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Sept. 28, 2022 - The Charlie Kirk Show
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Who Destroyed Nord Stream 2? With Benny Johnson, Jack Posobiec and Erik Fox
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Geopolitical Explosion Risks 00:11:43
Hey everybody, today on the Charlie Kirk Show.
We have some live coverage of the hurricane with Benny Johnson.
We pray he remains safe.
Very scary what's happening in Florida.
It's a serious storm.
It really is.
And then also, we speculate a little bit here about Nord Stream 2 with Jack Pasobic.
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There's a lot happening.
First, our prayers and our thoughts for everyone in the way of Hurricane Ian.
I was actually supposed to be in Florida today, and I am not in Florida today.
When we saw what was happening there, we canceled a lot of different things.
And we are now here in Phoenix, Arizona, obviously.
And Longboat Key, Sarasota, Tampa, they are just getting hammered right now.
It's no joke.
And in fact, the Rumble headquarters, R-U-M-B-L-E.com, is right there.
And they're saying 155 mile an hour wins.
And I have a lot of family there.
I know a lot of people there.
And we don't know how this is going to end up.
So I just pray that the carnage and the suffering is limited.
And I say that because there's going to be carnage and suffering.
You don't have 150 mile an hour winds.
But I pray that it's just property damage that can be repaired and that people stay safe.
It's no joke.
I know some people actually that were messaging me saying that they were going to stay throughout the storm.
And I said, I don't know if that's wise or prudent.
This is not a 50 or 60 mile an hour thing.
Kind of in Florida, there is sometimes a culture of, oh, they always say the storm is going to be worse than it actually is.
Well, I just really, I don't know how wise that is because all it has to be is right once for you to be wrong and to have some serious damage happen.
So we're going to have a we're going to have a report from Frontlines on that in just a second.
But I want to get to the Nord Stream story.
The Nord Stream topic has always perplexed me.
I never understood why there was a pipeline in the first place that was approved from Russia to Germany and to all of Europe.
I never understood that.
It was never explained to me why it was okay to import natural gas, fossil fuels from a country that our own intelligence agency says it's our greatest enemy.
And I'm no fan of Russia.
I'm no fan of Vladimir Putin.
But I do not think our posture towards Russia and looking at them as a geopolitical sworn enemy of the United States right now is anything.
I don't think it's prudent.
I don't think it's smart.
I don't think it's mature.
Churchill had the best predisposition towards Russia.
He didn't like them.
He understood them.
He knew that they were brutal.
He knew they were gangsters, but he needed them to defeat a greater evil at the time.
I think that we could learn a lot from Churchill of how he handled Russia and how we very well could have a temporary real politic alliance with Russia, understanding that they're gangsters, they're godless, they act as if they're soulless, and they're not exactly a moral government, but they could be very helpful in the coming conflict against the Chinese Communist Party anyway.
Never made any sense to me, though, why the United States Intelligence Agency simultaneously tells us that fossil fuels are the worst thing ever, that you guys all need to have electric cars, you need to get rid of your SUVs, that Russia's the worst thing ever, and they allowed this project to be built from mainland Russia to Germany.
By the way, there's plenty of natural gas in the Scandinavian countries.
There's plenty of natural gas in pockets of Germany, but this is the same sort of very inexplicable walking contradiction of the American ruling class, which is we hate the thing, but we're okay getting the thing from people that we're supposed to hate.
How does that work exactly?
So we hate natural gas, we hate oil, we hate fossil fuels, but we're okay getting that and importing that from a country that is a sworn enemy of the United States.
Okay, so this was built from Russia to Germany.
It never made any sense to me why it was built.
No one ever explained to me why the United States could not at least help with the supply of natural gas to Europe.
The only explanation was a logistical explanation, which is understandable, thousands of miles away, not easy to build a pipeline across an ocean, but there's other ways to transport natural gas.
You could do it through barge or carrier, other ways.
Not exactly the most efficient way, but still, why you have to go through Russia, it almost created the preconditions for a massive geopolitical explosion.
But guess what?
Yesterday, there was a massive geopolitical explosion.
Yesterday, Nordstream, in the middle of the ocean, the pipeline was sabotaged.
It was sabotaged with military sophistication that could only be attributed to a major industrialized country.
This was not a bunch of dolphins or fish that went out of their way and all of a sudden the pipeline falls apart.
