The Charlie Kirk Show - Russia, China, Ukraine and the Biden Crime Family with Peter Schweizer
Aired: 2022-02-25
Duration: 33:17


=== Breaking the News Today (13:16) ===

[00:00:00]  I'm Alex Marlow, editor-in-chief of Breitbart News and host of the Breitbart News Daily podcast.
[00:00:04]  I'm also the author of the best-selling book, Breaking the News.
[00:00:07]  And I'm filling in for my good friend Charlie Kirk today.
[00:00:10]  And we have a great hour ahead with Peter Schweitzer, the most important investigative journalist in America.
[00:00:16]  He has a best-selling book out right now on China.
[00:00:19]  But also, you might recall he was the first to unearth the connection between Hunter Biden and Ukraine back so many years ago.
[00:00:25]  And he has a keen understanding of the connection between Putin's Ukraine invasion and the Joe Biden fecklessness.
[00:00:31]  He explains all this.
[00:00:32]  Plus, we get into his book and we reminisce about Andrew Breitbart.
[00:00:35]  All that to come.
[00:00:36]  As Charlie likes to say, here we go.
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[00:01:24]  I'm Alex Marlow, and this is the Charlie Kirk Show.
[00:01:27]  Charlie and I are good friends, and I'm the editor-in-chief of Breitbart News.
[00:01:30]  And I think probably you've heard me on the show a couple of times, but Charlie's been kind enough to allow for me to fill in.
[00:01:34]  And I've been kind enough to fill in on Charlie's request because Charlie do me a solid right now.
[00:01:38]  He's currently at CPAC doing a tribute to my boss and friend, Andrew Breitbart, who hired me 15 years ago to be his first employee of his news Empire, which really was, I believe, the catalyst for the conservative, the modern-day digital conservative movement, of which Charlie, of course, is a major part.
[00:01:54]  And we're still a major part of Breitbart, and as is Salem Radio Network and all the great podcasts that we do.
[00:02:00]  And it is a very cool moment, I think, to be a right-of-center person in media.
[00:02:04]  And it's all thanks to Andrew, who passed away about 10 years ago.
[00:02:08]  10 years ago, exactly.
[00:02:09]  In about a week, we'll have some major tributes at Breitbart.com.
[00:02:12]  And I commend to you the opportunity to learn more about Andrew.
[00:02:15]  He's got a great book called Righteous Indignation you should read.
[00:02:18]  But tune in to see what some of the people who knew him best and learned so much from him say about him next week as tributes pour in.
[00:02:25]  And that is something I can guarantee.
[00:02:26]  It's going to be sensational.
[00:02:27]  And Charlie's already helping me out in that regard already.
[00:02:31]  So again, I'm sure you can find that speech online.
[00:02:34]  Peter Schweitzer will join me in just a few minutes, author of the book Red Handed, Government Accountability Institute, etc.
[00:02:40]  And it does feel like the news is a little bit one note, though, today.
[00:02:44]  And I'm a news junkie by nature.
[00:02:46]  And my favorite thing is talk about what's cutting edge and what's coming up.
[00:02:49]  And I don't like when the establishment media kind of dictates what we talk about.
[00:02:53]  But yet, that is the situation we are in today because of the invasion of Ukraine by Vladimir Putin and Russia.
[00:03:01]  A lot has changed over the last couple of weeks.
[00:03:04]  It did look like a couple of weeks ago that the movement of Russian-backed rebels was pretty much in the same pattern that we've seen over the years in an eight-year-long conflict that's been going on with Russia and Ukraine with these disputed Donbas regions, which are internationally recognized part of Ukraine.
[00:03:22]  Russia disagrees and has long since disagreed.
[00:03:25]  And Russia has now declared two regions there to be new republics and an airstrike rocking some 25 cities last night.
[00:03:34]  We're starting to get some casualty counts.
[00:03:36]  Again, these are subject to change.
[00:03:38]  At least 40 Ukrainians and 50 Russian mercenaries died during the attacks yesterday.
