WEBVTT - Poor Joe - May 21st, Hour 3 0:00:00.360 --> 0:00:02.920 Stay right here for our final news round up and 0:00:03.080 --> 0:00:07.280 information overload. Right News round Up, Information Overload, our toll free. 0:00:07.440 --> 0:00:09.800 Our number is Height one hundred and nine to four one, Shawn, 0:00:09.880 --> 0:00:12.520 if you want to be a part of the program. 0:00:13.400 --> 0:00:18.600 It is spectacularly corrupt. It is maybe one of the 0:00:18.640 --> 0:00:22.880 biggest White House scandals of all time, with the exception 0:00:23.040 --> 0:00:25.479 maybe of Woodrow Wilson who had a stroke and his 0:00:25.560 --> 0:00:28.720 wife covered that up. But we have a We had 0:00:28.720 --> 0:00:33.199 a cognitively impaired president, and the media knew it, and 0:00:33.280 --> 0:00:36.680 Democrats knew it, and the people around Joe knew it, 0:00:37.200 --> 0:00:38.520 and they all covered it up. 0:00:39.120 --> 0:00:39.320 You know. 0:00:39.360 --> 0:00:41.200 Here are some of the highlights. 0:00:41.479 --> 0:00:45.599 Look, I'll do what he's unable to do. I'll late 0:00:45.640 --> 0:00:48.239 it affect the strategy to mobilize shut in. 0:00:48.360 --> 0:00:49.839 Our severe of pressure. 0:00:49.720 --> 0:00:51.159 Isolated punish China. 0:00:51.440 --> 0:00:56.440 Nice to all the members of Congress and Homeland Security Secretary. 0:00:57.760 --> 0:01:01.280 I'm not sure going to all ways. He knows so 0:01:01.400 --> 0:01:05.240 long as the nide our freedom can never be secured. 0:01:05.720 --> 0:01:09.800 Look, I'll do what he's unable to do. I'll lead 0:01:09.880 --> 0:01:14.520 to effect the strategy to mobilize suret of pressure, isolated 0:01:14.560 --> 0:01:15.360 plenties China. 0:01:15.640 --> 0:01:19.680 Thanks to all the members of Congress and Homeland Security Secretary. 0:01:21.959 --> 0:01:25.040 I'm not sure going to induce your all ways. He 0:01:25.200 --> 0:01:28.720 knows so long as the nide our freedom can never 0:01:28.800 --> 0:01:29.479 be secured. 0:01:29.880 --> 0:01:33.319 Don't teach Donald Trumping a valuable lesson. 0:01:33.959 --> 0:01:36.920 Don't mess with him in aware unless you want to 0:01:36.959 --> 0:01:45.400 get the benefit. We'll never forget lying around and him 0:01:45.480 --> 0:01:46.319 him lying around. 0:01:46.360 --> 0:01:49.800 Actually, Americans, the nation can be defining. 0:01:49.400 --> 0:01:59.360 His single word, all the the projects, the benefits. 0:01:59.760 --> 0:02:02.120 How do you lead the world with having that besin instructural? 0:02:02.200 --> 0:02:03.840 How do you lead the world? Have been out him 0:02:03.840 --> 0:02:05.600 the best healthcare role? How do you mean the world 0:02:05.600 --> 0:02:07.640 without having the best education? So more? 0:02:07.840 --> 0:02:09.480 How do you lead the world and you don't have 0:02:09.560 --> 0:02:10.239 that done? 0:02:10.600 --> 0:02:13.600 Now, let me take you back to one of the classics, 0:02:13.840 --> 0:02:18.760 because it happened so early on in the lead up 0:02:18.800 --> 0:02:21.880 to the twenty twenty election. This is March of twenty twenty, 0:02:22.080 --> 0:02:25.080 and I played it an awful lot because it really 0:02:25.200 --> 0:02:33.040 did capture how cognitively, what level of cognitive decline he 0:02:33.120 --> 0:02:36.399 was actually going through, and we were witnessing and everybody 0:02:36.440 --> 0:02:39.000 saw it this and you heard me play this a lot. 0:02:39.360 --> 0:02:42.480 We all these truth to be self evident, oh man, 0:02:42.520 --> 0:02:43.799 and women creative by. 0:02:44.080 --> 0:02:48.440 Go you know the thing, the thing, you know, God, 0:02:48.520 --> 0:02:53.400 the creator of everything. That was March of twenty twenty. Now, 0:02:53.680 --> 0:02:56.880 this is how corrupt the media in this country is. 0:02:57.360 --> 0:03:01.799 Let's fast forward to March of twenty four and think 