WEBVTT - Strategy in Ukraine - March 3rd, Hour 3 0:00:00.440 --> 0:00:04.519 Stay right here for our final news roundup and information overload. 0:00:04.600 --> 0:00:07.720 All right, news roundup and information overload. Our toll free 0:00:07.920 --> 0:00:10.440 our number is eight hundred nine four one Sean if 0:00:10.440 --> 0:00:12.119 you want to be a part of the program or 0:00:12.160 --> 0:00:14.800 in the DC swamp, jd Vance will bring us behind 0:00:14.800 --> 0:00:17.279 the scenes tonight in terms of what happened in the 0:00:17.280 --> 0:00:22.520 Oval office on Friday, Now, Zelensky had an opportunity. He 0:00:22.560 --> 0:00:26.480 appeared with Brett Bher on Friday night, and Brett bhar 0:00:26.560 --> 0:00:29.880 gave him not one, not two, but three opportunities to 0:00:30.400 --> 0:00:33.240 back off and apologize for what had happened. He just 0:00:33.960 --> 0:00:36.600 was steadfast and staying right where he was and being 0:00:36.680 --> 0:00:40.839 very stubborn and determined, which kinda breaks protocol. And now 0:00:40.880 --> 0:00:44.800 we know that he this was supposed to be ceremonial. 0:00:45.400 --> 0:00:48.560 He was supposed to go in and Phase one, which 0:00:48.600 --> 0:00:51.040 was the rare earth mineral deal, which would guarantee an 0:00:51.080 --> 0:00:56.160 American presence and for a long period of time inside 0:00:56.200 --> 0:00:59.400 of Ukraine, which has many security benefits because we have 0:00:59.440 --> 0:01:03.440 business interest there now, and it was Phase two would 0:01:03.440 --> 0:01:05.440 have been a ceasefire. Phase three would have been in 0:01:05.440 --> 0:01:08.559 a negotiated settlement. Not everything that Ukraine wants, not everything 0:01:08.600 --> 0:01:11.640 that Putin wants, but hopefully in agreement that would have 0:01:11.680 --> 0:01:15.039 created peace and then death and destruction, and that all 0:01:15.080 --> 0:01:18.959 got blown up. Anyway, here's Zelensky refusing to apologize after 0:01:19.000 --> 0:01:19.479 that meeting. 0:01:19.880 --> 0:01:22.520 So I'm not hearing from you, mister president. Thought that 0:01:22.560 --> 0:01:24.280 you owe the president and apology. 0:01:24.720 --> 0:01:28.800 Now, I respect President and I respect American people. 0:01:29.360 --> 0:01:32.040 And if I don't know if. 0:01:32.680 --> 0:01:34.760 I think that we have to be very open and 0:01:34.959 --> 0:01:39.720 very honest, and I'm not sure that we did something bad. 0:01:40.120 --> 0:01:43.840 I think maybe sometimes some things we have to discuss 0:01:44.520 --> 0:01:48.560 out of out of media, with all respect to democracy 0:01:48.600 --> 0:01:51.000 and to a free media. But there are things that 0:01:51.160 --> 0:01:55.560 where we have to understand the position of Ukraine and Ukrainians, 0:01:55.880 --> 0:02:00.240 and I think that is the most important thing. Yes, 0:02:00.600 --> 0:02:03.000 you know where wearing close partners, we have to be fair, 0:02:03.080 --> 0:02:05.560 we have to be we have to be wary free. 0:02:06.080 --> 0:02:09.200 I am predicting that's a Lenski'll be back. I don't 0:02:09.200 --> 0:02:12.040 know when, maybe sooner than later. I am predicting he 0:02:12.080 --> 0:02:13.920 will be back because he has no choice but to 0:02:13.919 --> 0:02:17.000 be back. I am predicting Europe will not be able 0:02:17.120 --> 0:02:21.400 to fill the void that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, 0:02:21.440 --> 0:02:26.240 the massive hundreds of billions of dollars in a and 0:02:26.280 --> 0:02:29.160 by the way, without accountability. I don't know where all 0:02:29.160 --> 0:02:33.200 that money went, some of a humanitarian quote purpose, you know, 0:02:33.240 --> 0:02:34.920 did it end up in the right hands? You never know, 0:02:35.760 --> 0:02:38.000 And one day we might know. Maybe we'll get a 0:02:38.040 --> 0:02:44.600 doze investigation there. But all these media democrats that are 0:02:44.720 --> 0:02:46.920 slamming Donald Trump. 