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Honey Pot Operation Targeted Trump in 2016, Elon's Email Heard 'Round the World & Rubio Rips the U.N. · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: You're in no position to dictate what we're going to feel.
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  Speaker 1: You don't have the cards right now. You're gambling with
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  Speaker 1: their lives of millions of people. See, you're gambling with
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  Speaker 1: World War three.
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  Speaker 2: You've done a lot of people. You're listening to the
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  Speaker 2: forty seven Morning Update with Ben Ferguson.
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  Speaker 3: Good Saturday morning to you, Ben Ferguson, with you, and
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  Speaker 3: these are some of the stories that you may have
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  Speaker 3: missed that we talked about this week on the forty
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  Speaker 3: seven Morning Update. First up, the FBI is turning on
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  Speaker 3: the deep state that went after Donald Trump with a
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  Speaker 3: real FBI investigation of what they were doing that may
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  Speaker 3: have been illegal against the President. Also, Elon must send
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  Speaker 3: out an email to government employees saying, Hey, what did
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  Speaker 3: you actually do at work last week? Justify having a job.
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  Speaker 3: And finally, Marco Rubio says enough already ripping the United
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  Speaker 3: Nations and many of the warhawks that they are obsessed
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  Speaker 3: with keeping the war going between Russia and Ukraine. It's
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  Speaker 3: a forty seven Morning Update and it starts right now.
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  Speaker 3: Story number one, The Federal Bureau of Investigations has now
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  Speaker 3: officially told the world that they are investigating a secret
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  Speaker 3: honeypot operation that targeted President Donald Trump's twenty sixteen presidential campaign.
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  Speaker 3: That according to a recent report, the FBI director Cash Battel,
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  Speaker 3: who was recently confirmed and sworn in, and the FBI
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  Speaker 3: Deputy Director Dan Bongino are reportedly looking for two female
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  Speaker 3: agents who took part in an off the book investigation
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  Speaker 3: quote unquote that former FBI Director James Comy launched in
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  Speaker 3: twenty fifteen. This, according to the Washington Times, the agents
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  Speaker 3: who were undercover were called quote honeypot agents, a term
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  Speaker 3: that refers to an undercover operative, usually a woman with
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  Speaker 3: sexual or romantic interests, used to obtain information from a target. Again,
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  Speaker 3: this coming from the Washington Times. Now, this comes after
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  Speaker 3: The Times previously reported in October of twenty twenty four
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  Speaker 3: that the House Judiciary Committee was looking into a whistleblower's
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  Speaker 3: claim that the agency targeted Trump soon after he announced
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  Speaker 3: his presidential campaign and June of twenty sixteen, in what
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  Speaker 3: was described as a phishing expedition to quote find something
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  Speaker 3: in a protected disclosure, the whistleblower, an FBI agent, claimed
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  Speaker 3: that two undercover agents had infiltrated Trump's presidential campaign. Remember
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  Speaker 3: when Donald Trump said his campaign was spied on. Well.
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  Speaker 3: Apparently they were sending in attractive females to try to
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  Speaker 3: get in tell or to set up the president again.
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  Speaker 3: This was during his campaign run to become president in sixteen,
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  Speaker 3: and had been instructed these women to act as quote
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  Speaker 3: honeypots while traveling with Donald gim Trump. According to the outlet,
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  Speaker 3: the agent quote personally knew that mister Komy ordered an
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  Speaker 3: FBI investigation against mister Trump and that mister Comy quote
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  Speaker 3: personally directed it quote unquote. According to the disclosure, the
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  Speaker 3: off the book's investigation did not appear to target a
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  Speaker 3: specific crime either, but was more of what agents would
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  Speaker 3: describe as a phishing expedition to find something find anything
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  Speaker 3: that could be used against Donald Trump. The outlet also
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  Speaker 3: noted that the whistleblower's disclosure claimed that the investigation was
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  Speaker 3: different from Crossfire Hurricane, which targeted Russian quote collusion. We
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  Speaker 3: all know that was obviously a big lie. Bright Bart
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  Speaker 3: News also previously reported that during Trump's first term in office,
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  Speaker 3: he ordered more documents from Operation Crossfire Hurricane to be declassified.
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  Speaker 3: I determined that the materials in that binder should be
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  Speaker 3: declassified to the maximum extent possible. Is what Donald Trump
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  Speaker 3: said in twenty twenty one. Now, there's many that are
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  Speaker 3: going to say this is Donald Trump going after his
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  Speaker 3: quote political enemies. If you look at the facts, it's
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  Speaker 3: very clear that's not the case. In reality, this is
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  Speaker 3: the FBI investigating a secret honeypot operation targeting Donald Trump's
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  Speaker 3: campaign and trying to alter the outcome of an election.
