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BIDEN REFUSES to allow US ENERGY independence! It could be bc Russia can blackmail him over his son Hunter Biden & another missing laptop! · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: We are now seeing what happens when America becomes weak,
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  Speaker 1: specifically on the end issue of energy and dependence. It's
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  Speaker 1: not just that it costs you an insane amount of
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  Speaker 1: money now to fill up your car, but it also
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  Speaker 1: emboldens those that have a significant amount of oil and
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  Speaker 1: gas to export. It makes them more money, It allows
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  Speaker 1: them to have power over people and to hurt them
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  Speaker 1: in their economies. It allows for evil people, whether it's
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  Speaker 1: Vladimir Putin or Iran, to have control also over other countries. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: you heard me right, over other countries. Let me give
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  Speaker 1: you two examples of just how stupid Joe Biden is
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  Speaker 1: and how stupid the Biden administration is for virtually shutting
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  Speaker 1: down all new drilling in America, shutting down the Keystone pipeline,
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  Speaker 1: and also allowing and advocating for that pipeline coming out
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  Speaker 1: of Russia. Now, if you are in another country, and
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  Speaker 1: with a president of Hungary, having an event with him,
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  Speaker 1: button right now. Now. Hungary is obviously a little bit
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  Speaker 1: different than the United States of America. Right there, right
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  Speaker 1: next to Russia. They share a border with Ukraine. And
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  Speaker 1: when you share a border with Ukraine and you share
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  Speaker 1: a border that is so close to other countries that
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  Speaker 1: are under the influence of Russia, a little bit different
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  Speaker 1: strategy when you're standing up to people like Vladimir Putin
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  Speaker 1: and everybody that should understand that, and now they're trying
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  Speaker 1: to figure out what is their next move. Now. I
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  Speaker 1: bring this up because there's two major headlines right now
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  Speaker 1: that show you just how stupid our administration is. Now, remember,
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  Speaker 1: if we maximize our oil production, not only could we
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  Speaker 1: lower the price of gas probably by fifty sixty percent
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  Speaker 1: in America, which would help every American out, but also
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  Speaker 1: it would lower the price for oil and gas and
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  Speaker 1: the availability for other countries who can then maybe stand
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  Speaker 1: up to Vladimir Putin and say, hey, you can screw
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  Speaker 1: with us, but we've got other options on the world market.
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  Speaker 1: How evil is Russia? Right now a Russian owned energy
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  Speaker 1: company has just shut off electricity to Finland. That's right,
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  Speaker 1: Russian energy company are a Nordic last night shut off
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  Speaker 1: electricity supplies to neighboring Finland over what they claim it
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  Speaker 1: had to do because they quoted not received payments from
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  Speaker 1: Finland due to sanctions. Rayo Nordic, a subsidiary of the
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  Speaker 1: subsidiary of the Russian energy company inter Rayo, suspended the
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  Speaker 1: export of electricity, according to an announcement made by Finland's
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  Speaker 1: majority state owned national electricity transmission grid operator finn Grid.
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  Speaker 1: In practice, a notification means that there will be no
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  Speaker 1: Russian electricity in Finland at all for the time being.
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  Speaker 1: Around ten percent of Finland's electricity is imported from Russia,
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  Speaker 1: but Fingrand has claimed that the Finns electricity needs will
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  Speaker 1: still be met even if no electricity is being imported
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  Speaker 1: from Russia at all. This is a big problem. It
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  Speaker 1: is of course spring summer and the amount of consumption
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  Speaker 1: and has decreased from the peak winter consumption where you
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  Speaker 1: need massive amounts of electricity to keep your homes warm.
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  Speaker 1: Finland will not just what will do? Just fine? They say,
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  Speaker 1: Without Russian electricity at least for the summer, but what
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  Speaker 1: happens in the winter. They say replacement electricity comes from
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  Speaker 1: domestic production or imports, mainly from Sweden and the Baltics,
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  Speaker 1: and they are working on that, they say immediately. Rayo
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  Speaker 1: Nordic has claimed that the shutoff is related to missing payments,
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  Speaker 1: saying due to problems and receiving payments for electricity sold
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  Speaker 1: on the market, further, direct or bilateral sales of electricity
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  Speaker 1: imported from Russia will be halted until further notice. Others
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  Speaker 1: have raised questions about the timing of the electricity shut off,
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  Speaker 1: including the CEO of the Energy Industry Association, who said
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  Speaker 1: the move may have been tied to Finland's possible joining
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  Speaker 1: the NATO Alliance, after Finland's president and prime minister announced
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  Speaker 1: they backed the country joining NATO last week, which is
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  Speaker 1: exactly what this is related to, make no mistake about it.
