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- 0:24Speaker 1: computer repairman, the guy who alerted the FBI to Hunter
- 0:27Speaker 1: Biden's laptop is now facing bankruptcy, we are being told
- 0:33Speaker 1: the computer repairman at the center of the Hunter Biden
- 0:35Speaker 1: latop Saga is ready to tell his side of the story.
- 0:39Speaker 1: In a new interview with The New York Post, John
- 0:43Speaker 1: Paul mack Isaac, who in twenty twenty alerted the FBI
- 0:48Speaker 1: of incriminating emails, text messages, photos and financial documents on
- 0:52Speaker 1: Biden's infamous laptop before turning it over to Rudy Giliani
- 0:56Speaker 1: because our government can't be trusted with this information, revealed
- 1:00Speaker 1: that he's since lost his store and now faces bankruptcy.
- 1:05Speaker 1: He said, quote, I was getting a lot of death threats.
- 1:08Speaker 1: I had to have a Wilmington trooper parked in front
- 1:12Speaker 1: of my shop at all times. Mac Isaac continued. There
- 1:16Speaker 1: were multiple situations where people came in and you could
- 1:19Speaker 1: tell they were not there to have a computer fixed.
- 1:22Speaker 1: And if there were not other people in the shop,
- 1:24Speaker 1: I don't know what would have happened. I was having vegetables, eggs,
- 1:29Speaker 1: dog poop thrown at the shop every morning. The former
- 1:34Speaker 1: owner of the Mac shop in Wilmington, Delaware, says that
- 1:37Speaker 1: he's endured harassment also from the IRS and harassment from
- 1:41Speaker 1: other government agencies, citing the difficulties he's faced while attempting
- 1:46Speaker 1: to file for unemployment. Even last December, I would open
- 1:49Speaker 1: up a case, wouldn't hear anything, then open another case,
- 1:53Speaker 1: then open another case, and then I was told to
- 1:55Speaker 1: stop opening up cases, and they would keep closing these cases,
- 1:59Speaker 1: he said. As a result, mac Isaac faces bankruptcy, adding
- 2:03Speaker 1: that since closing his shop, he's been forced to work
- 2:06Speaker 1: several odd jobs. Bankruptcy looks like my option, he said.
- 2:09Speaker 1: A buddy of mine doesn't does estate cleanouts, manual labor.
- 2:14Speaker 1: I helped to neighbor redo their porch. I'm trying to
- 2:16Speaker 1: do more with woodworking. Despite his hardships, mac Isaac has
- 2:20Speaker 1: no regrets on ending up at the center of such
- 2:22Speaker 1: a controversial story, saying, if I had the choice to
- 2:25Speaker 1: do it again, I would absolutely do it again. I
- 2:28Speaker 1: was raised since n eleven to believe if you see something,
- 2:31Speaker 1: you say something. Now, reality of what is happening to
- 2:38Speaker 1: this man sucks. Hunter Biden's laptop repairman has been harassed,
- 2:42Speaker 1: which is exactly what I would expect from the Left.
- 2:45Speaker 1: He is, as I said, nearly bankrupt. He's set down
- 2:49Speaker 1: for this interview. As I mentioned with The New York Post.
- 2:53Speaker 1: Here is part of what he had to say in
- 2:55Speaker 1: his story to the Post and his own words, the
- 2:58Speaker 1: first time he's ever been really done a sit down
- 3:01Speaker 1: interview like this. My name is John Paul mac Isaac.
- 3:05Speaker 1: And when I'm asked if there's anything that I would
- 3:07Speaker 1: have handled differently about the Hunter Biden laptop, knowing now
- 3:11Speaker 1: how much I've gained to lose, I would have not
- 3:15Speaker 1: cared nearly as much about my personal safety, and I
- 3:18Speaker 1: would have tried to bring things to people's attention a
- 3:20Speaker 1: lot sooner and a lot louder in my community. Initially,
- 3:24Speaker 1: I was being labeled a stooge for the Russians. Lately,
- 3:30Speaker 1: since the invasion of Ukraine. I've been getting that label renewed,
- 3:35Speaker 1: you know, a fascist Russian stooge and putin thanks me
- 3:38Speaker 1: for my service. And that's by people that I know
- 3:41Speaker 1: and people I used to call friends. I think it's
- 3:45Speaker 1: very odd that, after all everything had gone down, that
- 3:51Speaker 1: I should get a fifty seven dollars bill from the IRS.
