Breaking the News—Exposing the Worst of the Activist Media with Breitbart Editor-In-Chief Alex Marlow
On a special guest hosted episode of The Charlie Kirk Show, Alex Marlow—EIC of Breitbart News takes over Charlie's chair and dives in to the news of the day from the perspective of a seasoned journalist & conservative warrior. Alex tackles the Biden-Buttigieg crisis of incompetence that has led to fuel shortages & gas pump chaos unseen since the Carter Era. He also unpacks the ongoing conflict in Israel and why Joe Biden himself is truly to blame for it more than most. His forthcoming book, 'Breaking the News: Exposing the Establishment Media's Hidden Deals and Secret Corruption,' will be out next Tuesday, May 18th everywhere books are sold.Support the show: http://www.charliekirk.com/supportSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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I'm Alex Marlow, editor-in-chief of Breitbart News.
Thrilled to be filling in for my friend Charlie Kirk on the Charlie Kirk show today.
On the show, we break down the gas crisis.
Why it's Joe Biden's fault and his incompetent cabinet secretaries are responsible, the attack on Israel, why it proves Trump right and why it matters to you.
And I give you details on my forthcoming book, Breaking the News, which is out Tuesday.
I did a deep dive investigation into the establishment press, and you'll never think of the corporate media the same way again if you read it.
Peter Schweitzer calls it a must-read.
I humbly agree.
You can check that out wherever books are sold.
Buckle up.
Here we go.
Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.
Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus.
I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk.
Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks.
I want to thank Charlie.
He's an incredible guy.
His spirit, his love of this country.
He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
That's why we are here.
My name is Alexander Marlowe.
I'm editor-in-chief of Breitbart News, and I'm thrilled to be here for my good friend Charlie Kirk today, who is on a vacation.
Now, I told you I personally insisted Charlie take a vacation because, Charlie, you're overdue, buddy.
Let me just fill in.
I'm a satellite radio guy typically in SiriXM Patriot.
I'm the morning drive host over there on their one conservative station, which is SiriusXM 125, the Patriot channel.
Charlie's been kind enough to guest on my show and fill in for me.
And I'm thrilled to return the favor.
He's built an incredible platform, and I'm a regular listener to the Charlie Kirk podcast.
And Charlie and I go way back.
It is amazing because I was on the verge of hiring Charlie at Breitbart.com.
And he said that this Turning Point USA thing is just getting a little bit bigger than I had anticipated.
It's probably about eight, nine years ago, I would say.
And he said, I'm going to roll with that for a little bit, but let's circle back up in a few years, see how it's going.
Well, I guess history has spoken in that regard.
Turning Point USA is a behemoth, and we're thrilled to support it at Breitbart.com and to support all the great students who are connected to Charlie.
So again, thrilled to be here.
And we have a lot of news to get to today.
I want to share with you guys some of the knowledge that I have at Breitbart.com.
The first thing I want to mention, though, at the outset, and again, thanks to those of you who are listening, and thanks to those of you who are checking this out on Breitbart.com's front page and on our Facebook page as well, where I think we're broadcasting live due to this very cool video setup they've got here in the studio.
But one thing I want to start with, and this is an amazing coincidence for me, is I have a book coming out on Tuesday, which is wildly coincidental because it fits in with so many of the topics.
It's called Breaking the News, and it is the subtitle, Exposing the Establishment Media's Hidden Deals and Secret Corruption.
And the reason why I think this is such an important topic is because I spent one year doing a deep dive into corporate media, into the establishment media.
And really what I try to illustrate with this book, and I think if you pick it up, I think you will never look at the media the same way again, is I emphasize all of the filters that are put on all the news that you see.
And a lot of you know that the media swings liberal.
They're left of center.
They have a liberal bias.
Well, it goes so much more beyond that.
It goes into the point where they are framing their news to set an agenda.
And I think this fits in very nicely in terms of what is the news of the day, because it is no longer just about a left-right divide.
It is about moving the news in order to put it in a direction that sets a narrative.
And this narrative is something that benefits these corporations that are in charge of everything you read and everything that you see and much of what you listen to as well.
And so, a couple of the revelations that you're going to see in this book is deep ties between the Chinese government and the elite American media.
