1 00:00:06,920 --> 00:00:10,760 Speaker 1: The war in Ukraine escalating rapidly as Russia seeks to 2 00:00:10,840 --> 00:00:14,960 Speaker 1: encircle and take full control of Kiev, the capital. A 3 00:00:15,040 --> 00:00:19,200 Speaker 1: lot of aerial bombardment underway, ground troops fighting it out 4 00:00:19,200 --> 00:00:22,520 Speaker 1: in the streets, lots of video circulating. This is the 5 00:00:22,520 --> 00:00:25,799 Speaker 1: war that we had all hoped would be avoided, but 6 00:00:25,840 --> 00:00:29,680 Speaker 1: it is fully underway now and likely to get dramatically 7 00:00:29,720 --> 00:00:33,200 Speaker 1: more intense, with higher levels of casualties, including civilian casualties, 8 00:00:33,240 --> 00:00:36,320 Speaker 1: in the days ahead. This is a fight that the 9 00:00:36,440 --> 00:00:39,519 Speaker 1: US is not yet involved in, but certainly the international community, 10 00:00:39,560 --> 00:00:42,080 Speaker 1: including the US and are NATO allies, have a role 11 00:00:42,120 --> 00:00:45,680 Speaker 1: to play diplomatically and with financial sanctions from the outside. 12 00:00:46,120 --> 00:00:49,000 Speaker 1: How's the Biden regime doing with all that? Wow, you 13 00:00:49,080 --> 00:00:53,360 Speaker 1: look at what's happening, clearly not doing enough, and people 14 00:00:53,400 --> 00:00:56,320 Speaker 1: are already asking questions, why is it that the full 15 00:00:56,400 --> 00:00:59,680 Speaker 1: scope and scale of financial sanctions have not already been 16 00:00:59,720 --> 00:01:04,440 Speaker 1: to Lloyd against against Putin's regime by the Biden administration, 17 00:01:04,959 --> 00:01:08,280 Speaker 1: given the level of ferocity of this attack and the 18 00:01:08,280 --> 00:01:11,320 Speaker 1: fact that they were trying to initially prevent any such 19 00:01:11,360 --> 00:01:16,080 Speaker 1: incursion from happening. Well, here is Deputy National Security Advisor 20 00:01:16,160 --> 00:01:20,479 Speaker 1: de Leaped singh on for example, the decision not to 21 00:01:20,520 --> 00:01:24,679 Speaker 1: push for sanctions on Russia's energy, which is by far 22 00:01:24,760 --> 00:01:27,479 Speaker 1: the most important part of the Russian economy is energy. 23 00:01:27,640 --> 00:01:31,000 Speaker 1: You're not going to sanction that. Here's the response you get. 24 00:01:31,440 --> 00:01:35,000 Speaker 1: Targeting the Russian energy industry is totally off the table. 25 00:01:35,120 --> 00:01:37,600 Speaker 1: That as you're saying, believe, what I'm saying is that 26 00:01:37,600 --> 00:01:40,240 Speaker 1: our measures were not designed to disrupt in any way 27 00:01:40,319 --> 00:01:43,760 Speaker 1: the current flow of energy from Russia to the world. Now, 28 00:01:44,800 --> 00:01:46,759 Speaker 1: we have also said we are going to cut off 29 00:01:46,840 --> 00:01:49,960 Speaker 1: Russia's access to cutting edge technology. That technology can be 30 00:01:50,040 --> 00:01:54,040 Speaker 1: use across many sectors, and so as it relates to 31 00:01:54,080 --> 00:01:57,840 Speaker 1: Russia's long term productive capacity, we are seeking to degrade 32 00:01:57,880 --> 00:02:00,520 Speaker 1: that capacity. But nothing in the short term as it 33 00:02:00,560 --> 00:02:04,640 Speaker 1: relates to energy. Nothing in the short term as it 34 00:02:04,640 --> 00:02:06,800 Speaker 1: relates to energy. This is a war that could be 35 00:02:06,960 --> 00:02:12,000 Speaker 1: over in weeks, perhaps even days, and we're being told 36 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:14,919 Speaker 1: about the long game of energy with Russia. Nothing that's 37 00:02:14,960 --> 00:02:18,360 Speaker 1: going to actually bite right away at the Russian economy. 38 00:02:18,680 --> 00:02:21,360 Speaker 1: They didn't really think that's going to be enough. The 39 00:02:21,400 --> 00:02:25,000 Speaker 1: Biden administration seems increasingly un serious on this and so 40 00:02:25,080 --> 00:02:28,639 Speaker 1: many other issues. One of the reasons we're in this predicament. 41 00:02:28,639 --> 00:02:30,600 Speaker 1: One of the reasons why it's so clear we have 42 00:02:30,720 --> 00:02:33,400 Speaker 1: this problem in the first place of Russian energy and 43 00:02:33,440 --> 00:02:36,079 Speaker 1: the leverage that they have from it, is because the 44 00:02:36,080 --> 00:02:40,359 Speaker 1: Biden administration came in absolutely hell bent on making sure 45 00:02:40,480 --> 00:02:45,080 Speaker 1: that the fossil fuel access that we could have would 46 00:02:45,120 --> 00:02:47,480 Speaker 1: not be a part of their energy policy. That they 47 00:02:47,480 --> 00:02:49,840 Speaker 1: would make it difficult to drill, they would make it 48 00:02:49,840 --> 00:02:53,480 Speaker 1: difficult to frack, as if somehow there's a virtue in that, 49 00:02:53,520 --> 00:02:56,680 Speaker 1: as we know they think there is from fighting climate change. 50 00:02:57,160 --> 00:03:00,600 Speaker 1: Energy independence in America is about national security. That is clear. 51 00:03:00,639 --> 00:03:04,080 Speaker 1: That much is true. And so given the realities of 52 00:03:04,120 --> 00:03:07,959 Speaker 1: dealing with Russia, got Jensaki telling us all that we're 53 00:03:07,960 --> 00:03:10,880 Speaker 1: going to have to carry some costs here in order 54 00:03:10,880 --> 00:03:13,960 Speaker 1: to stand up for our principles, Well, shouldn't we offset 55 00:03:14,040 --> 00:03:16,800 Speaker 1: that by doing everything possible to get as much fossil 56 00:03:16,840 --> 00:03:21,040 Speaker 1: fuel energy flowing domestically as we can? Why dose Press 57 00:03:21,040 --> 00:03:23,160 Speaker 1: Secretary Saki wants you to know, No, they don't want 58 00:03:23,160 --> 00:03:25,160 Speaker 1: to do that. You know, climate change is still more important. 59 00:03:25,240 --> 00:03:28,480 Speaker 1: Watch the President said today, the notion that this is 60 00:03:28,520 --> 00:03:31,160 Speaker 1: going to last for a long time is highly unlikely. 61 00:03:31,720 --> 00:03:35,280 Speaker 1: Would he try to ensure that by lifting some of 62 00:03:35,280 --> 00:03:38,640 Speaker 1: the restrictions that he's put in place on the energy 63 00:03:38,920 --> 00:03:44,200 Speaker 1: industry or rethinking some projects like the Keystone pipeline. Well, 64 00:03:44,200 --> 00:03:46,640 Speaker 1: first of all, the Keystone pipeline is not flowing, so 65 00:03:46,680 --> 00:03:48,760 Speaker 1: I'm not sure how that would solve anything. There's also 66 00:03:48,920 --> 00:03:51,280 Speaker 1: plenty of oil leases that are not being tapped into 67 00:03:51,280 --> 00:03:53,360 Speaker 1: by oil companies, so we should talk to them about 68 00:03:53,400 --> 00:03:56,560 Speaker 1: that and why. But what the president's talking about is 69 00:03:56,800 --> 00:03:59,440 Speaker 1: we certainly understand and he said this today, right, may 70 00:03:59,480 --> 00:04:01,320 Speaker 1: have been a risks to your question, I don't remember, 71 00:04:01,360 --> 00:04:04,440 Speaker 1: but if there's an invasion of another country by a 72 00:04:04,480 --> 00:04:07,280 Speaker 1: big country, there's going to be impacts on the markets, right, 73 00:04:07,320 --> 00:04:10,400 Speaker 1: and we certainly anticipated that, and we anticipate that as 74 00:04:10,400 --> 00:04:12,920 Speaker 1: it relates to the global oil market as well. So 75 00:04:12,960 --> 00:04:15,640 Speaker 1: that's why the President for weeks now has been engaging 76 00:04:15,680 --> 00:04:18,839 Speaker 1: with a range of big global suppliers, some in the 77 00:04:18,839 --> 00:04:21,839 Speaker 1: Middle East others to see what we can do to 78 00:04:22,000 --> 00:04:24,720 Speaker 1: ensure their supply out there in the market to reduce 79 00:04:24,760 --> 00:04:29,440 Speaker 1: the impact on the American people. A lot of blather there, 80 00:04:30,120 --> 00:04:34,160 Speaker 1: why don't why don't the American people know that they 81 00:04:34,160 --> 00:04:37,040 Speaker 1: can count on the White House, any White House to 82 00:04:37,160 --> 00:04:39,640 Speaker 1: push forward domestic energy production at a time when that 83 00:04:39,800 --> 00:04:43,160 Speaker 1: is absolutely essential and will continue to be essential, all 84 00:04:43,200 --> 00:04:46,360 Speaker 1: because they are ideologically invested against it. Because these are lives. 