Speaker 1: Let me get to Washington, where President Donald Trump is
Speaker 1: threatening new sanctions on Russia in the coming days as
Speaker 1: he vents frustration at Russian President Vladimir Putin after Putin
Speaker 1: launched a new missile and drone attack on Ukraine over
Speaker 1: the weekend that left many dead. Here's what President Trump
Speaker 1: had to say about Putin yesterday when asked about the
Speaker 1: latest assault on Ukraine.
Speaker 2: Take a listener.
Speaker 3: I'm not happy with what Putin's doing. He's killing a
Speaker 3: lot of people. And I don't know what the hell
Speaker 3: happened to Putin. I've known him a long time, always
Speaker 3: gotten along with him. But he's sending rockets into cities
Speaker 3: and killing people, and I don't like it at all.
Speaker 1: Okay, And here's what Trump posted today about Vladimir Putin
Speaker 1: on Truth Social, his social media outlet.
Speaker 2: Quote.
Speaker 1: What Vladimir Putin doesn't realize is that if it weren't
Speaker 1: for me, lots of really bad things would have already
Speaker 1: happened to Russia.
Speaker 2: And I mean really bad. He's playing with fire. End quote.
Speaker 1: Meanwhile, Democratic Republican lawmakers of lobbying Trump to significantly ratchet
Speaker 1: up you as sanctions after the week in attacks. However,
Speaker 1: Trump has said privately he is concerned that new sanctions
Speaker 1: could push Russia away from peace talks.
Speaker 2: End quote. First of all, let's call us what it is.
Speaker 1: That's an utterly ridiculous statement by President of the United States.
Speaker 1: You're concerned about antagonizing Vladimir Putin and him becoming a
Speaker 1: bit more volatile. What are you talking about? What else
Speaker 1: does he have to do? What else does he have
Speaker 1: to do? Ladies and gentlemen, let's I'm not a historian,
Speaker 1: and I'm not asking you to look at me as
Speaker 1: an historian, but can we be honest and forthcoming about
Speaker 1: what has been transpiring.
Speaker 2: Over the last couple of decades or so at the
Speaker 2: very least.
Speaker 1: You gotta remember since the dissolution of Russia of the
Speaker 1: old Soviet Union rather in nineteen ninety one, after Reagan
Speaker 1: told Gorbachev tear down that wall and all of this
Speaker 1: other stuff, member the Soviet Union has never been what
Speaker 1: it once was, and that pained very very few people
Speaker 1: on the planet, more so van Vladimir Putin. It's been
Speaker 1: his mission for the rest of his life since that
Speaker 1: period of time to reclaim territory in land that he.
Speaker 2: Believes belongs to the Soviet Union.
Speaker 1: I mean, I read some of these articles around here
Speaker 1: just from an historical perspective about the kind of stuff
Speaker 1: this man is fixated on, and it gets pretty damn scary.
Speaker 1: I mean, if you remember, remember when Bill o'releigh told
Speaker 1: me to look up the Yolta Conference and he talked
Speaker 1: about Harry Truman. He talked about the United States, and
Speaker 1: you talk about Winston Churchill and Great Britain, and he
Speaker 1: talked about Stalin, Joseph Stalin and Russia. How ultimately they
Speaker 1: were supposed to agree upon some things in the aftermath
Speaker 1: of World War Two, and that Stalin essentially renegged and
Speaker 1: ignored it. They thought that it was going to be
Speaker 1: about democracy. They thought that it was going to be
Speaker 1: about the three of them coming together and positioning themselves
Speaker 1: to police the world in a relatively democratic fashion.
Speaker 2: But Stalin wasn't.
Speaker 1: Going for it, because he had his eyes set and
Speaker 1: his heart fixated, and it's so fixated on the Soviet Union,
Speaker 1: on Russian dominance, not just in their parts but throughout Europe. Well,
Speaker 1: we fast forward all of these years later, what does
Speaker 1: it look like with Putin right now? Except in Stalin
Speaker 1: one could argue it was greed in the case of Putin,
Speaker 1: he has the mentality this is stuff that belongs to us,
Speaker 1: just like when we took over Crimea in twenty fourteen.