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  Speaker 1: Russia has previously expressed its pleasure about both Finland and
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  Speaker 1: Sweden potentially joining NATO. Russian President Vladimir Putin commented on
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  Speaker 1: the issue Monday, saying, quote, as the enlargement, Russia has
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  Speaker 1: no problem with these states none, and so in this sense,
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  Speaker 1: there is no immediate threat to Russia from an expansion
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  Speaker 1: of NATO to include these countries. Natural gas prices if skyrocketed,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, after Russia said it would no longer
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  Speaker 1: since applies to Europe via pipeline through Poland, citing the
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  Speaker 1: new sanctions as well, and what is the administration doing
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  Speaker 1: to help ease attentions? Are we upping our production? No,
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  Speaker 1: In fact, we're banning more drilling now as prices are skyrocketing.
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  Speaker 1: Putin also went on to add, but the expansion of
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  Speaker 1: military infrastructure into this territory would certainly provoke our response. So,
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  Speaker 1: in other words, if you think NATO's going to save you,
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  Speaker 1: guess what they're not. Our response will be and what
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  Speaker 1: we see of the threats that are created for us
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  Speaker 1: will be appropriate. And the move by Rayo Nordic to
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  Speaker 1: cut off supplies to Finland comes as Russian energy giant
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  Speaker 1: also announced gas Prom that it would no longer be
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  Speaker 1: sending exported gas to Europe through the Yamal pipeline, which
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  Speaker 1: goes through Poland to reach Germany, the largest import of
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  Speaker 1: Russian gas in Europe. Quota ban is in place on
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  Speaker 1: making transactions with and payments to persons under sanctions in
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  Speaker 1: particular for gas Prom. This means a ban on the
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  Speaker 1: use of a gas pipeline owned by the Polish company
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  Speaker 1: to transport Russian gas through Poland, is what the representative
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  Speaker 1: Sergey stated now. Earlier this year, following the sanctions and
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  Speaker 1: acted after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, present Putin announced
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  Speaker 1: that quote unfriendly nations would be forced to pay for
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  Speaker 1: energy and rubles rather than euros or dollars. Guys. Prom
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  Speaker 1: Bank later announced a scheme to allow countries to deposit
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  Speaker 1: euros and dollars and the bank would then convert the
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  Speaker 1: money to rubles and transfer the rubles to a new account,
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  Speaker 1: which will then be used to pay for the energy.
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  Speaker 1: No big deal, will just get workarounds right. Several countries,
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  Speaker 1: such as an Italian energy giant Inny and others, are
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  Speaker 1: rumored to have been preparing late last month to open
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  Speaker 1: accounts in rubles in order to take part in the scheme,
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  Speaker 1: which allegedly allowed firms to avoid breaking sanctions. These major
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  Speaker 1: energy firms in Italy, Germany and elsewhere in Europe are
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  Speaker 1: allegedly preparing to open these accounts because they don't care
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  Speaker 1: about what Vladimir Putin is doing. They just want the energy. Now.
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  Speaker 1: What also is concerning is not only as Russia's ended
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  Speaker 1: the Yamal pipeline gas that it delivers to Europe, but
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  Speaker 1: the prices have soared on this news, and not just
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  Speaker 1: in Berlin. This headline coming out of Berlin from the
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  Speaker 1: Apiece as natural gas prices rose Friday after Russian stayed
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  Speaker 1: on exporter said it would no longer since supplies to
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  Speaker 1: Europe via pipeline in Poland, citing the new sanctions at
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  Speaker 1: Moscow imposed on European energy companies. The move doesn't immediately
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  Speaker 1: block large amounts of natural gas to Europe, but intensifies
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  Speaker 1: fears that the war in Ukraine will lead to wide
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  Speaker 1: ranging cutoffs. They said it would ban the use of
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  Speaker 1: the pipeline gas prom that reaches Germany through Poland. While
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  Speaker 1: that cuts the supply route to Europe, the pipeline's entry
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  Speaker 1: point to Germany has not been used in recent months.
