The Charlie Kirk Show - Ask Charlie Anything 97: Joe Biden's SCOTUS Pick, Why Putin and Xi Cheer on American Wokeism, Should Ukraine be a NATO Member? and MORE
Aired: 2022-02-28
Duration: 36:52


=== Jackson's Supreme Court Nomination (10:17) ===

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[00:01:12]  Alex from Ohio says, Charlie, can you explain or elaborate on Joe Biden's Supreme Court pick?
[00:01:20]  So in the midst of all this, as Ukraine is being invaded, and we've spent a considerable amount of warranted time on that, by the way, there's a lot happening in our own country that we cannot and should not lose sight of.
[00:01:34]  So Joe Biden, in the midst of all this, suspiciously decides to just announce his Supreme Court pick while all this is happening.
[00:01:42]  And so it is a woman, a black woman, as he promised, by the name of Katanji Brown Jackson.
[00:01:48]  And so far, there are many people that are very happy about this.
[00:01:53]  On the left, the Foxnews.com article says Katanji Brown Jackson's nomination to the Supreme Court delights progressives.
[00:02:01]  She was a public defender, and we're diving into her background.
[00:02:05]  She's described as a rather progressive individual.
[00:02:07]  We don't have a lot of evidence to show that yet.
[00:02:10]  I'm sure it's there, but the media is not really diving into her.
[00:02:13]  But I guarantee you in the next coming days and weeks, there will be oppo-dump after oppo-dump of everything that she has said before.
[00:02:20]  But here's a couple right here.
[00:02:21]  In 2019, she used the Russian collusion hoax as an excuse to justify mandating that former White House counsel Don McCann testify before the House Judiciary Committee.
[00:02:32]  More than two decades ago, Briar Apprentice penned and she was at that Briar Appendix penned an amicus brief for the National Abortion Rights League, NARAL, and other organizations that kill babies in the womb in support of a Democrat-backed law that prevented pro-life protesters from congregating outside abortion facilities.
[00:02:51]  Continues, Corey Bush, who is a radical anti-American leftist from Missouri, says this, quote, 233 years.
[00:02:59]  That's how long we've waited to have a black woman nominated to the Supreme Court.
[00:03:03]  Judge Katanji Brown Jackson is a former public defender with a record of standing up for justice.
[00:03:10]  There are no words to describe how my soul is moved by witnessing her nomination.
[00:03:14]  Now, let's just stop here.
[00:03:15]  First of all, what is a woman?
[00:03:17]  I want to ask Corey Bush, what is a woman?
[00:03:21]  Why does it matter?
[00:03:22]  I thought womanhood is completely went up.
[00:03:24]  According to Corey Bush, men can become pregnant.
[00:03:28]  The same people that are celebrating Katanji Brown Jackson coming to the Supreme Court should remind themselves that Clarence Thomas is also on the Supreme Court.
[00:03:39]  One of only two black men, if I remember correctly, two black men ever to serve on the United States Supreme Court.
[00:03:44]  Yet it's complete silence from the left on that.
[00:03:46]  Interesting.
[00:03:47]  Carrie Severino, president of the conservative group Judicial Crisis Network, says, quote, she's someone who has a record of being regularly overturned by the D.C. Circuit, including the most liberal judges on that circuit.
[00:03:58]  Now, she doesn't have a long opinion record.
[00:04:02]  However, it's very clear that she's a progressive and progressives are embracing her with open arms.
[00:04:07]  Basically, everything this woman has authored before she came to this DC circuit was always overturned.
[00:04:12]  And since she was confirmed, despite hearing arguments September, she has yet to author an opinion and she's still the nominee.
[00:04:18]  So they just don't want a long record that could get, let's say, stalled or delayed or have a potential moment where this becomes more controversial for them than it needs to be.
[00:04:30]  Adam Herman says, quote, I don't know anything about her, but a public defender ascended to the Supreme Court is a pretty big deal.
[00:04:36]  Seems great.
