WEBVTT - Biden's Failed Foreign Policy - August 13th, Hour 1 0:00:00.760 --> 0:00:07.840 Well, well, come in your city. I gets sane you 0:00:07.920 --> 0:00:15.800 a conscious song, will be died Highland tell and if 0:00:15.840 --> 0:00:17.119 you want a little bang in. 0:00:17.000 --> 0:00:21.560 The Union and come along. I'm going in to speak 0:00:21.600 --> 0:00:25.239 to Vladimir Putin and I'm going to be telling him 0:00:25.239 --> 0:00:26.320 you got end this war. 0:00:26.440 --> 0:00:27.360 You got to end it. 0:00:27.960 --> 0:00:30.160 I like ConA. She's a fun line, but she was 0:00:31.240 --> 0:00:35.120 her core consultantcy. 0:00:34.360 --> 0:00:42.840 It takes Freedom is back in style. Welcome to the Revolution. 0:00:42.800 --> 0:00:44.040 Will coming. 0:00:45.479 --> 0:00:49.360 To your city, going away? 0:00:49.440 --> 0:00:52.400 I get Arson, sane you a conscious. 0:00:51.960 --> 0:00:59.080 Song, Sean Hennedy show more me. I'm in the scenes 0:00:59.160 --> 0:01:02.240 information on freaking news and. 0:01:02.280 --> 0:01:07.880 More bold inspired solutions for America. 0:01:08.120 --> 0:01:10.160 All right, thank you, Scott Channon, Thanks to all of 0:01:10.200 --> 0:01:13.160 you for being with us. Right down our toll free 0:01:13.640 --> 0:01:18.039 telephone number. You want to be a part of this extravaganza, 0:01:18.080 --> 0:01:21.119 It's eight hundred nine four one, Sean, if you want 0:01:21.120 --> 0:01:24.200 to be a part of the program. We are looking forward. 0:01:24.280 --> 0:01:27.280 We will be on the road. We will be in 0:01:27.360 --> 0:01:34.160 Alaska tomorrow and Friday. The first interview post summit Trump 0:01:34.160 --> 0:01:39.000 and Putin with President Trump will be with me immediately thereafter. 0:01:39.120 --> 0:01:42.399 I assume it will be on. Hopefully the timing works 0:01:42.440 --> 0:01:46.040 out right. We're planning on it. It'll be on Friday 0:01:46.120 --> 0:01:49.520 Night's edition of Hannity. And to get his first initial 0:01:49.600 --> 0:01:53.800 reaction to all of this is going to be interesting. 0:01:55.880 --> 0:02:01.240 Let me tell you what I always like to manage expectations. 0:02:01.920 --> 0:02:08.120 And when I look at this, I just compare Donald 0:02:08.120 --> 0:02:13.080 Trump in every regard to past presidents, and we just 0:02:13.200 --> 0:02:16.120 have never seen anybody like this guy. And it's not 0:02:16.200 --> 0:02:19.040 because he's my friend, not because I supported him. 0:02:19.240 --> 0:02:21.600 It just is he's a force of nature. 0:02:22.600 --> 0:02:26.920 And what really delineates him and separates him from so 0:02:27.000 --> 0:02:31.880 many other past presidents and other leaders is the idea 0:02:32.480 --> 0:02:38.280 that he is willing to expend all of this political 0:02:38.440 --> 0:02:45.960 capital for the purpose really of benefiting the world way 0:02:46.000 --> 0:02:52.080 more than the United States and Europe and Ukraine and 0:02:52.200 --> 0:02:56.880 everything in between. Says a lot about him because I 0:02:56.919 --> 0:02:59.920 can tell you how it works with past presidents. 0:03:00.440 --> 0:03:01.040 It works. 0:03:01.160 --> 0:03:05.360 Okay, they'll talk about the idea, and they'll get a 0:03:05.400 --> 0:03:07.880 list of all they have all their advisors in front 0:03:07.919 --> 0:03:10.640 of them, and they'll give them a list of upside 0:03:10.760 --> 0:03:14.280 and the list of downside. And when they get finished 0:03:14.280 --> 0:03:16.760 with the list of downside, then they'll ask themselves why 0:03:16.800 --> 0:03:20.840 bother expending any political capital on something that may not 0:03:20.919 --> 0:03:26.040 go perfectly there. I would say going into this, there's 0:03:26.080 --> 0:03:31.520 a twenty five percent chance that President Trump's uh pulls 0:03:31.560 --> 0:03:36.560 a Reagan and says yet and walks away from the 0:03:36.600 --> 0:03:39.720 table like Reagan walked away from the table at Reikievik. 