Speaker 1: Good Monday morning, so nice to have you with us
Speaker 1: here on Verdict, with Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you
Speaker 1: and Senator. It was a very big weekend when it
Speaker 1: came to news a horrific attack in Colorado, and also
Speaker 1: a lot going on with Ukraine and Russia.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 3: Tragically, the radical anti American anti Israel left keeps getting worse,
Speaker 3: keeps getting more violence. We saw two weeks ago to
Speaker 3: Israeli supporters, people who worked in the Israeli consulate in Washington,
Speaker 3: d C. Murdered on the streets of DC, murdered by
Speaker 3: a radical leftist who screamed free Palestine. And then just
Speaker 3: this weekend we saw five people in Colorado who were
Speaker 3: engaged in a pro Israel protest speaking up for the hostages,
Speaker 3: calling on Hamas to release the hostages, saying enough is enough,
Speaker 3: and a deranged lunatic fire bombed them through Molotov cocktails
Speaker 3: at them, lit them on fire. It was tragic at
Speaker 3: this point, little past.
Speaker 4: Midnight Sunday night.
Speaker 3: What we know right now is five people are reported
Speaker 3: to be injured too, with very serious injuries. And this
Speaker 3: is sadly the face of the angry anti American left
Speaker 3: and the angry anti Israel left. They are violent and
Speaker 3: far too often that they are committing acts of enormous
Speaker 3: violence and even murder. And this pattern the media apologizes
Speaker 3: for them, whitewashes that what they do covers up for them.
Speaker 4: But Verdict is not going to do that.
Speaker 3: We're going to give you the facts. We also have
Speaker 3: in Russia and Ukraine. An extraordinary moment, Ukraine strikes back.
Speaker 3: Ukraine launched on audacious drone attack on Russia. They took
Speaker 3: out more than forty Russian bombers deep inside Russian territory.
Speaker 3: It was it was an attack that was meticulously panned out.
Speaker 3: It is similar to Israel's attack on Hezbala with the pagers,
Speaker 3: and that it took enormous preparation to carry out and
Speaker 3: it was remarkably effective. Hopefully this attack will accelerate ending
Speaker 3: the war in Ukraine and it may bring Russia to
Speaker 3: the bargaining table to say enough is enough.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and that may, like you said, be one of
Speaker 1: the silver linings of this attack. And it took a
Speaker 1: long time for them to plant in preparation for it.
Speaker 1: We'll give you those details as well in a moment.
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Speaker 1: let's talk about the two narratives coming out of this
Speaker 1: attack in Colorado. There's many that are wanting this to
Speaker 1: just be some random attack and you know, kind of
Speaker 1: move on. They don't want you to know the facts.
Speaker 1: They don't want you to know how the person got
Speaker 1: into this country. They don't want you to know who
Speaker 1: let him in this country. They don't want you to
Speaker 1: know he over state a visa. They don't want you
Speaker 1: to know he's a legal immigrant, and they don't want
Speaker 1: you to know that he was an anti Israel individual
Speaker 1: that was trying to or not trying setting elderly Jewish
Speaker 1: individuals who do this walk every week to remember the
Speaker 1: hostages being held by Hamas. They do this every week,
Speaker 1: and they and he deliberately was trying to set them
Speaker 1: on fire and kill them.
Speaker 4: Well, and let's set the stage.
Speaker 3: This is in Boulder, Colorado. It was a weekly event
Speaker 3: called Run for Their Lives and it was a weekly
Speaker 3: gathering of Jewish community leaders that that that was supporting
Speaker 3: the hostages that were taken on October seventh and calling
Speaker 3: for their release from from Hamas. So it was a
Speaker 3: peaceful protest. But I'll tell you what people knew. People
Speaker 3: knew that at the time of this this protest, there
Speaker 3: were going to be Jews there. There were going to
Speaker 3: be Jews who supported Israel. And the hate of the
Speaker 3: anti Israel that left, the hate of the anti America
Speaker 3: anti Israel left is so great that simply knowing that
Speaker 3: there were Jews who were present somewhere, sadly in those
Speaker 3: radical circles. It has proven to be an invitation to violence.
Speaker 3: And in this instance, the man threw multiple bottles filled
Speaker 3: with flammable liquids that hit hit the ground, that exploded
Speaker 3: in flames uh and and burned multiple people. Now you
Speaker 3: and I are are describing this at just after midnight
Speaker 3: Sunday night, and so the event is incredibly recent. So
Speaker 3: I want to give a caveat that. Inevitably, when you
Speaker 3: have a bad event, there there is a fog of war.
