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Trump Declares War on Mail-In Ballots, Democrats in Decline & Ukraine War Nears Turning Point · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 3: seven Morning Update. First up, in a major move, President
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  Speaker 3: Trump is now pledging to end mail in ballots and
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  Speaker 3: voting machines ahead of the twenty twenty six midterms through
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  Speaker 3: executive order. Will this hold up? Or is the President
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  Speaker 3: advocating for a fight in the court system to protect
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  Speaker 3: a new study is out saying it is a blood
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  Speaker 3: bath for Democrats losing registration race in all thirty states
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  Speaker 3: that track party affiliation. In fact, four and a half
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  Speaker 3: million voters have disappeared from the Democratic Party. What caused it?
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  Speaker 3: And was it Donald Trump's leadership? And finally, Zelensky in
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  Speaker 3: his own words, are we actually closer to a piece agreement? Well,
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  Speaker 3: I want you to hear what Zelensky hat to say,
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  Speaker 3: and is very different than the last meeting that Zelensky
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  Speaker 3: Morning Update and it starts right now.
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  Speaker 2: Story number one.
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  Speaker 3: You may remember during the campaign, Donald Trump said that
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  Speaker 3: if you elected him, he was going to look into
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  Speaker 3: voter election integrity and he was wanting to get rid
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  Speaker 3: of mail in ballots. Now that has made the left
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  Speaker 3: lose their minds. Why because we have now witnessed even recently,
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  Speaker 3: local elected officials stuffing the ballot box. It happened to
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  Speaker 3: be the mailbox with mail in ballots that obviously were
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  Speaker 3: not from the people that they were setting them in
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  Speaker 3: on their behalf. Well, now Donald Trump has pledged to
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  Speaker 3: end mail in ballots and voting machines ahead of the
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  Speaker 3: twenty twenty six midterms. Making big news with the announcement,
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  Speaker 3: President Trump announcing he intends to sign an executive order
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  Speaker 3: banning the use of mail in ballots and electronic voting
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  Speaker 3: machines in federal elections, set in the stage for a
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  Speaker 3: fierce political and legal battle ahead of the twenty twenty
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  Speaker 3: six midterms. Now, this move, Trump argued, is quote necessary
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  Speaker 3: to restore public confidence in American elections, which he says
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  Speaker 3: have been plagued by fraud, mismanagement, and manipulation since the
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  Speaker 3: rapid expansion of vote by mail and the widespread adoption
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  Speaker 3: of computerized voting systems. Quote, I am going to lead
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  Speaker 3: a movement to get rid of mail in ballots and also,
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  Speaker 3: while we're at it, highly inaccurate, very expensive, and seriously
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  Speaker 3: controversial voting machines, Trump wrote in a true social post. Elections,
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  Speaker 3: By the way, the United States are primarily run by
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  Speaker 3: state governments, not Washington. Legal experts are noting that there
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  Speaker 3: could be a real problem and a fight, obviously, a
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  Speaker 3: fight that Donald Trump has no problem having, and that
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  Speaker 3: fight would be over constitution and who actually has the authority. Yes,
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  Speaker 3: the Constitution gives states the authority to administer elections, with Congress,
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  Speaker 3: not the President, holding limited power to quote regulate them.
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  Speaker 3: One liberal law professor at New York University put it
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  Speaker 3: this way, quote the President has no power constitutionally to
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  Speaker 3: dictate two states the manner in which they conduct national elections. Still,
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  Speaker 3: Donald Trump and says the States Act as agents of
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  Speaker 3: the federal government when conducting elections and therefore must follow
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  Speaker 3: the presidential direction. That claim is clearly a test that
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  Speaker 3: the president's more than happy to happen, and that's exactly
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  Speaker 3: why he's wanting to do the executive order. He obviously
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  Speaker 3: is planning on it going to court.
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  Speaker 1: Now.
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  Speaker 3: Conservative liberals have long raised alarms about electronic voting machines.
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  Speaker 3: Let me say that again. Conservatives and liberals have been
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  Speaker 3: raising alarms about the electronic voting machines, which rely on
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  Speaker 3: proprietary software and digital tabulation of the votes. In fact,
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  Speaker 3: critics on both sides of the aisle have actually argued
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  Speaker 3: the same thing, that these machines, produced by a handful
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  Speaker 3: of private companies, are vulnerable to hacking, miss programming, or
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  Speaker 3: even deliberate tampering. Now, while election officials insist that voting
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  Speaker 3: machines are more accurate than handcounts, skeptics point to high
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  Speaker 3: profile air and passed elections, such as miss reported totals
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  Speaker 3: and technical breakdowns that left voters frustrated wondering if their
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  Speaker 3: votes were even counted. In fact, Democrats have been critical
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  Speaker 3: of electronic voting machines and have at times raised significant
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  Speaker 3: concerns about their reliability and also security. A great example
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  Speaker 3: of this is in Georgia, leading Democrats criticized the state's
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  Speaker 3: decision to use dominion ballot marking devices, arguing they were
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  Speaker 3: vulnerable to tampering and lack the transparency of hand marked
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  Speaker 3: paper ballots. Lawsuits were filed seeking to block their use,
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  Speaker 3: with election security advocates pointing to risks of hacking and
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  Speaker 3: also just basic software flaws. In fact, the twenty twenty
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  Speaker 3: HBO documentary Killed Chain, the cyber War in America's elections
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  Speaker 3: highlighted potential vulnerabilities and computerized voting, featuring interviews with security
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  Speaker 3: experts who warned the machines could be manipulated and most shocking,
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  Speaker 3: leave elections open to interference. Together, democratic lawmakers, advocacy groups,
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  Speaker 3: and investigative media have question whether technology base voting undermines
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  Speaker 3: public trust. Let me say that again, this is democratic
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  Speaker 3: lawmakers that have been doing this. They were also pressing
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  Speaker 3: for greater reliance on paper ballots and robust auditing. So
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  Speaker 3: why now would Democrats be against what they've been advocating for.
