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Speaker 2: one sean if you want to join us. So, a
Speaker 2: close friend of mine is friends with well, somebody high
Speaker 2: up in the Ukrainian Army, and this individual sent him
Speaker 2: and he has now shared it with me. Two very
Speaker 2: short videos of Russian war atrocities taken from the cell
Speaker 2: phones of dead Russian soldiers. In one of the videos,
Speaker 2: I just watched it during the break. You can't believe
Speaker 2: that evil on this level exists, but it does. In
Speaker 2: one video, Ukrainian soldiers being killed and beheaded. I mean
Speaker 2: you can see it now. You know, if you go back,
Speaker 2: you think, well, that can't happen. Go back to remember
Speaker 2: Isis on the Beach or Wall Street Journal reporter back
Speaker 2: in the day, Daniel Pearl. And you know, people will
Speaker 2: ask me why do you watch it. I'm like, well,
Speaker 2: it's part of my job, and I cannot possibly explain
Speaker 2: in detail just the level of evil and depravity that
Speaker 2: goes on. And I know we've had a lot of
Speaker 2: smart callers today hoping that you know, gives sanctions a
Speaker 2: much you know, a greater chance, and hopefully that will
Speaker 2: bring Vladimir Putin back to the table faster. Look, I
Speaker 2: would argue that Putin wouldn't have gone to Alaska but
Speaker 2: for Donald Trump insisting that NATO pay more than double
Speaker 2: what they were paying in terms of their defense. I
Speaker 2: don't think Putin would have gone to Alaska had not
Speaker 2: been Donald Trump's trade deal with the European Union and
Speaker 2: instead of them funding Putin's war machine, You're committee nearly
Speaker 2: a trillion dollars to purchase American energy. I don't think
Speaker 2: he would have come to the table at President Trump
Speaker 2: not put a fifty percent tariff on India if they
Speaker 2: keep importing Russian energy. And I think the fact that
Speaker 2: the President is selling the most sophisticated weaponry to the
Speaker 2: Ukrainians also is a big deal. In a second video,
Speaker 2: you see a Ukrainian soldier unarmed. He's smoking like his
Speaker 2: last cigarette. There are two Russian soldiers. One says to
Speaker 2: the other are you filming? The other indicates yes. The
Speaker 2: Ukrainian soldier says, glory to Ukraine. The Russians open fire,
Speaker 2: with an automatic weapon and they're the Ukrainian soldier lies
Speaker 2: dead and the Russian says, die b I you know
Speaker 2: how to spell it, b it, We'll put it there.
Speaker 3: How does this end? Now?
Speaker 2: A lot of you have mentioned sanctions today, and I said,
Speaker 2: I'm all for sanctions. I think sanctions is a great idea.
Speaker 2: I think the fact that Lindsey Graham put forward a
Speaker 2: bill and got eighty five Senators to sign on to
Speaker 2: it is almost in this part as an raa. You
Speaker 2: don't see that kind of partisan bipartisanship. You just don't
Speaker 2: see it. Anyway, he joins us now to get his
Speaker 2: thoughts on what happened today, what the likely outcome is,
Speaker 2: whether I'm right or wrong in my prediction that if
Speaker 2: there's going to be an early end of the war,
Speaker 2: it's not going to be sanctions that will bring an
Speaker 2: early into it, but it would probably involve land swaps
Speaker 2: and security guarantees, of which the President has said even
Speaker 2: Article five NATO Article five like security measures for Ukraine,
Speaker 2: but it would involve land swaps anyway. Senator Graham, welcome back.
Speaker 2: How are you sir?
Speaker 4: Thank you? That's good summary I got. It's funny you
Speaker 4: mentioned about the atrocities. I got add some images last
Speaker 4: night sent to me from President Fluency's folks. Three young
Speaker 4: kids got killed last night, and yeah, so brutal war
Speaker 4: heads off to President Trump. I see a light at
Speaker 4: the end of the tunnel. I hope it's not a train,
Speaker 4: but I really do believe we're on track here to
Speaker 4: maybe end this thing, only because Putin is rattled by Trump.
