1 00:00:03,880 --> 00:00:11,360 Speaker 1: It's that time. Time, time, time, luck and load. The 2 00:00:11,480 --> 00:00:13,880 Speaker 1: Michael Verie Show is on the air. 3 00:00:14,120 --> 00:00:16,600 Speaker 2: You're gonna make a lot of money, right, yeah right, 4 00:00:17,079 --> 00:00:17,840 Speaker 2: that's not yours? 5 00:00:18,600 --> 00:00:25,200 Speaker 1: Well it becomes ours. How is that not stealing? I 6 00:00:25,200 --> 00:00:28,120 Speaker 1: don't think I don't think that. I'm explaining this very well. 7 00:00:29,400 --> 00:00:30,200 Speaker 1: It's seven eleven. 8 00:00:30,320 --> 00:00:30,480 Speaker 3: Right. 9 00:00:31,440 --> 00:00:33,879 Speaker 1: You can take a penny from the tray from the 10 00:00:33,920 --> 00:00:36,040 Speaker 1: crippled children. No, that's the job. 11 00:00:36,040 --> 00:00:38,519 Speaker 2: I'm talking about the tray the you know, the pennies 12 00:00:38,560 --> 00:00:40,640 Speaker 2: for for everybody, oh, for everybody? 13 00:00:40,640 --> 00:00:41,919 Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, well those are. 14 00:00:41,880 --> 00:00:44,520 Speaker 4: Whole pennies, all right, all right, I'm just talking about 15 00:00:45,040 --> 00:00:47,960 Speaker 4: fractions of a penny here, okay. But we do it 16 00:00:47,960 --> 00:00:49,519 Speaker 4: from a much bigger tray, and we do it a 17 00:00:49,560 --> 00:00:52,240 Speaker 4: couple of million times, so what's wrong with that? 18 00:00:54,960 --> 00:01:03,600 Speaker 1: It's been as the spend. 19 00:01:05,240 --> 00:01:08,280 Speaker 5: In a post on x, Doge said the Department of 20 00:01:08,319 --> 00:01:12,679 Speaker 5: Health and Human Services had terminated a contract paying family 21 00:01:12,880 --> 00:01:17,000 Speaker 5: Endeavors eighteen million dollars a month to operate an empty 22 00:01:17,080 --> 00:01:21,680 Speaker 5: facility in West Texas. Doge also claims Endeavors received its 23 00:01:21,880 --> 00:01:26,120 Speaker 5: HHS contract in twenty twenty one after a former ICE 24 00:01:26,160 --> 00:01:31,640 Speaker 5: employee and Biden transition team member joined the nonprofit. Endeavor's 25 00:01:31,680 --> 00:01:35,199 Speaker 5: government disclosure forms show its revenues shot up in twenty 26 00:01:35,240 --> 00:01:38,440 Speaker 5: twenty one from fifty million to six hundred and fifty 27 00:01:38,480 --> 00:01:39,080 Speaker 5: eight million. 28 00:01:42,080 --> 00:01:50,560 Speaker 1: Spin as the spend. 29 00:01:54,920 --> 00:01:57,920 Speaker 2: And when you see the people there in Tennessee fifty 30 00:01:57,960 --> 00:02:01,080 Speaker 2: percent of their their income to state, federal, and local 31 00:02:01,160 --> 00:02:04,400 Speaker 2: taxes through other ends, you know, through everything else, fees 32 00:02:04,480 --> 00:02:07,480 Speaker 2: and everything else, and then they see us sending literally 33 00:02:07,560 --> 00:02:11,440 Speaker 2: billions overseas to our enemies. You know, I've uncovered forty 34 00:02:11,480 --> 00:02:16,240 Speaker 2: million dollars going to the Taliban. A guy named Sean 35 00:02:16,320 --> 00:02:20,880 Speaker 2: Ryan over Middle Tennessee, former Navy seal podcaster. He and 36 00:02:20,960 --> 00:02:23,680 Speaker 2: another guy named Legend had brought this to my attention. 37 00:02:24,000 --> 00:02:26,320 Speaker 2: And you know, last term I could not even get 38 00:02:26,360 --> 00:02:28,280 Speaker 2: the Democrats to bring it up in the Senate. It 39 00:02:28,440 --> 00:02:31,799 Speaker 2: passed unanimous in the House, not even a question because 40 00:02:31,800 --> 00:02:33,840 Speaker 2: they're going to have to admit they made a mistake, 41 00:02:34,200 --> 00:02:36,640 Speaker 2: and they continuously made a mistake, and they did it 42 00:02:36,680 --> 00:02:39,200 Speaker 2: on purpose, is the worst part about it. And this 43 00:02:39,400 --> 00:02:41,600 Speaker 2: graph that you're seeing, and that's one hundred percent what 44 00:02:41,720 --> 00:02:43,520 Speaker 2: it is. I think you're going to see a paper 45 00:02:43,560 --> 00:02:46,200 Speaker 2: trail come back to Washington, d C. And that's why 46 00:02:46,240 --> 00:02:47,960 Speaker 2: I think a lot of people are nervous, and you'll 47 00:02:47,960 --> 00:02:50,680 Speaker 2: see a lot of retirements because they are stealing from 48 00:02:50,720 --> 00:02:53,519 Speaker 2: the American taxpayer and now they got their hand caught 49 00:02:53,560 --> 00:02:55,280 Speaker 2: in the cookie jar, and all they can do is 50 00:02:55,320 --> 00:02:56,360 Speaker 2: attack elong boys. 51 00:03:16,440 --> 00:03:19,720 Speaker 1: President Trump will speak to a joint session of Congress tonight. 52 00:03:21,160 --> 00:03:23,080 Speaker 1: It's sort of like the State of the Union EXTEP. 53 00:03:23,880 --> 00:03:27,280 Speaker 1: His first State of the Union will be at the 54 00:03:27,280 --> 00:03:31,400 Speaker 1: beginning of twenty twenty six, once he's one year in office, 55 00:03:31,440 --> 00:03:35,080 Speaker 1: going into his second year. But it's basically, for all 56 00:03:35,080 --> 00:03:38,760 Speaker 1: intents and purposes, a State of the Union. And he 57 00:03:38,800 --> 00:03:43,240 Speaker 1: has set the bar high suggesting that he's going to 58 00:03:43,280 --> 00:03:46,760 Speaker 1: be bringing the high heat tonight eight o'clock Central, nine 59 00:03:46,800 --> 00:03:52,520 Speaker 1: o'clock Eastern, and I cannot wait well ahead of his speech. 