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IT'S SIMPLE,...BIDEN STOPS BUYING RUSSIAN OIL, AND WE STOP PUTIN! THE EU & UN NEED TO DO THE SAME! · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: The United Nations has reprimanded Russia. What does that really mean? Honestly,
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  Speaker 1: not that much and how concerned is Russia by this
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  Speaker 1: reprimand for the United Nations? Well, Russia's foreign minister is
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  Speaker 1: now warning of a third World war and claims that
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  Speaker 1: it will be nuclear and destructive if anybody gets in
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  Speaker 1: their way. Now, a quick reminder, if you're listening to
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  Speaker 1: have been attacking our podcasts recently with bad reviews. Now,
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  Speaker 1: over the last five or six hours, things have changed
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  Speaker 1: dramatically in Ukraine. Russia is now moving in with paratroopers
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  Speaker 1: and actual soldiers. People are on the run now, gunshots
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  Speaker 1: as protesters are confronting Putin's troops and it looks like
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  Speaker 1: Russia is now killing innocent people in the streets in Ukraine.
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  Speaker 1: This after there has been significant bombing shelling over the
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  Speaker 1: last twenty four hours. Putin is ramping up his deadly
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  Speaker 1: air assault on multiple cities in Ukraine. As the leaders
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  Speaker 1: in Ukraine are starting to beg for help, being pretty honest.
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  Speaker 1: Now they are saying that his civilians are being murdered.
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  Speaker 1: These are war crimes. I want to make that very clear.
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  Speaker 1: Zelenski is now begging and the most blunt way he can,
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  Speaker 1: for NATO to help fight with Ukraine. He said, and
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  Speaker 1: I think he's a very realistic man that we cannot
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  Speaker 1: do this alone. Listen to Zelensky from earlier today, the
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  Speaker 1: United States has said that it will not enforce a
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  Speaker 1: no fly zone over this country, and it won't put
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  Speaker 1: boots on the ground these things. It is now time
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  Speaker 1: for President Biden and other Western countries to reconsider that
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  Speaker 1: and to help you, not just with military aid, but
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  Speaker 1: with manpower. I've already turned to some foreign leaders with
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  Speaker 1: this request. I believe that leaders must support democratic states
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  Speaker 1: of the world who are keen to defend such principles.
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  Speaker 1: The powerful issue of closing the airspace helps us tremendously.
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  Speaker 1: This does not mean dragging NATO into this war. We
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  Speaker 1: spoke many times with President Biden, and I'm thankful for
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  Speaker 1: him for these opportunities and support, but they also did
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  Speaker 1: not hear me. I've been telling them that Ukraine will
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  Speaker 1: fight hardest of all. You will see but us alone
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  Speaker 1: against Russia, we would not be able to do it.
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  Speaker 1: Your army has enjoyed some significant battlefield victories in the
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  Speaker 1: past week. I myself have been to see some of
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  Speaker 1: the Russian armored columns that have been totally hammered and
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  Speaker 1: destroyed by the weapons and the men that you've got
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  Speaker 1: fighting the Russian advance. Are you now concerned, though, that
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  Speaker 1: the Kremlin will double down on its military operations and
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  Speaker 1: hit Ukraine even harder? That firstly, why are we winning
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  Speaker 1: or why are we defending ourselves? But because this is
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  Speaker 1: our home. Yes, Russia will double up, but take a
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  Speaker 1: look at them. Why our men are stronger, more powerful
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  Speaker 1: and successful, because, as I said, we have what we
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  Speaker 1: need to protect. And they do not even understand our state.
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  Speaker 1: They do not know these streets, They do not know
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  Speaker 1: our people, do not understand our philosophy, our aspirations, what
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  Speaker 1: type of people we are. They don't know anything here.
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  Speaker 1: They were just sent here to fight and to die.
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  Speaker 1: Matthew chap Zolenski again calling on NATO to fight with Ukraine,
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  Speaker 1: saying alone against Russia we would not be able to
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  Speaker 1: do it. Now. The question is very clear. Now will
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  Speaker 1: the world step up? Yes, the UN had voted to
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  Speaker 1: censure Russia. That doesn't mean anything to Vladimir Putin. It
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  Speaker 1: is meaningless. And this is the part that I think
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  Speaker 1: is so absurd. You have a president of the United
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  Speaker 1: States of America who's trying to act like he's embracing
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  Speaker 1: Ukraine right now, but he really doesn't even know what
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  Speaker 1: he's talking about. Perfect example is in the State of
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  Speaker 1: the Union when Biden called the Ukrainian people the Iranian people.