Speaker 4: The way this war started is when them Biden withdrew
Speaker 4: from Afghanistan. Putin seized the moment saw weakness. How does
Speaker 4: this war end when Putin believes that Trump will crush
Speaker 4: his economy, Putin's economy if he doesn't end this war.
Speaker 2: Okay, but hasn't Donald Trump already you know, showed him
Speaker 2: that he's going to take He said the consequences would
Speaker 2: be severe. I think upping NATO's NATO country's contributions from
Speaker 2: two percent to five percent, that is significant. I think
Speaker 2: the EU trade deal to buy energy from US not
Speaker 2: Russia and fund his war machine. I think that's that's critical.
Speaker 2: The tariffs on India and selling sophisticated weaponry to Ukraine.
Speaker 2: You know, that's been a pretty loud message from Donald J.
Speaker 3: Trump.
Speaker 4: A huge message and it worked. You know, Putin didn't
Speaker 4: go to Alaska to kind of look at the scenery
Speaker 4: and check on Alaska how well you're doing after we
Speaker 4: saw do you? He went to Alaska because of two
Speaker 4: really important things. Selling weapons to Ukraine. American made weapons
Speaker 4: is a nightmare for the Russian military. Ukraine's out man
Speaker 4: ten to one, but between their innovative technology and drones
Speaker 4: and the use of sophisticated American weapons, they have held
Speaker 4: their own and pushed back and they're in the fight.
Speaker 4: It's a nightmare for the Russian military for the Ukrainians
Speaker 4: to have access to American weapons in perpetuity. By telling Europe,
Speaker 4: I will sell you the weapons, I will not give
Speaker 4: you the weapons that changed the game. That's good for
Speaker 4: us because the money from Europe helps us rebuild our
Speaker 4: military industrial complex, and it shows the Russians that Ukraine's
Speaker 4: going to have American arms as far as the I
Speaker 4: can see. When he put a fifty percent tariff on
Speaker 4: Indian and I wanted to do that. The second largest
Speaker 4: preserved Russian oil and gas in the world is India.
Speaker 4: They buy oil in Russia below mark it, refine it,
Speaker 4: and then Indian celidrator profit. The way you end this war,
Speaker 4: I think is you deny Putin's customers the ability to
Speaker 4: buy cheap Russian oil without being tariffed. If China, Indian,
Speaker 4: Brazil have to pick between the American economy and buying
Speaker 4: cheap Russian oil or gas, they're going to pick the
Speaker 4: American economy. Ninety percent of the money coming in to
Speaker 4: fund the foot war machine comes from oil and gas sells.
Speaker 4: My bill goes after his customers. And when President Trump
Speaker 4: used that concept against India, Putin shows up in Alaska.
Speaker 2: Where's China and all of this? Because China is probably
Speaker 2: the biggest customer in terms of energy of Russia.
Speaker 4: They're well, it's then, oh crap, Now where is China
Speaker 4: and all this? China is the largest customer of Russia.
Speaker 4: They buy oil from Russia well below market, good for
Speaker 4: their economy. They help Russia in different ways. My belief
Speaker 4: is China is waiting and watching. Now. There's one thing
Speaker 4: you left out as to why the game has changed
Speaker 4: under Trump. When he obliterated the Iranian nuclear program, everybody said,
Speaker 4: oh crap. President Trump went all in to help Israel
Speaker 4: destroyed the nuclear emphasis. He obliterated those three sites in
Speaker 4: the conversion facility that got China's attention, That got Putin's attention.
Speaker 4: Here's what I think, if we don't end this war
Speaker 4: honorably and justly soon that President Trump's going to take
Speaker 4: my bill. I've also had a bill about the nineteen
Speaker 4: thousand Ukrainian kids kidnapped and sent to Russia, making Russia
Speaker 4: state sponsor of terrorism under the US law. China's worst
Speaker 4: nightmare is to do business with Russia if they have
Speaker 4: to face American tariffs. How does this war end? When
Speaker 4: she goes to Putin and say and says, and now,
Speaker 4: I've helped you before, but I can't hope you anymore
Speaker 4: because you're hurting my economy.
