1 00:00:00,320 --> 00:00:02,640 Speaker 1: Center. Nice to be with you. As always. We've got 2 00:00:02,680 --> 00:00:05,080 Speaker 1: a lot of stuff that's really serious to talk about 3 00:00:05,120 --> 00:00:10,360 Speaker 1: this week, and I want to start by just the semantics. 4 00:00:10,840 --> 00:00:13,760 Speaker 1: And it's really been embarrassing, not just in the US, 5 00:00:13,800 --> 00:00:16,680 Speaker 1: but I think around the world. You have the president 6 00:00:16,720 --> 00:00:19,759 Speaker 1: that tries to act like this trip to Ukraine to 7 00:00:19,920 --> 00:00:23,119 Speaker 1: meet with Zelenski was a surprise trip. It clearly was 8 00:00:23,200 --> 00:00:25,360 Speaker 1: not a surprise trip. Many of the media were tipped 9 00:00:25,400 --> 00:00:27,120 Speaker 1: off and been there for more than a week waiting 10 00:00:27,160 --> 00:00:29,960 Speaker 1: on him to get there, from what we understand, and 11 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:33,000 Speaker 1: then we saw air aid sirens go off at the 12 00:00:33,040 --> 00:00:36,440 Speaker 1: exact moment that he and Zelenski are walking out for 13 00:00:36,680 --> 00:00:40,040 Speaker 1: the cameras outside. Neither of them are alarmed by it. 14 00:00:40,240 --> 00:00:44,240 Speaker 1: Secret Service didn't look around. None of the security detail 15 00:00:44,320 --> 00:00:47,800 Speaker 1: for Zelenski looked around. In fact, even CNN's ripping on 16 00:00:47,840 --> 00:00:49,760 Speaker 1: the present. Here's a look at the video first, and 17 00:00:49,760 --> 00:01:07,160 Speaker 1: then we'll show you Snend's response, no one really seemed 18 00:01:07,160 --> 00:01:11,160 Speaker 1: that concerned. Well, look, the thing to understand about the 19 00:01:11,160 --> 00:01:15,160 Speaker 1: Biden White House is it's all calms, all the time. 20 00:01:15,600 --> 00:01:20,400 Speaker 1: Everything they do is about pr National security isn't a priority. 21 00:01:20,760 --> 00:01:24,360 Speaker 1: Defending this nation isn't a priority. Standing with our allies 22 00:01:24,400 --> 00:01:27,280 Speaker 1: as in a priority. Defeating our enemies asn't a priority. 23 00:01:27,600 --> 00:01:31,520 Speaker 1: Securing our border isn't a priority, Defending people from violent 24 00:01:31,520 --> 00:01:35,160 Speaker 1: criminals isn't a priority. The only thing they care about 25 00:01:36,680 --> 00:01:43,480 Speaker 1: is communications. They approach everything. Imagine you take a Hollywood 26 00:01:43,480 --> 00:01:46,520 Speaker 1: producer and put them in charge of the White House. 27 00:01:46,560 --> 00:01:49,400 Speaker 1: You get the Biden White House, and so you have 28 00:01:49,600 --> 00:01:52,600 Speaker 1: things like you look at the January sixth committee. Yeah 29 00:01:53,320 --> 00:01:58,560 Speaker 1: time that the Nancy Pelosi kangaroo court show committee. They 30 00:01:58,600 --> 00:02:01,480 Speaker 1: literally brought in Hollywood producer to put it on. It 31 00:02:01,880 --> 00:02:05,680 Speaker 1: was meant to be a partisan infomercial to influence the 32 00:02:05,760 --> 00:02:09,880 Speaker 1: last election. You look at the Biden ridiculous trip to 33 00:02:09,919 --> 00:02:12,640 Speaker 1: the border. A. He delayed two years before going to 34 00:02:12,680 --> 00:02:15,600 Speaker 1: the southern border. B. He goes to El Paso, not 35 00:02:15,840 --> 00:02:21,440 Speaker 1: to not to the Rio Grand Valley, not eight hundred miles. 36 00:02:22,160 --> 00:02:26,280 Speaker 1: El Paso is as far from McCallan as Chicago is 37 00:02:26,320 --> 00:02:29,280 Speaker 1: from Washington, DC. That's how far away he went. But 38 00:02:29,400 --> 00:02:33,320 Speaker 1: when he went, prior to that, there had been illegal 39 00:02:33,320 --> 00:02:37,040 Speaker 1: immigrants camped out homeless on the streets. They cleaned them 40 00:02:37,080 --> 00:02:40,400 Speaker 1: all up. Suddenly it was sparkling in pristine and he 41 00:02:40,440 --> 00:02:44,079 Speaker 1: went the entire trip without seeing a single illegal immigrant. 42 00:02:44,120 --> 00:02:47,919 Speaker 1: It was entirely a made for TV event. Well that's 43 00:02:47,960 --> 00:02:51,400 Speaker 1: what this was. And so when he walks in, what 44 00:02:51,600 --> 00:02:54,720 Speaker 1: makes for good TV. Let's sound the air raid sirens. 45 00:02:54,720 --> 00:02:59,440 Speaker 1: But you're right, it's it is ridiculous farce because if 46 00:02:59,480 --> 00:03:03,080 Speaker 1: there act was a real air rate sirens, that wouldn't 47 00:03:03,120 --> 00:03:05,799 Speaker 1: be a reaction. They would be running. Yeah, and if 48 00:03:05,840 --> 00:03:08,360 Speaker 1: he wasn't running, the Secret Service would have run and 49 00:03:08,400 --> 00:03:10,639 Speaker 1: grabbed him and put him in a child. They would 50 00:03:10,639 --> 00:03:12,960 Speaker 1: have picked him up off the ground, like if there 51 00:03:13,080 --> 00:03:15,200 Speaker 1: is an air rate siren coming in and a missile 52 00:03:15,280 --> 00:03:17,120 Speaker 1: is about to land on their head, you think they'd 53 00:03:17,160 --> 00:03:21,840 Speaker 1: just be strolling along, no big deal. One hundred percent theater, 54 00:03:22,280 --> 00:03:26,280 Speaker 1: one hundred percent for show. And amazingly enough, the media 55 00:03:26,400 --> 00:03:28,079 Speaker 1: called him out for it. You and I aren't the 56 00:03:28,120 --> 00:03:33,200 Speaker 1: only people who noticed. Even the professional propagandist at CNN 57 00:03:33,400 --> 00:03:35,920 Speaker 1: called him out for it. Yeah, look at this, it's amazing. 58 00:03:36,000 --> 00:03:39,520 Speaker 1: Here's CNN again showing this to the world saying this 59 00:03:39,600 --> 00:03:42,440 Speaker 1: is basically total crap. I've been here for the past 60 00:03:42,480 --> 00:03:45,440 Speaker 1: five days. I have not heard any explosions, I have 61 00:03:45,720 --> 00:03:49,240 Speaker 1: not heard any air sirens until about half an hour ago, 62 00:03:49,360 --> 00:03:53,480 Speaker 1: right when President Biden was in the center of Kiev, 63 00:03:53,520 --> 00:03:56,840 Speaker 1: as Clarissa was just mentioning, So at the same time 64 00:03:56,840 --> 00:03:59,680 Speaker 1: that life has gotten back to normal relatively speaking here 65 00:03:59,720 --> 00:04:01,640 Speaker 1: in the Hapital, of course, it is far from that 66 00:04:02,280 --> 00:04:06,240 Speaker 1: elsewhere in the country. Before I get your response to that, 67 00:04:06,720 --> 00:04:10,120 Speaker 1: I just want to think about the producers at CNN 68 00:04:10,160 --> 00:04:12,560 Speaker 1: that allowed that to actually even go out over the air. 69 00:04:13,360 --> 00:04:16,600 Speaker 1: I worked there for seven years. This was I think 70 00:04:16,640 --> 00:04:19,080 Speaker 1: just an insult to their intelligence and they were mad, 71 00:04:19,360 --> 00:04:21,400 Speaker 1: how dare you think that we're going to carry water 72 00:04:21,480 --> 00:04:25,360 Speaker 1: on this stage of this ridiculous nature when this hasn't 73 00:04:25,400 --> 00:04:27,520 Speaker 1: been happening. This is not normal for CNN, But I 74 00:04:27,520 --> 00:04:30,520 Speaker 1: think it actually just insulted them as journalists. You think 75 00:04:30,560 --> 00:04:32,360 Speaker 1: we're just gonna look at this and act like it 76 00:04:32,440 --> 00:04:35,520 Speaker 1: was normal. So I'm not sure they're capable of being insulted, 77 00:04:36,800 --> 00:04:40,599 Speaker 1: but for whatever reason that they decided not to be 78 00:04:40,680 --> 00:04:44,440 Speaker 1: propagandists on this topic today. And I gotta say for 79 00:04:44,480 --> 00:04:47,440 Speaker 1: the Biden White House and for Democrats generally, that's a 80 00:04:47,480 --> 00:04:50,880 Speaker 1: warning sign when they've lost CNN, they're in trouble. It 81 00:04:50,960 --> 00:04:54,279 Speaker 1: wasn't just CNN. Reuters, Yeah, Reuters, look at their tweet. 82 00:04:54,320 --> 00:04:56,920 Speaker 1: They put it up there as another who just said, hey, 83 00:04:57,040 --> 00:05:00,440 Speaker 1: air raid sirens blast across the Ukrainian capital as Biden 84 00:05:00,560 --> 00:05:04,760 Speaker 1: visits Kiev. Although there were no reports of Russian missile 85 00:05:05,040 --> 00:05:10,960 Speaker 1: or air strikes. It was entirely theater. The video should 86 00:05:11,000 --> 00:05:13,279 Speaker 1: have ended with I'm Joe Biden, and I approved this 87 00:05:13,360 --> 00:05:16,200 Speaker 1: message because it was a TV ad. It was meant 88 00:05:16,200 --> 00:05:18,640 Speaker 1: to be a TV ad. And you know, you think 89 00:05:18,680 --> 00:05:23,520 Speaker 1: back to just how much George W. Bush, who you 90 00:05:23,520 --> 00:05:28,560 Speaker 1: and I both worked for, regretted mission accomplished. So it 91 00:05:28,600 --> 00:05:30,880 Speaker 1: was one of the biggest mistakes of an entire presidency. 