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UKRAINE ADMITS to massive corruption of foreign aid, as Biden says "IT NEVER HAPPENED!" · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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Speaker 1: Hunter Biden and more trouble maybe depends on how you
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Speaker 1: look at this. He has now officially missed the House
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Speaker 1: Oversight Committee's deadline to turnover important documents. So now the
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Speaker 1: Republicans have to decide what they are going to do next.
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Speaker 1: Do you subpoena him and then maybe even hold him
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Speaker 1: in contempt? Take a list into this breaking news Hill.
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Speaker 1: The House Oversight Committee is inching closer this morning to
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Speaker 1: issuing a subpoena to Hunter Biden. Overnight, the president's son
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Speaker 1: missed the panel's deadline to turnover records on his foreign
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Speaker 1: business dealings. Hunter Biden's attorney argues that the the committee is overreaching,
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Speaker 1: saying its scope does not include his client, who is
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Speaker 1: a private person. White House correspondent Alison Harris explains where
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Speaker 1: this could go next. Good morning, Alison, Good morning, Mitch.
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Speaker 1: Subpoenas could be imminent for Hunter Biden, as well as
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Speaker 1: the President's brother, James Biden, and a business associate of theirs.
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Speaker 1: As of this morning, the Biden surpassed the deadline set
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Speaker 1: by the House over Committee to provide records related to
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Speaker 1: their family business dealings overseas in Ukraine and in China.
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Speaker 1: A spokesperson for the committee tells me that Hunter and
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Speaker 1: James Biden's attorneys have sent letters acknowledging the requests, but
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Speaker 1: they have not provided materials themselves. The committee is, however,
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Speaker 1: in contact with an attorney for one of their business associates,
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Speaker 1: Eric Schwerin, and expects him to start producing documents soon. Now,
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Speaker 1: this is just one of a slew of investigations that
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Speaker 1: we've been recovering by this Republican led committee, vowing to
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Speaker 1: bring transparency and accountability about the Biden family's influenced peddling,
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Speaker 1: as they call it. Hunter Biden's attorney has offered to
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Speaker 1: sit down with the committee to determine any legislative purpose
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Speaker 1: for this investigation, making that argument that you mentioned that
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Speaker 1: his client, Hunter Biden, is a private citizen. Now, a
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Speaker 1: representative tells me that the committee has yet to take
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Speaker 1: Hunter Biden's attorney up on his offer to sit down
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Speaker 1: with them. Hunter Biden's attorney has called the committee Wonderland
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Speaker 1: and its leader, Representative James Comer, the Queen of Hearts
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Speaker 1: for commerce quote inaccurate and baseless conclusions, Mitch so Allison,
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Speaker 1: how likely were actually to see Hunter Biden and the
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Speaker 1: President's brother James Biden given subpoenas in this congressional investigation.
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Speaker 1: Subpoenas are going to be a last resort, according to
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Speaker 1: at least one member of the committee, Representative Pat Fallon,
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Speaker 1: a Texas Republican on the committee, telling News Nation that
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Speaker 1: the committee is only going to issue them if warranted,
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Speaker 1: adding that if all parties involved refuse to cooperate, then
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Speaker 1: all tools, including those subpoenas, are on the table. Let
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Speaker 1: me just be clear here. They are going to get subpoenaed.
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Speaker 1: Hunter Biden's going to get subpoenaed. So is James Biden,
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Speaker 1: the brother of the President of the United States of America.
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Speaker 1: They're going to get subpoena because it's very clear that
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Speaker 1: they believe they are above the law. They believe they're
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Speaker 1: above Congress. They believe that they're going to be protected
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Speaker 1: by the President and they're going to be protected by
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Speaker 1: the Deep State. And that is exactly why they chose
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Speaker 1: deliberately to miss the panel's deadline to turn over these
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Speaker 1: records on foreign business dealings. Now, the committee first made
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Speaker 1: the requests on February of the ninth. The chairman or
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Speaker 1: the House Oversight Committee, James Comer, He's been very clear
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Speaker 1: lately accusing the Bidens of not only influence pedaling, but
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Speaker 1: also possibly being compromised by foreign governments. He says he
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Speaker 1: doesn't know specifically what services hunter James Biden provided in
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Speaker 1: many different countries to receive the millions of dollars in return.
