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Speaker 1: Coming up on special report, Marine Corps veteran Kate Monroe

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Speaker 1: has a solution to help active military with their mental

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Speaker 2: And Pultzer Dustin Olsen tells us how the American people

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Speaker 2: feel about President Trump in office for his second term.

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Speaker 1: And the National director of Faith Based Services and chaplain

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Speaker 1: at Banyon Treatment Centers, Anthony Akampora, joins us to talk

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Speaker 3: All of this in war right now a special report.

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much for tuning in to this hour

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Speaker 2: of special reports. I'm Emily Finn alongside Bo Davidson. We

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Speaker 2: are following some breaking news. President Trump and Russian President

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Speaker 2: Vladimir Putin have spoken on the phone and discussed a

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Speaker 2: possible ceasefire in Ukraine.

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Speaker 1: The two spoke for an hour and a half and

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Speaker 1: made plans to visit each other's countries. They agreed to

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Speaker 1: begin ceasefire negotiations immediately, with Trump calling the call highly productive.

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Speaker 2: The Trump administration is also deploying thousands of troops to

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Speaker 2: the southern border to help crack down on illegal immigration.

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Speaker 3: The border has become.

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Speaker 2: The Defense Department's top priority, with the average daily number

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Speaker 2: of known godaways down ninety three percent from the highest

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Speaker 2: numbers when President Biden was in office. In addition to

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Speaker 2: ramping up military presidents at the border, Trump's borders are

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Speaker 2: Tom Holman has been hard at work on deporting illegal

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he really has been focused on the border. And

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Speaker 1: this was, Emily, a promise made and a promise kept.

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Speaker 1: I can't think of how many times we covered on

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Speaker 1: Special Report when President Trump would come after rallies and say,

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Speaker 1: illegal fetanyl coming in, we have human trafficking, we have

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Speaker 1: Now we've got a thirty day pause. So I think,

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Speaker 1: Emily that when you look at this in the grand

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Speaker 3: It absolutely is.

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Speaker 2: And I think when we talk about national security as well, right,

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Speaker 2: He's instructing the military sending all of these troops down

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Speaker 2: under control. And I think that that's just another promise

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and you think about this call with Putin, I

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Speaker 1: just in terms of the significance of it. President Trump

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Speaker 1: Now that's a bold promise and a lot of people

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Speaker 1: When you talk about coming to the table with two

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Speaker 1: I think it's so telling that he was able to

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Speaker 1: In addition to the whole Middle East conflict that we

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Speaker 1: So this is a present that obviously takes things seriously.

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Speaker 1: He's doing peace through strength and he's going to probably

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Speaker 1: that Joe Biden never could have never could have it.

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Speaker 2: I don't know if Joe Biden even really tried to

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Speaker 3: You just didn't have it in him.

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Speaker 2: You know, we are entering the fourth year of this

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Speaker 2: I know President Trump is definitely going to be talking

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Speaker 2: Hopefully they are able to reach this ceasefire soon. I

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and you think about all of the congressional spending,

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Speaker 1: the CEO of Vetcom and a former marine first of all, Kate,

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Speaker 1: we thank you for your service.

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Speaker 4: I am happy to serve still serving veterans today. Thank

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Speaker 1: Having me absolutely, and veterans, Kate, are such an important

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Speaker 5: Down here at Imperial Beach by the border station, and

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Speaker 7: Name is Captain Tucker kimbro I'm the public affairs lead

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Speaker 7: for Task Force Staffer Marines from one Marine Expeditionary Force

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Speaker 7: that came down here five hundred in total.

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Speaker 4: Five hundred of you. I love that. So I know

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Speaker 4: you can't share too much with us, but I know

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Speaker 4: this is a developing story. But what can you share?

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Speaker 5: So we are here on orders from JTF North and

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Speaker 8: That's exactly what we want to hear.

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Speaker 4: Thank you for sharing anything that you can, and I

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Speaker 1: That you're doing.

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Speaker 4: Absolutely, thank you. Simplify a new or let's close the

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Speaker 4: Well, you know what, I myself, when I was running

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Speaker 2: What is your reaction to the pushback that we've been

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Speaker 3: Absolutely well, Kate, shifting gears for just a bit.

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Speaker 1: You were also mentioned in a recent Washington Examiner article

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Speaker 4: Well, there's a lot of issues to address. We helped

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Speaker 4: clean up the VA, clean up all of their spending.

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Speaker 4: How about you spend more money helping veterans than you

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Speaker 2: And these are the people that defended our freedoms. They are,

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Speaker 2: focused on those issues now. Another one of Trump's cabinet

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Speaker 4: I really liked I like him a lot. I was

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Speaker 4: But I think what people don't realize is he was

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Speaker 4: I do think so. You know, Trump was very clear

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Speaker 1: And coming up on special reports, Polster Dustin Olsen reveals

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Speaker 1: Our founding father, Alexander Hamilton said, energy in the executive

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Speaker 3: It cannot be denied that in these.

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Speaker 1: First few weeks of the Trump two point zero presidency,

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Speaker 2: This is, of course, a drastic contrast to four years

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Speaker 2: polster Dustin Olsen of Olsen Strategies, Welcome to the show.

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Speaker 7: Dustin.

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Speaker 9: It's great to be here with you both, and I'm

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, there have been some really shocking numbers. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I mean, it can't be denied that President Trump is

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Speaker 9: Well, I do think the contrast to you quoted Alexander Hamilton,

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Speaker 7: Yeah.

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Speaker 9: So one of the things things that people hire pollsters for,

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Speaker 9: You knew that he was going to do the mass deportations,

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Speaker 1: Well, Dustin, you've also seen a really big swing in

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Speaker 9: Gotten used to over the years for quite some time.

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Speaker 9: And that's really remarkable, and it's remarkable how quickly it's shifted.

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Speaker 2: You know, Dustin, I do want to focus on this.

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Speaker 9: It is amazing. Everything that's happened on this topic tells

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Dustin, just about fifteen seconds left. What's the pulse

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Speaker 3: Thanks Verry Insight, Thanks Dustin, thank you appreciate it.

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Speaker 2: First hearing was held today.

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Speaker 3: We'll be right back. Welcome back to special Report.

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Speaker 2: The House Oversights Dose Subcommittee had its first hearing this morning,

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Speaker 8: Hey, good afternoon.

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Speaker 11: Well, the tone was exactly what we expected the Democrats

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Speaker 11: I think they're just interested in stopping Republicans at any

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Speaker 1: Well, Brian, this is interesting on my way to the

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Speaker 1: studio in West Palm this morning I encountered a protest

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Speaker 1: against Senator Rick Scott, and I want to get your

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Speaker 1: thoughts on the other side of it.

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Speaker 3: Take a look at this real quick.

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Speaker 1: I'm here at the Mandel Public Library building in West

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Speaker 1: Palm Beach, Florida, where earlier about fifty demonstrators were here

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Speaker 1: protesting Senator Rick Scott in his sport of Elon.

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Speaker 3: Musk in Doge.

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Speaker 1: Now, Senator Scott does have an office in this building,

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Speaker 1: but it appears to be defunct for quite some time.

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Speaker 1: I asked the protesters if they would speak to me

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Speaker 1: so they could deliver a message to Senator Scott.

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Speaker 3: But unfortunately, not one of them would speak to me.

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Speaker 1: So Brian, no one would go on the record with me.

