Speaker 1: Stay right here for our final news roundup and information overload.
Speaker 2: All right, news roundup and information overload. Our toll free
Speaker 2: our number is eight hundred nine four one Sean if
Speaker 2: you want to be a part of the program or
Speaker 2: in the DC swamp, jd Vance will bring us behind
Speaker 2: the scenes tonight in terms of what happened in the
Speaker 2: Oval office on Friday, Now, Zelensky had an opportunity. He
Speaker 2: appeared with Brett Bher on Friday night, and Brett bhar
Speaker 2: gave him not one, not two, but three opportunities to
Speaker 2: back off and apologize for what had happened. He just
Speaker 2: was steadfast and staying right where he was and being
Speaker 2: very stubborn and determined, which kinda breaks protocol. And now
Speaker 2: we know that he this was supposed to be ceremonial.
Speaker 2: He was supposed to go in and Phase one, which
Speaker 2: was the rare earth mineral deal, which would guarantee an
Speaker 2: American presence and for a long period of time inside
Speaker 2: of Ukraine, which has many security benefits because we have
Speaker 2: business interest there now, and it was Phase two would
Speaker 2: have been a ceasefire. Phase three would have been in
Speaker 2: a negotiated settlement. Not everything that Ukraine wants, not everything
Speaker 2: that Putin wants, but hopefully in agreement that would have
Speaker 2: created peace and then death and destruction, and that all
Speaker 2: got blown up. Anyway, here's Zelensky refusing to apologize after
Speaker 2: that meeting.
Speaker 3: So I'm not hearing from you, mister president. Thought that
Speaker 3: you owe the president and apology.
Speaker 4: Now, I respect President and I respect American people.
Speaker 3: And if I don't know if.
Speaker 4: I think that we have to be very open and
Speaker 4: very honest, and I'm not sure that we did something bad.
Speaker 4: I think maybe sometimes some things we have to discuss
Speaker 4: out of out of media, with all respect to democracy
Speaker 4: and to a free media. But there are things that
Speaker 4: where we have to understand the position of Ukraine and Ukrainians,
Speaker 4: and I think that is the most important thing. Yes,
Speaker 4: you know where wearing close partners, we have to be fair,
Speaker 4: we have to be we have to be wary free.
Speaker 2: I am predicting that's a Lenski'll be back. I don't
Speaker 2: know when, maybe sooner than later. I am predicting he
Speaker 2: will be back because he has no choice but to
Speaker 2: be back. I am predicting Europe will not be able
Speaker 2: to fill the void that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris,
Speaker 2: the massive hundreds of billions of dollars in a and
Speaker 2: by the way, without accountability. I don't know where all
Speaker 2: that money went, some of a humanitarian quote purpose, you know,
Speaker 2: did it end up in the right hands? You never know,
Speaker 2: And one day we might know. Maybe we'll get a
Speaker 2: doze investigation there. But all these media democrats that are
Speaker 2: slamming Donald Trump.
Speaker 3: He's pro putin. He's a Putin puppet. Bob Bop bop,
Speaker 3: you know, et cetera, et cetera.
Speaker 2: Let's let's put this in the archives, because you're gonna
Speaker 2: hear this again, is my prediction. You're going to hear
Speaker 2: me play this after a piece, a negotiated settlement is
Speaker 2: eventually achieved, and then I'm going to remind them of
Speaker 2: how stupid they are and how after all these years
Speaker 2: of Donald Trump being on the world stage, they don't
Speaker 2: have the slightest clue about how this man operates. He
Speaker 2: talks about terriffs, he's negotiating, he talks about he doesn't
Speaker 2: want to fall into the trap. Oh well, for four
Speaker 2: years we've been calling Putin every name in the book.
Speaker 3: He didn't care. He just kept going and bombing and killing.
Speaker 2: So Trump gets him to publicly say that he wants
Speaker 2: a settlement, a negotiated settlement that is called progress. But
Speaker 2: if you do, but then they want him to call
Speaker 2: him names or else he's a puppet. No, Donald Trump
Speaker 2: is negotiating joining US now as Rebecca Kawflor is with
Speaker 2: US Strategic and Military intelligence analysts, formerly with the US
Speaker 2: Defense Intelligence Agency, author of the best selling book Putin's Playbook,
Speaker 2: and great.
Speaker 3: To have you a beck, Rebecca.
