Speaker 1: All right, This is Jeffrey, Lord of the American Spectator
Speaker 1: in Newsmax, sitting in for our friend Sean Hannity. You
Speaker 1: can reach us in here at eight hundred ninety four
Speaker 1: one seven three two six or eight hundred nine four
Speaker 1: to one, Sean. And we have a great guest coming
Speaker 1: up right now is Jeff Bardos, who happens this is
Speaker 1: a Pennsylvania kind of today. I guess he's also a
Speaker 1: Pennsylvanian like myself. He is an American real estate developer,
Speaker 1: a lawyer, and a diplomat, and he's currently serving, by
Speaker 1: the appointment of President Trump as the United States Ambassador
Speaker 1: to the United Nations for Management and Reform since this
Speaker 1: past year of twenty twenty five. So Jeff, good to
Speaker 1: talk to you.
Speaker 2: My friend, Jeffrey. It's always great to speak with you.
Speaker 2: And I think we have a nice tradition at the
Speaker 2: end of calendar years where we get on the phone
Speaker 2: two Pennsylvanians. At this point though, two Pennsylvanians sitting in Manhattan,
Speaker 2: and I don't know, there's something wrong with that we
Speaker 2: gotta do something about. But greeting greetings from the East
Speaker 2: Side in Turtle Bay, and I hope you and your
Speaker 2: family are well and all your listeners had a wonderful Christmas.
Speaker 1: Exactly, Well, thank you very much. You know, I was
Speaker 1: really intrigued. I didn't realize you were over there at
Speaker 1: the UN doing this and Jeff's background in business and
Speaker 1: politics and all of that sort of thing, and now
Speaker 1: he is adding diplomacy to the resume and tell us
Speaker 1: a little bit about what your UN job and tails.
Speaker 1: I'm sort of intrigued.
Speaker 2: Well, it's the honor of a lifetime to serve President
Speaker 2: Trump and the American people as the representative of the
Speaker 2: United States to the UN for management and reform. And
Speaker 2: in my hearing before the United States Senate Chairman Rich said,
Speaker 2: that's a little oxymoronic management reform and the UN. How
Speaker 2: how are you going to how are you going to
Speaker 2: tackle this? Which is a great question. So we I
Speaker 2: lead a terrific team of very skilled experts who comb
Speaker 2: through the gigantic breocracy and budget that is the United Nations.
Speaker 2: And with President Trump's leadership, and the way I answered
Speaker 2: the question during my set of hearing is that President
Speaker 2: Trump his leadership provided a unique window of opportunity, maybe
Speaker 2: a once in a generation or once in fifty year,
Speaker 2: eighty year opportunity to bring real, meaningful, durable, consequential reform
Speaker 2: to this gigantic bureaucracy that is the United Nations. And
Speaker 2: since we hit the ground running, I mean, we have
Speaker 2: a great team, many of whom I think you know.
Speaker 2: Ambassador Mike Waltz, Ambassador Tammy Bruce, Ambassador Jennifer Lisetta, Ambassador
Speaker 2: Dan de Greya, and myself. We all have different portfolios.
Speaker 2: Mike's our chief of mission, Tammy is our deputy chief
Speaker 2: of Mission. Jennifer handles the Security Council, Dan has the
Speaker 2: Economic and Social Council, and I have management and reform.
Speaker 2: And we've been sent up here by the President, by
Speaker 2: the Secretary and by our peers to come up here
Speaker 2: and make sure this place runs better. And so I
Speaker 2: spend my day and my night and many nights with
Speaker 2: my team getting this place fit for purpose, get it
Speaker 2: back to basics. I'm tomorrow we will gavel in. We've
Speaker 2: only been here one hundred days. We all got up
Speaker 2: here in mid September. Tomorrow we will gabble through the
Speaker 2: largest cut to the UN's regular budget in history. Maybe
Speaker 2: in the time that nobody can remember a bigger cut
Speaker 2: to the budget. And we also so a fifteen percent
Speaker 2: cuts to the budget and a elimination of twenty six
Speaker 2: hundred UN bureaucratic posts, which is unprecedented and only happens
Speaker 2: because of President Trump's leadership, his vision. He when he
Speaker 2: spoke at the UN in September, he said, the UN
Speaker 2: has great potential. It's not living up to that potential.