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Speaker 1: They feared independent media like hours. But I did some

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Speaker 1: research and the group is called Indivisible. Don't know if

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Speaker 1: you've heard of them. And one of the protesters told

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Speaker 1: me off the record that if you look at what

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Speaker 1: Musk is doing, and I quote it is the exact

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Speaker 1: first steps of Hitler's playbook in nineteen thirty nine. And

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Speaker 1: I asked, just to be clear, you think Musk is

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Speaker 1: trying to make the United States be like the Third Reich,

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Speaker 1: and she said, yes, absolutely, this is diametrically opposed Brian

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Speaker 1: to Musk saying yesterday, if bureaucracy is in charge, then

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Speaker 1: what is the meaning of democracy?

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Speaker 3: Your thoughts on.

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Speaker 11: That, Well, apparently you met one individual that's still working

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Speaker 11: on their ged because if they spend any time learning history,

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Speaker 11: they know that's not exactly what we're trying to do

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Speaker 11: over here. It's exact opposite. I mean, but this is

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Speaker 11: the same rhetoric we've heard time after time. I mean

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Speaker 11: that we had several people in the subcommittee hearing today

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Speaker 11: that I could tell or simply there just to voice. Now,

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Speaker 11: they weren't vocal at any point, but you can tell

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Speaker 11: exactly where they stood on all of this. Elon Musk

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Speaker 11: has been transparent and so has President Trump that they're

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Speaker 11: not going to, you know, inter change the ability. Elon

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Speaker 11: Musk is not going to try to cover up anything

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Speaker 11: that he might have government contracts with, and he's been

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Speaker 11: very open that any kind of contract he has with

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Speaker 11: the government is some of the best money spent for

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Speaker 11: what they're getting.

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Speaker 8: That's not what they're looking for.

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Speaker 11: They're looking for, Like I mentioned, two point seven trillion

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Speaker 11: dollars of improper payments and just wait bo until usa

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Speaker 11: ID comes in at the end of the month.

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Speaker 8: What they're going to find and how the left is

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Speaker 8: going to react to that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, Brian, the DOJE Subcommittee is now calling

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Speaker 2: Elon Musk's efforts to cut government spending the war on waste.

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Speaker 2: Take a listen to this.

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Speaker 12: We as a country are thirty six trillion dollars in debt.

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Speaker 12: That is such a stunning amount of money. It's absolutely

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Speaker 12: staggering to even comprehend how we as a people, we

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Speaker 12: as a country, found ourselves here. This is not a demic.

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Speaker 12: This is not a Republican problem. This is an American problem, you.

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Speaker 2: Know, Brian, I did want to get your reaction to that.

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Speaker 2: But President Trump is signing executive orders. He is with

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Speaker 2: Tulci Gabbert, so we want to check in and see

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Speaker 2: what he has to say quick.

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Speaker 7: President Zelenski wants peace and I want peace. I just

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Speaker 7: want to see people stop getting killed. We're very far

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Speaker 7: away from that particular war, but that's a vicious war.

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Speaker 7: Probably a million and a half soldiers killed in a

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Speaker 7: short period of time. I've never seen anything. I have

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Speaker 7: pictures that are. You wouldn't believe it. You wouldn't believe

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Speaker 7: what you have to look at young beautiful soldiers that

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Speaker 7: are just being decimated, and it would be nice to

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Speaker 7: end it immediately. But we had a very good talk

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Speaker 7: with people. Didn't really know what President Putin's thoughts were,

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Speaker 7: but I think I can say with great confidence he

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Speaker 7: wants to see it ended. Also that's good, and we're

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Speaker 7: going to work toward getting it ended and as fast

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Speaker 7: as possible. It's a horrible situation going over with flat

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Speaker 7: land and the bullet goes off and the only thing

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Speaker 7: it can hit is a body, a human body, a

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Speaker 7: young human body, and they're losing just tremendous numbers of

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Speaker 7: mostly soldiers. The cities and towns have been largely demolished.

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Speaker 7: It's a shame. What's happened to that country would have

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Speaker 7: never happened if our president, that I can tell you,

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Speaker 7: would have never happened. It's to look at that in

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Speaker 7: October seventh would have never happened either, by the way

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Speaker 7: Middle East. But we'll get it. I think we'll get it.

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Speaker 7: We'll get something done. We're going to be meeting actually tomorrow,

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Speaker 7: their meeting in Munich as you know, and we're going

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Speaker 7: to have some other meetings, and well, I'll be dealing

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Speaker 7: with President Putin largely on the phone, and we ultimately

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Speaker 7: expect to meet. In fact, we expect that he'll come

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Speaker 7: here and I'll go there, and we're going to meet also,

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Speaker 7: probably in Saudi Arabia, the first time we meet in

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Speaker 7: Saudi Arabia, see if we get something done. But we

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Speaker 7: wanna end that war. That war is a disaster. It's

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Speaker 7: a really bloody, horrible war. I think. So we think

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Speaker 7: we're gonna probably meet in Saudi Arabia the first meeting.

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Speaker 7: Uh hasn't been set, but not too distant future. We

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Speaker 7: both understand, you know, we know the Crown Prince and Uh,

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Speaker 7: I think it'd be a it'd be a very good

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Speaker 7: place to meet, would be a meeting.

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Speaker 12: Between you and Putin and perhaps the Crown Prince, but

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Speaker 12: not President Winsky.

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Speaker 7: Probably we'll have a first meeting and then we'll see

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Speaker 7: what we can do about the second meeting to go

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Speaker 7: to Ukraine. Uh, what about Ukraine?

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Speaker 4: Do you meet to go to Ukraine?

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Speaker 7: No, I haven't. I haven't committed to go to Ukraine.

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Speaker 7: I would think about going, Yeah, I'd think about it.

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Speaker 7: No problems your vision.

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Speaker 1: What is your plan for to end this war?

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Speaker 7: Well, I'm not gonna tell you my plan. I can

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Speaker 7: just tell you we've made a lot of progress. This

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Speaker 7: should have been done by Biden, not by me, cause

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Speaker 7: this has been going on for now a long time,

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Speaker 7: years and it should have been done by Biden. Uh,

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Speaker 7: just like the young gentleman that I brought home l

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Speaker 7: yesterday after two weeks. We worked on her for two weeks,

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Speaker 7: who was a a fine man, and he was in

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Speaker 7: there for three and a half almost four years, and uh,

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Speaker 7: they weren't able to do a thing, and I got

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Speaker 7: him out. And as you know, I didn't pay six

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Speaker 7: billion dollars. I didn't pay anything. I we did a trade,

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Speaker 7: and we did a good job. We'd got him out

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Speaker 7: in two weeks. It should have been out years ago.

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Speaker 7: Really should have been out years ago. I don't think

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Speaker 7: it's practical to have it personally. I know that a

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Speaker 7: new Secretary of Defense, who's excellent Pete, made a statement

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Speaker 7: today saying that he thinks it's unlikely or impractical. I

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Speaker 7: think probably that's true. I think long before President Putin

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Speaker 7: they said there's no way they'd allow that. This has

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Speaker 7: been going on for many, many years there. They've been

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Speaker 7: saying that for a long time that UH Ukraine cannot

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Speaker 7: go into NATO, and I'm and I'm okay with that.

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Speaker 7: I just want the word whether they are or they're not.

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Speaker 6: But I it.

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Speaker 7: Certainly would seem to be that most people have said

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Speaker 7: that that is something that's not gonna happen. No, I

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Speaker 7: don't think so as long as he's there. But you know,

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Speaker 7: at some point you're gonna have to have elections too.

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Speaker 7: You're gonna have to have an election president. What does

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Speaker 7: that look like in terms of what.

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Speaker 12: He if the war were to end, He says he

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Speaker 12: wants guarantees of security.

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Speaker 7: We'll see what that means we have. I think when

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Speaker 7: the war ends. One thing he was very strong about,

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Speaker 7: he wants it. If it ends, he wants it to end.

