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February 23, 2026 34 mins

Marco Rubio makes a good showing in Munich while the democrats demonstrate the bench for 2028 looks mighty thin, Hillary gives a swerve on Epstein, and RFK jr. Makes a startling admission...again.  A lot of revelations this week in our "did they really just say that" audio clips.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Marco Rubio makes a good showing in Munich while the
Democrats demonstrate the bench for twenty twenty eight. It looks
mighty thin. Hillary gives a swerve on Epstein and RFK
Junior it makes a startling omission. Again. A lot of
revelations this week, and are did they really just say
that audio clips? I'm Nancy Shack, I Ben Parker, this
is Newspye.

Speaker 2 (00:31):
We believe that Europe must survive because the two great
wars of the last century serve for us as history's
constant reminder that ultimately our destiny is intertwined with yours.

Speaker 3 (00:45):
Would and should the US actually commit US troops to
defend Taiwan?

Speaker 4 (00:51):
You know, I think that this is such a you know,
I think that this is a This is of course
a very long standing policy.

Speaker 5 (01:05):
And I said, I'm not scared of a germ. You know,
I used to snart cocaine for toilet seats.

Speaker 6 (01:11):
Yeah, so it was a Friday germ when you got
th seeds.

Speaker 1 (01:15):
That was our esteem Secretary of Health and Human Services.
RFK Junior on on I think it was THEO Van's podcast,
and I applaud the fact that he's very transparent regarding
his past, you know, drug addiction issues and and the
fact that he overcame them is incredibly admirable and look
where he is now. But is it wise to admit

(01:38):
in a public broadcast that the Secretary of Health and
Human Services did this cut sixteen A.

Speaker 5 (01:47):
You know what I said this when I when we
came in and I said, I don't care what happens.
I'm going to meeting every day. Yeah, And I said,
I'm not scared of a germ. You know, I used
to snart cocaine for toilet seats.

Speaker 1 (02:00):
Thumbs up or thumbs down. He is being that transparent
A good thing.

Speaker 6 (02:05):
That transparent? Maybe not.

Speaker 7 (02:07):
I mean, look, it's no secret that RFK Junior had
addition issues and everybody, I would say almost everybody is
aware of that. But when you start going like deep
into where you where you were, like you would think.

Speaker 1 (02:20):
Okay, degradation of what you did as an addict.

Speaker 7 (02:22):
I know people who did cocaine and problem may still
do cocaine.

Speaker 6 (02:26):
I never did, big deal.

Speaker 7 (02:28):
But you know when you think, oh, my friend did cocaine,
you think, well, there's some living room table or something.
So if he did it off a toilet seat, and
I don't know if I need to know.

Speaker 1 (02:36):
No, you know, this just reminds me of the time
when he told everybody that a worm had eaten part
of his brain. It's just like good to know. I mean, seriously,
there's some stuff. I do appreciate the honesty, I really do,
especially in a government official. He gets, you know, two
thumbs up for that. But I'm with you. I don't
really need to know except the issues with your and

(03:01):
why you are no longer a germophobe because you've been
there and it was and nothing can scare you now.
And I you know, God bless you, but I don't
need to hear.

Speaker 7 (03:11):
Maybe you should write a book for for those who
are germophobes on how to get over their germophobia.

Speaker 1 (03:16):
Just something on the toilet, yeah, so you know, or
lick it. I don't know, just something that's it's going
to skize normal people out. But you know, I but
I do. I do applaud him for his honesty.

Speaker 7 (03:30):
You can't look your past is your past. Whatever you did,
you me everybody.

Speaker 1 (03:34):
You have to brag about it, though you know.

Speaker 7 (03:35):
And there is there isn't too much information line that
you probably should be careful not to cross He may have.

Speaker 6 (03:43):
Crossed it there.

Speaker 1 (03:43):
But you know who isn't honest and who is not
a t M I person. That would be Hillary Clinton.
And you know what, now you may ask or tell
us something we didn't know about her. But there was
just a an egregious example this week of her dishonesty

(04:04):
that I needed to share it with you. Hill and
Billery are Hillary and Billery. Hill and Hillary and Bill
are being forced to testify at the congressional hearing. We're
writing the Epstein files after their names appeared, and many
other things appeared in the released documents of the Epstein files.
And she was in England because she's in Europe, over

(04:26):
in Munich with everybody else. But she gave an interview
to the BBC where she was asked about the fact
that she had been pulled in for the hearing. It's
cut to a.