Speaker 2: And we are executing the President's vision. And like I said,
Speaker 2: it's the honor of a lifetime to serve the President
Speaker 2: and the American people in this in this work.
Speaker 1: Well, I think that is really really great. I'd be
Speaker 1: curious to know. I means, as we speak, we are
Speaker 1: I'm seeing that President Trump is going to receive the
Speaker 1: Israel Prize for Peace and things are just not doing
Speaker 1: so well over there. How does that affect what you
Speaker 1: do and what the UN does, et cetera.
Speaker 2: Well, the President's incredible leadership, his visionary leadership also allowed
Speaker 2: that the Charmel shake deal and the twenty point peace
Speaker 2: Plan that immediately saw the release of the twenty living hostages.
Speaker 2: And at this point there is one hostage remains. When
Speaker 2: the remains of one hostage right that have not been
Speaker 2: released by Hamas and bipalaestis pulcinating Islamic jihad. So we
Speaker 2: have to get one. One family is still without their
Speaker 2: son and that is unacceptable. But the President's twenty point
Speaker 2: peace Plan was put into a Security Council resolution, again
Speaker 2: a first of its kind, with the Board of Peace
Speaker 2: and with the International Stabilization Force. And again it's the
Speaker 2: President's leadership, his vision that allowed all of this to
Speaker 2: come together. It would there just wouldn't be peace. He
Speaker 2: is the president of piece. We see it every day
Speaker 2: and it's it's so much. I have to say, it's
Speaker 2: fun to serve in this administration because every day we're
Speaker 2: achieving goals and objectives that really before the president was
Speaker 2: sworn in just people said it was impossible. And as
Speaker 2: he said in as inaugural address, the impossible is what
Speaker 2: we do. And because of that leadership, we're able to
Speaker 2: achieve a lot of things here at the UN that
Speaker 2: previously people thought was just were just unattainable.
Speaker 1: Well, I really do think that the fact that he
Speaker 1: was not a career politician. If he spent any time
Speaker 1: in Washington, it was to see somebody and get out,
Speaker 1: And so I do think that that gives him a
Speaker 1: particular perspective on dealing with government, in this case the
Speaker 1: United Nations that other presidents wouldn't have because they are
Speaker 1: so used to the you know, the being involved from
Speaker 1: the governmental and political aspect of things. And in particular,
Speaker 1: I think the UN is an interesting place because you've
Speaker 1: got all these countries from all over the place, and
Speaker 1: you know, history is filled with all these episodes of
Speaker 1: American ambassadors to the UN getting into clashes with the
Speaker 1: Soviet Union or others, and you know, just just sort
Speaker 1: of amazing thing. And I think, you know, you really
Speaker 1: are there at a very interesting time. And jeff I
Speaker 1: would also ask, as someone who writes, I hope you're
Speaker 1: taking notes.
Speaker 2: We're working really hard. The you know, the every day
Speaker 2: is a new challenge. And as I mentioned, you know
Speaker 2: there's this is the unique window of opportunity in this
Speaker 2: time to and there's hunt Jeffrey. There's one hundred and
Speaker 2: ninety three countries in the United Nations. It's a staggering number.
Speaker 2: And the way the budget works, if you can believe this,
Speaker 2: whether you whether you contribute thirty seven thousand dollars or
Speaker 2: twelve billion dollars, you get the same boat in the
Speaker 2: General Assembly, and of course we have the Security Council.
Speaker 2: So it's a it's a governance structure that we set up,
Speaker 2: you know, back in nineteen forty five, nineteen forty six, right,
Speaker 2: but it really is it needs major reforms, and we're
Speaker 2: executing against that every day. I mean we, like I said,
Speaker 2: we're going to gabble through the budget tomorrow and then
Speaker 2: that sets up a huge reform opportunities in twenty twenty six,
Speaker 2: which we're already starting to execute upon and starting to
Speaker 2: work with. And everybody wants to see the United States
Speaker 2: and everybody is listening to President Trump and it's again
Speaker 2: it's an honor to have the opportunity to serve him
Speaker 2: and the American people for us looking ahead, the President
Speaker 2: said this in his remarks. The UN has great potential,
Speaker 2: and it is the world needs a place where everybody
Speaker 2: can talk. And Ambassador Waltz talks about this all the
Speaker 2: time that we'd much rather that place be in the
Speaker 2: United States than in Moscow or Beijing or some other place.
