WEBVTT - American Leadership 0:00:00.640 --> 0:00:04.080 All right, This is Jeffrey, Lord of the American Spectator 0:00:04.160 --> 0:00:09.760 in Newsmax, sitting in for our friend Sean Hannity. You 0:00:09.800 --> 0:00:12.360 can reach us in here at eight hundred ninety four 0:00:12.480 --> 0:00:15.360 one seven three two six or eight hundred nine four 0:00:15.400 --> 0:00:19.799 to one, Sean. And we have a great guest coming 0:00:19.880 --> 0:00:23.880 up right now is Jeff Bardos, who happens this is 0:00:23.920 --> 0:00:26.720 a Pennsylvania kind of today. I guess he's also a 0:00:26.760 --> 0:00:32.400 Pennsylvanian like myself. He is an American real estate developer, 0:00:32.479 --> 0:00:35.920 a lawyer, and a diplomat, and he's currently serving, by 0:00:37.240 --> 0:00:40.560 the appointment of President Trump as the United States Ambassador 0:00:40.600 --> 0:00:45.000 to the United Nations for Management and Reform since this 0:00:45.159 --> 0:00:48.800 past year of twenty twenty five. So Jeff, good to 0:00:48.920 --> 0:00:49.520 talk to you. 0:00:49.479 --> 0:00:53.440 My friend, Jeffrey. It's always great to speak with you. 0:00:53.479 --> 0:00:55.120 And I think we have a nice tradition at the 0:00:55.200 --> 0:00:57.680 end of calendar years where we get on the phone 0:00:57.720 --> 0:01:01.280 two Pennsylvanians. At this point though, two Pennsylvanians sitting in Manhattan, 0:01:01.320 --> 0:01:03.840 and I don't know, there's something wrong with that we 0:01:04.280 --> 0:01:07.360 gotta do something about. But greeting greetings from the East 0:01:07.400 --> 0:01:09.240 Side in Turtle Bay, and I hope you and your 0:01:09.240 --> 0:01:11.760 family are well and all your listeners had a wonderful Christmas. 0:01:11.880 --> 0:01:14.720 Exactly, Well, thank you very much. You know, I was 0:01:14.760 --> 0:01:17.160 really intrigued. I didn't realize you were over there at 0:01:17.160 --> 0:01:20.640 the UN doing this and Jeff's background in business and 0:01:20.680 --> 0:01:23.880 politics and all of that sort of thing, and now 0:01:23.920 --> 0:01:28.680 he is adding diplomacy to the resume and tell us 0:01:28.680 --> 0:01:31.240 a little bit about what your UN job and tails. 0:01:31.280 --> 0:01:32.400 I'm sort of intrigued. 0:01:32.800 --> 0:01:35.000 Well, it's the honor of a lifetime to serve President 0:01:35.000 --> 0:01:38.160 Trump and the American people as the representative of the 0:01:38.240 --> 0:01:40.679 United States to the UN for management and reform. And 0:01:41.280 --> 0:01:43.760 in my hearing before the United States Senate Chairman Rich said, 0:01:43.760 --> 0:01:46.920 that's a little oxymoronic management reform and the UN. How 0:01:47.280 --> 0:01:48.960 how are you going to how are you going to 0:01:49.000 --> 0:01:52.480 tackle this? Which is a great question. So we I 0:01:52.640 --> 0:01:58.240 lead a terrific team of very skilled experts who comb 0:01:58.280 --> 0:02:02.120 through the gigantic breocracy and budget that is the United Nations. 0:02:02.160 --> 0:02:04.720 And with President Trump's leadership, and the way I answered 0:02:04.760 --> 0:02:07.080 the question during my set of hearing is that President 0:02:07.120 --> 0:02:10.959 Trump his leadership provided a unique window of opportunity, maybe 0:02:11.000 --> 0:02:13.680 a once in a generation or once in fifty year, 0:02:13.800 --> 0:02:18.680 eighty year opportunity to bring real, meaningful, durable, consequential reform 0:02:19.280 --> 0:02:22.200 to this gigantic bureaucracy that is the United Nations. And 0:02:22.360 --> 0:02:23.760 since we hit the ground running, I mean, we have 0:02:24.160 --> 0:02:25.920 a great team, many of whom I think you know. 0:02:26.000 --> 0:02:30.800 Ambassador Mike Waltz, Ambassador Tammy Bruce, Ambassador Jennifer Lisetta, Ambassador 0:02:30.880 --> 0:02:33.880 Dan de Greya, and myself. We all have different portfolios. 0:02:33.919 --> 0:02:36.239 Mike's our chief of mission, Tammy is our deputy chief 0:02:36.240 --> 0:02:39.919 of Mission. Jennifer handles the Security Council, Dan has the 0:02:40.000 --> 0:02:42.400 Economic and Social Council, and I have management and reform. 