0:02:46.720 --> 0:02:49.280 He's pro putin. He's a Putin puppet. Bob Bop bop, 0:02:49.320 --> 0:02:50.360 you know, et cetera, et cetera. 0:02:50.800 --> 0:02:55.400 Let's let's put this in the archives, because you're gonna 0:02:55.440 --> 0:02:58.600 hear this again, is my prediction. You're going to hear 0:02:59.040 --> 0:03:04.160 me play this after a piece, a negotiated settlement is 0:03:04.200 --> 0:03:07.280 eventually achieved, and then I'm going to remind them of 0:03:07.280 --> 0:03:10.880 how stupid they are and how after all these years 0:03:10.880 --> 0:03:13.720 of Donald Trump being on the world stage, they don't 0:03:13.760 --> 0:03:17.799 have the slightest clue about how this man operates. He 0:03:17.840 --> 0:03:24.000 talks about terriffs, he's negotiating, he talks about he doesn't 0:03:24.040 --> 0:03:27.320 want to fall into the trap. Oh well, for four 0:03:27.400 --> 0:03:30.320 years we've been calling Putin every name in the book. 0:03:30.520 --> 0:03:34.920 He didn't care. He just kept going and bombing and killing. 0:03:35.600 --> 0:03:39.800 So Trump gets him to publicly say that he wants 0:03:39.840 --> 0:03:44.680 a settlement, a negotiated settlement that is called progress. But 0:03:44.800 --> 0:03:46.400 if you do, but then they want him to call 0:03:46.480 --> 0:03:49.800 him names or else he's a puppet. No, Donald Trump 0:03:49.880 --> 0:03:53.680 is negotiating joining US now as Rebecca Kawflor is with 0:03:53.800 --> 0:03:59.360 US Strategic and Military intelligence analysts, formerly with the US 0:03:59.640 --> 0:04:04.480 Defense Intelligence Agency, author of the best selling book Putin's Playbook, 0:04:04.960 --> 0:04:06.000 and great. 0:04:05.760 --> 0:04:06.720 To have you a beck, Rebecca. 0:04:06.720 --> 0:04:08.800 How are you excellent? How are you sean? 0:04:09.160 --> 0:04:09.640 I'm good. 0:04:10.400 --> 0:04:13.640 It's amazing to me Donald Trump on the world stage 0:04:13.720 --> 0:04:16.400 this long period of time, and I've known him longer 0:04:16.400 --> 0:04:18.159 than everybody else. But you don't need to be a 0:04:18.200 --> 0:04:21.240 genius to figure out Donald Trump. Donald Trump is in 0:04:21.279 --> 0:04:25.960 a perpetual state of negotiation. Donald Trump really does want 0:04:26.040 --> 0:04:28.680 to end the war, stop the killing, and end the destruction. 0:04:29.000 --> 0:04:33.600 And I just find the ignorance out there. It's seemingly 0:04:33.680 --> 0:04:36.520 purposeful to me. If he cured cancer tomorrow, they would 0:04:36.560 --> 0:04:39.159 still be calling him he cured cancer. But he worked 0:04:39.160 --> 0:04:41.800 with the pharmaceutical industry to do it. I mean, they 0:04:41.839 --> 0:04:43.520 find something to hate about it. 0:04:44.200 --> 0:04:47.600 That's their standard playbook that is very old and it 0:04:47.640 --> 0:04:51.440 doesn't work if something does not align with their narrative. 0:04:51.560 --> 0:04:57.159 They called out person Putin's apologist, this put In that. 0:04:57.720 --> 0:05:00.120 But you know what, President Trump, as you said that, 0:05:00.200 --> 0:05:03.040 you know him for a long time. He's not afraid 0:05:03.200 --> 0:05:08.000 of words, He's not afraid of anything. He basically prioritizing 0:05:08.120 --> 0:05:13.000 America's security, and he is prioritizing peace. And as a realist, 0:05:13.120 --> 0:05:18.200 President Trump understands that doesn't matter how many billions of 0:05:18.320 --> 0:05:22.560 dollars we can flow to Ukraine. This war is unwinnable 0:05:22.600 --> 0:05:25.400 for Ukraine. I've been saying it for three years. It's 0:05:25.440 --> 0:05:29.039 mathematically impossible. And I think I explained it on the 0:05:29.080 --> 0:05:32.599 show before why that is. And so President Trump wants 0:05:32.640 --> 0:05:37.520 to stop the bleeding of Ukrainians and they're literally running 0:05:37.600 --> 0:05:40.599 out of people, running