WEBVTT - Trump Doctrine Explained - August 19th, Hour 1 0:00:00.960 --> 0:00:02.880 All right, thank you, Scott Shannon, and thanks to all 0:00:02.880 --> 0:00:04.720 of you for being with us. Right down are toll 0:00:04.800 --> 0:00:07.040 free telephone number if you want to be a part 0:00:07.120 --> 0:00:09.680 of the program ats eight hundred nine to four one 0:00:09.720 --> 0:00:12.399 sean if you want to join us. It's amazing how 0:00:12.400 --> 0:00:16.760 many people want to engage me and discuss the issue 0:00:16.880 --> 0:00:20.560 of America's role in the world. And if you ask, 0:00:20.680 --> 0:00:27.360 my short answer is I support the Trump doctrine. Military 0:00:28.360 --> 0:00:32.640 equipment is advancing so quickly, and it's going to be 0:00:32.680 --> 0:00:35.320 a revolution in the next five years, never mind the 0:00:35.320 --> 0:00:38.800 next ten years. But the next generation of weaponry is here, 0:00:39.640 --> 0:00:42.440 and it's more sophisticated than ever. I'm not wrong in 0:00:42.479 --> 0:00:46.080 my observation that future conflicts, future wars are not going 0:00:46.159 --> 0:00:50.120 to be fought traditionally on battlefields. They're going to be 0:00:50.159 --> 0:00:53.959 fought with drones and advanced military equipment that we are 0:00:54.000 --> 0:00:58.760 not even thinking of today. And also are the Golden 0:00:58.840 --> 0:01:03.240 Dome is going to be and vital to America's security 0:01:03.240 --> 0:01:06.039 at some point down the line. I'm I'm pretty convinced 0:01:06.040 --> 0:01:09.200 of that. Maybe maybe will all be long gone by 0:01:09.240 --> 0:01:12.160 the time it's necessary, but I think moving in that 0:01:12.240 --> 0:01:15.479 direction may end up being Trump's greatest legacy. It ended 0:01:15.560 --> 0:01:19.920 up being one of Ronald Reagan's greatest legacies. And you know, 0:01:20.040 --> 0:01:23.520 but if you want me to sum up what I believe, 0:01:24.480 --> 0:01:29.959 and it's it's it's not a there's not a pure 0:01:30.160 --> 0:01:35.440 formula to really explain to you, except that I accept 0:01:35.440 --> 0:01:38.800 the Trump doctrine as what I think is the best 0:01:39.240 --> 0:01:43.240 course of action for America, especially in today's world. 0:01:43.319 --> 0:01:45.240 And what is the Trump doctrine? All right? You start 0:01:45.280 --> 0:01:46.600 with no forever wars. 0:01:47.280 --> 0:01:49.880 The President has been consistent, both in his first term 0:01:49.920 --> 0:01:53.120 and a second term, that that is a non starter 0:01:53.240 --> 0:01:57.400 for him. I totally completely agree with him. And and 0:01:57.440 --> 0:02:03.200 then that, however, some of interpreted that wrongly so to 0:02:03.320 --> 0:02:08.000 mean isolationism, and I don't believe that that is the 0:02:08.080 --> 0:02:11.760 right course of action either. And you know, the President 0:02:11.840 --> 0:02:15.320 is not an isolationist, although I think there are people 0:02:15.320 --> 0:02:17.399 that would like to convince you that he is. He's 0:02:17.400 --> 0:02:20.760 not an isolationist. I mean President Trump showed that in 0:02:20.800 --> 0:02:25.400 his first term. The Isis Caliphate, remember Convert die. I 0:02:25.440 --> 0:02:27.600 don't know how many of you remember the images of 0:02:27.720 --> 0:02:32.960 people being beheaded on beaches by Isis. You know their philosophy, 0:02:32.960 --> 0:02:35.959 their ideology, They want to convert the whole world or 0:02:36.160 --> 0:02:41.079 die in the process, and martyrdom and everything associated with 0:02:41.560 --> 0:02:47.520 that radicalism and that whole Isis Caliphate grew during the 0:02:47.560 --> 0:02:51.400 Obama years, just like Crimea was annexed during the Obama years. 0:02:52.160 --> 0:02:56.280 So no forever wars. But that doesn't mean isolationism, that 0:02:56.320 --> 0:02:59.200 doesn't mean that I think President Trump made the right 0:02:59.280 --> 0:03:02.880 call to feeding the Isis Caliphate. He never got the 0:03:02.919 --> 0:03:07.079 credit that he really deserved for that, or taking out 0:03:07.120 --> 0:03:10.920 the world's worst terrorists. The person responsible for killing Americans 0:03:10.919 --> 0:03:16.160 in Iraq and elsewhere around the world, responsible for orchestrating 0:03:16.560 --> 0:03:21.079 Iran and as being the number one states sponsor of terror. 