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PUTIN UNHINGED! Pure Evil NOW as Putin is going after CIVILIANS and CHILDREN in Ukraine! WHY is Biden not doing more to help the people fighting PUTIN? I Explain! · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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Speaker 1: It may be the best headline we've seen in about
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Speaker 1: a week. Ukraine and Russia CeaseFire's talks have actually started. Now.
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Speaker 1: This could be a waste of time, or it actually
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Speaker 1: could be something that we could be excited and proud of.
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Speaker 1: Russia and Ukraine began their talks at the Belarus border
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Speaker 1: as the conflict between the two neighbors enters its fifth
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Speaker 1: day of war. The Ukrainian president to adviser told Reuters
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Speaker 1: via techs the face to face exchanges have begun the
0:32
Speaker 1: Ukrainian President's office. At earlier the talk's aim was an
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Speaker 1: immediate ceasefire and withdrawal of Russian forces from Ukraine. President
0:41
Speaker 1: Zelenski said sixteen Ukrainian children now have been killed in
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Speaker 1: another forty five have been injured in the Russian invasion.
0:49
Speaker 1: He also added that over four thousand, five hundred Russian
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Speaker 1: troops have been killed and urged Putin's troops to lay
0:56
Speaker 1: down their guns and leave. He also added in a
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Speaker 1: video message that every crime, every shelling by the occupiers
1:05
Speaker 1: referring to Russia, bring our partners and us even closer.
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Speaker 1: The Ukrainian delegation was the first to arrive for the
1:13
Speaker 1: talks with Russia, saying they were unclear whether they'll lead
1:18
Speaker 1: to any breakthrough. Now, the UN Security Council has also
1:23
Speaker 1: voted to hold a rare emergency special session of the
1:26
Speaker 1: General Assembly to debate the crisis engulf in Ukraine after
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Speaker 1: Russia's invasion. That meeting is set to begin in the
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Speaker 1: UN headquarters Monday after noon and could go on for days.
1:42
Speaker 1: Now the UN and I want to move to more
1:44
Speaker 1: context on that story. The UN is going to address
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Speaker 1: this crisis in their General Assembly, and this is the
1:52
Speaker 1: UN Security Councils vote to hold a rare emergency special session.
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Speaker 1: Any resolution agreed at the General Assemblie will be non binding,
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Speaker 1: which tells you kind of how worthless the UN really is. However,
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Speaker 1: the US is looking to build on the one hundred
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Speaker 1: now countries that have voted to condemn Russia over its
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Speaker 1: annexation of Crimea in twenty fourteen. Now there are one
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Speaker 1: hundred ninety three members of the global UN body and
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Speaker 1: they will be given the chance to speak. Now, you
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Speaker 1: got to think, and let's go back to what happened
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Speaker 1: in Crimea twenty fourteen. One hundred countries back then voted
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Speaker 1: to condemn Russia, which is barely over fifty percent. With
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Speaker 1: one hundred ninety three members of the global body, they'll
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Speaker 1: now all be given a chance to speak. You've got
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Speaker 1: to assume they're going to get well over one hundred
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Speaker 1: people saying this is wrong now. Any that choose to
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Speaker 1: do so will defy. Russia after it voted against the
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Speaker 1: resolution in the UN Security Council, but under UN regulations
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Speaker 1: it did not have veto power to rail the referral
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Speaker 1: of the war to the General Assembly, remember, and the
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Speaker 1: Security Council, where again Russia is a member, they have
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Speaker 1: veto power and of course a vetoed than being censored
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Speaker 1: or sanctioned or anything negative towards them coming from the UN.
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Speaker 1: The procedure is allowed under UN Resolution nineteen fifty called
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Speaker 1: Uniting for Peace and echoes growing international calls elsewhere for
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Speaker 1: action to be taken sooner not later against Russia's unprovoked aggression.
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Speaker 1: It also allows for members of the Security Council to
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Speaker 1: take over the General Assembly for a special session if
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Speaker 1: the five permanent members which include Russia to the US, Britain,
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Speaker 1: France and China, failed to agree among themselves to act
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Speaker 1: together to maintain peace. It will just be the eleventh
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Speaker 1: such session that the General Assembly has ever held like this,
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Speaker 1: according to diplomats, Now, this day's long diplomatic exchange is
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Speaker 1: expected to highlight the extent of Russian isolation in the
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Speaker 1: international community over their deadly invasion of their neighbor. The
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Speaker 1: Council members who supported this resolution recognize that this is
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Speaker 1: no ordinary moment. That's what the US ambassador said at
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Speaker 1: a press briefing earlier. Quote. These are issues that affect
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Speaker 1: all member states, and now in the General Assembly they
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Speaker 1: can all make their voices heard on Russia's war of choice. Now,
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Speaker 1: this is going to happen for at least a day,
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Speaker 1: this conversation, and this will be happening as Ukraine and
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Speaker 1: Russia are meeting. It will also happen as the fighting
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Speaker 1: continues across the number of fronts and the human cost
4:41
Speaker 1: of Russia's aggression is exposed. Now, the session comes after
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Speaker 1: last week's United Nations Security Council meeting, where Ukraine made
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Speaker 1: an ambitious effort to have Russia ejected from the UN
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Speaker 1: entirely on that occasion and argued that Vladimir Putin's government
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Speaker 1: did not legally acquire the seat formerly held by the
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Speaker 1: Soviet Union, which is a very interesting and a smart move.