out of men's thrown into put 0:05:40.640 --> 0:05:43.880 In his meat grinder. And he wants to stop the 0:05:43.920 --> 0:05:50.039 bleeding of US weapons arsenal because the Biden administration has 0:05:50.160 --> 0:05:54.840 depleted our own military hardware stockpile to a very dangerous 0:05:54.920 --> 0:05:59.120 level by senting it to Ukraine. And we have other 0:05:59.200 --> 0:06:02.719 threats on her, such as China, which is a much 0:06:03.040 --> 0:06:06.440 graver threat, long term threats to the United States, and 0:06:06.520 --> 0:06:11.560 President Trump wants to ensure our combat readiness to take 0:06:11.600 --> 0:06:13.680 on that threat if we have to. 0:06:14.120 --> 0:06:17.280 Zelensky said that he thinks this war is going to 0:06:17.320 --> 0:06:20.359 continue for years, and he made this statement just in 0:06:20.400 --> 0:06:24.159 the last I believe forty eight hours. America cannot afford 0:06:24.680 --> 0:06:27.359 what Joe Biden set America up to do here, and 0:06:27.400 --> 0:06:30.880 that is to be a proxy fighter for Ukraine. America 0:06:30.920 --> 0:06:34.680 can't afford it. Europe they may step up somewhat. I mean, 0:06:34.680 --> 0:06:37.480 they seem to be rallying around Zelensky as much as 0:06:37.520 --> 0:06:40.279 they can. They're offering a little bit more aid. They're 0:06:40.320 --> 0:06:42.800 never going to match what America was doing. They're not 0:06:43.000 --> 0:06:46.080 capable of it. And if this war does go on 0:06:46.200 --> 0:06:49.520 for years, and Zolensky's right about that, there's not going 0:06:49.600 --> 0:06:52.480 to be a country worth saving at that point. Their 0:06:52.520 --> 0:06:59.240 infrastructure is being destroyed systematic, systemically, and people are fleeing 0:06:59.360 --> 0:07:02.720 and droll their refugees all over the rest of Europe. 0:07:02.920 --> 0:07:05.640 They can't find enough people to fight this war anymore. 0:07:06.200 --> 0:07:09.240 There won't be a country left by the end of this. 0:07:09.960 --> 0:07:13.720 And while everybody is you know, thumping their chests and 0:07:13.760 --> 0:07:17.880 acting like Fred Flintstone and Bambam and acting really tough. 0:07:18.560 --> 0:07:22.880 There really is no option for Zelensky at this point. 0:07:23.440 --> 0:07:25.800 And that's why you know Trump was getting annoyed and saying, 0:07:25.840 --> 0:07:27.200 you don't have cards. 0:07:27.240 --> 0:07:28.360 I'm not playing cards. 0:07:28.640 --> 0:07:33.520 You don't have any leverage except the leverage that the 0:07:33.720 --> 0:07:36.920 US and Europe is giving you through financial aid. That 0:07:37.040 --> 0:07:40.160 cannot continue in perpetuity exactly. 0:07:40.480 --> 0:07:43.920 And no, this war is not gonna go forever. The 0:07:44.120 --> 0:07:48.080 only reason why this war was going for three years 0:07:48.320 --> 0:07:53.280 is because Pudin has calibrated his strategy. He did not 0:07:53.680 --> 0:07:58.360 want to destroy Kiev. He did not want to remove 0:07:58.480 --> 0:08:02.480 Zolensky because he was I'm not certain about NATO's response 0:08:02.800 --> 0:08:07.040 if he escalated quickly all the way up, he was 0:08:07.160 --> 0:08:10.920 doing it in a gradual manner by running the war 0:08:11.000 --> 0:08:16.200 of attrition in order to force the Lamps to capitulate. Well, 0:08:16.680 --> 0:08:21.280 the Democrats decided have decided that they want to wipe 0:08:21.320 --> 0:08:25.560 out US weapons arsenal by fighting the war for someone 0:08:25.560 --> 0:08:32.000 else's freedom. But what happened was the Russians transitioned their 0:08:32.480 --> 0:08:35.720 military and economy on what time putting seventy years prior 0:08:35.800 --> 0:08:40.280 to the invasion couldn't pass a special legal regime called 0:08:40.320 --> 0:08:45.199 the Special Period that mandated that the Militi industrial complex 0:08:45.240 --> 0:08:48.959 worked in three shifts twenty four to seven, and NATO 0:08:49.080 --> 