1 00:00:01,200 --> 00:00:03,960 Speaker 1: Welcome in his verdict with Center, Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson 2 00:00:04,000 --> 00:00:05,600 Speaker 1: with you, so nice to have you with us, and 3 00:00:05,680 --> 00:00:07,800 Speaker 1: Senator We've got two big stories that we're gonna be 4 00:00:07,840 --> 00:00:12,160 Speaker 1: talking about. One of them is this incredible movement we've 5 00:00:12,200 --> 00:00:16,960 Speaker 1: seen with Russia and also with Ukraine. This is significant movement. 6 00:00:17,000 --> 00:00:19,120 Speaker 1: The media is fighting against us, saying no to it. 7 00:00:19,200 --> 00:00:21,720 Speaker 1: Now look what we're seeing deals getting done. 8 00:00:21,920 --> 00:00:25,919 Speaker 2: Well, Listen, I'm cautiously optimistic. Let's not get ahead of 9 00:00:25,920 --> 00:00:29,520 Speaker 2: ourselves and celebrate, but we are making progress towards peace. 10 00:00:29,560 --> 00:00:30,240 Speaker 3: In Ukraine. 11 00:00:30,880 --> 00:00:33,600 Speaker 2: We had in the last several days, President Trump met 12 00:00:33,600 --> 00:00:37,120 Speaker 2: with Putin in Alaska, had a positive meeting, and then 13 00:00:37,159 --> 00:00:40,440 Speaker 2: on Monday he had a meeting with President Zelenski, multiple 14 00:00:40,479 --> 00:00:44,240 Speaker 2: European heads of state in Washington in the White House, 15 00:00:44,280 --> 00:00:48,839 Speaker 2: again another positive meeting. We are making real significant steps 16 00:00:48,880 --> 00:00:50,800 Speaker 2: towards peace. We're gonna break it down. We're gonna tell 17 00:00:50,800 --> 00:00:52,760 Speaker 2: you where things stand right now. We're gonna tell you 18 00:00:52,760 --> 00:00:54,800 Speaker 2: where each of the players are, and we're gonna tell 19 00:00:54,800 --> 00:00:55,400 Speaker 2: you what's. 20 00:00:55,280 --> 00:00:56,320 Speaker 3: Likely to happen next. 21 00:00:56,760 --> 00:01:00,440 Speaker 2: We're also gonna talk on today's podcast about DC and 22 00:01:01,080 --> 00:01:05,240 Speaker 2: when President Trump federalized the police department in DC pursuant 23 00:01:05,240 --> 00:01:07,840 Speaker 2: to his authority under the Constitution, his authority under the 24 00:01:07,880 --> 00:01:11,479 Speaker 2: DC Home Rule Statute. The Democrats freaked out, the media 25 00:01:11,520 --> 00:01:14,200 Speaker 2: freaked out. The worst thing they could imagine was having 26 00:01:14,280 --> 00:01:18,200 Speaker 2: a Republican president step in and actually stop violent crime. 27 00:01:18,319 --> 00:01:21,279 Speaker 2: Well that has happened. The numbers are stunning. Violent crime 28 00:01:21,680 --> 00:01:24,160 Speaker 2: has plummeted. We're going to break down the results of that. 29 00:01:24,360 --> 00:01:27,720 Speaker 2: And the attendant freak out from the Democrats. This is 30 00:01:27,800 --> 00:01:30,920 Speaker 2: yet another week of real, meaningful successes for the Trump 31 00:01:31,000 --> 00:01:34,000 Speaker 2: presidency and its differences that are making a difference for 32 00:01:34,040 --> 00:01:35,280 Speaker 2: Americans across the country. 33 00:01:35,560 --> 00:01:37,639 Speaker 1: Yeah, it's certainly going to be very interesting to see 34 00:01:37,680 --> 00:01:39,279 Speaker 1: what happens with all these others. 35 00:01:39,280 --> 00:01:41,440 Speaker 4: As you mentioned, all these other cities. 36 00:01:41,560 --> 00:01:44,959 Speaker 1: And if this is so successful, how do you then 37 00:01:45,080 --> 00:01:48,560 Speaker 1: say we don't want help to save lives in our cities. 38 00:01:48,680 --> 00:01:50,280 Speaker 4: We're going to break all that down, I promise you. 39 00:01:50,320 --> 00:01:52,200 Speaker 2: The Democrats will say that they don't want help in 40 00:01:52,200 --> 00:01:53,960 Speaker 2: New York, they don't want help in Chicago, they don't 41 00:01:54,000 --> 00:01:56,440 Speaker 2: want help in la they don't want help in any 42 00:01:56,440 --> 00:01:59,640 Speaker 2: city in America run by a Democrat mayor, because they 43 00:01:59,760 --> 00:02:02,960 Speaker 2: rather crime be high than actually allow the police to 44 00:02:03,120 --> 00:02:06,200 Speaker 2: arrest the violent criminals. 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I'm actually 89 00:04:13,480 --> 00:04:15,920 Speaker 2: wondering if you're like in the red Light district, if 90 00:04:15,920 --> 00:04:18,440 Speaker 2: this is something that you pay like by the minute 91 00:04:18,480 --> 00:04:20,440 Speaker 2: you put a quarter in the bed. So where are 92 00:04:20,480 --> 00:04:23,200 Speaker 2: you and and and and why are the drapes so 93 00:04:23,320 --> 00:04:24,080 Speaker 2: drab behind you? 94 00:04:24,400 --> 00:04:24,760 Speaker 3: All right? 95 00:04:24,839 --> 00:04:27,080 Speaker 1: So it's a very bougie room. I'm not gonna lie. 96 00:04:27,120 --> 00:04:29,200 Speaker 1: I didn't book it. I think it's called the Conrad. 97 00:04:29,400 --> 00:04:33,760 Speaker 1: It's very nice. But the drapes they have, otherwise you'd 98 00:04:33,760 --> 00:04:36,279 Speaker 1: be seeing the skyline behind me. I hit the clothes 99 00:04:36,360 --> 00:04:38,800 Speaker 1: button beforehand, and they're like these tan drapes. But they 100 00:04:38,839 --> 00:04:41,120 Speaker 1: look very as you mentioned. Yes, I agree with you. 101 00:04:41,480 --> 00:04:43,800 Speaker 1: It does look like I'm in a motel six outdoor 102 00:04:43,920 --> 00:04:44,920 Speaker 1: entry hotel right now. 103 00:04:44,960 --> 00:04:45,840 Speaker 4: So that's I'm in now? 104 00:04:45,920 --> 00:04:48,480 Speaker 3: So in what in web site Nashville? All right? All right, 105 00:04:48,480 --> 00:04:49,440 Speaker 3: so pull the drapes behind. 106 00:04:49,560 --> 00:04:50,919 Speaker 4: Let's see the Skytish Vegas. 107 00:04:51,160 --> 00:04:52,960 Speaker 1: All right, let's see it on, let's see it. They'll 108 00:04:53,000 --> 00:04:56,719 Speaker 1: open there we go, hold on, they're automatic drapes. I 109 00:04:56,760 --> 00:04:58,320 Speaker 1: love that you're making me do this. Can you see 110 00:04:58,360 --> 00:05:01,599 Speaker 1: the skyline? You guys? You see it's real nice back there? 111 00:05:01,680 --> 00:05:02,520 Speaker 3: Okay, there you go. 112 00:05:02,560 --> 00:05:07,440 Speaker 2: All right, that's that's uh, you know it did. There's 113 00:05:07,520 --> 00:05:09,719 Speaker 2: not just actually a crack dealer your window. 114 00:05:09,839 --> 00:05:10,440 Speaker 3: So that's good. 115 00:05:11,160 --> 00:05:14,080 Speaker 1: Look look look automatic drapes behind me. Can you see 116 00:05:14,080 --> 00:05:17,599 Speaker 1: the moving automatically? All right? 117 00:05:17,640 --> 00:05:20,920 Speaker 2: From now on, we'll have to address you aie Ben. 118 00:05:21,880 --> 00:05:22,520 Speaker 4: I love it. 119 00:05:22,920 --> 00:05:24,719 Speaker 1: I'm just glad you dressed up for me. You know 120 00:05:24,800 --> 00:05:26,599 Speaker 1: I was. I'm in my travel gear right now. 121 00:05:27,240 --> 00:05:29,240 Speaker 3: You know, I'm just glad you're wearing travels. 122 00:05:29,240 --> 00:05:33,000 Speaker 1: That's that's, that's very true. So let's talk about this. 123 00:05:33,320 --> 00:05:37,560 Speaker 1: That the implosion of the media over what we just witnessed. 124 00:05:37,600 --> 00:05:39,640 Speaker 4: So let's just go back a couple of days ago. 125 00:05:40,040 --> 00:05:44,080 Speaker 1: They said, like uniformly the media that a guy by 126 00:05:44,080 --> 00:05:48,000 Speaker 1: the name of Vladimir Putin played Donald Trump, that this 127 00:05:48,240 --> 00:05:51,799 Speaker 1: was a disaster, the meeting in Alaska, it was gonna 128 00:05:52,040 --> 00:05:54,839 Speaker 1: go nowhere. They were saying that there was no movement, 129 00:05:55,040 --> 00:05:59,080 Speaker 1: no real deal done. You fast forward days the Lensky 130 00:05:59,200 --> 00:06:02,360 Speaker 1: shows up, Your and leaders show up, and they're all 131 00:06:02,400 --> 00:06:05,640 Speaker 1: sitting there going, let's get this done. Let's move forward. 132 00:06:06,120 --> 00:06:08,640 Speaker 1: Zielenski even wore a suit. Some said it looked like 133 00:06:08,680 --> 00:06:10,240 Speaker 1: a ten year old. After they get their first suit 134 00:06:10,240 --> 00:06:12,040 Speaker 1: at j C. Pennies. The way he was dressed up. 135 00:06:12,080 --> 00:06:13,680 Speaker 1: It is kind of funny if you saw that meme 136 00:06:13,760 --> 00:06:16,040 Speaker 1: going around, because it is exactly what I looked like 137 00:06:16,080 --> 00:06:17,680 Speaker 1: when I was smiling when I wore my first suit 138 00:06:17,720 --> 00:06:18,760 Speaker 1: when I was like ten years old. 139 00:06:18,839 --> 00:06:20,479 Speaker 4: It was one of the best memes I've ever seen. 140 00:06:21,000 --> 00:06:23,760 Speaker 1: But he show up for his suit instead that you know, 141 00:06:24,360 --> 00:06:26,520 Speaker 1: I know, I know, except for instead of the military. 