0:03:01.840 --> 0:03:05.080 of almost on a daily basis, on this radio show, 0:03:05.240 --> 0:03:08.720 nightly basis on Hannity, I had the tape of the day. 0:03:08.800 --> 0:03:11.680 If he bothered to show up, Remember we had Joe 0:03:11.720 --> 0:03:15.160 falling and Joe lost on stage, and Joe's shaking air 0:03:15.600 --> 0:03:18.679 and Joe talking to dead people and bumbling and bumbling 0:03:18.760 --> 0:03:22.120 and stumbling and fumbling, and it was an absolute mess 0:03:22.400 --> 0:03:26.360 those rare moments. Anytime we got to see him, we 0:03:26.440 --> 0:03:29.960 got tape we could play. But according to liberal Joe 0:03:30.240 --> 0:03:34.280 over at MSDNC, oh no, no, March of twenty four, 0:03:34.360 --> 0:03:37.040 four years after what I just played, this is what 0:03:37.080 --> 0:03:38.800 he said about Joe's cognitive state. 0:03:39.360 --> 0:03:41.839 Start your tape right now, because I'm about to tell 0:03:41.840 --> 0:03:44.520 you the truth and f you if you. 0:03:44.480 --> 0:03:45.600 Can't handle the truth. 0:03:46.520 --> 0:03:54.200 This version of Biden, intellectually, analytically is the best Biden ever, 0:03:54.880 --> 0:03:55.880 not a close second. 0:03:55.920 --> 0:03:58.600 And I've known him for years. The Prazinskis have known 0:03:58.680 --> 0:04:01.800 him for fifty years. If it weren't the truth, I 0:04:01.840 --> 0:04:02.680 wouldn't say it. 0:04:03.240 --> 0:04:08.440 This version is the best. Did I hear him say? Intellectually? Seriously? 0:04:09.160 --> 0:04:09.600 Anyway? 0:04:10.640 --> 0:04:14.240 Here is the author of uh well, two big best sellers, 0:04:14.320 --> 0:04:16.599 The Big Guy, How a President and his Son sold 0:04:16.600 --> 0:04:20.320 Out America and the other big best seller, Laptop from Hell. 0:04:20.560 --> 0:04:23.039 She also writes for The New York Post. And there's 0:04:23.080 --> 0:04:26.280 a friend of the program, Our friend, Miranda Divine is back. 0:04:26.920 --> 0:04:30.080 I mean, are you watching this to me? Miranda? 0:04:30.680 --> 0:04:34.560 This is one of the biggest scandals in the history 0:04:35.080 --> 0:04:39.640 of the presidency. And they were aided and abetted by 0:04:39.800 --> 0:04:43.919 everybody and his family, everybody that worked in that White House, 0:04:44.440 --> 0:04:48.719 aided and betted by a corrupt state run legacy medium 0:04:48.839 --> 0:04:52.960 mob that denied the story that The New York Post 0:04:53.040 --> 0:04:56.320 broke about the Laptop from Hell. They told us we 0:04:56.320 --> 0:04:59.080 were lying when we played Joe in his own words, 0:04:59.120 --> 0:05:02.480 they called him cheap fake videos. They were real videos. 0:05:02.800 --> 0:05:04.240 I want your reaction all of this. 0:05:04.880 --> 0:05:08.400 Well, well, look, Sean, Honestly, all they had to do 0:05:08.720 --> 0:05:11.799 was watch your show night after night. 0:05:11.800 --> 0:05:13.240 For four years. 0:05:13.640 --> 0:05:16.159 It wasn't like you just cottoned onto it. In March 0:05:16.200 --> 0:05:21.080 twenty twenty four, you have been charting Joe Biden's cognitive 0:05:21.120 --> 0:05:26.159 and physical decline over his entire presidency, and so have 0:05:26.320 --> 0:05:28.880 we at the New York Post, so have I in 0:05:28.920 --> 0:05:33.080 my columns, and so you know, his collapse on the 0:05:33.080 --> 0:05:37.120 debate stage last summer was not really a surprise to us. 0:05:37.160 --> 0:05:41.839 I guess what was shocking was that they allowed him, 0:05:42.000 --> 0:05:45.720 Those people who'd so carefully protected him and covered up 0:05:45.760 --> 0:05:50.560 for his failures, had allowed him to go out basically 0:05:50.720 --> 0:05:56.520 naked without a harness, on a tight rope for an 0:05:56.560 --> 0:05:59.839 hour against Donald Trump. They allowed him to do that 0:06:00.200 --> 0:06:04.080 nine o'clock at night. So, I mean, there are so 0:06:04.160 --> 0:06:09.120 many secrets and lies and delusions surrounding Joe Biden, his family, 0:06:09.200 --> 0:06:13.600 his presidency. But I wouldn't be too surprised if there 0:06:13.720 --> 0:06:17.279 was some level of sabotage going on, because they could 0:06:17.279 --> 0:06:20.600 have easily said, look, he's sick, he's come down with 0:06:20.720 --> 0:06:23.360 COVID if they lied all the time, So what difference 0:06:23.360 --> 0:06:25.679 would it have made. Certainly it would have been better 0:06:25.720 --> 0:06:28.440 for his campaign than having him go out there in 0:06:28.440 --> 0:06:31.440 the state that they must have known he was in. 0:06:31.560 --> 0:06:34.480 I mean, ron Klain is in one of these books 0:06:34.520 --> 0:06:38.479 saying how shocked he was this was Biden's chief of 0:06:38.520 --> 0:06:41.280 staff who'd left and came back to help with debate 0:06:41.360 --> 0:06:45.080 prep at Camp David, and he was shocked at how 0:06:45.160 --> 0:06:49.280 debilitated Joe Biden was, how little energy he had, how 0:06:49.520 --> 0:06:52.400 short the time was that he could focus. So they 0:06:52.440 --> 0:06:56.599 all knew. And I honestly, I think John Stewart hate 0:06:56.600 --> 0:06:58.880 to say, but I think he's put at best. He said, 0:06:59.240 --> 0:07:03.680 here is the news trying to sell you news about 0:07:03.839 --> 0:07:08.080 news that they told you wasn't news, and you know 0:07:08.200 --> 0:07:10.880 that was the cover up. And Jake Tapper of all 0:07:10.960 --> 0:07:14.000 people to be turning around now as the sort of 0:07:14.120 --> 0:07:20.040 latter latter day, you know, expositioner of truth is such 0:07:20.040 --> 0:07:23.040 a joke because I mean, it wasn't just the Lara 0:07:23.080 --> 0:07:26.280 Trump interview, but that was emblematic of how nasty he 0:07:26.440 --> 0:07:29.920 was to anybody who pointed out the truth about Joe Biden. 0:07:30.440 --> 0:07:33.640 And clearly he was in Joe Biden's. 0:07:33.160 --> 0:07:34.960 Good books, because otherwise why. 0:07:34.760 --> 0:07:38.440 Would he have been chosen to moderate that CNN debate 0:07:38.520 --> 0:07:43.040 that ended up in disaster, you know? And I will 0:07:43.080 --> 0:07:47.240 say though, for his co author Alex Thompson, he did 0:07:47.280 --> 0:07:50.960 at least try to and he did break a few stories. 0:07:51.160 --> 0:07:54.360 And I think it's interesting what he said when he's 0:07:54.400 --> 0:07:58.880 promoting the book. Just yesterday he said that some of 0:07:58.920 --> 0:08:02.040 the Democrats that he is you and said, look, we 0:08:02.160 --> 0:08:06.080 couldn't believe that you guys the media were buying the 0:08:06.160 --> 0:08:09.640 stuff that we were putting out because it was so nonsensical. 0:08:10.200 --> 0:08:13.640 The media was complicit, as you said, They did not 0:08:13.920 --> 0:08:16.119 want to see the truth in front of their eyes 0:08:16.240 --> 0:08:19.120 because they were afraid that would help Donald Trump. 0:08:19.520 --> 0:08:23.040 In twenty twenty four, Fake Jake and by the way, 0:08:23.160 --> 0:08:27.760 he was more fake than I even knew, and his network, 0:08:27.840 --> 0:08:32.200 Fake News CNN, they were the ones pushing the cheap 0:08:32.320 --> 0:08:34.320 fake video narrative. 0:08:34.840 --> 0:08:36.840 Let me remind everybody. 0:08:36.440 --> 0:08:39.360 We were hearing about so called cheap fakes. It's playing 0:08:39.400 --> 0:08:41.800 out on right wing media, Fox, New York Post and 0:08:41.840 --> 0:08:45.040 so on, and all of this is to try to 0:08:45.040 --> 0:08:47.800 make the case that Biden is slipping, he's confused, and 0:08:47.840 --> 0:08:48.200 so on. 0:08:48.360 --> 0:08:50.040 There are a lot of videos going around by President 0:08:50.080 --> 0:08:53.160 Biden on social media, which ones are real, which ones 0:08:53.240 --> 0:08:56.280 are deceptively edited now being called cheap fakes. 