WEBVTT - Mark Halperin - April 28th, Hour 2 0:00:00.280 --> 0:00:03.080 All right, thanks scotch On an hour two Sean Hannity Show, 0:00:03.160 --> 0:00:05.520 told free on numbers eight hundred and nine to four one, Sean, 0:00:05.760 --> 0:00:08.800 if you want to be a part of the program. 0:00:09.119 --> 0:00:11.280 One of the things I'm very proud of as a 0:00:11.320 --> 0:00:16.080 member of the press, I have never been to a 0:00:16.120 --> 0:00:19.480 White House correspondence dinner. I've been pressured a lot over 0:00:19.480 --> 0:00:22.079 the years to attend, and somehow I was able to 0:00:22.120 --> 0:00:25.520 withstand that pressure doesn't come down anymore. But in all 0:00:25.560 --> 0:00:28.000 the years I've been doing talk radio and my twenty 0:00:28.120 --> 0:00:31.760 ninth year on the Fox News Channel, I've never I've 0:00:31.880 --> 0:00:34.120 just found a way out of it. Every time I 0:00:34.159 --> 0:00:37.120 was asked to go, didn't want to go. Don't particularly 0:00:37.400 --> 0:00:39.080 like a lot of the people in the media. They 0:00:39.120 --> 0:00:41.640 don't particularly like me, So let's be upfront about it. 0:00:42.760 --> 0:00:46.440 And it's just interesting the self righteousness in this room 0:00:46.840 --> 0:00:51.760 of people that really don't understand that. Whether or not 0:00:51.800 --> 0:00:54.480 they'd like to admit it or not, Legacy media, as 0:00:54.480 --> 0:00:57.040 far as I'm concerned, is they're dead. If they were 0:00:57.080 --> 0:01:01.160 going to have impact the years they spent and destroying 0:01:01.280 --> 0:01:04.720 Donald Trump and smearing and slandering and peddling lives and 0:01:04.760 --> 0:01:08.400 conspiracy theories Tamala Harris would have won by a landslide. 0:01:08.560 --> 0:01:12.440 That didn't happen because the American people rejected their message. 0:01:13.319 --> 0:01:15.640 With all that said, over the weekend, they had their 0:01:15.640 --> 0:01:18.400 correspondence dinner where they've pat themselves on the back. They 0:01:18.440 --> 0:01:20.360 get all dressed up and they try to look real 0:01:20.400 --> 0:01:24.080 pretty and handsome, and well, here's the president of the 0:01:24.080 --> 0:01:27.360 White House Correspondence Association. We are not the enemy of 0:01:27.400 --> 0:01:29.399 the people, and you got to stand and go. 0:01:30.720 --> 0:01:32.560 We journalists are a lot of things. 0:01:33.400 --> 0:01:37.120 We are competitive and pushy, we are impatient, and sometimes 0:01:37.120 --> 0:01:38.240 we think we know everything. 0:01:39.480 --> 0:01:40.959 But we're also human. 0:01:41.640 --> 0:01:44.520 We miss our families and significant life moments in service 0:01:44.560 --> 0:01:47.760 to this job. We care deeply about accuracy and take 0:01:47.840 --> 0:01:52.280 seriously the heavy responsibility of being stewards of the public's trust. 0:01:53.400 --> 0:01:56.880 What we are not is the opposition. What we are 0:01:56.920 --> 0:01:59.200 not is the enemy of the people. And what we 0:01:59.240 --> 0:02:01.040 are not is in and the of the state. 0:02:03.120 --> 0:02:06.760 They allowed so many lies to be told about Donald Trump. 0:02:06.800 --> 0:02:08.880 Did they have a tell the real valuation ofmar A Lago. 0:02:08.960 --> 0:02:12.360 Let's start with something very very basic, fundamental and simple. 0:02:12.960 --> 0:02:15.360 There's a lot that they have done, and there's a 0:02:15.400 --> 0:02:17.520 lot of lying that's taken place, and a lot of 0:02:17.560 --> 0:02:21.880 conspiracy theories that have been peddled. There's one moment of truth, 0:02:21.960 --> 0:02:25.480 but frankly, it's way too little, way too late, and 0:02:26.080 --> 0:02:28.880 they missed the whole boat. On Joe Biden's cognitive decline, 0:02:29.000 --> 0:02:32.880 Alex Thompson, Axio's reporter, said this one. 0:02:32.720 --> 0:02:37.560 Serious note to my bones. I believe that reporting and 0:02:37.639 --> 0:02:41.960 the White