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Speaker 1: Welcome to today's edition of the Clay Travison buck Sexton

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Speaker 1: Show podcast. Welcome in Clay Travis buck Sexton Show. Appreciate

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Speaker 1: all of you as we get rolling on the Thursday

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Speaker 1: edition of the program. And speaking of rolling, also flying,

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Speaker 1: there are a lot of things to get into. Inflation

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Speaker 1: seven point nine percent came out this morning, a forty

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Speaker 1: year high. We've already got all sorts of crazy explanations

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Speaker 1: out there. We'll be joined by Senator Ron Johnson of

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Speaker 1: Wisconsin at twelve thirty eastern. At one thirty eastern, Bill

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Speaker 1: Roggio will break down the on the ground war that

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Speaker 1: is taking place in Ukraine right now, and then at

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Speaker 1: two thirty eastern will be joined by Senator Ted Cruz

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Speaker 1: of Texas. So lots coming in that direction. We've got

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Speaker 1: the Bill down in Florida, and the feud that is

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Speaker 1: going on with Disney, the ongoing war in Ukraine. But Buck,

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Speaker 1: I am so mad. It's rare that I come on

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Speaker 1: the show angry. But in the last hour, the Biden

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Speaker 1: administration has extended for another month the requirement that you

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Speaker 1: wear a mask on airplanes, on trains, in airports, on

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Speaker 1: public transit, according to no scientific basis in logic whatsoever

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Speaker 1: anyone who has been and I'm going to focus on

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Speaker 1: airplanes because I think that is where much of the

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Speaker 1: angst and ire is directed now. But Buck, the only

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Speaker 1: place you now have to go in much of the

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Speaker 1: country and wear a mask is an airport, and on

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Speaker 1: an airplane. It is nonsensical, it is anti science. The

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Speaker 1: masks do absolutely nothing at all. This was set to

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Speaker 1: expire on March the eighteenth, and it now has been

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Speaker 1: extended until I presume April the eighteenth. I think that

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Speaker 1: the Biden administration is going to get destroyed over this,

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Speaker 1: because we know in Congress we saw the state of

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Speaker 1: the Union. Nobody wears masks anymore, even in schools, as

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Speaker 1: dumb as it has been, kids are now not required

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Speaker 1: to wear masks most places now, either in the near

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Speaker 1: future or it's already happened. Are you as angry as

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Speaker 1: I am about this nonsensical rule being extended. I'm furious

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Speaker 1: and also kind of break out into laughter at the

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Speaker 1: same time, because these libs are morons. I mean, they

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Speaker 1: really are. This is now Moronville. This is not I disagree,

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Speaker 1: this is not there's good faith. Let's all sit down

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Speaker 1: and look at the data and the numbers. This is

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Speaker 1: impossibly stupid. I mean, can we please try to get

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Speaker 1: Pete Buddha Judge mayor Pete of the Transportation Administration, assuming

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Speaker 1: he's not still on paternity leave, can we get him

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Speaker 1: to come on the show. I would love to hear.

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Speaker 1: You know, he didn't he go to Harvard yell or something.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure he thinks he's really smart. Please try to

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Speaker 1: defend this somebody. I'd love to have Will Lenski or

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Speaker 1: Fauci come on. They would get annihilated and they know it,

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Speaker 1: and that's why they won't. Actually, somehow this is a

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Speaker 1: policy that no human being can defend without looking like

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Speaker 1: an abject fool. But it's still the policy of the

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Speaker 1: Biden administration. Pr Lady Jensaki is going to be coming

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Speaker 1: forward to say, yeah, we still just need to keep

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Speaker 1: everybody safe. And they're all these Democrat idiots who are

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Speaker 1: seeing the country fall apart around them in a whole

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Speaker 1: variety of ways. We're gonna say, yeah, it's real safe

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Speaker 1: on the planes, now, what is wrong with them? Clay?