Speaker 2: Let me ask you this, because I did have a
Speaker 2: couple of callers in the last half hour bring up
Speaker 2: this notion. They don't like the idea of rewarding the aggressor,
Speaker 2: in this case Vladimir Putin for his behavior and meaning
Speaker 2: that he ends up coming out of this deal with
Speaker 2: more land. Now we use the term land swaps, and
Speaker 2: we use the term security guarantees, including something similar to
Speaker 2: NATO's Article five, which is countries will align with Ukraine
Speaker 2: and say if you get attacked we'll consider it an
Speaker 2: attack against us, and a lot of people don't like
Speaker 2: the idea that Putin gets rewarded for that behavior.
Speaker 4: Your reaction to that, well, I understand exactly what you're saying.
Speaker 4: I'm sympathetic to you, and the world in which we
Speaker 4: live in is as follows, Russia has control of about
Speaker 4: twenty percent of Ukraine. I don't think Ukraine has the
Speaker 4: military ability to evict every Russian anytime soon. Means the
Speaker 4: war would go on and on and on. Now, how
Speaker 4: do you end conflicts in the Cold War? Well, after
Speaker 4: World War Two, we divided up Europe. You had East
Speaker 4: Germany and West Germany. We never recognized East Germany as
Speaker 4: a separate, legitimate country, but we didn't attack either, so
Speaker 4: over time East Germany and West Germany became one. So
Speaker 4: I'm realistic we're going to have to recognize that their
Speaker 4: Russian control of certain parts of Ukraine that are going
Speaker 4: to be in Russian hands. To end this war, I
Speaker 4: don't want to give title to the land, but to
Speaker 4: end this war, I'm going to acknowledge that there's certain
Speaker 4: parts of Ukraine that Russia controls. But I'm not going
Speaker 4: to acknowledge as part of Russia. Just look at North Korea,
Speaker 4: South Korea. That's just the reality. But the most important
Speaker 4: thing President Trump could do for the world is make
Speaker 4: sure there's no third invasion. I think if we get
Speaker 4: security guarantees backing up Europe, that europe be on the
Speaker 4: ground will have their back. We keep selling weapons to Ukraine,
Speaker 4: there will be no third invasion.
Speaker 2: You advise President Trump to tell Putin if the war
Speaker 2: doesn't end justly, the US will destroy Russia's economy. And
Speaker 2: this is just breaking, you know. Like nine minutes ago,
Speaker 2: the Russian Foreign minister just outright rejected the idea that
Speaker 2: NATO forces could serve as peacekeepers in Ukraine, which was
Speaker 2: a provision sought by President Zelenski.
Speaker 3: Yeah, can you cuss on the radio?
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, depends what you're going to say. I mean
Speaker 2: you can, and you can. If it's that bad, I'll
Speaker 2: bleep it out. But don't worry. We're live. How about
Speaker 2: I'm on a seven second delay.
Speaker 4: Okay, screw you. We're not going to let the Russians
Speaker 4: tell us what to do to protect Ukraine. They have
Speaker 4: no standing in my mind to have any idea about
Speaker 4: killing me or anybody else. What they're going to do
Speaker 4: to prevent We're going to do to prevent a third invasion.
Speaker 4: There will be NATO European forces on the ground to
Speaker 4: prevent a third invasion. There will be guarantees where if
Speaker 4: they go in to fight, we'll have their back. If
Speaker 4: they don't like that, keep fighting. And here's what I
Speaker 4: would say to President Trump, you have the moral higher ground.
Speaker 4: You're the right guy at the right time. Start putting
Speaker 4: tariffs on China, but starting tariffs on every country that
Speaker 4: does business with Russia, and you'll break them. Show the
Speaker 4: determination you've shown in the past. You will break them.
Speaker 4: They can't survive without aill and gas revenue. Make Russia
Speaker 4: state sponsored terrorism for kidnapping nineteen thousand Ukrainian kids and
Speaker 4: send them back to Russia. Go all in with destroying
Speaker 4: Russia's economy. Ukraine's out manned, they're out gone, but they're
Speaker 4: still in the fight. Russia is incredibly exposed. They have
Speaker 4: one source of revenue all in gas self.