House correspond Association is as necessary as ever. 0:02:42.720 --> 0:02:47.120 President Biden's decline and its cover up by the people 0:02:47.160 --> 0:02:51.079 around him is a reminder that every White House, regardless 0:02:51.120 --> 0:02:55.760 of party, is capable of deception. But being truth tellers 0:02:55.760 --> 0:03:00.639 also means telling the truth about ourselves. We myself included, 0:03:01.200 --> 0:03:03.880 missed a lot of this story, and some people trust 0:03:03.919 --> 0:03:08.320 us less because of it. We bear some responsibility for 0:03:08.440 --> 0:03:11.240 faith in the media being at such lows. 0:03:15.360 --> 0:03:16.880 I say this because. 0:03:16.600 --> 0:03:22.440 Acknowledging errors builds trust and being defensive about them further 0:03:22.600 --> 0:03:23.160 erodes it. 0:03:24.639 --> 0:03:25.560 We should have done better. 0:03:25.960 --> 0:03:29.760 Okay, they didn't miss it as an institution, They purposely 0:03:29.840 --> 0:03:32.400 ignored it because they have a political agenda, would be 0:03:32.440 --> 0:03:36.040 my analysis. Anyway, here to weigh in on this and 0:03:36.560 --> 0:03:39.040 so much more, Editor in Chief, Two Way, host of 0:03:39.120 --> 0:03:42.520 his new show next up with Mark Halprin. It's on 0:03:42.800 --> 0:03:47.120 MK Media, which is which is Megan Kelly's network. And anyway, 0:03:47.200 --> 0:03:49.800 he's here to talk about his new show, and he's 0:03:49.840 --> 0:03:52.560 going to have interviews upcoming with Ted Cruz and again 0:03:52.960 --> 0:03:56.200 our old buddy Gavin Newsom. Mark Calprin is back with us. 0:03:56.240 --> 0:03:57.720 Who's a good friend of the program. 0:03:57.840 --> 0:04:00.240 Mark, how are you sewand with you? 0:04:00.320 --> 0:04:02.200 My goal is to only book friends of yours onto 0:04:02.200 --> 0:04:03.920 my show. It's going to be like a running. 0:04:05.200 --> 0:04:07.840 Is that it? Well, I guess that's it. I'm panned 0:04:07.880 --> 0:04:08.520 from your sholf. 0:04:08.640 --> 0:04:12.880 I'm never gonna make it, you know, in light of 0:04:13.160 --> 0:04:16.760 what took place and all the lives that have been told, 0:04:16.800 --> 0:04:21.279 and it's very specifically about Donald Trump, and they're standing 0:04:21.320 --> 0:04:22.440 with the American people. 0:04:22.600 --> 0:04:25.040 I think is next to niro a zero. 0:04:25.240 --> 0:04:28.919 Had they been if they had influence, you tell me 0:04:28.960 --> 0:04:31.880 if I'm wrong or not. If they had had influence, 0:04:32.400 --> 0:04:34.960 Donald Trump never would have been elected. I think they've 0:04:34.960 --> 0:04:37.400 lost trust and I don't think they have the ability 0:04:37.440 --> 0:04:38.560 to get it back anymore. 0:04:40.080 --> 0:04:43.160 Well, I listened to your list of stories that they 0:04:43.200 --> 0:04:45.880 did a poor job on and and as you said, 0:04:45.920 --> 0:04:48.680 not just because they were lazy or they didn't, you know, 0:04:48.680 --> 0:04:51.480 get up, get get up and be aggressive, but because 0:04:51.520 --> 0:04:54.599 of a desire to see keep Donald Trump from winning. 0:04:54.920 --> 0:04:57.159 And it was like, I mean, this is an offense. 0:04:57.200 --> 0:04:59.680 It was such a partial list. I mean, you had 0:04:59.720 --> 0:05:01.880 about ten things on there, and you and I could 0:05:01.920 --> 0:05:05.720 come up with fifty more. This is you know, there's 0:05:05.720 --> 0:05:08.000 so many things going on in what you played from 0:05:08.040 --> 0:05:10.640 Alex Thompson, who, to his credit, was one of the 0:05:10.640 --> 0:05:14.680 few reporters besides us who tried to cover the obvious 0:05:14.720 --> 0:05:17.560 cognitive decline of the president. But when he says we 0:05:17.640 --> 0:05:19.520 got to be honest and he gets tep a applause, 0:05:21.320 --> 0:05:24.480 the influence will be diminished. I think the influence could 0:05:24.520 --> 0:05:27.800 come back, but it would require a level of acknowledgment 0:05:27.920 --> 0:05:31.200 of what they did and why that I think is 0:05:31.240 --> 0:05:34.000 probably beyond most of them. He didn't do the why right. 