Speaker 2: And so it has a real role. It has gone,
Speaker 2: like so many big organizations, the UN has become bloated.
Speaker 2: It tries to do everything and you know this from
Speaker 2: your busines this world. If you try to do everything,
Speaker 2: it's impossible to do everything well and so you end
Speaker 2: up doing mediocre or worse and a lot of things.
Speaker 2: And we are just guiding with our business experience and
Speaker 2: with the President's direction, where we are bringing this place.
Speaker 2: We're bringing these reforms which will hopefully get it fit
Speaker 2: the purpose back to basics, promote international peace and security.
Speaker 2: And you got right now the President is settling conflicts
Speaker 2: around the world basically himself and the small team. It'd
Speaker 2: be great if the UN could could be right there
Speaker 2: helping and be a force for good. So that's also
Speaker 2: something we're focused on.
Speaker 1: Who do you work with in the course of I mean,
Speaker 1: what particular countries are there? Some that you are more
Speaker 1: obvious allies than others, and others that you just you
Speaker 1: can't really get near in a sense.
Speaker 2: Well, we're the largest contributor Americans have since the founding
Speaker 2: of the UN. We're the largest contributor to the system,
Speaker 2: and we're the most generous nation on earth, and we
Speaker 2: tend to work with the other large donor countries. But
Speaker 2: of course, in the scope of our work, we work
Speaker 2: with almost every country. I mean, of one hundred and
Speaker 2: ninety three. I haven't met every country, but you know,
Speaker 2: it's pretty close in one hundred days, and so we
Speaker 2: work with everybody. But again, we have been laser focused
Speaker 2: on delivering this reform agenda since mid September. And so
Speaker 2: when we will take a little breather here, maybe maybe
Speaker 2: a couple of days between now and New Year's and
Speaker 2: then get right back at it. I guess a week
Speaker 2: from today we'll get right back at it. So yeah,
Speaker 2: but we I mean, Jeffrey, it's come visit any time.
Speaker 2: It's a fascinating place.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I'd like to do that. That might go
Speaker 1: on my bucket list. Well. I spent some time courtesy
Speaker 1: of my friends at Newsmax in Israel this summer. I
Speaker 1: think it was in August for a week and wow,
Speaker 1: truly an amazing place to see. And you know, I
Speaker 1: have first of all that, and I was saying to people,
Speaker 1: you know, as Americans, you talk about, say the Pilgrims
Speaker 1: in sixteen twenty, I think that's a long time ago.
Speaker 1: Then you're walking around Jerusalem and they're telling you that
Speaker 1: something was three thousand years old and that streets were
Speaker 1: put in by the Romans and all of this kind
Speaker 1: of thing. It really is an amazing thing, but it
Speaker 1: also gives you the impression of how hyper sensitive relations are.
Speaker 1: And they pointed out to me in one part of
Speaker 1: our tour, there was a hillside that was just on
Speaker 1: the other side of the Israeli border, and below it,
Speaker 1: on the Israeli side was a soccer field where kids
Speaker 1: had been playing soccer, and all of a sudden, gunfire
Speaker 1: comes from the hill in Lebanon and killed some kids.
Speaker 1: You know, it just takes your breath away at the
Speaker 1: kind of brutality that can be found over there and
Speaker 1: how much work needs to be done, which you know
Speaker 1: President Trump was doing just today.
Speaker 2: Yes, with all of this, was that your first trip?
Speaker 1: That was my first trip?
Speaker 2: Wow. So when we're not on the radio though, you
Speaker 2: could certainly tell me about it now, but I would
Speaker 2: love to hear more about it. We just marked the
Speaker 2: fiftieth anniversary of Embassador Daniel Patrick Mooyne, then Senator Daniel
Speaker 2: Patrick Jinian's remarkable explanation of vote when the United States
Speaker 2: cast its vote and then vote and then explained why
Speaker 2: against the outrageous and shameful Zionism as Racism resolution from
Speaker 2: nineteen seventy five. And those remarks that the Ambassador in
Speaker 2: Mestered Morny hand delivered back in nineteen seventy five ring
Speaker 2: true today. The level of anti West, anti American, anti Israel, right,
Speaker 2: it's all kind of wrapped up into one that still
Speaker 2: exists here and it's something that we fight every day.
