Hour 3: Helicopters over NYC

Helicopters over NYC.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, it is sentencing day for former Congressman George Santos.
That's what leads off the Big Three today, and he
is more than a little concerned that he might go
to prison for stealing campaign funds.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
Ferably in protective custody, because I do fear for my safety.

Speaker 3 (00:19):
I'm not somebody who is.

Speaker 4 (00:23):
I didn't grow up in an environment where I had
to fend for myself.

Speaker 1 (00:26):
The maximum that the former congressman is facing is over
seven years in prison. Nineteen year old now is under
arrest an Ocean County, New Jersey. Police believe that he
intentionally started one of the largest wildfires in New Jersey history.

Speaker 5 (00:44):
I'm not prepared to discuss the motive at this time,
nor does the state have to prove what the motive is.
We can just confidently say that we think the fire
was said intentionally.

Speaker 1 (00:55):
The nineteen year old in custody is named Joseph Kling
of Where Town, Jersey is He's charged with second degree
aggravated arson and in response to a fatal helicopter crash
that killed six, New York City Council has banned noisy,
old helicopters from flying out of New York City.

Speaker 4 (01:16):
The most outdated, loudest and dirtiest helicopters will no longer
be allowed to fly out of our downtown Manhattan Heliport
or East thirty fourth Street Heliport starting in twenty twenty nine.

Speaker 1 (01:28):
Congresswoman Nicole Maliatakas says the problem isn't always just in
Manhattan and helicopters flying out of the ports along the river.
She says, one of the problems in New Jersey. That's
where most of the helicopters flying over Staten Island come from.
We have the Congresswoman coming up to talk about that.
At eight thirty five, Cardinal Dowin is in Rome for

(01:51):
the Pope's funeral and then the conclave to choose the
new pope. Once you get into the conclave, you better
kind of no.

Speaker 6 (02:01):
So to that point, do you have an idea on
a direction you're leaning at this point?

Speaker 1 (02:05):
None of your business. Your pardon me for being blot.
I just love that answer. He just it was a hearty,
hardy laugh that he had. And Donald Trump says, once again,
we may be close to a peace deal between Russia
and Ukraine.

Speaker 7 (02:23):
We want to end that war. We want to end
it quickly. And I think We've made along a lot
of progress and we'll see what happens. This next few
days is going to be very important. Meetings are taking
place right now.

Speaker 1 (02:35):
Yeah, I know that's one of the things they'll be
talking about on this week on ABC. And Rick Klein
is the ABC News Washington bureau chief and he joins
us every week to tell us about what's going to
be on this week and talk about some of the
issues of the day. And Rick, I was thinking about
you because I would imagine that there were some times

(02:56):
in the past that you were looking at the news
of the week and every once in a while it
might be difficult to find everything you need for this week.
That's not difficult anymore.

Speaker 6 (03:08):
Yeah, the problem is we have too many choices. Yeah,
I mean, like a younger me that had that luxury
of having to look around. But look, it is you
think about this. We're approaching the first hundred days and
it's just been circuit overload in so many ways. And
I think that's Donald Trump. That's a feature, not a bug.
At this point, look clear that his strategy is to
overwhelm the circuits and throw as much out there and
in there and get as much done as quickly as

(03:29):
possible and break some china along the way. So yeah,
piecing it together and telling people what it means get
gets harder every week.

Speaker 1 (03:35):
It does seem. I am glad you brought up that
strategy because it does seem a little bit a manipulative
when the media seems to be going after one story
and then he throws another story out there that they
chase and leave the story that he might have been
in trouble on.

Speaker 6 (03:53):
Yeah, and I think the I think the key for
us is to keep in mind that it is a strategy,
but also doesn't mean that the other thing might not
be news also, right, you know, just because we know
it's a distraction doesn't mean that we have to or
should ignore it. And you know it's part of our
responsibility at this moment to meet it, is to to
try to unpack that and try to explain, you know,
what's the what's the what's what matters and what doesn't

(04:15):
and and be cognizan under the strategy, but not you know,
not fall forward, but also not to not overcorrect around it.

