Speaker 1: Team Buck. Welcome to the Freedom Hunt. Friday, February twenty,
Speaker 1: fifth edition of the program. The war in Ukraine expanding
Speaker 1: Russian forces trying to take Keith the capitol, the head
Speaker 1: of government and his advisors those around him saying they
Speaker 1: will fight till the very end. What is the Biden
Speaker 1: administration doing about this? Why haven't maximum financial measures been
Speaker 1: taken to put pressure on Putin's regime. We'll get into that.
Speaker 1: Plus the CDC putting out its guidance on masking any moment.
Speaker 1: Now looks like they're just in time for the Biden
Speaker 1: State of the Union address. Going to relieve some of
Speaker 1: the COVID tyranny we've all been through. We'll address that
Speaker 1: with you. And also I'll be at Seapack on Sunday
Speaker 1: talk to you a bit about what I'm going to
Speaker 1: be discussing there. That's all coming up here on the
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Speaker 1: What is going to stop ochins onslot in Ukraine? That
Speaker 1: is a question that everybody is thinking about right now,
Speaker 1: and we need to understand that this situation was something
Speaker 1: the Biden administration had a lot of advanced warning about
Speaker 1: and does not seem as though they're going to be
Speaker 1: able to do anything right now to stop this from
Speaker 1: becoming a much higher casualty situation, perhaps possibly even something
Speaker 1: you would consider a bloodbath. It is terrifying to see
Speaker 1: these images of Russian soldiers and Russian planes and helicopters
Speaker 1: attacking these targets. There will be more civilian casualties. Boris
Speaker 1: Johnson is out there saying that Putin will never be
Speaker 1: able to cleanse the blood of Ukraine off his hands.
Speaker 1: Play four. He is hurling the might of his military
Speaker 1: machine against a free and peaceful neighbor, in breach of
Speaker 1: his own explicit pledge and every principle of civilized behavior
Speaker 1: between states, spurning the best efforts of this country and
Speaker 1: our allies to avoid bloodshed. For this, Putin will stand
Speaker 1: condemned in the eyes of the world and of history.
Speaker 1: He will never be able to cleanse the blood of
Speaker 1: Ukraine from his hands. And although the UK and our
Speaker 1: allies tried every avenue for diplomacy until the final hour,
Speaker 1: I'm driven to conclude that Putin was always determined to
Speaker 1: attack his neighbor. Noy matter what we did, always determined
Speaker 1: to attack his neighbor. It certainly seems that has been
Speaker 1: the case for months now. But notice the way that
Speaker 1: Boris Johnson speaks about this issue with force, with fluency.
Speaker 1: Here is the Biden administration envoy of sorts, the Vice President,
Speaker 1: Kamala Harris, who was sent to prevent exactly this situation
Speaker 1: that is going on right now. Play clip one, police.
Speaker 1: So I know you are allies around our country and
Speaker 1: the world are on Ukraine and Russia's invasion as Ukraine,
Speaker 1: and I want to be clear that we know and
Speaker 1: believe that this is a war of choice. It is unprovoked,
Speaker 1: it is unwarranted, and it is unjustified. As the President
Speaker 1: made clear from the beginning, if Russia were to take
Speaker 1: aggressive action against Ukraine, our response would be swift and certain.
Speaker 1: And that is in fact what has occurred today. The
Speaker 1: President outlined the sanctions which are going to have a
Speaker 1: direct impact on Russia's economy, both in terms of sanctions
Speaker 1: and in terms of export controls. Yeah, not exactly the
Speaker 1: stuff of Winston Churchill, but at least she's not saying
Speaker 1: we need to do what we have been doing every
Speaker 1: day and that time is now or whatever it was
Speaker 1: that she recently said, seems absurd. Why isn't the Biden
Speaker 1: administration in leading a maximum financial pressure campaign from the
Speaker 1: get go? Boris Johnson again over at the UK, saying
Speaker 1: that there will be a remorseless mission to squeeze Russia
Speaker 1: out of the global economy. That that is underway. Placlip
Speaker 1: five Russians stocks are down by as much as forty
Speaker 1: five percent, wiping two hundred and fifty billion dollars from
Speaker 1: their value in the biggest one day decline on record.
Speaker 1: Spare Bank, Russia's biggest lender, is downed by as much
Speaker 1: as forty five percent, and Gazprone down by as much
Speaker 1: as thirty nine percent, while the ruble has plummeted to
Speaker 1: record lows against the dollar. We will continue on a
Speaker 1: remorseless mission to squeeze Russia from the global economy, piece
Speaker 1: by piece, day by day and week by week. That's
Speaker 1: what will be required here. Will they keep it up? Though?