Speaker 2: How long would this take to really impact the Russians?
Speaker 4: Months, not years. It would impact China, it would impact India,
Speaker 4: it would impact Brazil. What would happen if all the
Speaker 4: major purchasers of Russian oil and gas all of a
Speaker 4: sudden said, I can't buy it anymore.
Speaker 2: All, especially now that he's opening up energy dominance in
Speaker 2: this country. We'll have the ability to fill that gap
Speaker 2: and fill that void and maybe even sell it a
Speaker 2: discounter price and make it part of a larger trade
Speaker 2: deal with a lot of these countries.
Speaker 4: Well, you know, all those who are criticizing Trump about
Speaker 4: what he's doing and the way he's doing it, Well,
Speaker 4: he's the.
Speaker 3: Only one that ken pulled that.
Speaker 2: I don't want to hear any more criticism from European
Speaker 2: leaders that have been impotent in dealing with Russia and
Speaker 2: frankly have helped fund his war machine by buying his energy.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, So let's look at it this way. If he
Speaker 4: had been a Democrat, he'd have two Nobel Peace Prizes,
Speaker 4: but now one for the Abraham McCords where he got
Speaker 4: six air nations to recognize Israel. He'd get a Nobel
Speaker 4: Peace Prize for Azerbaijan and Armenia have been at war
Speaker 4: for thirty something years, or to Congo than a blood bath,
Speaker 4: remember Hotel Rwanda. I mean, he ended those things and
Speaker 4: nobody gave him any credit for it. So he's gonna
Speaker 4: end this war one way or the other. Russia is
Speaker 4: either going to accept an honorable, just outcome. We're not
Speaker 4: out to humiliate Russia. I'm not advocating for Ukraine to
Speaker 4: be in NATO. I'm not pushing for that. I'm not
Speaker 4: pushing for American troops on the ground. I'm pushing for
Speaker 4: a guarantee, a backstop guarantee to European forces. I'm trying
Speaker 4: to be practical here. They're gonna be parts of Ukraine
Speaker 4: occupied by Russia until something changes down the road. I
Speaker 4: want to end the war. But here's what I would say.
Speaker 4: I would say that Europe needs to follow prosent Trump's lead. One,
Speaker 4: don't they put tariffs on Indian oil. One don't they
Speaker 4: go after China. So I'm gonna be hard on well.
Speaker 2: Well up till now. They're the ones that have been
Speaker 2: buying the oil. So I mean getting lectured by them
Speaker 2: as a joke, and not one of them has the
Speaker 2: moral standing or the strength to successfully you know, pull
Speaker 2: this all and sit down with Putin and have Zelenski
Speaker 2: and all these European leaders three days later at the
Speaker 2: White House.
Speaker 3: None of them right.
Speaker 4: So I've challenged European nations to put a fifty percent
Speaker 4: tariff on India, follow Prosident Trump's lead. If the European
Speaker 4: economy and the American economy had a joint message to India, China, Brazil,
Speaker 4: it definitely would work. But the EU trade deal was
Speaker 4: magnificent for us because you put your finger on it.
Speaker 4: Putin's nightmare has been Trump. Trump has given a pathway
Speaker 4: for American energy to go to Europe to replace the
Speaker 4: Russian oil and gas, a seven hundred and fifty billion
Speaker 4: dollars trade deal where Europe will buy American oil and gas,
Speaker 4: not Russian oil and gas. That's a tremendous flow. So
Speaker 4: we're set up now to crush the fossil fuel economy
Speaker 4: of Putin. Have American alternatives to Russian oil and gas,
Speaker 4: and tell the c Instomers that prop up this war
Speaker 4: machine in Russia, you're going to get hit. You're going
Speaker 4: to have the denied access to the American economy without
Speaker 4: major unless you pay major tariffs.
Speaker 2: I think, well, yeah, Senator, Senator, we're just out of time.
Speaker 3: I'm going to have to let you go.