Speaker 8 (04:40):
We have no links. We have a very clear record
that we've been willing to talk about, which my husband
has said he took some rides on the airplane for
his charitable work. I don't recall ever meeting him, do you.
I did on a few occasions, and thousands of people

(05:02):
go to the Clinton Global initiatives, So to me is
not something that is really at the heart of what
this matter is about. They are accused and in both
cases were convicted of horrific crimes against girls and women.

(05:23):
That should be the focus, and we are more than
happy to say what we know, which is very limited
and totally unrelated to their behavior or their crimes, and
we want to do it in public.

Speaker 1 (05:36):
Okay, do you honestly think that Hillary never remembers meeting
Jeffrey Epstein one and then Bill would just on the
plane for charity. Do you really think that, I mean
this is and that she doesn't remember she didn't meet
Julaie Maxwell, but but she was at the Clinton initiative,
but she doesn't remember her. And she wasn't done yet
because she decided that nobody could possibly think that Hill

(06:01):
or Bill, their Hill or Billary could possibly be dishonest
and regarding anything. So she has a theory as to
why their asses are being hauled into Congress.

Speaker 9 (06:12):
Cut to be Andrew Mountbatten Windsor formerly Prince Andrew.

Speaker 6 (06:16):
Do you think he should testify?

Speaker 8 (06:17):
I think everybody should testify.

Speaker 9 (06:19):
Well, including the former Prince.

Speaker 8 (06:21):
I think everybody should testify. Who was asked to testify.
I just wanted to be fair. I want everybody treated
the same way. That's not true for my husband and me.
Because other witnesses were asked to testify, they gave written
statements under oath. We offered that they want to pull us.
Why did they want to pull us into this to

(06:43):
divert attention from President Trump?

Speaker 1 (06:45):
This is not complicated. Yeah, so except that Donald Trump
has been you know, excoriated, examined everything regarding and turns
out he was telling the truth when he said he
kicked Epstein out of Mariologo and in fact called the
police on him in two thousand and six. So I
don't think this is about diverting from President Trump. President Trump, however,

(07:10):
responded to this. He was on Air Force one and
asked about Hillary's accusation. There that's cut two.

Speaker 6 (07:16):
Clinton said in.

Speaker 1 (07:17):
An interview today that she and her husband.

Speaker 10 (07:19):
Are getting pulled into the Epstein matter to divert attention
from you, and that your.

Speaker 6 (07:24):
Administration has something to hide. What's your responsible I have
nothing to hide.

Speaker 11 (07:29):
I've been exonerated. I have nothing to do with Jeffrey Epstein.
They went in hoping that they'd find it and found
just the opposite. I've been totally exonerated. In fact, Jeffrey
Epstein was fighting that I don't get elected with some
author a sleavesebag by the way, and I've been totally exonerated.

Speaker 1 (07:46):
No.

Speaker 6 (07:46):
No, they're getting pulled in. And that's the problem.

Speaker 1 (07:49):
I don't know.

Speaker 6 (07:49):
They have to see what happens.

Speaker 11 (07:51):
But I watched her in Munich and she seriously has
strump derangements indome.

Speaker 6 (07:55):
You think that she should publicly tell me you know, I've.

Speaker 11 (07:57):
Been totally exonerated on Epstein. And it's really interesting because they've.

Speaker 6 (08:01):
Been pulled in link of it.

Speaker 11 (08:03):
They've been pulled in Clinton and many other Democrats have
been pulled in.

Speaker 4 (08:07):
Yet are you business?

Speaker 11 (08:09):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (08:09):
Now, the interesting thing is, No, he's a hyperbolic speaker.
He usually exaggerates a lot, but not in this case.
He was exonerated by documentation, by witness testimony, and by
actual audio testimony of a column made in two thousand
and six. So I think what this was an example
of is desperation from Hillary trying to put the whole

(08:34):
Epstein relationship to bed. But the problem that you have
is that there's a there's a lot of evidence in
the released files that tell us that this was not
just a few charity rides. That even the BBC interviewer
had a few more questions for her cut twenty six.

