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BIDEN DEMANDS more money for Ukraine, as Officials Admit Military Contract Money ‘Vanished’! · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: The New York Times is finally waking up to corruption
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  Speaker 1: in Ukraine, as officials that met. Now, military contract money
• 0:10
  Speaker 1: has quote vanished. Now to be clear, this is your
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  Speaker 1: tax dollars. As I've warned you for a couple of
• 0:17
  Speaker 1: years now, if you think that Russia is corrupt, you've
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  Speaker 1: seen nothing compared to how corrupt it is in Ukraine.
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  Speaker 1: Russians actually have talked for decades about how corrupt Ukraine is,
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  Speaker 1: and they're not the only one. There have been many
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  Speaker 1: other world leaders that have been warning the US you
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  Speaker 1: might not want to be sending all the money you're
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  Speaker 1: sending to Ukraine because you're not actually helping them fight
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  Speaker 1: the Russians as much as you're helping Ukrainian oligarchs get really,
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  Speaker 1: really rich. Now, I went over to the border with
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  Speaker 1: Ukraine and I went over and met with the leader
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  Speaker 1: in Hungary. They have been dealing with the humanitarian crisis
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  Speaker 1: that has been coming out of Ukraine and the millions
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  Speaker 1: coming in too hungry, and then even going to other
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  Speaker 1: parts of Europe. Victor Raban, who's the prime minister I
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  Speaker 1: have a relationship with. We set down when I was
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  Speaker 1: there just a couple of months ago, and he was
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  Speaker 1: explaining to me just how corrupt the Ukrainian government is.
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  Speaker 1: And this is under Zelenski, to be very clear. As
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  Speaker 1: we were sitting there and talking about the cash and
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  Speaker 1: the money, he would explain how the money was being funneled.
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  Speaker 1: He would explain just how corrupt they were. And he
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  Speaker 1: was explaining that the richest people in the Ukrainian government,
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  Speaker 1: they're actually most of them aren't even in Ukraine all
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  Speaker 1: that often. Right now, they're in Warsaw. They're hanging out
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  Speaker 1: in Warsaw in five star hotels. They're hanging out in
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  Speaker 1: Warsaw having a grand time. And while they're in Warsaw
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  Speaker 1: in these five star hotels, they're counting their money. They're
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  Speaker 1: funneling their money. They're making money because every time we
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  Speaker 1: send billions more to Ukraine, they're cashing out. War is
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  Speaker 1: good for the oligarchs in Ukraine. War is good for
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  Speaker 1: the corruption in Ukraine because when there's war, it's very
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  Speaker 1: hard to follow the money. So, in a potential sign
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  Speaker 1: of shifting attitudes on how the war in Ukraine has
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  Speaker 1: covered in the legacy media, the New York Times is
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  Speaker 1: starting to slowly acknowledge the endemic corruption that has been
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  Speaker 1: a defining feature of the former Soviet state, as officials
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  Speaker 1: have now admitted that the money for military contracts has
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  Speaker 1: quote vanished following the dismissal of the Ukrainian Defense Minister
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  Speaker 1: amid a slew of corruption scandals surrounding the war efforts
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  Speaker 1: against Russia, The New York Times acknowledge that the enduring
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  Speaker 1: challenges a corruption Ukraine, their words, has emerged as a
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  Speaker 1: rare area of criticism of President Zolensky's leadership. A rare
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  Speaker 1: area of criticism. I love how they describe that right,
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  Speaker 1: like he's doing everything else right, except all the money
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  Speaker 1: you're sitting him is not getting the battlefield. That's what
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  Speaker 1: they're telling you here with their corruption. You should be
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  Speaker 1: angry when I say it this way. You should be
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  Speaker 1: angry the fact that they are even saying it and
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  Speaker 1: still trying to give Zolensky accolades. Now, you got to
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  Speaker 1: understand something about Zelensky. Zelensky isn't some great military warrior
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  Speaker 1: or leader. He's a former actor. He's an actor. While
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  Speaker 1: the country is under siege, it was listening to concerts
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  Speaker 1: and having world stars come over and meeting with world leaders,
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  Speaker 1: begging for more money for his corrupt government to then
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  Speaker 1: funnel into their own personal bank accounts and for them
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  Speaker 1: and their families to live in warsaw in five star hotels.
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  Speaker 1: Zolensky is the guy that's on all the Grammys, the
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  Speaker 1: Emmys and everything else, right, every award show. It's the
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  Speaker 1: guy that's going around the world and fake military fatigues.