60 00:03:52,640 --> 00:03:55,680 Speaker 1: Democrats are trying to slow him down because he's got 61 00:03:55,720 --> 00:04:01,760 Speaker 1: such incredible momentum. You know, this would be like you're 62 00:04:01,800 --> 00:04:06,960 Speaker 1: at a Lillleague baseball game and the other kid on 63 00:04:07,280 --> 00:04:11,160 Speaker 1: his pitching is dialing it up. I mean, he's throwing 64 00:04:11,200 --> 00:04:14,040 Speaker 1: fastballs right down the middle and your kids can't hit him. 65 00:04:14,160 --> 00:04:19,360 Speaker 1: He's unhittable. Today, it's not uncommon for you to call 66 00:04:19,400 --> 00:04:22,600 Speaker 1: time out, bring your kids over talk to him for 67 00:04:22,640 --> 00:04:26,560 Speaker 1: a while, create some distractions. You're trying to throw him 68 00:04:26,640 --> 00:04:32,039 Speaker 1: off of his game. This happens in every aspect of 69 00:04:32,040 --> 00:04:35,679 Speaker 1: sports and in life, and so the Democrats are trying 70 00:04:35,720 --> 00:04:39,400 Speaker 1: to throw something in to gum up the works because 71 00:04:39,480 --> 00:04:44,200 Speaker 1: Trump is succeeding and people who weren't sure about Trump 72 00:04:44,240 --> 00:04:49,080 Speaker 1: are noticing, Hey, it's nice not having illegals around. Hey, 73 00:04:49,120 --> 00:04:54,000 Speaker 1: it's nice that he's doing these things. It's nice that 74 00:04:54,040 --> 00:04:59,080 Speaker 1: we're now getting to see where all our money is going. Wow, 75 00:04:59,560 --> 00:05:03,120 Speaker 1: this is incredible. Why wouldn't everyone want to tell us 76 00:05:03,120 --> 00:05:06,919 Speaker 1: where our money is going? So some Democrats released a 77 00:05:07,000 --> 00:05:09,960 Speaker 1: video using they all read off the same script, and 78 00:05:09,960 --> 00:05:12,719 Speaker 1: you're going to see it for yourself. There is a 79 00:05:12,720 --> 00:05:16,200 Speaker 1: Twitter handle called right angle News. Full credit to them. 80 00:05:16,520 --> 00:05:20,280 Speaker 1: They laid the videos on top of each other so 81 00:05:20,320 --> 00:05:25,160 Speaker 1: that you could see or in this case here exactly 82 00:05:26,160 --> 00:05:33,000 Speaker 1: how they're reading from the exact same script. This is Schumer, Pocahontas, 83 00:05:33,320 --> 00:05:39,400 Speaker 1: and Corey Booker posting the same exact video, and gosh, 84 00:05:39,440 --> 00:05:43,960 Speaker 1: it sure does sound similar. I went, I will immediately 85 00:05:44,000 --> 00:05:48,359 Speaker 1: bring prices down starting on watch. That's what you just 86 00:05:48,440 --> 00:05:56,440 Speaker 1: heard is getting worse, the prices. 87 00:06:00,120 --> 00:06:00,360 Speaker 5: Better. 88 00:06:01,279 --> 00:06:14,520 Speaker 6: Meanwhile, has done to crisis instead part of violence, establishing police, letting, 89 00:06:15,160 --> 00:06:19,480 Speaker 6: must change, solving the government programs and then even work 90 00:06:19,839 --> 00:06:22,080 Speaker 6: gives to American. 91 00:06:23,120 --> 00:06:26,240 Speaker 1: Social Security, tax, health. 92 00:06:26,000 --> 00:06:31,000 Speaker 6: Care, thousands of essential workers. People will help our veterans 93 00:06:31,040 --> 00:06:33,839 Speaker 6: to get their benefits. People fighting a bowl up in 94 00:06:33,920 --> 00:06:35,480 Speaker 6: Africa so it doesn't come here. 95 00:06:35,920 --> 00:06:37,280 Speaker 1: Flows funding. 96 00:06:38,560 --> 00:06:44,039 Speaker 6: So many American cancer education function, payments to family. 97 00:06:43,839 --> 00:06:44,800 Speaker 1: Falls, and so much. 98 00:06:44,880 --> 00:06:49,280 Speaker 6: Why are they doing this from must taking these rival 99 00:06:49,400 --> 00:06:52,640 Speaker 6: services away from you for one reason so they can 100 00:06:52,720 --> 00:06:53,080 Speaker 6: give to. 101 00:06:54,600 --> 00:06:59,240 Speaker 1: Their building, their club. Their plans is awful, simply plan billionaires. 102 00:06:59,279 --> 00:07:05,120 Speaker 1: When is the truth? It's the truth, and that is 103 00:07:05,160 --> 00:07:08,040 Speaker 1: the truth. See, if we script it out, we're at 104 00:07:08,080 --> 00:07:10,000 Speaker 1: the end of the thing we scripted for you, which 105 00:07:10,080 --> 00:07:12,840 Speaker 1: is all lies. If we script out at the end 106 00:07:12,960 --> 00:07:15,520 Speaker 1: and that is the truth, I guess that just makes 107 00:07:15,560 --> 00:07:20,440 Speaker 1: it the truth. Senators Richard Blumenthal, Andy Kim, Chris Combs, 108 00:07:20,520 --> 00:07:27,679 Speaker 1: Angela Alsobrooks, Maizie Horano, Mark Werner, Warner, and Tammy Baldwin 109 00:07:28,520 --> 00:07:31,240 Speaker 1: joined the list of Democrat senators who all released the 110 00:07:31,360 --> 00:07:35,840 Speaker 1: same message at the same time. How effective is that 111 00:07:35,960 --> 00:07:39,480 Speaker 1: message or how many of those senators? Could you even 112 00:07:39,520 --> 00:07:42,560 Speaker 1: tell me what state they're from? Nobody cares what these 113 00:07:42,680 --> 00:07:46,160 Speaker 1: nut jobs think. The best thing we have going for 114 00:07:46,320 --> 00:07:50,800 Speaker 1: us is that the other side is so bad because 115 00:07:50,840 --> 00:07:53,559 Speaker 1: the deck is stacked against us. You've got the media, 116 00:07:53,720 --> 00:07:59,240 Speaker 1: the deep state, the long standing bureaucrats all against us. 117 00:08:00,360 --> 00:08:03,600 Speaker 1: You've got your naive neighbor who really can't believe how 118 00:08:03,720 --> 00:08:06,559 Speaker 1: evil the Democrats are, which works to their advantage because 119 00:08:06,560 --> 00:08:10,320 Speaker 1: surely couldn't be that bad. In fact, you ever notice it? 120 00:08:10,400 --> 00:08:14,240 Speaker 1: Sometimes what they say is, oh, really, oh so we're 121 00:08:14,320 --> 00:08:17,320 Speaker 1: just sending money to Ukraine and it's coming up missing. Huh? 122 00:08:17,760 --> 00:08:18,920 Speaker 1: Who these people are? Kuckoo? 123 00:08:20,960 --> 00:08:26,280 Speaker 7: There's mores of like on Facebook, like the Michael Berry Show. 124 00:08:28,680 --> 00:08:32,480 Speaker 7: Dolly Parton's husband Paul Dean has passed. They were married 125 00:08:32,640 --> 00:08:36,520 Speaker 7: almost sixty years. It's amazing something to be proud of. 126 00:08:36,679 --> 00:08:40,319 Speaker 7: My parents had quite a run themselves. My buddy, Michael 127 00:08:40,400 --> 00:08:43,079 Speaker 7: Robinson lives out in College Station. I call him the 128 00:08:43,080 --> 00:08:47,599 Speaker 7: Aggie Plumber, and he runs a small plumbing company that 129 00:08:47,679 --> 00:08:54,520 Speaker 7: his father started and plumbing and electrical and they do 130 00:08:54,600 --> 00:08:56,679 Speaker 7: a lot of work in the College Station area, and 131 00:08:57,000 --> 00:09:02,120 Speaker 7: everybody knows the Robinson family there. His father Mike and 132 00:09:02,240 --> 00:09:03,200 Speaker 7: his mother Carol. 