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Trump backs Elon's Email & Makes BIG Move to End War in Ukraine · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: All right, so there's a fake civil war that you
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  Speaker 1: need to know about that's happening right now, but actually
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  Speaker 1: isn't happening at all. Elon Musk, as you know, sent
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  Speaker 1: out this email over the weekend, and it was an
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  Speaker 1: email to all government employees saying, Hey, tell me exactly
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  Speaker 1: what you do. What have you been doing in your
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  Speaker 1: job in the last five days. I have been told
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  Speaker 1: by sources at the White House that the reason why
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  Speaker 1: this email was sent out in the first place is
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  Speaker 1: because there is data that they have at the government
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  Speaker 1: now that shows that there is a significant portion of
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  Speaker 1: governm employees that never checked their emails. In fact, many
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  Speaker 1: of them haven't even changed their for their log in credentials,
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  Speaker 1: which they have to change every sixty ninety days depending
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  Speaker 1: on what their job is, and change their password hasn't
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  Speaker 1: been done in months and months, and some it hasn't
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  Speaker 1: even been done in years, meaning that there are people
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  Speaker 1: that have not checked their email in our federal government
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  Speaker 1: that we are employing that has not read a EE
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  Speaker 1: because they don't have access to their email because they
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  Speaker 1: haven't updated their credentials like many of you have to
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  Speaker 1: do in the private sector for months and even years.
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  Speaker 1: Now you want to know why Elon Musk sent this
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  Speaker 1: email out. It was to see how many people don't
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  Speaker 1: even check their emails. Now, if you're not checking your
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  Speaker 1: emails in the federal government, it means you're probably not
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  Speaker 1: doing your job at all. Now there's been a riff
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  Speaker 1: because they say, oh, this is chaotic, right, And then
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  Speaker 1: there was the left and union members that said this
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  Speaker 1: was harassment, this is low morale, this is calling causing
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  Speaker 1: anxiety because he said if you don't respond by midnight
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  Speaker 1: on Monday night, that you know will take it as
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  Speaker 1: you're resigning from your job. Welcome to the real world
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  Speaker 1: of being an adult. If you're not checking your email,
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  Speaker 1: if you don't know how to log into your email,
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  Speaker 1: then you're not doing your job within our government. If
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  Speaker 1: this triggered you and you think that you need a
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  Speaker 1: quote safe space, I'm sorry, sorry. I don't want you
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  Speaker 1: employed either at the federal government because it means you're
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  Speaker 1: probably not doing your job. And there are so many
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  Speaker 1: people that have been coming into offices. It reminds me
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  Speaker 1: of that movie Office Space where there's that random guy
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  Speaker 1: who has been like fire, but he keeps showing it
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  Speaker 1: for work and keeps getting a paycheck and they just
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  Speaker 1: keep moving him around. Apparently that's what our federal government's
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  Speaker 1: been doing for decades. So emailing your boss and or
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  Speaker 1: I should say, responding back to Doe saying hey, what
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  Speaker 1: do you do in your job? What did you do
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  Speaker 1: in the last week in your job? Five things you
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  Speaker 1: did we want to know. This should be nothing that
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  Speaker 1: would scare or should scare any employee unless you literally
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  Speaker 1: do not know what you're doing or you do not work.
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  Speaker 1: Now the media has come in. They've tried to say
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  Speaker 1: that Elon muskuin rogue because there are some agencies that
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  Speaker 1: have said, hey, you don't have to email back. Why well,
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  Speaker 1: I mean some of them are undercover people, for example
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  Speaker 1: the FBI or Department of Homeland Security. Maybe you work
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  Speaker 1: with spies. In that scenario, we don't want you emailing back.
