WEBVTT - Atrocities and the Path Forward - August 18th, Hour 3 0:00:00.320 --> 0:00:03.800 Coming up next, our final News round Up and Information 0:00:04.040 --> 0:00:05.040 Overload Hour. 0:00:05.880 --> 0:00:08.559 All right, News Roundup and Information Overload Hour. Here's our 0:00:08.600 --> 0:00:10.639 toll free telephone number if you want to be a 0:00:10.680 --> 0:00:12.600 part of the program. It's eight hundred and niney four 0:00:12.640 --> 0:00:15.160 one sean if you want to join us. So, a 0:00:15.200 --> 0:00:19.560 close friend of mine is friends with well, somebody high 0:00:19.680 --> 0:00:23.960 up in the Ukrainian Army, and this individual sent him 0:00:24.040 --> 0:00:27.960 and he has now shared it with me. Two very 0:00:28.000 --> 0:00:33.600 short videos of Russian war atrocities taken from the cell 0:00:33.600 --> 0:00:38.200 phones of dead Russian soldiers. In one of the videos, 0:00:38.200 --> 0:00:40.400 I just watched it during the break. You can't believe 0:00:40.479 --> 0:00:44.239 that evil on this level exists, but it does. In 0:00:44.400 --> 0:00:51.519 one video, Ukrainian soldiers being killed and beheaded. I mean 0:00:51.560 --> 0:00:54.680 you can see it now. You know, if you go back, 0:00:54.760 --> 0:00:57.560 you think, well, that can't happen. Go back to remember 0:00:57.680 --> 0:01:00.840 Isis on the Beach or Wall Street Journal reporter back 0:01:00.840 --> 0:01:04.520 in the day, Daniel Pearl. And you know, people will 0:01:04.560 --> 0:01:06.160 ask me why do you watch it. I'm like, well, 0:01:06.160 --> 0:01:10.080 it's part of my job, and I cannot possibly explain 0:01:10.360 --> 0:01:14.760 in detail just the level of evil and depravity that 0:01:15.240 --> 0:01:18.240 goes on. And I know we've had a lot of 0:01:18.280 --> 0:01:21.959 smart callers today hoping that you know, gives sanctions a 0:01:22.080 --> 0:01:27.000 much you know, a greater chance, and hopefully that will 0:01:27.000 --> 0:01:30.000 bring Vladimir Putin back to the table faster. Look, I 0:01:30.040 --> 0:01:33.000 would argue that Putin wouldn't have gone to Alaska but 0:01:33.120 --> 0:01:36.960 for Donald Trump insisting that NATO pay more than double 0:01:37.000 --> 0:01:40.920 what they were paying in terms of their defense. I 0:01:40.920 --> 0:01:44.039 don't think Putin would have gone to Alaska had not 0:01:44.120 --> 0:01:47.280 been Donald Trump's trade deal with the European Union and 0:01:47.440 --> 0:01:51.040 instead of them funding Putin's war machine, You're committee nearly 0:01:51.080 --> 0:01:54.600 a trillion dollars to purchase American energy. I don't think 0:01:54.800 --> 0:01:56.840 he would have come to the table at President Trump 0:01:56.920 --> 0:01:59.680 not put a fifty percent tariff on India if they 0:01:59.760 --> 0:02:03.800 keep importing Russian energy. And I think the fact that 0:02:03.800 --> 0:02:06.800 the President is selling the most sophisticated weaponry to the 0:02:06.880 --> 0:02:11.480 Ukrainians also is a big deal. In a second video, 0:02:11.960 --> 0:02:16.760 you see a Ukrainian soldier unarmed. He's smoking like his 0:02:16.840 --> 0:02:20.280 last cigarette. There are two Russian soldiers. One says to 0:02:20.360 --> 0:02:24.840 the other are you filming? The other indicates yes. The 0:02:25.000 --> 0:02:29.520 Ukrainian soldier says, glory to Ukraine. The Russians open fire, 0:02:29.560 --> 0:02:34.040 with an automatic weapon and they're the Ukrainian soldier lies 0:02:34.120 --> 0:02:38.840 dead and the Russian says, die b I you know 0:02:38.880 --> 0:02:41.839 how to spell it, b it, We'll put it there. 