0:08:55.000 Secretary General himself admitted that Russia has produced in one 0:08:55.080 --> 0:08:59.040 month and keeps producing in one month more military hardware 0:08:59.080 --> 0:09:04.360 than the entire Natal Alliance in one year. And we 0:09:04.559 --> 0:09:08.480 are not capable right now US military industrial complex to 0:09:08.679 --> 0:09:12.960 scale up to continue prosecuting before because we're officially not 0:09:13.200 --> 0:09:17.240 on a wartime footing. The new Secretary of Defense p 0:09:17.480 --> 0:09:22.000 sect It admitted that China also produces by the time 0:09:22.080 --> 0:09:27.439 that we produce one if aircraft fighter aircraft still produced 0:09:27.559 --> 0:09:33.040 ten because of the Pentagon's uh ridiculous policies, right, so 0:09:33.080 --> 0:09:36.000 hopefully he will fix that. And so President Trump is 0:09:36.080 --> 0:09:38.680 just being realistic. He wants to cut our losses so 0:09:38.840 --> 0:09:43.440 he can uh focus his attention on rebuilding America, making 0:09:43.679 --> 0:09:48.640 us secure, making the world secure, and stop this fighting 0:09:48.760 --> 0:09:51.120 and this bloody war. And Zo Lensky seems to be 0:09:51.200 --> 0:09:56.240 too dense to understand that and too disrespectful to appreciate 0:09:57.040 --> 0:09:59.320 what the American people have done. 0:09:59.080 --> 0:10:02.520 For him now have turned down what it appears to be. 0:10:02.559 --> 0:10:07.200 According to the Treasury Secretary Scott Bessen, three opportunities to 0:10:07.280 --> 0:10:11.080 sign the Rare Earth mineral deal after three times indicating 0:10:11.120 --> 0:10:14.200 that they would sign the deal. To me, it's a 0:10:14.240 --> 0:10:18.000 three phase process that would guarantee not only the money 0:10:18.440 --> 0:10:21.560 available to Ukraine so they can rebuild what's left to 0:10:21.600 --> 0:10:25.960 their country, that would also guarantee an American presence and 0:10:26.080 --> 0:10:29.559 financial interest in the area, which would be a disincentive 0:10:29.559 --> 0:10:33.960 for Putin to do this again. With McCrone, the President 0:10:34.000 --> 0:10:37.240 indicated that he would be willing to allow European troops 0:10:37.280 --> 0:10:40.920 as a presence there, not NATO troops, European troops. I'm 0:10:40.960 --> 0:10:42.960 sure that that would be part of the final phase, 0:10:42.960 --> 0:10:46.160 which would be Phase one would be the mineral deal. 0:10:46.200 --> 0:10:49.959 Phase two would be the ceasefire. Phase three would be 0:10:50.000 --> 0:10:52.560 a negotiated settlement and hopefully an end of the war. 0:10:53.640 --> 0:10:57.080 A double digit majority of Ukrainian support negotiating a quick 0:10:57.200 --> 0:11:00.680 end to the war, and they understand what is happening 0:11:00.720 --> 0:11:03.400 to the country of plurality of American support. A quick 0:11:03.480 --> 0:11:05.680 end of the war, even if it means Russia gets 0:11:06.080 --> 0:11:11.360 to keep some of the territory they currently occupy. There 0:11:11.640 --> 0:11:15.760 is an answer to this problem, and it's not throwing 0:11:15.840 --> 0:11:20.120 money at it and America becoming a proxy fighter for Ukraine, 0:11:20.160 --> 0:11:22.560 which is what it evolved into under Biden. 0:11:22.679 --> 0:11:22.880 Oh. 0:11:22.920 --> 0:11:27.760 Absolutely, Biden was turning Ukraine into another Afghanistan, where we 0:11:27.840 --> 0:11:32.679 spent two point two trillion dollars, sacrifice six thousand lives 0:11:32.800 --> 0:11:36.640 of American men and women, and after twenty years we 0:11:36.760 --> 0:11:41.960 withdrew and the same lunatics basically with the Taliban that 0:11:42.200 --> 0:11:46.480 is running the country. And President Trump can't allow this 0:11:46.600 --> 0:11:51.600 to happen with Ukraine. He cannot also put US boots 0:11:51.679 --> 0:11:55.040 on the ground and throw our men and women into 0:11:55.120 --> 0:12:00.160 putting nuclear furnace. This is why President Trump called well 0:12:00.160 --> 0:12:06.040 now Zolensky that he was gambling with World War three. 