0:03:40.720 --> 0:03:44.920 I don't think like in usually when there's a summit 0:03:44.960 --> 0:03:50.320 of some kind, is usually a predetermined outcome that is expected. 0:03:50.440 --> 0:03:53.200 I don't think that's the case here. I think a 0:03:53.200 --> 0:03:57.080 lot of things have been discussed. I think the possibility exists. 0:03:57.800 --> 0:04:00.240 I think the fact that the president, you know what 0:04:00.320 --> 0:04:04.560 he's done so far in just the last eight months, 0:04:04.560 --> 0:04:11.280 He's got he played a part in seven massive peace 0:04:11.360 --> 0:04:14.480 deals that have taken place. I think you know two 0:04:14.560 --> 0:04:17.720 of the biggest. They're Indian Pakistan. You know, tensions were 0:04:17.720 --> 0:04:22.799 flaring up. He got involved and they helped simmer that down. 0:04:23.120 --> 0:04:26.919 Israel Iran twelve days. I don't think anybody would have 0:04:26.920 --> 0:04:29.000 thought that would have ended in twelve days. He was 0:04:29.120 --> 0:04:31.400 active and involved in that too, and in the process 0:04:31.440 --> 0:04:40.039 also took out their nuclear sites. Rwanda, the Congo, Serbia, Kosovo, Thailand, Cambodia. 0:04:40.680 --> 0:04:46.279 You saw last week, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Egypt, and Ethiopia, and 0:04:46.360 --> 0:04:51.800 the President's going here and look, you can say what 0:04:51.839 --> 0:04:56.480 you want. He's this is this is Joe Biden's conflict. 0:04:57.600 --> 0:04:59.800 And we've gone over this earlier in the week. 0:05:00.080 --> 0:05:05.720 Oh Biden allowed Vladimir Putin to a massed troops and 0:05:05.880 --> 0:05:11.000 military might on the border with Ukraine. And I think 0:05:11.040 --> 0:05:15.160 the worst part of the story is the president of 0:05:15.200 --> 0:05:17.760 our country never picked up the phone and said, what 0:05:17.800 --> 0:05:23.200 are you doing? Why is this happening, offered a potential solution, 0:05:23.600 --> 0:05:28.000 offered to get involved, and then when asked about it, 0:05:28.920 --> 0:05:31.320 you know, well it depends if it's a minor incursion, 0:05:31.520 --> 0:05:37.080 and then asked in another case, don't him and him him, 0:05:36.800 --> 0:05:38.320 and comm up don't. 0:05:38.960 --> 0:05:39.640 Well he did. 0:05:40.880 --> 0:05:44.680 And you know a lot of people probably would like 0:05:45.080 --> 0:05:47.559 President Trump to do what Biden did. And that's called 0:05:47.680 --> 0:05:49.760 Vladimir Putin every name of the book. Now, if you 0:05:49.800 --> 0:05:52.080 call him a murderer and a dictator and a thug, 0:05:52.800 --> 0:05:56.320 that would be an accurate description from my perspective. 0:05:57.080 --> 0:05:58.160 And I'm not saying that. 0:05:58.160 --> 0:06:05.320 Ukraine has handled all of this perfectly either. Dumbest thing 0:06:05.400 --> 0:06:08.920 Ukraine ever did is give up the nuclear weapons program. 0:06:09.040 --> 0:06:12.360 You know, thanks to Bill Clinton, that was dumb, because 0:06:12.400 --> 0:06:14.200 I don't think they would be in the situation they 0:06:14.240 --> 0:06:16.520 now find themselves in. But if you look at when 0:06:16.600 --> 0:06:20.160 Crimea was annexed in twenty fourteen, that was under Obama 0:06:20.160 --> 0:06:23.359 and Biden. If you look at this minor incursion which 0:06:23.560 --> 0:06:27.520 now has taken over you know, significant portions of land. 0:06:28.320 --> 0:06:30.680 You know, it's that this is not a minor incursion. 