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  Speaker 3: It actually comes down to one simple issue. They hate
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  Speaker 3: Donald Trump and they also don't want admit that maybe
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  Speaker 3: Donald Trump is right about a lot of this issue
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  Speaker 3: when it comes to election integrity. As to the President,
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  Speaker 3: he says he wants transparency. He wants hand counted paper ballots,
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  Speaker 3: even if it's slower, to make sure that our elections
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  Speaker 3: are meaningful, that people feel like their ballots are being
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  Speaker 3: casted and not canceled out by a hacker or a computer. Yes,
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  Speaker 3: it may even cost a little bit more money, but
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  Speaker 3: is it worth it to know that your vote counts.
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  Speaker 3: That's exactly what the President's saying, and the legal fight
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  Speaker 3: he's wanting to have. Next story number two, we all
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  Speaker 3: know that Democrats are losing their minds over the redistricting
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  Speaker 3: that just finally became official in Texas. But the real
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  Speaker 3: reason behind the jerrymandering all over the country and democratic
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  Speaker 3: states may become even clearer now because of the data
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  Speaker 3: we're now seeing. There's a new study out that says
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  Speaker 3: that Democrats are losing registration race in all thirty states
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  Speaker 3: attract party affiliation. In fact, four point five million voter
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  Speaker 3: swing now towards the GOP. And that's exactly why you're
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  Speaker 3: seeing Gavin Newsom saying we're gonna jerrymander our entire state.
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  Speaker 3: The Democratic Party is hemorrhaging support with no end in sight,
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  Speaker 3: according to the shocking analysis of new voter registrations. Now
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  Speaker 3: this is all being fueled by President Donald Trump's big
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  Speaker 3: gain among men, younger voters, and Latinos. In twenty twenty four,
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  Speaker 3: more new voter nationwide chose to be Republicans than Democrats
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  Speaker 3: for the first time since twenty eighteen, according to a
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  Speaker 3: report from The New York Times, which relies on voter
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  Speaker 3: registration data compiled by L two, a non Parson data firm.
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  Speaker 3: Perhaps more troubling for Democrats, the data suggests Democratic Party
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  Speaker 3: activists can no longer rely on the party's tried and
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  Speaker 3: true methods to reverse the trend, leaving panic party leaders
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  Speaker 3: and pundits unsure how to well resurrect the party's electoral prospects,
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  Speaker 3: and the numbers are staggering. Quote. Of the thirty states
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  Speaker 3: that track voter registration by political party affiliation, Democrats lost
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  Speaker 3: ground to Republicans in every single state between twenty twenty
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  Speaker 3: and twenty twenty four elections, and often by a lot. Quote.
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  Speaker 3: That four year swing towards the Republicans added up to
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  Speaker 3: four point five million voters a deep political hole that
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  Speaker 3: could take years for Democrats to climb out from, which
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  Speaker 3: goes back to why are Democrats doing what they're doing now? Well,
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  Speaker 3: it's clear when they're this far behind, they need to
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  Speaker 3: change something quickly. That could include counting illegal immigrants right
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  Speaker 3: in these census to help them with the election map.
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  Speaker 3: It could also be giving them amnesty so that they
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  Speaker 3: could vote quickly for them. And then there's the other
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  Speaker 3: problem that Democrats have. Who is actually running the Democratic Party?
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  Speaker 3: What do they stand for? And why are they so
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  Speaker 3: against the American people and putting illegal immigrants ahead. These
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  Speaker 3: are all questions that Joe Biden should have done out with,
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  Speaker 3: the Democratic Party should have dealt with, and what do
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  Speaker 3: they do They alienated Americans? And so the takeaway is this,
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  Speaker 3: we now have the data that clearly Donald Trump was
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  Speaker 3: a messenger that the American people wanted. He talked about
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  Speaker 3: putting Americans first instead of illegal immigrants. He talked about
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  Speaker 3: securing the border instead of having open borders. He talked
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  Speaker 3: about law and order instead of having lawlessness. And that's
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  Speaker 3: exactly why the Democrats right now are in so much
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  Speaker 3: trouble with no end in sight, and even the new
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  Speaker 3: York Times admitting that Donald Trump fundamentally changed the election map,
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  Speaker 3: quite possibly for years to come.
