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Speaker 1: Welcome to today's edition of The Clay, Travis and Buck

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Speaker 1: Sexton Show podcast. Today, in concert with our allies, we

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Speaker 1: will agree a massive package of economic sanctions designed in

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Speaker 1: time to hobble the Russian economy. And to that end

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Speaker 1: we must also collectively cease the dependence on Russian oil

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Speaker 1: and gas that for too long has given Putin his

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Speaker 1: grip on Western politics. Our mission is clear, diplomatically, politically, economically,

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Speaker 1: and eventually military. This hideous and barbaric venture of Vladimir

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Speaker 1: Putin must end in failure. Welcome a second hour of

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Speaker 1: The Clay, Travis and Buck Sexton Show. That was UK

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Speaker 1: Prime Minister Morris Johnson, who my may Man Clay just

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Speaker 1: pointed out before we played. That was lawn the doorstep

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Speaker 1: of resignation, but a few weeks ago for his fancy

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Speaker 1: during COVID Party, that was against the regulations that he

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Speaker 1: had just signed. But things change in the world, and

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Speaker 1: now all of a sudden he's trying to be the

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Speaker 1: reincarnation of Winston Churchill himself in some way here. But

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Speaker 1: I will say a more eloquent and worthwhile speech right

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Speaker 1: there than you are going to hear from Joe Biden

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Speaker 1: in about half an hour's time from me speaking to

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Speaker 1: you right now. Notice though, how he said, and this

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Speaker 1: has been true for a long time, that energy security

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Speaker 1: is national security in a world in which modern economies

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Speaker 1: and yes, with them, modern militaries run on fossil fuels.

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Speaker 1: Still there are consequences for decision making around this, and

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Speaker 1: so instead of just having those, you could say more

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Speaker 1: soft power and perception discussions about how no one really

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Speaker 1: looks at what's going on with Biden and thinks that's

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Speaker 1: a guy I don't want to cross. You know, you

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Speaker 1: might look at him and say, that's a guy who's

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Speaker 1: that's a guy I don't want to cross. Is not

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Speaker 1: the way that thugs on the world stage look at Biden.

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Speaker 1: But that's put aside that for just a moment. While

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Speaker 1: I think that's true. In Clay and I've both been

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Speaker 1: talking to you about it, there have been decisions made

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Speaker 1: from the very beginning of the Biden administration that affect

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Speaker 1: our leverage in this moment. I could even take you

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Speaker 1: back to I think it was May of twenty twenty one,

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Speaker 1: Biden waived sanctions on the nord stream to pipeline. Now

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Speaker 1: those have been reinstituted, but it was Biden who made

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Speaker 1: the decision to allow without sanctions, to allow it to proceed.

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Speaker 1: Then the creation of a seven hundred mile long pipeline

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Speaker 1: from Russia directly into Germany some of Russia's greatest leverage

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Speaker 1: clay and all of this is that, you know, in

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Speaker 1: the wintertime it gets very cold in Germany, and also

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Speaker 1: they like the lights to be on and have air

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Speaker 1: conditioning in the summertime as well. They need Russian fossil

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Speaker 1: long are we really going to see dedicated sanctions that

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Speaker 1: bite when sanctions bite back at us. But the energy

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Speaker 1: policies of the Biden regime, they have Granholm, the former

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Speaker 1: governor of Michigan, Jennifer Granholm, is a treasure I'm sorry,

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Speaker 1: the energy secretary, which is obtuse. I mean, this is

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Speaker 1: just absurd. This is not a serious person. This is

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Speaker 1: never mind the economy. And they've just been pushing this

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Speaker 1: climate change mantra and all this nonsense around it. In

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Speaker 1: moments like this we realize having unserious people running your

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Speaker 1: country comes with very serious consequences. An energy policy ties

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Speaker 1: into everything here. It certainly ties into whatever diplomatic leverage

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Speaker 1: at all. And that's what's maybe the most staggering about this.

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Speaker 1: If you go look, it now feels as if Putin

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Speaker 1: a wildly successful economic revitalization of Russia, and so so

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Speaker 1: much of this if you went and looked at his speech.

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Speaker 1: much can these European countries deal with rapidly escalating costs

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Speaker 1: of situations just like this, right, war and peace and

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Speaker 1: energy and special forces operations and their deployments and how

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Speaker 1: Don't assume the guy sitting across from you on the chessboard,

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Speaker 1: so to speak, views the world the way you do.

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Speaker 1: in mind that in recent Soviet slash Russian history, they

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Speaker 1: Soviet Afghan War. For about a decade they were trying

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Speaker 1: to control what we've also learned is the uncontrollable of

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Speaker 1: So we've seen this play out before. Just because it

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Speaker 1: This is the big outstanding question for anybody looking at

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Speaker 1: not a fight that they can wage very long clay.