85 00:04:46,360 --> 00:04:48,320 Speaker 1: They're leftist, they're crazy. It doesn't matter to them what 86 00:04:48,360 --> 00:04:51,760 Speaker 1: the reality is. They live in some alternate universe, Which 87 00:04:51,800 --> 00:04:54,080 Speaker 1: then brings me to some of the other actions that 88 00:04:54,240 --> 00:04:57,440 Speaker 1: the Biden regime took in the run up to this 89 00:04:57,560 --> 00:05:01,000 Speaker 1: Russian invasion of Ukraine, which remember Houtin was going to 90 00:05:01,080 --> 00:05:04,440 Speaker 1: be scared of Biden told us. Turned out that wasn't 91 00:05:04,480 --> 00:05:07,919 Speaker 1: the case. What a shock. But also when it comes 92 00:05:07,920 --> 00:05:13,039 Speaker 1: to rallying not just allies, but other states around the world, 93 00:05:13,160 --> 00:05:17,240 Speaker 1: China for example, on this issue, the Biden administration had 94 00:05:17,279 --> 00:05:19,960 Speaker 1: been meeting with China this part of the New York 95 00:05:19,960 --> 00:05:24,840 Speaker 1: Times over three months to show intelligence that Russia was 96 00:05:24,880 --> 00:05:27,440 Speaker 1: preparing for an invasion, so that they could get the 97 00:05:27,520 --> 00:05:32,680 Speaker 1: Chinese to help us try to diplomatically and financially box 98 00:05:32,760 --> 00:05:35,400 Speaker 1: out Russia from taking this kind of an action. Do 99 00:05:35,480 --> 00:05:38,680 Speaker 1: you know what the Chinese response was, to not help 100 00:05:38,760 --> 00:05:41,560 Speaker 1: us at all and to actually pass along to the 101 00:05:41,640 --> 00:05:47,159 Speaker 1: Russians whatever senseitive information we gave to the Chinese. As 102 00:05:47,200 --> 00:05:50,440 Speaker 1: you see, these are now two countries that view themselves 103 00:05:50,480 --> 00:05:55,520 Speaker 1: as increasingly in the same bunker, so to speak, and 104 00:05:55,680 --> 00:05:58,200 Speaker 1: willing to work together to forward the international community and 105 00:05:58,279 --> 00:06:03,000 Speaker 1: certainly work together to mind the US globally. So this 106 00:06:03,080 --> 00:06:05,080 Speaker 1: has just been an utter debacle at this point, this 107 00:06:05,120 --> 00:06:08,920 Speaker 1: has been a complete mess. The Biden administration, which prides 108 00:06:08,960 --> 00:06:12,920 Speaker 1: itself on having so much dignity in its diplomacy, has 109 00:06:12,920 --> 00:06:17,800 Speaker 1: been feckless and completely ineffective. But there are people on 110 00:06:17,839 --> 00:06:20,839 Speaker 1: the left you realize that this is not a crisis 111 00:06:20,880 --> 00:06:24,120 Speaker 1: that they can add to the list of growing crises 112 00:06:24,120 --> 00:06:27,960 Speaker 1: that Biden and his team simply can handle. Among them 113 00:06:28,240 --> 00:06:31,640 Speaker 1: Hillary Clinton, who trying to stand with their Democrats on this, 114 00:06:32,080 --> 00:06:37,120 Speaker 1: say that Biden's handled the Ukraine crisis. Well, why, there 115 00:06:37,360 --> 00:06:40,520 Speaker 1: is no doubt that we were not in a position 116 00:06:40,960 --> 00:06:44,360 Speaker 1: just a few years ago to rally anybody, and now 117 00:06:44,440 --> 00:06:49,800 Speaker 1: with the President Biden rallying NATO, rallying not only Western 118 00:06:49,839 --> 00:06:53,520 Speaker 1: Europe and Eastern Europe, but far beyond those borders, to 119 00:06:53,720 --> 00:06:58,520 Speaker 1: understand the very real threat that vladimer Putin poses and 120 00:06:58,560 --> 00:07:01,720 Speaker 1: then to begin imposing sanctions that will ratch it up. 121 00:07:02,320 --> 00:07:04,760 Speaker 1: And I think that is exactly what he should be doing. 122 00:07:07,160 --> 00:07:10,160 Speaker 1: Exactly what he should be doing doesn't work. So far 123 00:07:11,360 --> 00:07:13,200 Speaker 1: haven't been able to figure this out up to this point. 124 00:07:13,240 --> 00:07:16,000 Speaker 1: What makes anyone think that Joe Biden, who's been consistently 125 00:07:16,040 --> 00:07:18,120 Speaker 1: wrong on foreign policy for over forty years, what makes 126 00:07:18,120 --> 00:07:19,480 Speaker 1: an even think that he's all of a sudden going 127 00:07:19,520 --> 00:07:22,440 Speaker 1: to be sappy on this? Get ready for the Democrats 128 00:07:22,480 --> 00:07:24,640 Speaker 1: to show you who they really are, the people in 129 00:07:24,720 --> 00:07:28,240 Speaker 1: charge making these decisions, the big voices of the Democrat Party, 130 00:07:28,720 --> 00:07:31,560 Speaker 1: because this is going to continue to be a disaster. 131 00:07:31,840 --> 00:07:33,960 Speaker 1: Ukraine is going to be a nasty war, It's gonna 132 00:07:33,960 --> 00:07:37,000 Speaker 1: be a lot of casualties, and Biden's going to look 133 00:07:37,000 --> 00:07:39,880 Speaker 1: like a bystander or bumbling buffoon if anything. So what 134 00:07:39,920 --> 00:07:42,640 Speaker 1: are they going to do? Start to blame Republican in 135 00:07:42,680 --> 00:07:45,480 Speaker 1: this Country's Republicans who are not in charge, not Republican president, 136 00:07:45,520 --> 00:07:48,880 Speaker 1: not Republican control of Congress. But it's the GOP's fault. 137 00:07:48,920 --> 00:07:51,680 Speaker 1: In fact, they're even willing to go to the lengths 138 00:07:51,720 --> 00:07:57,000 Speaker 1: of slandering Republicans as somehow pro pouted. Now there have 139 00:07:57,000 --> 00:07:59,040 Speaker 1: been many voices who have done this over the last week. 140 00:07:59,640 --> 00:08:03,280 Speaker 1: Note John Stewart, the former comedian who now has a podcast, 141 00:08:04,000 --> 00:08:07,000 Speaker 1: Joy Behar on the View who's just a professional imbecile, 142 00:08:07,400 --> 00:08:11,559 Speaker 1: and Hillary Clinton herself saying there are people giving aid 143 00:08:11,640 --> 00:08:14,920 Speaker 1: and comfort to Putin. Watch well, Mika, I do think 144 00:08:15,000 --> 00:08:19,960 Speaker 1: it's important to support both the Ukrainian military and then, 145 00:08:21,000 --> 00:08:25,920 Speaker 1: depending upon what happens and how quickly events unfold, supporting 146 00:08:25,960 --> 00:08:29,200 Speaker 1: those who are putting up resistance. But I want to 147 00:08:29,200 --> 00:08:33,320 Speaker 1: make another point, which is that we have to also 148 00:08:33,679 --> 00:08:37,040 Speaker 1: make sure that within our own country we are calling 149 00:08:37,080 --> 00:08:41,480 Speaker 1: out those people who are giving aid and comfort to 150 00:08:41,720 --> 00:08:45,080 Speaker 1: Vladimir Putin, who are talking about what a geniusy is, 151 00:08:45,080 --> 00:08:50,160 Speaker 1: what a smart move it is, who are unfortunately being 152 00:08:50,240 --> 00:08:55,760 Speaker 1: broadcast by Russian media not only inside Russia but in 153 00:08:56,200 --> 00:09:02,080 Speaker 1: Europe to demonstrate the division within our own country. Deferring 154 00:09:02,120 --> 00:09:05,160 Speaker 1: to an interview that I did with Clay Travis earlier 155 00:09:05,160 --> 00:09:08,480 Speaker 1: this week and President Trump, in which he referred to 156 00:09:08,840 --> 00:09:11,920 Speaker 1: to Putin's move here as genius, he was talking about 157 00:09:11,920 --> 00:09:14,920 Speaker 1: the tactics of what Putin has done to outmaneuver Joe Biden. 158 00:09:15,200 --> 00:09:18,600 Speaker 1: He also said very clearly in that interview this would 159 00:09:18,600 --> 00:09:20,240 Speaker 1: never have happened while he was president because he never 160 00:09:20,280 --> 00:09:23,000 Speaker 1: would have allowed it, because he clearly opposes it and 161 00:09:23,040 --> 00:09:26,240 Speaker 1: thinks that it is awful, But why go into that 162 00:09:26,320 --> 00:09:29,760 Speaker 1: context when you can actually just lander the former president 163 00:09:29,800 --> 00:09:32,280 Speaker 1: and act like he's the problem. Joe Biden's in charge, 164 00:09:32,480 --> 00:09:35,840 Speaker 1: not Donald Trump. But it's appalling what they're willing to 165 00:09:35,840 --> 00:09:38,120 Speaker 1: do and say because their guy is failing. We can 166 00:09:38,160 --> 00:09:40,720 Speaker 1: all see it coming up. We'll talk about the situation 167 00:09:40,720 --> 00:09:43,600 Speaker 1: on the ground Russia versus Ukrainian defense forces. Here with 168 00:09:43,880 --> 00:09:55,040 Speaker 1: Bill Roggio of the Foundation for Defense of Democracy. We 169 00:09:55,120 --> 00:09:58,040 Speaker 1: want to bring you the latest from the situation in Ukraine. 170 00:09:58,040 --> 00:10:01,960 Speaker 1: As the fighting intensifies and the Russian forces close a 171 00:10:02,080 --> 00:10:05,480 Speaker 1: cordon of sorts around the capital of Heath in Ukraine. 172 00:10:05,920 --> 00:10:09,560 Speaker 1: The Russian aims here are certainly top of the list 173 00:10:09,600 --> 00:10:12,040 Speaker 1: of concerns. Are they trying to just topple the government 174 00:10:12,320 --> 00:10:14,160 Speaker 1: or are they going to seize the entirety of the 175 00:10:14,160 --> 00:10:17,920 Speaker 1: country over time through force. Let's talk to Bill Roggio. 176 00:10:18,080 --> 00:10:20,559 Speaker 1: He's a senior FELLO at the Foundation for Defense and Democracies. 177 00:10:20,640 --> 00:10:23,760 Speaker 1: Joins us now, feel good to see it, Great to 178 00:10:23,800 --> 00:10:27,160 Speaker 1: see buck, Thanks for having me on. Let's just start 179 00:10:27,200 --> 00:10:31,000 Speaker 1: with what do you make so far of the Ukrainian 180 00:10:31,200 --> 00:10:34,359 Speaker 1: resistance as they've been able to mount it against the Russians. 