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Speaker 1: That's why they're asking for questions, asking for these documents.
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Speaker 1: They can say, hey, fill in the blanks about your
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Speaker 1: finances now. The spokesperson for the committee also sets the
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Speaker 1: James Biden's attorneys, and he's got some top level attorneys.
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Speaker 1: Now we've just found out scent letters acknowledging the request.
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Speaker 1: But if not providing any of the materials either. Why
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Speaker 1: because they don't feel like they have to play within
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Speaker 1: this system. Do you know who our dad is? Do
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Speaker 1: you know who our brother is? That's basically the mentality.
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Speaker 1: You don't screw with us. We're the Biden family. Now
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Speaker 1: there's also something else that's interesting. The committee has also
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Speaker 1: been in contact with the attorney for another business associate.
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Speaker 1: Let's talk about Eric Squaren real quick. They are now
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Speaker 1: expecting Eric Squaron, because he's not last named Biden, to
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Speaker 1: start producing documents soon. It also recently asked for testimony
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Speaker 1: from Eric Squaron in front of the committee that could
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Speaker 1: be extremely damning to James Biden and Hunter Biden, as
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Speaker 1: well as Joe Biden. Now Hunter continues to say none
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Speaker 1: of your business. James says it the same thing, but
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Speaker 1: everyone else around them is terrified that they may go
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Speaker 1: to jail. You look at the ties to Barisma, that
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Speaker 1: Ukrainian energy company that's been a fixation for a long
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Speaker 1: time of this committee and conservatives who actually want to
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Speaker 1: get to the truth. Biden, we know for a fact,
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Speaker 1: joined the board of Barisma in twenty fourteen, around the
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Speaker 1: exact same time this father, who was then the Vice President,
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Speaker 1: was conducting the Obama administration's foreign policy for Ukraine. Several members,
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Speaker 1: by the way, have argued for years now that Hunter
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Speaker 1: Biden's work in Ukraine clearly influenced the Obama administration's policies
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Speaker 1: towards the Eastern European nation. Now I'm going to stop
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Speaker 1: there and give you another headline that might explain a
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Speaker 1: lot of what I'm talking about right now, with a
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Speaker 1: corruption Okay, Biden administration came out today while all this
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Speaker 1: is happening and said they clear Ukraine of misusing US
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Speaker 1: financial aid the USAID, Samantha Power said, there's quote no
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Speaker 1: evidence of misspending of the one hundred billion that we
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Speaker 1: have sent to Ukraine so far. Now, how would you
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Speaker 1: know that by doing an investigation? If you're dealing with
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Speaker 1: a war torn country, how would you be able to
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Speaker 1: clear them this quickly when a lot of questions have
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Speaker 1: been asked. Maybe it's because the Biden administration knows when
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Speaker 1: to cover something up. This also sounds an awful lot
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Speaker 1: like the exact same way our government treated Hunter Biden
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Speaker 1: and the president and the email server of Hillary Clinton. Right,
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Speaker 1: nothing to see here, we say, there's no problem. Let's
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Speaker 1: keep moving on. Ukraine quote is not misusing the tens
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Speaker 1: of billions of dollars in direct financial assistants that it
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Speaker 1: is receiving courtesy of US taxpayers, according to a top
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Speaker 1: Biden administration official. This morning, Samantha Power, the administrator of
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Speaker 1: the US Agency for International Development also USAID, gave the
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Speaker 1: public information during a CNN Live town hall. Her assurances
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Speaker 1: came just hours ahead of the White House revealing it's
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Speaker 1: going to give another two billion of your tax dollars
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Speaker 1: in military aid to Ukraine as its score with Russia.
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Speaker 1: Officially hits the one year mark. How much are we
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Speaker 1: on the hook for so far? While the total amount
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Speaker 1: of American military assistance, your tax dollars going to Ukraine
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Speaker 1: is now over thirty billion dollars in the first year.