[00:03:43]  Russia is at this time attempting to seize the Chernobyl power plant through recording this, which is quite scary, but yet probably to be expected.
[00:03:51]  Ukraine's declared martial law and is giving citizens guns to try to defend their country.
[00:03:56]  We have all the latest info at Breitbart.com, which I do believe is the best source for news.
[00:04:01]  We're also tracking oil prices, which are at $105.
[00:04:04]  That is the highest in at least nine years or so.
[00:04:06]  It's not quite the highest ever due to inflation, but we might literally see the highest numbers that we've ever seen.
[00:04:12]  And sadly, so much of this is because of the West, because of the mistakes the West made.
[00:04:18]  And we all know everything about Vladimir Putin.
[00:04:21]  We know that he's a bad guy.
[00:04:22]  We all know that he's got an authoritarian streak.
[00:04:24]  We know he's a KGB guy.
[00:04:26]  All of that we know, but we also know that the West and our priorities have just been so backwards.
[00:04:33]  And it starts with the green stuff, the obsession with climate change, and it starts with the denial that there is evil in this world that walks among us.
[00:04:41]  And we do need to be vigilant in opposing it.
[00:04:45]  And occasionally with force and occasionally with strength.
[00:04:48]  And Donald Trump's peace-through-strength foreign policy was pretty much A-plus.
[00:04:53]  And people who are familiar with me, I'm not a Trump sycophant.
[00:04:56]  I'm pretty willing to criticize President Trump on my show, Breitbart News Daily, which is a podcast and also on Sirius XM, every morning, 6 a.m. Eastern Live.
[00:05:05]  And but I'll tell you one thing where it's very hard to criticize him: his foreign policy.
[00:05:09]  And despite all of the talk that he was Putin's puppet, he kept Putin at bay easily, it seems, for four years, with simply because he was, I think, a force of nature.
[00:05:19]  I think that's a big deal.
[00:05:20]  Joe Biden, not so much.
[00:05:22]  Joe Biden has broadcast clearly to the world he does not have any formal plan to sanction Putin, to push back on Putin, and there's very little he intends to do if Putin invades Ukraine.
[00:05:33]  That's been made very clear.
[00:05:35]  And sadly, much of the world community, if not all of the world community, has basically had the exact same policy.
[00:05:46]  The EU is warning that the harshest sanctions are coming.
[00:05:49]  Like, well, where are they?
[00:05:50]  He's already invaded.
[00:05:51]  You guys weren't organized for this?
[00:05:52]  Where were you, EU?
[00:05:53]  Where's the UN?
[00:05:54]  Well, oh, yeah, Russia is actually in charge of the UN Security Council right now.
[00:05:58]  Where's NATO?
[00:05:58]  Well, Ukraine's not in NATO.
[00:06:00]  So are we going to get people to do a hot war halfway around the world over this?
[00:06:03]  No.
[00:06:04]  It does seem like the strategy, as we discussed a little bit last hour, is to divide Zelensky, the president of Ukraine, from his people.
[00:06:11]  And if they are able to do that, it'd be fairly easy for Putin to install a pro-Putin puppet in Ukraine.
[00:06:17]  And that will just be a process of annexing the country.
[00:06:21]  And I think that that is something that is just the path to stop it seems very weak right now.
[00:06:27]  Seems like Putin is on a bit of a glide path at the moment.
[00:06:31]  And it just does not seem like the West has any idea of how to stop him or slow him down.
[00:06:36]  So, again, a good moment to remind everyone that we kind of miss Trump a little bit right now.
[00:06:41]  He would be a good guy to have in the situation.
[00:06:43]  Stocks are also plunging.
[00:06:45]  Some of that is baked in, though, because remember, the top stop stock traders really are, some of the top stock traders really are savvy on this stuff and they see this stuff coming a mile away.
[00:06:56]  So some of the stock prices are down, but maybe not down as much as you think, because I think they people saw this coming and people saw that there was at least a potential for chaos in the region.