0:02:42.800 --> 0:02:44.840 And we've been sent up here by the President, by 0:02:44.840 --> 0:02:48.400 the Secretary and by our peers to come up here 0:02:48.440 --> 0:02:51.320 and make sure this place runs better. And so I 0:02:51.360 --> 0:02:54.080 spend my day and my night and many nights with 0:02:54.200 --> 0:02:56.680 my team getting this place fit for purpose, get it 0:02:56.720 --> 0:03:00.720 back to basics. I'm tomorrow we will gavel in. We've 0:03:00.720 --> 0:03:03.320 only been here one hundred days. We all got up 0:03:03.320 --> 0:03:07.760 here in mid September. Tomorrow we will gabble through the 0:03:07.880 --> 0:03:12.280 largest cut to the UN's regular budget in history. Maybe 0:03:13.160 --> 0:03:15.560 in the time that nobody can remember a bigger cut 0:03:15.600 --> 0:03:18.400 to the budget. And we also so a fifteen percent 0:03:18.400 --> 0:03:21.959 cuts to the budget and a elimination of twenty six 0:03:22.040 --> 0:03:26.560 hundred UN bureaucratic posts, which is unprecedented and only happens 0:03:26.560 --> 0:03:29.720 because of President Trump's leadership, his vision. He when he 0:03:29.760 --> 0:03:31.799 spoke at the UN in September, he said, the UN 0:03:31.840 --> 0:03:34.399 has great potential. It's not living up to that potential. 0:03:34.960 --> 0:03:38.200 And we are executing the President's vision. And like I said, 0:03:38.240 --> 0:03:39.960 it's the honor of a lifetime to serve the President 0:03:40.000 --> 0:03:41.680 and the American people in this in this work. 0:03:42.360 --> 0:03:47.880 Well, I think that is really really great. I'd be 0:03:48.000 --> 0:03:53.640 curious to know. I means, as we speak, we are 0:03:53.960 --> 0:03:56.320 I'm seeing that President Trump is going to receive the 0:03:56.480 --> 0:04:02.160 Israel Prize for Peace and things are just not doing 0:04:02.200 --> 0:04:04.920 so well over there. How does that affect what you 0:04:05.000 --> 0:04:07.360 do and what the UN does, et cetera. 0:04:07.960 --> 0:04:12.400 Well, the President's incredible leadership, his visionary leadership also allowed 0:04:12.920 --> 0:04:16.640 that the Charmel shake deal and the twenty point peace 0:04:16.720 --> 0:04:21.359 Plan that immediately saw the release of the twenty living hostages. 0:04:21.360 --> 0:04:24.599 And at this point there is one hostage remains. When 0:04:24.600 --> 0:04:26.800 the remains of one hostage right that have not been 0:04:26.839 --> 0:04:31.919 released by Hamas and bipalaestis pulcinating Islamic jihad. So we 0:04:32.040 --> 0:04:36.360 have to get one. One family is still without their 0:04:36.360 --> 0:04:39.000 son and that is unacceptable. But the President's twenty point 0:04:39.040 --> 0:04:42.159 peace Plan was put into a Security Council resolution, again 0:04:42.360 --> 0:04:44.839 a first of its kind, with the Board of Peace 0:04:45.240 --> 0:04:47.599 and with the International Stabilization Force. And again it's the 0:04:47.600 --> 0:04:51.479 President's leadership, his vision that allowed all of this to 0:04:51.480 --> 0:04:53.480 come together. It would there just wouldn't be peace. He 0:04:53.600 --> 0:04:55.840 is the president of piece. We see it every day 0:04:56.000 --> 0:04:58.640 and it's it's so much. I have to say, it's 0:04:58.680 --> 0:05:04.680 fun to serve in this administration because every day we're 0:05:04.720 --> 0:05:09.080 achieving goals and objectives that really before the president was 0:05:09.120 --> 0:05:11.800 sworn in just people said it was impossible. And as 0:05:11.800 --> 0:05:14.960 he said in as inaugural address, the impossible is what 0:05:14.960 --> 0:05:18.360 we do. And because of that leadership, we're able to 0:05:18.400 --> 0:05:19.680 achieve a lot of things here at the UN that 0:05:20.240 --> 0:05:22.560 previously people thought was just were just unattainable. 