Speaker 2: Senator Lindsey Graham, South Carolina will hit the phones when
Speaker 2: we get back and and we'll play part of my
Speaker 2: interview with President Trump as well. Eight hundred nine four one, Shawn,
Speaker 2: now till the top of the hour, eight hundred nine
Speaker 2: four one, Seawan, if you want to be a part
Speaker 2: of the program. It's been a very busy news afternoon
Speaker 2: and obviously the President moving as expeditiously as possible to
Speaker 2: get to a piece deal. We're going to play part
Speaker 2: of my interview with the President after he met with
Speaker 2: Putin on Friday because it's so relevant to everything that
Speaker 2: has happened. You know, here it is Monday, and you
Speaker 2: have every European leader, inn Zolensky at the White House
Speaker 2: all day and you know, but in the seconds after
Speaker 2: the Putin AH failure and embarrassment AH disaster, and it
Speaker 2: was anything but how do you know? Because today wouldn't
Speaker 2: have happened. So we're there Friday, We're in Alaska and
Speaker 2: I have the interview with President Trump, which happened for Fox.
Speaker 2: We didn't get a chance to play a lot of it.
Speaker 2: But with all the news that's been breaking all day
Speaker 2: to day and the President rightly lashing out at the
Speaker 2: fake news media, Oh major defeat. So Donald Trump a
Speaker 2: major embarrassment. Senator Chris Murphy said, uh, and John Bolton
Speaker 2: has become dumber by the day. You know, it's I
Speaker 2: don't even know what to say. I think Trump some
Speaker 2: that the best said. You know, I'm totally convinced that
Speaker 2: if Russia raised their hands and said we give up,
Speaker 2: we concede, we surrender, We'll give Ukraine and the Great
Speaker 2: United States of America, Moscow, Saint Petersburg and everything surrounding
Speaker 2: them for a thousand miles the fakes news media and
Speaker 2: that their Democratic partners would say this was a bad,
Speaker 2: humiliating day for Donald J. Trump, one of the worst
Speaker 2: days of our country. He's not wrong, and it's and
Speaker 2: Marco Rubio just humiliated these people on the Sunday Show,
Speaker 2: just humiliated them on CBS and ABC because they're dumb
Speaker 2: as rocks. I was there today, would not have happened.
Speaker 2: Everything we've been reporting up till now, had this meeting
Speaker 2: with Vladimir Putin not gone well. Anyway, let me play
Speaker 2: some of my interview. The President goes he was reluctant
Speaker 2: to give information because he doesn't want to negotiate publicly,
Speaker 2: which is smart. But here's what he did say.
Speaker 3: He said before the interview. He said in two minutes.
Speaker 3: I will know.
Speaker 5: I watched very closely when you met him on the
Speaker 5: red carpet after both your planes landed. What vibe did
Speaker 5: you get in two minutes?
Speaker 1: Well, you know, I always had a great relationship with
Speaker 1: President Putin, and we would have done great things together
Speaker 1: in terms of you know, their land is incredible, the
Speaker 1: were earth, the oil, gas, everything, it's incredible. It's the
Speaker 1: largest piece of land in the world as a nation
Speaker 1: by far. I think they have eleven time zones, if
Speaker 1: you can believe it.
Speaker 3: That's big.
Speaker 1: So but we would have done a lot of great things,
Speaker 1: but we had the Russia Russia Russia hoax which stopped
Speaker 1: us from doing that we would have had we would
Speaker 1: have done so great. But we had the greatest one
Speaker 1: of the great hoaxes. I mean there were others, like
Speaker 1: the election itself, as you know, as you covered better
Speaker 1: than anyone, but it was a rigged election and a
Speaker 1: horrible thing that took place in twenty twenty. But we
Speaker 1: would have had a great relationship. But we did amazingly
Speaker 1: well considering you know, he would look and see what happened,
Speaker 1: he would think we're crazy, you know, with the made
Speaker 1: up Russia Russia Russia hoax. So we had something very
Speaker 1: important and we had a very good meeting today.
Speaker 3: But we'll see. I mean, it's you know, you have
Speaker 3: to get a deal.
Speaker 1: We did a lot of points. I want to see
Speaker 1: people stop dying in Ukraine. What's happening well, losing five
Speaker 1: six seven thousand. They're Russians, mostly Russians and their Ukrainian soldiers.