0:03:21.120 --> 0:03:25.240 That would be General Solimani, which was an incredible military 0:03:25.639 --> 0:03:28.920 strike by President Trump and a successful one. The same 0:03:28.919 --> 0:03:32.480 thing with Bagdaddi and associates, and the same thing with 0:03:32.600 --> 0:03:35.480 dropping the mother of all bombs on Afghanistan. I think 0:03:35.520 --> 0:03:38.840 at each point, each decision, each inflection point, I think 0:03:38.840 --> 0:03:43.160 that Donald Trump made the right decision. I'm not exactly 0:03:43.280 --> 0:03:48.120 sure why there was any hesitation among some conservatives on 0:03:48.160 --> 0:03:50.680 the issue of taken out Iran's nuclear sites. To me, 0:03:50.760 --> 0:03:53.240 it was a no brainer. You have the number one 0:03:53.240 --> 0:03:56.080 state sponsor of terror. They chant death to America, they 0:03:56.160 --> 0:03:59.520 chant death to Israel. We know that they have been 0:03:59.520 --> 0:04:04.560 building bigger and bigger, more powerful, more lethal ballistic missile systems, 0:04:04.560 --> 0:04:06.760 and we know they've been in pursuit of a nuclear weapon. 0:04:07.480 --> 0:04:10.480 And I think whenever it's a squared B, squared C 0:04:10.600 --> 0:04:12.120 squared to me, and that is that if you have 0:04:12.120 --> 0:04:16.120 a sick, twisted ideology of convert die, and you're threatening 0:04:16.120 --> 0:04:19.520 to wipe Israel in America off the map, and they 0:04:19.600 --> 0:04:23.240 specifically were threatening to hit once they had the ballistic 0:04:23.320 --> 0:04:27.200 capability of doing so, hitting the continental United States with 0:04:27.279 --> 0:04:30.680 those missiles, it was a clear and present danger. That 0:04:30.880 --> 0:04:33.800 was that one could foresee down the road and we 0:04:33.920 --> 0:04:36.400 had to act, and we had to take out the 0:04:36.520 --> 0:04:38.719 Iranian nuclear sites or else the world would be a 0:04:38.760 --> 0:04:43.080 far more dangerous place. And so I think the President 0:04:43.240 --> 0:04:48.520 has pretty much thread the needle perfectly. And then the 0:04:49.200 --> 0:04:54.760 larger question becomes, well, what role should America play in 0:04:54.800 --> 0:04:56.960 the world. I think you can make an argument that 0:04:57.320 --> 0:05:00.960 maybe and there was a very strong isolation, a contingent 0:05:01.960 --> 0:05:07.720 during World War Two which kept America. America held back 0:05:07.760 --> 0:05:10.839 did not want to get involved in Europe's conflict and 0:05:10.920 --> 0:05:16.440 meanwhile you're watching the rise of Adolf Hitler and his expansionism, 0:05:17.400 --> 0:05:22.520 and ultimately Pearl Harbor happens, and Winston Churchill visits and 0:05:22.520 --> 0:05:27.200 wouldn't leave the White House of FDR and lo and behold, 0:05:28.000 --> 0:05:30.760 America is involved in a conflict in Europe and a 0:05:30.800 --> 0:05:36.640 conflict against in the Pacific, against the Japanese. My father 0:05:36.720 --> 0:05:39.159 fought in the Pacific for four years. It wasn't the 0:05:39.200 --> 0:05:42.440 best four years of his life. As I was young 0:05:42.520 --> 0:05:45.200 and curious and asking questions. He never wanted to talk 0:05:45.200 --> 0:05:48.520 about it like ever because he lost friends during that conflict. 0:05:49.080 --> 0:05:53.280 You know, at what point does the world does America 0:05:53.480 --> 0:05:58.680 have to see evil for what it is emerging and 0:05:58.760 --> 0:06:03.680 maybe root out the answer before it metastasizes and becomes 0:06:03.960 --> 0:06:08.560 something that much larger and that much more difficult and 0:06:08.600 --> 0:06:13.400 that much more complicated to get rid of. Now that 0:06:14.560 --> 0:06:17.760 now again, you're threading a needle. You don't want America 0:06:17.800 --> 0:06:21.320 to be the world's policeman. That's not the situation here 0:06:21.360 --> 0:06:24.880 with Ukraine and Russia. It just isn't. I mean, the 0:06:24.920 --> 0:06:29.120 president sees an opportunity to accomplish something that no other 0:06:29.160 --> 0:06:33.240 world leader can accomplish. The President and this is this 0:06:33.279 --> 0:06:35.919 is where I said yesterday, I really blame Europe a 0:06:35.960 --> 0:06:41.320 lot for where we are with Russia because none of 0:06:41.360 --> 0:06:43.200 these European leaders in. 0:06:44.800 --> 0:06:45.440 Forever. 