0:12:06.480 --> 0:12:07.880 All right, quick break, we'll come back. 0:12:07.920 --> 0:12:11.960 We'll talk with Rebecca Kaffler about what Ukraine is going 0:12:12.000 --> 0:12:14.320 to do next, what Europe will do next. I predict 0:12:14.679 --> 0:12:17.160 that Zolensky will be back. Eight hundred and nine four 0:12:17.240 --> 0:12:19.920 one Shawn number. We're in DC, we're in the swamp JD. 0:12:20.080 --> 0:12:23.360 Vans tonight, we'll get his first hand reaction to what 0:12:23.400 --> 0:12:25.800 happened on Friday. And also we're here for the State 0:12:25.800 --> 0:12:31.720 of the Union tomorrow. As we continue. All right, we 0:12:31.720 --> 0:12:36.960 continue with Rebecca Kapfler and discussing what the likely resolution 0:12:37.200 --> 0:12:40.920 will be when it comes to Zelenski and Putin in 0:12:40.960 --> 0:12:42.119 this war in Ukraine. 0:12:42.440 --> 0:12:44.360 What do you make of Europe's reaction to this? 0:12:44.480 --> 0:12:46.960 What did you make of the Prime Minister of Great 0:12:47.000 --> 0:12:52.040 Britain and Macron and all these European nations gathering this weekend. 0:12:52.280 --> 0:12:55.800 Of course, they're buttering up Zelensky because they did not 0:12:56.040 --> 0:12:58.960 want to pay for their wrong security, even though a 0:12:59.080 --> 0:13:03.160 decade ago they knew about Puddin's plans. How do I 0:13:03.240 --> 0:13:06.400 know this because I personally briefed NATO in Braszlos in 0:13:06.480 --> 0:13:11.000 twenty thirteen, just months prior to the invasion of Crimea, 0:13:11.040 --> 0:13:15.520 and I explained at the highly classified level what Putin's 0:13:15.520 --> 0:13:19.000 intentions were in Russian's warfighting strategy. And they decided that 0:13:19.240 --> 0:13:22.840 they're just going to use Ukrainians as human shields. Let 0:13:23.080 --> 0:13:27.680 them fight Putin instead of beefing up their security pasture, 0:13:27.880 --> 0:13:33.280 instead of contributing two or five percent, as President Trump 0:13:33.360 --> 0:13:37.720 is insisting of their GDB towards the Collective Security Kitty, Germany, 0:13:37.760 --> 0:13:41.240 the richest country in Europe gmnivants, contributes two percent, and 0:13:41.280 --> 0:13:45.920 they still don't, right, And that's why they are all 0:13:45.920 --> 0:13:50.280 over Zelenski to have this man keep fighting and to 0:13:50.400 --> 0:13:55.080 have Ukrainians continue being killed. But guess what, there are 0:13:55.080 --> 0:13:58.520 not any more Ukrainians to throw into Putin's bedgrind that 0:13:58.600 --> 0:14:01.960 this is why Zelenski is uh Security Service as the 0:14:02.080 --> 0:14:06.240 use was the speaked Dizabaki, which is effectively the Soviet 0:14:06.320 --> 0:14:09.359 version of the KGB, right, because the Russians and Ukrainians 0:14:09.600 --> 0:14:11.839 they come from the same stop. Z Lanzi is the 0:14:11.960 --> 0:14:14.680 mini Chapuzis and only not. And I'm so glad that 0:14:14.800 --> 0:14:18.280 President Trump is calling him out on this and and 0:14:18.760 --> 0:14:21.440 so they cut out as the zolanski Is who has 0:14:21.480 --> 0:14:25.680 been sleeping the American people. And so no, there is 0:14:25.840 --> 0:14:30.120 no more people to throw and the Europeans again, they 0:14:30.240 --> 0:14:34.640 just trying to be very clever to have Ukraine being destroyed. 0:14:34.640 --> 0:14:37.040 And like you said, there's going to be nothing left 0:14:37.120 --> 0:14:42.120 of this country of Ukraine because fifty percent of infrastructure 0:14:42.280 --> 0:14:46.840 is already destroyed. And Play just wants to stop this 0:14:47.080 --> 0:14:51.920 because he is actually a humane person. He feels terrible 0:14:51.960 --> 0:14:55.160 for Ukrainians and those people who can advocate the continuation 0:14:55.280 --> 0:14:58.760 in the war, they're monsters, and let those people go 0:14:58.840 --> 0:15:01.640 and fight if they want to fight, let them go fight. 