Speaker 12 (08:53):
What was your reaction when you saw some of the
material that has been released. I'm thinking, for example, of
images of your husband carent Need a hot tub in
a swimming pool on Epstein's plane.

Speaker 1 (09:03):
What was your reaction to that? And do you know
the context surrounding some of.

Speaker 8 (09:07):
Thingssolutely and it wasn't a hot tub on a plane.
It was one of the stops they made to look
at philanthropic and charitable work that my husband has done,
saving literally millions of lives around the world. It turned
out that was done long before there was any public
awareness and certainly any conviction of any crime by Jeffrey Epstein.

(09:28):
So it was a short period of time that was
in pursuit of charitable philanthropic work. A lot of people
were traveling at the same time, many staff members, guess
other supporters of the foundation. If Bill and I had
a penny for every person we've taken pictures with, we
would be extremely rich today.

Speaker 6 (09:48):
You are extremely rich.

Speaker 4 (09:49):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (09:49):
Can you can exactly what when you are and two. Seriously,
Bill was just on Lolita Island for philanthropic work. First
of all, a hot tub for charity, right, her excuse.

Speaker 7 (10:02):
And by the way, people do go on trips and
business trips and they're junkets and they do end up
in hot tubs and blah blah blah. I mean, it
happens in the real world. But anyway, her excuse first
of all, right, off the bat makes me go what
when she said, well, that was before there were any
allegations against Jeffrey Epstein. Okay, a lot of people commit
a lot of crimes, including mollusting miners and everything else,

(10:26):
long before they're accused or religially.

Speaker 1 (10:28):
Well, yeah, can we point out by the way that
Donald Trump made the call in two thousand and six
before letting the police know there's a problem here. You
need to look at them. And as she lain, Maxwell,
they're doing stuff that's really bad. This is before all
of that happened, and he's and he's turning them into
the police because you see stuff that he shouldn't be seeing.

(10:49):
And that's and Hillary and Bell were in the middle
of that, and just oh, that's okay. We can always
tell people here for charity what she was doing there,
to be honest with you, is peeing on us and
telling us it was raining. Well that's what she was
doing that.

Speaker 7 (11:04):
Yeah, yeah, it's just it's it's it's it's crazy, it's
it's Look, I don't know what the Clintons did, whether
h Hill or Billery uh did anything.

Speaker 6 (11:13):
And by the way, I'm going to go with that
now for forever. I think Helen Bill, Elen Billary. I
do like it.

Speaker 7 (11:18):
It's like when Ben Affleck and Jyl were together, they
were benefit Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 6 (11:22):
So I'm gonna go Billery. I really like that.

Speaker 7 (11:25):
But so I don't know what they did. I don't
know what anybody else did. I do know this though,
and I'm curious. I don't even know in my own
mind whether I want it or not, because I did.

Speaker 6 (11:34):
But but but here here's where I do know.

Speaker 7 (11:37):
When when when it was announced that if they prosecuted
everybody in the Epstein files, the whole government would basically
collapse in the whole thing, Like there's so many people
in there that that the world will implode if they
go after everybody. And I'm thinking to myself, well, that
would probably be bad, but then again, that might not
be so bad. So I don't know if I kind

(11:58):
of feel like, yeah, go after everybody, then let the
thing collapse on itself. We'll, you know, we'll we'll build
it again with the people who weren't with Jeffrey Epstein.
But then, of course I don't even know what that
really means, like, yeah, I'm sure, Look, I am, I'm
almost positive there are several, if not a lot of
high ranking people in government and business and everything else

(12:20):
involved with whatever Jeffrey Epstein was doing, and.

Speaker 6 (12:22):
There by the way, a lot of people weren't. So
take that for what it's worth.

Speaker 7 (12:26):
But but it's just I don't know, would you want
if it was going to make the system collapse upon itself,
would you want them to prosecute everybody in Jeffrey Epstein.