Now, I'll tell you that this fits in well with what's going on in the news right now.
Because, again, there's all this discussion about where was the origin of the coronavirus.
Do we even remember that the Chinese coronavirus was from China?
So much of America does not contemplate that.
The next thing that's in there, tricks the media use to contort every story to fit its agenda.
And what I mean by this is, I give you a code that you can break down.
When you're reading a story in the New York Times, you're not just reading a story, you're reading spin.
And I give you the codes to be able to break down what you're reading and when, meaning if it's a front page story on a narrative that is not a left of center, pro-globalist, pro-corporatist narrative, it's going to be framed differently than something that is a pro-America first MAGA narrative, if that story even makes it.
I give you some of the tools.
One thing that Charlie was very excited about the last time we spoke, you're going to get to meet the big tech heiress who bought the institutional left and became the new Soros.
So that is an amazing thing that you will learn if you pick up the book on Tuesday.
And I don't think you'll be able to avoid this one.
I think once this comes out, people are going to be talking about it as well as so much more.
And I'll get into some of that throughout the day.
But again, go to, if you go to alexmarlow.com, you could pick it up today.
And I'm very appreciative for the time to plug away at this.
And it's very kind of Charlie to give me the platform to do so.
But I think this will wildly change the way you look at media and news.
And I think you'll learn a lot.
A year of investigative research, Peter Schweitzer, who is the top investigative journalist, I believe in America, says that everyone wants to criticize the media, but not many have the goods.
Alex Marlowe drops fact after fact in this devastating, devastating portrait, a must read.
So I think you guys won't be able to miss it.
And I will be back on Charlie's show to talk about it when it's out on Tuesday.
So if you want to show some support, I highly appreciate it because we don't want this to get canceled.
Canceled culture is real.
Canceled culture is legitimate.
And they're not going to want this book out because it gives away so many of their tricks, their tricks.
Like, for example, how the coronavirus became God's gift to the left.
And we see it today with so much of the control that is taking place by our federal government.
And the coronavirus has become so much less about science and so much more about trying to set a narrative where the government controls you.
And now the corporations control you as well.
If you think the vaccine passports or the mask mandates have been more emphasized by the government, I disagree.
I think it's more about the corporations.
The government has given us recommendations like the CDC, I think increasingly less credible over time.
As time's gone on, I think that these recommendations have been become clear with the masks at the start.
You were not supposed to wear masks, then you had to wear masks.
And now we're at the point where even if you're vaccinated, you're supposed to wear a mask outside.
Did you guys catch the latest CDC guidelines that came out where they were actually recommending even if you've been vaccinated, then you should still be wearing a mask outside in certain circumstances.
And now they're confused about that.
Fauci was out there yesterday suggesting, well, maybe you shouldn't wear masks outside, but they're not clear.
And why aren't they clear?
Because the chaos is used as an excuse for the establishment left and the Democratic Party, who is in charge, to try to control more of your freedoms and to control your mind.
And this is the thing.
All we need is some consistency.
All we need is some incentive.
And all we need is some clarity.
But we've gotten so far away from the science and so towards better safe than sorry or listen to the government at all times.
Listen to the establishment at all times.
Do not question.
Just blindly go through life.
Put on your face diaper.
Never take it off, even if you've been vaccinated.
So, why would you want to get vaccinated if you don't get any privileges for it?
Well, just trust them.
Just trust Dr. Fauci.
Just trust the CDC.
Just trust Rochelle Walensky.
All these people I'll be coming back to throughout the show today.
And I will also be pointing out some good news.
And a lot of that comes out of Florida with Governor DeSantis, who is now, he is now giving people clemency.
He's pardoning anyone who's been charged for defying the COVID rules, the coronavirus rules, the Chinese virus rules.
This is very cool stuff.
And a lot of people who had actually been charged with crimes for doing things that were simply free will, stuff that we used to associate in America with the essence of our country, freedom, individualism, those became crimes for a moment in time over the last year.
And DeSantis pardoned a bunch of these people.
First of all, let's play a clip of Dr. Anthony Fauci, Saint Anthony Fauci, the man who has masked up a nation and a planet over the last year or so and loves him some TV time.