[00:07:07]  But when you have countries that are so dependent on Russia, like Germany is for energy, and they've basically crafted their whole economy dependent on Russian buying energy from Russia, then you know you're going to be incredibly vulnerable and you're not really going to be able to do all that much to push back against Russia should they make moves aside from the most absolutely severe moves.
[00:07:32]  There's so much else going on in the world that we just cannot dig into in adequate amount of time, which is one of the things that I find so frustrating about this Russia-Ukraine news cycle is we are forced to talk about it for better or for worse.
[00:07:44]  And I think sometimes for worse.
[00:07:46]  Republicans are pushing right now for transparency in the classroom.
[00:07:49]  I think this has been one of the silver linings of the horrific coronavirus pandemic that we've had that China brought upon us.
[00:07:56]  And it is that parents who are looking over their kids' shoulders, watching them get educated on Zoom, realized they weren't getting reading, writing, and arithmetic.
[00:08:04]  They weren't getting the wisdom of our founding documents and our founding fathers.
[00:08:07]  They weren't getting Judeo-Christian principles and the underpinnings of our society.
[00:08:12]  Those weren't being conveyed to them.
[00:08:13]  We weren't getting the great Enlightenment thinkers.
[00:08:15]  What were people getting?
[00:08:16]  They were getting a lot of Ibram X Kendi and anti-racism and wokeness and critical race theory and all that stuff and the trans ideology, which has just been so rampant.
[00:08:26]  And so parents said, wait a minute, this is bogus.
[00:08:29]  I'm not down with this.
[00:08:31]  And now, all of a sudden, that they want more transparency when it comes to curricula.
[00:08:39]  They want parents to be able to watch the classes.
[00:08:42]  Teachers should be recorded.
[00:08:43]  Every one of them should be recorded and good for parents for standing up.
[00:08:46]  And that is one of the few silver linings of the coronavirus.
[00:08:49]  One of the things that's not a silver lining, one of the brown linings, I guess that's the opposite of silver, is the CDC withholding COVID news, the amount of faith lost in Americans' central institutions, in which I have very little faith anyway in a lot of these places.
[00:09:03]  The CDC has just disgraced itself, every sense of the word.
[00:09:07]  Throughout the whole pandemic, they're now withholding essential information.
[00:09:12]  The United Kingdom now believes it was the lab that created the coronavirus.
[00:09:15]  So it came from the lab after all, after years of everyone denying that that was even a possibility, shaming people who thought perhaps that, you know, that coronavirus virology lab right there in Wuhan might somehow be connected.
[00:09:27]  It wasn't when a pangolin made love to a turtle and then ended up in a soup and the soup was undercooked and then people ate it.
[00:09:34]  That wasn't the nature of the pandemic.
[00:09:36]  It might have just been the manipulation of coronavirus in that lab.
[00:09:39]  Well, now the UK is saying that's a possibility.
[00:09:41]  And why did we cover this up for so long?
[00:09:43]  To protect China, unfortunately, because we have so much big business tied to China and we don't get to spend adequate time on that.
[00:09:50]  We will today with Peter Schweitzer, with Peter on the show.
[00:09:53]  And it is something that it is worth emphasizing over and over and over again.
[00:09:58]  That those of you who have a family member who will still go to school today with a stupid mask, a made-in-China face diaper made of cloth or paper that does absolutely nothing, or for the Source Fund of Freaks monitoring show, close to absolutely nothing.
[00:10:13]  Okay.
[00:10:13]  How about that?
[00:10:14]  That's the caveat I'll give you.
[00:10:15]  It's a these sort of torture that is done to our young people.
[00:10:21]  All this is because of China, and we've completely ignored this.
[00:10:24]  And now we will spend a bunch of time focused on Putin and Russia.
[00:10:27]  And I'm not saying we can't talk about it.
[00:10:29]  I'm not saying we can't talk about it at all.
[00:10:30]  But the fact of the matter is there's a genocide going on in China and we can't talk about that because we're doing the Olympics there and we're focused on Putin.
[00:10:37]  Very, very irritating.
[00:10:39]  You get the full story of Breitbart.com.