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Speaker 1: The former Obama administration official further claimed Ukraine has made
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Speaker 1: progress in working to root out corruption while officials are
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Speaker 1: continually checking to ensure that US taxpayers dollars are quote
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Speaker 1: used properly. Up until this point, we don't have any
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Speaker 1: evidence that the US assistants is being misused or misspent.
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Speaker 1: But the key is not resting on anybody's goodwill or virtue.
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Speaker 1: Powers went on to say she was responding to a
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Speaker 1: question posed about Ukraine's long history of massive corruption, the
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Speaker 1: same corruption that was actually being investigated by a prosecutor
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Speaker 1: who was fired because Joe Biden demanded that prosecutor, who
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Speaker 1: was trying to root out corruption was investigating the corrupt
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Speaker 1: company Barisma. That company is a company that was giving
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Speaker 1: millions of dollars to the Biden crime family. I want
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Speaker 1: to just go back and remind you of that tape
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Speaker 1: of the President of the United States America after he
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Speaker 1: left the vice presidency bragging about getting and using American
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Speaker 1: aid as the leverage to get a individual fired inside
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Speaker 1: of the Ukrainian government that was investigating corruption, and that
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Speaker 1: also included Barisma. And we're supposed to believe now that
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Speaker 1: nothing shady's happening with any of our tax dollars going
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Speaker 1: to Ukraine. Listen to the President in his own words,
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Speaker 1: is just a quick reminder of just how arrogant the
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Speaker 1: Biden family is when it comes to their foreign policy
8:42
Speaker 1: for their own pocketbooks. I remember going over convincing our team,
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Speaker 1: our brothers, to convincing as that we should be providing
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Speaker 1: for loan guarantees. And I went over, I guess the
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Speaker 1: twelfth thirteenth time to keep and I was supposed to
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Speaker 1: announce that there's another billion dollars loan guarantee. And I
9:02
Speaker 1: had gotten a commitment from Porschenko and from Yats and
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Speaker 1: Yoke that they would take action against the state prosecutor.
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Speaker 1: And they didn't. So they said they had They were
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Speaker 1: walking out to Prescot and said, nah, I said, I'm
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Speaker 1: not going to We're not going to give you the
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Speaker 1: billion dollars. They said, you have no authority, You're not
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Speaker 1: the president. The president said, I said, call him. I said,
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Speaker 1: I'm telling you're not getting the billion dollars. I said,
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Speaker 1: you're not getting the billion, I'm gonna be leaving here.
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Speaker 1: And I think it was about six hours. I looked
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Speaker 1: as I'm leaving in six hours. If the prosecutors not fired,
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Speaker 1: you're not getting the money. Well, son, I'm a bitch,
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Speaker 1: got fired, and they put in place someone who was solid.
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Speaker 1: I love how he says. And they put in place
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Speaker 1: someone that was solid, right, well, Saloman, that was Salid
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Speaker 1: that wouldn't look at the corruption of his own family,
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Speaker 1: his own son. And all the billions are say, millions
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Speaker 1: accounting of the more than one hundred billion dollars in
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Speaker 1: military and humanitarian aid that we've given you to Ukraine
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Speaker 1: since to start the war one year ago. There's no
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Speaker 1: way that you could actually look into this amount of
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Speaker 1: potential corruption and one of the most corrupt countries in
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Speaker 1: the world, Ukrainian corruption. And I were in this almost
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Speaker 1: a year ago, right when this started. I was in
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Speaker 1: Hungary and I was meeting with some top people and
12:05
Speaker 1: they're like, Ben, what America doesn't understand is our neighbor,
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Speaker 1: who we're helping right now, right with the with the
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Speaker 1: humanitarian crisis, the people leaving Ukraine trying to just you know,
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Speaker 1: be safe, is that Ukraine makes Russia look normal. And
12:23
Speaker 1: I was like, what do you mean. They're like, if
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Speaker 1: you think Russian corruption is bad, you have no idea
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Speaker 1: how bad it is in Ukraine. And this is before obviously,
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Speaker 1: you know, you had Russia invading. Ukraine's a beautiful country.
