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Trump to Sign Historic Orders on Drugs and Trade · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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Speaker 1: Well, let's start with some really big news. Number one,
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Speaker 1: we are getting much closer to a trade deal agreement
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Speaker 1: with China, something that the media, in fact, I was
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Speaker 1: on CNN this past week said wasn't going to happen,
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Speaker 1: probably till later this year or next year. They wanted
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Speaker 1: to be doom and gloom. There was ridiculous conversations and
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Speaker 1: arguments and debates about if your daughter was going to
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Speaker 1: have how many be able to have more than two
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Speaker 1: dollars from China.
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Speaker 2: This is where the media went.
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Speaker 1: Now, I'm going to get to this in a moment,
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Speaker 1: but there's something else that is happening right now that
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Speaker 1: all of you need to know about, and.
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Speaker 2: It's really big.
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Speaker 1: We are being told now that President Trump is going
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Speaker 1: to sign.
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Speaker 2: An order Monday.
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Speaker 1: Afternoon cutting prescription drug costs thirty to eighty percent effective immediately.
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Speaker 1: Donald Trump announcing this in a truth social post.
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Speaker 2: Here is what he said. Quote.
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Speaker 1: For many years, the world has wondered why prescription drugs
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Speaker 1: and pharmaceuticals in the United States of America were so
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Speaker 1: much higher in price than they were in any other nation,
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Speaker 1: sometimes being five to ten times more expensive than the
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Speaker 1: same drug manufactured in the exact same laboratory or plant
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Speaker 1: by the same company. It was always difficult to explain
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Speaker 1: and very embarrassing because in fact there was no correct
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Speaker 1: or rightful answer. The pharmaceutical drug companies would say for
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Speaker 1: years that it was research and development costs, and that
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Speaker 1: all of these costs were and would be for no
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Speaker 1: reason whatsoever, borne by the suckers, or i should say,
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Speaker 1: by the suckers of America alone. All capital letters, campaign
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Speaker 1: contributions can do wonders, but not with me, and not
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Speaker 1: with the Republican Party. We are going to do the
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Speaker 1: right thing, something that the Democrats have fought for, fought
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Speaker 1: for many years. Therefore, I'm pleased to announce that tomorrow
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Speaker 1: morning in the White House, I will sign one of
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Speaker 1: the most consequential executive orders in our country's history. Prescription
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Speaker 1: drug and pharmaceutical prices will be reduced almost immediately by
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Speaker 1: thirty to eighty percent.
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Speaker 2: They will arise throughout the world.
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Speaker 1: In order to equalize and for the first time in
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Speaker 1: many years, bring fairness to America. I will be instituting
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Speaker 1: a most Favored Nation policy, whereby the United States will
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Speaker 1: pay the same price as the nation that pays the lowest.
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Speaker 2: Price anywhere in the world.
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Speaker 1: Our country will finally be treated fairly, and our citizens'
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Speaker 1: healthcare costs will be reduced by numbers never even thought
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Speaker 1: of before. Additionally, on top of everything else, the United
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Speaker 1: States will save trillions of dollars.
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Speaker 2: Thank you for your attention to this matter.
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Speaker 1: Make America great again again, the President of United States
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Speaker 1: of America announcing this.
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Speaker 2: This is going to have.
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Speaker 1: A unbelievable impact on so many Americans that can't afford
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Speaker 1: the prescription drugs. Many of them go across the border
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Speaker 1: to get them. We have seen Americans have had to
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Speaker 1: fly literally around the world to go get drugs as
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Speaker 1: cheap as they possibly can, and other nations. I know
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Speaker 1: people personally that have gone to Canada, and I know
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Speaker 1: people that have gone to Mexico and to Europe to
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Speaker 1: pick up life saving prescription drugs because they had no
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Speaker 1: other choice because they couldn't afford them or they weren't
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Speaker 1: covered by their insurance in the United States. And this
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Speaker 1: is part of what he's talking about here, is that
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Speaker 1: it's time for us to stop being the suckers. I
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Speaker 1: also love the point that was made there when he
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Speaker 1: says we're going to have most Favored nation status being
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Speaker 1: look wherever the lowest price in.
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Speaker 2: The world, that's what we're going to pay.
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Speaker 1: And we're not going to back down on from this
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Speaker 1: like this is this is exactly what we are going
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Speaker 1: to do.
