The Great America Show - March 24, 2022


AMERICANS IN UKRAINE SAVING LIVES


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Join us as we hear from former Marine Chad Robichaux as he talks with Lou Dobbs about his volunteer efforts to help the Ukrainian people trapped in the rubble of war-ravaged city of Mariupol.

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00:00:00.000 Hello, everybody. This is Lou Dobbs. President Biden is at the emergency NATO summit meeting in Brussels as the 30-nation alliance is meeting to plan their strategy to further sanction Russia for its war against Ukraine and for putting the alliance itself now at considerable risk.
00:00:19.800 NATO has, for the first time in its history, activated the NATO Response Force and deployed 40,000 troops along the eastern flank of NATO, the Baltic states, Estonia, Lithuania, and Latvia, and Poland, Romania, Hungary, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, and Bulgaria.
00:00:40.460 Welcome to the Great America Show. We thank you for joining us.
00:00:44.320 Russians are continuing their onslaught against Ukraine. They've devastated the city of Maripol in southeastern Ukraine and killed thousands of its residents. 0.98
00:00:56.580 The bombardment, the shelling of the entire country, and in particular Kiev and other major cities, goes on.
00:01:03.880 The Russians may be stalled, but they are devastating city after city. Day after day, their attacks go on, killing and wounding thousands of Ukrainians, now trapped in the madness and pain of war. 0.80
00:01:18.980 Most are on the verge of starvation. Many have no drinking water. They're living in a hell of Vladimir Putin's making, and his army is unrelenting.
00:01:28.800 Where is the help for these people? The United Nations isn't there. Neither is the European Union or NATO, but there are volunteers, volunteers from all over the world trying to help.
00:01:42.480 And today, we're talking with one of those brave and caring people who risked their lives each day to rescue the helpless.
00:01:49.240 His name is Chad Robichaux. Chad and his wife, Kathy, founded a faith-based combat veteran service organization. It's called Mighty Oaks.
00:02:00.500 Chad is a combat-decorated marine, force recon, eight tours in Afghanistan.
00:02:06.940 Chad and his colleagues founded the group SaveOurAllies.org.
00:02:11.480 To go into conflict and battle zones to rescue Americans, our allies, NSIVs. 0.99
00:02:18.600 SaveOurAllies rescued 17,000 Americans and SIV Afghans from Afghanistan.
00:02:26.720 He and SaveOurAllies group are now helping and rescuing those who are wounded, often badly, in Ukraine.
00:02:35.820 Chad Robichaux and SaveOurAllies rescued a former colleague of mine, Fox News reporter and anchor, Benjamin Hall.
00:02:43.680 And Chad and his friends are still doing all they can to rescue as many as they can from Ukraine.
00:02:51.740 And Chad, if you will, give us a sense of how you're feeling right now, all that you're doing in Ukraine and moving people, rescuing people.
00:03:03.700 And, yes, also recovering bodies and getting them out of Ukraine. 0.61
00:03:11.660 Your sense of things as you stand there today?
00:03:16.120 Yeah, Mr. Dobbs. Well, it's – every time I've been in war zones, I always look at the tragic things that you see,
00:03:25.980 and then you see a mixture of really great things at the same time, you know, and I've always tried to make it a point to try to notice those things.
00:03:33.740 And so you see in such tragedy, I mean, we have a world superpower invading unprovoked – unprovoked invading a neighboring nation and attacking civilians.
00:03:46.540 I know for a fact that they're attacking civilians.
00:03:49.160 I spent the day today – we just got out 47 disabled persons that weren't able to self-evacuate.
00:03:56.800 And one of the gentlemen I was talking to, his father and brother were in the shelter with them,
00:04:03.840 and they just got bombed over and over in a civilian shelter for days, and his father and brother were both killed.
00:04:08.660 And so spending a day with people like that, seeing things like that, seeing the just deliberate attack on innocent life by a world superpower is hard.
00:04:20.040 But the beautiful thing I see in it is the world coming together outside of the government.
00:04:25.140 It's just people from all over the world showing up at the border, showing up at refugee centers, bringing medical supplies, bringing food.
00:04:32.280 And I'm with – there's a nurse here in town that just flew from Louisiana, and she just showed up and, like, how can I help in volunteering in refugee centers?