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Speaker 7: And as President Putin said that he wants it to end,

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Speaker 7: he doesn't want to ended and then go back to fighting.

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Speaker 7: Six months later, Uh, we talked about the possibility. I

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Speaker 7: mentioned it of a cease fire so we can stop

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Speaker 7: the killing. And I think we'll probably end up at

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Speaker 7: some point getting a cease fire in the not too

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Speaker 7: distant future. An equal member of those it's an interesting question. Uh.

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Speaker 7: I think they have to make peace. That people are

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Speaker 7: being killed, and I think they have to make peace.

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Speaker 7: I said that was not a good war to go into,

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Speaker 7: and I think they have to make peace. That's what

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Speaker 7: I think. Well, he's gonna have to do what he

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Speaker 7: has to do. But you know, his poll numbers aren't

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Speaker 7: particularly great. To put it mildly, he's got a country where,

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Speaker 7: you know, it's been savaged and attacked, and he's got

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Speaker 7: an army that's been very, very brave actually, despite the

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Speaker 7: fact that you know, we've given him, in my opinion,

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Speaker 7: three hundred and fifty billion dollars, that's what the real

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Speaker 7: number is. You don't hear that number. And Europe is

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Speaker 7: given him my opinion, one hundred billion dollars and they've

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Speaker 7: done it in the form of a loan. And I

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Speaker 7: have a Secretary of Treasury right now who's actually quite brave.

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Speaker 7: He's over in Ukraine on a train and there's a

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Speaker 7: lot of things happening around that train that aren't so good,

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Speaker 7: and he's going there to get a document done where

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Speaker 7: we're going to be assured that we're going to in

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Speaker 7: some form get this money back because we're putting up

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Speaker 7: far more money than Europe, and Europe is in far

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Speaker 7: more danger than we are. We have an ocean in between.

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Speaker 7: Europe has nothing in between, you know, they have in

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Speaker 7: between the Ukraine in between, so so Iman so as

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Speaker 7: you know, Europe is putting up money and they're getting

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Speaker 7: in the form of a loan. And the United States

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Speaker 7: under Biden didn't do loans. He just handed money. Every

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Speaker 7: time somebody walked in from Ukraine. They just handed the

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Speaker 7: money foolishly. They should have never happened. It should have

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Speaker 7: never started, and once it did, other things should have happened.

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Speaker 7: Other things should have taken place. So we're getting security

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Speaker 7: on our money. We're going to have it secured by

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Speaker 7: They have raw earth, and they have oil and gas,

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Speaker 7: and they have a lot of other things, and we're

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Speaker 7: asking for security in our money. They have agreed to it,

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Speaker 7: Ukraine has agreed to it. We are, but we want

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Speaker 7: it secured and the money is going to be secured

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Speaker 7: because if we didn't do that, then Putin would say

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Speaker 7: he won. We're the thing that's holding it back. And frankly,

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Speaker 7: we'll go as long as we have to go, because

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Speaker 7: we're not going to let the other happen. But President

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Speaker 7: Putin wants that peace now, and that's good. And he

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Speaker 7: didn't want to have peace with Biden. And you tell

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Speaker 7: me why that is, okay.

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Speaker 2: Was that conversation with Putin to start these negotiations part

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Speaker 2: of the deal to bring Fogel homes?

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Speaker 7: No, but it was a nice thing that he allowed

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Speaker 7: Mark Fogel to leave. In fact, Mark is wasn't feeling well,

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Speaker 7: but he was all of a sudden about two weeks ago,

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Speaker 7: he started being treated very nicely. He said, they took

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Speaker 7: him out for haircuts, They took him out, they they

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Speaker 7: helped him out a little bit and made him feel better,

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Speaker 7: made him look better, and they were nice to him.

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Speaker 7: And he said, I saw something happening and it had

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Speaker 7: to it coincided with when I came into office.

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Speaker 6: So that was nice.

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Speaker 7: And and he was he's a fine person. He was

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Speaker 7: so happy to be out.

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Speaker 6: He was there.

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Speaker 7: He was there for three and a half years plus,

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Speaker 7: and he shouldn't have been there at all. He should

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Speaker 7: have they should have had him out much faster than that.

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Speaker 11: Wall go ahead, Just to be clear, you see any

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Speaker 11: future in which Ukraine returned through twenty fourteen orders.

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Speaker 7: Well, I think Pete said today that that's unlikely. Right,

658
00:33:11,440 --> 00:33:14,360
Speaker 7: It certainly would seem to be unlikely. They took a

659
00:33:14,400 --> 00:33:17,680
Speaker 7: lot of land, and they fought for that land, and

660
00:33:17,720 --> 00:33:20,920
Speaker 7: they lost a lot of they lost a lot of soldiers.

661
00:33:20,920 --> 00:33:22,440
Speaker 7: But it would just seem to me, And I'm not

662
00:33:23,000 --> 00:33:24,880
Speaker 7: I'm not making an opinion on it, but I've read

663
00:33:24,920 --> 00:33:26,560
Speaker 7: a lot on it, and a lot of people think

664
00:33:26,560 --> 00:33:28,840
Speaker 7: that that's unlikely. Some of it will come back.

665
00:33:29,000 --> 00:33:30,280
Speaker 6: I think some of it will come back.

666
00:33:30,360 --> 00:33:36,760
Speaker 7: Yeah, some of that land will come back with me.

667
00:33:37,040 --> 00:33:38,600
Speaker 8: Yeah, you know.

668
00:33:39,000 --> 00:33:40,800
Speaker 3: Afp Franz Press.

669
00:33:41,440 --> 00:33:43,440
Speaker 6: Okay, I just wanted to.

670
00:33:43,440 --> 00:33:47,560
Speaker 9: Ask you you the things that the Sexual Defense was

671
00:33:47,600 --> 00:33:52,400
Speaker 9: talking about, the twenty fourteen borders and the lack of

672
00:33:52,480 --> 00:33:53,280
Speaker 9: native membership.

673
00:33:53,600 --> 00:33:54,880
Speaker 8: Ultimately, these are both.

674
00:33:54,760 --> 00:33:57,560
Speaker 9: Toans that Russia has made in the past. Is there

675
00:33:57,600 --> 00:33:59,680
Speaker 9: not a danger of having Russia to kind of win

676
00:33:59,760 --> 00:34:00,000
Speaker 9: on this?

677
00:34:00,960 --> 00:34:04,720
Speaker 7: Well, well, I think that if you look at the war,

678
00:34:04,800 --> 00:34:06,600
Speaker 7: the way the war's going, you'll have to make your

679
00:34:06,600 --> 00:34:09,480
Speaker 7: own determination. I'm just here to try and get peace.

680
00:34:09,680 --> 00:34:12,799
Speaker 7: I don't care so much about anything other than I

681
00:34:12,840 --> 00:34:17,239
Speaker 7: want to stop having millions of people killed killed. Last night,

682
00:34:17,480 --> 00:34:21,279
Speaker 7: you know, Kiev got hit very, very hard. I want

683
00:34:21,320 --> 00:34:23,799
Speaker 7: to see people stop getting killed. That war is ridiculous.

684
00:34:23,880 --> 00:34:27,160
Speaker 7: It should have never happened, and it would have never happened. Yeah.

685
00:34:27,280 --> 00:34:27,839
Speaker 6: A couple of more.

686
00:34:27,880 --> 00:34:30,160
Speaker 4: Questions signed today.

687
00:34:30,440 --> 00:34:34,160
Speaker 7: Are you planning to sign an executive order of reciprocal tariffs? Yes?