0:05:34.040 --> 0:05:36.440 He just said we fell short and I fell short. 0:05:36.800 --> 0:05:39.440 Didn't say why, and you and I know the reasons. Why. 0:05:40.160 --> 0:05:42.880 Wait when did you first notice his decline? Because I 0:05:42.960 --> 0:05:45.159 noticed it and was talking about it before the twenty 0:05:45.160 --> 0:05:45.880 twenty election. 0:05:46.640 --> 0:05:49.960 Twenty twenty seventeen, I saw him do a book event 0:05:50.360 --> 0:05:52.640 for book he was promoting in twenty seventeen, and he 0:05:52.680 --> 0:05:54.880 was interviewed by a very friendly interviewer in front of 0:05:54.920 --> 0:05:57.279 about one thousand people. And when the event ended, I 0:05:57.320 --> 0:05:59.680 turned to my wife and I said, thank goodness, his 0:05:59.760 --> 0:06:02.839 career in public life is over. And how embarrassing that 0:06:02.880 --> 0:06:05.279 his family is letting him do this book tour because 0:06:05.279 --> 0:06:07.880 he's in no shape to do a book tour. He was, 0:06:08.000 --> 0:06:11.280 he was glassy eyed, he was he had trouble following 0:06:11.279 --> 0:06:14.919 the conversation twenty seventeen, and I was talking about it 0:06:14.960 --> 0:06:15.840 and writing about. 0:06:15.640 --> 0:06:16.320 It since then. 0:06:16.839 --> 0:06:20.200 And as I said before, you didn't need inside sources 0:06:20.240 --> 0:06:23.760 to see a cognitive decline, you just needed a stand subscription. 0:06:24.760 --> 0:06:28.480 Well, yeah, exactly. And there were very few of us 0:06:28.480 --> 0:06:30.440 willing to call it out. And when I did call 0:06:30.480 --> 0:06:35.200 it out, I was, you know, absolutely excoriated early on 0:06:35.360 --> 0:06:37.480 for doing it. And then it became like a nightly 0:06:37.520 --> 0:06:39.680 segment on the show because there was almost any time 0:06:39.800 --> 0:06:43.600 Joe spoke, it was transparent and obvious. I would also 0:06:43.920 --> 0:06:46.359 argue that, as you know, we're now at the one 0:06:46.400 --> 0:06:49.760 hundred day mark of the Trump presidency, that I see 0:06:49.760 --> 0:06:53.720 these polls come out, and Matt Towry rightly, he said, 0:06:53.720 --> 0:06:57.680 don't be fooled by these polls, and you were one 0:06:57.720 --> 0:07:01.320 of the few objective journalists that saw the trends leading 0:07:01.400 --> 0:07:04.360 up to this election that were very favorable to Donald Trump. 0:07:04.400 --> 0:07:07.320 And you kept telling people, if you want to if 0:07:07.360 --> 0:07:10.680 you want to delude yourself and buy into what primetime 0:07:10.800 --> 0:07:13.680 MSDNC is telling you, that's fine, but that's not what's 0:07:13.720 --> 0:07:14.920 really happening on the ground. 0:07:16.040 --> 0:07:17.680 But if you look at the. 0:07:17.600 --> 0:07:23.640 Actual pollsters that were more accurate in twenty four you 0:07:23.680 --> 0:07:26.880 get a very different story told about where Donald Trump 0:07:27.000 --> 0:07:29.720 is and what they're not factoring in is the first 0:07:29.880 --> 0:07:34.560 hundred days of the Democrats, where three or four of 0:07:34.600 --> 0:07:37.440 the last most recent polls show their approval rating at 0:07:37.480 --> 0:07:40.440 the lowest level level in the twenties, and a party 0:07:40.480 --> 0:07:43.840 that has also I think taken a very hard, sharp 0:07:43.960 --> 0:07:48.320 left turn towards the radicalized left, with Jasmine Crockett AOC 0:07:48.480 --> 0:07:50.080 the Squad and Bernie leading the way. 0:07:51.000 --> 0:07:53.280 Well, you're right about the poor shape of the Democrats, 0:07:53.280 --> 0:07:55.560 but I disagree with you about where the president's poll 0:07:55.640 --> 0:07:59.200 standing is because they're play of private Republican polls to 0:07:59.240 --> 0:08:02.360 show the same