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Trump's Ultimatum-Iran Must Abandon Nuclear Weapons · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: We're going to start with some very big news, and
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  Speaker 1: that is that Donald Trump is going to try to
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  Speaker 1: clean up the mess that was left behind by Joe
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  Speaker 1: Biden when it came to Iran. Donald Trump administration we're
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  Speaker 1: now being told as seeking full dismantlement of Iran's nuclear program.
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  Speaker 2: That is obviously a huge deal.
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  Speaker 1: National Security Advisor Mike walt sang on Sunday on CBS's
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  Speaker 1: Face the Nation, the President Donald Trump was working towards
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  Speaker 1: full dismantlement of Iran's nuclear program.
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  Speaker 2: Here is part of that conversation.
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  Speaker 3: To cover on the home front. But we begin first
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  Speaker 3: on national security. In just a few hours, US officials
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  Speaker 3: will be holding talks with Ukraine and tomorrow a separate
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  Speaker 3: round with Russia in pursuit of a thirty day ceasefire.
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  Speaker 3: In the meantime, the Trump administration is ramping up the
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  Speaker 3: US military presence in the Middle East, sending a second
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  Speaker 3: aircraft carrier to the region. We begin this morning with
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  Speaker 3: White House National Security Advisor Mike Waltz.
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  Speaker 4: Good to have you here, thanks, Margaret.
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  Speaker 3: So, the Iran Backhothi's they continue.
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  Speaker 4: To fire at Israel.
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  Speaker 3: What is the last week of bombing achieved and if
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  Speaker 3: you're holding Iran responsible, what's next.
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  Speaker 5: Well, we've taken out Keyhothy leadership, including their head missileer.
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  Speaker 5: We've hit their headquarters, We've hit communications nodes, weapons factories,
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  Speaker 5: and even some of their over the water drone production facilities.
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  Speaker 5: Just in the last couple of days, President Trump has
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  Speaker 5: decided to hit the Houthis and hit them hard, as
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  Speaker 5: opposed to in the last administration, where literally weeks or
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  Speaker 5: months would go by with these kind of one off,
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  Speaker 5: pin prick attacks. And as a result, we've had one
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  Speaker 5: of the world's most critical sea lanes get shut down.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, these guys are like al Qaeda or Isis
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  Speaker 5: with advanced cruise missile, ballistic missiles, and some of the
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  Speaker 5: most sophisticated air defenses, all provided by Iran or Just
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  Speaker 5: to so everybody understands the impact here, the last time
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  Speaker 5: one of our destroyers went through the Straits there it
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  Speaker 5: was attacked twenty three times. Seventy five percent of our
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  Speaker 5: US flag shipping now has to go around the southern
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  Speaker 5: coast of Africa rather than going through the Suez Canal.
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  Speaker 5: And keeping the sea lanes open, keeping trade and commerce
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  Speaker 5: open is a fundamental aspect of our national security. The
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  Speaker 5: last administration was not effective. The Trump administration and President
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  Speaker 5: Trump have decided to do something much harder, much tougher,
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  Speaker 5: and much and what we'll see but I think will
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  Speaker 5: be much more effective.
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  Speaker 3: So the President is that he's going to hold Iran
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  Speaker 3: responsible as well. Envoy Steve Whitkoff said in an interview
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  Speaker 3: that Iran had responded to this US outreach.
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  Speaker 4: Via multiple channels.
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  Speaker 3: In regard to a letter sent by the President, Witkoff
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  Speaker 3: described it as an offer to a to create a
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  Speaker 3: verification program so nobody worries about weaponization of nuclear material.
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  Speaker 3: Can you clarify, is the US seeking the dismantlement of
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  Speaker 3: Iran's nuclear program or verification like what President Obama put
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  Speaker 3: in place back in twenty fifteen and President Trump pulled out.
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  Speaker 4: Of full dismantlement.
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  Speaker 5: Iran has to give up its program in a way
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  Speaker 5: that the entire world can see.
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  Speaker 4: And this is look.