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Speaker 1: Ukraine is one of the most corrupt countries in that
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Speaker 1: part of the world. And what they were telling me
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Speaker 1: was is like, you guys, don't you know, Yeah, you
12:46
Speaker 1: may want to back Ukraine and you and you might
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Speaker 1: as a nation be excited about standing up to Russia,
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Speaker 1: but know that this country has decades and decades of
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Speaker 1: extreme and massive corruption that makes Russia look normal. Now,
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Speaker 1: if you listen and then you go back and look
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Speaker 1: at some of the examples, you start to realize very quickly.
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Speaker 1: And this is why I love traveling the world and
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Speaker 1: talking to world leaders in other countries. They made it
13:15
Speaker 1: quitter like you guys are getting bamboozled, is what they
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Speaker 1: were implying, and that was a year ago. There's also
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Speaker 1: been some reporting that would go against what the Biden
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Speaker 1: officials saying instantly, like hey, we've decided it that they're
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Speaker 1: not misusing AID. There's no way you can do a
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Speaker 1: forensic accounting of that right now at this point. But
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Speaker 1: there's other news it's broken that should put some of
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Speaker 1: this into doubt. Let me give an example. The Ukrainian
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Speaker 1: Defense ministry recently has been dealing with a string of
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Speaker 1: corruption scandals. The latest one is actually concerning excessive food payments.
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Speaker 1: Let me go that back to just that story, and
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Speaker 1: this is one of those things that the Biden administration
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Speaker 1: doesn't want you to know about. There were a string
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Speaker 1: of senior Ukrainian government officials that were sacked or resigned
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Speaker 1: amid a flurry of corruption claims that came out and
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Speaker 1: this is just one month ago today. Why did they
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Speaker 1: Why did they get sacked? Why did they resign because
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Speaker 1: they were shown the door? Because they were accused of
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Speaker 1: taking illicit payments as the Ministry of Defense allegedly signed
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Speaker 1: over inflated military contracts. Reports of foul play in Ukraine
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Speaker 1: Ukraine's high offices and I'm reading for a news report
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Speaker 1: now first broke over the weekend when critics pointed to
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Speaker 1: under the table payments to the deputy ministers and suspect
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Speaker 1: military equipment contracts. However, only a few now are our
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Speaker 1: details being made about to the public about what actually happened,
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Speaker 1: and those accused are now finally being named. AFP reported
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Speaker 1: that the deputy Defense Minister, the deputy head of the
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Speaker 1: Presidential Administration and the Deputy Prosecutor General are among the
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Speaker 1: officials who have allegedly left Zelenski's government. This is dated
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Speaker 1: January the twenty fourth of twenty twenty three, so a
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Speaker 1: month ago. The Guardian also wrote a deep dive into this,
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Speaker 1: detailing the comprehensive list of dismissals, claiming it is long.
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Speaker 1: In fact, they tried to ask Zelenski about this, and
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Speaker 1: then Zelenski started relieving different people of duties as part
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Speaker 1: of the wave of exits that happened. This is again
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Speaker 1: within the last month. This move all so comes him
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Speaker 1: in a corruption scandal which saw Infrastructure Deputy of Ukraine
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Speaker 1: sacked and detained for alleged theft of four hundred thousand
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Speaker 1: dollars that alone from the Winter Aid budget quote unquote.
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Speaker 1: Military grade weaponry in Ukraine has previously allegedly have been
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Speaker 1: sold onto international buyers on the encrypted messaging app Telegram,
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Speaker 1: including some hardware made in the United States of America
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Speaker 1: that's also been reported on in the last two months.
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Speaker 1: In fact, a Canadian NGO has warned that Western weapons
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Speaker 1: shipped to Ukraine could actually end up in Russia hands,
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Speaker 1: but may even end up being sold on the international
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Speaker 1: black market because there worth so much money. Ukrainians Deputy
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Speaker 1: Defense Minister is responsible for supplying troops with food and equipment.
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Speaker 1: He has also resigned media accusations of corruption that he
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Speaker 1: and the ministry say are quote baseless. Yet he resigned.