thing these public polls. I think you know, 0:08:02.400 --> 0:08:04.160 first of all, the President's not running for election in 0:08:04.200 --> 0:08:06.840 the midterms are over a year away. So we've seen 0:08:06.960 --> 0:08:11.040 other presidents like President Reagan have had low poll numbers 0:08:11.080 --> 0:08:13.520 or President Clinton and then and then are able to 0:08:13.520 --> 0:08:16.440 come back. So I don't think people should overreact. But 0:08:16.480 --> 0:08:19.640 there's no doubt that whatever wherever you want to put 0:08:19.680 --> 0:08:21.880 is general approval rating, wherever you want to put his 0:08:21.880 --> 0:08:24.640 approval rating on things like the economy or the border, 0:08:25.040 --> 0:08:29.040 his numbers are down. They've not cratered, they've not collapsed, 0:08:29.040 --> 0:08:32.080 but they are down. And even his own advisors would 0:08:32.080 --> 0:08:35.000 tell you they aim to do better this week, trying 0:08:35.040 --> 0:08:37.640 to dominate the news by talking about the first hundred 0:08:37.720 --> 0:08:40.959 days and the next hundred days, but also by getting 0:08:40.960 --> 0:08:43.840 more results, particularly on the economy, than they've gotten. So 0:08:44.280 --> 0:08:47.640 the President's numbers are down, but they're not disastrously down. 0:08:47.840 --> 0:08:50.120 And again it doesn't mean much at this point as 0:08:50.120 --> 0:08:52.040 long as he finds a way to get things to 0:08:52.040 --> 0:08:52.640 be improved. 0:08:53.880 --> 0:08:55.240 I think he's got a long way to go. 0:08:55.360 --> 0:08:58.160 I think he's taking taking on and has taken on, 0:08:58.280 --> 0:09:01.800 some of the most consoplet quent and difficult issues of 0:09:01.800 --> 0:09:06.400 our time. Certainly by give him very high grades securing 0:09:06.480 --> 0:09:09.760 the border and the process of keeping his promise to 0:09:09.800 --> 0:09:13.600 get rid of criminal immigrants to start, I would say that, 0:09:13.840 --> 0:09:16.320 you know, taking on trying to bring peace to Europe 0:09:16.360 --> 0:09:17.480 and peace to the Middle East. 0:09:17.520 --> 0:09:18.560 Those are heavy lifts. 0:09:18.960 --> 0:09:21.560 I think the president doing something that no president has 0:09:21.600 --> 0:09:26.959 done in fifty or sixty years, challenging unfair tariffs that 0:09:27.000 --> 0:09:29.480 have been placed on America by friend and foe alike, 0:09:29.600 --> 0:09:33.800 is a pretty bold move. Time will tell whether he's 0:09:33.840 --> 0:09:38.280 successful at it or not. Also, moving towards energy dominance. 0:09:38.360 --> 0:09:40.920 I mean, there's not a single issue he's taken on 0:09:41.040 --> 0:09:44.600 here that is not transformational. You know, eliminating you know, 0:09:44.720 --> 0:09:48.200 extending his tax cuts, making impermanent, eliminating tax on tip, 0:09:48.280 --> 0:09:51.560 social security, and overtime. These are are all big ideas. 0:09:52.160 --> 0:09:54.800 Yeah, look, three quick things one Time will tell, And 0:09:54.840 --> 0:09:57.040 people shouldn't judge him by his pulle numbers currently and 0:09:57.080 --> 0:09:59.920 they say the same thing about democratic presidents judging by 0:10:00.080 --> 0:10:02.360 the results. If he ends the war it was Ukraine 0:10:02.400 --> 0:10:05.240 and Russia, fantastic, If to terrorift lead to a stronger 0:10:05.280 --> 0:10:09.240 American economy, fantastic, So number one, judgement buyer results. Number two, 0:10:09.880 --> 0:10:13.560 he is trying to do historically big things, and that's 0:10:13.640 --> 0:10:16.360 inevitably going to shake things up and cause people to 0:10:17.320 --> 0:10:20.040 have concerns if they don't understand exactly what he's doing. 0:10:20.400 --> 0:10:23.839 And number three, on things like Ukraine and tariffs and 0:10:24.120 --> 0:10:27.760 what the terrorists are aiming to change. I have sympathy 0:10:27.800 --> 0:10:30.199 for the President and his advisors when they say, what's 0:10:30.200 --> 0:10:33.240 your alternative? People who want to carp about what he's doing. 