- 3:55Speaker 1: I brought it to the attention of an accountant friend
- 3:57Speaker 1: of mine, and he informed me that the IRS never
- 4:00Speaker 1: who's back that far unless they're looking for something, and
- 4:02Speaker 1: that he suspects that this was a way of them
- 4:05Speaker 1: letting me know that I was under a magnifying glass,
- 4:09Speaker 1: under a magnifying glass, a fifty seven dollar bill. If
- 4:15Speaker 1: that's not a shot across the bow from the federal
- 4:17Speaker 1: government that hey, we'll ruin your life because of what
- 4:19Speaker 1: you did. I don't know what is this Delaware computer
- 4:25Speaker 1: repair shop owner. All he did was alert the FBI
- 4:28Speaker 1: to that laptop, and when the FBI didn't want to
- 4:32Speaker 1: deal with it, he gave it to Rudy Giuliani. Now
- 4:36Speaker 1: the guys lost his career getting death threats. I had
- 4:41Speaker 1: to have a Willington, Wilmington trooper parked in front of
- 4:43Speaker 1: my shop at all times, all because he gave up
- 4:46Speaker 1: this laptop. And then you go back and you all
- 4:50Speaker 1: of a sudden, this guy, he's forty five years old,
- 4:53Speaker 1: saying his life has been completely upended after the laptop
- 4:56Speaker 1: contents became public in a series of reports by The
- 4:58Speaker 1: New York Post in October twenty Now you gotta understand
- 5:03Speaker 1: what this guy saw him, what he had on there.
- 5:05Speaker 1: He saw incriminating information. Troves of international emails that clearly
- 5:11Speaker 1: showed corruption by the Biden family, text messages, photos, financial
- 5:16Speaker 1: documents between Hunter Biden and his family and business associates
- 5:20Speaker 1: all over the world. The file showed a laundry list
- 5:23Speaker 1: of shady business deals around the world, with Hunter Biden
- 5:26Speaker 1: looking to cash in on his family's connections while his
- 5:30Speaker 1: father was the vice president while his father was running
- 5:34Speaker 1: for president. So now this dude has had to shut
- 5:38Speaker 1: down his shop and flee the state. He spent almost
- 5:43Speaker 1: a year hold up with family in Colorado and spent
- 5:46Speaker 1: time in woodworking school. He applied for the unemployment as
- 5:51Speaker 1: I mentioned earlier, he ran into constant complications with quote
- 5:54Speaker 1: government officials. There you go. This dude had a little
- 5:58Speaker 1: store called the Mac Shop. The Mac Shop, and what
- 6:06Speaker 1: did the government due to him. I'd open up a case,
- 6:08Speaker 1: wouldn't hear anything, open up another case, then open another case,
- 6:11Speaker 1: and then I was told to stop opening up cases,
- 6:13Speaker 1: and they would keep closing these cases. The bills piled up,
- 6:16Speaker 1: mac dipped into his four one K, but the checks
- 6:19Speaker 1: never came. In December twenty twenty one, the computer man
- 6:23Speaker 1: sent a pointed letter to Delaware Senor Chris Coons. I
- 6:25Speaker 1: would hate to think that I was singled out in
- 6:28Speaker 1: a politically motivated attack. If a state agency was weaponized
- 6:31Speaker 1: to punish a perceived political enemy, the country has a
- 6:34Speaker 1: right to know, he warned, the Democratic colleague of Joe Biden.