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  Speaker 1: They say they've already cut off gas to Poland for
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  Speaker 1: refusing to meet Moscow's demand to make payments and rubles,
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  Speaker 1: which now they're quote working on. What does this mean
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  Speaker 1: for you in America? You're paying more for gas right
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  Speaker 1: now than you've ever paid in your life. Gas is
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  Speaker 1: up an astronomical forty six point nine percent since last year,
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  Speaker 1: but that's not the only thing going up. Listen to
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  Speaker 1: their report from this morning, Michael, I suppose they could
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  Speaker 1: be worse, but they're certainly not good. At this Manhattan
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  Speaker 1: mobile six dollars and nineteen cents for a gallon of regular.
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  Speaker 1: That's the same as it was yesterday, and nationally this morning,
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  Speaker 1: the average has ended up just one and a half cents.
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  Speaker 1: It's four dollars and forty one cents on average across
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  Speaker 1: the country right now, which is maybe a slight increase,
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  Speaker 1: it's still a record high. And looking at this big picture,
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  Speaker 1: gas prices have climbed an astronomical forty six point nine
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  Speaker 1: percent since the pandemic prices last year. Now, this new
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  Speaker 1: government inflation report showed in general prices are up eight
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  Speaker 1: point three percent compared to a year ago. That is
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  Speaker 1: a slight slowdown from last month when prices were up
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  Speaker 1: eight point five percent. This was the first inflation decline
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  Speaker 1: actually that we've seen in eight months. But this is
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  Speaker 1: still near a forty year high we're talking about, and
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  Speaker 1: it was less of a decrease than experts expected. Now,
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  Speaker 1: the biggest contributors are in areas that are impacting a
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  Speaker 1: whole lot of us. We're talking about shelter and rent prices, food,
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  Speaker 1: airline fares, and new vehicles to Groceries specifically are up
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  Speaker 1: ten point eight percent in the past year. Everyone's noticing
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  Speaker 1: that eggs are up nearly twenty three percent, chickens up
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  Speaker 1: more than sixteen percent, milk is up nearly fifteen percent.
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  Speaker 1: I love how they're actually having to admit what's happening
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  Speaker 1: with inflation in this country. Bide inflation. Eggs up twenty
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  Speaker 1: two point six percent, chicken up sixteen point four percent,
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  Speaker 1: milk up fourteen point seven percent, groceries in general up
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  Speaker 1: eleven percent in the past year, and gas prices are
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  Speaker 1: up in astronomical forty six point nine percent. So what
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  Speaker 1: are we doing? This administration has been banning oil and
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  Speaker 1: gas drilling and not giving out new leases, and now
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  Speaker 1: this report does signal we may have now hit the
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  Speaker 1: peak of inflation. But there's still I love that now
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  Speaker 1: says there is a chance that we may have hit
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  Speaker 1: our peak, right, may have hit our peak with inflation,
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  Speaker 1: So get excited like we may have hit the top.
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  Speaker 1: There's no indication, by the way, that we've actually hit
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  Speaker 1: the top, all right now, Nancy Pelosi came out yesterday
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  Speaker 1: and said, the real problem is price gouging needs to
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  Speaker 1: be stopped in order to lower gas prices. There is
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  Speaker 1: not a single accusation being made anywhere that there's price gouging.