[00:04:37]  Now, Judge Katenji Jackson, according to the Eli Stocles, says she'll be the first black female justice, third black justice, and the first public defender.
[00:04:48]  Now, why race matters into how you interpret constitutional decisions is beyond me.
[00:04:53]  It doesn't matter anything at all.
[00:04:54]  No matter who you are, matters who you are.
[00:04:57]  It matters your opinion of constitutional law, your character, your soul, and your spirit.
[00:05:03]  So far, every single Democrat senator has backed Jackson's confirmation to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia in June of 2021, including more moderate members such as Joe Manchin and Kirsten Sinema.
[00:05:15]  She also got votes, of course, from Lindsey Graham, Lisa Murkowski, and Susan Collins, while 47 Republicans voted against her.
[00:05:23]  Murkowski told Alaska Public Media, quote, there's a tangible difference between being on lower courts and then the Supreme Court.
[00:05:30]  Collins told ABC News that, quote, she would certainly give her consideration if she was nominated, but she wouldn't commit to supporting her.
[00:05:37]  Lindsey Graham has been a vocal proponent of another contender for the nomination, U.S. Judge J. Michelle Childs.
[00:05:45]  However, and he signaled Friday he may not support Jackson, saying her nomination over Childs, quote, says, means the radical left has won President Biden over again.
[00:05:52]  So Lindsey Graham, as you might remember, a couple weeks ago, came out and said this absurd statement, we need the court to look more like America or whatever.
[00:06:00]  And he was really excited about Judge J. Michelle Childs, who went to the University of South Carolina.
[00:06:06]  Now, if Joe Biden was smart, which he isn't, he would have nominated this person that Lindsey Graham liked, and he would have gotten the votes necessary, and this would have been really non-controversial.
[00:06:16]  Of course, we would have rolled Lindsey Graham for that.
[00:06:19]  Now, Juliana Michelle Childs, she serves as a district judge in South Carolina.
[00:06:26]  She went to the University of South Carolina Law School, and she was a frontrunner, but not the selection.
[00:06:33]  The selection right now is Katenji.
[00:06:36]  Now, Biden is doubling down on this right now.
[00:06:39]  He's saying this is a historic day, and he might just have to pass it on a 50-vote threshold.
[00:06:43]  And that is becoming more and more fragile.
[00:06:46]  Now, why Biden chose today of all days, as Kiev is being under control?
[00:06:51]  Now, I'm going to stay consistent, though.
[00:06:53]  America matters a lot more than Ukraine in the sense of what we should care about.
[00:06:56]  I'm not saying that it matters more for Ukrainians.
[00:06:59]  You should always care about your own country.
[00:07:00]  You should know the limitations of your power and have the humility to do that.
[00:07:04]  And so, as we look at what is happening in Ukraine, which Joe Biden only wanted to talk about Ukraine until Ukraine gets invaded, then he's like, I don't want to talk about Ukraine.
[00:07:14]  He did like press conference after press conference about Russia, Russia, Russia, Ukraine, Ukraine.
[00:07:17]  Ukraine gets invaded.
[00:07:18]  He's like, how about a Supreme Court pick?
[00:07:22]  Kentanji Jackson is a Democrat partisan, having worked for Obama's presidential campaign as a poll monitor and donated to Obama.
[00:07:30]  Jackson is a registered Democrat.
[00:07:31]  Her and her husband donated $1,600 to Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign.
[00:07:37]  She also blocked President Trump's executive orders to hold failing federal accountable, failing federal employees accountable, a decision that the D.C. circuit unanimously reversed.
[00:07:47]  And Jackson blocked the Trump administration for expanding its quote expedited removal program to deport illegal immigrants faster, absurdly saying the DHS does not have considerable impact on illegal immigrants.
[00:07:57]  Oh, we don't consider the impact on foreigners breaking into our country.
[00:08:02]  A liberal immigrant group applauded Jackson because she refused to use the term alien or illegal immigrant in her opinions.
[00:08:09]  In 2015, Jackson ruled in favor of Hillary Clinton aide Felipe Rines, shielding him from having to explain why he used a private email account for work.