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  Speaker 5: As president as President Trump has said, this is coming
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  Speaker 5: to a head. All options are on the table, and
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  Speaker 5: it is time for Iran to walk away completely from
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  Speaker 5: its desire to have a nuclear nuclear weapon. That and
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  Speaker 5: they will not and cannot be allowed to have a
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  Speaker 5: nuclear weapons program. That's enriched to the president, that is
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  Speaker 5: weaponization and that it's its strategic missile program. Can you
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  Speaker 5: only imagine we've seen the death and destruction that they're
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  Speaker 5: doing through its proxies between Hesbalah, the Asad regime, the
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  Speaker 5: who these and what have you. If they had nuclear weapons,
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  Speaker 5: the entire Middle East would explode in an arms race
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  Speaker 5: that is completely unacceptable to our national security. I won't
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  Speaker 5: get into what the back and forth has been, but
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  Speaker 5: Iran is in the worst place it has been from
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  Speaker 5: its own national security since nineteen seventy nine thanks to
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  Speaker 5: Hesblah Hamas, the Assad regime and its own air defenses
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  Speaker 5: being taken out by the Israelis.
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  Speaker 4: So there's still a chance for diplomacy. Well, of course Iban.
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  Speaker 5: The President has all options on the table, but we
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  Speaker 5: want to be clear. This isn't some kind of, you know,
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  Speaker 5: kind of tip for tat that we had under the
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  Speaker 5: Obama administration or Biden. This is the full program. Give
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  Speaker 5: it up or there will be consequences.
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  Speaker 2: Give it up or there will be consequences.
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  Speaker 1: It's very clear that the Trump administration is not willing
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  Speaker 1: to negotiate at all with Iran on the issue of
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  Speaker 1: nuclear weapons and the reason why is clearly stated. Full
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  Speaker 1: this mana minute, and Ran has to give up its
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  Speaker 1: program in a way that the entire world can see.
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  Speaker 2: And this is what it's going to be.
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  Speaker 1: We are not going to trust them with any type
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  Speaker 1: of nuclear program. Now you listen to how this president
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  Speaker 1: has made it clear to the world that this is
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  Speaker 1: unacceptable what has happened with Iran, and that we're not
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  Speaker 1: going to do this.
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  Speaker 2: We're not going to allow it. And as they described it,
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  Speaker 2: RAN's in the.
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  Speaker 1: Quote worst place it's been from its own national security
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  Speaker 1: standpoint since nineteen seventy nine thanks to hesbla Hamas and
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  Speaker 1: the Asad regime and its own air defense being taken
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  Speaker 1: out by the Israelis. Now you notice there that there
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  Speaker 1: was one key thing that was said by the anchor there, Brennan.
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  Speaker 1: She said, so there's still a chance for diplomacy, question mark,
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  Speaker 1: I know you won't get into okay, And what was
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  Speaker 1: the response, Well, of course, I mean the president has
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  Speaker 1: all options on.
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  Speaker 2: The table, and we want to be clear.
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  Speaker 1: This isn't some kind of you know, kind of tit
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  Speaker 1: for tat that we had under the Obama.
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  Speaker 2: Administration or Biden.
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  Speaker 1: This is the full program, give it up or there
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  Speaker 1: will be consequences. After more than a year of war,
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  Speaker 1: tear and pain in Israel, the need for security essentials
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  Speaker 1: and support for first responders is still critical. Even in
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  Speaker 1: times of ceasefire. Israel must be prepared for the next attack,
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  Speaker 1: the question is what a consequences look like. Well, obviously
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  Speaker 1: sanctions are part of the consequences, there's no doubt about that,
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  Speaker 1: and it's very clear the Presdent's going to use that disadvantage.
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  Speaker 2: But it could also mean allowing for.
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  Speaker 1: Israel to strike, because if there's anything we've learned, Israel
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  Speaker 1: right now does not want to allow Iran to get
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  Speaker 1: a nuclear weapon because they know that they would be
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  Speaker 1: more than likely target number one, and so there's a
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  Speaker 1: very good chance at what would end up happening. Is
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  Speaker 1: America would say to them, Hey, we understand what you
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  Speaker 1: have to do. We understand that you have to protect
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  Speaker 1: and defend yourself. We understand that you are their target.
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  Speaker 1: We understand all of that, and we're going to do
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  Speaker 1: everything we can rights in Iran.
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  Speaker 2: And this makes a lot of sense.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to do everything we can to make sure
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  Speaker 1: that you are able to defend yourself. That's what America
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  Speaker 1: would say to Israel when it comes to the Iran issue.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think anyone has a problem with that. That
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  Speaker 1: is sane, and having an Iran with a nuclear program
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  Speaker 1: would be suicide for peace in the Middle East. There
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  Speaker 1: is no doubt about it, because I do believe they
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  Speaker 1: would use those nuclear weapons. I believe they would use them,
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  Speaker 1: and they would go after not only Israel, but I
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  Speaker 1: think they would go over any other country that they
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  Speaker 1: wanted to mess with or that they hated. And that's
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  Speaker 1: the biggest problem with all of this. This also, I
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  Speaker 1: think goes back to one other aspect of what Donald
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  Speaker 1: Trump has made very clear, which is peace through strength.