133 00:09:03,840 --> 00:09:09,080 Speaker 1: On Saturday night celebrated their fiftieth wedding aniverse, and they 134 00:09:09,160 --> 00:09:11,880 Speaker 1: did it as we do with their family around them. 135 00:09:12,880 --> 00:09:14,480 Speaker 5: And that is you know. 136 00:09:16,080 --> 00:09:21,160 Speaker 1: When someone someone has a political career that they reached 137 00:09:21,200 --> 00:09:23,559 Speaker 1: the pinnacle, or a business career or a sporting career. 138 00:09:24,880 --> 00:09:28,640 Speaker 1: There may be trophies, there may be honors and accolades, 139 00:09:29,880 --> 00:09:34,600 Speaker 1: but for the success of a marriage, there are typically 140 00:09:36,679 --> 00:09:39,400 Speaker 1: the kids in their kids and maybe their kids' kids, 141 00:09:40,440 --> 00:09:43,319 Speaker 1: And it's a beautiful, wonderful thing. We don't talk enough about. 142 00:09:43,480 --> 00:09:49,319 Speaker 1: We don't celebrate that because healthy thriving societies have healthy 143 00:09:49,720 --> 00:09:59,240 Speaker 1: thriving marriages. We don't know about the benefits of many things. 144 00:10:00,160 --> 00:10:04,480 Speaker 1: Somebody tells us about it. And often we don't get 145 00:10:04,600 --> 00:10:09,439 Speaker 1: hooked on a trend unless someone tells us about it. 146 00:10:11,520 --> 00:10:18,880 Speaker 1: And cultures establish their values and maintain those values by 147 00:10:19,120 --> 00:10:23,160 Speaker 1: constantly restating what those values are. People say to me 148 00:10:23,240 --> 00:10:27,240 Speaker 1: all the time, my kids are very different than I was. Well, 149 00:10:27,240 --> 00:10:27,800 Speaker 1: i'll tell you what. 150 00:10:29,080 --> 00:10:29,640 Speaker 5: Why is that? 151 00:10:31,800 --> 00:10:34,920 Speaker 1: Because you're not the parent to your kid that your 152 00:10:35,000 --> 00:10:38,679 Speaker 1: parents were to you. And the answer is always the same, Well, 153 00:10:38,720 --> 00:10:41,719 Speaker 1: you can't do that anymore because all their friends did 154 00:10:41,800 --> 00:10:48,839 Speaker 1: your parents ask your friends how your parents should parent you? No, 155 00:10:50,240 --> 00:10:53,200 Speaker 1: because your parents didn't give a damn if your friends 156 00:10:53,240 --> 00:10:55,959 Speaker 1: thought they were cool, because your parents weren't trying to 157 00:10:56,000 --> 00:11:00,079 Speaker 1: be your friend. They were being the only thing that 158 00:11:00,360 --> 00:11:03,280 Speaker 1: they alone, uniquely could be to you, and that's a parent. 159 00:11:04,800 --> 00:11:06,480 Speaker 1: But if you're trying to be friends with your kids 160 00:11:06,559 --> 00:11:09,080 Speaker 1: instead of a parent, then you're not being the parent 161 00:11:09,160 --> 00:11:11,679 Speaker 1: your parent was to you. And if that parent was 162 00:11:11,720 --> 00:11:14,000 Speaker 1: a good parent, you're probably not doing as well as 163 00:11:14,000 --> 00:11:17,559 Speaker 1: your parents were. And that is a rough truth that 164 00:11:17,640 --> 00:11:21,360 Speaker 1: more people need to hear. We don't talk about the 165 00:11:21,679 --> 00:11:28,640 Speaker 1: importance of marriage, the importance of family. We don't, and 166 00:11:28,840 --> 00:11:32,160 Speaker 1: we should. Here's Dolly Parton talking about her now late 167 00:11:32,360 --> 00:11:33,439 Speaker 1: husband Carldan. 168 00:11:33,600 --> 00:11:36,439 Speaker 3: The last thing I want is a boyfriend. I got to, 169 00:11:36,559 --> 00:11:38,480 Speaker 3: you know, because I'm leaving two boyfriends here and I 170 00:11:38,600 --> 00:11:41,120 Speaker 3: kept saying, no, I'm going to Nashville. And the very 171 00:11:41,320 --> 00:11:44,280 Speaker 3: day I got to Nashville, I met Carldeine. And sixty 172 00:11:44,360 --> 00:11:46,760 Speaker 3: years later, I'm still with Carldine. You know, he's quiet 173 00:11:46,760 --> 00:11:49,240 Speaker 3: and I'm loud. We're funny. Oh, he's hilarious. And I 174 00:11:49,320 --> 00:11:51,160 Speaker 3: think one of the things that's made it last so 175 00:11:51,280 --> 00:11:53,240 Speaker 3: long through the years is we love each other, we 176 00:11:53,480 --> 00:11:55,240 Speaker 3: respect each other, but we have a lot of fun. 177 00:11:55,440 --> 00:11:56,760 Speaker 3: We never fought back and forth. 178 00:11:56,840 --> 00:11:59,240 Speaker 1: What do you think was the most important but sometimes 179 00:11:59,360 --> 00:12:02,520 Speaker 1: overlooked aspects of you and Carl's relationship. 180 00:12:02,679 --> 00:12:06,200 Speaker 3: Well, he was a homebody and that worked well for us. 181 00:12:06,640 --> 00:12:08,559 Speaker 1: He loved to go places. 182 00:12:08,200 --> 00:12:10,640 Speaker 3: If we were going to drive across country or go 183 00:12:10,840 --> 00:12:13,200 Speaker 3: where if we had planned thing. But boy, he never 184 00:12:13,280 --> 00:12:15,760 Speaker 3: could wait to get home. He doesn't even like to 185 00:12:15,840 --> 00:12:18,240 Speaker 3: go out to the big dinners or anything like that. 186 00:12:18,440 --> 00:12:20,760 Speaker 3: So even know on anniversaries and stuff like that, we 187 00:12:20,920 --> 00:12:23,280 Speaker 3: usually stay home and make something special or go to 188 00:12:23,360 --> 00:12:25,160 Speaker 3: McDonald's or go somewhere. We want to go to this 189 00:12:25,320 --> 00:12:27,800 Speaker 3: comfortable now we will go to Mexican resturans. He does 190 00:12:28,000 --> 00:12:29,679 Speaker 3: sit in a booth and do that. He loves that. 191 00:12:29,760 --> 00:12:31,480 Speaker 3: You know, we'll go sit in a booth, like if 192 00:12:31,520 --> 00:12:35,000 Speaker 3: it's an anniversary or just sometimes on a Saturday, we 193 00:12:35,120 --> 00:12:37,559 Speaker 3: just go. We know where to go when before the 194 00:12:37,640 --> 00:12:40,280 Speaker 3: crowd comes. He doesn't like big crowds. He's just special 195 00:12:40,400 --> 00:12:42,640 Speaker 3: to me and I just love him like he is. 196 00:12:44,320 --> 00:12:48,120 Speaker 1: If her husband, Carl Deane was in my family and 197 00:12:49,240 --> 00:12:55,040 Speaker 1: you'd said Dolly married Carl Deane, my grandmother would say, well, 198 00:12:55,040 --> 00:12:58,080 Speaker 1: what's his last name? Carl Dean would be a first 199 00:12:58,120 --> 00:13:02,360 Speaker 1: and middle name. We meet Carldeen, Carldeen, what what's his 200 00:13:02,480 --> 00:13:09,359 Speaker 1: last name? The story goes, and Dolly's not above embellishing 201 00:13:09,400 --> 00:13:15,000 Speaker 1: a story. But the story goes that she arrived in Nashville, 202 00:13:15,480 --> 00:13:19,840 Speaker 1: she was eighteen years old and outside the wishy washy 203 00:13:19,960 --> 00:13:24,240 Speaker 1: laundromap she met Carldean and I read an interview where 204 00:13:24,320 --> 00:13:26,880 Speaker 1: she said, I was surprised and delighted that while he 205 00:13:27,040 --> 00:13:29,839 Speaker 1: talked to me, he looked at my face, which was 206 00:13:29,920 --> 00:13:35,480 Speaker 1: a rare thing for me. Promote you, Yeah, yeah, they didn't. 207 00:13:35,760 --> 00:13:38,559 Speaker 1: He seemed to be genuinely interested in finding out who 208 00:13:38,640 --> 00:13:41,959 Speaker 1: I was and what I was about. Now, that doesn't 209 00:13:42,000 --> 00:13:44,959 Speaker 1: mean he didn't have any interesting down below. It just 210 00:13:45,120 --> 00:13:47,480 Speaker 1: means he had a better sense of how to get there, 211 00:13:48,360 --> 00:13:52,520 Speaker 1: and supposedly, the story as it is told, they married 212 00:13:52,559 --> 00:13:56,960 Speaker 1: two years later, Memorial Day, May thirtieth of nineteen sixty six. 213 00:13:58,040 --> 00:14:05,240 Speaker 1: The story goes that he inspired the song Jolene because 214 00:14:05,280 --> 00:14:08,400 Speaker 1: there was a flirty bank teller who seemed to have 215 00:14:08,559 --> 00:14:11,719 Speaker 1: quite an interest in her husband, Carl Dene. That's what 216 00:14:11,880 --> 00:14:16,960 Speaker 1: she told, That's what she said over the years. Carl 217 00:14:17,000 --> 00:14:20,520 Speaker 1: Deane was a businessman who owned an asphalt paving business 218 00:14:21,000 --> 00:14:28,440 Speaker 1: in Nashville. His parents had three children, and Dolly referred 219 00:14:28,480 --> 00:14:32,640 Speaker 1: to his mother as Mama Dean in our family. I 220 00:14:32,840 --> 00:14:35,360 Speaker 1: decided very early on, and I wanted my wife to 221 00:14:35,480 --> 00:14:38,160 Speaker 1: call my mother and father mom and dad, just like 222 00:14:38,320 --> 00:14:41,360 Speaker 1: I do, and that I would call her father Pa, 223 00:14:42,080 --> 00:14:44,800 Speaker 1: which is what she calls him, called him he passed away. 224 00:14:46,040 --> 00:14:48,480 Speaker 1: Because I thought it was important that we not let 225 00:14:48,640 --> 00:14:53,720 Speaker 1: the politics of in law ism affect our marriage and 226 00:14:53,960 --> 00:14:56,600 Speaker 1: that we never share anything with our parents that we 227 00:14:56,680 --> 00:14:59,760 Speaker 1: didn't share with each other. And I'll remember the first 228 00:14:59,800 --> 00:15:02,400 Speaker 1: time my mother, who was like the British, separating the 229 00:15:02,920 --> 00:15:05,200 Speaker 1: Indian potentates and fighting once again. She would have been 230 00:15:05,200 --> 00:15:08,120 Speaker 1: a great diplomat. She loved to divide and conquer. And 231 00:15:08,240 --> 00:15:10,400 Speaker 1: she told my wife the first time, she told her, 232 00:15:10,920 --> 00:15:12,920 Speaker 1: I'm going to tell you something that you cannot tell Michael. 233 00:15:13,360 --> 00:15:15,760 Speaker 1: And my wife said, then don't tell me, because if 234 00:15:15,760 --> 00:15:17,240 Speaker 1: you tell me, I'm going to tell him. I'm not 235 00:15:17,320 --> 00:15:19,840 Speaker 1: going to keep secrets from my husband with my mother 236 00:15:19,920 --> 00:15:23,320 Speaker 1: in law. And my mother was quite shocked by that. 237 00:15:23,880 --> 00:15:26,440 Speaker 1: I think she was impressed by it. She was quite 238 00:15:26,480 --> 00:15:29,720 Speaker 1: shocked by it, and I encourage it. I see how 239 00:15:29,760 --> 00:15:32,840 Speaker 1: many moms get in between a marriage because she's close 240 00:15:32,920 --> 00:15:35,120 Speaker 1: to her daughter and talks bad about her daughter's husband, 241 00:15:35,200 --> 00:15:37,120 Speaker 1: or she's closed her son and talks bad about her 242 00:15:37,160 --> 00:15:40,480 Speaker 1: sons at life, and that's terrible, bizarre of talk radio. 243 00:15:41,160 --> 00:15:45,560 Speaker 1: The Michael Barry Show. I interviewed jd Vance when he 244 00:15:46,280 --> 00:15:50,560 Speaker 1: was running for the Senate in Ohio. I had read 245 00:15:50,640 --> 00:15:54,640 Speaker 1: Hillbilly Elogy when I didn't know who he was. And 246 00:15:55,120 --> 00:15:58,600 Speaker 1: if you've watched the movie, fine, it's one of Glenn 247 00:15:58,720 --> 00:16:02,120 Speaker 1: Close's finest roles. Think her finest role is as a 248 00:16:02,760 --> 00:16:08,760 Speaker 1: crazy mistress with Michael Douglas. What's the name of that movie, 249 00:16:10,880 --> 00:16:16,880 Speaker 1: Fatal Attraction. The movie is good, it really is. But 250 00:16:17,120 --> 00:16:22,480 Speaker 1: the book is powerful, and I encourage you to read 251 00:16:22,520 --> 00:16:25,480 Speaker 1: it or listen to it on tape. It's really, really 252 00:16:25,560 --> 00:16:28,600 Speaker 1: well done. And at the time I thought, man, what 253 00:16:28,720 --> 00:16:32,960 Speaker 1: a powerful, powerful book. There is a lot written these 254 00:16:33,080 --> 00:16:37,880 Speaker 1: days about the black experience or the immigrant experience, but 255 00:16:38,040 --> 00:16:41,600 Speaker 1: particularly the