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Speaker 2: We are going to do this. We're proud that we're
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Speaker 2: going to do this.
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Speaker 1: We're not going to stop doing this, and we are
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Speaker 1: going to have this most favored status. Now, America has
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Speaker 1: been a sucker for a long time. As he described it,
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Speaker 1: He's absolutely right. I could not agree with him more. Unfortunately,
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Speaker 1: when America and this is you go back to what
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Speaker 1: he was talking about. Look at the money that is
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Speaker 1: spent by the lobbyists and the pharmaceutical companies to influence terrible, okay,
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Speaker 1: absolutely terrible deals, I mean horrendous deals for the American
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Speaker 1: public that other people get incredible deals.
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Speaker 2: It's absolutely absurd.
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Speaker 1: And so what you're hearing now, I think is a
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Speaker 1: really an incredibly important point, and that is that you
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Speaker 1: have a saying I really don't care, like I just don't.
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Speaker 1: I do not care about the pharmaceutical companies. I do
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Speaker 1: not care about their money. I don't want their money.
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Speaker 1: I'm going around them, I'm going to fight them. I'm
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Speaker 1: going to do everything I can to put Americans first
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Speaker 1: yet again. And We're not gonna be suckered anymore. We're
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Speaker 1: not gonna be taken advantage of anymore. That is what
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Speaker 1: we are not going to do. And it's absolutely beautiful
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Speaker 1: to see this. It is amazing to see this happen
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Speaker 1: and to take place in such a real way.
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Speaker 2: We have this news, and I want to move to the.
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Speaker 1: Second thing, which is also going to have a huge
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Speaker 1: impact on every American, and that is the White House
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Speaker 1: announcing a quote substantial progress is made and the US
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Speaker 1: China trade talks. The Treasury Secretary Scott Descent on Sunday
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Speaker 1: said the Trump administration has made substantial progress to the
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Speaker 1: trade negotiation between the US and China. Here is what
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Speaker 1: he had to say at the press conference in his
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Speaker 1: own words.
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Speaker 3: And I think that led to a great deal of
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Speaker 3: the productivity we've seen. We will be giving details tomorrow,
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Speaker 3: but I can tell you that the talks were productive.
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Speaker 3: We had the Vice Premier, to vice.
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Speaker 4: Ministers who were integrally involved, Ambassador Jamison and myself and
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Speaker 4: I spoke to President Trump, as did Ambassador Jamison last night,
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Speaker 4: and he is fully informed of what is going on.
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Speaker 4: So there will be a complete briefing tomorrow.
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Speaker 2: Morning, complete briefing on Monday.
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Speaker 1: Now, the US Trade Rep in Geneva, saying this about
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Speaker 1: the deal and how it was able to come together, say,
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Speaker 1: it really wasn't as far apart as many believed.
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Speaker 5: I want to echo the Secretary's re marks respect to
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Speaker 5: the Swiss government. They've been so welcoming and they've posted
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Speaker 5: and everything has gone off flawlessly, and we appreciate that.
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Speaker 5: And again to the Chinese negotiators. Vice Premier Leohoa, Vice
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Speaker 5: Minister Lee Chandong, and Vice Minister Le Al men work
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Speaker 5: very diligently, and these are very tough negotiators. A couple
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Speaker 5: of them I know from before and have had past
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Speaker 5: interactions with them. And this was, as the Secretary pointed out,
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Speaker 5: a very constructive two days. It's important to understand how
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Speaker 5: quickly we were able to come to agreement, which reflects
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Speaker 5: that perhaps the differences were not so large as maybe thought.
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Speaker 5: That being said, there was a lot of groundwork that
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Speaker 5: went into these two days. Just remember why we're here
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Speaker 5: in the first place. If the United States has a
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Speaker 5: massive one point two trillion dollars trade deficit, so the
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Speaker 5: President declared a national emergency and imposed tariffs, and we're
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Speaker 5: confident that the deal we struck with our Chinese partners
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Speaker 5: will help us to resolve work towards resolving that national emergency.
