1 00:00:00,240 --> 00:00:02,639 Speaker 1: Well, many of you have been reaching out because you've 2 00:00:02,759 --> 00:00:07,120 Speaker 1: heard my voice and it doesn't sound totally normal. I 3 00:00:07,120 --> 00:00:10,240 Speaker 1: have been sick and unfortunately got hit with a double whamming, 4 00:00:10,480 --> 00:00:16,360 Speaker 1: a serious cold, and now COVID. So far though I 5 00:00:16,400 --> 00:00:20,560 Speaker 1: have been you know what you would expect, not feeling great. 6 00:00:21,800 --> 00:00:26,520 Speaker 1: I am very thankful for the ability to have gotten 7 00:00:26,560 --> 00:00:31,000 Speaker 1: the vaccine because, as many of you know, my father 8 00:00:31,120 --> 00:00:33,199 Speaker 1: last year went into the hospital, was on auction for 9 00:00:33,280 --> 00:00:35,920 Speaker 1: months on in afterwards. I had his DNA and made 10 00:00:35,960 --> 00:00:39,199 Speaker 1: that decision because I was making a medical decision, not 11 00:00:39,280 --> 00:00:44,040 Speaker 1: a political decision, based on his DNA, based on what 12 00:00:44,080 --> 00:00:46,000 Speaker 1: happened to him, based on how close he was to 13 00:00:46,080 --> 00:00:48,280 Speaker 1: almost dye, based on the amount of time he was 14 00:00:48,280 --> 00:00:51,040 Speaker 1: in the hospital and being on auction for months on end. 15 00:00:51,040 --> 00:00:52,720 Speaker 1: And I was at high risk because I have asthma, 16 00:00:52,880 --> 00:00:57,800 Speaker 1: and I just I feel very thankful for those that 17 00:00:57,840 --> 00:01:02,600 Speaker 1: have given me advice, um in the medical community, as 18 00:01:02,640 --> 00:01:06,200 Speaker 1: I've been dealing with this. It's it's just everybody's having 19 00:01:06,240 --> 00:01:07,959 Speaker 1: to deal with it. The reality is I feel very 20 00:01:08,000 --> 00:01:10,880 Speaker 1: blessed that I was able to make it basically two 21 00:01:11,000 --> 00:01:14,120 Speaker 1: years until now, uh and and getting it now. So 22 00:01:14,160 --> 00:01:17,400 Speaker 1: if I do sound a little fatigued over the next 23 00:01:17,440 --> 00:01:21,039 Speaker 1: several days. That's why. Uh. And if I do sound 24 00:01:21,160 --> 00:01:23,039 Speaker 1: like it takes me a minute to maybe get a 25 00:01:23,080 --> 00:01:26,800 Speaker 1: form of thought or to get on track, I wanted 26 00:01:26,800 --> 00:01:30,280 Speaker 1: you to know why. Uh. The fatigue issue of this 27 00:01:30,440 --> 00:01:32,880 Speaker 1: is is uh that I would say the number one 28 00:01:32,880 --> 00:01:36,560 Speaker 1: thing I've heard COVID brain. I understand it now. So 29 00:01:36,600 --> 00:01:38,800 Speaker 1: I just wanted to say that at the beginning. For 30 00:01:38,840 --> 00:01:40,759 Speaker 1: many of you that have been reaching out on social media, 31 00:01:40,840 --> 00:01:44,480 Speaker 1: thank you for checking on us. Uh. And uh, yeah 32 00:01:44,640 --> 00:01:48,400 Speaker 1: it's uh. I'm just glad that so far it has 33 00:01:48,440 --> 00:01:52,720 Speaker 1: not been unbearable or that I've had to go to 34 00:01:52,760 --> 00:01:54,720 Speaker 1: the hospital or anything like that. So again, thoughts and 35 00:01:54,760 --> 00:01:57,680 Speaker 1: prayers from all you guys that have been sending those wishes. 36 00:01:57,760 --> 00:01:59,920 Speaker 1: Thank you, and just want to let you know about that. 37 00:02:00,040 --> 00:02:03,480 Speaker 1: All Right, we have got a lot to talk about, 38 00:02:03,800 --> 00:02:08,440 Speaker 1: and there is a real possibility of a war breaking 39 00:02:08,440 --> 00:02:11,800 Speaker 1: out between the United States our allies in Russia. It 40 00:02:11,880 --> 00:02:16,440 Speaker 1: has not been talked about very much, and it's a 41 00:02:16,440 --> 00:02:20,480 Speaker 1: little bit frustrating when you see just how close we 42 00:02:20,480 --> 00:02:24,120 Speaker 1: could be. Because of the incompetence, I would argue of 43 00:02:24,160 --> 00:02:32,399 Speaker 1: this administration. This became a major topic of conversation over 44 00:02:32,440 --> 00:02:36,320 Speaker 1: the last twenty four hours, because satellite imagery and Intel 45 00:02:36,480 --> 00:02:40,760 Speaker 1: is showing that Russia seems to be very much moving 46 00:02:40,840 --> 00:02:46,040 Speaker 1: towards invading Ukraine. This after the President screwed up this 47 00:02:46,120 --> 00:02:51,799 Speaker 1: issue by saying, you know, a minor incursion into Russia 48 00:02:52,160 --> 00:02:54,560 Speaker 1: maybe wouldn't be that bad, but don't make it major, 49 00:02:54,600 --> 00:02:56,360 Speaker 1: and then the White House had to step that, you know, 50 00:02:56,440 --> 00:02:59,920 Speaker 1: walk that back, and then the President had to come 51 00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:02,639 Speaker 1: out read a statement because he can't put together coherent 52 00:03:02,720 --> 00:03:07,480 Speaker 1: sentences on anything, much less foreign policy. Because when he 53 00:03:07,520 --> 00:03:10,480 Speaker 1: did it as press conferences one year press conference, it 54 00:03:11,360 --> 00:03:14,400 Speaker 1: was a total disaster. If you were Ukraine and you 55 00:03:14,440 --> 00:03:17,359 Speaker 1: were watching that, literally you had the President of United 56 00:03:17,360 --> 00:03:20,760 Speaker 1: States Americas say it was okay to invade just a 57 00:03:20,760 --> 00:03:24,440 Speaker 1: little bit into Ukraine. The White House was in damage 58 00:03:24,480 --> 00:03:26,680 Speaker 1: control for days on end, and there were some that 59 00:03:26,720 --> 00:03:29,400 Speaker 1: were taking political shots to the White House for this. 60 00:03:29,480 --> 00:03:31,640 Speaker 1: I want to make this clear. I have said this, 61 00:03:31,720 --> 00:03:34,679 Speaker 1: and I said this consistently since Bill Clinton was president. 62 00:03:35,840 --> 00:03:39,280 Speaker 1: I never want the President of the United States of 63 00:03:39,280 --> 00:03:44,840 Speaker 1: America to be failing when it comes to national security 64 00:03:44,880 --> 00:03:48,480 Speaker 1: issues and foreign policy issues that deal with national security. 