This was underwater, TNT, hyper-sophisticated explosive devices that was done, as Tucker beautifully put it last night, an act of industrial sabotage.
So Nordstream is in a lot of ways the lifeblood of part of the Russian economy.
The Russian economy operates on oil, natural gas, petrodollar.
And so the immediate kind of consensus out of the intelligence agency is that the Russian government did this.
The Russian government is the one that destroyed their own pipeline.
Now, that could be true.
The Russians are gangsters.
They're known to be liars and cheats in a lot of different ways.
So I'm not dismissing that.
But is that the most rational explanation?
Does all the mounting evidence building into this particular moment point towards the idea that the Russian government would go destroy their own economic lifeblood right now?
Because leading up to this, we have evidence of evidence of evidence on evidence, evidence, on evidence, of first Joe Biden in Cut 83 saying that if Russia invades Ukraine, we're going to bring an end to this pipeline.
Play Cut 83.
If Germany, if Russia invades, that means tanks or troops crossing the border of Ukraine again, then there will be no longer a Nord Stream 2.
We will bring an end to it.
But how will you do that?
Exactly.
Since the project and control of the project is within Germany's control.
We will, I promise you, we'll be able to do it.
That's awfully cryptic.
I promise you we'll be able to do it.
Now, Joe Biden probably said something publicly that was not a gaffe, but he said something that he did not mean to say.
Some intelligence briefing, some sort of plan that was launched.
I don't know.
I'm just speculating.
And that's all this is, is pure speculation.
Because to say that the United States government was the driving force or the planner behind what was just happened, which is international economic energy terrorism yesterday, is an act of war.
If the United States government was behind this, and I'm not saying they are, I'm asking a question, then that is an act of war against Russia.
Have we thought this through?
Well, Victoria Newland, who is one of the worst people in the United States government, says if Russia invades Ukraine, one way or the other, Nord Stream 2 will not move forward.
What do they mean by this?
PlayCut 89.
With regard to Nord Stream 2, we continue to have very strong and clear conversations with our German allies.
And I want to be clear with you today.
If Russia invades Ukraine, one way or another, Nord Stream 2 will not move forward.
Nord Stream 2 will not move forward.
So there's two Nord Streams.
There's the original Nord Stream and Nord Stream 2.
But now we know that this Nord Stream was destroyed.
This is going to create a further energy crisis in mainland Europe as we head into the colder and colder winter months.
So the United States government approved of the construction of this Russian pipeline just to then say that we're going to destroy it if Russia invades Ukraine?
These were underwater explosives with over a hundred pounds of TNT.
How many countries have a Navy sophisticated enough to pull this off?
No offense to the Germans.
I do not know if the Germans have a Navy that could pull this off.
The Brits certainly do.
The United Kingdom certainly does.
America certainly does.
And the Russians certainly do.
Just based on a pure military analysis, you know, Jack Posobic says the Germans could easily do it.
Fine.
Then he knows more about this than I do.
Maybe the Germans have a rising Navy that I'm unaware of.
But this is a very sophisticated military operation.
Who benefits from this?
There is a great old Latin phrase, koi bono.
To who benefits?
To who the benefit of the action?
That is the most operative question when you face chaos geopolitically.
Who benefits?
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Hurricane Charlie Flooding 00:05:09
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We got a couple things simultaneously happening.
We have some friends that are going to be calling in in the eye of the hurricane.
We have Benny Johnson, who's going to be calling in.
And we're going to play some tape with Benny, who's in Tampa, on how Democrats are promising that if we elect them in the midterms, they're going to get rid of hurricanes.
That's quite a campaign promise.
For years, we always say, oh, Democrats are going to promise the moon.
Not only are they promising that, they are promising an end to natural disasters.
Let's throw to Eric, who is in the hurricane right now from Weather Nation.
Eric, welcome to the program.
What are you seeing on the ground?
Walk us through it.
Well, this morning it started out as normal.
Now, we get in these storms.
It's kind of this false sense of security.
A lot of rain.
Wind isn't too bad.
But throughout today, it's really picked up.
I am on the outer edge of the eye wall.
We're getting gusts up over 100 miles per hour at this point.
It's near Port Charlotte is where I'm at on the bay.
And actually, all the water has been sucked out of the bay into the ocean.