0:06:30.720 --> 0:06:33.440 This is a full on war. But if you really 0:06:33.520 --> 0:06:37.920 just stop and think about it, there are not many politicians, 0:06:39.160 --> 0:06:43.159 and I'm talking worldwide now or former presidents that would 0:06:43.160 --> 0:06:47.800 be willing to expend all of this political capital when 0:06:48.400 --> 0:06:53.240 you would argue that the downside for the president could 0:06:53.320 --> 0:06:55.960 be significant, but I don't really think it's as significant 0:06:55.960 --> 0:06:59.200 as people think, because really the only the only thing 0:06:59.279 --> 0:07:01.320 the president trust is offering here. 0:07:01.960 --> 0:07:03.400 And he was very clear this week. 0:07:03.440 --> 0:07:06.080 He said he thinks he'll know within two minutes whether 0:07:06.160 --> 0:07:10.160 or not Vladimir is Sirius. He also thinks he also 0:07:10.280 --> 0:07:15.360 had a conference call with NATO leaders, Western European leaders, 0:07:15.560 --> 0:07:19.720 and Ukraine earlier today and you know, laid out what 0:07:19.880 --> 0:07:23.840 I'm sure they all discussed, what their expectations are. You know, 0:07:23.920 --> 0:07:26.880 a best case scenario would be to hopefully maybe put 0:07:26.880 --> 0:07:29.920 a ceasefire in place. And in the lead up to this, 0:07:30.520 --> 0:07:33.120 my take is there is a reason that Putin is 0:07:33.160 --> 0:07:37.520 coming to the table, and I'm looking at three specific, 0:07:39.200 --> 0:07:42.200 three specific things that Donald Trump that has brought him 0:07:42.200 --> 0:07:45.560 to the table. Now, what has been funding his war 0:07:45.680 --> 0:07:50.760 machine is energy. And you know, remember when go back 0:07:50.800 --> 0:07:54.200 to what Angela Merkel was the chancellor of Germany and 0:07:54.400 --> 0:07:57.240 is now a pretty famous story. He's told it a 0:07:57.240 --> 0:08:01.160 couple of times when I interviewed him, meaning President Trump, 0:08:01.680 --> 0:08:05.040 and that is once he handed her the white flag 0:08:05.080 --> 0:08:07.000 of surrender and she goes, what's this and he goes, 0:08:07.000 --> 0:08:10.400 that's the white flag of surrender. And that was after Germany. 0:08:10.400 --> 0:08:13.640 He had done this, you know, one hundred plus billions 0:08:13.640 --> 0:08:18.280 of dollars in an energy deal and the lifeblood of 0:08:18.280 --> 0:08:21.000 their economy was going to be reliant on a bad actor. 0:08:21.200 --> 0:08:24.960 That bad actor being Vladimir Putin. And remember it was 0:08:25.080 --> 0:08:27.800 President Trump already has been able to more than double 0:08:27.880 --> 0:08:32.240 the contributions of Western European countries as it relates to NATO. 0:08:32.960 --> 0:08:36.080 Because after this incident with Ukraine, maybe they're all beginning 0:08:36.120 --> 0:08:39.080 to realize that Vladimir Putin is a hostile actor on 0:08:39.120 --> 0:08:41.920 the world stage. I'm not sure why it took this 0:08:42.360 --> 0:08:45.000 to make them aware of it, But can you name 0:08:45.080 --> 0:08:47.840 any European leader that would be able to go and 0:08:47.880 --> 0:08:52.199 sit with Putin and possibly hammer out a ceasefire or 0:08:52.240 --> 0:08:56.800 some type of negotiated peace with Ukraine. Now, nobody's going 0:08:56.840 --> 0:08:58.720 to like the outcome of this. I can tell you 0:08:58.760 --> 0:09:02.679 that ahead of time, I mean, had Joe Biden had 0:09:02.800 --> 0:09:05.800 enough sense to maybe stop this and nip this in 0:09:05.880 --> 0:09:08.960 the bud and have a negotiated settlement. For example, I 0:09:08.960 --> 0:09:11.600 don't think the Dombas region is going back to Ukraine. 0:09:11.679 --> 0:09:16.199 Why well, it's about seventy to eighty percent Russian nationals 0:09:16.200 --> 0:09:20.160 to begin with. So I'll use Lindsey Graham's term, there 0:09:20.240 --> 0:09:23.760 will be some type of land swap. And if I'm 0:09:23.920 --> 0:09:27.760 Ukraine in this situation, you know what Joe Biden allowed 0:09:27.800 --> 0:09:30.200 to have happened, and what he allowed to evolve in 0:09:30.240 --> 0:09:34.600 this situation is that this became a proxy war. As 0:09:34.640 --> 0:09:38.240 he was giving all of these weapons to Ukraine. It 0:09:38.280 --> 0:09:42.319 became a proxy war between the US and Putin in Russia. 0:09:43.200 --> 0:09:46.800 But Putin was still selling his oil to Western European countries. 