181 00:10:34,400 --> 00:10:38,960 Speaker 1: I've seen some reporting of a thousand Russian casualties. Does 182 00:10:38,960 --> 00:10:41,480 Speaker 1: that seem possible to you? What do you think about 183 00:10:41,520 --> 00:10:43,360 Speaker 1: what we've seen so far in terms of the combat 184 00:10:43,400 --> 00:10:47,560 Speaker 1: that's been underway. Yeah, this is really difficult to discern. 185 00:10:47,640 --> 00:10:50,120 Speaker 1: You have a lot of information operations going on in 186 00:10:50,200 --> 00:10:53,120 Speaker 1: both sides, but I would not be surprised if the 187 00:10:53,200 --> 00:10:56,760 Speaker 1: Russians have taken a thousand casualties that would very likely 188 00:10:56,840 --> 00:11:01,520 Speaker 1: be killed and wounded combined. This assault on Ukraine has 189 00:11:01,559 --> 00:11:04,840 Speaker 1: been launched from three different directions, from the north, the east, 190 00:11:04,960 --> 00:11:09,200 Speaker 1: and from the south, so you have a significant You 191 00:11:09,200 --> 00:11:11,880 Speaker 1: have tens of thousands of Russian troops. I've heard over 192 00:11:12,400 --> 00:11:17,200 Speaker 1: thirty thousand Russian to forty thousand Russian troops advancing and 193 00:11:17,640 --> 00:11:20,720 Speaker 1: this is so it wouldn't be surprising the Ukrainians are 194 00:11:20,800 --> 00:11:23,679 Speaker 1: putting up resistance. The last number I saw is they 195 00:11:23,720 --> 00:11:26,800 Speaker 1: taken around one hundred and forty soldiers. I think it 196 00:11:26,840 --> 00:11:30,120 Speaker 1: was under forty soldiers and civilians killed. So usually you 197 00:11:30,320 --> 00:11:35,320 Speaker 1: triple or multiply by five to ten of the number 198 00:11:35,400 --> 00:11:38,480 Speaker 1: of killed, you take that to the wounded, right, so 199 00:11:38,520 --> 00:11:41,040 Speaker 1: you're gonna have significant casualties on both sides. This is 200 00:11:41,080 --> 00:11:45,160 Speaker 1: a conventional war. This is not an insurgency like Afghanistan, 201 00:11:45,240 --> 00:11:47,640 Speaker 1: where where there's plinking and it's one or two the 202 00:11:47,840 --> 00:11:51,719 Speaker 1: casualties a day. We're talking, we're talking real warfare, with aircraft, 203 00:11:51,760 --> 00:11:55,160 Speaker 1: with tanks, with artillery. There's whistle and rocket strikes. And 204 00:11:55,200 --> 00:11:58,160 Speaker 1: then the Ukrainians. I think they're they're mounting the best 205 00:11:58,200 --> 00:12:01,800 Speaker 1: defense they can, but the reality is the Russians have 206 00:12:01,920 --> 00:12:04,480 Speaker 1: all the advantages here. The terrain is on their side. 207 00:12:04,800 --> 00:12:08,280 Speaker 1: They can attack from three different directions. That gives them 208 00:12:08,280 --> 00:12:14,839 Speaker 1: the ability to It keeps the Ukrainians from from concentrating 209 00:12:14,880 --> 00:12:17,360 Speaker 1: their forces. They have to split up in order to 210 00:12:17,600 --> 00:12:20,720 Speaker 1: attempt to halt the Russian advance. They're trying to defend 211 00:12:20,760 --> 00:12:24,480 Speaker 1: everything and an effect, they're going to defend nothing. We 212 00:12:24,600 --> 00:12:28,920 Speaker 1: know that the Minister of National Defense of Poland, Marios Blazak, 213 00:12:29,679 --> 00:12:31,679 Speaker 1: has tweeted out that the convoy with the ammunition we 214 00:12:31,720 --> 00:12:34,360 Speaker 1: had sent over to Ukraine has already reached our neighbors. 215 00:12:34,440 --> 00:12:37,280 Speaker 1: We support Ukrainians, we stand in solidarity and we firmly 216 00:12:37,280 --> 00:12:42,320 Speaker 1: oppose Russian aggression. So they've sent arms already into this. 217 00:12:42,920 --> 00:12:47,400 Speaker 1: What are the if anything bill? Are there some game 218 00:12:47,520 --> 00:12:52,480 Speaker 1: changer either munitions or just material support things that could 219 00:12:52,480 --> 00:12:55,719 Speaker 1: be sent that would help the Ukrainians substantially in this 220 00:12:55,760 --> 00:12:59,520 Speaker 1: early phase of the conflict. In the early phase, I 221 00:12:59,520 --> 00:13:03,400 Speaker 1: think the two most important important weapons systems would be 222 00:13:03,960 --> 00:13:09,240 Speaker 1: anti tank missiles and anti aircraft missiles. Those could slow 223 00:13:09,280 --> 00:13:13,200 Speaker 1: down the Russian forces. But at the end of the day, 224 00:13:13,240 --> 00:13:15,600 Speaker 1: I think if Russia decides to put all of its 225 00:13:15,600 --> 00:13:19,240 Speaker 1: military weight behind this operation, what we're seeing right now 226 00:13:19,400 --> 00:13:25,280 Speaker 1: is really just the advanced forces. It's they haven't advanced 227 00:13:25,360 --> 00:13:27,880 Speaker 1: all over one hundred and forty thousand troops that were 228 00:13:27,880 --> 00:13:30,840 Speaker 1: on the border. We're talking maybe a third or their forces, 229 00:13:30,880 --> 00:13:33,360 Speaker 1: maybe a quarter of their forces have entered Ukraine. This 230 00:13:33,440 --> 00:13:35,959 Speaker 1: is this is the beginning of the operation. The Russians 231 00:13:35,960 --> 00:13:39,160 Speaker 1: are shaping the battle field right now. Those two types 232 00:13:39,160 --> 00:13:44,120 Speaker 1: of weapons could prevent the anti aircraft missiles, prevent Russian 233 00:13:44,120 --> 00:13:47,400 Speaker 1: air supported periody or at least make the Russians make 234 00:13:47,559 --> 00:13:49,600 Speaker 1: make things more difficult for them to operate, and then 235 00:13:49,679 --> 00:13:53,560 Speaker 1: Russian armor, Russian tanks can be slowed and if you 236 00:13:53,559 --> 00:13:56,640 Speaker 1: could slow them down, that will help. But I'm of 237 00:13:56,720 --> 00:13:59,560 Speaker 1: the mind that this war was lost back in two thousand. 238 00:13:59,600 --> 00:14:03,600 Speaker 1: Important team when the Russians invaded the Crimean. International community 239 00:14:03,640 --> 00:14:07,720 Speaker 1: did nothing. I think the Russians have all the military 240 00:14:07,840 --> 00:14:10,199 Speaker 1: edge here. It's just that we were just sort of 241 00:14:10,280 --> 00:14:12,880 Speaker 1: watching this out. It's almost like last summer with Afghanistan, 242 00:14:13,160 --> 00:14:15,680 Speaker 1: the Taliban was on the offensive. It was just we 243 00:14:15,720 --> 00:14:20,119 Speaker 1: were just counting the days before they took Cobble. Representive 244 00:14:20,160 --> 00:14:23,400 Speaker 1: Jack Reid said this about Ukraine. My sense is in 245 00:14:23,480 --> 00:14:28,080 Speaker 1: a matter of days, the capital Key could fall. Watch today. 246 00:14:28,240 --> 00:14:32,720 Speaker 1: The Ukrainians have been fighting fiercely in many places throughout 247 00:14:32,720 --> 00:14:38,720 Speaker 1: the country. They're facing overwhelming odds given the number of 248 00:14:38,760 --> 00:14:42,000 Speaker 1: firstnel the Russians have committed, the equipment they have, the 249 00:14:42,000 --> 00:14:45,360 Speaker 1: air priori they have, they can move through the air 250 00:14:45,400 --> 00:14:49,200 Speaker 1: without any opposition. But I think we all should be 251 00:14:49,240 --> 00:14:53,200 Speaker 1: impressed with the courage and the leadership of President Zilinski 252 00:14:53,280 --> 00:14:56,920 Speaker 1: and the fighting spirit of the Ukrainian people, and that 253 00:14:57,120 --> 00:15:01,240 Speaker 1: I think it was probably giving hopefully the Russians sort 254 00:15:01,240 --> 00:15:05,360 Speaker 1: of second thoughts about how quote unquote easy this would be. 255 00:15:05,520 --> 00:15:09,359 Speaker 1: It's going to be difficult, but my senses are overwhelming 256 00:15:09,440 --> 00:15:11,760 Speaker 1: force that in a matter of days, if we could 257 00:15:11,800 --> 00:15:16,440 Speaker 1: see the capital fall. If that's true, and the capital 258 00:15:16,480 --> 00:15:19,680 Speaker 1: does fall in a matter of Day's bill. Do you 259 00:15:19,720 --> 00:15:24,120 Speaker 1: think that the Ukrainian resistance armed resistance will continue in 260 00:15:24,160 --> 00:15:26,960 Speaker 1: other parts of the country, or is it likely that 261 00:15:26,960 --> 00:15:30,280 Speaker 1: there'll be some effort at a negotiation between whatever's left 262 00:15:30,280 --> 00:15:34,640 Speaker 1: of the Ukrainian government and Putin's regime. Yet, First, I 263 00:15:34,720 --> 00:15:37,800 Speaker 1: agree with Senator Reid's assessment there. Other than I don't 264 00:15:37,800 --> 00:15:40,640 Speaker 1: think I think the Russians would not Putin would not 265 00:15:40,720 --> 00:15:43,960 Speaker 1: have gone onto this attack if he wasn't willing to 266 00:15:43,960 --> 00:15:47,880 Speaker 1: take casualties. He's willing to do that. So there's casualties 267 00:15:47,920 --> 00:15:49,720 Speaker 1: will not give him pause, will not get him to 268 00:15:49,760 --> 00:15:55,880 Speaker 1: stop this operation. If give falls in the next couple 269 00:15:55,880 --> 00:15:58,080 Speaker 1: of days. The Russians are on the outskirts of the city. 270 00:15:58,240 --> 00:16:01,000 Speaker 1: They are fighting inside some neighbor hoods, and again, this 271 00:16:01,080 --> 00:16:03,400 Speaker 1: is just the advanced party that's there, though the full 272 00:16:03,480 --> 00:16:06,560 Speaker 1: might of the Russian military has not fallen on the capitol. 