0:02:43.919 --> 0:02:45.600 How does this end? Now? 0:02:45.720 --> 0:02:47.959 A lot of you have mentioned sanctions today, and I said, 0:02:48.000 --> 0:02:51.200 I'm all for sanctions. I think sanctions is a great idea. 0:02:51.960 --> 0:02:54.280 I think the fact that Lindsey Graham put forward a 0:02:54.320 --> 0:02:57.160 bill and got eighty five Senators to sign on to 0:02:57.320 --> 0:03:00.600 it is almost in this part as an raa. You 0:03:00.639 --> 0:03:03.840 don't see that kind of partisan bipartisanship. You just don't 0:03:03.840 --> 0:03:07.000 see it. Anyway, he joins us now to get his 0:03:07.080 --> 0:03:11.040 thoughts on what happened today, what the likely outcome is, 0:03:11.120 --> 0:03:13.200 whether I'm right or wrong in my prediction that if 0:03:13.240 --> 0:03:15.440 there's going to be an early end of the war, 0:03:15.520 --> 0:03:17.520 it's not going to be sanctions that will bring an 0:03:17.520 --> 0:03:21.000 early into it, but it would probably involve land swaps 0:03:21.040 --> 0:03:24.639 and security guarantees, of which the President has said even 0:03:24.840 --> 0:03:29.880 Article five NATO Article five like security measures for Ukraine, 0:03:30.760 --> 0:03:34.840 but it would involve land swaps anyway. Senator Graham, welcome back. 0:03:34.880 --> 0:03:35.440 How are you sir? 0:03:36.280 --> 0:03:38.880 Thank you? That's good summary I got. It's funny you 0:03:38.960 --> 0:03:42.800 mentioned about the atrocities. I got add some images last 0:03:42.880 --> 0:03:46.680 night sent to me from President Fluency's folks. Three young 0:03:46.800 --> 0:03:50.440 kids got killed last night, and yeah, so brutal war 0:03:50.960 --> 0:03:53.800 heads off to President Trump. I see a light at 0:03:53.840 --> 0:03:55.720 the end of the tunnel. I hope it's not a train, 0:03:56.000 --> 0:03:59.840 but I really do believe we're on track here to 0:04:00.000 --> 0:04:05.520 maybe end this thing, only because Putin is rattled by Trump. 0:04:05.920 --> 0:04:09.000 The way this war started is when them Biden withdrew 0:04:09.040 --> 0:04:13.280 from Afghanistan. Putin seized the moment saw weakness. How does 0:04:13.320 --> 0:04:16.560 this war end when Putin believes that Trump will crush 0:04:16.600 --> 0:04:19.840 his economy, Putin's economy if he doesn't end this war. 0:04:21.360 --> 0:04:25.039 Okay, but hasn't Donald Trump already you know, showed him 0:04:25.040 --> 0:04:27.599 that he's going to take He said the consequences would 0:04:27.640 --> 0:04:32.400 be severe. I think upping NATO's NATO country's contributions from 0:04:32.440 --> 0:04:35.600 two percent to five percent, that is significant. I think 0:04:35.640 --> 0:04:38.360 the EU trade deal to buy energy from US not 0:04:38.600 --> 0:04:42.440 Russia and fund his war machine. I think that's that's critical. 0:04:43.480 --> 0:04:47.800 The tariffs on India and selling sophisticated weaponry to Ukraine. 0:04:48.240 --> 0:04:50.520 You know, that's been a pretty loud message from Donald J. 0:04:50.600 --> 0:04:50.960 Trump. 0:04:52.200 --> 0:04:54.880 A huge message and it worked. You know, Putin didn't 0:04:54.880 --> 0:04:57.080 go to Alaska to kind of look at the scenery 0:04:57.120 --> 0:04:59.719 and check on Alaska how well you're doing after we 0:04:59.760 --> 0:05:02.960 saw do you? He went to Alaska because of two 0:05:03.080 --> 0:05:07.760 really important things. Selling weapons to Ukraine. American made weapons 0:05:07.839 --> 0:05:11.320 is a nightmare for the Russian military. Ukraine's out man 0:05:11.480 --> 0:05:15.679 ten to one, but between their innovative technology and drones 0:05:15.720 --> 0:05:19.440 and the use of sophisticated American weapons, they have held 0:05:19.480 --> 0:05:22.279 their own and pushed back and they're in the fight. 0:05:22.920 --> 0:05:25.880 It's a nightmare for the Russian military for the Ukrainians 0:05:25.880 --> 0:05:31.839 to have access to American weapons in perpetuity. By telling Europe, 0:05:31.960 --> 0:05:34.080 I will sell you the weapons, I will not give 0:05:34.120 --> 0:05:37.039 you the weapons that changed the game. That's good for 0:05:37.160 --> 0:05:40.280 us because the money from Europe helps us rebuild our 0:05:40.320 --> 0:05:44.880 military industrial complex, and it shows the Russians that Ukraine's 0:05:44.880 --> 0:05:47.400 going to have American arms as far as the I 0:05:47.480 --> 0:05:50.160 can see. When he put a fifty percent tariff on 0:05:50.440 --> 0:05:53.320 Indian and I wanted to do that. The second largest 0:05:53.360 --> 0:05:56.320 preserved Russian oil and gas in the world is India. 