This is a lot of ugliness. Russia, Ukraine, we have an expert coming on about that, and

it's not going to be the main part of the show, and it's not the ugliness I'm talking about.

We're going to talk about lives that cost lives, not Vladimir Putin's lives.

Oh, that's coming up. And I'm right.

All right, it's time for some COVID communism.

I'm never going to sit here and defend Vladimir Putin.

It's just not Vladimir Putin's a comeback. Just is what it is.

But I am going to sit here and talk to you frankly about America, what you think about America,

what you think about America's involvement overseas, what you think about our leadership.

Because if you were to bring up something like Vladimir Putin to most people,

they would say things off the top of their head. They would say he's a murderer. He is

dirtball. Yep. Tyrant, no question. Corrupted. All these things. Yep.

They'd probably even say he killed his own people. They would.

They would tell you he would imprison his political opponents.

And all that's true. Total dirtball. Okay, that's fair.

But let's have a frank conversation. A very frank, very tough conversation right now about us,

about what we are, about who we are. And this is not going to be, well, what aboutism talk here?

This is going to be a very frank talk because I watched yesterday as President Joe Biden,

Jen Psaki, everyone else, they were talking about how you're going to have to pay higher prices

and higher gas prices and what was the justification for it every single time. It was well,

the defending freedom are shared values. Shared values. That is interesting. I mean, don't give

me wrong. A nation should have shared values. There's no question. That's actually the only reason

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