Speaker 5: How are you excellent? How are you sean?
Speaker 3: I'm good.
Speaker 2: It's amazing to me Donald Trump on the world stage
Speaker 2: this long period of time, and I've known him longer
Speaker 2: than everybody else. But you don't need to be a
Speaker 2: genius to figure out Donald Trump. Donald Trump is in
Speaker 2: a perpetual state of negotiation. Donald Trump really does want
Speaker 2: to end the war, stop the killing, and end the destruction.
Speaker 2: And I just find the ignorance out there. It's seemingly
Speaker 2: purposeful to me. If he cured cancer tomorrow, they would
Speaker 2: still be calling him he cured cancer. But he worked
Speaker 2: with the pharmaceutical industry to do it. I mean, they
Speaker 2: find something to hate about it.
Speaker 5: That's their standard playbook that is very old and it
Speaker 5: doesn't work if something does not align with their narrative.
Speaker 5: They called out person Putin's apologist, this put In that.
Speaker 5: But you know what, President Trump, as you said that,
Speaker 5: you know him for a long time. He's not afraid
Speaker 5: of words, He's not afraid of anything. He basically prioritizing
Speaker 5: America's security, and he is prioritizing peace. And as a realist,
Speaker 5: President Trump understands that doesn't matter how many billions of
Speaker 5: dollars we can flow to Ukraine. This war is unwinnable
Speaker 5: for Ukraine. I've been saying it for three years. It's
Speaker 5: mathematically impossible. And I think I explained it on the
Speaker 5: show before why that is. And so President Trump wants
Speaker 5: to stop the bleeding of Ukrainians and they're literally running
Speaker 5: out of people, running out of men's thrown into put
Speaker 5: In his meat grinder. And he wants to stop the
Speaker 5: bleeding of US weapons arsenal because the Biden administration has
Speaker 5: depleted our own military hardware stockpile to a very dangerous
Speaker 5: level by senting it to Ukraine. And we have other
Speaker 5: threats on her, such as China, which is a much
Speaker 5: graver threat, long term threats to the United States, and
Speaker 5: President Trump wants to ensure our combat readiness to take
Speaker 5: on that threat if we have to.
Speaker 2: Zelensky said that he thinks this war is going to
Speaker 2: continue for years, and he made this statement just in
Speaker 2: the last I believe forty eight hours. America cannot afford
Speaker 2: what Joe Biden set America up to do here, and
Speaker 2: that is to be a proxy fighter for Ukraine. America
Speaker 2: can't afford it. Europe they may step up somewhat. I mean,
Speaker 2: they seem to be rallying around Zelensky as much as
Speaker 2: they can. They're offering a little bit more aid. They're
Speaker 2: never going to match what America was doing. They're not
Speaker 2: capable of it. And if this war does go on
Speaker 2: for years, and Zolensky's right about that, there's not going
Speaker 2: to be a country worth saving at that point. Their
Speaker 2: infrastructure is being destroyed systematic, systemically, and people are fleeing
Speaker 2: and droll their refugees all over the rest of Europe.
Speaker 2: They can't find enough people to fight this war anymore.
Speaker 2: There won't be a country left by the end of this.
Speaker 2: And while everybody is you know, thumping their chests and
Speaker 2: acting like Fred Flintstone and Bambam and acting really tough.
Speaker 2: There really is no option for Zelensky at this point.
Speaker 2: And that's why you know Trump was getting annoyed and saying,
Speaker 2: you don't have cards.
Speaker 3: I'm not playing cards.
Speaker 2: You don't have any leverage except the leverage that the
Speaker 2: US and Europe is giving you through financial aid. That
Speaker 2: cannot continue in perpetuity exactly.