0:10:33.559 --> 0:10:35.559 What's your alternative? How do you plan to have long 0:10:35.640 --> 0:10:38.400 term economic growth for the United States? How do you 0:10:38.440 --> 0:10:41.000 plan to end the war in Ukraine? If you don't 0:10:41.040 --> 0:10:44.680 have an alternative plan, I think it's you've got less 0:10:44.720 --> 0:10:47.240 standing to say what child Trump's doing isn't going to 0:10:47.280 --> 0:10:49.560 work or isn't a good idea. These are the things 0:10:49.600 --> 0:10:51.840 he ran on, and he's doing them, and I think 0:10:52.240 --> 0:10:54.000 I think we'll know in the next hundred days a 0:10:54.000 --> 0:10:56.559 lot more about on those two projects and some of 0:10:56.559 --> 0:10:58.360 the others you mentioned where he stands. 0:11:02.679 --> 0:11:04.760 We continue now friend Mark Alfern as well us. He 0:11:04.800 --> 0:11:08.480 has his new podcast out and it is next up 0:11:08.520 --> 0:11:12.240 with Mark Alfern. So you kind of dismissed when I 0:11:12.280 --> 0:11:14.480 brought up the issue of the Democrats, but we saw 0:11:14.480 --> 0:11:16.800 the quote sit in this weekend. We've seen a lot 0:11:16.840 --> 0:11:20.120 of singing and chanting and now the Party of dropping 0:11:20.160 --> 0:11:22.600 a lot of f bombs. And we saw them at 0:11:22.640 --> 0:11:25.160 the joint session with their bingo paddles, and they couldn't 0:11:25.280 --> 0:11:27.600 have the decency to stand for mothers that lost their 0:11:27.679 --> 0:11:31.680 children or young man that be cancer. And I don't 0:11:31.720 --> 0:11:34.360 really see any leadership out of them. I see a 0:11:34.400 --> 0:11:37.640 lot of fear in their their leadership, like Hakeem Jefferies 0:11:37.720 --> 0:11:42.080 and Chuck Schumer, that they wouldn't dare take on the 0:11:42.160 --> 0:11:46.240 more radicalized party because for fear of losing their power. 0:11:46.280 --> 0:11:46.800 Am I wrong? 0:11:47.320 --> 0:11:49.360 No? I basically agree with your nasis. I think todam 0:11:49.360 --> 0:11:51.800 a great party is in a world of herd and 0:11:51.840 --> 0:11:54.560 they're not in a terrific position to be the opposition. 0:11:54.880 --> 0:11:58.400 They're benefiting now though, because they're you know, particularly because 0:11:58.440 --> 0:12:01.320 the media environment is back to being very anti Trump, 0:12:01.600 --> 0:12:04.200 they're able to have things to talk about. I think 0:12:04.200 --> 0:12:06.600 that that you take the case for instance of this 0:12:06.760 --> 0:12:10.559 judge who was arrested in Wisconsin. I mean, the facts 0:12:10.559 --> 0:12:13.320 don't seem to be in dispute. Judge tried to let 0:12:13.360 --> 0:12:16.959 someone go who not only had committed a federal events 0:12:17.040 --> 0:12:21.319 by being in the country legally, but by engaging in 0:12:21.400 --> 0:12:25.000 violence against other people, and it seems like the judges' 0:12:25.000 --> 0:12:28.560 attitude was, I'd rather this person be free than be 0:12:28.640 --> 0:12:31.800 in federal custody. The Democrats have turned that into some 0:12:31.880 --> 0:12:35.080 sort of assault on the separation of powers and an 0:12:35.120 --> 0:12:38.880 effort to intimidate the judiciary. I suppose that there was 0:12:38.920 --> 0:12:41.080 another way to do it, to be less intimidating, But 0:12:41.120 --> 0:12:43.360 I would think anyone who cared about law enforcement and 0:12:43.400 --> 0:12:45.920 the rule of law would be delighted to send a 0:12:45.960 --> 0:12:50.599 message that judges shouldn't be running underground railroad for illegal aliens. 