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  Speaker 1: They're really not even real military fatigues, they're fake. Right.
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  Speaker 1: He has a stylist that helps him get his image.
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  Speaker 1: You may remember that Zolensky when he met with Donald Trump,
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  Speaker 1: he wore a suit like a normal world leader. But
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  Speaker 1: when you have a chance to look like you're under siege,
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  Speaker 1: you wear military esque type clothing, fake military fatigues, and
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  Speaker 1: you wear them without even a patch on there the
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  Speaker 1: country that you're representing. It makes it look like your
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  Speaker 1: world war torn country desperately needs cash. It makes it
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  Speaker 1: look like you're a strong leader. And that's the reason
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  Speaker 1: why the media is refused to criticize him, right, because
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  Speaker 1: he's the hero and Vladimir Putin is the villain, which
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  Speaker 1: may actually not be the case. There's actually a chance
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  Speaker 1: that they're both in many ways villains, but of course
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  Speaker 1: you can't tell the mainstream media that because if you
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  Speaker 1: don't virtue signal and back Ukraine and the war against
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  Speaker 1: the evil villain Vladimir Putin, then you're an evil person.
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  Speaker 1: That's how the media treats you. And that's exactly why
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  Speaker 1: The New York Times has put it this way, with
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  Speaker 1: a big caveat, a big pause, right, and enduring challenge
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  Speaker 1: it the enduring challenge of corruption in Ukraine has quote
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  Speaker 1: emerged as a rare area of criticism, a rare area
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  Speaker 1: of criticism. Well, if the entire funding for the war
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  Speaker 1: effort is the war effort, and the entire war effort
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  Speaker 1: is dealing with corruption and money that has vanished that
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  Speaker 1: was supposed to go to fighting the Russians, then why
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  Speaker 1: would you refer to this as a rare area of criticism.
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  Speaker 1: Why wouldn't you refer to it as what it actually is,
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  Speaker 1: which is the entire thing is a complete ruse. Now,
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  Speaker 1: although the Defense Minister has yet to be tried or
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  Speaker 1: charged or tied with any of the corruption scandals quote
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  Speaker 1: unquote personally, the Ukrainian government says, The Times went on
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  Speaker 1: to admit that the resignation has elevated the issue to
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  Speaker 1: the highest level of Ukrainian politics. Unnamed Ukrainian officials even
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  Speaker 1: told The New York Times that some funds intended for
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  Speaker 1: military contracts failed to produce weaponry or ammunition, and that
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  Speaker 1: some money has quote vanished well, claiming that the issue
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  Speaker 1: was merely confined to the early days of the war,
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  Speaker 1: because of course they're gonna say, all right, well, they
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  Speaker 1: just stole a bunch of money early on, but now
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  Speaker 1: the money's really working there, we promise, right right, we promise.
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  Speaker 1: The neoliberal outlet has previous been previously been king to
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  Speaker 1: highlighting claims from the Biden administration on how the Violensky
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  Speaker 1: government has been committed quote unquote to fighting corruption. Remember
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  Speaker 1: this is the same government that you're supposed to believe
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  Speaker 1: was trying to fight corruption when they fired a prosecutor
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  Speaker 1: who was actually fighting corruption, corruption with barisma and corruption
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  Speaker 1: that was tied to the president of the United States
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  Speaker 1: of America. And remember the corruption got the bidens ten
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  Speaker 1: billion dollars ten billion or excuse me, let me rephrase
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  Speaker 1: that ten million. Sorry, I want to make sure I
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  Speaker 1: get that right, so no one freaks out. Ten million
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  Speaker 1: dollars is how much the Bidence got off of that deal.
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  Speaker 1: The Zelenski government is not committed to fighting corruption. If
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  Speaker 1: they were, they wouldn't have allowed that prosecutor that was
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  Speaker 1: going after corruption Ukraine to be fired and then the
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  Speaker 1: mind to be funneled back to the Bidens. Now, the
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  Speaker 1: New York Times says, well, they're working on fighting corruption.