65 00:03:49,280 --> 00:03:54,600 Speaker 1: I am rooting for Joe Biden to keep US and 66 00:03:54,680 --> 00:03:59,760 Speaker 1: our allies safe, because when there are screw ups, Americans 67 00:04:00,120 --> 00:04:05,000 Speaker 1: die and innocent people die. I was rooting for Joe 68 00:04:05,000 --> 00:04:08,840 Speaker 1: Biden to be successful in getting US out of Afghanistan 69 00:04:09,000 --> 00:04:12,720 Speaker 1: in a appropriate manner. I was rooting for him to 70 00:04:12,960 --> 00:04:16,520 Speaker 1: right his wrongs and correct his mistakes early on. It's 71 00:04:16,560 --> 00:04:18,560 Speaker 1: easy to pile on, but when you're piling on on 72 00:04:18,560 --> 00:04:20,640 Speaker 1: an issue like that, it's very different than a domestic 73 00:04:20,760 --> 00:04:25,080 Speaker 1: policy issue. When people are rooting for the failure of 74 00:04:25,120 --> 00:04:28,080 Speaker 1: an individual, and that means when they fail that people die. 75 00:04:28,720 --> 00:04:32,240 Speaker 1: You got to think about their motives. You have to 76 00:04:32,279 --> 00:04:37,839 Speaker 1: think about their mindset. I never root for a president 77 00:04:38,360 --> 00:04:43,280 Speaker 1: to screw up on national security issues, whether it's Obama 78 00:04:43,480 --> 00:04:47,640 Speaker 1: or Biden or Jimmy Carter. I remember the first real 79 00:04:47,760 --> 00:04:52,880 Speaker 1: foreign policy issue that I really knew something about, and 80 00:04:52,920 --> 00:04:56,200 Speaker 1: that was studying what happened in Iran with the Iran 81 00:04:56,240 --> 00:05:01,480 Speaker 1: hostage crisis. And there were people even during that time 82 00:05:01,520 --> 00:05:04,919 Speaker 1: that we're playing politics with it, looking forward to the 83 00:05:05,080 --> 00:05:08,039 Speaker 1: screw up of Jimmy Carter and knowing that it would 84 00:05:08,040 --> 00:05:12,880 Speaker 1: make him very weak going into an election against the 85 00:05:12,920 --> 00:05:15,559 Speaker 1: Republican candiate, which happened to be at that point Ronald 86 00:05:15,600 --> 00:05:19,880 Speaker 1: Reagan after the primary. I would never wish that on anybody, 87 00:05:19,920 --> 00:05:24,000 Speaker 1: because there's are real human beings that were being held hostage. 88 00:05:25,080 --> 00:05:29,880 Speaker 1: I had the pleasure of getting to know off the 89 00:05:29,920 --> 00:05:35,120 Speaker 1: record one of the hostages that was held in Iran 90 00:05:36,200 --> 00:05:38,400 Speaker 1: when I was living in washing in DC back in 91 00:05:38,480 --> 00:05:41,719 Speaker 1: two thousand and four or five, six seven. One of 92 00:05:41,760 --> 00:05:47,120 Speaker 1: those individuals I got to meet, We became friends, and 93 00:05:47,440 --> 00:05:51,720 Speaker 1: to hear their stories of that amount of time that 94 00:05:51,839 --> 00:05:55,960 Speaker 1: those then they were held for longer than a year. 95 00:05:57,000 --> 00:05:59,480 Speaker 1: If you go back and you look at that story 96 00:06:01,000 --> 00:06:04,039 Speaker 1: that crisis and seeing how long that took. It was 97 00:06:04,120 --> 00:06:09,440 Speaker 1: from November of seventy nine until January of eighty one 98 00:06:10,320 --> 00:06:14,120 Speaker 1: until they were freed. Now, I was born after the 99 00:06:14,120 --> 00:06:19,599 Speaker 1: irand Housas crisis ended, but it was the first foreign 100 00:06:19,720 --> 00:06:25,120 Speaker 1: policy issue I remember studying, and the individual the diplomat 101 00:06:26,320 --> 00:06:32,800 Speaker 1: that was held hostage after the Iranians took control of 102 00:06:32,839 --> 00:06:35,800 Speaker 1: our US embassy in Tehran and seize those hostages and 103 00:06:35,880 --> 00:06:38,520 Speaker 1: the way they were treated. What you realize is when 104 00:06:38,560 --> 00:06:45,080 Speaker 1: you're talking about these issues, whether it's Ukraine or this issue, 105 00:06:46,320 --> 00:06:51,000 Speaker 1: is that there are real human beings involved. When I 106 00:06:51,080 --> 00:06:55,920 Speaker 1: see what happened in Afghanistan. I warned you that this 107 00:06:56,040 --> 00:06:59,680 Speaker 1: was going to embolden anybody in the world that wants 108 00:06:59,760 --> 00:07:03,760 Speaker 1: to do something that they know they traditionally can't get 109 00:07:03,760 --> 00:07:07,520 Speaker 1: away with to do it. It was going to embolden them. 110 00:07:09,040 --> 00:07:11,480 Speaker 1: It was very clear that there were going to be 111 00:07:11,560 --> 00:07:17,600 Speaker 1: consequences after what we did in Afghanistan with their exit. 112 00:07:18,880 --> 00:07:22,240 Speaker 1: Not only did American troops die in Afghanistan with the 113 00:07:22,440 --> 00:07:27,960 Speaker 1: disastrous pull out of Afghanistan, but other leaders in the 114 00:07:27,960 --> 00:07:31,040 Speaker 1: world witnessed something that I think most of them thought 115 00:07:31,080 --> 00:07:34,680 Speaker 1: they would never ever see, which is actual American citizens 116 00:07:34,760 --> 00:07:40,480 Speaker 1: begging to get onto a tarmac where the American military 117 00:07:40,720 --> 00:07:45,760 Speaker 1: was and US not going to get them. They witnessed 118 00:07:45,840 --> 00:07:52,360 Speaker 1: us leaving Americans behind. They witnessed us leaving our allies behind. 119 00:07:53,560 --> 00:07:58,880 Speaker 1: They witnessed us leaving interpreters behind and people behind to 120 00:07:59,040 --> 00:08:02,040 Speaker 1: be killed and to be beheaded, and to be tortured, 121 00:08:02,960 --> 00:08:07,440 Speaker 1: to be raped, to be beaten, to be held hostage 122 00:08:08,520 --> 00:08:13,000 Speaker 1: in a country where they helped us. And world leaders 123 00:08:13,080 --> 00:08:19,320 Speaker 1: immediately that point said, Aha, opportunity didn't take long, by 124 00:08:19,360 --> 00:08:24,760 Speaker 1: the way, it took several months for Russia to seize 125 00:08:25,480 --> 00:08:30,440 Speaker 1: on that opportunity. Actually it took days. They started getting 126 00:08:30,480 --> 00:08:34,040 Speaker 1: things ready for an incursion. Then they started putting soldiers 127 00:08:34,080 --> 00:08:36,600 Speaker 1: on the border, Then they started putting weaponry on the border. 128 00:08:37,360 --> 00:08:39,640 Speaker 1: And all the time, every time they did something, every 129 00:08:39,679 --> 00:08:43,040 Speaker 1: time they moved a little bit further and pushed the envelope, 130 00:08:43,040 --> 00:08:47,520 Speaker 1: we did nothing. So now we find ourselves at a 131 00:08:47,559 --> 00:08:50,280 Speaker 1: new point, a point where it looks like Russia can 132 00:08:50,320 --> 00:08:52,120 Speaker 1: do whatever they want to do and we will not 133 00:08:52,320 --> 00:08:59,120 Speaker 1: stop them. You know, Russia, they understand weakness, They understand 134 00:08:59,120 --> 00:09:03,360 Speaker 1: opportunity in weakness. If there's anything that you can see 135 00:09:03,400 --> 00:09:09,280 Speaker 1: through history with Russia, it is they are opportunists. Don't 136 00:09:09,320 --> 00:09:13,520 Speaker 1: hate Russia for a minute. Take the hatred or anger 137 00:09:13,559 --> 00:09:19,240 Speaker 1: away just for a moment and look at Russia as 138 00:09:19,280 --> 00:09:24,080 Speaker 1: a country, Russia as a country that has always been 139 00:09:24,120 --> 00:09:30,800 Speaker 1: a country of opportunity. They seize on other people's misfortunes, 140 00:09:31,080 --> 00:09:35,600 Speaker 1: They seize on other people's weaknesses. That is what they 141 00:09:35,640 --> 00:09:38,600 Speaker 1: have done. That's what they have done as long as 142 00:09:38,600 --> 00:09:42,360 Speaker 1: they've been a nation. As a communist country, they don't 143 00:09:42,400 --> 00:09:46,080 Speaker 1: care if people suffer. They have never cared if people suffer, 144 00:09:46,120 --> 00:09:50,600 Speaker 1: including their own people. They were even known from blocking 145 00:09:50,640 --> 00:09:53,880 Speaker 1: people from going into certain parts of Russia to see 146 00:09:53,880 --> 00:09:58,160 