0:12:51.000 --> 0:12:53.480 So well, I mean, in this particular case, they're claiming 0:12:53.480 --> 0:12:56.800 a constitutional crisis, but yeah, the judge in this case 0:12:57.040 --> 0:13:00.480 helped an illegal and that had been through through the 0:13:00.480 --> 0:13:04.640 court system and with a deportation order go through a 0:13:04.720 --> 0:13:07.920 back room and to escape ICE officials, knowing that they 0:13:08.320 --> 0:13:11.720 that these ICE officials were there waiting to arrest this 0:13:11.800 --> 0:13:17.240 individual after that particular court hearing which dealt with domestic abuse. So, 0:13:17.840 --> 0:13:19.640 I mean, if that's the hell they want to die on, 0:13:19.960 --> 0:13:23.600 or a Brego Garcia and bringing a Brego Garcia back 0:13:23.640 --> 0:13:26.360 to the United States, I think they're making very poor choices, 0:13:26.720 --> 0:13:28.920 and I think congressmen quay, are the Democrat is. 0:13:28.960 --> 0:13:29.439 Right on that? 0:13:29.880 --> 0:13:31.440 Yeah? I agree and that And then my point is 0:13:31.480 --> 0:13:34.040 the two examples the judge and then I'm the so 0:13:34.160 --> 0:13:38.120 called Maryland man, I think are indications that the Democratic. 0:13:37.760 --> 0:13:40.080 Maryland man, if I hear Maryland man one more time, 0:13:40.600 --> 0:13:41.800 I'm going to jump. 0:13:41.840 --> 0:13:45.120 I said it in their quotes. It just shows to 0:13:45.160 --> 0:13:47.920 me their examples that the party does not have its bearings. 0:13:48.120 --> 0:13:50.880 The Trump's arrangement syndrome is still too high for them 0:13:51.160 --> 0:13:54.800 to really understand where to be picking their spots to say, 0:13:54.920 --> 0:13:58.080 here's what we stand for, Here's what the Republicans stand for, 0:13:58.320 --> 0:14:00.720 to say, here's what we stand for law US judges 0:14:01.000 --> 0:14:05.800 and people in the country legally who who have affiliations 0:14:05.840 --> 0:14:10.760 with gangs and a history of spaslo accusations dispaslobies. I 0:14:10.920 --> 0:14:14.439 just those to me are rare, resonant examples of why 0:14:14.480 --> 0:14:16.600 there's reason to doubt that the Democrats have their act 0:14:16.600 --> 0:14:18.000 together at all at this point. 0:14:19.000 --> 0:14:21.360 I hope you take a look at the Gavin Newsom 0:14:21.600 --> 0:14:24.440 and the Santas debate that I was able to moderate 0:14:24.840 --> 0:14:28.560 before you interview Gavin, because Gavin's a little bit out 0:14:28.600 --> 0:14:30.960 of touch with how well his state is doing and 0:14:31.040 --> 0:14:34.000 blaming Fox News for it. But anyway, Mark Alperm, we 0:14:34.000 --> 0:14:36.240 always appreciate you being on the program. 0:14:36.920 --> 0:14:37.920 Thank you so much, sir. 0:14:38.120 --> 0:14:40.320 Thank you, sir. Good to talk to you all right. 0:14:40.480 --> 0:14:43.400 Bill in New York, Bill, Hi, how are you glad 0:14:43.400 --> 0:14:43.960 you called? Sir? 0:14:44.240 --> 0:14:47.400 Hey Sean love your show. I just wanted to say. 0:14:49.080 --> 0:14:49.520 Thank you. 0:14:49.680 --> 0:14:54.080 And I just never could figure out, being a person 0:14:54.120 --> 0:14:58.800 who studied history, why we would even think that Russia 0:14:58.840 --> 0:15:02.320 would give up the last segment of their western border 0:15:03.000 --> 0:15:07.280 and lose out on their western port to access the Mediterranean. 0:15:08.240 --> 0:15:11.400 And with the promises that we had made related to 0:15:11.480 --> 0:15:17.640 the Ukraine and not joining NATO and everything else, why 0:15:17.640 --> 0:15:20.520 are we poking a Russian bear? And I couldn't understand 0:15:20.560 --> 0:15:25.440 the past administration. And yeah, we empowered them to fight 0:15:25.560 --> 0:15:27.640 to last as long as they did, but at the 0:15:27.760 --> 0:15:32.960 end of the day, it just doesn't make sense logistically financially, 0:15:34.040 --> 0:15:38.000 and it's left in their hands now to lose land 0:15:38.960 --> 0:15:42.840 and lose a tremendous position that they had that they 0:15:42.880 --> 0:15:46.920 could have negotiated honorably and kept the promises that they 0:15:47.000 --> 0:15:47.760 were made. 0:15:48.080 --> 0:15:50.760 I'm going