273 00:16:07,040 --> 00:16:09,280 Speaker 1: I do believe that they will continue to fight. They 274 00:16:09,360 --> 00:16:13,440 Speaker 1: can fall back and move westward. That's where the train 275 00:16:13,560 --> 00:16:15,920 Speaker 1: becomes a little bit more advantageous to them. But the 276 00:16:16,000 --> 00:16:18,880 Speaker 1: question will be is how much forces will the Ukrainians 277 00:16:18,920 --> 00:16:21,400 Speaker 1: commit to the current fight, how much will they keep 278 00:16:21,440 --> 00:16:25,120 Speaker 1: in reserve and will the West continue to support them 279 00:16:25,440 --> 00:16:27,840 Speaker 1: if they're moving back, whether they'll go into some type 280 00:16:27,840 --> 00:16:31,360 Speaker 1: of resistance and underground movement. I think that also is 281 00:16:31,480 --> 00:16:33,440 Speaker 1: lightly But I don't think we're going to see what 282 00:16:33,480 --> 00:16:37,280 Speaker 1: we saw in countries like Iraq or Afghanistan, where you'll 283 00:16:37,320 --> 00:16:41,640 Speaker 1: have a bloody insurgency. I don't think US Westerners and 284 00:16:41,680 --> 00:16:45,640 Speaker 1: I include the Ukrainians and that have that mindset that 285 00:16:45,760 --> 00:16:49,560 Speaker 1: way of the war. It's something a lot of us done, 286 00:16:49,600 --> 00:16:51,400 Speaker 1: you and I book, but a lot of Americans, a 287 00:16:51,400 --> 00:16:54,640 Speaker 1: lot of Westerners have lost. They've lost the understanding that 288 00:16:54,720 --> 00:16:59,680 Speaker 1: wars are battles of wills, their commitments. I just wanted 289 00:16:59,720 --> 00:17:01,920 Speaker 1: to have you react to this. This was a flashback 290 00:17:02,000 --> 00:17:05,359 Speaker 1: with Joe Biden back before he became Commander in Chief 291 00:17:05,400 --> 00:17:08,520 Speaker 1: about the threat of what would happen if Trump became 292 00:17:08,560 --> 00:17:11,399 Speaker 1: president to our national security watch this one. It's going 293 00:17:11,480 --> 00:17:13,760 Speaker 1: to take a hell of a lot of work to 294 00:17:13,880 --> 00:17:16,600 Speaker 1: make up for all the damage he's done internationally and nationally. 295 00:17:17,920 --> 00:17:21,879 Speaker 1: His network of thugs and co conspiracoris are going to 296 00:17:21,920 --> 00:17:24,280 Speaker 1: continue to try to undermine our democracy. In the meantime, 297 00:17:25,320 --> 00:17:30,600 Speaker 1: imagine what he can do in another year. Imagine what 298 00:17:30,760 --> 00:17:37,679 Speaker 1: can happen in Ukraine. Well, we're seeing with Biden as president, 299 00:17:37,720 --> 00:17:40,359 Speaker 1: not Trump, what's happening in Ukraine. Pretty remarkable when you 300 00:17:40,359 --> 00:17:43,000 Speaker 1: see the promises that were made by the incoming administration 301 00:17:43,520 --> 00:17:48,560 Speaker 1: or the incoming president and what the reality has actually been. Yeah, 302 00:17:48,680 --> 00:17:53,440 Speaker 1: it is. I mean looking again, the crimea Ukrainian Crimea 303 00:17:53,520 --> 00:17:57,200 Speaker 1: was invaded in twenty fourteen when President Obama was in 304 00:17:57,320 --> 00:18:01,200 Speaker 1: office and President Biden was then vice president. Again, this 305 00:18:01,320 --> 00:18:05,520 Speaker 1: is the seeds for what we're seeing today. We're planted then. 306 00:18:06,480 --> 00:18:09,360 Speaker 1: You know, we can debate whether Putin would have invaded 307 00:18:09,480 --> 00:18:12,119 Speaker 1: Ukraine if Trump was president or not. We don't know 308 00:18:12,160 --> 00:18:15,080 Speaker 1: the answer to that, but we do know that Putin 309 00:18:15,200 --> 00:18:19,879 Speaker 1: invaded Ukraine. With President Biden in office. He can't pass. 310 00:18:19,960 --> 00:18:22,320 Speaker 1: You know, I've seen a lot of commentary on people 311 00:18:22,320 --> 00:18:25,119 Speaker 1: want to point the statements made by former President Trump. 312 00:18:25,440 --> 00:18:27,840 Speaker 1: It's a lot of deflection that I'm seeing going on here. 313 00:18:28,000 --> 00:18:30,720 Speaker 1: The reality is President Trump hasn't been in office for 314 00:18:30,840 --> 00:18:36,120 Speaker 1: one year plus is as President Biden's foreign policy disaster 315 00:18:36,280 --> 00:18:40,280 Speaker 1: the second of his administration within a year of him 316 00:18:40,320 --> 00:18:42,600 Speaker 1: taking office, and he needs to own this and people 317 00:18:42,640 --> 00:18:45,480 Speaker 1: need to recognize this. How long do you think this 318 00:18:45,560 --> 00:18:49,600 Speaker 1: war goes on, Bill, before there's some conclusion, I think 319 00:18:49,920 --> 00:18:55,040 Speaker 1: I think we might be looking at anywhere from four 320 00:18:55,119 --> 00:18:58,520 Speaker 1: to eight weeks. It's just a guess. It depends on 321 00:18:59,119 --> 00:19:02,440 Speaker 1: how well the Russian can maintain their logistics, how hard 322 00:19:02,520 --> 00:19:04,920 Speaker 1: the Ukrainians fight. But that's why I'm going to give 323 00:19:04,920 --> 00:19:07,800 Speaker 1: it a one to two month time frame. I think 324 00:19:07,800 --> 00:19:10,720 Speaker 1: there's still his fight in the Ukrainian forces. They have 325 00:19:10,920 --> 00:19:14,760 Speaker 1: had some tactical successes, but the reality is the Russians 326 00:19:14,760 --> 00:19:17,840 Speaker 1: have all the advantages. I think the key issue for 327 00:19:17,880 --> 00:19:21,520 Speaker 1: the Russians will be a consolidation and logistics and when 328 00:19:21,560 --> 00:19:24,280 Speaker 1: they slow it down as they advanced westward. That's those 329 00:19:24,280 --> 00:19:26,240 Speaker 1: are the unknowns. We're going to find out what the 330 00:19:26,280 --> 00:19:30,320 Speaker 1: Russian military, how modernized they are in this towards the 331 00:19:30,440 --> 00:19:34,560 Speaker 1: end of this operation. Bill Roggio, I always appreciate it, 332 00:19:34,560 --> 00:19:37,199 Speaker 1: so we're good to see it. Thanks, Buck, have a 333 00:19:37,200 --> 00:19:44,160 Speaker 1: great day. The CDC will ease masking restrictions and about 334 00:19:44,160 --> 00:19:48,639 Speaker 1: seventy percent of the country, including inside of schools. Funny 335 00:19:48,760 --> 00:19:51,400 Speaker 1: how quickly the science changes when the polls demanded. We'll 336 00:19:51,400 --> 00:20:03,520 Speaker 1: get into that next in a book. Brief Let's not 337 00:20:03,600 --> 00:20:06,280 Speaker 1: forget that we've been in a two year long battle 338 00:20:06,520 --> 00:20:11,879 Speaker 1: against a virus COVID virus, its variants, its mutations. How's 339 00:20:11,880 --> 00:20:14,280 Speaker 1: it all going? We were told that it was two 340 00:20:14,320 --> 00:20:16,639 Speaker 1: weeks slow to spread with some of these mitigation measures 341 00:20:16,640 --> 00:20:19,080 Speaker 1: that are turned into basically two years. What does the 342 00:20:19,160 --> 00:20:21,840 Speaker 1: data tell us about how successful we were or weren't 343 00:20:21,880 --> 00:20:26,520 Speaker 1: and actually stopping all this madness? Well, friends, and the 344 00:20:26,600 --> 00:20:38,920 Speaker 1: buck brief will explain. Stay with me. It all started 345 00:20:38,960 --> 00:20:40,520 Speaker 1: with two weeks to slow the spread. You remember that, 346 00:20:40,640 --> 00:20:42,800 Speaker 1: right then they kept extending it and extending it and 347 00:20:42,880 --> 00:20:46,840 Speaker 1: extending it, adding new things, saying, masks work, masks don't work. 348 00:20:46,880 --> 00:20:49,480 Speaker 1: Actually two masks work, maybe n ninety five masks work. 349 00:20:49,800 --> 00:20:52,200 Speaker 1: Get one shot, Get two shots, get three shots, maybe 350 00:20:52,280 --> 00:20:56,320 Speaker 1: four shot. Social distance six feet three ft, twenty feet, 351 00:20:56,359 --> 00:20:59,120 Speaker 1: no feet all kept changing all the time. They kept 352 00:20:59,119 --> 00:21:03,080 Speaker 1: saying the science changed. That's quite strange because they never 353 00:21:03,119 --> 00:21:05,919 Speaker 1: actually had any science to point to that had changed. 