And that's because of the way the winds are just pushing this water out.
But unfortunately, on the south side, that water is being pushed in in storm surge near Naples.
And then what we're expecting as the storm moves inland is that storm surge in the Port Charlotte area to come in and cause a lot of damage with storm surge.
That's going to be the story of this storm.
It's going to be the storm surge.
And of course, now we're looking at 155-ish mile per hour winds going to be coming throughout the west coast of Florida, especially between Port Charlotte and Naples.
And it's going to be devastating in this area.
You're already seeing anything, sheet metal, anything that's not down on the ground right now is flying around.
So that's actually why I'm in a vehicle.
It's not safe to be outside.
There's way too much debris flying already.
And the core of the hurricane is not even here yet.
Well, and 155 mile an hour winds, I mean, that could pick up your vehicle.
Maybe my physics are wrong there, but and so please stay safe.
How does this relate to previous hurricanes in the last decade on the west coast of Florida?
Have they seen anything like this in recent memory?
2004 was Hurricane Charlie, but the difference between Hurricane Charlie and this one is just the size.
You had a category four hurricane, but that hurricane was very small.
And so you didn't have the water pushed up online of land like you're going to have here.
This storm is just enormous.
And with this size of the storm, it's going to push the water way more than Charlie did.
So this is by far the most, I will say, large impacts on the west coast of Florida and probably since 1912-ish, from what I understand.
Geez, 1912, that's unbelievable.
So, I mean, I hate to ask this question in this way, but what is the prediction of the wreckage or the carnage?
I mean, we haven't seen anything like this in a very long time.
And from what I understand, the west coast of Florida is, they have some hurricane precautions, but nothing like the East Coast has.
Is that correct?
Hurricane Charlie in this area really helped them prepare for the next one.
A lot of the infrastructure is underground, especially electricity.
Believe it or not, we still have electricity and we've had wind gusts over 100 miles per hour.
So it did, they are a little more prepared.
But what where the difference is is the population.
The population of Florida has really grown in this area.
And unfortunately, there's a lot of people that's never been through a category four hurricane, especially as it's approaching category five hurricanes.
And so that's where my worry is: the people are not taking these wordings and unfortunately are going to be out in the storm and going to get in trouble.
Now, the structures, most of the Florida code, building code across the state, you know, like the governor, the governors in the past has mandated that these structures be built properly for these storms.
So, so far, if something like this along the Gulf Coast of Mississippi, Alabama, you would see structure damage already.
So far, we're not seeing that, but you're going to see that change with that 155 mile-an-hour winds.
You're going to really see that transition into damage of not only structures, but you're looking at catastrophic flooding.
This storm is really slowing down.
So, you're looking at flooding, storm surge, and then structural damage.
So, you know, to me, I'm not, I was on Hurricane Katrina.
I'm not going to compare that to that, to Hurricane Katrina yet, but you're looking at that type of devastation.
Geez, well, stay safe, Eric.
You're in the eye of the storm.
It's unbelievable.
So, stay safe.
Thank you so much for joining our program.
No problem.
Thank you.
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Michael says, Charlie, you call Russia godless.
Under Putin, active churches in Russia have gone from 7,000 to 40,000.
That doesn't sound very godless to me.
So look, Mike, I hate to break it to you.
Russia is one of the most atheist countries in the world.
That very well might be true, but Russian atheism is a very, very strong thing.
And in fact, you look at religion in Russia, you very well might be right about a revival in Christianity, of which I highly doubt in some sense.
But the amount of atheists or the amount of non-religious people in Russia is a very considerable part of the population, extremely considerable.
And then he says, with all due respect, you sound like McCain, Graham, Pelosi, and Schumer.
Yeah, I don't know about that.
I don't think McCain, Graham, Pelosi, and Schumer are trying to tell you to have an alliance with Russia.
So listen more carefully.
So we've been against all that nonsense proxy war stuff in Ukraine.
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We got Benny Johnson on the line, who is on the front lines in Tampa, Florida.
I just pray Benny doesn't get swept away.
Benny, how are you doing?
All right, here we go.
Charlie, hey, we are from the cell phone in the car.
We are on Tampa Bay, a place called Bay Shore right now.
Got my dad with me who's evacuated.
Forced evacuation here in Tampa.
And I am on my cell phone.
So please forgive the shaky footage.