00:04:43.640 People just – at the border, there was a man at the border I saw the other day, and I posted on my Instagram.
00:04:48.900 He's standing on the border in the freezing cold all day, all night, playing the piano that he drugged from Germany 1.00
00:04:55.040 so that they could hear something beautiful when they come across and I hear bombs and bullets.
00:04:59.080 So it's this mix of just horrific things, and then humans dare to just love and serve other humans and doing some beautiful things.
00:05:10.040 So that's kind of what I'm seeing, and it's a mix of that every single day.
00:05:15.760 But a sense of the security on the ground is the situation is getting worse and worse,
00:05:21.220 and the people are getting more and more desperate as well as both sides of the militaries,
00:05:27.020 and this thing is progressing, and the real victims is the Ukrainian people, the civilians.
00:05:33.800 Are the number of casualties rising?
00:05:36.580 They are. The number of casualties are rising, not just from the bombings, not just from the bullets, but from the starvation.
00:05:45.780 I mean, Russia – a city like Kiev right now is – the Russians have surrounded the city.
00:05:51.320 They bomb the roads and routes in and out, so there's no way to get supplies in.
00:05:56.600 There's no way for people to self-evacuate out.
00:05:58.840 I mean, there are some ways, but it's extremely dangerous, so people are scared and staying in place.
00:06:02.980 And there's no food. There's no water. There's no medical supplies.
00:06:05.840 If you're a diabetic and need insulin, like many other life-saving drugs, they're not available.
00:06:12.900 I mean, major medications for trauma that's needed, gauze and those types of things, they're not available.
00:06:21.900 And, you know, it's people like us at Saber Allies that are trying to get these things in to these areas.
00:06:26.500 But, I mean, there's only so much you could do.
00:06:28.840 And so the situation is getting worse. More people are dying.
00:06:32.600 And, again, it's not just bombs and bullets.
00:06:34.740 It's deliberately starving people out, killing the infrastructure.
00:06:39.280 And what are the temperatures there now?
00:06:40.740 Well, luckily, the last few days have been a little warmer.
00:06:44.340 But I say luckily because it was pretty brutal before.
00:06:47.360 I mean, they're getting down to, like, 10 degrees at night.
00:06:50.820 And, you know, I'm trying not to complain myself.
00:06:54.300 I mean, I'm choosing to be out here.
00:06:56.100 But there's women and children that are trying to make it to the border in survival mode with only what they carry in their backs
00:07:02.720 because they were driving a car, and their car didn't have any fuel to make it.
00:07:06.620 And then they had no cell service.
00:07:08.680 So they're just a mom with kids, and her husband's off fighting somewhere, or a father or brother is off fighting somewhere.
00:07:16.360 So she's all alone and just trying to make it to the border through those kind of temperatures.
00:07:21.380 And, you know, it's just a very brutal environment.
00:07:26.280 Ukraine is in the winter.
00:07:28.140 Winners in Ukraine are harsh.
00:07:29.300 And these people are trying to, you know, evacuate and survive.
00:07:34.280 And then, I mean, I was going in just to – I was going in across the border into Ukraine just the other night.
00:07:40.620 And this woman, they're not allowed to walk back into Ukraine. 0.96
00:07:45.120 You have to drive.
00:07:45.980 So this woman asked for a ride in. 1.00
00:07:47.620 So she wanted to ride with us in because she had brought her kids out, but she wanted to go back and help. 0.75
00:07:53.320 And so we drove her in, and she's a young, you know, just normal woman, and she wanted to go back in.
00:08:00.580 And as we crossed the border, she got out of our vehicle, and she started walking.
00:08:05.840 And I was walking back to wherever she was going to go to get back in.
00:08:09.180 And I think a lot of people don't realize that these people, like 200,000 – I think it's worth pausing on – 200,000 Ukrainian men who are free in America and other parts of the world have flown back, went into Ukraine to be part of this fight.
00:08:28.200 These people are so resilient, and it's so moving to see them.
00:08:32.380 I was in one of our houses in Ukraine just the other day with this pastor who's really – these pastors in this underground church are doing such amazing things to help people survive.