Speaker 3: There's some people dying in cities.
Speaker 1: And towns where they're trying to blow up missile manufacturers
Speaker 1: and other things in some cities. I don't know if
Speaker 1: you know what's going on there, but there are a
Speaker 1: lot of people dying.
Speaker 3: And if we can end that war would be very good.
Speaker 1: And I was very happy to hear him say if
Speaker 1: I was president, that war would have never happened.
Speaker 3: Just the president. That was my next question.
Speaker 5: He said at the joint press conference that you have
Speaker 5: said this many, many times, and he confirmed for the
Speaker 5: world today that if you.
Speaker 3: Were president, this wouldn't have happened.
Speaker 5: Did any of the specifics come up as to why
Speaker 5: he said that it did.
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter at this point, but that this war
Speaker 1: should never have happened. You know, a lot of war
Speaker 1: should never have happened. There was stupid things go down,
Speaker 1: and the wrong people are talking. But Biden was a
Speaker 1: terrible president in so many ways. He should have never
Speaker 1: let it happen, and it did. There are millions of
Speaker 1: people killed. I mean, it's the worst thing since I
Speaker 1: see everyone's saying since World War Two. By far, there's
Speaker 1: nothing even close. But we had a very good meeting
Speaker 1: today and I think a lot of points were negotiated
Speaker 1: on behalf of Ukraine and on behalf of the whole
Speaker 1: NATO situation where we're dealing very well with a lot
Speaker 1: of foreign countries that are great European countries. So look,
Speaker 1: as far as I'm concerned, there's no deal until there's
Speaker 1: a deal.
Speaker 3: But we did make a lot of progress. The meeting
Speaker 3: took place in this room. Yeah, this is where you met,
Speaker 3: right in this room.
Speaker 1: Well, did you have let me examine it.
Speaker 3: That's where you were, said, I would say, that's it. Yep.
Speaker 3: So did you have a long time with him? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I did, and I did actually after our speeches, he
Speaker 1: made a very good speech and I also finished it up,
Speaker 1: and afterwards we spoke. Right after that, we spoke very sincerely.
Speaker 1: I think he wants to see it done.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: In your press conference, you talked about a lot of
Speaker 5: things that you agreed on and maybe one big issue
Speaker 5: you don't agree on.
Speaker 3: Are you prepared to go public with that? No, I'd
Speaker 3: rather not.
Speaker 1: I guess somebody's going to go public with it. They'll
Speaker 1: figure it out, but no, I don't want to do that.
Speaker 1: I want to see if we can get it done.
Speaker 1: You know, it's still it's not a done deal at all,
Speaker 1: and Ukraine has to agree. I mean, you know President
Speaker 1: Zelensky has to agree. But it's a terrible war where
Speaker 1: he's losing a lot and both of them are, and
Speaker 1: hopefully it can get completed. That would be great achievement
Speaker 1: for them, forget about me, for them, and you'll save
Speaker 1: seven thousand lives a week.
Speaker 3: It's a lot.
Speaker 5: I spoke very briefly to Secretary of State Rubio and
Speaker 5: he did say to me, he goes, there's a difference
Speaker 5: when you in the same room together, the versus you know,
Speaker 5: talking to each other.
Speaker 3: Through the press. Do you even through the phone? Through
Speaker 3: the phone not.
Speaker 1: The same thing when you're on a telephone, it's not
Speaker 1: the same thing either. This was I mean, we were
Speaker 1: together almost three hours and it was very extensive and
Speaker 1: we agreed it a lot of points. I mean a
Speaker 1: lot of points were agreed on, but there's not that much.
Speaker 1: There's you know, one or two pretty significant items, but
Speaker 1: I think they can be reached. Now it's really up
Speaker 1: to Presidents Olynsky to get it done. And I would
Speaker 1: also say the European nations they have to get involved
Speaker 1: a little bit. But it's up to Presidents Olynsky. I
Speaker 1: think we are and if they'd like, I'll be at
Speaker 1: that next meeting. They're going to set up a meeting
Speaker 1: now between Presidents Olynsky and President Putin and myself. I
Speaker 1: guess you know, I didn't even I didn't ask you
Speaker 1: about it, not that I want to be there, but
Speaker 1: I want to make sure it gets done.