Speaker 1 (12:34):
I'm with you when you say we can rebuild. We
can rebuild. You know, I have no problem with it.
The only people that I don't think can rebuild would
be maybe the monarchy in England. I think they got
they got some issues, but fortunately, you know, they're not
our king and Queen over there, and it's not our
Prince Andrew that that is dragging down the monarchy through

(12:56):
his fair.

Speaker 6 (12:57):
To the monarchy and then they've got issues that they
have for a long long.

Speaker 1 (12:59):
Time, the King, the King and Queen seemed to be
pretty reasonable people.

Speaker 11 (13:04):
You know.

Speaker 1 (13:05):
I don't have an issue with him or with the
Prince and Princess of Wales. I's an issue with them either. Andrew, however,
is a real piece of work.

Speaker 7 (13:11):
Well in fairness, if again, for what this is worth,
they did boot Andrew pretty much out of the royal circle.

Speaker 1 (13:19):
They oh, they did more than that. They put him
on a leaky farm out in Sandringham, away from as
far as they could possibly do it. Well, I can
understand why you can't kick him out because you know
he's gonna someone's gonna get him, They're gonna kill him.
He needs to have security. He needs to be someplace
where he can't do any harm. Still has a roof
over his head and it is still fed, basically, you know.

(13:41):
And some people think that prison sounds a lot like that,
and maybe he will be the fact the first member
of the royal family go to prison. I don't know.
But in the meantime, the King is taking his own
money and put him on a leaky farmhouse in Sandingham,
away from everybody. And said knock it off, don't talk
to the press. Now. People think that what he's going
to do is say bleep this and go to Dubai
where they like sucking up to former royals and live

(14:03):
a lifestyle there. I got news for the people in Dubai.
I I know you think you're untouchable by by public opinion.
I'm pretty sure that the British people are going to
make their displeasure known to you, and you might decide
it's not the best thing in the world to take
Andrew on board. But I'm just saying could have.

Speaker 6 (14:19):
Done a lot less to him. I mean what I'm
saying so so so props to them. They at least
said they made.

Speaker 1 (14:23):
An effort, an effort. Yeah, there's an effort there.

Speaker 7 (14:25):
And even when they had their falling out with with
Harry there they kind of said.

Speaker 6 (14:29):
Yeah, just go off.

Speaker 1 (14:31):
Yeah money see does a good place for you.

Speaker 6 (14:33):
Where whereas you know, the wagon circle for for you.

Speaker 1 (14:36):
And he didn't do anything criminal, No, he's just an
ass so yeah, so just being an asked doesn't usually
get you booted out of the family, but being a
criminal apparently does.

Speaker 7 (14:46):
Look at all the people you know who may or
may not be in the in the Epstein file or
are for sure the wagon circle around them and they
don't let people touch them, at least at least well.

Speaker 1 (14:56):
The two princesses and Eugenie, the children of Sarah and Andrew,
are also being looks like they're going to be knocked
out too, just because from sheer associations. So they're doing
their best because I think they realize there't.

Speaker 7 (15:10):
Me to sound crass and some somebody from Britain's gonna
write me a letter, but and I am of British heritage,
so be kind. But he look, the daughters of of
Andrew and Fergy are far enough out of the line
of actually ever being ahead of the monarchy.

Speaker 1 (15:29):
Except that they're also listed in the Epstein files.

Speaker 7 (15:31):
Understood, what I'm saying is they're so far away from
the top of the chain.

Speaker 6 (15:35):
Who cares.

Speaker 1 (15:37):
It's not so much down that they're worried about. It's
their parents using them that people are concerned about. So
but okay, you know, it's not our royal family, so
you know, whatever the Brits do, it's their business. But
but back to our issues, which are which are many.
Back to the Americans that are ticking us off. So
Hillary was not the only Democrat making a bad showing.