[00:08:19]  Jackson worked as a lawyer for several terrorists.
[00:08:21]  So then they say, oh, yeah, she's a public defender.
[00:08:23]  Okay, for who?
[00:08:24]  Public defender for like wrongly accused people in Detroit?
[00:08:28]  No, no, no.
[00:08:28]  She was a public defender for terrorists in Gitmo, including a Taliban intelligence officer who was likely a leader of a terrorist cell.
[00:08:37]  Oh, okay.
[00:08:38]  Jackson's advocacy for these terrorists was zealous, going beyond just giving them a competent defense.
[00:08:46]  Despite Jackson's claims that she did not get to choose her clients as a public defender, she continued to advocate for Gitmo terrorists when she went into private practice.
[00:08:54]  So I actually have nothing against public defenders.
[00:08:56]  I feel sorry for a lot of them.
[00:08:57]  They have really tough cases.
[00:08:58]  Their pay is garbage.
[00:09:00]  They have to represent some scumbags, honestly, that are not able to afford or no lawyer wants to represent them.
[00:09:06]  And so these lawyers have to sometimes really kind of push the boundaries of representing people that have done really, really bad things.
[00:09:12]  But doing it with a zealous fervor and going beyond that and then advocating for Gitmo clients after you do that, I don't think you should be on the United States Supreme Court if you advocate with ferocity for terrorists that were the Taliban intelligence officer, likely the leader of a terrorist cell, and spent some time in Gitmo.
[00:09:37]  That is a beginning introduction into Judge Katanji Brown Jackson.
[00:09:43]  They want her to become the 116th Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court.
[00:09:49]  She's represented terrorists enthusiastically.
[00:09:52]  Again, I do not hold it against public defenders if they get clients that they disagree with, that they just represent.
[00:09:58]  But if you continue to do that post your career, post at that time there, that's something you should absolutely be held accountable for.
[00:10:05]  This is not a flip seat, but I'm going to venture a guess.
[00:10:08]  This is going to be a little bit rockier than I think Joe Biden might have anticipated.
[00:10:13]  We'll see if Mansion and Cinema go along.

=== Sanctions Impact on Energy Prices (09:06) ===

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[00:12:01]  Okay, let's get to some more questions here.
[00:12:03]  Let's get to Larry from Toledo.
[00:12:05]  Charlie, how does what's happening in Ukraine impact America and America freedoms?
[00:12:11]  So that's a very interesting and important question.
[00:12:13]  The answer is it really doesn't.
[00:12:15]  And it might impact American energy prices.
[00:12:17]  It might impact inflation slightly.
[00:12:20]  The media says that that's going to be blamed for inflation.
[00:12:23]  No, it's the $6 trillion we created out of thin air.
[00:12:26]  But we got to also understand that this is not something that impacts the day-to-day lives of many Americans.
[00:12:32]  I'm not saying we should not talk about it.
[00:12:36]  Obviously, we've talked about it a lot.
[00:12:37]  Let's not say we shouldn't ask how we got here.
[00:12:39]  Humans are suffering.
[00:12:41]  People are suffering right now under the totality of Vladimir Putin's regime.
[00:12:52]  But it's not something that is going to directly impact our own country.
[00:12:58]  Tom Cotton says, how about we impose sanctions on Russia oil and gas sectors, but lift all restrictions on American oil and gas?
[00:13:06]  Tom Cotton brings up a great point, which is, why are we sanctioning ourselves and allowing oil and gas to flow from Russia?
[00:13:13]  That's a logical question.
[00:13:14]  Play cut 60.
[00:13:16]  Joe Biden's reckless energy policies have already driven up the price of oil and gas over the last year.
[00:13:22]  So even he and his administration is admitting they don't want to impose oil and gas sanctions on Russia because they're afraid it's going to add to the inflation they've already created.
[00:13:32]  Well, how about we impose those sanctions, but we lift all those restrictions on the production of American oil and gas so we can start drilling on federal lands again and putting out new leases so we can reopen the Keystone Pipeline, which would bring more oil into America every day from Canada than we import every day from Russia.