Speaker 4: Some of the facts that.
Speaker 3: Are being reported today will prove less than accurate. But
Speaker 3: on the face of this, it is obviously a terror attack.
Speaker 3: It is not complicated to figure out who the targets were.
Speaker 3: And yet I got to say, I want you to listen,
Speaker 3: and the FBI, to their credits, said right from the beginning,
Speaker 3: this is a targeted terror attack because they actually are
Speaker 3: not ostriches with their heads plunged into the sand. I
Speaker 3: want you to contrast this with the words of the
Speaker 3: Bolder police chief UH, with which, if the topic weren't
Speaker 3: so serious, they almost sound like a Saturday night Live skit.
Speaker 4: Give a listen. Was an actual protest going on when
Speaker 4: this occurred. Were a group of people gathered and for words.
Speaker 2: Said that would indicate anything at all to do with
Speaker 2: that protests. So what I will tell you on Pearl Street,
Speaker 2: it's a walking pedestrian mall downtown here. There was a
Speaker 2: lot of people out a very beautiful day. There was
Speaker 2: a group of pro Israel people that were there in
Speaker 2: a peaceful demonstration. I wouldn't even call it a protest.
Speaker 2: I believe that happens frequently down here. They were there
Speaker 2: in that area. We are looking and actively interviewing victims
Speaker 2: and witnesses to determine if that group was targeted or others,
Speaker 2: and we just don't have those answers yet. Those are
Speaker 2: things we helped to be able to provide you later
Speaker 2: this evening. FBI is already calling it a targeted terror attick.
Speaker 2: Would you also refer to it as a terror attack?
Speaker 2: So I've been in contact with our local FBI multiple times.
Speaker 2: We are in contact with them here. We are not
Speaker 2: calling it a terror attack at this point. Again, it's
Speaker 2: way too early to speculate motive. I know there's a
Speaker 2: lot out there on social media, but I ask people
Speaker 2: just to give us a little bit of patience while
Speaker 2: we work through a really complex scene. A lot of
Speaker 2: witnesses were here. We've taken them to another location to
Speaker 2: debrief them and interview them. As you do that, I
Speaker 2: think the picture will become more clear, but it would
Speaker 2: be it would be irresponsible for me to speculate on
Speaker 2: motive this early on. We're only a couple hours into
Speaker 2: the seams. Can you compre the description about him, because
Speaker 2: we know any picture running the media, I haven't seen it,
Speaker 2: and obviously I wasn't here when he was arrested. All
Speaker 2: I know is it's an adult male. We're working to
Speaker 2: identify that person. We're working to figure out where they're from.
Speaker 2: Uh and we're in contact with our federal partners as
Speaker 2: well as we figure that out.
Speaker 1: It is amazing to hear the Boulder Police chief put
Speaker 1: it this way and clearly doing it, saying the FBI
Speaker 1: is the one that's overreacting, calling this a terrorist tack. Clearly,
Speaker 1: I'm not going with those guys over there. Cash, Mattel
Speaker 1: and Bongino come out very early on and saying, quote,
Speaker 1: it wouldn't be helpful, implying the FBI's like amateur hour
Speaker 1: at this moment.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Look, this sadly is woke politics. If you have
Speaker 3: Jews who are standing and protesting favor of hostages in Israel,
Speaker 3: taken in October seventh, a weekly recurring event where everyone knows,
Speaker 3: and by the way, this police chief knows, there is
Speaker 3: vicious terrorism and anti Semitism directed at Jews, directed at
Speaker 3: supporters of Israel, and they threw molotov cocktails on them.
Speaker 3: That this is not subtle. This is not someone tripped
Speaker 3: and accidentally hit them. This is not a random draft
Speaker 3: drive by shooting of two gangs we're shooting at each
Speaker 3: other and a stray bullet hit someone. I mean, this
Speaker 3: is multiple molotov cocktails directed at a very specific, concrete
Speaker 3: group of people. And so the FBI is obviously right
Speaker 3: in calling it terrorism. I mean this same knucklehead, By
Speaker 3: the way, it reminded me of at the tail end
Speaker 3: of the Biden administration when you had the deranged radical
Speaker 3: Islamic terrorists drive a car into a crowd in New Orleans.
