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BIDEN STILL WEAK AS PUTIN MOVES IN TO KILL MORE INNOCENT PEOPLE! WHILE BIDEN IS STILL BUYING RUSSIAN OIL! · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Air raid sirens going off and Kivas, Russia is warning
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  Speaker 1: of more attacks. Welcome, it is nice to have you
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  Speaker 1: with us as we are dealing with this conflict and Ukrainians.
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  Speaker 1: President Zelenski received a standing ovation after delivering an emotional
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  Speaker 1: speech to the EU Parliament on the ongoing conflict between
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  Speaker 1: Russia and Ukraine. Now, I want to warn you about
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  Speaker 1: something that's happening as well. We are seeing drumbeats of
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  Speaker 1: America wanting an involvement in this war. Do not fall
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  Speaker 1: for this. Why is this happening? It's extremely simple. The
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  Speaker 1: Biden administration right now realizes that this is their opportunity
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  Speaker 1: to get out from under the horrific job approval numbers
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  Speaker 1: they have. Right now, this is an opportunity for Democratic
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  Speaker 1: candidates to not have to talk about what they did
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  Speaker 1: to this country with lockdowns and mandates. Look at what
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  Speaker 1: happened right before, hours before the state of the Union.
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  Speaker 1: Capital has quote ditched the mask requirements, the same mask
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  Speaker 1: requirements where they were finding members of Congress thousands and
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  Speaker 1: thousands of dollars for not wearing a mask, and all
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  Speaker 1: of a sudden, the Capital's like, all right, get rid
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  Speaker 1: of those mask requirements. Real quick. We don't want you
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  Speaker 1: of that to stay the Union. Tonight, people being escorted
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  Speaker 1: out for not wearing a mask because they were told
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  Speaker 1: there was going to be Republican members of Congress that
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  Speaker 1: we're going to protest, and they didn't want that. So
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  Speaker 1: the state of the Union is all about Ukraine. Get
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  Speaker 1: rid of the masks, mandates real fast. Make all this
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  Speaker 1: COVID stuff disappear in America right now, because the American
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  Speaker 1: people have turned on us, and this is our chance
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  Speaker 1: to get out from under it. Now, there's another thing
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  Speaker 1: that's happening and it makes me extremely angry, and that
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  Speaker 1: is Democrats are now really starting to push this drumbeat
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  Speaker 1: for going to war. We should not go to war
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  Speaker 1: with Russia. We should not implement a no fly zone
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  Speaker 1: and put us into World War three. Already know that
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  Speaker 1: Vladimir Putin has threatened nuclear reward. Do we really want
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  Speaker 1: to go down that path? Now? They're Democrats that are
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  Speaker 1: pushing for this now, and they're pushing it for pushing
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  Speaker 1: it for one reason, one reason only. They need a
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  Speaker 1: distraction from what's happening in this country. They need a
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  Speaker 1: distraction from their failure in this country. That's exactly why
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  Speaker 1: Joe Biden is now going to look like, you know, hey,
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  Speaker 1: everything it's Ukraine or bust. I also want to remind
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  Speaker 1: you of how scumbaggy these people are who are now,
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  Speaker 1: you know, acting like we need to stand up for
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  Speaker 1: the people in the Ukraine. These are the same people
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  Speaker 1: that said at all costs, we must get out of Afghanistan,
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  Speaker 1: leaving Americans behind. These are the same scumbags that when
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  Speaker 1: Americans were sixty feet away, they didn't save their lives.
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  Speaker 1: These are the same scumbags it allowed for people to
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  Speaker 1: be tortured and butchered in Ukraine. They were butchered, they
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  Speaker 1: were beheaded, they were dismembered because they worked with America
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  Speaker 1: for twenty years, many of them translators and things like that. Again,
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  Speaker 1: I cannot tell you how much these people are scumbags.
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  Speaker 1: They are scumbags. The same democrats that said we must
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  Speaker 1: not be in war are now beating the drum to
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  Speaker 1: go to war because they know politically it will help them.