In fact, I think I saw Fauci in some of my home movies.
I was videotaping my children who are two and a half and one walk around the house.
My one-year-old now just started walking.
He looks like he's had about six twisted T's every time he starts walking, but it's adorable.
And then lo and behold, there's Fauci in the video.
Let's hear him on Chuck Todd's show on NBC.
Go ahead.
And are we going to essentially, but is the mask going to be something we have with us in a seasonal aspect?
You know, that's quite possible.
I think people have gotten used to the fact that wearing masks clearly, if you look at the data, diminishes respiratory diseases.
All right.
So it's possible that we're going to have seasonal masking.
Now, here is a clip of Fauci that we have.
Let's play clip number 70, guys.
This is not the same answer here.
Go ahead.
If you were going into a completely crowded situation where people are essentially falling all over each other, then you wear a mask.
But any other time, if you're vaccinated and you are outside, put aside the mask.
You don't have to wear it.
But this is the contradictions that people are getting sick of because Fauci is saying that you can take your mask off if you're outside, but if you're not socially distanced, then the vaccination might not do enough.
What is this messaging?
You would think this is actually an anti-vax messaging because it's sending a signal.
The vaccine is not adequate for you to go outdoors without a mask on, which I don't know how many of you have been going outdoors without masks on over the last several months because there are states, places like Florida and places like Texas that have been widely open.
Remember, Florida opened up Disney World about nine months ago and did not see any massive spread of the virus, despite the media insisting that it would happen.
And now we're talking about if you're vaccinated, maybe still you should be wearing your mask outside sometimes.
And we could also be having masks at a seasonal level.
Now, let's hear from this is the CDC director, Rochelle Walensky, on Chris Fredo Cuomo's show on CNN.
Let's hear what she has to say.
This is cut 68, guys.
Go.
What data do you have that suggests you need to go slow before you let people completely unmask and live their lives if they've gotten the vaccine?
Well, you know, we know that data are emerging, have been emerging with regard to the variants, specifically the UK variant, the Brazil variant.
With those variants here, we do want to make sure that those data are going to be out and demonstrate that our vaccines will work.
And I'm looking forward to updating our guidance very soon.
So they can't even update the guidance.
So it might be unsafe for vaccinated people to unmask outdoors, according to the CDC director.
Right, as Fauci says, if you're outside and you've been vaccinated, you don't have to wear a mask unless you can't socially distance, then you do have to put the mask back on.
This is so inconsistent, and that is part of the problem.
If they would like Americans to start being unified on the topic, it feels entirely political.
And people on the left have made it political, even though it's so clear that the masks, the places that had the most masks, did not necessarily do better with the virus.
And how could that be?
It's because the institutions have lost so much credibility.
The institutions have come to a place where when we hear something coming out of the CDC, we hear something coming out of a Dr. Fauci, then we don't know whether or not it is a political statement or whether or not it's a scientific statement.
And I'll tell you, those of you who live your life and have not been sequestered in a bubble for the last year, which I'm sure most of you haven't, then you know, I notice stuff like I'm walking around my neighborhood with my children, and there's a soccer game, a bunch of seven-year-olds out there.
And I've noticed the breakdowns, typically about a third of the seven-year-olds wearing masks, a third of the seven-year-olds not wearing masks, and about a third of the seven-year-olds wearing the mask improperly.
My favorite example recently was I saw a kid, he had one of those heavy-duty, stiff paper painters' masks, the things you would see painters wear around your house.
But he had taken the ear strap and he'd actually wrapped it around his forehead and was wearing it like a visor.
So I don't know if Dr. Fauci thinks that's an adequate usage of the mask, but no one will clarify what is the truth, what is necessary, and what is something that is just these bureaucrats who live for power trying to use whatever crisis they have available to them to try to make it so that more Americans lose freedoms to be subservient to the collective.
That is what it appears to be.
That's why they can't message on the masks.
And this connects very well to the rest of the news items with an encroaching government.
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I think this Israel story is interesting because it is one of these things where if it gets worse, if it spirals out of control, then the implications for Americans actually do grow.