Speaker 3: He was flying an ISIS flag, and yet the local
Speaker 3: FBI person there said, well, we don't know that it's terrorism.
Speaker 3: You know what if a guy drives a jeep with
Speaker 3: an ISIS flag into a crowd and murders people, it's terrorism.
Speaker 3: You don't need a deep subtle analysis to tell. And
Speaker 3: let me give you another fact that miraculously the corporate
Speaker 3: media is omitting. Bill Malujin that the very best reporter
Speaker 3: at Fox he reported tonight quote breaking. Three senior DHS
Speaker 3: sources tell Fox News that the Bolder terror suspect is
Speaker 3: an Egyptian national in the US illegally as a visa
Speaker 3: overstay who entered the US during the Biden administration. I'm
Speaker 3: told Mohammed Sabree Soloman arrived at lax on eight twenty seven,
Speaker 3: twenty two on a B one slash B two non
Speaker 3: immigrant visa with an authorized stay through two twenty six,
Speaker 3: twenty three, but he overstayed and never left.
Speaker 4: I'm told on nine.
Speaker 3: Two he filed some sort of claim with USCIS, potentially
Speaker 3: an asylum claim, and on three twenty nine, twenty three,
Speaker 3: USCIS under Biden gave him work authorization, which expired on
Speaker 3: three twenty eight, twenty five. Understand, assuming this reporting is right,
Speaker 3: this guy was an illegal immigrant who came from Egypt.
Speaker 3: He overstated his visa, which made him illegal, and the
Speaker 3: Biden administration allowed him to stay. They allowed someone to
Speaker 3: stay who now is charged with and appears to have
Speaker 3: committed throwing molotov cocktails at at peaceful Jewish protesters standing
Speaker 3: up for hostages. It's also been reported one of the
Speaker 3: victims of this firebombing was a Holocaust survivor. This is
Speaker 3: the consequence of Joe Biden, the Democrat's open borders. When
Speaker 3: you let terrorists into the country. Shockingly, they emit acts
Speaker 3: of terrorism.
Speaker 1: There's also another aspect of this that the media is
Speaker 1: refusing to touch, and that is the age of the
Speaker 1: people that were targeted by this individual.
Speaker 4: They were elderly. Yeah, they were doing this every week.
Speaker 1: They were committed to not forgetting those that are being
Speaker 1: held hostage. Right now, you just mentioned one of the
Speaker 1: Maholocaust survivor. It's being reported, and yet the media doesn't
Speaker 1: want to talk about how barbaric the attack is. That
Speaker 1: these are senior citizens seventies and eighties, who were targeted
Speaker 1: because they were obviously easier to target because of their age.
Speaker 3: Well and listen, in the last two months, we've seen
Speaker 3: elderly Jewish protesters firebombed with molotov cocktails. We've seen a
Speaker 3: young Jewish couple executed leaving a Jewish museum in DC,
Speaker 3: and as we talked about in a prior podcast that
Speaker 3: that couple had publicly said they meant at an event
Speaker 3: where I was speaking that they I don't believe I
Speaker 3: had met that young couple, but it reduced me to
Speaker 3: tears that they came to an event where I was
Speaker 3: giving a speech on foreign policy, and that's where the
Speaker 3: two of them met and got engaged, and tragically they
Speaker 3: were murdered by a radical leftist who hates Israel, who
Speaker 3: hates Jews, and hates America, and and and gunned them down,
Speaker 3: and and and also within the last two months, we
Speaker 3: had yet another radical who tried to burn down the
Speaker 3: home of the governor of Pennsylvania who is Jewish, with
Speaker 3: him and his family inside. These are multiple acts of
Speaker 3: grotesque violence directed at Jews, directed at Israel, and the
Speaker 3: corporate media will not cover it, and in fact, they
Speaker 3: treated it as Oh, isn't this cute When you have
Speaker 3: people at Harvard or m I t or Columbia calling
Speaker 3: for intifada, Well, the intifada is here. This is intifada.
Speaker 3: This is murdering people because they are Jews on the
Speaker 3: streets that is into fada. And we saw this last
Speaker 3: week commencement speeches at both Harvard and MIT, people give
Speaker 3: radical anti Israel screeds because sadly our universities have welcomed
Speaker 3: and nurtured this incredible evil.