Speaker 1: how the people in Russia were living when things got 147 00:09:58,160 --> 00:10:00,800 Speaker 1: really bad in the sixties and se sventies and eighties 148 00:10:00,840 --> 00:10:05,520 Speaker 1: and nineties, even before that. But they would only allow 149 00:10:05,600 --> 00:10:07,400 Speaker 1: people to see what they wanted them to see. They 150 00:10:07,400 --> 00:10:09,880 Speaker 1: would track you, they would make sure you couldn't see 151 00:10:09,920 --> 00:10:13,680 Speaker 1: certain areas of the countries of their country. I should say, 152 00:10:15,440 --> 00:10:20,200 Speaker 1: and what Russia understands is they need Ukraine. You go 153 00:10:20,320 --> 00:10:26,400 Speaker 1: back to Crimea and it was an opportunity. You look 154 00:10:26,440 --> 00:10:33,880 Speaker 1: at Crimea and this war that broke out really wasn't 155 00:10:33,960 --> 00:10:37,680 Speaker 1: much of a war because we didn't help stop Russia 156 00:10:37,800 --> 00:10:45,359 Speaker 1: from annexing, as they called it, Crimea. Why did Crimea 157 00:10:45,440 --> 00:10:50,200 Speaker 1: get annex in twenty fourteen, same reason, because you had 158 00:10:50,240 --> 00:10:54,480 Speaker 1: a weak president. You go back to February. In March 159 00:10:54,520 --> 00:11:02,280 Speaker 1: of twenty and fourteen, Russia invaded Ukraine. They invaded knowing 160 00:11:02,320 --> 00:11:05,000 Speaker 1: they couldn't take the whole country without consequences, but they 161 00:11:05,080 --> 00:11:09,560 Speaker 1: knew they could take part an important part of Ukraine. 162 00:11:09,559 --> 00:11:12,199 Speaker 1: When they went in and claimed they were annexing the 163 00:11:12,280 --> 00:11:15,360 Speaker 1: Crimea peninsula. Why did they take it because it was 164 00:11:15,480 --> 00:11:20,800 Speaker 1: extremely important for shipping. This peninsula was very important to 165 00:11:20,840 --> 00:11:28,360 Speaker 1: them from a domestic product and shipping standpoint, we didn't 166 00:11:28,400 --> 00:11:32,600 Speaker 1: stop them. The president of Russia at the time, same 167 00:11:32,640 --> 00:11:35,640 Speaker 1: guy that's still now in charge, the dictator of Vladimir Putin, 168 00:11:35,720 --> 00:11:38,120 Speaker 1: the KGB, guy who should be trusted by no one 169 00:11:38,120 --> 00:11:41,640 Speaker 1: in the world, convened an all night meeting with security 170 00:11:41,720 --> 00:11:46,200 Speaker 1: chiefs to discuss the extraction of the deposed Ukrainian president. 171 00:11:48,280 --> 00:11:50,120 Speaker 1: At the end of the meeting, Putin remarked that we 172 00:11:50,240 --> 00:11:56,920 Speaker 1: must start working on returning, as he put it, Crimea 173 00:11:57,120 --> 00:12:01,840 Speaker 1: to the uk Ukraine or excuse me, to Russia. Putin 174 00:12:01,920 --> 00:12:06,800 Speaker 1: wanted it. On February the twenty third, pro Russian demonstrations 175 00:12:06,800 --> 00:12:13,680 Speaker 1: were held in Crimea city, all orchestrated as propaganda by Russia. 176 00:12:13,840 --> 00:12:18,959 Speaker 1: They acted like people in Crimea wanted Russia to annex them, 177 00:12:19,000 --> 00:12:21,000 Speaker 1: so it wouldn't look like they were actually invading or 178 00:12:21,000 --> 00:12:23,679 Speaker 1: taking every They were just listening to the people. This 179 00:12:23,760 --> 00:12:26,920 Speaker 1: was all propaganda so that they could justify their actions 180 00:12:27,480 --> 00:12:32,560 Speaker 1: to the world, and we all knew this. They had 181 00:12:32,640 --> 00:12:37,480 Speaker 1: these demonstrations on the twenty third. On February the twenty seventh, 182 00:12:39,160 --> 00:12:44,640 Speaker 1: masked Russian troops without insignia, meaning they acted like they 183 00:12:44,679 --> 00:12:47,600 Speaker 1: weren't a part of the Russian government, the Russian military, 184 00:12:47,640 --> 00:12:54,439 Speaker 1: and they were took over the Supreme Council, the Parliament 185 00:12:55,679 --> 00:13:00,880 Speaker 1: of Crimea. They captured strategic sites across which led to 186 00:13:00,920 --> 00:13:06,240 Speaker 1: the installation of the pro Russian government in Crimea, the 187 00:13:06,360 --> 00:13:09,920 Speaker 1: conducting of the Crimean status referendum. They called it to 188 00:13:10,120 --> 00:13:12,839 Speaker 1: make it look like this is all totally above board, 189 00:13:12,920 --> 00:13:15,120 Speaker 1: totally happening, and many of the media, by the way, 190 00:13:15,160 --> 00:13:17,640 Speaker 1: did not tell the real story at the time of 191 00:13:17,679 --> 00:13:22,080 Speaker 1: what was really happening. This was all PRBs and we 192 00:13:22,200 --> 00:13:26,160 Speaker 1: knew it, but we didn't stop them. So they had 193 00:13:26,160 --> 00:13:30,640 Speaker 1: this Crimean status referendum. Then they had the declaration that 194 00:13:30,679 --> 00:13:34,280 Speaker 1: the people in Crimea were declaring independence on March sixteenth 195 00:13:34,320 --> 00:13:38,160 Speaker 1: of twenty fourteen, and again we did nothing. We knew 196 00:13:38,200 --> 00:13:41,280 Speaker 1: that this was total crap. We knew that this was 197 00:13:41,320 --> 00:13:45,400 Speaker 1: an invasion. We knew that the Russian troops without insignia 198 00:13:45,440 --> 00:13:47,920 Speaker 1: were Russian troops. We could see them coming across the border. 199 00:13:47,960 --> 00:13:50,640 Speaker 1: We knew that this was a hostile takeover a part 200 00:13:50,679 --> 00:13:54,439 Speaker 1: of Ukraine, and we did nothing. Joe Biden at the 201 00:13:54,480 --> 00:13:56,960 Speaker 1: time was the vice president, Barack Obama was the president. 202 00:13:57,000 --> 00:13:58,680 Speaker 1: Barack Obama was a we don't want to be a 203 00:13:58,679 --> 00:14:02,120 Speaker 1: war guy, right, And what they realized was they could 204 00:14:02,120 --> 00:14:07,920 Speaker 1: pull this off in the world really wasn't going to respond. Then, 205 00:14:09,160 --> 00:14:14,120 Speaker 1: as the Supreme Council Parliament of Crimea was formed, they 206 00:14:14,240 --> 00:14:20,320 Speaker 1: captured these strategic sites. They installed a pro Russian guide 207 00:14:20,320 --> 00:14:23,560 Speaker 1: to be in charge of the government in Crimea. They 208 00:14:23,600 --> 00:14:27,280 Speaker 1: had the Crimean status referendum, checking all the boxes anti 209 00:14:27,360 --> 00:14:34,320 Speaker 1: declaration of Crimea's independence. On March the sixteenth, Russian formally 210 00:14:34,360 --> 00:14:38,920 Speaker 1: incorporated crime into as two Russian federal subjects, the Republic 211 00:14:39,000 --> 00:14:43,960 Speaker 1: of Crimea and the Federal City. On March the eighteenth. 