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Speaker 1: You will get both of these men, and you'll get
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Speaker 1: both of these stories. I cannot overstate how big of
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Speaker 1: a deal this Executive Order on drugs is going to
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Speaker 1: be for American families, especially our seniors. Healthcare costs were
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Speaker 1: the number one driver, by the way, in Biden inflation,
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Speaker 1: and President Trump is like, I'm tackling this head on
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Speaker 1: for our seniors. And then the fact that the President
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Speaker 1: also comes out is like, oh yeah, by the way,
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Speaker 1: we're also getting the deal done with China, which which
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Speaker 1: the Left was hoping would not happen.
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Speaker 2: Quote.
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Speaker 1: We're confident that the that the deal we struck with
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Speaker 1: our Chinese partners will help us to work towards resolving
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Speaker 1: the trade deficit. I'm happy to report that we made
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Speaker 1: substantial progress and we will be giving details tomorrow aka
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Speaker 1: Monday afternoon. This is just amazing because no one in
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Speaker 1: the press wants to report this or give credit. Everyone
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Speaker 1: in the press wants to act like this is a disaster.
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Speaker 1: They want to act like this Some terrible thing. They
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Speaker 1: want to act like that. This is like the worst
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Speaker 1: day ever in that the president was destroying the country.
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Speaker 2: None of that happened.
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Speaker 1: They wanted him to be a failure and they didn't
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Speaker 1: care if it hurt the American people. They wanted it
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Speaker 1: have new news on what's happening with Russia and Ukraine,
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Speaker 1: and this is a little bit more complicated, and I
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Speaker 1: want to get you up to speed on it because
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Speaker 1: I think it's important. President Putin of Russia Donald Trump
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Speaker 1: put out in a true social post doesn't want to
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Speaker 1: have a ceasefire agreement with Ukraine, but brother wants to
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Speaker 1: meet on Thursday in Turkey to negotiate a possible end
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Speaker 1: to the bloodbath, and Ukraine should agree to this immediately.
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Speaker 1: At least they will be able to determine whether or
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Speaker 1: not a deal is possible, and if it is not,
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Speaker 1: European leaders in the US will know where everyone and
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Speaker 1: everything stands and can proceed accordingly. I'm sorry to doubt
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Speaker 1: that Ukraine will make a deal with Putin, who's too
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Speaker 1: busy celebrating the victory of World War Two, which could
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Speaker 1: not have been won, not even close, without the United
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Speaker 1: States of America have the meeting. Now, the President went
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Speaker 1: on to say, Now, this is an important point because
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Speaker 1: I think the fact that President's just calling it out publicly,
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Speaker 1: like he's just straight up calling this out, and he's saying,
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Speaker 1: you can't have it both ways. My worry has been,
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Speaker 1: and I've said this for a long time, is at
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Speaker 1: the level of corruption around the aid that the US
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Speaker 1: is giving to Ukraine is just unbelievable. We know for
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Speaker 1: a fact that Zelensky has said that fifty percent of
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Speaker 1: the funding that's gone to the UK they can't find.
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Speaker 1: He has had to fire people for corruption after they
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Speaker 1: were robusted by media, like an egregious corruption, like millions
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Speaker 1: and millions and millions of dollars. The other thing is,
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Speaker 1: if you know the history of Ukraine, Ukraine is even
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Speaker 1: more corrupt in many ways than Russia.
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Speaker 2: And that's saying something.
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Speaker 1: And Zolensky and all of his friends are still getting
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Speaker 1: rich off of this war. The other there's a third
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Speaker 1: part to this, and this is part of the conversation
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Speaker 1: that Donald Trump has had and again every time he
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Speaker 1: says this, the media is like, oh my gosh, he's
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Speaker 1: a Russian stude.
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Speaker 2: He's backing Vladimir Putin. No, he's not.
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Speaker 1: He's asking a real question. It's a question that we
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Speaker 1: should all be asking. Will Zolensky survive if there's a
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Speaker 1: cease fire that actually is real and this war ends.
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Speaker 2: Well, we don't know.
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Speaker 1: Number One, they haven't had elections since the war broke
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Speaker 1: out a couple of years ago, and there's a real
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Speaker 1: worry that Zelensky is prolonging this because he doesn't want
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Speaker 1: to give up the presidency and he knows that the
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Speaker 1: people in Ukraine will vote him out of office once
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Speaker 1: they have free and fair elections again.
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Speaker 2: So there is a real.
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Speaker 1: Question over the motives of Zelensky and all of his
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Speaker 1: friends who are getting rich that they'll lose their access
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Speaker 1: and the corruption will end if there is a free
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Speaker 1: and fair election there. There's no indication by the way
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Speaker 1: that Zelensky honestly would win.