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  Speaker 1: That can't be very comforting to the people in Ukraine. Together,
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  Speaker 1: along with our allies, we are right now enforcing powerful
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  Speaker 1: economic sanctions. We're cutting off Russia's large as banks in
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  Speaker 1: an international financial system, preventing Russia's central bank from defending
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  Speaker 1: the Russian rubble pudme circle key with tanks. But it'll
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  Speaker 1: never gain the hearts and souls of the Iranian people.
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  Speaker 1: Of the Iranian people, you heard a lot of slurring
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  Speaker 1: words there when he was getting talking really fast at
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  Speaker 1: the slur of the Union. But what you just heard
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  Speaker 1: right there as a president's talking about the Iranian people,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm sure the Ukrainian people are saying, what in
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  Speaker 1: the hell is going on in America with this leader?
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  Speaker 1: Right now now, Vladimir Putin seems to be winning the day,
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  Speaker 1: and part of that's because we are refusing to become
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  Speaker 1: energy independent. We are refusing to say no to Russian oil.
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  Speaker 1: We are subsidizing this slaughter of the Ukrainian people. Know
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  Speaker 1: that we are one hundred percent supporting by default, the
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  Speaker 1: Russian military and Vladimir Putin, because each and every day
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  Speaker 1: we are buying his oil. If we actually stop that,
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  Speaker 1: there would be a significant impact on his country, more
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  Speaker 1: than the sanctions have done so far. What we also
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  Speaker 1: know right now is that Vladimir Putin is not afraid
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  Speaker 1: of these sanctions, and we know that he's not afraid
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  Speaker 1: of the UN, even as they vote to condemn him,
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  Speaker 1: to censure him, he doesn't care. Now China, and this
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  Speaker 1: is very interesting. As the world rebukes Russia, India tries
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  Speaker 1: to stay above the fray, and you also have another
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  Speaker 1: interesting issue with China. Take a listen new this morning.
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  Speaker 1: As the European Union, United Kingdom, NATO allies all rally
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  Speaker 1: behind Ukraine, there's been a deafening silence from some other
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  Speaker 1: world powers. India, the world's largest democracy, abstaining from a
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  Speaker 1: United Nations vote condemning the invasion, the Chinese government Russia's
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  Speaker 1: most powerful partner, urging a de escalation in Ukraine but
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  Speaker 1: refusing to call Russia's invasion an invasion and failing to
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  Speaker 1: condemn it. The New York Times reporting the Chinese regulated
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  Speaker 1: Internet for the most part has been pro Russia and
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  Speaker 1: pro Putin and in the Middle East, the senior United
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  Speaker 1: Arab Emirates official says the country will not take sides.
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  Speaker 1: For more on all of this, let me bring in
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  Speaker 1: Ian Bremer, who is president of the Eurasia Group. Always
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  Speaker 1: good to see you. Ian. Look, we're talking about the
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  Speaker 1: two most populous countries in the world, one of the
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  Speaker 1: richest who essentially won't come out and say this is wrong.
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  Speaker 1: Give us your take on what we're seeing. In terms
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  Speaker 1: of those countries, China is the more interesting here. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: India is a member of the Quad, but frankly, on
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  Speaker 1: just about any issue out there that isn't core to
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  Speaker 1: India's national interests, they generally want to be non aligned.
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  Speaker 1: That's been true for generations, it's true now. So I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I think people would have been shocked if India actually
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  Speaker 1: voted to condemn Russia and that United Nations Security Council resolution,
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  Speaker 1: especially given the level of trade with Russia, given the
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  Speaker 1: level of Russian military equipment that still goes to India,
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  Speaker 1: I would have been surprised. But on the China front,
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  Speaker 1: let's keep in mind that before this invasion, we had
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  Speaker 1: this extraordinary statement of friendship, and it was on the
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  Speaker 1: strategic and military side, it was on the investment side,
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  Speaker 1: and it was on the diplomatic side when President Putin
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  Speaker 1: went to Beijing for the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics.