0:05:23.120 --> 0:05:25.520 Well, I really do think that the fact that he 0:05:25.800 --> 0:05:30.839 was not a career politician. If he spent any time 0:05:30.839 --> 0:05:33.360 in Washington, it was to see somebody and get out, 0:05:34.600 --> 0:05:40.840 And so I do think that that gives him a 0:05:40.920 --> 0:05:46.719 particular perspective on dealing with government, in this case the 0:05:46.839 --> 0:05:52.400 United Nations that other presidents wouldn't have because they are 0:05:52.440 --> 0:05:56.000 so used to the you know, the being involved from 0:05:56.080 --> 0:05:59.960 the governmental and political aspect of things. And in particular, 0:06:00.120 --> 0:06:04.440 I think the UN is an interesting place because you've 0:06:04.440 --> 0:06:06.839 got all these countries from all over the place, and 0:06:07.680 --> 0:06:10.560 you know, history is filled with all these episodes of 0:06:10.640 --> 0:06:15.200 American ambassadors to the UN getting into clashes with the 0:06:15.279 --> 0:06:22.440 Soviet Union or others, and you know, just just sort 0:06:22.440 --> 0:06:24.919 of amazing thing. And I think, you know, you really 0:06:24.960 --> 0:06:27.640 are there at a very interesting time. And jeff I 0:06:27.640 --> 0:06:30.480 would also ask, as someone who writes, I hope you're 0:06:30.520 --> 0:06:31.240 taking notes. 0:06:33.160 --> 0:06:37.320 We're working really hard. The you know, the every day 0:06:37.960 --> 0:06:39.919 is a new challenge. And as I mentioned, you know 0:06:39.960 --> 0:06:42.680 there's this is the unique window of opportunity in this 0:06:42.760 --> 0:06:45.680 time to and there's hunt Jeffrey. There's one hundred and 0:06:45.760 --> 0:06:49.600 ninety three countries in the United Nations. It's a staggering number. 0:06:49.640 --> 0:06:52.200 And the way the budget works, if you can believe this, 0:06:52.320 --> 0:06:55.800 whether you whether you contribute thirty seven thousand dollars or 0:06:55.880 --> 0:06:57.880 twelve billion dollars, you get the same boat in the 0:06:57.920 --> 0:07:00.000 General Assembly, and of course we have the Security Council. 0:07:00.040 --> 0:07:02.640 So it's a it's a governance structure that we set up, 0:07:02.920 --> 0:07:05.520 you know, back in nineteen forty five, nineteen forty six, right, 0:07:06.000 --> 0:07:11.720 but it really is it needs major reforms, and we're 0:07:11.760 --> 0:07:14.440 executing against that every day. I mean we, like I said, 0:07:14.440 --> 0:07:17.120 we're going to gabble through the budget tomorrow and then 0:07:17.160 --> 0:07:20.040 that sets up a huge reform opportunities in twenty twenty six, 0:07:20.080 --> 0:07:23.120 which we're already starting to execute upon and starting to 0:07:23.160 --> 0:07:26.840 work with. And everybody wants to see the United States 0:07:26.840 --> 0:07:29.440 and everybody is listening to President Trump and it's again 0:07:29.880 --> 0:07:32.080 it's an honor to have the opportunity to serve him 0:07:32.120 --> 0:07:37.080 and the American people for us looking ahead, the President 0:07:37.120 --> 0:07:39.000 said this in his remarks. The UN has great potential, 0:07:39.120 --> 0:07:41.760 and it is the world needs a place where everybody 0:07:41.800 --> 0:07:45.040 can talk. And Ambassador Waltz talks about this all the 0:07:45.080 --> 0:07:47.200 time that we'd much rather that place be in the 0:07:47.240 --> 0:07:50.960 United States than in Moscow or Beijing or some other place. 0:07:51.000 --> 0:07:53.600 And so it has a real role. It has gone, 0:07:53.680 --> 0:07:57.240 like so many big organizations, the UN has become bloated. 0:07:57.520 --> 0:07:59.600 It tries to do everything and you know this from 0:07:59.640 --> 0:08:01.840 your busines this world. If you try to do everything, 0:08:02.000 --> 0:08:04.880 it's impossible to do everything well and so you end 0:08:04.960 --> 0:08:06.920 up doing mediocre or worse and a lot of things. 0:08:07.560 --> 0:08:10.320 And we are just guiding with our business experience and 0:08:10.360 --> 0:08:13.800 with the President's direction, where we are bringing this place. 