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  Speaker 1: And if you look at what he has said, and
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  Speaker 1: you look at the way that he said it, he said,
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  Speaker 1: there are certain things in America.
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  Speaker 2: We will not tolerate.
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  Speaker 4: Rate.
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  Speaker 1: One of those things is a nuclear program in Iran.
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  Speaker 1: They lie, You cannot trust them, You cannot believe them
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  Speaker 1: that they will for anything like when it comes to
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  Speaker 1: nuclear weapons, you cannot trust them. And they sponsor terras everywhere.
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  Speaker 1: We know that they sponsor terras everywhere in the Middle East.
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  Speaker 1: Hamas has blow. The list goes on and on. So
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  Speaker 1: that is the other part of this that I think
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  Speaker 1: is really really really important to understand that the President
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  Speaker 1: is saying, we are not going to let you get
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  Speaker 1: it because we know we know when you get it, right,
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  Speaker 1: like we know when you get it, the chances of
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  Speaker 1: you using it are extremely high.
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  Speaker 2: Period.
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  Speaker 1: While all this, by the way, is happening with Iran
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  Speaker 1: and the simple words coming out from the White House
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  Speaker 1: that we're going to stop Iran from getting a nuclear
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  Speaker 1: program and there will be consequences if they if they
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  Speaker 1: don't stop what they're doing. Right now, we also got
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  Speaker 1: even better, I think you could say information from the
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  Speaker 1: Director of National Intelligence Toulty Gabbard, who has come out
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  Speaker 1: also while this is happening and slash DEI and wasteless
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  Speaker 1: spending by tens of millions of dollars. The Director of
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  Speaker 1: National Intelligence Tolti Gabbard saved taxpayers tens of millions of
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  Speaker 1: dollars in wasteful diversity, equity and inclusion and other insane
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  Speaker 1: spending quote. President Donald Trump made it one of his
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  Speaker 1: first actions in zoo administration and radical and wasteful government
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  Speaker 1: di programs and.
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  Speaker 2: Preferencing quote.
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  Speaker 1: The Biden administration forced illegal and in moral discrimination programs
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  Speaker 1: going by the name diversity equity inclusion into virtually all
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  Speaker 1: aspects of the federal government in areas ranging from airlines.
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  Speaker 2: Safe to the military.
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  Speaker 1: Trump's executive orders declared all this on January the twentieth, naturally,
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  Speaker 1: the Director of National Intelligence, Toulsi Gabbard has moved to
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  Speaker 1: scratch and get rid of all of these controversial and
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  Speaker 1: discriminatory programs from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
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  Speaker 1: So let me just tell you what she got rid
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  Speaker 1: of this week. She eliminated the DEI office and staff,
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  Speaker 1: saving twenty million. She scrapped unnecessary conferences, saving more than
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  Speaker 1: three million or more per year. She next unnecessary program licenses,
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  Speaker 1: saving one point four million a year. She removed redundant
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  Speaker 1: secure cloud contract saving one point one million a year.
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  Speaker 1: She ended unnecessary never ending training programs, saving three point
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  Speaker 1: four million per year.
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  Speaker 2: She reduced overhead charges.
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  Speaker 1: On all ODNI contracts, saving eight to twelve percent of
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  Speaker 1: all contract value use. On top of aggressively pursuing recent
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  Speaker 1: intelligence community leakers and revoking security clearances of Biden officials
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  Speaker 1: and signers of the infants Hunter Byen Laptop letter, Director
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  Speaker 1: Gabbart has already moved to save taxpayer dours millions of bucks,
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  Speaker 1: which was a promise.
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  Speaker 2: Here's something else that's interesting.
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  Speaker 1: This was first reported by Breitbart News in late February.
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  Speaker 1: The Gabbard saved twenty million by ordering her department just
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  Speaker 1: to eliminate the DEI programs. In addition to that order,
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  Speaker 1: Gabert also ordered the od and I staff to stop
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  Speaker 1: attending any and all conferences not central to the od
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  Speaker 1: and I mission or that do not have defined deliverables.
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  Speaker 1: Per the official, the second orders expect to save taxpayers
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  Speaker 1: another three.
