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Speaker 1: Center. We're live here with a very fun crowd at

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Speaker 1: Club for Growth at their conference down in Florida. It

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Speaker 1: is verdict with Ted Cruz obviously Ben Ferguson with you.

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Speaker 1: It is great to be here and this is going

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Speaker 1: to be for our audience. So what we refer to

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Speaker 1: as an emergency pod outside the normal Monday, Wednesday Friday's schedule,

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Speaker 1: we're doing two basically today for Friday because of what

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Speaker 1: we just witnessed in the Oval office with Zelensky showing up,

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Speaker 1: and it was very clear from what the President said,

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Speaker 1: he was not there to work a deal. He was

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Speaker 1: not there for peace. I want to get your initial reaction.

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Speaker 2: To this, Well, let me say you and I are

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Speaker 2: both at the Club for Growth conference down in Florida today.

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Speaker 2: I will say the Club for Growth is an extraordinarily

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Speaker 2: important conservative and free market organization. They support conservative and

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Speaker 2: free market candidates running for the Senate, running for the House.

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Speaker 2: I literally would not be in the US Senate were

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Speaker 2: it not for the Club for Growth making a big

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Speaker 2: gamble on me.

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Speaker 1: They know how to pick winners.

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Speaker 2: And by the way, when the Club got behind me

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Speaker 2: thirteen years ago when I first ran, I was.

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Speaker 3: Literally at two percent in the polls.

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Speaker 2: You had to be out of your ever loving minds

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Speaker 2: to be backing me. The last job I had been

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Speaker 2: elected to was student council, and the Club leaned in

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Speaker 2: in a big way and shocked every observer. And they

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Speaker 2: principal conservatives. And so I've been to the Club for

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Speaker 2: Growth conference many many times. There are extraordinary patriots here,

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Speaker 2: and so I just want to say thank you to

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Speaker 2: the men and women here, your leadership standing up and

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Speaker 2: fighting to save our nation.

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Speaker 1: Amen. So let's get into your initial reaction. Then I

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Speaker 1: want to play some clips. But this has gone viral. Obviously,

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Speaker 1: Zelenski coming to White House, the pretensive or this meeting

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Speaker 1: and the President, I think learned pretty quickly to the

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Speaker 1: point where he said, we're not even doing a joint

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Speaker 1: press conference. Have a good day. You're not here for

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Speaker 2: So look, I suspect pretty much everyone here has already

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Speaker 2: watched much of this exchange.

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Speaker 1: In what happened.

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Speaker 2: What I will tell you is that President Zelensky showed

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Speaker 2: up in the Oval Office and decided he was there

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Speaker 2: to battle Donald Trump decided he was there to insult

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Speaker 2: Donald Trump, decided he was there to attack and belittle

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Speaker 2: Donald Trump. And without exaggeration, I believe this will go

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Speaker 2: down as the most disastrous Oval Office meeting in the

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Speaker 3: Wow, Zelensky had one job.

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Speaker 2: His one job was to go there and to try

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Speaker 2: to get the president's support for a peace that leaves

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Speaker 2: his country in a good and strong position. That was

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Speaker 2: his entire mission. And apparently decided that he knew better

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Speaker 2: than everyone else and that President Trump should be kissing

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Speaker 2: his ass. Now, I got to say, look, for any president,

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Speaker 2: you go back from George Washington to Ronald Reagan, to

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Speaker 3: To Donald Trump.

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Speaker 2: Coming into the Oval Office and behaving like an ass,

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Speaker 2: by the way, doing this for the entire world, for

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Speaker 2: any president, is a dumb ass move.

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Speaker 1: It was on purpose too, It was very deliberate. It

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Speaker 1: wasn't an accident.

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Speaker 2: So there literally is no analog. If you look back,

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Speaker 2: you look back. I've been in a lot of Oval

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Speaker 2: Office meetings. No foreign leader has ever done what President

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Speaker 2: Zelenski did, and it's particularly ironic because it is exactly

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Speaker 2: he his mission was. Look, he was there. Number one,

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Speaker 2: The United States has given hundreds of billions of dollars

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Speaker 1: Let's be queer, not millions.

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Speaker 2: You said it will be with a B and and

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Speaker 2: of it. Here, I want to play the first clip.

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Speaker 2: This is a clip of the exchange between President Zelenski

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Speaker 4: Your country is in big trouble. No, No, He've done

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Speaker 4: I know you're not winning. You're not winning this. You

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Speaker 4: I said, thanks, Cabinet, we gave you this stupid president,

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Speaker 4: three hundred and fifty billion dollars. You will we military equipment.