- 6:38Speaker 1: The unemployment cash came swiftly after that, though mac Isaac
- 6:43Speaker 1: insists he still ended up getting short changed by several
- 6:46Speaker 1: thousand dollars, and then he received the threat from the FEDS.
- 6:54Speaker 1: I got an invoice on September six, twenty twenty one,
- 6:57Speaker 1: for a tax return in two thousand than sixteen twenty one,
- 7:04Speaker 1: twenty sixteen. I took it to an accountant friend of mine,
- 7:07Speaker 1: who said they don't go back that far unless they're
- 7:09Speaker 1: looking for something. He paid the fifty seven dollars and
- 7:13Speaker 1: seventy five cents promptly. We have all seen how weaponized
- 7:17Speaker 1: the irs has become over the last decade, so I
- 7:20Speaker 1: wasn't about to pick a fight, he said. I think
- 7:24Speaker 1: all of this looks rather fishy. As he put it,
- 7:26Speaker 1: I have been punished for my actions on so many levels,
- 7:29Speaker 1: boat to hurt me personally and to set an example
- 7:31Speaker 1: for anyone else that might try to blow the wrong whistle.
- 7:35Speaker 1: Things got worse when mac Isaac sued Twitter over their
- 7:38Speaker 1: decision to censor his Hunter Biden revelations in December of
- 7:41Speaker 1: twenty twenty. After the post stories broke, Twitter and Facebook
- 7:44Speaker 1: moved to suppress the information. The suit was dismissed by
- 7:48Speaker 1: afforded judge with prejice. Six months later, he was ordered
- 7:52Speaker 1: to pay the tech giant's legal bills, a figure he
- 7:54Speaker 1: said was roughly one hundred and seventy five thousand dollars.
- 7:58Speaker 1: Bankruptcy looks like my only option, adding that only after
- 8:01Speaker 1: losing his business and now mostly he is just sustaining
- 8:05Speaker 1: himself with odd jobs. Mac Isaac said even after social
- 8:10Speaker 1: media began allowing the Hunter Biden's stories to circulate, that
- 8:13Speaker 1: he remained squashed by various platforms. He accused YouTube of
- 8:19Speaker 1: shadow banning his content by allowing it to remain on
- 8:21Speaker 1: the site but removing it from their normal algorithms, which
- 8:26Speaker 1: culminated in a thirty day suspension in September, which he
- 8:30Speaker 1: successfully appealed, but the damage had already been done. He's
- 8:35Speaker 1: also written a book about his experience with a laptop,
- 8:38Speaker 1: but his struggle to find a publisher willing to partner
- 8:41Speaker 1: with him because what it's about. Despite all of this,
- 8:46Speaker 1: Mac said he has no regrets. If I had the
- 8:51Speaker 1: choice to do it again, I would absolutely do it again.
- 8:53Speaker 1: He said. I was raised since nine to eleven to
- 8:55Speaker 1: believe if you see something, to say something. When you
- 8:59Speaker 1: get a bill from the IRS for fifty bucks from
- 9:02Speaker 1: O six, like come on, really, when you can't even
- 9:06Speaker 1: get your unemployment benefits and you have to write a
- 9:09Speaker 1: US senator and then all of a sudden they start
- 9:11Speaker 1: popping again. Really, which goes back to a bigger part
- 9:16Speaker 1: of this story. Sean Hannity brought this up the other night.
- 9:20Speaker 1: I'm going to play it for you, and he said,
- 9:22Speaker 1: why is Biden making Putin rich with oil? And he
- 9:26Speaker 1: asked a serious question, is this a favor for Hunter Biden?
- 9:31Speaker 1: I am asking every American ally to also boycott all
- 9:35Speaker 1: imports and exports as it relates to Russian energy of
- 9:39Speaker 1: any kind. I'm asking oil producing nations to follow my
- 9:43Speaker 1: lead and produce at record setting levels. The problem is
- 9:47Speaker 1: Joe won't say that tomorrow night. Why won't Joe say it?