Speaker 1 (04:21):
So be honest. Was there ever a time when something
happened that you cover and you said, oh man, he
got us, we shouldn't have followed that story.

Speaker 6 (04:29):
Well not that simple, but there's certainly times where we
spend a lot of resources covering something that ended up
not being as big as advertised. I mean, I think
some of the releases of the JFK and RFK documents,
well you know, flashy headlines like we just still don't
know any more about who killed them? Right, So it's
you know, but that doesn't mean it's not newsy at
the time. And you know, I will give this administration

(04:50):
a lot of credit for, Uh it's transparency, the access
to the president itself, Like I'm out of questions, he
answers on a range of topics. Uh, you know, even
the things like the classifying documents that they're doing, you know,
those are those are things that you know, we as
journalists ask for and look for. And uh, you know,
even if the answers aren't always there, and even if
the answers aren't always accurate, we've certainly gotten a lot

(05:11):
of information out.

Speaker 1 (05:12):
Yeah, that's a great point, Rick, And and I'm trying
to think back, he is more transparent this time that
he was in his first go round. Is this the
most transparent administration you've ever covered.

Speaker 6 (05:25):
Well, Look, in terms of just pure understanding what the
president is thinking day to day, by far, Yeah, because
he's he's he's answering questions in the Oval Office almost
every day. Uh, and they're blasting out communications. Now again,
it doesn't mean it's the most you know, the most
accurate information necessarily, but in terms of just information flow
and and answering questions, I don't think there's even a

(05:47):
close recent comparison.

Speaker 1 (05:48):
Yeah, let's talk about the things he throws out there,
because everybody who has been hoping and waiting for this
piece steal between Ukraine and Russia, or even a cease fire,
and we keep being told we're close, we're close, we're close,
we're close, and then it never turns out that we're close.
He's saying, again, this is a big weekend for that.

(06:09):
How are you going to be covering this?

Speaker 6 (06:12):
Well? I think I think, Look, it's not done until
it's done. And we've seen some shifting rhetoric that will suggest
maybe they're closer, but you don't know for sure. It's interesting,
you know, the President and Zelensky are going to both
be uh in Rome for the post funeral this week.
I'm curious that they have any conversations on the sidelines there.
But you know that this war has gone on too
long for everyone's liking. And it's still not clear though

(06:34):
what the president is asking of Putin. And I think
that's going to end up being a key question now
is what are the Russians really giving up here?

Speaker 1 (06:41):
Well? He answered that question, didn't he just the other
day when they said, yeah, that's right. He says they're
going to stop the war and you get to keep
your country. That doesn't seem to be swaying Zelensky.

Speaker 6 (06:55):
Not a fair deal if you really think about it.
I mean, that was you know that they were not
the back they were not the aggressors.

Speaker 1 (07:02):
No, they weren't. But what he is saying is that,
and it's without saying it. He seems he seems to
be saying that at a certain time, we're pulling out
and Ukraine mercies to exist, and that's uh, that's daunting.
Would you agree with that? That's what he's getting at.

Speaker 6 (07:17):
Well, that's that's certainly the implicit threat, as you say,
on the other end of it, is you know, do
you do you just let them to their own devices,
let them let them fight it out. And and we
kind of know who's got the more powering military in
that sense. And I don't think that's the situation that
many Americans want. Certainly not not a good one for
the Ukrainians.

Speaker 1 (07:35):
I was taken by an applaud the notes we got
on the show coming up and and what you wanted
to talk about today. The congestion pricing is in there
from what you were you were hearing about congestion pricing,
and and a court battle that's ahead, and I know, uh,
some stuff leaked out that wasn't supposed to leak out.

(07:57):
Where do you see this battle going.