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  Speaker 1: So they did say, hey, go to your boss and
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  Speaker 1: tell him or her what you are doing. The point
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  Speaker 1: is this was not a crazy idea. There's no war
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  Speaker 1: between Donald Trump and Elon Musk over this. They're trying
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  Speaker 1: to drive a wedge between Elon Musk and Donald Trump,
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  Speaker 1: and they're trying to say, oh, Donald Trump, he went
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  Speaker 1: rogue and he's overshadowing you, or he's bigger than you,
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  Speaker 1: or he's going crazy over here. You still want to
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  Speaker 1: endorse Elon Muskin. Doge, I want you to hear what
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  Speaker 1: the President had to say at the White House, because
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  Speaker 1: he's not taking the bait either. He said, we decided
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  Speaker 1: to send at this email. I told him that something
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  Speaker 1: I wanted to do. He's not taking the bait from
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  Speaker 1: the left. Listen a Doge soon.
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  Speaker 2: Do you think that Doge could benefit from more streamline communications.
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  Speaker 2: There was that email telling employees to do five things
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  Speaker 2: that they've.
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  Speaker 3: Done last week.
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  Speaker 2: Agency heads then told people to ignore it.
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  Speaker 3: But you learn about the last email that was sent
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  Speaker 3: where he wanted to know what you did this week?
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  Speaker 1: You know why he wanted that.
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  Speaker 3: By the way, I thought it was great because we
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  Speaker 3: have people that don't show up to work and nobody
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  Speaker 3: even knows if they work for the government. So by
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  Speaker 3: asking the question tell us what you did this week,
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  Speaker 3: what he's doing is saying are you actually working? And
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  Speaker 3: then if you don't answer, like you're sort of semi
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  Speaker 3: fired or you're fired because a lot of people are
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  Speaker 3: not answering because they don't even exist. They're trying to
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  Speaker 3: find that's how badly various parts of our government were
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  Speaker 3: run by it, especially by this last group. So what
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  Speaker 3: they're doing is they're trying to find out who's working
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  Speaker 3: for the government. Are we paying other people that aren't working?
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  Speaker 3: And you know, where's all that?
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  Speaker 4: Where's the money guns?
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  Speaker 3: So I think it was actually there was a lot
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  Speaker 3: of genius in sending it. We're trying to find out
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  Speaker 3: if people are working, and so we're sending a letter
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  Speaker 3: to people, please tell us what you did last week.
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  Speaker 3: If people don't respond, it's very possible that there is
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  Speaker 3: no such person or.
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  Speaker 4: They're not working.
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  Speaker 2: Some of the agency heads instructed their employees not to
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  Speaker 2: respond because they were waiting on further guidance. But Elon
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  Speaker 2: Musk's tweet said a failure to respond would be taken
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  Speaker 2: as a resignation. So there's been a disconnect in communications.
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  Speaker 3: Are you concerned all about oh wait, no, no, no,
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  Speaker 3: that was done in a friendly manner. Only things such
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  Speaker 3: as perhaps Marco at State Department where they have very
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  Speaker 3: confidential things, or the FBI where they're working on confidential things.
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  Speaker 3: And they don't mean that in any way combatively with Elon.
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  Speaker 3: They're just saying there are some people that you don't
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  Speaker 3: want to really have them tell you what they're working on.
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  Speaker 3: But other than that, I think everyone thought it was
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  Speaker 3: a pretty ingenious said we have to find out where
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  Speaker 3: these people are, who are they? And we said if
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  Speaker 3: you don't respond, we assume you're not around.
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  Speaker 2: And that holds.
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  Speaker 3: That stands, and you're not getting paid anymore too. So
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  Speaker 3: you know, we're doing a real job. And we just
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  Speaker 3: had a poll come out, I guess the Harvard poll
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  Speaker 3: saying that it's this massively popular, what would do it now?