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  Speaker 1: These are the same ones that said we must get
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  Speaker 1: out of Afghanistan all costs, and there was no easy
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  Speaker 1: way to get out of Afghanistan, and getting out of
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  Speaker 1: Afghanistan was just going to be tough. It was just
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  Speaker 1: gonna be hard, and that's just the way it was
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  Speaker 1: gonna be, and we couldn't. There was no way to
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  Speaker 1: do it in an organized manner. We just had to
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  Speaker 1: leave no matter what. Same people that said we shouldn't
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  Speaker 1: have kept Bagram Airbase, same people that said that, start
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  Speaker 1: taking orders from the Taliban when we clearly could have
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  Speaker 1: bombed the Taliban and said we're not going to allow
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  Speaker 1: you to do what you're doing right now. We're not
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  Speaker 1: going to allow you to do this. The same people
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  Speaker 1: that did that, Okay, the same people that did that
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  Speaker 1: are now the ones saying, well, maybe we should get
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  Speaker 1: involved in Ukraine. Ask yourself the question why I am
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  Speaker 1: in favor of helping the people in Ukraine with weaponry.
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  Speaker 1: I'm in favor of helping them with sanctions, and we
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  Speaker 1: need to do more on sanctions. I want to make
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  Speaker 1: that very clear. We must do more with sanctions. We
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  Speaker 1: need to open up the Keystone pipeline, which again, of
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  Speaker 1: course Joe Biden the Left are going to say no
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  Speaker 1: to that. We should, We absolutely should, but they're not
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  Speaker 1: going to move for that. You know that, and I
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  Speaker 1: know that we should ban Russian oil. We should not
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  Speaker 1: be buying it every day, but we are, and we
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  Speaker 1: are the ones that allowed them financially to get the
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  Speaker 1: point where he thought he could pull this off. Now,
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  Speaker 1: the number of war crimes that are happening right now
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  Speaker 1: is skyrocketing, and people need to understand that what is
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  Speaker 1: happening right now is Vladimir Putin is doing what Russia
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  Speaker 1: has had a history of doing. They attack civilians, they
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  Speaker 1: attack hospitals, they attack nursing homes, they attack children. They
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  Speaker 1: just don't care. This is Vladimir Putin right now, and
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  Speaker 1: they are going to start doing this, and they're going
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  Speaker 1: to start carpet bombing these areas, and they're going to say, well,
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  Speaker 1: we warned you. Now you should be angry. But does
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  Speaker 1: that mean that we should be drug into a war
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  Speaker 1: with Russia World War three? No. But when you see
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  Speaker 1: these democrats on TV talking big and bold about well,
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  Speaker 1: we need to stop them, we need to fight them,
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  Speaker 1: and we need to do all of these different things
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  Speaker 1: right that they say that we need to do. I
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  Speaker 1: want you to go back and look at those same
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  Speaker 1: people and what they were saying about pulling out of Afghanistan,
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  Speaker 1: leaving Americans and our allies behind, taking orders from the Taliban.
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  Speaker 1: I want you to go back, and I want you
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  Speaker 1: to look at that. I want you to go back,
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  Speaker 1: and I want you to see what those same leaders
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  Speaker 1: were saying about our debacle and the demise of America
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  Speaker 1: and our foreign policy in Afghanistan, which allowed, by the way,
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  Speaker 1: for what's happening in Russia to happen right now. All
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  Speaker 1: of this goes back to Afghanistan. I've said it before
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  Speaker 1: and I'll say it again. Vladimir Putin when he saw
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  Speaker 1: that we wouldn't move sixty feet to get our own,
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  Speaker 1: when we wouldn't protect the people that help defend and
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  Speaker 1: protect us and save American lives for twenty years as
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  Speaker 1: interpreters and their family members, When he saw that we
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  Speaker 1: were willing to take orders from the Taliban, he understood
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  Speaker 1: he had an opportunity to take over Ukraine. He underestimated
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  Speaker 1: the people in Ukraine. He underestimated people like Zelensky that
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  Speaker 1: refused to flee the country. He underestimated the grandmothers and
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  Speaker 1: the grandfathers and the people that said I'm okay with dying.
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  Speaker 1: I've lived a good life and I'm not going to
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  Speaker 1: allow my kids or my grandkids to grow up under
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  Speaker 1: communist rule. I'm not going to allow my kids to
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  Speaker 1: grow up under Vladimir Putin. That I'm not going to
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  Speaker 1: allow to happen. That is something I refuse to allow
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  Speaker 1: it to happen. I will die and not retreat from
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  Speaker 1: my country. I will die defending my home. He did
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  Speaker 1: underestimate that. Now. I think anything we can do to
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  Speaker 1: support the people through sanctions we should do. But do
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  Speaker 1: not get played here. Do not get played the way
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  Speaker 1: that they're trying to play you. Do not allow them
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  Speaker 1: to pull us into World War three. We do not
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  Speaker 1: need to get in World War three right now with Russia,
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  Speaker 1: who has nuclear weapons and a guy who has actually
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  Speaker 1: threatened to use those nuclear weapons. Remember, he has threatened
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  Speaker 1: the entire world with nuclear weapons. I do believe that
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  Speaker 1: he is a madman. I want to make that very clear.