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Speaker 1: A statement on the Defense Ministry's website said the resignation
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Speaker 1: was a worthy deed that would help retain trust in
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Speaker 1: the ministry quote unquote. The Deputy Prosecutor General has also
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Speaker 1: been removed from his post, according to the Prosecutor General's office,
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Speaker 1: and two deputy ministers resigned from Ukraine's Ministry of Communication
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Speaker 1: and Territory Developments because of corruption. This is a month ago, y'all.
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Speaker 1: All this happened a month ago. According to the Guardian,
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Speaker 1: the heads of five regional authorities across the country have
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Speaker 1: also been dismissed. Over the weekend, Euronews reported a Ukrainian
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Speaker 1: newspaper investigation accused of defense minister signing off on contracts
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Speaker 1: to supply food to frontline troops at two to three
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Speaker 1: times the regular price. Why would you do that because
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Speaker 1: you're getting massive kick backs. We also have been told
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Speaker 1: that military grade weapons, including US hardware, in Ukraine are
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Speaker 1: allegedly being sold on the two international buyers via the
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Speaker 1: messaging app. As I mentioned a moment ago ago telegram.
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Speaker 1: Tell you about that story in just a moment now.
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Speaker 1: The amount in question, we're being told at the time
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Speaker 1: was three hundred seventy four million that the US is
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Speaker 1: going to give for twenty twenty three. These resignations have happened,
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Speaker 1: it will make it possible to quote preserve the confidence
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Speaker 1: of society and international partners, is what the Ministry of
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Speaker 1: Defense said in a press release. So they're admitting it
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Speaker 1: right All these people are getting kicked out of office.
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Speaker 1: This is happening right now, and Biden official comes out
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Speaker 1: and clears Ukraine and misusing financial aid. How is that
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Speaker 1: possible when a month ago all these people who were
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Speaker 1: dealing with US financial aid have all been either fired
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Speaker 1: or left offense. How is that possible. Let's go to
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Speaker 1: the weapons. Let's talk about that. Military grade weaponry in
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Speaker 1: Ukraine is also allegedly being sold on to international buyers,
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Speaker 1: including some hardware that's made in America. Weapons that have
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Speaker 1: been allegedly collected in Ukraine during the country's ongoing war
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Speaker 1: with Russia have been put up for sale on telegram channels,
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Speaker 1: including various kinds of automatic rifles as well as small arms.
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Speaker 1: Weapons said to be for sale include not just Ukrainian
19:31
Speaker 1: origin arms such as old Soviet area AK forty seven rifles,
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Speaker 1: but also American made rifles like the M sixteen and
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Speaker 1: the M four, along with other NATO member origin firearms
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Speaker 1: like the RX one sixty A one manufactured by the
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Speaker 1: Italian weapons company Baretta. It remains unclear whether weapons are
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Speaker 1: being sold by Ukrainians or by Russians who have collected
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Speaker 1: them over the course of the war, but we can't
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Speaker 1: get official answer from the Ukrainian government. Canadian Ngio Objeck
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Speaker 1: warned earlier this year of the possibility that the arms
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Speaker 1: from the West are actually ending up on the black market,
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Speaker 1: with one researcher saying there is a real threat that
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Speaker 1: the Ukrainian government is actually not in control of all
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Speaker 1: these weapons and they're being sold to the highest bidder.
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Speaker 1: Whenever the conflict does subside, these weapons aren't just going
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Speaker 1: to go poof and disappear. The warning also was that
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Speaker 1: the illegal arms trade often runs along the same routes
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Speaker 1: as the illegal drug trade, noting that radical Islamic jihata
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Speaker 1: cells may be tempting to purchase weapons being sold through
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Speaker 1: encrypted apps that are actually coming from America. During the
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Speaker 1: early days the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Islamic extremists called
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Speaker 1: on jihatas to take advantage of the war, with the
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Speaker 1: Islamic Terror Organization recommending supporters use the conflict to quote
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Speaker 1: collect weapons that can be used in terror attacks, for example,
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Speaker 1: down the road, what do they actually say, quote to
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Speaker 1: the brothers supporters of the Islamic State in Russia and
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Speaker 1: Ukraine sees the opportunity brothers and collect weapons for weapons
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Speaker 1: have been widely distributed to civilians. We can use these
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Speaker 1: to attack the crusaders. The Islamic State jihadis urged quote
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Speaker 1: let Muslims see their war as a divine gift to
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Speaker 1: the Muslims in Ukraine, in Russia and in the entire world.