0:08:56.480 --> 0:09:00.599 A lot of memes and what the White House is 0:09:00.640 --> 0:09:03.600 calling cheap fakes. Cheap fates are a little bit simpler. 0:09:03.600 --> 0:09:07.199 They're cheap, They're just distorted, out of context, videos, chopped 0:09:07.280 --> 0:09:09.520 up in certain ways, constructed in certain ways. 0:09:09.679 --> 0:09:10.560 That's what we're seeing. 0:09:10.559 --> 0:09:12.960 That's what the Biden administration, the Biden campaign is so 0:09:13.000 --> 0:09:13.520 worried about. 0:09:13.600 --> 0:09:18.040 Right now, they weren't distorted, they weren't chopped up, and 0:09:18.080 --> 0:09:21.319 now this is fake Jake oh, after the fact, when 0:09:21.360 --> 0:09:25.880 it doesn't matter except it will line his pocketbook with 0:09:26.120 --> 0:09:30.160 monies that whatever moneies he makes from this book. Now 0:09:30.200 --> 0:09:32.520 he's saying, oh, conservative media was right. 0:09:32.640 --> 0:09:37.400 Listen, but yeah, I remember that moment, and I remember 0:09:37.440 --> 0:09:40.280 that moment, the glitch at the immigration event and not 0:09:40.320 --> 0:09:44.200 getting much attention outside of conservative media at all. And 0:09:44.280 --> 0:09:46.560 Alex and I are here to say the conservative media 0:09:47.160 --> 0:09:52.719 was right and conservative media was correct, and that there 0:09:52.760 --> 0:09:56.120 should be a lot of soul searching, not just among me, 0:09:56.840 --> 0:09:59.520 but among the legacy media to begin with all of 0:09:59.600 --> 0:10:02.720 us for how this was covered or not covered sufficiently. 0:10:04.720 --> 0:10:08.040 That's him on with Megan Kelly saying that at this 0:10:08.240 --> 0:10:11.439 late hour, tell me, Miranda, what part of it did 0:10:11.480 --> 0:10:15.079 he miss? Every single day that Joe was public, what 0:10:15.160 --> 0:10:19.400 part did he possibly miss? You know, how blinded was 0:10:19.480 --> 0:10:22.720 he and how arrogant is he that he now wants 0:10:22.760 --> 0:10:24.160 to sell a book on this. 0:10:24.640 --> 0:10:27.760 Well, you know, willfully blind, like the rest of the 0:10:27.960 --> 0:10:32.800 sort of so called establishment media, democratic aligned media at 0:10:32.880 --> 0:10:36.000 the New York Times, the Washington Post, et cetera. And look, 0:10:36.080 --> 0:10:39.760 I experienced this firsthand when we first broke the story 0:10:39.800 --> 0:10:41.840 of the laptop in the New York Post back in 0:10:41.960 --> 0:10:45.520 October of twenty twenty, when you know, the New York Times, 0:10:45.600 --> 0:10:49.800 Washington Post, cn AN, MSNBC all just ignored it. They 0:10:49.840 --> 0:10:52.839 did not want to know about a bombshell story about 0:10:52.880 --> 0:10:55.800 one of the candidates for president three weeks before the 0:10:55.840 --> 0:10:59.960 election that was evidence based, and they didn't want to 0:10:59.960 --> 0:11:03.720 know about it. Fair enough after the election, it took 0:11:03.960 --> 0:11:07.120 the New York Times about four or five months to 0:11:07.320 --> 0:11:10.920 actually concede that yes, the laptop was real, and yes 0:11:11.320 --> 0:11:13.120 we had a point, and it wasn't right. 0:11:13.360 --> 0:11:16.280 By the way, Miranda, It's even worse than that, because 0:11:16.320 --> 0:11:22.440 the FBI had verified the authenticity of that laptop in 0:11:22.520 --> 0:11:25.120 March of twenty twenty, and then in the lead up 0:11:25.120 --> 0:11:27.880 to that election in twenty twenty, they were meeting with 0:11:27.920 --> 0:11:30.760 Big Tech warning them that may be victims of a 0:11:31.080 --> 0:11:35.080 quote Russian disinformation campaign and it's probably going to be 0:11:35.080 --> 0:11:38.680 about Hunter Biden Joe Biden and about Barisma. 0:11:38.960 --> 0:11:39.840 How convenient. 