92 00:05:31,960 --> 00:05:34,640 Speaker 1: And that for people that may not remember, he landed 93 00:05:34,640 --> 00:05:37,880 Speaker 1: on an aircraft carrier. He got out of that plane, 94 00:05:38,200 --> 00:05:40,560 Speaker 1: he was in the flight gear. There was a big 95 00:05:40,600 --> 00:05:44,040 Speaker 1: banner over that aircraft here that's had mission accomplished. And 96 00:05:44,120 --> 00:05:47,279 Speaker 1: it was a great moment, pr moment, but it was 97 00:05:47,320 --> 00:05:50,000 Speaker 1: the wrong thing when we saw how long that war 98 00:05:50,360 --> 00:05:52,440 Speaker 1: you know, went on. By the way, I will tell 99 00:05:52,480 --> 00:05:54,720 Speaker 1: you as an asside to that, Clay Johnson, who was 100 00:05:54,760 --> 00:05:56,960 Speaker 1: the head of personnel in the White House, had been 101 00:05:57,120 --> 00:06:02,240 Speaker 1: Bush's I guess it was high school roommate. And apparently 102 00:06:02,279 --> 00:06:04,720 Speaker 1: after you know, Bush gets out he's in that flight suit. 103 00:06:05,160 --> 00:06:08,159 Speaker 1: Apparently Clay went up to forty three in the oval 104 00:06:08,200 --> 00:06:10,080 Speaker 1: and said, mister President, I have to ask you, were 105 00:06:10,120 --> 00:06:15,400 Speaker 1: you actually wearing a codpiece? That's not a question many 106 00:06:15,440 --> 00:06:18,560 Speaker 1: people get to ask president of the United States. And 107 00:06:19,040 --> 00:06:22,440 Speaker 1: if you happen to be uh find your high school 108 00:06:22,480 --> 00:06:25,240 Speaker 1: roommate is president and he wears a codpiece, well, then 109 00:06:25,240 --> 00:06:27,119 Speaker 1: you get to ask that question. To ask that question, 110 00:06:27,240 --> 00:06:29,279 Speaker 1: I want. I don't know if Biden was wearing a 111 00:06:29,279 --> 00:06:32,680 Speaker 1: codpiece there, yeah, but but I will say he was 112 00:06:33,600 --> 00:06:38,600 Speaker 1: that moment those words mission accomplished haunted the rest of 113 00:06:38,640 --> 00:06:42,000 Speaker 1: the Bush presidency. And I do wonder if if this 114 00:06:42,160 --> 00:06:46,960 Speaker 1: march with the air raid, this this theater, theater, if 115 00:06:46,960 --> 00:06:49,120 Speaker 1: this will come back and haunt them. 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There have been a lot 145 00:08:16,800 --> 00:08:20,360 Speaker 1: of questions about Zelenski and how much it seems that 146 00:08:20,440 --> 00:08:24,120 Speaker 1: he understands he's acting for the cameras. Early on this war, 147 00:08:24,280 --> 00:08:27,560 Speaker 1: he was, you know, doing photos shoots and having makeup 148 00:08:27,680 --> 00:08:30,640 Speaker 1: artists come in. He also, if you remember, it's a 149 00:08:30,760 --> 00:08:34,120 Speaker 1: very different guy than came to meet with Donald Trump. 150 00:08:34,160 --> 00:08:36,800 Speaker 1: He wore a suit. Then now he's always in these 151 00:08:36,800 --> 00:08:40,720 Speaker 1: military ask fatigues. There, sirens go off, he doesn't even 152 00:08:40,760 --> 00:08:43,160 Speaker 1: look up for a moment, doesn't even look at his 153 00:08:43,200 --> 00:08:45,720 Speaker 1: bodymen around him, like hey, is this real? Clearly again 154 00:08:45,960 --> 00:08:50,040 Speaker 1: another actor basically in in this play. Does it worry 155 00:08:50,040 --> 00:08:53,160 Speaker 1: you how much money we're sending him knowing that this 156 00:08:53,240 --> 00:08:55,800 Speaker 1: is what's happening in his country? Well it does. And 157 00:08:56,080 --> 00:09:00,680 Speaker 1: and listen, you're right, Zelenski is engaged in the as well. 158 00:09:00,720 --> 00:09:04,000 Speaker 1: And look, Zelenski, before he was president, he was an actor. 159 00:09:04,520 --> 00:09:08,120 Speaker 1: I mean he you're not joke. He was a professional 160 00:09:08,160 --> 00:09:14,120 Speaker 1: actor in a popular sitcom in Ukraine. And and now 161 00:09:14,160 --> 00:09:16,959 Speaker 1: he's president. He understands acting. And so you know, it's 162 00:09:16,960 --> 00:09:19,719 Speaker 1: a little jarring seeing all of these images of him 163 00:09:19,760 --> 00:09:23,800 Speaker 1: in a sweatshirt and fatigues next to Biden in his 164 00:09:23,960 --> 00:09:28,840 Speaker 1: pressed suit, whether in the Oval office or in Ukraine. 165 00:09:28,960 --> 00:09:31,440 Speaker 1: You know, Zelenski is always in this outfit and it 166 00:09:31,520 --> 00:09:34,559 Speaker 1: is a costume, and he understands what he's doing. It 167 00:09:35,240 --> 00:09:38,400 Speaker 1: is performance. I will say, when Zelenski came and addressed 168 00:09:38,440 --> 00:09:41,000 Speaker 1: the Joint Session of Congress, there was one fellow on 169 00:09:41,040 --> 00:09:45,040 Speaker 1: Twitter who put out something very amusing said, Look, it's 170 00:09:45,080 --> 00:09:47,760 Speaker 1: not fair to blame Zelenski that he didn't wear a 171 00:09:47,800 --> 00:09:51,400 Speaker 1: suit to address Congress. After all, an official in the 172 00:09:51,400 --> 00:09:55,920 Speaker 1: Biden administration stole his luggage. That's true. Yeah, you have 173 00:09:56,040 --> 00:09:59,360 Speaker 1: men wearing dresses, get you know that. But that remains 174 00:09:59,400 --> 00:10:01,680 Speaker 1: one of the most bizarre stories I've ever seen, to 175 00:10:01,760 --> 00:10:08,720 Speaker 1: have this cross dressing, non binary Biden appointee who's a 176 00:10:08,800 --> 00:10:12,520 Speaker 1: serial thief of luggage. But be that as it may, 177 00:10:12,600 --> 00:10:15,160 Speaker 1: it actually proved too much even for the Biden administration, 178 00:10:15,240 --> 00:10:19,040 Speaker 1: amazingly enough, once he was criminally charged with theft. But 179 00:10:19,400 --> 00:10:23,800 Speaker 1: getting back to Zelenski, he's engaged in theater. There's a 180 00:10:23,840 --> 00:10:28,480 Speaker 1: reason that Zelenski you see him at the Oscars, There's 181 00:10:28,480 --> 00:10:31,520 Speaker 1: a reason you see him on the cover of magazines. 182 00:10:31,760 --> 00:10:37,040 Speaker 1: He is deliberately engaged in theater. The fact that neither 183 00:10:37,200 --> 00:10:40,280 Speaker 1: Biden nor Zelenski flinch look around do anything when the 184 00:10:40,320 --> 00:10:42,679 Speaker 1: air raids sirens go off. Means both of them knew 185 00:10:42,720 --> 00:10:45,880 Speaker 1: about it, because there's no chance you're walking through and 186 00:10:45,960 --> 00:10:50,080 Speaker 1: suddenly air rain sirens go off, you react, and you 187 00:10:50,200 --> 00:10:52,760 Speaker 1: react quickly. I mean, I'll tell you I've spent a 188 00:10:52,800 --> 00:10:55,000 Speaker 1: fair amount of time in Israel. I haven't actually been 189 00:10:55,000 --> 00:10:57,200 Speaker 1: there when air raids sirens go off, but I've talked 190 00:10:57,200 --> 00:11:00,400 Speaker 1: to people who live on a kibbutz, for example, and 191 00:11:00,480 --> 00:11:03,760 Speaker 1: they describe how when the sirens go off, it can 192 00:11:03,840 --> 00:11:07,120 Speaker 1: mean you have anywhere from fifteen to forty five seconds 193 00:11:07,200 --> 00:11:12,560 Speaker 1: before impact a missile explodes, and so you sprint to 194 00:11:12,679 --> 00:11:14,880 Speaker 1: the closest shelter you can get. And it's the difference 195 00:11:14,880 --> 00:11:18,920 Speaker 1: between life and death. So no one who is familiar 196 00:11:18,920 --> 00:11:22,280 Speaker 1: with a war zone just ignores an air raid siren. 