black experience and the gay experience and the 256 00:16:41,640 --> 00:16:46,800 Speaker 1: transgender experience, but no one had, really, in my mind 257 00:16:48,720 --> 00:16:53,320 Speaker 1: in quite some time, told of the experience of being 258 00:16:53,400 --> 00:17:02,040 Speaker 1: a poor white person in America, surrounded by broken marriages, 259 00:17:02,280 --> 00:17:15,600 Speaker 1: broken lives, addiction, incarceration, drama, filth, hopelessness, and he really 260 00:17:15,760 --> 00:17:21,399 Speaker 1: captured that. He captured that powerfully, and uh, storytelling it 261 00:17:21,600 --> 00:17:23,840 Speaker 1: is a as you know, I'm a big I'm a 262 00:17:23,880 --> 00:17:26,239 Speaker 1: big believer in storytellering. It has a lot of uh 263 00:17:26,840 --> 00:17:30,760 Speaker 1: has a lot of benefits. And he told that story 264 00:17:30,960 --> 00:17:36,480 Speaker 1: so poignantly and so honestly that I wondered, you know, 265 00:17:36,600 --> 00:17:39,080 Speaker 1: what will become of this guy? I hope because it 266 00:17:39,119 --> 00:17:42,560 Speaker 1: was autobiographical. So you're probably only probably going to go 267 00:17:42,640 --> 00:17:45,879 Speaker 1: down from there, because it's like a sophomore album by 268 00:17:45,960 --> 00:17:48,640 Speaker 1: a band that has a breakout with their first one 269 00:17:48,880 --> 00:17:51,360 Speaker 1: and then they don't. The second one was not so good, 270 00:17:51,400 --> 00:17:54,480 Speaker 1: and the reason is they've waited their whole lives to 271 00:17:54,640 --> 00:17:58,159 Speaker 1: put these songs down, and once they're down, now you 272 00:17:58,280 --> 00:18:00,800 Speaker 1: got a few months to do the second one. And well, 273 00:18:01,600 --> 00:18:06,720 Speaker 1: those stories, those songs took forever. But I did kind 274 00:18:06,760 --> 00:18:08,280 Speaker 1: of follow JD Vance and what it is up to, 275 00:18:09,280 --> 00:18:14,080 Speaker 1: and he turned out to have a successful career in 276 00:18:14,480 --> 00:18:20,040 Speaker 1: multiple fields. He is criticized by some for his association 277 00:18:20,200 --> 00:18:26,520 Speaker 1: with Peter Thiel, who is an absolutely brilliant gay, libertarian 278 00:18:26,640 --> 00:18:29,800 Speaker 1: Republican donor that I don't not saying there's anything with JD. 279 00:18:29,920 --> 00:18:31,639 Speaker 1: Vance and him being gay, but that's one of the 280 00:18:31,720 --> 00:18:33,840 Speaker 1: things you'll read, so when you read it, I want 281 00:18:33,880 --> 00:18:36,359 Speaker 1: you to be prepared for that. But Deal is one 282 00:18:36,400 --> 00:18:38,120 Speaker 1: of these guys like Elon. In fact, they have quite 283 00:18:38,119 --> 00:18:43,320 Speaker 1: an association over the years. He thinks in a different 284 00:18:43,520 --> 00:18:46,240 Speaker 1: dimension and I'm not one of those guys, but I 285 00:18:46,320 --> 00:18:49,199 Speaker 1: can appreciate people who do. But Deal is a big 286 00:18:49,280 --> 00:18:51,960 Speaker 1: fan of JD. Vance and I think he saw and 287 00:18:52,080 --> 00:18:55,800 Speaker 1: Jdvan's a brilliant guy that he wanted as part of 288 00:18:55,880 --> 00:18:59,919 Speaker 1: his team. When JD Vance ran for the Senate in Ohio, 289 00:19:00,280 --> 00:19:04,520 Speaker 1: I worried that he might not be sufficiently conservative or 290 00:19:04,760 --> 00:19:08,920 Speaker 1: really I'm more conservative libertarian, and I worried that he 291 00:19:09,040 --> 00:19:13,280 Speaker 1: might not have enough populism to quit. I worried that 292 00:19:13,480 --> 00:19:16,399 Speaker 1: he was like one of the bush guys, one of 293 00:19:16,400 --> 00:19:18,800 Speaker 1: the Romney guys. I worry that he was a guy 294 00:19:18,880 --> 00:19:21,280 Speaker 1: that wanted to be in the club and that he 295 00:19:21,320 --> 00:19:23,399 Speaker 1: would sell out the way Marco Rubio did with the 296 00:19:23,480 --> 00:19:30,959 Speaker 1: Gang of Six immigration policy. And so I interviewed him, 297 00:19:31,880 --> 00:19:34,199 Speaker 1: but I wasn't wild about it. And then he got 298 00:19:34,240 --> 00:19:38,040 Speaker 1: to the Senate and he was he was acting as 299 00:19:38,080 --> 00:19:40,800 Speaker 1: a more true conservative in more of a Ted Cruz 300 00:19:40,920 --> 00:19:44,560 Speaker 1: sort of way. He did not like Trump, but for 301 00:19:44,640 --> 00:19:46,600 Speaker 1: the same reason I didn't like Trump at that time. 302 00:19:48,000 --> 00:19:51,840 Speaker 1: His criticisms were of him mirrored mine. We didn't think 303 00:19:51,880 --> 00:19:53,760 Speaker 1: he was true to the cause. We didn't think he 304 00:19:53,880 --> 00:19:56,560 Speaker 1: believed it. We thought he was all show and we 305 00:19:56,680 --> 00:19:59,399 Speaker 1: thought that the showmanship was going to make up what 306 00:19:59,600 --> 00:20:02,399 Speaker 1: was going to to take people's minds away from not 307 00:20:02,520 --> 00:20:05,600 Speaker 1: being right on the issues. And both of us, separately, 308 00:20:05,760 --> 00:20:08,320 Speaker 1: as many people did, came to the conclusion that Trump 309 00:20:08,359 --> 00:20:10,880 Speaker 1: means it's where he is in his life and it's 310 00:20:10,920 --> 00:20:17,000 Speaker 1: been good for the country. When Trump announced JD. Vance 311 00:20:17,520 --> 00:20:22,119 Speaker 1: as his VP, I was worried that maybe JD didn't 312 00:20:22,119 --> 00:20:24,280 Speaker 1: bring enough to the ticket. I was worried that he 313 00:20:24,920 --> 00:20:29,600 Speaker 1: didn't have enough wisdom. I was worried that he's young 314 00:20:29,760 --> 00:20:34,960 Speaker 1: and ambitious and that he may be more out for JD. 315 00:20:35,160 --> 00:20:39,119 Speaker 1: Vance than Donald Trump. Again, it takes a big man 316 00:20:39,200 --> 00:20:43,159 Speaker 1: to admit when you're wrong, and I was wrong. I 317 00:20:43,359 --> 00:20:46,240 Speaker 1: was very wrong. He sat down with Sean Hannity for 318 00:20:46,320 --> 00:20:50,640 Speaker 1: an interview, and I think it deserves to be amplified. 