0:05:56.839 --> 0:06:01.360 They buy oil in Russia below mark it, refine it, 0:06:01.400 --> 0:06:05.320 and then Indian celidrator profit. The way you end this war, 0:06:05.560 --> 0:06:09.760 I think is you deny Putin's customers the ability to 0:06:09.800 --> 0:06:13.400 buy cheap Russian oil without being tariffed. If China, Indian, 0:06:13.480 --> 0:06:16.760 Brazil have to pick between the American economy and buying 0:06:16.839 --> 0:06:19.200 cheap Russian oil or gas, they're going to pick the 0:06:19.240 --> 0:06:22.400 American economy. Ninety percent of the money coming in to 0:06:22.480 --> 0:06:25.440 fund the foot war machine comes from oil and gas sells. 0:06:25.920 --> 0:06:29.720 My bill goes after his customers. And when President Trump 0:06:29.880 --> 0:06:34.679 used that concept against India, Putin shows up in Alaska. 0:06:35.120 --> 0:06:37.960 Where's China and all of this? Because China is probably 0:06:38.040 --> 0:06:41.080 the biggest customer in terms of energy of Russia. 0:06:42.000 --> 0:06:45.120 They're well, it's then, oh crap, Now where is China 0:06:45.200 --> 0:06:48.919 and all this? China is the largest customer of Russia. 0:06:49.279 --> 0:06:52.080 They buy oil from Russia well below market, good for 0:06:52.160 --> 0:06:56.480 their economy. They help Russia in different ways. My belief 0:06:56.520 --> 0:07:00.400 is China is waiting and watching. Now. There's one thing 0:07:00.480 --> 0:07:02.880 you left out as to why the game has changed 0:07:02.960 --> 0:07:07.680 under Trump. When he obliterated the Iranian nuclear program, everybody said, 0:07:07.760 --> 0:07:12.840 oh crap. President Trump went all in to help Israel 0:07:13.160 --> 0:07:19.680 destroyed the nuclear emphasis. He obliterated those three sites in 0:07:19.800 --> 0:07:24.520 the conversion facility that got China's attention, That got Putin's attention. 0:07:24.880 --> 0:07:28.000 Here's what I think, if we don't end this war 0:07:28.160 --> 0:07:31.920 honorably and justly soon that President Trump's going to take 0:07:32.000 --> 0:07:35.320 my bill. I've also had a bill about the nineteen 0:07:35.360 --> 0:07:39.200 thousand Ukrainian kids kidnapped and sent to Russia, making Russia 0:07:39.320 --> 0:07:43.320 state sponsor of terrorism under the US law. China's worst 0:07:43.400 --> 0:07:47.560 nightmare is to do business with Russia if they have 0:07:47.680 --> 0:07:51.040 to face American tariffs. How does this war end? When 0:07:51.080 --> 0:07:54.200 she goes to Putin and say and says, and now, 0:07:54.240 --> 0:07:56.520 I've helped you before, but I can't hope you anymore 0:07:56.560 --> 0:07:58.040 because you're hurting my economy. 0:07:59.360 --> 0:08:01.080 Let me ask you this, because I did have a 0:08:01.120 --> 0:08:03.360 couple of callers in the last half hour bring up 0:08:03.400 --> 0:08:08.680 this notion. They don't like the idea of rewarding the aggressor, 0:08:09.160 --> 0:08:14.600 in this case Vladimir Putin for his behavior and meaning 0:08:14.720 --> 0:08:16.920 that he ends up coming out of this deal with 0:08:17.000 --> 0:08:20.280 more land. Now we use the term land swaps, and 0:08:20.320 --> 0:08:26.120 we use the term security guarantees, including something similar to 0:08:26.520 --> 0:08:30.600 NATO's Article five, which is countries will align with Ukraine 0:08:30.640 --> 0:08:32.839 and say if you get attacked we'll consider it an 0:08:32.880 --> 0:08:36.680 attack against us, and a lot of people don't like 0:08:36.720 --> 0:08:39.079 the idea that Putin gets rewarded for that behavior. 0:08:39.280 --> 0:08:43.000 Your reaction to that, well, I understand exactly what you're saying. 