0:06:46.160 --> 0:06:48.240 And by the way, the same with American leaders, the 0:06:48.320 --> 0:06:52.200 same with Obama, the same with Biden. The annexed Crimea. 0:06:52.880 --> 0:06:54.880 If you really want to go back, I mean, if 0:06:54.880 --> 0:06:58.040 you want to know why security was lost for Ukraine, 0:06:58.520 --> 0:07:01.839 go back to the point where Bill Clinton convinced the 0:07:01.960 --> 0:07:05.400 Ukrainians to give up their nuclear weapons after the disintegration 0:07:05.520 --> 0:07:10.040 of the former Soviet Union. That was their big mistake. 0:07:10.200 --> 0:07:13.560 That they'd still have Crimea. They wouldn't be at war 0:07:13.640 --> 0:07:18.200 with Russia, there wouldn't be talk about landswaps, there wouldn't 0:07:18.240 --> 0:07:22.320 be any talk about security guarantees because they had security 0:07:22.320 --> 0:07:26.000 guarantees and Russia signed on to them. And in many 0:07:26.040 --> 0:07:29.560 ways they were betrayed by all of the European allies, 0:07:29.640 --> 0:07:33.640 and frankly, the United States under Bill Clinton, under Barack 0:07:33.680 --> 0:07:38.920 Obama and Joe Biden did not live up to those concerns. 0:07:38.960 --> 0:07:42.600 So I mean, I kind of sympathize with the Ukrainians. 0:07:42.640 --> 0:07:48.600 Their mistake was giving up their strength. The only thing 0:07:48.640 --> 0:07:50.920 I would say about the role of the United States 0:07:50.920 --> 0:07:55.600 that some of you may disagree with is there are 0:07:55.880 --> 0:08:01.440 going to be moments where it's really only US that 0:08:01.560 --> 0:08:05.480 can accomplish things and the rest of the world's not 0:08:05.640 --> 0:08:10.440 capable of accomplishing it. Now, did we really lose anything 0:08:10.520 --> 0:08:15.720 when when President Trump got involved in the conflict and 0:08:15.840 --> 0:08:19.360 was able to bring about a cease fire with Iran 0:08:19.480 --> 0:08:23.080 in Israel in twelve days. No. I think the President 0:08:23.160 --> 0:08:26.040 showed number one, it was the best time to take 0:08:26.040 --> 0:08:28.720 out their nuclear sites because we already knew the Israelis 0:08:28.760 --> 0:08:32.400 had their air defense systems down. It was a risky 0:08:33.000 --> 0:08:38.199 military effort by our military. It showed their incredible precision 0:08:38.280 --> 0:08:42.040 and skill and expertise and power. And I think the 0:08:42.080 --> 0:08:44.920 world is a safer place because of it. So I 0:08:44.920 --> 0:08:47.560 think that was the right decision. But you know, but 0:08:47.600 --> 0:08:50.400 back to the fundamental question, what is America's role in 0:08:50.440 --> 0:08:50.840 the world? 0:08:51.120 --> 0:08:51.880 And I go back. 0:08:51.920 --> 0:08:54.760 I have been quoting this week Barry Farber, one of 0:08:54.760 --> 0:08:57.800 the great pioneers of talk radio. He used to always say, 0:08:58.280 --> 0:09:00.560 has never been a country in the history of mankind 0:09:00.600 --> 0:09:03.280 that has accumulated more power and abused it less than 0:09:03.320 --> 0:09:06.440 this country. I add to that, not that I have 0:09:06.480 --> 0:09:09.120 any right to but I do. It's never been a 0:09:09.160 --> 0:09:12.680 country in the history of mankind that has accumulated more power, 0:09:12.880 --> 0:09:17.000 abused it less, and used it to advance the good 0:09:17.040 --> 0:09:20.439 of mankind. So, if America is going to get involved 0:09:20.880 --> 0:09:26.479 in the conflict with Rwanda and the Congo, or Indian Pakistan, 0:09:26.960 --> 0:09:33.280 or Israel