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Speaker 2: I think it'd probably be a blowout. I think he
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Speaker 2: knows it.
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Speaker 1: So you keep the war going so that you can
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Speaker 1: suspend elections, which is exactly what they've done in the
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Speaker 1: name of war.
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Speaker 2: That's what they've said.
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Speaker 1: They've said in the name of war, we're suspending elections.
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Speaker 1: The number of people that are dying on both sides
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Speaker 1: of this is just horrific.
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Speaker 2: It is.
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Speaker 1: It is something that Donald Trump has also said, like
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Speaker 1: is completely avoidable, and it should be avoidable, and we
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Speaker 1: should be doing everything that we can to avoid it.
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Speaker 1: And I couldn't agree with Donald Trump more that this
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Speaker 1: needs to end. Now you go back to Putin saying
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Speaker 1: he wants to meet on Thursday in Turkey to negotiate
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Speaker 1: a possible into the blood bat. The fact that Trump
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Speaker 1: is even having the assolence give Ukraine to agree to
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Speaker 1: this immediately is also just kind of insane, Like this
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Speaker 1: is something they should all just be there for. Okay,
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Speaker 1: that's it, Like they should just be there for it.
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Speaker 1: This shouldn't be hard, It should be pretty easy. And
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Speaker 1: why would you not go if you're because you don't
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Speaker 1: have to agreet anything.
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Speaker 2: You just show up for the meeting.
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Speaker 1: You show up, and you see what the other side saying,
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Speaker 1: what they're offering, and you call their bluff. Like if
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Speaker 1: you're in a war with somebody and they want to meet,
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Speaker 1: you should probably meet. And the fact that the US
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Speaker 1: is willing to facilitate the meeting is a good sign
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Speaker 1: that like, hey, we should really be there for this,
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Speaker 1: Like this is a no brainer for us.
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Speaker 2: If Zelensky says no to this.
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Speaker 1: I do think there's a large part of this that
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Speaker 1: Donald Trump is getting right where he's saying, you got
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Speaker 1: to now worry about the motives of Zelensky.
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Speaker 2: Now, everything that I just said has nothing to do
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Speaker 2: with Putin. I want to be clear.
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Speaker 1: I think Putin's a scumbag, pos murderer.
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Speaker 2: I think he's a barbarian.
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Speaker 1: I think he's one of the worst people to walk
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Speaker 1: to face the earth, and.
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Speaker 2: I mean that sincerely.
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Speaker 1: But at the end of the day, if Zelensky knows
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Speaker 1: that people are dying, he just wants to keep his power.
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Speaker 1: That's not a good look either, folks, Like that's really
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Speaker 1: not a good look. And both things can be real
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Speaker 1: at the same time. Both things can be true at
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Speaker 1: the same time, right Like you can say you stand
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Speaker 1: with the people of Ukraine while also questioning the leader
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Speaker 1: in Ukraine.
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Speaker 2: Both things can be true.
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Speaker 1: And I think that's part of what we need to understand,
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Speaker 1: is that you know, it's not about picking sides. It's look,
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Speaker 1: it's just about looking at the reality of the situation.
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Speaker 1: And if you look at the reality of the situation, okay,
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Speaker 1: then then hey, I mean you got to ask at
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Speaker 1: this point, does Zelenski and his goons around him really
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Speaker 1: want this to end or not? Like, do they honestly
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Speaker 1: want it to end? And that is a question that
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Speaker 1: that should be asked. And if you ask that question,
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Speaker 1: it doesn't mean that you're supporting Vladimir Putin. It doesn't
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Speaker 1: mean that you're supporting Russia. I think Russia the leadership
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Speaker 1: there are scumbags. I actually feel bad for the people
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Speaker 1: of Russia. They're being held hostage right now by and
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Speaker 1: and and so many of them been sent to die.
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Speaker 1: And and for me, that's really really really sad. Like
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Speaker 1: I it is tragic. It is absolutely lutely tragic. It's
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Speaker 1: also not surprising. It's tragic, but it's not surprising. And
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Speaker 1: we we we should hope that they all come together.
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Speaker 1: We should we should pray that they all come together.