354 00:21:05,960 --> 00:21:08,240 Speaker 1: It was just what they felt like at any point 355 00:21:08,280 --> 00:21:10,800 Speaker 1: in time based upon the data that we could all see. 356 00:21:11,160 --> 00:21:13,720 Speaker 1: We also in the CDC continues to hold back critical 357 00:21:13,840 --> 00:21:17,760 Speaker 1: data about things like the effectiveness or black thereof, of 358 00:21:17,840 --> 00:21:21,840 Speaker 1: booster shots for a large contingent of the population. So 359 00:21:21,960 --> 00:21:25,760 Speaker 1: where are we now with the mask mandates. One way 360 00:21:25,800 --> 00:21:28,199 Speaker 1: to look at this is the Biden administration has the 361 00:21:28,240 --> 00:21:30,720 Speaker 1: State of the Union address coming up on Tuesday. What 362 00:21:30,800 --> 00:21:33,440 Speaker 1: will the State of a Union address be like? If 363 00:21:33,480 --> 00:21:36,880 Speaker 1: Biden can't claim some kind of victory over COVID nineteen. 364 00:21:37,200 --> 00:21:42,280 Speaker 1: Remember his primary slogan for his campaign in twenty twenty 365 00:21:42,680 --> 00:21:44,520 Speaker 1: was that he would shut down the virus, not shut 366 00:21:44,520 --> 00:21:46,960 Speaker 1: down the economy. Has he shut down the virus? They 367 00:21:47,000 --> 00:21:49,960 Speaker 1: put us through all these vaccine mandates and all this madness, 368 00:21:50,040 --> 00:21:52,560 Speaker 1: and what was the final outcome? Well, a lot of 369 00:21:52,560 --> 00:21:54,760 Speaker 1: places around America and around the world in facts at 370 00:21:54,800 --> 00:21:59,080 Speaker 1: all time records for COVID cases despite the mass vaccination campaign, 371 00:21:59,359 --> 00:22:01,560 Speaker 1: and that include places like New York City that it 372 00:22:01,600 --> 00:22:06,520 Speaker 1: had incredibly high vaccination compliance rates with mandates that were 373 00:22:07,119 --> 00:22:11,320 Speaker 1: enforced with authoritarian zeal. So how does that all work out? 374 00:22:11,359 --> 00:22:14,040 Speaker 1: Not very well? What about mask mandates? Remember when we 375 00:22:14,040 --> 00:22:18,040 Speaker 1: were told back in spring summer of twenty twenty, masks 376 00:22:18,040 --> 00:22:21,239 Speaker 1: will dramatically slow the spread of COVID That never was 377 00:22:21,280 --> 00:22:24,080 Speaker 1: in fact the case. It was never the case that 378 00:22:24,960 --> 00:22:28,040 Speaker 1: point to glow COVID, So why do we keep them on? 379 00:22:28,240 --> 00:22:30,880 Speaker 1: It became very political. It became almost a religious symbol, 380 00:22:31,280 --> 00:22:34,280 Speaker 1: the sacrament of faucism. If you will something you wear 381 00:22:34,359 --> 00:22:38,760 Speaker 1: on your face to show your compliance. Well, guess what 382 00:22:39,119 --> 00:22:41,800 Speaker 1: they're turning that all around now. CDC is going to be, 383 00:22:41,800 --> 00:22:46,320 Speaker 1: according to ABC News, easing mask mandates. Under new metrics, 384 00:22:46,400 --> 00:22:48,800 Speaker 1: more than half of US counties, which make up seventy 385 00:22:48,800 --> 00:22:51,560 Speaker 1: percent of where Americans live, will be in areas deemed 386 00:22:51,560 --> 00:22:54,399 Speaker 1: low or medium risk because of the reduced number of 387 00:22:54,480 --> 00:22:58,600 Speaker 1: COVID hospitalizations. CDC would no longer recommend that these communities 388 00:22:58,640 --> 00:23:05,080 Speaker 1: insist on indoor masking insists on indoor mask that's so interesting. 389 00:23:06,440 --> 00:23:09,720 Speaker 1: Some places will probably do so. Anyway, There's been a 390 00:23:09,760 --> 00:23:14,280 Speaker 1: lot of insanity around this. That's been the case for 391 00:23:14,320 --> 00:23:16,960 Speaker 1: a long time. People have refused to understand what's so 392 00:23:17,040 --> 00:23:20,240 Speaker 1: plainly obvious to anyone, which is that mask mandates do 393 00:23:20,359 --> 00:23:23,040 Speaker 1: not work. They did not work, they have never worked, 394 00:23:23,080 --> 00:23:25,919 Speaker 1: they will not work. But a lot of folks think 395 00:23:25,960 --> 00:23:28,399 Speaker 1: they're very, very smart, who we're supporting this for two years, 396 00:23:28,640 --> 00:23:31,560 Speaker 1: and they don't want to think to themselves, maybe we 397 00:23:31,560 --> 00:23:34,200 Speaker 1: were not as clever as we thought. Maybe we should 398 00:23:34,200 --> 00:23:36,680 Speaker 1: have thought long and hard about what the realities were here. 399 00:23:37,400 --> 00:23:39,879 Speaker 1: New York, for example, has as of today, New York 400 00:23:39,960 --> 00:23:43,080 Speaker 1: City has dropped it's get ready for this, folks, out 401 00:23:43,560 --> 00:23:48,920 Speaker 1: door mask mandate for school now. The CDC, even in 402 00:23:48,960 --> 00:23:51,760 Speaker 1: the spring of twenty twenty one, said that outdoor masking 403 00:23:52,600 --> 00:23:55,400 Speaker 1: probably doesn't make a whole lot of sense. It goes 404 00:23:55,440 --> 00:23:59,639 Speaker 1: beyond that. They actually can't even prove any real number 405 00:23:59,640 --> 00:24:02,960 Speaker 1: of cass from outdoor masking. In the first place, there 406 00:24:02,960 --> 00:24:06,280 Speaker 1: have been massive outdoor venues, outdoor rallies where people have 407 00:24:06,480 --> 00:24:10,199 Speaker 1: gathered together, and there were not super spreader events. We 408 00:24:10,240 --> 00:24:12,240 Speaker 1: all know this, and we just saw at the Super 409 00:24:12,240 --> 00:24:14,480 Speaker 1: Bowl there are all kinds of celebrities and fancy people 410 00:24:14,480 --> 00:24:17,920 Speaker 1: who were gathered together in close quarters mass I'm sorry, unmasked. 411 00:24:18,720 --> 00:24:22,360 Speaker 1: And that's at a massive open air venue. So why 412 00:24:22,400 --> 00:24:26,920 Speaker 1: would children still be massed up in schools because democrats 413 00:24:27,080 --> 00:24:28,960 Speaker 1: thought that this was a way to show their virtue. 414 00:24:29,119 --> 00:24:33,000 Speaker 1: We're going to keep the kids safe by effectively abusing them, 415 00:24:33,040 --> 00:24:36,320 Speaker 1: which is really what happened here. Outdoor mask mandates never 416 00:24:36,359 --> 00:24:39,280 Speaker 1: made sense. The fact that here we are two years 417 00:24:39,280 --> 00:24:42,080 Speaker 1: into the pandemic and children still had an outdoor The 418 00:24:42,119 --> 00:24:45,320 Speaker 1: indoor mask mandate is stupid. Outdoor mask mandate is insane, 419 00:24:45,720 --> 00:24:51,080 Speaker 1: just insane, no justification for it whatsoever. But here's what's 420 00:24:51,119 --> 00:24:54,160 Speaker 1: going on. You've got COVID cases declining in the US 421 00:24:54,240 --> 00:24:57,520 Speaker 1: just almost twenty percent from last week. They're down over 422 00:24:58,160 --> 00:25:03,040 Speaker 1: sixty percent nation wide. And I do think that this 423 00:25:03,240 --> 00:25:06,400 Speaker 1: is this is where we are starting to see the 424 00:25:06,440 --> 00:25:11,560 Speaker 1: reality play out here of politic in real time. They 425 00:25:11,640 --> 00:25:14,920 Speaker 1: know that with cases declining rapidly and people really tired 426 00:25:14,960 --> 00:25:17,440 Speaker 1: of all these restrictions, the cases didn't decline because of restriction. 427 00:25:17,680 --> 00:25:22,200 Speaker 1: That's obvious. The virus ran its course of about eight 428 00:25:22,240 --> 00:25:24,520 Speaker 1: to twelve weeks, which is usually what has happened in 429 00:25:24,560 --> 00:25:26,600 Speaker 1: the past. You get a surge for a few months, 430 00:25:26,800 --> 00:25:28,880 Speaker 1: then it goes down, a surge and it goes down. 431 00:25:29,240 --> 00:25:32,000 Speaker 1: It's not mitigation measures because places that put the measures 432 00:25:32,000 --> 00:25:34,720 Speaker 1: in place and others that don't no difference between them. 433 00:25:34,920 --> 00:25:37,800 Speaker 1: So mass mandates were absurd all along. Meanwhile, Rachelle Wilenski, 434 00:25:37,880 --> 00:25:41,000 Speaker 1: who's trying to desperately hold on to whatever credibility she has, 435 00:25:41,640 --> 00:25:44,480 Speaker 1: put out this tweet. Overall risk of severe disease due 436 00:25:44,480 --> 00:25:47,439 Speaker 1: to COVID nineteen is generally lower with widespread population immunity 437 00:25:47,440 --> 00:25:50,800 Speaker 1: through vaccination boosters and prior infection. We also have more tools, 438 00:25:50,800 --> 00:25:55,640 Speaker 1: testing high quality masks, more treatment, improve ventilation up. Almost 439 00:25:55,640 --> 00:25:57,800 Speaker 1: none of that stuff made any difference whatsoever. I mean, 440 00:25:57,960 --> 00:26:02,600 Speaker 1: I mean some of it zero different Oh the testing 441 00:26:02,600 --> 00:26:05,600 Speaker 1: does what exactly? People are testing multiple times over the 442 00:26:05,600 --> 00:26:08,960 Speaker 1: course of week just because they're neurotic. It was absurd. 