Speaker 6 (07:59):
Well, the fact that it came out at all, I
mean the Department of Justice is in the Apartment of Transportation,
is suggesting this may have been an intentional thing, an
attempt to subvert I don't know if these were commuters
in New York that or what the motivation would have been.
But it's an extraordinary concession, and I don't know the
legalities of it to say, can you just can you
take this out of the bloodstream once it's out there,

(08:20):
But to have your own lawyers saying, look, we're not
sure this one's going to fly. You know, the judge might.

Speaker 8 (08:25):
Take note of that.

Speaker 6 (08:25):
I have to think.

Speaker 1 (08:26):
So you're thinking that the Justice Department, when they say
this was a mistake, leak this out or sent this
out on purpose because they thought it was a losing
battle and they'd like to cut their losses.

Speaker 6 (08:38):
Now, No, not the Justice Department, but maybe lawyers inside,
you know, the Department of Transportation that that thought that
that's the theory that Department of Transportation seems to have
right now. But we'll see. And I'm not sure if
the judge is just going to pretend like that never
happened or not. But you know, identifying the flaws in
your own legal argument, it's hardly a good way to
win well.

Speaker 1 (08:57):
With all the things in front of you, with all
these flavors in front of you, and what you can
talk about on this week? What are you covering.

Speaker 6 (09:06):
We're gonna have an interview splicit with the Secretary of
the of the Treasury south s and I'm talking to
Martha Rattis about tariffs and more kind of the center
of all this action. And we'll have a new pull
out just taking stock of the first hundred days and
where things stand. So hopefully brief for a half a
second before we're back in it.

Speaker 1 (09:23):
Well, thanks so much, Rick Kline, ABC News Washington Bureau Chief.
We'll all be watching this week and thanks a lot. Rick.
Oh he's going.

Speaker 4 (09:34):
Here, he goes.

Speaker 2 (09:35):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (09:36):
You know what, I really like Rick Klin. I like
Rick Kline because he's fair. And I don't think that
there's many people in the media that are fair these days.
But he's fair, and even when he criticizes, I think
he's fair in his criticism. What I'm taking by, though,
is that there is this criticism, and you heard it

(09:56):
in a couple of reports. There is this criticism of
Trump for tru trying to find peace, to try and
to end this war, and there was no criticism of
Joe Biden, no criticism of Joe Biden, and he just
kept funding this war and funding this war. And I
believe he allowed it to happen because Trump Russia was

(10:18):
putting troops at that border for a long time and
we just ignored it. Well, yesterday on MENTI in the morning,
we told you the ice bucket challenges back. What we
didn't tell you is that there are new rules. Will
go through them just in case you want to dounce
your friends. Plus tickets to see the Brotherhood of Rock
Tour coming up next. Well, thanks a lot for your

(10:39):
talkbacks today. As I say all the time, and you
can tell when you hear them and we get the
respond to them that the talkbacks really do help the show.
When you're a part of it, it always helps. You
can go to the seven to ten wor area on
the iHeartRadio app and you find the talkback and then
you're on the air.

Speaker 6 (11:00):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (11:00):
Earlier we were talking about a story out of Florida,
an incredible story about a guy that knocked over knocked
off a liquor store and then he's driving down the street.
He sees the police and he stole a lot of
alcohol and he had this kettle one spritzer and he
held it out the window. I don't know if he
was saluting the police or toasting to them, but he

(11:23):
just drove by them, speeding through a neighborhood while drinking.
They got him, they put him on the ground, uh,
and then he asked them if he had they had fun,
and he offered them a drink. So he's in jail
and probably will be in jail in a long time.
But that got us into a conversation about spritz's, which

(11:44):
I never really have been interested in, never really had,
And it was Natalie who talked about how much he
loves them, and something called an Apparol spritzer. Apparol's big.
Now Apparol sprits is big.

Speaker 4 (11:58):
Yeah, it's been for about five.

Speaker 1 (11:59):
Years or so. I missed that completely.

Speaker 4 (12:04):
I first had it when I was in Italy, Okay,
and I know we had a talk back with the
same thing. It's a really good drink.

Speaker 1 (12:11):
Well, I just wanted to set up the talk back
so it didn't seem like it was coming out of nowhere.