- 9:50Speaker 1: Because Team Biden is more concerned about their crazy, insane
- 9:55Speaker 1: climate change, new green deals, socialism, the cult of climate change,
- 10:01Speaker 1: instead of stopping Putin lowering prices that are impacting the
- 10:06Speaker 1: American people, working families very hard. But if Biden and
- 10:09Speaker 1: the far left extremists that they really believe we need
- 10:12Speaker 1: to reduce our dependence on far and oil, then why
- 10:16Speaker 1: did Joey lift sanctions on nord Stream two the second
- 10:19Speaker 1: he got into office? Maybe a favorite for Hunter, I
- 10:23Speaker 1: don't know. And why did he give Putin even more leverage?
- 10:26Speaker 1: Why was he helping Putin and Russia get rich again,
- 10:29Speaker 1: just like Germany and all these Western European countries so
- 10:33Speaker 1: relying on Putin for the lifeblood of their economy. Now,
- 10:37Speaker 1: this is the one sanction that would be the single
- 10:40Speaker 1: most effective, and it's the one they're willing the least
- 10:44Speaker 1: to do. Ask yourself, why here was reaction? I love that.
- 10:48Speaker 1: Ask yourself, why why is Biden making Putin rich with oil?
- 10:54Speaker 1: Is it a favor for Hunter Biden? And what the
- 10:56Speaker 1: OA Garks and Hunter Biden everybody that he was involved
- 11:00Speaker 1: with in Russia may have on him. One thing you
- 11:04Speaker 1: have to understand about Ukraine Russia is what got us here,
- 11:11Speaker 1: and I'm talking about personally. We know that Hunter Biden
- 11:15Speaker 1: was doing business with Russian oligarchs. We know that from
- 11:18Speaker 1: his laptop, we know that from his emails. We know
- 11:21Speaker 1: that some of the people he's involved when the Russia
- 11:23Speaker 1: have gotten in serious trouble internationally with crimes that they
- 11:29Speaker 1: have committed and with investigations into them. We know that
- 11:34Speaker 1: there's direct lines to Videmar Putten. We know that there
- 11:38Speaker 1: is blackmail that Russia has on Hunter Biden, which is
- 11:42Speaker 1: exactly why you just heard Handy bring up that question
- 11:46Speaker 1: right like what do they have on him? And why
- 11:48Speaker 1: is he helping Putin get rich off oil? Right now?
- 11:51Speaker 1: But then there was another aspect of this, and we
- 11:54Speaker 1: really need to understand the quid pro quo that was happening.
- 12:01Speaker 1: You know, Joe Biden was on camera back and I
- 12:05Speaker 1: think it was twenty nineteen now, bragging about his quid
- 12:10Speaker 1: pro crow deal with Ukraine. He was bragging about the
- 12:14Speaker 1: fact that he was able to hold money from Ukraine,
- 12:18Speaker 1: American loans to Ukraine, American support to Ukraine, and he
- 12:22Speaker 1: was able to do it because he was in charge
- 12:25Speaker 1: of Ukraine policy. Now he was sitting there on the
- 12:27Speaker 1: Council Foreign Relations on this panel, and we all know
- 12:30Speaker 1: that the reason why he wanted the prosecutor fired that
- 12:33Speaker 1: he ended up getting fired by holding American dollars from
- 12:37Speaker 1: is because that prosecutor was investigating Barisma. We know that
- 12:41Speaker 1: Burismo is the board that Hunter Biden said on him.
- 12:44Speaker 1: We know that they were paying ungodly amounts of money
- 12:47Speaker 1: to him for no expertise in the old gas business
- 12:50Speaker 1: at all. They were buying access to Hunter Biden, and
- 12:53Speaker 1: they were buying access to Hunter Biden's uncle as well.
- 12:57Speaker 1: The Biden crime family is how I describe it. We
- 13:01Speaker 1: know that this present hated Zelensky from back then because
- 13:05Speaker 1: Zelensky was the one that was quote trying to clean
- 13:08Speaker 1: things up, and that meant that it cut off the
- 13:10Speaker 1: gravy train for his son, which meant money to Joe Biden.