Speaker 2: We're committed to stamping out this anti West, anti American,
Speaker 2: anti Israel bias that courses through too many parts of
Speaker 2: the United Nations. And it's a this is not something
Speaker 2: that's going to happen overnight, but we are again focused,
Speaker 2: and we have the resources and the support to get
Speaker 2: it done, and it just has to happen. But you're
Speaker 2: when we took our first trip to Israel back in
Speaker 2: twenty thirteen, my goal for our girls was to see
Speaker 2: that Israel was a tiny country in a tough neighborhood
Speaker 2: and in spite of, or maybe because of, those dynamics,
Speaker 2: the Israeli people lived their lives with great joy and
Speaker 2: great focus and great purpose. And so you have national service,
Speaker 2: which is a unique aspect, not singular, but very unique
Speaker 2: amongst countries. And so it's a special place and they're
Speaker 2: a very special important ally of the United States. So yeah,
Speaker 2: We work very close you mentioned before, We work very
Speaker 2: closely with our allies, not only in the Middle East,
Speaker 2: but across Europe and really across the globe.
Speaker 1: Right. Well, that's good to know, you know. I sometimes
Speaker 1: wonder if the United Nations did not exist and there
Speaker 1: was a move to set it up, now, would this
Speaker 1: be anywhere near the same? Would would we still? Would
Speaker 1: we be having worse problems now? Would would there even
Speaker 1: be a United Nations headquarters in New York? Would there
Speaker 1: be too many people out there that say, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: not with the Americans, uh, et cetera. But it's, uh,
Speaker 1: it's very interesting because I think that our enemies so
Speaker 1: called out there. It isn't just Israel, it's the West,
Speaker 1: It's it's America in particular. I mean, I think we
Speaker 1: have a you know, a target on us all the time,
Speaker 1: and you know, too bad in one sense. But boy,
Speaker 1: you have to be wary. And I would imagine as
Speaker 1: you as you walk around the UN you're you're sensitive
Speaker 1: to anything that you can see that that seems like
Speaker 1: it's sending a message that things are not very good here.
Speaker 2: Yeah, if anything gets frustrating during the day, whether it's
Speaker 2: across the street, or back here at the Mission. I
Speaker 2: I and I've done this a number of times throughout
Speaker 2: the last hundred days. I will go down into our
Speaker 2: lobby and I get to walk past the American flag
Speaker 2: and then portraits of the President, the Vice President, Secretary
Speaker 2: of Rubio, and Ambassador Waltz. And then there's most weeks,
Speaker 2: not every week, but most weeks, I have the genuine
Speaker 2: privilege and honor to sit behind the placard that says
Speaker 2: the United States. And Jeffrey, you and I've known each
Speaker 2: other a long time. I can't really describe the feeling
Speaker 2: of what it feels like to sit behind the placard
Speaker 2: that says the United States, but it is. It will
Speaker 2: never get old. It is just a tremendous honor. And
Speaker 2: as much as people may want to pick at us
Speaker 2: and do damage to us or try to hurt the
Speaker 2: United States, we are the indispensable nation where the indispensable
Speaker 2: ally for many many countries, and we try to do it.
Speaker 2: I mean, we're the most generous nation on earth. And
Speaker 2: the President, yeah, the President has said that, the Secretary
Speaker 2: has said that, and we proudly do that. I'll just
Speaker 2: give you a quick story of how zany the un
Speaker 2: can get. There was a week, it was a couple
Speaker 2: of months ago where the Cubans were running their resolution
Speaker 2: that they run every year condemning the United States for
Speaker 2: blockading and they call it a blockading and Cuba, which
Speaker 2: of course is fundamentally untrue. We send something like six
Speaker 2: hundred million dollars of key important humanitarian goods, food, medicine,
Speaker 2: other things to Cuba every year, so that's just fundamentally
Speaker 2: untrue what they said. But it was the same week,
Speaker 2: in the same week, we were fighting about this in
Speaker 2: the General Assembly and trying to get countries to vote
Speaker 2: with us because it's just offensive what the Cubans were doing.