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Speaker 1: Now there's another thing that's happened, and that is that
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Speaker 1: Vladimir Putin has become isolated. In fact, in many ways,
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Speaker 1: it's been isolated forever, and some are now even talking
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Speaker 1: about the prospect of a coup. I want you to
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Speaker 1: hear a conversation by the former Russian ambassador from the
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Speaker 1: US who is speaking with Joe Scarborough. Now, I want
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Speaker 1: you to understand, this is MSNBC. I'm gonna play for you.
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Speaker 1: And if MSNBC is reporting it and talking about this way,
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Speaker 1: then imagine how bad it actually could be for Vladimir
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Speaker 1: Putin right now in Russia. Take a listen now. It
5:42
Speaker 1: is frightening this t ambassador. I know that we are
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Speaker 1: looking through a glass starically and can't really see what's
5:51
Speaker 1: happening on the other side. A lot of Americans, a
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Speaker 1: lot of people across the West, wondering what happens when
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Speaker 1: oligarchs are angered enough, insiders are deeply disturbed. We're hearing
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Speaker 1: reports repeatedly that the Russian middle class, Russians are scared
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Speaker 1: and horrified by what's going on here. We used to
6:14
Speaker 1: be able to talk about the Pollit Bureau and try
6:17
Speaker 1: to make our best guests about the Masha nations inside
6:21
Speaker 1: of the Pollit Bureau? What give us, give us your
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Speaker 1: best guess about what happens inside. Is there any check
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Speaker 1: to Vladimir Putin? And at what point when the pain
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Speaker 1: becomes tough enough for oligarchs, for the Russian middle class,
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Speaker 1: for the Russian military, at what point do they move
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Speaker 1: on him and try to get him to stop this
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Speaker 1: war or removing from power. It's the number one question.
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Speaker 1: Obviously I don't have a clear answer, but I can
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Speaker 1: tell you that in the last you know, seven days,
6:54
Speaker 1: because I talked to Russians every single day, I talked
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Speaker 1: to Ukrainians every single day, just corresponding with one you know,
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Speaker 1: right before we got on here, who's close to mister Zelenski,
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Speaker 1: about just how they are standing firm and the fact
7:07
Speaker 1: that he's standing firms. Zelenski's not leaving Kiev. Is driving
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Speaker 1: Putin nuts because the whole world is talking about his
7:14
Speaker 1: heroism and the whole world is talking about how evil
7:17
Speaker 1: Vladimir Putin is. But to your question, Joe, he doesn't
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Speaker 1: have people around him that he listens to. He's been
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Speaker 1: isolated forever. He was isolated when I was ambassador eight
7:26
Speaker 1: years ago. He would listen to anybody. He sat out
7:29
Speaker 1: at his compound outside of town, rarely came to work,
7:33
Speaker 1: does not have a feel for his own country. And
7:35
Speaker 1: that was all okay as long as everybody's making money,
7:39
Speaker 1: sending their kids abroad, you know, tracking down on the opposition,
7:44
Speaker 1: everybody was fine. But now it's that that elite, that
7:47
Speaker 1: the elite that has benefited from Putin's regime that has
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Speaker 1: now turned on him because they never thought that he
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Speaker 1: was going to do this, right, They never thought he
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Speaker 1: would be so crazy as to do this kind of attack.
8:00
Speaker 1: And they are all in shock, by the way, not
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Speaker 1: without reason. A lot of Ukrainians, a lot of Americans
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Speaker 1: didn't think he would you do this, and so they
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Speaker 1: that is happening now. But the problem is they do
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Speaker 1: not have mechanisms to turn their discontent into stopping him.
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Speaker 1: But I can tell you there are people now, you know,
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Speaker 1: just discussing that talk about for the first time ever
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Speaker 1: since Putin's been in power for twenty two years, that
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Speaker 1: maybe we need, you know, hopefully they'll be a coup,
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Speaker 1: Hopefully they'll stop him before it's too late. I'm not
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Speaker 1: predicting that. I want to be crystal clear about that
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Speaker 1: if I think that's a very low probability event, but
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Speaker 1: the fact that it's being discussed that is something new.
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Speaker 1: He's lost this country, including the people that are closest
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Speaker 1: to him. Now. There's something there that he mentioned that
8:47
Speaker 1: I think is a really important point that we need
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Speaker 1: to expand on. And he talked about how those around
8:52
Speaker 1: Vladimir Putin are not happy with him directly what he's
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Speaker 1: talking about when he said that, and this is I
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Speaker 1: think the real point that people need to understand is
9:02
Speaker 1: that the oligarchs that are rich, the oligarchs that are
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Speaker 1: around him, those are the ones that are the most
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Speaker 1: upset right now. Those are the ones that are the
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Speaker 1: most angry right now. And the reason why they're angry
9:17
Speaker 1: it really does make good sense. They're losing money, the
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Speaker 1: crashing of the markets, the crashing of the ruble, the
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Speaker 1: crashing of what they're invested in, and there are a
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Speaker 1: lot of things that they're invested in, and they are
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Speaker 1: absolutely those things are crashing, and that's what this is about.
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Speaker 1: This is about that crash. They've lost maybe fifty percent
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Speaker 1: of their wealth overnight because of something that Vladimir Putin
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Speaker 1: is doing. That's isolating Russia, hurting the Russian people. You
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Speaker 1: can't get money out of the banks in Russia right now.