0:09:47.720 --> 0:09:49.679 And the three things that the president did that I 0:09:49.720 --> 0:09:52.600 think have been game changing. If you look at the 0:09:52.640 --> 0:09:55.600 trade deal that he made with the European Union, part 0:09:55.640 --> 0:09:59.040 of that deal includes a trillion dollars in energy that 0:09:59.120 --> 0:10:03.960 they will be buy from America because of his energy dominant. 0:10:05.440 --> 0:10:07.000 Policies that he's put in place. 0:10:07.480 --> 0:10:11.240 Well, that's money directly that was directly going to fund 0:10:11.280 --> 0:10:14.640 Putin's war machine. Now also you've got a factor in 0:10:14.679 --> 0:10:18.520 the Putin's economy has not been doing particularly well in 0:10:18.600 --> 0:10:22.559 part because he's been funding his war machine. The fifty 0:10:22.600 --> 0:10:27.760 percent tariff that the President just imposed on India. Also, 0:10:28.120 --> 0:10:32.360 they're getting most of their energy from Vladimir Putin in Russia. 0:10:33.000 --> 0:10:35.280 And what he's saying to India is no, you're not 0:10:35.320 --> 0:10:37.960 going to do business with the US if you continue 0:10:38.000 --> 0:10:40.920 to do that. And then I think the President did 0:10:41.040 --> 0:10:45.360 one other very important thing that got Vladimir's attention, and 0:10:45.400 --> 0:10:48.840 that is he's selling Unlike Joe Biden, he's not giving. 0:10:48.920 --> 0:10:55.640 He's selling very sophisticated weaponry and technology that is needed 0:10:55.920 --> 0:10:59.880 for Ukraine to fight their own conflict. And because Putin 0:11:00.040 --> 0:11:05.400 has been you know, so stubborn, uh, he's like, Okay, 0:11:05.559 --> 0:11:07.680 if this is what you want, if you want more 0:11:07.840 --> 0:11:12.440 death than fine, We're not going to abandon Ukraine under 0:11:12.440 --> 0:11:17.600 those circumstances. Now, if I'm Ukraine in this situation, you 0:11:17.760 --> 0:11:21.840 have to recognize it that that there's going to be 0:11:23.120 --> 0:11:27.480 a realignment in some capacity, part of which you're not 0:11:27.640 --> 0:11:31.640 going to like. However, in exchange for that, if you 0:11:31.800 --> 0:11:33.840 if you want to, if they want to stop the killing. Now, 0:11:33.840 --> 0:11:38.480 the President was also clear that he's this decision ultimately 0:11:38.520 --> 0:11:40.959 is going to be made by Ukraine and by Europe. 0:11:41.960 --> 0:11:44.960 In the end, the US does not have to involve 0:11:45.000 --> 0:11:48.280 itself in any of this. We really don't. But I 0:11:48.320 --> 0:11:52.280 don't believe in isolationism. This would have the potential, I think, 0:11:52.360 --> 0:11:55.240 over time, to spiral out of control and become part 0:11:55.320 --> 0:11:57.320 of a wider conflict in Europe. 0:11:58.160 --> 0:11:58.560 We don't. 0:11:58.840 --> 0:12:00.680 I know that's not going to end well, it's not 0:12:00.760 --> 0:12:05.200 good for anybody as part of the equation. So the 0:12:06.080 --> 0:12:09.360 you know, but you know, all, how do you define 0:12:09.400 --> 0:12:13.400 success here? I would say, Well, the president the fact 0:12:13.440 --> 0:12:16.160 that he's willing to do that which no other leader 0:12:16.160 --> 0:12:18.800 could do. Name one of the persons in your own mind, think, 0:12:19.480 --> 0:12:22.960 who do you think would be capable of sitting across 0:12:23.000 --> 0:12:25.720 from Vladimir Putin and saying you got to stop the killing. 0:12:26.320 --> 0:12:29.839 This has to come to an end. What country has 0:12:30.880 --> 0:12:39.760 the strength to impact Russia in significant ways, especially the 0:12:39.800 --> 0:12:42.240 funding of their war machine. There's no country on the 0:12:42.240 --> 0:12:45.319 face of the earth that has that power the way 0:12:45.360 --> 0:12:47.520 the United States of America has it, And there's no 0:12:47.600 --> 0:12:53.400 president that understands America's power more than President Trump. Now, 0:12:53.760 --> 0:12:57.800 do I think there's a twenty five percent chance that 0:12:58.679 --> 0:13:04.720 that President Trumps realizes Putin's full of crap? I mean, 0:13:04.760 --> 0:13:07.280 but you know, Putin sent his message by