and Iran, or Azerbaijan and Armenia, or Ethiopia 0:09:33.320 --> 0:09:37.920 in Egypt or the Congo, or wherever wherever these conflicts 0:09:37.920 --> 0:09:41.520 are taking place, and the president wants to expend some 0:09:43.000 --> 0:09:47.679 political effort, nothing more, and meet with Vladimir Putin. And 0:09:47.960 --> 0:09:53.000 because European leaders have been so pathetically impotent and weak 0:09:53.679 --> 0:09:57.679 that they don't even communicate with Putin, why wouldn't they 0:09:57.679 --> 0:10:01.320 communicate with pu Why wouldn't Racrone, Why wouldn't the prime 0:10:01.360 --> 0:10:05.320 ministers of Great Britain and all these other European Union nations. 0:10:05.440 --> 0:10:08.640 Why wouldn't they be reaching out to Putin and establishing 0:10:09.480 --> 0:10:14.199 diplomatic relationships with them. Why wouldn't they be seeking solutions 0:10:14.200 --> 0:10:15.080 to problems? 0:10:15.640 --> 0:10:16.080 What you know? 0:10:17.840 --> 0:10:20.679 To me, it's sort of like President Trump got criticized. 0:10:21.440 --> 0:10:24.680 And by the way, there is a difference depending who's president. 0:10:25.320 --> 0:10:28.840 I have a different ideology and philosophy, like I don't 0:10:28.840 --> 0:10:32.040 think Joe Biden is any match for Vladimir Putin. I 0:10:32.080 --> 0:10:34.520 think the last person I'd ever want to put in 0:10:34.600 --> 0:10:38.600 front of Vladimir Putin would be the cognitively impaired Joe 0:10:38.640 --> 0:10:43.560 Biden or the ever so weak Barack Obama. I think 0:10:43.640 --> 0:10:46.240 Obama was weak. I don't think he was that Well, 0:10:46.280 --> 0:10:49.400 he took out he took out Ben Laden. Okay, well, 0:10:49.400 --> 0:10:52.000 our military took out Ben Laden. I give him credit. 0:10:52.400 --> 0:10:55.040 He made the call, he made the right call. Biden, 0:10:55.360 --> 0:10:58.440 interestingly was on the wrong side of that call. But 0:10:58.520 --> 0:11:04.400 putting that aside, I don't think that European leaders have 0:11:04.480 --> 0:11:08.280 done the right thing. They've helped fund Putin's war machine 0:11:08.320 --> 0:11:11.360 by buying all of their energy, the lifeblood of their 0:11:11.360 --> 0:11:12.520 economies from him. 0:11:14.080 --> 0:11:15.400 They've become dependent on. 0:11:15.440 --> 0:11:20.199 Him, and I don't think that that silence has been 0:11:20.200 --> 0:11:26.360 particularly helpful. I don't think, you know, not including him 0:11:26.520 --> 0:11:32.600 or looking to include him in business endeavors short of 0:11:32.920 --> 0:11:36.920 the cheap energy he's selling them, has been particularly productive either. 0:11:38.000 --> 0:11:41.280 I think Europe has made a mistake. I think similarly, 0:11:41.480 --> 0:11:47.959 European leaders generally are weak and woke and politically correct, 0:11:48.080 --> 0:11:51.440 and I think that you know, for example, I'd never 0:11:51.480 --> 0:11:53.920 thought i'd see a day where what is a great 0:11:53.920 --> 0:11:58.920 Britain as somewhat seventy five eighties sharia courts? What about assimilation? 0:11:59.640 --> 0:12:03.600 As one Australian prime minister famously said, if you're going 0:12:03.640 --> 0:12:08.120 to come to Australia, become an Australian and adopt our moras, 0:12:08.240 --> 0:12:11.480 our values, And we're not talking about religious freedom, that's 0:12:11.480 --> 0:12:16.400 separate in the part, but they certainly shouldn't. You shouldn't 0:12:16.440 --> 0:12:21.400 have two justice systems anyway. So, just to kind of 0:12:21.400 --> 0:12:24.079 circle back to where I started here, you know, the 0:12:24.120 --> 0:12:28.000 Trump doctrine is pretty clear, no forever wars. However, that 0:12:28.000 --> 0:12:34.599 doesn't mean isolationism. And for America to use its standing 0:12:34.760 --> 0:12:40.199 and its strength to advance peace around the world so 0:12:40.520 --> 0:12:44.240 that it is a better business environment and a safer 0:12:44.360 --> 0:12:47.760 place in the world with less conflict and less death 0:12:47.800 --> 0:12:52.480 and less dying, I think is a pretty sound foreign policy. 