212 00:14:44,040 --> 00:14:48,600 Speaker 1: All this preplant none of this was organic. Following the 213 00:14:48,680 --> 00:14:54,520 Speaker 1: annexation Ruska, Russia escalated their military presence on the peninsula 214 00:14:54,520 --> 00:14:57,760 Speaker 1: and leveraged the nuclear threats to solidify the new status 215 00:14:57,840 --> 00:15:01,760 Speaker 1: quo on the ground. They did all of this and 216 00:15:01,800 --> 00:15:05,360 Speaker 1: we didn't stop them. Ukraine and many other countries condemned 217 00:15:05,360 --> 00:15:09,760 Speaker 1: the annexation, but really didn't do much more. It was 218 00:15:09,800 --> 00:15:12,160 Speaker 1: considered to be a violation of international law, but we 219 00:15:12,280 --> 00:15:16,520 Speaker 1: didn't do anything to stop them. Russia signed agreement safeguarding 220 00:15:16,560 --> 00:15:20,800 Speaker 1: the territorial integrity of Ukraine saying we're not doing anything else. 221 00:15:20,880 --> 00:15:22,680 Speaker 1: We were just here because they wanted us here. We 222 00:15:22,680 --> 00:15:25,480 Speaker 1: were only in Crimea because they asked us to come. 223 00:15:26,000 --> 00:15:28,720 Speaker 1: They were having these protests. They were begging us to 224 00:15:28,760 --> 00:15:32,680 Speaker 1: come back, so we did again. The world did nothing. 225 00:15:34,960 --> 00:15:39,479 Speaker 1: They agreed to everything. They agreed to ninety one Accords 226 00:15:39,600 --> 00:15:45,160 Speaker 1: that established the Commonwealth of Independent States, the nineteen seventy 227 00:15:45,160 --> 00:15:48,360 Speaker 1: five Helsinki Accords, in nineteen ninety four, Budapest Memorandum on 228 00:15:48,440 --> 00:15:51,920 Speaker 1: Security Assurances, in the nineteen ninety seven Treaty of Friendship, 229 00:15:52,360 --> 00:15:57,200 Speaker 1: Cooperation and Partnership between Russia and the Russian Federation in Ukraine. 230 00:15:57,200 --> 00:16:01,640 Speaker 1: And everything's fine, Just don't worry about it. What did 231 00:16:01,640 --> 00:16:03,720 Speaker 1: they do? They slapped him on the risk. I'm referring 232 00:16:03,760 --> 00:16:06,560 Speaker 1: to America and the rest of the world. It was 233 00:16:06,600 --> 00:16:10,600 Speaker 1: a joke. Members of the then G eight suspended Russia 234 00:16:10,640 --> 00:16:13,400 Speaker 1: from the group. They didn't care. They introduced the first 235 00:16:13,480 --> 00:16:17,240 Speaker 1: round of sanctions against country. Didn't matter. The UN General 236 00:16:17,240 --> 00:16:21,280 Speaker 1: Assembly also rejected the referendum and annexation, adopting a resolution 237 00:16:21,360 --> 00:16:26,400 Speaker 1: affirming the territorial integrity of Ukraine within its internationally recognized borders. 238 00:16:27,680 --> 00:16:30,240 Speaker 1: The UN resolution also underscored they said at the time 239 00:16:30,280 --> 00:16:33,120 Speaker 1: the referendum having no validity cannot form the basis of 240 00:16:33,160 --> 00:16:36,720 Speaker 1: any alternation of status of Crimea, and called upon all 241 00:16:36,760 --> 00:16:40,680 Speaker 1: states and international organizations not to recognize or to imply 242 00:16:40,840 --> 00:16:43,800 Speaker 1: the recognition of Russia's annexation. Did it matter now because 243 00:16:43,840 --> 00:16:48,280 Speaker 1: it happened and they were now in charge. Fast forward 244 00:16:48,280 --> 00:16:51,800 Speaker 1: to twenty sixteen, the UN General Assembly reaffirmed non recognition 245 00:16:51,800 --> 00:16:55,880 Speaker 1: of the annexation and condemnation they called the temporary occupation 246 00:16:56,640 --> 00:16:59,520 Speaker 1: of part of the territory of Ukraine. They called the 247 00:16:59,520 --> 00:17:05,600 Speaker 1: autonom Republic of Crimea in the city there. The Russian government, 248 00:17:05,640 --> 00:17:10,200 Speaker 1: by the way, also quote oppose the annexation label, with 249 00:17:10,240 --> 00:17:13,520 Speaker 1: Putin defending the referendum as complying with the principles of 250 00:17:13,560 --> 00:17:20,960 Speaker 1: self determination of the people of Crimea. Again, we did nothing. 251 00:17:22,119 --> 00:17:24,480 Speaker 1: So you fast forward to Afghanistan. You fast forward to 252 00:17:24,560 --> 00:17:29,000 Speaker 1: what's happened now in Afghanistan, and Vladimir Putin's goes, wow, 253 00:17:29,280 --> 00:17:34,120 Speaker 1: I see an opportunity. I really want Crimea. More than 254 00:17:34,200 --> 00:17:38,200 Speaker 1: just Crimea, I want Ukraine. Now, you've got to understand 255 00:17:38,200 --> 00:17:43,119 Speaker 1: that Russia genuinely believes Okay, you need to understand this. 256 00:17:43,359 --> 00:17:47,080 Speaker 1: Russia genuinely believes that Ukraine is theirs for the taking. 257 00:17:48,240 --> 00:17:52,360 Speaker 1: Putin genuinely believes that Russia should be able to take 258 00:17:52,400 --> 00:17:54,640 Speaker 1: all of Ukraine or at least whatever the hell they want, 259 00:17:57,000 --> 00:17:59,840 Speaker 1: and there's only one country that can stop them. That 260 00:18:00,080 --> 00:18:04,080 Speaker 1: country is the United States of America. And what they 261 00:18:04,200 --> 00:18:07,359 Speaker 1: realized after Afghanistan is we're not going to stop them. 262 00:18:08,080 --> 00:18:10,320 Speaker 1: We're not going to go to war with them, more 263 00:18:10,359 --> 00:18:12,600 Speaker 1: than likely, and we're certainly not going to do more 264 00:18:12,640 --> 00:18:18,719 Speaker 1: than basic sanctions. So now here we are, we're at 265 00:18:18,720 --> 00:18:21,160 Speaker 1: a moment where it looks like Russia can do anything 266 00:18:21,200 --> 00:18:27,880 Speaker 1: they want to do. So the question is, well, there's 267 00:18:27,920 --> 00:18:30,919 Speaker 1: two things here. I mean, let me rephrase this. Number One, 268 00:18:31,000 --> 00:18:34,520 Speaker 1: Russia can do whatever they want to do when it 269 00:18:34,560 --> 00:18:43,200 Speaker 1: comes to Ukraine. So what happens moving forward? The reality 270 00:18:43,359 --> 00:18:48,119 Speaker 1: is America is so far behind protecting Ukraine at this 271 00:18:48,200 --> 00:18:53,040 Speaker 1: point it's not even funny. And the people in Ukraine 272 00:18:53,080 --> 00:18:55,399 Speaker 1: are at the mercy of whatever Russia decides to do. 273 00:18:55,480 --> 00:18:57,439 Speaker 1: So let me tell you about what's actually happening on 274 00:18:57,480 --> 00:19:00,640 Speaker 1: the ground. Now. This is what should have been being talked, 275 00:19:00,680 --> 00:19:02,680 Speaker 1: We should have been talked about for days on end 276 00:19:03,560 --> 00:19:05,720 Speaker 1: in this country in our media. They have not done 277 00:19:05,720 --> 00:19:08,199 Speaker 1: their job because they don't want to make Donald or 278 00:19:08,240 --> 00:19:10,000 Speaker 1: they don't want to make I should say Joe Biden 279 00:19:10,040 --> 00:19:18,800 Speaker 1: looked bad. They don't want to highlight the incompetency of 280 00:19:18,880 --> 00:19:21,440 Speaker 1: the foreign policy of Joe Biden because his approval rating 281 00:19:21,480 --> 00:19:24,600 Speaker 1: is already so bad and people saw just how week 282 00:19:24,600 --> 00:19:28,320 Speaker 1: of a leader he was in Afghanistan against the Taliband, 283 00:19:28,359 --> 00:19:35,080 Speaker 1: which we had owned for twenty years. We left Americans behind, 284 00:19:36,200 --> 00:19:41,320 Speaker 1: We left people that helped Americans survive and save lives, 285 