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  Speaker 1: But this is when you lie so you don't have
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  Speaker 1: to take responsibility for what you have done. You make
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  Speaker 1: up something that's not happening. You tell people this is
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  Speaker 1: price gouging. The government's here to fix your problem, when
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  Speaker 1: the government actually has created this problem and continues to
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  Speaker 1: support this problem each and every day because of your
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  Speaker 1: policies this year alone, again and again, we see gas
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  Speaker 1: prices rise. Sometimes when the cost of oil a ghost
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  Speaker 1: debt drops, oil prices drop, and price gauging needs to
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  Speaker 1: be stopped. This is a major exploitation of the consumer
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  Speaker 1: because this is a product the consumer must have. Again,
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  Speaker 1: the putin tax hike at the pump is a part
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  Speaker 1: of this, and you would think that the oil companies
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  Speaker 1: would compensate for that rather than exploit the opportunity. So
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  Speaker 1: she's obviously making that crap up as she goes. It's
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  Speaker 1: a putin tax cut, I mean tax hike at the pump, right,
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  Speaker 1: gouging needs to be stopped in order to lower gas prices. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: where is the gouging happening now? Joe Biden came out
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  Speaker 1: and he also said the same thing. He said exactly
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  Speaker 1: what Polus he said. So this is obviously their plan, right.
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  Speaker 1: We need to tax the wealthy and stop price gouging
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  Speaker 1: in order to fight inflation. As I said when I
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  Speaker 1: came to what Congress and the President can do to
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  Speaker 1: fight inflation, Americans have two potential to pass forward. The
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  Speaker 1: first is My plan and Democratic Plan plan put forward
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  Speaker 1: by Congression Republicans as a second alternative, Here's how each
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  Speaker 1: of us would take tackle inflation. My plan is the
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  Speaker 1: lower employer and lower every day it costs for every
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  Speaker 1: day costs for hard work in Americans, and lower the
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  Speaker 1: deficit by asking large corporations and the wealthiest Americans to
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  Speaker 1: not engage in price cougy and to pay their fair
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  Speaker 1: share in taxes. The Republican plan is to increase taxes
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  Speaker 1: on the middle class, families, led billionaires, and large companies
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  Speaker 1: off the hook. By the way, that's a lie. He
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  Speaker 1: just lied there. You'd think the fact checkers would run
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  Speaker 1: out or the media right and say, well, that's not true.
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  Speaker 1: The Republicans haven't proposed any of that. Why are you
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  Speaker 1: saying it now. We'll let it go because let's lie
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  Speaker 1: the American people as they raise raise prices and reprofits
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  Speaker 1: and record number, record amounts. I'm just glad. It can
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  Speaker 1: barely get through this interview, right, I mean this teleprompter
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  Speaker 1: that he's talking from right now. He can't even get
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  Speaker 1: the words right with a teleprompter. And it's really that simple.
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  Speaker 1: But let me explain why this choice is so important.
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  Speaker 1: It's truly, that's simple, folks. We need to tax the
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  Speaker 1: wealthy and stop price gouging in order to fight inflation.
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  Speaker 1: This is all someone else's fault. This is not my policies.
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  Speaker 1: It has nothing to do with what I've done. This
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  Speaker 1: has nothing to do with what's happening around the world
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  Speaker 1: and the fact that we have limited our supply of
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  Speaker 1: oil and gas that we can admit manufacture here to
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  Speaker 1: become energy independent. You have to understand Democrats are cheering
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: these high prices right now, and the reason why they
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: are cheering these high prices is because they believe this
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  Speaker 1: will force you into submission to go out there and
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  Speaker 1: to grab a hybrid. This will force you to carpool.
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: This will force you to get on a bus, right,
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  Speaker 1: to take public transportation, to take trains, to take monorails
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  Speaker 1: or whatever is available around the country where people are.
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  Speaker 1: This is about forcing them, that's all this is. We
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  Speaker 1: want to force you into submission. We want to force
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  Speaker 1: you to have to make a decision. We want to
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  Speaker 1: force you to do what we tell you you must do.
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  Speaker 1: That's why we're saying all of this, all of these lies.
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  Speaker 1: So who's getting rich off this? There's one person, and
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: we all know it's very clear. Those in the Middle
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  Speaker 1: East and even Vladimir putin record profits coming in from
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  Speaker 1: oil and gas, and they are very clear about what
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: their intent is. Their intent is to make it where
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  Speaker 1: you can't survive because when you are weak, our government
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  Speaker 1: is strong. Liberals become strong when you are independent, they
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  Speaker 1: become weak. When you can't pay for your bills, they
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  Speaker 1: become strong. There's another aspect of what's happening with all
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  Speaker 1: in gas. Not only does this administration want you to
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  Speaker 1: be weak, and that means they have more power over you.