00:08:43.860 It's literally like the things we see in World War II where people are hiding safe houses, the networking to survive and to fight back.
00:08:51.660 And this pastor, I was like, what do you think is going to happen?
00:08:53.640 He's like, we will win because the Russians would have to kill every single one of us. 1.00
00:08:58.500 They have to kill every single one of us to lose, and we're not – we're going to fight to the end. 0.71
00:09:01.980 And he said more and more people are coming back to fight, and they're not going to give up, and they're embarrassing Putin.
00:09:09.700 And because of that, you're seeing him make more irrational and desperate moves, which is going to have catastrophic effects.
00:09:18.980 At some point, he's going to – they're going to do something that's going to – I fear – I hope I'm wrong with this.
00:09:23.360 I fear it's going to make the United States or NATO have to be involved because of chemical weapons or because of violating Article 5 of NATO and them harming a NATO member of NATO, which we know they already have.
00:09:41.880 But the – your effort under your group, Save Our Allies, you have seen a great deal, whether it was rescuing 17,000 people in Afghanistan,
00:09:57.380 whether it's your services as Force Recon and the Marine Corps, which, for those who don't know, is the Special Forces, the Green Berets of the Marine Corps.
00:10:10.800 Eight tours, what you're watching now, what you've seen in Afghanistan.
00:10:16.020 Give us your reaction to the bravery that you're seeing, the courage of the Ukrainian resistance and Ukrainian military, the Ukrainian people.
00:10:29.680 Well, you know, like over the last – since August, I've seen some of the most – around some of the brave human beings that have been in my life.
00:10:37.520 I did – like you said, I was a 4th Street kind of Marine.
00:10:39.640 I went to JSOC, Joint Special Operations, granted a diplomat to Afghanistan.
00:10:43.320 And Aziz, who was my interpreter, we did eight deployments together, not just as my interpreter, but as my friend and as my teammate,
00:10:51.160 the two of us worked independently together.
00:10:53.060 I lived in his home like he was my brother, and I love this guy, and he saved me multiple times, saved my life literally multiple times.
00:11:00.320 And I mean, seeing all that in combat, I've seen some amazing things in combat,
00:11:08.580 but to see just human beings voluntarily going back to these environments, to Afghanistan where we're in August, in September, October, November.
00:11:20.020 And what I'm seeing here in Ukraine is just the volunteers, the people in Afghanistan.
00:11:26.180 Afghans are going back and helping Afghans. 1.00
00:11:28.080 And Ukraine, Ukrainians going back and helping Ukrainians, people choosing to stay, women choosing to stay.
00:11:32.080 And it's been one of the most inspiring, bravest things I've ever seen in my life, in any battle I've been in.
00:11:37.500 I mean, going back to Afghanistan, for me, it was going to get my friend.
00:11:41.700 I had to go get Aziz and his family.
00:11:44.200 I got 12 of my most trusted Special Operations veterans together, and we put together a team.
00:11:50.100 We got Aziz and his family.
00:11:51.640 Ultimately, we were able to continue on and save 17,000 people.
00:11:54.680 But that was with the help and assistance of Afghans and people from around the world who stepped up.
00:12:01.740 And we knew we had to do that again here in Ukraine.
00:12:04.780 And I tell you, the guys I'm sitting here that aren't able to talk and do an interview like this because of their current careers and not being known who they are.
00:12:14.100 But I represent them, and they're some of the most bravest, not only bravest, but most intelligent human beings I've ever seen
00:12:21.340 that are able to conduct, you know, real-world precision rescue operations.
00:12:27.020 And I think a lot of times people see us doing this, see veterans doing this, and like, what are these guys doing?
00:12:31.900 They're out there as cowboys, you know, trying to relive the glory days.
00:12:34.540 That's not what this is at all.
00:12:35.840 The highest level of professionals, most of the guys who we have leading us currently do this for the government.
00:12:44.320 Working outside the capacity of government right now, we currently do this for the government as precision rescue operatives
00:12:49.660 from all special operations backgrounds and are the best in the world for doing this.
00:12:53.540 And that's why we're able to save $17,000 out of Afghanistan.
00:12:55.960 That's why we're able to do what we're doing right now as very high-level professionals,
00:13:00.100 but some of the most incredible human beings I've ever been around.