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Speaker 1: We should be advocating that they all come together. That's
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Speaker 1: the whole ballgame here. For me, that's like, that's it,
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Speaker 1: that's all of it. That is the whole ballgame. Let
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Speaker 1: me get to another story real quick. That also is
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Speaker 1: really important Hamas has claimed it will release in Israeli
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Speaker 1: American hostage Eden Alexander.
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Speaker 2: This is significant.
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Speaker 1: Hamas issued a statement claiming that it will release Aiden Alexander,
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Speaker 1: who is believed to be the last known living American
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Speaker 1: being held hostage by the terrorist group, according to several
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Speaker 1: reports that have.
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Speaker 2: Just come out.
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Speaker 1: In his statements, in Your Hamas negotiator explained that Hamas
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Speaker 1: was affirming its readiness to immediately start intensive negotiations and
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Speaker 1: make serious effort to reach a final agreement to end
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Speaker 1: the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas.
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Speaker 2: This is coming from CNN. Quote.
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Speaker 1: The movement affirms its readiness to immediately start intentsive negotiations
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Speaker 1: and make serious efforts to reach a final agreement to
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Speaker 1: stop the war, exchange prisoners in an agreed manner, and
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Speaker 1: manage the Gaza strip by an independent professional body. Per
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Speaker 1: the outlet, Hamas announced Alexander would be released quote as
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Speaker 1: part of these steps towards a ceasefire that will see
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Speaker 1: the crossing into Gaza opened. Following the communication, TAMAS announced
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Speaker 1: it will release Alexander as part of the steps towards
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Speaker 1: the ceasefire, and we'll see the crossing into Gaza open
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Speaker 1: and humanitarian aid brought into Gaza following an Israeli blockade
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Speaker 1: that has lasted more than two months. And it's sad,
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Speaker 1: but this is what Israel had to do for the
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Speaker 1: terrorists to finally work towards a deal now. The statement
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Speaker 1: issued by Hamas on Sunday evening also comes as President
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Speaker 1: Trump is set to visit the Middle East the upcoming days.
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Speaker 1: According to the Associated Press, Alexander, who was born in
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Speaker 1: Tel Aviv, Israel, and raised in New Jersey, went on
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Speaker 1: to join the Israeli Defense Forces known as IDEF after
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Speaker 1: graduating high school. According to the local news reports, Yelle,
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Speaker 1: Alexander Eden's mom explained that at the time of Hamas's
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Speaker 1: October seventh, twenty twenty three attack on Israel, Eden had
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Speaker 1: been stationed on the Gaza border. On October seventh, Y'ao
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Speaker 1: was awakened around six point thirty am when she contacted
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Speaker 1: and she contacted Eden. After the two spoke on the phone.
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Speaker 1: That was the last she heard from her son. On Friday,
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Speaker 1: the eve of the Samat Torah holiday, they spoke on
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Speaker 1: a video chat. He was cute and handsome, playing with
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Speaker 1: his hair the whole time. He said that people had
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Speaker 1: brought them a holiday meal at the base, and then
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Speaker 1: he was going to because he had a guard shift
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Speaker 1: early in the morning. I joked and said, we'll come
20:05
Speaker 1: with an armored vehicle tomorrow for Sabah. We'll bring you
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Speaker 1: to Lent, a slow simmering stew that Orthodox Jews eat
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Speaker 1: on sabat so they don't need to cook. He laughed
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Speaker 1: and said they won't let you in. It's dangerous. I
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Speaker 1: went to bed at six point thirty in the morning.
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Speaker 1: My father woke me up to go out to the
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Speaker 1: stairwell because there was a siren. She immediately sent a
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Speaker 1: message to you to eat on and asked if everything
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Speaker 1: was okay. He replied that rockets were flying, but he
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Speaker 1: was in a safe place and she shouldn't worry. When
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Speaker 1: the second siren went off, they went out to the
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Speaker 1: stairwell again, and this time it On didn't answer her messages,
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Speaker 1: but he called a few minutes later. This is incredible
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Speaker 1: that this is how long this has been going on.
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Speaker 1: The reports back in March was that Hamas claimed it
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Speaker 1: how bad off we are right now when it comes
25:52
Speaker 1: to our air traffic control system, how out of date
25:56
Speaker 1: it is, how antiquated it is.
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Speaker 2: Sean Duffy went on meet the.