- 13:16Speaker 1: Joe Biden's the big guy in the crime family. Joe
- 13:18Speaker 1: Biden gets a piece of all the action. It's very
- 13:21Speaker 1: clear from the emails from that laptop that he is
- 13:24Speaker 1: the big guy. Without Joe Biden, the entire crime family
- 13:30Speaker 1: universe doesn't exist, right, I mean, Hunter Biden's homeless if
- 13:35Speaker 1: it isn't for Joe Biden's crime family. Hunter Biden's brother
- 13:38Speaker 1: is probably homeless without Joe Biden. But instead they're multi
- 13:43Speaker 1: multime millionaires because they run the crime family. And this
- 13:49Speaker 1: is Joe Biden bragging about getting the prosecutor fired, the
- 13:54Speaker 1: same prosecutor that is looking into his son and the
- 13:57Speaker 1: company's son works for. I was not II, but it
- 14:02Speaker 1: just happened to be. That was the assignment I got.
- 14:04Speaker 1: I got all the good ones, and so I got
- 14:08Speaker 1: Ukraine and Hum. I remember going over convincing our team,
- 14:12Speaker 1: our brothers, to convincing that we should be providing for
- 14:17Speaker 1: loan guarantees. And I went over, I guess the twelfth
- 14:21Speaker 1: thirteenth time, to Kiev and Uh and I was going
- 14:24Speaker 1: supposed to announce that there was another billion dollars loan guarantee.
- 14:28Speaker 1: And I had gotten a commitment from Porschenko and from
- 14:33Speaker 1: Yats and Yoke that they would take action against the
- 14:35Speaker 1: state prosecutor, and they didn't, so they said they had.
- 14:38Speaker 1: They were walking out to the presecut and said, Noah,
- 14:40Speaker 1: I said, I'm not going to We're not going to
- 14:42Speaker 1: give you the billion dollars. They said, you have no authority,
- 14:46Speaker 1: you're not the president. The president said, I said, call them.
- 14:49Speaker 1: I said, I'm telling you're not getting the billion dollars.
- 14:52Speaker 1: I said, you're not getting the billion. I'm gonna be
- 14:54Speaker 1: leaving here. And I think it was about six hours.
- 14:56Speaker 1: I looked at said leaving in six hours. If the
- 14:58Speaker 1: prosecutors not fired, you're not getting the money. Both son,
- 15:01Speaker 1: I'm a bitch, got fired. Got fired. It's a guy
- 15:07Speaker 1: gloating about a phone call. It's a guy gloating about
- 15:12Speaker 1: telling people that if you don't do what I tell
- 15:14Speaker 1: you to do, I'm threatening Ukraine as a country. You
- 15:18Speaker 1: better fire the prosecutor that is looking into my son's
- 15:22Speaker 1: job with Barisma and they're trying to figure out the corruption,
- 15:27Speaker 1: and you better fire him because this can't come back
- 15:30Speaker 1: to haunt me. And then after it happens, he's sitting
- 15:32Speaker 1: there and he's smiling and he's laughing because we've got success.
- 15:37Speaker 1: I got him fired. Now I don't have to worry anymore.
- 15:40Speaker 1: Now I can keep cashing the checks coming in from China,
- 15:43Speaker 1: coming in from Russian oligarchs, or coming in from Ukraine.
- 15:46Speaker 1: We're back in business. You want to talk about an
- 15:49Speaker 1: impeachable offense, there's one for you. I want to switch
- 15:53Speaker 1: gears real quick, because I do think it's important to
- 15:56Speaker 1: give you an update on what's happening right now in Ukraine.
- 16:00Speaker 1: And there are some very interesting stories now that are
- 16:04Speaker 1: coming out that the Battle of Wills is how it's
- 16:09Speaker 1: being described Russia. Some are now predicting could buckle in
- 16:14Speaker 1: ten days, as Ukraine now claims to have killed thirteen thousand,
- 16:20Speaker 1: five hundred troops and destroyed hundreds of tanks and jets.