(15:59):
This week, a number of Democrats went to Munich to
the Economic Forum to try and kind of strut their stuff.
They hoped to show they wanted to show up Mark
or Rubio, a Secretary of State who went to give
a speech and presented themselves as having the right stuff
for the twenty twenty eight presidential race, you know, saying, hey,

(16:21):
I may be a congressman, but I know my foreims
and then this is what there was. Governors and just
the Dems who have Trump dysphoria were trying to show
that they know more about foreign affairs than the current
administration very much. And in the first place, Mark Rubio
basically gave a barn burner of a speech and it

(16:44):
was well delivered, brilliantly written on who wrote it, but
it was brilliant and he really made a good showing
and delivered this message cut six A.

Speaker 2 (16:55):
We want Europe to be strong. We believe that Europe
must survive.

Speaker 6 (17:00):
Because the two great wars of.

Speaker 2 (17:02):
The last century served for us as history's constant reminder
that ultimately our destiny is and will always be intertwined
with yours, because we.

Speaker 1 (17:16):
Know he had them in the palm of their hand,
and so on the palm of his hand. But he'd
also delivered this message cut number five, and in.

Speaker 2 (17:34):
A pursuit of a world without borders, we opened our
doors to an unprecedented wave of mass migration that threatens
the cohesion of our societies, the continuity of our culture,
and the future of our people. We made these mistakes together,
and now together we owe it to our people to

(17:55):
face those facts and to move forward to rebuild. Under
President Trump, the United States of America will once again
take on the task of renewal and restoration, driven by
a vision of a future as proud, as sovereign, and
as vital as our civilizations passed. And while we are prepared,

(18:17):
if necessary, to do this alone, it is our preference
and it is our hope to do this together with you,
our friends here in Europe.

Speaker 1 (18:29):
So you know, he said, we're going to fix it.
You can help us, We love you to help us,
but we don't care. We're going to fix it. And
I think that he was the adult in the room,
and he delivered the message, and he did a good job.
And you know, because Europe is falling apart under the
weight of mass migration. It's in every single country and
it's all these you see these horrible demonstrations. There was one.

(18:51):
I have natural sound from it. This is Paris. I'm
going to give you some some sound, natural sound. These
are our illegal aliens demon string causing a riot because
they were not being given free housing. Okay, yes, free
do you get free housing because they think it's their
right in France to have free housing? Cut number fourteen.

Speaker 6 (19:29):
You feel like I should have been there.

Speaker 7 (19:31):
This isause I don't get free housing and I should
be protesting, you know, I mean.

Speaker 1 (19:35):
This is what he's talking about. These countries are going
under under the weight of the graft, under the weight
of the what people think are they are entitled to
and they're not even citizens. They come from another country
and they demand to be taken care of. And countries
are going to oh oh, and under the weight of

(19:55):
administrations being called racist if they don't do it, because
these people may not look like the indigenous population or
a special interest take over whatever it's it's falling apart,
and this is what Rubio is talking about needs to
be fixed. Meanwhile, Okay, we have one of the people, Americans.

(20:18):
There Democrats. There was a Congresswoman, Alexandra Acazio Cortez.

Speaker 6 (20:22):
Oh, the adults left the room right here.

Speaker 1 (20:24):
Yeah, she was. She's the congresswoman from New York. She's
progressive left, shoots off her mouth all the time, makes
wild accusations all the time. And she listened to Marco
Rubio's speech and this actually cracked me up because I
wanted to play for you. This is Marco Rubio. This
is the statement that AOC Alexandra Acazio Cortez had an

(20:48):
issue with the Marco Marco Rubio statement out of his
whole speech, this is the line she did not like
cut eight our.

Speaker 2 (20:57):
Horses, our ranches, our rodeos, the entire romance of the
cowboy archetype that became synonymous with the American West. These
were born in Spain.

Speaker 1 (21:07):
So you heard that. He's talking about how cowboys originated
in Spain and they brought horses and cowboyism to the
New World. Basically. So this is AOC who is the
front runner Democrat right now as we are currently two
years out from presidential election, but there's a lot of
hype going about her being a possible candidate. So this

(21:28):
is her at the Munich Security Conference and she decides
to mark Mark or Rubio on that one statement cut sixteen.

Speaker 12 (21:37):
Rubio's speech was a pure appeal to Western culture. My
favorite part was when he said that American cowboys came
from Spain. I believe the Mexicans and descendants of African

(21:58):
slave enslaved people's would like to have a word on that.