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Speaker 1: What percentage of our lives do we spend? You and

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Speaker 1: I fly a fair amount, Yeah, less than one percent

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Speaker 1: of our lives are spent on the plane. Our planes

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Speaker 1: a uniquely dangerous environment for the spread of COVID. No,

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Speaker 1: in fact, we know the science says because of the

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Speaker 1: HEPA filters in the planes, they are uniquely safe place

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Speaker 1: to be gathering when it comes to respiratory viruses. And

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Speaker 1: yet I'm gonna be in crowded bars, Clay, I'm going

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Speaker 1: to elbow with New Yorkers telling them to move to Florida,

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Speaker 1: and it's gonna be mask free. What possible epidemiological justification

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Speaker 1: It's also arbitrary and moronic. American Airlines and Southwest Airlines

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Speaker 1: both had their CEOs testify that the mask mandate made

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Speaker 1: no sense. They said that under oath in Congress, specifically

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Speaker 1: citing the extreme air filtration systems that exist in airplanes,

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Speaker 1: uber or you take a lift that they'll technically still

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna go get on an airplane flight to Florida

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Speaker 1: airport and can take the mask off again. What sense

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Speaker 1: can this possibly make from a scientific basis? In the

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Speaker 1: city of Nashville, and I know there are many other

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Speaker 1: indoor dining area where they have a where they have

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Speaker 1: they are walking by. People drinking beer, eating food. They're

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Speaker 1: not wearing masks. You could if you wanted to, you

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Speaker 1: got your girlfriend or your wife, husband, whatever, you could

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Speaker 1: they are said, there's no barrier, there's no wall. They're

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Speaker 1: At a minimum, Look, I think it's insanely stupid that

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Speaker 1: any sense in the airport, It doesn't make any sense

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Speaker 1: in the airplane, but at least you're tightly corralled in

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Speaker 1: any sort of solace on it, buck is it just

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Speaker 1: further cements the absolute destruction that we have to see

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Speaker 1: in November. Every single person listening right now, you have

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Speaker 1: to go vote based on the COVID lies that you

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Speaker 1: have been told by the Democrats, and you have to.

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Speaker 1: We have to put forward maximum pain, utter destruction, because Buck,

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Speaker 1: they're going to bring all this back. I really do

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Speaker 1: if they haven't already done it. Their narrative for all

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Speaker 1: see to you know what, Alse, I'm furious about you

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Speaker 1: and I have been right about this, and honestly I'm

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Speaker 1: we now on Spotify, which you know is just overrun

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Speaker 1: Senator Ron Johnson and Senator Johnson, appreciate you joining us.

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Speaker 1: You just teed off on the Biden administration policies and

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Speaker 1: those early days the Biden administration when he canceled the

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Speaker 1: Senator Johnson, I want to start with this, the breaking

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Speaker 1: how they've responded to covids relates to masses. You know,

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Speaker 1: And yet we made our children do this for two years.

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Speaker 1: I mean, let's face you, guys are outliers. You talk radio.

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Speaker 1: They're pretty well parroting what Biden says. Yeah, you know,

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Speaker 1: the solution to inflation, build back better. Let's do some

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Speaker 1: more deaths of spending. This is beyond absurd, beyond moronic.

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Speaker 1: We're speaking Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin. Senator, how concerned

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Speaker 1: So you only have to look at what he's doing

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Speaker 1: Wisconsin Senator, thanks so much for coming by, Clay and

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Speaker 1: for Defense of Democracies, editor of the Long War Journal,

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Speaker 1: and a US Army veteran. Bill grit to have you on.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for having me, it's a pleasure. What do we

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Speaker 1: need to know about the fighting right now in Ukraine?

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Speaker 1: How is this conflict playing out right now? Yeah, Look,

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Speaker 1: I think the common narrative that we're hearing is the

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Speaker 1: say the map doesn't lie when you look at the

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Speaker 1: map of the Russian advances. From day one, they've taken

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Speaker 1: significant territory in they're prepared to surround Kiev, the capitol.

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Speaker 1: They've they're in the process of encircling Ukrainian troops in

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Speaker 1: the north, in the east, and in the south and

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Speaker 1: the south they're close to fully taking control the strategic

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Speaker 1: Black Sea territory. This is where Ukraine uses to export

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Speaker 1: its food and other exports. So and they're advancing there.

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Speaker 1: It looks like they're prepared to insert again to encircle

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Speaker 1: Kiev and then link up from the south to the north.