Speaker 1: Well, let's talk about the also the response here from
Speaker 1: the administration, and you look at just how quickly you
Speaker 1: had clarity from those that are in charge. Cash Betel
Speaker 1: coming out and looking again at the facts, and the
Speaker 1: FBI director just straight up put it out there saying,
Speaker 1: we are aware of and fully investigating a targeted tear
Speaker 1: attack in Boulder, Colorado. Our agent and local law enforcement
Speaker 1: on the scene already, and we will share updates as
Speaker 1: more information becomes available. He was short in his words,
Speaker 1: and and but letting it know this is a targeted attack.
Speaker 1: You move a couple hours ahead, Dan Bongino. He comes
Speaker 1: out and says, our leadership team on the ground and
Speaker 1: Boulder will be updating you shortly on the attack in Boulder.
Speaker 1: This act of terror is being investigated as an act
Speaker 1: of ideologically motivated violence based on the early information, the evidence,
Speaker 1: and witness accounts. We will speak clearly on these instants
Speaker 1: when the facts warrant it. I find great peace in knowing, yes,
Speaker 1: we finally have two individuals here, they're saying, we're not
Speaker 1: playing politics.
Speaker 4: We're going to tell you the truth.
Speaker 3: Look, everyone knows what this is. It's not complicated. And
Speaker 3: there are times there's times when a crime occurs and
Speaker 3: you don't know why. I mean, sometimes someone's randomly shot
Speaker 3: on the street, and it could be a crime of passion.
Speaker 3: It could be a lover's quarrel, it could be a
Speaker 3: robbery gone awry, it could be a totally crazy person.
Speaker 3: Like there are all sorts of There are crimes where
Speaker 3: it is difficult to ascertain what happened and you need
Speaker 3: to have an invest and that's true at every instance,
Speaker 3: but there are also crimes that are on the face
Speaker 3: of this. Anybody who's not a blithering idiot knows what
Speaker 3: this is. If you have elderly Jewish people walking along
Speaker 3: holding signs saying free the hostages and Gaza, and someone
Speaker 3: who is an illegal immigrant from Egypt throws a Molotov
Speaker 3: cocktail at them, or multiple Molotov cocktails at them and
Speaker 3: lights them on fire, that is not subtle. That doesn't
Speaker 3: take Sherlock Holmes to figure out what's going on there.
Speaker 3: When you have just two weeks ago, two Jewish people
Speaker 3: walking out of a Jewish museum in DC, and you
Speaker 3: have a radical leftist who screams free, free Palestine and
Speaker 3: guns them down, emptying the magazine into them, firing shots
Speaker 3: over and over and over again, and murdering them on
Speaker 3: the streets. That is not subtle or complicated. It It
Speaker 3: is straightforward. And those who seek to deny it and
Speaker 3: say no, no, no, this is not intifada, this is
Speaker 3: not antiic, this is not targeted terrorism. This we don't
Speaker 3: know what this is. They're lying to you.
Speaker 4: They know.
Speaker 3: It's not that they don't know, it's that they don't
Speaker 3: want to say it because acknowledging what it is conflicts
Speaker 3: with their political ideology and their political agenda. And sadly
Speaker 3: that is true for the overwhelming majority of the corporate media.
Speaker 1: You and I have also talked about this, and this
Speaker 1: brings in another aspect of this conversation, and it's the
Speaker 1: one that concerns me, honestly the most, and that is
Speaker 1: how many people came into this country during.
Speaker 4: The last administration. Yes, yes, that are terrorists.
Speaker 1: This was a terrorist that the last administration not only
Speaker 1: let in, but then allowed them to overstay and then
Speaker 1: rewarded them with the ability to take a job while
Speaker 1: here planning this type of attack. I am terrified of
Speaker 1: how many other terrorists we may be harboring right now
Speaker 1: that they let in. How concerned are you now seeing
Speaker 1: this play out the way?
Speaker 4: It is?
Speaker 3: Deeply, deeply concerned. I think the odds are overwhelming that
Speaker 3: there is more to come. You know, I got to say,
Speaker 3: during the Biden administration, you had Christopher Ray as the
Speaker 3: head of the FBI. I've known Chris for over twenty
Speaker 3: five years. Chris, I think made a lot of mistakes
Speaker 3: ashead of the FBI. I do not think he had
Speaker 3: a good tenure. But the one thing he did do
Speaker 3: is he repeatedly went before Congress, particularly the last two years,
Speaker 3: and tried to wring the alarm, tried tried to scream
Speaker 3: from the mountaintops saying, are risks of a terror attack
Speaker 3: right now are higher than they've ever been. These open borders, Hesblahamas,
Speaker 3: Palestinian Islamic jihad, we are inviting terrorists into this country
Speaker 3: and Americans are going to die because of it. That
Speaker 3: is tragically true. The Trump administration, I think, is doing
Speaker 3: a heroic job tracking down and trying to find these guys.