- 16:25Speaker 1: Vladimir Putin the US SUN is reporting now could only
- 16:27Speaker 1: have ten days to win the war in Ukraine before
- 16:30Speaker 1: his forces buckle. Defense experts are now claiming the Russian
- 16:34Speaker 1: tyrant expected a quick victory when he ordered the invasion
- 16:37Speaker 1: on February the twenty third, but his forces have encountered
- 16:41Speaker 1: fierce resistance, with one hundred and fifty Kremlin troops killed
- 16:44Speaker 1: overnight in one skirmish alone. The invasion has seen Russian
- 16:49Speaker 1: pilots blasted out of the sky, tanks ambushed, and videos
- 16:53Speaker 1: of sobbing soldiers after surrendering to the Ukrainians. Ukraine claims
- 16:59Speaker 1: to have killed around thirteen thousand, five hundred Russian troops
- 17:03Speaker 1: end up destroyed a large amount of equipment. The country's president,
- 17:08Speaker 1: Zealimski It claimed overnight that hundreds of Russian helicopters and
- 17:12Speaker 1: tanks have been destroyed in the fighting. Among the dead
- 17:15Speaker 1: are at least twelve top commanders, including three generals, with
- 17:20Speaker 1: the latest killed a top spy commander. I'm going to
- 17:25Speaker 1: tell you more about that in a moment, they say. Now,
- 17:28Speaker 1: both the senior uk defense source and the former commander
- 17:31Speaker 1: of US forces says the game could soon be up
- 17:35Speaker 1: for Vladimir Putin. Ukraine has Russia on the run. When
- 17:40Speaker 1: source said early this morning to the Daily Mail, it
- 17:43Speaker 1: is running out of manpower and running out of energy.
- 17:47Speaker 1: As long as we keep pressing, they've got ten to
- 17:50Speaker 1: fourteen days before reaching their culminating point where they start
- 17:55Speaker 1: to realize this is not going to work. Now, that's
- 18:00Speaker 1: when the strength of Ukrainian's resistance should become greater than
- 18:04Speaker 1: Russia's attacking force. Now, Russian drones have also been shot
- 18:09Speaker 1: down over the last several hours after flying into Polish
- 18:13Speaker 1: airspace that is a breach of NATO territory. A Russian
- 18:18Speaker 1: drone was shot down in Ukraini today after claims that
- 18:22Speaker 1: it flew into Polish airspace. The drone is claimed to
- 18:25Speaker 1: have first circled over the Ukrainian city before flying over Poland,
- 18:30Speaker 1: where it was in breach of the NATO territory. The
- 18:33Speaker 1: Ukrainian Armed Forces said the drone appeared to be assessing
- 18:37Speaker 1: damage caused by a military base attack over the weekend
- 18:42Speaker 1: from Russia, after missile strikes killed at least thirty five
- 18:45Speaker 1: people there. It was then said to have flown over
- 18:49Speaker 1: Poland before returning to Ukraine air space, where it was
- 18:52Speaker 1: shot down by the country's air defense. A spokesperson for
- 18:55Speaker 1: the Ukrainian Air Force said, as we can see, the
- 18:58Speaker 1: occupiers continue to carry out their provocative actions without any hesitation,
- 19:03Speaker 1: flying into the airspace of NATO member states. Putin's force
- 19:08Speaker 1: launched missile strikes just twelve miles from the Polish border
- 19:12Speaker 1: with Ukraine and the early hours of Sunday morning, which
- 19:16Speaker 1: is for some reason just now being talked about. The
- 19:19Speaker 1: airstrike which blasted a military base, killed at least thirty
- 19:23Speaker 1: five members and injured another one hundred and thirty four
- 19:25Speaker 1: other soldiers. Russian force has fired more than thirty cruise
- 19:31Speaker 1: missiles at the base, prompting authorities to warn Vladimir Putin
- 19:33Speaker 1: could start provoking NATO countries because it was so close
- 19:37Speaker 1: to the border with Poland. Poland, as you know, belongs
- 19:40Speaker 1: to the thirty strong Defensive Military Alliance, which also includes
- 19:44Speaker 1: the UK, US, France and Germany. And Britain's Health secretary
- 19:48Speaker 1: said yesterday they vowed that Britain will go to war
- 19:51Speaker 1: against Russia if Putin attacks a NATO country. Man, I
- 19:55Speaker 1: wish the United States of America would talk like Britain
- 19:59Speaker 1: is right now. It's add that we used to have
- 20:01Speaker 1: such a weak commander in chief, mister Javid said. Quote.