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Speaker 1: That's it's a long process. This doesn't This doesn't happen

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Speaker 1: in days. This is a military operation that is unfolding,

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Speaker 1: and so the Ukrainians are in danger of losing half

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Speaker 1: their country. They're in danger of being encircled locally again

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Speaker 1: in areas in the It's already happened in areas in

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Speaker 1: the east and in the south, but it's in danger

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Speaker 1: of losing literally half of its country. If the unit,

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Speaker 1: the units that are in and around Kiev can link

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Speaker 1: up with the units in the south, and I'm seeing

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Speaker 1: that develop on the map. You know, Look, it's a

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Speaker 1: question of whether can the Russians hold this that's a

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Speaker 1: Ukrainians who are fighting valiantly and harder than anyone, including

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Speaker 1: the Russians that thought, but they're still losing this war.

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Speaker 1: What's the time frame here, Bill? I mean you talked

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Speaker 1: you've seen so far. Yeah, there's a lot of known

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Speaker 1: I think I'm looking at timelines of a couple of

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Speaker 1: into the future. There's a lot of factors. Do the

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Speaker 1: unable to overcome, Logistical issues and supply, you know, in

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Speaker 1: other issues. But you know, it's we have to remember

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Speaker 1: it took the United the US military forty two days

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Speaker 1: I don't understand why we expect, you know, I see

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Speaker 1: a lot of reporting, you know, in the common narratives

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Speaker 1: the Russians didn't take Kiev in two days, and therefore

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Speaker 1: they failed. But what I saw them do is launch

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Speaker 1: It's it's not pretty, but it's it is moving forward.

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Speaker 1: So I put you know again, it just depends on

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Speaker 1: if things continue as is, we're talking months before the

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Speaker 1: significantly areas half over half the size of Texas. Bill

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Speaker 1: Roggio with US now senior fellow at the Foundation for

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Speaker 1: Defensive democracies, editor of the Long War Journal Bill What

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Speaker 1: could really turn the tide here? I mean, what are

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Speaker 1: the possibilities you mentioned The Russians logistically collapse, or they

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Speaker 1: the Russian side. What are the ways that the Ukrainian

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Speaker 1: The only thing I think that would reverse the Russian progress,

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Speaker 1: and I do not advocate this, for this to be clear,

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Speaker 1: would be intervention from NATO. The Ukrainians are being ground down.

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Speaker 1: They have not conducted any significant counterattacks in order to

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Speaker 1: halt the Russian advance. All they can do is conduct

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Speaker 1: Russian side of the equation. The Ukrainians can make those things,

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Speaker 1: make it so painful for the Russians that they either

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Speaker 1: I don't see that as being highly likely. It would

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Speaker 1: Russian The Russian advance has sometimes been very very jumbled

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Speaker 1: they I think they've cynically decided their new strategy is

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Speaker 1: blame everything on Putin. So so they're claiming now that

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Speaker 1: all of this inflation, that the massive increase in gasoline prices,

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Speaker 1: they say is one hundred percent because of Putin's and

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Speaker 1: that's just a flat outlive We had galloping inflation long

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Speaker 1: before Putin invaded Ukraine, and it's it's a result with gas,

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Speaker 1: in particular of the Biden administrations assault on themestic energy production,

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Speaker 1: which is driving up the cost of gasoline. Senatoruz, you

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Speaker 1: represent Texas, which is the forefront of oil and gas

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Speaker 1: all over the nation, and I'm sure as a result

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Speaker 1: What do they tell you we should be doing right

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Speaker 1: now in order to maximize domestic oil and gas production.

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Speaker 1: What should we be doing based on what you're hearing

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Speaker 1: from your constituent companies and your constituents, we should get

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Speaker 1: back to the policies that we know work and the

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Speaker 1: policies that were in place just over a year ago.

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Speaker 1: Under the Trump administration. In twenty nineteen, America became energy independent.

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Speaker 1: We were the number one producer of oil, the number

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Speaker 1: one producer of natural gas in the world. We were

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Speaker 1: a net energy exporter. We were producing more oil and

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Speaker 1: gas than we consumed last year. In twenty twenty one,

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Speaker 1: under Joe Biden, we lost that status. We're now a

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Speaker 1: net energy importer. And the reason is simple. When he

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Speaker 1: came in, literally the first day in office, he shut

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Speaker 1: down the Keystone pipeline that destroyed eleven thousand high paying jobs,

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Speaker 1: that destroyed eight thousand union jobs with a stroke of

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Speaker 1: first day, froze all new leases on federal lands, both

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Speaker 1: on shore leases and off shore leases, that had a

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Speaker 1: profound effect. On top of that, he also halted development

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Speaker 1: of anmir, a very small section of Alaska that has

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Speaker 1: massive petroleum reserves. He shut it down and said, we

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Speaker 1: don't want those petroleum reserves. We don't want more oil,

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Speaker 1: we don't want more gas. Well, you know, if you

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Speaker 1: shut down and the result of all of this is

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Speaker 1: the rig count plummeted dramatically. We began drilling much less.