[00:13:49]  Tom Cotton is spot on here, which is, wait a second, why are we restricting our own energy exploration while allowing the country we're supposed to hate to be able to do whatever they want?
[00:14:00]  What's the thought process behind that?
[00:14:02]  Biden deputy national security director Dalip Singh says, quote, our sanctions are not designed to cause any disruption to the current flow of energy from Russia to the world.
[00:14:12]  So as Greta Thunberg and Leonardo DiCaprio and AOC started to capture the entire energy policy of the Western world, Putin took advantage.
[00:14:23]  Putin mercilessly and aggressively expanded his oil and natural gas capacity, pipelines, and so on and so forth.
[00:14:32]  Why we did not sign a deal with Germany for our own LNG is beyond me.
[00:14:36]  Now, it might have been a logistical issue.
[00:14:37]  I mean, it is 4,000 miles away.
[00:14:39]  If that's the case, I'm sure there could have been another solution other than buying the oil and natural gas from Russia.
[00:14:47]  Play Cut 59.
[00:14:48]  To be clear, our sanctions are not designed to cause any disruption to the current flow of energy from Russia to the world.
[00:14:56]  They do not want any disruption for Russia.
[00:15:00]  Then what exactly are we doing here?
[00:15:01]  What kind of sanctions are we putting in place here?
[00:15:05]  We have another question here that is similar, which is, Charlie, if it's not going to...
[00:15:14]  They respond to this whole thing.
[00:15:16]  It's Paul from South Dakota.
[00:15:18]  Charlie, if we're not going to put sanctions, if we're putting it on sanctions and it doesn't impact them, what are we doing here?
[00:15:23]  And that really is the answer.
[00:15:24]  Joe Biden has removed the full ability to hold adversaries like Russia accountable because Joe Biden actually wants to get rid of fossil fuels.
[00:15:34]  He does.
[00:15:35]  He said it.
[00:15:35]  He campaigned on it.
[00:15:37]  In fact, Joe Biden made it a core promise of his campaign.
[00:15:42]  Play Cut 18.
[00:15:44]  But kiddo, I want you to just take a look, okay?
[00:15:48]  You don't have to agree, but I want you to look in my eyes.
[00:15:52]  I guarantee you, I guarantee you, we're going to end fossil fuel.
[00:15:56]  And I am not going to talk.
[00:15:59]  It plays right into the hands of our adversaries.
[00:16:02]  Putin was cheering for Biden to become president because energy is everything.
[00:16:07]  We take it so much for granted.
[00:16:08]  We're worried about such ridiculous things.
[00:16:10]  Systemic racism and climate change.
[00:16:12]  When countries that have been through brutal times and have to suffer through some really difficult winters, energy is everything.
[00:16:19]  Energy is life.
[00:16:20]  It's energy, food, safety, energy, food, safety.
[00:16:23]  And because America is so energy dominant, we've never really had an energy crisis in our generation.
[00:16:28]  Post-1970s, when we had the Iranian hostage, Iranian hostage crisis alongside the oil embargo that was executed back then.
[00:16:35]  We've had it nice.
[00:16:35]  Low, cheap oil, big SUVs, do whatever we want to do.
[00:16:40]  And green energy policies and the environmentalists, the radical environmentalists, the keep-it in the ground type, the Bernie Sanders people laid the groundwork, reshaped the entire paradigm.
[00:16:53]  For now, what is happening?
[00:16:55]  To be more blunt, people are dying because we had environmental ideology prioritized more than American energy dominance.
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=== Chinese Espionage and NATO Borders (10:48) ===

[00:19:23]  Eric from Norman, Oklahoma, Charlie, just found out that the Biden Department of Justice ended a Trump-era program designed to target Chinese spies infiltrating our universities.
[00:19:33]  They said it made universities less competitive.
[00:19:35]  Why did they do this?
[00:19:36]  I'm so angry right now, and I need you to explain to me why they would do this.