- 20:06Speaker 1: We've been very clear from the start with our NATO
- 20:09Speaker 1: allies that if there is any kind of attack on
- 20:12Speaker 1: NATO territory, then it will be war with NATO referring
- 20:16Speaker 1: to Russia, and there will be a severe response. Even
- 20:20Speaker 1: if just a single toe cap of a Russian soldier
- 20:25Speaker 1: steps into NATO territory, then it will be war with
- 20:30Speaker 1: Russia and NATO would respond that hasn't changed throughout this conflict,
- 20:36Speaker 1: and there would be a significant response from NATO if
- 20:39Speaker 1: there was any kind of attack from Russia. UK said,
- 20:43Speaker 1: our message has been very clear from the start, again
- 20:46Speaker 1: reiterating any kind of attack, anything that touches NATO territory
- 20:50Speaker 1: or impacts NATO in any significant way would garner a
- 20:55Speaker 1: military response. As comments followed a huge bolstering of pointments
- 21:00Speaker 1: to Eastern Europe by NATO allies in recent weeks. Russia
- 21:04Speaker 1: has lost, as I said a moment ago, more than
- 21:06Speaker 1: twelve thousand troops in almost the three weeks of fighting
- 21:08Speaker 1: so far, as well as hundreds of tanks and aircraft.
- 21:11Speaker 1: According to Ukrainian estimates. There's been widespread reports that morale
- 21:16Speaker 1: is incredibly low among the Russian troops. Why because their tanks,
- 21:24Speaker 1: their kids, their cars, their military equipment repeatedly keeps breaking
- 21:28Speaker 1: down because they haven't taken care of it, and the
- 21:31Speaker 1: shortage of fuel and food and fuel is also hindering
- 21:35Speaker 1: them moving forward. Meanwhile, Putin has even resorted to calling
- 21:40Speaker 1: in mercenaries from as far as Syria to bolster his
- 21:44Speaker 1: struggling forces. Moscow is becoming so desperate that it's even
- 21:49Speaker 1: asked China for financial and military equipment help, hoping it
- 21:54Speaker 1: can get there in time. Now, I Russian spy captain,
- 21:58Speaker 1: as I mentioned early, has been killed on top secret
- 22:02Speaker 1: operation Ukraine. As Putin loses another commander, with now twelve
- 22:07Speaker 1: dead so far, and these are significant leaders in his military.
- 22:12Speaker 1: A Russian spy captain killed during a top secret operation Ukraine,
- 22:17Speaker 1: meaning Vladimir Putin has now lost a total of twelve
- 22:20Speaker 1: of his commanders in this invasion. The GRU military intelligence
- 22:24Speaker 1: spy captain died in the carnage, but details of a
- 22:31Speaker 1: death have not been released yet, but we do know
- 22:35Speaker 1: that his family and others are saying that he is dead.
- 22:38Speaker 1: He was also, we got pictures coming out that he
- 22:40Speaker 1: was buried in full military honor and a guard of
- 22:44Speaker 1: honor in Russia. Due to the strict secrecy of the
- 22:48Speaker 1: military operation, the circumstances of the death of the man
- 22:51Speaker 1: as a hero are not going to be disclosed at
- 22:53Speaker 1: a Russian statement. The GRU was behind the poisoning, just
- 22:58Speaker 1: so you know, with its former spy who had defected
- 23:02Speaker 1: a Britain in Germany just a couple of years ago.