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Speaker 1: And this was their stated intention. It's what Biden told

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Speaker 1: the radical left he wanted to do if he was president,

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Speaker 1: and it's what he's done. The answer, we should step

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Speaker 1: up and be producing, producing here at home. And by

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Speaker 1: the way, one of the first places to start is

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Speaker 1: the Biden administration has six different applications pending to export

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Speaker 1: liquid natural gas. The State of the Union address, I

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Speaker 1: pulled aside Tony blink In, the Secretary of State. I

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Speaker 1: told him, if Biden really wants to do something, to

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Speaker 1: stick it to putin, he ought to today approve all

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Speaker 1: six of those applications. We ought to be exporting the

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Speaker 1: oil and gas we're developing wet. We ought to be

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Speaker 1: drilling more and producing more. That's how you drive down

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Speaker 1: gasoline prices. Speaking of Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, Senator,

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Speaker 1: war in Ukraine is getting more destructive, more violent, and

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Speaker 1: the Russians seem to be gaining ground, slowly, but gaining it. Nonetheless,

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Speaker 1: there was some discussion about Miggs being transferred to US

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Speaker 1: custody to then be transferred to Ukrainians to fight. What

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Speaker 1: do you view as the proper role of the US

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Speaker 1: at all this and what do you think should be

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Speaker 1: done different than what we've seen so far from the

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Speaker 1: White House. Well, we should be doing a lot differently.

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Speaker 1: And let me start by pointing out this war didn't

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Speaker 1: have to happen. This war is the cause of serious

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Speaker 1: mistakes from Joe Biden. Two mistakes in particular cause this war.

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Speaker 1: Number one, the disastrous withdrawal and retreat from Afghanistan that

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Speaker 1: caused every enemy of America to look to Washington to

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Speaker 1: take the measure of the man in the Oval Office

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Speaker 1: and to conclude that Joe Biden was weak and feckless

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Speaker 1: and ineffective. And at the time I said, the odds

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Speaker 1: of Russia invading Ukraine have increased tenfolds and the odds

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Speaker 1: of China invading Taiwan have increased tenfold. But secondly, very

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Speaker 1: specific mistakes Joe Biden made with respect to Russia and Ukraine.

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Speaker 1: You know, Putin didn't wake up yesterday and decide he

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Speaker 1: wanted to invade Ukraine. He's wanted to invade Ukraine for decades.

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Speaker 1: He wants to reassemble the old Soviet Union, and in fact,

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Speaker 1: he did invade Ukraine in twenty fourteen. He marched Russian

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Speaker 1: soldiers into Crimea, the southern part of Ukraine. But why

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Speaker 1: didn't he invade the rest of the country. And the

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Speaker 1: answer is that Russia's major source of revenue is selling

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Speaker 1: oil and gas, and the natural gas pipelines run right

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Speaker 1: through the middle of Ukraine, and if he invaded Ukraine,

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Speaker 1: he risked damaging or destroying those pipelines, which would make

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Speaker 1: it impossible to get his gas to Europe. Well, the

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Speaker 1: next year, Putin began building a pipeline, a pipeline called

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Speaker 1: nord Stream two. It's an undersea pipeline that goes directly

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Speaker 1: from Russia to Germany and it skips Ukraine. And the

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Speaker 1: reason Putin began building nord Stream two was so he

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Speaker 1: could invade Ukraine. In twenty nineteen, I authored sanctions legislation

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Speaker 1: to shut down nord Stream two. My legislation passed Congress

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Speaker 1: with overwhelming bipartisan support, pass the Senate past the House.