And you see the sides and the lines that people are drawing.
Where Andrew Yang put out a very simple tweet on behalf of the Israelis who have, quote, come under bombardment attacks and condemn the Hamas terrorists.
The people of NYC will always stand with our brothers and sisters in Israel who face down terrorism and persevere.
And he had to walk it back because the canceled mob came for him, as did Gal Gadot, the actress who is Israeli.
She plays Wonder Woman, and she said something nice and then she came under attack.
And then we're looking at anti-Israel marches breaking out in Chicago, Israeli flags being burned and synagogues attacked in Germany, Arab riots boiling over in Israel itself.
Because remember, there are Arabs who can live comfortably in Israel.
Where can the Jews live in the region other than Israel?
Not many places, if any.
And while they shout, Allahu Akbar, and a man gets stabbed, a Jewish man.
This is the type of stuff where things get, I think, so much more muddied, so much more chaotic.
And this is why the Biden administration made such a big mistake by sending a signal that America's guard is down and that Israel is going to be left to its own defenses.
They've also empowered Iran with their various deals, who is the funder of all things evil in the region.
It is true.
And that's the bottom line.
And that's why I think this is such a big deal.
And yet you have folks who have been pro-Israel for most of their lives, namely this never Trump contingent of the Republican Party, who is focused on other stuff, focus on non-news items, like, for example, the ouster of Liz Cheney from Republican leadership, which affects people's lives almost not at all.
Liz Cheney was someone who voted with Trump a lot, but then turned on him during the impeachment.
And she didn't understand that you can't lead a party that sees themselves at war, figuratively speaking, with the left.
And they see our party, the Republican Party, the conservative movement, as people who are under constant attack, bombardments of attacks from the left on a 24-7 basis.
And she threw down with them.
And she continues to do so.
She will not back down.
We've got some clips to this effect.
Let's play one.
Let's do 50.
Can we play clip 50, folks?
Go ahead.
I will do everything I can to ensure that the former president never again gets anywhere near the Oval Office.
We have seen the danger that he continues to provoke with his language.
We have seen his lack of commitment and dedication to the Constitution.
And I think it's very important that we make sure whomever we elect is somebody who will be faithful to the Constitution.
And she's seen as a part of the old school Republican Party that was a warmongering party.
And whether or not that's exaggerated a bit, maybe it is.
But for the most part, that is how the old school Republican establishment and Democrat establishment for a large measure is seen that way as people who can't stop but get us into wars and leave us into wars forever.
And so she already was someone who is probably on the precipice of becoming unpopular within the party.
And then she not only turns on Trump, she's losing her leadership role.
She's losing her power.
And still, she doesn't back down.
She is completely defiant from her own people who have said, hey, Liz, you got to cut this out.
Trump is not the problem here.
The problem is the left in this country.
The problem is the globalist corporatist establishment that is encringing on our freedoms, encroaching on our freedoms on a constant basis.
And your priorities are completely in the toilet.
And this expands to the whole never Trump movement, who again were pro-Israel until all of a sudden Trump became the master of Middle East foreign policy.
Then once Trump perfected it, then all of a sudden they don't care about Israel anymore.
And what are they tweeting about?
This narrative about Liz Cheney.
The Liz Cheney stuff was a total distraction by the establishment, by the establishment media.
The Republican Party had an internal debate.
It was overwhelming.
People wanted Cheney to go.
Cheney has gone.
They will replace her with someone who understands that fighting with the left is a number one priority, someone who backs down because they are pressured by the left and the establishment media is not in a position to lead the Republican Party at this time.
Whoever that person is, probably Elise Stefanik, who's not a perfect person, but is someone who at least gets that, gets the media war that we're in, the ideological cultural war that we're in.
Once someone like that is capped, then that person will do probably a fine job.
But these people who think that the Republican base gives a, I gives a care about what CNN and the Washington Post have to say, or even the political establishment has to say, they don't.
And if you want to hold your guns and attack Trump and add on to the million people that attack Trump, you're going to lose the faith of the Republican voter base.
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I've been in Washington for about eight years, and one thing that I've learned is that the swamp culture really is real.
It was not just a talking point from President Trump.