142 00:06:26,680 --> 00:06:28,480 Speaker 4: You know, Garby normally wears. 143 00:06:29,040 --> 00:06:31,920 Speaker 1: And he clearly was there in a very different tone 144 00:06:31,920 --> 00:06:34,040 Speaker 1: than he was the first meeting when he was very 145 00:06:34,080 --> 00:06:38,080 Speaker 1: combative with Donald Trump. And now we have a structure 146 00:06:38,160 --> 00:06:39,800 Speaker 1: that is being laid out publicly. 147 00:06:40,800 --> 00:06:41,360 Speaker 3: Yeah. 148 00:06:41,160 --> 00:06:44,240 Speaker 2: So look, we had this weekend, the meeting in Alaska 149 00:06:44,279 --> 00:06:48,320 Speaker 2: between President Trump and and Putin, and you're right, the 150 00:06:48,360 --> 00:06:50,800 Speaker 2: media freaked out. We did a deep dive on that 151 00:06:50,880 --> 00:06:53,680 Speaker 2: meeting in Monday's podcast. If you didn't listen to Monday's podcast, 152 00:06:53,760 --> 00:06:55,839 Speaker 2: you got to go back and listen to it. But 153 00:06:56,320 --> 00:07:00,120 Speaker 2: the disconnect between what actually happened between President Trump in 154 00:07:00,200 --> 00:07:04,200 Speaker 2: Putin and what the media reported is night and day. 155 00:07:04,279 --> 00:07:07,120 Speaker 2: Because they are rooting for the president to fail. They 156 00:07:07,120 --> 00:07:10,080 Speaker 2: are rooting for America to fail, and the Democrats are 157 00:07:10,120 --> 00:07:12,280 Speaker 2: rooting for the president to fail in America to fail, 158 00:07:12,360 --> 00:07:15,800 Speaker 2: and I have to say we're making real and material progress. 159 00:07:16,440 --> 00:07:19,960 Speaker 2: I believe the war in Ukraine will be over by 160 00:07:20,000 --> 00:07:21,840 Speaker 2: the end of the year. I think we are on 161 00:07:21,880 --> 00:07:25,160 Speaker 2: a path to do that. Understand, Donald Trump campaigned on 162 00:07:25,320 --> 00:07:28,280 Speaker 2: ending this war. The American people elected him. That was 163 00:07:28,320 --> 00:07:29,200 Speaker 2: part of the mandate. 164 00:07:29,320 --> 00:07:29,800 Speaker 3: Is that. 165 00:07:29,840 --> 00:07:34,240 Speaker 2: I think the American people are done with a blank 166 00:07:34,360 --> 00:07:38,640 Speaker 2: check with sending billions of dollars to Ukraine with no limit, 167 00:07:38,800 --> 00:07:41,920 Speaker 2: just on and on for NonStop war. The American people 168 00:07:41,960 --> 00:07:44,640 Speaker 2: are ready for this to be over. Now, what I've 169 00:07:44,760 --> 00:07:47,360 Speaker 2: advised the President, what I've encouraged the President, is it 170 00:07:47,400 --> 00:07:49,720 Speaker 2: needs to end. It's going to end in a negotiated settlement, 171 00:07:50,080 --> 00:07:51,840 Speaker 2: but it needs to end in a way that is 172 00:07:51,880 --> 00:07:54,520 Speaker 2: a clear and discernible loss for Putin. 173 00:07:54,600 --> 00:07:55,160 Speaker 3: That is a. 174 00:07:55,160 --> 00:07:58,640 Speaker 2: Loss for Russia because Russia is not our friend. They 175 00:07:58,720 --> 00:08:02,080 Speaker 2: are our enemy, and we want weaker and not stronger. Now, 176 00:08:02,720 --> 00:08:05,040 Speaker 2: the media tried to say the meeting with Putin was 177 00:08:05,040 --> 00:08:07,760 Speaker 2: a disaster. The world was on fire, cats and dogs 178 00:08:07,760 --> 00:08:10,960 Speaker 2: living together, signs of the end, time to armageddon. And 179 00:08:11,000 --> 00:08:14,720 Speaker 2: then we had the meeting, yeah, in the White House, 180 00:08:14,760 --> 00:08:18,320 Speaker 2: with Zelenski and with the European heads of state, and 181 00:08:18,480 --> 00:08:21,320 Speaker 2: even with the dishonest corporate media, they couldn't spend this. 182 00:08:21,440 --> 00:08:24,080 Speaker 2: I want you to listen to the finished president his 183 00:08:24,240 --> 00:08:26,760 Speaker 2: assessment of what has happened in the last couple of weeks. 184 00:08:27,040 --> 00:08:29,560 Speaker 3: Give a listen. And by the way, Alex, I'd like 185 00:08:29,640 --> 00:08:31,720 Speaker 3: you to say a couple of words too. You're a young, 186 00:08:32,720 --> 00:08:33,559 Speaker 3: powerful man. 187 00:08:34,440 --> 00:08:36,160 Speaker 4: Before I finish up, I want you to say a 188 00:08:36,160 --> 00:08:37,959 Speaker 4: couple of words. Go ahead. 189 00:08:39,679 --> 00:08:42,160 Speaker 5: I'll take the notion of youth back to my wife 190 00:08:42,160 --> 00:08:45,760 Speaker 5: and try to convince her. Thank you very much, mister President. 191 00:08:45,840 --> 00:08:50,160 Speaker 5: I think in the past two weeks we've probably had 192 00:08:50,240 --> 00:08:53,040 Speaker 5: more progress in ending this war than we have in 193 00:08:53,080 --> 00:08:55,520 Speaker 5: the past three and a half years. And I think 194 00:08:55,559 --> 00:08:58,880 Speaker 5: the fact that we're around this table today is very 195 00:08:58,960 --> 00:09:02,400 Speaker 5: much symbolic in the sense that it's team Europe and 196 00:09:02,600 --> 00:09:05,360 Speaker 5: team United States helping Ukraine. 197 00:09:05,640 --> 00:09:08,760 Speaker 2: I mean, wow, well, Ben, that's exactly what you and 198 00:09:08,800 --> 00:09:11,080 Speaker 2: I said on Monday's pod, which is that we made 199 00:09:11,120 --> 00:09:15,320 Speaker 2: more progress towards peace in Ukraine in the last couple 200 00:09:15,360 --> 00:09:17,000 Speaker 2: of weeks than we have in three and a half years. 201 00:09:17,000 --> 00:09:18,720 Speaker 2: But when you and I were saying it, the media 202 00:09:18,760 --> 00:09:22,120 Speaker 2: dismisses it. You've now got the President of Finland saying that, 203 00:09:22,200 --> 00:09:24,120 Speaker 2: and by the way, not just Finland. I want you 204 00:09:24,200 --> 00:09:26,439 Speaker 2: to listen now to Keer Starmer from the United Kingdom, 205 00:09:26,520 --> 00:09:27,040 Speaker 2: give a listen. 206 00:09:27,480 --> 00:09:29,880 Speaker 6: Thinks it is such an important meeting as a group. 207 00:09:29,960 --> 00:09:32,040 Speaker 6: I think we've had a discussion on the phone a 208 00:09:32,120 --> 00:09:34,439 Speaker 6: number of times, was the President, but be able now 209 00:09:34,480 --> 00:09:36,840 Speaker 6: to be around the table to take it forward, and 210 00:09:36,880 --> 00:09:40,760 Speaker 6: I really feel that we can, I think, with the 211 00:09:40,840 --> 00:09:44,240 Speaker 6: right approach this afternoon, make real progress, particularly on the 212 00:09:44,280 --> 00:09:48,200 Speaker 6: security guarantees, and your indication of security guarantees of some 213 00:09:48,320 --> 00:09:51,880 Speaker 6: sort of Article five style guarantees fits with what we've 214 00:09:51,920 --> 00:09:53,840 Speaker 6: been doing with the Coalition of the Willing, which we 215 00:09:53,920 --> 00:09:57,320 Speaker 6: started some months ago, bringing countries together and showing that 216 00:09:57,360 --> 00:09:59,760 Speaker 6: we were prepared to step up to the plate when 217 00:09:59,760 --> 00:10:04,640 Speaker 6: it came security. With you coming alongside the US, alongside 218 00:10:04,960 --> 00:10:07,120 Speaker 6: what we've already developed, I think we could take a 219 00:10:07,160 --> 00:10:11,040 Speaker 6: really important step forward today. A historic step actually could 220 00:10:11,080 --> 00:10:13,600 Speaker 6: come out of this meeting in terms of security for 221 00:10:13,720 --> 00:10:18,320 Speaker 6: Ukraine and security in Europe. I also feel that we 222 00:10:18,400 --> 00:10:23,600 Speaker 6: can make real progress towards a just and lasting outcome. 223 00:10:24,000 --> 00:10:28,080 Speaker 6: Obviously that has to involve Ukraine and a trilateral meeting 224 00:10:28,160 --> 00:10:31,920 Speaker 6: seems the sensible next step. So thank you for being 225 00:10:31,920 --> 00:10:34,880 Speaker 6: prepared to take that forward, because I think if we 226 00:10:35,040 --> 00:10:40,199 Speaker 6: can ensure that that is the progress out of this meeting, 227 00:10:40,240 --> 00:10:43,439 Speaker 6: both security guarantees and some sort of progress on trilateral 228 00:10:44,200 --> 00:10:47,960 Speaker 6: meeting of some sort to bring some of the difficult 229 00:10:47,960 --> 00:10:51,480 Speaker 6: issues to a head, then I think today we'll be 230 00:10:51,520 --> 00:10:54,840 Speaker 6: seen as a very important day in recent years in 231 00:10:54,880 --> 00:10:56,880 Speaker 6: relation to a conflict which has gone on for three 232 00:10:56,880 --> 00:11:00,720 Speaker 6: and a bit years, and so nobody's able to bring 233 00:11:00,720 --> 00:11:01,320 Speaker 6: it to this point. 