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  Speaker 1: I believe that he's someone that should not be trusted.
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  Speaker 1: I want to make that also very clear. I believe
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  Speaker 1: that he is an individual that is someone that we
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  Speaker 1: should be very concerned about. I believe that he is
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  Speaker 1: someone that you cannot trust. I believe that he is
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  Speaker 1: an individual that is erratic, and I believe that he
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  Speaker 1: will do anything that he can to try to kill
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  Speaker 1: innocent people to hold and control power in his country.
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  Speaker 1: We know the oligarchs are leaving, we know that they're
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  Speaker 1: trying to grab cash anywhere they can. We know that
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  Speaker 1: the economy is getting decimated. But I'm not sure that's
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  Speaker 1: enough for Vladimir Putin. Because Vladimir Putin has what he needs.
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  Speaker 1: He doesn't care if the people suffer. In fact, I'm
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  Speaker 1: not even sure he cares that the oligarchs suffer. To
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  Speaker 1: be totally honest with you, I think he is fine
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  Speaker 1: with the oligarch suffering because he thinks I gave you
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  Speaker 1: all this and you can deal with a little downside
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  Speaker 1: for a little bit. But when you hear people saying
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  Speaker 1: what they're saying right now on the left that you know,
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  Speaker 1: maybe we should get involved in war. No, absolutely not.
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  Speaker 1: We should not go to war with Russia. We should
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  Speaker 1: not get into World War three. President Zelenski received a
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  Speaker 1: standing ovation, as I mentioned earlier, after they're delivering an
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  Speaker 1: emotional speech the EU Parliament. Now I'm going to play
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  Speaker 1: part of this for you because I want you to
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  Speaker 1: hear what he had to say, and I think it's
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  Speaker 1: very important that you're going to hear his words. I
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  Speaker 1: speak today now about my citizens, citizen of Ukraine, who
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  Speaker 1: are defending by paying the ultimate price, they defending freedom.
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  Speaker 1: I'm very happy that what I've seen here now and
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  Speaker 1: heard here now, I'm very glad to sense this mood,
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  Speaker 1: the uniting, unifying mood. I'm happy that we have unifying
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  Speaker 1: today all of you, all the countries of the European Union.
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  Speaker 1: But I did not know. But this is that this
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  Speaker 1: is the price they will have to pay. And it's
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  Speaker 1: a tragedy for me to tragedy for every Ukrainian tragedy,
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  Speaker 1: for our state. I mean this this high price, very
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  Speaker 1: high praise. Thousands of people who were killed, two revolutions,
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  Speaker 1: one wall, and five days of full scale invasion of
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  Speaker 1: the Russian Federation. You know, I am, I'm not. I
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  Speaker 1: don't read off the paper, off the sheet, because the
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  Speaker 1: paper phase in the life of my country has ended.
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  Speaker 1: Now we're dealing with reality. We're dealing with killed people,
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  Speaker 1: real life, you know, and you know I believe that
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  Speaker 1: we're today we're giving lives for values, for rights, for freedom,
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  Speaker 1: for the desire to be equal as much as you are.
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  Speaker 1: We are giving away our best people, the strongest ones,
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  Speaker 1: the most value based ones, Ukrainians are incredible and very
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  Speaker 1: often we love to say that we will win over everyone.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm very happy that you are not only talking
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  Speaker 1: about it, but you can see that and we indeed
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  Speaker 1: we will overcome everyone. And I'm sure I'm convinced there
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  Speaker 1: is an expression Ukrainian choice, European choice of Ukraine. That's
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  Speaker 1: we're striving for and that's what we're going to and
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  Speaker 1: we went to So I would like to hear that
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  Speaker 1: from you to us, we could hear um the Ukrainian
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  Speaker 1: choice for Europe from you. I have some time off
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  Speaker 1: here because we have breaks between the missile strikes and
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  Speaker 1: bombardonist and this morning was a very tragic one for
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  Speaker 1: us to cruise missiles hit Hierarchies, the city, which is
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  Speaker 1: located to the borders of the Russian Federation. There were
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  Speaker 1: always many Russians there and they're always friendly and there
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  Speaker 1: were warm relations there. More than twenty universities are there.