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  Speaker 1: They cited as evidence statements from officials such as veteran
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  Speaker 1: Washington insider enacting Deputy Secretary of State Victoria Nuwan, who
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  Speaker 1: played a pivotal role in the revolution Ukraine that saw
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  Speaker 1: the overthrow of democratically elected President Victor in two thousand
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  Speaker 1: and fourteen. Despite the nine senior government officials being sacked
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  Speaker 1: over allegations of corruption, not one, not two, not three,
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  Speaker 1: not four, not five, not six, on seven and eight,
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  Speaker 1: but nine senior government officials who've been sacked over corruption allegations,
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  Speaker 1: including purchasing military food supplies at vastly inflated prices to
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  Speaker 1: look up their friends and taking luxury vacations while the
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  Speaker 1: war was going on. The paper went on to write
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  Speaker 1: in January that corruption quote has otherwise not been a
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  Speaker 1: significant factor in the war. That's what the New York
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  Speaker 1: Time set. In fact, they even went on to say
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  Speaker 1: this back in January, despite Russian propaganda claims to the
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  Speaker 1: contrary that are aimed at undermining his Zolenski's government. See,
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  Speaker 1: Russia's been telling people how corrupt Ukraine is. And when
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  Speaker 1: they do it, immediately the paper says The New York
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  Speaker 1: Times and the lefties are like, oh no, no, that's propaganda.
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  Speaker 1: That's all it is. It's just propaganda, calmed down, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: it's propaganda. Ukraine corruption scandal deepens. Another headline reads, as
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  Speaker 1: Zelenski sacks string of officials. The proclamation for The New
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  Speaker 1: York Times age poorly. By the way, if you go
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  Speaker 1: back just to January. Just days later, there was a
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  Speaker 1: report that came out Transparency International gave Ukraine a score
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  Speaker 1: of thirty three out of one hundred, and it's annual
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  Speaker 1: Corruption Perception Index known as the CPI, ranking one hundred
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  Speaker 1: and sixteenth in the world and the second lowis in
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  Speaker 1: all of Europe, only behind Russia. What did I tell
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  Speaker 1: you at the beginning? I said that Ukraine is more
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  Speaker 1: corrupt than even Russia. And guess what, I'm not the
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  Speaker 1: Republican Ledhouse Oversight Committee went on to note in February,
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  Speaker 1: and this is their exact words back in February, that
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  Speaker 1: the Ukrainian government officials allegedly engaged in bribery, used government
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  Speaker 1: vehicles for personal use, and purchase inflated food supplies for
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  Speaker 1: And if we know this back in February, why did
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  Speaker 1: want anybody to know what was actually happening. They didn't
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  Speaker 1: want anybody to talk about it. They didn't want it
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  Speaker 1: to be an issue. They didn't want to have the
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  Speaker 1: conversation we're having right now because at that point. Remember,
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  Speaker 1: we were obsessed with a guy wearing fake military fatigues
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  Speaker 1: named Zelensky who could do no wrong, right because he's good.
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  Speaker 1: We've decided it war's good, right for the Democratic Party
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  Speaker 1: right now, and Russia is bad. And that's just the
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  Speaker 1: narrative we're going to stick with now. Since that warning
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  Speaker 1: back in January and February, corruption scandals surrounding the war
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  Speaker 1: effort have continued to emerge. Last month, for example, every
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  Speaker 1: single head of regional recruitment offices throughout Ukraine was fired,
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  Speaker 1: every single one of them, amid allegations of widespread bribery
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  Speaker 1: of officials from those seeking to avoid conscription into the
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  Speaker 1: war quote unquote. Two weeks later, first Deputy Minister of
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  Speaker 1: Policy and Food and another government individual another unnamed quote
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  Speaker 1: economic minister, were sacked on suspicions of misappropriating one point
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  Speaker 1: six eight million in government funds. Following the ousting of
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  Speaker 1: the Defense minister on Monday, the New York Times acknowledge
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  Speaker 1: that although there have yet to be specific allegations of
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  Speaker 1: corruption involving American funding, that's their caveat here. The nature
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  Speaker 1: of graft in the country has shifted from its traditional
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  Speaker 1: avenues of exploiting state run enterprises to a focus on
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  Speaker 1: war profiteering as billions pour into the country from abroad.
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  Speaker 1: That's the words the New York Times. Speaking of the paper,
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  Speaker 1: the executive director of the Anti Corruption Action Center in
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  Speaker 1: Ukraine said, the question here is where is the money. Literally,
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  Speaker 1: corruption can kill. She added, depending on how effective we
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  Speaker 1: are in guarding the public funds the soldiers, we either
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  Speaker 1: have a weapon or not have a weapon. This on
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  Speaker 1: top of the fact that two high ranking government officials
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  Speaker 1: have been embroiled in a corruption scandal and found to
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  Speaker 1: have misappropriated one point six million in funds that no
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  Speaker 1: one can find. The New York Times went on to
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  Speaker 1: claim on Monday that there is a shifting mood within
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  Speaker 1: Ukraine on the issue, which the paper said was mostly
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  Speaker 1: taboo throughout the first year of the war as Ukrainians
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  Speaker 1: rallied around their government in a fight for national survival.