197 00:11:24,000 --> 00:11:29,640 Speaker 1: Zelinski's engaged in theater, so is Biden, and that it 198 00:11:29,840 --> 00:11:33,560 Speaker 1: underscores the objective of the trip, which is pr not 199 00:11:33,840 --> 00:11:40,360 Speaker 1: actual substantive national security objectives. There was another aspect of 200 00:11:40,400 --> 00:11:42,280 Speaker 1: this before we get into Russia and what's going on 201 00:11:42,320 --> 00:11:44,800 Speaker 1: with the Russia, that actually relates the story back to 202 00:11:44,840 --> 00:11:48,800 Speaker 1: the US. We've had some issues here. Training derailments have 203 00:11:48,880 --> 00:11:51,800 Speaker 1: come up. A lot of people, especially looking at what 204 00:11:51,880 --> 00:11:55,480 Speaker 1: happened in Ohio, are very concerned now about air quality, 205 00:11:55,559 --> 00:11:58,120 Speaker 1: about water quality there. We've seen a lot of the 206 00:11:58,240 --> 00:12:01,120 Speaker 1: viral videos of people, including members of Congress, who are 207 00:12:01,120 --> 00:12:04,560 Speaker 1: throwing rocks and stirring the water basin in these streams, 208 00:12:04,559 --> 00:12:07,680 Speaker 1: and you're seeing chemicals come up to the service saying, look, 209 00:12:07,679 --> 00:12:09,600 Speaker 1: it's all gone to the bottom here. Don't tell us 210 00:12:09,640 --> 00:12:15,040 Speaker 1: everything's fine. And Mayor Pete's like gone, we're not seeing him. 211 00:12:15,080 --> 00:12:17,160 Speaker 1: There's also people that are angry at the President for 212 00:12:17,320 --> 00:12:21,080 Speaker 1: going overseas instead of visiting there the American Bill first, 213 00:12:21,440 --> 00:12:24,480 Speaker 1: including the mayor of the local town where this happened. 214 00:12:24,840 --> 00:12:27,200 Speaker 1: He let him have it on TV. I understand why. 215 00:12:27,200 --> 00:12:29,520 Speaker 1: I take a look at this. Absolutely, that was the 216 00:12:29,520 --> 00:12:31,439 Speaker 1: biggest slap in the face that tells you right now 217 00:12:31,480 --> 00:12:34,680 Speaker 1: he doesn't care about us, so he can send every 218 00:12:34,679 --> 00:12:37,559 Speaker 1: agency he wants to. But I found that out this 219 00:12:37,600 --> 00:12:39,360 Speaker 1: morning and one of the briefings that he was in 220 00:12:39,400 --> 00:12:42,040 Speaker 1: the Ukraine, given millions of dollars a way to people 221 00:12:42,080 --> 00:12:44,839 Speaker 1: over there and not to us. And I'm furious on 222 00:12:45,000 --> 00:12:48,319 Speaker 1: President's Day our country, yeah, President's Day in our country, 223 00:12:47,960 --> 00:12:51,600 Speaker 1: he's over Ukraine. Did they have a valid point. Of 224 00:12:51,600 --> 00:12:55,400 Speaker 1: course they do. Look, it is ridiculous that Joe Biden 225 00:12:55,440 --> 00:12:59,440 Speaker 1: has not been East Palestine yet. You literally have an 226 00:12:59,440 --> 00:13:03,040 Speaker 1: American city with a major derailment that was on fire, 227 00:13:03,160 --> 00:13:05,600 Speaker 1: where the water is being poisoned, where the air is 228 00:13:05,640 --> 00:13:09,160 Speaker 1: being poisoned, where it's ongoing for multiple days, and this 229 00:13:09,240 --> 00:13:14,160 Speaker 1: administration does not give a damn. Why because that part 230 00:13:14,200 --> 00:13:17,320 Speaker 1: of the state voted seventy percent for Donald Trump, and 231 00:13:17,360 --> 00:13:20,160 Speaker 1: it's clear their attitude. Look, it's all politics all the time, 232 00:13:20,679 --> 00:13:23,319 Speaker 1: it's all communications in pr all the time, and so 233 00:13:23,400 --> 00:13:26,280 Speaker 1: going there is a bad message and it really is striking. 234 00:13:26,320 --> 00:13:28,680 Speaker 1: So Donald Trump publicly said he was going to go 235 00:13:28,720 --> 00:13:32,800 Speaker 1: to East Palestine, and promptly the Biden administration said, oh, 236 00:13:32,800 --> 00:13:35,840 Speaker 1: we'll go to now. Yeah, but timing's right. Mayor Pete 237 00:13:35,880 --> 00:13:37,320 Speaker 1: now says he's gonna go. I don't even know what 238 00:13:37,360 --> 00:13:39,400 Speaker 1: that means. So the timing's right. The timing was right 239 00:13:39,520 --> 00:13:41,719 Speaker 1: the day or two or three after this happened. Well, 240 00:13:41,720 --> 00:13:44,240 Speaker 1: and let me ask you a question, what in the 241 00:13:44,400 --> 00:13:47,080 Speaker 1: hell does Pete Buddha Jedge have to do to get fired? 242 00:13:47,800 --> 00:13:50,280 Speaker 1: Like in the history of this country, has there ever 243 00:13:50,360 --> 00:13:54,880 Speaker 1: been a transportation secretary who has screwed more things up 244 00:13:55,360 --> 00:13:58,160 Speaker 1: from in his first year in office, a supply chain 245 00:13:58,240 --> 00:14:01,520 Speaker 1: crisis that impacted the entire country, that made it hard 246 00:14:01,559 --> 00:14:03,920 Speaker 1: to get basics and essentials. And in the middle of 247 00:14:04,000 --> 00:14:07,360 Speaker 1: supply Champion formula was on that list. Yeah, diapers was 248 00:14:07,400 --> 00:14:09,439 Speaker 1: on that list. We're talking about a necesses of people. 249 00:14:09,559 --> 00:14:12,040 Speaker 1: And in the middle of that supply chain crisis, Pete 250 00:14:12,040 --> 00:14:16,120 Speaker 1: Buddha Jedge is on a extended paternity leave, so he's 251 00:14:16,160 --> 00:14:19,920 Speaker 1: literally not even showing up to work. Most Americans have 252 00:14:20,040 --> 00:14:23,400 Speaker 1: never even heard of supply chain crisis until the thing 253 00:14:23,480 --> 00:14:27,560 Speaker 1: happened on Buddha Jedge's watch. That's how he started. Then 254 00:14:27,640 --> 00:14:30,800 Speaker 1: you went on to almost have a major rail strike 255 00:14:30,920 --> 00:14:33,800 Speaker 1: last year because he failed to step in and solve 256 00:14:33,880 --> 00:14:37,240 Speaker 1: the problem at the outset. Then we had just recently 257 00:14:37,760 --> 00:14:41,640 Speaker 1: the FAA screwed up with their no TAM system, grounded 258 00:14:41,680 --> 00:14:45,120 Speaker 1: every flight in America, the first time that has happened 259 00:14:45,320 --> 00:14:49,760 Speaker 1: since September eleventh because the fa screwed up. By the way, 260 00:14:49,760 --> 00:14:51,800 Speaker 1: we had a hearing on that last week in the 261 00:14:51,840 --> 00:14:54,720 Speaker 1: Senate in the Commerce Committee where I'm the ranking member. 262 00:14:54,800 --> 00:14:57,960 Speaker 1: Pete Buddhajedge didn't show up. He sent the acting Administrator 263 00:14:58,200 --> 00:15:02,120 Speaker 1: of the FAA because there's no response ability from the Secretary. 264 00:15:02,360 --> 00:15:05,480 Speaker 1: And now with East Palestine, how did Pete Buddha Jedge 265 00:15:05,560 --> 00:15:09,120 Speaker 1: not get on the first plane after this this crisis 266 00:15:09,160 --> 00:15:13,320 Speaker 1: happened to be there on the ground at this point. 267 00:15:13,920 --> 00:15:16,840 Speaker 1: Wellhen the railway CEOs also don't seem to be worried 268 00:15:16,840 --> 00:15:21,680 Speaker 1: about him coming down on them because they just showed up. Finally, 269 00:15:21,680 --> 00:15:24,240 Speaker 1: the CEO just now showed up, which means they're not 270 00:15:24,360 --> 00:15:26,800 Speaker 1: afraid that the bidendministration is going to come down heavy 271 00:15:26,800 --> 00:15:30,320 Speaker 1: on them. What Buddha Jedge does all day long is 272 00:15:30,360 --> 00:15:33,960 Speaker 1: the same thing Biden does all day long. He does politics. 273 00:15:34,560 --> 00:15:37,280 Speaker 1: So buddhajg talks about gun control because you know, gun 274 00:15:37,320 --> 00:15:40,680 Speaker 1: control is central to the statutory man data the Department 275 00:15:40,720 --> 00:15:43,560 Speaker 1: of Transportation. It has nothing to do with it. But 276 00:15:44,680 --> 00:15:48,240 Speaker 1: you know, he talks about how freeways and roads are racist. 277 00:15:48,280 --> 00:15:50,840 Speaker 1: What the hell are you talking about a racist road? 278 00:15:50,880 --> 00:15:53,360 Speaker 1: The last I checked, asphalt on the ground that you 279 00:15:53,480 --> 00:15:56,440 Speaker 1: drive your car in is not racist. It's not racist. 280 00:15:56,400 --> 00:16:00,960 Speaker 1: It's a piece of rock. It's almost as if picking 281 00:16:01,000 --> 00:16:07,600 Speaker 1: out a small town mayor with no experience is not 282 00:16:07,680 --> 00:16:10,920 Speaker 1: a good idea to run a major cabinet agency like 283 00:16:11,040 --> 00:16:15,080 Speaker 1: the Department of Transportation. But Buddha Jedge, it seems, cannot 284 00:16:15,120 --> 00:16:18,320 Speaker 1: find the time to do his actual job. He's too 285 00:16:18,320 --> 00:16:20,880 Speaker 1: busy thing about running for office. And it's the same 286 00:16:20,960 --> 00:16:25,920 Speaker 1: situation that they actually parallel. The way Buddha Jedge approaches 287 00:16:26,000 --> 00:16:29,960 Speaker 1: DOT is how Biden approaches the White House, which is 288 00:16:30,120 --> 00:16:33,680 Speaker 1: every day it's a press release, it's a photo op. 289 00:16:34,160 --> 00:16:40,680 Speaker 1: It's not actually substantively addressing the problems and solving the problems. 