[00:19:39]  Do they intentionally want China to spy on us?
[00:19:42]  Politico.com, Department of Justice shuts down China-focused anti-espionage program.
[00:19:50]  The China initiative is being cast aside largely because of perceptions that unfairly painted Chinese Americans and U.S. residents of China origins as disloyal.
[00:20:01]  The Biden administration is shutting down a Justice Department program that focused on countering Chinese espionage following stumblings in a series of criminal cases and accusations that it accounted that amounted to racial profiling.
[00:20:13]  Officials said Wednesday that the three-year effort, known as the China Initiative, was being cast aside because of perceptions that it unfairly painted Chinese Americans.
[00:20:20]  Okay, let me ask you a question.
[00:20:21]  How could you possibly counter Chinese espionage without going after Chinese Americans or Chinese people?
[00:20:28]  It's impossible.
[00:20:29]  It's by definition, you have to profile Chinese people.
[00:20:33]  It's a counter effort of the Chinese Communist Party.
[00:20:36]  It's not even about, it's not about race, by the way.
[00:20:39]  It's about nationality.
[00:20:40]  It's about a counter-espionage network.
[00:20:43]  I'm going to say this as nicely as I can.
[00:20:46]  Nicaraguans are not trying to infiltrate the United States university system.
[00:20:51]  They say it's racial profiling.
[00:20:53]  Well, no, it's a countermeasure.
[00:20:54]  So let me get this straight.
[00:20:56]  If China dropped bombs on America, or I don't know, released a virus on the entire world that resulted in over 750,000 deaths, and I should dare I say needless deaths, many of them, an entire lockdown craze and all of this.
[00:21:10]  And we're like, you know what?
[00:21:11]  Actually, the problem with holding China accountable is you might profile Chinese people as being held accountable.
[00:21:19]  We are not a serious nation when we do things like this at all.
[00:21:23]  And it is because of a different virus, a virus of wokeism and political correctness.
[00:21:31]  One of the reasons, and this is important, that I said we should stay out of Ukraine is we do not have the cultural stomach to fight a war right now.
[00:21:39]  No way.
[00:21:41]  We shut down a counter-espionage operation because we're afraid that we're going to be triggering Chinese Americans for racially profiling them, even though the entire part of the project is to, by definition, find Chinese people that might be infiltrating our country.
[00:21:59]  And there's dozens of examples of this, by the way, of the Chinese Communist Party intentionally trying to infiltrate and trying to take advantage of America.
[00:22:11]  For example, Franklin Tao, a University of Kansas chemical engineering professor, who faces trial next month for espionage.
[00:22:20]  Harvard Chemistry Department, Charles Lieber, was found guilty of making false statements to federal officials, as well as filing false tax returns, found him guilty.
[00:22:30]  So there's been a lot of progress made by the Department of Justice doing actually what they're supposed to do to find the flow of money and the flow of information coming into America on behalf of China.
[00:22:43]  So China is going to read this from Politico and their jaws are going to drop to the ground, which goes to this point.
[00:22:50]  Who are going to be the biggest cheerleaders, advocates of American wokeism?
[00:22:58]  Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping.
[00:23:01]  Vladimir Putin spends $45 billion a year on his military.
[00:23:05]  China, I think, spends around $50 billion a year on their military.
[00:23:09]  Xi Ji Ping and Vladimir Putin are going to realize that instead of building new missiles and tanks, any dollars spent to advance American wokeism is the greatest investment to have America commit suicide.
[00:23:24]  To disassemble a domestic law enforcement operation against Chinese spies because we're worried that it's going to target Chinese people, which of course it will target Chinese people.
[00:23:36]  It's about the Chinese Communist Party.
[00:23:39]  Just goes to show the strength that American wokeism has been able to amass.
[00:23:45]  Okay, let's get to the next question here.
[00:23:49]  Charlie, what's the latest out of Ukraine?
[00:23:50]  I'm seeing conflicting reports.