[00:10:41]  The balance is there.
[00:10:42]  The Breitbart News Daily Show.
[00:10:44]  I have a great book.
[00:10:44]  I believe it's a great book.
[00:10:45]  It's called Breaking the News.
[00:10:47]  That's out that I recommend to everyone to pick up if you want more analysis and breaking news on why the media is the way it is.
[00:10:53]  All that to come, plus Peter Schweitzer.
[00:10:55]  This is Alex Marlowe in for Charlie.
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[00:11:51]  Red-handed is the book now, sadly, nearly number two in the New York Times bestseller list.
[00:11:56]  Down after three weeks of number one, Peter, congratulations on all the success with the book.
[00:12:01]  But I've been talking a little bit about today with Andrew Breitbart.
[00:12:05]  And you've been a longtime contributor to Breitbart.
[00:12:07]  And one time, you were a big piece editor where you actually headed up our national security and foreign policy coverage.
[00:12:15]  And it's such an amazing tie-in today with what's going on with Russia and Ukraine, because I do think that we can kind of talk a little bit about the news of the day and then segue into the book.
[00:12:25]  But I can't resist.
[00:12:26]  I'm just going right off the top with the big one.
[00:12:28]  Is there any chance there's a Hunter Biden connection to all of this?
[00:12:32]  I think there is a Hunter-Biden connection in a lot of respects.
[00:12:36]  If you look at the fact that when Joe Biden was vice president, Hunter Biden's entire business model was predicated on collecting money from this veritable United Nations of corrupt people.
[00:12:48]  That includes Russian oligarchs.
[00:12:50]  Some of those oligarchs are close to Vladimir Putin.
[00:12:54]  Certainly the money that came from Ukraine, $4 million, certainly the money from China.
[00:12:59]  And the idea that somehow Joe Biden is going to detach himself from the fact that his son is vulnerable, that there is this leverage that these oligarchs have over him, and he's not going to take that into account is just ridiculous.
[00:13:12]  And let's stop pretending that these events are not connected in some way.

=== Magnesium and Rising Stress (02:58) ===

[00:13:16]  And it would make Joe somewhat superhuman.
[00:13:19]  That's why it's not a conspiracy theory, Peter.
[00:13:20]  It's just that if your son is as deeply tied and just deeply implicated with the foreign government and you have the power to single-handedly change our policy with that government, of course you're going to consider it.
[00:13:32]  Any human being would.
[00:13:33]  Low integrity humans would act on it, like Big Joey Biden.
[00:13:36]  But of course, that's going to be a consideration.
[00:13:38]  There's also a timeline issue.
[00:13:41]  And I do want you to go through the timeline of when Hunter was making most of his money in Ukraine and then when Zelensky came into power and why this did not bode well for the Hunter Biden business operations within Ukraine and how this is something that's probably a level of bitterness.
[00:13:58]  And there's lots of evidence that Big Joey Biden is bitter about this, the big guy as he is known.
[00:14:02]  I think the evidence is crystal clear in this front because you see that Big Joey won't even talk to Zelensky, won't even talk to him on the phone.
[00:14:10]  He basically acts like he doesn't exist.
[00:14:12]  And even though I do think the United States will do something to support Ukraine in general, it won't be enough.
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=== Globalism's Rogue Challenges (11:20) ===

[00:16:15]  We were talking about Hunter Biden's perhaps his connection to what's going on with the Russia-Ukraine conflict right now, whether or not he might be influencing President Big Joey.
[00:16:25]  And it was very striking to me how Big Joey, who has announced America's back, has had no ability to navigate the situation diplomatically.
[00:16:32]  Seems like everything he said thus far has egged Putin on and not shown adequate support to Ukraine and not sent the signal to the world.
[00:16:40]  America is a strong player here and is one where you can't help but think of Hunter.
[00:16:46]  Talk about what you're observing as an expert researching the subject matter.
[00:16:50]  No, I think you're exactly right.
[00:16:52]  I mean, the problem is, is that Joe Biden's handling of the situation goes beyond incompetence, if that's possible.