443 00:26:10,280 --> 00:26:12,760 Speaker 1: But notice the CDC is now making it possible for 444 00:26:12,800 --> 00:26:15,800 Speaker 1: people to take masks off children in places that are 445 00:26:15,840 --> 00:26:17,680 Speaker 1: still masking 'mor at least they're saying that that would 446 00:26:17,680 --> 00:26:21,040 Speaker 1: be okay. This was doctor Fauci, the worst person in 447 00:26:21,080 --> 00:26:24,440 Speaker 1: America just last week. Watch this. Now we could get 448 00:26:24,520 --> 00:26:28,600 Speaker 1: lucky because the trajectory right now is going way down, 449 00:26:29,080 --> 00:26:31,720 Speaker 1: and it very well may be that if you take 450 00:26:31,800 --> 00:26:34,160 Speaker 1: masks off the kids in the next week or so, 451 00:26:34,200 --> 00:26:37,000 Speaker 1: it's going to keep going down. But you've really got 452 00:26:37,000 --> 00:26:38,840 Speaker 1: to be careful, you know, you don't want to say 453 00:26:39,200 --> 00:26:45,400 Speaker 1: it's an absolutely wrong decision. It's understandable, like people want 454 00:26:45,480 --> 00:26:49,480 Speaker 1: to take masks off the kids, but right now, given 455 00:26:49,520 --> 00:26:53,440 Speaker 1: to the level of activity that we have, it is risky. 456 00:26:57,119 --> 00:27:01,119 Speaker 1: Was it risky last week? But not now? How not? 457 00:27:01,160 --> 00:27:03,439 Speaker 1: Based on the numbers, based on the politics, based on 458 00:27:03,480 --> 00:27:06,200 Speaker 1: the Biden regime, wanted to give a speech on Tuesday 459 00:27:06,320 --> 00:27:08,920 Speaker 1: where they don't seem like they're a bunch of COVID 460 00:27:09,080 --> 00:27:12,479 Speaker 1: mandate and mitigation lunatic, at least not as much as 461 00:27:12,480 --> 00:27:15,000 Speaker 1: they have been in the past. That's the determining factor here. 462 00:27:15,000 --> 00:27:18,040 Speaker 1: It's not about the science Vouch. You can blabber about 463 00:27:18,040 --> 00:27:21,040 Speaker 1: that all day long, doesn't make it true. These people 464 00:27:21,320 --> 00:27:24,000 Speaker 1: abused all of us, not just children, all of us 465 00:27:24,040 --> 00:27:26,160 Speaker 1: with things that did not work. That we're not worth 466 00:27:26,600 --> 00:27:29,919 Speaker 1: our time. All right? Coming up? What kind of economic 467 00:27:30,080 --> 00:27:33,240 Speaker 1: impact could continued sanctions against Russia have for us here 468 00:27:33,280 --> 00:27:35,320 Speaker 1: at home in America? And what does energy policy you 469 00:27:35,320 --> 00:27:37,200 Speaker 1: have to do with all this? We'll talk to Stephen 470 00:27:37,240 --> 00:27:44,840 Speaker 1: more freedom works in a moment. What will the economic 471 00:27:44,920 --> 00:27:48,160 Speaker 1: impact be of continued sanctions against Russia at a time 472 00:27:48,160 --> 00:27:52,320 Speaker 1: when the US is already suffering from inflation, rising prices 473 00:27:52,400 --> 00:27:55,679 Speaker 1: and unsteady markets. To put it mildly, what will this 474 00:27:55,760 --> 00:27:57,760 Speaker 1: mean for us? Will there be more pain at the pump, 475 00:27:57,840 --> 00:28:02,879 Speaker 1: more pain everywhere you buy stuff? Because as Jensaki said, 476 00:28:03,320 --> 00:28:06,400 Speaker 1: it's costly to stand on principle. Well, this mean well, 477 00:28:06,400 --> 00:28:08,959 Speaker 1: we're talking to Stephen Moore about this. He is a 478 00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:12,680 Speaker 1: senior economic contributor at Freedom Works, Steven, thanks for being 479 00:28:12,680 --> 00:28:17,280 Speaker 1: with us. Thank you. So what should folks expect? I mean, 480 00:28:17,359 --> 00:28:21,600 Speaker 1: national gas price today three fifty seven, two sixty eight. 481 00:28:21,640 --> 00:28:24,119 Speaker 1: This is the national gas price average. It was two 482 00:28:24,200 --> 00:28:26,200 Speaker 1: sixty eight last year at this time. Three fifty seven. 483 00:28:26,280 --> 00:28:30,480 Speaker 1: Now that's a pretty substantial increase in a year's time. 484 00:28:31,160 --> 00:28:34,520 Speaker 1: Will the price go up if the current trends hold, 485 00:28:34,520 --> 00:28:37,560 Speaker 1: then how much do you think they could go up? Well, 486 00:28:37,560 --> 00:28:41,240 Speaker 1: the currently the price of oil in the international markets 487 00:28:41,280 --> 00:28:44,080 Speaker 1: is somewhere around one hundred dollars a barrel. It's been 488 00:28:44,120 --> 00:28:46,080 Speaker 1: floating around between ninety five and one hundred and five 489 00:28:46,080 --> 00:28:49,880 Speaker 1: dollars barrel. So that's the equivalent in a week or 490 00:28:49,920 --> 00:28:53,160 Speaker 1: two of gas being closer to four dollars a gallon. 491 00:28:53,320 --> 00:28:56,400 Speaker 1: And then if you're in New York or California, I'm sorry, 492 00:28:56,760 --> 00:28:59,280 Speaker 1: you're probably looking at five dollars a gallon gasoline. And 493 00:28:59,440 --> 00:29:03,320 Speaker 1: so yeah, it will be clearly a hit from the 494 00:29:03,880 --> 00:29:09,280 Speaker 1: Russian invasion of Ukraine. But something really interesting happened yesterday 495 00:29:10,480 --> 00:29:13,160 Speaker 1: when the invasion started, where the stock market fell by 496 00:29:13,200 --> 00:29:16,239 Speaker 1: eight hundred points and the price of oil went up 497 00:29:16,280 --> 00:29:18,960 Speaker 1: well above one hundred dollars of barrel and then Joe 498 00:29:19,000 --> 00:29:22,600 Speaker 1: Biden gave his speech, and what was interesting about that speech. 499 00:29:23,080 --> 00:29:26,160 Speaker 1: He talked about the toughest sanctions ever. Well, they really 500 00:29:26,240 --> 00:29:29,000 Speaker 1: weren't so tough, and he basically said, well, we're not 501 00:29:29,040 --> 00:29:33,480 Speaker 1: going to put sanctions on Russian oil and gas. And 502 00:29:33,560 --> 00:29:36,400 Speaker 1: so then the price of oil fell because that meant 503 00:29:36,440 --> 00:29:38,840 Speaker 1: the supply would continue in Wall Street loved that. The 504 00:29:38,880 --> 00:29:40,800 Speaker 1: problem is if you want to really put the hurt 505 00:29:40,840 --> 00:29:44,560 Speaker 1: to Russia and punish them for invading Ukraine, you have 506 00:29:44,680 --> 00:29:48,080 Speaker 1: to go after their energy sector. And Biden achieved at 507 00:29:48,160 --> 00:29:51,320 Speaker 1: that and so now he got a situation where the 508 00:29:51,320 --> 00:29:54,760 Speaker 1: stock market actually rallied. But what is this going to 509 00:29:54,880 --> 00:29:57,560 Speaker 1: do about, you know, the situation of Ukraine. They are 510 00:29:57,600 --> 00:30:01,120 Speaker 1: penalties without any team. And so I do think we're 511 00:30:01,120 --> 00:30:03,080 Speaker 1: going to see an increase in the gas price, but 512 00:30:03,160 --> 00:30:05,840 Speaker 1: this means that this crisis could go on a lot longer. 513 00:30:07,640 --> 00:30:11,320 Speaker 1: So do you think that there's a way right now 514 00:30:12,000 --> 00:30:15,080 Speaker 1: that the Biden administration could actually have some effect on 515 00:30:15,160 --> 00:30:17,200 Speaker 1: what the price of gas is because in his speech 516 00:30:17,720 --> 00:30:20,800 Speaker 1: he said just yesterday, he'll do everything it can to 517 00:30:20,880 --> 00:30:25,400 Speaker 1: try to ameliorate mitigate the pain that we may feel 518 00:30:25,880 --> 00:30:28,080 Speaker 1: at the pump I mean, here's a reporter who asked 519 00:30:28,480 --> 00:30:32,760 Speaker 1: Jensaki in the West Wing, Hey, is Biden rethinking, you know, 520 00:30:33,000 --> 00:30:38,160 Speaker 1: getting basically just being hostile toward energy production as a 521 00:30:38,200 --> 00:30:41,080 Speaker 1: general policy matter. Here's how that exchange went, Steve, would 522 00:30:41,120 --> 00:30:44,680 Speaker 1: he try to ensure that by lifting some of the 523 00:30:44,720 --> 00:30:48,560 Speaker 1: restrictions that he's put in place on the energy industry 524 00:30:48,800 --> 00:30:53,480 Speaker 1: or rethinking some projects like the Keystone pipeline. Well, first 525 00:30:53,520 --> 00:30:55,880 Speaker 1: of all, the Keystone pipeline is not flowing, so I'm 526 00:30:55,880 --> 00:30:57,680 Speaker 1: not sure how that would solve anything. If there's an 527 00:30:57,680 --> 00:31:00,600 Speaker 1: invasion of another country by a big country, there's going 528 00:31:00,600 --> 00:31:02,880 Speaker 1: to be impacts on the markets, right, and we certainly 529 00:31:02,880 --> 00:31:05,880 Speaker 1: anticipated that, and we anticipate that as it relates to 530 00:31:05,880 --> 00:31:08,320 Speaker 1: the global oil market as well. So that's why the 531 00:31:08,360 --> 00:31:11,600 Speaker 1: President for weeks now has been engaging with a range 532 00:31:11,640 --> 00:31:14,800 Speaker 1: of big global suppliers, some in the Middle East others 533 00:31:14,880 --> 00:31:17,760 Speaker 1: to see what we can do to ensure their supply 534 00:31:17,960 --> 00:31:20,280 Speaker 1: out there in the market to reduce the impact on 535 00:31:20,320 --> 00:31:25,080 Speaker 1: the American people. So are they are they kind of 536 00:31:25,080 --> 00:31:28,160 Speaker 1: coming around the drill, baby drill, as we used to 537 00:31:28,160 --> 00:31:30,280 Speaker 1: say here, you think they're gonna start to change their 538 00:31:30,280 --> 00:31:34,000 Speaker 1: tune a little bit on this one, Stephen. So, I mean, 539 00:31:34,000 --> 00:31:36,320 Speaker 1: it's important for people to understand what's going on here. Okay, 540 00:31:36,360 --> 00:31:39,040 Speaker 1: here's the real story. I mean, Joe Biden came into 541 00:31:39,080 --> 00:31:42,280 Speaker 1: the office thirteen months ago and he declared war on 542 00:31:42,320 --> 00:31:46,480 Speaker 1: American energy. So we reduced our oil and gas output. 