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  Speaker 1: The corruption scandals are nonetheless piercing the sense of unquestioning
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  Speaker 1: support for the government the Ukrainians had exhibited throughout the
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  Speaker 1: first year of Russia's full scale invasion. The critical reporting
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  Speaker 1: of the issue of corruption Ukraine from The New York
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  Speaker 1: Times may signal what many believe is a shift in
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  Speaker 1: attitude overall towards the war and perhaps the Biden administration's
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  Speaker 1: strategy of dumping weapons, hardware, and massive cachet of money
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  Speaker 1: into the conflict and into the hands of people who
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  Speaker 1: are clearly stealing the money. The White House is currently
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  Speaker 1: trying to convince Congress, however, to greenlight an additional twenty
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  Speaker 1: four billion an A to the country. However, elections loom
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  Speaker 1: and more voters are now questioning the extent of our
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  Speaker 1: involvement and why there's so many problems are still unresolved there,
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  Speaker 1: as well as so many issues and problems here in
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  Speaker 1: this country. Now, I go back to what I said
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  Speaker 1: at the very beginning of this conversation. This is corruption
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  Speaker 1: at the highest level. This is corruption at a level
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  Speaker 1: that is not shocking. I think that's another point that
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  Speaker 1: needs to be made. This is corruption that has been
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  Speaker 1: known about, especially if you went and set with anybody
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  Speaker 1: in Ukraine or outside of Ukraine, anybody around there, and
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  Speaker 1: let me just tell you this. This is corruption. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: that is obvious. This is corruption that everybody knows is
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  Speaker 1: happening in broad daylight. So you're sending money and they're
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  Speaker 1: stealing the money. You send more money and they steal
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  Speaker 1: more money. You send more money and they steal even
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  Speaker 1: more money. You get the trend here, right, It's pretty simple.
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  Speaker 1: You send money, they steal money. You send money, they
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  Speaker 1: steal money. You send more money, they steal more money.
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  Speaker 1: You send bigger checks. They steal even more money in
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  Speaker 1: bigger checks. This has been consistent. Okay, this has been
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  Speaker 1: transparent from the very beginning. This has been something that
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  Speaker 1: has been going on now and everybody knows it's happening.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody can witness that it's happening. Everybody can watch it happening.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody knows that it's happening. And yet we're still sending
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  Speaker 1: the money because if you don't send the money, it's like, woh, well,
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  Speaker 1: then you're in favor of Russia. And this is what
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  Speaker 1: virtue signaling does right now with this administration, with this
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  Speaker 1: media and around the world. If you asked any questions
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  Speaker 1: over the last year, year and a half of what's
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  Speaker 1: going on in Ukraine, and they would say that you
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  Speaker 1: are a sympathizer. They would say that you are a
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  Speaker 1: Russian sympathizer. That's what they would say. They would say
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  Speaker 1: that you are a Russian sympathizer, and you're backing Vladimir Putin.
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  Speaker 1: If you ask questions in this country, okay, in our government,
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  Speaker 1: they would immediately come after you and they would say
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  Speaker 1: you are a sympathizer. You are a Russian sympathizer. No,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not. I absolutely hate Vladimir Putin, I can't stand him.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm also not an idiot. And I also know
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  Speaker 1: that there's serious and significant corruption, serious corruption that has
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  Speaker 1: taking place in Ukraine long before this war ever happened.
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  Speaker 1: And that is the point that everybody needs to understand.
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  Speaker 1: This isn't new, this is normal. There's only one country
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  Speaker 1: that ranks lower when it comes or higher when it
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  Speaker 1: comes to corruption than Russia, and that's Ukraine in that
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  Speaker 1: corruption report that came out. So like, if you think
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  Speaker 1: that Russia is corrupt, then you've seen nothing until you
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  Speaker 1: look at Ukraine. And that's been that way for decades.