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  Speaker 1: Since then, the Chinese have come publicly and said that
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  Speaker 1: they recognize Ukraine's territorial integrity. They have said that they
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  Speaker 1: are interested in potentially negotiating a ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine,
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  Speaker 1: and they've told their journalists that they want to see
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  Speaker 1: fair coverage and not supporting either Russia or Ukraine. That's
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  Speaker 1: I mean, given where they were two weeks ago. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not saying there with the United States, they're not, but
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  Speaker 1: it's a significant disappointment for the country that Putin considered
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  Speaker 1: to be their most important friend on the global stage.
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  Speaker 1: So you look at these three countries as it was
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  Speaker 1: just mentioned there, and I do think one of the
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  Speaker 1: parts of this that has to be expanded on. Is
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  Speaker 1: the reality now that there are many countries that are
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  Speaker 1: just basically saying, hey, we're cool with Ukraine falling. We
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  Speaker 1: don't want to mess up what we're doing with Russia
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  Speaker 1: just because they're killing some innocent people. You look at
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  Speaker 1: the UN to vote on these Russian invasion and a censor.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's very clear that many they're like, all right, well,
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  Speaker 1: we'll go along with it because everybody else is doing it.
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  Speaker 1: But what does it really mean Until the rest of
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  Speaker 1: the world decides to genuinely isolate Vladimir Putin and stop
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  Speaker 1: buying his oil, all of this is just theatrics, you know.
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  Speaker 1: The Ukraine's Prime minister says, we will never consider anything
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  Speaker 1: that undermines our territorial integrity, meaning there will be no
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  Speaker 1: deal with Russia. The way that some are saying maybe
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  Speaker 1: they should give up part of their country. There are
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  Speaker 1: actually people that are now saying that. Jensaki was also
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  Speaker 1: asked this morning about energy sanctions. Why haven't we done
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  Speaker 1: it already? Here's her response. Yeah, certainly, the you guys,
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  Speaker 1: the White House and allies across the West have unleashed
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  Speaker 1: a pummeling array of sanctions against Russia. But you still
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  Speaker 1: have a card to play in sort of energy and gas.
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  Speaker 1: Will there be moves there to sanction that key industry
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  Speaker 1: in Russia as well? You hear this response, I do
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  Speaker 1: want to say one thing about Jensaki and the White
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  Speaker 1: House and Joe Biden. The number one thing that keeps
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  Speaker 1: Russia's economy alive and keeps their coffers filled with cash
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  Speaker 1: is energy. That is their GDP. Their entire country revolves
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  Speaker 1: around gas oil production. That is it. If you are
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  Speaker 1: going in and slaughtering innocent people, killing children and women
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  Speaker 1: and men in the streets who are civilians, targeting civilian targets,
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  Speaker 1: apartment buildings, schools and places like that, and you still
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  Speaker 1: haven't sanctioned Russian oil exports, I would argue that Joe
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  Speaker 1: Biden is a terrible person because that's what really is
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  Speaker 1: going to have teeth. You know they were talking about, Oh,
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  Speaker 1: the oligarchs are angry, Well, Vladimir Putin, I don't think
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  Speaker 1: really cares right now. Their economy is suffering. Is Vladimir
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  Speaker 1: Putin's life suffering? No? Is he worried about the ruble
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  Speaker 1: crashing and the stock market crashing? No? Because he is different.
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  Speaker 1: Because I think what he thinks is well, everything will
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  Speaker 1: go up when we get this thing settled. That's his calculus.
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  Speaker 1: His calculus says, will take over Ukraine and then we'll
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  Speaker 1: go back to normal. It may be three months or
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  Speaker 1: six months from now when this happens, but then the
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  Speaker 1: world's gonna want our oil, and if they're not willing to,
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  Speaker 1: as long as we're buying their oil. Right now, we
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  Speaker 1: are subsidizing his war on Ukraine. And the White House
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  Speaker 1: knows this. Well. We're very open. I think you've seen
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  Speaker 1: Jonathan I knew cover this and follow this very very closely.