688
00:34:34,239 --> 00:34:36,799
Speaker 7: I am. In fact, I may do it today, And

689
00:34:36,840 --> 00:34:38,480
Speaker 7: if I do it today, I could almost do it

690
00:34:38,560 --> 00:34:40,160
Speaker 7: right now. Would you like me to talk about it.

691
00:34:40,520 --> 00:34:42,439
Speaker 7: I don't want to take anything away from this young

692
00:34:42,480 --> 00:34:46,120
Speaker 7: lady's day, because this is her day, and I may

693
00:34:46,120 --> 00:34:48,160
Speaker 7: do it later on, or I may do it tomorrow morning,

694
00:34:48,160 --> 00:34:52,120
Speaker 7: but we'll be signing reciprocal tariffs. The world has taken

695
00:34:52,160 --> 00:34:55,000
Speaker 7: advantage of the United States for many years. They've charged

696
00:34:55,080 --> 00:34:58,919
Speaker 7: us massive tariffs that we haven't charged them. And as

697
00:34:58,960 --> 00:35:01,640
Speaker 7: you know, I just did something on steel and aluminum

698
00:35:01,719 --> 00:35:04,759
Speaker 7: twenty five percent. That'll go up at some point, but

699
00:35:05,120 --> 00:35:08,759
Speaker 7: twenty five percent, which will level the playing field quite

700
00:35:08,760 --> 00:35:12,760
Speaker 7: a bit. I did it previously fifty percent, and Obama

701
00:35:12,920 --> 00:35:17,160
Speaker 7: was Obama was very weak and Biden was even weaker.

702
00:35:17,640 --> 00:35:21,160
Speaker 7: On steel. The steel was just absolutely it really started

703
00:35:21,840 --> 00:35:24,880
Speaker 7: with Obama. The world really took advantage of us, and

704
00:35:24,920 --> 00:35:30,080
Speaker 7: then that morphed into Biden and what they did was

705
00:35:30,719 --> 00:35:33,360
Speaker 7: he was so worried about trying to attack his political

706
00:35:33,360 --> 00:35:35,440
Speaker 7: opponent that he didn't know what he was doing with

707
00:35:35,520 --> 00:35:38,600
Speaker 7: respect to countries taking advantage. He should have looked at

708
00:35:38,600 --> 00:35:42,719
Speaker 7: the countries both friend and foe taken advantage of us.

709
00:35:42,719 --> 00:35:46,400
Speaker 7: So we're going to be doing reciprocal tariffs, which is

710
00:35:46,400 --> 00:35:49,000
Speaker 7: whatever they charge, we charged very simply. But we're going

711
00:35:49,080 --> 00:35:49,319
Speaker 7: to be.

712
00:35:51,640 --> 00:35:53,840
Speaker 4: Talk about widespread fraud and abuse.

713
00:35:55,040 --> 00:35:59,120
Speaker 7: Tremendous fraud. Is tremendous fraud, and it's hard to believe

714
00:35:59,160 --> 00:36:00,800
Speaker 7: that you can have that kind of fraud.

715
00:36:01,200 --> 00:36:04,680
Speaker 6: You're talking about, like, are you talking about what?

716
00:36:05,280 --> 00:36:07,759
Speaker 7: Wait? Wait, wait, are which are you're talking you're talking

717
00:36:07,800 --> 00:36:10,640
Speaker 7: about with regard to all of the investigations that are

718
00:36:10,680 --> 00:36:13,480
Speaker 7: going on about this stupidity. What we're going to do

719
00:36:13,520 --> 00:36:15,560
Speaker 7: is tomorrow, I'm having a news conference. I'm going to

720
00:36:15,640 --> 00:36:19,080
Speaker 7: read to you some of the names that hundreds of

721
00:36:19,120 --> 00:36:21,840
Speaker 7: millions and even billions of dollars have been given to.

722
00:36:22,520 --> 00:36:24,440
Speaker 7: And if you tell me that we should be giving

723
00:36:24,520 --> 00:36:28,280
Speaker 7: money to those things, those entities, I think you'll probably

724
00:36:28,320 --> 00:36:31,280
Speaker 7: have to leave as a reporter because you're not very talented.

725
00:36:31,680 --> 00:36:34,120
Speaker 7: When you look at the kind of money, billions and

726
00:36:34,200 --> 00:36:39,320
Speaker 7: billions of dollars being thrown away illegally, and there's no chance.

727
00:36:39,360 --> 00:36:42,960
Speaker 7: I mean, I say in front of our our Attorney general,

728
00:36:43,200 --> 00:36:46,359
Speaker 7: there's no chance that there's not kickbacks or something going on.

729
00:36:46,400 --> 00:36:49,680
Speaker 7: When you give millions and millions of dollars to somebody

730
00:36:49,719 --> 00:36:52,840
Speaker 7: that stands to look at something for fifteen minutes and

731
00:36:52,880 --> 00:36:56,320
Speaker 7: walks away with millions of dollars, that money's coming back

732
00:36:56,480 --> 00:36:59,840
Speaker 7: in some form. And that's only one form of corruption.

733
00:37:00,680 --> 00:37:03,520
Speaker 7: The biggest thing is what they do to our country.

734
00:37:03,520 --> 00:37:07,640
Speaker 7: They're taking massive amounts of money and spending it on

735
00:37:07,680 --> 00:37:10,000
Speaker 7: an items. I went through a list of two hundred

736
00:37:10,560 --> 00:37:14,400
Speaker 7: expenditures that were made and I found three that looked

737
00:37:14,440 --> 00:37:18,360
Speaker 7: like they were reasonable. Okay, three, and we'll be talking

738
00:37:18,400 --> 00:37:20,200
Speaker 7: about that tomorrow. We have a lot of stuff, and

739
00:37:20,200 --> 00:37:23,200
Speaker 7: I want to commend Elon because he's done a fantas.

740
00:37:23,239 --> 00:37:25,360
Speaker 7: He doesn't need this. You know, he's abused by you

741
00:37:25,440 --> 00:37:29,640
Speaker 7: people every day. He's found more things than anybody could find.

742
00:37:29,640 --> 00:37:31,600
Speaker 7: I think he's got the credibility to do it. I

743
00:37:31,640 --> 00:37:32,160
Speaker 7: know he does.

744
00:37:32,920 --> 00:37:36,239
Speaker 6: And it's his group of people. You know.

745
00:37:36,239 --> 00:37:40,160
Speaker 7: They started off with twelve I call him twelve geniuses.

746
00:37:40,200 --> 00:37:41,120
Speaker 6: They started off.

747
00:37:40,960 --> 00:37:43,200
Speaker 7: With twelve and they went to twenty and twenty five,

748
00:37:43,280 --> 00:37:46,120
Speaker 7: and now they're up to almost one hundred people adjoining

749
00:37:46,400 --> 00:37:50,240
Speaker 7: to help them because he's a massive fraud that's taken place.

750
00:37:50,560 --> 00:37:53,080
Speaker 7: And then you have judges that are activists, and they

751
00:37:53,120 --> 00:37:56,160
Speaker 7: sit there and they say, oh, as an example, fifty

752
00:37:56,280 --> 00:38:00,239
Speaker 7: nine million dollars going to a little small group group

753
00:38:00,280 --> 00:38:03,280
Speaker 7: in New York City. You get nothing going to North

754
00:38:03,280 --> 00:38:05,840
Speaker 7: Carolina to help the nothing. They say, we don't have

755
00:38:05,880 --> 00:38:08,440
Speaker 7: any money because they've given it away on the border,

756
00:38:09,320 --> 00:38:11,840
Speaker 7: but you have nothing. What they did to North Carolina

757
00:38:11,920 --> 00:38:14,240
Speaker 7: is a shame. And then they send fifty nine million

758
00:38:14,280 --> 00:38:16,640
Speaker 7: dollars to New York City for a hotel for a

759
00:38:18,200 --> 00:38:21,560
Speaker 7: little bit of nothing. What they've done a hotel that

760
00:38:21,840 --> 00:38:25,879
Speaker 7: was not luxury that's getting luxury rates for migrants where

761
00:38:25,920 --> 00:38:29,279
Speaker 7: they're making a fortune, and we catch them.