00:13:02.920 And it's really been a privilege to work with them.
00:13:05.900 And I think one of them was mentioned by nickname on Fox News, Seaspray.
00:13:10.300 And he's kind of leading our efforts here right now and just one of the most incredible human beings you could ever meet.
00:13:15.580 Well, you mentioned Fox, a former colleague.
00:13:22.780 I worked there.
00:13:24.240 I'm now a veteran of Fox, but I had the pleasure of working with a bright young reporter,
00:13:32.500 the name of Benjamin Hall, who I know was seriously injured there, and two of his crew killed.
00:13:41.700 And I know as well that you were one of those who helped get Benjamin out of there.
00:13:51.960 Can you tell us about that and what was necessary to extract them?
00:13:59.400 Well, we were planning an operation.
00:14:02.100 You know, one of the things that we believe that's very important is not just rescuing people,
00:14:05.940 but have a sustainable network to do that.
00:14:07.540 We were working on building communications, communication infrastructure throughout Ukraine.
00:14:13.700 So if the Russians knock down cell of power, we can maintain communications with those who need help,
00:14:20.540 as well as provide medical supplies forward.
00:14:23.420 So we're here planning an operation.
00:14:25.240 We're about to launch in the Gold Cross border.
00:14:29.120 And we're about to launch in the Gold Cross border.
00:14:31.800 And as we're about to leave, we got a call.
00:14:36.400 I won't say who we got the call from.
00:14:38.260 We had a call that Benjamin Hall was just wounded and suspected that his other teammates were killed or taken.
00:14:48.380 At the time, we didn't know they had died.
00:14:50.200 It wasn't confirmed.
00:14:50.760 So we really knew we had three that was involved in that attack and two other reporters that were accounted for,
00:14:59.680 but in a different location.
00:15:01.640 And within 30 minutes, we were out of the door and driving across the border in the middle of the night for many hours to get to this location.
00:15:12.340 Very coordinated.
00:15:13.900 We were able to coordinate very quickly and plan how we were going to do it.
00:15:17.480 Well, we all thank you for what you're doing.
00:15:21.980 Talk about incredible bravery and strength.
00:15:24.580 You epitomize it, you and your colleagues there.
00:15:28.240 And we all are deeply in your debt.
00:15:31.680 Well, we appreciate that.
00:15:33.080 I tell you, every one of us feel privileged we had the opportunity to be out here and doing this.
00:15:37.940 This is something that in our generation, I don't think anything this has happened in our generation.
00:15:43.160 So to be here and be able to participate and trying to make the difference feels something that we have the honor of doing.
00:15:50.920 And not just to help these people, but we also believe, and I think many people believe, this is the front line to prevent World War III.
00:15:57.160 If we could empower the Ukrainian people to both defend their land, it is the line in the sand for a potential global war.
00:16:06.040 And I think everyone here feels that I didn't understand that, even with all my military experience and the time I spent in the military around conflict.
00:16:15.560 I didn't get that until I came here.
00:16:18.420 When you go here and see what they're doing to the Ukrainian people, you realize how serious the situation really is.
00:16:24.200 Just the video that we do see, those of us who are sitting in the United States, for example, it's horrific just to see what the effect of the bombing has been, the bombardment, the shells, the missiles and rockets that have torn up every city that we look at from the south to the northeast to the west of Ukraine.
00:16:48.460 It seems there's nothing being spared.
00:16:51.320 Is that the case?
00:16:53.400 It is.
00:16:53.940 I mean, even outside of Kiev, I was in another city, Chinopoli, and it hadn't been hit yet, but the feeling of sitting there, I'm in this city, I'm in this safe house, and I'm there, and this is a place where people are going to work and having lunch, and the kids are playing in the park, and the kids are walking to school.
00:17:21.320 I was talking to people, and I was talking to neighbors there, and now it's just, of course, in Eastern Europe, so the skies are gray, and it's dark, and it's cold, and it's just desolate.
00:17:32.400 And the power goes out, and the power goes out at dark because they don't want lights on for bombings, and the air raid sirens go off.
00:17:40.480 It's just such an eerie feeling, that to be in a sovereign nation, in a place like where you live, like where I live in Texas.
00:17:48.160 Like, this is like, this isn't Afghanistan.