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  Speaker 1: The poorer you are, the more power the Biden administration
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  Speaker 1: has to influence your life and to dictate your life.
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  Speaker 1: That's what their goal is. But there's another byproduct to this,
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  Speaker 1: and that's the issue of national security. There's a big
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  Speaker 1: issue when America refuses to be energy independent. It's a
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  Speaker 1: national security issue. Perfect example is what we are witnessing
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  Speaker 1: right now with the fighting happening over in countries just
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  Speaker 1: like Hungry. This new headline perfectly encompasses all the problems
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: that the Biden administration, the problems I have with the
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: Biden administration's energy policy, because not only are we hurting
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  Speaker 1: Americans right now with the highest gas prices we've ever seen,
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  Speaker 1: but you're also allowing countries like Russia to have an
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  Speaker 1: incredible amount of influence and make money while they're terrorizing
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  Speaker 1: people in Ukraine. In fact, the European Union's High Representative
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  Speaker 1: for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy said there is no
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  Speaker 1: guarantee that the twenty seven nation block will be able
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  Speaker 1: to finalize a new set of sanctions against Russia, the
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  Speaker 1: small group of countries actually led by Hungry opposing a
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  Speaker 1: full oil embargo. The European Commission proposed a sixth package
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  Speaker 1: of sanctions on Russia related to its invasion of Ukraine
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  Speaker 1: on May the fourth, including a ban on Russian oil imports,
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  Speaker 1: but not natural gas imports, on which some blocks most
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  Speaker 1: influential members, particularly Germany, are heavily reliant on. Hungary is
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  Speaker 1: one of a number of landlocked countries that are highly
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  Speaker 1: dependent on Russian oil, along with the Czech Republican Slovakia,
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  Speaker 1: with Bulgaria across the Black Sea from Russia, Russian annex
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  Speaker 1: Crimea and Ukraine. They're going after right now. They also
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  Speaker 1: have restrictions about the move, of course they're going to.
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  Speaker 1: In an interview with Hungary's radio on May to six,
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  Speaker 1: a transcript of which has been seen by bright Bart London,
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  Speaker 1: the Hungarian Prime Minister, who I will actually be meeting
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  Speaker 1: with tonight, Victor Orban, complain that the European Commission, an
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  Speaker 1: unelected body which serves as the EU's executive and the
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  Speaker 1: primary initiator of EU level legislation, has announced its oil
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  Speaker 1: embargo scheme without having consulted anyone at prime minister level,
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  Speaker 1: seeking to impose a single rule on everyone without taking
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  Speaker 1: account of nation's interests. He said. With respect to set interest,
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  Speaker 1: the Prime Minister Orban said a Russian oil embargo would
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  Speaker 1: be tantem to dropping a nuclear bomb on the Hungarian economy,
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  Speaker 1: drastically increasing the cost of petrol and diesel and causing
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  Speaker 1: some industrial production plans to go bankrupt and close down,
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  Speaker 1: causing high unemployment. EU High representatives said the block central
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  Speaker 1: technocrats would quote do our best in order to block
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  Speaker 1: the situation, but warned quote, we cannot ensure that it
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  Speaker 1: is going to happen because positions are quite strong. Ahead
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  Speaker 1: of a meeting between the EU foreign Ministers and the chair,
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  Speaker 1: Roll observed that some member states face more difficulties because
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  Speaker 1: they are so dependent and they are landlocked, and that
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  Speaker 1: they only have oil through pipelines coming from Russia. Lithuania's
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  Speaker 1: foreign minister complain the whole European Union is being held
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  Speaker 1: hostage by one member state, namely Hungry, and the countries
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  Speaker 1: like the Orban led state were offered a phase out
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  Speaker 1: of Russian oil until December thirty Verse twenty twenty four,
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  Speaker 1: and then everybody expected that this would be enough. Orban
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  Speaker 1: addresses the supposed concession at length during his radio interview,
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  Speaker 1: saying it would require at least five years and trillions
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  Speaker 1: of their currency Hungary's national currency to adapt its refineries
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  Speaker 1: to non Russian product and transform its pipeline infrastructure, along