00:19:41,359 --> 00:19:46,240 Speaker 1: the translators and others behind, and we just let the 286 00:19:46,280 --> 00:19:49,359 Speaker 1: Taliban push us around a Taliband that we could have 287 00:19:49,359 --> 00:19:52,240 Speaker 1: taken out with air superiority in drones in two seconds 288 00:19:52,240 --> 00:19:54,800 Speaker 1: to send a message, don't screw with us. When we 289 00:19:54,800 --> 00:20:00,159 Speaker 1: were at that airport and when they were starting to 290 00:20:00,200 --> 00:20:02,520 Speaker 1: surround that airport, we could have stopped it. We could 291 00:20:02,520 --> 00:20:06,240 Speaker 1: have fixed it. We could have shown them that you 292 00:20:06,280 --> 00:20:08,679 Speaker 1: don't screw with us. But we didn't because we have 293 00:20:08,760 --> 00:20:12,240 Speaker 1: Joe Biden, an incompetent president, and I think it's very 294 00:20:12,240 --> 00:20:15,640 Speaker 1: clear now his mental capacity has declined to the point 295 00:20:15,640 --> 00:20:17,639 Speaker 1: where he really doesn't know how to handle any of 296 00:20:17,640 --> 00:20:21,160 Speaker 1: these issues, and that worries me, not from a political standpoint, 297 00:20:21,240 --> 00:20:23,720 Speaker 1: from a national security standpoint, which is what I go 298 00:20:23,760 --> 00:20:27,119 Speaker 1: back to I said earlier, I always root for the 299 00:20:27,119 --> 00:20:30,600 Speaker 1: President United It's America to be successful on issues of 300 00:20:31,040 --> 00:20:35,240 Speaker 1: national defense and foreign policy when it deals with innocent lives. 301 00:20:36,359 --> 00:20:40,239 Speaker 1: I do not want Joe Biden to fail, whether it's 302 00:20:40,280 --> 00:20:44,720 Speaker 1: Afghanistan or Russia. But the reality of what's happening right 303 00:20:44,760 --> 00:20:49,440 Speaker 1: now is is it Russian ships, tanks, and troops are 304 00:20:49,480 --> 00:20:53,439 Speaker 1: on the move to Ukraine. Now there's this idea of 305 00:20:53,560 --> 00:20:55,960 Speaker 1: peace talks that have stalled out. Let me explain to 306 00:20:55,960 --> 00:20:58,800 Speaker 1: you how this works. There's been negotiations, okay, that have 307 00:20:58,880 --> 00:21:02,679 Speaker 1: been underway that America has been you know, involved in 308 00:21:02,800 --> 00:21:07,000 Speaker 1: and begging that they'll work. Negotiations have turned to what 309 00:21:07,040 --> 00:21:11,000 Speaker 1: they refer to now as a deadlock. Moscow went through 310 00:21:11,040 --> 00:21:14,000 Speaker 1: these negotiations knowing they would be unsuccessful, just so they 311 00:21:14,040 --> 00:21:17,480 Speaker 1: could keep moving forward where their build up their military 312 00:21:17,600 --> 00:21:20,080 Speaker 1: forces for an invasion. At this point, I don't even 313 00:21:20,119 --> 00:21:22,120 Speaker 1: think it's an issue of is it going to happen. 314 00:21:22,160 --> 00:21:24,119 Speaker 1: It's a question of now when is it going to happen? 315 00:21:25,800 --> 00:21:28,240 Speaker 1: And they're playing the people in Ukraine, they're playing the 316 00:21:28,240 --> 00:21:34,240 Speaker 1: American government, they're playing any of the allies involved with Ukraine. 317 00:21:35,000 --> 00:21:40,399 Speaker 1: Russia understands that they can keep extending the deadline with 318 00:21:40,800 --> 00:21:42,639 Speaker 1: an act like in good faith. They're trying to have 319 00:21:42,760 --> 00:21:45,159 Speaker 1: negotiations and they say they're in a deadlock, and then 320 00:21:45,200 --> 00:21:47,920 Speaker 1: they can invade because this is what they want. They 321 00:21:47,960 --> 00:21:52,400 Speaker 1: want time to do what they want to do. Now. 322 00:21:52,400 --> 00:21:56,040 Speaker 1: They are volunteer members of Ukraine's Territorial Defense Forces, the 323 00:21:56,080 --> 00:22:01,800 Speaker 1: country's military reserve. They're training in Kiev right now. Russia 324 00:22:01,840 --> 00:22:03,879 Speaker 1: knows they can kill them and take them out whenever 325 00:22:03,920 --> 00:22:08,480 Speaker 1: they want to. Russia has sent more than four thousand 326 00:22:08,560 --> 00:22:13,800 Speaker 1: has actually sent troops more than four thousand miles to 327 00:22:14,000 --> 00:22:17,760 Speaker 1: Ukraine's border and an outsweeping naval drills as Moscow is 328 00:22:17,800 --> 00:22:22,880 Speaker 1: expanding its preparations for a attack on Ukraine as negotiations 329 00:22:22,960 --> 00:22:26,000 Speaker 1: quote appear at a deadline. Now again, Russia is very 330 00:22:26,040 --> 00:22:28,680 Speaker 1: smart in the international communities to start checking boxes. Hey, 331 00:22:28,680 --> 00:22:33,000 Speaker 1: we negotiate, it didn't work. What are they negotiating on 332 00:22:33,119 --> 00:22:36,080 Speaker 1: is the question that any world power, including America, should 333 00:22:36,119 --> 00:22:40,160 Speaker 1: be screaming about right now. They're not what they're negotiating, 334 00:22:40,200 --> 00:22:43,200 Speaker 1: not to invade another country. That's not really a negotiation, 335 00:22:43,400 --> 00:22:47,720 Speaker 1: is it. You want to know what the media is 336 00:22:47,760 --> 00:22:52,399 Speaker 1: not telling you about six Russian landing ships capable of 337 00:22:52,480 --> 00:22:57,080 Speaker 1: carrying main battle tanks, troops and other military vehicles traveled 338 00:22:57,080 --> 00:23:00,480 Speaker 1: through the Channel and route to the Mediterranean la last week, 339 00:23:00,520 --> 00:23:05,280 Speaker 1: and a deployment that could bolster an amphibious landing an 340 00:23:05,320 --> 00:23:09,359 Speaker 1: attack on Ukraine's southern coast if Vladimir Putin orders the attack. 341 00:23:10,800 --> 00:23:13,520 Speaker 1: When you're sending Russian troops more than four thousand miles 342 00:23:13,520 --> 00:23:16,040 Speaker 1: to Ukraine, don't tell me that you're acting into a 343 00:23:16,119 --> 00:23:19,200 Speaker 1: good faith in negotiations. And the world should have been 344 00:23:20,000 --> 00:23:23,359 Speaker 1: showing this in real time, but they're not. There should 345 00:23:23,400 --> 00:23:28,080 Speaker 1: be international outrage right now, but there's not because no 346 00:23:28,119 --> 00:23:33,399 Speaker 1: one's talking about this. Ukraine's military intelligence has claimed that 347 00:23:33,440 --> 00:23:39,399 Speaker 1: Russia is hiring mercenaries and supplying its proxy forces in 348 00:23:39,600 --> 00:23:48,720 Speaker 1: their country. In their country, They're saying that they are 349 00:23:49,359 --> 00:23:54,199 Speaker 1: already supplying the proxy forces in different regional areas with fuel, 350 00:23:54,320 --> 00:23:58,240 Speaker 1: tanks and self propelled artillery and preparation for a potential 351 00:23:59,280 --> 00:24:03,480 Speaker 1: upsurge fighting. I'm going to tell you more about that 352 00:24:03,520 --> 00:24:10,320 Speaker 1: in just a moment. Again, where's the international outrage and 353 00:24:10,760 --> 00:24:13,240 Speaker 1: where is this news that I'm telling you about right now? 354 00:24:13,280 --> 00:24:15,520 