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  Speaker 1: It's the city that has the largest number of universities
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  Speaker 1: in our country. The youth is bright, smart there. The
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  Speaker 1: people who gathered there all the time and was gathering
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  Speaker 1: there all the time for celebrating all celebrations at the
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  Speaker 1: largest square in our country the Freedom Square. And this
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  Speaker 1: is the largest square in Europe. And that's true, this
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  Speaker 1: is called the Freedom Square. Can you imagine this morning
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  Speaker 1: two cruise missiles hit this Freedom Square, dozens of killed ones.
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  Speaker 1: This is the price of freedom. We're fighting just for
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  Speaker 1: our land and for our freedom. Just bite the fact
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  Speaker 1: that all cities of our country are now blocked. Nobody
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  Speaker 1: is going to enter and intervene with our freedom and country.
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  Speaker 1: And believe you mean, every square up today, no matter
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  Speaker 1: what it's called, it's going to be called as today
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  Speaker 1: freedom Square in every city of our country. Nobody's going
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  Speaker 1: to break us. We're strong where Ukrainians we have a
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  Speaker 1: desire to see our children alive. I think it's a
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  Speaker 1: fair one. Yesterday sixteen children were killed. Again and again
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  Speaker 1: President Putting is going to say that is some kind
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  Speaker 1: of operation. And we are heating a military infrastructure where
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  Speaker 1: our children. What kind of military factors do they work at?
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  Speaker 1: What tanks are they going with or launching cruise missiles?
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  Speaker 1: He killed sixteen people just yesterday. Do our people are
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  Speaker 1: very much motivated, very much so we're fighting our rights,
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  Speaker 1: for our freedoms. This is the Ukrainian President Zelenski speaking
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  Speaker 1: to the European Union. You can hear the translator, and
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  Speaker 1: again I don't usually play something like this, but it's
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  Speaker 1: so important that you hear directly from Presidents Zelensky. I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to continue. Let listen it for life, for our life,
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  Speaker 1: and now we're boring for we're fighting for survival and
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  Speaker 1: this is the highest of our motivation. But we are
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  Speaker 1: fighting also to be equal members of Europe. I believe
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  Speaker 1: that today we are showing everybody that's exactly what we are.
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  Speaker 1: The European Union is going to be much stronger with us,
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  Speaker 1: so that's for sure. Without you, Ukraine is going to
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  Speaker 1: be lonely, lonesome. We have proven our strengths. We have
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  Speaker 1: proven that as at a minimum, we are exactly what's
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  Speaker 1: the same as you are. So do prove that you
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  Speaker 1: are with us, Do prove that you will not let
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  Speaker 1: us go. Do prove that you indeed are Europeans, and
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  Speaker 1: then life will win over death, and light will win
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  Speaker 1: over darkness. Glory be to Ukraine, European Union Parliament and
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  Speaker 1: giving Zelenski a standing ovation, as you can hear there
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  Speaker 1: a standing ovation for a man that is willing to die,
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  Speaker 1: not fleeing his country knowing he has a plane ride out.
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  Speaker 1: America offered to get him out. He said, I'm not leaving.
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  Speaker 1: I don't need a ride. I need ammunition. I don't
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  Speaker 1: need a ride, I need ammunition. As standing ovation for
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  Speaker 1: Zelenski a powerful, powerful, powerful moment. Now many are now
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  Speaker 1: saying that Vladimir Putin has become increasingly unhinged. Former Russian
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  Speaker 1: ambassador McFall said, I don't have to read the intel
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  Speaker 1: another Putin's becoming increasingly unhinged. He's underestimated the support of
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  Speaker 1: his people and underestimated the support of the West, the
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  Speaker 1: unity of the West. And what we are witnessing right
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  Speaker 1: now is massive explosions that are happening in Ukraine right
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  Speaker 1: now because this is what they want to do. They
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  Speaker 1: want and Vladimir Putin wants to bomb and kill and
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  Speaker 1: that's what's happening innocent people. He doesn't care. They don't
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  Speaker 1: value life. Now. As I have said before and I
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  Speaker 1: will say it again, I am in favor of supporting them.