234 00:11:01,360 --> 00:11:03,559 Speaker 4: So I thank you for that no one's been able 235 00:11:03,600 --> 00:11:04,640 Speaker 4: to bring it to this point. 236 00:11:04,720 --> 00:11:07,880 Speaker 1: I think that is a very big accolade from the 237 00:11:07,960 --> 00:11:10,560 Speaker 1: leaders at the table. He also and I want to 238 00:11:10,559 --> 00:11:14,400 Speaker 1: get your explanation for people say understand this, because if 239 00:11:14,440 --> 00:11:18,959 Speaker 1: you don't understand it, it's complicated. Trump has pledged US 240 00:11:19,120 --> 00:11:22,560 Speaker 1: quote support for NATO style security guarantees. You heard it 241 00:11:22,800 --> 00:11:26,600 Speaker 1: mentioned there in that quote for Ukraine, while emphasizing that 242 00:11:26,720 --> 00:11:29,560 Speaker 1: Europe would serve quote as the first line of defense. 243 00:11:30,559 --> 00:11:35,840 Speaker 1: NATO officials also urge that this would be vitally important 244 00:11:35,840 --> 00:11:38,440 Speaker 1: to getting a deal done and even a ceasefire. So 245 00:11:38,640 --> 00:11:43,560 Speaker 1: explain NATO style security guarantees. What does that mean? For 246 00:11:43,559 --> 00:11:45,120 Speaker 1: people that don't understand. 247 00:11:44,720 --> 00:11:45,760 Speaker 3: That, well, listen. 248 00:11:45,880 --> 00:11:48,480 Speaker 2: One of the things that we covered in Monday's pod 249 00:11:49,240 --> 00:11:52,079 Speaker 2: is that Putin in the meeting in Alaska, he conceded 250 00:11:52,120 --> 00:11:55,760 Speaker 2: explicitly that there needed to be some clear security guarantees 251 00:11:55,800 --> 00:11:58,240 Speaker 2: for Ukraine that when this war comes to an end, 252 00:11:58,600 --> 00:12:01,080 Speaker 2: which I believe will happen this year, that Ukraine has 253 00:12:01,120 --> 00:12:04,440 Speaker 2: some confidence that they're not going to wake up in January, February, 254 00:12:04,480 --> 00:12:07,520 Speaker 2: and March and see Russian tanks once again crossing their borders. 255 00:12:08,160 --> 00:12:13,079 Speaker 2: I think the negotiated settlement will include some monokoo security guarantees. Now, 256 00:12:13,559 --> 00:12:17,520 Speaker 2: what it will not include is Ukraine joining NATO. And 257 00:12:17,600 --> 00:12:20,599 Speaker 2: I oppose Ukraine joining NATO. I've been vocal for a 258 00:12:20,640 --> 00:12:23,360 Speaker 2: long time Ukraine should not join NATO. Why is that 259 00:12:23,880 --> 00:12:27,520 Speaker 2: because under NATO, under Article five of NATO, the member 260 00:12:27,640 --> 00:12:31,080 Speaker 2: States of NATO take on an obligation to defend any 261 00:12:31,080 --> 00:12:34,840 Speaker 2: one of the members if they are invaded. And I 262 00:12:34,880 --> 00:12:38,120 Speaker 2: am not interested in a treaty obligation to put US 263 00:12:38,240 --> 00:12:41,440 Speaker 2: troops in harms way. I don't believe President Trump is 264 00:12:41,440 --> 00:12:44,480 Speaker 2: going to enter into any agreement that puts US troops 265 00:12:44,480 --> 00:12:47,520 Speaker 2: in harms way. And so the emphasis and you put 266 00:12:47,520 --> 00:12:50,520 Speaker 2: it exactly right, Ben, is that security guarantees should put 267 00:12:50,520 --> 00:12:53,400 Speaker 2: Europe on the front line. If the Brits, if the French, 268 00:12:53,440 --> 00:12:57,000 Speaker 2: if the Germans to want to commit, if Russia violates 269 00:12:57,000 --> 00:13:01,120 Speaker 2: the borders, they'll come in and defend Ukraine. Knock yourself out. 270 00:13:01,400 --> 00:13:05,319 Speaker 2: You guys believe in it. That's fine. We will facilitate 271 00:13:06,360 --> 00:13:10,120 Speaker 2: the resolution. But I do not think there is any 272 00:13:10,240 --> 00:13:12,320 Speaker 2: will to war on the part of the United States 273 00:13:12,320 --> 00:13:14,679 Speaker 2: to put US troops on the ground. And it's not 274 00:13:14,760 --> 00:13:17,400 Speaker 2: just me saying this. So I want you to listen 275 00:13:18,400 --> 00:13:21,240 Speaker 2: to Caroline Levitt, the White House Press Secretary, when she 276 00:13:21,320 --> 00:13:22,079 Speaker 2: was asked about this. 277 00:13:22,120 --> 00:13:23,880 Speaker 3: Here give a listen to what Caroline. 278 00:13:23,480 --> 00:13:23,920 Speaker 4: Had to say. 279 00:13:24,720 --> 00:13:28,240 Speaker 7: The President has definitively stated US boots will not be 280 00:13:28,280 --> 00:13:30,400 Speaker 7: on the ground in Ukraine, but we can certainly help 281 00:13:30,600 --> 00:13:33,720 Speaker 7: in the coordination and perhaps provide other means of security 282 00:13:33,720 --> 00:13:37,880 Speaker 7: guarantees to our European allies. The President understands security guarantees 283 00:13:37,920 --> 00:13:41,440 Speaker 7: are crucially important to ensure a lasting piece, and he 284 00:13:41,480 --> 00:13:45,040 Speaker 7: has directed his National Security team to coordinate with our 285 00:13:45,080 --> 00:13:47,720 Speaker 7: friends in Europe and also to continue to cooperate and 286 00:13:47,760 --> 00:13:50,440 Speaker 7: discuss these matters with Ukraine and Russia. 287 00:13:50,480 --> 00:13:51,200 Speaker 8: As well. 288 00:13:51,520 --> 00:13:54,120 Speaker 1: You listen to Caroline Levitt there, and there's a theme 289 00:13:54,200 --> 00:13:57,679 Speaker 1: that we continue to get from the Trump foreign policy doctrine. 290 00:13:57,800 --> 00:14:02,400 Speaker 1: It cannot always be America everything. He is holding other 291 00:14:02,440 --> 00:14:05,640 Speaker 1: countries accountable, saying you need to step up, Yes you 292 00:14:05,760 --> 00:14:08,560 Speaker 1: need to lead, Yes you need to do this. President 293 00:14:08,640 --> 00:14:11,920 Speaker 1: clarified three times, and that was my counting. It may 294 00:14:11,960 --> 00:14:14,800 Speaker 1: even be more, but I heard him three times clearly 295 00:14:14,880 --> 00:14:17,840 Speaker 1: say he had continued and saying it for a long time, 296 00:14:17,920 --> 00:14:22,480 Speaker 1: just like you mentioned opposition to Ukrainian NATO membership and 297 00:14:22,640 --> 00:14:26,480 Speaker 1: noted even that there may have to be territorial concessions 298 00:14:26,520 --> 00:14:28,520 Speaker 1: for a deal to get done. So again he's saying 299 00:14:28,520 --> 00:14:31,240 Speaker 1: to Europe and all these other leaders, you guys need 300 00:14:31,280 --> 00:14:34,320 Speaker 1: to step up. America is not going to fund all this. 301 00:14:34,680 --> 00:14:36,760 Speaker 1: We're not going to get in these wars. We're not 302 00:14:36,840 --> 00:14:39,760 Speaker 1: gonna do everything on the backs of American taxpayers. I 303 00:14:39,800 --> 00:14:42,640 Speaker 1: think that's very popular in this country right now. 304 00:14:43,320 --> 00:14:44,760 Speaker 3: I think that's right. 305 00:14:44,800 --> 00:14:48,640 Speaker 2: And listen, the contrast between this meeting and the last 306 00:14:48,680 --> 00:14:51,200 Speaker 2: meeting with President Zelensky in the Oval Office is night 307 00:14:51,240 --> 00:14:54,280 Speaker 2: and day. The last meeting, and we covered that extensively 308 00:14:54,320 --> 00:14:59,280 Speaker 2: on this podcast. The last meeting with Zelensky was a disaster. 309 00:14:59,440 --> 00:15:01,800 Speaker 2: It was a train wreck. It will go down in 310 00:15:01,960 --> 00:15:06,120 Speaker 2: history as the worst as the least successful Oval Office 311 00:15:06,160 --> 00:15:10,360 Speaker 2: meeting in history. Why because President Zelensky came in looking 312 00:15:10,400 --> 00:15:12,680 Speaker 2: to pick a fight with President Trump. He came in 313 00:15:13,160 --> 00:15:18,160 Speaker 2: arrogant and belligerent and demanding. He was like a petulant child. 