Speaker 2: We believe that's ours.
Speaker 1: Ukraine is ours, Poland is ours, Finland is ours, fourteen
Speaker 1: other different countries ours. We believe that belongs to us.
Speaker 1: And we're coming back to reclaiming everything that he's doing. Said,
Speaker 1: so we don't have to worry about his words. We're
Speaker 1: looking at his actions. We're looking at his actions. And oh,
Speaker 1: by the way, it doesn't help when we see our
Speaker 1: president in the old office in the White House, with
Speaker 1: Ukrainian President Zalinski acting like this.
Speaker 2: Don't remember this. Check this out.
Speaker 1: During the war, everybody has problems, even you, But you
Speaker 1: have nice ocean and don't feel now, but you will
Speaker 1: feel it in the fusion.
Speaker 2: God bless you, God blessed, You're blessed.
Speaker 3: You don't tell us what we're gonna feel. We're trying
Speaker 3: to solve a problem. Don't tell us what we're gonna feel.
Speaker 3: I'm not telling you because you're in no position to
Speaker 3: dictate that. Remember this, you're in no position to dictate
Speaker 3: what we're gonna feel. We're gonna feel.
Speaker 2: Very good, feel influenced.
Speaker 3: We're gonna feel very good and very strong, will feel influenced.
Speaker 3: You're right now not in a very good position. You've
Speaker 3: allowed you to be in a very bad position.
Speaker 2: From the very beginning of the war. Not in a
Speaker 2: good position.
Speaker 3: You don't have the cards right now with us. You
Speaker 3: start having right now, you're gambling with millions of people.
Speaker 3: See you're gambling with World War three. You're gambling with
Speaker 3: World War three.
Speaker 2: You see how we got distracted.
Speaker 1: We got distracted with the rhetoric that Trump was spewing,
Speaker 1: the fact that here was a president of a nation
Speaker 1: at war, and we were focused on the fact that
Speaker 1: he didn't say thank you enough, the fact that he
Speaker 1: was dressed in military garble, in an outfit as opposed
Speaker 1: to Remember when you saw GOP politicians talking about how
Speaker 1: did this man show up in the Oval office and
Speaker 1: not even have one a suit and a tie?
Speaker 2: Remember that while his country was being bombed. Remember that?
Speaker 1: And then we're talking about Trump and we're saying, oh,
Speaker 1: my goodness, the respect or the lack thereof, did you
Speaker 1: have to have this man on national TV embarrassing him
Speaker 1: like that? Brought up in the wrong kind of stuff
Speaker 1: where our focus needs.
Speaker 2: To be is on Poland.
Speaker 1: I'm reading from some articles here, Russia's territory is greatly
Speaker 1: diminished from the time when Moscow controlled one sixth of
Speaker 1: the planet's surface, including Finland, Poland, and fourteen of the
Speaker 1: currently independent countries.
Speaker 2: This is based on an article to the Wall Street Journal,
Speaker 2: just from a.
Speaker 1: Couple of years ago, June of twenty twenty two, to
Speaker 1: be exact. Are we not paying attention? Do we not
Speaker 1: see what's going on here? The man's not playing fourteen
Speaker 1: independent countries, press Poland, Press Finland.
Speaker 2: Okay, Estonia, throw them in there.
Speaker 1: Montenegro who Trump lamented, should American soldiers be dying over something?
Speaker 2: Over fights in Montenegro?
Speaker 1: That's what he said in twenty eighteen, if I remember correctly,
Speaker 1: this is what the former president of forty fifth resident
Speaker 1: who's not a forty seventh president said at that particular
Speaker 1: moment in time.
Speaker 2: And we're focused on.
Speaker 1: What exactly words, verbiage, tweets, how somebody's dressed, whether or
Speaker 1: not they said thank you enough and showed enough gratitude.
Speaker 1: We're talking about trying to prevent World War three, and
Speaker 1: why am I concerned about it to that deep of
Speaker 1: a level, because we keep lamenting the state, or we
Speaker 1: keep saying that Russia's lamenting the state of its armed forces,
Speaker 1: the state.
Speaker 2: Of its military.