to tell you the biggest, the biggest mistake 0:15:50.880 --> 0:15:54.200 Ukraine made was many many years earlier. I think Clinton 0:15:54.280 --> 0:15:57.080 was president when they gave up their nuclear program. That 0:15:57.240 --> 0:15:59.960 was their biggest mistake. They never should have given it up. 0:16:00.560 --> 0:16:04.440 That was number one, number two. I think. You know 0:16:04.480 --> 0:16:08.640 then we had Mince one and Mince two. And you know, 0:16:08.720 --> 0:16:12.200 unfortunately in this case, if you look at Crimea, which 0:16:12.200 --> 0:16:16.600 is what eleven years ago now that that land was 0:16:16.640 --> 0:16:20.200 annexed under Obama and Biden, if you look at what 0:16:20.360 --> 0:16:23.440 happened three years ago that happened under Joe Biden, and 0:16:23.520 --> 0:16:27.200 Joe Biden had an opportunity is as Putin was amassing 0:16:27.280 --> 0:16:30.360 troops and he didn't take advantage of it. If Putin 0:16:30.400 --> 0:16:33.800 had territorial claims, I think there were certainly better ways 0:16:33.840 --> 0:16:39.200 than the one he chose to resolve it. And you know, 0:16:39.320 --> 0:16:42.440 maybe it wouldn't have gotten resolved. Maybe the war was inevitable, 0:16:42.440 --> 0:16:45.360 but the way it evolved is it became a proxy 0:16:45.400 --> 0:16:49.880 war between the United States and then with Russia. And 0:16:50.080 --> 0:16:53.160 we don't have hundreds of billions more dollars to pour 0:16:53.240 --> 0:16:57.400 into this thing, and there's now an opportunity for peace. 0:16:58.080 --> 0:17:02.680 It now seems to hind the two sides and whether 0:17:02.720 --> 0:17:05.399 they want this to continue. I would argue, I don't think. 0:17:06.200 --> 0:17:08.720 I don't think Europe will ever step up and provide 0:17:08.720 --> 0:17:12.600 the weaponry that would be needed to allow this to 0:17:12.600 --> 0:17:16.000 continue to be a stalemate. And I think it's inevitable 0:17:16.240 --> 0:17:19.080 that Putin's going to win this war. And I think 0:17:19.080 --> 0:17:22.359 it's frustrating because I think Putin is a murdering dictator thug, 0:17:22.400 --> 0:17:24.840 and I wish he never did this, but I can 0:17:24.880 --> 0:17:27.639 wish till the cows come home now. Now, basically, you 0:17:27.760 --> 0:17:31.560 dealt a horrible hand. And I give a lot of 0:17:31.600 --> 0:17:34.000 credit to President Trump for trying to resolve this. If 0:17:34.040 --> 0:17:37.359 he can pull this off, it'll be miraculous. It's not 0:17:37.400 --> 0:17:40.320 going to be a great ideal. It's not going to 0:17:40.359 --> 0:17:42.520 be a great deal for Ukraine. But they don't have 0:17:42.560 --> 0:17:45.720 any cards to play here. They have nothing. The only 0:17:45.760 --> 0:17:48.960 thing they have left is to count on the good 0:17:49.000 --> 0:17:51.880 graces of other countries to fight the war and give 0:17:51.920 --> 0:17:54.719 them the weaponry to fight it, although they're running out 0:17:54.760 --> 0:17:56.760 of manpower to even fight the war anyway. 0:17:57.160 --> 0:17:59.520 Well, you alluded to it just before, and it was 0:17:59.560 --> 0:18:03.120 all about diplomacy. We have three eight hundred pound guerrillas 0:18:03.160 --> 0:18:06.520 on the search US, the Chinese and the Russians, and 0:18:06.560 --> 0:18:11.040 when we have a beef, we don't communicate, we get 0:18:11.080 --> 0:18:15.840 involved with a proxy war. Did anybody do even game 0:18:15.920 --> 0:18:19.879 theory analysis or just look at it from a practical 0:18:19.920 --> 0:18:20.600 point of view. 0:18:22.119 --> 0:18:24.080 You're asking me if Joe Biden thought about it. When 0:18:24.080 --> 0:18:26.320 he was asked at the time when the troops and 0:18:26.359 --> 0:18:30.200 the military equipment were amassing on the Ukrainian border by 0:18:30.280 --> 0:18:33.760 Plutin in Russia, he was asked what would happen, what 0:18:33.840 --> 0:18:36.359 the consequence would be in his answer