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Speaker 1: But if Russia is going to be trying to walk

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Speaker 1: I thought Marco Rubio's tweet was interesting about this buck

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Speaker 1: And then if you effectively are conquering a country, to

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Speaker 1: And what does the larger geopolitical landscape look like for Russia?

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Speaker 1: How long are these sanctions we were talking about earlier

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Speaker 1: price of oil. I mean, you're talking right now, what

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Speaker 1: And do we even really know even at this point

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Speaker 1: I mean, as long as they refrain from inflicting large

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Speaker 1: I'm seeing a lot of it now, Clay. They're saying

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Speaker 1: that's the guy I'm supposed to rally behind now because

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Speaker 1: criticizing the idea of it being unpatriotic to be criticizing

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Speaker 1: the president, when the same people told us for four years,

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Speaker 1: when they gave themselves all those journalism awards for democracy

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Speaker 1: dying in darkness and all that shenanigans. And now when

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Speaker 1: reasonable people are taking a step back and saying, hey,

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Speaker 1: I don't think it's a coincidence that Putin didn't make

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Speaker 1: and then a little over a year after Joe Biden's

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Speaker 1: that now we have to worry not only about Ukraine,

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Speaker 1: but as we started off the show talking about Buck.

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Speaker 1: The fear is also that we could be dealing with

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Speaker 1: a legitimate issue in the Pacific with Taiwan and with

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Speaker 1: in having dual fronted invasions. Were coming back here shortly

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Speaker 1: the podium shot, so to speak. This would call the

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Speaker 1: news biz is up. So they're going to be showing

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Speaker 1: Joe Biden giving this speech. Any moment we will come

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Speaker 1: back into that and carry it for you. Live. Stick

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Speaker 1: Travis buck Sexton Show. We are rolling through the second

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Speaker 1: hour Thursday edition. We go live now to President Biden

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Speaker 1: as he is addressing the nation from the White House.

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Speaker 1: Today's actions. We've now sanctioned Russian banks that together hold

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Speaker 1: around one trillion dollars in assets. We've cut off Rush

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Speaker 1: as largest bank, a bank that holds more than one

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Speaker 1: third of Russian's banking assets by itself, cut it off

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Speaker 1: four more major banks that means every asset they have

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Speaker 1: in America will be frozen. This includes VTB, the second

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Speaker 1: largest bank in Russia, which has two hundred and fifty

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Speaker 1: billion dollars in assets. As promised, we're also adding the

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Speaker 1: names to the list of Russian elites and their family

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Speaker 1: members that are sanctioning that we're sanctioned as well. As

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Speaker 1: I said on Tuesday, these are people who personally gained

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Speaker 1: from the Kremlin's policies, and they should share in the pain.

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Speaker 1: We will keep up this drum beat of those designations

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Speaker 1: against corrupt billionaires in the days ahead. On Tuesday, we

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Speaker 1: stopped the Russian government from raising money from US or

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Speaker 1: European investors. Now we're going to apply the same restrictions

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Speaker 1: to Russia's largest state on enterprise companies with assets that

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Speaker 1: powerful impacts our actions will come over time as we

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Speaker 1: squeeze Russian's access to finances and technology for strategic sectors

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Speaker 1: of its economy and degrade its industrial capacity for years

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Speaker 1: to come. Between our actions and those of our allies

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Speaker 1: and partners, we estimate that will cut off more than

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Speaker 1: half of Russia's high tech imports. It will strike a

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Speaker 1: blow to the ability to continue to modernize their military.

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Speaker 1: It will degrade their aerospace industry, including their space program.

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Speaker 1: It will hurt their ability to build ships, reducing their

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Speaker 1: ability to compete economically, and it will be a major

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Speaker 1: hit to Putin's long term strategic ambitions, and we're preparing

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Speaker 1: to do more. In addition to the economic penalties we're imposing,

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Speaker 1: we're also taking steps to defend our NATO allies. It's

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Speaker 1: particularly in the East. Tomorrow, nat IT will convene a summit,

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Speaker 1: to map out the next steps we will take to

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Speaker 1: further strengthen all aspects of our NATO alliance. Although we

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Speaker 1: provided over six hundred and fifty million dollars in defensive

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Speaker 1: assistance to Ukraine just this year, it's last year. Let

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Speaker 1: me say it again, our forces are not and will

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Speaker 1: not be engaged in the conflict with Russia in Ukraine.

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Speaker 1: Our forces are not going to Europe to fight in Ukraine,

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Speaker 1: but to defend our NATO allies and reassure those allies

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Speaker 1: in the East. As I made crystal clear, the United

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Speaker 1: States will defend every inch of NATO territory with a

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Speaker 1: full force of American power. And the good news is

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Speaker 1: NATO was more united and more determined than ever. There

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Speaker 1: every NATO alli will meet our Article five commitments, which

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Speaker 1: says in an attack on one as an attack on all.