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  Speaker 1: To be clear, the president also understands he has a
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  Speaker 1: mandate here and the poll he mentioned, the new Harvard
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  Speaker 1: Harris poll is significant. Trump's approval rating is at fifty
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  Speaker 1: two percent, disapproval at forty three percent. Forty three percent
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  Speaker 1: of Americans that identify as hardcore liberal Democrats they don't
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  Speaker 1: like him. But here's what's interesting. When you take Trump's
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  Speaker 1: name out of the poll question and you ask them
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  Speaker 1: about policies, overwhelming the American people are in favor of
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  Speaker 1: what Donald Trump and Elon Musk are doing, including this email,
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  Speaker 1: fifty eight percent of Americans say that Donald Trump is
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  Speaker 1: doing better than Joe Biden. That is bipartisan support eighty
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  Speaker 1: one percent of Americans again clearly bipartisan support. Eighty one
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  Speaker 1: percent support deporting criminal aliens. There is a massive mandate
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  Speaker 1: for that. Seventy six percent, again is bipartisan support. Say
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  Speaker 1: that they are in favor of eliminating fraud, waste, and
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  Speaker 1: abuse aka seventy six percent of Americans are supporting the
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  Speaker 1: work of DOGE. We also know that seventy six percent,
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  Speaker 1: also a super majority right biparson support support closing the
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  Speaker 1: US border seventy percent. Again, this is bipartisan of American
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  Speaker 1: voters support merit based hiring, meaning they do not believe
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  Speaker 1: that the US government's job should be to just hire
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  Speaker 1: everybody based on their you know, DEI practices, the color
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  Speaker 1: of their skin, their ethnicity, are their race, or their sexuality,
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  Speaker 1: however you want to put it. They think it should
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  Speaker 1: be merit base. And if you're just showing up for
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  Speaker 1: a job because you've had a job forever and you
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  Speaker 1: don't do anything and you can't check your email, well
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  Speaker 1: guess what the American people are fine with Elon Muskin,
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  Speaker 1: Donald Trump cutting bad employees. We also know that sixty
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  Speaker 1: percent of Americans, that is a major majority, think that
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  Speaker 1: dough is helping this country get back physcal responsibility, and
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  Speaker 1: that dog is helping protect their tax dollars. You look
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  Speaker 1: at this Harvard Harris Pole, and it's exactly what Donald
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  Speaker 1: Trump said there. This is an email I was in
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  Speaker 1: favor of. This is an email that we clearly wanted
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  Speaker 1: to get out there and see what the response was. Now,
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  Speaker 1: are there caveats to this email in some parts of
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  Speaker 1: the government, at the FBI or the CIA, Sure, are
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  Speaker 1: we okay at the directive change? Yes, But in general,
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  Speaker 1: the largest employer in the US is the US government.
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  Speaker 1: We want to see who's even checking their emails. Now
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  Speaker 1: for the left that think that this is a terrible idea,
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  Speaker 1: or that's inhumane, or this is some sort of harassment,
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  Speaker 1: let me also remind you that the Trump administration and
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  Speaker 1: Elon Musk send out an email to every government employee
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  Speaker 1: recently offering them one of the most i mean historic
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  Speaker 1: buyouts to quit your job at the federal government. There
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  Speaker 1: are many people in our government that took the deal.
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  Speaker 1: It's something far greater than you could have ever imagined
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  Speaker 1: ever being offered in your entire life from the private sector.
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  Speaker 1: So if you don't like the fact that now the
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  Speaker 1: same government that said please quit and here's a huge
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  Speaker 1: paycheck to do it, is now saying, okay, you didn't quit.
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  Speaker 1: We now want to know if you're doing your job,
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  Speaker 1: and now you want to cry about it. I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome to being an adult and living in the real world.
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  Speaker 1: And Donald Trump is right. He is doing what the
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  Speaker 1: American people have told him that they want him to do.
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  Speaker 1: I want to move on now to a vote that
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  Speaker 1: took place in the United Nations. And there are certain
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  Speaker 1: days where the level of propaganda that is coming out
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  Speaker 1: against the Trump administration is going to be on a
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  Speaker 1: different level. And this United Nations vote to quote condemn
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  Speaker 1: Russia for invading Ukraine is a perfect example of the
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  Speaker 1: United Nations going into propaganda mode to make you hate
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  Speaker 1: Donald Trump, to make the world hate Donald Trump. Now,
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  Speaker 1: let me explain to you the details on this so
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  Speaker 1: that you understand the true story here. Number one, if
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  Speaker 1: you want to condemn Russia for invading Ukraine, this could
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  Speaker 1: have been done three years ago. Why is the United
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  Speaker 1: Nations doing it right now? Why did they wait till
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  Speaker 1: literally February the twenty fourth to have a United Nations
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  Speaker 1: quote General Assembly adopted this resolution condemning Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Now,
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  Speaker 1: why didn't they do it six months ago, year ago,
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  Speaker 1: two years ago, three yars ago. Because now it's about
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  Speaker 1: the propaganda. Many of these countries want this war to continue.