Speaker 1: The more financial pressure you put on Russia, the more
Speaker 1: likely it is that Russia will push and have means
Speaker 1: of well, honestly, just in bringing that financial pressure there
Speaker 1: will be cost of the US economy that has been
Speaker 1: made clear to us at this phase. But let's understand
Speaker 1: this is another area where the Biden administration looks clownish,
Speaker 1: looks absurd, And if you want further proof of it,
Speaker 1: here's a story for you. The US met with China
Speaker 1: over three months. This from the New York Times. The
Speaker 1: US met with China over three months to present intelligence
Speaker 1: showing Russia's troop build up near Ukraine and to urge
Speaker 1: Beijing to help avert war. Chinese officials rebuffed the US
Speaker 1: and shared the information with Moscow. Wait a second, we
Speaker 1: were talking to the Chinese, the Biden administrations talking to
Speaker 1: the Chinese to try to get their help, and instead
Speaker 1: they didn't do anything to help us, and they shared
Speaker 1: our sensitive collection about Russian intentions with the Russians. And
Speaker 1: how much more of a slap in the face a
Speaker 1: rebuke could you really expect under the circumstances. Then what
Speaker 1: has been done to Biden by the Chinese just goes
Speaker 1: to show you all that stuff about we'll be respected
Speaker 1: on the world stage again when Biden's president. This is
Speaker 1: the media chorus, absurd, absurd, and they're acting like we're
Speaker 1: all idiots. I mean, here's CBS News. Is Margaret Brennan,
Speaker 1: who's a LIB, but she's a smart LIB, saying that
Speaker 1: Biden's foreign policy team has already set up a huge
Speaker 1: contradiction saying that sanctions weren't meant to stop the invasion. No,
Speaker 1: that is what they were saying. Play clip ten. I
Speaker 1: thought that was so interesting when President Biden said, no
Speaker 1: one expected sanctions to prevent anything. Actually, that's exactly what
Speaker 1: his foreign policy team said, again and again. It is
Speaker 1: what his secretary of State said to me on Sunday alone.
Speaker 1: The purpose is to do everything we can to deter it,
Speaker 1: to prevent a war, to deter the aggression, and once
Speaker 1: you trigger sanctions, you lose the deterrent effect. Vladimir Putin
Speaker 1: was not deterred. What I heard and how the President
Speaker 1: laid it out today was that they are now looking
Speaker 1: for a reassessment by Putin that he's gone this far.
Speaker 1: If they hit him now, will he stop where he is?
Speaker 1: Will he stop where he is? What are the ultimate
Speaker 1: goals of the Russian invasion? That's something that nobody seems
Speaker 1: to be able to understand in advance, because it depends
Speaker 1: on how stiff the Ukrainian resistance is. Right now, you
Speaker 1: have the Ukrainian president saying he's going to be staying
Speaker 1: put In Kiev in the capitol city Zelenski. He's going
Speaker 1: to fight. I mean, this is a guy whose previous
Speaker 1: role before literally his role before being President of Ukraine
Speaker 1: was being on a TV show where he played an
Speaker 1: everyday guy who becomes the President of Ukraine. Talking about
Speaker 1: life imitating art, he says he's gonna stay and fight
Speaker 1: till the end. The Klichko Brothers very famous boxers, multi
Speaker 1: multi millionaires. One of them is the mayor of Kiev.
Speaker 1: They say they're going to stay and fight till the end.
Speaker 1: They're handing out thousands, tens of thousands of rifles to
Speaker 1: military age males in Ukraine to fight against the Russian invader.
Speaker 1: And right now the official policy is if you're a
Speaker 1: male between eighteen and sixty, you are not allowed to
Speaker 1: leave Ukraine. So they seem to be preparing for a major,
Speaker 1: a major and protracted battle against the Russian invaders. Meanwhile,
Speaker 1: back here in America, who do you think the Libs
Speaker 1: that love Biden so much, who do you think they're
Speaker 1: blaming over all this? Who do you think they are
Speaker 1: turning their ire on at this stage? Well, if you
Speaker 1: think it's putin, yeah, there's some of that, But it's
Speaker 1: not the only one. Who are the Libs upset? What
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Speaker 1: are the Libs saying about Republicans right now? They are
Speaker 1: blaming us for this, that we are on Putin's side.
Speaker 1: They say, here's Joy Behar, the dumbest person on the View,
Speaker 1: which might be the dumbest show on TV play seven.
Speaker 1: Doesn't it scare you that people in the right in
Speaker 1: this country are on Putin's side? I mean why, I
Speaker 1: don't understand you. Nothing surprised. What are they making a
Speaker 1: lot of money over there? And parallel there to the insurrection,
Speaker 1: people thought that they could just take the election. And
Speaker 1: I think that's why you see so many people on
Speaker 1: the right thinking that this is okay, this is the
Speaker 1: full of our democracy in the world. Who on the
Speaker 1: right is supporting Putin? I just want to know one
Speaker 1: person who's supporting Vladimir Putin. Everyone that I know on
Speaker 1: the right is saying, I hope the Russians are bloodied
Speaker 1: and have a horrible, horrible time with this invasion. And
Speaker 1: we are rooting for and supporting the Ukrainians in ways
Speaker 1: that we can that don't involve us doing the fighting
Speaker 1: for them. The Ukrainians are are the ones that need
Speaker 1: to do this fight. That's the position of the right.