And you saw some of that in what I was playing at the end of the last hour with Liz Cheney and about how she still sticks to her guns, even though it was so clear that she was costing herself massive amounts of political capital.
But she had to attack Trump.
She couldn't resist.
And this is because Washington, in a way, is a single party town.
It is not just the Democrat Party, it's the establishment party.
And these are people who scratch each other's backs on such a constant basis that people change over time and they can't resist it.
And one person that comes to mind at the moment, the guy named Ken Buck, who wrote a bill, who wrote a book that was supposed to be about draining the swamp.
He's a congressman from Colorado.
And he was one of the few Republicans who supported Liz Cheney.
And Buck is also behind a bill right now that it's making its way through the House.
We don't know how far along it's going to get, but it's called the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act.
And this is a Democrat-backed bill with a couple of Republicans who've signed on, though I've spoken to some of their shops and many of them think that this was not the bill that was promised to them.
But the bill that would allow for big media companies to organize kind of like a union and collectively bargain to get paid by the tech oligarchs in Silicon Valley.
And these tech oligarchs, what they would do is they would cut a deal with whoever they felt like and these union, this union would form.
And who would be the most powerful people in the union?
It would be the corporate media, the exact same people that discourage independent journalism, that discourage independent voices like Breitbart and all of your favorite individual podcasts and all of your favorite sub stack subscriptions that you guys are getting.
All of those people are going to be disenfranchised.
And you know who's going to be in there?
It's going to be the biggest news conglomerates on the planet are going to be cutting deals.
And you got this guy, Ken Buck, is the guy who's pushing it across the finish line.
He's trying to.
And this is something that is so outrageous.
But when you understand Washington, you understand how this stuff is possible.
You understand that there are people who are always going to be beholden, not just to the almighty dollar, which is of course a factor, but the people who back their campaigns, the people who give them support.
And eventually these people come around and say, okay, now it's time for us to get ours.
And this is a perfect example with this bill right now.
So all of you who are so inclined, feel free to reach out to your congress people.
Make sure that they're aware of this, this Journalism Competition and Preservation Act, which actually will do the exact opposite, as is so often the case.
It will enshrine and entrench the corporate media with more power and it will disenfranchise upstart independent voices out there.
They will have less of a say in our media because the big tech giants in Silicon Valley, we refer to those as the masters of the universe at Breitbart.
They will get to just display more of your results are going to be tailored to These deals they cut with the corporate establishment.
I go into a lot of detail about some of the stuff in the book Breaking the News, and I explain exactly how the big tech oligarchs, I won't say stole the election from Donald Trump, but I will say that if it was not for Silicon Valley and their manipulation, he would for sure have won his second term.
And part of the reason why it didn't happen is because Republicans did not push forward any sort of meaningful legislation or regulation that could have rolled back the power of big tech or broken them up in the run-up to 2020.
So it's not as simple as just saying it was stolen.
But I'll tell you right now, the oppression of accurate stories about Hunter Biden, the oppression of accurate stories that would have made Joe Biden look bad on Twitter and Facebook, for example.
In the meantime, Google in early 2020 turned down 100% of Breitbart's traffic on stories about Joe Biden.
If you can imagine that, we were getting, unless, of course, you use the word Breitbart in the Google search, but if you were searching for Joe Biden, the chances of you getting a Breitbart story ever was virtually zero.
And we're supposed to expect that is a some sort of that's supposed to be some sort of a coincidence.
If you look at Amazon.com-owned Alexa.com, which ranks traffic, Breitbart is consistently among the top five pure news sites in terms of traffic across the world.
And how we could never rank on Joe Biden's stories when we've broken some of the biggest stories, particularly with Peter Schweitzer, one of our senior editors, and who I believe is the top investigative reporter working in America today.
It's the we've led the way of many of the Hunter Biden stories.
The New York Post broke a sensational bomb sell shell after sensational bombshell.
And if you tried to tweet these things or put them on Facebook, you would either get a note that they were inaccurate or disinformation, or they would just get censored entirely.
And who knows about the shadow banning, which takes place as well.
All of this stuff is out there for you.
And I break so much of it down in breaking the news.
And you'll want to be fluent in this stuff so we know how to go forward.