Speaker 3: But when you have over twelve million people that Joe Biden,
Speaker 3: Kamala Harris and all the Congressional Democrats invited into this country.
Speaker 3: You can't turn that around overnight. That takes time and
Speaker 3: the risks. The risks are that we will see unfortunately
Speaker 3: more terror attacks in the weeks and months to come
Speaker 3: as a result of the Democrats' open borders the last
Speaker 3: four years.
Speaker 1: Final question, will there ever be accountability for those that
Speaker 1: willingly allowed this to happen in the Biden administration? Or
Speaker 1: my orcis I mean, I go back to the famous
Speaker 1: quote from him when he said the border is secure.
Speaker 4: The border is secure.
Speaker 1: We've all heard a million times that was a lie.
Speaker 1: Then it's a lie. Now this is what was coming in.
Speaker 1: Will there be any accountability or is it just Hey,
Speaker 1: that's what they did and it is what it is.
Speaker 3: Look I hope so may Orcus may be the most
Speaker 3: dishonest individual to have ever served in the United States cabinet.
Speaker 3: He routinely lied. He lied before Congress, he lied before
Speaker 3: the American people. He'd go on TV every day and lie.
Speaker 3: It's actually a close battle between him and Kareem John
Speaker 3: Pierre at the White House Press Secretary, who also She
Speaker 3: actually embodies the opposite of a backhanded compliment. Years ago,
Speaker 3: when Bill Clinton was president, a backhanded compliment was said
Speaker 3: of him that he's an unusually good liar. That probably
Speaker 3: was true. Well, I got to say, Kareem Jean Pierre
Speaker 3: and Alejandra Mayorcas are unusually bad liars, and sadly, it
Speaker 3: didn't stop them from lying. They lied constantly. Every time
Speaker 3: they open their mouths, they lied. But they were so
Speaker 3: bad at it that everyone knew they were lying. Even
Speaker 3: their cheerleaders knew they were lying. When Karane Jehan Pierre
Speaker 3: said people aren't walking across the border, it's simply not happening.
Speaker 3: That doesn't happen. Everybody who had ever opened their eyes
Speaker 3: and turned on the television for ten seconds knew that that.
Speaker 4: Was a lie.
Speaker 3: She knew that that was a lie. Every reporter in
Speaker 3: the room knew that was a lie. Then again, the
Speaker 3: reporters at ABCNBCCBSC, and NMSNBC, Washington Post, New York Times,
Speaker 3: they did not report that it was a lie. The
Speaker 3: same is true with Alejandra Mayorcis. This was brazen. Understand
Speaker 3: the presence of terrorists, the presence of murderers and rapists
Speaker 3: and child molesters and Venezuelan gang members in this country.
Speaker 3: It is not accident, it is not unintentional. It is
Speaker 3: the intended result of the Democrats' open borders. Now, it's
Speaker 3: not that they sat around saying we want more terrorists.
Speaker 3: It's that they said, all we care about is politics.
Speaker 3: If we let twelve million people here illegally, they will
Speaker 3: become Democrats. They will vote Democrats, they will register illegally.
Speaker 3: They will keep us in power. And so if the
Speaker 3: price for Democrats to stay in power is more Americans
Speaker 3: being murdered, more women being raped, more children being brutalized,
Speaker 3: more terrorists committing acts of terror, I'm sorry to say
Speaker 3: the Democrats were more than happy to take that exchange.
Speaker 1: I want to move to the other big story, and
Speaker 1: that is Ukraine claims a massive drone strike on Russia
Speaker 1: and literally the country from one side the other. They
Speaker 1: were hitting sites of Russian bombers and what was called
Speaker 1: a spider web operation. I want to make sure though,
Speaker 1: that people understand this was a response to an attack
Speaker 1: that took place at the hands of Russia, and putin
Speaker 1: that Donald Trump referred to him as a crazy man afterwards.
Speaker 1: So Let's give the background before we explain what happened.