00:17:53.160 This is a very modernized country, and this isn't the Taliban attacking them.
00:18:03.580 This is Russia, a superpower, and no one, they don't know, no one is coming to help them. 0.95
00:18:09.840 Not a government in the world is going to come to help them.
00:18:11.460 That's what they believe.
00:18:12.240 In fact, the people in Poland are even scared, like, because they know, because they know it.
00:18:17.180 Not a government in the world is going to help the Ukrainian people, and the Russians know that.
00:18:22.860 And that just gives it such a sense of hopelessness, and it just amplifies the situation because you know, even our team, I mean, we know, like, if something happens to us, no one's, none of our old teammates could come and get us.
00:18:36.280 No one is coming, like, this is, it's off limits, and, you know, the president of the United States has said it, NATO has said it, they're not going to go and help.
00:18:45.160 Let me ask you, Chad, I hope that, I hope that you're wrong, that if you do get in trouble, that, and I think you, I pray that you are, because you're the kind of man who deserves as good as you've given.
00:19:03.580 And I think I'm right in this one.
00:19:08.720 I sure pray that I am.
00:19:11.480 What is your sense of how this is resolved?
00:19:15.520 To the credit of the Ukrainians, they have managed to stave off the Russians for almost a month now, when no one gave them more than a few days.
00:19:26.580 I won't say no one, most military area analysts said, you know, more than a few days could they hold out against the wanted Russian army and military.
00:19:37.060 But here we are, approaching a month of bombardment, every kind of weapon fired at them imaginable, short of nuclear, and I don't even want to say that.
00:19:49.440 What do you think it takes to resolve this? 0.95
00:19:54.280 You know, one is, it's very difficult to predict what's going to happen, because you can't predict the actions of a lunatic, and that's what, you know, Putin is acting like a lunatic right now.
00:20:04.980 We always thought he was calculated, we always thought he was strategic, and people always said he's, every move he makes, he's calculated as a chess player.
00:20:10.900 We're not seeing that right now.
00:20:12.840 I mean, we're seeing someone unhinged, in my opinion, and that's what, you know, that's what the Ukrainians believe as well. 0.91
00:20:22.660 And, but I think, I would have thought the same thing, like, there's no way that Ukraine's going to last more than a few days. 0.95
00:20:29.960 But here they are.
00:20:30.680 And look, you look at history of Russia, I mean, I don't want to underestimate and say they're a paper tiger, but they couldn't take Afghanistan. 0.90
00:20:44.300 And here they are in Ukraine, and in many cases, in many perspectives, they're losing. 0.97
00:20:52.400 They're getting their butts kicked, and they're outmanning, and out, they have more technology, more weapons, more manpower, but they're getting their butts kicked. 0.92
00:21:03.440 And it's really, it's inspiring and impressive. 0.97
00:21:07.860 And the reason why is, I believe it comes down to the will of the people.
00:21:12.660 I don't believe the Russian soldiers, the morale's there, the desire's there. 0.99
00:21:17.160 They have nothing individually to gain as soldiers in the trenches fighting.
00:21:23.360 Many of them have been lied to while they were going there.
00:21:26.440 Some were told they were going to train with the Ukrainian people.
00:21:30.700 Some were told they were going there to liberate the Ukrainian people.
00:21:33.460 Some were told they were going there to attack.
00:21:35.280 So a lot of them are confused why they're there.
00:21:37.600 They don't want to be there.
00:21:38.940 Many of them are choosing jail over fighting.
00:21:40.800 And so then you look at the other side, and Ukrainian people are like that pastor. 0.99
00:21:49.980 You're going to have to kill every single one of us. 0.97
00:21:52.620 People are flying from America to come and fight. 0.98
00:21:56.580 And then you got the 50-year-old lady who's like, could leave Ukraine, but she's not. 0.99
00:22:02.660 And she's like, I'm not a soldier, but you come in my yard, I'm going to stab you through your chest with a pitchfork.
00:22:07.240 They're like willing to fight for their land. 0.94
00:22:10.100 And there's something about their willingness to fight.
00:22:12.020 We've seen it in Afghanistan.
00:22:13.860 I've seen it in eight diplomats in Afghanistan.