Speaker 1 (22:04):
Well, I'd like to say something to aoc Maybe historians
would like to have or maybe elementary school teachers would
like to have a word with you, because his statement
was absolutely correct. The Spanish are the ones who brought
the horses to Mexico, and they're the ones who brought
the whole cowboy culture to Mexico for those Mexicans. Mexicans

(22:28):
didn't evolve it on their own. The Mexicans are the Spanish.
They were, in fact a colony of Spain and that's
where they came from. Had nothing to do with slaves,
nothing to do with Mexicans who came many centuries actually
after the Spanish brought the horses and the cowboys using
the horses.

Speaker 13 (22:48):
This is.

Speaker 1 (22:50):
To Central America.

Speaker 7 (22:51):
This is what happens, and we see it all the
time in different ways. But this is what happens when
you look back at history and then you stop just
one hundred and fifty years ago or a couple hundred
years ago, and assume that nothing happened in the world
before your vision back into the future. So in the past,
so people will forget about things that happened in nine

(23:12):
hundred AD or fifteen fifteen hundred AD, or think, oh, well,
the Mexicans had the horses and everything else, because she
only looked back to the Mexicans having the horses.

Speaker 1 (23:23):
Wouldn't you think, though, if you're gonna mock somebody on
a world stage, you would actually make sure that what
you're mocking wasn't correct, because it was. And so she's
the one who look like an ass And by the way,
that was not her cringiest moment. I think you need
to take a listen here. She got a question on Taiwan,

(23:45):
essentially as to whether we would defend Taiwan cut three A.

Speaker 3 (23:49):
Would and should the US actually commit US troops to
defend Taiwan if China were to move.

Speaker 4 (23:57):
You know, I think that this is such a you know,
I think that.

Speaker 1 (24:07):
This is a.

Speaker 4 (24:10):
This is of course a very long standing policy.

Speaker 6 (24:16):
I should have prepared better.

Speaker 7 (24:17):
I should have prepared I.

Speaker 1 (24:18):
Cut it off because I couldn't take it anymore. And
and by the way, which is pretty interesting, given the
fact that she prides herself on understanding Latin heritage, she
doesn't really know where Venezuela is. Cut number fifteen.

Speaker 14 (24:33):
It is not a remark on who Maduro was as
a leader.

Speaker 12 (24:38):
He canceled elections. He was an anti democratic leader.

Speaker 14 (24:41):
That doesn't mean that we can kidnap ahead of state
and engage in acts of war just because the nation
is below the equator.

Speaker 6 (24:50):
But it's not.

Speaker 1 (24:51):
It's not below the equator. And surprise, surprise, So again,
you know, she did not make a good showing fact.
This is Scott Jennings on CNN going what the belief
cuts seven.

Speaker 10 (25:00):
Look, this Munich Security conference put on full blast the
fact that we've only got one adult political party in
the United States right now, and it's the Republican Party.
Marco Rubio gave the speech of a lifetime over there.
He laid out a clear foreign policy vision that defends
Western values, in Western civilization. And the brightest Democrat over there,

(25:21):
Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, crapped the bed Okay, she wants to
be president, she wants to run, and she's one of
the most popular Democrats and gave one of the most
embarrassing performances you could possibly do.

Speaker 7 (25:36):
After what she did there, yeah, I can't imagine anybody
wanted to vote for her for president.

Speaker 1 (25:40):
Well, you know here, he's another cut from CNN where
you've got Anna Navarro and others on a CNN panel
trying to defend her Munich performance, but Kevin O'Leary is
having none of it. Cut twenty five A.

Speaker 15 (25:52):
I think that it takes a lot of courage, and
I think for her to be expanding her message, for
her to be expanding her areas of policy interests are
a good thing. She is one of four hundred and
thirty five members of Congress. There's a lot of them
there that don't come with a breath of foreign policy.

Speaker 1 (26:08):
Right.

Speaker 13 (26:09):
It was fabulous, fabulous. It wasn't to say you're hired
to give a speech. Let's say you're hired because you're
expected to deliver information to an audience.

Speaker 11 (26:20):
Let's say you're.

Speaker 1 (26:21):
Even paid for it.