0:12:53.440 --> 0:12:57.760 Why there are some people that are purposely misinterpreting Donald 0:12:57.800 --> 0:13:03.000 Trump's doctrine. I have no idea why. And if you 0:13:03.160 --> 0:13:05.960 dare to challenge what they're saying, I'll give you an example. 0:13:06.559 --> 0:13:08.640 You know, President Trump, you. 0:13:08.600 --> 0:13:15.840 Know, gave, gave Gaza and Hamas every opportunity, just like 0:13:15.880 --> 0:13:20.960 he gave Iran every opportunity to choose peace. And then 0:13:21.000 --> 0:13:26.559 on the fifty first day, Israel attacked. And then once Israel, 0:13:26.720 --> 0:13:29.240 you know, took out a lot of their missile defense 0:13:29.280 --> 0:13:34.920 systems and air defense systems and their missile batteries. Then 0:13:34.960 --> 0:13:37.440 in came America to take out their nuclear sites because 0:13:37.480 --> 0:13:40.240 President Trump stated as part of his doctrine that they 0:13:40.280 --> 0:13:43.280 can't have nuclear weapons, not with their sick ideology and 0:13:43.360 --> 0:13:47.079 the direct threats they're making against the US and against Israel. 0:13:47.840 --> 0:13:51.240 And now President Trump said, you know, after a period 0:13:51.320 --> 0:13:54.840 of time, they still haven't released these hostages. October seventh 0:13:54.920 --> 0:13:58.520 was in twenty twenty three, and he backed Israel's expansion 0:13:58.559 --> 0:14:01.520 of the war in Gaza, saying the remaining hostages can 0:14:02.080 --> 0:14:06.360 be freed only if Hamas is completely eradicated. We will 0:14:06.640 --> 0:14:10.040 only see the return of the remaining hostages when Hamas 0:14:10.440 --> 0:14:14.440 is confronted and destroyed. He wrote on truth Social that 0:14:14.520 --> 0:14:17.640 doesn't sound like an isolationist to me. And by the way, 0:14:17.679 --> 0:14:20.400 I think he's right. Hamas has part of their charter 0:14:20.520 --> 0:14:23.720 the destruction of Israel. Israel is an ally. I think 0:14:23.760 --> 0:14:27.640 that we do need worldwide alliances, and they're the only 0:14:27.680 --> 0:14:31.200 democracy in the region. And I think that the Abraham Accords, 0:14:31.240 --> 0:14:34.120 as a result of President Trump's strength, can be expanded, 0:14:34.680 --> 0:14:37.080 and I hope that that's one of the outcomes in 0:14:37.120 --> 0:14:40.880 the end. You look at the president's approval rating, it's 0:14:40.960 --> 0:14:45.680 fifty four percent. Now, if you look at the state 0:14:45.760 --> 0:14:48.600 run Legacy media mob and their polls, they would have 0:14:48.680 --> 0:14:52.640 you convinced that Donald Trump is not doing well because 0:14:52.680 --> 0:14:55.840 I've been following their polls and I don't report them 0:14:55.960 --> 0:14:59.200 because I don't trust them because they haven't polled President 0:14:59.200 --> 0:15:03.480 Trump accurate for ten years. There are a few companies 0:15:03.760 --> 0:15:09.400 that have. Rasmussen has been very accurate, for example, Trefalgar 0:15:09.760 --> 0:15:13.080 and that would be Robert Kahley been very accurate. John 0:15:13.160 --> 0:15:18.520 McLaughlin been very accurate, our friend Matt Towery very accurate. 0:15:19.200 --> 0:15:21.840 And many of them, by the way, are joining forces 0:15:21.880 --> 0:15:26.200 to get to get America accurate polling numbers because a 0:15:26.280 --> 0:15:29.280 lot of the polls that just sheer garbage, and a 0:15:29.320 --> 0:15:33.920 lot of them are political. It's amazing that they get 0:15:33.960 --> 0:15:38.280 away with it, but they do anyway. So Matt Towery 0:15:38.640 --> 0:15:44.040 Insider Advantage went out did a poll of Donald Trump 0:15:44.160 --> 0:15:49.680 his approval rating post the summit with Vladimir Putin, and anyway, 0:15:49.720 --> 0:15:52.800 it was conducted over the weekend, and if you look 0:15:52.840 --> 0:15:57.400 at the results, their pretty astounding fifty four percent approval 0:15:57.480 --> 0:16:01.000 rating after meeting with Putin, forty four percent approval rating. 