543 00:31:46,480 --> 00:31:49,080 Speaker 1: We've reduced our oil output by about two million barrels 544 00:31:49,120 --> 00:31:53,640 Speaker 1: a day, and then we've discontinued these pipelines that are 545 00:31:53,680 --> 00:31:57,640 Speaker 1: necessarily transported. They put all sorts of regulations on LG 546 00:31:57,880 --> 00:32:00,080 Speaker 1: terminals which are necessary so that we can explore with 547 00:32:00,160 --> 00:32:02,240 Speaker 1: the old guess, well, who do you think all of 548 00:32:02,280 --> 00:32:05,880 Speaker 1: that benefit. Well, obviously it's kind have been Imputant, right, 549 00:32:05,880 --> 00:32:08,400 Speaker 1: He's the big winner there, because when we produce less 550 00:32:08,520 --> 00:32:11,600 Speaker 1: energy than of course Putin's and the price of oil 551 00:32:11,680 --> 00:32:14,200 Speaker 1: goes up, Putin is the big winner. And that's exactly 552 00:32:14,280 --> 00:32:17,920 Speaker 1: so we have enabled this, right, and so now we're 553 00:32:17,920 --> 00:32:20,240 Speaker 1: in a situation and in other words, if we hadn't 554 00:32:20,240 --> 00:32:22,200 Speaker 1: done all that thing, and Trump we're still president. There's 555 00:32:22,240 --> 00:32:24,200 Speaker 1: no doubt in my mind that this invasion whenever would 556 00:32:24,200 --> 00:32:27,200 Speaker 1: have happened in the first place. What I hoped that 557 00:32:27,320 --> 00:32:30,600 Speaker 1: Joe Biden would say yesterday is the obvious Hey, you 558 00:32:30,640 --> 00:32:32,400 Speaker 1: know what, I made a mistake. We are going to 559 00:32:32,560 --> 00:32:34,640 Speaker 1: build a keystone pike layer. We are going to drill, 560 00:32:34,760 --> 00:32:37,239 Speaker 1: baby drill. We're gonna produce our own older guests, our 561 00:32:37,280 --> 00:32:39,400 Speaker 1: cole our new player. We're gonna use everything we got. 562 00:32:39,920 --> 00:32:42,280 Speaker 1: And I didn't hear any of that in the speech 563 00:32:42,320 --> 00:32:45,880 Speaker 1: to do no, no, not at all. In fact, it 564 00:32:45,920 --> 00:32:49,720 Speaker 1: seems like we're supposed to pretend that they weren't anti energy, 565 00:32:49,760 --> 00:32:54,600 Speaker 1: anti American energy. Even the past is as you suggest, Yeah, 566 00:32:54,640 --> 00:32:57,640 Speaker 1: they are pro energy, but they actually have this fantasy, 567 00:32:57,720 --> 00:32:59,720 Speaker 1: and it's a fantasy that somehow we're going to get 568 00:32:59,720 --> 00:33:02,600 Speaker 1: our our energy from wind nills. I mean, it's it 569 00:33:02,680 --> 00:33:05,680 Speaker 1: really is a truly dangerous delusion. We might be able to, 570 00:33:06,040 --> 00:33:08,040 Speaker 1: you know, in twenty years, maybe to get fifteen percent 571 00:33:08,040 --> 00:33:10,120 Speaker 1: of our energy from wind and solar power, but the 572 00:33:10,200 --> 00:33:13,040 Speaker 1: idea that we're going to just dismantle, you know, we 573 00:33:13,080 --> 00:33:15,600 Speaker 1: get today in the United States, we get seventy percent 574 00:33:15,640 --> 00:33:18,000 Speaker 1: of our energy from fossil fuels. You're gonna turn that 575 00:33:18,120 --> 00:33:21,280 Speaker 1: off immediately. And by the way, this doesn't do anything 576 00:33:21,280 --> 00:33:24,480 Speaker 1: to help the environment. All we have done is shifted 577 00:33:24,520 --> 00:33:28,520 Speaker 1: the production out of the United States to countries like China, 578 00:33:28,600 --> 00:33:31,800 Speaker 1: which is building a hundred coal plants, Russia and Saudi 579 00:33:31,800 --> 00:33:34,600 Speaker 1: Arabia and the Old Pact countries. Somebody explained to me 580 00:33:34,720 --> 00:33:38,880 Speaker 1: how that's going to reduce global learning, Steve, and I 581 00:33:39,280 --> 00:33:41,360 Speaker 1: gotta ask you this. I mean, there seems to be 582 00:33:41,400 --> 00:33:45,400 Speaker 1: a dissonance here, something of a contradiction because the one 583 00:33:45,440 --> 00:33:48,560 Speaker 1: hammer being told get ready for economic pain, because we're 584 00:33:48,600 --> 00:33:51,560 Speaker 1: standing on principle with these sanctions against Russia. But here's 585 00:33:51,560 --> 00:33:55,800 Speaker 1: a reporter asking a Biden advisor about this, saying, well, 586 00:33:55,800 --> 00:33:59,280 Speaker 1: hold on, why not target the energy sector then, because 587 00:33:59,320 --> 00:34:01,880 Speaker 1: that would really hit Russia where it hurts. Here's how 588 00:34:01,920 --> 00:34:05,480 Speaker 1: that went. Targeting the Russian and energy industry is totally 589 00:34:05,480 --> 00:34:08,080 Speaker 1: off the table. And that what you're saying, Believe, what 590 00:34:08,120 --> 00:34:10,319 Speaker 1: I'm saying is that our measures were not designed to 591 00:34:10,440 --> 00:34:13,319 Speaker 1: disrupt in any way the current flow of energy from 592 00:34:13,360 --> 00:34:16,960 Speaker 1: Russia to the world. Now, we have also said we 593 00:34:17,000 --> 00:34:19,960 Speaker 1: are going to cut off Russia's access to cutting edge technology. 594 00:34:20,120 --> 00:34:24,359 Speaker 1: That technology can be use across many sectors, and so 595 00:34:24,440 --> 00:34:27,920 Speaker 1: as it relates to Russia's long term productive capacity, we 596 00:34:28,000 --> 00:34:30,600 Speaker 1: are seeking to degrade that capacity. But nothing, nothing in 597 00:34:30,640 --> 00:34:37,600 Speaker 1: the short term. As it relates to energy. Who is that? Why? Yeah? 598 00:34:37,640 --> 00:34:41,560 Speaker 1: But who was that? So I'm biden advisor on energy. 599 00:34:41,600 --> 00:34:45,440 Speaker 1: I think I didn't recognize who it was. At least 600 00:34:45,480 --> 00:34:47,239 Speaker 1: he's speaking at the in the way now, so he 601 00:34:47,280 --> 00:34:49,800 Speaker 1: obviously So. I mean, it's a it's a dim witted 602 00:34:49,920 --> 00:34:52,520 Speaker 1: view of the world, you know, we should have. It's like, 603 00:34:52,520 --> 00:34:55,680 Speaker 1: what we are we ever gonna ramp up our oil 604 00:34:55,719 --> 00:34:58,840 Speaker 1: and gas production. I mean, look, we have because of 605 00:34:58,880 --> 00:35:02,719 Speaker 1: the shale revolution. We have five hundred years worth of coal, 606 00:35:03,040 --> 00:35:05,480 Speaker 1: We have two hundred and fifty years worth of natural gass, 607 00:35:05,719 --> 00:35:07,640 Speaker 1: and we have one hundred and fifty years with of oil. 608 00:35:07,680 --> 00:35:09,920 Speaker 1: We're not running out of this stuff. We should be 609 00:35:10,040 --> 00:35:12,480 Speaker 1: using it, both from our economy point of view and 610 00:35:12,520 --> 00:35:15,359 Speaker 1: in terms of creating jobs and GDP. I mean, my god, 611 00:35:15,760 --> 00:35:17,760 Speaker 1: at the oil price of one hundred dollars a barrel, 612 00:35:17,880 --> 00:35:20,560 Speaker 1: if we're two million barrels less a day, that's two 613 00:35:20,640 --> 00:35:23,840 Speaker 1: hundred million dollars we're losing per day. That's like seventy 614 00:35:23,840 --> 00:35:26,919 Speaker 1: five billion dollars. We're just that goes down the drain. 615 00:35:27,480 --> 00:35:31,480 Speaker 1: I really I don't understand the logic of the energy policy, 616 00:35:31,760 --> 00:35:34,680 Speaker 1: but I had predicted that we would arrive at this point. 617 00:35:34,719 --> 00:35:36,759 Speaker 1: I just didn't think it would happen so quickly, and said, 618 00:35:36,760 --> 00:35:39,160 Speaker 1: in thirteen months, we've gone from a country that was 619 00:35:39,200 --> 00:35:42,480 Speaker 1: completely energy independent to a country that's now we're actually 620 00:35:42,520 --> 00:35:45,560 Speaker 1: importing oil and gas now from Russia. How stupid is that? 621 00:35:47,400 --> 00:35:49,440 Speaker 1: Franks me, is pretty insane. How do you think this 622 00:35:49,520 --> 00:35:52,759 Speaker 1: plays out as the Biden administration going to escalate the 623 00:35:52,800 --> 00:35:54,360 Speaker 1: sanctions or are they going to get tired of it 624 00:35:54,360 --> 00:35:58,160 Speaker 1: pretty quickly? Well, remember what I said at the outset 625 00:35:58,440 --> 00:36:01,200 Speaker 1: that the only sanctions that are really going to hurt 626 00:36:02,239 --> 00:36:04,520 Speaker 1: Putin is to go after his energy. By the way, 627 00:36:04,520 --> 00:36:07,680 Speaker 1: who do you think owns those energy fields in Russia? 