Speaker 3: And we have a pretty good chance of getting it
Speaker 3: done if you had to grade it on a scale
Speaker 3: of one to ten.
Speaker 1: So I think the meeting was a ten in the
Speaker 1: sense that we got along great and it's good when
Speaker 1: you know two big powers get along, especially when they're
Speaker 1: nuclear powers. You know, we're number one, they're number two
Speaker 1: in the world, and it's a big deal. That's a
Speaker 1: big deal. You never want to even mention that word
Speaker 1: the word nuclear. But we have a tremendous nuclear you.
Speaker 1: I rebuilt it when I was president first term, and
Speaker 1: I hated to rebuild it. It was the one thing
Speaker 1: I hated to rebuild, but we had to.
Speaker 3: And we have the greatest nuclear for us.
Speaker 1: We have the greatest military in the world actually, and
Speaker 1: they have a big nuclear presidence.
Speaker 3: Also. Oh, you've got to respect it. You got to
Speaker 3: have to respect it. You never want to use it.
Speaker 1: If you use that, it could be the end of
Speaker 1: the world. That's how that's the kind of power we're
Speaker 1: talking about.
Speaker 5: Let's talk about what brought President Putin to the table.
Speaker 5: I would argue that there are four things in my mind.
Speaker 5: If you think there are more, or you don't think
Speaker 5: they were a factor. You did the trade deal with
Speaker 5: the European Union, and in that deal you got nearly
Speaker 5: a trillion dollars in commitments to purchase some American oil.
Speaker 5: That's money that would otherwise be funding Putin's war machine.
Speaker 3: That's number one.
Speaker 5: India fifty percent tariffs if they import Russian oil. He's
Speaker 5: also Vladimir Putin wasn't moving at a speed you were
Speaker 5: comfortable with, so you said you would, unlike Biden you
Speaker 5: wouldn't give weapons to Ukraine, you would sell weapons to Ukraine.
Speaker 5: The last thing, and I think, I don't think it
Speaker 5: could be underestimated, is NATO is now paying twice what
Speaker 5: they were paying and those countries that weren't paying their
Speaker 5: fair share? Are were those the four factors that brought
Speaker 5: him into this room today.
Speaker 1: Well, NATO is now paying five percent as supposed to
Speaker 1: two percent, and they're paying it. And you know, look
Speaker 1: it's headed by as you know Mark, You know Mark
Speaker 1: very well. It's a great guy and great people, the
Speaker 1: leaders that got to know him very well about six
Speaker 1: weeks ago. And great relationship with NATO, European nations basically,
Speaker 1: but a great relationship.
Speaker 3: I don't want to say anything brought him today.
Speaker 1: He's a very smart guy and nothing brought him to
Speaker 1: the table, so to speak.
Speaker 3: I think that he.
Speaker 1: Respects our country now. He didn't respect it under Biden.
Speaker 1: I can tell you that he had no respect for it.
Speaker 1: I was so happy when he said this would have
Speaker 1: never happened.
Speaker 3: This All those lives would be saved if.
Speaker 1: They had a competent if we had a competent president,
Speaker 1: those lives would have been saved. It's so said you know,
Speaker 1: I've negotiated five wars to their end, and the wars
Speaker 1: that were.
Speaker 5: Tough India, pack seven in the Pakistan, Israel, Iran in
Speaker 5: twelve days, Rwanda, the Congo, Serbia, Kosovo, Cambodia, Thailand, Azerbaijan, Armania, Egypt, Cambodia.
Speaker 3: You played, you played a role in all of those.
Speaker 3: Did you know.
Speaker 1: I didn't want to include the decimation of the nuclear
Speaker 1: arsenal and because I don't consider it necessarily, you know, conclusive,
Speaker 1: But we did something amazing because for twenty two years
Speaker 1: no president was willing to do it. We decimated the
Speaker 1: nuclear capability, potential nuclear capability, which I think would have
Speaker 1: taken place with than a month of Iran. And that
Speaker 1: was a big thing. I have to go back. This
Speaker 1: is too historic and deep and profound.