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  Speaker 1: There are many people involved that love the amount of
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  Speaker 1: money that is coming into this war, that's funneling through
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  Speaker 1: the war to their pockets. There are ninety three countries
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  Speaker 1: voted in favor of condemning Russia, eighteen against, including the
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  Speaker 1: United States and Russia. Now that's where the propaganda hits, Like,
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  Speaker 1: how could America stand there and vote with Russia and
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  Speaker 1: not condemn Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Well, the simple answer
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  Speaker 1: is this, Donald Trump wants a deal done and wants
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  Speaker 1: to actually stop the war and stop the killing of
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  Speaker 1: hundreds of thousands of people. We are witnessing right now
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  Speaker 1: some of the most barbaric actions on the Ukraine and
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  Speaker 1: Russia side that are happening. A great example are many
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  Speaker 1: Russian soldiers that are being recycled or reused where they
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  Speaker 1: have had horrific war injuries and they're send them back
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  Speaker 1: to the front lines with limbs blown off, walking on crutches,
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  Speaker 1: with staples in their stomach, this is now what is happening.
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  Speaker 1: So it's pretty clear when you look at the scenario
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  Speaker 1: that there's no reason for us to antagonize Russia when
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  Speaker 1: we're trying to get them to the table. That's the
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  Speaker 1: President's clear message. It's also what Marco Rubio said an
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  Speaker 1: exclusive interview with Breitbart Take a listen.
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  Speaker 5: Well on the broader resolution, we think the UN needs
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  Speaker 5: to get if it's going to be useful in the
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  Speaker 5: twenty first century. The UN needs to get back to
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  Speaker 5: its charter mission, which is the prevention in the ending
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  Speaker 5: of war in conflict. And so we felt everyone knows,
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  Speaker 5: you know, you can go back and read the newspaper
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  Speaker 5: articles over the last three years and figure out what
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  Speaker 5: happened in Ukraine. But now, as the President's made very clear,
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  Speaker 5: President Trump wants to end this war. He thinks far
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  Speaker 5: too many people have died, and he wants to bring
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  Speaker 5: it to an end. So we didn't feel it was conducive, frankly,
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  Speaker 5: to have something out there at the UN that's antagonistic
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  Speaker 5: against either side. We're trying to get these guys to
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  Speaker 5: the table, and unfortunately Ukraine didn't agree. They wanted to
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  Speaker 5: move forward on theirs. We then went to the Security
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  Speaker 5: Council with our compromise, which I think is a very
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  Speaker 5: fair language, and it basically says war is a terrible thing.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, I'm paraphrasing and I'm being simplistic, but it says.
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  Speaker 1: War is a terrible way.
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  Speaker 5: Too many people have died. This war needs to end
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  Speaker 5: in a way that's enduring, an essence echoing President Trump's
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  Speaker 5: view of what this conflict needs to be and reminding
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  Speaker 5: the United Nations at the purpose of the United Nations
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  Speaker 5: was the prevention of war and the ending of conflicts,
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  Speaker 5: not making it harder to end conflicts. So I thought
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  Speaker 5: it was good that we got it done at the
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  Speaker 5: Security Council. The Russians didn't veto it, which is a
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  Speaker 5: good sign. I'm not telling you that that is going
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  Speaker 5: to end this conflict. And I can't wait till a
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  Speaker 5: least the Phonic is there, because it'd be great to
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  Speaker 5: have her leadership. But I certainly think our language is
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  Speaker 5: better language and hopefully further is the cause of peace.