Speaker 2: And that same week is when Hurricane Melissa hit And
Speaker 2: without missing a beat, hey, without missing a beat.
Speaker 1: Hey, jeff h I hate to say this, but I'm
Speaker 1: getting a hard break. Sign here. We can hold you
Speaker 1: over if you'd like to do that or whatever.
Speaker 2: I'll just finish the quick story when we come back.
Speaker 1: Sure, okay, great, thank you. All right. This is Jeffrey
Speaker 1: Lord from the American Spectator, a Newsmax subbing for our
Speaker 1: friend Sean Hannity, and we have our friend Jeff Bardos
Speaker 1: on the line, who is the US Ambassador to the
Speaker 1: United Nations for Management and Reform, and he's held that
Speaker 1: position since this year, so he's got a lot of
Speaker 1: interesting times ahead of me. Jeff, and you were telling
Speaker 1: a story there and we interrupted you for a break.
Speaker 1: Let me get back to that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was making the point, and thank you again
Speaker 2: for having me on. I was making the point that
Speaker 2: the United States, for you know, the whole of the
Speaker 2: World War post World War two era, the entirety of
Speaker 2: the history of the Nations, by far the largest contributor
Speaker 2: to the system and the most generous nation on Earth
Speaker 2: bar Non. There's not even a close second. And that
Speaker 2: I mean, there's many, many examples of what I just said,
Speaker 2: but I'll just give you one, which is the same
Speaker 2: week that we were on the floor of the General
Speaker 2: Assembly going back and forth with Cuba and some of
Speaker 2: their allies on this ridiculous resolution that they run every
Speaker 2: year accusing us of embargoing or blockading them, which is absurd.
Speaker 2: We do almost six hundred million, as I mentioned before,
Speaker 2: a six hundred million of of food, medicine, and other
Speaker 2: humanitarian goods to the Cuban people every year. At that
Speaker 2: same week, when we were fighting about the resolution. Hurricane
Speaker 2: Melissa hit the Caribbean and did terrible damage, not only
Speaker 2: to our friends in Jamaica in other countries where we
Speaker 2: have dear friends, but also to Cuba. And I'm very
Speaker 2: proud right the State Department leapt into action and had
Speaker 2: a twenty four hour day, seven day a week operations
Speaker 2: center to help our friends in the region, including the
Speaker 2: Cuban people. We're not friends with the Cuban regime, but
Speaker 2: we look after our neighbors here in the Western Hemisphere,
Speaker 2: and the Cuban people needed our help and we were there.
Speaker 2: And that's the United States is the only nation in
Speaker 2: the world that would do that. And we don't even
Speaker 2: really talk about it very much. We just do it
Speaker 2: because that's who we are.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that's wow, that's a great story, and
Speaker 1: it really is true. The United States does so much
Speaker 1: around the world, and yet that is what the bad
Speaker 1: guys want to target here. And uh, I think that
Speaker 1: that's what makes us an exceptionally dangerous world out there,
Speaker 1: because you've got all kinds of people trying to undermine uh,
Speaker 1: you know, good decent human relations between nations and all
Speaker 1: of this kind of thing. So I think that uh,
Speaker 1: you know, setting a setting a model at the United Nations.
Speaker 1: And you know, I'm old enough to remember, you know,
Speaker 1: some of these incredible moments. I think it was the
Speaker 1: UH Cuban missile crisis where Ambassador Adlei Stevenson was in
Speaker 1: a tete a tete with the Soviet ambassador. Do you,
Speaker 1: Ambassador Zarn, deny that the Soviet Union is placed and
Speaker 1: it is placing you know, nuclear weapons in Cuba and
Speaker 1: all this kind of thing. Don't wait for the translator, sir,
Speaker 1: give me your answer now. I mean, lots of lots
Speaker 1: of drama. Who would think that when they add the
Speaker 1: UN that the American ambassador whomever that might be, would
Speaker 1: be getting all kinds of attention from from the world
Speaker 1: and world media and all of this kind of thing
Speaker 1: because they do play such an important role in front
Speaker 1: of the cameras and behind the cameras. I'm sure as
Speaker 1: you can testify.