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  Speaker 1: Almost every single day there's new sanctions and new steps
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  Speaker 1: that we're taking and announcing with our Western partners or
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  Speaker 1: our countries in Europe. And we're doing that in lockstep
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  Speaker 1: and in a unified way, which is very important to
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  Speaker 1: the President. Well, we also factor in or what he
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  Speaker 1: looks at, and I think this is important for people
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  Speaker 1: to know, is how we can maximize the impact and
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  Speaker 1: the squeeze on President Putin and the financial sector. We're
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  Speaker 1: already seeing, you know, the ruble of their currency is plummeting.
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  Speaker 1: We're seeing a stock market plummet there, inflation is skyrocketing.
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  Speaker 1: But we want to minimize the impact on the global marketplace,
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  Speaker 1: and that includes the global oil marketplace and the impact
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  Speaker 1: of energy prices for the American people. Let's talk about
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  Speaker 1: the fallacies right there from Jinsaki. Number one, if you
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  Speaker 1: immediately announce that you're opening up the Keystone pipeline. Hell,
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  Speaker 1: even if you did it temporarily until this ends, that
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  Speaker 1: would have a massive impact on supply. Now, yes, it
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  Speaker 1: would take days to get back up and running, but
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  Speaker 1: the market would immediately react to that. If you immediately
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  Speaker 1: said we were going to move in a direction of
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  Speaker 1: energy independence as fast as we possibly can so that
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  Speaker 1: we can sanction Russian oil right now, the world would
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  Speaker 1: cheer that on. In America would cheer that on. The
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  Speaker 1: American people would cheer that on. Why are they not
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  Speaker 1: doing it? Because they don't want, in their words, to
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  Speaker 1: go backwards. They believe that you should be driving an
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  Speaker 1: electric vehicle, and they believe that high gas prices are
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  Speaker 1: going to force you into that. Now, we're still buying
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  Speaker 1: Russian oil every hour, every moment of every day right now,
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  Speaker 1: and we have not stopped that. That means we are
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  Speaker 1: subsidizing the slaughter of the innocent people in Ukraine. As
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  Speaker 1: we speak. Poting has launched his largest air assault yet
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  Speaker 1: in this invasion. As the UN condemns him. He doesn't care.
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  Speaker 1: Now what could change the outcome of this war? As
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  Speaker 1: if we did actually say no more Russian oil, it
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  Speaker 1: certainly would shorten the length of the war, I think,
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  Speaker 1: and it would also turn the people in his own
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  Speaker 1: country against him much more than what has happened so far.
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  Speaker 1: That is what would happen. So why is it that
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  Speaker 1: there that the White House refused to do it? Because
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  Speaker 1: they care more about the Green New Deal Kumbayak crap
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  Speaker 1: than they do innocent people dying. That's why she's not
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  Speaker 1: answering this question. So that's one of the factors that
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  Speaker 1: we really look at. We're considering it. It's very much
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  Speaker 1: on the table, but we need to weigh what all
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  Speaker 1: of the impacts will be. We're not trying to hurt ourselves.
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  Speaker 1: We're trying to hurt President Putin and the Russian economy.
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  Speaker 1: Pivoting to the president. I love how there's always no
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  Speaker 1: follow up from the lefties, right, you hear them immediately, Well,
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  Speaker 1: we ask you one question energy. Now let's pivot again.
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  Speaker 1: Jensaki energy sanctions very much on the table, but we
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  Speaker 1: want to minimize the impact of energy prices. Well, if
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  Speaker 1: you really believe that, if you really want to do that,
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  Speaker 1: then you would immediately open up the Keystone pipeline. The
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  Speaker 1: markets know that, the world knows that, and every single
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  Speaker 1: barrel of oil that we buy from Russia right now,
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  Speaker 1: those proceeds are going to prop up Russia and allow
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  Speaker 1: them to continue to kill innocent people in Ukraine. Private businesses,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, seem to be doing more than this
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  Speaker 1: White House as to support the people in Ukraine. Boeing
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  Speaker 1: came out today saying they're going to stop their service
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  Speaker 1: contracts on their airplanes in Russia, which will ground a
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  Speaker 1: significant number and in each and every day will ground
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  Speaker 1: more and more airplanes in the Russian commercial flight industry
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  Speaker 1: apples saying we're not going to sell their products anymore.