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  Speaker 4: President Trump, today alongside French President Emmanuel Macron, said that
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  Speaker 4: he hopes that this can be resolved in a matter
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  Speaker 4: of weeks, not months. Weeks. What are some of the
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  Speaker 4: major steps that we need to take to get to
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  Speaker 4: that point.
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  Speaker 5: Well, I think the President would want it to end yesterday, right.
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  Speaker 5: He thinks already too many people have died, There's been
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  Speaker 5: too much destruction. By the way, I think everybody should
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  Speaker 5: be very happy that President Trump as a peace president.
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  Speaker 5: We have a president that wants to end wars, not
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  Speaker 5: start new ones. He wants to end human suffering, not
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  Speaker 5: exacerbated or extended. Now that said, it's a conflict, it's
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  Speaker 5: a war, and it's going back and forth. We got
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  Speaker 5: to get them both to the table, starting with the Russians.
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  Speaker 5: So we met with him last week and the basic
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  Speaker 5: question of that meeting was are you interested in ending
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  Speaker 5: this conflict or not? A lot of people don't know
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  Speaker 5: the answer to that. If you talk to some in Europe,
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  Speaker 5: they'll tell you that Putin is not interested in ending
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  Speaker 5: the war. They said they would be under the right conditions.
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  Speaker 5: We didn't discuss what those conditions were. So the next
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  Speaker 5: step now is to meet with them again at some point,
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  Speaker 5: with the right group of people in the room and
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  Speaker 5: begin to outline what would it take for Russia to
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  Speaker 5: stop a war. And obviously we got to ask Ukraine
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  Speaker 5: the same question, because you can't stop a war unless
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  Speaker 5: both sides agree to it. So whether it takes days
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  Speaker 5: or weeks or what have you, we're going to begin
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  Speaker 5: that process. It may not work out, But why would
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  Speaker 5: anybody criticize President Trump for wanting to end a war
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  Speaker 5: that's cost billions of dollars, hundreds of thousands of lives,
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  Speaker 5: and tremendous and ongoing human suffering.
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  Speaker 1: It is very clear that if we would have voted
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  Speaker 1: in the UN resolution to condemn Russia, that it's not
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  Speaker 1: going to bring Russia the table, and that means that
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  Speaker 1: the war's going to drag on for months, if not
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  Speaker 1: years longer, with massive casualties in human suffering. The President
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  Speaker 1: wants the war to end. Now. There is also a
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  Speaker 1: big fake outrage over something else that happened over the weekend,
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  Speaker 1: and that was when Donald Trump said that he believes
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  Speaker 1: that Ukraine is actually partly responsible for the Russian invasion.
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  Speaker 1: The White House, of course, had their press briefing and
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  Speaker 1: this was part of the back and forth on that story.
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  Speaker 6: And the president's post on truth Social yesterday.
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  Speaker 7: Need to know who does he think it's more responsible
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  Speaker 7: for the Russian invasion of Ukraine putin ort Zelensky.
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  Speaker 8: Well, look, his goal, Peter, is to bring this war
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  Speaker 8: to an end period, and there has been ongoing fighting
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  Speaker 8: on both sides. It is World War One style trench warfare.
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  Speaker 8: His frustration with President Zelenski is that you've heard is
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  Speaker 8: multifold one. There needs to be a deep appreciation for
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  Speaker 8: what the American people, what the American taxpayer, what President
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  Speaker 8: Trump did in his first term, and what we've done since.
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  Speaker 8: So some of the rhetoric coming out of Kiev, frankly
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  Speaker 8: and insults to President Trump were unacceptable. Number one. Number two,
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  Speaker 8: our own Secretary of Treasury personally made the trip to
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  Speaker 8: offer the Ukrainians what can only be described as a
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  Speaker 8: historic opportunity. That is for America to co invest with
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  Speaker 8: Ukraine in their minerals, in their resources to truly grow
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  Speaker 8: the pie. So case in point, there's a foundry that
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  Speaker 8: processes aluminum in Ukraine. It's been damaged, it's not at
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  Speaker 8: its current capacity. If that is restored, it would account
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  Speaker 8: for America's entire imports of aluminum for an entire year
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  Speaker 8: that one foundry. There are tremendous resources there. Not only
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  Speaker 8: is that long term security for Ukraine. Not only do
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  Speaker 8: we help them grow the pie with investments, but you know,
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  Speaker 8: we do have an obligation to the American taxpayer and
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  Speaker 8: helping them recoup the hundreds of billions that have occurred. So,
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  Speaker 8: you know, rather than enter into some constructive conversations about
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  Speaker 8: what that deal should be going forward, we got a
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  Speaker 8: lot of rhetoric in the media that was incredibly unfortunate.