762
00:38:29,840 --> 00:38:30,600
Speaker 6: We catch them.

763
00:38:31,480 --> 00:38:34,440
Speaker 7: But a judge says, well, even though it may be

764
00:38:34,480 --> 00:38:36,680
Speaker 7: a fraud, you have to send the money in any way.

765
00:38:36,960 --> 00:38:37,520
Speaker 6: Send the money.

766
00:38:37,560 --> 00:38:40,960
Speaker 7: I said, wait a minute, we have money that shouldn't

767
00:38:41,000 --> 00:38:43,080
Speaker 7: go because we caught it before it was sent out.

768
00:38:43,480 --> 00:38:48,360
Speaker 7: But they want the money to go anyway. And I

769
00:38:48,360 --> 00:38:50,239
Speaker 7: think you're going to have a lot of things to

770
00:38:50,280 --> 00:38:52,600
Speaker 7: look at Pam, I really do what's going on with

771
00:38:52,680 --> 00:38:55,600
Speaker 7: this whole thing, and this is just one group. We

772
00:38:55,680 --> 00:38:58,800
Speaker 7: haven't talked about Department of Education, we haven't talked about

773
00:38:58,840 --> 00:39:01,960
Speaker 7: the military. We haven't talked about a lot of things

774
00:39:02,000 --> 00:39:05,120
Speaker 7: that are very big. And what's happened is, as an example,

775
00:39:05,160 --> 00:39:09,799
Speaker 7: you'll have cases where you have a three month contract

776
00:39:09,960 --> 00:39:13,000
Speaker 7: and maybe the guy that signs a contract leaves, maybe

777
00:39:13,000 --> 00:39:15,400
Speaker 7: he gets rich all of a sudden he leaves for

778
00:39:15,440 --> 00:39:17,920
Speaker 7: that reason. But you have a three month contract and

779
00:39:18,000 --> 00:39:21,640
Speaker 7: maybe he leaves. So the contract is sitting there and

780
00:39:21,680 --> 00:39:24,120
Speaker 7: the people signing the checks don't know it's three months,

781
00:39:24,200 --> 00:39:27,560
Speaker 7: and it goes on for years. The three months turns

782
00:39:27,600 --> 00:39:32,000
Speaker 7: out to be three years, five years, ten years, just

783
00:39:32,040 --> 00:39:35,080
Speaker 7: goes on forever, and the guy on the other side

784
00:39:35,080 --> 00:39:36,879
Speaker 7: of the contract just keeps getting.

785
00:39:36,719 --> 00:39:38,360
Speaker 6: Check after check after check.

786
00:39:39,120 --> 00:39:43,759
Speaker 7: Because Elon had an expression yesterday, because nobody cares. It's

787
00:39:43,760 --> 00:39:47,680
Speaker 7: a great expression. Nobody cares. The guy that signed the

788
00:39:47,680 --> 00:39:50,840
Speaker 7: contract didn't care. Maybe there may not be there, maybe crooked,

789
00:39:51,040 --> 00:39:55,040
Speaker 7: who knows, but you have to care otherwise you can't

790
00:39:55,080 --> 00:39:57,520
Speaker 7: really run a thing like that, or you can't run

791
00:39:57,520 --> 00:40:02,880
Speaker 7: a country really because there's many transactions, thousands and thousands

792
00:40:02,920 --> 00:40:05,719
Speaker 7: of transactions, and if you don't have people that care,

793
00:40:06,920 --> 00:40:10,000
Speaker 7: you're going to lose control. And that's what's happened. And

794
00:40:10,120 --> 00:40:10,759
Speaker 7: we've caught it.

795
00:40:11,520 --> 00:40:11,880
Speaker 6: Now.

796
00:40:12,440 --> 00:40:15,279
Speaker 7: What we caught is billions and billions of dollars, but

797
00:40:15,360 --> 00:40:19,000
Speaker 7: it's a tiny fraction of the real number because you

798
00:40:19,000 --> 00:40:21,360
Speaker 7: can never catch the real number because people have gotten

799
00:40:21,400 --> 00:40:25,799
Speaker 7: away with tremendous amounts of money. But I said, we

800
00:40:25,880 --> 00:40:29,600
Speaker 7: have to make our government smaller, more efficient, more effective,

801
00:40:29,640 --> 00:40:33,239
Speaker 7: and a lot less expensive. And we could find a

802
00:40:33,280 --> 00:40:37,480
Speaker 7: trillion dollars, but we're being hindered by courts where they

803
00:40:37,600 --> 00:40:40,279
Speaker 7: file in certain courts where it's very hard to win,

804
00:40:41,120 --> 00:40:43,480
Speaker 7: and a judge will stop us, and a judge will

805
00:40:43,520 --> 00:40:47,040
Speaker 7: say that it doesn't make any difference what you find.

806
00:40:47,200 --> 00:40:49,279
Speaker 7: You just keep paying the money. That's a hell of

807
00:40:49,280 --> 00:40:51,840
Speaker 7: a way to be And I follow the courts. I

808
00:40:51,880 --> 00:40:53,719
Speaker 7: have to follow the law. All it means is that

809
00:40:53,760 --> 00:40:58,040
Speaker 7: we appeal. But that gives people time to cover their tracks,

810
00:40:59,200 --> 00:41:01,479
Speaker 7: and that's what they do. So it's a very bad

811
00:41:01,560 --> 00:41:04,800
Speaker 7: it's a very bad thing that's taking place. But hopefully

812
00:41:04,840 --> 00:41:08,000
Speaker 7: if the courts, hopefully the courts will be fair. They

813
00:41:08,000 --> 00:41:09,680
Speaker 7: don't have to be very fair, they just have to

814
00:41:09,680 --> 00:41:12,600
Speaker 7: be a little bit fair because this is so egregious

815
00:41:12,640 --> 00:41:15,960
Speaker 7: what's taken place. Nobody's ever seen anything like it. Nobody's

816
00:41:15,960 --> 00:41:19,440
Speaker 7: seen numbers like this. These are massive numbers, nine million

817
00:41:19,480 --> 00:41:21,880
Speaker 7: dollars for somebody to go and stand in a store

818
00:41:22,080 --> 00:41:26,000
Speaker 7: and see how people shop. Okay, I mean, you take

819
00:41:26,000 --> 00:41:28,080
Speaker 7: a look at you take a look at these things.

820
00:41:28,680 --> 00:41:29,839
Speaker 6: It's a disgrace.