314 00:15:18,760 --> 00:15:20,960 Speaker 2: You need to defend me, You owe it to me. 315 00:15:21,240 --> 00:15:24,160 Speaker 2: And I think Zelensky had spent too much time with 316 00:15:24,200 --> 00:15:26,400 Speaker 2: the New York Times and with Nancy Pelosi and Chuck 317 00:15:26,440 --> 00:15:29,800 Speaker 2: Schumer and believe their talking points. And I got to 318 00:15:29,840 --> 00:15:34,960 Speaker 2: tell you, look in this no US president would allow 319 00:15:35,040 --> 00:15:37,120 Speaker 2: a foreign leader to come into the Oval Office and 320 00:15:37,160 --> 00:15:40,240 Speaker 2: address him the way Zelensky did the last time, and 321 00:15:40,400 --> 00:15:43,800 Speaker 2: especially not Donald Trump. So it went very badly. This 322 00:15:43,920 --> 00:15:45,760 Speaker 2: time was night and day. As you noted, he put 323 00:15:45,800 --> 00:15:49,480 Speaker 2: on a suit, he demonstrated some respect. And listen, I 324 00:15:49,600 --> 00:15:53,640 Speaker 2: understand why Zelenski's position has been they don't want to 325 00:15:53,680 --> 00:15:56,400 Speaker 2: give up one inch of their territory. If if you 326 00:15:56,480 --> 00:15:58,840 Speaker 2: were the president of Ukraine, you'd probably say the same thing. Man, 327 00:15:58,960 --> 00:16:01,960 Speaker 2: I understand why he's said saying that, But that is 328 00:16:02,080 --> 00:16:05,840 Speaker 2: not America's national security interest. What is our national security 329 00:16:05,840 --> 00:16:10,280 Speaker 2: interest is that Russia and Putin not gets significantly stronger 330 00:16:11,160 --> 00:16:13,760 Speaker 2: because they're an enemy to America. And I'll tell you 331 00:16:13,800 --> 00:16:15,280 Speaker 2: I want to throw it down a marker that I 332 00:16:15,280 --> 00:16:18,880 Speaker 2: think is really important in terms of the negotiated settlement 333 00:16:18,920 --> 00:16:22,800 Speaker 2: that occurs here. I think energy is front and center. 334 00:16:22,840 --> 00:16:25,760 Speaker 2: We've talked a lot on this podcast about how Joe 335 00:16:25,760 --> 00:16:29,200 Speaker 2: Biden caused the war in Ukraine, that his weakness, the 336 00:16:29,240 --> 00:16:34,080 Speaker 2: disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan emboldened Putin and all of our enemies, 337 00:16:34,120 --> 00:16:38,320 Speaker 2: and also how Biden's waiving the sanctions on Nordstream two 338 00:16:38,680 --> 00:16:42,880 Speaker 2: caused this war. I authored those sanctions, I wrote that legislation. 339 00:16:43,040 --> 00:16:47,200 Speaker 2: Donald Trump signed those sanctions into law, and as Putin 340 00:16:47,240 --> 00:16:49,280 Speaker 2: said in Alaska just a couple of days ago, if 341 00:16:49,280 --> 00:16:52,120 Speaker 2: Trump had still been in the Oval Office, there would 342 00:16:52,160 --> 00:16:55,960 Speaker 2: be no war in Ukraine. Russia would not have invaded 343 00:16:56,840 --> 00:16:59,280 Speaker 2: in this settlement. What I think is very important, I 344 00:16:59,320 --> 00:17:03,000 Speaker 2: would like to see Ukraine and the rest of Europe 345 00:17:03,200 --> 00:17:06,520 Speaker 2: sign an agreement to buy their energy, buy their oil 346 00:17:06,520 --> 00:17:08,760 Speaker 2: and gas from the United States. And let's be clear 347 00:17:09,000 --> 00:17:14,879 Speaker 2: from Texas. Texas, we have the resources. That's good for America, 348 00:17:14,920 --> 00:17:18,959 Speaker 2: but they should not return to buying oil and gas 349 00:17:19,000 --> 00:17:22,359 Speaker 2: from Russia. When I meet with European heads of state 350 00:17:22,400 --> 00:17:25,199 Speaker 2: and foreign ministers, this is the number one question I 351 00:17:25,240 --> 00:17:28,399 Speaker 2: asked them. When this war is over, are you going 352 00:17:28,440 --> 00:17:30,680 Speaker 2: to go back to buying Russian oil and gas? Are 353 00:17:30,680 --> 00:17:33,159 Speaker 2: you going to go back to sending billions of dollars 354 00:17:33,200 --> 00:17:36,560 Speaker 2: to fuel the Russian war machine? Or are you going 355 00:17:36,640 --> 00:17:39,199 Speaker 2: to use this as an opportunity to pivot towards a 356 00:17:39,280 --> 00:17:40,119 Speaker 2: friend and ally. 357 00:17:40,600 --> 00:17:41,520 Speaker 3: And I think. 358 00:17:41,960 --> 00:17:46,480 Speaker 2: Leaving resolving this war with a major energy agreement for 359 00:17:46,680 --> 00:17:50,280 Speaker 2: Ukraine and Europe to buy their energy from America. I 360 00:17:50,320 --> 00:17:54,960 Speaker 2: think that is a powerful America first outcome, and it's 361 00:17:55,000 --> 00:17:58,840 Speaker 2: also an outcome where Putin will not have scored a 362 00:17:58,880 --> 00:18:02,239 Speaker 2: major victory. If that is the resolution, I hope very 363 00:18:02,320 --> 00:18:04,119 Speaker 2: much that's the direction the President takes this. 364 00:18:04,760 --> 00:18:07,040 Speaker 1: All of you know that I am a pro Second 365 00:18:07,040 --> 00:18:10,119 Speaker 1: Amendment guy. I've shared on numerous occasions how caring my 366 00:18:10,280 --> 00:18:13,520 Speaker 1: firearms saved my life from a gang related attack. But 367 00:18:13,640 --> 00:18:15,919 Speaker 1: for those of you out there with family members who 368 00:18:16,000 --> 00:18:18,720 Speaker 1: may not be comfortable having a gun by their side, 369 00:18:18,760 --> 00:18:21,119 Speaker 1: you still want them to be able to protect themselves 370 00:18:21,119 --> 00:18:23,600 Speaker 1: and others in times of danger. 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A 413 00:20:29,040 --> 00:20:32,760 Speaker 1: lot of people don't realize this. They really cannot afford 414 00:20:32,800 --> 00:20:34,840 Speaker 1: for this war to go on much longer. Part of 415 00:20:34,840 --> 00:20:37,119 Speaker 1: the reason why I'm guessing you're saying you believe this 416 00:20:37,200 --> 00:20:38,720 Speaker 1: timeline that we're going to end this war by the 417 00:20:38,760 --> 00:20:41,960 Speaker 1: end of this year, is the financial impact this is 418 00:20:42,000 --> 00:20:44,639 Speaker 1: having on Russia. And Vladimir Putin does not want to 419 00:20:44,640 --> 00:20:46,119 Speaker 1: get to the point where there's a revolt in his 420 00:20:46,200 --> 00:20:50,960 Speaker 1: country because they're so gone. Economically, there's also he needs 421 00:20:50,960 --> 00:20:55,280 Speaker 1: to start selling oil because that is what gives life 422 00:20:55,480 --> 00:20:58,680 Speaker 1: to his you know, being in charge of this country. 423 00:20:58,760 --> 00:21:01,359 Speaker 1: It gives him his power, or it makes the people 424 00:21:01,440 --> 00:21:03,920 Speaker 1: kind of sit back down and and and just go 425 00:21:04,000 --> 00:21:06,560 Speaker 1: along to get along in essence, which is the way 426 00:21:06,560 --> 00:21:09,800 Speaker 1: of life unfortunately under Vladimir Putin in Russia. But if 427 00:21:09,800 --> 00:21:13,399 Speaker 1: he doesn't get this done soon, he's in trouble economically. 428 00:21:13,920 --> 00:21:16,840 Speaker 1: You mentioned this agreement with the US these other countries. 429 00:21:17,400 --> 00:21:19,600 Speaker 1: How does that work. Does it say we're not buying 430 00:21:19,640 --> 00:21:21,359 Speaker 1: Russian oil and then Russia says, fine, we would just 431 00:21:21,480 --> 00:21:23,880 Speaker 1: keep lowering our price so eventually you'll bit it again. 432 00:21:24,400 --> 00:21:26,160 Speaker 1: Explain to me how that would work. 433 00:21:26,800 --> 00:21:29,800 Speaker 2: Look, I think you negotiate an agreement. Ukraine wants to 434 00:21:29,840 --> 00:21:33,320 Speaker 2: buy American oil and American natural gas, and this is 435 00:21:33,359 --> 00:21:36,639 Speaker 2: a little bit like predatory pricing in the antitrust context. 436 00:21:37,080 --> 00:21:41,240 Speaker 2: I think many European countries realize that Russia uses energy 437 00:21:41,280 --> 00:21:44,520 Speaker 2: for economic blackmail, that they offer low prices to get 438 00:21:44,560 --> 00:21:46,560 Speaker 2: Europe hooked. It's kind of like a drug dealer going 439 00:21:46,600 --> 00:21:48,800 Speaker 2: to a junior high saying here, try a free sample, 440 00:21:49,240 --> 00:21:51,359 Speaker 2: just enjoy it, and they're trying to get you hooked. 441 00:21:51,800 --> 00:21:54,960 Speaker 2: And Russia and Putin in particular, has a long history 442 00:21:55,000 --> 00:21:58,440 Speaker 2: then of jacking up prices when he wants to extort 443 00:21:58,600 --> 00:22:03,480 Speaker 2: Europe or cutting off energy supplies when he wants to 444 00:22:03,480 --> 00:22:06,280 Speaker 2: get concessions from them. Look, if you're in Europe and 445 00:22:06,320 --> 00:22:08,440 Speaker 2: it's the dead of winner and you're relying on gas 446 00:22:08,480 --> 00:22:10,840 Speaker 2: to heat your houses and Russia can shut you off, 447 00:22:11,359 --> 00:22:14,480 Speaker 2: that gives them enormous leverage. And Putin is demonstrated he 448 00:22:14,520 --> 00:22:18,199 Speaker 2: will use that leverage to engage in economic blackmail. So 449 00:22:18,240 --> 00:22:21,880 Speaker 2: it's not in Europe's interest to be dependent on Russia 450 00:22:21,920 --> 00:22:25,200 Speaker 2: for energy now. Right now, Russia is selling the bulk 451 00:22:25,240 --> 00:22:28,160 Speaker 2: of their oil and gas to China and to India. 