Speaker 8 (12:14):
Twen in Naples, I found out that when it comes
to spritzers, everybody was drinking apparel sprintzes. Tried it, never
thought I'd like it, but tried it. And Aperol sprits
is the best and you can get it here. It's
a great summer time drink.

Speaker 1 (12:34):
Wow. Yeah, I make them all the time. It's really
it's super simple.

Speaker 4 (12:38):
Aperol is an orange liqueur and all you have to
do is have prosecco.

Speaker 1 (12:44):
You know, there's so sparkling wine.

Speaker 4 (12:47):
Prosecco, Aperol and a little splash of club soda. There
was also another drink that I started having about two
years ago which became popular called the Hugo Sprits, which
is made with Saint Germain, which is an l the
flower liqueur, same thing, you know, prosecco, splash of selter
or club soda, some mint in there. Oh so refreshing.

Speaker 1 (13:11):
It does sound good. It sounds like a lot to make.
No can I just can I? Well, hold on, can
I just buy a can of it?

Speaker 4 (13:18):
I know Apparol does. The brand actually does have a
can or a bottle you so you can. So that's
much easier, but not as good. Really, yes, yeah, I'm
telling you super easy. It's really two or three ingredients
and you don't have to do anything.

Speaker 3 (13:31):
It's almost equal parts, more than two steps. And guys
feel like you're asking to cook a seven course meal.

Speaker 1 (13:36):
There you go, but you're just pouring. But this guy,
do you think this guy that called in called back,
do you make your own Apparol spritzes. My guess is
he doesn't make his own Apparol sprintzes. My guess is
he loves what comes out of the can. So if
I'm going to try an Appaol sprints, I can promise
you we're not making one. It's gonna come out of
the can.

Speaker 4 (13:56):
It is the ultimate summer drink. I am telling you
we have Memorial Day coming up. I will bring in
the ingredients. I will show you how easy it's to
make well, even like put it up on Instagram.

Speaker 9 (14:06):
I'll show you.

Speaker 4 (14:07):
It's like I'll be bartender, Natalie.

Speaker 1 (14:09):
Why don't we forget all that and you just bring
me one? Can you just bring it in? Well, I
have to make it here. I'm not going to make it.
You're going to make it here of course. Oh okay,
I didn't. I didn't get that part. Okay, that's a
great idea. Then I love that area. That's a wonderful idea.
As I said, I was going to get to the
rules of the new ice Bucket Challenge. We talked about

(14:29):
this yesterday and we played the fact that they were
doing the ice bucket Challenge back and forth to each
other on the Today Show. And they were some confident
people because you know, they have to now go through
the rest of the show soaking wet. Their hair's not perfect,
their makeup's not perfect, so good for them. That's not
like most people on TV. I can promise you that

(14:51):
most people on TV would not have an ICE bucket
challenge right there on the set, but they went ahead
and did it, so kudos to the Today Show. But
there are rules to this. You've got to nominate two
to five people to join by tagging them in your videos.
You make a donation through Active Minds that's the new charity,

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this is a lot, tag usc mind, and then educate
yourself and others by following at us mind, active mind
and visitactiveminds dot org. It is I will say this,

(15:34):
it is a wonderful charity. So if you're going to
do it, try to follow those rules. Jacqueline Carl with
the eight thirty News Jackline.

Speaker 3 (15:42):
Good Morning. The Trump administration is being blocked for now
from withholding federal funds from schools that have DEI programs.
Three federal judges issued separate rulings on Thursday after teachers' unions,
the NAACP, and others broadcases against the administration for threatening
to withhold funds from schools WITHEI efforts, and a judgmental

(16:02):
here in case today on whether ICE can operate at
New York City's Rikers Island Jail Complex.

Speaker 9 (16:07):
The ICE presence at Rikers, signed off on by Mayor
Eric Adams' administration, is intended to allow Correction Department officials
to work with ICE on criminal investigations and drug trafficking. However,
the City Council sued Mayor Adams, claiming the move is unlawful.
The council says it would allow ICE to carry out
President Trump's extremist mass deportation agenda. Mayor Adams says the

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move will help keep dangerous people off the streets. I'm Scottpringle, wr.