Speaker 2: Yes. And of course you know, Ambassador Walt is our
Speaker 2: chief of mission and is a remarkable leader, remarkable, remarkable man.
Speaker 2: I mean, you know, his books are extraordinary, his life
Speaker 2: history is extraordinary. You know, the first Greenbury elected to
Speaker 2: Congress three terms, picked by President Trump to go to
Speaker 2: serve in the administration. I mean, it's history is remarkable,
Speaker 2: and we all feed off of that. As I mentioned before,
Speaker 2: whenever I'm having a bad day, I walk downstairs. And
Speaker 2: it's not that often, by the way, but whenever i
Speaker 2: am go down, I walk by the flag, I walk
Speaker 2: by the portraits of our leaders, and it's just like
Speaker 2: I said, it's it's the honorable lifetime to serve the
Speaker 2: president and the American people.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, well, it certainly is. I did it for
Speaker 1: President Reagan and it just was amazing. And you know
Speaker 1: what these people are like when the cameras are off,
Speaker 1: you know, it's it's always it's always amazing that people
Speaker 1: have such negative impressions of them, whether it was President
Speaker 1: Reagan then or President Trump now. And yet those who
Speaker 1: really know him and have spent time with him, and
Speaker 1: I certainly have been privileged to do that. With President Trump. Wow,
Speaker 1: you know what a great guy and a kind and
Speaker 1: considerate soul and all this kind of thing. When he
Speaker 1: found out that he wanted to know why I was
Speaker 1: living in Pennsylvania when I'd had all this career in Washington,
Speaker 1: and I told him, you know, I was taking care
Speaker 1: of my mother who was in her nineties at the time,
Speaker 1: and he said, well, that tells me everything I need
Speaker 1: to know about you. And you know, and periodically I
Speaker 1: would he would call, or I would get little handwritten notes,
Speaker 1: you know, say hi to Mom, that kind of thing.
Speaker 1: But you know, the public image out there with people
Speaker 1: is a difficult thing. And I would imagine it's it's
Speaker 1: difficult in dealing with the UN because I would imagine
Speaker 1: there are people inside the UN that have negative impressions
Speaker 1: of President Trump or America written large and are not
Speaker 1: above causing problems.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but you know, we're focused, right, We have a
Speaker 2: clear reform agenda. The President's given us direction. We're executing
Speaker 2: on that direction. And I said, I said this to
Speaker 2: my wife. Often, I feel like I'm the luckiest and
Speaker 2: we're here in New York, so I can say I
Speaker 2: feel like I'm the luckiest man on the face of
Speaker 2: the earth because I get to serve President Trump. We
Speaker 2: work for Secretary of Rubio and Ambassador Waltz and the like.
Speaker 2: We just, you know, I'm very blessed to have this opportunity,
Speaker 2: and we're not going to let anybody down. We're going
Speaker 2: to execute the President's vision. We're going to execute the
Speaker 2: agenda and we're going to get it done for the
Speaker 2: President and for the American people.
Speaker 1: Well that's right now. Is the President coming up there
Speaker 1: at any point in the near future.
Speaker 2: Or oh gosh, I don't know. I know that every
Speaker 2: September you've probably been in New York High Level Week
Speaker 2: the President crazy. My first day at the office, I
Speaker 2: was sworn in the night before. My very first day
Speaker 2: at the office was on the floor of the General
Speaker 2: Assembly with the President speaking to during High Level Week.
Speaker 2: That was my day one. That was quite a quite
Speaker 2: a first day. And uh, we have not slowed down since,
Speaker 2: but that was. Yeah. So High Level Week is usually
Speaker 2: the week where all the world leaders come together. And again,
Speaker 2: as I mentioned before, we need one place where everybody
Speaker 2: in the world can speak to each other, and we
Speaker 2: have it here in the United States, right here in
Speaker 2: New York. With all the bad sports teams that New
Speaker 2: York has.
Speaker 1: Oh man, Well, you know, I grew up in Massachusetts,
Speaker 1: so I'm a Red Sox fan in perpetuity.