0:08:14.200 --> 0:08:16.320 We're bringing these reforms which will hopefully get it fit 0:08:16.360 --> 0:08:19.680 the purpose back to basics, promote international peace and security. 0:08:19.720 --> 0:08:23.080 And you got right now the President is settling conflicts 0:08:23.080 --> 0:08:26.240 around the world basically himself and the small team. It'd 0:08:26.280 --> 0:08:28.600 be great if the UN could could be right there 0:08:28.920 --> 0:08:33.079 helping and be a force for good. So that's also 0:08:33.120 --> 0:08:34.000 something we're focused on. 0:08:34.320 --> 0:08:38.360 Who do you work with in the course of I mean, 0:08:38.400 --> 0:08:42.320 what particular countries are there? Some that you are more 0:08:42.400 --> 0:08:46.640 obvious allies than others, and others that you just you 0:08:46.679 --> 0:08:49.600 can't really get near in a sense. 0:08:50.000 --> 0:08:54.320 Well, we're the largest contributor Americans have since the founding 0:08:54.320 --> 0:08:56.400 of the UN. We're the largest contributor to the system, 0:08:56.400 --> 0:08:59.160 and we're the most generous nation on earth, and we 0:08:59.240 --> 0:09:02.480 tend to work with the other large donor countries. But 0:09:02.520 --> 0:09:05.560 of course, in the scope of our work, we work 0:09:05.640 --> 0:09:07.599 with almost every country. I mean, of one hundred and 0:09:07.640 --> 0:09:10.320 ninety three. I haven't met every country, but you know, 0:09:10.480 --> 0:09:14.199 it's pretty close in one hundred days, and so we 0:09:14.240 --> 0:09:18.320 work with everybody. But again, we have been laser focused 0:09:18.320 --> 0:09:21.600 on delivering this reform agenda since mid September. And so 0:09:21.640 --> 0:09:24.320 when we will take a little breather here, maybe maybe 0:09:24.360 --> 0:09:27.319 a couple of days between now and New Year's and 0:09:27.360 --> 0:09:30.360 then get right back at it. I guess a week 0:09:30.400 --> 0:09:32.640 from today we'll get right back at it. So yeah, 0:09:32.679 --> 0:09:35.440 but we I mean, Jeffrey, it's come visit any time. 0:09:36.120 --> 0:09:37.240 It's a fascinating place. 0:09:37.920 --> 0:09:40.680 Yeah, yeah, I'd like to do that. That might go 0:09:40.800 --> 0:09:46.720 on my bucket list. Well. I spent some time courtesy 0:09:46.800 --> 0:09:52.080 of my friends at Newsmax in Israel this summer. I 0:09:52.080 --> 0:09:55.400 think it was in August for a week and wow, 0:09:56.080 --> 0:10:00.080 truly an amazing place to see. And you know, I 0:10:00.120 --> 0:10:02.560 have first of all that, and I was saying to people, 0:10:02.679 --> 0:10:06.600 you know, as Americans, you talk about, say the Pilgrims 0:10:06.600 --> 0:10:09.120 in sixteen twenty, I think that's a long time ago. 0:10:09.400 --> 0:10:11.960 Then you're walking around Jerusalem and they're telling you that 0:10:12.080 --> 0:10:15.959 something was three thousand years old and that streets were 0:10:15.960 --> 0:10:18.000 put in by the Romans and all of this kind 0:10:18.040 --> 0:10:21.280 of thing. It really is an amazing thing, but it 0:10:21.360 --> 0:10:26.120 also gives you the impression of how hyper sensitive relations are. 0:10:26.559 --> 0:10:29.640 And they pointed out to me in one part of 0:10:29.679 --> 0:10:34.160 our tour, there was a hillside that was just on 0:10:34.200 --> 0:10:37.800 the other side of the Israeli border, and below it, 0:10:37.920 --> 0:10:41.680 on the Israeli side was a soccer field where kids 0:10:41.720 --> 0:10:45.680 had been playing soccer, and all of a sudden, gunfire 0:10:45.840 --> 0:10:49.800 comes from the hill in Lebanon and killed some kids. 0:10:52.040 --> 0:10:53.960 You know, it just takes your breath away at the 0:10:54.080 --> 0:10:58.040 kind of brutality that can be found over there and 0:10:58.160 --> 0:11:02.040 how much work needs to be done, which you know 0:11:02.200 --> 0:11:04.199 President Trump was doing just today. 