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  Speaker 1: And everybody knows it, folks, Okay, everybody knows that, So
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  Speaker 1: why the hell are we seeing them? In essence, Plank
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  Speaker 1: checks there's also those audio recordings. We talked about this
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  Speaker 1: a few weeks ago. Apparently there's multi recordings that apparently
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  Speaker 1: the government may actually have the FBI may have these recordings,
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  Speaker 1: and on these recordings the man who owned Barrisma that
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  Speaker 1: Russian oligarch, corrupt Russian oligarch, just like all the others
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  Speaker 1: we've been talking about this morning, recorded phone calls between
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: him and Hunter Biden and apparently some conversations he had
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: with Joe Biden. Why did he do this? That is
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: the I'm covering my aaass if you ever turn on
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  Speaker 1: me strategy. By the way, it's smart strategy. I don't
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  Speaker 1: blame the guy for doing this. It's a brilliant move.
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  Speaker 1: So why is it that Joe Biden is still defending
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  Speaker 1: sending billions of dollars to Ukraine instead of it going
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  Speaker 1: to Americans who actually need it, by the way, like
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: those in Hawaii for example. Well here's what the President
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  Speaker 1: had to say, is he laughed it off the question
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  Speaker 1: over the weekend.
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  Speaker 2: Mister Biden, you're sending all this money to Ukraine, but
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  Speaker 2: there's Americans that are suffering at home.
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  Speaker 1: Why come the money can't go here to war? Money's
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  Speaker 1: going to America and ever before number one and number two.
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  Speaker 1: If we don't do somebody, Ukraine and Americans are gonna
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  Speaker 1: be fighting a war in Europe.
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  Speaker 2: All right, doctor Biden, all this money going to your Ukraine.
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  Speaker 1: What about Americans at right now?
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: What about Americans at home, doctor Biden?
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  Speaker 1: So Joe Biden just said, if we don't send money now,
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: then Americans are going to be fighting a war in Europe.
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  Speaker 1: That's an escalation, by the way, right, that's a pretty
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  Speaker 1: big escalation. So you better let me send this money.
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  Speaker 1: And if you don't, I may send your sons and
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  Speaker 1: daughters or the non binary people right to Ukraine to
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  Speaker 1: fight against Russia. Even CNN right now it's finally starting
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  Speaker 1: to get their head out of their ables's and they're
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  Speaker 1: reporting on the corruption. Listen more.
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  Speaker 2: First, let's talk about this decision. Why has Alensky dropped
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  Speaker 2: his defense minister All we understand ow it was that
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  Speaker 2: this came at the request of Oleski Restakov, who's been
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  Speaker 2: widely praised for what he's done over the last eighteen months,
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  Speaker 2: the pretty firm record that he's shown in a very
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  Speaker 2: difficult job. But also this is about aready drawing a
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  Speaker 2: line against some of those scandals that we've seen, corruption allegations,
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  Speaker 2: investigations that have gone on, procurement scandals that have emerged.
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  Speaker 2: Many of them. I think it's important to note that
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  Speaker 2: had to do with the early days of the war
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  Speaker 2: with Ukrainian taxpayers money with Ukrainian weapons, but that have
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  Speaker 2: still jogged the image of the country, not just as
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  Speaker 2: it seeks to get more weapons from its Western allies,
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  Speaker 2: but of course more broadly audios Ukraine looks to joining
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  Speaker 2: NATO at some point and it's more fundamental aim of
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  Speaker 2: being able to join the European Union. So Kiev has
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  Speaker 2: been at pains to show that it is cracking down
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  Speaker 2: on these corruption allegations, taking them extremely seriously, dealing with them,
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  Speaker 2: and whilst Alexi Resnikov has not been tainted by them
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  Speaker 2: at all. This really allows them to draw a line,
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  Speaker 2: even as the rest are being made and investigations who
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  Speaker 2: are being drawn to a close, to draw a line
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  Speaker 2: under those first eighteen months of the war. Now, the
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  Speaker 2: man taking over a crimean Tatar Ristam Umarov, who's widely
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  Speaker 2: seen as a safe pair of hands. This is a
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  Speaker 2: man who has a after all, been involved in several
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  Speaker 2: prisoner swaps throughout the war. He's a businessman who's also
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  Speaker 2: been involved in the Black Sea Grain initiative and is
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  Speaker 2: wide he's seen there as a very complete man to
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  Speaker 2: take over. Let's be clear what must be arguably one
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  Speaker 2: of the hardest jobs in the world going forward. As
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  Speaker 2: you said the nineteenth months of this war, it isn't
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  Speaker 2: just about sustaining the war effort and getting Ukrainian weapons
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  Speaker 2: up and going. It is also of course about holding
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  Speaker 2: the Alliance together and keeping momentum there from Western Alliance
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  Speaker 2: members who at this point are also getting extremely tired of.