So we know how to go forward.
So we don't make the same mistakes that we've made in the past.
And we hold the left accountable for what they're doing, which is using every rule and regulation they possibly can in order to get more power for themselves.
And sadly, there are too many Republicans who are letting them do it.
And this is one of the lessons that I've come to learn over the last year of deep research.
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The biggest story right now that is going in America, and one that I'm going to spend a lot of time on over the rest of the show, is this gas crisis that's taking place.
And it is really making America resemble a third world nation.
And part of the reason why is because we have people who have no idea what they're doing who are in charge.
The lunatics have taken over the proverbial asylum.
And one such person is Pete Buttig.
I don't know how many edges he uses.
He uses multiple edges.
I always lose track.
Buttage Edge Edge.
Three edges.
I don't know.
Anyway, he's a guy who was running a small town a couple of years ago.
And then he was pretty, he was okay sprouting Democrat talking points on Morning Joe.
So they put him in charge of the transportation department.
I don't know if Pete knows how to fill in a pothole, but he's now in charge of all transportation for the United States.
And now we are in the biggest transportation crisis we've had since the Carter era when it comes to gasoline and massive gas shortages and lines for gasoline.
If you can even get gasoline in my neighborhood, it is out completely in Northern Virginia inside the Beltway swamp.
And not to mention, so much of the world relies on gas, so much of the country relies on gas beyond just using your cars.
But then you hear people like Jennifer Granholm, who is the energy secretary, who's kind of excited about it.
She says, if you drove an electric car, this would not be affecting you.
And now you see what the Green New Deal agenda is all about is they don't hate when there's a gasoline crisis.
They don't hate when gasoline is $3 a gallon.
Why would they hate it?
Because it illustrates the point they're trying to make, which is that we should be getting off of fossil fuels.
We should all be taking choo-choo trains to work, or we should be taking choo-choo trains on our vacation, and we should be hauling and shipping stuff across country via choo-choo train.
And once we have enough of a network of choo-choo trains that American taxpayers fund, then we'll be A-OK.
And those of you who want to drive a car or power a generator or power a lawnmower or do anything that requires gas, then you're actually part of the problem.
It's not the people who have interrupted America's energy sector the way it has been interrupted over the past week.
This is a very bad sign and is something that is only going to get worse because of our incompetent leadership unless people start getting involved.
And I'm talking about not just going to vote.
I'm talking about sharing content like this, like Charlie's show, like what we're doing at Breitbart, getting 10,000 people involved in the fight, getting involved in the action, getting them to call businesses, make sure that they're holding people accountable.
And let's start being a little more confrontational in a polite way with some people in our lives who voted for this stuff.
I had someone who reached out to me the other day who was just apoplectic, a private citizen, who had voted for Trump and was so alarmed that no one understands that if Joe Biden wasn't there, this stuff would not be happening.
This is a Joe Biden-induced crisis.
And this is exactly what many Americans voted for.
And we need to speak out and we need to speak up in a major way.
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I wanted to play some of the clips to comfort us in terms of how our incredible leadership from the Biden administration is handling this crisis with the colonial pipeline that has been shut down by hackers.
We are presuming the hackers are tied to Russia in some way.
I don't know if we'll ever know for sure.
I was told the Biden administration would be infinitely more responsible when it came to dealing with Russia, even though Trump was actually quite tough on Russia, aside from some of the nice things he said about Putin.
But again, art of the deal, important part of what Trump does.
But again, they're opening up the pipeline, I guess, at this point for a $5 million ransom, which just shows you how these are basically people who are rogue criminals who don't need much and could still interrupt the American energy sector and way of life so easily.
It's such a humiliation.
But let's see if there is some any there's some comfort Joe Biden can offer us.
Can we play clip 72, folks?
Thank you.
Were you opposing coming out of it today?
Which one of the 12 I've had?
I belong to the supervisor.
Infrastructure is there.
And in particular.
You guys are bad.
I'm not supposed to be answering all these questions.
I'm supposed to leave, but I can't resist your questions.
He's a funny boy, Biden, who's a thousand years old.
He's not supposed to be answering questions.
He's president of the United States.