[00:17:01]  And part of the problem are, I believe, these entangling relationships.
[00:17:05]  So look at, for example, his response with these sanctions that have been proposed.
[00:17:11]  They're really not something that Russia is particularly concerned about.
[00:17:16]  The challenge that we're facing is that this war has been started by one man, Vladimir Putin.
[00:17:22]  He's the one that made this decision, not the Russian state, not the Russian government, Vladimir Putin.
[00:17:27]  And so what you want to do is you want to punish Putin.
[00:17:30]  You don't want to just try to punish the Russian government because that really means you're just punishing the Russian people.
[00:17:36]  The problem is, is that we know that Hunter Biden has received millions of dollars from Russian oligarchs, some of whom are connected to Vladimir Putin.
[00:17:45]  The most effective way you could hamstring Putin would be to put sanctions on Russian oligarchs, those that have massive holdings in the West.
[00:17:56]  And the reason is simple, Alex.
[00:17:58]  Everybody who observes and follows Russia knows those oligarchs are holding money for Vladimir Putin.
[00:18:06]  You need to seize the assets of these pro-Kremlin oligarchs that are operating out of London, the United States, Israel, Western Europe.
[00:18:14]  The problem is, I don't think we're going to slap sanctions on those people because some of those people have done business deals with Hunter Biden.
[00:18:21]  And they no doubt probably have very embarrassing material on Joe Biden's one and only living son.
[00:18:28]  Wow.
[00:18:29]  And this is so remarkable because I think that Putin, who is a much better chess player geopolitically than pretty much anyone other than perhaps Xi Jinping at this point, which again, I'm not complimenting either policies.
[00:18:41]  I detest them as human beings, but I'm just saying in terms of the realities of how power is wielded on this planet, they're much better at it than anyone in this country at this moment.
[00:18:51]  And I do see when Joe Biden makes statements like that, it's one thing if it's a minor incursion and then we might end up having a fight about what to do or not to do.
[00:19:02]  He's so wishy-washy.
[00:19:03]  This to me sends a signal to Putin that he gets a free shot on goal and he can do what he wants and we're going to just react to it.
[00:19:10]  We don't have a plan.
[00:19:11]  We don't have contingencies in place, let alone the EU and the UN and NATO, which are all, I mean, one of the UN ambassadors was saying for Putin to give peace a chance.
[00:19:22]  It's insane.
[00:19:24]  It's like a joke.
[00:19:25]  These are not serious people.
[00:19:26]  And as much as I admire what Vladimir Zelensky is trying to do, I do think he's trying to bring democracy.
[00:19:31]  I do think he's not an oligarch.
[00:19:33]  I think he's got best intentions.
[00:19:34]  He is not able to, I think, marshal any sort of support for himself on the world stage, whether that's his fault or not.
[00:19:41]  It just seems to be the reality.
[00:19:43]  And we're just giving Putin free passes.
[00:19:45]  And Big Joey Biden is a huge part of this.
[00:19:48]  No, I think you're right.
[00:19:49]  I mean, the two fatal flaws in, and there are others, but two that I will mention in the communication strategy of Joe Biden in this is number one, the vagueness.
[00:20:00]  He's been vague from the beginning, just talking in general terms that people aren't going to like it if you go into Ukraine.
[00:20:06]  You have to be explicit.
[00:20:07]  I'm not saying you have to do it publicly, but you have to be explicit.
[00:20:11]  If you cross the border into Ukraine, here is what we are going to do to you.
[00:20:16]  And they better be very serious things.
[00:20:18]  There's no evidence that was ever done.
[00:20:20]  The second problem is, and it's the same thing coming out of Europe, is this emphasis on communicating moral condemnation.
[00:20:28]  If you do this, you will be a wretched world leader.
[00:20:33]  Well, you know, news to Joe Biden and the leaders of Europe.
[00:20:36]  Vladimir Putin doesn't care what your opinion is of him.
[00:20:39]  Yes, exactly.
[00:20:40]  It's an ineffective strategy.