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Speaker 1: There's been a run on the bank and outside of
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Speaker 1: oil and gas exports, they got to import pretty much
10:00
Speaker 1: everything they need in Russia. And your buying power just
10:03
Speaker 1: dropped by half. So if you had a million dollars
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Speaker 1: in buying power a week ago, you have half of
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Speaker 1: that right now. If you're an oligarch right now, you're angry,
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Speaker 1: even if you're one of Putin's people that got rich
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Speaker 1: because of him, and you're sitting there going why are
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Speaker 1: we doing this, Vladimir, What is the point of doing this?
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Speaker 1: You're costing all of us money. Our assets are being
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Speaker 1: frozen around the world, Our banking is being frozen. We
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Speaker 1: can't do business, even if it's corrupt business anywhere in
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Speaker 1: the world right now, because you have completely isolated us.
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Speaker 1: There's another part of this with these oligarchs that I
10:41
Speaker 1: think is shocking, and that is that it's very clear
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Speaker 1: if Vladimir Putin did not think about any of this
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Speaker 1: before he did it, or if he did, he just
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Speaker 1: didn't care. And that has now brought up even conversations
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Speaker 1: and questions about could there be a co attempt on
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Speaker 1: Vladimir Putin? The people are angry, the oligarchs are angry. Financially,
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Speaker 1: they're insignificant trouble now in Russia. The world is isolating
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Speaker 1: them in condemning them even more than they were before,
11:15
Speaker 1: which is another part of this that everybody has to
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Speaker 1: look at. And if you combine all this, if you
11:22
Speaker 1: look at all of what I just described, this is
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Speaker 1: not good news for Vladimir Putin. Now he could argue,
11:31
Speaker 1: I don't care. I'm Vladimir Putin. I kill people right,
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Speaker 1: you get in my way, you say anything, I'll end you.
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Speaker 1: Does he have that power? Still, there's a very good
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Speaker 1: chance that, yes, he does have that power. He very
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Speaker 1: well could have the power to continue to do this
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Speaker 1: invasion of Ukraine and to double down and to try
11:51
Speaker 1: to have another even you could argue a surge. There's
11:55
Speaker 1: a very good chance that that can happen. But the
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Speaker 1: oligarchs are up because they're losing everything. And if you
12:02
Speaker 1: think about if you've lost the people and you've lost
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Speaker 1: the rich that we're gaining by you being in charge,
12:10
Speaker 1: there's not many people left around you, and the military
12:14
Speaker 1: is getting beat and a lot of these skirmishes right now,
12:16
Speaker 1: so that either they maybe they don't have the willpower
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Speaker 1: that they thought they had, maybe they realize how dumb
12:21
Speaker 1: this is, or maybe they have so many connections with
12:24
Speaker 1: the people in Ukraine that they don't really want to
12:26
Speaker 1: go in and kill all of them the way that
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Speaker 1: Vladimir Putin is warning them. Two. It's a very complicated situation.
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Speaker 1: But let's go back to the isolation for a moment.
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Speaker 1: Listen to the former ambassador Michael McFall and talking about
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Speaker 1: these oligarchs through the years to be very skeptical of
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Speaker 1: news reports that come out of the fog of war,
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Speaker 1: predictions on how one side is doing, how another side's doing.
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Speaker 1: It seemed to be particularly difficult in this case. But
12:56
Speaker 1: did we not get a better understanding of just how
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Speaker 1: badly things were going for Russian troops when Vladimir Putin
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Speaker 1: started talking about nuclear preparedness yesterday morning? Exactly exactly. He's
13:13
Speaker 1: not saying that if he's winning the war, right, I've
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Speaker 1: seen him when he's winning wars. He's a very snug guy.
13:20
Speaker 1: You know, he sits with his legs all spread out,
13:22
Speaker 1: and you know, you know, you know how he talks, right,
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Speaker 1: You're not seeing that putin right now, you would not
13:27
Speaker 1: be he would not be saying those things if the
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Speaker 1: war wasn't going badly. The other part of that, however,
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Speaker 1: is that he's moving on I think, to Plan B
13:37
Speaker 1: right now. He thought Shakanaw he was going to attack cities,
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Speaker 1: the Ukrainians were gonna fold, Zelenski was going to run
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Speaker 1: to Poland and he would put some of you know,
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Speaker 1: puppet in. That's not happening. And what I fear happening,
13:51
Speaker 1: especially watching things on the ground in Kharkiv, is he's
13:54
Speaker 1: moved to an old Russian his old strategy that he's
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Speaker 1: used in cities like a leppo throughout shits, Yeah, which
14:01
Speaker 1: is much more civilian casualties to try to turn things around.
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Speaker 1: Hearing from people from Kharkie, you know, just eight hours
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Speaker 1: ago they said they're going to fight to the end.
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Speaker 1: But I think he's pivoted to that and the other
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Speaker 1: thing I want to say, Joe, part of the reason
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Speaker 1: it's gone so bad as he's misjudged his own military.