We'll try best to film in selfie mode, something I know quite a bit about.
So let's pop out here and we'll show you the conditions in Tampa Bay.
So, very windy right now in Tampa.
But what's craziest is not the wind, but rain in Tampa Bay.
Yeah, I think we're...
From the bay, it's out to sea.
And so you have no more bay, and you can see the rocks and sort of, you know, sort of like what would normally be inside of the bay all exposed.
There are people out there running around with their kids.
I don't know if I necessarily suggest that, but this is what it looks like right now.
The hurricane force winds are really, really high and we walk down.
Well, very good.
Yeah, the bay, the bay is basically emptied is what from what I understand.
So, Benny, if you go back.
Basically, I almost slipped and fell directly into the bay.
Here we are down here.
I've walked down a little staircase and you can see sort of what it looks like.
You can see the exposed rock, and you can see the exposed barnacles sort of down here on the steps.
Excuse my ignorance, then, Benny.
Is that happen naturally, or is that a preventative measure?
I don't quite understand what the hurricane is so powerful.
What I see on local news that it pulls the water out.
It's sucking the water.
This would normally, of course, be filled with water, and now you're seeing it like a Moses situation with the Red Sea.
And so now you can go and walk on what would normally be a full, you know, a full bay.
You can see the retaining wall here on Tampa Bay.
And by the way, I mean, I just last, but I must say, since we're still live, Charlie Kirk is the person who demanded that I move to Florida.
So I blame fully Charlie Kirk for this current situation my family is in.
You can blame me.
And then when you have 0% income tax at the end of the year, you can thank me.
So, Benny, stay safe.
You can see homies like walking through the bay.
What's it like out there?
It may not happen again.
I don't know.
Dude's going back to the water.
There you go.
You got Count Dracula just running through the bay there.
Here you go.
Walking out.
I mean, so, okay, listen, man.
This would normally be 15 feet of water.
This is a good example, right?
So you have this wall right here all the way down.
It's been drained.
So if this were Nevada, there'd be many bodies.
If this were Chicago or the East River, but thankfully it's Tampa.
Yeah, so if it was Chicago, you would see all the ballots from the last 30 or 40 years.
The surge is going to be very bad, though, right, Benny?
I mean, for every action, there's an equal and opposite reaction.
I'm no expert here.
From what I understand, though, if it sucks all the water out, then the surge is just going to be really bad.
Flooding, debris, power outages, all of that.
Am I understanding that correctly, Benny?
Right.
So there's hundreds of thousands of people without power right now.
The surge is going to be high tide, and all this water could come up into the neighborhoods.
As you can see right around here, I'll spin around.
You can see the buildings.
You know, there's high rises.
You know, there's millions of people who live in Tampa.
There's 3 million people who live here.
And a lot of them live in flood zones, including, but not limited to my parents, who just moved from Illinois.
Again, a Charlie Kirk suggestion that they took.
And now they were in a fort's evacuation area because they're so close to the water.
But it's wild.
I mean, it's wild to see, again, the water receding.
That is the rocks.
Those are the rocks that would normally be 15 feet underwater, fully exposed.
Geez.
Yeah, this is a serious one.
Benny, I want to get your reaction.
I think we have some sound here.
Benny, I don't know if you heard this or not, but Democrats are now running on the promise that if we elect them in November, they're going to get rid of hurricanes.
Amy Klobuchar cut 66.
The snow woman herself says, You put Democrats in power, we're going to get rid of hurricanes.
Play cut 66.
We just did something about climate change for the first time in decades.
That's why we've got to win this as that hurricane bears down on Florida.
We got to win in the midterms.
We understand that.
We got to win, Benny, because Democrats will make hurricanes go away.
Yeah, so you had a segment.
So, seconds ago, you were talking about someone who emailed you and said that, you know, people in Russia are now believing in God.
Man, nothing will make you believe in God more than witnessing this, this kind of a storm, and the kind of magnitude of nature itself.
It really does make you feel small in comparison.
It is something that has been happening forever here.
Every one of my neighbors has lived through tons of hurricanes.
Obviously, this is something that normally happens in Florida.
It hasn't hit Tampa in quite a while.
But these people are simply hedonists, right?
They don't believe in God.
So they believe that they can control the weather.
They say this all the time.
Barack Obama says he's going to lower the waters, right?