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  Speaker 8: And I could just tell you, Peter, you know, as
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  Speaker 8: a veteran, as somebody who's been in combat, this war
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  Speaker 8: is horrific, and I think we've lost sight of that,
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  Speaker 8: of the literally thousands of people that are dying a day,
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  Speaker 8: families that are going without the next generation. And I
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  Speaker 8: find it kind of, you know, frankly ridiculous. So many
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  Speaker 8: people in Washington, we're just demanding, pounding the table for
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  Speaker 8: a ceasefire, and Gaza are suddenly aghast that the President
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  Speaker 8: would demand one, and both sides come to the table
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  Speaker 8: when it talks to when it comes to Ukraine, a
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  Speaker 8: war that has been arguably far greater in scope and
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  Speaker 8: scale and far more dangerous in terms of global escalation
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  Speaker 8: to US security.
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  Speaker 1: You listen to that, and you hear the White House
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  Speaker 1: talking they're not taking this bait, and they're saying to
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  Speaker 1: the American people and to the world, we are trying
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: to get a deal done. Other countries are trying to
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: keep this war going. Many in the media are obsessed
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: with keeping this war going. That is not something we're
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: going to do. We're not going to poke the bear.
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: We're not going to sit here and try to make
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: things worse or extend this war. And the majority of Americans,
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: by the way, are in favor of their tax hours
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: not going to continue on this path of war indefinitely.
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  Speaker 1: So I gotta tell you, understanding the context of what's
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: happening here is just so important. Understanding why the President didn't,
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: you know, jump in at the United Nations and Rubio
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: with this, with this, you know, oh, we've got to
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: condemn now and keep things going. Understand the art of
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: the deal here is incredibly important so that we don't
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: get bamboozled into a longer war and more of our money.
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: And by the way, fifty percent of all the money
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: sent to Ukraine, in Zelensky's words, has quote disappeared. Think
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: about that, sor right. I want to give you some
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: news that deals with energy independence and the Keystone XL pipeline.
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: I'm going to play for you something from seven years ago.
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  Speaker 1: This was a report on CNBC again from seven years ago.
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  Speaker 7: Following up on an executive order that the presidents signed
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  Speaker 7: back on January the twenty fourth, setting in motion the
• 20:04
  Speaker 7: process to approve the Keystone Excel pipeline. Today will be
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  Speaker 7: the official go ahead from the White House. We're expecting
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  Speaker 7: a number of executives, including those from Trans Canada, which
• 20:12
  Speaker 7: put out a statement this morning on this. Here's what
• 20:15
  Speaker 7: they have said, and we'll hear from their CEO we
• 20:17
  Speaker 7: expect at the event here at the White House today.
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  Speaker 7: They say this is a significant milestone for Keystone XL project.
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  Speaker 7: We greatly appreciate President Trump's administration for reviewing and approving
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  Speaker 7: this important initiative, and we look forward to working with
• 20:31
  Speaker 7: them as we continue to invest in and strengthen North
• 20:34
  Speaker 7: America's energy infrastructure. Now, take a look at some of
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  Speaker 7: the oil and gas executives who we expect will be
• 20:40
  Speaker 7: in the room with the President for this event today.
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  Speaker 7: It's a long list of folks from Quantum Services, Well Spun,
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  Speaker 7: Global Trade, trans Canada, and others, all of whom are
• 20:50
  Speaker 7: in the oil and gas business. In one way or
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  Speaker 7: the other, all of whom expect to benefit from the
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  Speaker 7: Keystone pipeline. This is simply this White House guy's enacting
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  Speaker 7: a campaign promise. They ran on it, and they're doing
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  Speaker 7: it today.