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Speaker 1: I just listened to I don't know four dozen interviews
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Speaker 1: with Russians last night who were captured in Ukraine, and
14:29
Speaker 1: they're asked, you know, why are you fighting? They can't
14:32
Speaker 1: answer that question. The Ukrainians put them on with their
14:35
Speaker 1: moms right on the phone and they say, tell your mom,
14:37
Speaker 1: why are you here? Why are you here? And they say,
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Speaker 1: I don't know why. And I think we've undersked what Putin,
14:43
Speaker 1: I think is underestimated that. I think maybe the world
14:46
Speaker 1: is right. Is one thing to have capabilities, but you
14:49
Speaker 1: have to have the will to fight. And that fifty
14:52
Speaker 1: eight minute rambling speech that Putin gave I probably was
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Speaker 1: the only one that listened to the end right is
14:58
Speaker 1: I don't think many Russians did. He could not explain
15:01
Speaker 1: what this war is about. And I think that affects
15:04
Speaker 1: the morale of the Russians that he sent into Ukraine,
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Speaker 1: and that he's calling on the Belarussians to help him out.
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Speaker 1: That's another sign of desperation. That's another sign this war
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Speaker 1: is not going according to Plant. One of the other
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Speaker 1: things that's happening here is they are going after civilians,
15:21
Speaker 1: and they're going after apartment buildings and bombing and hitting
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Speaker 1: with missiles these places, and that is only making the
15:29
Speaker 1: people in the Ukraine fight back even harder. They're not running,
15:37
Speaker 1: the women and children are vacuating. The men are staying.
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Speaker 1: The men are staying, and they're saying, I'm not backing down.
15:46
Speaker 1: They're saying, I'm not. I'm not. I'm not, I'm not.
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Speaker 1: We're not going anywhere. Voker also talked about something else
15:53
Speaker 1: happening in Russia. Talked about the internally around Vladimir Putin.
15:58
Speaker 1: Things right now he believes are starting to crack. Take
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Speaker 1: a listen, they could develop. So I think they're going
16:03
Speaker 1: to try to keep the targets, but they've got to
16:05
Speaker 1: get off the Russian spots. Well. Last one, if I
16:07
Speaker 1: may miss from Basta, what happens to world opinion if
16:10
Speaker 1: indeed the Russians do intend to demolish pots of Kiev
16:14
Speaker 1: to take it. World opinion has been remarkable. Also, everyone
16:19
Speaker 1: has come around now to see Putin the for the
16:22
Speaker 1: brutal dictator and aggressor that he is, and to support Ukraine.
16:27
Speaker 1: I think the Ukrainians have a good chance of surviving here.
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Speaker 1: I think they may actually hold off the Russians, and
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Speaker 1: I think this will be ultimately the end of Putin.
16:35
Speaker 1: I don't think the world will tolerate leading Russia anymore.
16:37
Speaker 1: Who's going to take him down? Hopefully, internally, the military
16:41
Speaker 1: and the intelligence services. I think they see that the
16:44
Speaker 1: only threat to Russia today is Putin's leadership. Do you
16:48
Speaker 1: question his sanity? I think so, to be honest, to
16:52
Speaker 1: be going after civilian populations this way, waging a war
16:57
Speaker 1: out straight out of the nineteenth century, and then threatening
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Speaker 1: nuclear use, this is These are the actions of a madman.
17:05
Speaker 1: That's dramatic stuffness. Rumbassada. We're very glad to have you
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Speaker 1: on the show with those opinions. We appreciate it. Cult
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Speaker 1: vulgar there. Hopefully internally the military and the intelligence services
17:16
Speaker 1: will take Putin down. Now, this is a conversation we
17:21
Speaker 1: never could have imagined when this all started. But again
17:26
Speaker 1: we go back to what these are. Two former vassadors
17:28
Speaker 1: are now saying, one, since Putin has been isolated forever,
17:31
Speaker 1: hopefully there will be a coup. Another ambassador says, hopefully
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Speaker 1: internally the military and the intelligence service will take Puttin down.
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Speaker 1: These are again two conversations we've never had before. Two
17:42
Speaker 1: things that you know not part of this. And then
17:46
Speaker 1: there's just the pure will of the Ukrainian people. The
17:52
Speaker 1: Ukrainian people, despite Russia's overwhelming firepower, they were not able
17:58
Speaker 1: to pass into many areas that they tried to get into.
18:02
Speaker 1: Why is that because they're not leaving their homes and
18:06
Speaker 1: they realize that they would rather die fighting for their
18:10
Speaker 1: freedoms than live under the dictatorship under the rule of
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Speaker 1: Russia and Vladimir Putin because they've experienced it before, they've
18:21
Speaker 1: experienced what it's like to live under Russian occupation, under
18:26
Speaker 1: Russian rule, and they and they're like, we're not going
18:29
Speaker 1: to leave and start all over it. This is our home.
18:32
Speaker 1: We are going to defend it. What an amazing story.
18:39
Speaker 1: Vladimir Putin thought he could go in there, shock and
18:43
Speaker 1: all Ukraine and just flat out beat them. He has
18:46
Speaker 1: more planes, he has more tanks, he has a bigger military,
18:53
Speaker 1: but an entire country is now sitting up for themselves.