0:08:43.080 --> 0:08:47.200 I'm sympathetic to you, and the world in which we 0:08:47.280 --> 0:08:52.040 live in is as follows, Russia has control of about 0:08:52.080 --> 0:08:55.600 twenty percent of Ukraine. I don't think Ukraine has the 0:08:55.679 --> 0:09:00.319 military ability to evict every Russian anytime soon. Means the 0:09:00.360 --> 0:09:02.839 war would go on and on and on. Now, how 0:09:02.840 --> 0:09:06.360 do you end conflicts in the Cold War? Well, after 0:09:06.400 --> 0:09:09.400 World War Two, we divided up Europe. You had East 0:09:09.400 --> 0:09:12.600 Germany and West Germany. We never recognized East Germany as 0:09:12.640 --> 0:09:18.000 a separate, legitimate country, but we didn't attack either, so 0:09:18.160 --> 0:09:21.960 over time East Germany and West Germany became one. So 0:09:22.240 --> 0:09:25.200 I'm realistic we're going to have to recognize that their 0:09:25.280 --> 0:09:28.679 Russian control of certain parts of Ukraine that are going 0:09:28.760 --> 0:09:32.000 to be in Russian hands. To end this war, I 0:09:32.000 --> 0:09:35.280 don't want to give title to the land, but to 0:09:35.480 --> 0:09:38.240 end this war, I'm going to acknowledge that there's certain 0:09:38.280 --> 0:09:41.640 parts of Ukraine that Russia controls. But I'm not going 0:09:41.720 --> 0:09:45.880 to acknowledge as part of Russia. Just look at North Korea, 0:09:45.960 --> 0:09:49.000 South Korea. That's just the reality. But the most important 0:09:49.040 --> 0:09:51.600 thing President Trump could do for the world is make 0:09:51.640 --> 0:09:54.480 sure there's no third invasion. I think if we get 0:09:54.520 --> 0:09:58.120 security guarantees backing up Europe, that europe be on the 0:09:58.160 --> 0:10:01.880 ground will have their back. We keep selling weapons to Ukraine, 0:10:01.880 --> 0:10:03.240 there will be no third invasion. 0:10:04.440 --> 0:10:07.600 You advise President Trump to tell Putin if the war 0:10:07.640 --> 0:10:12.440 doesn't end justly, the US will destroy Russia's economy. And 0:10:12.480 --> 0:10:15.000 this is just breaking, you know. Like nine minutes ago, 0:10:15.080 --> 0:10:19.199 the Russian Foreign minister just outright rejected the idea that 0:10:19.280 --> 0:10:23.200 NATO forces could serve as peacekeepers in Ukraine, which was 0:10:23.240 --> 0:10:25.920 a provision sought by President Zelenski. 0:10:26.600 --> 0:10:28.600 Yeah, can you cuss on the radio? 0:10:30.040 --> 0:10:33.040 Yeah, well, depends what you're going to say. I mean 0:10:33.080 --> 0:10:34.719 you can, and you can. If it's that bad, I'll 0:10:34.760 --> 0:10:37.280 bleep it out. But don't worry. We're live. How about 0:10:37.440 --> 0:10:38.880 I'm on a seven second delay. 0:10:39.679 --> 0:10:43.559 Okay, screw you. We're not going to let the Russians 0:10:43.600 --> 0:10:46.200 tell us what to do to protect Ukraine. They have 0:10:46.320 --> 0:10:48.720 no standing in my mind to have any idea about 0:10:48.800 --> 0:10:50.920 killing me or anybody else. What they're going to do 0:10:51.000 --> 0:10:53.600 to prevent We're going to do to prevent a third invasion. 0:10:53.960 --> 0:10:58.800 There will be NATO European forces on the ground to 0:10:58.800 --> 0:11:02.040 prevent a third invasion. There will be guarantees where if 0:11:02.080 --> 0:11:04.920 they go in to fight, we'll have their back. If 0:11:04.920 --> 0:11:07.560 they don't like that, keep fighting. And here's what I 0:11:07.559 --> 0:11:10.960 would say to President Trump, you have the moral higher ground. 