[00:23:52]  Well, depending on when you listen to this, because this is going to be playing throughout the day and also in podcast, Ukraine official claims Russian troops have suffered nearly 3,000 casualties and lost hundreds of military vehicles.
[00:24:06]  Now, casualties can mean severe injuries and also death.
[00:24:09]  So that does not mean all of them are death.
[00:24:12]  All that is death.
[00:24:13]  It says the Ukrainian government has claimed that Russia has suffered 3,000 troop casualties and lost 516 kinds of different various vehicles, 80 tanks, 10 airplanes, and seven helicopters.
[00:24:23]  The announcement came 3 p.m. local time.
[00:24:26]  Well, let me say this.
[00:24:28]  One thing that I am personally learning in my very pedestrian knowledge of international military strength, but looking at things, basically consuming information 10 to 12 hours a day on this stuff, which is Russia's military is nowhere nearly as strong as they postured it to be.
[00:24:45]  If they wanted Kiev, it should be an afternoon operation.
[00:24:49]  They can't control the sky over Ukraine.
[00:24:52]  Vladimir Putin's military is nowhere near as strong as he pretended it to be.
[00:24:58]  I'm not saying that they're weak.
[00:24:59]  I'm not saying that they're throwing the best.
[00:25:00]  We don't know.
[00:25:01]  We don't know if they're throwing all their assets.
[00:25:02]  We don't know if they're truly diving deep into their reserves.
[00:25:08]  Estimates show that Russia has allocated one-third of all of their troops going into Ukraine.
[00:25:16]  It's becoming increasingly clear that Vladimir Putin wanted to do this quickly.
[00:25:23]  You do not send one-third of your entire military somewhere if you're just kind of a casual operation.
[00:25:29]  He might have to throw even more at it.
[00:25:32]  The latest figures appear to confirm what Marco Rubio, vice chair of the U.S. Senate Select Committee, relayed on Thursday, stating that the Russian conquest of Ukraine was taking longer than Russian Vladimir Putin expected.
[00:25:42]  Quote, Russian invasion has already taken long and has been costlier than Putin expected.
[00:25:46]  Almost certain his military and intelligence leaders knew this ahead of time, but no one dared tell him his expectations were unrealistic.
[00:25:53]  Next question here.
[00:25:54]  Charlie, what is NATO and why does it matter?
[00:25:57]  Is Ukraine part of NATO and should it be?
[00:25:59]  I keep hearing it brought up in the media, but I am confused.
[00:26:02]  Okay, so NATO is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, also called the North Atlantic Alliance.
[00:26:08]  NATO was founded on April 4th, 1949.
[00:26:11]  It's headquartered in Brussels, Belgium, and it is spread amongst many member countries.
[00:26:17]  Ukraine is not part of NATO.
[00:26:19]  There are 28 European countries and two North American countries.
[00:26:22]  It was established in the aftermath of World War II, and the organization implements the North Atlantic Treating Organization, was signed on the 4th of April, 1949.
[00:26:32]  NATO's cardinal sin was the Bush administration's decision to nominate Georgia and Ukraine for NATO membership at the 2008 Bucharest summit.
[00:26:40]  Former National Security Council Fiona Hill recently revealed that the intelligence community opposed this step, but then President George W. Bush ignored its objections for reasons that have never really been explained.
[00:26:53]  So Vladimir Putin's case, which I don't think is that good of a case, and I'll tell you why Vladimir Putin's argument is actually awful in just a second.
[00:27:00]  He's like, oh, they're getting too close to me.
[00:27:02]  Okay, well, if you take over Ukraine, you're going to be bordering NATO countries.
[00:27:05]  Okay.
[00:27:05]  So you're going to be bordering a NATO country anyway.
[00:27:09]  I don't support Ukraine coming into NATO, but if that's really the argument, it's like, oh, he's getting too close to me.
[00:27:13]  Okay.
[00:27:13]  You take over Ukraine, then you'll be bordering Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, and Romania.
[00:27:18]  Now, the strength of NATO is Article 5.
[00:27:22]  Article 5 is the Mutual Defense Agreement, which is basically a commitment clause that defines something very, very clearly.
