, but he has said that he is going to shut off all Russian oil to the United States.
01:44:51.900And he's going to do everything he can to to help the American people.
01:44:57.640Sixty million gallons from our 60 million barrels from our oil strategic oil reserves.
01:45:03.900And he's not going to tolerate price gouging from these oil companies that are going to try to just gouge people at the pump.
01:45:41.460So, look, after almost two weeks of Ukrainian suffering and noble fighting, he finally got the political courage of to ban Russian oil and gas imports.
01:45:51.440We still need to know what's he going to do to open up American oil and gas.
01:45:55.400And he did this only after flirting with the mullahs in Iran and the desperate in Venezuela to see if they would want to help him out.
01:46:02.240And the more he repeats this, this is not my fault.
01:46:28.960So that is a very convenient response from a man who's tried to shut these guys down, and from the guy who won't let them drill in ANWR, where we've got an abundant, accessible supply of heavy crude, which is the stuff we're getting from Russia.
01:46:43.580So if he means this stuff, he needs to open it up.
01:46:46.840And he can't just continue to close off options and say no to the American people.
01:46:52.080Look, the American people want to control inflation.
01:46:56.740That's the problem we're dealing with.
01:46:58.960Mike, I mean, I just don't see how Americans are going to survive for very long.
01:47:09.320I mean, the price of crude is up 90 cents since the president started speaking, and we already went up in gas prices a dime from yesterday to today.
01:47:28.460How long can this go before those sanctions and the policies of this president cripple us, not Putin?
01:47:37.520Yeah, so all of these things are combining into one.
01:47:42.420You've got a hyperactive, hyper-regulatory environment in which President Biden wants to shut down American ingenuity and development.
01:47:50.960And he does so in a way, moreover, that would enrich and further empower our enemies.
01:47:56.600I mean, look at where more and more of our money has to go to buy our energy when we don't do this.
01:48:01.940It goes to vile countries, vile people in vile countries.
01:48:06.620Look, we can produce this stuff here in a more safe, environmentally responsible and cost-effective manner than just about anywhere around the world.
01:48:15.520Well, it always comes back to his climate obsession and to this God complex that he seems to have, suggesting that he's the one who can figure out how to balance all of the competing climate needs of the globe and balance those against the American energy needs.
01:48:37.040You know, there's this thing called the free market.
01:48:38.600But if you let the free market do its thing, then, Joe, you wouldn't need to sell off our oil reserves.
01:48:44.440Then, Joe, you wouldn't need to go hat-in-hand to OPEC.
01:48:47.620So this thing called the free market works, and it allows people to get clean, affordable energy on demand.
01:48:54.920He says that this is the free market working.
01:48:58.580I mean, it was amazing to hear him say, you know, we shut down their banking.
01:49:30.000And as you talk about this in your book, one of the things I love about your book is in the book, The Great Reset, you explain that this time, this particular series isn't something that's government.
01:49:45.820This is the coordinated action of countless individuals acting independently and independently in a way that's likely to diminish freedom and diminish options for ordinary, hardworking citizens.
01:49:58.420So, Mike, the president today is going to request $2.6 billion for foreign assistance program that promote general equality worldwide.
01:50:14.780I know what kind of monster would oppose that.
01:50:16.700I know the funds will be part of his fiscal 2023 budget request to Congress and will double the amount requested for gender programs next year.
01:50:27.800Gosh, you know, if there's if there's one thing in the world right now that we've got to do, it's ship a bunch of money offshore to unspecified priorities that are impossible to quantify and very difficult to evaluate because this money is being sent all over the world.
01:50:50.700I really think that we've lost our minds when it comes to this.
01:50:54.960Look, I think foreign aid generally has some problems with it that need to be addressed.
01:51:01.040This is a particularly egregious example of that.
01:51:03.280And the timing of this couldn't be poorer.
01:51:06.840So, Mike, tonight in Utah, and I don't even know, can you talk about this?
01:52:08.080We need as many of your listeners there participating tonight as possible.
01:52:12.000How scary is it to be someone like you that everyone just assumes you're going to get reelected and yet millions of dollars are being spent all around you by the left and the rhinos to make sure that that doesn't happen?
01:52:29.240And having your having your supporters like I do the caucus next time.
01:52:49.360There are people who figure out how to gain that system.
01:52:51.740Some of them run as Republicans while espousing liberal beliefs.
01:52:55.740Others might run as an independent and those people are gaining some momentum.
01:53:01.900They've got a media establishment in the state and nationally that's more than eager to to help them win their cause, help them disparage me and help these progressives get elected.
01:53:26.840These guys are raising money like crazy against me and I've got to be prepared for them.
01:53:32.240You know, I saw the name recognition that you have in the state and you are more recognized by Democrats than you are by independents and conservatives.
01:53:57.960There is no Washington Times counterpart to these voices.
01:54:03.260There is no New York Post counterpart to them.
01:54:06.320It's kind of sad when you've got an entire state with no conservative or even right of center statewide publication.
01:54:14.680Yeah, well, you know, Stu and I were talking about it this morning that there is no one there's no one in Washington that we trust more than you.
01:54:24.040You're the most I mean, no offense, Mike, but you're boring as hell.
01:54:28.020I mean, it's like, you know, hey, let's invite somebody to a party that everybody will be excited about.
01:54:52.140I know there are times that you voted against something that you have really personally wanted to vote for, but it was wrong because it was constitutional.
01:56:03.500That when you take the emotion out of governing, you have a greater possibility of achieving safe government.
01:56:10.720Right now, we are like a giant boat without a rudder or an engine.
01:56:15.580We're just thrown every which way as a country, because government decisions are being made by emotion.
01:56:22.660And that's why I need the support of your listeners.
01:56:25.120Any time they can, any way they can, whether they want to volunteer or donate, whether it's a dollar or two dollars or more, they can do that at LeeForSenate.com.
02:00:11.580If you don't find it or if you find stuff that's just too heavy or, you know, too hard to get out of the ground, you don't use that permit.
02:00:28.700It's so amazing because, as you mentioned, the previous sentence was about how greedy they are.
02:00:34.560Yeah. So if they had if they were so greedy and they had nine thousand permits that were just so much oil, they could just pull it out of the ground whenever they wanted.