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Speaker 2: Ts taking stock and guessing another New York Stock exchange

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Speaker 2: Stock Exchange folks. Interesting day, very quiet in the market,

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Speaker 2: Expect Friday to be a big monster move for the markets.

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Speaker 2: relief in the control room. All right, President has been busy,

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Speaker 2: has been busy in Washington, DC today hosting Ukrainian President

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Speaker 2: Voladimir Zelenski and other European leaders. So let's get our

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Speaker 2: get right to our chief re rab Chief White House Corps,

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Speaker 2: spond it mister Blank, Brian Glenn for what happened today,

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Speaker 2: and Bran congratulations. You got a couple of questions in there.

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Speaker 2: We had a lot of fun. I'll tell you what

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Speaker 2: before we get into it. This is a this is

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Speaker 2: a great I love this interchange routine. Think what's going

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Speaker 2: on our own Brian Glenn, have an interchange with a

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Speaker 2: world leader Zelenski and President Trump. This is wild, folks.

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Speaker 3: Watch. Yeah, I've got a question for each almost President Zelenski,

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Speaker 3: you love fabulous in that suit. I said, yeah, look

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Speaker 3: you look good.

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Speaker 2: I said the same thing, Yeah, I said, the one

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Speaker 2: that attacked you last year. I remember, Yeah, I apologize

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Speaker 3: Look you look wonderful. No, my first question for you

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Speaker 2: We got a little uh, you got a little bromance

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Speaker 2: going on there with the the president of Ukraine. Brian Uh, Yeah, good, good, good. Comeback, yeah,

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'll give him some credit. He came up with

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Speaker 3: same suit I was wearing, having multiple blue toned suits.

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Speaker 3: I said, look, he's are you mad? What's your comment?

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Speaker 2: High the end of the way, White House keeps telling us,

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Speaker 2: if there's something to talk about with Putin and Zelenski

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Speaker 2: About a minute or so. Brian questions. There are two

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Speaker 3: I think it's the second reason. I don't think Trump.

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Speaker 3: I don't think Trump needs anybody to He could take

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Speaker 3: Trump even said to President Zelensky, Hey, if you need

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Speaker 2: Great, great right, Brian, Really good to have you. If

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Speaker 2: Great reporting, Brian, as always, Yeah, we'll do all right, folks.

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Speaker 2: Let's go to the executive director for the Foundation for

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Speaker 2: Freedom Online, and he's here to discuss what happened at

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Speaker 2: the Trump Putin meeting in Alaska and also why Zelenski

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Speaker 2: meeting here in DC with Zelenski. Who are they backing? Mike?

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Speaker 2: Who's side are the European kiir, Starmer, McCrone and Maloney.

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Speaker 4: Well, they're there for the European donor set, the hedge funds,

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Speaker 4: They are very squarely on team Zelenski here and have

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Speaker 4: I mean, really, this is all downstream of the unfortunate

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Speaker 4: some of this land there's including especially Crimea. But Europe

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Speaker 4: wants to stop Trump from agreeing to a peace steal

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Speaker 4: that includes giving up that land. And Trump is in

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Speaker 4: a very difficult place because what can he really offer. Putin,

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Speaker 2: We heard from Witkough over the weekend on Sunday shows.

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Speaker 2: I want to ask you about it. But do you

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Speaker 2: get the sense Trump one point zero Trump in twenty

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Speaker 2: sixteen to twenty twenty, he couldn't stand NATO, He didn't

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Speaker 2: like anything about them. They didn't like him. And now

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Speaker 2: this is a different Trump NATO relationship. Are we at risk?

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Speaker 2: And I say at risk because I hate this idea?

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Speaker 2: Are we at risk of becoming a little too close

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Speaker 2: bed partners with NATO again in the US and god forbid,

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Speaker 2: maybe even talking about Ukraine entering into NATO.

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Speaker 4: Well, Trump has a very strange relationship with NATO in

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Speaker 4: both now and in the first term. While you're correct

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Speaker 4: that Trump sort of campaigned on flirting with fundamentally renegotiating

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Speaker 4: or even leaving parts of the NATO relationship. Even during

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Speaker 4: Trump won, he was campaigning on getting more money to NATO.

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Speaker 4: He was campaigning on getting all the countries to fulfill

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Speaker 4: their two percent GDP commitments, and so even though he

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Speaker 4: was sort of campaigning on it and tried to pressure

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Speaker 4: NATO to reduce its jurisdictional mandate, he was still pumping

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Speaker 4: it up financially. And you see that same sort of

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Speaker 4: continuation in the relationship today, where he's still calling it

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Speaker 4: appears publicly there's always a little bit forty chess to

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Speaker 4: what Trump is doing, but publicly it does appear that

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Speaker 4: he is sort of reigning in NATO maximalism visa v Ukraine,

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Speaker 4: which I think is part of why he had a

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Speaker 4: one off, separate discussion with Putin. But at the same

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Speaker 4: time he's pressuring NATO member countries to pay more and

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Speaker 4: more to NATO. So it's sort of arming a beast

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Speaker 4: and putting it on steroids while while telling it to

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Speaker 4: stay in the house. So it's a very strange, strange relationship.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Mike, I just want to I want to. I

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Speaker 2: want to hold you over because there's a very important question.

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Speaker 2: Steve Witkoff was on with Margaret Brennan on CBS on

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Speaker 2: Sunday Show CBS, and he said that the US has

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Speaker 2: offered Article five like security protections for Ukraine really caught

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Speaker 2: my ear when I heard that, and I want to

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Speaker 2: let's talk about the implications of that when we come

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Speaker 2: right back in two and a half minutes.