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  Speaker 1: But do not get duped by the left, who is
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  Speaker 1: now starting to talk about drumbeats of US American getting
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  Speaker 1: involved in setting up a no fly zone. As they
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  Speaker 1: put it, whatever you do, do not do that. We
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  Speaker 1: are seeing right now Kiev be surrounded by Russian troops.
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  Speaker 1: We just saw a Russian television tower be attacked in
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  Speaker 1: a bombing attack by Russia. We are seeing a significant
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  Speaker 1: uptick in bombs there being shot into Kiev as we
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  Speaker 1: speak now. You just heard what Zelinski had to say,
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  Speaker 1: and Western envoys and the allies actually walked out on
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  Speaker 1: Russia as they had their speech to the UN. This
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  Speaker 1: is again, more than one hundred diplomats from some forty
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  Speaker 1: Western countries and allies, including Japan, walked out on a
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  Speaker 1: speech by the Russian Foreign Minister to the top UN
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  Speaker 1: Human Rights forum on in a protest over Russia's invasion
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  Speaker 1: of Ukraine. The boycott by envoys from the European Union
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  Speaker 1: in the United States, Britain and others left only a
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  Speaker 1: few diplomats in the room, including Russia's ambassador to the
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  Speaker 1: UN in Geneva. Envoys from Syria, China and Venezuela were
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  Speaker 1: among delegations that stayed. Russian leaders were addressing the UN
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  Speaker 1: Human Rights Council remotely after canceling their in person visit
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  Speaker 1: due to what Russian The Russian mission said on Monday,
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  Speaker 1: where EU states blocking their flight path. Neutral Switzerland also
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  Speaker 1: imposed financial sanctions on Russia, a measure of the international
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  Speaker 1: revolt over the invasion of Russia Russia describes as a
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  Speaker 1: special military operation quote aimed at dislodging Neo Nazis ruling Ukraine,
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  Speaker 1: even though the man who's in charge of Ukraine is
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  Speaker 1: actually Jewish. In his speech, lav rav accused the EU
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  Speaker 1: of engaging in a frenzy by supplying lethal weapon to Ukraine.
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  Speaker 1: During Moscow's military campaign that began last Thursday, the Russian
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  Speaker 1: armored at Colin bor down on Ukraine's capital in Kiev,
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  Speaker 1: and invasion forces firing massive amounts of rockets into the
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  Speaker 1: center of that country's capital. Also, the second largest city
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  Speaker 1: in Ukraine is under attack as the sixth and seventh
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  Speaker 1: day of Russia's assault on its neighbor are ratching up.
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  Speaker 1: Among the diplomats who walked out, Canadian's foreign minister said
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  Speaker 1: they have joined Ukraine's ambassador and then a large group
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  Speaker 1: of others decided to walk out flying Ukrainians blue and
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  Speaker 1: yellow flag. It's remarkable the show of support for Ukraines
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  Speaker 1: who are fighting for their independence, Canada's Foreign minister told
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  Speaker 1: reporters after they just cracked out on their own citizens
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  Speaker 1: and candidates. Ironic, how they're playing both sides as disgusting Canada's.
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  Speaker 1: He said there have been massive destruction to civilian infrastructure
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  Speaker 1: and said it's time for us to stand with the
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  Speaker 1: people of Ukraine, even though they just went after their
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  Speaker 1: own people, arresting their own systems for standing up for
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  Speaker 1: their rights in Canada. Russia, of course is denying at
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  Speaker 1: this hour targeting any civilian sights, even though we have
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  Speaker 1: on camera them targeting civilian sights killing children and women
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  Speaker 1: in seniors. Canada, said mister Minister Lavrov was giving his version,
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  Speaker 1: which is false about what's happening in Ukraine. And so
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  Speaker 1: that's why we wanted to show a very strong stance
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  Speaker 1: together by walking out again. I just laugh because it's
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  Speaker 1: the same people in Canada just cracked down their own
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  Speaker 1: people in a barbaric way there with the emergency powers
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  Speaker 1: they use, and now that all of a sudden they're like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: let's stand together with the people who are being abused
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  Speaker 1: in Ukraine. It is hypocrisy. I go back to what
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  Speaker 1: I said a moment ago. Don't fall for what they're
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  Speaker 1: doing in Canada, and don't fall for what they're doing
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  Speaker 1: in America right now with this drumbeat to war. Do
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  Speaker 1: not fall for it. They are going to ratchet this up,
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  Speaker 1: and they're going to do it because they see an
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  Speaker 1: opportunity here to change the narrative. When you look at
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  Speaker 1: what just happened in Canada. Leaders in Canada are doing
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  Speaker 1: everything that can Dada that make you not even remember
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  Speaker 1: that it happened, try to make you look the other way.