0:11:11.000 --> 0:11:13.800 You're the right guy at the right time. Start putting 0:11:13.800 --> 0:11:17.120 tariffs on China, but starting tariffs on every country that 0:11:17.160 --> 0:11:21.640 does business with Russia, and you'll break them. Show the 0:11:21.760 --> 0:11:24.600 determination you've shown in the past. You will break them. 0:11:25.160 --> 0:11:29.080 They can't survive without aill and gas revenue. Make Russia 0:11:29.160 --> 0:11:33.120 state sponsored terrorism for kidnapping nineteen thousand Ukrainian kids and 0:11:33.200 --> 0:11:36.160 send them back to Russia. Go all in with destroying 0:11:36.240 --> 0:11:39.760 Russia's economy. Ukraine's out manned, they're out gone, but they're 0:11:39.800 --> 0:11:44.960 still in the fight. Russia is incredibly exposed. They have 0:11:45.120 --> 0:11:47.520 one source of revenue all in gas self. 0:11:47.880 --> 0:11:51.720 How long would this take to really impact the Russians? 0:11:52.800 --> 0:11:58.079 Months, not years. It would impact China, it would impact India, 0:11:58.160 --> 0:12:01.520 it would impact Brazil. What would happen if all the 0:12:01.600 --> 0:12:04.800 major purchasers of Russian oil and gas all of a 0:12:04.880 --> 0:12:08.160 sudden said, I can't buy it anymore. 0:12:09.960 --> 0:12:13.800 All, especially now that he's opening up energy dominance in 0:12:13.840 --> 0:12:16.480 this country. We'll have the ability to fill that gap 0:12:16.520 --> 0:12:19.880 and fill that void and maybe even sell it a 0:12:19.920 --> 0:12:23.240 discounter price and make it part of a larger trade 0:12:23.280 --> 0:12:24.600 deal with a lot of these countries. 0:12:25.240 --> 0:12:28.000 Well, you know, all those who are criticizing Trump about 0:12:28.000 --> 0:12:30.959 what he's doing and the way he's doing it, Well, 0:12:31.120 --> 0:12:31.480 he's the. 0:12:31.440 --> 0:12:32.439 Only one that ken pulled that. 0:12:32.520 --> 0:12:34.800 I don't want to hear any more criticism from European 0:12:34.920 --> 0:12:38.199 leaders that have been impotent in dealing with Russia and 0:12:38.240 --> 0:12:42.200 frankly have helped fund his war machine by buying his energy. 0:12:42.440 --> 0:12:42.680 Yeah. 0:12:42.920 --> 0:12:44.959 Yeah, So let's look at it this way. If he 0:12:45.040 --> 0:12:47.680 had been a Democrat, he'd have two Nobel Peace Prizes, 0:12:47.720 --> 0:12:50.199 but now one for the Abraham McCords where he got 0:12:50.240 --> 0:12:53.840 six air nations to recognize Israel. He'd get a Nobel 0:12:53.880 --> 0:12:57.800 Peace Prize for Azerbaijan and Armenia have been at war 0:12:57.960 --> 0:13:02.200 for thirty something years, or to Congo than a blood bath, 0:13:02.320 --> 0:13:05.920 remember Hotel Rwanda. I mean, he ended those things and 0:13:06.040 --> 0:13:08.559 nobody gave him any credit for it. So he's gonna 0:13:08.600 --> 0:13:11.440 end this war one way or the other. Russia is 0:13:11.520 --> 0:13:15.120 either going to accept an honorable, just outcome. We're not 0:13:15.200 --> 0:13:18.920 out to humiliate Russia. I'm not advocating for Ukraine to 0:13:18.960 --> 0:13:21.360 be in NATO. I'm not pushing for that. I'm not 0:13:21.480 --> 0:13:24.000 pushing for American troops on the ground. I'm pushing for 0:13:24.520 --> 0:13:29.160 a guarantee, a backstop guarantee to European forces. I'm trying 0:13:29.160 --> 0:13:32.120 to be practical here. They're gonna be parts of Ukraine 0:13:32.160 --> 0:13:35.400 occupied by Russia until something changes down the road. I 0:13:35.440 --> 0:13:37.680 want to end the war. But here's what I would say. 0:13:37.720 --> 0:13:41.520 I would say that Europe needs to follow prosent Trump's lead. One, 0:13:41.559 --> 0:13:44.480 don't they put tariffs on Indian oil. One don't they 0:13:44.520 --> 0:13:48.079 go after China. So I'm gonna be hard on well. 0:13:47.920 --> 0:13:49.760 Well up till now. They're the ones that have been 0:13:49.760 --> 0:13:52.520 buying the oil. So I mean getting lectured by them 0:13:52.559 --> 0:13:55.200 as a joke, and not one of them has the 0:13:55.320 --> 0:13:59.440 moral standing or the strength to successfully you know, pull 0:13:59.480 --> 0:14:02.920 this all and sit down with Putin and have Zelenski 0:14:02.960 --> 0:14:05.280 and all these European leaders three days later at the 0:14:05.280 --> 0:14:05.840 White House. 0:14:05.960 --> 0:14:07.440 None of them right. 