0:16:01.760 --> 0:16:03.120 And if you look. 0:16:02.920 --> 0:16:07.680 At they found that he now has an advantage among 0:16:07.840 --> 0:16:12.080 every age group other than the most senior of voters. 0:16:12.680 --> 0:16:16.560 Improved his numbers among African Americans to twenty four percent, 0:16:16.720 --> 0:16:21.360 Hispanic voters to forty seven percent. White voters are at 0:16:21.400 --> 0:16:24.960 a near record high of sixty four percent. Half of 0:16:25.040 --> 0:16:29.120 independence fifty plus percent are approving of Trump, while the 0:16:29.240 --> 0:16:33.120 vast majority of Republicans ninety two percent approve of what 0:16:33.160 --> 0:16:36.080 he's doing. And even seventeen point nine percent of Democrats 0:16:36.080 --> 0:16:39.920 said the same, Well, why is it happening because president 0:16:40.040 --> 0:16:45.080 that people are watching a president in action every second, 0:16:45.120 --> 0:16:46.920 every minute, every hour of every day. 0:16:47.640 --> 0:16:50.400 They're paying attention. They compared to the. 0:16:50.400 --> 0:16:54.680 Last four years of Joe Biden. I mean, he's accomplishing 0:16:54.760 --> 0:16:57.720 more in a week than Biden did in four years. 0:16:57.920 --> 0:16:59.840 We're seeing more of him in a week than we 0:17:00.080 --> 0:17:05.440 see we saw Biden in four years. And anyway, it's 0:17:05.520 --> 0:17:09.560 you know, we'll see what happens. There's no guarantees. I'm 0:17:09.600 --> 0:17:12.240 not sure if I you know, people said, well, when 0:17:12.280 --> 0:17:14.679 do you agree with disagree with President Trump? I'm not 0:17:14.720 --> 0:17:18.159 sure if I wouldn't have Trump ride this out with 0:17:18.320 --> 0:17:20.840 both of them to the end, if it's going to 0:17:20.880 --> 0:17:24.760 go that way. I know what his thinking is because 0:17:24.920 --> 0:17:28.080 he told me, and that is at some point they've 0:17:28.080 --> 0:17:30.080 got to be alone and they got to get along 0:17:30.119 --> 0:17:33.399 together if a deal is going to be lasting. And 0:17:33.480 --> 0:17:36.200 so the next step apparently is going to be bilateral, 0:17:36.920 --> 0:17:41.320 a bilateral meeting with Zelensky and Putin. I worry that 0:17:41.400 --> 0:17:43.440 meeting is where this whole thing could blow up. 0:17:44.200 --> 0:17:44.480 Now. 0:17:44.640 --> 0:17:49.840 I would prefer a trilateral meeting where President Trump can 0:17:50.119 --> 0:17:53.400 can moderate, if you will, if things get a little 0:17:53.440 --> 0:17:56.080 bit tense, and I think they're both capable of going there. 0:17:57.840 --> 0:17:59.920 I didn't finish the thought in the last segment, but 0:18:00.680 --> 0:18:02.639 I was trying to point out, what did President Trump 0:18:02.640 --> 0:18:05.600 in his first term give Kim Jong un and I 0:18:05.680 --> 0:18:09.000 went to both of those meetings. What did he give him? Nothing? 0:18:09.720 --> 0:18:13.479 He gave him his time. What was the result of 0:18:13.720 --> 0:18:19.800 Donald Trump, you know, meeting with Little Rocketman on two occasions, 0:18:19.840 --> 0:18:22.280 I think three total. When he went to the DMZ. 0:18:23.119 --> 0:18:24.560 What did we give up? 0:18:24.680 --> 0:18:25.040 Nothing? 0:18:25.720 --> 0:18:30.000 The President gave his time, Little Rocketman stopped firing his rockets. 0:18:30.359 --> 0:18:34.480 He handed over the remains of Americans from the Korean War, 0:18:35.440 --> 0:18:41.920 and the relationship it thawed and North Korea was not 0:18:42.080 --> 0:18:43.600 the big threat that it once was. 0:18:44.920 --> 0:18:48.959 And so was it worth it? Yeah? It was worth it. 0:18:49.040 --> 0:18:51.439 Is it worth President Trump's time to meet with Putin 0:18:51.480 --> 0:18:55.040 and Alaska and then meet with European leaders, you know, 0:18:56.840 --> 0:18:57.720 three days later? 0:18:57.840 --> 0:18:58.040 Yeah? 0:18:58.080 --> 0:19:02.639 I think it's worth it. What's the downside? We're not 0:19:02.720 --> 0:19:05.600 giving up anything. And I do think that there's a 0:19:05.640 --> 0:19:09.240 Plan B, and I think Plan B is pretty transparent. 