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  Speaker 1: Carl, Now that was seven years ago. I want to
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  Speaker 1: go back and play that for you, because there are
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  Speaker 1: certain policies that are just good policies that should be
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  Speaker 1: re enacted. A great example is securing the southern border.
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  Speaker 1: Another example is building the wall. Well, building the Keystone
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  Speaker 1: pipeline is another part of this. The President of the
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  Speaker 1: United States of America coming out yesterday and making it
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  Speaker 1: clear that he wants the Keystone Pipeline to be built.
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  Speaker 1: The President said on Monday that the Keystone Exo pipeline,
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  Speaker 1: which was opposed for years by activists fighting against climate change,
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  Speaker 1: it's time to get it done. The pipeline, which was
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: proposed back in eight to bring oil from Kenna's Western
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  Speaker 1: Tar Sans to US refiners, was halted in twenty twenty
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  Speaker 1: one by the owner TC Energy Court. Why well, the President,
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  Speaker 1: Joe Biden at the time revoked a key permit needed
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  Speaker 1: for a US stretch of the project. Quote, our country's
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  Speaker 1: doing really well, and today I was just thinking that
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  Speaker 1: the company building the Keystone XL pipeline that was viciously
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: jettisoned by the incombinant Biden administration should come back to America,
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: Trump said, and get it built now. I know they
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: were treated very badly by Joe Biden, but the Trump
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: administration is very different. Easy approvals, almost an immediate start.
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  Speaker 1: If not them, perhaps another pipeline company. We want the
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: Keystone XL pipeline built. Exclamation point, Trump said on True
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  Speaker 1: Social there's also Kevin O'Leary. You may know him from
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: Shark Tank. He was asked about the idea of reviving
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: the Keystone pipeline and this is what he said for
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  Speaker 1: about energy independence and also the American people on Fox
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  Speaker 1: Business take a listen.
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  Speaker 9: He's been given this mandate. I don't think he has
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  Speaker 9: any choice. I mean, he campaigned on it. He won,
• 23:03
  Speaker 9: as many are calling a landslide, and it was so
• 23:06
  Speaker 9: he's got to do this stuff. They're expecting him, the constituency,
• 23:09
  Speaker 9: the voterform is expecting it. The Keystone pipeline is a
• 23:13
  Speaker 9: very interesting development because that thing was scrapped. But now
• 23:18
  Speaker 9: he's got a movement up in Canada with Premier Smith
• 23:22
  Speaker 9: of Alberta all the way down through the governors in Oklahoma.
• 23:28
  Speaker 9: They're going to bypass Montana on this thing, which was
• 23:30
  Speaker 9: so contentious. I think you'll see that thing revived. I
• 23:33
  Speaker 9: think it's actually going to happen. I think it's going
• 23:34
  Speaker 9: to be great for energy independence. They're not going to
• 23:38
  Speaker 9: call it Keystone Xcel. I can guarantee you that. I
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  Speaker 9: think it'll be something like the Freedom line or the
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  Speaker 9: independence line.
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  Speaker 7: That was a bad name.
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  Speaker 2: They'll fix that.
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  Speaker 9: But I love it when the policy's getting aligned up
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  Speaker 9: in the Canadian energy sector. They got the new Prime minister,
• 23:52
  Speaker 9: probably their full of view loves he's going to lift
• 23:55
  Speaker 9: the ban on pipelines and Smith, Premiere Smith. She's a
• 24:00
  Speaker 9: rock star up there and she's meeting with all the governors.
• 24:03
  Speaker 6: This thing's gonna happen really interesting. So increased domestic energy supply,
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  Speaker 6: maybe take crew to fifty dollars a barrel. That's deflationary
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  Speaker 6: to lower inflation at least US energy, lower all the
• 24:14
  Speaker 6: input costs and utility bills, lower interest rates and mortgage rates.