0:11:40.360 --> 0:11:42.079 Yes, well, I mean I'm not even talking about the 0:11:42.160 --> 0:11:46.439 deep state. Absolutely, FBI, CIA, the fifty one former intelligence 0:11:46.760 --> 0:11:50.360 officials and Gina Haspell, remember who signed off on that 0:11:50.480 --> 0:11:53.560 dishonest letter to give to Joe Biden so that he 0:11:53.600 --> 0:11:56.400 could go into the debate and lie and say that 0:11:56.880 --> 0:12:01.520 Hunter's laptop was Russian disinformation. Therefore our stories were. But 0:12:01.559 --> 0:12:04.200 when it comes to Jake Tabbath, he's very happy to 0:12:04.320 --> 0:12:10.120 accept the word of those CIA liars, of the FBI, etc. 0:12:10.840 --> 0:12:13.880 Of the White House, just accept at face value what 0:12:13.960 --> 0:12:17.199 they say. Yet you look at them now with Trump, 0:12:17.280 --> 0:12:19.800 and this is my worry, is that they're having a 0:12:19.880 --> 0:12:22.800 come to Jesus moment now. Jake Tapper says he's full 0:12:22.840 --> 0:12:25.520 of humility. The right wing was right, we should have 0:12:25.600 --> 0:12:28.920 been more skeptical. I think what they'll do is use 0:12:29.000 --> 0:12:33.720 that as an excuse to apply maximum skepticism to Donald Trump. 0:12:33.920 --> 0:12:36.760 I don't mind that. I think that's what journalists are 0:12:36.800 --> 0:12:39.720 supposed to do. That's what they did to Donald Trump 0:12:39.760 --> 0:12:44.000 in his first term. But they went beyond maximum skepticism 0:12:44.120 --> 0:12:44.640 into ours. 0:12:44.840 --> 0:12:48.320 So they went to conspiracy theories and lies, and they 0:12:48.400 --> 0:12:49.520 peddled them as if they. 0:12:49.400 --> 0:12:50.920 Were true well exactly. 0:12:51.000 --> 0:12:53.680 I mean, they got New York Times got a Pulitzer 0:12:53.920 --> 0:12:57.680 for their Russia collusion lies, and they still haven't retracted them. 0:12:57.960 --> 0:13:01.800 So I think they just go so go completely limp 0:13:01.960 --> 0:13:08.400 and docile and gullible during Democrat administration, and then as 0:13:08.400 --> 0:13:11.800 soon as a Republican that particularly Trump, comes on board, 0:13:12.080 --> 0:13:15.760 they suddenly find their skepticism again and they go full 0:13:15.800 --> 0:13:19.680 bore into, as you say, accepting any conspiracy theory that 0:13:19.760 --> 0:13:24.480 goes with their personal political proclivities. I don't think that 0:13:24.480 --> 0:13:29.480 they've learned anything from this huge scandal, and I think 0:13:29.559 --> 0:13:33.800 the only hope is that their audiences are leaving them 0:13:33.920 --> 0:13:38.280 in droves. People are not paying attention to the New 0:13:38.320 --> 0:13:42.080 York Times or the Washington Post or Jake Tapper Fake TAPPA. 0:13:42.160 --> 0:13:45.320 They're not accepting what they say at face value anymore. 0:13:46.280 --> 0:13:50.160 The public, even the brainwashed public, has sort of looked 0:13:50.160 --> 0:13:53.280 at you know, imagine if you were watching MSNBC and 0:13:53.320 --> 0:13:57.280 then suddenly Donald Trump, you know, state himself, wins the 0:13:57.360 --> 0:13:59.160 popular vote. 0:13:58.880 --> 0:14:01.800 What of cognitive diffonence. 0:14:01.360 --> 0:14:04.360 Goes on in your brain? You have to come to 0:14:04.440 --> 0:14:08.000 the conclusion that you were lied to by your favorite 0:14:08.080 --> 0:14:11.000 media organ and I think that's what's happening. There's a 0:14:11.120 --> 0:14:13.160 massive disillusionment on the. 0:14:13.160 --> 0:14:14.200 Leg lad One thing. 