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  Speaker 2: Million a year.
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  Speaker 1: Gabert also ordered a review to determine any OD and
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  Speaker 1: I personnel not working at the headquarters in DC, like
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  Speaker 1: staff base elsewhere throughout the country to determine if those
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  Speaker 1: people are serving the mission of protecting the safety and
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  Speaker 1: security of the American.
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  Speaker 2: People what a novel idea quote.
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  Speaker 1: If such personnel are determined to not fit that description, Gabbard,
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  Speaker 1: per a US official, will order those positions to be eliminated,
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  Speaker 1: a move that's expected to save taxpayers another million dollars
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  Speaker 1: a year at least.
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  Speaker 2: Gabard also.
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  Speaker 1: Just returned from her trip to the Indo Pacific, where
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  Speaker 1: she brought a nuanced understanding of the arena's crucial partnerships
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  Speaker 1: and complex challenges as she explores opportunities to advance President
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  Speaker 1: Trump's America First policy across the Indo Pacific.
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  Speaker 2: They say this includes.
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  Speaker 1: Meeting with senior National Security Agency the NSA officials in Hawaii,
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  Speaker 1: visiting top intelligence officials and diplomats in Japan and Thailand,
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  Speaker 1: and holding bilateral meetings with the Indian Prime Minister.
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  Speaker 2: Quote.
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  Speaker 1: President Trump remains unwavering and his commitment to achieving peace
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  Speaker 1: through a strategy root in realism and pragmatism. Securing peace
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  Speaker 1: through strength requires strong leadership and a clear eyed and
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  Speaker 1: realistic understanding of global challenges and opportunities, a commitment to
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  Speaker 1: fostering cultural and economic ties that reduce the likelihood of
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  Speaker 1: an escalation to conflict, and a dedication to reinforcing mutual interests.
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  Speaker 1: So what does this actually mean in translation, means the
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  Speaker 1: President is empowered gabber to slash the wastele spending while
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  Speaker 1: also making sure that we get back to the mission
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  Speaker 1: of what she does in her job, and part of
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  Speaker 1: it is going and talking to world leaders and finding
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  Speaker 1: common ground and commonplace where we can get along and
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  Speaker 1: expand and work together, which allows for there being a
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  Speaker 1: much less chance of there being some sort of international conflict.
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  Speaker 1: And so what the President's strategy is here is, Hey,
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  Speaker 1: let's go meet with people that we think there could
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  Speaker 1: be an issue, and let's find a common denominator, a
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  Speaker 1: common bond of understanding where instead of us not talking
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  Speaker 1: to one another, we actually work with one another. We
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  Speaker 1: sit down and try to find ways that we can
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  Speaker 1: communicate on some sort of program and or plan that
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  Speaker 1: makes sense for both so that we have a better
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  Speaker 1: chance of de escalating a situation instead of escalating it
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  Speaker 1: to having a point where we have another war.
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  Speaker 2: Again. This is common sense. That's what it really is.
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  Speaker 1: This is all about basic common sense by Tulsi, by
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  Speaker 1: the President of the United States of America and empowering
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  Speaker 1: his cabinet officials to do their jobs. And when you
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  Speaker 1: allow them to do their jobs in this way, which
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  Speaker 2: It very clear.
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  Speaker 1: You have a world where the President said, look, don't
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  Speaker 1: get out of line, don't be a threat to the
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  Speaker 1: United States of America. Right Like, whatever you do, don't
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  Speaker 1: do that. Let's find ways in common ground, in places
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  Speaker 1: where we can work together. And when that happens, we're
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  Speaker 2: There's a lot of Republicans that do that too.
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  Speaker 1: I want to be clear, but what the President has
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  Speaker 1: said is, look, I don't start wars.
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  Speaker 2: I in them. I don't start them. I in them.
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  Speaker 1: And so if you want to work in my administration
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: and you want to be on the team with me,
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: then you need to understand what we allow and what
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: we do, and what we don't do, and what we
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: don't allow. We're not going to have a bunch of
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: neocons going out there warmongering, trying.
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  Speaker 2: To start things.
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  Speaker 1: We're here to in them, we're here to finish them,
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: we're here to shut them down again. It's a brilliant,
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: brilliant foreign policy. It's also an American first foreign policy,
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: and that is incredibly important for the president of the
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: United States of America. So you look at these two
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: stories that we started with today, They're incredibly important and also,
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: I would argue, incredibly successful because the President of the
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: United States of America said, I'm going to lead by example.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to bring in people like Tulsi. I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to empower them to do their job. I'm going to
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: empower them to travel and meet with people, and I'm
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: going to get them to have conversations instead of us
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: talking through the media on the issue.