18:57
Speaker 1: You know, there's a viral story and I don't even
19:01
Speaker 1: know if it's true or not. I don't care, it's
19:05
Speaker 1: the principle of the matter. There was a posting of
19:08
Speaker 1: an eighty year old man who showed up to join
19:10
Speaker 1: the Ukrainian military. We believe the picture to be true
19:13
Speaker 1: at this point, but there's a lot of pictures that
19:15
Speaker 1: have been used that aren't even connected to Ukraine, right
19:18
Speaker 1: now and what's happening right now. And that's why I say,
19:20
Speaker 1: whether it's true or not, it's the principle of what
19:22
Speaker 1: we're witnessing in the Ukraine. And this picture shows a
19:26
Speaker 1: forty old man showed up to join the Ukrainian Army,
19:29
Speaker 1: carrying with him a small case with two t shirts,
19:32
Speaker 1: a pair of extra pants, a toothbrush, and a few
19:34
Speaker 1: sounches for lunch. He said he was doing it for
19:37
Speaker 1: his grandkids. There are grandmothers who are doing it. They're saying,
19:43
Speaker 1: I'm okay to die. I've lived a full life. This
19:45
Speaker 1: eighty year olds like, I'm okay, I'm doing this for
19:47
Speaker 1: my grandkids because my grandkids are not going literally over
19:51
Speaker 1: my dead body. Are they going to grow up under
19:55
Speaker 1: Vladimir Putin's rule. I'm eighty years old. This is what
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Speaker 1: many of the grandmothers. Same thing with the grandmothers, right,
20:04
Speaker 1: These grandmothers are the same behind. It's like that they're
20:07
Speaker 1: they're basically saying, I'm okay with my life being over.
20:11
Speaker 1: I've lived a great life. I am going to do
20:13
Speaker 1: this for my grandkids and for my kids, and I'm
20:15
Speaker 1: going to make sure that my kids and my grandkids
20:18
Speaker 1: do not grow up under Vladimir Putin's rule and if
20:23
Speaker 1: my life ends at the age of eighty or seventy
20:27
Speaker 1: or sixty. Look at Zalinski. The world is totally shocked
20:30
Speaker 1: that Americas said, you know, hey, will send a plane
20:32
Speaker 1: get you out, and say no, no no, no, no no.
20:34
Speaker 1: I don't need to just send a plane to get
20:35
Speaker 1: me out. I need just in a plane with munitions,
20:38
Speaker 1: with AMMO. I need you to send a plane with
20:43
Speaker 1: the things I need to be able to fight for
20:44
Speaker 1: my country. I'm not asking you to send troops. All
20:49
Speaker 1: I'm asking you to do is send supplies. Don't send
20:52
Speaker 1: an airplane to get me to safety. I will die
20:54
Speaker 1: in my country defending it, for my kids, for my grandkids,
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Speaker 1: for the future of people in this nation. So don't
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Speaker 1: send me a plane empty for me to sit on
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Speaker 1: and leave. I'm not leaving. I'm willing to die. Look
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Speaker 1: at the former president of Ukraine, same exact thing. I'm
21:10
Speaker 1: not leaving, not going to be captured either. I'm going
21:13
Speaker 1: to fight to the death to defend this country and
21:16
Speaker 1: defend our freedoms. It is inspiring, but it's also sad.
21:21
Speaker 1: It is sad in Ukraine. I think the people there
21:24
Speaker 1: understand how valuable freedom is, and we take it for
21:28
Speaker 1: granted in this country. And look at all the freedoms
21:30
Speaker 1: that we've given up just under COVID. For goodness sakes,
21:33
Speaker 1: these people are dying for the freedoms that we've just
21:35
Speaker 1: handed over left and right for the last two years.
21:39
Speaker 1: It is a stark reminder of a compare and contrast.
21:43
Speaker 1: So just how different and how lazy we are in
21:46
Speaker 1: this country, and how we don't understand what's happening with
21:50
Speaker 1: our freedoms. Many don't, I should say, what's happened under
21:54
Speaker 1: just COVID. We're handing over our freedoms left and right,
21:57
Speaker 1: and these people are dying for theirs. Even as these
22:00
Speaker 1: peace talks are underway, we are now seeing a video
22:04
Speaker 1: coming out that the war is still raging on. Ukraine's
22:08
Speaker 1: second largest city is being bombarded with shelling during the
22:12
Speaker 1: peace talks. It looks like Vladimir Putin during these peace talks,
22:16
Speaker 1: is trying to make sure that they understand why they're
22:19
Speaker 1: at that table, that we can just kill you from
22:21
Speaker 1: the air, bomb you from the air, and obviously they
22:26
Speaker 1: are trying to move this in a new direction. We
22:31
Speaker 1: also know that Vladimir Putin is also talking about nuclear war,
22:37
Speaker 1: nuclear explosions, And we just got word that BP has
22:42
Speaker 1: just exited a fourteen billion dollars state in a Russian
22:48
Speaker 1: oil giant, rush Neft. Now they can buy back in
22:53
Speaker 1: at any point, I want to be clear about that.
22:55
Speaker 1: But we are just getting this breaking news that British
22:58
Speaker 1: oil company BP is pulling its fourteen billion dollars steak
23:03
Speaker 1: from Russian oil giant rush Neft. This according to the
23:08
Speaker 1: Washington Posts, it's one of the most significant Western investments
23:12
Speaker 1: in Russia ever in its history. Russia's attack on Ukraine
23:17
Speaker 1: is an act of aggression which is having tragic consequences
23:20
Speaker 1: across the region. The head of BP set in a statement.