[00:27:33]  It makes every member state to consider an armed attack against one member state an attack against them all.
[00:27:39]  It has been voked only once in NATO history by the United States after September 11th in 2001.
[00:27:46]  It's an attack on one.
[00:27:48]  Is an attack on all.
[00:27:49]  So, this is really going to be a question, and it's going to be a question of what is Europe's appetite for this.
[00:27:54]  And this is an interesting point, which is, listen, if Canada was being, let's not use Canada, if Honduras was being invaded or if Mexico was being invaded in our hemisphere, my appetite for U.S. military intervention would heighten dramatically.
[00:28:09]  But Ukraine is not in our continent.
[00:28:11]  So, the question is: why is it that other countries like Czechoslovakia or Chechya, Denmark, Germany, France, and Italy, are they going to start to mobilize?
[00:28:22]  How about Turkey?
[00:28:23]  Is Turkey worried at all about this?
[00:28:25]  Turkey is an increasingly autocratic country with Erdogan as their president.
[00:28:31]  The point is, why does it have to be America's obligation to do this?
[00:28:34]  Because NATO has been a project built on the shoulders and built on the world reserve currency of America.
[00:28:39]  That's the entire thing.
[00:28:42]  So, Senator Mark Warner has said that if Russia engages in a cyber attack against any NATO country, namely America, it would trigger Article 5 and lead to widespread war.
[00:28:51]  I think that would be a mistake.
[00:28:53]  Now, if you look at the preconditions of what is happening with NATO, it is very, very close to the preconditions that led to the outbreak of World War I, which with the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand, and I believe Sarajevo, Bosnia, is, I believe, where he was when he was assassinated.
[00:29:15]  That set off a chain of events of the Austrio-Hungary Empire having to go to war with Britain and France, and it basically split Europe into what was probably one of the messiest.
[00:29:30]  And I don't want to say pointless because almost all wars, I don't want to say all wars are pointless, but wars can get increasingly pointless.
[00:29:37]  I don't think World War II was pointless.
[00:29:38]  It was about eradicating evil, institutional evil, at least America's intervention in there into World War II.
[00:29:45]  It was setting the captives free.
[00:29:48]  It was a moral war on behalf of the United States.
[00:29:51]  And what we have seen, though, is NATO has set the precondition that all of a sudden every NATO country might have to start to send troops and resources very soon.
[00:30:02]  So let me get this straight.
[00:30:03]  You're trying to tell me that the Dutch, no offense, they're going to go kind of put their bikes away and go get into tanks to go fight Vladimir Putin?

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[00:30:12]  I don't think so.
[00:30:14]  And the next two countries that are going to be very interesting to look at, Moldova, for one, for sure, but Finland.
[00:30:24]  Putin might want Finland.
[00:30:26]  He definitely wants Lithuania, definitely wants Latvia, definitely wants Estonia.
[00:30:32]  He already has Belarus through a puppet government.
[00:30:35]  And this will be another question for Putin, which is, is he going to install puppet governments or is he just going to absolve it as part of the new Russia or the new Soviet Union?
[00:30:44]  This all remains to be seen.
[00:30:46]  Vladimir Putin prepares to use father of all bombs as brave Ukrainians hold up advance.
[00:30:52]  West warns Russia could use terror weapon that vaporizes bodies alongside a massive amphibious assault as invaders run into fierce resistance in Kyiv.
[00:31:02]  It's not easy.
[00:31:04]  The people of Kyiv are holding the line.
[00:31:06]  It is hardly an immediate operation, which, by the way, is a humiliating embarrassment for the supposed great military of Russia.
[00:31:14]  Okay, you're going to go invade Ukraine, which is a poor peasant country, and you can't take over, you can't take it over with tanks and air supremacy.
[00:31:24]  Credit to the Ukrainian people, not the Ukrainian government, which is incredibly corrupt.
[00:31:28]  The Ukrainian people for their resolve.
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[00:32:58]  You guys can email me and let's see this question that we have, which is this: Hi, Charlie.