452 00:22:29,000 --> 00:22:31,240 Speaker 2: And this is one of the lever points President Trump 453 00:22:31,280 --> 00:22:34,240 Speaker 2: has is that he is threatened or in post sanctions 454 00:22:34,280 --> 00:22:38,200 Speaker 2: against both India and China if they continue buying Russian 455 00:22:38,240 --> 00:22:40,719 Speaker 2: oil and gas. And that's one of the things I 456 00:22:40,760 --> 00:22:44,240 Speaker 2: believe that's bringing Putin to the table is that if 457 00:22:44,280 --> 00:22:47,160 Speaker 2: President Trump cuts off his market in China and India, 458 00:22:47,680 --> 00:22:49,760 Speaker 2: Putin is in a world of hurt. And so that's 459 00:22:49,800 --> 00:22:52,160 Speaker 2: an incentive for Putin to come in and say, all right, 460 00:22:52,840 --> 00:22:56,320 Speaker 2: let's reach a resolution. And I think we're going to 461 00:22:56,440 --> 00:22:58,679 Speaker 2: and it's going to be a resolution. Is Ukraine going 462 00:22:58,720 --> 00:23:01,959 Speaker 2: to get everything they want? No, but Russia's not going 463 00:23:01,960 --> 00:23:05,720 Speaker 2: to get everything they want either. And I'll point out, 464 00:23:05,760 --> 00:23:08,800 Speaker 2: you know, one really important point. I want to read 465 00:23:08,880 --> 00:23:12,359 Speaker 2: a tweet from Mark Penn. Now, Mark Penn is a 466 00:23:12,440 --> 00:23:15,240 Speaker 2: polster for the Clintons, for Bill Clinton, for Hillary Clinton. 467 00:23:15,240 --> 00:23:18,680 Speaker 2: He is a Democrat. Here's what Mark Penn tweeted out. 468 00:23:18,680 --> 00:23:21,840 Speaker 2: I think it's really important. He said, quote from what 469 00:23:21,960 --> 00:23:25,520 Speaker 2: I can see, nearly a million people have died in 470 00:23:25,520 --> 00:23:29,719 Speaker 2: the Ukraine War, and Biden was unable to attend G 471 00:23:29,880 --> 00:23:36,280 Speaker 2: seven meetings without embarrassing the country. In contrast, Trump is 472 00:23:36,320 --> 00:23:43,359 Speaker 2: pulling off unprecedented diplomatic feats to advance serious negotiations. That 473 00:23:43,520 --> 00:23:47,880 Speaker 2: has a reasonable chance of being successful, and the press 474 00:23:47,920 --> 00:23:52,879 Speaker 2: coverage of it has been ludicrous. If Obama had pulled 475 00:23:52,880 --> 00:23:56,160 Speaker 2: off these meetings, it would be hailed as a tour 476 00:23:56,200 --> 00:24:00,800 Speaker 2: de force rather than downplaying in naysaying every we see 477 00:24:00,800 --> 00:24:04,760 Speaker 2: in the press. He may or may not be successful, 478 00:24:05,560 --> 00:24:09,520 Speaker 2: but it is an incredible effort that should be respected 479 00:24:10,160 --> 00:24:14,159 Speaker 2: and applauded, and for the people involved, a new hope 480 00:24:14,920 --> 00:24:20,760 Speaker 2: for designing a lasting piece with real enforcement, unlike previous 481 00:24:20,960 --> 00:24:25,440 Speaker 2: empty security guarantees. That is a big deal for Mark 482 00:24:25,480 --> 00:24:29,120 Speaker 2: Penn to say that, and listen, I retweeted him today, 483 00:24:29,200 --> 00:24:33,240 Speaker 2: I said, bravo, bravo for saying that he's a Democrat. 484 00:24:33,600 --> 00:24:35,840 Speaker 2: I feel confident that Mark Penn is not a fan 485 00:24:35,920 --> 00:24:40,720 Speaker 2: of Donald Trump, but he is acknowledging reality. And I 486 00:24:40,760 --> 00:24:43,040 Speaker 2: don't know of an elected Democrat who is. I don't 487 00:24:43,080 --> 00:24:44,800 Speaker 2: know of a Democrat governor. I don't know of a 488 00:24:44,840 --> 00:24:49,480 Speaker 2: Democrat senator who is saying this and the media. I 489 00:24:49,520 --> 00:24:52,480 Speaker 2: don't want us to get over confident. You know, Reagan 490 00:24:52,520 --> 00:24:56,520 Speaker 2: famously said about the Soviet Union trust but verify. This 491 00:24:56,560 --> 00:25:00,080 Speaker 2: could go off the rails a thousand different ways. But 492 00:25:00,800 --> 00:25:04,159 Speaker 2: I believe President Trump is doing everything humanly possible to 493 00:25:04,200 --> 00:25:07,800 Speaker 2: resolve this at achieved piece, and that is unequivocally good. 494 00:25:08,200 --> 00:25:11,120 Speaker 1: Final two questions on this, and it deals with the 495 00:25:11,160 --> 00:25:14,639 Speaker 1: next steps for people that don't know what we're looking 496 00:25:14,680 --> 00:25:16,960 Speaker 1: at is by the way, Donald Trump apparently walked out 497 00:25:17,000 --> 00:25:20,320 Speaker 1: these meetings by himself, went to the Oval by himself, 498 00:25:20,359 --> 00:25:24,200 Speaker 1: made a phone called Vladimir Putin and said, let's let's 499 00:25:24,280 --> 00:25:27,359 Speaker 1: get a meeting. Apparently meeting number one would be between 500 00:25:27,440 --> 00:25:30,560 Speaker 1: him and Zelensky they're working on that, and then there 501 00:25:30,600 --> 00:25:33,879 Speaker 1: would be a trilateral meeting where he would in essence 502 00:25:33,920 --> 00:25:37,880 Speaker 1: be the negotiator in the room between Zelenski and Putin. 503 00:25:38,440 --> 00:25:41,679 Speaker 1: I found that very interesting that he said, you guys 504 00:25:41,760 --> 00:25:45,520 Speaker 1: meet first, I'll meet the next meeting, and said the 505 00:25:45,560 --> 00:25:48,440 Speaker 1: other way around. What did you think about that strategy 506 00:25:48,480 --> 00:25:51,040 Speaker 1: and why do you think he decided to do it 507 00:25:51,040 --> 00:25:51,440 Speaker 1: that way? 508 00:25:51,880 --> 00:25:55,639 Speaker 2: Look, I think he believes he's got the leverage to 509 00:25:55,760 --> 00:25:58,240 Speaker 2: try to push through a deal. And there's no doubt 510 00:25:58,560 --> 00:26:01,679 Speaker 2: he's got enormous leverage over Ukraine because the United States 511 00:26:01,720 --> 00:26:05,400 Speaker 2: has been the major funder of this war, and he's 512 00:26:05,440 --> 00:26:08,600 Speaker 2: got enormous leverage over Russia because the ability to impose 513 00:26:08,680 --> 00:26:11,520 Speaker 2: sanctions to shut down their ability to sell oil and 514 00:26:11,560 --> 00:26:15,320 Speaker 2: gas anywhere in the world that is powerful. And those 515 00:26:15,320 --> 00:26:18,560 Speaker 2: two together and listen, I just think force a personality. 516 00:26:18,560 --> 00:26:21,000 Speaker 2: I got to say, some of my favorite things watching 517 00:26:21,040 --> 00:26:24,359 Speaker 2: the last couple of days have been the memes and 518 00:26:23,720 --> 00:26:26,320 Speaker 2: and and and everything that has come out. When when 519 00:26:26,320 --> 00:26:28,639 Speaker 2: Trump and Putin were walking together and the b twos 520 00:26:28,680 --> 00:26:31,400 Speaker 2: fly over and you see Putin do a double take 521 00:26:31,440 --> 00:26:36,880 Speaker 2: as he like, yeah, literally buzzes Putin with American military might. 522 00:26:36,960 --> 00:26:41,840 Speaker 2: I think Trump is trying to use every tool he 523 00:26:41,960 --> 00:26:45,760 Speaker 2: has to resolve this. You know, it was striking Bill 524 00:26:45,800 --> 00:26:48,040 Speaker 2: Maher this week. He went on TV and to be clear, 525 00:26:48,080 --> 00:26:51,520 Speaker 2: Bill Maher is is no friend of Donald Trump. But 526 00:26:51,680 --> 00:26:55,359 Speaker 2: Bill Maher said, I'll tell you this, Trump wants peace, 527 00:26:55,480 --> 00:26:59,800 Speaker 2: he hates war. That is a really positive thing. And 528 00:27:00,000 --> 00:27:03,040 Speaker 2: and Hillary Clinton may well regret her tongue in cheek 529 00:27:03,080 --> 00:27:06,720 Speaker 2: comment that she would nominate Trump for the Nobel Peace 530 00:27:06,760 --> 00:27:09,639 Speaker 2: Prize if he resolved this. Now she put wiggle words 531 00:27:09,640 --> 00:27:12,359 Speaker 2: in there. So no matter what happened, she's gonna claim no, no, no, 532 00:27:12,480 --> 00:27:16,040 Speaker 2: he didn't resolve it to my satisfaction. But she's gonna 533 00:27:16,040 --> 00:27:19,240 Speaker 2: see that quote played back at her one hundred times. 