00:22:15.780 Like why these guys keep fighting? 0.91
00:22:18.080 We're freaking blowing them up in their caves.
00:22:20.740 Their will to fight for the Taliban, I hate to say it because they were our enemy, but their will to fight was impressive. 0.96
00:22:27.720 That's the one thing we're always impressed with.
00:22:28.980 Like these guys, they're going to fight.
00:22:31.400 And we didn't see that in Iraq, but we saw it in Afghanistan.
00:22:35.020 And that's what we're seeing here.
00:22:36.660 We're just seeing a will to fight.
00:22:37.700 And I think now – I didn't believe this when I came here.
00:22:40.320 I think now the Ukrainian people, if we empower them and support them through the NGO community, through organizations like Save Our Allies that are doing what we're doing,
00:22:49.660 if some – I mean I'm no fan of our current administration, but if they are able to support them financially, I am not for us jumping into a war.
00:23:07.820 I'm certainly no – I've been around enough water to say I'm not – I'm an advocate of trying to avoid that at all costs.
00:23:16.240 So if we can empower the Ukrainian people before we'd have to intervene, that's what I'd like to see done.
00:23:21.940 And so if the administration does that, I'd be really happy to see that because I believe that if we just get behind the Ukrainian people and the Ukrainian military, they could do this themselves.
00:23:32.640 I wonder right now how long the Ukrainian people can hold out. 1.00
00:23:41.880 You talked about the food.
00:23:43.100 You talked about the starvation, the thirst, water supplies, medical.
00:23:48.640 And we're hearing reports as well that the Russians have – in one report that the Russian troops have only three days of food.
00:24:00.000 And do you see an effort being made to get food supplies to the Ukrainian people?
00:24:06.840 Is there that possibility?
00:24:08.380 You talked about Kyiv being surrounded.
00:24:12.380 Can we move stores of staples, goods, food, ammunition into – in for the Ukrainian people? 0.86
00:24:25.560 You know, we can.
00:24:26.620 But the only people here doing it right now is the NGOs or the nonprofits.
00:24:30.880 The governments are not.
00:24:32.160 And, you know, the World Health Organization still hasn't even shown up here in Eastern Europe.
00:24:39.320 The World Food Organization has been here for a month, but they hadn't delivered one bit of food.
00:24:45.040 So –
00:24:46.200 What about other agencies of the United Nations?
00:24:49.060 Are they present?
00:24:51.180 They're present, but no one has – from my observation, and I'm pretty involved in the network here.
00:24:56.760 Right.
00:24:57.700 There has not been a government effort from the United Nations or NATO.
00:25:01.740 The only efforts that have been moving forward past those borders have been the NGO community.
00:25:06.440 Organizations like Save Our Allies, Samaritan's Purse has done an incredible job here.
00:25:15.020 There's so many of them.
00:25:15.840 I couldn't name them all, but that's who's helping.
00:25:18.820 And we're getting it done, but imagine the scale if the governments of the world will contribute in this way.
00:25:26.460 And I don't think the Ukrainian people are asking for them to come and fight.
00:25:31.100 I mean, I've heard it from government officials.
00:25:33.140 Like, hey, we'll fight our war.
00:25:34.460 Just support us.
00:25:36.120 And I believe if we could support them and empower them and then make – because, you know, the Russians are facing the same thing.
00:25:42.380 Their logistics – their logistics is terrible.
00:25:44.760 Their tanks are running out of gas.
00:25:46.080 They're running out of food.
00:25:47.080 They're running out of water.
00:25:47.840 They've done a terrible job with their logistical training to support this war effort.
00:25:51.700 I'm going to say – I'm going to draw a parallel because I want to know how you personally – your emotions as you see the bravery, the will to fight.
00:26:03.080 I think of all of the countries where our forces have been in the world and supporting regimes that didn't want to fight, couldn't put together an army that wanted to fight.
00:26:15.200 I'm thinking particularly of Iraq.
00:26:17.160 I'm thinking of watching those C-17s trying – taking off empty in Kabul and the thousands of Americans who were left behind.
00:26:31.740 And what are those emotions like for you right now as you're standing where you are?
00:26:39.100 Yeah, I mean, just as – not even as a military person, just as a human, it just makes – it makes me angry.