0:14:07.920 --> 0:14:11.320 So I've challenged European nations to put a fifty percent 0:14:11.400 --> 0:14:15.640 tariff on India, follow Prosident Trump's lead. If the European 0:14:15.679 --> 0:14:21.720 economy and the American economy had a joint message to India, China, Brazil, 0:14:22.040 --> 0:14:25.400 it definitely would work. But the EU trade deal was 0:14:25.520 --> 0:14:28.760 magnificent for us because you put your finger on it. 0:14:29.320 --> 0:14:35.080 Putin's nightmare has been Trump. Trump has given a pathway 0:14:35.160 --> 0:14:38.440 for American energy to go to Europe to replace the 0:14:38.840 --> 0:14:41.880 Russian oil and gas, a seven hundred and fifty billion 0:14:41.920 --> 0:14:45.920 dollars trade deal where Europe will buy American oil and gas, 0:14:46.280 --> 0:14:50.360 not Russian oil and gas. That's a tremendous flow. So 0:14:51.000 --> 0:14:54.680 we're set up now to crush the fossil fuel economy 0:14:55.000 --> 0:14:58.880 of Putin. Have American alternatives to Russian oil and gas, 0:14:59.200 --> 0:15:01.560 and tell the c Instomers that prop up this war 0:15:01.640 --> 0:15:04.480 machine in Russia, you're going to get hit. You're going 0:15:04.560 --> 0:15:07.960 to have the denied access to the American economy without 0:15:08.040 --> 0:15:10.920 major unless you pay major tariffs. 0:15:11.120 --> 0:15:15.960 I think, well, yeah, Senator, Senator, we're just out of time. 0:15:16.000 --> 0:15:17.000 I'm going to have to let you go. 0:15:17.120 --> 0:15:19.600 Senator Lindsey Graham, South Carolina will hit the phones when 0:15:19.600 --> 0:15:21.800 we get back and and we'll play part of my 0:15:21.840 --> 0:15:24.600 interview with President Trump as well. Eight hundred nine four one, Shawn, 0:15:24.760 --> 0:15:27.160 now till the top of the hour, eight hundred nine 0:15:27.200 --> 0:15:28.800 four one, Seawan, if you want to be a part 0:15:28.880 --> 0:15:31.479 of the program. It's been a very busy news afternoon 0:15:32.160 --> 0:15:39.000 and obviously the President moving as expeditiously as possible to 0:15:39.000 --> 0:15:41.800 get to a piece deal. We're going to play part 0:15:41.800 --> 0:15:44.280 of my interview with the President after he met with 0:15:44.360 --> 0:15:48.040 Putin on Friday because it's so relevant to everything that 0:15:48.120 --> 0:15:50.960 has happened. You know, here it is Monday, and you 0:15:50.960 --> 0:15:53.680 have every European leader, inn Zolensky at the White House 0:15:53.720 --> 0:15:57.920 all day and you know, but in the seconds after 0:15:58.400 --> 0:16:05.320 the Putin AH failure and embarrassment AH disaster, and it 0:16:05.360 --> 0:16:08.840 was anything but how do you know? Because today wouldn't 0:16:08.840 --> 0:16:13.520 have happened. So we're there Friday, We're in Alaska and 0:16:13.560 --> 0:16:18.040 I have the interview with President Trump, which happened for Fox. 0:16:18.120 --> 0:16:19.720 We didn't get a chance to play a lot of it. 0:16:19.880 --> 0:16:21.800 But with all the news that's been breaking all day 0:16:21.800 --> 0:16:25.480 to day and the President rightly lashing out at the 0:16:25.480 --> 0:16:29.000 fake news media, Oh major defeat. So Donald Trump a 0:16:29.040 --> 0:16:34.040 major embarrassment. Senator Chris Murphy said, uh, and John Bolton 0:16:34.120 --> 0:16:38.880 has become dumber by the day. You know, it's I 0:16:38.920 --> 0:16:41.800 don't even know what to say. I think Trump some 0:16:41.920 --> 0:16:44.680 that the best said. You know, I'm totally convinced that 0:16:44.720 --> 0:16:47.200 if Russia raised their hands and said we give up, 0:16:47.240 --> 0:16:50.760 we concede, we surrender, We'll give Ukraine and the Great 0:16:51.160 --> 0:16:55.120 United States of America, Moscow, Saint Petersburg and everything surrounding 0:16:55.160 --> 0:16:58.680 them for a thousand miles the fakes news media and 0:16:58.720 --> 0:17:02.360 that their Democratic partners would say this was a bad, 0:17:02.440 --> 0:17:04.840 humiliating day for Donald J. Trump, one of the worst 0:17:04.880 --> 0:17:10.199 days of our country. He's not wrong, and it's and 0:17:10.280 --> 0:17:13.520 Marco Rubio just humiliated these people on the Sunday Show, 0:17:13.640 --> 0:17:18.480 just humiliated them on CBS and ABC because they're dumb 0:17:18.480 --> 0:17:21.680 as rocks. I was there today, would not have happened. 