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  Speaker 1: Even they're focused on this more than what we're doing
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  Speaker 1: right now in this country from our president China, recognizing
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  Speaker 1: Ukraine's territorial integrity. A significant disappointment is what Ian Brenner said.
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  Speaker 1: As the world rebukes Russia, India tries to stay above
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  Speaker 1: it and move out of it, right because they're playing
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  Speaker 1: the game. They're playing the long game here, they're like,
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  Speaker 1: we don't care. We're not gonna get in the wrong
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  Speaker 1: side of Putin because they also are betting against the world,
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  Speaker 1: actually beating him. You know. Joe Scarborough called out Biden
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  Speaker 1: for depending on Russian oil, saying today we can produce
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  Speaker 1: enough oil and this is on MSNBC, and that's when
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  Speaker 1: you know it's getting bad for this White Hour. Richard
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  Speaker 1: hoss I'd say something that will maybe unpopular with some
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  Speaker 1: people that watch Morning Joe every morning, but it seems
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  Speaker 1: to me our dependence on Russian oil continues, despite the
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  Speaker 1: fact we're the largest producer in the world, despite the
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  Speaker 1: fact that we actually are not getting the energy out
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  Speaker 1: of the ground, that all the energy out of the
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  Speaker 1: ground that we can get temporarily because of this war.
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  Speaker 1: Wouldn't its strategically make a lot of sense for the
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  Speaker 1: United States to ramp up oil production so they can
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  Speaker 1: cut off the dependence on Russian oil. We have the
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  Speaker 1: ability in this country to produce enough oil for this
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  Speaker 1: country and energy for this country that we can depend
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  Speaker 1: a hell of a lot less on Russia. Can we
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  Speaker 1: not at least do this temporarily in the cause of
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  Speaker 1: free them? And if Democrats want to go back to
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  Speaker 1: current positions later. They can do that, but why not
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  Speaker 1: if we have the ability to not be dependent on
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  Speaker 1: Russian oil, why wouldn't we take that stuff right now
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  Speaker 1: in a time of war. And if you're not going
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  Speaker 1: to do it now, when are you going to do it?
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  Speaker 1: Joe Scarborough is finally coming around to reality here, and
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  Speaker 1: I will give him credit for that. He is absolutely
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  Speaker 1: saying what everybody is thinking right now. You know, on
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  Speaker 1: the Today Show, Vice President Kamala Harris, we're not out
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  Speaker 1: there to carry water for the White House. She was
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: asked a pretty softball question about energy and I from
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  Speaker 1: Savannah Guthrie. But the media is asking this question now
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  Speaker 1: because it's the elephant in the room. The Ukrainian ambassador
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  Speaker 1: has said the only way to really hit Putin where
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  Speaker 1: it hurts is to go after his oil and gas sector,
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  Speaker 1: and some senators agree, Republican and Democrats. Senator Joe Mansion,
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  Speaker 1: for example, mentioned that the US is still currently buying
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  Speaker 1: approximately six hundred thousand barrels of crude and other petroleum
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  Speaker 1: products every single day. Is that on the table? Is
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  Speaker 1: that something that the administration would continue would consider in
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  Speaker 1: terms of further sanctions cutting off the oil and gas
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  Speaker 1: part of the economy for Russia. Well, as you know
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  Speaker 1: that on this issue, for example, we applaud Germany in
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  Speaker 1: terms of what it has done as it relates to
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  Speaker 1: the North strength too as it relates to what we
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: need to do domestically, as well as what we need
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  Speaker 1: to do in terms of this issue generally. We have,
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  Speaker 1: as the President said, reevaluated what we're doing in terms
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  Speaker 1: of the strategic oil reserve here in the United States
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  Speaker 1: to make sure that it will not have an impact
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  Speaker 1: or we can mitigate the impact on the American consumer.
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  Speaker 1: But let's take this one step at a time, understanding
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  Speaker 1: that right now on the issue of energy, our allies
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  Speaker 1: have stood firm and unified in a way that many
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  Speaker 1: of the pundit stint predict would happen to ensure that
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  Speaker 1: we are we are unified in our approach to this issue.
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  Speaker 1: That's a non answer. You heard it, just like I did. That.