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Speaker 1: For those who contemplate it. There are indications that it
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Speaker 1: will change the face of the world, and if the
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Speaker 1: Muslims take advantage of it, it will be a large
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Speaker 1: building block that will advance them towards the renewal of
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Speaker 1: their glory. Now, members the Islamic State terrorist group have
21:35
Speaker 1: celebrated the ongoing conflict because they believe that it's a
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Speaker 1: chance for them to get their hands on new weaponry.
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Speaker 1: They have gotten their hands on a lot of old
21:44
Speaker 1: American weapons that were left back in Afghanistan Iraq in
21:48
Speaker 1: the war. But they're saying now we've got to celebrate
21:51
Speaker 1: this conflict between Russia and Ukraine. We have to because
21:55
Speaker 1: this will spread out the European countries. They won't be
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Speaker 1: focused on us. The islam Comic State magazine al Naba
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Speaker 1: said to have published an editorial this week regarding the
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Speaker 1: invasion of Ukraine, labeling the conflict a divine punishment and
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Speaker 1: going on to state that it will have significant consequences
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Speaker 1: that will change many of the laws of peace and
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Speaker 1: war between those countries. The writers of the editorial, which
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Speaker 1: is said to have been distributed on the encrypted messaging
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Speaker 1: app Telegram, also called on supporters the Islamic state to
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Speaker 1: take advantage of this chaos, claiming that conflict is only
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Speaker 1: the beginning of the wider battle and we must seize
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Speaker 1: the day. What is happening today quote the direct bloody
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Speaker 1: war between the Orthodox Crusaders Russian Ukraine is but one
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Speaker 1: example of God's punishment for them, as ascribed in the Kuran.
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Speaker 1: The author the editorial said, referring to the combatant state
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Speaker 1: predominant faith, weather long or short, this Russian Ukrainian war
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Speaker 1: is but the beginning of the next wars between the
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Speaker 1: crusader countries, and the images of destruction death we see
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Speaker 1: are but a small scene of the situation in which
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Speaker 1: the great war begins. The Islamic extremists went on to
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Speaker 1: state this going on, we must condemn foreigners fighting for
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Speaker 1: Ukraine as Infidel militias. A prior report from the Middle
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Speaker 1: East Media Research Institute claimed that Islamic State chat servers
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Speaker 1: have urged supporters not only in Ukraine but in Russia
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Speaker 1: to carry out attacks and retaliation for the country's roles
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Speaker 1: in defeating the group in the Middle East. To the Brothers,
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Speaker 1: supporters of the Islamic State in Russian Ukraine seize the
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Speaker 1: opportunity Brothers and again called for them to collect all
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Speaker 1: the weapons they could, saying these weapons have been widely
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Speaker 1: distributed to civilians, we must grab them now. This is
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Speaker 1: from God. Another telegram channel said to be linked to
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Speaker 1: a sympathizer to al Qaida from Jordan commented on the conflict,
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Speaker 1: saying this let Muslims see the war as a divine
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Speaker 1: gift to the Muslims there in Ukraine, in Russia and
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Speaker 1: in the entire world. For those who contemplate it. There
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Speaker 1: are indications that it will change the face of the world,
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Speaker 1: and if the Muslims take advantage of it, it will
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Speaker 1: be a large quote building block that will advance them
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Speaker 1: towards the renewal of their glory. So let's just step
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Speaker 1: back and go back to the false claim that I
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Speaker 1: started the show with You've got a country now whose
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Speaker 1: leaders are firing people left and right in Ukraine for
24:38
Speaker 1: being busted for corruption, not because they were corrupt, just
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Speaker 1: because they were busted, and Ukraine knew that they didn't
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Speaker 1: fire them or get rid of them in some capacity.
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Speaker 1: They may actually be working behind the scenes. We don't know.