you know, 0:13:07.480 --> 0:13:11.240 bombing out innocent women and children in the last couple 0:13:11.320 --> 0:13:14.480 of days. That was his message to say, oh, just 0:13:14.520 --> 0:13:17.000 so you know, I could keep this war going on 0:13:17.040 --> 0:13:21.400 in perpetuity, which everybody knew going in. But then why 0:13:21.520 --> 0:13:24.040 is he wasting everybody's time and going to sit down 0:13:24.040 --> 0:13:28.360 with President Trump? That's him in his mind. He thinks 0:13:28.360 --> 0:13:31.319 he's showing strength to me. He's just showing that he's 0:13:31.360 --> 0:13:34.560 a murdering, brutal dictator thug. And you know, one of 0:13:34.559 --> 0:13:37.760 the things, if you look at how Israel fought fights 0:13:37.800 --> 0:13:42.320 their conflicts and wars, they have purposely over the years 0:13:42.360 --> 0:13:44.600 gone out of their way not to target, not to 0:13:44.600 --> 0:13:49.000 have civilian targets. Hamas made it nearly impossible because they're 0:13:49.040 --> 0:13:53.560 firing missiles from hospitals and schools and their you know, 0:13:53.720 --> 0:13:56.760 terror tunnel network that they built out and the brutality. 0:13:56.800 --> 0:13:59.080 I mean, we still have American hostages being held by 0:13:59.120 --> 0:14:02.280 Hamas for crying out loud, and then we have Israeli 0:14:02.280 --> 0:14:06.240 hostages being held. And you know, hopefully we now have 0:14:06.360 --> 0:14:10.000 the foundation laid that can be an inevitable piece there. 0:14:11.160 --> 0:14:13.640 So, you know, with the President. 0:14:14.280 --> 0:14:17.960 Now putting all of this on the line, the President 0:14:18.000 --> 0:14:20.680 has said he thinks he'll know in two minutes. He 0:14:20.760 --> 0:14:23.280 also thinks the ultimate decision is going to be Europe's 0:14:23.280 --> 0:14:26.160 and it's going to be Ukraine's. He's also warned that 0:14:26.280 --> 0:14:31.640 Russia will face very severe consequences if Putin continues the 0:14:31.760 --> 0:14:35.880 Ukrainian War after this summit. He said, there'll be consequences. 0:14:35.920 --> 0:14:37.720 I don't have to say what they are. There will 0:14:37.760 --> 0:14:42.680 be severe, he said. Talking to reporters at the Kennedy Center, 0:14:42.760 --> 0:14:45.880 he said that the summit is about setting the table 0:14:45.960 --> 0:14:49.440 for a potential follow up meeting involving both Putin and Zelenski. 0:14:49.920 --> 0:14:51.640 He said, there's a very good chance we're going to 0:14:51.680 --> 0:14:54.320 have a second meeting that will be more productive than 0:14:54.360 --> 0:14:56.760 the first, he said, because I'm not sure if the 0:14:56.760 --> 0:14:57.440 two guys. 0:14:57.240 --> 0:14:58.120 Can be in the same room. 0:14:58.160 --> 0:15:01.680 To be very honest, I really don't anyway, because the 0:15:01.720 --> 0:15:05.320 first is I'm going to find out where we are 0:15:06.040 --> 0:15:06.920 and what we're doing. 0:15:07.560 --> 0:15:08.160 So I want to. 0:15:08.120 --> 0:15:12.920 Manage everybody's expectations here. I'm not sure what people think 0:15:13.720 --> 0:15:14.560 is going to happen. 0:15:15.680 --> 0:15:15.840 Now. 0:15:16.120 --> 0:15:19.320 Putin does have nuclear weapons. Out of factor that in 0:15:19.680 --> 0:15:22.280 America doesn't want to have a nuclear war with Russia, 0:15:22.320 --> 0:15:24.440 but Russia doesn't want to have one with us either, 0:15:25.000 --> 0:15:27.560 And the one president he really doesn't want to mess 0:15:27.600 --> 0:15:30.440 with is Donald Trump. So I could tell you the 0:15:30.480 --> 0:15:35.240 next you know, by Friday, I mean, history will be made. 0:15:35.920 --> 0:15:39.840 It was made in Reikiya Vic when when President Reagan 0:15:40.240 --> 0:15:44.520 walked away and said no deal, it hinged on the 0:15:44.560 --> 0:15:50.600 issue of strategic defense SDI, and it ended up he 0:15:50.720 --> 0:15:52.920 ended the Cold War in the end. It may be 0:15:52.960 --> 0:15:55.160 a case like that where we don't see the benefit 0:15:55.200 --> 0:15:56.880 of all of this until much later. 