0:17:21.760 --> 0:17:25.359 Everything we've been reporting up till now, had this meeting 0:17:25.359 --> 0:17:28.359 with Vladimir Putin not gone well. Anyway, let me play 0:17:28.560 --> 0:17:32.119 some of my interview. The President goes he was reluctant 0:17:32.160 --> 0:17:35.360 to give information because he doesn't want to negotiate publicly, 0:17:35.400 --> 0:17:37.960 which is smart. But here's what he did say. 0:17:38.240 --> 0:17:40.600 He said before the interview. He said in two minutes. 0:17:41.080 --> 0:17:41.560 I will know. 0:17:42.280 --> 0:17:45.520 I watched very closely when you met him on the 0:17:45.560 --> 0:17:48.959 red carpet after both your planes landed. What vibe did 0:17:49.000 --> 0:17:49.879 you get in two minutes? 0:17:50.560 --> 0:17:52.879 Well, you know, I always had a great relationship with 0:17:53.359 --> 0:17:56.600 President Putin, and we would have done great things together 0:17:56.680 --> 0:17:58.720 in terms of you know, their land is incredible, the 0:18:00.400 --> 0:18:04.600 were earth, the oil, gas, everything, it's incredible. It's the 0:18:04.720 --> 0:18:06.960 largest piece of land in the world as a nation 0:18:07.119 --> 0:18:10.479 by far. I think they have eleven time zones, if 0:18:10.480 --> 0:18:11.080 you can believe it. 0:18:11.119 --> 0:18:11.480 That's big. 0:18:11.560 --> 0:18:14.080 So but we would have done a lot of great things, 0:18:14.080 --> 0:18:17.399 but we had the Russia Russia Russia hoax which stopped 0:18:17.440 --> 0:18:19.680 us from doing that we would have had we would 0:18:19.680 --> 0:18:22.560 have done so great. But we had the greatest one 0:18:22.600 --> 0:18:24.439 of the great hoaxes. I mean there were others, like 0:18:24.480 --> 0:18:27.879 the election itself, as you know, as you covered better 0:18:27.920 --> 0:18:30.960 than anyone, but it was a rigged election and a 0:18:31.000 --> 0:18:34.399 horrible thing that took place in twenty twenty. But we 0:18:34.440 --> 0:18:37.360 would have had a great relationship. But we did amazingly 0:18:37.440 --> 0:18:41.359 well considering you know, he would look and see what happened, 0:18:41.400 --> 0:18:44.040 he would think we're crazy, you know, with the made 0:18:44.119 --> 0:18:49.200 up Russia Russia Russia hoax. So we had something very 0:18:49.240 --> 0:18:52.520 important and we had a very good meeting today. 0:18:52.520 --> 0:18:54.000 But we'll see. I mean, it's you know, you have 0:18:54.040 --> 0:18:54.480 to get a deal. 0:18:54.520 --> 0:18:56.840 We did a lot of points. I want to see 0:18:56.880 --> 0:19:01.400 people stop dying in Ukraine. What's happening well, losing five 0:19:01.480 --> 0:19:06.119 six seven thousand. They're Russians, mostly Russians and their Ukrainian soldiers. 0:19:06.760 --> 0:19:09.080 There's some people dying in cities. 0:19:08.680 --> 0:19:12.720 And towns where they're trying to blow up missile manufacturers 0:19:12.720 --> 0:19:14.919 and other things in some cities. I don't know if 0:19:14.960 --> 0:19:17.159 you know what's going on there, but there are a 0:19:17.160 --> 0:19:18.040 lot of people dying. 0:19:18.600 --> 0:19:20.560 And if we can end that war would be very good. 0:19:20.600 --> 0:19:22.199 And I was very happy to hear him say if 0:19:22.200 --> 0:19:24.560 I was president, that war would have never happened. 0:19:24.240 --> 0:19:26.280 Just the president. That was my next question. 0:19:26.720 --> 0:19:30.000 He said at the joint press conference that you have 0:19:30.119 --> 0:19:32.800 said this many, many times, and he confirmed for the 0:19:32.800 --> 0:19:34.640 world today that if you. 0:19:34.600 --> 0:19:36.760 Were president, this wouldn't have happened. 