was, well, it 0:18:36.400 --> 0:18:40.920 depends if it's a minor incursion. And this after Crimea 0:18:41.000 --> 0:18:44.280 had been annexed when he was vice president. So he's 0:18:44.480 --> 0:18:48.800 rather dumb, naive, checked out, and absolutely responsible for the 0:18:48.840 --> 0:18:52.439 mess here. And somehow that the American people are going 0:18:52.480 --> 0:18:55.720 to tolerate endless wars and proxy wars like this. It 0:18:55.840 --> 0:18:58.560 just is not going to happen. And I don't think 0:18:58.600 --> 0:19:01.679 should happen. I really don't anyway, my friend. I appreciate 0:19:01.760 --> 0:19:04.880 your insight, your call eight hundred and nine to four one, Seawan, 0:19:04.920 --> 0:19:06.320 if you want to be a part of the program, 0:19:06.400 --> 0:19:08.480 Dan my free state of Florida. Dan, how are you 0:19:08.520 --> 0:19:09.760 glad you called? Oh? 0:19:09.880 --> 0:19:14.680 Hi, Sean Hi. It's an honor. Naturally, I must compliment 0:19:14.760 --> 0:19:18.080 you for the words you said, just a few simple 0:19:18.080 --> 0:19:22.880 words before the last election over Eber the fifth. It's brilliant, 0:19:22.920 --> 0:19:26.760 but so simple. You said, you are all you're my deputies. 0:19:27.040 --> 0:19:30.160 I'm deputizing all of you. You have to get out 0:19:30.160 --> 0:19:33.199 and vote and ten tell ten other people to vote, 0:19:33.640 --> 0:19:36.159 and tell them to vote and so on. 0:19:36.359 --> 0:19:39.879 And I was also deputizing people that they get informed. 0:19:39.880 --> 0:19:42.960 That's why we created the Kamala files, that Tim Walls files, 0:19:42.960 --> 0:19:46.560 so that people could be aware of what they would 0:19:46.560 --> 0:19:48.879 Otherwise what we would have been stuck with wouldn't have 0:19:48.880 --> 0:19:49.280 been good. 0:19:49.480 --> 0:19:52.760 Well, I can't tell you brilliant people in the world 0:19:52.840 --> 0:19:56.840 like you, and you might say, well, pardon me no 0:19:58.280 --> 0:20:00.840 to say a few things in a few words. What 0:20:00.960 --> 0:20:04.120 I wanted to say is way back in nineteen sixty six, 0:20:04.200 --> 0:20:07.359 about this time of the year, I was part of 0:20:07.359 --> 0:20:10.000 the Florida National Guard in a mass unit like the 0:20:10.040 --> 0:20:14.000 TV show. I was at Fort Stewart, Georgia getting OJT 0:20:14.920 --> 0:20:19.800 and I had a dear Special Forces sergeant. When the 0:20:19.840 --> 0:20:21.680 first that I got there, I gave my shot. My 0:20:21.880 --> 0:20:25.359 end was shaking. It's still Shakespeare for a different reason. 0:20:25.960 --> 0:20:29.600 I'm a couple of years older than my nephew, Donald Trump, 0:20:29.720 --> 0:20:34.840 who I love dearly. He was a dear man. He said, Dan, look, 0:20:35.520 --> 0:20:39.240 don't get fancy, just stop the bleeding. If you don't 0:20:39.240 --> 0:20:42.040 do that, nothing else matters. I have that written in 0:20:42.080 --> 0:20:45.600 my kitchen, hanging up on the wall. I'll never forget 0:20:45.640 --> 0:20:49.440 it because it's the truth. Donald Trump is doing nothing 0:20:50.000 --> 0:20:52.919 but nothing short of that. He's got his hands on 0:20:53.160 --> 0:20:57.439 all the arteries of our country. And that's why people say, oh, 0:20:57.480 --> 0:21:00.560 he's doing this, he's doing that. He's too fast. He's 0:21:00.600 --> 0:21:03.080 trying to make up for four years of a horror show. 0:21:03.720 --> 0:21:06.960 And he has got everybody who he has hired so 0:21:07.119 --> 0:21:10.560 far I think is fabulous. And the people at Fox 0:21:10.600 --> 0:21:14.200 are fabulous. You're saying, you're trying to save our country. 0:21:14.480 --> 0:21:15.879 Nothing short of that shot. 0:21:16.040 --> 0:21:20.760 Nothing well, I mean, honestly, I can't imagine. I don't 0:21:20.760 --> 0:21:22.879 think we would have had a shot, I really do. 0:21:22.920 --> 0:21:24.479 I think it would have been we would have been 0:21:24.520 --> 0:21:27.919