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Speaker 1: Donald Trump signed it. In the law, Putin stopped building

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Speaker 1: Nordstring two. Literally the day that President Trump signed by

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Speaker 1: sanctions legislation in the law. For over a year, the

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Speaker 1: pipeline was dead for over a year. Putin did not

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Speaker 1: invade Ukraine. Then Joe Biden becomes president on January twentieth,

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty one. Four days later, Putin resumes building nord

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Speaker 1: Stream two with deep sea construction. He did it because

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Speaker 1: Biden was weak, and just a few months later, Biden

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Speaker 1: formally weighed the sanctions on nord Stream two, giving in

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Speaker 1: to Russian Putin. He allowed him to build the pipeline.

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Speaker 1: That is why Putin invaded Ukraine. You know this last weekend,

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Speaker 1: I had a video conference call with President Zelenski in Ukraine.

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Speaker 1: He told me and the other ninety nine senators. He said,

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Speaker 1: if Biden had imposed sanctions on Nordstring two, Russia would

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Speaker 1: not have invaded Ukraine. So the the Biden White House's

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Speaker 1: weakness caused this war. And you ask what they should

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Speaker 1: do differently. We should be doing two things. Providing lethal

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Speaker 1: military weapons to Ukraine to let the Ukrainians defend themselves,

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Speaker 1: not American soldiers, the Ukrainians to defend their own homeland.

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Speaker 1: And number two, using energy offensively to take away the

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Speaker 1: ability of Putin to fund his war machine. We ought

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Speaker 1: to be exporting oil and natural gas to Europe, taking

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Speaker 1: away his customers. If you take his revenue, you take

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Speaker 1: away Putin's ability to wage war one morph you, Senator Cruise,

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Speaker 1: a no fly zone? Do you support this or do

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Speaker 1: you think this is a bad idea. I think it's

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Speaker 1: a terrible idea. A no fly zone would be an

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Speaker 1: enormous mistake. Why is that because you'd be putting American

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Speaker 1: pilots in the in a combat situation with Russian pilots,

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Speaker 1: and the last thing anyone should want to see is

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Speaker 1: a shooting war between America and Russia. That is a bad,

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Speaker 1: bad idea. What we should do, and you know you

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Speaker 1: mentioned these MiGs. So when we talked to President Zelenski,

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Speaker 1: what he said he needed more than anything else is

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Speaker 1: he Unite needed fighter jets. And he said he needed

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Speaker 1: fighter jets because the Russians have superiority in the air

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Speaker 1: and a natural place to turn to is Poland, which

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Speaker 1: has a number of digs old Soviet megs from when

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Speaker 1: they were all behind the Iron Curtain, and the Ukrainian

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Speaker 1: pilots are trained on the MiGs, so they know how

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Speaker 1: to fly them. Poland was happy to send the MiGs

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Speaker 1: to Ukraine to let the Ukrainians use them. They wanted

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Speaker 1: the Biden administration to commit to helping them backfill and

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Speaker 1: making F sixteens available so that Poland was not left defenseless.

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Speaker 1: The Biden administration didn't want to do that, and so

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Speaker 1: they started playing political games. And what the Biden administration

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Speaker 1: said is, well, it's up to Poland whether or not

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Speaker 1: to send the MiGs. We have no view on it.

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Speaker 1: It's up to Poland. In Poland's a sovereign country, they

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Speaker 1: can decide whether or not to send the MiGs. And

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Speaker 1: what Biden was doing was blaming Poland for not sending

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Speaker 1: the MiGs. Well, Poland day before yesterday called Biden's bluff

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Speaker 1: and just flew the MiGs to a US Air Force base.

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Speaker 1: So now the Biden administration has the MiGs, and within

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Speaker 1: hours the Biden Defense Department said nope, We're not giving

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Speaker 1: the MiGs to the Ukrainians. That was what happened was

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Speaker 1: Poland called Biden's bluff. I think we ought to give

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Speaker 1: those MiGs to the Ukrainians. We ought to have the

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Speaker 1: Ukrainians should come in and Ukrainian pilots should fly those

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Speaker 1: MiGs out. And if the Ukrainian pilots, if they engage

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Speaker 1: in combat with the Russians, they're at war with them.

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Speaker 1: They can engage in combat, but we ought to be

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Speaker 1: helping provide the weapons to enable them to fight to

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Speaker 1: defend their nations. Send her, Ted Cruz. We appreciate the

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Speaker 1: time and we'll talk to you again soon. Thank you, gentlemen,

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Speaker 1: God bless thank you. That is Ted Cruz. Come back.

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