290 00:16:41,160 --> 00:16:44,240 Speaker 1: You know. When it comes to Ukraine, listen, we have 291 00:16:44,320 --> 00:16:47,680 Speaker 1: a national security interest in Russia losing. We want Putin 292 00:16:47,720 --> 00:16:50,720 Speaker 1: to be defeated. But we don't have an interest in 293 00:16:50,880 --> 00:16:56,240 Speaker 1: just writing blank checks to Zelenski funding corruption in the 294 00:16:56,320 --> 00:16:59,600 Speaker 1: Ukrainian government. We don't have an interest in funding all 295 00:16:59,640 --> 00:17:02,400 Speaker 1: the million bureaucracy. We don't have an interest in funding 296 00:17:02,400 --> 00:17:05,800 Speaker 1: the welfare system. We do have a national security interest 297 00:17:05,840 --> 00:17:09,200 Speaker 1: in providing weapons to be used to kill Russians by 298 00:17:09,280 --> 00:17:15,600 Speaker 1: Ukrainian soldiers. Ironically, the Biden White House Number one caused 299 00:17:15,600 --> 00:17:18,040 Speaker 1: the war. We've talked about that a lot in this podcast. 300 00:17:18,160 --> 00:17:22,000 Speaker 1: By waving sanctions on Russia for nordstring to waving sanctions 301 00:17:22,000 --> 00:17:25,960 Speaker 1: on putin for Nordstring to Biden personally through his own 302 00:17:26,400 --> 00:17:30,520 Speaker 1: political stupidity, caused this war. But number two, once the 303 00:17:30,560 --> 00:17:35,680 Speaker 1: war happened, Biden's slow walked military assistance all throughout. You'll 304 00:17:35,720 --> 00:17:38,960 Speaker 1: recall early on when the war started, the first reaction 305 00:17:38,960 --> 00:17:42,840 Speaker 1: of the Biden administration was offering Zelenski, hey, we'll fly 306 00:17:42,960 --> 00:17:44,920 Speaker 1: you out of the country, to abandon the country. And 307 00:17:45,040 --> 00:17:48,840 Speaker 1: Zelenski said, I don't need a ride, I need ammunition. Yeah, 308 00:17:48,920 --> 00:17:51,399 Speaker 1: And the Biden White House had no interest initially in 309 00:17:51,520 --> 00:17:54,720 Speaker 1: providing military aid. I'll tell you when that was happening, 310 00:17:56,119 --> 00:17:59,880 Speaker 1: the Biden administration was giving classified briefings to the entire 311 00:18:00,080 --> 00:18:03,399 Speaker 1: Senate saying this war will be over in less than 312 00:18:03,440 --> 00:18:06,800 Speaker 1: a week. Russia will sweep into Ukraine, the tanks will 313 00:18:06,840 --> 00:18:09,320 Speaker 1: overrun the entire country. It'll be over in a week. 314 00:18:09,480 --> 00:18:13,200 Speaker 1: The Ukrainians have no hope, no prayer whatsoever. Get involved 315 00:18:13,200 --> 00:18:17,520 Speaker 1: because it's going to be done anyway. Their view was surrender. 316 00:18:17,600 --> 00:18:19,600 Speaker 1: That was their advice, as Zelenski, hey, we'll fly out. 317 00:18:19,600 --> 00:18:21,199 Speaker 1: When you fly a leader out, how often does that 318 00:18:21,240 --> 00:18:23,560 Speaker 1: leader come back into power within the next three, four 319 00:18:23,640 --> 00:18:26,080 Speaker 1: or five, six weeks or years? Right, usually doesn't happen. 320 00:18:26,200 --> 00:18:29,320 Speaker 1: So the Biden administration is not focused and for a 321 00:18:29,440 --> 00:18:33,080 Speaker 1: year has not been focused on how do we actually 322 00:18:33,080 --> 00:18:35,080 Speaker 1: win the war? How do we enable Ukraine to win 323 00:18:35,119 --> 00:18:37,640 Speaker 1: the war. We talked about in the last podcast how 324 00:18:37,640 --> 00:18:41,639 Speaker 1: the Biden administration is effectively funding both sides of the 325 00:18:41,680 --> 00:18:46,639 Speaker 1: war because of waving sanctions on Iran and flowing billions 326 00:18:46,640 --> 00:18:49,960 Speaker 1: of dollars into Iran that is providing the drones that 327 00:18:50,000 --> 00:18:54,160 Speaker 1: are killing Ukrainian citizens and Ukrainian soldiers. Biden administration doesn't 328 00:18:54,160 --> 00:18:56,720 Speaker 1: want to cut off that funding, so instead they are 329 00:18:56,800 --> 00:18:59,840 Speaker 1: funding the drones that are on the other side of 330 00:18:59,880 --> 00:19:03,159 Speaker 1: the war. What they need to focus on is the 331 00:19:03,280 --> 00:19:07,520 Speaker 1: national security and military objectives, and the objective should not 332 00:19:07,800 --> 00:19:14,200 Speaker 1: be for Joe Biden to become Santa Clause for the 333 00:19:14,480 --> 00:19:19,520 Speaker 1: entire Ukrainian government. The objective should be focused on concrete 334 00:19:19,600 --> 00:19:24,600 Speaker 1: national security objectives, not on air raid sirens and political theater. 335 00:19:25,680 --> 00:19:28,040 Speaker 1: We're in this thing and it looks like it's open ended. 336 00:19:28,040 --> 00:19:31,800 Speaker 1: It's basically in his announcement there to sit down there, 337 00:19:32,240 --> 00:19:34,760 Speaker 1: it was very clear that we are open ended on 338 00:19:34,800 --> 00:19:37,840 Speaker 1: the amount of money that we're willing to spend. I'm 339 00:19:37,880 --> 00:19:40,240 Speaker 1: worried about accountability and I want to ask you about 340 00:19:40,280 --> 00:19:42,960 Speaker 1: a few guys have gotten any updates on, like, Hey, 341 00:19:43,000 --> 00:19:47,600 Speaker 1: when we do send money, where's it going? Because Ukraine 342 00:19:47,680 --> 00:19:51,359 Speaker 1: is a very corrupt country before Russia invaded. 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Yes, is 379 00:21:30,359 --> 00:21:33,480 Speaker 1: there any accountability in the accounting for when we send 380 00:21:33,520 --> 00:21:36,639 Speaker 1: massive amounts cash because we aren't sending as much weaponry 381 00:21:36,640 --> 00:21:40,199 Speaker 1: as we're sending just pure raw cash to Ukraine. Do 382 00:21:40,280 --> 00:21:43,359 Speaker 1: we have any accounting or any checks and balances for 383 00:21:43,400 --> 00:21:46,520 Speaker 1: this now open ended war. So we're sending both and 384 00:21:46,640 --> 00:21:49,200 Speaker 1: we don't have nearly as much accountability as we need. 385 00:21:50,040 --> 00:21:53,120 Speaker 1: On the weapons, there are lots of things we're not sending. 386 00:21:53,160 --> 00:21:59,280 Speaker 1: For example, what are called attackum ballistic missiles ATACM. Those 387 00:21:59,280 --> 00:22:02,760 Speaker 1: are ballistic missiles that Ukraine could use to take out 388 00:22:03,040 --> 00:22:06,440 Speaker 1: the Iranian drones, the bases where Iranian drones are being sent, 389 00:22:06,560 --> 00:22:10,639 Speaker 1: the operators that are using Iranian drones. Biden administration is 390 00:22:10,640 --> 00:22:12,880 Speaker 1: not providing the missiles that could take out those Iranian 391 00:22:12,960 --> 00:22:17,520 Speaker 1: drones because their priority is kissing up to the Aetola 392 00:22:17,560 --> 00:22:21,760 Speaker 1: and entering into a new nuclear deal with the Aetola, 393 00:22:21,880 --> 00:22:26,959 Speaker 1: even if it undermines US national security. At the same time, 394 00:22:27,080 --> 00:22:31,280 Speaker 1: the billions that are going to the Ukrainian government that 395 00:22:31,320 --> 00:22:35,000 Speaker 1: are not going for ammunition, not going for weapons, but 396 00:22:35,080 --> 00:22:38,439 Speaker 1: instead are just going for general economic support. There is 397 00:22:38,640 --> 00:22:41,879 Speaker 1: very little transparency, very little accountability as to where that 398 00:22:41,920 --> 00:22:44,520 Speaker 1: money is going. I can tell you in the last 399 00:22:44,560 --> 00:22:47,720 Speaker 1: couple of weeks I met with an ambassador of a 400 00:22:47,840 --> 00:22:54,240 Speaker 1: NATO member and European country that is near Ukraine, and 401 00:22:54,280 --> 00:22:57,080 Speaker 1: we spent quite a bit of time talking about what 402 00:22:58,080 --> 00:23:00,000 Speaker 1: the status of what was going on in the Ukraine 403 00:23:00,040 --> 00:23:02,719 Speaker 1: in war was. And I'll tell you the warning I 404 00:23:02,760 --> 00:23:09,160 Speaker 1: gave this ambassador, which is that I think Congressional patience 405 00:23:09,800 --> 00:23:15,560 Speaker 1: for an open ended commitment to the Ukraine War is 406 00:23:15,800 --> 00:23:19,720 Speaker 1: fading quickly, and with a Republican majority in the House, 407 00:23:19,800 --> 00:23:23,600 Speaker 1: I think you're going to see much more scrutiny on 408 00:23:25,720 --> 00:23:28,080 Speaker 1: what funds are going. I think there will still be 409 00:23:28,119 --> 00:23:34,439 Speaker 1: a willingness to provide actual weaponry, to provide ammunition or 410 00:23:34,560 --> 00:23:37,879 Speaker 1: weapons that the Ukrainians can use to defend themselves. I 411 00:23:37,920 --> 00:23:43,600 Speaker 1: think there will be very little interest in unrestrained checks 412 00:23:43,880 --> 00:23:46,280 Speaker 1: going to the government of Ukraine. I also think the 413 00:23:46,280 --> 00:23:51,320 Speaker 1: focus needs to be on what our strategic national objective is. 414 00:23:52,440 --> 00:23:55,080 Speaker 1: For the Democrats, do you know what it is this administration? 