0:19:10.080 --> 0:19:13.639 And he said that the consequences to Vladimir Putin, if 0:19:13.680 --> 0:19:16.920 Putin blows up this deal, are going to be devastating. 0:19:17.119 --> 0:19:19.879 We already know what the consequences are. He put a 0:19:19.920 --> 0:19:23.440 fifty percent tariff on India if they continue to import 0:19:23.640 --> 0:19:27.040 Russian oil. We know that he made a deal with 0:19:27.080 --> 0:19:31.280 the European Union that they're going to purchase nearly a 0:19:31.320 --> 0:19:35.320 trillion dollars of energy from US and not fund Putin's 0:19:35.320 --> 0:19:40.119 war machine. And Donald Trump's going straight at Putin's economy, 0:19:40.240 --> 0:19:43.119 which is already struggling. On top of that, he's going 0:19:43.200 --> 0:19:45.960 to provide Ukraine weapons, and on top of that he 0:19:46.000 --> 0:19:49.840 got NATO to commit to more than double what they 0:19:49.880 --> 0:19:54.119 were paying in terms of security for the continent of Europe. 0:19:54.840 --> 0:19:58.000 So I think it's it's all good stuff. It's fun 0:19:58.040 --> 0:20:03.320 to watch. This is America's you know, America add its 0:20:03.440 --> 0:20:07.960 best when it uses its power for the advancement of 0:20:08.400 --> 0:20:10.840 good causes, the cause of peace. I can't think of 0:20:10.880 --> 0:20:13.960 a better cause. It was kind of interesting. I don't 0:20:14.000 --> 0:20:17.240 know if you noticed the Italian Prime Minister Georgia Maloney 0:20:17.359 --> 0:20:20.359 rolling her eyes as the German Chancellor was trying to 0:20:20.480 --> 0:20:23.960 lecture Trump about the need for a Ukraine war ceasefire. 0:20:24.440 --> 0:20:27.680 The President rightly pointed out and every conflict that I 0:20:27.880 --> 0:20:30.919 mentioned that he got involved in, they never had a 0:20:30.960 --> 0:20:34.040 ceasefire step first. I mean, I guess it would be 0:20:34.040 --> 0:20:36.480 okay on paper, but that was not his stated goal 0:20:36.520 --> 0:20:39.560 when he went in to get the ceasefire. His stated 0:20:39.560 --> 0:20:41.440 goal was to get a second meeting, and he got 0:20:41.440 --> 0:20:44.399 that part, and that was supposed to be the Trilateral meeting. 0:20:44.520 --> 0:20:49.119 I would prefer that order. That's my own thought. I 0:20:49.160 --> 0:20:52.439 don't think Putin and Zelenski. I think they can't stand 0:20:52.480 --> 0:20:56.480 each other, and there's nothing but hatred and resentment and animosity. 0:20:57.080 --> 0:20:58.840 And I think if Trump was there, I think they'd 0:20:58.840 --> 0:21:02.080 be both be better behaved, and I think the odds 0:21:02.080 --> 0:21:06.080 would go up exponentially that a final deal can be reached. 0:21:07.400 --> 0:21:09.920 Trump did vow there will be no US troops defending 0:21:10.000 --> 0:21:12.960 Ukraine's border as part of any security arrangement that is 0:21:13.000 --> 0:21:15.240 in keeping with the Trump doctrine. As I was trying 0:21:15.240 --> 0:21:18.440 to explain it to you, one thing I want all 0:21:18.480 --> 0:21:20.359 of you in this audience to pay attention to. I 0:21:20.400 --> 0:21:24.000 always tell you in my audience to please never depend 0:21:24.119 --> 0:21:28.359 on government for anything in your life. And if you're 0:21:28.560 --> 0:21:31.479 a young person, I would say, don't count on Social 0:21:31.520 --> 0:21:35.200 Security being there for you when you get older, because 0:21:35.240 --> 0:21:36.760 it's headed towards insolvency. 0:21:37.520 --> 0:21:38.439 I mean, we don't know. 0:21:38.480 --> 0:21:40.520 We've got three and a half years of Trump left, 0:21:41.200 --> 0:21:43.639 and I can't tell you who's going to be the 0:21:43.640 --> 0:21:46.840 next president. Although I do like the idea, and we'll 0:21:46.840 --> 0:21:49.919 get into some detail on this on Hennity tonight the 0:21:49.960 --> 0:21:53.439 President and we'll get into more later in the program today. 0:21:54.240 --> 0:21:56.440 But I do like the fact that the president, both 0:21:56.440 --> 0:21:59.720 in my interview in Alaska and then this pool spray. 