0:15:57.680 --> 0:15:58.160 I don't know. 0:15:59.080 --> 0:16:01.760 But you got to say this President Trump, he's not 0:16:01.800 --> 0:16:04.880 wringing his hands and he's not you know, asking his advisors. 0:16:05.080 --> 0:16:06.400 Oh, what's the downside? 0:16:06.400 --> 0:16:08.720 He's just going in head first like he always does, 0:16:09.360 --> 0:16:12.280 which to me is very courageous, which defines who he 0:16:12.360 --> 0:16:14.600 is as president. Let me let me go back to 0:16:14.600 --> 0:16:18.000 the summer one more quick time here, because what we 0:16:18.120 --> 0:16:22.840 know about this, and it is as the President said, 0:16:23.560 --> 0:16:28.880 he's going to allow Europe, He's going to allow Ukraine ultimately, 0:16:28.920 --> 0:16:33.040 I mean Zelenski, we know, cannot make the ultimate decision 0:16:33.080 --> 0:16:35.120 on his own. He's got to go to his legislature 0:16:35.240 --> 0:16:38.040 and the way their government is formed, so is not 0:16:38.080 --> 0:16:40.080 going to be a peace deal. The best maybe the 0:16:40.120 --> 0:16:43.280 best case scenario you walk away with a ceasefire. And 0:16:44.440 --> 0:16:50.000 but what frustrates me is all of these European leaders 0:16:50.840 --> 0:16:54.480 that have, if you really look at it, not stepped 0:16:54.560 --> 0:16:58.600 up to help their own continent. They have no It 0:16:58.640 --> 0:17:04.720 was Joe Biden, America, American taxpayer dollars, America military might, 0:17:05.200 --> 0:17:08.760 and Joe Biden foolishly gave it all away when Ukraine 0:17:08.800 --> 0:17:12.240 could have paid for it. A separate issue, Donald Trump 0:17:12.520 --> 0:17:15.040 is helping Ukraine. I think it made a big impact 0:17:15.480 --> 0:17:18.159 in Putin's mind, the fact that he's now willing to 0:17:18.320 --> 0:17:20.960 sell all of this weaponry to Ukraine's who he can 0:17:21.000 --> 0:17:25.199 defend itself because he's given Putin every opportunity to go 0:17:25.400 --> 0:17:28.600 for a ceasefire. I think putting the sanctions on India, 0:17:28.600 --> 0:17:31.000 as I stated, I think that's a big, big factor 0:17:31.040 --> 0:17:34.320 as well. I think the President making the trade deal 0:17:34.359 --> 0:17:36.919 with the European Union, and they are going to stop 0:17:36.960 --> 0:17:39.560 buying a lot of their energy from Vladimir Putin, the 0:17:39.600 --> 0:17:42.560 lifeblood of their economy, and they're committing to nearly a 0:17:42.560 --> 0:17:46.639 trillion dollars in American energy purchases. That is playing a 0:17:46.640 --> 0:17:52.200 big deal. What frustrates me is the ever impotent European 0:17:52.800 --> 0:17:56.840 Union and European countries and Western European countries. Is not 0:17:57.040 --> 0:18:02.640 one of these leaders, not one could even possibly arrange 0:18:02.800 --> 0:18:06.239 a sit down, a meeting with Vladimir Putin and have 0:18:06.320 --> 0:18:11.439 a serious, significant, meaningful conversation about a potential piece in 0:18:11.480 --> 0:18:14.359 this conflict. And they all want to tell Donald Trump 0:18:14.359 --> 0:18:21.199 what to do. I mean, it's it's almost unbelievable to me. Anyway, 0:18:21.080 --> 0:18:25.120 They're they're now telling, okay, we're only we only want 0:18:25.119 --> 0:18:29.920 an enforcable ceasefire. There is no enforceable ceasefire. That would 0:18:29.920 --> 0:18:32.639 be a great result. Nobody can guarantee it. 0:18:32.680 --> 0:18:33.120 Today. 0:18:33.359 --> 0:18:37.439 We would Donald Trump can't redraw the map. Donald Trump 0:18:37.480 --> 0:18:40.960 can't talk about land swaps. Donald Trump can't talk about 0:18:41.000 --> 0:18:44.000 land for peace. Donald Trump can can't can can't, can't. 0:18:44.520 --> 0:18:44.720 Uh. 0:18:44.800 --> 0:18:48.679 And then you have one idiot European Union, you know, 0:18:48.840 --> 0:18:54.960 wedded to their their unbelievable, pathetic appeasement policies. You know, 0:18:55.040 --> 0:18:58.880 the same people that again funded his war machine. Oh, 0:18:59.160 --> 0:19:02.800 Putin's got to be told he must respect international law. 0:19:03.640 --> 0:19:06.280 He doesn't respect international law. He didn't give a damn 0:19:06.320 --> 0:19:10.399 about international law. And the only one that showed any sense, 0:19:10.440 --> 0:19:13.080 the only people that showed any sense in this were 0:19:13.080 --> 0:19:15.240 the first people to make a trade deal with Donald Trump. 