Speaker 1: We're not saying don't take economic action against Putin. We're
Speaker 1: not saying don't send the Ukrainians missiles and munitions. Trump
Speaker 1: was doing that. We've been doing that. But notice that
Speaker 1: they can't handle the reality. They have to lie about it.
Speaker 1: They have to come up with some excuse where they're
Speaker 1: the good guys. It's not even just an idiot like
Speaker 1: Joy Behar, whose I think job is to effectively be
Speaker 1: an idiot. Here's Hillary Clinton who is saying that there
Speaker 1: are people giving aid and comfort to Putin in this country.
Speaker 1: Play nine. I do think it's important to support both
Speaker 1: the Ukrainian military and then, depending upon what happens and
Speaker 1: how quickly events unfold, supporting those who are putting up resistance.
Speaker 1: But I want to make another point, which is that
Speaker 1: we have to also make sure that within our own country,
Speaker 1: we are calling out those people who are giving aid
Speaker 1: and comfort to Vladimir Putin, who are talking about what
Speaker 1: a genius he is, what a smart move it is,
Speaker 1: who are unfortunately being broadcast by Russian media, not only
Speaker 1: inside Russia but in Europe to demonstrate the division within
Speaker 1: our own country. She's referring to the interview that I
Speaker 1: did with Clay and President Trump older this week. That's
Speaker 1: Hillary Clinton. That's what she's doing. She's misrepresenting it. Okay.
Speaker 1: He says that the move against a doddering buffoon Biden
Speaker 1: looks like genius because Biden is such an idiot. Trump
Speaker 1: also said in the same interview, this would never have
Speaker 1: happened under my watch. I would have he made it
Speaker 1: very clear to Putin this would not have been acceptable.
Speaker 1: But they can't. They can't actually deal with what he says.
Speaker 1: They can't deal with that reality. Instead, they'd much prefer
Speaker 1: to create this lie that somehow the right is backing Putin.
Speaker 1: They go in on Biden's and it's the right's fault.
Speaker 1: Putin goes in while Biden is president. Oh, it's gonna
Speaker 1: restore our standing on the world stage. It's absurd, absolutely absurd,
Speaker 1: and yet they have to come up with something. I
Speaker 1: guess they're unwilling to deal with the reality. Here, speaking
Speaker 1: of unwilling to deal with the reality, the CDC's now
Speaker 1: saying that they're setting up a low, medium high transmission
Speaker 1: plus some formula of hospitalization bet capacity. Things like that,
Speaker 1: a formula for whether mask mandates are recommended or not.
Speaker 1: This just days before the State of the Union address. Wow,
Speaker 1: the science changes fast. When the polls demanded huh, it's
Speaker 1: about the science, they said, total lies, as you know, absurd,
Speaker 1: total bullcrap. But they wanted to control us, and they
Speaker 1: got away with it for a long time. Not everywhere, though,
Speaker 1: Rhonda Santis in Florida says that they have defeated Faucis
Speaker 1: and play fifteen. In Florida. We reject the biomedical security state,
Speaker 1: which erodes liberty, harms livelihoods, and divides our society. And
Speaker 1: we not only reject it if it's government. We have
Speaker 1: done things like band vaccine, passports and mandates because it's
Speaker 1: unacceptable to simply subcontract out faucium fauccism to big companies.
Speaker 1: So we've stood for freedom across the board and the
Speaker 1: result has been. Florida has defeated faucism. Freedom has prevailed
Speaker 1: in the Sunshine State, and Florida led when it counted.
Speaker 1: We led early on when the weight of the world
Speaker 1: was coming bearing down on our shoulders. Florida did it right.
Speaker 1: Not all Republican states did it right. Texas was okay.
Speaker 1: I give a B minus to Governor Abnel on COVID stuff. No,
Speaker 1: there are other states. Why didn't they ban vaccine passports
Speaker 1: in South Dakota when they had the chance, because it's
Speaker 1: big government. I was told no, no, Actually, Florida did
Speaker 1: it right. Other places did it wrong. And obviously the
Speaker 1: Democrat enclaves were completely out of their minds on this issue.
Speaker 1: But we need to hold them accountable. That means they
Speaker 1: lose their jobs in government, they lose their jobs as
Speaker 1: elected leaders. This is critical. They massed up your kids.
Speaker 1: They just got rid of the outdoor mask mandate in
Speaker 1: public schools in New York City today. An outdoor masking
Speaker 1: mandate that's not based on science. That's hysteria, that's pathetic,
Speaker 1: that's child abuse. I will not let this go. All right,
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