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: That could escalate to war.
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: Isn't it nice to know that common sense is back
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  Speaker 1: in the White House. Isn't it nice to know that
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: we have a president that is sitting there truly trying
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: to allow these things I accomplish these types of things.
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: Isn't that what we should all be so excited about? Now?
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: You look at what the presidents try to do in Iran,
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: you look at what the president's doing with Tulsa Gabbard
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: and stopping ways fraud and abuse, and then you've got
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: something else the president's working really hard on right now,
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: and what he's trying to do right now is also
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: in the war between Russia and Ukraine.
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: Well, it looks.
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: Like Zelenski knows that if the war ends, he's out
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: of a job. It's very clear that he is reading
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: the tea leaves that way, where it's like as soon
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: as there's an election, remember, because he's canceled all the elections.
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: That's what dictators do. That's why Zelenski is a dictator.
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: In my opinion. He has shut down the elections and
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: he's not having those elections because I also think he
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: knows that he would lose the election. The number of
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: Ukrainians have been sent to war to die is staggering.
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: The number is truly incredible, and so that's a problem.
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: So when you look at the president of the United
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: States of America and you look at you know what
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: the president of our country is trying to do, which
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: is to not only save our tax dollars, but also
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: not empower someone like Zelensky to take advantage of the situation. Zolensky,
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: there's a fifty percent chance when this thing's all said
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: and done, he will probably go into exile somewhere else.
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: He'll be run out of the country. And right now
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: he's got a monopoly is on all the money coming
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: in now. The corruption under Zolensky is widespread and well
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: reported on that's something else that people need to understand,
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: Like it is very well reported on just how widespread
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: it is. And so Zelensky is a guy that even
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: admitted that fifty percent of all the money that's gone
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: to Ukraine, like is unaccounted for it. We don't know
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: where it is. So now well I move you to
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: the newest story. President Zelensky quote was quick to rubbish
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: President Donald Trump's suggestion to take tension over nuclear plant
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  Speaker 1: possession off the table by simply making them American owned,
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  Speaker 1: insisting the plants belong to the quote people of Ukraine.
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  Speaker 1: The largest nuclear power station in Europe is technically Ukrainian owned,
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: but has been occupied by Russian forces for over three years,
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  Speaker 1: and its fate has emerged as a bone of contention
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  Speaker 1: in Ukraine's war peace negotiations. All right, so if you
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  Speaker 1: know that's the issue, listen to this.
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  Speaker 2: This week, President Trump, playing chess not.
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: Checkers, offered a new approach to answering whether it should
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: be Ukrainian or Russian by offering to make an American
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: instead taking the problem off the table altogether Ukraine's presidents.
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: Lensky responded quickly reverting to his total war goal of
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: all United Nations recognized Ukrainian territory being restored to Kiev's control,
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: insisting there's no way the United States could take control
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: of the valuable but potentially highly dangerous site. Now again,
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: the president's trying to end the war. It's pretty clear
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: nown Zelensky's going, no, no, don't. I don't want to
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  Speaker 1: end this war. I don't want like the points of
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: contention are going to keep me in power for longer,
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: and I'd rather be present for another six months, or
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: another year, or another two years because we can't come
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: to an agreement. And be damned, who gets killed.
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 1: In response to a journalist question during a joint conference
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: in Norway with the Prime minister there that at times
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: appeared to verge on the well of the frustrated or angry,
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: Zelensky hit back saying, quote, all nuclear power plants belong
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  Speaker 1: to the people of Ukraine. These are state owned nuclear
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: power plants. It's not in private property in Ukraine. Now again,
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: he's obviously not actually wanting to stop the war. If
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: he did, he would trust the US on this issue
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  Speaker 1: and say, yes, let's do this to take it off
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  Speaker 1: the table. Quote, the atomic energy in Ukraine belongs to Ukraine,
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: and the temporarily occupied region where this nuclear power plant
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: is belongs to Ukraine. He went on to say, refering
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: to the leader Kohl he had with President Trump early
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: in the week. President Zelenski also quote cast doubt on
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: the versions of events published by the United States which
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: stated American ownership of those plants would be the best
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: protection for that infrastructure and support for Ukrainian energy infrastructure.