821
00:41:30,600 --> 00:41:32,759
Speaker 7: And then you have a country that we want to

822
00:41:33,280 --> 00:41:35,720
Speaker 7: make America great again, and very hard to make America

823
00:41:35,800 --> 00:41:38,080
Speaker 7: great again. When you have things like this and you're

824
00:41:38,080 --> 00:41:40,319
Speaker 7: going to see the same thing. Department of Education is

825
00:41:40,320 --> 00:41:43,239
Speaker 7: going to be a disaster. The military, I mean, I

826
00:41:43,280 --> 00:41:47,319
Speaker 7: see it. Look I bought I came in. They had

827
00:41:47,360 --> 00:41:49,880
Speaker 7: a contract done, as you know, for five point seven

828
00:41:50,000 --> 00:41:55,320
Speaker 7: billion for airplanes. It was air Force one with Boeing

829
00:41:56,239 --> 00:41:58,640
Speaker 7: five point seven. I got it down to four billion,

830
00:41:59,400 --> 00:42:02,760
Speaker 7: little less and that one penny less than that three billion,

831
00:42:02,840 --> 00:42:05,959
Speaker 7: nine nine nine nine nine nine and ninety nine cents,

832
00:42:05,960 --> 00:42:08,040
Speaker 7: State said. I said, has to have a three in

833
00:42:08,080 --> 00:42:10,600
Speaker 7: front of it, because I wouldn't sign the contract for

834
00:42:10,719 --> 00:42:13,719
Speaker 7: five point seven billion. I was able to cut one

835
00:42:13,760 --> 00:42:18,840
Speaker 7: point seven billion dollars off the price. And it didn't

836
00:42:18,840 --> 00:42:22,799
Speaker 7: take me long one point seven billion. If people would care,

837
00:42:22,880 --> 00:42:25,520
Speaker 7: they'd be able to do that with every single contract

838
00:42:25,520 --> 00:42:29,160
Speaker 7: that's put before them, and we wouldn't have deficits, would

839
00:42:29,160 --> 00:42:34,719
Speaker 7: have nothing but a tremendously low taxed, wonderful country.

840
00:42:35,160 --> 00:42:38,240
Speaker 6: But they have to care. And speaking of that.

841
00:42:38,160 --> 00:42:41,480
Speaker 7: You know, Boeing, we're not happy with the service we're

842
00:42:41,480 --> 00:42:45,520
Speaker 7: getting in terms of those planes. They would like to

843
00:42:45,560 --> 00:42:49,480
Speaker 7: get more money. We're not happy about that whole thing.

844
00:42:49,560 --> 00:42:52,120
Speaker 7: We signed a very strong contract. I signed a guaranteed

845
00:42:52,400 --> 00:42:55,080
Speaker 7: maximum contract, which I haven't seen in a long time.

846
00:42:56,040 --> 00:42:59,480
Speaker 7: And they're saying they're getting hurt by it. But they

847
00:42:59,520 --> 00:43:02,080
Speaker 7: have to use the product, and we expect them to

848
00:43:02,120 --> 00:43:05,160
Speaker 7: produce the product. They have to produce the product. They

849
00:43:05,200 --> 00:43:07,480
Speaker 7: agreed to build planes at a certain price. They're not

850
00:43:07,560 --> 00:43:11,719
Speaker 7: used to that. They used to having time and material

851
00:43:12,080 --> 00:43:15,680
Speaker 7: contracts where whatever it costs time and material, no dates,

852
00:43:15,760 --> 00:43:18,560
Speaker 7: no anything, it ends up costing five times more.

853
00:43:18,880 --> 00:43:20,840
Speaker 6: You look at some of the ships that have been built.

854
00:43:20,840 --> 00:43:23,799
Speaker 7: Look at take a look at the Gerald Ford. The

855
00:43:24,840 --> 00:43:28,239
Speaker 7: aircraft carry of the Ford. It was supposed to cost

856
00:43:28,280 --> 00:43:32,279
Speaker 7: three billion, it ends up costing like eighteen billion. And

857
00:43:32,320 --> 00:43:36,160
Speaker 7: they make of course all electric catapults which don't work,

858
00:43:36,640 --> 00:43:40,320
Speaker 7: and they have all magnetic elevators. They lift up twenty

859
00:43:40,360 --> 00:43:43,000
Speaker 7: five planes at a time, twenty planes at a time,

860
00:43:43,760 --> 00:43:47,239
Speaker 7: and instead of using hydraulic like on tractors that can

861
00:43:47,880 --> 00:43:54,080
Speaker 7: handle anything from hurricanes to lightning to anything, they use magnets.

862
00:43:54,200 --> 00:43:55,280
Speaker 6: It's a new theory.

863
00:43:55,440 --> 00:43:58,640
Speaker 7: Magnets. They're canna lift the planes up and it doesn't work.

864
00:43:59,400 --> 00:44:02,840
Speaker 7: And they had billions and billions of dollars of cost

865
00:44:02,880 --> 00:44:05,520
Speaker 7: over runs. I met the architect, I said, have you

866
00:44:05,600 --> 00:44:07,600
Speaker 7: designed a ship before. This is one of the biggest

867
00:44:07,600 --> 00:44:10,880
Speaker 7: ships in the world. It's like landing at LaGuardia Airport.

868
00:44:11,560 --> 00:44:15,120
Speaker 7: But you look at the kind of waste, fraud and

869
00:44:15,200 --> 00:44:17,799
Speaker 7: abuse that this country's going through, and we have to

870
00:44:17,800 --> 00:44:20,400
Speaker 7: straighten it out. We have great people going into the

871
00:44:20,400 --> 00:44:23,319
Speaker 7: military in terms of new we need ships, we need

872
00:44:23,320 --> 00:44:25,080
Speaker 7: a lot of things. We have great people go we

873
00:44:25,080 --> 00:44:27,920
Speaker 7: have business people going in. But when you look at

874
00:44:27,960 --> 00:44:32,520
Speaker 7: what's happened to are purchasing, the purchasing, and when you

875
00:44:32,560 --> 00:44:36,440
Speaker 7: look at the US AID, when you look at the

876
00:44:36,760 --> 00:44:40,239
Speaker 7: things that they're giving to them, the billions, the billions

877
00:44:40,239 --> 00:44:44,719
Speaker 7: of dollars that they're giving to and it doesn't make sense.

878
00:44:44,960 --> 00:44:48,960
Speaker 7: It is interesting that when you're looking for fraud, you

879
00:44:49,040 --> 00:44:52,640
Speaker 7: look at items, hundreds of items, and you'll find one

880
00:44:52,760 --> 00:44:56,280
Speaker 7: or two maybe if you're lucky. Here's something where you

881
00:44:56,320 --> 00:44:59,480
Speaker 7: look at data and they're all fraudulent. You know, by

882
00:44:59,640 --> 00:45:02,960
Speaker 7: just looking at the topic, they're all fraudulent, except it's

883
00:45:03,000 --> 00:45:06,200
Speaker 7: the opposite. You'll find one or two that's like a

884
00:45:06,280 --> 00:45:10,600
Speaker 7: legitimate reason. So I just want to thank Elon for

885
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Speaker 7: going through it. I want to thank all the people

886
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Speaker 7: that are working with them. You know, we have a

887
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Speaker 7: big group of people. All. I think the lowest IQ

888
00:45:16,760 --> 00:45:18,000
Speaker 7: is about one hundred and sixty.

889
00:45:18,120 --> 00:45:19,640
Speaker 6: That's very high.

890
00:45:19,760 --> 00:45:21,120
Speaker 7: I think you have a couple of you have a

891
00:45:21,160 --> 00:45:24,680
Speaker 7: couple of one eighty two's in there. But they're doing

892
00:45:24,680 --> 00:45:27,120
Speaker 7: a fantastic job. They don't he doesn't need it and

893
00:45:27,160 --> 00:45:30,439
Speaker 7: they don't need it. But we're showing things and it's

894
00:45:30,480 --> 00:45:33,359
Speaker 7: going to be a it's a big People have no

895
00:45:33,440 --> 00:45:38,920
Speaker 7: idea how important it is. Yeah, education to be closed. Oh,

896
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Speaker 7: I'd like it to be closed immediately. Look, the Department

897
00:45:41,480 --> 00:45:44,960
Speaker 7: of Education is a big conjob. We're ranked so they

898
00:45:45,080 --> 00:45:47,840
Speaker 7: ranked the top forty countries in the world. We're ranked

899
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Speaker 7: number fortieth, but we're ranked number one in one Department

900
00:45:51,880 --> 00:45:55,239
Speaker 7: costs per pupil, so we spend more for pupil than

901
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Speaker 7: any other country in the world. But we're ranked number forty.