415 00:23:55,160 --> 00:23:57,679 Speaker 1: There is none from this administration for the Democrats. This 416 00:23:57,720 --> 00:24:00,640 Speaker 1: has become a virtue signal for the Democrats. They wear 417 00:24:00,640 --> 00:24:04,640 Speaker 1: a Ukrainian flag. Zelenski has become I think People magazine 418 00:24:04,680 --> 00:24:06,600 Speaker 1: is going to name him the sexiest man alive. They're 419 00:24:06,600 --> 00:24:09,760 Speaker 1: in love with him, and it's become a way a 420 00:24:09,920 --> 00:24:13,359 Speaker 1: Ukrainian flag has become like a COVID mask. It's a 421 00:24:13,520 --> 00:24:17,560 Speaker 1: sign to show your virtue. Yeah. Now, look on the 422 00:24:17,600 --> 00:24:20,359 Speaker 1: conservative side, there are a lot of us who are 423 00:24:20,359 --> 00:24:23,639 Speaker 1: Reagan Conservatives that believe standing up to Russian aggression is 424 00:24:23,680 --> 00:24:26,200 Speaker 1: a good idea, that want Russia to lose, that want 425 00:24:26,200 --> 00:24:29,120 Speaker 1: Putin to lose. But as we see all these leftists 426 00:24:29,160 --> 00:24:33,640 Speaker 1: preening around with Ukrainian flags and you know, almost dancing 427 00:24:33,720 --> 00:24:38,680 Speaker 1: with their fealty to him, it is driving millions of 428 00:24:38,720 --> 00:24:41,080 Speaker 1: Americans away and saying, all right, if they're for it, 429 00:24:41,640 --> 00:24:46,880 Speaker 1: I ain't for it. They don't have not once has 430 00:24:46,960 --> 00:24:50,679 Speaker 1: this president articulated a clear national security interest for the 431 00:24:50,760 --> 00:24:54,960 Speaker 1: United States in this war. The State of the Union address, 432 00:24:55,040 --> 00:24:59,080 Speaker 1: he talked more about airline baggage fees than he did 433 00:24:59,119 --> 00:25:01,400 Speaker 1: the biggest land or in Europe since World War Two 434 00:25:01,640 --> 00:25:04,399 Speaker 1: that he caused. And at the same time, he didn't 435 00:25:04,400 --> 00:25:07,159 Speaker 1: mention China or the balloon that just come over China 436 00:25:07,240 --> 00:25:10,200 Speaker 1: over this country from China, and he also didn't mention 437 00:25:10,680 --> 00:25:13,800 Speaker 1: the concern. And I want to ask you this because 438 00:25:14,200 --> 00:25:20,199 Speaker 1: this unnatural alliance between China and Russia is one that 439 00:25:20,280 --> 00:25:23,600 Speaker 1: I do think could bring us to a massive conflict 440 00:25:23,600 --> 00:25:28,159 Speaker 1: of World War three, and yet this administration has literally 441 00:25:28,160 --> 00:25:31,880 Speaker 1: done everything you could do to position and force these 442 00:25:31,920 --> 00:25:35,399 Speaker 1: two countries into an unnatural alliance. And if you know 443 00:25:35,440 --> 00:25:39,480 Speaker 1: anything about foreign policy, you don't want one of the 444 00:25:39,520 --> 00:25:42,359 Speaker 1: most wealthy countries in the world that has a lot 445 00:25:42,560 --> 00:25:46,240 Speaker 1: like again in a massive military in China also connecting 446 00:25:46,359 --> 00:25:50,720 Speaker 1: with a massive nuclear power which is Russia, and them 447 00:25:50,800 --> 00:25:55,639 Speaker 1: working together in any type of conflict. So Russia is 448 00:25:55,640 --> 00:25:59,639 Speaker 1: our enemy, China is our enemy. Both are true. Putin 449 00:25:59,680 --> 00:26:03,320 Speaker 1: is a guy, she is a bad guy. In both instances, 450 00:26:03,400 --> 00:26:07,960 Speaker 1: we have nations that are deeply antagonistic and hostile to 451 00:26:08,040 --> 00:26:13,560 Speaker 1: the United States. Biden's weakness towards all of our enemies 452 00:26:14,119 --> 00:26:16,840 Speaker 1: has the effect of driving all of our enemies together 453 00:26:17,600 --> 00:26:22,320 Speaker 1: and making them more aggressive. So Biden's weakness towards Iran 454 00:26:23,119 --> 00:26:26,320 Speaker 1: causes Iran to be getting billions of dollars from Russia 455 00:26:26,359 --> 00:26:30,040 Speaker 1: providing drones that are being used against the Ukrainians and 456 00:26:30,080 --> 00:26:34,080 Speaker 1: the Ukrainian War. Biden's weakness towards China, and in fact, 457 00:26:34,160 --> 00:26:37,399 Speaker 1: the fact that the Biden administration is perfectly happy to 458 00:26:37,840 --> 00:26:42,200 Speaker 1: spend millions of dollars buying electric vehicles and batteries made 459 00:26:42,320 --> 00:26:46,600 Speaker 1: using slave labor in Chinese concentration camps. That weakness to 460 00:26:46,760 --> 00:26:52,040 Speaker 1: China makes China more willing to provide lethal military equipment 461 00:26:52,119 --> 00:26:55,240 Speaker 1: to Russia again to be used to wage the war. 462 00:26:55,720 --> 00:26:59,560 Speaker 1: In every instance, when the Biden administration is weak, our 463 00:26:59,720 --> 00:27:04,240 Speaker 1: enemy gets stronger and they get unified in their opposition 464 00:27:04,280 --> 00:27:08,080 Speaker 1: to the United States. This crap didn't happen when Trump 465 00:27:08,160 --> 00:27:11,000 Speaker 1: was president, and there's a reason they were scared as 466 00:27:11,040 --> 00:27:13,280 Speaker 1: hell of this guy. It wasn't dumb luck. There was 467 00:27:13,280 --> 00:27:17,439 Speaker 1: an actual strategy that his administration had and the foreign 468 00:27:17,440 --> 00:27:20,120 Speaker 1: policy people around him had, and as you just said, 469 00:27:20,240 --> 00:27:23,320 Speaker 1: they were scared of his response. And there's a reason. 470 00:27:23,359 --> 00:27:26,760 Speaker 1: And this is something that Biden and most Democrats don't understand. 471 00:27:28,119 --> 00:27:34,720 Speaker 1: Weakness is provocative. The weaker Biden is, the worse our 472 00:27:34,880 --> 00:27:41,040 Speaker 1: enemies get. Appeasement doesn't work and instead what and it 473 00:27:41,119 --> 00:27:46,000 Speaker 1: actually paradoxically, the weaker you are, the greater you increase 474 00:27:46,119 --> 00:27:48,639 Speaker 1: the chance of war. You want to stay out of war. 475 00:27:48,760 --> 00:27:52,960 Speaker 1: War three, don't elect a spineless jellyfish like Joe Biden 476 00:27:52,960 --> 00:27:55,960 Speaker 1: to be president because our enemies view him as so 477 00:27:56,080 --> 00:28:00,280 Speaker 1: weak that he sits there for eight days while a 478 00:28:00,400 --> 00:28:04,200 Speaker 1: Chinese spy balloon conducts espionage on the United States, and 479 00:28:04,280 --> 00:28:07,720 Speaker 1: he does nothing. He shoots it down after its missions complete, 480 00:28:07,960 --> 00:28:10,240 Speaker 1: and then getting back to the point that it's all 481 00:28:10,320 --> 00:28:13,640 Speaker 1: pr all the time. In the three weeks later, he 482 00:28:13,840 --> 00:28:16,720 Speaker 1: shoots down three random things in the atmosphere that he 483 00:28:16,760 --> 00:28:18,440 Speaker 1: doesn't know what the hell they are. They may be 484 00:28:18,600 --> 00:28:23,040 Speaker 1: some high school kids twelve dollars balloon that we're sending 485 00:28:23,040 --> 00:28:27,080 Speaker 1: four hundred thousand dollars missiles to shoot down. That is 486 00:28:27,160 --> 00:28:33,240 Speaker 1: not the actions of a commander in chief who is soberly, 487 00:28:33,400 --> 00:28:36,760 Speaker 1: clear eyed saying what do we need to do to 488 00:28:36,760 --> 00:28:41,160 Speaker 1: defend the nation? Shooting down a high school weather balloon 489 00:28:41,560 --> 00:28:45,640 Speaker 1: is the equivalent of sounding the air raid alarms when 490 00:28:45,640 --> 00:28:49,000 Speaker 1: you walk with Zelenski. It's made for TV. Look how 491 00:28:49,000 --> 00:28:51,720 Speaker 1: tough I am. I shot something down. It just doesn't 492 00:28:51,760 --> 00:28:56,040 Speaker 1: happen to be a Chinese spy balloon. The weaker Biden is, 493 00:28:56,400 --> 00:29:00,520 Speaker 1: the more dangerous our enemies get. There's a complicated and 494 00:29:00,600 --> 00:29:04,040 Speaker 1: it's one that I think is really important, and it 495 00:29:04,160 --> 00:29:10,440 Speaker 1: deals with foreign policy and treaties with Russia and nuclear weapons. 