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  Speaker 1: That's exactly what our president is trying to do in
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  Speaker 1: this country with the State of the Union. Unite America
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  Speaker 1: against Russia. Right that, you need an enemy to distract
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  Speaker 1: from what has happened in America, same exact thing with
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  Speaker 1: what's happened in Canada. They need an enemy. And if
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  Speaker 1: they can make this the international issue and everybody can
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  Speaker 1: focus on it, look at it, talk about it, stare
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  Speaker 1: at it, and unite around it, they're going to do it,
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  Speaker 1: which is exactly why they're doing it right now. Do
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  Speaker 1: not fall for this. I still am taken back by
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  Speaker 1: what Canada just did to their own people. And then
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  Speaker 1: all of a sudden they're out there walking out on
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  Speaker 1: Russia and what's happening in Russia, acting like there's some
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  Speaker 1: do gooders when talking about freedom and democracy and expression right,
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  Speaker 1: talking about all of these different things the way that
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  Speaker 1: they're talking about them when they just crushed their own
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  Speaker 1: people in Canada, arresting grandparents, throwing them to the ground,
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  Speaker 1: and now they want to stand up to Russia and
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  Speaker 1: act like they're standing up for freedom. Remember what they
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  Speaker 1: just did their own people. War can be used as
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  Speaker 1: an opportunity to unite. I do believe that Vladimir Putin
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  Speaker 1: is losing control in his own country. I do believe
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  Speaker 1: these become unhinged. Secretary B. Lincoln has come out and
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  Speaker 1: said moments ago that he believes President Putin should unconditionally
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  Speaker 1: stop this unprovoked attack. Well that's obvious, But why didn't
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  Speaker 1: you guys do more on the front end. Why didn't
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  Speaker 1: you go after the banking early on? Why didn't you
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  Speaker 1: provide the weaponry that was needed to Ukraine to defend
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  Speaker 1: themselves early on? Why didn't you do the sanctions before
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  Speaker 1: they went in? Why didn't you do the sanctions when
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  Speaker 1: they were building up the troops and we knew it
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  Speaker 1: was coming. And now you're acting like, oh, well, we're
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  Speaker 1: going to stand up for these people. You didn't stand
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  Speaker 1: up for him beforehand, So why should we trust you now?
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  Speaker 1: And if you think that Putin's listening to Blincoln, you're
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  Speaker 1: just wrong. Senator Tom Cotton said this brilliantly earlier. He said,
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  Speaker 1: we would have a lot of freedom of action to
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  Speaker 1: stand up to Putin and Biden would stop doubling down
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  Speaker 1: on the Green New Deal, open up that Keystone pipeline,
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  Speaker 1: and stop giving billions of dollars every twenty four hours
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  Speaker 1: to Russia with all the oil that we buy and
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  Speaker 1: other countries buy from them. He is absolutely right something
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  Speaker 1: that we already do if we haven't ruled out that.
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  Speaker 1: So with us now. Republican Senator Tom Conna, Arkansas, member
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  Speaker 1: the Senate Armed Services Committee, And Sarah's good to see you.
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  Speaker 1: Good to see her all this time. Yeah, good morning too.
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  Speaker 1: You'll be in the chamber tonight for the State of
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  Speaker 1: the Union address and we'll see what the President has
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  Speaker 1: to say. Your assessment of Vladimir Putin and his intentions
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  Speaker 1: now are what waken Well. Vladimir Putin for twenty years
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  Speaker 1: has wanted to reassemble the Russian Empire. He's had that
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  Speaker 1: imperialist ambition since he took office. I think what he's
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  Speaker 1: seeing over the last six months is a perception of
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  Speaker 1: weakness and opportunity. He saw her withdrawal from Afghanistan, he
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  Speaker 1: began building up these troops on the board of Ukraine.