Speaker 5: And no, this war is not gonna go forever. The
Speaker 5: only reason why this war was going for three years
Speaker 5: is because Pudin has calibrated his strategy. He did not
Speaker 5: want to destroy Kiev. He did not want to remove
Speaker 5: Zolensky because he was I'm not certain about NATO's response
Speaker 5: if he escalated quickly all the way up, he was
Speaker 5: doing it in a gradual manner by running the war
Speaker 5: of attrition in order to force the Lamps to capitulate. Well,
Speaker 5: the Democrats decided have decided that they want to wipe
Speaker 5: out US weapons arsenal by fighting the war for someone
Speaker 5: else's freedom. But what happened was the Russians transitioned their
Speaker 5: military and economy on what time putting seventy years prior
Speaker 5: to the invasion couldn't pass a special legal regime called
Speaker 5: the Special Period that mandated that the Militi industrial complex
Speaker 5: worked in three shifts twenty four to seven, and NATO
Speaker 5: Secretary General himself admitted that Russia has produced in one
Speaker 5: month and keeps producing in one month more military hardware
Speaker 5: than the entire Natal Alliance in one year. And we
Speaker 5: are not capable right now US military industrial complex to
Speaker 5: scale up to continue prosecuting before because we're officially not
Speaker 5: on a wartime footing. The new Secretary of Defense p
Speaker 5: sect It admitted that China also produces by the time
Speaker 5: that we produce one if aircraft fighter aircraft still produced
Speaker 5: ten because of the Pentagon's uh ridiculous policies, right, so
Speaker 5: hopefully he will fix that. And so President Trump is
Speaker 5: just being realistic. He wants to cut our losses so
Speaker 5: he can uh focus his attention on rebuilding America, making
Speaker 5: us secure, making the world secure, and stop this fighting
Speaker 5: and this bloody war. And Zo Lensky seems to be
Speaker 5: too dense to understand that and too disrespectful to appreciate
Speaker 5: what the American people have done.
Speaker 3: For him now have turned down what it appears to be.
Speaker 2: According to the Treasury Secretary Scott Bessen, three opportunities to
Speaker 2: sign the Rare Earth mineral deal after three times indicating
Speaker 2: that they would sign the deal. To me, it's a
Speaker 2: three phase process that would guarantee not only the money
Speaker 2: available to Ukraine so they can rebuild what's left to
Speaker 2: their country, that would also guarantee an American presence and
Speaker 2: financial interest in the area, which would be a disincentive
Speaker 2: for Putin to do this again. With McCrone, the President
Speaker 2: indicated that he would be willing to allow European troops
Speaker 2: as a presence there, not NATO troops, European troops. I'm
Speaker 2: sure that that would be part of the final phase,
Speaker 2: which would be Phase one would be the mineral deal.
Speaker 2: Phase two would be the ceasefire. Phase three would be
Speaker 2: a negotiated settlement and hopefully an end of the war.
Speaker 2: A double digit majority of Ukrainian support negotiating a quick
Speaker 2: end to the war, and they understand what is happening
Speaker 2: to the country of plurality of American support. A quick
Speaker 2: end of the war, even if it means Russia gets
Speaker 2: to keep some of the territory they currently occupy. There
Speaker 2: is an answer to this problem, and it's not throwing
Speaker 2: money at it and America becoming a proxy fighter for Ukraine,
Speaker 2: which is what it evolved into under Biden.
Speaker 6: Oh.
Speaker 5: Absolutely, Biden was turning Ukraine into another Afghanistan, where we
Speaker 5: spent two point two trillion dollars, sacrifice six thousand lives
Speaker 5: of American men and women, and after twenty years we
Speaker 5: withdrew and the same lunatics basically with the Taliban that
Speaker 5: is running the country. And President Trump can't allow this
Speaker 5: to happen with Ukraine. He cannot also put US boots
Speaker 5: on the ground and throw our men and women into
Speaker 5: putting nuclear furnace. This is why President Trump called well
Speaker 5: now Zolensky that he was gambling with World War three.
Speaker 3: All right, quick break, we'll come back.
Speaker 2: We'll talk with Rebecca Kaffler about what Ukraine is going
Speaker 2: to do next, what Europe will do next. I predict
Speaker 2: that Zolensky will be back. Eight hundred and nine four
Speaker 2: one Shawn number. We're in DC, we're in the swamp JD.
Speaker 2: Vans tonight, we'll get his first hand reaction to what
Speaker 2: happened on Friday. And also we're here for the State
Speaker 2: of the Union tomorrow. As we continue. All right, we
Speaker 2: continue with Rebecca Kapfler and discussing what the likely resolution
Speaker 2: will be when it comes to Zelenski and Putin in
Speaker 2: this war in Ukraine.
Speaker 3: What do you make of Europe's reaction to this?
Speaker 2: What did you make of the Prime Minister of Great
Speaker 2: Britain and Macron and all these European nations gathering this weekend.