26:00
Speaker 1: Press to talk about just how bad it is and
26:03
Speaker 1: how it ever got to this point is beyond me.
26:06
Speaker 1: But this is part of what he had to say
26:08
Speaker 1: in the conversation about why we must overall this system.
26:12
Speaker 1: And it's a system that was inherited by the trumpdministration
26:15
Speaker 1: that is running on actual floppy discs where they're having
26:18
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26:21
Speaker 6: What can you tell us about this latest incident and
26:25
Speaker 6: why does this keep happening?
26:26
Speaker 2: Well, I'll tell you this.
26:27
Speaker 6: The system is old, right, This is a system that's
26:29
Speaker 6: twenty five at best, sometimes fifty years old. The Congress
26:34
Speaker 6: and the country haven't paid attention to it, right, they
26:36
Speaker 6: expect it to work. And so now I think the
26:40
Speaker 6: lights are blinking, the sirens are turning, and they're saying, listen,
26:43
Speaker 6: we have to fix this because what you see in
26:45
Speaker 6: Newark is going to happen in other places across the country.
26:49
Speaker 2: It has to be fixed.
26:50
Speaker 6: And so what we're having is some telecom issues. We're
26:53
Speaker 6: also having some glitches in our software as the information
26:56
Speaker 6: comes in it's overloading some of our lines and the
26:59
Speaker 6: system goes down. So I'll just tell you specifically a newark.
27:03
Speaker 6: We believe we're going to have it up and running
27:05
Speaker 6: in short order. We're gonna be able to fix that glitch,
27:08
Speaker 6: and we feel a little more comfortable about our primary
27:11
Speaker 6: line that gets the data in on.
27:14
Speaker 2: Radar, and our redundant line is up and rooking as well.
27:17
Speaker 2: What can you tell us about I mean, you hear him.
27:20
Speaker 1: It's scary that we're even at this point where no
27:24
Speaker 1: one was doing this, no one was fixing it. It's like,
27:26
Speaker 1: what were we doing? What was happening? Like, how is
27:31
Speaker 1: this even possible that it got this bad? Sean was
27:37
Speaker 1: also again I mentioned eBay. This is how bad it is, y'all,
27:42
Speaker 1: And yet with all the money the government has, they
27:44
Speaker 1: decide not to spend your money on having like top
27:48
Speaker 1: of the notch air traffic control systems.
27:50
Speaker 6: I'm concerned about the whole airspace right the equipment that
27:53
Speaker 6: we use, much of it. We can't buy parts for
27:56
Speaker 6: new We have to go on eBay and buy parts.
27:58
Speaker 6: If one part goes down, you're dealing with really old equipment.
28:01
Speaker 6: We're dealing with copper wires, not fiber, not high speed fiber.
28:05
Speaker 6: And so this is this is concerning is it safe. Yes,
28:09
Speaker 6: we have redundancies. Multiple redundancy is in place to keep
28:12
Speaker 6: you safe and you fly. But we should also recognize
28:16
Speaker 6: we're seeing we're seeing stress on an old network and
28:19
Speaker 6: it's time to fix it. Bottom line, is it safe
28:21
Speaker 6: to fly in the United States right now?
28:23
Speaker 2: We listen.
28:24
Speaker 6: We are the safest airspace for sure, and traveling by
28:28
Speaker 6: air is way safer than any of the mode of transportation,
28:30
Speaker 6: which is why I take it, my family takes it.
28:33
Speaker 6: But again that doesn't mean you don't look over the
28:35
Speaker 6: horizon and say, hey, if there is a major outage,
28:38
Speaker 6: could that be a risk to life. Of course it
28:40
Speaker 6: could be, which is why we fix it. I'm concerned
28:42
Speaker 6: about the.
28:43
Speaker 1: I mean this is you go back to Sean here,
28:47
Speaker 1: the equipment that we use, much of it. We can't
28:50
Speaker 1: buy parts for new We have to go on eBay
28:52
Speaker 1: and buy parts, Like are we a third world country?
28:59
Speaker 1: And no one was fixing this, Like no one was
29:02
Speaker 1: working on this. And so he's like, look, we inherit it,
29:06
Speaker 1: but we're going to fix it, Like we're not going
29:08
Speaker 1: to just kick the can down the road or buy
29:10
Speaker 1: more parts on eBay.