534 00:27:20,560 --> 00:27:23,760 Speaker 1: You talk about the President having leverage, let's move to Washington, 535 00:27:23,880 --> 00:27:27,879 Speaker 1: d C. And everyone that said the President was like 536 00:27:27,920 --> 00:27:29,960 Speaker 1: being a dictator and a tyrant by sending in the 537 00:27:30,040 --> 00:27:32,919 Speaker 1: National Guard actually trying to fight crime. They said, this 538 00:27:33,119 --> 00:27:36,560 Speaker 1: was just him being a bully. He was obsessed with 539 00:27:36,600 --> 00:27:39,240 Speaker 1: the media. This is what tyrants and dictators do. He's 540 00:27:39,240 --> 00:27:43,280 Speaker 1: gonna roll the National Guard and militarize every city in 541 00:27:43,320 --> 00:27:46,560 Speaker 1: America that he doesn't like. That was the narrative. Well 542 00:27:46,600 --> 00:27:50,240 Speaker 1: guess what they got it wrong again. DC Crime since 543 00:27:50,280 --> 00:27:53,280 Speaker 1: the announcement of the Federal control versus the seven day 544 00:27:53,600 --> 00:27:57,199 Speaker 1: prior to that, we have that data NOL Center. Please, 545 00:27:57,400 --> 00:28:01,720 Speaker 1: for everyone that's listening, go through every category of a 546 00:28:01,840 --> 00:28:05,119 Speaker 1: shock right. I say that sarcastically. More law enforcement on 547 00:28:05,160 --> 00:28:09,560 Speaker 1: the street, law and order, what happens less crime? 548 00:28:10,200 --> 00:28:13,080 Speaker 2: Yeah, it turns out when you arrest criminals, you get 549 00:28:13,200 --> 00:28:16,199 Speaker 2: less crime. I know that's a shocking outcome. It's one 550 00:28:16,440 --> 00:28:20,440 Speaker 2: Democrats don't understand and the media doesn't understand. But everyone 551 00:28:20,480 --> 00:28:23,400 Speaker 2: whose head is not fully inserted up their rear end 552 00:28:23,600 --> 00:28:27,440 Speaker 2: gets that point. Here is a tweet from the DC 553 00:28:27,560 --> 00:28:33,160 Speaker 2: Police Union DC Crime since the announcement of Federal control 554 00:28:34,200 --> 00:28:39,840 Speaker 2: versus the seven Days prior robbery down forty six percent, 555 00:28:40,960 --> 00:28:50,080 Speaker 2: carjacking down eighty three percent, car theft down twenty one percent, 556 00:28:50,960 --> 00:28:59,320 Speaker 2: violent crime down twenty two percent, property crime down six percent, 557 00:28:59,560 --> 00:29:05,000 Speaker 2: and all all crimes down eight percent. That is in 558 00:29:05,240 --> 00:29:09,760 Speaker 2: one week, in seven days. And if you hear a 559 00:29:09,880 --> 00:29:13,240 Speaker 2: wailing in the distance, that is the collective wail of 560 00:29:13,400 --> 00:29:17,719 Speaker 2: pain and unhappiness of Democrats in the media. Because understood, 561 00:29:17,760 --> 00:29:20,240 Speaker 2: this is not hyperbole. They are rooting for the criminals. 562 00:29:20,280 --> 00:29:23,000 Speaker 2: They do not want crime to go down, because if 563 00:29:23,040 --> 00:29:27,760 Speaker 2: crime goes down, it vindicates President Trump exercising his constitutional 564 00:29:27,800 --> 00:29:32,160 Speaker 2: authority to concerning d C and exercising his authority is 565 00:29:32,240 --> 00:29:36,120 Speaker 2: explicit statutory authority under the DC Home Rule Act. The 566 00:29:36,160 --> 00:29:37,360 Speaker 2: Democrats do not want that. 567 00:29:37,960 --> 00:29:38,560 Speaker 4: No, they don't. 568 00:29:38,560 --> 00:29:41,920 Speaker 1: And there's also another aspect of this story, and that 569 00:29:42,080 --> 00:29:46,280 Speaker 1: is we now have the Justice Department that's investigating whether Washington, 570 00:29:46,360 --> 00:29:51,520 Speaker 1: DC police manipulated their crime data. Remember I was shoot 571 00:29:51,520 --> 00:29:52,840 Speaker 1: I was on scene in a week and a half, 572 00:29:52,880 --> 00:29:55,840 Speaker 1: two weeks ago, and they're like, your stats are wrong. 573 00:29:56,080 --> 00:29:58,760 Speaker 1: Crime is way down. The President doesn't need to do this, 574 00:29:59,040 --> 00:30:02,480 Speaker 1: everything's moving there direction. Well, it may have looked like 575 00:30:02,600 --> 00:30:05,680 Speaker 1: crime was down, but now the Justice Department's investigating whether 576 00:30:05,720 --> 00:30:10,440 Speaker 1: the DC police purposely willfully manipulate the crime data to 577 00:30:10,600 --> 00:30:14,320 Speaker 1: basically fake people out lie to the systems of DC. 578 00:30:14,880 --> 00:30:17,680 Speaker 1: And they said, no, no, everything's getting better from last year 579 00:30:17,720 --> 00:30:19,080 Speaker 1: when it was really, really, really bad. 580 00:30:19,120 --> 00:30:20,280 Speaker 4: Now it's not as bad. 581 00:30:20,800 --> 00:30:24,080 Speaker 1: And apparently they may manipulated the numbers, including a whistleblower 582 00:30:24,160 --> 00:30:25,000 Speaker 1: that they've settled with. 583 00:30:25,680 --> 00:30:25,880 Speaker 3: Yeah. 584 00:30:25,920 --> 00:30:28,360 Speaker 2: Look, I can tell you from someone who works in DC. 585 00:30:28,600 --> 00:30:30,840 Speaker 2: So most weeks I am in d C in the 586 00:30:30,880 --> 00:30:35,000 Speaker 2: Senate when the Senate's in session. And in the last 587 00:30:35,040 --> 00:30:37,960 Speaker 2: four years under Joe Biden, the violence in DC has 588 00:30:38,000 --> 00:30:42,280 Speaker 2: gotten much worse. We've seen Rand Paul had a staffer 589 00:30:42,320 --> 00:30:44,800 Speaker 2: who was stabbed on a public street at like four 590 00:30:44,840 --> 00:30:48,680 Speaker 2: in the afternoon, stabbed in the gut. There was a 591 00:30:48,720 --> 00:30:51,880 Speaker 2: guy who served in the first Trump administration who was 592 00:30:51,960 --> 00:30:54,920 Speaker 2: shot in the head. It killed at about five pm, 593 00:30:55,120 --> 00:30:57,480 Speaker 2: sitting in his car on a street in d C. 594 00:30:57,680 --> 00:31:00,600 Speaker 2: This is not two in the morning in a rough neighborhood. 595 00:31:00,600 --> 00:31:03,120 Speaker 2: This is in a major metropolitan street. 596 00:31:03,600 --> 00:31:03,719 Speaker 3: Uh. 597 00:31:03,840 --> 00:31:07,800 Speaker 2: We we had, uh, you know, not long ago, we 598 00:31:08,000 --> 00:31:13,680 Speaker 2: had to Israelis murdered by a radical Prohamas pro Palestinian 599 00:31:13,800 --> 00:31:18,720 Speaker 2: leftist zealot from Chicago and and and DC. As someone 600 00:31:18,800 --> 00:31:21,440 Speaker 2: who works there, you know it used to be when 601 00:31:21,560 --> 00:31:23,400 Speaker 2: when I started in the Senate. You know I would, 602 00:31:23,600 --> 00:31:25,480 Speaker 2: as you know, I love movies. We've done a couple 603 00:31:25,480 --> 00:31:28,360 Speaker 2: of podcasts where we talk about movies. When I started 604 00:31:28,400 --> 00:31:30,400 Speaker 2: in the Senate, I used to sometimes if there was 605 00:31:30,440 --> 00:31:32,040 Speaker 2: a night that I was done, Let's say I was 606 00:31:32,080 --> 00:31:34,520 Speaker 2: done at eight or nine o'clock at night, there's a 607 00:31:34,560 --> 00:31:37,200 Speaker 2: movie theater about five blocks from my house. I used 608 00:31:37,200 --> 00:31:39,080 Speaker 2: to routinely walk up to the movie theater and just 609 00:31:39,120 --> 00:31:42,920 Speaker 2: go see a movie. I don't do that now. I mean, frankly, 610 00:31:43,280 --> 00:31:44,440 Speaker 2: at nine o'clock. 611 00:31:44,040 --> 00:31:46,240 Speaker 1: At night, I know it's movie theater talking about Yeah, 612 00:31:46,280 --> 00:31:47,520 Speaker 1: no way you do that now. 613 00:31:47,800 --> 00:31:50,600 Speaker 2: At nine o'clock at night. You don't walk five blocks 614 00:31:50,640 --> 00:31:54,400 Speaker 2: in d C. I'll tell you. I've got a guy 615 00:31:54,400 --> 00:31:58,680 Speaker 2: in my security detail in Washington who's a tough guy. 616 00:31:58,720 --> 00:32:01,000 Speaker 2: He's he's he's been in some some some pretty rough 617 00:32:01,000 --> 00:32:06,000 Speaker 2: combat situations, you bet him. And he was walking back 618 00:32:06,040 --> 00:32:09,920 Speaker 2: to the Capitol at ten PM and he had two guys, 619 00:32:09,960 --> 00:32:13,160 Speaker 2: two teenagers, jump him and try to rob him. Now, 620 00:32:13,240 --> 00:32:15,760 Speaker 2: now Mark's a pretty tough guy, so he picked picked 621 00:32:15,840 --> 00:32:17,560 Speaker 2: up one of them. And body slammed them into the 622 00:32:17,600 --> 00:32:19,480 Speaker 2: back of a car and the two of them ran off. 623 00:32:20,160 --> 00:32:26,480 Speaker 2: But the violence in DC has gotten really significantly worse. 624 00:32:26,880 --> 00:32:31,680 Speaker 1: And you know, it's been interesting the reporters that are 625 00:32:32,040 --> 00:32:33,520 Speaker 1: his chairman, what he said about it. 626 00:32:33,960 --> 00:32:37,680 Speaker 2: Yeah, the reporters that are honest, who are interviewing d 627 00:32:37,840 --> 00:32:40,920 Speaker 2: C residents, many of whom most of whom are African American. 