Speaker 5: Of course, they're buttering up Zelensky because they did not
Speaker 5: want to pay for their wrong security, even though a
Speaker 5: decade ago they knew about Puddin's plans. How do I
Speaker 5: know this because I personally briefed NATO in Braszlos in
Speaker 5: twenty thirteen, just months prior to the invasion of Crimea,
Speaker 5: and I explained at the highly classified level what Putin's
Speaker 5: intentions were in Russian's warfighting strategy. And they decided that
Speaker 5: they're just going to use Ukrainians as human shields. Let
Speaker 5: them fight Putin instead of beefing up their security pasture,
Speaker 5: instead of contributing two or five percent, as President Trump
Speaker 5: is insisting of their GDB towards the Collective Security Kitty, Germany,
Speaker 5: the richest country in Europe gmnivants, contributes two percent, and
Speaker 5: they still don't, right, And that's why they are all
Speaker 5: over Zelenski to have this man keep fighting and to
Speaker 5: have Ukrainians continue being killed. But guess what, there are
Speaker 5: not any more Ukrainians to throw into Putin's bedgrind that
Speaker 5: this is why Zelenski is uh Security Service as the
Speaker 5: use was the speaked Dizabaki, which is effectively the Soviet
Speaker 5: version of the KGB, right, because the Russians and Ukrainians
Speaker 5: they come from the same stop. Z Lanzi is the
Speaker 5: mini Chapuzis and only not. And I'm so glad that
Speaker 5: President Trump is calling him out on this and and
Speaker 5: so they cut out as the zolanski Is who has
Speaker 5: been sleeping the American people. And so no, there is
Speaker 5: no more people to throw and the Europeans again, they
Speaker 5: just trying to be very clever to have Ukraine being destroyed.
Speaker 5: And like you said, there's going to be nothing left
Speaker 5: of this country of Ukraine because fifty percent of infrastructure
Speaker 5: is already destroyed. And Play just wants to stop this
Speaker 5: because he is actually a humane person. He feels terrible
Speaker 5: for Ukrainians and those people who can advocate the continuation
Speaker 5: in the war, they're monsters, and let those people go
Speaker 5: and fight if they want to fight, let them go fight.
Speaker 2: Well, it's sad and it's all preventable, and we have
Speaker 2: an opportunity. We still do andn Zelenski does I predict
Speaker 2: he'll be back. Rebecca Koffler always great to have you.
Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 2: All right, let's get to our busy, busy telephones. Dennis
Speaker 2: is in Long Island, New York. What's up, Dennis?
Speaker 3: How are you?
Speaker 2: Looks like New York City's on the verge of bringing
Speaker 2: back Governor Cuomo.
Speaker 3: What are your thoughts on that?
Speaker 7: Oh? Please, I mean, we've been just another nightmare. I
Speaker 7: actually work for the city and it's just they just
Speaker 7: can't help themselves here. But I am from Long Island.
Speaker 7: I know you are too, I believe.
Speaker 2: Yes originally, yes, sir, I am no longer a New Yorker.
Speaker 6: You know a lot.
Speaker 7: I have five years and I'm retiring, and that I'm
Speaker 7: heading to Florid with the rest of my family.
Speaker 2: I can't tell you all my friends tell me the
Speaker 2: same thing. Are They come visit me and they're like, oh,
Speaker 2: I just left, you know, twenty degree weather. It's paradised
Speaker 2: out here.
Speaker 3: What do you do? Why am I up there? I
Speaker 3: don't want to be there anymore.
Speaker 2: And a lot of people, you know, it took me
Speaker 2: a while to get out because of my kids and stuff.
Speaker 2: I have family obligations, and but as soon as I
Speaker 2: could out, I went.
Speaker 3: Best decision I made.
Speaker 7: Well, my I just sent my daughter. She's a freshman
Speaker 7: down at school in Fort Lauderdale, so I look forward
Speaker 7: to parents' weekend.
Speaker 2: So anyway, back to the point, I know it sounds
Speaker 2: to me like you're getting ready for spring break, but
Speaker 2: go ahead.
Speaker 7: Yeah, listen, I wish I could go to spring break.
Speaker 7: When I was in school, I had played lacross, so
Speaker 7: I wasn't allowed to go on spring breaks.
Speaker 2: After my exposes that I did on my TV show
Speaker 2: about spring break, I sat my kids down before college.