Speaker 1: Why is it that the media is not talking about 355 00:24:15,520 --> 00:24:17,320 Speaker 1: this in America? Because They know it's going to make 356 00:24:17,480 --> 00:24:21,720 Speaker 1: Joe Biden look bad, and that's no reason not to 357 00:24:21,760 --> 00:24:31,040 Speaker 1: cover this. Russian large military forces, including short range ballistic missiles, 358 00:24:32,200 --> 00:24:39,040 Speaker 1: elite troop groups, and anti aircraft batteries, have arrived in 359 00:24:39,080 --> 00:24:47,000 Speaker 1: Belarus from Russia's Eastern military District. As one top commander 360 00:24:47,040 --> 00:24:51,080 Speaker 1: put it, it's an extraordinary deployment that Western officials and 361 00:24:51,160 --> 00:24:56,000 Speaker 1: analysts could say could enable Moscow to threaten Kiev, Ukraine's 362 00:24:56,040 --> 00:25:04,440 Speaker 1: capital instantly. The new deployments quote have worried US officials, 363 00:25:04,640 --> 00:25:08,600 Speaker 1: you think quote What concerns us is the total picture, 364 00:25:08,680 --> 00:25:11,400 Speaker 1: said a senior State Department official in a briefing last week. 365 00:25:12,960 --> 00:25:15,200 Speaker 1: It is the amassing of more than one hundred thousand 366 00:25:15,200 --> 00:25:19,000 Speaker 1: troops along Ukraine's border, combined with moving forces into Belarus 367 00:25:19,040 --> 00:25:22,120 Speaker 1: over the weekend. These numbers are beyond, of course, what 368 00:25:22,160 --> 00:25:26,000 Speaker 1: we would expect with regard to a normal exercise. The 369 00:25:26,080 --> 00:25:29,200 Speaker 1: new forces in Belarus, the officials added, to represent an 370 00:25:29,200 --> 00:25:33,560 Speaker 1: increased capacity for Russia to launch this attack, increased opportunity, 371 00:25:33,600 --> 00:25:38,320 Speaker 1: increased avenues, increase roots that they can take. So what 372 00:25:38,440 --> 00:25:40,320 Speaker 1: is the President of United States of America, the United 373 00:25:40,359 --> 00:25:42,639 Speaker 1: States President Joe Biden doing last week? He said that 374 00:25:43,359 --> 00:25:46,520 Speaker 1: Putin himself may not know what he plans to do, 375 00:25:46,560 --> 00:25:50,679 Speaker 1: but the results are either reckless brinksmanship or preparations for 376 00:25:50,720 --> 00:25:54,240 Speaker 1: a large scale military operation. I'm going to let you 377 00:25:54,480 --> 00:25:58,520 Speaker 1: guess which one is probably right. I'm going to guess 378 00:25:58,680 --> 00:26:00,520 Speaker 1: most of you that have a brain know that this 379 00:26:00,600 --> 00:26:05,560 Speaker 1: is not reckless brinksmanship by Vladimir Puttin. This is preparations 380 00:26:05,600 --> 00:26:11,000 Speaker 1: for a large scale military operation. It gradually dawned on 381 00:26:11,040 --> 00:26:14,440 Speaker 1: Puttin that if he stays on the track of stable 382 00:26:14,520 --> 00:26:20,440 Speaker 1: and predictable, as Biden indicated, he's the designated loser, said 383 00:26:20,480 --> 00:26:24,840 Speaker 1: Pavel By have a research professor at the Peace Institute, 384 00:26:26,080 --> 00:26:29,600 Speaker 1: at the Brookings Institute. Something needed to be done. He 385 00:26:29,640 --> 00:26:35,240 Speaker 1: went for the escalation quite sharply. Why because he wants Ukraine. 386 00:26:36,680 --> 00:26:42,160 Speaker 1: Diplomatic efforts last week were inconclusive. Well, that's on purpose, 387 00:26:43,440 --> 00:26:46,600 Speaker 1: the Russian Foreign minister called talks with US Secretary of 388 00:26:46,640 --> 00:26:51,480 Speaker 1: State Anthony B. Lincoln quote frankin substitutive, I can't say 389 00:26:51,520 --> 00:26:54,000 Speaker 1: whether we are on the right track or not on 390 00:26:54,040 --> 00:26:57,760 Speaker 1: the right track. We'll understand that when we receive an 391 00:26:57,800 --> 00:27:01,760 Speaker 1: American response on paper to all items of our proposal. 392 00:27:01,840 --> 00:27:07,240 Speaker 1: Russia said two reporters in Geneva. So let's fast forward 393 00:27:07,280 --> 00:27:12,199 Speaker 1: now to Secretary of State Anthony Blincoln. This is the 394 00:27:12,280 --> 00:27:15,600 Speaker 1: guy that's been fighting with the Russians, and this is 395 00:27:15,640 --> 00:27:18,080 Speaker 1: what he had to say today. It's one hundred and 396 00:27:18,080 --> 00:27:22,080 Speaker 1: twenty seven thousand Russian troops now near the border. How 397 00:27:22,160 --> 00:27:25,760 Speaker 1: much power, in all honesty does the US really have 398 00:27:26,440 --> 00:27:29,560 Speaker 1: to stop Russia. We've given Russia two paths. There's a 399 00:27:29,600 --> 00:27:31,959 Speaker 1: path of diplomacy and dialogue, one that I engaged in 400 00:27:31,960 --> 00:27:35,639 Speaker 1: with Foreign Minister Lavrov just last week in Geneva. But 401 00:27:35,720 --> 00:27:39,400 Speaker 1: there's also a path of its renewed aggression and massive 402 00:27:39,400 --> 00:27:42,639 Speaker 1: consequences that we have been building now for many weeks. 403 00:27:42,880 --> 00:27:45,440 Speaker 1: And it's not just US that's saying it. The g 404 00:27:45,600 --> 00:27:48,159 Speaker 1: seven world's leading democratic economies have been clear about that, 405 00:27:48,160 --> 00:27:50,359 Speaker 1: the European Union has been clear about that, NATO has 406 00:27:50,400 --> 00:27:52,520 Speaker 1: been clear about that. And as we're doing that, we've 407 00:27:52,520 --> 00:27:57,360 Speaker 1: provided more defensive assistance, military assistance to Ukraine last year 408 00:27:57,400 --> 00:28:01,560 Speaker 1: than at any time in the past. Just authorized myself 409 00:28:01,920 --> 00:28:06,119 Speaker 1: the provision of American original military equipment that's with third 410 00:28:06,119 --> 00:28:10,199 Speaker 1: countries Estonia, Latvian, Lithuanian to get to Ukraine. And we 411 00:28:10,240 --> 00:28:15,960 Speaker 1: are in intense, regular, constant communication, consultation with allies and 412 00:28:16,040 --> 00:28:18,919 Speaker 1: partners to make it very clear that these massive consequences 413 00:28:18,920 --> 00:28:22,000 Speaker 1: will follow. So basically, at this point down the choice 414 00:28:22,160 --> 00:28:27,000 Speaker 1: is Vladimir Putin's and the paths are clear. Diplomacy dialogue 415 00:28:27,320 --> 00:28:31,120 Speaker 1: seeing if we can build collective security in a way 416 00:28:31,119 --> 00:28:34,000 Speaker 1: that is good for everyone is clearly the preferable path. 417 00:28:34,040 --> 00:28:37,280 Speaker 1: But we're prepared you the way. Again, the part here 418 00:28:37,320 --> 00:28:39,520 Speaker 1: where it's very hard to even keep a straight face 419 00:28:40,400 --> 00:28:42,520 Speaker 1: is where he said there's going to be massive consequences. 