23:25
Speaker 1: BP has operated in Russia for over thirty years, working
23:28
Speaker 1: with brilliant Russian colleagues. However, the military action represents a
23:33
Speaker 1: fundamental change. It has led the BP board to conclude,
23:36
Speaker 1: after a thorough process, that our investment with rush Neev,
23:40
Speaker 1: a state owned enterprise, simply cannot continue. The BP move
23:46
Speaker 1: is one It is one more sign that Western public
23:50
Speaker 1: opinion is swiftly moving against Russian President Vladimir Putin's unjustified
23:54
Speaker 1: invasion of Ukraine. Sovereign nation that gave up its nukes
23:59
Speaker 1: in nineteen nine four in exchange for the Russian government
24:01
Speaker 1: security guarantee. A lot of people forget that in nineteen
24:05
Speaker 1: ninety four, Ukraine was a nuclear power. They gave up
24:10
Speaker 1: those nuclear weapons in nineteen ninety four, in those Kumbaya
24:14
Speaker 1: years of Bill Clinton in exchange for the Russian government
24:18
Speaker 1: security guarantee. That did not happen, as we now know.
24:21
Speaker 1: You want to know why places like Ukraine should never
24:23
Speaker 1: give up their nuclear weapons, This is exactly why. And
24:26
Speaker 1: they did it in ninety four in exchange for the
24:29
Speaker 1: Russian government security guarantee. And Bill Clinton was involved in that.
24:33
Speaker 1: How did that work out? Not very well? In ways
24:37
Speaker 1: large and small, from consumers to companies to governments, the
24:42
Speaker 1: West is growing more determined by the day to take
24:44
Speaker 1: a bite out of Russia's economic might, military aggression, with
24:48
Speaker 1: a mixture of sanctions, boycotts, and even the denial of airspace.
24:53
Speaker 1: More from this breaking news from the Washington Post. The
24:56
Speaker 1: world's biggest computer chip companies have started halting sales to
25:01
Speaker 1: Russia of vital electronic components to comply with the US
25:06
Speaker 1: led sanctions, and the European Union is banning Russian flights
25:10
Speaker 1: from its airspace, forcing Russian airline Aero Float Aeroflot excuse
25:16
Speaker 1: me to cancel the majority of their international flights. Now,
25:21
Speaker 1: hours after VP's announcement, Norway's state controlled oil companies set
25:25
Speaker 1: It too, is quitting its investment in Russia, a group
25:30
Speaker 1: of joint ventures is valued at one point two billion,
25:35
Speaker 1: saying this, we are deeply troubled by the invasion of Ukraine,
25:39
Speaker 1: which represents a terrible setback for the world, So the
25:43
Speaker 1: president chief executive said in a statement quote in the
25:46
Speaker 1: current situation, we regard our position as unattainable, saying that
25:55
Speaker 1: the company will begin exiting our joint ventures in a
25:59
Speaker 1: manner that is consistent with our values. So two very
26:05
Speaker 1: significant moves that have just happened again, BP now exiting
26:09
Speaker 1: their fourteen billion dollars stake in the Russian oil giant
26:13
Speaker 1: owned by Russia. Now we're also being told that despite
26:17
Speaker 1: Russia's overwhelming firepower, even as they're bombing cities as we speak,
26:24
Speaker 1: the people are standing up and I want you to
26:26
Speaker 1: hear part of this incredible story. The bridge here hasn't
26:31
Speaker 1: been raised for as long as they can remember, but
26:34
Speaker 1: neither has the sleepy port town of Micliave been invaded.
26:39
Speaker 1: The clack claque is likely exchanges with Russian paratroopers who
26:43
Speaker 1: were told landed nearby locals struggling to keep up with
26:48
Speaker 1: their world here collapsing and soldiers edgy. The fear here
26:54
Speaker 1: Russian saboteurs like these two suspects thrown to the ground
26:58
Speaker 1: by soldiers. Then the sirens go off and it is
27:07
Speaker 1: back in the basement for mothers and cats. Here the
27:15
Speaker 1: noise of what Russia would do to these towns in
27:18
Speaker 1: the name of subjugation and gear political gain. Police trying
27:23
Speaker 1: to turn lights off, it seems in businesses that closed
27:27
Speaker 1: in a hurry, life persisting caught between hoping this is
27:31
Speaker 1: short lived and wondering if it may go on forever.
27:36
Speaker 1: Behind it all in empty streets, the fear they may
27:39
Speaker 1: be overrun, and whether each huge blast would be the
27:46
Speaker 1: decisive strike that lets Putin's troop center. The shelling just
27:53
Speaker 1: went on and on the next morning we saw where
27:59
Speaker 1: it hit. It's likely a missile tore up these Ukrainian tanks,
28:03
Speaker 1: but nobody left feels broken. How you feel good? Good? Good? Yeah? Yeah,
28:11
Speaker 1: they tried to come into the town, but I see
28:13
Speaker 1: Paia Nikolau funny. He's saying, the Russians tried to come
28:21
Speaker 1: in last night, but the town of mikolaiav feat them
28:25
Speaker 1: and you can see what it looks like here. Er saying,
28:30
Speaker 1: look at look around here. I'm asking him, how do
28:32
Speaker 1: you feel living here? Looking at all this? This is
28:34
Speaker 1: where you live, right, He's I look at this, Look
28:36
Speaker 1: at these windows that are blown out in spoil. Yeah.