Speaker 13 (26:22):
When you go and do that, what happens is the
agency that hired you, whether it's the government. Your own
party says that was not your best moment. In fact,
they tied you back to Kamala Harris.

Speaker 6 (26:35):
You were so.

Speaker 1 (26:35):
Bad and.

Speaker 13 (26:38):
By the way, I'm sorry, it's not a partisan issue.
And she was terrible, Get over it.

Speaker 1 (26:44):
Yeah, she was terrible. She was absolutely terrible. And she
was not the only Democrat to prove that the Democrat
Party right now is flash and no substance. For instance,
besides a Casio Crtz, Michigan Governor Jean Whitmer always asked,
what does victory in Ukraine like? She couldn't even begin

(27:05):
to answer the question. Cut eighteen on Ukraine? What does
victory look like?

Speaker 6 (27:13):
I'd love to hear your answer.

Speaker 9 (27:18):
It is I the two, the two that I am
on the panel with, are much more steeped in foreign
policy than a than a governor is. But you know,
I do think that Ukraine's independence, keeping their their land
mass and having the support of of all the allies,
I think is is the goal from my vantage point.

(27:41):
Go ahead, ambassador, do better job.

Speaker 1 (27:44):
Not hard. That's called punting. She couldn't take I can't
she just the I can't answer. I can't answer the question.
Then we've got Governor of California, Gavin Newsom, who is
doing his best to become the front runner. This was
his response to regarding the economy of the United States
Cut twenty one.

Speaker 16 (28:04):
I hope if there's nothing else I can communicate today,
Donald Trump is temporary. It'll be gone in three years.
California is a stable and reliable partner in this space,
and it's important for folks to understand the temporary nature
of this current administration in relationship to the issue of

(28:26):
climate change and climate policy.

Speaker 1 (28:28):
Now, the fascinating thing to me is he's claiming California stable.
California has the biggest migration issue, meaning people in California
leaving it, leaving, getting the hell out of there because
it's so badly run. They have no fuel. Gas prices
are through the roof. You know that California is now
buying gas from the Bahamas because they don't have any

(28:50):
themselves anymore, and they have the natural resources, but they
refuse to take it. Their tax structures through the roof.
They have rolling blackouts. Their FEMA program has been troye.
You know that they've not rebuilt anything from the Palisades
fires two years ago, and this is the end we're
I'm beginning to talk about the homeless problem and the
healthcare crash that's happened. Companies are fleeing, the tax space

(29:13):
is fleeing California, and he's trying to tell people that
California is a stable and reliable partner.

Speaker 6 (29:18):
Many states, I mean, several states have of these problems.
Most of them are.

Speaker 1 (29:21):
Blue, Yeah, but they're not all the governors aren't hanging
out in Munich trying to tell everybody that Donald Trump
doesn't know what he's doing. Trust a Democrat in the
next election.

Speaker 6 (29:29):
No, I understand that.

Speaker 7 (29:30):
I'm just saying that a lot of people are fleeing
the blue and that's the thing is, like this, this
is a problem the Democrats have to look at as well.
Is of course, they're going to hold on to a
lot of the Democrats and certainly a lot of the
people who can't afford to leave the blue states are
going to stay there and a lot of those vote Democrats.
So in the end of the at the end of
the day, a lot of these blue states may really
be blue. There may be hardly any red people there

(29:52):
after this mass exodus from some of these states. But
that is something that that the Democrats have to look
at is you know, why are people They're not going
to answer their own questions because they caused the problem.

Speaker 6 (30:03):
But why are all these people leaving our states? We're
such a good party. We do such a great job
taking care of everybody because that's the way we work
and relile. They're leaving nobody. They're leaving because they don't
like the crap you're doing.

Speaker 1 (30:17):
Yeah, and you're actually taking care of nobody, because that's
essentially what happened. But that's the showing that they had
in Munich, which makes the Republicans just like, oh that
much better. We end every week with a truth control.
This week it is Vice President jd Vance. He was
on Fox with Martha McCallum and they were talking about

(30:40):
the presidency. How the fact that Donald Trump has not
yet said JD's my replacement in twenty twenty eight, because
it looks like he's got a couple guys who would
be mighty fine candidates, including Secretary of State who you
just heard Marco Rubio. So McCallum asks jd Vance, surely
is vice president you would like to be president?