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  Speaker 2: Next story number two.
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  Speaker 3: Imagine being at work and receiving an email from your
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  Speaker 3: boss asking you to state, what did you do last
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  Speaker 3: week in your job? What were the last five things
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  Speaker 3: you did? And knowing that you don't have a very
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  Speaker 3: good answer. Well, for many government employees, that is exactly
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  Speaker 3: the email they received. Elon Musk, leading the Department of
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  Speaker 3: Government Efficiency under Donald Trump send an email to all
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  Speaker 3: US federal employees with a subject line, what did you
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  Speaker 3: do last week? The email, dispatched late Saturday a afternoon,
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  Speaker 3: instructed employees to provide five bullet points summarizing their work
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  Speaker 3: achievements from the previous week by midnight on Monday. Must
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  Speaker 3: warn that failure to respond would be interpreted as a resignation.
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  Speaker 3: This directive has led to quote, confusion and pushback within
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  Speaker 3: various federal agencies. Some departments, including the State Department of
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  Speaker 3: the FBI, have advised their employees to pause or refrain
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  Speaker 3: from responding to the email, citing concerns over confidentiality and
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  Speaker 3: proper chain of command. But the largest group of federal
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  Speaker 3: workers is being told that it is time for them
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  Speaker 3: to tell Elon Musk and those a doge exactly what
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  Speaker 3: they're doing now. Don't worry. Many in the government are
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  Speaker 3: fighting back. The largest federal workers union criticized the move,
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  Speaker 3: labeling it cruel and disrespectful. Must defended the email, stating
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  Speaker 3: it aligance with Donald Trump's directive to adopt a more
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  Speaker 3: aggressive approach in evaluating federal employee productivity. Must suggest it
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  Speaker 3: that the requirement was a basic measure to ensure accountability
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  Speaker 3: and identify potential inefficiencies within the government workforce. The situation
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  Speaker 3: has sparked a broader debate about the treatment of federal employees.
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  Speaker 3: That is what Democrats are fighting back with, saying that
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  Speaker 3: this is a method of harassment instead of performance. They
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  Speaker 3: also are now stating there are quote concerns about legality,
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  Speaker 3: respect and the potential impact on morale and national security.
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  Speaker 3: At the end of the day, it's pretty clear that
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  Speaker 3: Elon Musk isn't going to take debit on any of that,
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  Speaker 3: and the President of the United States of America is
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  Speaker 3: also making it clear that if you're one of these
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  Speaker 3: woke individuals that can't handle a basic email asking you
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  Speaker 3: what did you do at work last week, then maybe
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  Speaker 3: it's time for you to resign and get the hell
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  Speaker 3: out of the government.
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  Speaker 2: And here is story number three.
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  Speaker 3: One of the things that's really important that we are
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  Speaker 3: going to be covering on this show each and every
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  Speaker 3: day is when there is clearly propaganda that is being
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  Speaker 3: used against the Trump administration. This may be one of
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  Speaker 3: the biggest flashpoints so far. In the first six weeks
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  Speaker 3: of his administration, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a
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  Speaker 3: resolution condemning Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Ninety three countries voted
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  Speaker 3: in favor, eighteen against, including the United States and Russia.
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  Speaker 3: Now this immediately turned into propaganda, anti American propaganda, anti
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  Speaker 3: Trump propaganda, saying that Donald Trump is now siding with Russia.
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  Speaker 3: It's easy to buy into that headline if you don't
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  Speaker 3: actually understand the story or why the American government decided
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  Speaker 3: to say no to condemning Russia. At the United Nations.
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  Speaker 3: Marco Rubio, Secretary of State, ripped the United Nations as
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  Speaker 3: antagonistic and warmongerers trying to keep the Ukraine Russia war
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  Speaker 3: continuing on and on forever. I want you to hear
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  Speaker 3: what the Secretary of State said about this vote so
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  Speaker 3: that you understand the real story behind it.
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  Speaker 1: Take a listen of news today, the United States voted
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  Speaker 1: against a europe led resolution at the United Nations to
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  Speaker 1: condemn Russia for the invasion of Ukraine, and then later
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  Speaker 1: a US led resolution passed the Security Council. Talk to
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  Speaker 1: us about what happened there at the.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, well, on the broader resolution, we think the UN
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  Speaker 4: needs to get if it's going to be useful in
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  Speaker 4: the twenty first century. The UN needs to get back
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  Speaker 4: to its charter mission, which is the prevention in the
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  Speaker 4: ending of war in conflict.