Speaker 2: I said, don't you ever ever dare ask me to
Speaker 2: go on spring break, because the answer is no, hell no,
Speaker 2: don't ask. Not happening ever over my dead body. But
Speaker 2: I was being very nice about it.
Speaker 7: No, I had the same one. But you know, my
Speaker 7: secret weapon as my brother is a police officer down
Speaker 7: for Florida, and she's like ten minutes from dorm to door,
Speaker 7: so there will be nurse spring break for her.
Speaker 3: Anyway, I know the listen.
Speaker 2: I've had parents say, well, you're being a helicopter parent.
Speaker 2: I'm like, yeah, I don't care. I really don't care.
Speaker 7: This day and age, Yes, that'd be fine. You know, Yeah,
Speaker 7: I'm comforting with her down there in school, and it's
Speaker 7: fun to visit. I not go off seeing my family
Speaker 7: seeing her. But then I got to fly back.
Speaker 2: To this anyway, I took you, I digressed too much.
Speaker 2: What's on your mind today?
Speaker 7: Uh no, my mind is like, first of all, proud American.
Speaker 7: I love the fact what I saw on Friday in
Speaker 7: the Oval Office. It's about time he stuck Trump President
Speaker 7: stuck up for us and loved Jade Vance. Now all
Speaker 7: these politicians, Democrat or Republican, those ones that are in
Speaker 7: the morning meeting with Celenski, why don't they put up
Speaker 7: their money personal money, and if it's boots to the ground, well,
Speaker 7: you know, I have a son and nephews in the army.
Speaker 7: I don't want them going to fight this war that
Speaker 7: most of us, majority of us don't believe in. Let
Speaker 7: them send their family first, or better yet, Sean, let's
Speaker 7: follow the money and let's find those missing billions of
Speaker 7: dollars and let's freeze it, take it back and say, okay,
Speaker 7: we already spent this, but we'll give it to them,
Speaker 7: you know, and you know, make sure that they're in
Speaker 7: clean up the kickbacks. I thought that would be a
Speaker 7: pretty good idea.
Speaker 2: I think we need a full accounting of the money.
Speaker 3: More importantly, I'm going to be honest with my goal
Speaker 3: here is.
Speaker 2: My goal is for the people of Ukraine to get
Speaker 2: their country back and to live in peace and to
Speaker 2: stop dying. I don't want to see any more of it.
Speaker 2: And I think there's a window, an opportunity, and a
Speaker 2: chance that was blown. But the opportunity is not gone.
Speaker 2: And President Trump said, and I'll ask Vice President Vance
Speaker 2: about this tonight. You know, if Zolensky wants to come
Speaker 2: back and do a piece deal, is the door still open.
Speaker 2: I think the President has made clear that it is.
Speaker 2: I would like that for the Ukrainian people. I would
Speaker 2: like that for Europe. And if that makes me a
Speaker 2: bad guy, there's not gonna be a country left. You
Speaker 2: don't have to be a genius to figure this part out.
Speaker 2: And I would like them to have as much of
Speaker 2: their country back as possible. And I would like the
Speaker 2: territorial ambitions of Putin to come to an end. And
Speaker 2: I think a negotiated settlement, right now is the best answer.
Speaker 2: Rather than Zelenski saying that this war is going to
Speaker 2: go on for years.
Speaker 7: It'd be interesting, you know, peace, peace all the way.
Speaker 7: You know, let's hear what the citizen, the average citizen
Speaker 7: in the Ukraine, what they want.
Speaker 2: Well, already I already told you what they want. They
Speaker 2: want this to end Ukrainian double digit majority of Ukrainian
Speaker 2: support a negotiated settlement and a quick end to this war.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's.
Speaker 2: Because they see what's happening to the whole infrastructure is
Speaker 2: being destroyed, and that's why the mineral deal will help them,
Speaker 2: because that'll allow them to rebuild their country. Anyway, my friend,
Speaker 2: I'm going to run. I appreciate the call, Joe and
Speaker 2: l J. What's up, Big Joe, champion of the taxpayer.
Speaker 2: What's going on, Sean? I'm so fired up about the
Speaker 2: speech tomorrow night.