Speaker 2: Here and I probably wear my Eagles gear. I go
Speaker 2: to Eagles bar as I wear my Philly stuff. So no,
Speaker 2: no Flyers, Sixers, you know, there's no uh, there's no,
Speaker 2: no hesitancy. You know we're Philly.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, exactly. Well that is great, Jeff, it was.
Speaker 1: It was good to talk to you, and I think,
Speaker 1: you know, it was a great opportunity for people to
Speaker 1: learn of not just what you're doing, but what the
Speaker 1: UN is about and all that, because you know, frankly,
Speaker 1: it doesn't get the kind of intense coverage that I
Speaker 1: think it it might be better off with, except sometimes
Speaker 1: when there was a negative out there and people want
Speaker 1: to want to criticize it for you know, this that
Speaker 1: or the other thing. But it's it's a it's a
Speaker 1: great place. It's a fabulous place. I think the creation
Speaker 1: of the United Nations was very, very amazing, and when
Speaker 1: you think back in history of World War One and
Speaker 1: then that didn't end well in terms of a permanent peace,
Speaker 1: and then World War Two, and finally the message was
Speaker 1: received that you had to have some sort of an
Speaker 1: institution out there that that could help keep the world
Speaker 1: a peaceful place to live. And I think you know
Speaker 1: when they finally got the message with that. I mean
Speaker 1: I remember as a kid, as I say, watching Henry
Speaker 1: Cabot Lodge and it's interesting and of course Daniel Patrick
Speaker 1: moynihan in later years. But boy, they really they really
Speaker 1: had some first class US ambassadors there and your team,
Speaker 1: and I think continues that tradition. So that is a
Speaker 1: that is a great thing. Well, in the meantime, Jeff,
Speaker 1: there's stuff going on in a state known as Pennsylvania.
Speaker 1: And I don't know whether you're familiar with Pennsylvania.
Speaker 2: I think my Twitter it says husband, father or father,
Speaker 2: husband and Pennsylvanian. So yes, very familiar with our beloved commonwealth.
Speaker 1: Well, they are having we taught on on this show.
Speaker 1: Earlier we spoke with day Security, who is going to
Speaker 1: be our nominee for governor, And I think it's going
Speaker 1: to be a very very interesting race here. Josh Shapiro
Speaker 1: is I think, going to be a tough guy to beat.
Speaker 1: But I think he also and this may be an
Speaker 1: Achilles heel, I think he also has his eyes set
Speaker 1: on twenty twenty eight, so that getting through twenty twenty
Speaker 1: six is really to get to twenty twenty eight with him.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you have any thoughts on the
Speaker 1: politics of our commonwealth and all that sort of thing, But.
Speaker 2: Having run twice, it is a strange for me to
Speaker 2: answer this but you know, we don't do electoral politics
Speaker 2: right now. We're serving in the executive branch and there
Speaker 2: are lots of rules around that. So you know, obviously
Speaker 2: I think and Jeff.
Speaker 1: Bhil with that, what that really says is you're a diplomat.
Speaker 2: Yes, I'm proud registered in Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania resident, have been
Speaker 2: my whole life, and certainly follow things. But you know,
Speaker 2: it's it's do you remember we've had some senators in
Speaker 2: Pennsylvania over the years, not now, but in the past
Speaker 2: who when penn State would play Pitt or the Eagles
Speaker 2: would play the Steelers. The ones who were maybe less
Speaker 2: courageous in their expressing their views would say, I'm just
Speaker 2: rooting for a good game or I'm reading for Pennsylvania,
Speaker 2: and I would always shake my head and say, come on,
Speaker 2: just take a side. But when it comes to this stuff,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I'm gonna demur, and you know,
Speaker 2: just simply say that I love our commonwealth. And gosh,
Speaker 2: you know, with Pence, he's always been at the forefront.