28:48
Speaker 1: So the words of Russian ministers who've been saying that
28:51
Speaker 1: they're not going to hit civilian infrastructure here, he's repeating
28:55
Speaker 1: them back to me, saying, look look at this. They
28:58
Speaker 1: say they're not hitting civilian instructure. Look at this damage
29:00
Speaker 1: around him. Putin's rockets may have shattered glass, but not
29:06
Speaker 1: dented the anger here as they take stock. You have
29:11
Speaker 1: to ask yourself why Moscow ever thought these towns would
29:14
Speaker 1: gladly be occupied and what Russia's end goal is tempers
29:21
Speaker 1: Frey Here, blood has been spilled, but despite Russia's overwhelming firepower,
29:28
Speaker 1: they did not pass. You know, I think one of
29:32
Speaker 1: the most incredible parts of this story is how all
29:35
Speaker 1: that the Ukrainian people are asking for is the weaponry
29:38
Speaker 1: needed to defend and protect themselves and They're clearly willing
29:43
Speaker 1: to fight for their homes. They're not asking to be evacuated.
29:48
Speaker 1: Just like the president Zelinski has said, don't send me
29:50
Speaker 1: a plane to get me out of here, Send me
29:53
Speaker 1: a plane with munition, send me a plane with m O.
29:57
Speaker 1: One of the incredible stories we heard earlier was the
30:02
Speaker 1: story about the European Union and their foreign policy chief
30:06
Speaker 1: has announced on Sunday that members the EU are going
30:10
Speaker 1: to supply and I would say better late than never,
30:15
Speaker 1: Ukrainian with actual fighter jets, with the technology they need
30:18
Speaker 1: to go toe to toe with the Russians. The Wall
30:21
Speaker 1: Street Journal is now putting this in and again this
30:25
Speaker 1: is all public opinion. It's so frustrating, but at least
30:27
Speaker 1: it's moving this way. The world is clearly saying we
30:31
Speaker 1: stand with Ukraine and not with Russia. Clearly the world
30:34
Speaker 1: is turning on Russia. Thank goodness, they are turning on Russia.
30:40
Speaker 1: BP Oil and all these people have been making tons
30:42
Speaker 1: of money off of Russia and making them rich are
30:48
Speaker 1: now starting to realize that there's no way that you
30:50
Speaker 1: can justify working with Russia right now. And this is
30:53
Speaker 1: where it's obvious that Vladimir Putin totally overestimated his ability
31:01
Speaker 1: to take over this country easily and totally overestimated his
31:05
Speaker 1: power that the rest of the world would not respond
31:08
Speaker 1: and the way that they are right now. But he
31:10
Speaker 1: also thought at this point that it would be a
31:13
Speaker 1: quick thing like we saw in Crimea, and that then
31:16
Speaker 1: he could say, oh, I'm protecting all these people and
31:18
Speaker 1: look at all the people that didn't die because we
31:20
Speaker 1: took it over, and now there's law and order. Right,
31:22
Speaker 1: That's what he was thinking here, that he could do
31:25
Speaker 1: that in the rest of the world say Okay, no
31:26
Speaker 1: one's dying right now and he's in charge, and all right, fine,
31:28
Speaker 1: we'll move on, keep making our money. But the oligarchs
31:34
Speaker 1: that that back him now have to be looking at
31:37
Speaker 1: this thinging what has he done? What is happening here again?
31:45
Speaker 1: What is happening now? Now? The White House has also
31:50
Speaker 1: come over and said that we're not going to go
31:54
Speaker 1: to war with the Ukraine or excuse me, with Russia.
31:57
Speaker 1: We're not going to send our boys to fight. Listen
32:00
Speaker 1: to what the White House Press secretary had to say
32:02
Speaker 1: moments ago the White House military tactics here. I think
32:05
Speaker 1: that the world has been so stunned by waking up
32:08
Speaker 1: morning after morning to President Zelenski, who is defiant and
32:13
Speaker 1: who reports that the Ukrainian forces are fending off Russia.
32:18
Speaker 1: Is it possible, Jen, do you think for them to
32:20
Speaker 1: hold Russia off long enough for international forces to stop him,
32:25
Speaker 1: or do you think it's a matter of time before
32:26
Speaker 1: Russia overwhelms Ukraine? We still first, President Zelenski, the Ukrainian people,
32:31
Speaker 1: the Ukrainian military. They've been incredibly courageous. They have stood
32:35
Speaker 1: up to a one of the world's most powerful militaries
32:38
Speaker 1: on the ground in Ukraine. But our assessment has not
32:41
Speaker 1: changed that Russia, President Putin the military has every intention
32:44
Speaker 1: of taking Kiev, and they're continuing to make progress. Given that,
32:47
Speaker 1: was it a tactical error gen for the US not
32:50
Speaker 1: to say it is possible we would send in military forces.