Speaker 3 (16:33):
News all Right Day thirty on Friday Time for real
or fake news headlines Are you ready, Larry, Let's go?
AI helped write California's bar exam and people are mad?

Speaker 1 (16:47):
False It's true.

Speaker 3 (16:48):
According to ars Technica, the State Bar of California has
revealed that artificial intelligence was used to develop twenty three
of the one hundred and seventy one scored multiple choice
questions on the February bar exam, and these questions were
created by ACS Ventures, a psychometric firm without legal training.
Second headline, New York City now has scratch and sniff

(17:11):
ads that let you smell armpits.

Speaker 1 (17:14):
True, it is.

Speaker 3 (17:16):
According to the New York Post, Billy, a woman's bodycare brand,
has launched a new advertising campaign in New York City
to promote its aluminum free deodorant. There are posters up
around the city. I haven't seen them yet showing an
enormous armpit letting people scratch and sniff to get a
sample of the fragrance of the new deodorant.

Speaker 1 (17:34):
I cheated on that one. By the way, I'm going
to admit that I cheated. Okay, you've scratched and sniffed. Yess.

Speaker 3 (17:41):
That's really mainly all he's been doing.

Speaker 1 (17:43):
A really personal question.

Speaker 10 (17:49):
All right.

Speaker 3 (17:50):
Number three over seven hundred rex attributed to the Dot
bumper stickers with QR code encouraging people to scan them.

Speaker 1 (17:57):
True. Fake ah.

Speaker 3 (17:59):
Number four self driving car kidnaps passengers.

Speaker 1 (18:07):
False.

Speaker 9 (18:07):
We need an answer, it's real.

Speaker 1 (18:09):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (18:09):
According to Futurism, a self driving Waymo taxi operating in Austin,
Texas when haywire and stranded passengers on a busy section
of the Mopak Expressway, and the last headline signists say
squirrels in Arkansas are developing nut allergies.

Speaker 1 (18:29):
False.

Speaker 3 (18:30):
Thank goodness that one is false.

Speaker 9 (18:34):
What would they do?

Speaker 3 (18:36):
They'd have to start drinking aball sprits to get through
the winter.

Speaker 1 (18:39):
I like your false ones better than the true ones.
Nice job. Congratulations to Maiji Meiji Meijie. I'm sorry, Perosi
from Seacliff, New Jersey. Sorry Meijie. Who just want a
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at the Beacon Theater at A twenty five. I've seen him.

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He is amazing. He has one of the best voices
in rock and roll. So that's all. Next week at
A twenty five, John Fogerty now will aban on non
essential helicopter flights of New York homes. Work is congestion pricing?
Here to stay? Will Andrew Cuomo face criminal charges for
lying to congress Congresswoman Nicole Malatakis will talk about all

(19:47):
of that next, and world renowned delusionist, endurance artist, and
master of the impossible, David Blaine, sits down for a
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(20:09):
prepares for the extreme feats that all defy human experience. Well,
the headline in the New York Post today said that
lawyers for the Department of Transportation accidentally uploaded an internal
memo admitting plans to kill congestion pricing in New York
are quote very unlikely to succeed. Now, we talked to

(20:35):
Rick Kline, who is the ABC bureau chief in Washington,
and he told us he doesn't think it was an accident.
And since then, lawyers for the Department of Transportation have
been quote sidelined the ones that wrote this memo and
it accidentally got out with that. Let's talk to the

(20:55):
Representative Nicole Maliatakas, who represents New York's eleventh Congression district,
which is Staten Island and southern Brooklyn. So, Nicole, I'm
sure you've heard this story. What do you believe happened.
And secondly, is it true that the battle against congestion
pricing is unlikely to succeed?