Speaker 2: So it's gonna be an interesting It'll be an interesting
Speaker 2: twenty twenty six. But you know, here, we're just working
Speaker 2: every day. And you said something before about about the
Speaker 2: UN being a special place, and it is. It needs
Speaker 2: massive reform and we're executing on those reforms. And I
Speaker 2: think that's the number one message you share with you
Speaker 2: and your listeners, that the American taxpayers have not been
Speaker 2: regarded as much as they should have been over the years,
Speaker 2: and we are squarely thinking about the taxpayers. We're thinking
Speaker 2: about the farmers and the mechanics and the I mean
Speaker 2: small business owners, teachers, firefighters, first responders all over Pennsylvania,
Speaker 2: all over the nation who pay their hard earned tax dollars.
Speaker 2: So some of that can go to international organizations and
Speaker 2: they have the absolute right and they should demand of us,
Speaker 2: and we think about it every day that we're here
Speaker 2: to make sure every dollar the American taxpayers spend to
Speaker 2: the UN sent to the UN is fit for purpose,
Speaker 2: well spent and you know, no waste for round abuse.
Speaker 2: So that's what that's really you know, you asked me
Speaker 2: before what we do. That's that's what me and our team,
Speaker 2: that's what we spend a lot of our time on.
Speaker 1: Well. I think that's I think that's great and hopefully
Speaker 1: and having you here on Sean's show gives a little
Speaker 1: more attention to what you guys are involved with in
Speaker 1: working at the United Nations and dealing with all the
Speaker 1: you know, the problems that I mean, this is not
Speaker 1: going to be a world without problems ever, you know,
Speaker 1: you finally get to the point where you realize that.
Speaker 1: And so I'm glad you're there. And as I say,
Speaker 1: I hope you're taking notes and that there's a book
Speaker 1: down the road when you're done, because I do think
Speaker 1: that history needs to be told so that people down
Speaker 1: the road who are who are not involved with all
Speaker 1: of this or too young or what have you eventually
Speaker 1: begin to understand what it is that being at the
Speaker 1: UN means and how it is and how you had
Speaker 1: to deal with it and all of that kind of thing.
Speaker 1: So so thank you very much, mister Jeff Bardos. It
Speaker 1: was great to talk to you.
Speaker 2: Wishing you and your family and your listeners a very
Speaker 2: healthy and happy new year, and just thankfully thank you
Speaker 2: for having me on and please come over love to
Speaker 2: show you around.
Speaker 1: All right, I may, I may. I'll put that on
Speaker 1: my bucket list. Okay, thank Jeff, Bye, buye, We'll be
Speaker 1: right back. The interviews you won't hear anywhere else every day,
Speaker 1: every day.
Speaker 2: That's what we do. You're on the Sean Hannity Show.
Speaker 1: All right, well, this is Jeffrey Lord sitting in for
Speaker 1: our friend Sean Hannity. I want to thank Sean for
Speaker 1: the opportunity and our friend Linda of course, and on
Speaker 1: we go to twenty twenty six. We are going to
Speaker 1: have I think a very interesting year. It's an election year.
Speaker 1: President Trump is not on the ballot, but in the
Speaker 1: peculiar way of American off your elections, he will be
Speaker 1: on the ballot in the sense that he will be
Speaker 1: around the country campaigning for Republican candidates, which is something
Speaker 1: that he is very very good at. I'm sure some
Speaker 1: of you have been at Trump rallies. I've been in
Speaker 1: my fair share. There are quite an amazing experience to see.
Speaker 1: So that will be very interesting these elections. Just by
Speaker 1: a little history background, you know me as the history buff.
Speaker 1: Two years after a president gets elected, these elections can
Speaker 1: tend to go south for the president, whomever that might be.
Speaker 1: It's very bipartisan and president President Reagan won a landslide
Speaker 1: in nineteen eighty and two years later got clobbered in
Speaker 1: the congressional elections. Then he won again big time, even
Speaker 1: bigger in nineteen eighty four, and got smacked a bit
Speaker 1: in nineteen eighty six two years after, so that kind
Speaker 1: of thing can, in fact happen. And one of the
Speaker 1: good things about President Trump is he is the team
Speaker 1: leader for Republicans and conservatives and he will be out
Speaker 1: there making the case. So buckle in for twenty twenty six.
Speaker 1: As I say, I'm Jeffrey Lord from Newsmax and the
Speaker 1: American Spectator. Have a great time and we will see
Speaker 1: you in the new year. Bye bye,