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Speaker 1: But if you didn't get rid of them, then no
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Speaker 1: one was going to send the money. So they cleaned
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Speaker 1: house and it may not even be real, it may
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Speaker 1: be fake. And then the Biden officials are asked about
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Speaker 1: this and they're like, hey, you guys, it's like we
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Speaker 1: really need to know what's going on here right, Like,
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Speaker 1: you know this is gonna make us look bad if
25:05
Speaker 1: you want more American money. Zalinsky, you got to get
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Speaker 1: rid of these people. Zalinski's like, I got you, no problem.
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Speaker 1: I'll go back and take care of this. We'll announce
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Speaker 1: that we're firing people. And then America did what America does,
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Speaker 1: cleared Ukraine of any wrongdoing so that you will not
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Speaker 1: question them sending more of your tax dollars. It is
25:26
Speaker 1: impossible for Biden officials to clear Ukraine and misusing of
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Speaker 1: US financial aid, even though That's exactly what was said
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Speaker 1: by the officials of the Biden administration. Now, let me
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Speaker 1: also explain to you who the woman is it's lying
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Speaker 1: to you, who's clearing Ukraine of any wrongdoing with your
25:44
Speaker 1: tax dollars. Her name is Samantha Power. You may have
25:48
Speaker 1: heard me mention her name earlier. What is she really
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Speaker 1: focused on? She's focused not on this war, She's actually
25:57
Speaker 1: focused on climate change. Came out recently and said this
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Speaker 1: about climate change. The same woman that you're supposed to
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Speaker 1: believe on your tax dollars in Ukraine. The question that
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Speaker 1: brings you all here today and causes so many of
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Speaker 1: you to do the work that you do every day,
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Speaker 1: The question for the world is simple. Today we are
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Speaker 1: in a global food crisis, no question. What can we
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Speaker 1: do together to avert a global food catastrophe? To start,
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Speaker 1: we have to understand the forces that have led us
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Speaker 1: to this current precipice, the most existential of which is
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Speaker 1: climate change. Each day seems to bring a new report
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Speaker 1: of climate catastrophes, like the brutal heat waves we're seeing
26:47
Speaker 1: in Texas, the wildfires tearing through Europe, or the parts
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Speaker 1: of the United Kingdom receiving Red alert heat warnings for
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Speaker 1: the first time in their history. But it turns out
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Speaker 1: the big threat climate change poses to the world's hungry
27:04
Speaker 1: isn't a sudden chuck. It is a long sustained, onslaught
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Speaker 1: draughts that don't just last for a season, but for years.
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Speaker 1: So this is the woman, this climate change whacko who's
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Speaker 1: saying the number one threat to you is not nuclear Russia,
27:23
Speaker 1: is not nuclear ran it's not China. It's a food
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Speaker 1: It's a global food catastrophe and in order to avert
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Speaker 1: it with a global food security issue in crisis, that's
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Speaker 1: what we really need to be focused on. This is
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Speaker 1: the woman that is to the accounting of all your
27:38
Speaker 1: tax dollars going to Ukraine. Samantha Power was also on
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Speaker 1: TV back in the middle of last summer talking about
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Speaker 1: Biden's request for thirty three billion additional a to Ukraine,
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Speaker 1: and she celebrated fertilizer shortages that will force farmers to
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Speaker 1: quote hasten transitions to natural solutions. When American farmers and
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Speaker 1: farmers around the world were terrified. It's some of the
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Speaker 1: new regulations in the lack of fertilizer they could use. Listen,
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Speaker 1: fertilizer shortages are real now because Russia is a big
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Speaker 1: exporter or fertilizer, and even though fertilizer is not sanctioned,
28:14
Speaker 1: less fertilizer is coming out of Russia. As a result,
28:18
Speaker 1: we're working with countries to think about natural solutions like
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Speaker 1: manure and compost, and this may hasten transitions that would
28:25
Speaker 1: have been in the interest of farmers to make eventually anyway,
28:27
Speaker 1: So never let a crisis go to waste. But we
28:30
Speaker 1: really do need this financial support from the Congress to
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Speaker 1: be able to meet emergency food needs, so we don't
28:35
Speaker 1: see the cascading, deadly effects of Russia's war extend into
28:40
Speaker 1: Africa and beyond. So the war is a good thing
28:44
Speaker 1: because it will force the farmers to change how they
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Speaker 1: farm and stop relying on fertilizer. And she's the one
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Speaker 1: doing the accounting in Ukraine, which I'm just curious here
28:55
Speaker 1: which one is it to samanth the powers, Like, what
28:59
Speaker 1: is her her actual job? I can't understand. I really
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Speaker 1: cannot understand what it is she's supposed to be doing.