0:19:15.320 --> 0:19:19.040 And that's our friends in Great Britain. Anyway, British officials 0:19:19.040 --> 0:19:23.080 are telling these idiotic EU leaders to shut up and 0:19:23.200 --> 0:19:28.320 stop being unhelpful with their never ending running commentary on 0:19:28.600 --> 0:19:32.440 this looming Ukraine peace talks between Trump and Vladimir Putin, 0:19:33.280 --> 0:19:36.400 especially when you factor in that none of them are 0:19:36.480 --> 0:19:41.359 capable of making this happen on Friday again, no guarantee 0:19:41.400 --> 0:19:43.760 of the result. We don't over promise an under deliver. 0:19:44.240 --> 0:19:47.919 It could end the way Rekievik ended. And that is 0:19:48.720 --> 0:19:52.040 I'm an American president standing up and saying no, yet 0:19:52.359 --> 0:19:55.879 not happening. Ronald Reagan was not willing to give up 0:19:55.880 --> 0:19:59.760 on strategic defense, and good thing he wasn't, because you know, 0:19:59.800 --> 0:20:02.920 when the media made fun of strategic defense and called 0:20:02.960 --> 0:20:06.120 its Star Wars, we've watched all of that play out 0:20:06.160 --> 0:20:08.919 in real time. It's amazing if you go back and 0:20:09.080 --> 0:20:15.240 look how realistic the media was mocking then President Reagan, 0:20:15.880 --> 0:20:20.360 and they'd come up with these graphics where missiles were 0:20:20.400 --> 0:20:23.080 being shot out of the sky and it was like 0:20:23.200 --> 0:20:27.960 contempt and laughter. I think it probably is Reagan's greatest legacy. 0:20:28.720 --> 0:20:31.000 You know, in the end, it won't happen in our lifetime, 0:20:31.040 --> 0:20:33.439 but if the president gets the technology moving on a 0:20:33.480 --> 0:20:37.879 golden dome, that might end up being his greatest legacy. So, 0:20:38.320 --> 0:20:40.200 you know, let's see what the president's able to pull 0:20:40.200 --> 0:20:44.480 off here. I do think that there are the conditions 0:20:44.600 --> 0:20:50.960 are ripe, The conditions are right for Vladimir Putin to 0:20:51.119 --> 0:20:55.159 maybe consider the alternative of peace and put an end 0:20:55.200 --> 0:20:59.119 to the killing. There's no guarantees, there's no guarantees in life. 0:20:59.640 --> 0:21:04.600 They'll be guarantees of life, but unlike every other political leader, 0:21:04.840 --> 0:21:08.600 he can make it happen. Unlike other political leaders, he 0:21:09.040 --> 0:21:11.800 is willing to expend political capital. So far it has 0:21:11.840 --> 0:21:14.080 paid off big time with all the other piece deals 0:21:14.119 --> 0:21:17.960 that he has been a part of. To his credit, 0:21:20.040 --> 0:21:23.200 it's getting interesting watching the radical left in this country. 0:21:23.320 --> 0:21:26.000 It's always interesting watching the radical left in this country. 0:21:27.720 --> 0:21:33.680 So the National Republican Congressional Committee, the NRCC, has rolled 0:21:33.680 --> 0:21:37.960 out a new ad tying the politics of radical Democrats 0:21:38.040 --> 0:21:43.480 like New York City, you know a mayoral candidate Marxist 0:21:43.560 --> 0:21:47.479 Mumdani to the future outlook of the Democratic Party. Now 0:21:47.480 --> 0:21:51.760 they're targeting twenty five vulnerable house Democrats across the country. 