0:11:04.640 --> 0:11:07.280 Yes, with all of this, was that your first trip? 0:11:07.679 --> 0:11:08.760 That was my first trip? 0:11:08.840 --> 0:11:11.000 Wow. So when we're not on the radio though, you 0:11:11.000 --> 0:11:12.640 could certainly tell me about it now, but I would 0:11:12.640 --> 0:11:16.720 love to hear more about it. We just marked the 0:11:16.760 --> 0:11:20.600 fiftieth anniversary of Embassador Daniel Patrick Mooyne, then Senator Daniel 0:11:20.600 --> 0:11:24.600 Patrick Jinian's remarkable explanation of vote when the United States 0:11:24.640 --> 0:11:26.760 cast its vote and then vote and then explained why 0:11:26.920 --> 0:11:31.280 against the outrageous and shameful Zionism as Racism resolution from 0:11:31.360 --> 0:11:35.400 nineteen seventy five. And those remarks that the Ambassador in 0:11:35.440 --> 0:11:37.600 Mestered Morny hand delivered back in nineteen seventy five ring 0:11:37.679 --> 0:11:43.640 true today. The level of anti West, anti American, anti Israel, right, 0:11:43.720 --> 0:11:46.360 it's all kind of wrapped up into one that still 0:11:46.360 --> 0:11:49.719 exists here and it's something that we fight every day. 0:11:51.240 --> 0:11:55.120 We're committed to stamping out this anti West, anti American, 0:11:55.160 --> 0:11:58.760 anti Israel bias that courses through too many parts of 0:11:58.760 --> 0:12:01.560 the United Nations. And it's a this is not something 0:12:01.600 --> 0:12:04.280 that's going to happen overnight, but we are again focused, 0:12:04.760 --> 0:12:07.560 and we have the resources and the support to get 0:12:07.559 --> 0:12:10.360 it done, and it just has to happen. But you're 0:12:10.800 --> 0:12:12.760 when we took our first trip to Israel back in 0:12:12.800 --> 0:12:16.160 twenty thirteen, my goal for our girls was to see 0:12:16.160 --> 0:12:19.199 that Israel was a tiny country in a tough neighborhood 0:12:19.400 --> 0:12:22.960 and in spite of, or maybe because of, those dynamics, 0:12:23.280 --> 0:12:25.880 the Israeli people lived their lives with great joy and 0:12:26.000 --> 0:12:29.920 great focus and great purpose. And so you have national service, 0:12:29.960 --> 0:12:33.520 which is a unique aspect, not singular, but very unique 0:12:33.760 --> 0:12:37.760 amongst countries. And so it's a special place and they're 0:12:37.760 --> 0:12:40.760 a very special important ally of the United States. So yeah, 0:12:40.760 --> 0:12:43.080 We work very close you mentioned before, We work very 0:12:43.080 --> 0:12:45.679 closely with our allies, not only in the Middle East, 0:12:45.679 --> 0:12:48.040 but across Europe and really across the globe. 0:12:48.720 --> 0:12:51.800 Right. Well, that's good to know, you know. I sometimes 0:12:51.840 --> 0:12:55.760 wonder if the United Nations did not exist and there 0:12:55.840 --> 0:12:59.880 was a move to set it up, now, would this 0:13:00.120 --> 0:13:03.680 be anywhere near the same? Would would we still? Would 0:13:03.679 --> 0:13:06.880 we be having worse problems now? Would would there even 0:13:06.920 --> 0:13:10.520 be a United Nations headquarters in New York? Would there 0:13:10.559 --> 0:13:13.000 be too many people out there that say, no, no, no, 0:13:13.080 --> 0:13:17.199 not with the Americans, uh, et cetera. But it's, uh, 0:13:17.400 --> 0:13:21.440 it's very interesting because I think that our enemies so 0:13:21.640 --> 0:13:27.760 called out there. It isn't just Israel, it's the West, 0:13:27.880 --> 0:13:30.600 It's it's America in particular. I mean, I think we 0:13:30.720 --> 0:13:34.480 have a you know, a target on us all the time, 0:13:35.120 --> 0:13:38.000 and you know, too bad in one sense. But boy, 0:13:38.480 --> 0:13:40.720 you have to be wary. And I would imagine as 0:13:40.760 --> 0:13:44.479 you as you walk around the UN you're you're sensitive 0:13:44.520 --> 0:13:47.520 to anything that you can see that that seems like 0:13:47.640 --> 0:13:50.840 it's sending a message that things are not very good here. 0:13:51.600 --> 0:13:53.960 Yeah, if anything gets frustrating during the day, whether it's 0:13:53.960 --> 0:13:56.600 across the street, or back here at the Mission. I 0:13:56.480 --> 0:13:59.120 I and I've done this a