902
00:45:58,719 --> 00:46:01,319
Speaker 7: We've been between thirty eight and forty. The last time

903
00:46:01,360 --> 00:46:03,040
Speaker 7: I looked at was thirty eight, and then I looked

904
00:46:03,080 --> 00:46:05,279
Speaker 7: two days ago it came out the new list. It

905
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Speaker 7: came out at number forty. So we're ranked forty. Norway, Denmark, Sweden.

906
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Speaker 7: I hate to say at China, as big as it is,

907
00:46:14,239 --> 00:46:17,719
Speaker 7: it's ranked in the top five, and that's our that's

908
00:46:17,760 --> 00:46:18,960
Speaker 7: a primary competitor.

909
00:46:19,400 --> 00:46:20,600
Speaker 6: We're ranked number forty.

910
00:46:21,080 --> 00:46:24,120
Speaker 7: So if we're ranked number forty, that means something's really wrong, right,

911
00:46:24,160 --> 00:46:26,680
Speaker 7: And I say send it back to Iowa, to Ioho,

912
00:46:26,880 --> 00:46:32,600
Speaker 7: to Colorado, send it back to places that and a

913
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Speaker 7: lot of Indiana. You have a great new governor, you

914
00:46:35,640 --> 00:46:39,680
Speaker 7: have a great Senator that Jim Banks just got elected.

915
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Speaker 7: You got great people. I'll tell you what, Indiana is

916
00:46:42,480 --> 00:46:47,440
Speaker 7: going to be fantastic. We probably have thirty five, maybe

917
00:46:47,480 --> 00:46:54,880
Speaker 7: thirty seven states that will do as well as Denmark, Norway, Finland, Sweden.

918
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Speaker 6: They'll be just as good.

919
00:46:56,520 --> 00:46:59,239
Speaker 7: Then you have. Then you have the ones that we

920
00:46:59,280 --> 00:47:01,319
Speaker 7: all know about. It will be the same story but

921
00:47:01,400 --> 00:47:03,799
Speaker 7: you know what, even they will be good because you

922
00:47:03,840 --> 00:47:06,040
Speaker 7: look at New York. You give it to west Chester County,

923
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Speaker 7: you give it to Long Island, you give it to

924
00:47:07,719 --> 00:47:10,399
Speaker 7: Nassau County, you give it to Suffolk County. Same thing.

925
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Speaker 7: You go out to and you give it to upstate

926
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Speaker 7: New York. So you have four or five sections. You

927
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Speaker 7: give it to Manhattan. Manhattan's a little bit tougher for

928
00:47:18,400 --> 00:47:20,240
Speaker 7: some reason. I don't know why it would be tougher,

929
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Speaker 7: but it is. You give to California, and you go

930
00:47:23,000 --> 00:47:28,080
Speaker 7: to various areas outside of Los Angeles, and you might

931
00:47:28,120 --> 00:47:31,920
Speaker 7: have six or seven different subgroups. But generally, if you

932
00:47:31,960 --> 00:47:33,919
Speaker 7: go to Iowa, you give it to Iowa. You don't

933
00:47:33,960 --> 00:47:38,400
Speaker 7: have subgroups. You have Iowa and other places that do

934
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Speaker 7: a good job. If they do a good job, they're

935
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Speaker 7: going to do a great job.

936
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Speaker 6: In education.

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Speaker 7: Those places will be every good, every bit as good

938
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Speaker 7: as the various countries that do so well. All the time.

939
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Speaker 6: It's the same countries that are doing well.

940
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Speaker 7: And so we have a Department of Education where people

941
00:47:55,640 --> 00:48:00,000
Speaker 7: from Washington, d c. Who many in many cases don't

942
00:48:00,080 --> 00:48:03,520
Speaker 7: care about the kids out in the country. They don't

943
00:48:03,560 --> 00:48:06,680
Speaker 7: care about the farms and the farmer's daughter and the

944
00:48:06,719 --> 00:48:11,439
Speaker 7: father's farmers' sons. We have a massive bureaucracy in Washington, DC.

945
00:48:11,560 --> 00:48:14,040
Speaker 7: We have buildings that are all over the city. Department

946
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Speaker 7: of Education, I'd never say Department of Educations. On all

947
00:48:17,719 --> 00:48:20,200
Speaker 7: these buildings, by the way, nobody shows up to work

948
00:48:20,239 --> 00:48:22,800
Speaker 7: because they're all working at home. You know, quote working

949
00:48:22,960 --> 00:48:25,880
Speaker 7: at home. They're not working at home. And a lot

950
00:48:25,960 --> 00:48:28,000
Speaker 7: of them have second jobs. And that's the other thing

951
00:48:28,040 --> 00:48:30,600
Speaker 7: that Elon Musk is looking at. How many of these

952
00:48:30,600 --> 00:48:33,840
Speaker 7: people are getting checks working at home, but they're not

953
00:48:33,920 --> 00:48:36,640
Speaker 7: working because they have second jobs and even third jobs.

954
00:48:36,920 --> 00:48:38,719
Speaker 7: You're going to find a lot of them, and those

955
00:48:38,760 --> 00:48:40,480
Speaker 7: people are going to be fired because we have to

956
00:48:40,480 --> 00:48:44,920
Speaker 7: make our government smaller. All right, One more question, Jennifer,

957
00:48:45,800 --> 00:48:46,600
Speaker 7: nice to see you.

958
00:48:46,480 --> 00:48:49,720
Speaker 13: Oh thank you sir. Two questions, one on Ukraine again

959
00:48:50,000 --> 00:48:52,319
Speaker 13: and then another one on the Kennedy Center. Do you

960
00:48:52,360 --> 00:48:56,359
Speaker 13: think that, by as far as your negotiating tactics go,

961
00:48:56,520 --> 00:48:59,400
Speaker 13: did Pete he sat take away some of your negotiating

962
00:49:00,760 --> 00:49:04,880
Speaker 13: abilities with Putin by taking Ukraine's sovereign integrity off the

963
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Speaker 13: table by taking me.

964
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Speaker 7: No, I haven't done that. I'm back in Ukraine. I'm

965
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Speaker 7: back in Ukraine. Don't say that I'm approving, but I

966
00:49:12,680 --> 00:49:16,000
Speaker 7: do want security for our money. You know, Europe is

967
00:49:16,040 --> 00:49:18,600
Speaker 7: getting security, you know that, right They're giving their money

968
00:49:18,600 --> 00:49:21,920
Speaker 7: in the form of a loan. Nobody knows that. And

969
00:49:22,000 --> 00:49:25,520
Speaker 7: why are we at three hundred and fifty billion and Europe,

970
00:49:25,680 --> 00:49:28,560
Speaker 7: which doesn't separate with an ocean like we do, we

971
00:49:28,640 --> 00:49:31,200
Speaker 7: have a little thing called a nocean in between. Why

972
00:49:31,280 --> 00:49:35,040
Speaker 7: is it that Europe is paying two hundred billion less

973
00:49:35,080 --> 00:49:38,239
Speaker 7: than us to help Ukraine very similar size if you

974
00:49:38,239 --> 00:49:40,560
Speaker 7: add up all the European countries, it's a little bit

975
00:49:40,600 --> 00:49:44,160
Speaker 7: smaller than the US in terms of the economy. Why

976
00:49:44,239 --> 00:49:47,160
Speaker 7: is it that they're not paying the kind of numbers

977
00:49:47,160 --> 00:49:49,919
Speaker 7: that they should be paying. And then on top of it,

978
00:49:50,239 --> 00:49:52,720
Speaker 7: and I've been saying this to Biden. I told Biden,

979
00:49:52,760 --> 00:49:54,920
Speaker 7: I said, you ought to be asking for either a

980
00:49:54,960 --> 00:49:57,719
Speaker 7: loan or some kind of a security like they're oil

981
00:49:57,800 --> 00:50:00,840
Speaker 7: and gas or something for the money, because you're putting

982
00:50:00,880 --> 00:50:04,719
Speaker 7: up much more money than Europe and you have no security.