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: Giving his view on the call, Zelensky said, quote the
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: problem raised by the Americans, I do not know whether
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: they have raised it with the Russians. Mister President Trump
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: asked me what do you think about this station. I
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: told him that if it does not belong to Ukraine,
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: it will not work for anybody.
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: It is illegal and it is.
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: Not capable of doing so, and it is a state
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: owned enterprise. The issue of property we definitely did not
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: discuss with President Trump, and even more we did not
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  Speaker 1: discuss the message you have said here.
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: Zelenski went on.
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: To say, I saw such messages in the press regarding
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: the overall generation.
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: In Ukraine. Now we will not discuss it.
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: Ukraine has opened quote four discussions or two discussions on
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: future investment and modernization of its nuclear powers, Lensky said,
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: but again retreading his path on insisting foreign ownership could
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: not be permitted. Now, why would you say it this
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: way if you're Zelenski? Simply put, it's because he doesn't
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: want the war to end.
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: Now.
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: Ukraine, by the way, just so you know, has fifteen
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: Soviet error reactors. In the case of its largest plant,
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: its six reactors are largely in a state of cold
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: shutdown for safety. As previously reported on the nuclear ownership
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: proposal to remove the issue from contention between Ukraine and Russia, quote,
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: the proposal to take these plants into US ownership is
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: the latest by the Trump administration to offer Ukraine's security
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: guarantees through commerce, ensuring continued American interests in Ukraine's well
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: being by creating a strong financial interest in its safety.
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: Following the readout of Trump's comments to Zelenski, US Secretary
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: of Energy Chris Right assured the US taking ownership of
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: Ukraine's nuclear fleet was doable, telling Fox News that quote,
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: there's no problem, we can do it, he said.
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: If it was helpful to achieve.
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: That end, have the US run nuclear power plants in Ukraine.
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: We have immense technical technological excuse me, expertise in the
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: United States to run those plants. I don't think that
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: requires boots on the ground quote unquote. In fact, the
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: United States already has direct experience in nuclear power in Ukraine,
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: with nuclear power giant Westinghouse having supported the country's power
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: fleet since the Russia invasion in twenty twenty two, has
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: even started building new American design reactors in nuclear power
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: plants last year alone. So if you know the background now,
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: the way that I just described it, and you hear
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: the way that they are describing it in from Zolensky,
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: Zolensky makes it sound like this is the most insane
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: idea ever, but if you look at the reality on
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: the ground, it's actually one of the most brilliant ideas
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: ever and would take away leverage from Russia to actually
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: get a deal done. So now you have to ask
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: yourself this question, why is Zelensky so hell bent on
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: not agreeing to this deal?
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: And the answer is very clear.
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna say the answer again because it's an important one.
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: It's because Zolensky actually doesn't want peace. I'm gonna say
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: that again. Zolensky actually doesn't want peace. Zolensky knows that
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: as soon as this war ends and there are elections,
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: it is game over for him. It is game over,
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: and the people of his country are going to vote
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: him out of office and they're gonna want somebody new.
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: And Zolensky wants the money and the cash coming in,
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: and his family, his friends, and the oligarchs of Ukraine
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: are more corrupt than those in Russia.
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: And that's saying something.
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: You think Russian corruption is bad, you have no idea
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: how bad it is until you look at what it's
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: like with the oligarchs in Ukraine, and Zolensky knows it.
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: And the proof of it goes back to the point
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: that was made. I'm going to go back to the
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: point that Zelensky said out loud. We don't know where
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: fifty percent of.
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: The money goes.
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: By the way, I can tell you exactly where it goes.
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: This is not hard. It's going to corrupt government officials,
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: it's going to many of the Zelensky cronies.
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: Much of it's being export out of the country.
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: To Warsaw, where there is massive corruption in Warsaw. You
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: look at all the top oligarchs in Ukraine, their families,
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: are in Warsaw and the money that they are receiving
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: in Warsaw is astronomical.
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: It is one of the it is.
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: One of the like the running jokes if you know
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: people that deal with Ukraine, like, it's an embarrassment just
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: how much money is being funneled when it comes to Ukraine.
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: And the Biden administration knew it and they didn't stop it.
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: And the question you then have to ask yourself is, Okay,
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: why why didn't they stop it? Why did they allow
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: the money to keep going in? Why did they allow
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: it to keep going in at record numbers? Because maybe
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: they were compromised. That could be part of it. Honestly,
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: the Biden regime may have just been straight up compromised,
• 31:21
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• 31:33
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• 31:36
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• 31:39
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• 31:49
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