Speaker 2 (21:17):
Well. First of all, I'm glad that President Trump took
swift action to fire those attorneys and replace them rather
and I think that it's critical, it's really critical that
we all stay focused here because I do believe we
have the legal ground to stop this. When you know,
I've been saying from the very beginning that this was

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approved by the Biden administration. It was rubber stamped without
a full and thorough environmental impact statement that is required
by federal law under the National Environmental Policy Act. That
never was done. It was a first in the nation program.
There have been projects of less significant consequence that had

(21:59):
to go through the formal nep UP process and comply
with that federal law. By administration allowed them to get
away with not doing it. But the Trump administration has
every right to rescind that approval based on the fact
that they never completed the study. And I think that
we have two lawsuits right. One is one that the

(22:20):
local elected officials have a party of that lawsuit as well,
in which we say that they are operating, they're doing
this without complying with that federal law. And now the
Trump administration is will be in court with the local
administration because HOKO refuses to comply with the new rule,

(22:42):
I should say, or the new mandate by the Trump
administration that they holt congestion pricing. They no longer have approval,
federal approval to be operating it because Trump prescinded it rightfully.
So and so I think that we have strong legal
standing in both those cases.

Speaker 1 (22:58):
Do you believe that the lawyers is that uploaded the
memorandum did so purposely?

Speaker 2 (23:04):
Quite possible. I mean, I don't know who these attorneys are.
If they if they were people who uh you know,
came in and were working under the or appointed by
the Biden administration, it's very possible that they did that.
But even the in the New Jersey lawsuit, which you
know Governor Phil Murphy Josh Gotttheimer both Democrats, even in

(23:26):
that lawsuit, the judge said that they should be they
would they would give the federal government more time to
comply with the study, to to conduct a study on
the on the consequences and the ramifications of the impact
that this would have on New Jersey, And so Uh,

(23:48):
that in itself gave I think another reasoning for this
program to be halted and for a full and thorough
environmental impact statement to be conducted. They never actually studied
the impact of what the pollution would be of shifting
the traffic to the outer boroughs to poor working communities.

(24:09):
Where are all these environmental you know, social justice warriors
who do say that, you know, minority communities, working class
communities are being stuck with pollution. They're worse off today
because because they're being you know, the traffic is being
shifted to outside of this zone, to Harlem, to the Bronx,
to north shore of Staten Island, and so you know,

(24:32):
we're we continue to believe that we have the merit
here and we'll have to let this play out in court.

Speaker 1 (24:37):
That's a great point. Hey, the New York City City
Council has banned old and noisy helicopters from taking off
in Manhattan. But I heard you talking about this. You
say that's not the problem in Staten Island.

Speaker 2 (24:53):
Well, it's part of the problem. I mean, there is
an issue with these low flying helicopters that are going
over as csidential communities. And I have multiple neighborhoods in
Staten Island. I have been affected by this. It is
a noise issue, it is a public safety issue. It's
an issue of the frequency of these helicopters.

Speaker 6 (25:12):
As well as the noise, as well.

Speaker 2 (25:13):
As the altitude that they're flying at. And so, you know,
they're supposed to be flying over the Staten Island Expressway,
that was the path that they're provided with, and they're
skirting the rules. They're going into residential communities. They're turning,
you know, the skies of Staten Island into their own
little playground here, and it's wrong. And these tourists, tourists,

(25:35):
these tourist helicopters need to be rained. Is there needs
to be restrictions, There needs to be no fly zones.
And quite frankly, I believe that they should not be
allowed to fly over communities in municipalities of five million
or more. And if we do something like that, naturally
in New York City would actually be the only city
affected by it. But that's my goal.

Speaker 10 (25:55):
My purpose is to try to restrict these low flying
helicopter over residential communities that are heavily populated, dense communities
like we have here in New York City.

Speaker 2 (26:07):
Because as we saw it, the Hudson River a horrific
accident that killed people. You know, what is to say
that the next helicopter is not going to fly into
a house on Staten Island. There needs to be tougher restrictions,
and that's why I'm calling for the FA to step in.