983
00:50:04,760 --> 00:50:07,360
Speaker 7: Europe splitting up a much smaller amount, and it's in

984
00:50:07,400 --> 00:50:10,960
Speaker 7: the form of a loan. Because we have people that

985
00:50:11,040 --> 00:50:16,919
Speaker 7: were incompetent in the last administration, grossly incompetent, and we're

986
00:50:17,000 --> 00:50:17,600
Speaker 7: changing it.

987
00:50:18,120 --> 00:50:18,960
Speaker 6: But we change it.

988
00:50:19,000 --> 00:50:20,520
Speaker 7: And we all we do is we get hit by

989
00:50:20,600 --> 00:50:22,760
Speaker 7: lawsuits from the radical left all the time.

990
00:50:23,600 --> 00:50:26,160
Speaker 6: But here we are, we stand, and I guess we've done.

991
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Speaker 7: Okay, thank you very much, everybody, Thank you. All right.

992
00:50:35,960 --> 00:50:38,719
Speaker 2: We were just listening into President Trump at the White House.

993
00:50:38,719 --> 00:50:40,440
Speaker 2: He was signing some executive orders.

994
00:50:40,480 --> 00:50:40,640
Speaker 11: Bo.

995
00:50:40,760 --> 00:50:41,440
Speaker 3: This feels like a.

996
00:50:41,400 --> 00:50:44,680
Speaker 2: Twenty four to seven press conference with this presidency answering

997
00:50:44,719 --> 00:50:47,200
Speaker 2: a whole bunch of different questions from reporters on a

998
00:50:47,200 --> 00:50:50,040
Speaker 2: wide variety of topics. But one of the main focuses

999
00:50:50,080 --> 00:50:53,399
Speaker 2: of what he was talking about was Doge. The subcommittee,

1000
00:50:53,560 --> 00:50:56,440
Speaker 2: the House Oversight Subcommittee on Doge, had their first hearing

1001
00:50:56,560 --> 00:51:01,560
Speaker 2: today that is chaired by Chairwoman Congress and Marjorie Taylor Green.

1002
00:51:01,880 --> 00:51:04,520
Speaker 2: She is calling this a war on waste, a war

1003
00:51:04,600 --> 00:51:08,239
Speaker 2: on government spending, wasteful government spending. You know, Bo, it

1004
00:51:08,280 --> 00:51:10,799
Speaker 2: was interesting to hear him listen or to listen to

1005
00:51:10,880 --> 00:51:13,280
Speaker 2: him speak about elon today.

1006
00:51:13,440 --> 00:51:15,279
Speaker 1: It was And you know, as I mentioned earlier in

1007
00:51:15,320 --> 00:51:18,239
Speaker 1: the show, Emily, when I encountered this protest that I

1008
00:51:18,239 --> 00:51:20,080
Speaker 1: didn't expect to see in wes Palm this morning, I

1009
00:51:20,120 --> 00:51:22,959
Speaker 1: saw fifty or so demonstrators out there, you know, saying

1010
00:51:22,960 --> 00:51:25,400
Speaker 1: where is Rick Scott? And we didn't elect Elon Musk.

1011
00:51:25,400 --> 00:51:28,200
Speaker 1: And you think about what Elon said yesterday about if

1012
00:51:28,200 --> 00:51:30,960
Speaker 1: the bureaucracy is running this country, then what does what

1013
00:51:31,080 --> 00:51:34,560
Speaker 1: is the meaning of democracy? Bureaucracy should not take place

1014
00:51:34,680 --> 00:51:38,560
Speaker 1: for democracy, and we look about think about waste fraud abuse.

1015
00:51:38,719 --> 00:51:40,880
Speaker 1: These are things that have been happening in our government,

1016
00:51:40,920 --> 00:51:43,399
Speaker 1: in our bloated government for a long long time now.

1017
00:51:43,520 --> 00:51:45,480
Speaker 1: So for them to just attack Elon Musk, the guy

1018
00:51:45,520 --> 00:51:47,480
Speaker 1: that's trying to go through and get our financial books

1019
00:51:47,520 --> 00:51:49,759
Speaker 1: in order, is the wrong approach, I think. So I

1020
00:51:49,760 --> 00:51:52,000
Speaker 1: think it's right for President Trump to appoint someone who

1021
00:51:52,080 --> 00:51:55,200
Speaker 1: understands business, who's turned three failing companies around and make

1022
00:51:55,239 --> 00:51:57,360
Speaker 1: them profitable. And I think it's an incredible thing what

1023
00:51:57,400 --> 00:51:59,920
Speaker 1: he's doing. So I like what Elon's doing. I think

1024
00:52:00,040 --> 00:52:01,840
Speaker 1: where people need to give him time to actually go

1025
00:52:01,920 --> 00:52:03,920
Speaker 1: through what we're doing, whether it's Department of Education, and

1026
00:52:03,920 --> 00:52:06,439
Speaker 1: think about what Emily, what he said about fifty nine

1027
00:52:06,480 --> 00:52:10,280
Speaker 1: million dollars going to a hotel that was housing migrants

1028
00:52:10,320 --> 00:52:12,080
Speaker 1: and zero dollars to North Carolina.

1029
00:52:12,120 --> 00:52:13,000
Speaker 3: That's unconscionable.

1030
00:52:13,120 --> 00:52:15,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's absolutely ridiculous. Well, like you said, Bo, we

1031
00:52:15,920 --> 00:52:18,000
Speaker 2: are kind of running out of time to be doing

1032
00:52:18,080 --> 00:52:20,560
Speaker 2: a full audit of our government, of our federal government,

1033
00:52:20,600 --> 00:52:22,360
Speaker 2: of all of the agencies where all of this money

1034
00:52:22,400 --> 00:52:24,600
Speaker 2: is going. When you take into consideration that we are

1035
00:52:24,600 --> 00:52:27,880
Speaker 2: thirty six trillion dollars in debt and even just trying

1036
00:52:27,880 --> 00:52:30,359
Speaker 2: to pay the interest on that debt is becoming more

1037
00:52:30,400 --> 00:52:33,600
Speaker 2: and more challenging. This is it's overdue, and we need

1038
00:52:33,640 --> 00:52:36,080
Speaker 2: to be taking a very close look at our budget

1039
00:52:36,160 --> 00:52:38,160
Speaker 2: at where all of our money is going and how

1040
00:52:38,200 --> 00:52:40,000
Speaker 2: we're going to move forward as a country. So thank

1041
00:52:40,000 --> 00:52:41,960
Speaker 2: god for Elon Musk and thank god for what he's

1042
00:52:41,960 --> 00:52:44,160
Speaker 2: doing to really get this under control.

1043
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1045
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Speaker 1: not recession, depression by the year twenty thirty.

1046
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1049
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1050
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