628 00:32:41,760 --> 00:32:44,640 Speaker 2: The residents are saying, thank god, we think this is great. 629 00:32:44,720 --> 00:32:47,960 Speaker 2: Lock these criminals up. Look, the DC residents don't like 630 00:32:48,080 --> 00:32:50,600 Speaker 2: living with the risk of dry by sittings. Henry Quayar, 631 00:32:50,960 --> 00:32:55,080 Speaker 2: who is a Democrat congressman, was carjacked again in the 632 00:32:55,160 --> 00:32:58,240 Speaker 2: early evening. He was coming home with dinner to his apartment. 633 00:32:58,320 --> 00:33:02,000 Speaker 2: His apartment building, apparently five other congressman lived in. Carjacked 634 00:33:02,040 --> 00:33:04,480 Speaker 2: right out in the front of it. And here's what 635 00:33:05,440 --> 00:33:07,920 Speaker 2: Greg Pemberton, I want you to listen to Greg Pemberton, 636 00:33:08,360 --> 00:33:11,440 Speaker 2: who was the DC Police union chairman, what he said 637 00:33:11,440 --> 00:33:13,480 Speaker 2: about the security of DC under Democrats. 638 00:33:13,520 --> 00:33:14,040 Speaker 3: Give a listen. 639 00:33:14,360 --> 00:33:16,920 Speaker 9: The criminal justice system here in the District of Columbia 640 00:33:17,040 --> 00:33:22,800 Speaker 9: is broken. Every aspect of it is broken, whether that's policing, prosecution, judges, 641 00:33:22,800 --> 00:33:26,280 Speaker 9: and trials, sentencing and supervision. All of it is broken, 642 00:33:26,400 --> 00:33:29,320 Speaker 9: and you can trace every aspect of it back to 643 00:33:29,400 --> 00:33:31,800 Speaker 9: a piece of legislation that was passed by the Council. 644 00:33:32,040 --> 00:33:34,920 Speaker 9: They have destroyed policing, they have destroyed prosecutions, they have 645 00:33:35,000 --> 00:33:37,080 Speaker 9: destroyed the way that the courts are allowed to operate, 646 00:33:37,120 --> 00:33:40,520 Speaker 9: and they've destroyed our ability to sentence criminals to sentences 647 00:33:40,520 --> 00:33:42,920 Speaker 9: that are commensurate with the crimes they've committed. And so 648 00:33:43,160 --> 00:33:45,560 Speaker 9: the only way to fix this holistically is to go 649 00:33:45,640 --> 00:33:47,840 Speaker 9: back and look at all of this legislation that the 650 00:33:47,880 --> 00:33:50,120 Speaker 9: Council passed it back in twenty twenty when there was 651 00:33:50,200 --> 00:33:53,520 Speaker 9: all of this anti police rhetoric and work to undo that. 652 00:33:54,040 --> 00:33:57,080 Speaker 9: I know from my experiences the DC Council will never 653 00:33:57,120 --> 00:33:59,240 Speaker 9: do that on their own. And so what we're hoping 654 00:33:59,360 --> 00:34:01,160 Speaker 9: over the course of the next thirty days is that 655 00:34:01,200 --> 00:34:03,680 Speaker 9: whether that's the White House, whether that's these federal law 656 00:34:03,720 --> 00:34:07,200 Speaker 9: enforcement agencies, whether that's Congress, that people get an insight 657 00:34:07,320 --> 00:34:10,719 Speaker 9: into exactly how the system got so broken, because the 658 00:34:10,800 --> 00:34:12,359 Speaker 9: only way to fix it is if we can get 659 00:34:12,440 --> 00:34:14,839 Speaker 9: rid of that legislation. And my main concern is that 660 00:34:14,880 --> 00:34:17,080 Speaker 9: thirty days are going to go by all of these 661 00:34:17,080 --> 00:34:18,919 Speaker 9: folks are going to go up about their merry way 662 00:34:19,000 --> 00:34:20,440 Speaker 9: and we're still going to be stuck with all this 663 00:34:20,560 --> 00:34:21,080 Speaker 9: bad law. 664 00:34:21,520 --> 00:34:23,799 Speaker 4: Like He's like, we know what's wrong, we know it's wrong. 665 00:34:23,840 --> 00:34:26,880 Speaker 1: We know exactly what's wrong, and if they don't fix it, 666 00:34:26,920 --> 00:34:29,160 Speaker 1: we're going to be back here. Thank good as the 667 00:34:29,200 --> 00:34:32,160 Speaker 1: President stepped in here and the citizens. I go back 668 00:34:32,160 --> 00:34:36,920 Speaker 1: to the media narrative here center, the citizens overwhelmingly trust 669 00:34:37,480 --> 00:34:40,880 Speaker 1: Donald Trump to fight crime more than they trusted Joe Biden. 670 00:34:40,960 --> 00:34:44,840 Speaker 1: And the citizens in Washington, d C. Overwhelmingly or trusting 671 00:34:44,840 --> 00:34:47,960 Speaker 1: the strategy of Donald Trump then their own city council 672 00:34:48,000 --> 00:34:51,279 Speaker 1: members and their mayor. And that is a threat I 673 00:34:51,320 --> 00:34:55,200 Speaker 1: think to all these other high crime cities Memphis, Baltimore. 674 00:34:54,680 --> 00:34:56,840 Speaker 4: Detroit, New Orleans. 675 00:34:56,840 --> 00:34:58,160 Speaker 3: That'll still fish on. 676 00:34:58,200 --> 00:34:59,439 Speaker 4: San Francisco, LA. 677 00:35:00,080 --> 00:35:04,279 Speaker 1: Because yeah, if this works, how do you then say 678 00:35:04,320 --> 00:35:07,800 Speaker 1: no when the President offers you help or national guard. 679 00:35:08,640 --> 00:35:11,720 Speaker 2: So understand, this is the same principle with securing the border. 680 00:35:12,160 --> 00:35:14,320 Speaker 2: So a year ago at the State of the Union address, 681 00:35:14,400 --> 00:35:16,719 Speaker 2: Joe Biden said he could not secure the border. He 682 00:35:16,760 --> 00:35:20,320 Speaker 2: needed new legislation from Congress in order to secure the border. 683 00:35:20,360 --> 00:35:23,000 Speaker 2: We had at the time the highest rate of illegal immigration. 684 00:35:23,080 --> 00:35:25,839 Speaker 2: In our nation's history, we had criminals and murderers, and 685 00:35:25,960 --> 00:35:29,840 Speaker 2: gang members and rapists and child molesters and terrorists streaming 686 00:35:29,880 --> 00:35:31,920 Speaker 2: across the border, and he said he was helpless to 687 00:35:31,920 --> 00:35:35,279 Speaker 2: fix it. Donald Trump came in and the rate of 688 00:35:35,360 --> 00:35:41,600 Speaker 2: illegal border crossings dropped over ninety nine percent. As President 689 00:35:41,640 --> 00:35:44,160 Speaker 2: Trump said in the most recent State of the Union address, 690 00:35:44,520 --> 00:35:47,560 Speaker 2: it turns out we didn't need new legislation, We just 691 00:35:47,640 --> 00:35:50,880 Speaker 2: needed a new president. The same is true in DC. 692 00:35:51,600 --> 00:35:54,520 Speaker 2: If we see violent crime numbers continue to go down 693 00:35:54,560 --> 00:35:59,000 Speaker 2: and stay down, that demonstrates we can solve crime in 694 00:35:59,080 --> 00:36:03,000 Speaker 2: other cities too. And the reason residents of your city 695 00:36:03,040 --> 00:36:06,279 Speaker 2: are being murdered is because the Democrat mayors and the 696 00:36:06,320 --> 00:36:10,040 Speaker 2: Democrat city councils care more about the radical leftists who 697 00:36:10,080 --> 00:36:12,000 Speaker 2: hate the police, who want to defund the police, who 698 00:36:12,000 --> 00:36:15,160 Speaker 2: want to abolish the police, than they care about your family 699 00:36:15,440 --> 00:36:19,560 Speaker 2: and your children. Look at spoke Volumes when China's president. 700 00:36:19,600 --> 00:36:23,080 Speaker 2: She came to visit San Francisco a few years ago, 701 00:36:23,920 --> 00:36:26,759 Speaker 2: and Gavin Newsoen came in and cleaned up San Francisco 702 00:36:26,800 --> 00:36:28,560 Speaker 2: and took out the homeless people, and took out the 703 00:36:28,640 --> 00:36:32,600 Speaker 2: drug addicts and the streets were sparkling, and I got 704 00:36:32,640 --> 00:36:36,040 Speaker 2: to say, even if you are a left wing Bolshevik 705 00:36:36,120 --> 00:36:39,920 Speaker 2: in San Francisco, a tiny voice in the back of 706 00:36:39,960 --> 00:36:43,120 Speaker 2: your head must have said, wait a second, if they 707 00:36:43,160 --> 00:36:47,279 Speaker 2: could clean up the streets today, why didn't they clean 708 00:36:47,360 --> 00:36:51,360 Speaker 2: up the streets last week? Why do my kids matter 709 00:36:51,520 --> 00:36:56,120 Speaker 2: less than the president of China? And so this is 710 00:36:56,160 --> 00:36:59,960 Speaker 2: an existential threat to Democrats who want to say, where 711 00:37:00,000 --> 00:37:02,239 Speaker 2: they are helpless, we can't stop crime. And by the way, 712 00:37:02,280 --> 00:37:04,600 Speaker 2: part of their message is the only way to stop 713 00:37:04,640 --> 00:37:10,240 Speaker 2: crime is to disarm law abiding citizens. That gun control 714 00:37:10,320 --> 00:37:13,839 Speaker 2: doesn't solve it, but locking up violent criminals does, and 715 00:37:13,880 --> 00:37:17,280 Speaker 2: spoiler alert, that is what works in stopping violent crime. 