Who is the person who is giving him these instructions that you're not supposed to answer the questions?
Who's in charge?
Who is the person who gave him that directive?
Do not answer questions?
And why don't more of us care about this?
It's not Kamala Harris.
I'll tell you that.
She's a total lightweight.
So who is the person who is giving Biden the orders not to answer questions?
And why is he taking these orders?
The country is in a crisis right now.
Please explain to us what's going on, Mr. Infrastructure.
See, the problem is that infrastructure became packing the Supreme Court.
That is what Mondair Jones said, a Democrat congressman from New York, that that's what infrastructure is.
Infrastructure is all the Green New Deal crap.
The infrastructure is not keeping our roads moving, our levies, our levies up to date, infrastructure, 5G.
That type of stuff is not what Biden's talking about.
Biden wants a Green New Deal.
And that's why he can't answer questions is because this stuff doesn't fit in with the Green New Deal narrative.
All right.
Now, let's hear what the genius, the man we are so blessed to have as our transportation secretary, former small town mayor, Pete Buttedge Edge Edge, 73.
We now see gas above $3 a gallon for the first time in seven years.
Bottom line, what's your message to Americans who are worried about how this is going to impact their wallet?
How long do you think this is going to last?
And do you think prices are going to go up even further?
Well, my message is that we understand these concerns, that we've seen that in a lot of the impacted geographies, that this is a real issue.
And that's one of the reasons why we've been working with every lever of government that's available and not the federal government as an island, but interacting with states and with companies to address this.
So, you know, I can't speak to long-term energy markets.
Oh, it's about energy markets, long-term energy markets.
I think you can speak to it just fine.
Cut with the Green New Deal baloney and let Americans use whatever energy source is available to them and is available on the free market.
How about that?
And while you're at it, why don't you open up some of the pipelines that you shut down?
And then maybe you could allow for us to do some more fracking in Pennsylvania, for example, and all these new contracts that have been slowed, if not stopped entirely by the Joe Biden administration.
Maybe that would be helpful right now.
I got to tell you, I don't have to drive a lot to work.
I work from home and for the most part, as much as I possibly can.
But I was out in Los Angeles a couple of weeks ago visiting family and I would drive in to our headquarters, our world headquarters for Breitbart.
And I was there for maybe a week and a half and I spent about $210 on gas during that time.
Now, LA is a trafficky town, but it wasn't a particularly long commute.
And that's the sort of thing that is hammering not just middle America, but really the lower classes of America are the ones who are hit the hardest.
This is a regressive tax on Americans.
This is something that is penalizing the working class.
And Pete Buttigieg has no relationship to those people.
This is why it was so irresponsible and Republicans and conservatives were so correct to point out that this is not a toss-off position.
And this guy should not be in charge of our transportation department.
We have gas lines.
We have gas lines and shortages.
We haven't seen gas lines in 40 years.
Gas shortages were certain areas of the country completely out of gas.
The federal government had to issue a warning for Americans not to fill plastic bags with gas.
You guys have seen the photos on social media.
They're floating around.
The fact the United States government has to put out warnings, stop putting gas into plastic bags right now is a sign we are regressing towards third world status.
It's Biden's fault.
He needs to be held accountable right now.
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All right.
So we've got a clip here that I have to add to the pile to illustrate my point about Joe Biden and how he will not address reporters if it is inconvenient to him.
But more importantly, if whoever are his puppet masters don't want him to do it, then all of a sudden he'll start reeling it back.
Let's play clip 78, please.
Also very much.
I have no comment on that.
It's unbelievable.
This is the massive crisis engulfing the country.
Is it people can't get to work?
I was literally sucking gasoline out of my nanny's gas tank selfishly so I could use it for my family.
That's not true.
I was not doing that.
But this is the thing that's happening in the country.
We're filling up people outside.
Everyone's becoming a meme filling giant plastic tubs filled with gasoline if they can find it, which they can't do in much of the country.
And then you've got Joe Biden who won't comment on it.
We've regressed 40 years to third world country status in a matter of two days because a couple of or a handful of troublemakers online have shut down one of our pipelines.
This is such an embarrassment for the country.