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  Speaker 1: with increasing nuclear and solar capacity. Orban expressed doubt over
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  Speaker 1: whether the European Union, which is trying to squeeze Hungry
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  Speaker 1: financially over long standing to disputes related to its refusal
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  Speaker 1: to accept compulsory migrant redistribution quotas and suppose rule of
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  Speaker 1: law issues, would provide funding for this transition, and noted
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  Speaker 1: that whatever might be promised so far, we only have
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  Speaker 1: this money on paper because it still hasn't been given
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  Speaker 1: to us. The EU wanted to sanction Hungry over Victor
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  Speaker 1: Orban's election landslide. I'll have more on that coming up
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  Speaker 1: in a moment. But if you look at this story
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  Speaker 1: and you see you can understand why these landlocked countries
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  Speaker 1: would be acting this way, you can understand why they
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  Speaker 1: be so concerned over these sanctions on Russia that it
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  Speaker 1: would then decimate their economy. There's also another part of this,
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  Speaker 1: and this is a sure part of the conversation I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to be having when I speak in Budapest. It's
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  Speaker 1: what do you do when the rest of the world
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  Speaker 1: is not acting to help you. Look at Ukraine. Ukraine
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  Speaker 1: was promised never forget this, that they gave up their
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  Speaker 1: nuclear weapons, that they would be protected by Europe, European
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  Speaker 1: countries and everyone around them. How did that work out
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  Speaker 1: for them? They were told that they just give up
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  Speaker 1: their nuclear weapons, that the rest of the world would
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  Speaker 1: protect them from Russia. That didn't happen. You have to
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  Speaker 1: ask yourself this question, would Ukraine be invaded right now
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  Speaker 1: by Russia if they actually had those nuclear weapons? The answer,
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  Speaker 1: I think it's pretty clear no. So if you're hungry
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  Speaker 1: right now, and it's easy to throw stones at them.
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  Speaker 1: And this is part of the reason why I'm so
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  Speaker 1: excited about speaking and spending time with the present orban
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  Speaker 1: in Budapest is because they are in a very different
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  Speaker 1: situation than we are in America. It's easy for Joe
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  Speaker 1: Biden to say, oh, We're going to help you, but
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  Speaker 1: the reality is, can you trust Joe Biden? If I
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  Speaker 1: was a leader in Europe right now, if I was
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  Speaker 1: a leader of any country close to or next door to,
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  Speaker 1: or dependent on Russia, I'm not going to trust the EU,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not going to trust NATO, and I'm certainly not
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  Speaker 1: going to trust the UN. And for that matter, I
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  Speaker 1: would not trust the United States of America because while
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  Speaker 1: Americas should be stepping up all and gas production to
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  Speaker 1: take away the leverage and the power of Vladimir Putin,
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  Speaker 1: we're doing the exact opposite. Look at what Biden is
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  Speaker 1: doing to us in this country. Look at what he's doing.
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  Speaker 1: Why would you trust him on any of this. It's
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  Speaker 1: a very different situation for these countries right now that
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  Speaker 1: are trying to stand up trying to protect their own
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  Speaker 1: national interests. Because President of the United States America isn't
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: even protecting you and I's interests are basic families. He's
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: trying to force us into submission on his new green alternatives.
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: I want to switch gears to something else. Starbucks has
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: now joined Microsoft, Amazon, Tesla, Goldman, Sachs, and others who
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: will now cover the costs for abortions if Roe v.
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: Wade is in fact overturn. Amazon is reimbursing employees up
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: to four thousand dollars each year for covering travel for
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: medical treatments and employees can't receive within one hundred miles
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: of home aka abortions. Coffee giant Starbucks has now joined
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  Speaker 1: the list of companies who are covering the travel expenses
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  Speaker 1: for employees seeking out of state abortions. Employees enrolled in
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: the company's healthcare insurance and will be reimbursed for eligible
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: travel expenses when accessing abortions or gender affirming procedures if
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: the services are beyond one hundred miles of their home.