420 00:28:42,640 --> 00:28:45,400 Speaker 1: None of the consequences that he just referenced are referred 421 00:28:45,440 --> 00:28:50,880 Speaker 1: to deal with our military being involved, so the consequences 422 00:28:50,920 --> 00:28:55,719 Speaker 1: are not massive. And Vladimir Putin understands that we're not 423 00:28:55,800 --> 00:28:58,560 Speaker 1: going to get a coalition together to stop him. He 424 00:28:58,600 --> 00:29:00,400 Speaker 1: gets to do what he wants to do now afterwards, 425 00:29:00,440 --> 00:29:05,440 Speaker 1: will slap his wrist. That's it. You think Vladimir Putin's 426 00:29:05,480 --> 00:29:07,560 Speaker 1: concerned over what was just said by Blinkolin, which were 427 00:29:07,560 --> 00:29:10,320 Speaker 1: stronger words and even than been spoken by the President 428 00:29:10,400 --> 00:29:17,720 Speaker 1: Unite States of America Joe Biden at this point, Now 429 00:29:17,720 --> 00:29:22,480 Speaker 1: here's the main question. If you think that Vladimir Putin 430 00:29:22,560 --> 00:29:27,360 Speaker 1: is scared of America right now, You're wrong. Any of 431 00:29:27,400 --> 00:29:30,800 Speaker 1: you really think that Putin is scared of the words 432 00:29:30,840 --> 00:29:33,720 Speaker 1: have been said by the Secretary of State Anthony B. Lincoln, 433 00:29:33,840 --> 00:29:37,680 Speaker 1: which were stronger words than were said by Joe Biden 434 00:29:37,960 --> 00:29:41,760 Speaker 1: at this point. In fact, the last words that have 435 00:29:41,840 --> 00:29:45,400 Speaker 1: been spoken by Joe Biden was Joe Biden when he 436 00:29:45,440 --> 00:29:51,080 Speaker 1: was at a event talking about computer chips, and at 437 00:29:51,080 --> 00:29:54,480 Speaker 1: the end of this event about computer chips, the last 438 00:29:54,640 --> 00:30:00,080 Speaker 1: public words that he has said about Russia. This, This 439 00:30:00,240 --> 00:30:04,040 Speaker 1: is what President Joe Biden had to say. God bless 440 00:30:04,120 --> 00:30:05,959 Speaker 1: you all to make God protect our troops. And by 441 00:30:06,000 --> 00:30:07,960 Speaker 1: the way, the reason we're not going to have any 442 00:30:07,960 --> 00:30:10,520 Speaker 1: time for questions now is these guys got to get 443 00:30:10,560 --> 00:30:12,040 Speaker 1: quickly on the plane and go out and do a 444 00:30:12,080 --> 00:30:15,280 Speaker 1: major announcement in Ohio, and you guys will ask me 445 00:30:15,320 --> 00:30:17,680 Speaker 1: all about Russia, not about anything having to do with chips. 446 00:30:18,400 --> 00:30:23,240 Speaker 1: You guys will ask me about Russia. Most leaders would 447 00:30:23,280 --> 00:30:27,080 Speaker 1: be chomping at the bit to answer questions about an 448 00:30:27,080 --> 00:30:31,680 Speaker 1: invasion of a country that's an ally of ours. Most 449 00:30:31,880 --> 00:30:35,160 Speaker 1: leaders would be chomping at the bit to answer any 450 00:30:35,280 --> 00:30:40,000 Speaker 1: questions and warning Russia that they better not think about 451 00:30:40,080 --> 00:30:42,120 Speaker 1: doing this because there will be hell to pay. So 452 00:30:42,160 --> 00:30:44,040 Speaker 1: what does hell to pay look like? What it certainly 453 00:30:44,040 --> 00:30:46,560 Speaker 1: doesn't mean militarily. What it does mean is we're going 454 00:30:46,600 --> 00:30:52,560 Speaker 1: to put sanctions on them, which Russia doesn't care about. Now, 455 00:30:52,600 --> 00:30:55,720 Speaker 1: the left is talking about this issue, but they're talking 456 00:30:55,760 --> 00:31:00,960 Speaker 1: about this issue from a quote Cold war perspective. They're 457 00:31:00,960 --> 00:31:05,480 Speaker 1: basically saying, at this point, let Russia do what Russia 458 00:31:05,560 --> 00:31:09,480 Speaker 1: wants to do and look the other way, and we'll 459 00:31:09,600 --> 00:31:11,760 Speaker 1: throw some sanctions on them, because you really don't want 460 00:31:11,760 --> 00:31:14,000 Speaker 1: to get into another war, much less a Cold war 461 00:31:14,040 --> 00:31:18,000 Speaker 1: with Russia. This is what happens when you have weak leadership. 462 00:31:19,400 --> 00:31:21,040 Speaker 1: And if you think that Russia is the only one 463 00:31:21,040 --> 00:31:23,360 Speaker 1: that's going to take advantage of this moment, this opportunity 464 00:31:23,360 --> 00:31:27,080 Speaker 1: while America is weaker than it's been in my entire lifetime, 465 00:31:29,280 --> 00:31:34,520 Speaker 1: you're wrong. China is looking at this too. China is 466 00:31:34,520 --> 00:31:36,880 Speaker 1: looking at Taiwan the same way that Russia is looking 467 00:31:36,880 --> 00:31:40,560 Speaker 1: at Ukraine. Countries and terraces in the Middle East are 468 00:31:40,560 --> 00:31:43,360 Speaker 1: looking at places that they want to screw with or 469 00:31:43,400 --> 00:31:45,360 Speaker 1: want to take over, or want to attack the same 470 00:31:45,360 --> 00:31:51,120 Speaker 1: way that Russia's looking at Ukraine. Who's going to stop us? 471 00:31:50,680 --> 00:31:54,560 Speaker 1: You know, There's a simple thing in life that I've learned, 472 00:31:55,560 --> 00:31:57,560 Speaker 1: and you can apply it to foreign policy and you 473 00:31:57,600 --> 00:31:59,640 Speaker 1: can apply it to your own life, and that is 474 00:31:59,680 --> 00:32:05,440 Speaker 1: this bad guys only understand one thing, and that is 475 00:32:05,480 --> 00:32:14,360 Speaker 1: this strength. Bad guy commits crime, it takes a good 476 00:32:14,400 --> 00:32:18,480 Speaker 1: guy to stop the bad guy committing the crime. Bad 477 00:32:18,520 --> 00:32:20,360 Speaker 1: guy with a gun is only stopped by a good 478 00:32:20,360 --> 00:32:23,360 Speaker 1: guy with a gun. When you're dealing with people like 479 00:32:23,440 --> 00:32:26,320 Speaker 1: Vladimir Putin, there is only one thing they understand, and 480 00:32:26,320 --> 00:32:32,560 Speaker 1: that is strength, something that Ronald Reagan understood better than 481 00:32:32,600 --> 00:32:34,440 Speaker 1: I would argue anybody. It's the same thing, by the 482 00:32:34,480 --> 00:32:37,120 Speaker 1: way that Donald Trump understood. You don't let these guys 483 00:32:37,160 --> 00:32:39,880 Speaker 1: screw with you on any little thing, because they're just 484 00:32:40,000 --> 00:32:41,520 Speaker 1: testing to see if they can screw with you on 485 00:32:41,520 --> 00:32:43,880 Speaker 1: the big thing. You have an opportunity to take it. 486 00:32:43,920 --> 00:32:45,600 Speaker 1: A terrorist on a tarmac and a rack, and you 487 00:32:45,680 --> 00:32:48,959 Speaker 1: take that dude out who's been a terrorist for a rand, 488 00:32:49,000 --> 00:32:50,760 Speaker 1: which is what he did. And then people said, oh, 489 00:32:50,800 --> 00:32:53,560 Speaker 1: that's you know, he's gone insane and he's gonna take 490 00:32:53,640 --> 00:32:56,520 Speaker 1: us into War War three. Remember all that. Remember every 491 00:32:56,560 --> 00:32:58,640 Speaker 1: time that Donald Trump hit a terrorist, would the left 492 00:32:58,680 --> 00:33:02,520 Speaker 1: say he's going to take us into war. Now, we 493 00:33:02,560 --> 00:33:04,560 Speaker 1: actually have a real war on our hands, and what 494 00:33:04,600 --> 00:33:07,800 Speaker 1: are we doing. We're not taking questions about it because 495 00:33:07,840 --> 00:33:11,760 Speaker 1: we'd rather talk about computer chips. That is the message 496 00:33:11,800 --> 00:33:16,800 Speaker 1: that Russia saw from Joe Biden on his last comments 497 00:33:16,800 --> 00:33:20,000 Speaker 1: publicly about Russia. I'm not gonna take questions from you 498 00:33:20,040 --> 00:33:21,400 Speaker 1: guys in the media because all you're gonna want to 499 00:33:21,400 --> 00:33:24,080 Speaker 1: talk about Russia and I wanted to talk about chips. 