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  Speaker 1: That didn't answer any of this, right, I mean, And
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  Speaker 1: then there was a follow up here, right, The follow
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  Speaker 1: up is the word salad of Wait, We'll hold on
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  Speaker 1: a second. Are you is the US going to increase
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  Speaker 1: energy production? Well, we're going to give you a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of unique, fancy words, and we're not really going to
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  Speaker 1: answer that question. How do you not answer that question?
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  Speaker 1: How do you again, how do you not answer that
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  Speaker 1: basic question? So if you take a step back, know this,
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  Speaker 1: we are not doing enough to stop Russia. Ukraine is
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  Speaker 1: correct when they say unless you guys stop buying their oil,
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  Speaker 1: they're going to keep coming after our country. One accurate response,
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  Speaker 1: one hundred percent accurate. And what was said there and
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  Speaker 1: everybody knows it. That's why they're asking the questions today.
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  Speaker 1: Rhonda Santis said this about the President United States of America.
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  Speaker 1: He called Putin an authoritarian gas station attendant. It's not
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  Speaker 1: a joke. He is right. That is what he is.
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  Speaker 1: Without his gas, he doesn't have the power without us
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  Speaker 1: buying it. He doesn't have the power. If you cut
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: Puttin off from buying his only product that props him up,
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: he will have to pay attention to what's happening. Until
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: we do that, Ukraine will continue to fall and the
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: people in Ukraine will continue to be massacred. Charles Hurt
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: several days said Biden attacking the US energy independence made
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: the US energy energy beggars to people just like Biden
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  Speaker 1: and he's right. Um, you know we talk about sanctions. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, President Biden put all of his eggs in
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  Speaker 1: the sanctions basket, and that didn't prevent Putin from invading Ukraine.
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  Speaker 1: This is not about sanctions. This is about gas prices.
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  Speaker 1: This is about energy independence. And when you have a
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  Speaker 1: situation where you have an American president who has done
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  Speaker 1: everything that the President Biden has done to undercut our
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  Speaker 1: energy independence. We you wind up with this with scenes
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  Speaker 1: from Mad Max the movie, which is what we're seeing
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  Speaker 1: in Ukraine right now, where where you have bad people
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  Speaker 1: who are emboldened and enriched because because we have given
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  Speaker 1: up our own energy independence so much so to the
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  Speaker 1: point you have Democrats writing letters urging OPEC to give
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  Speaker 1: us more gas. We become gas beggars from some of
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  Speaker 1: the worst autocracies on the planet. Which is we've done that.
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  Speaker 1: That's exactly what we've done. We've given the worst people
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  Speaker 1: in the world what they need currency to continue to
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  Speaker 1: accomplish what they're doing right now, which includes invading places
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  Speaker 1: like Ukraine. When you hear even the Vice President come
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  Speaker 1: out on TV and the Vice President say what she said,
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  Speaker 1: that we're going to do whatever we can to fight
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  Speaker 1: back and support the people of Ukraine. That is a
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  Speaker 1: lie at this point. It's not true until you stop
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  Speaker 1: buying their oil. It is a lie. And when she's
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: asked this question by George Semnopolis, she knows she's lying
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  Speaker 1: to you, in the world, in the American people, and
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: especially to Vladimir Putin, she knows it. You know, the
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: President said last night that Vladimir Putin had badly miscalculated,
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: but Putin shows no signs of backing down at all.
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  Speaker 1: His forces are putting Ukraine in a vice script this morning,
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: is there anything more than you US can do to
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  Speaker 1: prevent Putin from toppling Ukrainian government occupying Ukraine? Well, George,
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: let me start by saying that we have, as the
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  Speaker 1: United States of America has shown great leadership, which the
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  Speaker 1: President articulated in the State of the Union last night.
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  Speaker 1: Most recently, I've been meeting with heads of government and
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  Speaker 1: world leaders. Most recently just yesterday, I spoke with the
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  Speaker 1: prime ministers of Poland, of Lithuania, Latya, talked with Romania
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  Speaker 1: about the role that the United States has played and
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  Speaker 1: bringing together are NATO Alliance, bringing together the EU to
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  Speaker 1: stand firm, to stand resolute, and unified around what must
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  Speaker 1: be serious and severe consequences for Vladimir Putin for the
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  Speaker 1: Russians in terms of what they have done to invade
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  Speaker 1: a sovereign nation. And we are seeing the impact of
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  Speaker 1: the work that we have done. We are seeing the
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  Speaker 1: ruble in a free fall, we are seeing the stock
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  Speaker 1: market in Russia has essentially closed. What we have seen
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: is that the credit rating of Russia is now junk.