[00:20:42]  I mean, I've known people in my life, they didn't care at all what other people thought about them.
[00:20:48]  So you can't get them to reconsider a decision by saying people will look poorly upon you because of this.
[00:20:56]  That's, I think, you know, the situation that we're in.
[00:20:59]  And this has been the approach that Joe Biden has used pretty much his entire professional life.
[00:21:05]  When he was a senator, you know, he met with Putin back in 2001, 2002, you know, and he thought he would flatter him.
[00:21:11]  He compared Putin to Peter the Great, who was going to modernize Russia.
[00:21:16]  Vladimir Putin doesn't care.
[00:21:17]  He doesn't care what he thinks.
[00:21:19]  Same thing when he was vice president.
[00:21:20]  And it's important to point out here on this, the vagueness for all the criticism that people could level at Donald Trump and the things that he would tweet about and the things that he would say.
[00:21:32]  Let's note, Vladimir Putin has moved into Ukraine under two administrations, the Obama administration in 2014.
[00:21:40]  He skipped the Trump administration and now with the Biden administration as well.
[00:21:45]  And the reason is for any criticism you want to lodge against Donald Trump, he emitted strength.
[00:21:51]  And even if there was a certain unpredictability with what he would do, the fear was that unpredictability could mean he would really go after you aggressively.
[00:22:01]  And that deterred Vladimir Putin.
[00:22:02]  Now, we do not have any of that with Joe Biden.
[00:22:06]  Yeah, we certainly don't.
[00:22:07]  And it is striking to see how Biden has been kind of a hard nose on Ukraine, not on Russia over the years.
[00:22:15]  And again, Trump was portrayed as Putin's puppet, but look at what happened with Putin under with the Trump regime or the Trump administration.
[00:22:22]  Nothing.
[00:22:22]  Nothing happened.
[00:22:23]  It's a, you know, Trump deserves lots and lots of credit for his foreign policy, as I've been saying on the show.
[00:22:30]  It is striking, though, that this media that is starting to increasingly fetishize authoritarianism when it comes to China, and you write about this deeply in red-handed, one of the most horrifying themes throughout the book, among many themes, is how a lot of our oligarchs here in America, namely big tech and Hollywood, they're very impressed with how Xi Jinping wields power and how efficient he is.
[00:22:53]  Well, that's the nature of dictatorships.
[00:22:55]  We're noting here, Peter, as we're having this conversation live, that there's hundreds of protests that are breaking out in Russia to protest war because they don't really want to go to war right now.
[00:23:04]  The people don't necessarily want to do it.
[00:23:06]  Who cares?
[00:23:06]  It doesn't make a difference because Putin is a dictator, essentially.
[00:23:10]  And that means that he is, you know, their sham elections.
[00:23:14]  So about, right?
[00:23:15]  I mean, exactly the same, but it's basically the same.
[00:23:18]  And he doesn't care about that at all.
[00:23:20]  He's got, he sees red.
[00:23:21]  He sees the former Soviet Union getting rekindled over time and through a process, but the process begins now.
[00:23:28]  Yeah, no, exactly.
[00:23:29]  And, you know, I noted Breitbart has a story up, which I sort of think is a classic of the sort of thing we're talking about.
[00:23:36]  It involves John Kerry and his comments about the Russian invasion of Ukraine, where he laments the human toll.
[00:23:45]  But then he goes on to say, let's not take our eye off the ball of climate change.
[00:23:50]  That's right.
[00:23:52]  And this is a guy, by the way, who in the past has said doing climate deals with China might be easier than it would be with other countries because it does have a dictatorial regime.
[00:24:03]  But they're falling into this common trap, which is they feel like somehow Vladimir Putin and President Xi of China have common values with them.
[00:24:15]  They, John Kerry, is concerned about climate change.
[00:24:19]  Putin says he's concerned about climate change.
[00:24:22]  Ergo, he's going to act on climate change.
[00:24:25]  Guess what?
[00:24:26]  As Ukraine should show us, these guys lie.