Well, right before he builds his mansions right on the water.
That's right.
Maybe that's because he has the power to lower it.
But this is just classic hedonism, man.
We can't believe that we're in charge of nature and that we are God on this earth.
And, you know, nothing will make you believe in God more than standing in the middle of a hurricane.
Yeah, it will certainly humble you.
We can't forget Joe Biden.
Remember when he said we need to prepare for hurricane season by getting vaccinated?
Play cut 104.
Let me be clear.
If you're in a state where hurricanes often strike, like Florida or the Gulf Coast or into Texas, a vital part of preparing for hurricane season is to get vaccinated now.
Everything is more complicated if you're not vaccinated in a hurricane or natural disaster hits.
So, Benny, are the vaccinated people in Tampa Bay more protected?
Yeah, well, listen, we can have some scary stuff happening here, and we hope that everyone's heart stays ticking and that there's no massive spike in bad tickers here because it's going to get stressful.
It really will.
It's going to supposed to intensify.
So, we hope that everyone stays safe, vaccinated or unvaccinated, and there were never vaxxed mandates here in Florida.
Thank God for Governor Rondon Santis, who, again, like again, is just believing in nature and God's laws and not forcing people to eat their salads with a comb like Amy Klobuchar and the other sad, miserable hedonists who believe that they can control the weather.
This is a natural phenomenon, a natural occurrence.
It is really wild.
Again, it's like a Moses experience here.
You can see the parting, you can see the bottom of the ocean, essentially, in Tampa Bay.
And so it does.
It makes you stand back.
You are small.
You have a creator.
And that creator is very powerful.
Benny, stay safe.
And I got some expert advice from some people.
Don't stand there too long in that vacated bay because it could come back very quickly and actually hurt some people, nearly killed them last time.
So stay safe, Benny.
By the way, with all of the food shortages coming, everyone needs to go to preparewithkirk.com.
I'm telling you, Benny, I hope you got your preparedness food because I don't like the food shortages that might be happening.
God bless you, Benny.
Stay safe.
Nord Stream House of Cards 00:07:47
So this Nord Stream situation is a house of cards.
It's a stick.
It's a pile of dynamite that could very well detonate the entire Western order as we know it.
And what's happened in Nord Stream 2, what we do know is that this was absolutely a military operation, but who benefits?
Jack, what's your take on this?
Who do you think is behind it?
Well, Charlie, when you really have to look at this, I mean, there's certainly a number of potential candidates, whether it be one of the NATO countries, whether Five Eyes, of course, which is a portion of NATO that would exclude Germany, the Russians themselves, the Ukrainians.
Certainly a lot of people have the capability to do it or at least the motive to do it.
But I really think when we also examine the question of who benefits, we should also look at who suffers.
And that's clearly Germany, right?
Clearly, Germany is the direct.
Uh target of this attack, this economic warfare that we're seeing right here, because it is the Germans who became so reliant against the the better advice of a certain 45th president of the United States to not become over reliant on Russia.
They decided to, and they also decided to listen to the advice of Greta Thunberg instead of president Trump, and so instead they decided to put all their chips in on a Russian pipeline.
That pipeline is now destroyed as they're hurtling towards an energy crisis across the continent of Europe.
You're right, Germany will suffer, but if, in a very sinister way, if you wanted to force a very radical green energy agenda, would you do this?
Is that even conceivable?
Well Charlie, look at it.
You know this is definitely in line with everything that you and I have been talking about with the Great Reset.
We just held the Create The Great conference there with Steve Bannon.
Uh, we've got the book out at Tposa.com, Slash reset.
I mean, this is part and parcel.
They do not want people on fossil fuels.
I don't think the greenies or Greenpeace have the capability to, you know, lay mines or get uh, get a seal team down there or anything like that, but it's certainly something that they would look at and say, shrug their shoulders.
They used to do very.
I mean look, Greenpeace used to take over barges.
They used to do some very radical stuff.
I'm not saying they did this obviously more than a couple of molotov cocktails, no.
But Greenpeace back in the day used to do some very radical stuff in Japan and all the rest of fisheries and for all sorts of things.
Jack, I want to play a piece of tape here and get your reaction.
Let's play cut 81.
But we should tell you that maybe not coincidentally, today a brand new pipeline was unveiled, a pipeline that carries Non-Russian natural gas in roughly the same area as Nord Streams one and two.