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  Speaker 1: So what we know is that we're having an impact,
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  Speaker 1: and we're taking it quite seriously. I think you know,
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  Speaker 1: in many of the pundits you weeks ago, I wondered
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  Speaker 1: whether we would take the kinds of measures that we
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  Speaker 1: have taken, and we have because we're standing together with
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: our allies, and we are seeing an impact because of
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: those measures. Again, what are the measures you're taking if
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: you're not going for the one thing that he needs?
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: You know, I go back to you and vote on
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  Speaker 1: the Russian invasion? What good is this vote if it
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  Speaker 1: doesn't have a teeth behind it? What is it actually
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  Speaker 1: going to do to Russia? Besides we condemn you and
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: Russia says I'm going to bomb another building. Listen to
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: George Stepanopolus. His response here seems willing to pay that
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  Speaker 1: price right now there. He's not backing down in any way,
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  Speaker 1: shape or form. The US intelligence about what Putin is
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: going to do has been pretty accurate so far. Does
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: it suggest that Kiev is going to fall? He understands it.
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: Stepanopolis gets this. He's a smart guy. You guys can
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: say whatever the hell you want to say, but that
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: doesn't mean he's gonna stop doing what he's doing. It
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: doesn't seem that anything you guys have done so far
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  Speaker 1: stopped him. He knows how much cash he has. He
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: know he knows how much money's coming in. And by
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  Speaker 1: the way, when oil and gas prices continue to rise,
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: he's making more money today than he made yesterday off
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: his oil and gas exports. He understands us. He's done
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: the math. And I also think he understands that he
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: owns America and many other parts around the world. Because
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: we are living in a fair tale world. We're living
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: in this stupid world. We are living in this fairytale
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: world right now where we're in this Kumbaya BS moment
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  Speaker 1: where we're gonna, you know, save the world and the
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: environment by buying all these green alternative energy cars. Right,
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna we're gonna do all these amazing things and
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: we're gonna save the world. And he's sitting there laughing
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: at us because we're still buying oil. We're just not
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: buying it and being energy. We're still using the same
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: amount of oil. We're still using oil. In fact, we're
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: using oil that is not even refined in the most
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: responsible way coming from Russia, which is doing global warming.
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  Speaker 1: They're not drilling in the most responsible way in Russia,
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: news flash, which is also contribute to quote what global warming.
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: So if you do care about global warming, and as
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: long as there's a market and we're gonna buy it somewhere,
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  Speaker 1: I would argue that the most humane thing to do
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: to the environment is to produce it here because we
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  Speaker 1: have checks and balances and regulations that the Russians would
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: laugh at that they would never do. They would never ever,
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: ever ever do it. And this goes back to what
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: was just asked of Harris, like, you guys, everything you've
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  Speaker 1: done so far doesn't seem to be deturum at all.
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: Senior US forces are excuse the US officials say, Russian
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: forces the resolve maybe down a little bit, not from
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: what I'm seeing they're continuing to attack and kill innocent people.
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: They attacked Jim this morning, killing people working out in Ukraine.
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: Pictures coming in now have a massive bomb hitting a
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: gym where people were working out, literally doing like CrossFit.
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: So if you think everything you're doing right now Kama
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: was working, it's not. Kama's response, well, we're gonna do
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: everything we can to support the Ukrainian people, and so
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: that's not true. If you were doing everything you could
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: have support the Ukrainian people, you would be doing with
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: the Ukrainian present said that you needed to do. And
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: what did he say? He said, you've got to stop
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  Speaker 1: buying their oil. If you don't stop buying their oil,
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: all this doesn't matter. So that's a lie. You're not
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  Speaker 1: doing everything you can. I go again, go back. I'm
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: going to back it up ten seconds here. Listen to
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: what George Stepanopolis hardcore lefty's saying. Kamal Harrison, her live
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: response seems willing to pay that price right now. He's
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: not backing down in any way, shape or form. The
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: US intelligence about what Putin is going to do has
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  Speaker 1: been accurate so far. Does it suggest that Kiev is
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: going to fall well, we're going to do everything we
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: can to support the Ukrainian people, and so we are
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: doing that through our security assistance, through economic assistance, humanitarian assistance. Again,
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: when speaking to the prime ministers that I mentioned just yesterday,
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: we talked in great detail about what we are doing
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  Speaker 1: to increase almost on a daily basis or security assistance.