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Speaker 4: You and you met are brave, but they had to

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Speaker 1: So let's read the transcript of it, and if we

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Speaker 1: number one. If you want to read what the president said,

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Speaker 1: You're not winning. You have a damn good chance of

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Speaker 1: coming out okay, because of us. You haven't been alone.

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Speaker 1: We gave you, through our stupid president, three hundred and

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Speaker 1: been over in two weeks. That was like point number

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Speaker 3: Look it clearly is. And I want to give an example.

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Speaker 3: Let's say you're running a business.

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Speaker 1: All right, let's play it.

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Speaker 3: Take a right a lot of questions.

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Speaker 4: You don't know that.

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Speaker 3: God bless You're not blessed.

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Speaker 4: You don't know, don't tell us what we're gonna feel.

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Speaker 4: We're trying to solve a problem. Don't tell us what

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Speaker 4: In no position to dictate what we're going to feel.

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Speaker 3: We're gonna feel very good.

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Speaker 4: We're gonna feel very good and very strong. You're, right now,

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Speaker 5: From the beginning of the war, not in a good position.

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Speaker 4: You don't have the cards right now with us. You

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Speaker 4: And what you're doing is very disrespectful to the country,

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Speaker 1: I mean center. You look at that and it's a shocking. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it was shocking because look, we know world leaders come

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Speaker 2: There are meetings where world leaders disagree and disagree, sometimes

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Speaker 2: with a great deal of candor. One hundred percent of

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Speaker 2: the times the TV cameras are turned off. Behind closed doors,

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Speaker 2: world leaders can have very frank discussions, and I have

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Speaker 2: Zelensky's putting on a show. And see you heard him say,

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Speaker 2: you know, I have much respect. You're wearing a sweatshirt.

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Speaker 2: For Pete's sakes, it's the Oval office of the White House,

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Speaker 2: on a friggin jacket and tie, wear a suit.

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Speaker 1: I mean, look, especially when you're asking for three hundred

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Speaker 2: And he's acting like a performance artist. He used to

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Speaker 2: He came and addressed a joint session of Congress a

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Speaker 2: I remember that it was Zelenski trying to explain what happened.

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Speaker 2: He said, I'd planned to wear a suit and tie.

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Speaker 2: But then an official from the Biden administration stole my luggage.

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Speaker 3: And if you.

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Speaker 2: Remember this odd transgender official in the Biden administration who

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Speaker 3: Well, there is that.

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Speaker 2: But this the arrogance that Zelensky brought to this, and

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Speaker 2: I actually want to credit Trump. Trump doesn't get mad

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Speaker 2: But it's just astonishing. You know, yesterday I met with

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Speaker 3: She came to my office.

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Speaker 2: It was caused by Joe Biden's weakness. It was caused

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Speaker 2: by his unwillingness to stand and be strong.

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Speaker 2: Particular, Joe Biden waived the sanctions on nord Stream two.

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Speaker 2: Nordstream two is the undersea pipeline Russia was building from

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Speaker 2: In December of twenty nineteen, I authored sanctions legislation that

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Speaker 2: The day that President Trump signed my sanctions legislation in

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Speaker 3: It prevented war. Joe Biden came in.

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Speaker 2: He was sworn into office on January twentieth, twenty twenty one.

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Speaker 2: later January twenty fourth, because Biden had foreshadowed weakness. That

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Speaker 2: foreshadowing was accurate, because several months later he formally waived

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Speaker 2: those sanctions on Russia on Putin effectively gave him billions

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Speaker 1: Without the funding so that people understand that they're listening.

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Speaker 1: because without that funding, there's no way they could do

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Speaker 2: Listen, if Donald Trump had been president the last four years,

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Speaker 2: there is no war in Ukraine. Putin does not invade,

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Speaker 2: but Biden's weakness. You remember Biden's disastrous withdraw in Afghanistan,

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Speaker 2: have just risen tenfold because a weak commander in chief

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Speaker 3: It emboldens them.

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Speaker 2: Now what I told the EU's Foreign minister yesterday, I said, Listen,

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Speaker 2: has just been shooting his mouth off and attacking President Trump.

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Speaker 2: And I told the EU Foreign Minister it's not complicated,

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Speaker 2: Donald Trump. If somebody attacks him, we'll punch back every time,

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Speaker 2: one hundred percent of the time, with no exceptions.

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Speaker 3: In every instance. This is not a secret.

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Speaker 3: What I don't know what is he landing to.