Speaker 1: And yet when Trump opens his mouth and he says
Speaker 1: there's a hefty price.
Speaker 2: That they could play, they could pay. What happens. Putin
Speaker 2: goes out.
Speaker 1: There and drops a bunch of bombs and a bunch
Speaker 1: of drones on them, more so than he has in
Speaker 1: the last couple of years. And then Trump says, I
Speaker 1: don't know what's wrong with him. He seems to have
Speaker 1: gone crazy. I don't know what's going like, you're surprised.
Speaker 1: But that's not what lindsay grahmm and those guys are saying.
Speaker 1: A matter of fact, reading from an article in a
Speaker 1: Wall Street Journal just a couple of days ago. I'm
Speaker 1: here reading, and I'll read your graph here. Good news
Speaker 1: is that US Saiate still has some genuine realists when
Speaker 1: it comes to Russia, as Gop Saidator Lindsey Graham writes
Speaker 1: in a letter nearby, he has eighty two co sponsors
Speaker 1: on a bill that would hit countries that buy Russian
Speaker 1: oil and gas with tariff sanctions. Energy sales of mister
Speaker 1: Puttan's financial lifeline President Biden refused to apply these so
Speaker 1: called secondary sanctions, and mister Trump can't make up his
Speaker 1: mind what the hell is going on? So we got
Speaker 1: one hundred senators, we got a vast majority of folks
Speaker 1: in the House that believe that Russia is the legitimate
Speaker 1: threat that we've all perceived them as being all of
Speaker 1: our lives.
Speaker 2: But somehow, some way Trump thinks differently. Why why for what?
Speaker 1: And by the way, I'm not here just to point
Speaker 1: to figure at Donald Trump, Like they said, President Biden
Speaker 1: at the time could have done something about all of this,
Speaker 1: but he refused to apply these soul called secondary sections.
Speaker 2: Why not?
Speaker 1: See, this is why relationships with other nations or with
Speaker 1: specific dignitaries.
Speaker 2: Should have a proverbial eyebrows raised because it smells what's
Speaker 2: up with Trump? And potent? Why are you not dealing
Speaker 2: with this man?
Speaker 1: Why are you letting him do this to Ukraine knowing
Speaker 1: that it has most.
Speaker 2: Of Europe scared shitless? Because you see, if you are.
Speaker 1: Do you u noted, say of America, and you decide
Speaker 1: not to provide Kiev with happy weapons that could deter
Speaker 1: Russia's advancement, Where does that leave us?
Speaker 2: These are legitimate questions.
Speaker 1: But I'm gonna tell you what the most sickening part
Speaker 1: about this is. And by the way, don't listen. I'm
Speaker 1: not trying to point the figure. Just that Trump two
Speaker 1: thousand and eight, Russia invaged Georgia. They weren't sanctioned in
Speaker 1: any serious way at the time, and I was followed
Speaker 1: by President of Barack Obama's attempt at a reset with
Speaker 1: Moscow in twenty fourteen. Intervention in don Bass, Ukraine and
Speaker 1: annexation of Crimea during the Obama's second term.
Speaker 2: Prompted only half hearted sanctions.
Speaker 1: Reading from that same article Wall Street Journal, Until last February,
Speaker 1: Germany had pushed the nord Stream eighth of the nord
Speaker 1: Stream two pipeline project that would have allowed to Russia's
Speaker 1: gas exports.
Speaker 2: To bypass Ukraine.
Speaker 1: Up until April, the US and its allies refused to
Speaker 1: provide Keeve with the heavy weapons that could have deterred
Speaker 1: this year's war.
Speaker 2: Where does that leave us?
Speaker 1: Because I'm seeing a lot of people scared because they
Speaker 1: know that Putin's not playing. And if Putin gets a
Speaker 1: little bit, he's gonna keep going. He's gonna keep going,
Speaker 1: and he's gonna keep going and I'm gonna tell you
Speaker 1: what should scare us as American citizens?
Speaker 2: Who are we to believe?
Speaker 1: Because I don't know if y'all heard about that book
Speaker 1: that's come out, Okay, original Sin Jake Tapper from CNN
Speaker 1: and Alex Thompson and its original Sin, and it's basically
Speaker 1: highlighting and detailing Biden's deterioration.