number of times throughout 0:13:59.120 --> 0:14:01.000 the last hundred days. I will go down into our 0:14:01.000 --> 0:14:04.040 lobby and I get to walk past the American flag 0:14:04.200 --> 0:14:06.760 and then portraits of the President, the Vice President, Secretary 0:14:06.760 --> 0:14:12.040 of Rubio, and Ambassador Waltz. And then there's most weeks, 0:14:12.080 --> 0:14:14.440 not every week, but most weeks, I have the genuine 0:14:14.480 --> 0:14:16.840 privilege and honor to sit behind the placard that says 0:14:16.880 --> 0:14:19.480 the United States. And Jeffrey, you and I've known each 0:14:19.480 --> 0:14:22.600 other a long time. I can't really describe the feeling 0:14:22.680 --> 0:14:25.680 of what it feels like to sit behind the placard 0:14:25.680 --> 0:14:28.720 that says the United States, but it is. It will 0:14:28.720 --> 0:14:32.720 never get old. It is just a tremendous honor. And 0:14:32.760 --> 0:14:34.640 as much as people may want to pick at us 0:14:34.680 --> 0:14:36.840 and do damage to us or try to hurt the 0:14:36.920 --> 0:14:40.320 United States, we are the indispensable nation where the indispensable 0:14:40.840 --> 0:14:45.080 ally for many many countries, and we try to do it. 0:14:45.080 --> 0:14:47.320 I mean, we're the most generous nation on earth. And 0:14:47.400 --> 0:14:49.880 the President, yeah, the President has said that, the Secretary 0:14:49.880 --> 0:14:52.000 has said that, and we proudly do that. I'll just 0:14:52.080 --> 0:14:54.040 give you a quick story of how zany the un 0:14:54.160 --> 0:14:56.200 can get. There was a week, it was a couple 0:14:56.240 --> 0:14:58.880 of months ago where the Cubans were running their resolution 0:14:59.000 --> 0:15:02.360 that they run every year condemning the United States for 0:15:02.400 --> 0:15:06.480 blockading and they call it a blockading and Cuba, which 0:15:06.480 --> 0:15:09.480 of course is fundamentally untrue. We send something like six 0:15:09.560 --> 0:15:15.240 hundred million dollars of key important humanitarian goods, food, medicine, 0:15:15.240 --> 0:15:18.040 other things to Cuba every year, so that's just fundamentally 0:15:18.120 --> 0:15:21.200 untrue what they said. But it was the same week, 0:15:21.880 --> 0:15:23.400 in the same week, we were fighting about this in 0:15:23.440 --> 0:15:26.840 the General Assembly and trying to get countries to vote 0:15:26.880 --> 0:15:29.280 with us because it's just offensive what the Cubans were doing. 0:15:29.760 --> 0:15:32.600 And that same week is when Hurricane Melissa hit And 0:15:32.640 --> 0:15:35.440 without missing a beat, hey, without missing a beat. 0:15:35.280 --> 0:15:38.040 Hey, jeff h I hate to say this, but I'm 0:15:38.040 --> 0:15:41.000 getting a hard break. Sign here. We can hold you 0:15:41.040 --> 0:15:43.440 over if you'd like to do that or whatever. 0:15:43.680 --> 0:15:45.280 I'll just finish the quick story when we come back. 0:15:45.280 --> 0:15:49.600 Sure, okay, great, thank you. All right. This is Jeffrey 0:15:49.680 --> 0:15:52.880 Lord from the American Spectator, a Newsmax subbing for our 0:15:52.960 --> 0:15:57.680 friend Sean Hannity, and we have our friend Jeff Bardos 0:15:57.720 --> 0:16:01.440 on the line, who is the US Ambassador to the 0:16:01.560 --> 0:16:05.360 United Nations for Management and Reform, and he's held that 0:16:05.440 --> 0:16:09.720 position since this year, so he's got a lot of 0:16:09.760 --> 0:16:12.480 interesting times ahead of me. Jeff, and you were telling 0:16:12.520 --> 0:16:14.880 a story there and we interrupted you for a break. 