- 23:07Speaker 1: Pictures emerged are the father of the man this spy
- 23:12Speaker 1: who was killed at the funeral in Russia, where he
- 23:15Speaker 1: was buried with full military honors and a guard of honor.
- 23:19Speaker 1: On the day the military intelligence officer died, he had
- 23:23Speaker 1: spoken to both his wife and mother in Russia, it
- 23:26Speaker 1: was revealed by state media. He called to congratulate them
- 23:29Speaker 1: on International Women's Day, but on the same day in
- 23:32Speaker 1: the evening, they learned he had been killed. Russia said
- 23:36Speaker 1: his death coincides with the first expressions of anger and
- 23:39Speaker 1: dismay on the number of coffins now returning to Russia,
- 23:42Speaker 1: even though those officially acknowledged as having fallen in Ukraine
- 23:48Speaker 1: are seen as a small fraction of the total number,
- 23:51Speaker 1: but best estimate suggests how many is actually in the thousands.
- 23:58Speaker 1: They also said that Russia is lying about the number
- 24:01Speaker 1: that has died to their own people, and that is
- 24:03Speaker 1: starting to spread because people now have the ability to
- 24:06Speaker 1: communicate via text and other things like that. Moscow has
- 24:11Speaker 1: given no up to date totals of those killed in
- 24:13Speaker 1: the war and named only a handful of the fallen,
- 24:17Speaker 1: which include several generals. Many funerals currently visible in the
- 24:23Speaker 1: media are for soldiers slain at the end of February
- 24:27Speaker 1: Russia has taken two weeks or more to transport their
- 24:30Speaker 1: bodies back to relatives, many of whom live in the
- 24:32Speaker 1: Russian Far East, thousands of miles from the bloody war zone.
- 24:37Speaker 1: A funeral was also held for a corporal, a senior
- 24:41Speaker 1: gunner on an air assault artillery battery. He was awarded
- 24:45Speaker 1: the Order of Courage under a decrease signed by Vladimir Putin.
- 24:49Speaker 1: He was from the capital of the Republic in Serbia,
- 24:53Speaker 1: a mainly Buddhist region which has suffered a disproportionate number
- 24:57Speaker 1: of fatalities among Russian soldiers killed in Rain because they
- 25:01Speaker 1: don't value their life as much in the Russian military.
- 25:05Speaker 1: Ahead of the invasion, tens of thousands of troops were
- 25:07Speaker 1: sent west on the trans Siberian Railway to fight in
- 25:10Speaker 1: the coming war. Another funeral from the same region was
- 25:13Speaker 1: held for another man, at twenty four year old, an
- 25:16Speaker 1: orphan raised by a living foster family. We're now being
- 25:20Speaker 1: told that these family members are speaking out thinking this
- 25:23Speaker 1: is absurd. What is happening. The Russian losses in Ukraine
- 25:28Speaker 1: as we have them now, twelve thousand troops, seventy four planes,
- 25:32Speaker 1: eighty six helicopters, three hundred and seventy four tanks, one
- 25:36Speaker 1: hundred and four artillery, one thousand, two hundred and twenty
- 25:39Speaker 1: six armored vehicles, sixty two mr mlr s's which is
- 25:45Speaker 1: rocket launchers, three boats, more than six hundred cars, sixty
- 25:49Speaker 1: fuel tanks, seventy UAVs and thirty four anti aircraft warfare machines.
- 25:57Speaker 1: This is what is happening with the Russian military now.
- 26:01Speaker 1: All I can say is hold on to the people
- 26:04Speaker 1: in Ukraine. You may actually win this thing if you
- 26:07Speaker 1: can just hold on. We should be doing more by
- 26:11Speaker 1: the way to fight, and we should be doing more
- 26:13Speaker 1: to protect that I can tell you right now. All right. Lastly,
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