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Speaker 1: Over the past few weeks, ordered thousands of additional forces

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Speaker 1: of Germany and Poland as part of our commitment to NATO.

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Speaker 1: On Tuesday, in response to Russia's aggressive action, including its

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Speaker 1: true presidence in Belarus and the Black Sea, I've authorized

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Speaker 1: the deployment of ground and air forces already stationed in

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Speaker 1: Europe to NATO's eastern flying allies Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland,

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Speaker 1: and Romania. Our allies have also been stepping up, adding

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Speaker 1: the other allies the rest of NATO adding their own

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Speaker 1: forces and capabilities to ensure collective defense, and today, within

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Speaker 1: hours of Russia's unleashing its assault, NATO came together and

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Speaker 1: authorized and activated an activation of response plans to still

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Speaker 1: enable NATO's high readiness forces to deploy and when and

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Speaker 1: where their knee to protect our NATO allies on the

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Speaker 1: eastern boundaries of Europe. And now I'm authorizing additional US

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Speaker 1: force capabilities to deploy to Germany as part of NATO's response,

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Speaker 1: including some of the US based forces that the Department

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Speaker 1: of Defense placed on standby weeks ago. I've also spoke

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Speaker 1: Millie about preparations for additional moves should they become necessary

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Speaker 1: to protect our NATO allies and support the greatest military

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Speaker 1: alliance in the history of the world NATO. As we respond,

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Speaker 1: my administration is using the tools every tool to supposed

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Speaker 1: to protect American families and businesses from rising prices at

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Speaker 1: prices to raise profits. You know, in our sanctions package,

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Speaker 1: we specifically designed to allow energy payments to continue. We

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Speaker 1: are closely monitoring energy supplies for any disruption. We've been

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Speaker 1: coordinating with major oil producing and consuming countries toward our

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Speaker 1: common interest to secure global energy supplies. We are actively

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Speaker 1: working with countries around the world to elevate collective release

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Speaker 1: from the strategic patrolling reserves of major energy consuming countries,

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Speaker 1: and the United States will release additional barrels of oil

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Speaker 1: as conditions warn't. I know this is hard, and the

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Speaker 1: Americans are already hearded. I will do everything in my

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Speaker 1: power to limit the pain the American people are feeling

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Speaker 1: at the gas pump. This is critical to me, but

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Speaker 1: this aggression cannot go unanswered. If it did, the consensequences

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Speaker 1: for America would be much worse. America stands up to bullies.

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Speaker 1: We stand up for freedom. This is who we are.

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Speaker 1: I may also repeat the warning I made last week.

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Speaker 1: If russ It pursues cyber tax against our companies, our

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Speaker 1: critical infrastructure, we are prepared to respond. For months, we've

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Speaker 1: been working closely with our private with the private sector

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Speaker 1: to harden their cyber defenses sharpen our ability to respond

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Speaker 1: to the Russian cyber tax as well. I spoke last

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Speaker 1: night to President Zalinsky of Ukraine and I assured him

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Speaker 1: that the United States, together with our allies and partners

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Speaker 1: in Europe, will support the Ukrainian people as they defend

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Speaker 1: their country, will provide humanitarian relief to ease their suffering.

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Speaker 1: And the early days of this conflict, Russia propaganda outlets

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Speaker 1: will keep trying to hide the truth and claim success

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Speaker 1: for its military operation against a made up threat. But

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Speaker 1: history is shown time and again how swift gains and

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Speaker 1: territory eventually give way to grinding occupations, acts of mass,

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Speaker 1: mass civil disobedience, and strategic dead ends. The next few

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Speaker 1: weeks and months were hard, and the people of Ukraine

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Speaker 1: un least a great pain on them. But the Ukrainian

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Speaker 1: people have known thirty years of independence. They have repeatedly

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Speaker 1: shown that they will not tolerate anyone who tries to

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Speaker 1: take their country backwards. This is a dangerous moment for

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Speaker 1: all of Europe, for the freedom around the world. Putin

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Speaker 1: is a committed an assault on the very principles that

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Speaker 1: uphold the global peace. Now the entire world sees clearly

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Speaker 1: with Putin and his criminal and his criminal allies are

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Speaker 1: really all about. This was never about a genuine security

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Speaker 1: concerns on their part. It was always about naked aggression.

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Speaker 1: We'll talk about this more when we come back, Buck.

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Speaker 1: That is President Biden just finishing his address in the

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Speaker 1: White House. What did we learn, if anything? Discussion next.

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Speaker 1: Fleets and Buck Sexton on the front lines of truth.

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