Speaker 3: Well, listen, the war has been ongoing for more than
Speaker 3: two years now. There's been massive casualties on both sides.
Speaker 3: Russia is the aggressor. Russia, Russia is the wrongdoer. Putin
Speaker 3: invaded Ukraine or another sovereign nation. Putin did so because
Speaker 3: Joe Biden was so incredibly weak, because he was ineffective
Speaker 3: commander in chief. Putin did so because Joe Biden waived
Speaker 3: the sanctions on nord Stream two, the pipeline that was
Speaker 3: designed to move natural gas directly from Russia to Germany.
Speaker 3: I authored those sanctions, I passed them into law, and
Speaker 3: President Trump signed my sanctions legislation into law. Putin shut
Speaker 3: down Nordstream two literally the day Trump signed my sanctions
Speaker 3: legislation into law. Biden waived those sanctions, and Putin completed
Speaker 3: the pipeline and almost immediately invaded Ukraine. So the war
Speaker 3: has been ongoing and it is the cause.
Speaker 4: The cause of.
Speaker 3: It is Biden's weakness. Well, what happened today Ukraine? You know,
Speaker 3: I'll tell you. At the start of the war, I
Speaker 3: remember sitting in a classified briefing and it was a
Speaker 3: classified briefing with all one hundred senators, And we had
Speaker 3: in that briefing with the Secretary of State, with the
Speaker 3: Secretary of Defense, with the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs
Speaker 3: of Staff, with the head of the CIA, the Director
Speaker 3: of National Intelligence. We had multiple players throughout the national
Speaker 3: security apparatus. This is all during the Biden administration. Every
Speaker 3: single one of them briefed all of the senators. They said,
Speaker 3: this war will be over within a week. Russia will
Speaker 3: sweep in, they'll conquer the whole country. Ukraine will fall,
Speaker 3: and within a week Kiev will be a Russian city.
Speaker 3: Now that Intel, that national security assessment ben it wasn't
Speaker 3: slightly wrong, It wasn't a teeny bit wrong. It was
Speaker 3: totally catastrophically one hundred and eighty degrees false. We're sitting
Speaker 3: here more than two years later, the war is ongoing
Speaker 3: and the Ukrainians keep shocking both the Russians and the
Speaker 3: American analysts who insists that they must lose, they must lose.
Speaker 3: This latest strike, it truly is audacious. So the Ukrainians
Speaker 3: hit more than forty Russian bombers inside Russian territory, and
Speaker 3: it was a total of forty one strategic Russian aircraft.
Speaker 3: The name of the operation was Spiderweb and you can
Speaker 3: see online there's a video showing a drone attack at
Speaker 3: the Belaya air Base in Russia's Irkust region, which is
Speaker 3: in Siberia, nearly three thousand miles away from Ukraine. So
Speaker 3: understand this happened not by Ukraine but three thousand miles away.
Speaker 3: And the bombers they're under attack, their explosions, Smoke is
Speaker 3: rising from the scene and one source said quote, preliminary
Speaker 3: estimates indicate that enemy aviation has suffered over two billion
Speaker 3: dollars in damage. Enemy strategic bombers are burning en mass
Speaker 3: in Russia. That is a major attack. It is an
Speaker 3: extraordinary attack. Now, that follows the night before Russia launched
Speaker 3: four hundred and seventy two drones according to the Ukrainian
Speaker 3: Air Force. Earlier on Sunday, Ukraine's army set a Russian
Speaker 3: missile strike killed at least twelve Ukrainian service members and
Speaker 3: injured sixty. So Russia has been very much it's the aggressor.
Speaker 3: But this attack taking out major aircraft resources from Russia
Speaker 3: is a big victory for Ukraine.
Speaker 4: It is a big, big victory.
Speaker 1: They are obviously worried individuals, especially in that part of
Speaker 1: the world, that Russia will then now retalied in some
Speaker 1: massive way, and then therefore blaming Ukraine saying you should
Speaker 1: not have done this attack that took them a long
Speaker 1: time to plan strategically. I want to get your response
Speaker 1: to that, because there does seem to be quite often
Speaker 1: that when Ukraine does something, the narrative becomes, well, they're
Speaker 1: the ones that will bring us to the brink of
Speaker 1: World War III, because now Russia is going to respond
Speaker 1: and it's actually their fault that they went over the
Speaker 1: top on this one.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Look, Russia has been the aggressor from the beginning. Ukraine
Speaker 3: is defending itself. I want to break down how they
Speaker 3: carry this out because it's actually this is the stuff
Speaker 3: of spy novels.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 3: We talked about when Israel struck back against Hezbolah with
Speaker 3: first the pagers and then with the walkie talkies. That
Speaker 3: was an extraordinary story. This has similar aspects. It's like
Speaker 3: something out of Mission Impossible of the born identity and
Speaker 3: let me read from its historian, Reuters the specific facts.