Speaker 5: At a press conference, the President of Russia stated something
Speaker 5: that you had stated many, many times, and maybe people
Speaker 5: your political opponents might have dismissed, but he said, this
Speaker 5: war would not have taken place if you were president. Now,
Speaker 5: he did give you, behind the scenes, specific reasons why
Speaker 5: it happened under Biden.
Speaker 1: He did give you reasons, Yeah, he did, but I
Speaker 1: know the reason. It's gross incompetence. I mean, we have
Speaker 1: a border that's totally closed now and people come in,
Speaker 1: but they come in legally.
Speaker 3: But we had zero, as you know, the first time
Speaker 3: you heard it was three months ago.
Speaker 1: But we've done it now three times in a row,
Speaker 1: zero people coming in illegally.
Speaker 3: We have many things that are going well now. Our
Speaker 3: economy is great. We don't have inflation.
Speaker 1: The price of energy is down, the price of groceries
Speaker 1: are down, the price of everything is down. People are
Speaker 1: happy with saving social security. You saw that the other day.
Speaker 1: Where we have a genius in Judge. I took him
Speaker 1: out of JP Morgan Chase. He was the head of
Speaker 1: I mean, one of the top people in there, and
Speaker 1: he did great.
Speaker 3: He went to one of.
Speaker 1: The big funds, you know, one of the tough people
Speaker 1: that you know, they take a cut. I think he said,
Speaker 1: he's working for one percent of what he was working for.
Speaker 3: These are unbelievable people.
Speaker 1: And the job he's done in social security and making
Speaker 1: it really powerful and strong is amazing. And we've done
Speaker 1: that with many things. I love doing it. I love
Speaker 1: seeing this country be great again. And Vladimir said, just
Speaker 1: a little while ago, he said, I've never seen anybody
Speaker 1: do so much so fast. He said, your country is
Speaker 1: like hot a is a pistol, and a year ago
Speaker 1: he thought it was dead.
Speaker 3: Everybody thought it was dead.
Speaker 5: Most people, as they analyze us from the outside, this
Speaker 5: is how they almost everybody's kind of universal thinking.
Speaker 3: How this ends. There's going to be some.
Speaker 5: Landswaps, there will be more Russian territory than there had been.
Speaker 5: And what Ukraine wants and needs desperately is our security
Speaker 5: measures that won't.
Speaker 3: Be NATO related.
Speaker 5: If you had to look into your crystal ball, is
Speaker 5: that how it ends?
Speaker 1: Well, I think those are points that we negotiated, and
Speaker 1: those are points that we largely have agreed on.
Speaker 3: Actually, I think we've agreed on a lot.
Speaker 1: And I can tell you the meeting was a very
Speaker 1: warm meeting. You know, he's a strong guy, he's tough
Speaker 1: as hell than all of that. But the meeting was
Speaker 1: a very warm meeting between two very important countries, and
Speaker 1: it's very good when they get along. I think we're
Speaker 1: pretty close to it. And now look, Ukraine has no
Speaker 1: agree to it. Maybe they'll say no. Because Biden handed
Speaker 1: out money like it was candy, and Europe gave him
Speaker 1: a lot of money. You know, we gave three hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty billion dollars. Europe gave him much less, but
Speaker 1: still a lot. One hundred billion dollars.
Speaker 5: Or what your advice based on today when you talk
Speaker 5: to Vladimir Solinski, what's your advice is to make a deal.
Speaker 3: Make the deal. Got to make a deal.
Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, that was my interview with President Trump
Speaker 2: on Friday. Well, a full coverage of all the events
Speaker 2: today will sum it up, either Steve Whitcoff or Mark
Speaker 2: or Ruby or on Hannity tonight. Also we have Governor
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Speaker 2: gonna wrap things up for today. A lot of news
Speaker 2: at the White House with all these European leaders and
Speaker 2: President Zelenski going to meet with President Trump. Well, a
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Speaker 2: or Ruby. We expect to be a guest Greg Abbott
Speaker 2: on the next special session. Now the Democrats are stopped
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