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  Speaker 2: And here is story number three.
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  Speaker 3: Ultimately, the President of the United States of America, Donald Trump,
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  Speaker 3: knows one thing. This piece deal is not going to
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  Speaker 3: be done without Vlatimir Putin agreeing to it and also
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  Speaker 3: Zelensky agreeing to it. So the question is, coming out
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  Speaker 3: of this meeting at the White House, the one on
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  Speaker 3: one with Zelensky and then the meeting with all of
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  Speaker 3: the world leaders, what was Zelensky's mindset? Does he want
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  Speaker 3: peace or does he want this three plus your ward
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  Speaker 3: to continue. I want you to listen to Zelensky in
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  Speaker 3: its own words at the White House. This is at
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  Speaker 3: the very end of the day after the meetings had
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  Speaker 3: taken place, and here is what he said to close
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  Speaker 3: it all out.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you so much.
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  Speaker 4: I can speak without my performed thank you too much.
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  Speaker 4: I think that we had a very good conversation with
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  Speaker 4: President Trump, very good and it really was the best one,
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  Speaker 4: or sorry, maybe the best one will be in the future,
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  Speaker 4: but it was really good and we spoke about very
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  Speaker 4: sensitive points. The first one is security guarantees, and we
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  Speaker 4: are very happy with President that all the leaders are here,
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  Speaker 4: and the security in Ukraine depends on the United States
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  Speaker 4: and on you and on those leaders who are with
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  Speaker 4: us in our hearts. They have been online before yesterday
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  Speaker 4: and etc. So a lot of countries on the side
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  Speaker 4: of Ukraine, our people and all of us want to
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  Speaker 4: finish this world.
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  Speaker 1: Stop so Prussia and stop this war.
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  Speaker 4: We spoke about it and we will speak more about
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  Speaker 4: security guarantees.
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  Speaker 1: This is very important that the.
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  Speaker 4: United States gives such strong signal and is ready for
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  Speaker 4: security guarantee. The second point, or maybe the first humanitarian
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  Speaker 4: direction were important to change all the prisoners, and I
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  Speaker 4: think that President will help. And I was very thankful to.
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  Speaker 1: Your wife again, mister President.
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  Speaker 4: For the letter about our adaptive children.
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  Speaker 1: And I hope.
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  Speaker 4: That really it can be a historic role for the
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  Speaker 4: people to bring kids back to the families and be
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  Speaker 4: happy and get the filmils. This is so so important
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  Speaker 4: and I'm happy that we discussed it this track with
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  Speaker 4: the President Trump, and I hope that we will find decisions.
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  Speaker 4: And then what is very important that all the sensitive
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  Speaker 4: things territorial and etc. We we will discuss on the level
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  Speaker 4: of leaders during trilateral meeting, and President Trump will try
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  Speaker 4: to organize such meeting, and he said that he will
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  Speaker 4: come or not come, Ukraine will be happy. If if you,
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  Speaker 4: if you, if you will be there, will be there. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: thank you, And I think this is very important. Yes,
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  Speaker 4: so security guarantees, bring his back and all our people,
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  Speaker 4: not only warriors first of all warriors and all the civilians, journalists,
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  Speaker 4: a lot of people in prison, so we need them
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  Speaker 4: back and guarantees which will work for the years. We
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  Speaker 4: spoke about it and I showed President a lot of
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  Speaker 4: details on the battlefield on the map. Thank you so much.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you for the map, by the way, that was great.
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  Speaker 4: I'm thinking how to take it back.
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  Speaker 1: Well, we'll get John. No.
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  Speaker 4: I think that we had constructive, specific meeting and I'm
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  Speaker 4: very thankful to all the all the leaders who are here,
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  Speaker 4: and you help a lot, and so we're happy that
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  Speaker 4: we have such a peak unity today. Thank you, mister Pan,
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  Speaker 4: Thank you very much.
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  Speaker 5: I think you'll see that President Putin really would like
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  Speaker 5: to do something else. I think when we set that up,
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  Speaker 5: when we do, I think it's going to be when
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  Speaker 5: not if, I think you're going to see some very
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  Speaker 5: really positive moves.
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  Speaker 3: There's a couple of takeaways from what you just heard
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  Speaker 3: number one the media. They hate the President Trump is
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  Speaker 3: bringing these two countries closer to a piece agreement. They
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  Speaker 3: hate that they cannot continue to lie to you claiming
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  Speaker 3: that Vadimir Putin played Donald Trump. They hate the fact
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  Speaker 3: that Donald Trump is respected by all of these world
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  Speaker 3: leaders who are saying to him, thank you, and we've
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  Speaker 3: never been closer in the last three years. And they
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  Speaker 3: would rather Donald Trump be a f the Democratic Party
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  Speaker 3: and the media, then stop the killing of so many
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  Speaker 3: people in Ukraine and in Russia. Let that sink in.
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  Speaker 3: That is what President Trump is up against, and that's
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  Speaker 3: what many consertives are up against every single day by
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  Speaker 3: the people in our media and the Democratic Party in America.
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