0:16:16.240 --> 0:16:18.040 Let me get back to that. 0:16:18.520 --> 0:16:20.160 Yeah, I was making the point, and thank you again 0:16:20.160 --> 0:16:22.080 for having me on. I was making the point that 0:16:22.520 --> 0:16:26.520 the United States, for you know, the whole of the 0:16:26.560 --> 0:16:29.600 World War post World War two era, the entirety of 0:16:29.640 --> 0:16:32.240 the history of the Nations, by far the largest contributor 0:16:32.320 --> 0:16:35.120 to the system and the most generous nation on Earth 0:16:35.160 --> 0:16:38.960 bar Non. There's not even a close second. And that 0:16:39.040 --> 0:16:41.920 I mean, there's many, many examples of what I just said, 0:16:41.920 --> 0:16:43.760 but I'll just give you one, which is the same 0:16:43.760 --> 0:16:46.160 week that we were on the floor of the General 0:16:46.160 --> 0:16:48.880 Assembly going back and forth with Cuba and some of 0:16:48.880 --> 0:16:52.520 their allies on this ridiculous resolution that they run every 0:16:52.560 --> 0:16:55.560 year accusing us of embargoing or blockading them, which is absurd. 0:16:56.360 --> 0:16:58.440 We do almost six hundred million, as I mentioned before, 0:16:58.480 --> 0:17:01.880 a six hundred million of of food, medicine, and other 0:17:02.320 --> 0:17:07.040 humanitarian goods to the Cuban people every year. At that 0:17:07.119 --> 0:17:09.800 same week, when we were fighting about the resolution. Hurricane 0:17:09.840 --> 0:17:13.720 Melissa hit the Caribbean and did terrible damage, not only 0:17:13.760 --> 0:17:17.919 to our friends in Jamaica in other countries where we 0:17:18.000 --> 0:17:21.640 have dear friends, but also to Cuba. And I'm very 0:17:21.640 --> 0:17:25.440 proud right the State Department leapt into action and had 0:17:25.480 --> 0:17:27.800 a twenty four hour day, seven day a week operations 0:17:27.800 --> 0:17:30.840 center to help our friends in the region, including the 0:17:30.920 --> 0:17:34.919 Cuban people. We're not friends with the Cuban regime, but 0:17:34.960 --> 0:17:38.360 we look after our neighbors here in the Western Hemisphere, 0:17:38.400 --> 0:17:41.040 and the Cuban people needed our help and we were there. 0:17:41.119 --> 0:17:43.399 And that's the United States is the only nation in 0:17:43.400 --> 0:17:46.240 the world that would do that. And we don't even 0:17:46.280 --> 0:17:47.840 really talk about it very much. We just do it 0:17:47.880 --> 0:17:48.720 because that's who we are. 0:17:49.520 --> 0:17:53.440 Yeah, I think that's wow, that's a great story, and 0:17:53.760 --> 0:17:56.960 it really is true. The United States does so much 0:17:57.040 --> 0:18:01.160 around the world, and yet that is what the bad 0:18:01.200 --> 0:18:05.080 guys want to target here. And uh, I think that 0:18:05.080 --> 0:18:09.160 that's what makes us an exceptionally dangerous world out there, 0:18:09.560 --> 0:18:14.280 because you've got all kinds of people trying to undermine uh, 0:18:14.720 --> 0:18:18.919 you know, good decent human relations between nations and all 0:18:18.960 --> 0:18:21.639 of this kind of thing. So I think that uh, 0:18:22.280 --> 0:18:25.800 you know, setting a setting a model at the United Nations. 0:18:25.840 --> 0:18:28.919 And you know, I'm old enough to remember, you know, 0:18:29.000 --> 0:18:32.199 some of these incredible moments. I think it was the 0:18:32.920 --> 0:18:38.760 UH Cuban missile crisis where Ambassador Adlei Stevenson was in 0:18:38.800 --> 0:18:42.119 a tete a tete with the Soviet ambassador. Do you, 0:18:42.320 --> 0:18:46.439 Ambassador Zarn, deny that the Soviet Union is placed and 0:18:46.480 --> 0:18:49.800 it is placing you know, nuclear weapons in Cuba and 0:18:49.840 --> 0:18:52.680 all this kind of thing. Don't wait for the translator, sir, 0:18:52.880 --> 0:18:56.639 give me your answer now. I mean, lots of lots 0:18:56.640 --> 0:19:01.320 of drama. Who would think that when they add the 0:19:01.400 --> 0:19:04.680 UN that the American ambassador whomever that might be, would 0:19:04.720 --> 0:19:09.679 be getting all kinds of attention from from the world 0:19:09.720 --> 0:19:12.360 and world media and all of this kind of thing 0:19:12.400 --> 0:19:15.879 because they do play such an important role in front 0:19:15.880 --> 0:19:18.480 of the cameras and behind the cameras. I'm sure as 0:19:18.520 --> 0:19:19.359 you can testify. 