Speaker 2: For lack of a better word, we saw it, we
Speaker 2: spoke on it.
Speaker 1: I was felified for it a year before the debate
Speaker 1: last June twenty seventh, when Biden went on stage against
Speaker 1: Donald Trump. I called it out a year before for that,
Speaker 1: as in two years ago. Yo, he's not gonna get
Speaker 1: to the Democratic National Convention. He does not need to
Speaker 1: be the Democratic nominee. And I was excoriated. I was
Speaker 1: raised through the coldest Who the hell are you?
Speaker 2: What do you know?
Speaker 1: Your novice? Shut the hell up? Stick to sports all
Speaker 1: of this stuff. I had two eyes, I could say.
Speaker 1: And if there's one thing I'm pretty good at, its
Speaker 1: witnessing a deterioration.
Speaker 2: Taking place before my very eyds because I do it
Speaker 2: with athletes all the time.
Speaker 1: So if I can see it in that, I'm damnu,
Speaker 1: you're gonna be able to see it in an eighty
Speaker 1: year old president that Democrats was in the state capitol
Speaker 1: chanting four more years four.
Speaker 2: That happened?
Speaker 1: And why do I bring that up? And what's the
Speaker 1: relevancy to all of that. I'll tell you what the
Speaker 1: relevancy is. I wouldn't feel so vexed, I wouldn't feel
Speaker 1: so insecure, I wouldn't feel so nervous if I thought
Speaker 1: we had a government that was commit to do on
Speaker 1: what's right, instead of supporting somebody for their own purposes
Speaker 1: or going against them for their own individual purposes, as
Speaker 1: opposed to be an objective and neutral enough to just
Speaker 1: give us the information.
Speaker 2: Original sin.
Speaker 1: Supposedly, it is highlighting how the information that was needed
Speaker 1: to be given wasn't given, That there was a concerted
Speaker 1: effort by members of the White House and beyond to
Speaker 1: hide the debilitating circumstances surrounding then President Joe Biden. Now
Speaker 1: I could speak on it myself, because obviously it's an
Speaker 1: egregious thing that transpired, and I think there's a whole
Speaker 1: bunch of people that should be a shade of themselves.
Speaker 2: I can't wait to talk to Jake Tappler.
Speaker 1: Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson because I want to know personally.
Speaker 1: I want to know personally what role Jake Tapper played
Speaker 1: and not reporting on certain information. I told you I
Speaker 1: watched it. If the interview with Megan Kelly from start
Speaker 1: to finish, ladies and gentlemen, she was sensational.
Speaker 2: She did a hell of a job. My point to
Speaker 2: you is that we saw it. How did Jake Tapper
Speaker 2: not see it?
Speaker 1: And as he continues to speak about all of this,
Speaker 1: where's his miacoppa? Because I don't see it. I haven't
Speaker 1: seen it yet. I'm gonna be real interested in asking
Speaker 1: him about that when he comes on this show.
Speaker 2: The hatred for Trump was so deep.
Speaker 1: That folks didn't want to report on his competition in
Speaker 1: any kind of negative way, then if the hatred for
Speaker 1: Trump was so deep that you were willing to compromise
Speaker 1: your own professional integrity, whether you're a journalist, whether you're
Speaker 1: a pundit or commentator, a politician, etc. I mean, damn,
Speaker 1: who are we to believe now? But don't just take
Speaker 1: my word for it. Take Chris Clomo's words for it.
Speaker 1: Listen to what he had to say on his show
Speaker 1: News Nation.
Speaker 4: Check it out when it comes to Biden. You know
Speaker 4: how I feel you didn't see and hear his obvious
Speaker 4: diminished capacity what we mentioned here at News Nation all
Speaker 4: the time. This is a shocker. And now the narrative
Speaker 4: gets a nudge from a book that is about deception
Speaker 4: and a cover up. They want you to believe the
Speaker 4: media was deceived into thinking Biden had no issues.
Speaker 2: Don't count me in on that.
Speaker 4: I knew, okay, and it was no secret because.