0:15:02.000 --> 0:15:04.960 Well, it's sad and it's all preventable, and we have 0:15:05.000 --> 0:15:08.640 an opportunity. We still do andn Zelenski does I predict 0:15:08.640 --> 0:15:12.080 he'll be back. Rebecca Koffler always great to have you. 0:15:12.280 --> 0:15:12.680 Thank you. 0:15:12.960 --> 0:15:17.240 All right, let's get to our busy, busy telephones. Dennis 0:15:17.760 --> 0:15:20.640 is in Long Island, New York. What's up, Dennis? 0:15:20.640 --> 0:15:21.040 How are you? 0:15:22.360 --> 0:15:25.680 Looks like New York City's on the verge of bringing 0:15:25.720 --> 0:15:26.720 back Governor Cuomo. 0:15:26.760 --> 0:15:27.680 What are your thoughts on that? 0:15:28.320 --> 0:15:31.840 Oh? Please, I mean, we've been just another nightmare. I 0:15:31.880 --> 0:15:35.560 actually work for the city and it's just they just 0:15:35.560 --> 0:15:38.200 can't help themselves here. But I am from Long Island. 0:15:38.240 --> 0:15:39.840 I know you are too, I believe. 0:15:39.840 --> 0:15:44.440 Yes originally, yes, sir, I am no longer a New Yorker. 0:15:45.480 --> 0:15:45.920 You know a lot. 0:15:46.000 --> 0:15:48.280 I have five years and I'm retiring, and that I'm 0:15:48.280 --> 0:15:50.080 heading to Florid with the rest of my family. 0:15:50.640 --> 0:15:52.280 I can't tell you all my friends tell me the 0:15:52.280 --> 0:15:56.680 same thing. Are They come visit me and they're like, oh, 0:15:56.720 --> 0:15:59.880 I just left, you know, twenty degree weather. It's paradised 0:16:00.080 --> 0:16:00.480 out here. 0:16:00.560 --> 0:16:02.320 What do you do? Why am I up there? I 0:16:02.320 --> 0:16:03.600 don't want to be there anymore. 0:16:04.280 --> 0:16:06.040 And a lot of people, you know, it took me 0:16:06.080 --> 0:16:08.120 a while to get out because of my kids and stuff. 0:16:08.280 --> 0:16:11.320 I have family obligations, and but as soon as I 0:16:11.320 --> 0:16:12.200 could out, I went. 0:16:12.760 --> 0:16:13.800 Best decision I made. 0:16:14.600 --> 0:16:17.280 Well, my I just sent my daughter. She's a freshman 0:16:17.440 --> 0:16:20.400 down at school in Fort Lauderdale, so I look forward 0:16:20.480 --> 0:16:21.520 to parents' weekend. 0:16:23.280 --> 0:16:25.480 So anyway, back to the point, I know it sounds 0:16:25.520 --> 0:16:27.280 to me like you're getting ready for spring break, but 0:16:27.400 --> 0:16:28.280 go ahead. 0:16:28.480 --> 0:16:31.000 Yeah, listen, I wish I could go to spring break. 0:16:31.040 --> 0:16:33.040 When I was in school, I had played lacross, so 0:16:33.080 --> 0:16:35.120 I wasn't allowed to go on spring breaks. 0:16:36.560 --> 0:16:39.160 After my exposes that I did on my TV show 0:16:39.160 --> 0:16:41.920 about spring break, I sat my kids down before college. 0:16:41.960 --> 0:16:45.560 I said, don't you ever ever dare ask me to 0:16:45.600 --> 0:16:48.440 go on spring break, because the answer is no, hell no, 0:16:48.760 --> 0:16:52.360 don't ask. Not happening ever over my dead body. But 0:16:52.400 --> 0:16:53.600 I was being very nice about it. 0:16:53.680 --> 0:16:57.080 No, I had the same one. But you know, my 0:16:57.120 --> 0:16:59.320 secret weapon as my brother is a police officer down 0:16:59.360 --> 0:17:03.400 for Florida, and she's like ten minutes from dorm to door, 0:17:03.520 --> 0:17:06.240 so there will be nurse spring break for her. 0:17:08.240 --> 0:17:10.080 Anyway, I know the listen. 0:17:10.160 --> 0:17:12.800 I've had parents say, well, you're being a helicopter parent. 0:17:12.840 --> 0:17:16.080 I'm like, yeah, I don't care. I really don't care. 0:17:16.840 --> 0:17:22.120 This day and age, Yes, that'd be fine. You know, Yeah, 0:17:22.160 --> 0:17:26.280 I'm comforting with her down there in school, and it's 0:17:26.280 --> 0:17:28.479 fun to visit. I not go off seeing my family 0:17:28.640 --> 0:17:31.639 seeing her. But then I got to fly back. 0:17:31.520 --> 0:17:35.320 To this anyway, I took you, I digressed too much. 0:17:35.560 --> 0:17:36.560 What's on your mind today? 