Speaker 1 (26:22):
That's great, and I know that you're concerned about the
airports in New Jersey as well, so that it affects
all of these airports, not just the ones in Manhattan.
Representative of Nicole Mallia talk as you are representative for
New York's eleventh Congressional district, which is Staten Island in
southern Brooklyn. Thank you so much.

Speaker 2 (26:42):
Great to be the again. Thank you well.

Speaker 1 (26:44):
Pete Hegsath, the Defense Secretary is in battled, but he
is fighting back and he's taking on the woke policies
of the Defense Department. We'll talk about that next.

Speaker 3 (26:55):
He's giving you everything you need.

Speaker 1 (26:56):
It's man, I got to get something off my chest
because it's been a theme throughout the morning and I'm
getting a little bit annoyed about it from the talkbacks,
even to some of the people we've interviewed. There is
this feeling that for some reason, we should already have peace,
we should have a ceasefire, we should already have a
peace deal. The fact that they're putting so much pressure

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on the Trump administration now to come up with this
peace deal, come up with her. You promised it, You
promised a peace deal. We had a war in Ukraine
that raged on with seemingly no end in sight, and
Ukraine was losing. Zelenski was losing that war. He was

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losing more people, he was losing more infrastructure. He was
not losing any money, though he was making money. We
were sending arms, and we were sending money, and it
seemed like it was never ending. And never, never did

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they hold President Biden's feet to the fire as to
why we are going to continue to fuel this war,
keep funding this war when it was just a meat grinder,
when hundreds of thousands were dying. Instead, if you remember

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the media, they were cheerleaders, Oh this is wonderful, this
is great, Let's keep funding this. Zalynsky is a hero,
Zolensky is a good man. Before the war started, before
any of this happens, he was considered and Ukraine was
considered one of the most corrupt countries in the world,
and we just kept giving him money. And he took

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over like he was a dictator. He stopped elections, he
took over the media. He was taking men off the
street and forcing them to join the army. But we
were fine with all of that. All of that was fine.
Nobody was critical. We were in the war in Ukraine
all the time. Rah rah rah rah rah, including the media.

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Now you have a guy that comes into office and
the first day in office, he picks up the phone
and calls Vladimir Putin to find out if he can
make a deal to end this war. And for the
first time in the war, we're actually talking about a ceasefire.
We're actually talking about peace. And what does he get?
What you heard one of the talkbacks calling saying that

(29:28):
this is ridiculous. He's gonna fail. It's to the point
where there are people rooting for Donald Trump to fail
in trying to bring peace in Ukraine. They don't care
if the war continues, and some people in the media
are in the same boat. They don't care. They don't

(29:49):
care if people die, they don't care if Ukraine's demolished.
All they care is that Donald Trump fails, and that's
a horrible place to be at. We could have stopped
this war from ever happening. I don't know if you remember,
but almost the moment, it was about a month later

(30:09):
that Biden was sworn into office, Vladimir Putin started putting
troops at the border, started compiling troops at the border.
First it was five thousand, it was ten thousand, and
then it was up over one hundred thousand, and people
were saying, haters, there's something going on here. You got
to pay attention to this. Something's going on. And he

(30:31):
kept saying, no, no, no, no, it's just maneuvers, it's
just war maneuvers. And we bought it. We allowed it
to happen as if we wanted that war, as if
we wanted to fuel the military industrial complex. Shame on
everybody that let this happen. We could have stopped it
before it happened, and we ignored it, and then we

(30:53):
kept fueling the fight and the media and the Democrats
they were cheerleaders. Remember remember the stangovation when Zelenski came here. Oh,
he was a world hero. And now you have a
president that wants to end the war, and he's the villain.
Now you have Zelenski who does not want to stop

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the war. He enjoys being a dictator, and he's still
the hero. He's the aggrieved. I know, I'm Putin's not
a hero in this whole thing. It's horrible what he did.
It's awful what he did. There's another day to deal
with that. Right now, let's end the war, and God
bless Donald Trump for trying to well, the Las Vegas

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