Speaker 2: You knew too.
Speaker 4: The book is titled Original Sin, claiming to detail how Biden's.
Speaker 2: Staffers made efforts to hide.
Speaker 4: His decline from the public and the media. The cover
Speaker 4: has Biden with his hands over his eyes, and it
Speaker 4: could just as easily be a picture of the writers
Speaker 4: of this book who.
Speaker 2: Are pretending they didn't see and hear what everybody else did.
Speaker 2: And look, I do believe the book is a cover
Speaker 2: for something, and it's a cover.
Speaker 4: For something that's much more serious to me than Biden's
Speaker 4: age and stage. Everwhere the reality that many in the
Speaker 4: media knew damn well that Biden was losing it, but
Speaker 4: they played it down because they wanted Trump to lose more.
Speaker 2: The Original Sin.
Speaker 4: Is not hiding Biden's age and stage, but hiding this preference.
Speaker 2: Amen?
Speaker 1: Amen, Chris Clomo is absolutely right. But you know what
Speaker 1: the bigger problem is. It makes Trump look right because
Speaker 1: that hatred for him, that led people to compromise their
Speaker 1: own professional principles just to.
Speaker 2: Ensure that he didn't win the presidency.
Speaker 1: Well, if you were willing to do that, then all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, does it not buffer him his arguments
Speaker 1: about law fair being exercised against him? Does it not
Speaker 1: buffer his arguments about fake news, fake news, fake news?
Speaker 1: Does it not buffer the credibility that comes to his
Speaker 1: arguments that it was a witch hunt? Does it not
Speaker 1: in some way buffer the notion that somebody might have
Speaker 1: cheated him in twenty twenty. I don't believe that last part.
Speaker 1: He lost that damn election, And I get that. I'm
Speaker 1: talking about him genuinely feeling cheated as opposed to knowing
Speaker 1: he's lying because, oh my god, the numbers say so,
Speaker 1: why should he give a damn the rest of us? Yes,
Speaker 1: why should he give a damn about the numbers? You
Speaker 1: see what hatred can do, See what an absence of
Speaker 1: objectivity can do. You see how the corrupt actions of
Speaker 1: a few, whether it's him and a polpourri of his
Speaker 1: lives over the years, or Democrats and the lives that
Speaker 1: they were spewing leading.
Speaker 2: Up to the election.
Speaker 1: You see how we all got screwed because now the
Speaker 1: American people are sitting here not knowing what to believe
Speaker 1: or who to believe anymore. And then you wonder why
Speaker 1: I'm pissed. In my perfect.
Speaker 2: World, all I want.
Speaker 1: Is somebody in that office and on Capitol Hill, whether
Speaker 1: it's a senator or a representative, who is free from influence,
Speaker 1: whether it be that of monetary value or emotional you're
Speaker 1: just committed to doing the job in the best.
Speaker 2: Interest of the so people can walk the streets.
Speaker 1: Of America every single day going to work, coming to
Speaker 1: and front work, socializing with friends, families and loved ones,
Speaker 1: living their best lives, understanding that, hey, we trust our
Speaker 1: officials to do their jobs.
Speaker 2: We don't have that luxury at this particular moment in time.
Speaker 2: Trump now we put makes no sense.
Speaker 1: Why he hasn't assisted other senators and imposing sanctions makes
Speaker 1: no sense, just like.
Speaker 2: The actions articulated.
Speaker 1: In Jake Tapper's book, acknowledging what those who hated Trump,
Speaker 1: obviously on the left, were willing to do.
Speaker 2: To subvert and evade.
Speaker 1: The principles of our constitution. They were willing to manipulate.
Speaker 2: Stuff at all courts just to ensure.
Speaker 1: He didn't return to office. And as a result, we're
Speaker 1: sitting here with nobody to trust. What a damn shame,
Speaker 1: What a damn shame. Hopefully it won't lead to World
Speaker 1: War three. But I ain't gonna lie to you. I'll
Speaker 1: be dared if I'm not worried about a few things.
Speaker 1: I don't know if I'm worried about that, But I'm
Speaker 1: worried about a lot of things, and you should be too.