00:26:45.040 I mean, I believe and I always have believed that America is better than what we're doing right now.
00:26:51.260 I mean, when we left – when I was in doing the rescue operations in Afghanistan and we were done after 10 days and the military pulled out of H.K. airport and our team was there doing those evacuations, we had –
00:27:06.020 in that week, we had got 12,000 people out.
00:27:09.320 And when the military left, we said, there's still Americans there.
00:27:14.900 And we watched the White House.
00:27:16.200 The White House said there was 100 to 200.
00:27:17.960 We knew firsthand that there was at least 5,000.
00:27:21.500 And our team felt there's no way we could get on a plane and go home and leave Americans here. 1.00
00:27:27.680 Because where I come from in the military, it doesn't matter if there's one.
00:27:31.680 Not 100 to 5,000.
00:27:33.480 It doesn't matter if there's one. 1.00
00:27:34.120 And if there's one American anywhere in the world, even if they did something stupid like Verdol, that we're going to scorch the earth to go get them. 0.97
00:27:41.220 We will turn over every – use every bit of military power and strength to go get them because that's what America does for their fellow Americans. 0.97
00:27:48.160 And so it was unconsciousable for me to see our government make a decision.
00:27:53.940 For politics aside, it doesn't matter what people's political views are or what administration is in office.
00:27:59.020 It's not okay for us to do that.
00:28:00.300 And we stayed, and we got another 5,000 people out, including about another 100 Americans out, just us.
00:28:07.560 And there was a lot of other people doing similar work.
00:28:11.940 And then to see that here, to see those Americans trapped in Kiev right now that want to get out, but they're scared to move.
00:28:22.440 And our government's not going to do anything.
00:28:25.220 And then take out the American factor and just the innocent human life being targeted by a superpower nation, personally, as an American, regardless of what nation they're from, I'm not okay with that.
00:28:41.540 And what I see a lot on social media right now and I hear in the news is that the kind of – the painting of Ukraine, of not being a just nation, of half-corruption, and not being a good people.
00:28:52.700 And Zelensky – I don't care if Zelensky's a good guy or a bad guy.
00:28:56.520 I really don't care.
00:28:57.460 I don't care if Ukraine's a good country or a bad country.
00:28:59.620 I care about innocent human life that, in this modern world, has no place to have to live in fear of a world superpower coming after them with bombs and rockets and tanks.
00:29:15.160 One of my friends on this team right here is sitting in the room next to me right now, drove past a tank that had been shot probably a minute before him.
00:29:23.960 The tank was still smoking.
00:29:25.020 There was still flames on it.
00:29:26.160 There was bodies hanging out of it.
00:29:27.220 And as he drove past that tank, there was two civilian cars blowing up with bodies everywhere off of it, just two civilian vehicles.
00:29:35.600 I mean, this is – in this modern world, that should not be okay.
00:29:41.940 It should not be okay with the NATO, with the UN, and with the United States of America.
00:29:45.660 It should not be okay.
00:29:46.720 And I just believe that we need to – there needs to be a stronger position taken on it.
00:29:50.900 We need to support the Ukraine.
00:29:52.680 The Ukraine military empowered them to be able to defend themselves.
00:29:55.680 I think one thing that we all could do is save our allies.
00:30:01.800 Where can we send a dollar or whatever to help you and everybody else?
00:30:11.240 Yeah, so saveourallies.org is the website.
00:30:13.520 And, you know, everything we do, unfortunately, right now, it's extremely expensive to do these type of operations.
00:30:22.060 And every dollar is literally – 100% of it is going to save human lives.
00:30:26.920 I mean, this morning, I was able to move 47 disabled people who didn't have the ability to evacuate themselves.
00:30:33.380 That's the type of people we're kind of focused on our evacuation side.
00:30:36.600 We're putting communications infrastructure in place.
00:30:38.680 So, when the cellular system goes out, when the power goes up, we can still communicate, move medical supplies forward to help replenish these medical supplies.
00:30:47.860 And we need support to do it.
00:30:49.700 Everyone feels like they want to do something right now.
00:30:51.960 The best thing people could do is spread the word and support financially so we can continue to help and support the Ukrainian people.
00:31:00.760 And the address is saveourallies.org.