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  Speaker 5: And so we felt everyone knows.
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  Speaker 4: You know, you can go back and read the newspaper
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  Speaker 4: articles over the last three years and figure out what
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  Speaker 4: happened in Ukraine. But now, as the President's made very clear,
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  Speaker 4: President Trump wants to end this war. He thinks far
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  Speaker 4: too many people have died and he wants to bring
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  Speaker 4: it to an end. So we didn't feel it was conducive, frankly,
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  Speaker 4: to have something out there at the UN that's antagonistic
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  Speaker 4: against either side. We're trying to get these guys to
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  Speaker 4: the table, and unfortunately Ukraine didn't agree. They wanted to
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  Speaker 4: move forward on theirs. We then went to the Security
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  Speaker 4: Council with our compromise, which I think is a very
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  Speaker 4: fair language, and it basically says war is a terrible thing.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, I'm paraphrasing and I'm being simplistic, but it
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  Speaker 4: says war is a terrible thing.
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  Speaker 5: Way too many people have died.
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  Speaker 4: This war needs to end in a way that's enduring,
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  Speaker 4: an essence echoing President Trump's view of what this conflict
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  Speaker 4: needs to be and reminding the United Nations at the
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  Speaker 4: purpose of the United Nations was the prevention of war
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  Speaker 4: and the ending of conflicts, not making it harder to
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  Speaker 4: end conflicts. So I thought it was good that we
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  Speaker 4: got it done at the Security Council. The Russians didn't
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  Speaker 4: veto it, which is a good sign. I'm not telling
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  Speaker 4: you that that is going to end this conflict, and
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  Speaker 4: I can't wait till at least the Phonic is there,
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  Speaker 4: because it'd be great to have her leadership. But I
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  Speaker 4: certainly think our language is better language, and hopefully further
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  Speaker 4: is the cause of peace.
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  Speaker 1: President Trump today alongside French President Emanuel Macron, said that
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  Speaker 1: he hopes it that this can be resolved in a
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  Speaker 1: matter of weeks, not months. Weeks. What are some of
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  Speaker 1: the major steps that we need to take to get
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  Speaker 1: to that point.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I think the President would want it to end yesterday, right.
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  Speaker 4: He thinks already too many people have died, There's been
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  Speaker 4: too much destruction. By the way, I think everybody should
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  Speaker 4: be very happy that President Trump is a peace president.
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  Speaker 4: We have a president that wants to end wars, not
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  Speaker 4: start new ones. He wants to end human suffering, not
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  Speaker 4: exacerbated or extended. Now that said, it's a conflict, it's
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  Speaker 4: a war, and it's going back and forth. We got
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  Speaker 4: to get them both to the table, starting with the Russians.
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  Speaker 4: So we met with him last week and the basic
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  Speaker 4: question of that meeting was are you interested in ending
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  Speaker 4: this conflict or not?
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  Speaker 5: A lot of people don't know the answer to that.
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  Speaker 4: If you talk to some in Europe, they'll tell you
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  Speaker 4: that Putin is not interested in ending the war. They
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  Speaker 4: said they would be under the right conditions. We didn't
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  Speaker 4: discuss what those conditions were. So the next step now
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  Speaker 4: is to meet with them again at some point, with
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  Speaker 4: the right group of people in the room, and begin
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  Speaker 4: to outline what would it take for Russia to stop
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  Speaker 4: a war. And obviously we got to ask Ukraine the
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  Speaker 4: same question, because you can't stop a war unless both
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  Speaker 4: sides agreed to it. So whether it takes days or
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  Speaker 4: weeks or what have you, we're going to begin that process.
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  Speaker 4: It may not work out, but why would anybody criticize
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  Speaker 4: President Trump for wanting to end a war that's cost
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  Speaker 4: billions of dollars, hundreds of thousands of lives, and tremendous
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  Speaker 4: and ongoing human suffering.
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  Speaker 3: You listen to what Marco Rubio said there, and now
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  Speaker 3: you understand exactly why they decided to not try to
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  Speaker 3: antagonize two countries. You're wanting to get to the table
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  Speaker 3: to end the war. Now, the media is not going
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  Speaker 3: to tell you this part of the story. They're not
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  Speaker 3: going to play for you what I just played from
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  Speaker 3: you for Marco Rubio. And this is exactly why I say,
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  Speaker 3: I hope you take the information that I give you
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  Speaker 3: every day here and you give it to others that
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  Speaker 3: you know, because without all of us telling the story,
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  Speaker 3: the media will continue to lie and win.
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