319 00:20:52,600 --> 00:20:55,160 Speaker 1: I think this guy has a head on his show. 320 00:20:55,240 --> 00:20:57,960 Speaker 1: He understands what he's doing. You get the sense with 321 00:20:58,040 --> 00:21:03,360 Speaker 1: some of these guys in DC that they're flapping their 322 00:21:03,400 --> 00:21:06,720 Speaker 1: gums to get on TV, and they'll say anything, but 323 00:21:06,760 --> 00:21:08,960 Speaker 1: they don't even know really why they're saying it. They're 324 00:21:09,000 --> 00:21:12,680 Speaker 1: just saying what will get them airtime. This guy is 325 00:21:15,000 --> 00:21:16,639 Speaker 1: he's a lot smarter than they give him credit for. 326 00:21:17,760 --> 00:21:21,240 Speaker 1: And here he is explaining this is clip fave Zho too, 327 00:21:21,320 --> 00:21:24,520 Speaker 1: that the American people are a lot smarter than Democrats 328 00:21:24,640 --> 00:21:25,359 Speaker 1: give them credit for. 329 00:21:26,359 --> 00:21:30,360 Speaker 4: They want long protracted wars, the Democratic Party championing men 330 00:21:30,560 --> 00:21:33,159 Speaker 4: to play in women's sports, the Democratic Party putting the 331 00:21:33,280 --> 00:21:36,040 Speaker 4: rights of the illegals over the safety of Americans, and 332 00:21:36,400 --> 00:21:39,720 Speaker 4: defending what will be hundreds of trillions of dollars in 333 00:21:39,800 --> 00:21:41,040 Speaker 4: waste for all abuse corruption. 334 00:21:41,160 --> 00:21:43,000 Speaker 1: How does that end for them? I think it ends 335 00:21:43,119 --> 00:21:43,760 Speaker 1: very very poorly. 336 00:21:43,880 --> 00:21:46,119 Speaker 8: And the American people are a lot smarter than the 337 00:21:46,200 --> 00:21:49,840 Speaker 8: Democrats give them credit for. You cannot shut up your 338 00:21:49,880 --> 00:21:54,880 Speaker 8: fellow citizens force biological men to play in sports with girls, which, 339 00:21:54,920 --> 00:21:57,119 Speaker 8: by the way, it's just insulting to the girls. It's 340 00:21:57,200 --> 00:22:01,000 Speaker 8: actually dangerous. Title nice, Title nine. It's some of these 341 00:22:01,040 --> 00:22:03,600 Speaker 8: sports are very violent. You don't want to have biological 342 00:22:03,680 --> 00:22:07,600 Speaker 8: men against women, it's crazy. And the Democrats again, there 343 00:22:07,680 --> 00:22:10,959 Speaker 8: is this crazy idea and the Democratic Party that if 344 00:22:10,960 --> 00:22:14,399 Speaker 8: you just repeat insane ideas, eventually the American people are 345 00:22:14,440 --> 00:22:16,760 Speaker 8: going to believe them. We actually think the American people 346 00:22:16,840 --> 00:22:19,719 Speaker 8: are smart and we should listen to them rather than 347 00:22:19,800 --> 00:22:21,920 Speaker 8: preach it them. And I think that's the core right 348 00:22:22,000 --> 00:22:24,439 Speaker 8: now of the of the President's political strength. 349 00:22:25,240 --> 00:22:28,080 Speaker 1: That's just it. Do you treat the American people with 350 00:22:28,280 --> 00:22:32,760 Speaker 1: respect and honesty, or do you treat them like children 351 00:22:33,560 --> 00:22:37,040 Speaker 1: or animals or simply the bank pays for your And 352 00:22:37,119 --> 00:22:41,320 Speaker 1: people are seeing people that were not so too new. 353 00:22:41,720 --> 00:22:46,560 Speaker 1: You're seeing out the King of Ding and this other guy, 354 00:22:47,000 --> 00:22:52,000 Speaker 1: Michael Barry. It's always interesting when I watch a football 355 00:22:52,080 --> 00:22:57,120 Speaker 1: game and I think a guy scored because they extended 356 00:22:57,160 --> 00:22:59,840 Speaker 1: the ball out looks like it goes over the goal. 357 00:23:02,040 --> 00:23:04,040 Speaker 1: And then they show you different angles and they slow 358 00:23:04,080 --> 00:23:06,280 Speaker 1: it down, they snap them, and you realize, oh, I 359 00:23:06,359 --> 00:23:10,080 Speaker 1: didn't even notice he was down two yards back, his 360 00:23:10,200 --> 00:23:11,960 Speaker 1: knees were down a yard and a half back. I 361 00:23:12,040 --> 00:23:13,520 Speaker 1: didn't even notice that because I was watching where the 362 00:23:13,560 --> 00:23:18,560 Speaker 1: ball was. Your vantage point can have a great influence 363 00:23:19,240 --> 00:23:22,840 Speaker 1: on your perspective. And one of the things that came 364 00:23:23,040 --> 00:23:25,840 Speaker 1: out of the Zelensky meeting last Friday, which was a 365 00:23:26,160 --> 00:23:32,639 Speaker 1: very very big news event consequential in all of this 366 00:23:34,440 --> 00:23:37,399 Speaker 1: because of the importance of the Ukraine War to the world. 367 00:23:38,960 --> 00:23:45,680 Speaker 1: It was interesting that what we thought we saw, or 368 00:23:46,600 --> 00:23:50,199 Speaker 1: what Trump saw, was very different than what we were 369 00:23:50,280 --> 00:23:52,880 Speaker 1: looking at, which was also different than the vantage point 370 00:23:53,840 --> 00:23:57,040 Speaker 1: jd Vance had because jd Vance was looking him dead 371 00:23:57,080 --> 00:24:01,240 Speaker 1: in the eye president Trump was looking. He was to 372 00:24:01,359 --> 00:24:03,760 Speaker 1: the side of Trump the way they sit so that 373 00:24:03,800 --> 00:24:07,000 Speaker 1: Trump could look into the camera at us, so he 374 00:24:07,119 --> 00:24:09,080 Speaker 1: didn't see a lot of the body language and the 375 00:24:09,200 --> 00:24:13,480 Speaker 1: eye rolling and these sorts of things that this petulant 376 00:24:13,560 --> 00:24:18,960 Speaker 1: Zelenski was doing. And he really people thought he got 377 00:24:19,119 --> 00:24:23,840 Speaker 1: hot under the collar and he was forceful, but he 378 00:24:23,960 --> 00:24:30,360 Speaker 1: played a role. A vice president should always be someone 379 00:24:30,600 --> 00:24:34,440 Speaker 1: who compliments. I don't mean while you look nice, mister president. 