0:17:37.040 --> 0:17:40.000 Uh no, my mind is like, first of all, proud American. 0:17:40.320 --> 0:17:43.760 I love the fact what I saw on Friday in 0:17:43.840 --> 0:17:48.600 the Oval Office. It's about time he stuck Trump President 0:17:48.720 --> 0:17:52.040 stuck up for us and loved Jade Vance. Now all 0:17:52.080 --> 0:17:57.320 these politicians, Democrat or Republican, those ones that are in 0:17:57.480 --> 0:18:00.879 the morning meeting with Celenski, why don't they put up 0:18:00.920 --> 0:18:04.480 their money personal money, and if it's boots to the ground, well, 0:18:04.640 --> 0:18:07.320 you know, I have a son and nephews in the army. 0:18:07.359 --> 0:18:09.800 I don't want them going to fight this war that 0:18:10.200 --> 0:18:13.200 most of us, majority of us don't believe in. Let 0:18:13.200 --> 0:18:17.120 them send their family first, or better yet, Sean, let's 0:18:17.200 --> 0:18:20.560 follow the money and let's find those missing billions of 0:18:20.600 --> 0:18:24.639 dollars and let's freeze it, take it back and say, okay, 0:18:24.720 --> 0:18:26.639 we already spent this, but we'll give it to them, 0:18:26.800 --> 0:18:29.600 you know, and you know, make sure that they're in 0:18:29.680 --> 0:18:32.080 clean up the kickbacks. I thought that would be a 0:18:32.119 --> 0:18:32.879 pretty good idea. 0:18:33.560 --> 0:18:36.160 I think we need a full accounting of the money. 0:18:36.320 --> 0:18:38.560 More importantly, I'm going to be honest with my goal 0:18:38.640 --> 0:18:39.000 here is. 0:18:39.080 --> 0:18:40.800 My goal is for the people of Ukraine to get 0:18:40.840 --> 0:18:44.280 their country back and to live in peace and to 0:18:44.320 --> 0:18:46.600 stop dying. I don't want to see any more of it. 0:18:46.680 --> 0:18:49.480 And I think there's a window, an opportunity, and a 0:18:49.560 --> 0:18:52.640 chance that was blown. But the opportunity is not gone. 0:18:52.920 --> 0:18:55.720 And President Trump said, and I'll ask Vice President Vance 0:18:55.720 --> 0:18:59.479 about this tonight. You know, if Zolensky wants to come 0:18:59.520 --> 0:19:01.760 back and do a piece deal, is the door still open. 0:19:02.320 --> 0:19:04.239 I think the President has made clear that it is. 0:19:04.840 --> 0:19:07.240 I would like that for the Ukrainian people. I would 0:19:07.320 --> 0:19:11.239 like that for Europe. And if that makes me a 0:19:11.280 --> 0:19:13.439 bad guy, there's not gonna be a country left. You 0:19:13.440 --> 0:19:16.359 don't have to be a genius to figure this part out. 0:19:16.880 --> 0:19:18.679 And I would like them to have as much of 0:19:18.680 --> 0:19:21.439 their country back as possible. And I would like the 0:19:21.560 --> 0:19:24.600 territorial ambitions of Putin to come to an end. And 0:19:24.640 --> 0:19:27.720 I think a negotiated settlement, right now is the best answer. 0:19:27.800 --> 0:19:30.480 Rather than Zelenski saying that this war is going to 0:19:30.560 --> 0:19:31.520 go on for years. 0:19:31.400 --> 0:19:35.000 It'd be interesting, you know, peace, peace all the way. 0:19:35.720 --> 0:19:38.920 You know, let's hear what the citizen, the average citizen 0:19:38.960 --> 0:19:40.440 in the Ukraine, what they want. 0:19:41.200 --> 0:19:43.640 Well, already I already told you what they want. They 0:19:43.680 --> 0:19:48.359 want this to end Ukrainian double digit majority of Ukrainian 0:19:48.440 --> 0:19:51.639 support a negotiated settlement and a quick end to this war. 0:19:52.640 --> 0:19:54.160 I mean, it's. 0:19:53.600 --> 0:19:57.399 Because they see what's happening to the whole infrastructure is 0:19:57.440 --> 0:19:59.720 being destroyed, and that's why the mineral deal will help them, 0:19:59.760 --> 0:20:06.160 because that'll allow them to rebuild their country. Anyway, my friend, 0:20:06.200 --> 0:20:08.600 I'm going to run. I appreciate the call, Joe and 0:20:08.800 --> 0:20:11.880 l J. What's up, Big Joe, champion of the taxpayer. 