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  Speaker 1: You listen to what the president has done in the
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: last six weeks. He went after Canada with twenty five
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  Speaker 1: percent tariffs because they were having an open border and
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: not stopping enough of the fentanyl coming across our northern border.
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: He then, in essence, got rid of Trudeau and was
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: able to get him out of hour because of what
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: a socialist he was. And there were people saying, wow,
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: the president's acting reckless when it comes to Canada. No,
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: he was trying to get a better deal for Americans.
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: And notice how fast they're pivoting. We don't have the
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  Speaker 1: twenty five percent tariffs on Canada. We're figuring bring out
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  Speaker 1: a deal, certainly with a trade deficit. And many think
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: that Canada was taking advantage of America. That's now being corrected.
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  Speaker 1: But now the President's like, all right, well, let's move
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  Speaker 1: on to the Keystone Pipeline, which is something that Canada
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: would desperately want based on the pass, something that Kevin
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  Speaker 1: O'Leary there, mister wonderful explained, not only does just lower
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: the price of oil and gas, but it also gives
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: us energy into penance. It also is going to help
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: with inflation, and that's something that the President has been
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: so focused on, which is the American people are hurting.
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: I mean, the American people are really struggling. And this
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: keystone pipeline would have a huge impact to make a
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: lot of the problems that we have disappear. It also
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: is a national security issue, which this was part of
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: the grand debate that was had over this was look,
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: is this not a national security issue? When you have
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  Speaker 1: oil prices and you don't have the oil coming in
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  Speaker 1: from Canada, you're helping Russia, you're helping the Middle East
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  Speaker 1: countries like Iran, and that's not good for our national security.
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  Speaker 1: And so the president here, this isn't just about the
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: issue of costs. And that's good, right for the American people,
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: There's no doubt about it. Okay, Like that is very
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: very good for the American people, and they are hurting
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: and they're suffering, and they need inflation to come down.
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: But what you're also doing is this is a two
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: part thing. It's that and it's the issue of national
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: security and national security when there's not many things you
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: can do that at the same time that can help
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: the economy and help national security by doing something as
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: simplistic as what was just described, like this is really
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: amazing that the President is like, hey, two three weeks ago, Canada,
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: you're on my list and I'm sick and tired of
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: you taking advantage of us. And then all of a sudden,
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: the President's like, all right, now that we're figuring that out,
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: let's go back to building that pipeline that you guys
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: really really wanted and we're excited about that, and let's
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: get it done. And if the first company that was
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: doing it doesn't want to take that risk, well then
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: let's find another company to take that risk. Like this,
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: This is the brilliance of the tariffs negotiations that the
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: President had did day one. Now, remember the left and
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: the media, we're freaking out saying that you know, this
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: is going to hurt Americans and going to crush Americans
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: with these tariffs. Memory, it was Canada and Mexico twenty
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: five percent. We have a ten percent tariff already right now.
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: That is not going to go away anytime soon. On China,
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: but Russia is actually making a lot of money right
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: now because of our lack of energy independence. It has
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: made their oil go up, It's allowed for their war
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: to be financed, it has given them great leverage. Iran
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: has been able to make themselves an incredible amount of
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: money in the middle. That's also a major problem. I
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: think we can all agree with that. We don't want
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: to ran to be flourishing with their oil, and they
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: are flourishing with their oil right now in a way
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: that we need to get the price of oil down
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: and it's an issue of inflation. So you combine these
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: two and the President comes out as like, yeah, let's
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: get a deal done. I think we are going to
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: get a deal done. I think Kevin O'Leary is saying
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: he's got a mandate, and Trump reviving the Keystone Pipeline
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: would be great for energy independence. That translates into national
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: security implications that are positive for the American people, and
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: not just positive, but they're also about the inflation issues.
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: When you can combine all of this this way, like
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: we should all be cheering this on now. The media
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: is not going to do it. We know that the
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: media is not going to tell you all that I
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: just explained to you because they don't want him to
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: have success. But every single one of you we should
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: be in favor of this. Make sure you share this
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: podcast please wherever you are and so social media, and
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  Speaker 1: I'll see you back here tomorrow.