500 00:33:25,800 --> 00:33:30,560 Speaker 1: How bad is this? Take a listen to this conversation 501 00:33:30,640 --> 00:33:33,720 Speaker 1: on Fox about it. Minnie is raising concerns that we 502 00:33:33,760 --> 00:33:36,680 Speaker 1: are in a new Cold War with Russia, and Texas 503 00:33:36,720 --> 00:33:40,720 Speaker 1: Congressman Michael McCall says the Biden administration's weakness is not helping. 504 00:33:40,760 --> 00:33:44,080 Speaker 1: Here's what he said. Rather than threatening after an invasion 505 00:33:44,160 --> 00:33:47,320 Speaker 1: takes place, we ought to be providing de terrance before 506 00:33:47,920 --> 00:33:51,920 Speaker 1: an invasion takes place. That's my biggest criticism of the administration. 507 00:33:52,120 --> 00:33:54,360 Speaker 1: Do you think we are in a new Cold War 508 00:33:54,480 --> 00:33:58,600 Speaker 1: with Russia? I do. I do because I think Prutin 509 00:33:58,680 --> 00:34:02,920 Speaker 1: again smells weakness. General Jack Keane is a Fox News 510 00:34:02,960 --> 00:34:05,520 Speaker 1: senior strategic analyt's chairman at the Institute for the Study 511 00:34:05,560 --> 00:34:07,560 Speaker 1: of War and former Vice chief of Staff of the Army. 512 00:34:07,600 --> 00:34:09,600 Speaker 1: Great to have you, sir. I just want to play 513 00:34:09,600 --> 00:34:13,240 Speaker 1: for you to set the scene. Here's what the White 514 00:34:13,239 --> 00:34:17,400 Speaker 1: House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said this weekend. What 515 00:34:17,520 --> 00:34:20,600 Speaker 1: we have laid out is a very clear message to 516 00:34:20,600 --> 00:34:23,480 Speaker 1: the Russians that if they do further invade Ukraine there 517 00:34:23,480 --> 00:34:27,080 Speaker 1: will be severe economic consequences and a price to pay. 518 00:34:27,120 --> 00:34:29,600 Speaker 1: And yes, of course, by the way, Jake Sulivan, Okay, 519 00:34:29,600 --> 00:34:33,439 Speaker 1: who's the main guy talking on behalf of the Biden 520 00:34:33,440 --> 00:34:37,560 Speaker 1: administration right now, you're hearing his voice. If there is 521 00:34:37,880 --> 00:34:42,000 Speaker 1: further incursion into Ukraine, there will be consequences. Why are 522 00:34:42,000 --> 00:34:45,920 Speaker 1: there not consequences right now being in Ukraine for amassing troops, 523 00:34:46,239 --> 00:34:52,440 Speaker 1: for supplying people within Ukraine with a potential war and 524 00:34:52,560 --> 00:34:55,440 Speaker 1: setting things up and threatening that country. Why are we 525 00:34:55,480 --> 00:34:58,520 Speaker 1: not immediately responding with sanctions so that they back off 526 00:34:58,560 --> 00:35:02,040 Speaker 1: the border and they don't even think about doing this? 527 00:35:02,040 --> 00:35:05,120 Speaker 1: This is how weak the president is, and Jake Sullivan 528 00:35:05,239 --> 00:35:09,440 Speaker 1: just described it perfectly there. Of course, if it turns 529 00:35:09,440 --> 00:35:13,319 Speaker 1: out that Russia is pummeling Ukraine with cyber attacks, and 530 00:35:13,360 --> 00:35:16,080 Speaker 1: if that continues over the period ahead, we will work 531 00:35:16,120 --> 00:35:18,920 Speaker 1: with our allies on the appropriate response. And then what 532 00:35:19,080 --> 00:35:22,040 Speaker 1: is the appropriate response is the question I want them 533 00:35:22,080 --> 00:35:27,160 Speaker 1: to answer, right, seriously, what is the quote appropriate response? 534 00:35:27,280 --> 00:35:30,480 Speaker 1: Tell me I want to know. Explain to me what 535 00:35:30,600 --> 00:35:33,880 Speaker 1: you believe the appropriate response as to cyber attacks and 536 00:35:34,040 --> 00:35:38,800 Speaker 1: military build up. Jake Sullivan, you're top guy who's gonna 537 00:35:39,080 --> 00:35:43,080 Speaker 1: work on national security issues. In other words, you're not 538 00:35:43,080 --> 00:35:46,160 Speaker 1: going to do anything preemptively. Everything you're gonna do it 539 00:35:46,280 --> 00:35:49,320 Speaker 1: gonna be doing is after the fact, after they invade, 540 00:35:49,600 --> 00:35:54,440 Speaker 1: after they kill innocent people, after they kill the citizens 541 00:35:54,440 --> 00:35:56,640 Speaker 1: of Ukraine. They're just trying to protect their borders, who 542 00:35:56,719 --> 00:36:00,320 Speaker 1: really aren't even military type people. They're volunteer year is 543 00:36:00,360 --> 00:36:04,480 Speaker 1: trying to defend their homeland. That's when we're going to respond, 544 00:36:04,560 --> 00:36:08,520 Speaker 1: but not on the front end. This is when you 545 00:36:08,600 --> 00:36:12,600 Speaker 1: have an incapacitated leader, an incompetent leader who is incapacitated, 546 00:36:12,600 --> 00:36:17,839 Speaker 1: and Joe Biden. You get stupid comments like this. Just 547 00:36:17,920 --> 00:36:20,239 Speaker 1: because the media is not covering this to protect Joe 548 00:36:20,280 --> 00:36:22,560 Speaker 1: Biden doesn't mean that you shouldn't be talking about it 549 00:36:22,560 --> 00:36:26,080 Speaker 1: with your family and your friends. You have a world 550 00:36:26,160 --> 00:36:29,400 Speaker 1: power right now that is not being stopped by a 551 00:36:29,480 --> 00:36:33,080 Speaker 1: world superpower, which is us, and they're going to kill 552 00:36:33,239 --> 00:36:37,279 Speaker 1: a lot of innocent people. All of this audio that 553 00:36:37,320 --> 00:36:41,719 Speaker 1: I just played. Please grab our podcast and share it, 554 00:36:42,719 --> 00:36:46,400 Speaker 1: subscribe to our podcast. It's all here for you to share. 555 00:36:46,440 --> 00:36:50,359 Speaker 1: Because the media should be reporting on this, and they're not. 556 00:36:50,400 --> 00:36:54,320 Speaker 1: They're overlooking it on purpose. They're literally turning their backs 557 00:36:54,400 --> 00:36:57,520 Speaker 1: these people in Ukraine that are about to be slaughtered, 558 00:36:58,680 --> 00:37:01,400 Speaker 1: and they're doing it because a know that Joe Biden's 559 00:37:01,400 --> 00:37:04,040 Speaker 1: approval rating is so low right now that he can't 560 00:37:04,080 --> 00:37:06,560 Speaker 1: they can't afford to tell you the truth about what's happening. 561 00:37:06,600 --> 00:37:10,360 Speaker 1: They got to downplay it a little bit. And the 562 00:37:10,440 --> 00:37:14,200 Speaker 1: fact that we have national security advisors that aren't demanding 563 00:37:14,280 --> 00:37:20,840 Speaker 1: sanctions now, accountability now for the actions of Russians of 564 00:37:20,920 --> 00:37:26,120 Speaker 1: the Russians is disgusting. Make sure you download our podcasts, 565 00:37:26,120 --> 00:37:30,640 Speaker 1: share a podcast, subscribe to it wherever you get your podcasts.