This is called the Baltic pipe.
It was inaugurated in Poland.
It will carry natural gas from Norway through Denmark to Poland and other countries nearby, and it's likely to do very well, since now it has less competition, Jack.
So who in kind of this geopolitical mess would be most likely to pull this off?
That has the most to benefit, to make the most people suffer?
The American intelligence community is making it seem as if this had to be Russia who destroyed their own pipeline.
That doesn't make any sense to me.
Well, of course, the question would be, why would you want to lose your one piece of leverage over all of Europe?
Right, the entire continent of Europe?
You've got this great connector.
The Russians have spent a decade plus planning this thing, paying for this thing, working on building this thing, trying to get it through.
I was at the Helsinki summit between President Trump and Vladimir Putin, where this came up as a point of contention between the two of them from an economic competition perspective where, of course, President Trump was pushing for that American energy dominance, keeping all of the oil Prices low, right?
Which, of course, by the way, prevents war.
I want to make sure everyone understands that.
Low oil prices prevent war in Europe.
That's just obvious.
Whereas, of course, Putin was saying, well, I can get my prices under yours, and that's why the pipeline is more economically beneficial.
So, a lot of this was the driving factor.
Then, of course, Biden takes off the sanctions, as Ambassador Grinnell, of course, has brought up many times.
And that really paved the way for this because those high oil prices really, really fueled the Russian coffers in terms of it.
So, when you look at who benefits, you have to take into consideration the fact that Germany going into this dark winter that they're looking at, where you've got even Deutsche Bank was coming out saying that the Germans were potentially looking to having to chop down trees in order to make up a significant percentage of their heat for this winter.
That they, that if they continued the sanctions on the pipelines, the sanctions on Russia, you had Germans just two days ago marching in the streets demanding to drop the sanctions.
So, you have to imagine that Olaf Schultz and all the Germans up there were starting to get a little bit pun intended cold feet, right, over the entire idea of sanctions, and that they may have then turned again to Russia to say, maybe we can work out something.
Who are the people that benefit?
The people that benefit are anyone who want to keep Russia out of a relationship with Berlin.
They don't want a Moscow-Berlin access.
Now, speaking as a poll, I don't want a Moscow-Berlin access that much very well either, as a Polish-American descent.
But when you look at it from that perspective, there's this quote that I go back to from the first, I'm going to pull it up here.
It's the first secretary of NATO actually said this years ago.
His name was Lord Hastings.
And what did Lord Hastings is May say?
He said, They asked him, What was the point of NATO?
He said, The point of NATO is to keep the Russians out, the Americans in, and keep the Germans down.
And that's been ratting around in my head because I realize that this action certainly keeps the Germans down, if anything else.
That's incredible.
So, Jack, then how do you think the United States government's going to respond to this?
Well, I saw President Trump post it on Truth earlier today and saying that everybody needs to just pump the brakes, cool their jets, because there's a situation here that if you go tit for tat, if you go escalation, if you say, Hey, there's this pipeline over here, what if somebody takes that out next?
And suddenly you're taking out pipeline after pipeline after pipeline, right?
That is how you spill into World War III very clearly, very quickly.
And President Trump came out and said that he would personally be willing to broker some kind of an agreement between the U.S., Ukraine, and Russia to at least get to a ceasefire, at least get to an armistice, or some kind of talks that could be held to just cool over the entire situation so that Germany can get their heat for the winter.
We figure out a way to do it, and we don't start pulling fingers and planning blame.
From what I've heard, the White House actually was taken by surprise by this.
That Jake Sullivan, Blinken, those guys, they did not know that this was coming.
They heard about it in the situation room watching MSNBC.
So, which is pretty much the only thing they watched in the situation room.
So, they were taken aback by this.
They were taken by surprise.
And I think that's why when you heard some of those initial statements, official statements, it's been pretty low level.
Karine Jean-Pierre didn't really have a very strong statement, even at the briefing, which, of course, was almost 12 hours after the initial last reporting took place.
And so, she didn't have a prepared statement.
The president hasn't put out.
I've seen Joe Biden, I haven't seen Joe Biden put out any really forceful or overarching statement on this.
So, I still, I think that even they understand the implications of this or the incredibly massive geopolitical implications here.
Because when it comes down to it, there's a lot of people that could have done this.
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