0:20:11.960 --> 0:20:14.960 What's going on, Sean? I'm so fired up about the 0:20:15.040 --> 0:20:16.040 speech tomorrow night. 0:20:16.119 --> 0:20:18.280 I think Trump will give a great speech, and I 0:20:18.320 --> 0:20:20.919 think he'll call on Musk, you know, not call on him, 0:20:20.920 --> 0:20:23.200 but say that he's fired up about what Musk is 0:20:23.240 --> 0:20:26.040 doing to cut waste. And I think the Republicans will 0:20:26.040 --> 0:20:29.200 give him a standing ovation and the Democrats will set down. 0:20:29.520 --> 0:20:32.600 So it will be a clear indication to the hard 0:20:32.600 --> 0:20:36.280 work in American taxpayers that if you won't waste and 0:20:36.400 --> 0:20:40.480 fraud cut out, you need to vote Republican because the 0:20:40.560 --> 0:20:44.200 Democrats don't care anything about doing away with wasting fraud. 0:20:44.240 --> 0:20:45.160 Doesn't that make sense? 0:20:45.480 --> 0:20:47.800 Makes a lot of sense, Joe, you always make sense. 0:20:48.320 --> 0:20:51.000 I've known you since my local days as a radio 0:20:51.000 --> 0:20:52.480 host in Atlanta. 0:20:53.280 --> 0:20:57.480 I started you in ninety six, before that, really Atlanta 0:20:57.680 --> 0:20:58.240 ninety two. 0:20:58.359 --> 0:21:00.000 Yeah, I was there from ninety two to ninety six. 0:21:00.840 --> 0:21:03.160 I was read there, celebrated me in the AJAC when 0:21:03.160 --> 0:21:06.679 I left. Nineteen ninety six was a great year for 0:21:06.760 --> 0:21:10.280 the city of Atlanta. The Olympics came and Sean Hannity left. 0:21:10.560 --> 0:21:10.879 Well. 0:21:11.280 --> 0:21:13.439 Nobody gave Fox News much of a chance then, but 0:21:13.760 --> 0:21:16.800 what kind of worked out? Okay, God God had my back. 0:21:18.119 --> 0:21:20.520 Thank you, Joe, God bless you. You're a good man. 0:21:21.520 --> 0:21:25.719 Let's say hi to Jim and my free state of Florida. 0:21:25.720 --> 0:21:27.720 He's holding down the fort while I'm in the swamp. 0:21:27.720 --> 0:21:29.240 What's up, Jim? What's how are you? 0:21:29.280 --> 0:21:29.840 Glad you called? 0:21:31.000 --> 0:21:34.879 I'm doing well and thanks for the privilege. You know, boys, 0:21:34.920 --> 0:21:38.840 Since since Friday, there's been so many talking heads, there's 0:21:38.880 --> 0:21:41.359 been so many different things. But I'll tell you my 0:21:41.400 --> 0:21:45.200 initial impression was I was really flabbergasted. I felt that 0:21:45.240 --> 0:21:47.359 there was a time for everything and there's a place 0:21:47.400 --> 0:21:51.879 for everything. And the way that that escalated publicly, I 0:21:51.920 --> 0:21:54.960 thought was at that time I thought was really undignified. 0:21:55.720 --> 0:21:58.960 But then in hindsight now since that time, I look 0:21:59.040 --> 0:22:01.399 back and I've viewed it a number of times, and 0:22:01.440 --> 0:22:06.439 I'm seeing where Zlensky actually initiated it, because he came in, 0:22:06.720 --> 0:22:09.159 you know, and he said, you're just going on and 0:22:09.200 --> 0:22:11.120 on and on the same old, same old, same old 0:22:11.200 --> 0:22:16.119 Zelensky expecting a blank check, and that wasn't going to happen. 0:22:16.760 --> 0:22:19.840 And I felt, you know, because initially it was supposed 0:22:19.880 --> 0:22:24.359 to be a very you know, cordial diplomatic meeting in 0:22:24.400 --> 0:22:26.800 front of the press, go back and signed the papers, 0:22:26.840 --> 0:22:30.960 signed the treaty, signed the deal, have lunch, let's let's 0:22:31.000 --> 0:22:32.960 move on. And it just didn't turn in that way. 0:22:32.960 --> 0:22:37.560 And unfortunately it didn't turn in that way in front 0:22:37.560 --> 0:22:39.840 of the cavas. 0:22:40.000 --> 0:22:42.120 But you know, a lot a lot of people wish 0:22:42.200 --> 0:22:45.080