And if we're smart, then we will think of this as a warning.
We will think of this as an opportunity for us to stop making infrastructure about politics and the Green New Deal and about court packing and start making it about whether or not we are protected and whether or not we are operating at an optimal level.
That is the point.
Give me the Jennifer Granholm clip, everyone, 79, if you would be so kind.
Obviously, are all in on making sure that we meet the president's goals of getting to 100% clean electricity by 2035 and net zero carbon emissions by 2050.
And, you know, if you drive an electric car, this would not be affecting you, clearly.
Jennifer, you're not supposed to say that.
This is the type of stuff that the talk show hosts are supposed to fill in the gap.
She's making my job too easy.
I have a book out on Tuesday, and I honestly believe it will change the way you think about media.
And not just bias.
This goes beyond bias.
This is about how media was weaponized against Donald Trump and his supporters.
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Her message is stupid and silly.
But one of the points I make is how the media was so determined to make Trump wrong about everything.
And one story that producer Andrew just flashed across my screen is that now all of a sudden Biden is interested in rebuilding at least parts of the border wall or continuing parts of the wall.
It's almost hard to believe that this is happening.
The crisis at the southern border is nothing to be laughed at.
It is getting worse by the minute because every time we don't address it, it is just more incentive for people in Central America in particular and these cartels that control so much of our border in really a lot of the regions at the very southernmost points of our own country.
Yes, that is right.
These horrible human smuggling, drug smuggling cartels are so often controlling American towns now at the southern tip of our country.
And whenever we don't address it and act like this is some sort of a political thing and not a national security thing, things are going to get so much worse because it sends a signal to the cartels.
It's game on.
So apparently certain parts of the wall, levee walls, levee walls are where you've got levees in the traditional sense.
They've got fencing on top of it typically.
They're pretty common if you go down to the border, as I have.
Those are back on.
But the United States Army Corps of Engineers has insisted that wall construction remains paused to extent permitted by law.
Per the Department of Homeland Security, we've started critical work to repair the Rio Grande Valley's flood levee, which was evacuated to make way for border wall.
This is remediation work and will not involve expanding border barrier.
And the reason why I kind of chuckle at this because they're going out of their way to say we're not building a wall.
They're really making a big point, even though they are rebuilding some wall and enhancing some wall.
They still want to say we're not doing it because they must make Trump wrong.
It must be that Trump was wrong when, of course, building the wall was correct.
Of course, any country without a border is not really a country.
It is really just a blob of geographical landmass that really has no sovereignty.
And if you're not, if you don't know who's coming in and out of your country, then is it even a country at that point?
And yet that is the desire of our political establishment in Washington.
And Trump was starting to prove with his Remain New Mexico policy, with these policies that were forcing would-be illegal migrants to illegal aliens to apply for asylum at consulates and embassies in their hometowns that have coming up to the United States.
All these things that Trump put into place, particularly in the last year of his administration, Biden just undid all of them.
And that's why we're having this crisis.
And our media is almost completely uninterested, aside from the fact that they kind of dig it.
They kind of like it.
And that's what's played out here.
And there are just too many stories to keep up with.
And that's why I always recommend you guys go to Breitpart.com.
But I do try to break down some of the motivations that people have at this time, because it is when you see this gas shortage and then you hear Biden administration officials suggesting this is potentially a good thing because it'll force people to take electric cars.
It's interesting, isn't it?
They're not fans of Israel.
Israel is now under attack.
Do you think they're really upset about that?
They're not fans of a border because they don't think Americans are that great.
Just look at the 1619 project.
Again, which I break down in incredible detail at Breaking the News in the new book out Tuesday.
You get audio book and however you even have audio CDs.
I think it's nine CDs.
It's a lot of CDs.
So you can get it however you prefer.
But I break down all the falsehoods, all the misinformation that has been allowed by our social media giants, just so long as it helps the globalist leftist corporate narrative.
And that is what we are at war with right now to try to get the truth out.
And they're just one crisis after the next.
And when you see the motivation and the agenda behind why these things are allowed to happen, you'll be able to see much more clearly about the media and about our political landscape at this time.
Thanks for listening and thanks for picking up the book, Breaking the News.
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