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  Speaker 1: A few weeks later. He also saw a long series
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  Speaker 1: of one sided concessions at President Biden gave to him,
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  Speaker 1: and I believe that's why he calculated that he could
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  Speaker 1: go for the jugular now in Ukraine, which is what
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  Speaker 1: he's always wanted to do. All credit here goes to
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  Speaker 1: the brave men and women in Ukraine who are fighting
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  Speaker 1: back against his army, not just their armed forces, but
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  Speaker 1: the moms and kids making Molotov cocktails, or the grandmas
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  Speaker 1: and grandfathers who are going out to get aks. This
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  Speaker 1: is more than putin bargain for, and every day they've
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  Speaker 1: been able to fight off his war machine is another day.
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  Speaker 1: They have emboldened Western leaders to impose sanctions, to send
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  Speaker 1: weapons to help them in this fight. But we have
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  Speaker 1: to do more. What I hope President Biden will do
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  Speaker 1: tonight is announced that we'll have no more half measures
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  Speaker 1: on sanctions. They say they've sanctioned eighty percent of the
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  Speaker 1: banks in Russia. Unfortunately, Vladim Reputin controls one hundred percent
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  Speaker 1: of the banks, so you can move money around, it
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  Speaker 1: can use the other non sanctioned banked. And we still
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  Speaker 1: haven't sanctioned their energy sector at all. We have sent
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  Speaker 1: tens of millions of dollars to Vladim Reputan's war machine
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  Speaker 1: in just the six days of this war buying his oil.
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  Speaker 1: Europe has sent even more. We can impose even more
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  Speaker 1: punishing sanctions on him if we will also reverse our
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  Speaker 1: terrible energy policies at home. Here there's time to do
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  Speaker 1: more support these brave Ukrainians as they fight for their
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  Speaker 1: own freedom. So you've been in State of the Union
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  Speaker 1: addresses before, and usually this is a time when the
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  Speaker 1: President of the United States can tout his accomplishments and
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  Speaker 1: you'll get a standing ovation, sometimes from just one side
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  Speaker 1: of the aisle. But in this case it's very interesting
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  Speaker 1: because two of the accomplishments that they think they would
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  Speaker 1: like to talk about about the economy in terms of
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  Speaker 1: jobs numbers and things like that, but inflation, partly because
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: of the American Rescue Plan and because of their energy policies,
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  Speaker 1: are driving some of the problems that you'll see in
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  Speaker 1: these reflected in these poll numbers from multiple polls this
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  Speaker 1: week having them in the mid thirties on approval. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and also very low approval numbers on his performance with Ukraine.
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  Speaker 1: Whether we've been tough enough on Vladimir Putin. That's why
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  Speaker 1: I say it's time to reverse course here. If gas
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  Speaker 1: was still at two dollars and ten cents a gallon,
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  Speaker 1: not at three dollars and sixty cents a gallon, we
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: would have a lot more freedom of action to stand
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  Speaker 1: up to Vladimir Putin. There are more things that we
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  Speaker 1: can continue to do, and that's what he should be
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  Speaker 1: announcing tonight. Well, what's the likelihood that you get some
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  Speaker 1: sort of reversal on these policies. I mean, given what
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  Speaker 1: we've seen from the administration the last few days, it
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  Speaker 1: doesn't seem likely. I mean, you see them continuing to
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: double down on tenants of the Green New Deal, while
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: they're also taking steps to continue to reduce our nuclear
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: power sources. You know, just last week they reversed a
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: permit that would extend the life of a nuclear power
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: plant in Florida. It's the exact opposite. We should be doing.
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  Speaker 1: An addition to opening up federal lands for new leases,
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: as they put a new moratorium on just last week
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  Speaker 1: in the middle of this war. We should be building
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  Speaker 1: more nuclear power plants here, we should be building them
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  Speaker 1: in Europe as well, might idea. I love, by the way,
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  Speaker 1: how he described that so simplistically, like this is a
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  Speaker 1: This is a man in Joe Biden, the Democratic Party
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  Speaker 1: that are that are doubling down on Green New Deal ideas.
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  Speaker 1: We should be doing the complete opposite of that. We
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: should build more nuclear power plants here and in Europe.
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  Speaker 1: We should become energy independent to make sure they can't
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  Speaker 1: take advantage of us. But they're doing the exact opposite
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: of that. He is absolutely right, he is spot on.
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: I promise you we're going to have a lot more
• 28:44
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