0:14:14.760 --> 0:14:18.640 They threw everything they had at him, every lie, they pedaled, 0:14:18.679 --> 0:14:23.640 every conspiracy theory. They did everything to destroy this man. 0:14:23.680 --> 0:14:27.640 And here's here's the best part. And I said in 0:14:27.720 --> 0:14:31.120 two thousand and seven, Journalisms dead. I said, after this 0:14:31.240 --> 0:14:36.400 past election, legacy media is dead because nobody listened to them. 0:14:36.600 --> 0:14:41.880 Nobody listened to the musicians, or the athletes, or the 0:14:41.960 --> 0:14:47.440 Hollywood stars, American people. They have earned the distrust of 0:14:47.480 --> 0:14:51.200 the American people, and I predict Miranda, they're never getting 0:14:51.240 --> 0:14:55.160 it back. They have earned that distrust. But you know what, 0:14:55.480 --> 0:14:58.440 You're going to be successful because you tell people truth 0:14:58.960 --> 0:15:01.680 and you put yourself ou. You can go out on 0:15:01.720 --> 0:15:05.200 a limb to tell people the truth, and that track 0:15:05.200 --> 0:15:07.920 record will speak for itself, just as our track record 0:15:07.920 --> 0:15:09.080 I think speaks for itself too. 0:15:10.400 --> 0:15:11.600 Miranda Devine, we love. 0:15:11.440 --> 0:15:16.240 You, appreciate you, Thank you by eight sawn our number 0:15:16.320 --> 0:15:19.600 if you want to be a part of the program. 0:15:20.080 --> 0:15:20.360 Now. 0:15:20.440 --> 0:15:24.680 I did have an opportunity to speak briefly with Secretary 0:15:24.720 --> 0:15:28.240 of State Mark or Rubio in Riod at the lunch 0:15:28.320 --> 0:15:30.400 that I went to with all those. I mean, every 0:15:30.400 --> 0:15:33.920 big corporation in America was pretty much represented there, and 0:15:34.000 --> 0:15:36.440 every big wig in Saudi Arabia was there. I don't 0:15:36.440 --> 0:15:38.560 have no idea why I wasn't even invited, but I 0:15:38.600 --> 0:15:42.400 was there and I actually had a good time. And 0:15:42.680 --> 0:15:46.360 long story short, he did break off from the President 0:15:46.760 --> 0:15:51.320 and he went to Turkey. As the president is just 0:15:51.520 --> 0:15:55.480 absolutely dialed in and focused on the idea of getting 0:15:55.600 --> 0:15:58.800 peace in Europe and he's not going to stop. And 0:15:59.240 --> 0:16:00.800 got to gi him a lot of credit. And he 0:16:00.840 --> 0:16:04.080 went there to meet with President Erduwan. And here's part 0:16:04.080 --> 0:16:06.120 of the interview I had with Marco joining us. 0:16:06.120 --> 0:16:09.520 Now is Secretary of State Marco Rubios with us. He 0:16:09.640 --> 0:16:12.680 is in Turkey tonight, mister Secretary, great to have you. 0:16:12.720 --> 0:16:13.640 Thank you for joining us. 0:16:14.600 --> 0:16:17.400 Could just see you the other day, Sean, Yeah, it. 0:16:17.400 --> 0:16:19.840 Was great to see in person. You know, you made 0:16:19.880 --> 0:16:23.200 a statement that NATO is only as strong as its 0:16:23.240 --> 0:16:28.160 weakest link. This issue about NATO and other countries paying 0:16:28.200 --> 0:16:30.360 their fair share is going to be coming to a 0:16:30.440 --> 0:16:34.080 head in about six weeks. Of my understanding, a lot 0:16:34.080 --> 0:16:37.040 of nations have not lived up to that. Where are 0:16:37.080 --> 0:16:39.400 we in terms of pushing people on that issue. 0:16:39.960 --> 0:16:42.160 Well, actually, well, in twenty eighteen, it was one of 0:16:42.240 --> 0:16:45.320 the most important moments in NATO history. It's when President 0:16:45.360 --> 0:16:48.400 Trump at the NATO Summit walked through the different contributions 0:16:48.400 --> 0:16:50.600 of different countries, some of whom were under one percent 0:16:50.640 --> 0:16:53.520 of GDP, less than one percent of their economy was 0:16:53.560 --> 0:16:56.920 being spent on defense. Since that time, we've seen improvements, 0:16:56.920 --> 0:16:59.680 and I can tell you that we are headed for 0:16:59.800 --> 0:17:03.200 some in six weeks in which virtually every member of 0:17:03.280 --> 0:17:06.439 NATO will be at or above two percent, but more importantly, 0:17:06.640 --> 0:17:09.160 many of them will be over four percent, and all 0:17:09.240 --> 0:17:11.800 will have agreed on a goal of reaching five percent 0:17:11.920 --> 0:17:13.119 over the next decade. 