[00:24:29]  They lie all the time because they don't have political opponents and they don't have an independent media to hold them in check.
[00:24:36]  But they don't seem to learn that lesson.
[00:24:39]  And what we have to be cognizant of now is the very real reality that this may be an opening for China to potentially move on Taiwan or take other aggressive actions.
[00:24:50]  They see, they smell the weakness in the air and they may see this as an opportunity.
[00:24:55]  You know, and it's also notable that they moved on Hong Kong just because we were all distracted by the coronavirus and we all kind of just watched it happen and we watched it play out and we were horrified and nothing was done.
[00:25:05]  And of course, China has designs on Taiwan.
[00:25:08]  All of this is just so dark, Peter.
[00:25:10]  And one of the things that bothers me the most is how interconnected we all are.
[00:25:16]  Because when the globalist experiment gets extended to its logical end, when we have this sort of one world system that we increasingly have, it really does favor the people who are the most ruthless with power.
[00:25:32]  And when you've got Putin and Xi Jinping cutting deals around the world, Xi Jinping is essentially colonizing Africa right now.
[00:25:39]  And we're not only letting them do it, Bill Gates is actively helping.
[00:25:42]  You write about this very powerfully and red-handed.
[00:25:44]  But look at what Putin's doing is Putin, do you think he's intimidated by Russia shutting down?
[00:25:48]  I'm sorry, by Germany shutting down a pipeline temporarily?
[00:25:51]  He's intimidated.
[00:25:52]  Germany's completely dependent.
[00:25:53]  The German people will be so frustrated with their own government if they get the Russian energy slowed, the delivery to Germany.
[00:26:01]  Yeah, I mean, this is a brilliant point that you're making that we have to highlight because the whole premise behind globalism was if we are engaging in trade and commerce, these sort of semi-rogue or rogue countries like Russia or China will become more wedded towards us.
[00:26:20]  They'll become less aggressive.
[00:26:22]  Actually, the opposite's happened.
[00:26:24]  Look at the situation in Europe right now.
[00:26:26]  So the idea is we're going to wed Russia to Europe by setting up these gas pipelines and creating this lucrative European market for Russia.
[00:26:35]  The theory is this is going to mean Russia is not going to want to invade because they don't want to lose the market.
[00:26:41]  The opposite's happened.
[00:26:42]  Europe does not want to give up Russian gas.
[00:26:46]  It has not deterred Russia.
[00:26:47]  It has deterred the weak European democracies from taking strong action when they need to.
[00:26:55]  So, you know, they send a couple of helmets to Ukraine rather than military equipment because they don't want to have the gas shut off.
[00:27:01]  Or now they say we're going to delay the Nord Stream pipeline, which, by the way, isn't supposed to be certified till this summer anyway.
[00:27:08]  So all that this globalism has done is given these autocrats, these authoritarians, leverage over these weak, vassal democracies in the West that are fearful of doing anything of offending these powers.
[00:27:23]  Globalism has not only failed, it's ended up doing the opposite of what it was supposed to do.
[00:27:31]  Look, everybody, I know you love freedom and you want to defend it.
[00:27:34]  And I know you love the Constitution.

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[00:28:52]  And I want to ask you about Andrew Breitbart, who you were one of the first employees, at least first 10 employees.
[00:28:58]  I was the first, of course, which will be on my epitaph, I'm sure, at some point.
[00:29:04]  But tell me about what drew you to Andrew, because you are, you do have a great sense of humor and you're a fun guy, but you're a very serious journalist.
[00:29:13]  And Andrew was, you know, half jocularity, half righteous indignation.
[00:29:18]  It is, you're generally neither of those things.
[00:29:21]  And what made you think this is the guy I want to ride this horse into the sunset?
[00:29:25]  And you have just really done an amazing job taking the baton from him in a lot of ways.
[00:29:32]  Well, I appreciate that.
[00:29:33]  I mean, I look at the success that I've had and a lot of it, I think, was something that Andrew really made happen because I learned a lot from Andrew.
[00:29:42]  You're right.