716 00:37:17,840 --> 00:37:20,480 Speaker 2: Then the Democrats have a massive challenge. And I want 717 00:37:20,480 --> 00:37:22,880 Speaker 2: you to listen to Caroline Levitt talking about some of 718 00:37:22,880 --> 00:37:23,800 Speaker 2: the results. 719 00:37:23,400 --> 00:37:25,800 Speaker 3: We've seen in just one week in DC. Give a listen. 720 00:37:26,200 --> 00:37:29,200 Speaker 7: President Trump's efforts to make DC safe again are working. 721 00:37:29,560 --> 00:37:32,360 Speaker 7: There have been a total of four hundred and sixty 722 00:37:32,480 --> 00:37:35,920 Speaker 7: five arrests since the start of this operation on Thursday, 723 00:37:36,239 --> 00:37:39,280 Speaker 7: August seventh. Last night, there were a total of fifty 724 00:37:39,360 --> 00:37:43,120 Speaker 7: two arrests, including the arrest of an illegal alien MS 725 00:37:43,200 --> 00:37:47,320 Speaker 7: thirteen gang member with convictions for DWI and drug possession. 726 00:37:47,719 --> 00:37:50,560 Speaker 7: Thanks to President Trump's leadership in the outstanding work of 727 00:37:50,600 --> 00:37:54,319 Speaker 7: both federal and local law enforcement, dangerous gang members like 728 00:37:54,360 --> 00:37:56,600 Speaker 7: the one picked up last night will not feel allowed 729 00:37:56,760 --> 00:38:00,279 Speaker 7: on the streets of our nation's capital. Other arrest night 730 00:38:00,360 --> 00:38:04,600 Speaker 7: included assault with a deadly weapon for stabbing, parole violation 731 00:38:04,760 --> 00:38:09,080 Speaker 7: for robbery murder, outstanding warrant for attempted murder, assault on 732 00:38:09,200 --> 00:38:13,280 Speaker 7: federal law enforcement officer, and felony assault. Four more homeless 733 00:38:13,360 --> 00:38:17,279 Speaker 7: encampments were also removed during yesterday's reporting period. To date, 734 00:38:17,400 --> 00:38:20,280 Speaker 7: a total of forty eight homeless encampments have been cleared 735 00:38:20,320 --> 00:38:24,680 Speaker 7: in Washington, d C. By multi agency teams. MPD patrol 736 00:38:24,760 --> 00:38:27,640 Speaker 7: units are actively working with city officials to locate and 737 00:38:27,760 --> 00:38:32,520 Speaker 7: clear additional encampments and remove homeless residents off of Washington streets. 738 00:38:32,960 --> 00:38:36,200 Speaker 7: And despite fake narratives from the media, again, a significant 739 00:38:36,280 --> 00:38:39,160 Speaker 7: number of the arrests have been in high crime areas 740 00:38:39,200 --> 00:38:42,680 Speaker 7: of DC. In fact, nearly half of all of the 741 00:38:42,800 --> 00:38:47,440 Speaker 7: non illegal alien related arrests have occurred in Wards seven 742 00:38:47,480 --> 00:38:50,360 Speaker 7: and eight, the two wards that have the highest number 743 00:38:50,400 --> 00:38:53,400 Speaker 7: of violent crime as well as homicides and assaults with 744 00:38:53,480 --> 00:38:57,520 Speaker 7: dangerous weapons. Last year. So while Democrats continue to caudle 745 00:38:57,600 --> 00:39:01,440 Speaker 7: violent criminals, President Trump and thisstration are focused on putting 746 00:39:01,440 --> 00:39:05,120 Speaker 7: them behind bars and unapologetically standing up for the safety 747 00:39:05,440 --> 00:39:08,160 Speaker 7: of law abiding American citizens. And the White House will 748 00:39:08,200 --> 00:39:10,880 Speaker 7: continue to provide all of you with the results of 749 00:39:10,920 --> 00:39:12,520 Speaker 7: this operation in the days ahead. 750 00:39:13,239 --> 00:39:17,160 Speaker 1: By the way, this goes back to the narrative when 751 00:39:17,480 --> 00:39:19,400 Speaker 1: this was announced the President was going to do this. 752 00:39:19,760 --> 00:39:23,240 Speaker 1: That night, I was doing Abby's Phillips show on CNN 753 00:39:23,880 --> 00:39:26,319 Speaker 1: and all of the panelists are losing their minds saying, 754 00:39:26,400 --> 00:39:29,399 Speaker 1: Donald Trump, this was going to do nothing. They said, 755 00:39:29,440 --> 00:39:32,200 Speaker 1: He's putting them on the National Mall where there's no crime. 756 00:39:32,680 --> 00:39:34,919 Speaker 1: He's a dictator. They're not going to put the law 757 00:39:35,000 --> 00:39:37,319 Speaker 1: enforce it where the real crime is. That's why this 758 00:39:37,400 --> 00:39:41,360 Speaker 1: is a waste of resources. This is just him showing 759 00:39:41,840 --> 00:39:44,400 Speaker 1: and flexing his muscles that he can do this because 760 00:39:44,440 --> 00:39:46,120 Speaker 1: the present and this is what a dictator does. 761 00:39:46,360 --> 00:39:48,080 Speaker 4: Yet you're the crime set there. 762 00:39:48,480 --> 00:39:51,480 Speaker 1: Where are they fighting crime where the criminals are? 763 00:39:51,520 --> 00:39:52,960 Speaker 4: And I said it, then I'll say it again. 764 00:39:53,320 --> 00:39:56,840 Speaker 1: It's amazing how much the left and the media hates 765 00:39:56,920 --> 00:40:00,799 Speaker 1: Donald Trump so much. They don't even care if they're 766 00:40:00,840 --> 00:40:03,759 Speaker 1: able to save lives through this. They just hate the 767 00:40:03,760 --> 00:40:06,600 Speaker 1: fact that Donald Trump wants to fight crime. So whatever 768 00:40:06,600 --> 00:40:08,759 Speaker 1: he says he wants to do, we're going to fight 769 00:40:08,800 --> 00:40:12,399 Speaker 1: it and lie and slander him. And regardless of how 770 00:40:12,400 --> 00:40:14,560 Speaker 1: many people lose their lives in DC or any other 771 00:40:14,680 --> 00:40:16,200 Speaker 1: city when this comes out. 772 00:40:16,520 --> 00:40:19,040 Speaker 2: Yeah, look, that is exactly right. And I will point 773 00:40:19,080 --> 00:40:24,040 Speaker 2: out those very high crime neighborhoods in DC are overwhelmingly 774 00:40:24,200 --> 00:40:29,560 Speaker 2: African American and the woke left wing Democrat mayor painted 775 00:40:29,600 --> 00:40:32,440 Speaker 2: the words black lives Matter on the street at a 776 00:40:32,480 --> 00:40:35,760 Speaker 2: giant mural. They've removed that now, But when it comes 777 00:40:35,800 --> 00:40:41,640 Speaker 2: to actually protecting black lives, understand that a very significant 778 00:40:41,640 --> 00:40:45,399 Speaker 2: percentage of the murder victims from these violent criminals are 779 00:40:45,480 --> 00:40:49,800 Speaker 2: African Americans, and so Donald Trump and Republicans are stepping 780 00:40:49,840 --> 00:40:53,279 Speaker 2: in and saving black lives. And the position of Democrats 781 00:40:53,280 --> 00:40:56,360 Speaker 2: in the media is those black lives do not matter. 782 00:40:56,480 --> 00:41:01,319 Speaker 2: They'd rather they be victims of murder then actually have 783 00:41:01,520 --> 00:41:05,200 Speaker 2: law enforcement put violent criminals in jail. And ben when 784 00:41:05,200 --> 00:41:11,000 Speaker 2: I say that, that sounds unbelievably harsh, But I want 785 00:41:11,000 --> 00:41:14,799 Speaker 2: to ask you seriously, give me an alternative explanation. If 786 00:41:14,840 --> 00:41:19,040 Speaker 2: the explanation is not sure that the Democrats do not 787 00:41:19,280 --> 00:41:23,160 Speaker 2: give a damn about whether black lives matter and whether 788 00:41:23,239 --> 00:41:26,879 Speaker 2: they're saving African Americans from being victims of homicide, Then 789 00:41:26,960 --> 00:41:30,560 Speaker 2: why are they so adamantly opposed to supporting law enforcement 790 00:41:30,880 --> 00:41:32,480 Speaker 2: putting violent criminals in jail. 791 00:41:32,800 --> 00:41:33,040 Speaker 3: Yeah? 792 00:41:33,120 --> 00:41:35,200 Speaker 1: No, this is the Democratic Party now. They'd rather see 793 00:41:35,239 --> 00:41:38,480 Speaker 1: Donald Trump fail than actually save American lives. 794 00:41:38,640 --> 00:41:40,960 Speaker 4: Don't forget. We do the show Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. 795 00:41:41,000 --> 00:41:43,360 Speaker 1: Also, this episode is up on YouTube, so if you 796 00:41:43,360 --> 00:41:45,640 Speaker 1: want to watch it we put up there on YouTube 797 00:41:45,640 --> 00:41:48,839 Speaker 1: as well, hit that subscribe or auto download button. We're 798 00:41:48,880 --> 00:41:50,959 Speaker 1: gonna keep giving you the stats out of DC because 799 00:41:50,960 --> 00:41:52,719 Speaker 1: I promise you the media is not going to do it. 800 00:41:52,960 --> 00:41:56,480 Speaker 1: We cover these stories, give you the facts. Please share 801 00:41:56,520 --> 00:41:58,880 Speaker 1: it wherever you can on social media and the Senator 802 00:41:58,880 --> 00:42:01,200 Speaker 1: and I will see you back here on Friday morning.