0:21:59.800 --> 0:22:03.359 Yet yesterday brought up the issue of paper ballots, and 0:22:03.400 --> 0:22:08.680 that would include integrity and American elections, the idea that 0:22:09.640 --> 0:22:14.119 we don't have that. But both Democrats and Republicans have 0:22:14.320 --> 0:22:19.919 questioned election results. Neither side is innocent here. Hillary Clinton 0:22:20.000 --> 0:22:23.719 questioned it. Stacy Abrams's question that many many Democrats said, Oh, 0:22:23.880 --> 0:22:28.200 Donald Trump didn't win it, just it happens. You want 0:22:28.200 --> 0:22:32.359 more integrity in the system, Switch to paper ballots, Switch 0:22:32.440 --> 0:22:36.439 to same day voting. With the exception of the military 0:22:37.200 --> 0:22:40.800 and people that are sick or elderly and can't make 0:22:40.840 --> 0:22:42.840 it to the polls, they should have the right to vote. 0:22:43.480 --> 0:22:47.560 But you need paper ballots, you need voter ID, you 0:22:47.600 --> 0:22:53.920 need signature verification, chain of custody, and cameras watching any 0:22:54.080 --> 0:22:56.800 mail in ballots from the military or sick people as 0:22:56.800 --> 0:22:58.520 it comes in. They stay in a room and they 0:22:58.560 --> 0:23:02.359 get counted on election day. And then I would have 0:23:02.480 --> 0:23:08.240 updated voter rolls every single election season, partisan observers watching 0:23:08.320 --> 0:23:11.880 the voting all day, the vote counting all night, and 0:23:11.920 --> 0:23:16.080 then they can count up the votes paper ballots. And 0:23:16.119 --> 0:23:18.320 then I think people on both sides would have more 0:23:18.320 --> 0:23:21.400 faith in the system, but don't have trust in government. 0:23:21.960 --> 0:23:24.200 And I'm just going to add one thing to this. 0:23:24.240 --> 0:23:28.320 There's an article today in Axios that artificial intelligence could 0:23:28.400 --> 0:23:33.680 replace a trillion dollars a year in wages. Now, first 0:23:33.760 --> 0:23:37.440 of all, good thing. Donald Trump has fifteen trillion dollars 0:23:37.480 --> 0:23:43.360 in committed investment money in manufacturing for automobiles, semiconductor chips, pharmaceuticals, 0:23:43.880 --> 0:23:47.680 rare earths, et cetera. So there's going to be millions 0:23:47.720 --> 0:23:51.040 and millions of high paying career jobs on coming in 0:23:51.080 --> 0:23:54.919 the future. But even with automotive, you got you got robotics, 0:23:54.960 --> 0:23:57.679 and the same with a lot of other manufacturing. But 0:23:57.840 --> 0:24:02.680 fully adopting AI might end up saving Corporate America nine 0:24:02.760 --> 0:24:05.639 hundred and twenty billion dollars annually, according to a new 0:24:05.680 --> 0:24:09.720 Morgan Stanley study. That's a lot of potential jobs that 0:24:09.760 --> 0:24:13.800 are lost. So if you're thinking about or advising your 0:24:13.920 --> 0:24:17.280 children on the issue of what careers to pick up, 0:24:17.960 --> 0:24:20.280 remember we had Mike Row on this program. The next 0:24:20.359 --> 0:24:25.800 generation of millionaires, they're going to be people that are tradespeople. 0:24:26.760 --> 0:24:31.480 They're making a ton of money and I highly recommend it. 0:24:32.359 --> 0:24:35.280 By the way, young adults say friendship is getting too expensive, 0:24:35.320 --> 0:24:38.800 according to a new survey. I know, did you see 0:24:38.800 --> 0:24:43.840 that one, Linda, that was pretty fun? Getting very expensive 0:24:43.880 --> 0:24:48.920 to be friends with you? Very expensive. Democratic presidential quote 0:24:49.040 --> 0:24:50.720 hopeful this is a joke. 0:24:51.119 --> 0:24:51.359 JB. 0:24:51.520 --> 0:24:53.720 Pritzker is never going to be president. Signed to bill 0:24:53.840 --> 0:24:58.600 granting taxpayer funded financial benefits to illegals. You know, this 0:24:58.640 --> 0:25:00.560 is where Pam Bondi is now going to after all 0:25:00.600 --> 0:25:05.199 these sanctuary cities sanctuary states because he explained to me 0:25:05.280 --> 0:25:07.560 how that's not aiding in a betting and law breaking. 0:25:08.320 --> 0:25:11.639 Trump Homeland Security Department has moved to block billions of 0:25:11.640 --> 0:25:15.240