00:31:06.820 The missions that Chad Robichaux and his colleagues are carrying out are tremendously important, requiring not only money but the strength, the courage of Chad Robichaux and his team, which is exemplary.
00:31:22.900 And, you know, Chad, I really appreciate you taking the time to share with us what's going on right now from your location.
00:31:32.820 It is really eye-opening and difficult just to hear what those people are going through, what you're going through, and all that are doing – who are doing so much for those people.
00:31:47.080 I'm going to see what you think of this.
00:31:49.500 I'm going to urge everyone listening to talk to their representative, their congressman.
00:31:55.400 I'm one of those folks who, frankly, I'm not sure always that our Congress or our senators are worth much.
00:32:02.540 But they ought to be worth this much, and that is call in and write them a letter and tell them to get some supplies and food and help to those folks in Ukraine.
00:32:14.780 Do you think that's a reasonable idea?
00:32:16.480 I think it's not only a reasonable idea, it's necessary, and America could and should do it, as well as other nations around the world, including NATO.
00:32:29.100 You know, you would think that the people of Europe would have already done that.
00:32:33.720 We're talking about neighbors, and that's troubling that that hasn't happened in Europe.
00:32:38.880 But do you have any thoughts on that?
00:32:41.380 Well, I can say that we hadn't seen it from the government, but the European people – I said this earlier – I just really moved my hearts.
00:32:54.540 You know, when you come across that border, fighting for your life to make across that border, the first thing they're going to be welcomed with is a giant pile of jackets, people lighting barrels of fires just so people could get warm.
00:33:09.800 There was a couple of guys from India that came in, and they're cooking rice and cauliflower curry.
00:33:16.860 You get a hot bowl of curry right when you come across the border.
00:33:19.060 So people from around the world, including European people, are there welcoming their neighbors.
00:33:24.000 But that's just their fellow humans, not their neighboring countries.
00:33:29.320 And I really – anybody from those neighboring countries in the government, I really challenge you to step up and do the right thing and help your neighbor, help the Ukrainian people, and the governments have the power to do that.
00:33:44.140 Absolutely, and people have the power to do a great deal, as you were demonstrating, and everyone else there in Ukraine.
00:33:55.300 Chad Robichaud, we appreciate it so much.
00:33:59.220 Chad is the chairman, the head of SaveOurAllies.org.
00:34:05.540 We urge you to support him and his organization and all of the others there trying to help those who need it most in Ukraine.
00:34:13.560 A difficult time is such a ridiculous understatement in Ukraine for those people.
00:34:21.420 They're fighting for their lives and for their homeland.
00:34:25.820 Do what you can.
00:34:27.140 We will – won't do nearly as much, not a fraction as much as Chad, and save our allies, but at least we can do something.
00:34:36.560 We have a tradition on this show that we always give our guests the last word, Chad.
00:34:40.980 So if you will, please.
00:34:42.700 Yeah, I mean, you know, I don't know who's listening out there, if you're people of prayer or not, but, you know, money's great, and we need it.
00:34:52.180 We need a lot of financial support, but, you know, I'd ask everyone listening to come to their knees in prayer for these people, for our team, for the safety of our team.
00:35:02.240 But more importantly than for us, it's for these people.
00:35:05.340 So I believe in the power of prayer and God's hand over the situation, so.
00:35:12.180 And so do we.
00:35:13.860 And we will be praying for you and all of those people who need strength.
00:35:21.240 Chad Robichaux, thanks for your time.
00:35:23.180 And I know this is difficult, and we greatly appreciate everything you're doing, and for taking the time to talk with us today here on The Great America Show.
00:35:32.560 God bless.
00:35:32.980 God bless.
00:35:34.960 God bless.
00:35:36.640 Chad Robichaux.
00:35:38.380 The organization is SaveOurAllies.org.
00:35:42.860 We can all help Chad and SaveOurAllies.org.
00:35:47.240 They're brave folks.
00:35:49.000 God bless and protect them all, and do what you can.
00:35:53.320 Tomorrow, our guest will be Dr. Peter McCullough, a strong voice for science and freedom in this pandemic.
00:36:00.940 Please be with us.
00:36:01.860 Till then, God bless you, and God bless America.