29:12
Speaker 6: The problem we have is you can't snap your fingers
29:14
Speaker 6: and fix it right. It takes time to build the infrastructure,
29:18
Speaker 6: and it's I say, it's going to be three to
29:20
Speaker 6: four years to build it all. But we're going to
29:23
Speaker 6: focus on new work first. So we're gonna start to
29:24
Speaker 6: see new work be far, far more resilient in the
29:29
Speaker 6: near term. But air traffic controllers were three thousand short
29:33
Speaker 6: on air traffic control. I can't snap my fingers and
29:35
Speaker 6: bring in these highly skilled air traffic controllers. All this
29:39
Speaker 6: is going to take time. So the key here is
29:41
Speaker 6: we have to start. We have to begin the process
29:44
Speaker 6: of fixing the system. I can't say in two weeks
29:46
Speaker 6: I can have it fixed. That's not the space that
29:48
Speaker 6: we deal with. But I'm gonna tell you we are
29:50
Speaker 6: going to begin, and you know, in the in the
29:52
Speaker 6: in the months and years ahead, we're going to see
29:54
Speaker 6: real results.
29:56
Speaker 2: That's how broken the system is.
29:57
Speaker 1: Like the way that Sean is described, this is how
30:00
Speaker 1: bad it is now. He also dispelled a rumor of
30:04
Speaker 1: the fake news and I want you to hear this.
30:07
Speaker 6: In the safety mission of the FAA, like air traffic controllers,
30:11
Speaker 6: no one was cut we actually have staffed up. We've
30:14
Speaker 6: hired more air traffic controllers during this time. There were
30:18
Speaker 6: probationary workers that were let go. Those are employees who
30:21
Speaker 6: were there less than a year unless and again we
30:24
Speaker 6: excluded the safety positions.
30:26
Speaker 2: Most of them have come back.
30:28
Speaker 6: So again to say a department, the FAA has forty
30:32
Speaker 6: six thousand employees, and if you lost three hundred and fifty,
30:35
Speaker 6: is this affecting our safety mission. There's a lot of
30:37
Speaker 6: things the FAA does, but for us, safety is key.
30:40
Speaker 6: So no, we've retained all those safety positions.
30:43
Speaker 2: Again, another lie that was told by the media.
30:45
Speaker 1: They all lied to you, and they all told you
30:48
Speaker 1: that this thing was a disaster, that it was just.
30:52
Speaker 2: All these people Quitting's not true, not accurate.
30:55
Speaker 1: And now the media, the same media that looked the
30:57
Speaker 1: other way while Democrats were in charge, and while this
30:59
Speaker 1: thing was because I'm me a disaster, what are they
31:01
Speaker 1: now doing. They're like, oh, wow, we want to hold
31:03
Speaker 1: Donald Trump and accountable for this, and he's.
31:05
Speaker 2: Like, it's not that simple. He also went on CBS
31:09
Speaker 2: this morning and was talking about this.
31:11
Speaker 1: I want you to listen to the intro from CBS
31:13
Speaker 1: this morning and how they described it.
31:16
Speaker 2: Listen carefully to the propaganda.
31:19
Speaker 7: Pretty airport from air traffic control problems.
31:22
Speaker 2: You've been hearing a lot about this.
31:23
Speaker 7: I've raised a lot of questions about the nationwide system.
31:26
Speaker 7: Now safe it is to fly these days? Transportation Secretary
31:30
Speaker 7: that's Sean Duffy announced plans yesterday to modernize air traffic control,
31:35
Speaker 7: promising new software, updated equipment, and the first new ATC
31:39
Speaker 7: centers since the nineteen sixties. Yes please, Secretary Duffy joins
31:43
Speaker 7: us now from Washington. Good morning to you, mister Secretary.
31:47
Speaker 7: It's good to see you, and can I just say,
31:49
Speaker 7: as a nervous flyer, it seems like you and your
31:51
Speaker 7: team are all over this, so great appreciation for that,
31:54
Speaker 7: because it seems you want to get it right and
31:55
Speaker 7: get it right quickly. But let's start with Newark Airport
31:58
Speaker 7: because that's top of mind for many people there are
32:01
Speaker 7: certainly on the struggle bus. How long do you think
32:03
Speaker 7: it'll take to get things right there and reassure people
32:06
Speaker 7: that it's okay to fly in and out of Newark?