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: What we are doing on almost a daily basis, including
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: to increase our lethal assistance in terms of what they
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: need and what they require to defend themselves in their country.
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: By the way, you know that all of this is
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  Speaker 1: being done after the fact, and it's all only being
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: done really after the world responded with outrage. We could
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: have done all this on the front end when he
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: was lining up troops on the border. We could have
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: done this weeks ago, so they actually weren't waiting on
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: what they needed to defend themselves, which is exactly what
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: they're doing right now. They're waiting on it. We could
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: have done all of this preemptively so that they could
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: have been prepared to fight immediately, so that they wouldn't
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: be in maybe the situation they're in right now. We
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: could have done all of that, folks, Every single bit
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: of this but when she says, we're doing everything we
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: can choose lying to you, and until we are honest,
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: intellectually honest about what's going on with oil and gas,
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: we are not going to win this thing. And the
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: Ukrainian people are going to be massacred because Vladimir Putin
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: is not the same logical person that gives a crap.
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: I want to be clear about sanctions. He just doesn't
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: care about sanctions. He does not care. Let me just
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: go back about eight months ago, June of last year,
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: Donald Trump warned the world when he said we are
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: no longer energy independent. We are dependent on energy, yes,
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: and we're gonna buy it from somewhere, but we're not
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: independent anymore. And this is a skyrocketing gas prizer were
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: happening back in June of last year, but it was
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: a bigger point. It was about national security, and look
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: at where we are today. Donald Trump was right when
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: he said this last year. But you see what they
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: did with the Keystone XL pipeline where they sucked it
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: almost on the first day, and that was never mentioned
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: during the debate. I kept saying, you know, you're not
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: going to be energy independent. You're not going to do
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: for Pennsylvania, for Texas, for all of these places where
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: we're doing so well with energy, We're not going to
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: be energy independent in two months from now. They make
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: it windmills all over the place to ruin our land
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: and kill our birds, to kill everything, and we're not
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: going to be And they're very intermittent, as you learned
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: from watching over the last four months. It's intermittent energy.
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: It's not good. It's not going to power our great factories,
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: and real what did you make It's a real problem.
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: He warned us. He understood being energy independent. CBS also
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: coming out and saying moments ago, I want you to
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: I want you to hear this CBS Brennan said Biden
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: didn't sanction Russian energy exports because the US isn't energy independent.
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: If you really want a nuclear option, you hit the thing.
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  Speaker 1: Russia exports. They are the number three oil producer in
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  Speaker 1: the world, they're the number two gas producer in the world.
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  Speaker 1: Why can't he do that because we consume that product,
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: the rest of the world does as well, and we
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: already have inflation at a forty year high. There it
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: is your held hostage, and Vladimir Putin knows it. CBS
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: News saying it spot on, why haven't we done it yet?
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: Because we need it, and they're the third and second
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: biggest producers of oil and gas in the world, and
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: we are dependent on them, and so is the rest
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: of the world. And that's why we're not doing it. Quote,
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: if you really want a nuclear option, you hit the
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: thing Russia exports. They are the number three oil producer
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: in the world. They're the number two gas producer in
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: the world. They can't why can't he do that referring
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: to Biden because we consume that product. The rest of
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: the world does as well, and we already have inflation
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: at a forty year high. Putin knows it as well.
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: And until we get our heads out of our a doubless,
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: until this president, i should say, gets his head out
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: of his a doubles and the Democratic Party with this
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: Kumbaya insanity over, you know, green alternative energy. These dictators
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: and tyrants, these butchers of the world own us. They
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: own us. That's what this is, plain and simple. They
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: own us. Make sure you share this podcast and also
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