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Speaker 2: Are his advisors sitting there blowing smoke at him? Oh

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Speaker 2: wonderful job, mister President. You showed him it certainly.

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Speaker 1: Won't be the ambassador because she was.

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Speaker 2: Like this, I mean, listen, this war needs to end.

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Speaker 2: It needs to end promptly. I believe it is going

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Speaker 2: to end promptly. And as I said, it is important

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Speaker 2: in that it ends in a way that is a

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Speaker 2: clear discernible loss for Russia. I also think the direction

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Speaker 2: President Trump was going of signing an agreement where the

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Speaker 2: United States gets significant benefits from rare earth minerals in Ukraine.

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Speaker 2: That has a lot of upside to it, but not

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Speaker 2: when they have a world leader coming in into the

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Speaker 2: Oval office telling the President of the United States essentially

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Speaker 2: screw you. Look an analogy, if you think about it,

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Speaker 2: there are a lot of small business owners in the room.

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Speaker 2: If your business is in crisis and you're facing a

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Speaker 2: you fifty million dollars and you save your business, you

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Speaker 2: don't fire your employees, and then a week later you

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Speaker 2: go to the bank and say, you damn jerk, why

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Speaker 2: didn't you give me more Like, it is not complicated

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Speaker 2: that if you went to the bank and they gave

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Speaker 2: you the capital you needed to save your business. Even

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Speaker 2: even the person with the lowest EQ on planet Earth,

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Speaker 2: even the person with no sense of other human beings,

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Speaker 2: would say, maybe, if someone is providing me the only

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Speaker 2: financial lifeline that is keeping me alive, maybe I have

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Speaker 2: the sense to.

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Speaker 3: Be nice to them.

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Speaker 2: Zelenski, I just think you know, he's been in Vanity Fair,

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Speaker 2: he's been on People Magazine. I think he thinks he's

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Speaker 2: he's he's Brad Pitt or Taylor Swift and uh. And

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Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure he's not dating uh Travis Kelson.

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Speaker 5: No.

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Speaker 3: Uh. And if he is, I really know about it.

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Speaker 3: I don't want to know about it.

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Speaker 1: But listen, So let me ask you this moving forward,

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Speaker 1: final question. This I want to do some Q and

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Speaker 1: A obviously, and and that is you've got a joint

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Speaker 1: session of Congress on on Tuesday night. How much are

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Speaker 1: the speech writers changing what Donald Trump may say to

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Speaker 1: the world because you are You're not, You're not just

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Speaker 1: talking to Congress. Will that anything change? Ers? He say,

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Speaker 1: I move on.

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Speaker 3: I don't think dramatically.

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Speaker 2: I think almost all of what the President is going

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Speaker 2: to talk about is the domestic agenda. I think what

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Speaker 2: the President is going to talk about on Tuesday Night

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Speaker 2: his promises made, promises kept. I will say this, we're

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Speaker 2: forty days into a new administration. In our lifetimes, there

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Speaker 2: has never been a president who has hit the ground

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Speaker 2: running as fast and furious as this president. It is breathtaking.

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Speaker 2: It is wild right now. Elon Musk is obviously integraly involved.

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Speaker 2: That is driving democrats in the media crazy, and it's

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Speaker 2: embodying the old Silicon Valley adage of a move fast

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Speaker 2: and break things. I think that's what we'll hear Tuesday

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Speaker 2: night is we made promises to secure the border.

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Speaker 3: We're securing the border.

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Speaker 2: We made promises to unleash American energy.

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Speaker 3: We're unleashing American energy.

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Speaker 2: We made promises to unleash the economy and bring back

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Speaker 2: jobs and small businesses. We're doing exactly that. We made

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Speaker 2: promises to make America safer. Hamas has been releasing hostages,

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Speaker 2: and I think the President will say we will end

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Speaker 2: the war in Ukraine. But I I'll be surprised if

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Speaker 2: the President it wouldn't surprise me if he doesn't even

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Speaker 2: use the word Zelensky in the speech. I think his

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Speaker 2: approach will be, we want to end it. What he said,

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Speaker 2: the Oval Office spoke for itself, but I for one,

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Speaker 2: am damn glad we have a commander in chief with

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Speaker 2: a backbone and that our enemies are afraid of America

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Speaker 2: as much safer as a result.

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Speaker 1: Ay a mint of that. Don't forget. We do this

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Speaker 1: for having us here today as well. Check them out online.

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Speaker 1: years ago is that? Thirteen thirteen years ago? There you go,

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