0:17:13.400 --> 0:17:14.480 It'll be the first time. 0:17:14.280 --> 0:17:17.800 Ever in NATO history where they have reached targets and 0:17:17.840 --> 0:17:20.400 goals that will allow NATO partners to be more than 0:17:20.440 --> 0:17:21.880 fifty percent of the alliance. 0:17:22.640 --> 0:17:23.560 That's a historic moment. 0:17:23.600 --> 0:17:25.880 If it comes to fruition, That's what was agreed upon 0:17:25.920 --> 0:17:28.119 today by the foreign ministers. And I think all of 0:17:28.119 --> 0:17:31.680 that tracks back to twenty eighteen when President Trump challenged 0:17:31.920 --> 0:17:33.880 the members of the Alliance to step up. 0:17:34.840 --> 0:17:38.520 You know, mister Secretary, you said the purpose of NATO 0:17:38.680 --> 0:17:41.600 is to prevent wars through its strength. That's why we 0:17:41.640 --> 0:17:44.080 want to see it grow stronger. You talked about a 0:17:44.119 --> 0:17:49.440 trillion dollars in our military spending. Tomorrow the Ukrainian delegation 0:17:49.680 --> 0:17:52.679 will be meeting with the Turkish foreign minister, and you 0:17:52.800 --> 0:17:55.560 also went into detail there had been some hope maybe 0:17:55.800 --> 0:17:59.800 in the background, there's never any full commitment that Vladimir 0:18:00.320 --> 0:18:04.840 might show up at this and have a meeting with Soelenski, 0:18:05.720 --> 0:18:07.919 and then you pretty clear today that you believe if 0:18:07.960 --> 0:18:10.399 that's going to happen, it would it would take Donald 0:18:10.400 --> 0:18:13.680 Trump sitting down with Vladimir Putin. What exactly did you. 0:18:13.640 --> 0:18:16.560 Mean by that, Yeah, it's my assessment. I think it's 0:18:16.560 --> 0:18:18.480 the president's assessment, by the way, I think you said 0:18:18.480 --> 0:18:20.359 publicly today that the only way we're going to have 0:18:20.400 --> 0:18:22.680 a breakthrough here. Nothing's going to happen at this point, 0:18:22.720 --> 0:18:24.960 given everything we know after months of working on this, 0:18:25.640 --> 0:18:29.000 nothing's going to happen until President Trump sits across the 0:18:29.040 --> 0:18:32.720 table from Vladimir Putin and puts it on the line 0:18:32.720 --> 0:18:34.280 and puts it on the table. I think that's the 0:18:34.320 --> 0:18:37.359 only chance we'd have at piece at this point, given 0:18:37.400 --> 0:18:39.840 everything we've seen over the last few weeks, there's been talks, 0:18:39.840 --> 0:18:43.280 there's been negotiations, there's been trips and meetings, but in 0:18:43.320 --> 0:18:46.919 the end, I think we've reached a conclusion, and rightfully so, 0:18:47.119 --> 0:18:49.760 as the President has that. The only way this is 0:18:49.760 --> 0:18:51.680 going to happen, if it has a chance to happen, 0:18:51.680 --> 0:18:55.000 the only way it happens is the President directly engages 0:18:55.040 --> 0:18:58.160 with Vladimir Putin. So I don't know what the date 0:18:58.280 --> 0:19:00.320 or the place of that is yet, but that's really 0:19:00.359 --> 0:19:02.159 the only chance at this point. And I think there 0:19:02.160 --> 0:19:04.560 are a lot of countries here that would privately share 0:19:04.600 --> 0:19:05.680 that assessment as well. 0:19:06.720 --> 0:19:09.959 Do you have a, mister Secretary, any degree of confidence. 0:19:10.640 --> 0:19:13.920 You've been clear that this war is going to end 0:19:13.960 --> 0:19:17.640 not through military solution, through a military solution, but through 0:19:17.760 --> 0:19:19.879 a diplomatic one. And you said it's either going to 0:19:19.880 --> 0:19:23.120 be sooner or later. And if it's happened sooner, less 0:19:23.119 --> 0:19:26.560 people will die, less destruction that there will be. And 0:19:26.720 --> 0:19:30.120 you know, the President keeps talking about the human toll, 0:19:30.240 --> 0:19:34.280 the humanity, you know, all the human laws and tragedy 0:19:34.320 --> 0:19:37.399 and destruction and death has taken place here for what reason? 