[00:33:07]  My name is Arjun from Virginia.

=== CDC Masks and Moderna DNA Claims (02:18) ===

[00:33:09]  I have two questions: What should the United States do to respond to the invasion?
[00:33:12]  And will the Russian invasion and rumors of China invading Taiwan cause World War III?
[00:33:17]  I'm really kind of tired of the World War III thing.
[00:33:19]  No offense to the question is just kind of overdone and it's a little bit, I think, over-exaggerated.
[00:33:25]  So, what should the United States do?
[00:33:26]  We should rebuild our own strength, unshackle the United States energy.
[00:33:29]  Here's the thing: Republicans should not give quorum on the United States Senate until we get some concessions to, let's say, unsanction the American energy machine.
[00:33:40]  We are sanctioning ourselves, we're putting restrictions on our own American energy capacity every single day.
[00:33:47]  We're making it harder for us to be able to explore oil and natural gas.
[00:33:51]  Why?
[00:33:52]  Because of ideology.
[00:33:54]  Actually, that's what Alexander Solsenitsyn said before the fall of the Soviet Union.
[00:33:59]  Thanks to ideology, that all of this happens.
[00:34:04]  Get to another question here that is emailed as freedom at charliekirk.com, which is it.
[00:34:11]  There's a lot of different things happening here, but it says, Charlie, did you see the latest study or the latest announcement from the CDC regarding masks?
[00:34:18]  Now, this is not network news because obviously, what we are seeing in Ukraine, but the CDC is to loosen COVID masking guidelines for most Americans.
[00:34:30]  CDC has come out and has said the following: The CDC will be updating its masks since Friday afternoon.
[00:34:36]  70% of Americans will be able to take their masks off indoors, including in schools.
[00:34:40]  Masks will still be required on public transit for the time being, and his mask mandates expire on March 18th.
[00:34:47]  The CDC has created new metrics to determine when people should mask up.
[00:34:51]  The agency will move away from case counts and concentrate on hospitalizations and hospital capacity in its new guidance.
[00:34:58]  ABC News has reported: 70% of Americans will be able to remove their masks indoors, including in schools, under new guidance from the CDC.
[00:35:05]  Under the new metrics and updated guidance, more than half of the U.S. countries will make up 70% of where Americans live.
[00:35:12]  Counties.
[00:35:13]  A CDC requirement that people continue to wear masks, however, on transportation will continue.
[00:35:19]  And that is a new story there.
[00:35:21]  Julie from Carson City, Charlie, I've heard a Moderna patent string of DNA was found in the spike protein of the COVID-19 virus.

=== New CDC Masking Metrics (01:24) ===

[00:35:27]  What does this actually mean?
[00:35:29]  Did China steal this DNA or did Moderna supply it?
[00:35:33]  Did Fauci have something to do with this?
[00:35:35]  Did the vaccine companies create a virus that could get rich from vaccinated against?
[00:35:38]  Well, we're on YouTube, so I got to be very careful the way I answer this.
[00:35:41]  But Daily Mail says this: that more evidence COVID was tinkered within the lab.
[00:35:46]  Now, scientists find virus-containing tiny chunk of DNA that matches sequence patented by Moderna three years before the pandemic began.
[00:35:56]  This genetic match discovered in COVID's unique furin cleavage site on a spike protein.
[00:36:02]  And researchers say it's one in three trillion chance that COVID developed the code naturally.
[00:36:07]  Now, I want to get Ryan Cole on this podcast to be able to unpack that.
[00:36:15]  Ian from Twitter has a question.
[00:36:17]  Why isn't Russia disabling Ukraine's power grid and removing access to the internet?
[00:36:20]  They're not doing anything to prevent journalists from documenting what's happening either.
[00:36:24]  Very interesting.
[00:36:25]  Why is that?
[00:36:27]  Maybe they don't want to create a fury in the Western world.
[00:36:30]  We're not sure.
[00:36:31]  We're going to keep our eyes on that.
[00:36:35]  Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
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