29:08
Speaker 1: What I do know is she's a crazy anti right individual. Right.
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Speaker 1: She is somebody that has been out there and she
29:19
Speaker 1: said in her own words, the president is blatantly extorting
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Speaker 1: a foreign leader. This was her testimony about Zelenski and
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Speaker 1: what Donald Trump wanted to do in Ukraine. Listen carefully.
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Speaker 1: An idealist a memoir Samantha Power. Thank you so much
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Speaker 1: for joining us. Thank you, Anna. I want to get
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Speaker 1: your book, of course, in just a moment, but first
29:42
Speaker 1: I have to ask you about the fallout from the
29:43
Speaker 1: President's call with the Ukrainian president. You tweeted this that
29:47
Speaker 1: Donald Trump thought it was a good idea to release
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Speaker 1: this transcript as a staggering testament to the endemic corruption
29:53
Speaker 1: of his administration. He and his close advisors have lost
29:56
Speaker 1: the ability to even see what's incriminating. Master of that
30:00
Speaker 1: is quite a statement. Well, I mean, I think what
30:04
Speaker 1: we have seen from the beginning of this presidency is
30:06
Speaker 1: a pattern where what matters most to the President of
30:09
Speaker 1: United States is his own welfare, his own self aggrandizement,
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Speaker 1: his wealth, his own political fortune. And there are so
30:19
Speaker 1: many examples of this. But here's an example where the
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Speaker 1: president is blatantly extorting a foreign leader, a foreign leader
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Speaker 1: who's governing a country that has been invaded by Russia,
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Speaker 1: a country that interfered in our election. Previously, and our
30:35
Speaker 1: president is trying to advance his own political welfare rather
30:40
Speaker 1: than look out for an ally and deliver what that
30:43
Speaker 1: country needs in order to enhance its security. So the
30:46
Speaker 1: fact that people put that transcript out and thought that
30:49
Speaker 1: it would be somehow helpful for the president, I think
30:53
Speaker 1: just speaks to how accustomed the people around President Trump
30:56
Speaker 1: have become to this pattern of behavior. And I love
31:01
Speaker 1: this woman. This is a woman who goes on national
31:04
Speaker 1: TV and lies to you saying that Donald Trump should
31:08
Speaker 1: have been impeached for his conversation with Zelenski, and also
31:12
Speaker 1: then said that Donald Trump is compromised by the Russians
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Speaker 1: and they tried to change the outcome of our last election,
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Speaker 1: which he also knew was a lie. And this is
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Speaker 1: the woman who loves Zelenski. This is the woman who
31:24
Speaker 1: hated the prosecutor that was looking into corruption. This is
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Speaker 1: the woman that didn't want corruption to be looked at
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Speaker 1: in Ukraine. And this is a woman who's now saying,
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Speaker 1: I've done a forensicic accounting of every dollar that's been
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Speaker 1: sent to Ukraine and the last year, and don't worry
31:37
Speaker 1: even though all the top ministers in their government have
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Speaker 1: just been fired for corruption. Not a single American dollar
31:46
Speaker 1: has been used for anything that looks like corruption. Really,
31:50
Speaker 1: they didn't do any audit. They just center out there
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Speaker 1: is a useful idiot for this administration to justify sending
31:59
Speaker 1: more money to Ukraine, and they justified it. They justified
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Speaker 1: it by doing one thing, and one thing only, by
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Speaker 1: having her say we did an accounting, even though they
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Speaker 1: clearly have not, and I wouldn't trust her accounting on
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Speaker 1: anything at this point based on her own political statements
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