0:21:52.920 --> 0:21:56.240 What's really a somewhat modest ad buy, but it's sending 0:21:56.280 --> 0:21:59.400 a message, are you going to let them? 0:21:59.440 --> 0:21:59.600 Now? 0:21:59.600 --> 0:22:03.760 This is a very very smart ad on behard on 0:22:03.880 --> 0:22:07.800 the on the part of the Republicans, and everything they're 0:22:07.800 --> 0:22:09.840 saying in this ad that Democrats want to do is 0:22:09.880 --> 0:22:12.959 one hundred percent true. You only need to listen to 0:22:13.000 --> 0:22:16.560 their leaders, and one of them now is the rising 0:22:16.720 --> 0:22:22.560 star marxistmm Danni or Jasmine Crockett or AOC or Grandpap 0:22:22.640 --> 0:22:25.720 Bernie who I mean, the suck up on fake news 0:22:25.760 --> 0:22:28.840 CNN to Grandpa Bernie was beyond the pale, I never 0:22:28.880 --> 0:22:34.720 heard anything like it, or Pokahontas is out there campaigning 0:22:34.760 --> 0:22:37.520 with him and making them cry and everything. Is a 0:22:37.640 --> 0:22:42.080 very touching moment. But they do plan to remake America. 0:22:42.600 --> 0:22:46.040 What will happen? Democrats just voted for the largest tax 0:22:46.119 --> 0:22:50.720 increase in history and voted against the largest tax cut 0:22:50.720 --> 0:22:56.719 in history. They voted against working men and women. You know, 0:22:56.880 --> 0:22:59.320 because the one big beautiful bill out non tax on 0:22:59.400 --> 0:23:02.919 tips are so social security or overtime. They voted against 0:23:03.000 --> 0:23:07.320 all of that. And none of these so called democratic leaders, 0:23:07.359 --> 0:23:10.800 none of them are willing to take on the likes 0:23:10.800 --> 0:23:15.520 of Mamdani AOC the squad, none of them. They won't 0:23:15.520 --> 0:23:18.680 say a bad word about him, Hakeem Jeffreys, Chuckie Schumer. 0:23:19.000 --> 0:23:23.800 They're only quote leaders, minority leaders in name only, anyway, 0:23:23.880 --> 0:23:26.119 And what would happen with the border. They would open 0:23:26.119 --> 0:23:29.919 the border, they would have mass amnesty. I think they 0:23:29.960 --> 0:23:33.240 would probably follow the advice of people like James carvill. 0:23:33.320 --> 0:23:36.600 I do think they'd look for DC statehood, Puerto Rico's statehood. 0:23:36.880 --> 0:23:39.480 I do think they'd like to pack the courts. I 0:23:39.560 --> 0:23:41.600 think there's a lot of stake. They'd impeach Trump, a 0:23:41.720 --> 0:23:45.800 thousand million times if they absolutely could. You know, my 0:23:46.040 --> 0:23:50.360 Mamdani now is centering his campaign on going all over 0:23:50.440 --> 0:23:54.160 New York City and surrounding boroughs in New York and 0:23:54.720 --> 0:23:57.680 you know, making this an election about President Trump. It's 0:23:57.720 --> 0:24:01.439 actually very clever on his part. In a place like 0:24:01.560 --> 0:24:05.760 New York City that is so radically left, running against 0:24:05.840 --> 0:24:10.480 Donald Trump is not a bad idea. And as others, 0:24:10.560 --> 0:24:12.840 you know, desperately try to get some attention and some 0:24:12.960 --> 0:24:19.520 traction anyway it prevents focus on his privilege is inexperience. 0:24:20.119 --> 0:24:21.440 What we talked about yesterday. 0:24:21.480 --> 0:24:25.840 This guy has a rent stabilized apartment which is designed 0:24:25.880 --> 0:24:28.240 for working men and women and for low income and 0:24:28.280 --> 0:24:32.119 for four people. I meanwhile, you know him and his 0:24:32.160 --> 0:24:35.360 wife make a couple of hundred grand a year. And 0:24:35.760 --> 0:24:37.919 you know, Andrew Cmo is not wrong in saying that 0:24:37.960 --> 0:24:39.760 he ought to give the apartment back. He's not going 0:24:39.800 --> 0:24:43.920 to do it. But it is the vanity of the left. 0:24:43.960 --> 0:24:49.280 This is now the modern extreme radical Democratic Party. This 0:24:49.359 --> 0:24:52.879 guy is winning. His new poll has him at forty 0:24:52.920 --> 0:24:57.120 four percent. Andrew Cmo is at twenty five percent. He's 0:24:57.200 --> 0:25:02.560 up nineteen points. Adams is only at seven. My friend 0:25:02.600 --> 0:25:06.199 Curtis Slee was at twelve. But this is this this, 0:25:07.000 --> 0:25:10.960 I mean, you can make the argument politically speaking that 0:25:11.160 --> 0:25:15.400