628 00:36:07,960 --> 00:36:11,240 Speaker 1: Putin does. We're making him the richest person in the world, 629 00:36:11,440 --> 00:36:15,520 Speaker 1: and the guy is a menace to society. So you've 630 00:36:15,560 --> 00:36:18,080 Speaker 1: got to put some sanctions on their energy production that's 631 00:36:18,120 --> 00:36:21,960 Speaker 1: forty percent of their economy. Were the sanctions that we 632 00:36:22,040 --> 00:36:26,800 Speaker 1: did put on him, We're little slaps on the wrist. David, 633 00:36:26,960 --> 00:36:28,520 Speaker 1: thanks for being with us for free to work. Thanks. 634 00:36:28,560 --> 00:36:31,520 Speaker 1: I'm also had a happy message, but really I think 635 00:36:31,560 --> 00:36:34,000 Speaker 1: it is you use the word not me, but I 636 00:36:34,000 --> 00:36:36,200 Speaker 1: think it's the appropriate one. It's insane what we're doing 637 00:36:36,239 --> 00:36:38,719 Speaker 1: in America right now, and we should be getting back 638 00:36:38,920 --> 00:36:41,560 Speaker 1: to making America the number one energy you know I 639 00:36:41,600 --> 00:36:43,640 Speaker 1: used to talk to Trump about He'd say, I don't 640 00:36:43,680 --> 00:36:46,160 Speaker 1: just want to make America energy dependent. I want America 641 00:36:46,200 --> 00:36:48,080 Speaker 1: to meet the energy dominant country in the world. And 642 00:36:48,120 --> 00:36:52,040 Speaker 1: we could be and we should be. Really agree, Thanks 643 00:36:52,040 --> 00:36:55,880 Speaker 1: so much, David. Okay, thank you really much. Another problem 644 00:36:55,880 --> 00:36:58,560 Speaker 1: over at CNN and a heartfelt video of a Ukrainian 645 00:36:58,640 --> 00:37:00,640 Speaker 1: dad will bring it tear your ride, got that coming 646 00:37:00,760 --> 00:37:13,319 Speaker 1: up in quickt alright time for quick hap switch our 647 00:37:13,360 --> 00:37:15,120 Speaker 1: news stories we wanted to get to, couldn't get to 648 00:37:15,120 --> 00:37:17,080 Speaker 1: in the big blocks, but still think you should see 649 00:37:17,200 --> 00:37:22,799 Speaker 1: some serious funny. I'm absurd we mix it all together here, 650 00:37:22,920 --> 00:37:27,600 Speaker 1: and at a time when there's obviously a very high 651 00:37:27,719 --> 00:37:33,839 Speaker 1: level of concern anxiety over the situation of Ukraine, there 652 00:37:33,880 --> 00:37:36,400 Speaker 1: are going to be moments where you just say, I 653 00:37:36,400 --> 00:37:39,280 Speaker 1: cannot believe that that just happened on TVs you're watching. 654 00:37:39,920 --> 00:37:42,040 Speaker 1: So this got a lot of attention. This went viral 655 00:37:42,120 --> 00:37:45,640 Speaker 1: right away because it was in the early hours really 656 00:37:45,719 --> 00:37:49,920 Speaker 1: of the Russian blitzkrieg into Ukraine and this transition from 657 00:37:50,000 --> 00:37:54,120 Speaker 1: CNNs Ukraine coverage the commercial break is you got to 658 00:37:54,160 --> 00:38:06,440 Speaker 1: see this and a little bit of chicken, don't be 659 00:38:07,480 --> 00:38:18,160 Speaker 1: to night, not good, not good. Sometimes scheduling stuff like 660 00:38:18,200 --> 00:38:21,920 Speaker 1: that can happen, but you gotta be a little more 661 00:38:22,080 --> 00:38:24,000 Speaker 1: involved than that, a little bit, a little bit more 662 00:38:24,000 --> 00:38:27,520 Speaker 1: of a transition for that audience. I would say, unfair 663 00:38:27,520 --> 00:38:30,160 Speaker 1: to applebe's too. You know, there's trying to tell people 664 00:38:30,480 --> 00:38:34,640 Speaker 1: chicken it's pretty good. Um. Anyway, that was a that 665 00:38:34,719 --> 00:38:37,200 Speaker 1: was a rough one. Given the coverage that we've already 666 00:38:37,200 --> 00:38:39,720 Speaker 1: seen in this country. There are a lot of people 667 00:38:40,760 --> 00:38:44,280 Speaker 1: on the left, predominantly, who take what are actually popular 668 00:38:44,360 --> 00:38:47,480 Speaker 1: stands that will only raise their profile, help them professionally, 669 00:38:47,800 --> 00:38:50,000 Speaker 1: allow them to make more money, and they want to 670 00:38:50,000 --> 00:38:52,960 Speaker 1: be treated like heroes for it. Um. They think that 671 00:38:52,960 --> 00:38:55,160 Speaker 1: they're speaking truth to power, when really they're just showing 672 00:38:55,200 --> 00:38:58,440 Speaker 1: their wokeness to get more wokeness points. And that often 673 00:38:58,440 --> 00:39:01,200 Speaker 1: results in, as I said, professional benefits, a whole range 674 00:39:01,200 --> 00:39:04,800 Speaker 1: of things going their way. That is not the case 675 00:39:04,840 --> 00:39:08,080 Speaker 1: if you are a Russian citizen, a person who is 676 00:39:08,320 --> 00:39:11,719 Speaker 1: carring a Russian Federation passport, and you publicly speak out 677 00:39:11,840 --> 00:39:15,719 Speaker 1: right now against what's going on. Andre Rubelev, who is 678 00:39:15,800 --> 00:39:19,640 Speaker 1: a world class tennis player, wrote in the when he 679 00:39:19,680 --> 00:39:23,759 Speaker 1: advanced to the finals of the USTA tournament in order 680 00:39:23,719 --> 00:39:27,279 Speaker 1: to throw the whatever it is the tennis association that 681 00:39:27,440 --> 00:39:30,960 Speaker 1: runs the global tournaments advanced to the final in Dubai. 682 00:39:31,200 --> 00:39:35,319 Speaker 1: Rubelev wrote this on the screen of the or on 683 00:39:35,360 --> 00:39:37,520 Speaker 1: the camera. I should say that was covering the event. 684 00:39:37,560 --> 00:39:48,680 Speaker 1: Why two sets, But Rubelev said, not so fast, that 685 00:39:48,800 --> 00:39:53,320 Speaker 1: they might just have a message. Very rupelf, think we 686 00:39:53,400 --> 00:40:03,440 Speaker 1: can get behind that. The Russian no war please sentiment 687 00:40:03,520 --> 00:40:06,480 Speaker 1: so many of us share right now, and rube Lev 688 00:40:07,280 --> 00:40:12,240 Speaker 1: he goes back to Russia's that's a brave move, does Putin. 689 00:40:13,200 --> 00:40:15,960 Speaker 1: Putin plays rough, he plays dirty and does not want 690 00:40:15,960 --> 00:40:20,160 Speaker 1: anyone who's willing to speak out against him. This was 691 00:40:20,239 --> 00:40:24,920 Speaker 1: a heartfelt one. A Ukrainian father. Look, there's thousands and 692 00:40:25,000 --> 00:40:29,000 Speaker 1: thousands of Ukrainian citizens who are taking up arms in 693 00:40:29,040 --> 00:40:32,000 Speaker 1: defense of their homeline, of their country, of their homes themselves, 694 00:40:32,640 --> 00:40:34,839 Speaker 1: and they're being given weapons. They have very limited, if 695 00:40:34,840 --> 00:40:37,880 Speaker 1: any training, but they want to stand and fight against 696 00:40:37,920 --> 00:40:43,040 Speaker 1: the Russian invader. A Ukrainian father here said goodbye to 697 00:40:43,080 --> 00:40:45,520 Speaker 1: his family while he was going to stay behind to 698 00:40:45,600 --> 00:41:33,080 Speaker 1: fight the Russian watching That is part of the cost 699 00:41:33,160 --> 00:41:36,720 Speaker 1: of Putin's war of aggression. These are our fathers, husbands, 700 00:41:36,760 --> 00:41:40,680 Speaker 1: brothers out there now defending their homes against the Russian 701 00:41:40,719 --> 00:41:45,239 Speaker 1: war machine. For what for? What? Why is Putin doing 702 00:41:45,280 --> 00:41:47,960 Speaker 1: this question? A lot of us are going to be 703 00:41:48,000 --> 00:41:52,520 Speaker 1: asking for a long time. Then there's this from ESPN. 704 00:41:52,800 --> 00:41:56,799 Speaker 1: Former heavyweight champion boxing champion Vitality Clichko, who's the mayor 705 00:41:56,800 --> 00:41:59,640 Speaker 1: of Ukraine's capital city of Kiev, plans to take up 706 00:41:59,680 --> 00:42:04,200 Speaker 1: arms defend against Russia's invasion along with his brother brother Vladimir. 707 00:42:05,120 --> 00:42:09,759 Speaker 1: So the Klitschko brothers do. Famous world class boxers are 708 00:42:09,880 --> 00:42:13,600 Speaker 1: staying behind to fight against Ukraine. These guys are millionaires, 709 00:42:13,600 --> 00:42:15,040 Speaker 1: they're famous. They don't have to be there at all. 710 00:42:15,040 --> 00:42:19,040 Speaker 1: They're staying right. So there are people who are stepping 711 00:42:19,120 --> 00:42:22,920 Speaker 1: up in defense of their homeland all across Ukraine. We'll 712 00:42:22,960 --> 00:42:25,200 Speaker 1: pray for the people of Ukraine tonight and pray for 713 00:42:25,239 --> 00:42:29,160 Speaker 1: a speedy end to this conflict, absolutely bare minimum loss 714 00:42:29,160 --> 00:42:32,120 Speaker 1: of life possible. Thanks for being here with me on 715 00:42:32,239 --> 00:42:34,360 Speaker 1: hold the line. Appreciate you spending the time. This is 716 00:42:34,360 --> 00:42:36,520 Speaker 1: always the No Spinoos with Bill O'Reilly is up next. 717 00:42:36,880 --> 00:42:52,760 Speaker 1: Field's High