Speaker 3: Here's what Reuters reported to attack Russian air bases Ukrainian
Speaker 3: spies hid drones in wooden sheds. Ukrainian secret services were
Speaker 3: able to attack strategic bomber aircraft at Russian air bases
Speaker 3: on Sunday by hiding explosive laden drones inside the roofs
Speaker 3: of wooden sheds, according to a Ukrainian security official. Ukraine's
Speaker 3: domestic security agency, the SBU, acknowledged that it carried out
Speaker 3: the operation code named Spider's Web, and said that it
Speaker 3: caused considerable damage. The sheds were loaded onto trucks that
Speaker 3: were driven to the perimeter of the air bases. The
Speaker 3: roof panels of the sheds were lifted off by a
Speaker 3: remotely activated mechanism, allowing the drones to fly out and
Speaker 3: begin their attack, the official set. The security official, who
Speaker 3: spoken on conditions of anonymity, said the strikes conducted on
Speaker 3: Sunday were on four air bases and that forty one
Speaker 3: Russian warplanes were hit. An SBU statement posted on the
Speaker 3: telegram messaging app estimated the damages caused by the assault
Speaker 3: at seven billion dollars. And here's a quote. Thirty four
Speaker 3: percent of strategic cruise missile carriers at the main airfields
Speaker 3: of the Russian Federation were hit.
Speaker 4: Wow, that is remarkable.
Speaker 3: And it is the fact that they could carry it
Speaker 3: out in wooden sheds, that they could smuggle right next
Speaker 3: to the Russian airfield. That's a significant tactical and strategic victory.
Speaker 1: So when you look at this, what is the best
Speaker 1: case scenario for this attack? Does it make Russia realize
Speaker 1: A They're vulnerable and B maybe we need to we
Speaker 1: need to go back to the table because as you
Speaker 1: heard President Trump say, he said Putin was crazy last week,
Speaker 1: a crazy man and refusing to actually stop this war.
Speaker 1: Instead he went on this big attack in Ukraine. Ukraine responds, Yeah.
Speaker 3: Look, I think President Trump is deeply frustrated with Vlatimir Putin.
Speaker 3: Right now, President Trump wants this war to end. I
Speaker 3: believe this war will end. It will end this year.
Speaker 3: And one of the reasons it's going to end is
Speaker 3: I think the United States Congress is done sending money
Speaker 3: to Ukraine, that that at this point we have sent
Speaker 3: over one hundred billion dollars. Enough is enough.
Speaker 4: This war needs to end.
Speaker 3: So the blank checkbook that Joe Biden the Democrats gave
Speaker 3: that blank checkbook is done. Now what I believe is
Speaker 3: it needs to end in a negotiated settlement, and it
Speaker 3: should end in a way that is a clear and
Speaker 3: objectively discernible loss for Russia. Put is our enemy. Russia
Speaker 3: is our enemy, and we want we want our enemies
Speaker 3: to be weaker and not stronger. How this ends exactly,
Speaker 3: it's going to depend on Zelensky and Putin. Zelensky right
Speaker 3: now doesn't want to negotiate a piece. He's looking to
Speaker 3: fight and defend his country. I understand that he just
Speaker 3: doesn't have an entitlement for us to pay for it.
Speaker 3: Putin Putin right now, Trump believe that if he leaned in,
Speaker 3: Putin would agree to come to the table and seek
Speaker 3: terms of peace. At least so far he hasn't. It
Speaker 3: is possible this devastating strike on Russia will change Russia's calculus.
Speaker 3: That being said, look, one of the dangerous things about
Speaker 3: fighting a dictatorship is that Putin can inflict enormous pain
Speaker 3: and misery on the Russian citizenry and still stay in power.
Speaker 3: So I don't know how this resolves. I believe it
Speaker 3: will resolve at the end of the day. But right
Speaker 3: now Putin and Zelenski both seem like they want to
Speaker 3: keep fighting.
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