Speaker 16 (31:01):
Right?

Speaker 1 (31:02):
Listen to his response cut one A. But surely as
vice president, you'd like to be president?

Speaker 17 (31:09):
Well, look, I think again, I'm going to try to
do as good of a job as I can right now.
So one of the things that I that I don't
like about this question and this entire perspective is I've
been in this job for all of a year about
six months ago, or sorry, a year and six months ago.
I asked the American people to give me this job
that I have right now. Why don't I do as
good of a job as I can at this job

(31:30):
or worry about the next job sometime in the future.

Speaker 1 (31:32):
So the answer is a very good answer that he
gives with the exception of the first line, and he goes,
HAA would I. So my question is is he really
being snied there? I mean, does he really think he'd
be a good president? Does he want the job? I
think he thinks he'd be a good president. But does
he want the job? Or is he just trolling because
he's trying to be self deprecating because we're too far

(31:53):
out yet.

Speaker 7 (31:55):
First of all, I agree with you, I think he
does think. Look, look, if you're a heart beat away
from the president's already, which he is, you have to
believe you have to believe that you could do the
job if you if you will if you.

Speaker 1 (32:04):
Had to, So you want to do the job, you
know what, I.

Speaker 6 (32:08):
I think, I guess. I look, if you're that close,
maybe in the back of your head you're like, oh,
I'd love to be president. But I don't know.

Speaker 7 (32:15):
I know, I don't know if he does, because it's,
first of all, it's a pain in the ask job.

Speaker 6 (32:19):
Nobody, like half the people don't like you, which already
is he's already in that boat. But I don't know.
And you're right, it's three years away.

Speaker 15 (32:27):
Uh.

Speaker 7 (32:27):
And and short of something bad happening to uh to
the current president, he would have to wait at least
three years to be the president.

Speaker 15 (32:34):
Uh.

Speaker 6 (32:34):
Yeah, I know. I think he. I think he.

Speaker 7 (32:36):
I think he's still thinking about whether he actually wants
it or not, because there's a lot to be said
about being president, but there's a lot to be said
about not being president.

Speaker 6 (32:44):
And I think that's.

Speaker 1 (32:45):
Where he's he's being a truth teller.

Speaker 7 (32:46):
No, I think that's where his head probably is at now.
In a year that may be totally different, but we're
talking about today right now. No, I think he's I
think he's just like, you know, let's.

Speaker 1 (32:54):
Let's see he's seen the job close and personally. He's like,
you know what, I don't need this not just a job.
I got a young family. It'd be nice to spend
more time with him.

Speaker 7 (33:02):
It's one thing about the job, right, You see the
job and you go, I could do that, or I
couldn't do I don't know about. But it's it's not
just the job he sees up close and personal. He
sees the side effects of the job, between dealing with
people and other politicians and the media, you know, the
stuff that doesn't go into the decision making so much.
You know, when you're a president, you say, well, I'm
gonna do this, and I'm gonna sign this bill, and

(33:23):
I'm not going to sign that bill.

Speaker 6 (33:24):
But then you got to deal with all that other
crap that comes along with it.

Speaker 7 (33:26):
And he may be weighing, well, I got a family
and I want to be president.

Speaker 6 (33:30):
But do I want to be president?

Speaker 1 (33:32):
That's a question. It's a question that can wait.

Speaker 6 (33:36):
I think he is. I think he is. I think
he is going to weigh it.

Speaker 1 (33:38):
Well, you know, I don't. I don't think you're necessarily wrong.
In that case, it might have been a moment of
complete candor. But I like to know from you guys
whether you think that he was telling the truth or
was he just trolling Martha McCallum and everybody else while
the clock takes by. You can let us know on
x at at news by three or on Facebook at
News Bye. We upload a new episode every single Monday,

(34:00):
so check back next week and see what new offerings
we have. Meanwhile, have a lovely week. I'm Nancy Shock,
I'm Ben Parker. This is Newspite
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