0:19:19.840 --> 0:19:22.439 Yes. And of course you know, Ambassador Walt is our 0:19:22.520 --> 0:19:27.360 chief of mission and is a remarkable leader, remarkable, remarkable man. 0:19:27.400 --> 0:19:30.560 I mean, you know, his books are extraordinary, his life 0:19:30.600 --> 0:19:33.920 history is extraordinary. You know, the first Greenbury elected to 0:19:33.960 --> 0:19:38.800 Congress three terms, picked by President Trump to go to 0:19:38.840 --> 0:19:42.320 serve in the administration. I mean, it's history is remarkable, 0:19:42.480 --> 0:19:45.080 and we all feed off of that. As I mentioned before, 0:19:45.320 --> 0:19:47.560 whenever I'm having a bad day, I walk downstairs. And 0:19:47.720 --> 0:19:49.560 it's not that often, by the way, but whenever i 0:19:49.600 --> 0:19:51.720 am go down, I walk by the flag, I walk 0:19:51.800 --> 0:19:55.919 by the portraits of our leaders, and it's just like 0:19:55.960 --> 0:19:58.200 I said, it's it's the honorable lifetime to serve the 0:19:58.200 --> 0:19:59.320 president and the American people. 0:20:00.119 --> 0:20:03.080 Yeah, yeah, well, it certainly is. I did it for 0:20:03.160 --> 0:20:08.439 President Reagan and it just was amazing. And you know 0:20:09.040 --> 0:20:11.440 what these people are like when the cameras are off, 0:20:12.400 --> 0:20:15.280 you know, it's it's always it's always amazing that people 0:20:15.359 --> 0:20:19.280 have such negative impressions of them, whether it was President 0:20:19.280 --> 0:20:22.800 Reagan then or President Trump now. And yet those who 0:20:22.840 --> 0:20:25.800 really know him and have spent time with him, and 0:20:25.880 --> 0:20:30.879 I certainly have been privileged to do that. With President Trump. Wow, 0:20:31.040 --> 0:20:33.480 you know what a great guy and a kind and 0:20:33.600 --> 0:20:36.199 considerate soul and all this kind of thing. When he 0:20:36.240 --> 0:20:39.159 found out that he wanted to know why I was 0:20:39.240 --> 0:20:43.760 living in Pennsylvania when I'd had all this career in Washington, 0:20:44.240 --> 0:20:45.880 and I told him, you know, I was taking care 0:20:45.920 --> 0:20:48.800 of my mother who was in her nineties at the time, 0:20:48.840 --> 0:20:50.840 and he said, well, that tells me everything I need 0:20:50.880 --> 0:20:55.679 to know about you. And you know, and periodically I 0:20:55.720 --> 0:20:58.719 would he would call, or I would get little handwritten notes, 0:20:58.760 --> 0:21:00.840 you know, say hi to Mom, that kind of thing. 0:21:01.400 --> 0:21:04.959 But you know, the public image out there with people 0:21:05.119 --> 0:21:09.000 is a difficult thing. And I would imagine it's it's 0:21:09.040 --> 0:21:11.880 difficult in dealing with the UN because I would imagine 0:21:11.880 --> 0:21:15.520 there are people inside the UN that have negative impressions 0:21:15.560 --> 0:21:20.399 of President Trump or America written large and are not 0:21:20.480 --> 0:21:21.920 above causing problems. 0:21:22.440 --> 0:21:24.800 Yeah, but you know, we're focused, right, We have a 0:21:24.880 --> 0:21:28.600 clear reform agenda. The President's given us direction. We're executing 0:21:28.600 --> 0:21:31.280 on that direction. And I said, I said this to 0:21:31.320 --> 0:21:33.919 my wife. Often, I feel like I'm the luckiest and 0:21:33.960 --> 0:21:35.040 we're here in New York, so I can say I 0:21:35.080 --> 0:21:37.040 feel like I'm the luckiest man on the face of 0:21:37.040 --> 0:21:40.000 the earth because I get to serve President Trump. We 0:21:40.080 --> 0:21:43.600 work for Secretary of Rubio and Ambassador Waltz and the like. 0:21:43.640 --> 0:21:47.879 We just, you know, I'm very blessed to have this opportunity, 0:21:47.920 --> 0:21:50.159 and we're not going to let anybody down. We're going 0:21:50.240 --> 0:21:53.200 to execute the President's vision. We're going to execute the 0:21:53.240 --> 0:21:55.080 agenda and we're going to get it done for the 0:21:55.119 --> 0:21:56.480 President and for the American people. 0:21:57.000 --> 0:22:00.159 Well that's right now. Is the President coming up there 0:22:00.160 --> 0:22:02.440 at any point in the near future. 0:22:02.160 --> 0:22:05.200