32:53
Speaker 1: Should the President not have taken that off the table,
32:56
Speaker 1: at least in terms of what he was saying, we
32:58
Speaker 1: haven't for Taiwan, for example. Well, the President wants to
33:01
Speaker 1: be direct, has always wanted to be direct about with
33:03
Speaker 1: the American people about what he will do and what
33:05
Speaker 1: he will not do. He is not sending US forces,
33:08
Speaker 1: men and women who fight for our military into Ukraine
33:11
Speaker 1: to fight a war with Russia. We are not going
33:12
Speaker 1: to have a military war with Russia with US troops,
33:15
Speaker 1: and he thinks it's vitally important and first and foremost
33:18
Speaker 1: important to be direct with the public about that. I
33:19
Speaker 1: want to ask you quickly about the refugee crisis, that
33:21
Speaker 1: we want to get to the state of the Union,
33:23
Speaker 1: but the un Let me just also, and you mentioned
33:25
Speaker 1: you heard him mentioned the state of the Union. I'm
33:27
Speaker 1: gonna I'm gonna wrap up by saying this. The President's
33:30
Speaker 1: State of the Union is going to be one of
33:33
Speaker 1: the most important State of the Unions for any Democratic
33:37
Speaker 1: Party leader in a very long time. He's going to
33:43
Speaker 1: have to deal with what's happening in Ukraine and it failed.
33:46
Speaker 1: Foreign policy, he's going to have to deal with an
33:50
Speaker 1: American public that is very very frustrated right now over
33:53
Speaker 1: inflation and very very frustrated right now not just over inflation,
33:57
Speaker 1: but the rising price of oil and game as he's
34:02
Speaker 1: going to have to deal with an American people that
34:05
Speaker 1: are very frustrated and exhausted from COVID restrictions in lockdowns,
34:12
Speaker 1: all of this while he's going to have to deal
34:14
Speaker 1: with a foreign policy. The president has got a stay
34:18
Speaker 1: of the union and addressed, and I'm not sure he's
34:21
Speaker 1: going to be even capable of delivering the message the
34:25
Speaker 1: way they needs to deliver the message. I'm talking about cognitively.
34:29
Speaker 1: But the rest of the world is going to be
34:31
Speaker 1: watching and they're gonna see how he responds, and they're
34:35
Speaker 1: gonna they're gonna see how he responds to see how
34:38
Speaker 1: they feel about him. And the rest of the world's
34:41
Speaker 1: gonna look at him and they're gonna say, is he weak?
34:43
Speaker 1: Is he incompetent, is he incoherent? And from a national
34:47
Speaker 1: security standpoint, I do want the president to look competent.
34:53
Speaker 1: I want Vladimir Putin to see a present that is
34:55
Speaker 1: not incapacitated or isolated. I want him to see a
35:00
Speaker 1: leader that at least can have conversations with the rest
35:03
Speaker 1: of the world on these issues and that people don't
35:05
Speaker 1: try to take advantage of us. Because there's also what's
35:08
Speaker 1: Taiwan right now. In China, they're making a decision right now,
35:12
Speaker 1: is this their time to go in and can America
35:14
Speaker 1: or would Americans stand up and would Americas stop them?
35:16
Speaker 1: While they're distracted with what's happening in Ukraine, while they're
35:19
Speaker 1: distracted with their economy. The American people are going to
35:24
Speaker 1: be looking. And I also think judging this president, who
35:29
Speaker 1: has the lowest approval rating of any time in his history,
35:31
Speaker 1: lower than any point in the history of George Bush,
35:35
Speaker 1: or any point in the history of Barack Obama, lower
35:38
Speaker 1: than any point in the Trump administration, his approval rating
35:42
Speaker 1: is a disaster right now in the thirties. So not
35:46
Speaker 1: only does Joe Biden need to hit a political home
35:49
Speaker 1: run message with the American people, he's gonna have to
35:52
Speaker 1: hit a home run with the world. And I don't
35:54
Speaker 1: know if he's up to it. I don't know if
35:56
Speaker 1: he has the capacity to deliver that speech. Now, let
36:03
Speaker 1: me go back to Ukraine. I don't think Vladimir Putin
36:08
Speaker 1: is going to just stop overnight. I don't think these
36:10
Speaker 1: peace talks are gonna stop everything right away. I don't
36:14
Speaker 1: believe that he has an appetite to kind of say, okay,
36:19
Speaker 1: let's agree to disagree and let's end this thing. Yet
36:23
Speaker 1: I think there's going to be more bloodshed. I really do. Unfortunately,
36:25
Speaker 1: because I think he's a psychotic man. It's gonna take
36:29
Speaker 1: more isolation. Now. I do believe that we should stop
36:31
Speaker 1: all imports of Russian oil. I think we should open
36:35
Speaker 1: up that Keystone pipeline again, and I don't think the
36:37
Speaker 1: president has a willpower to do that either, which is
36:39
Speaker 1: a huge problem. Let me just tell you these people
36:43
Speaker 1: in Ukraine, I want to shake every one of their hands.
36:46
Speaker 1: These people are brave, They're willing to die for freedom.
36:53
Speaker 1: And in this country, what have we been doing. We've
36:54
Speaker 1: been giving away our rights and our freedoms for the
36:56
Speaker 1: last two years in the name of COVID. If you
37:01
Speaker 1: want to know what to teach your kids, this is
37:03
Speaker 1: what you talk to your kids about right now. Explain
37:07
Speaker 1: to them how important your freedom is and what happens
37:10
Speaker 1: when someone takes it away, and what we do to
37:13
Speaker 1: fight and to make sure that it doesn't get taken away.
37:18
Speaker 1: I'm inspired by these people, and I hope it's making
37:21
Speaker 1: people in America understand just how much we've given away
37:25
Speaker 1: when it comes to our basic rights and our basic freedoms.
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