0:19:37.080 --> 0:19:39.720 Did any of the specifics come up as to why 0:19:39.760 --> 0:19:41.000 he said that it did. 0:19:41.160 --> 0:19:44.440 It doesn't matter at this point, but that this war 0:19:44.440 --> 0:19:46.200 should never have happened. You know, a lot of war 0:19:46.240 --> 0:19:49.400 should never have happened. There was stupid things go down, 0:19:49.520 --> 0:19:53.520 and the wrong people are talking. But Biden was a 0:19:53.600 --> 0:19:56.760 terrible president in so many ways. He should have never 0:19:56.880 --> 0:20:01.800 let it happen, and it did. There are millions of 0:20:01.840 --> 0:20:04.000 people killed. I mean, it's the worst thing since I 0:20:04.040 --> 0:20:07.680 see everyone's saying since World War Two. By far, there's 0:20:07.720 --> 0:20:11.160 nothing even close. But we had a very good meeting 0:20:11.240 --> 0:20:14.960 today and I think a lot of points were negotiated 0:20:15.960 --> 0:20:20.000 on behalf of Ukraine and on behalf of the whole 0:20:20.160 --> 0:20:22.640 NATO situation where we're dealing very well with a lot 0:20:22.640 --> 0:20:28.639 of foreign countries that are great European countries. So look, 0:20:28.840 --> 0:20:31.160 as far as I'm concerned, there's no deal until there's 0:20:31.160 --> 0:20:31.480 a deal. 0:20:31.520 --> 0:20:34.200 But we did make a lot of progress. The meeting 0:20:34.240 --> 0:20:37.280 took place in this room. Yeah, this is where you met, 0:20:37.480 --> 0:20:38.320 right in this room. 0:20:38.680 --> 0:20:41.960 Well, did you have let me examine it. 0:20:42.440 --> 0:20:44.600 That's where you were, said, I would say, that's it. Yep. 0:20:45.480 --> 0:20:48.400 So did you have a long time with him? Yeah? 0:20:48.440 --> 0:20:51.520 I did, and I did actually after our speeches, he 0:20:51.560 --> 0:20:55.080 made a very good speech and I also finished it up, 0:20:55.200 --> 0:21:00.800 and afterwards we spoke. Right after that, we spoke very sincerely. 0:21:00.840 --> 0:21:02.120 I think he wants to see it done. 0:21:03.200 --> 0:21:03.400 Yeah. 0:21:04.160 --> 0:21:06.679 In your press conference, you talked about a lot of 0:21:06.720 --> 0:21:09.959 things that you agreed on and maybe one big issue 0:21:10.000 --> 0:21:11.120 you don't agree on. 0:21:11.600 --> 0:21:13.800 Are you prepared to go public with that? No, I'd 0:21:13.880 --> 0:21:14.320 rather not. 0:21:14.840 --> 0:21:16.880 I guess somebody's going to go public with it. They'll 0:21:16.880 --> 0:21:19.000 figure it out, but no, I don't want to do that. 0:21:19.000 --> 0:21:20.240 I want to see if we can get it done. 0:21:20.359 --> 0:21:22.240 You know, it's still it's not a done deal at all, 0:21:23.119 --> 0:21:26.960 and Ukraine has to agree. I mean, you know President 0:21:27.040 --> 0:21:30.800 Zelensky has to agree. But it's a terrible war where 0:21:30.800 --> 0:21:33.840 he's losing a lot and both of them are, and 0:21:33.920 --> 0:21:37.760 hopefully it can get completed. That would be great achievement 0:21:37.800 --> 0:21:41.960 for them, forget about me, for them, and you'll save 0:21:42.240 --> 0:21:43.919 seven thousand lives a week. 0:21:44.240 --> 0:21:44.919 It's a lot. 0:21:45.160 --> 0:21:48.080 I spoke very briefly to Secretary of State Rubio and 0:21:48.119 --> 0:21:50.680 he did say to me, he goes, there's a difference 0:21:51.119 --> 0:21:54.240 when you in the same room together, the versus you know, 0:21:54.560 --> 0:21:55.680 talking to each other. 0:21:55.560 --> 0:22:00.240 Through the press. Do you even through the phone? Through 0:22:00.240 --> 0:22:00.720 the phone not. 0:22:00.680 --> 0:22:02.679 The same thing when you're on a telephone, it's not 0:22:02.720 --> 0:22:05.760 the same thing either. This was I mean, we were 0:22:05.800 --> 0:22:09.199 together almost three hours and it was very extensive and 0:22:09.240 --> 0:22:10.720