380 00:24:34,600 --> 00:24:38,240 Speaker 1: I mean like a complimentary angle, someone who rounds out 381 00:24:38,560 --> 00:24:42,320 Speaker 1: the president and provides what they need at a given time. 382 00:24:43,280 --> 00:24:47,399 Speaker 1: And jd. Vance really showed his skill in doing that 383 00:24:47,720 --> 00:24:51,920 Speaker 1: that day. Here is his perspective on what happened in 384 00:24:52,040 --> 00:24:53,800 Speaker 1: that meaning. This is gonna be five to zho one Romote. 385 00:24:55,160 --> 00:24:57,400 Speaker 4: Well, here's part one of our interview just a couple 386 00:24:57,480 --> 00:24:59,600 Speaker 4: hours ago, was the Vice president, thank you for being 387 00:24:59,640 --> 00:25:01,080 Speaker 4: one great to be here. 388 00:25:01,160 --> 00:25:03,680 Speaker 1: Let's go back to the Oval Office Friday. Yeah from 389 00:25:03,720 --> 00:25:08,679 Speaker 1: your perspective, yeah great TV. As the President said, yeah, well, 390 00:25:08,760 --> 00:25:09,840 Speaker 1: you know it's it's funny. 391 00:25:09,960 --> 00:25:12,520 Speaker 8: So we have a forty forty five minute press conference. 392 00:25:12,760 --> 00:25:14,720 Speaker 8: And the President normally does this and I've seen this 393 00:25:14,800 --> 00:25:17,080 Speaker 8: now three or four times with foreign leaders, where he 394 00:25:17,240 --> 00:25:18,680 Speaker 8: likes to bring the media and likes to have a 395 00:25:18,720 --> 00:25:20,800 Speaker 8: conversation but answer questions with the press. 396 00:25:20,880 --> 00:25:22,520 Speaker 1: Is you know, he's very open with reporters. 397 00:25:23,080 --> 00:25:25,040 Speaker 8: And what I noticed is that for the first twenty 398 00:25:25,080 --> 00:25:27,760 Speaker 8: five thirty or so minutes he tried to sort of 399 00:25:27,800 --> 00:25:31,240 Speaker 8: bend over backwards to be gracious and kind to Zelenski, 400 00:25:31,320 --> 00:25:33,959 Speaker 8: even when Zelensky was kind of needling him, Even when 401 00:25:34,040 --> 00:25:36,760 Speaker 8: Zelenski was saying things that I thought were untrue, The 402 00:25:36,920 --> 00:25:40,160 Speaker 8: President just tried to be diplomatic, right. I think that's 403 00:25:40,240 --> 00:25:43,280 Speaker 8: that's his natural instinct in that situation. And then when 404 00:25:43,320 --> 00:25:45,440 Speaker 8: it really went off the rails, of course, is when 405 00:25:46,000 --> 00:25:49,400 Speaker 8: I asked, or you had a Polish journalist who ask 406 00:25:49,480 --> 00:25:52,760 Speaker 8: a question, the President answered it, and then I answered it, 407 00:25:53,200 --> 00:25:56,280 Speaker 8: and then something about my answer just really set Zelenski off, 408 00:25:56,359 --> 00:25:57,240 Speaker 8: So then he came at me. 409 00:26:00,960 --> 00:26:01,960 Speaker 1: Then I went back at him. 410 00:26:02,640 --> 00:26:05,800 Speaker 8: And what I tried to do originally was actually try 411 00:26:05,800 --> 00:26:07,639 Speaker 8: to diffuse the situation a little bit, because I'm like, 412 00:26:07,800 --> 00:26:10,040 Speaker 8: you know, we're having this meeting. Obviously, there are one 413 00:26:10,119 --> 00:26:13,240 Speaker 8: hundred television cameras here. Let's try to have this conversation 414 00:26:13,359 --> 00:26:16,840 Speaker 8: in private. And then the president, as we kept on 415 00:26:16,960 --> 00:26:19,880 Speaker 8: going back and forth, I tried again to say, well, 416 00:26:19,960 --> 00:26:21,800 Speaker 8: maybe we should have this conversation with private, and the 417 00:26:21,840 --> 00:26:22,480 Speaker 8: President was like. 418 00:26:22,800 --> 00:26:25,240 Speaker 1: Nope, actually I don't want to have it in private anymore. 419 00:26:25,240 --> 00:26:27,480 Speaker 8: I want to have this actual conversation of public. 420 00:26:27,200 --> 00:26:28,400 Speaker 1: For the American people to see. 421 00:26:29,000 --> 00:26:30,639 Speaker 8: And I do think that there was just a certain 422 00:26:30,760 --> 00:26:33,600 Speaker 8: sense of there's a lack of respect, there was a 423 00:26:33,640 --> 00:26:36,600 Speaker 8: certain sense of entitlement, and most importantly, look, we can 424 00:26:36,680 --> 00:26:39,480 Speaker 8: look past all that stuff. But the President has set 425 00:26:39,520 --> 00:26:42,040 Speaker 8: a very clear goal for his administration. He wants the 426 00:26:42,160 --> 00:26:44,600 Speaker 8: killing to stop. And I think that it's very important 427 00:26:44,600 --> 00:26:47,320 Speaker 8: that President Lensky and of course President Putin too, they've 428 00:26:47,400 --> 00:26:50,000 Speaker 8: both got to come to the negotiating table, and that's 429 00:26:50,119 --> 00:26:52,680 Speaker 8: ultimately where things broke apart. I really don't care what 430 00:26:52,800 --> 00:26:55,520 Speaker 8: President Lensky says about me or anybody else, but he 431 00:26:55,600 --> 00:26:58,960 Speaker 8: showed a clear unwillingness to engage in the peace process 432 00:26:59,240 --> 00:27:02,000 Speaker 8: that President Trump has said is the policy of the 433 00:27:02,040 --> 00:27:05,320 Speaker 8: American people and of their president. That's the real breakdown 434 00:27:05,480 --> 00:27:07,760 Speaker 8: is I think Selensky wasn't yet there, and I think, 435 00:27:07,760 --> 00:27:09,320 Speaker 8: frankly now still isn't there. 436 00:27:09,560 --> 00:27:10,679 Speaker 1: But I think we'll get there eventually. 437 00:27:10,760 --> 00:27:11,159 Speaker 5: He has to. 438 00:27:11,760 --> 00:27:14,920 Speaker 1: And isn't it interesting what I sellout Lindsey Graham has 439 00:27:15,000 --> 00:27:19,160 Speaker 1: been through all of this. People are quite confused. How's 440 00:27:19,200 --> 00:27:21,840 Speaker 1: Lindsey Graham go from being best friends with Zelensky, which 441 00:27:22,800 --> 00:27:26,000 Speaker 1: that whole thing has always been very weird, to now 442 00:27:26,000 --> 00:27:29,080 Speaker 1: all of a sudden he's scolding Zelensky after the meeting. 