496 00:29:10,800 --> 00:29:14,080 Speaker 1: And I want to get into that because this could 497 00:29:14,120 --> 00:29:17,200 Speaker 1: have probably all been avoided if we would have played 498 00:29:17,200 --> 00:29:20,600 Speaker 1: it differently. And this is why foreign policy matters, and 499 00:29:20,600 --> 00:29:21,920 Speaker 1: I want to get into that in a moment. Before 500 00:29:21,920 --> 00:29:23,680 Speaker 1: we get to that, though, I want to tell you 501 00:29:23,800 --> 00:29:26,360 Speaker 1: about Chalk. 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It deals with foreign policy. 520 00:30:28,560 --> 00:30:32,920 Speaker 1: The News Start treaty is something that many people may 521 00:30:32,920 --> 00:30:36,360 Speaker 1: not even know about what it does, and now Rush 522 00:30:36,440 --> 00:30:38,920 Speaker 1: has pulled out of it. Honestly, hadn't gotten a lot 523 00:30:38,960 --> 00:30:42,360 Speaker 1: of media attention. It should because if this would have 524 00:30:42,360 --> 00:30:45,600 Speaker 1: been handled correctly, and this goes back to the Obama 525 00:30:45,640 --> 00:30:48,920 Speaker 1: Biden years, there's also this debt. A lot of this 526 00:30:49,080 --> 00:30:51,120 Speaker 1: was going on and whether to renew or not renew 527 00:30:51,200 --> 00:30:55,400 Speaker 1: under the under the Trump administration, and now with Joe 528 00:30:55,440 --> 00:30:58,280 Speaker 1: Biden seems to bungle this to a level where we 529 00:30:58,360 --> 00:31:00,320 Speaker 1: may not be where will you be today if there 530 00:31:00,360 --> 00:31:04,200 Speaker 1: would have been different decisions made to explain it for people. Well, 531 00:31:04,280 --> 00:31:07,760 Speaker 1: this week Russia pulled out of the New Start Treaty 532 00:31:09,080 --> 00:31:11,840 Speaker 1: and the media coverage of kind of confused. They can't 533 00:31:11,880 --> 00:31:14,600 Speaker 1: figure out what to say about this. I'll tell you 534 00:31:14,640 --> 00:31:17,880 Speaker 1: what they should be saying. This is unequivocally good for America. 535 00:31:17,960 --> 00:31:22,320 Speaker 1: This treaty was bad for America Russia. Ironically, this is 536 00:31:22,360 --> 00:31:24,480 Speaker 1: one of the few things good that has come out 537 00:31:24,520 --> 00:31:28,840 Speaker 1: of Joe Biden's bungled handling of the Ukraine War. Is 538 00:31:28,880 --> 00:31:30,760 Speaker 1: it drove Russia to pull out of a treaty. We 539 00:31:30,840 --> 00:31:34,360 Speaker 1: should have pulled out a long time ago. Now, how 540 00:31:34,360 --> 00:31:36,520 Speaker 1: does Russia handle treatise? And this goes back to the 541 00:31:36,520 --> 00:31:41,280 Speaker 1: philosophy we're talking about before. I believe in peace through strength. 542 00:31:41,480 --> 00:31:44,880 Speaker 1: I think the way you avoid war. I am deeply 543 00:31:44,920 --> 00:31:48,600 Speaker 1: anti war. The way you avoid war is you're so 544 00:31:48,640 --> 00:31:52,400 Speaker 1: strong your enemies don't want to screw with you. Reagan 545 00:31:52,560 --> 00:31:56,920 Speaker 1: understood this. Reagan rebuilt the military. Reagan took on the 546 00:31:56,920 --> 00:32:01,120 Speaker 1: Soviet Union. Reagan denounced the Soviet Union as an evil empire. 547 00:32:01,200 --> 00:32:03,960 Speaker 1: He said Marxism Leninism would end up on the ash 548 00:32:03,960 --> 00:32:06,840 Speaker 1: heap of history. When he was asked, what's your strategy 549 00:32:06,840 --> 00:32:09,240 Speaker 1: in the Cold War? He said, very simple, we win, 550 00:32:09,280 --> 00:32:14,240 Speaker 1: they lose. All of the intellectual glitterati in Washington were 551 00:32:14,320 --> 00:32:20,160 Speaker 1: horrified at this simpleton who didn't understand nuance. By the way, 552 00:32:20,280 --> 00:32:23,920 Speaker 1: when it comes to China, we need a similar strategy 553 00:32:23,960 --> 00:32:25,560 Speaker 1: to how we won the Cold War. And I have 554 00:32:25,640 --> 00:32:29,560 Speaker 1: spent a decade laying out a strategy, just like Reagan 555 00:32:29,680 --> 00:32:33,400 Speaker 1: articulated with the Soviet Union, a comprehensive strategy to stand 556 00:32:33,480 --> 00:32:37,360 Speaker 1: up and defeat communist China in the years to come. 557 00:32:38,320 --> 00:32:42,560 Speaker 1: With the Soviet Union. We entered a whole series of treaties, 558 00:32:43,200 --> 00:32:46,240 Speaker 1: and let me cut to the chase. On every one 559 00:32:46,280 --> 00:32:50,840 Speaker 1: of the arms controlled treaties. The Soviet Union and now Russia. 560 00:32:51,040 --> 00:32:55,360 Speaker 1: They cheat, they lie, they cheat. Yeah, they're not honest people. 561 00:32:55,360 --> 00:32:57,360 Speaker 1: They're never gonna be. They're gonna do whatever they can 562 00:32:57,360 --> 00:32:58,880 Speaker 1: to get away with whatever they can get away with. 563 00:32:59,000 --> 00:33:00,800 Speaker 1: By the way, you know, one of those agreements was 564 00:33:00,840 --> 00:33:03,080 Speaker 1: something called the Budapest Memorandum. You know what the Budapest 565 00:33:03,120 --> 00:33:08,000 Speaker 1: Memorandum was. So the United States in Russia are the 566 00:33:08,080 --> 00:33:10,800 Speaker 1: top two countries in the world that have nuclear weapons. 567 00:33:10,840 --> 00:33:12,680 Speaker 1: Do you know what the third country used to be? 568 00:33:14,000 --> 00:33:17,120 Speaker 1: Was it? No, it used to be Ukraine. As part 569 00:33:17,120 --> 00:33:20,920 Speaker 1: of the Soviet uk Ukraine had the third largest collection 570 00:33:21,120 --> 00:33:26,400 Speaker 1: of nuclear weapons on the planet. Ukraine agreed to voluntarily 571 00:33:26,400 --> 00:33:29,880 Speaker 1: give up all their nukes. So Ukraine took a bunch 572 00:33:29,880 --> 00:33:31,640 Speaker 1: of nukes. It happened in the Soviet Union. It gave 573 00:33:31,680 --> 00:33:35,480 Speaker 1: them all up. It has zero in exchange. The United 574 00:33:35,520 --> 00:33:40,360 Speaker 1: States and Russia signed the Budapest Memorandum agreeing to protect 575 00:33:40,440 --> 00:33:45,440 Speaker 1: the territorial integrity of Ukraine. So Russia signed the agreement saying, yep, 576 00:33:45,840 --> 00:33:49,640 Speaker 1: we'll honor the borders of Ukraine, and you can see 577 00:33:49,640 --> 00:33:53,600 Speaker 1: how much they're bound by that. Reagan famously said with 578 00:33:53,640 --> 00:33:59,440 Speaker 1: the Soviet Union, trust, but verify with the treaties. I 579 00:33:59,480 --> 00:34:02,040 Speaker 1: wouldn't need and trust. At this point we know that 580 00:34:02,080 --> 00:34:04,600 Speaker 1: they're going to cheat. And so it's interesting. This is 581 00:34:04,640 --> 00:34:06,840 Speaker 1: an issue I've been engaged in for a decade. So 582 00:34:06,960 --> 00:34:12,240 Speaker 1: let's go back to twenty fourteen. Twenty fourteen when Russia 583 00:34:12,320 --> 00:34:18,719 Speaker 1: invaded Ukraine the first time invaded Crimea, and it was 584 00:34:18,840 --> 00:34:24,560 Speaker 1: very interesting. Putin then described it as perfectly legal, and 585 00:34:24,600 --> 00:34:27,920 Speaker 1: he said, it writes an historical wrong in which Russia 586 00:34:28,120 --> 00:34:31,799 Speaker 1: was robbed of its rightful claim to the Crimean peninsula 587 00:34:31,800 --> 00:34:35,440 Speaker 1: in nineteen fifty four. But what's amazing it was President 588 00:34:35,480 --> 00:34:39,719 Speaker 1: Obama's response to the invasion of Ukraine. Then he observed, 589 00:34:39,719 --> 00:34:42,759 Speaker 1: this is a quote from Obama. President Putin seems to 590 00:34:42,800 --> 00:34:46,120 Speaker 1: have a different set of lawyers making a different set 591 00:34:46,160 --> 00:34:52,839 Speaker 1: of interpretations. What an imbecilic thing to say. What this 592 00:34:53,040 --> 00:34:56,719 Speaker 1: was a clear violation that this was not about lawyers 593 00:34:57,480 --> 00:35:01,440 Speaker 1: making an interpretation. Putin was very candidate. He has described 594 