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  Speaker 1: Sally Kelly these Starbuck, ex acting executive vice president Partner Resources,
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  Speaker 1: said in a letter to all employees on Monday. This
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  Speaker 1: will also apply to an employee's dependents who are also
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: enrolled in the company's healthcare quote. Regardless of what the
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  Speaker 1: Supreme Court ends up deciding, we will always ensure our
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: partners have access to quality healthcare, she said, and when
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: actions impact your access to healthcare, we will work on
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  Speaker 1: a way to make sure you feel supported quote unquote.
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: After the draft opinion suggested Supreme Court would abolish a
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: nationwide right to an abortion was leaked earlier this month,
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: a handful of companies started issuing policies to help workers
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: who could face healthcare restrictions in their state. To date,
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: twenty six states are or likely to ban abortion if
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: the Supreme Court overturns in nineteen seventy three Roe Vueway decision,
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  Speaker 1: according to pro pro choice research groups. Last week, Microsoft
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: Corps in a statement to Foxman said, we will continue
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  Speaker 1: to do everything we can under the law to protect
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  Speaker 1: our employees rights and support employees and their enrolled dependence
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  Speaker 1: and access in critical healthcare, regardless of where they live.
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  Speaker 1: This already includes services like abortion and gender affirming care.
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  Speaker 1: According to Microsoft, this support is being extended to include
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  Speaker 1: travel expenses an assistance for these and other medical services
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  Speaker 1: where access SCARE is limited and availability and an employee's
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  Speaker 1: home geographic region, Microsoft said in their statement. Microsoft also
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: went on to say that is extending its support to
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: include travel ex assistance for these and other medical services
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: because it's important for our employees. Airbnb, by the way,
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  Speaker 1: told Fox Business of its healthcare coverage supports reproductive rights
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  Speaker 1: and will work to make sure our employees have the
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  Speaker 1: resources they need to make choices about their reproductive rights.
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  Speaker 1: We are committed to this test. Will also announced that
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: the company has expanded its safety net program and healthcare
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: insurances offerings last year to include travel and lodging support
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: for those who may need to seek healthcare services that
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: are unavailable in their home states and a regulatory filing.
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: City Group also announced that it will provide travel benefits
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: to facilitate access to adequate resources, meaning abortion. Due to
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: changes in reproductive healthcare laws in certain states in the US,
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: Yelp they announced an extension of their healthcare insurance coverage
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: support consistent access to care across its workforce. The health
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: and Health insurance already covers abortion care, but now the
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: company also provides travel benefits for US employees and their
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: dependents who may need out of state healthcare services. Amazon
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: has come out reimbursing employees up to four grand each
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: year to cover travel for medical treatments, so you can
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: have an abortion a year that employees can't receive within
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: one hundred miles of home. According to the Wall Street Journal,
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: So again the companies you need to know about that
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: are doing this, Microsoft, Tesla, City Group, Apple, Yelp, Amazon, Levi, Strauss.
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: Bloomberg also is reporting, citing sources familiar with the matter,
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: that Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan Chase are considering extending
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: abortion travel benefits as well. So Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Chase,
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: They're on the fence. Are companies that are paying travel
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: costs for abortions, according to this new report, Amazon, Airbnb, Apple, Citygroup, Levi, Microsoft, Starbucks, Tesla, Yelp,
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: and the list I have a feeling will continue to grow. Now.
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: The reason why I'm giving you this list is because
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: I do think it's important that you know that when
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: you are supporting these companies, this is exactly what you
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: are supporting. You are giving them your dollars and they
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: are giving them to their employees up to four grand
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: a year to have an abortion. This is when you
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: need to be looking at your bills, and you need
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: to be looking at where your money is going, and
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: you need to take a hard look at them and
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: decide is this the best thing for us. I know
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: there's some people that say, well, Ben, how do I
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: survive without some of these companies? Right, It's a decision
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  Speaker 1: you're going to have to make. How do I survive
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: without Starbucks or Amazon or Microsoft or Tesla? Those are
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: decisions you have to make. I will continue to form
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  Speaker 1: you though, of what your dollars are being used for
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: when you support these companies and corporations. I've changed banks,
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: by the way. The reason why is because one of
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: the banks I was with was antisecond Amendment start shutting
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: down companies that dealt with guns, firearms, and accessories. I
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: changed banks for that reason because they were not aligned
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: with my interests anymore. All right, Lastly, please make sure
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