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  Speaker 1: This war out. Wellisa, before I let you go, what
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  Speaker 1: does this mean for this counter offense have we've been
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  Speaker 1: hearing about so much?
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  Speaker 2: Well, this is going to be important because again, this
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  Speaker 2: is a man who's going to take over. When they're
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  Speaker 2: looking to get the weapons that will help feed this
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  Speaker 2: counter offensive that is making progress to the south of
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  Speaker 2: zabricha small assault units that are heading down trying to
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  Speaker 2: extend the bridgehead to the south of Verbotna, that one
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  Speaker 2: village that has been recaptured, and it is significant because
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  Speaker 2: it does give them momentum and allow them to look
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  Speaker 2: further southwards in their aims getting the right weaponry to
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  Speaker 2: what will be a bigger soul down there as they
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  Speaker 2: seek to draw Russian and eat frontline troops from elsewhere
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  Speaker 2: along the front line will be crucial, and there is
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  Speaker 2: the next weeks and months that will be really significant
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  Speaker 2: and important to making this happen out here Melium.
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  Speaker 1: Now you hear part of the propaganda there. Well, we
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  Speaker 1: still have to stay focused on this. And there's no
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  Speaker 1: indication that the Defense minister, right, there's no indication he's
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  Speaker 1: actually don anything wrong. They wouldn't have fired him if
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  Speaker 1: you wouldn't have done something wrong, Okay, they wouldn't have
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  Speaker 1: fired him in candem. And they're like, well, they're really
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  Speaker 1: trying to show they're acting and they're moving forward on this,
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  Speaker 1: and they're moving forward quickly, and they're acting quickly on this.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry I got to say bs on that one.
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  Speaker 1: The only reason why this is now happening is because
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  Speaker 1: people are reporting on it for months on end, and
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  Speaker 1: the story hasn't disappeared. That's the part that you need
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  Speaker 1: to understand about this. They're not doing any of this
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  Speaker 1: now because they're trying to get rid of corruption. They're
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  Speaker 1: trying to do it now. A better way of putting
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  Speaker 1: it is to keep the money flowing. I'm sure Zolensky's
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  Speaker 1: looking at these guys going, hey, there's tony articles about
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  Speaker 1: corruption here, I'm afraid the billions are gonna stop flowing. Guys.
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  Speaker 1: We all got to get paid, Okay, we all got
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  Speaker 1: to make our money. So the way that we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: make our money is me me sacking some of you. Guys.
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  Speaker 1: Don't worry, you're still good. This is nothing but a
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  Speaker 1: PR play, plain and simple. It's a PR play. It's
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  Speaker 1: a simple PR play. It's a smart Let me also
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  Speaker 1: say this, it is a very smart PR play. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: it's a brilliant PR move. It's a PR move that
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  Speaker 1: we need it, right, if you're Zolensky and his team,
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  Speaker 1: A right, look, things are, we're getting these articles. We
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  Speaker 1: got to look like we're cleaning this crap up so
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  Speaker 1: that they keep saying it's the money. By the way,
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure there's some Democrats in Washington, d C. I'm
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  Speaker 1: sure of that. I have no doubt in my mind.
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  Speaker 1: Okay that there are some Democrats in DC and are
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  Speaker 1: probably saying, hey, heads up, you guys are gonna have
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  Speaker 1: a hard time getting more cash out of the US
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  Speaker 1: if you guys don't look like you're doing something on corruption, Like,
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  Speaker 1: heads up, this is what's happening. You need to understand it.
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  Speaker 1: That's my gut here. I feel pretty confident that there
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  Speaker 1: are even maybe people in the White House who are saying, hey,
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  Speaker 1: you guys have got to look like you're fixing some
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  Speaker 1: of these problems. Because if you don't look like you're
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  Speaker 1: fixing these problems, we're gonna have a hard time convincing
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  Speaker 1: for another one hundred billion to come your way, another
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  Speaker 1: fifty billion to come your way, another seventy five billion
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  Speaker 1: to come your way, It's gonna be tough. So we
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  Speaker 1: need you to work on this real quick. I have
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  Speaker 1: no doubt that's what this is all about. Please take
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  Speaker 1: everything I just told you, share it with your family
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  Speaker 1: and friends, take our podcast, share it wherever you can
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  Speaker 1: on social media, because I promise you what I just
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  Speaker 1: told you is not and will not be covered by
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  Speaker 1: the mainstream media. They are not going to do it.