Speaker 1: I think Trump will give a great speech, and I
Speaker 1: think he'll call on Musk, you know, not call on him,
Speaker 1: but say that he's fired up about what Musk is
Speaker 1: doing to cut waste. And I think the Republicans will
Speaker 1: give him a standing ovation and the Democrats will set down.
Speaker 1: So it will be a clear indication to the hard
Speaker 1: work in American taxpayers that if you won't waste and
Speaker 1: fraud cut out, you need to vote Republican because the
Speaker 1: Democrats don't care anything about doing away with wasting fraud.
Speaker 8: Doesn't that make sense?
Speaker 2: Makes a lot of sense, Joe, you always make sense.
Speaker 2: I've known you since my local days as a radio
Speaker 2: host in Atlanta.
Speaker 1: I started you in ninety six, before that, really Atlanta
Speaker 1: ninety two.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was there from ninety two to ninety six.
Speaker 2: I was read there, celebrated me in the AJAC when
Speaker 2: I left. Nineteen ninety six was a great year for
Speaker 2: the city of Atlanta. The Olympics came and Sean Hannity left.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 2: Nobody gave Fox News much of a chance then, but
Speaker 2: what kind of worked out? Okay, God God had my back.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Joe, God bless you. You're a good man.
Speaker 2: Let's say hi to Jim and my free state of Florida.
Speaker 2: He's holding down the fort while I'm in the swamp.
Speaker 2: What's up, Jim? What's how are you?
Speaker 3: Glad you called?
Speaker 6: I'm doing well and thanks for the privilege. You know, boys,
Speaker 6: Since since Friday, there's been so many talking heads, there's
Speaker 6: been so many different things. But I'll tell you my
Speaker 6: initial impression was I was really flabbergasted. I felt that
Speaker 6: there was a time for everything and there's a place
Speaker 6: for everything. And the way that that escalated publicly, I
Speaker 6: thought was at that time I thought was really undignified.
Speaker 6: But then in hindsight now since that time, I look
Speaker 6: back and I've viewed it a number of times, and
Speaker 6: I'm seeing where Zlensky actually initiated it, because he came in,
Speaker 6: you know, and he said, you're just going on and
Speaker 6: on and on the same old, same old, same old
Speaker 6: Zelensky expecting a blank check, and that wasn't going to happen.
Speaker 6: And I felt, you know, because initially it was supposed
Speaker 6: to be a very you know, cordial diplomatic meeting in
Speaker 6: front of the press, go back and signed the papers,
Speaker 6: signed the treaty, signed the deal, have lunch, let's let's
Speaker 6: move on. And it just didn't turn in that way.
Speaker 6: And unfortunately it didn't turn in that way in front
Speaker 6: of the cavas.
Speaker 2: But you know, a lot a lot of people wish
Speaker 2: it didn't, that this happened behind closed doors and not
Speaker 2: in front of the American people. I disagree with that.
Speaker 2: I think transparency is a good thing. And to watch
Speaker 2: this unfold in real time in the Oval office, they
Speaker 2: could have stopped us at any point. Nope, Donald Trump
Speaker 2: is very different and he let it play. And that's
Speaker 2: what would have happened behind closed doors anyway, probably would
Speaker 2: have ended the same way. And you know, let's see
Speaker 2: if Zelensky is smart enough, you know, and and gets
Speaker 2: his head on straight and realizes he can't win this war.
Speaker 2: I don't build the best he can hope for, and
Speaker 2: that's with us money in the hundreds of millions of
Speaker 2: billions of dollars being spent and Europe spending hundreds of billions.
Speaker 2: He you know, if he's if he's predicting this is
Speaker 2: going to go on for years, there won't be a country.
Speaker 3: There will be nothing left. It'll be rebble, and we
Speaker 3: don't need that. We don't want that.
Speaker 2: Then then America is gonna have to come in with
Speaker 2: a Marshall plan and rebuild the whole thing, and we
Speaker 2: don't want that either. We have a rare earth mineral
Speaker 2: deal where they'll be able to have the monies to
Speaker 2: rebuild their country. I want that for them. I admire
Speaker 2: the Ukrainian people. They fought valiantly. They've tried their best.
Speaker 2: They don't have the money, they don't have the resources,
Speaker 2: they don't have the man power to fight this war,
Speaker 2: and Europe is not going to provide it.
Speaker 3: And if they believe that, then you let me sell you,
Speaker 3: you know, a beautiful estate on the moon.