0:19:38.840 --> 0:19:41.960 Yeah, I think, Sean, I think the President the other 0:19:42.040 --> 0:19:44.639 night or the other day in Saudi Arabia, gave perhaps 0:19:44.680 --> 0:19:46.960 one of the most impressive speeches of his presidency and 0:19:46.960 --> 0:19:49.360 one of the most meaningful speeches by an American president 0:19:49.400 --> 0:19:52.520 overseas in decades, and in it, one of the things 0:19:52.520 --> 0:19:54.159 he talks about is how he wants to. 0:19:54.160 --> 0:19:55.800 See more building and less bombing. 0:19:56.119 --> 0:19:58.120 In essence, he wants to see us building things up, 0:19:58.160 --> 0:20:01.720 not destroying things. The President, frankly, is a lover of peace. 0:20:02.080 --> 0:20:04.760 This is a person that wants to stop wars and 0:20:04.840 --> 0:20:08.400 prevent wars and end wars. That's what the President endeavors 0:20:08.400 --> 0:20:10.760 to do. In fact, he openly has said, and he 0:20:10.800 --> 0:20:12.960 said it in the speech, that he wishes we didn't 0:20:12.960 --> 0:20:14.800 have to spend all this money on the military. We 0:20:14.800 --> 0:20:17.760 could spend it instead on creating wealth and prosperity and 0:20:17.840 --> 0:20:18.560 human development. 0:20:18.600 --> 0:20:20.040 Obviously that's not the way. 0:20:19.840 --> 0:20:21.840 The world works, but that's what he hopes we can achieve, 0:20:22.160 --> 0:20:23.720 and that's what he's trying to achieve here. 0:20:24.040 --> 0:20:24.440 That's it. 0:20:24.560 --> 0:20:26.880 I was just asked the question by the media here 0:20:26.880 --> 0:20:28.639 about this a few minutes ago, and I said, I 0:20:28.800 --> 0:20:32.520 still don't understand why some would be critical of the president. 0:20:32.560 --> 0:20:34.880 They should be happy that the president of the most 0:20:34.920 --> 0:20:37.800 powerful nation on Earth is a peacemaker who seeks to 0:20:37.800 --> 0:20:41.359 prevent wars, seeks to end wars, and seeks. 0:20:41.000 --> 0:20:42.359 To stop existing wars. 0:20:43.040 --> 0:20:44.720 I think this is something we should be very proud 0:20:44.720 --> 0:20:47.199 of that we have a president that seeks peace, seeks 0:20:47.200 --> 0:20:49.639 the end of death and destruction, in this case in 0:20:49.640 --> 0:20:52.000 the Russia Ukraine War, which has gone on far too long, 0:20:52.359 --> 0:20:55.800 destroyed thousands and thousands of lives and really is going 0:20:55.880 --> 0:20:57.880 to cost billions of dollars to rebuild from. 0:20:58.880 --> 0:21:03.240 Well, obviously we hope that that some kind of breakthrough 0:21:03.280 --> 0:21:05.879 can take place. Let me go to the where we 0:21:05.920 --> 0:21:08.400 are here in the Middle East, and you've been very 0:21:08.520 --> 0:21:11.240 very clear, and the President has been clear. The number 0:21:11.320 --> 0:21:14.000 one state sponsor of terror that would be the Iranians. 0:21:14.040 --> 0:21:17.760 They have to walk away from sponsoring terrorism, walk away 0:21:17.760 --> 0:21:22.520 from helping Amas says Balah, the Islamic Jiha, the Hutis. 0:21:23.080 --> 0:21:27.159 They have to stop firing missiles at Israel, but more importantly, 0:21:27.240 --> 0:21:30.119 walk away from building long range missiles that have no 0:21:30.280 --> 0:21:34.399 other purpose than to have nuclear weapons, and walk away 0:21:34.560 --> 0:21:38.679 completely from enrichment. When you talk about that, I'm a 0:21:38.720 --> 0:21:41.520 trust for Verify guys. I know that you are. That 0:21:41.560 --> 0:21:46.480 would mean that means zero enrichment. That would mean American inspectors, 0:21:46.600 --> 0:21:49.640 and that would mean any place, anywhere, any time inspections 0:21:50.560 --> 0:21:52.680 in the future as any As part of any deal, 0:21:52.800 --> 0:21:55.840 they would have to destroy their facilities. Those facilities would 0:21:55.840 --> 0:21:58.639