00:35:01,520 --> 00:35:04,400 Speaker 1: the dissolution of the Soviet Union as quote, the greatest, 595 00:35:04,440 --> 00:35:08,200 Speaker 1: greatest geopolitical disaster of the twentieth century, and he's made 596 00:35:08,239 --> 00:35:12,160 Speaker 1: clear he wants to reassemble the Soviet Union. How did 597 00:35:12,160 --> 00:35:13,920 Speaker 1: we win the Cold War? We stood up to the 598 00:35:13,920 --> 00:35:16,040 Speaker 1: Soviet Union, we called it out for what it was. 599 00:35:16,120 --> 00:35:18,319 Speaker 1: We built up our military, and then the peace that 600 00:35:18,440 --> 00:35:24,279 Speaker 1: was transformational was SDI, the Strategic Defense Initiative. Reagan understood, 601 00:35:24,360 --> 00:35:28,360 Speaker 1: we will use our technological advantage to develop missile defense, 602 00:35:29,719 --> 00:35:34,160 Speaker 1: which ultimately is how we will beat the Soviets, and 603 00:35:34,160 --> 00:35:36,719 Speaker 1: and by almost bankrupting them as part of it, we 604 00:35:36,719 --> 00:35:39,359 Speaker 1: will go to the arms race, and we will even 605 00:35:39,360 --> 00:35:42,400 Speaker 1: put out misinformation, star wars and everything else to the 606 00:35:42,440 --> 00:35:44,880 Speaker 1: point where they just can't keep up financially, and it 607 00:35:44,960 --> 00:35:47,719 Speaker 1: will weaken them so badly because we knew they were 608 00:35:47,719 --> 00:35:50,560 Speaker 1: teetering economically, and we knew they couldn't afford to play 609 00:35:50,560 --> 00:35:53,920 Speaker 1: with us. So SDI, the corrupt corporate media and the 610 00:35:53,960 --> 00:35:57,400 Speaker 1: eighties derisively referred to it as star wars. Yeah, and 611 00:35:57,440 --> 00:36:00,000 Speaker 1: you remember the analogy that they used to use of saying, okay, 612 00:36:00,080 --> 00:36:04,480 Speaker 1: a missile interceptor hitting a missile, that's like a bullet 613 00:36:04,560 --> 00:36:06,640 Speaker 1: hitting a bullet in air. They mocked it and said 614 00:36:06,680 --> 00:36:10,000 Speaker 1: it's impossible. And Reagan had a vision that if we 615 00:36:10,200 --> 00:36:12,839 Speaker 1: use our technology to take out their missiles, that's how 616 00:36:12,840 --> 00:36:15,560 Speaker 1: we defeat them. And what happened. You look at Reikovic 617 00:36:15,560 --> 00:36:20,360 Speaker 1: in in Iceland where where Gorbachov came and said he'll 618 00:36:20,400 --> 00:36:25,360 Speaker 1: sign a big treaty if if you abandon SDI and 619 00:36:25,480 --> 00:36:28,239 Speaker 1: Reagan got up and walked out said nope, if that's 620 00:36:28,280 --> 00:36:32,279 Speaker 1: the price, no, and it ultimately bankrupted the Soviet Union. 621 00:36:32,320 --> 00:36:35,560 Speaker 1: They couldn't keep up with the economic engine that developed 622 00:36:36,200 --> 00:36:41,680 Speaker 1: the technology to defend us. Now, leftist being what they 623 00:36:41,680 --> 00:36:46,080 Speaker 1: are on national security, they're wrong on everything. So missile defense, 624 00:36:46,160 --> 00:36:48,759 Speaker 1: which is enormously important if you care about peace. If 625 00:36:48,800 --> 00:36:52,480 Speaker 1: you care about peace. By the way, before missile defense, 626 00:36:52,520 --> 00:36:55,560 Speaker 1: the strategy was mad mutually assured destruction. We both aim 627 00:36:55,640 --> 00:36:57,880 Speaker 1: nukes at each other, and the only thing to stop 628 00:36:57,920 --> 00:36:59,600 Speaker 1: you from firing nukes is we're both going to blow 629 00:36:59,640 --> 00:37:01,759 Speaker 1: up the war and turn it into a glowing ash 630 00:37:01,920 --> 00:37:05,880 Speaker 1: Cuban missile crisis in a nutshell, that is Democrat policy. 631 00:37:05,920 --> 00:37:09,400 Speaker 1: And what Reagan understood is, look, let's use technology to 632 00:37:09,560 --> 00:37:12,399 Speaker 1: stop their nukes from getting to us to begin with. 633 00:37:13,120 --> 00:37:17,640 Speaker 1: So what did Obama do? Obama systematically undermine So for example, 634 00:37:17,719 --> 00:37:19,759 Speaker 1: two thousand nine, Obama comes in. One of the first 635 00:37:19,800 --> 00:37:23,600 Speaker 1: decisions he makes is to cancel plans for a ballistic 636 00:37:23,600 --> 00:37:26,840 Speaker 1: missile defense system in Central Europe, plans that George W. 637 00:37:26,920 --> 00:37:29,560 Speaker 1: Bushould announced. Obama promptly goes in and goes, Nope, no 638 00:37:29,640 --> 00:37:34,120 Speaker 1: missile defense. We don't want to do that. You know, 639 00:37:34,160 --> 00:37:39,800 Speaker 1: when he announced that he announced canceling the ballistic missile 640 00:37:39,840 --> 00:37:44,160 Speaker 1: defense in Central Europe on the seventieth anniversary of the 641 00:37:44,239 --> 00:37:48,720 Speaker 1: Soviet invasion of Poland September seventeenth, two thousand and nine, 642 00:37:49,160 --> 00:37:56,279 Speaker 1: like literally groveling at a level if you're a Russian 643 00:37:56,760 --> 00:37:59,400 Speaker 1: press agent, you wouldn't come up with a better time 644 00:37:59,400 --> 00:38:05,160 Speaker 1: to announce sit And at the same time, he made 645 00:38:07,040 --> 00:38:12,120 Speaker 1: enormous concessions on missile defense in the New Start Treaty, 646 00:38:12,160 --> 00:38:14,800 Speaker 1: which was implemented in twenty eleven. So it's another Obama 647 00:38:14,840 --> 00:38:18,520 Speaker 1: special and it initially was going to expire in twenty 648 00:38:18,560 --> 00:38:23,560 Speaker 1: twenty one. And so I called for back in twenty fourteen, 649 00:38:24,440 --> 00:38:27,840 Speaker 1: get out of New Start. Why because New Start limits 650 00:38:27,880 --> 00:38:32,439 Speaker 1: our ability to defend ourselves against missiles and the Russians cheat. Yeah, 651 00:38:32,600 --> 00:38:34,440 Speaker 1: the Russians cheat, and they cheat, and they cheat, and 652 00:38:34,440 --> 00:38:36,600 Speaker 1: we knew they were cheating. We could verify they were cheating. 653 00:38:36,680 --> 00:38:41,319 Speaker 1: So we tie our hands and the other side doesn't. Now, 654 00:38:41,960 --> 00:38:45,799 Speaker 1: fast forward to twenty fifteen. Twenty fifteen, I called on 655 00:38:45,840 --> 00:38:48,799 Speaker 1: the Obama administration to release the Department of Defense had 656 00:38:48,800 --> 00:38:53,080 Speaker 1: done an assessment of how much Russia had cheated on 657 00:38:53,120 --> 00:38:55,720 Speaker 1: the I n F Treaty, the Intermediate Nuclear Forces Treaty, 658 00:38:55,920 --> 00:39:00,440 Speaker 1: another treaty that Russia was cheating wildly on. Dodd concluded, 659 00:39:00,440 --> 00:39:03,960 Speaker 1: they're cheating wildly, and yet they suppressed the report. Why 660 00:39:04,120 --> 00:39:07,279 Speaker 1: because they were trying to ram through New Start. So 661 00:39:07,320 --> 00:39:09,320 Speaker 1: they didn't want to admit Russia's cheating on I n 662 00:39:09,400 --> 00:39:11,360 Speaker 1: F because if they did, they wouldn't be able to 663 00:39:11,360 --> 00:39:13,880 Speaker 1: get the New Start treat So that was twenty fifteen, 664 00:39:14,600 --> 00:39:18,880 Speaker 1: all right. Then twenty eighteen, I joined with John Kyle 665 00:39:19,000 --> 00:39:22,160 Speaker 1: and with twenty three additional senators in a letter to 666 00:39:22,200 --> 00:39:25,760 Speaker 1: President Trump asking him to press back on New Start. 