443 00:27:30,320 --> 00:27:33,800 Speaker 1: I think that Lindsey Graham sees the riding on the 444 00:27:33,880 --> 00:27:40,879 Speaker 1: wall that there are going to be some revelations of 445 00:27:41,080 --> 00:27:49,480 Speaker 1: money laundering and awful misdeeds and crimes related to America's 446 00:27:50,119 --> 00:27:56,240 Speaker 1: association with the Ukraine, and Lindsey Graham knows this, and 447 00:27:56,359 --> 00:27:58,280 Speaker 1: I think that as a result, he is trying to 448 00:27:58,440 --> 00:28:03,080 Speaker 1: distance himself as because people tend to have a short memory. No, no, 449 00:28:03,320 --> 00:28:04,800 Speaker 1: I'm the one that was saying we got to have 450 00:28:04,960 --> 00:28:09,959 Speaker 1: complete accountability and transparency, because if that's the last thing 451 00:28:10,080 --> 00:28:12,960 Speaker 1: he said, he'll be able to point to it, and 452 00:28:13,080 --> 00:28:17,560 Speaker 1: many people won't remember his warmongering. It's not the war 453 00:28:17,680 --> 00:28:21,000 Speaker 1: they love, Oh they do. They do it. It excites them. 454 00:28:21,040 --> 00:28:25,440 Speaker 1: I mean there's explosions, everything that Lindsey Graham enjoys, every 455 00:28:25,480 --> 00:28:28,360 Speaker 1: fetish that he has. But it's not the war they love. 456 00:28:29,720 --> 00:28:33,240 Speaker 1: It's how people lose their mind in the middle of 457 00:28:33,320 --> 00:28:37,639 Speaker 1: a war. It's how you can spend wildly and no 458 00:28:37,760 --> 00:28:41,040 Speaker 1: one will question you. In the minute someone does, you 459 00:28:41,240 --> 00:28:44,760 Speaker 1: scream at them. It's like an epidemic. How dare you 460 00:28:45,000 --> 00:28:47,920 Speaker 1: question the six foot role, which we now know they 461 00:28:48,000 --> 00:28:52,080 Speaker 1: made up? How dare you you're killing Grandma? They love 462 00:28:52,160 --> 00:28:55,520 Speaker 1: to be able to spend wildly and have the moral 463 00:28:55,600 --> 00:29:00,800 Speaker 1: high ground to shut you down with any criticism. But 464 00:29:01,080 --> 00:29:05,120 Speaker 1: Jdevance makes a good point. When Zelensky's lost Lindsey Graham, 465 00:29:05,480 --> 00:29:06,160 Speaker 1: he's in trouble. 466 00:29:06,280 --> 00:29:08,320 Speaker 8: And my message to the Ukrainians, by the way, to 467 00:29:08,320 --> 00:29:11,800 Speaker 8: President Zelensky is when you've lost Lindsey Graham, that means 468 00:29:11,880 --> 00:29:14,040 Speaker 8: you need to come to the negotiating table and recognize 469 00:29:14,120 --> 00:29:16,680 Speaker 8: Donald Trump is the only game in town. He's the 470 00:29:16,800 --> 00:29:19,720 Speaker 8: only person who I think has a meaningful plan to 471 00:29:19,840 --> 00:29:20,640 Speaker 8: save that country. 472 00:29:21,160 --> 00:29:26,600 Speaker 1: President Trump shutting off funding to Ukraine today to get 473 00:29:26,680 --> 00:29:34,600 Speaker 1: their attention. Jdvance noting that the European nations are doing 474 00:29:34,800 --> 00:29:41,120 Speaker 1: Ukraine a huge disservice. You know, this is like if 475 00:29:41,160 --> 00:29:44,080 Speaker 1: you ed at your friend's restaurant and you see that 476 00:29:44,200 --> 00:29:47,720 Speaker 1: the manager is stealing in blind and you don't tell 477 00:29:47,840 --> 00:29:50,480 Speaker 1: him so that he can fix that, you're not really 478 00:29:50,520 --> 00:29:50,960 Speaker 1: a friend. 479 00:29:51,560 --> 00:29:55,080 Speaker 8: I think our European friends, frankly, are being really really 480 00:29:55,720 --> 00:29:58,440 Speaker 8: they're doing a disservice to the Ukrainians because their own 481 00:29:58,560 --> 00:30:00,840 Speaker 8: populations are saying, we're not going to fund this war, 482 00:30:00,880 --> 00:30:03,440 Speaker 8: and definitely, the American people are saying we don't want 483 00:30:03,480 --> 00:30:05,880 Speaker 8: to fund the war in definitely, So the only thing 484 00:30:05,960 --> 00:30:08,720 Speaker 8: that is in the best interest of America, of Russia, 485 00:30:08,880 --> 00:30:11,520 Speaker 8: of Ukraine, and of Europe is to bring this thing 486 00:30:11,640 --> 00:30:14,400 Speaker 8: to a close. What happened, Sean is you have Zelensky. 487 00:30:14,480 --> 00:30:16,560 Speaker 8: He goes to Europe and a lot of our European 488 00:30:16,640 --> 00:30:18,680 Speaker 8: friends puff them up. They say, you know, you're a 489 00:30:18,720 --> 00:30:21,600 Speaker 8: freedom fighter. You need to keep fighting forever, well, fighting 490 00:30:21,680 --> 00:30:24,760 Speaker 8: forever with what with whose money, with whose ammunition? 491 00:30:24,960 --> 00:30:26,000 Speaker 1: And with whose lives. 492 00:30:26,320 --> 00:30:29,440 Speaker 8: The President is actually taking a much more realistic perspective 493 00:30:29,480 --> 00:30:32,360 Speaker 8: and saying this can't go on forever. We can't fund 494 00:30:32,440 --> 00:30:35,480 Speaker 8: this thing forever. The Ukrainians can't fight forever. So let's 495 00:30:35,520 --> 00:30:37,040 Speaker 8: bring this thing to a peaceful settlement. 496 00:30:38,400 --> 00:30:41,280 Speaker 1: I saw a study that was done on the public 497 00:30:41,360 --> 00:30:45,680 Speaker 1: opinion of the people of Denmark, Sweden, Spain, Britain, Germany, 498 00:30:45,800 --> 00:30:52,640 Speaker 1: Italy and France, and overwhelmingly they believe that Ukraine is 499 00:30:52,800 --> 00:30:59,560 Speaker 1: not getting enough Western support. They also believe overwhelmingly that 500 00:30:59,680 --> 00:31:02,880 Speaker 1: they're country should not increased the amount of support that's 501 00:31:02,920 --> 00:31:07,280 Speaker 1: being given. In other words, hey, world, are really America, 502 00:31:07,880 --> 00:31:11,200 Speaker 1: Come fight this war for us in our own backyard, 503 00:31:12,440 --> 00:31:17,479 Speaker 1: but we're not going to participate. Our country has been 504 00:31:17,560 --> 00:31:21,400 Speaker 1: made a fool of for too long, our young men 505 00:31:23,120 --> 00:31:26,160 Speaker 1: used in the wrong capacity, without the right tools and 506 00:31:26,240 --> 00:31:28,480 Speaker 1: without the ability to do their jobs. And it ends 507 00:31:28,560 --> 00:31:28,720 Speaker 1: now