Speaker 2: It was a great it was, yeah, it was, I mean,
Speaker 2: and this is what Donald Trump does so well. Anyway,
Speaker 2: my friend, thank you eight hundred and nine foot one Sean.
Speaker 2: If you want to be a part of the program,
Speaker 2: let us say hi to Bob in Texas.
Speaker 3: God bless Texas.
Speaker 8: What's up, Bob, oh Sean, thanks for taking the call
Speaker 8: and allowing me to share some insights with you and
Speaker 8: your listeners. Let me put it this way and fair disclosure.
Speaker 8: I am a Trump supporter one point oh two point
Speaker 8: oho in between and behind Trump all along. I am
Speaker 8: a retired US Army colonel. I will tell you that
Speaker 8: I have spent a lot of time in Russia and
Speaker 8: in Ukraine over the last thirty five years. I've actually
Speaker 8: been in Russia on US military orders. I know the people,
Speaker 8: in the cultures and everything of both countries really well.
Speaker 8: My wife is Ukrainian. I speak Russian fairly well. I
Speaker 8: would put.
Speaker 3: Myself you're impressive.
Speaker 8: Being I would put myself in a category of somebody
Speaker 8: being extraordinarily well informed about the whole situation. But the
Speaker 8: real reason I called into you is I want to
Speaker 8: summarize what happened last Friday very quickly. And you know
Speaker 8: I have looked at this, analyzed it. You know, watched
Speaker 8: the entire event on Friday, and in all honesty, with
Speaker 8: careful analysis of the way I see it, it went
Speaker 8: fairly well for the first twenty nine to thirty minutes
Speaker 8: between Trump and Zelensky. As soon as jd. Vance opened
Speaker 8: his mouth and started talking, he basically started provoking Zelensky.
Speaker 8: From everything that I can see that this was really
Speaker 8: a provocation on his part. But I would fault both
Speaker 8: Trump and Zelenski as well. I would fault Zelensky for
Speaker 8: not using his interpreter. If he had used his interpreter.
Speaker 8: He Zelensky speaks English, understands English fairly well. But if
Speaker 8: he'd used his interpreter, it would have given him time
Speaker 8: to think about what he was saying, think about what
Speaker 8: the what Trump and Vans were saying. It would have
Speaker 8: just created a buffer. If he had used his interpreter,
Speaker 8: and I fault him for not doing that. The other
Speaker 8: thing is, you alluded to this a few minutes ago,
Speaker 8: but you know, honestly, there should have been a private
Speaker 8: session before the public session. You know, both Trump and
Speaker 8: Vilensky's staff, you know, could have seen this coming the
Speaker 8: way it happened. If they had put these guys in
Speaker 8: the room quietly together for maybe thirty minutes to an
Speaker 8: hour and then allowed the media in, I think this
Speaker 8: could have been been done and been completely smoothly accomplished,
Speaker 8: and exactly you know, well.
Speaker 2: I just I'm going to gently push back on that,
Speaker 2: because the way this was designed was it was supposed
Speaker 2: to be a ceremonial agreement on rare earth minerals, and
Speaker 2: so everybody already agreed to that part, so they had
Speaker 2: their chance, and the expectations were that that was what
Speaker 2: it was going to be about. And I don't disagree
Speaker 2: on the interpreter part. When I interviewed Zelenski a few
Speaker 2: weeks back, I mean, the interpreter makes it very very
Speaker 2: hard to have a conversation with him, and he never
Speaker 2: answered a single question. We didn't even er part two
Speaker 2: of the interview because it just it kind of diminished.
Speaker 2: The value of the interview was so hard. But you're
Speaker 2: a great patriot. I understand what you're saying. You make
Speaker 2: a lot of sense. You obviously care deeply about the region.
Speaker 2: You're very knowledgeable, and I'm grateful for all of your contributions,
Speaker 2: you know, and your everything you're trying to express here.
Speaker 2: What we're watching unfold is a tragedy, and it is
Speaker 2: one that we have an opportunity to hopefully stop, and
Speaker 2: I pray that we do.
Speaker 3: All Right, that's gonna wrap things up for today.
Speaker 2: Hannity Tonight nine eastern on the Fox News Channel from
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Speaker 2: the FBI withholding information requested by the Attorney General of
Speaker 2: our country. We'll get to the bottom of that, and
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