667 00:39:25,800 --> 00:39:31,480 Speaker 1: That New Start was a terrible treaty. It had been extended, 668 00:39:31,840 --> 00:39:34,640 Speaker 1: but it shouldn't have been, and we needed to get 669 00:39:34,640 --> 00:39:38,160 Speaker 1: out of it. Why because the Russians cheat and it 670 00:39:38,200 --> 00:39:43,360 Speaker 1: limits our ability to defend ourselves. Now, Trump on treatise 671 00:39:43,760 --> 00:39:46,400 Speaker 1: did a good job pulling out of the I and 672 00:39:46,480 --> 00:39:49,080 Speaker 1: F treaty, and he also pulled out of what's called 673 00:39:49,080 --> 00:39:53,480 Speaker 1: the Open Skies Treaty, which prohibited our ability to basically 674 00:39:53,520 --> 00:39:56,640 Speaker 1: do what the Chinese spy balloon was doing, to engage 675 00:39:56,640 --> 00:39:59,760 Speaker 1: in surveillance on Russian sites. Mind you, they engaged in surveillance, 676 00:39:59,800 --> 00:40:03,160 Speaker 1: and so literally we tied our hands and they openly 677 00:40:03,239 --> 00:40:06,440 Speaker 1: mocked it and ignored it. I urged Trump pull out 678 00:40:06,480 --> 00:40:10,200 Speaker 1: Open Skies. He did pull out of Open Skies on 679 00:40:10,360 --> 00:40:13,840 Speaker 1: New Start. Unfortunately, Trump didn't pull out of it. He 680 00:40:13,920 --> 00:40:16,520 Speaker 1: should have done that, but at a minimum, he didn't 681 00:40:16,520 --> 00:40:20,000 Speaker 1: expand it, so that was good. He refrained from expanding it. 682 00:40:20,719 --> 00:40:22,239 Speaker 1: What did Biden do when he gets in. One of 683 00:40:22,280 --> 00:40:24,760 Speaker 1: the first things he did was expand New Start because 684 00:40:24,760 --> 00:40:28,520 Speaker 1: there's nothing Democrats like more than a treaty that ties 685 00:40:28,560 --> 00:40:32,080 Speaker 1: our hands, makes us weaker, and that lets the Russians 686 00:40:32,080 --> 00:40:35,440 Speaker 1: and Chinese get stronger. Now here's an amazing thing. I'm 687 00:40:35,440 --> 00:40:39,640 Speaker 1: going to read you a headline from January thirty first, 688 00:40:39,680 --> 00:40:43,239 Speaker 1: twenty twenty three, so not too long ago. US says 689 00:40:43,320 --> 00:40:47,480 Speaker 1: Russia violating New Start nuclear arms control treaty. So finally, 690 00:40:48,520 --> 00:40:52,960 Speaker 1: the Biden administration was forced to admit that Russia was 691 00:40:53,000 --> 00:40:56,920 Speaker 1: in violation because, among other things, they refused to allow 692 00:40:57,880 --> 00:41:00,840 Speaker 1: inspection activities on its territory. So they say, nope, you 693 00:41:00,880 --> 00:41:04,719 Speaker 1: can't expect it, inspect it. By the way, this is 694 00:41:04,760 --> 00:41:09,920 Speaker 1: the same problem with the Obama Iran nuclear treaty, where 695 00:41:10,120 --> 00:41:15,839 Speaker 1: Obama trusted Iran to inspect itself, and under the terms 696 00:41:15,880 --> 00:41:19,680 Speaker 1: of the treaty, the inspectors could not go into military facilities. Well, 697 00:41:19,680 --> 00:41:22,840 Speaker 1: guess what. That's where the Iranians put their nuclear research 698 00:41:22,920 --> 00:41:28,080 Speaker 1: in military facilities like Ford, oh a research lab buried 699 00:41:28,080 --> 00:41:32,600 Speaker 1: in a mountain declared off limits. So this is a pattern. 700 00:41:33,600 --> 00:41:36,560 Speaker 1: It's a pattern from Obama, it's a pattern from Biden. 701 00:41:36,920 --> 00:41:40,440 Speaker 1: It's a pattern from Democrats that they enter into agreements 702 00:41:41,200 --> 00:41:45,040 Speaker 1: that weaken the US militarily and that allow the Russians 703 00:41:45,280 --> 00:41:48,359 Speaker 1: and also allow the Chinese, and also allow the Iranians 704 00:41:48,640 --> 00:41:51,960 Speaker 1: to cheat and build up their military. And if you 705 00:41:52,000 --> 00:41:54,799 Speaker 1: believe in peace through strength, you want the opposite. You 706 00:41:54,880 --> 00:41:58,879 Speaker 1: want us stronger and them weaker. The Biden approach, they're 707 00:41:58,920 --> 00:42:01,040 Speaker 1: stronger and where we can we knew we were in 708 00:42:01,080 --> 00:42:03,480 Speaker 1: trouble with foreign policy. And I go back to this 709 00:42:03,560 --> 00:42:06,359 Speaker 1: because I think the day that the world realized they 710 00:42:06,360 --> 00:42:08,080 Speaker 1: could do whatever they want to do. I'm referring to 711 00:42:08,120 --> 00:42:09,919 Speaker 1: the bad guys. Was the day that we started taking 712 00:42:10,000 --> 00:42:14,120 Speaker 1: orders from the Taliban in Afghanistan in our pull out. 713 00:42:14,440 --> 00:42:17,120 Speaker 1: And if you look at what's happened since then, Senator, 714 00:42:17,560 --> 00:42:20,080 Speaker 1: whether it be Russia, whether it be Iran, whether it 715 00:42:20,080 --> 00:42:22,759 Speaker 1: be China, that's the day when they said kick it 716 00:42:22,800 --> 00:42:25,000 Speaker 1: into high gear and let's do whatever the hell we 717 00:42:25,040 --> 00:42:26,920 Speaker 1: want to do right now, whether that be screw with 718 00:42:27,000 --> 00:42:30,640 Speaker 1: tie were on screw with America's spy balloons over America. 719 00:42:30,680 --> 00:42:33,120 Speaker 1: And as you said earlier, this didn't happen when Donald 720 00:42:33,160 --> 00:42:37,080 Speaker 1: Trump was present for a reason. Look, deterrence works, but 721 00:42:37,160 --> 00:42:42,640 Speaker 1: deterrance only works if you're strong enough that they're afraid 722 00:42:42,680 --> 00:42:45,680 Speaker 1: of you. You know. The Democrats of the media like 723 00:42:45,800 --> 00:42:49,560 Speaker 1: to characterize Reagan as a warmonger. That was something you 724 00:42:49,640 --> 00:42:54,560 Speaker 1: heard constantly. He wasn't. The biggest country Reagan ever invaded 725 00:42:54,560 --> 00:42:59,479 Speaker 1: in eight years as president was Grenada, the Cold War, 726 00:43:00,160 --> 00:43:04,000 Speaker 1: which all of the smart liberals, and they would tell 727 00:43:04,040 --> 00:43:07,839 Speaker 1: you they're smart because they were wrong about everything. All 728 00:43:07,880 --> 00:43:10,120 Speaker 1: of the smart liberals said the Soviet Union could never 729 00:43:10,200 --> 00:43:13,200 Speaker 1: be defeated, said we had to give in the malaise. 730 00:43:13,320 --> 00:43:16,000 Speaker 1: We couldn't take on the Soviet Union, they were too strong. 731 00:43:16,600 --> 00:43:20,000 Speaker 1: All of that was nonsense. And here's the amazing thing. 732 00:43:21,440 --> 00:43:26,680 Speaker 1: Under Reagan's leadership, we won the Cold War without firing 733 00:43:26,719 --> 00:43:29,759 Speaker 1: a shot. Look, let me repeat that, because that's an 734 00:43:29,800 --> 00:43:33,640 Speaker 1: amazing thing. The Berlin compared to literally what Russia is 735 00:43:33,680 --> 00:43:36,280 Speaker 1: happening right now with Ukraine. How many missiles have been dropped, 736 00:43:36,280 --> 00:43:38,520 Speaker 1: how many people have died, how many people been tortured, 737 00:43:38,680 --> 00:43:41,560 Speaker 1: they found mass graves, and again, what randon there was. 738 00:43:41,640 --> 00:43:43,600 Speaker 1: Take all of that down in Russia without you, as 739 00:43:43,600 --> 00:43:46,240 Speaker 1: you said, firing one show. And if Biden hadn't waived 740 00:43:46,280 --> 00:43:49,600 Speaker 1: sanctions on Nordstream two, if he hadn't waived the sanctions 741 00:43:49,600 --> 00:43:52,839 Speaker 1: on Russian and Putin, there would be no Ukraine War. 742 00:43:53,160 --> 00:43:57,279 Speaker 1: Joseph Robinette Biden Junior caused this war because he was 743 00:43:57,360 --> 00:44:01,960 Speaker 1: so weak that Putin said, this guy is a paper 744 00:44:02,000 --> 00:44:04,560 Speaker 1: tiger and he's not even a tiger, he's just paper. Yeah, 745 00:44:04,680 --> 00:44:07,840 Speaker 1: and he went in, We could have stopped it. And 746 00:44:07,840 --> 00:44:10,319 Speaker 1: it's not just me who said that. Zelenski said that 747 00:44:10,400 --> 00:44:15,800 Speaker 1: the government of Poland said that weakness is provocative. I've 748 00:44:15,920 --> 00:44:19,319 Speaker 1: joked before. There's a reason nobody goes and gets a 749 00:44:19,360 --> 00:44:23,840 Speaker 1: degree from the Neville Chamberlain School of Foreign Affairs. Appeasement, 750 00:44:24,280 --> 00:44:29,600 Speaker 1: particularly a bad actors, inevitably results in those bad actors 751 00:44:29,680 --> 00:44:34,640 Speaker 1: getting worse, and that has happened at historic levels in 752 00:44:34,640 --> 00:44:37,000 Speaker 1: the last two years underbody. This is one I love 753 00:44:37,080 --> 00:44:39,120 Speaker 1: doing this podcast for ye Senator. We get to talk 754 00:44:39,160 --> 00:44:41,359 Speaker 1: about things that no one else is talking about. I 755 00:44:41,400 --> 00:44:44,480 Speaker 1: hope all of you will share this podcast, especially this one, 756 00:44:44,480 --> 00:44:47,080 Speaker 1: with your family and friends. Don't forget. We do one 757 00:44:47,160 --> 00:44:50,080 Speaker 1: video and audio podcasts a week, and we do two 758 00:44:50,120 --> 00:44:52,880 Speaker 1: others are audio only, so make sure you subscribe to 759 00:44:52,920 --> 00:44:56,520 Speaker 1: our podcasts. It's free download, it's free rite essay five 760 00:44:56,560 --> 00:44:58,799 Speaker 1: star review that will help us reach more people that 761 00:44:58,880 --> 00:45:01,040 Speaker 1: have not gotten to listen to show yet. And we'll 762 00:45:01,040 --> 00:45:02,719 Speaker 1: see you back here in a couple of days