[00:29:42]  I mean, we're different in a lot of ways.
[00:29:45]  Andrew always acknowledged that.
[00:29:46]  I always acknowledged that.
[00:29:47]  But I was drawn to Andrew because, and it's a description that you gets overused way too much.
[00:29:54]  But in Andrew's case, it absolutely applied.
[00:29:57]  He was the happy warrior.
[00:29:59]  He was the consummate happy warrior.
[00:30:01]  I loved the fact that he was uncompromising.
[00:30:05]  He didn't care if it was the biggest person in the bar, if that person was engaging in something corrupt.
[00:30:11]  He was going to throw a chair at that guy and he was going to fight him.
[00:30:14]  That takes enormous courage, but he wasn't an angry, bitter man.
[00:30:20]  He was fun to be with.
[00:30:21]  He was humorous.
[00:30:23]  He understood his own limitations.
[00:30:25]  When he hired me to handle Big Peace and National Security, I remember him telling me now, let's just be clear, that's not a strength of mine.
[00:30:32]  So I'm expecting you to kind of run with the baton.
[00:30:35]  Very few people that are editing publications that big will be that candid with you, but Andrew was like that.
[00:30:41]  So it was his spirit.
[00:30:43]  It was the fact that it didn't matter who was needing to be called out, who was doing something wrong.
[00:30:49]  He encouraged me to do it.
[00:30:51]  And I'm just thankful for the spirit that he left me with and that I still like to carry today.
[00:30:59]  And you certainly do.
[00:31:00]  And the Government Accountability Institute is doing, I believe, the most important research in the world right now.
[00:31:06]  And you are taking on targets that a lot of people would be afraid to take on.
[00:31:12]  Not just, you know, Mitch McConnell and people like that who are wield unfathomable amounts of power and also deep ties to China, but also people who are kind of who are throughout the Republican establishment and people who could otherwise be friends of yours and perhaps give you donations, Peter, to support your research.
[00:31:28]  But you take these people right on because they deserve it.
[00:31:31]  And this is exactly the integrity the conservative movement needs.
[00:31:35]  And it does, frankly, start with Andrew.
[00:31:37]  No, it does.
[00:31:38]  And in fact, that reminds me of another thing that Andrew offered me insight to, which I thought was very powerful, is I haven't lived in Washington, D.C. since the mid-1990s.
[00:31:48]  And of course, Andrew always lived in LA.
[00:31:50]  That's where his home was.
[00:31:52]  And I remember him telling me, look, I can take on all these people in Washington, D.C., because they're not my friends.
[00:31:59]  They're not my neighbors.
[00:32:01]  Andrew was a very loyal guy.
[00:32:04]  So if he was your friend, you know, he would be torn up if you were doing something that he, so his way of avoiding that was, I'm just not going to really be friends with a lot of people in the political class.
[00:32:14]  And I've done the same thing.
[00:32:15]  I've lived in Florida, and that was a valuable lesson I've learned from him.
[00:32:18]  And it does allow you to do these things.
[00:32:21]  You know, it's a lot easier to throw rocks a thousand miles away than throw a rock at somebody across the street.
[00:32:28]  It helps keep you honest.
[00:32:30]  It helps keeps you focused.
[00:32:32]  And that's one of the things that Andrew, you know, taught me as well.
[00:32:35]  Peter Schweitzer, The Drill Down Podcast, The Red Handed Book, any of Peter's books are must reads, and most of them are bestsellers.
[00:32:41]  And the most recent few have been number one bestsellers.
[00:32:44]  My book is Breaking the News, also a New York Times bestseller.
[00:32:46]  If you guys want to check that out, I think it provides a lot of detail around what is happening throughout the country at this time in terms of our media missing so many of the big stories and continue to try to convince the public to follow their agenda and not actually report what really matters.
[00:33:01]  To all of you, Breitbart.com all day, every day.
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[00:33:06]  And thanks again to Charlie Kirk for letting me fill in.
[00:33:08]  I'm Alex Marlow and thanks for listening.
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