32:09
Speaker 6: Well, first off, for you, Gale and Froll flyers, our
32:11
Speaker 6: main mission is safety, and so if there's any concern
32:14
Speaker 6: with safety, we slow down traffic and there might be
32:16
Speaker 6: delayed there might be cancelations, and we take those precautions
32:20
Speaker 6: to make sure that you get from your departure city
32:24
Speaker 6: to your arrival city. But it's gonna take a little
32:27
Speaker 6: bit of time. Now, the main line that feeds information
32:31
Speaker 6: into Newark that went down, the secondary line didn't stand up,
32:34
Speaker 6: and so both lines.
32:35
Speaker 2: Are now working.
32:36
Speaker 6: We have a little bit of issues with our air
32:38
Speaker 6: traffic controllers. Some of them have stepped out of the tower.
32:40
Speaker 2: They were stressed.
32:42
Speaker 6: So we're training new individuals in the Philly Traycon which
32:46
Speaker 6: services Newark, and we're building a whole new fiber driven
32:51
Speaker 6: system down in Philly that does serve that Traycon or
32:54
Speaker 6: the New York Airport. So it doesn't weren't a situation
32:56
Speaker 6: where you know, it's gonna take us a little bit
32:58
Speaker 6: of time. I hope i've summer, we're gonna be fully functioning.
33:02
Speaker 4: Yeah.
33:02
Speaker 7: I was going to say, mister Duffie, what does that
33:04
Speaker 7: mean when you say a little bit of time, you
33:05
Speaker 7: say by the summer, because I'm thinking the problem with
33:08
Speaker 7: Newark is when you hear the screens went down, and
33:10
Speaker 7: no one seemed to be able to explain that You
33:12
Speaker 7: don't think we have to worry about that happening again.
33:15
Speaker 7: You think they've corrected that problem.
33:17
Speaker 6: Well, in Newark, both lines are working and so you know, listen, yes,
33:21
Speaker 6: and if both lines do go down, there are emergency procedures,
33:24
Speaker 6: backup procedures that we take to talk to airplanes to
33:26
Speaker 6: make sure they stay separated. But Gail, I'm concerned. I
33:29
Speaker 6: mean this system that we use many much of the
33:32
Speaker 6: equipment you have to buy an ebait.
33:34
Speaker 2: No one makes it anymore.
33:35
Speaker 6: That's how old the system is that we fly on today,
33:38
Speaker 6: which is why yesterday I called for a brand new
33:41
Speaker 6: infrastructure plan to rebuild everything across the spectrum for air
33:45
Speaker 6: traffic control. It is well overdue in America. And I
33:49
Speaker 6: think what you've seen in Newark is you're having failings.
33:52
Speaker 6: And when you have the failings, you take a look
33:54
Speaker 6: at the whole system and could other parts, you know,
33:56
Speaker 6: have issues. Of course it could have issues. But that's
33:59
Speaker 6: why it's a call to action to do this for
34:01
Speaker 6: America so you always feel safe.
34:02
Speaker 2: In your flying gale.
34:03
Speaker 7: Yeah, you said you've basically said all hands on deck.
34:06
Speaker 7: I think the figure you gave was twelve point five billion,
34:09
Speaker 7: and you said it could exceed that that you're you're
34:12
Speaker 7: hoping to get the money upfront from Congress.
34:14
Speaker 2: How is this going to play out? Do you think so?
34:17
Speaker 6: No? No, it's so the first trons the House has twelve
34:19
Speaker 6: point five billion for me. This is gonna be much
34:21
Speaker 6: bigger than that. This is an infrastructure, a bill that
34:24
Speaker 6: will go across the country. Listen, air traffic control is
34:27
Speaker 6: in all you know, all these major cities across the country.
34:30
Speaker 6: So it's going to be more than twelve and a
34:32
Speaker 6: half billion. It'll be you know, tens of billions of
34:34
Speaker 6: dollars to do this.
34:35
Speaker 2: But the problem deal.
34:36
Speaker 6: Is, in the past there's been just partial funding for
34:39
Speaker 6: air traffic control upgrades.
34:41
Speaker 2: Partial upgrade funding.
34:43
Speaker 1: Now the whole thing. Now, I we'll just do a
34:44
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34:48
Speaker 1: They'll spend money on transgendered my studies, and they'll spend
34:54
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35:00
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35:05
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35:09
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