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This is your Morning show with Michael O'Dell Trump.
Speaker 4 (00:31):
So we all began to wax poetically about our take
on Zelenski Trump, these versus picking sides, all that stuff.
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it is your morning show. We can't have your morning
show without your voice. And obviously the main story is
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what happened at the White House between Trump and Zelensky.
Our big question is why did the Ukrainian president travel
to the United States to even meet with Trump anyway
if this was his intent, Because what he did Friday
he had done previously in Munich and before that in Kiev.
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So the President sends the Treasury Secretary to find out
where all our money went and to lay out the strategy.
Speaker 5 (01:44):
We signed the mineral rights deal.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
Listen, that puts us on your soil, that will hold
Russia accountable. There's your assurance that they will keep whatever
agreement we make. He refuses to sign it there and
says I'll sign in Munich. Then he gets to Munich
and meets with Vance and Rubio still doesn't sign it.
Then he comes to America to sign it and doesn't
sign it again. Let's sub with that. What to Donald
(02:13):
Trump's question, what is your game? You're playing with World
War three and you don't have the cards. But we're
getting your response mainly to the question, why did he
bother to come if he was just going to do
it for a third time pull a media stunt. What's
Selensky really up to? I don't know by name but
caller one.
Speaker 6 (02:32):
Although this story is important. I think every story that
we are going through right now relates to how people
perceive things, especially through the media. You're not going to
regulate in the media, nor should you. But what's going
to have to happen is people are going to have
to be awake. And I think what really comes down
to knowing what's going to happen is the mid terms.
It will be the great litmus test are we going
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to continue to get better or are we going to
go back?
Speaker 7 (02:56):
Michael, So, what the press is not talking about is
that one hour before as Vilenski met Trump in the
White House, he met with Chris Murphy and a panel
of Democrats elsewhere and they told him don't sign the deal.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Yeah, Lensky is just a new world order up it
just like Biden was.
Speaker 8 (03:15):
Ah, this is Richard from Boydell, Georgia in my morning
show show with Michael.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
Maybe Richard and Flip, is there a sanity today? No? Look,
it's up to you that we live in a world
where information is everywhere. You've never had more information at
your fingertips in an ocean of voices. There's no putting
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the toothpaste back in the tube. Only you can control
what you listen to. Only you can do the due
diligence to understand everybody's trying to spin you at once.
You got to go find the truth. Is it harder, yes,
but you weren't getting the truth before. That's why our
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take on this has been very simple. Have you listened
to all forty eight minutes? Not the clips that are
being fed to you as an agenda in a narrative
is being sold to you. Have you listened to all
forty eight minutes? That's number one, number two, and we're
going to repeat it in our Sounds of the Day
coming up and lessen thirty minutes. Did you hear what
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent laid out for Laura Ingram how
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the President Trump sent him to Kiev to visit with
this strategy, the strategy that addresses and provides the very
security assurance he made a scene over and now by
doing that takes that strategy off the table because now
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Plutin knows, but if you did it then in Kiev
and wouldn't sign it and then said I'll sign it
in Munich, and then you go to Munich and don't
sign it, and then you say I'll sign it in America.
You fly all the way here just to pull this
stup with the media. What's your end game? Going alone
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with Europe? Fine, but you're pushing us towards World War
not peace. President Trump has said over and over again,
this war would have never happened if I were president. Well,
now they're trying to start World War three while he's president.
That's really the moment you're in. Chris Walker is a
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Republican consultant, obviously under your umbrella.
Speaker 5 (05:38):
You know that.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
One caller brings up how he met with Democrats. He
also met with a lot of establishment Republicans too before.
I don't think that was the defining moment because all
he did Friday was the same thing he did in
Munich and the same thing he did prior to that
in Kiev. But is the Republican party behind their president
and not taking a side with Russia or Ukraine, but
taking the USA and world peace aside and finding a solution,
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not relitigating the past.
Speaker 5 (06:04):
Where does your party stand? Good morning?
Speaker 8 (06:08):
You know, I would say most are behind the president.
You know, I don't know if you caught the clip
of Marco Rubio giving uh, you know, George Stephanopolis uh
a lecture in terms of trying to secure peace. But
George Stephanopplos played the old trick of trying to play,
you know, a Republican contrarian quote to him, and Marco
wasn't taking. That happened to me from Vicki Rakowski, who's
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you know, barely a Republican these days. But you know,
I think you can you could pick the outlier here
or there, but on the whole, you know, the party's
pretty unified here, like no more money to Ukraine unless
there's a piece of an attempt to go to peace.
And so that's what President Trump is trying to do.
That's what the cabinets trying to do. That's what Jade
Vance is trying to do.
Speaker 5 (06:49):
And to see you.
Speaker 8 (06:50):
Know a lot more uh Zilinski over the of the
over the of the on Friday saying basically, I'm not
I don't want to sign a deal without some security arrangement,
which basically means boots on the ground from Americans and Europeans.
You know, that's that's not on the on the table,
President Trump is not going to send American troops to Ukraine.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
Do you think, by the way, do you think I'm
right when I say by the way, I'm just using
the president's words. This, This is the value of watching
all forty eight minutes. That's when the President put his
arm on his shoulder and paused him and said, you're
playing with world War three here. I think the bottom
line is President Trump believes this war wouldn't have begun
if he were president. But he's gonna be darn sure
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world War three doesn't begin while he's president. And that's
what this is. A movement towards and away from peace
and a security deal.
Speaker 8 (07:38):
Yeah, and you know, I think it will remain to
be played out. I'm like to see what happens this week.
I don't know the full details of the Chris Murphy stuff.
I've read some of those tweets as well. We'll see
what We'll see what happens. But if Democrats are actively
trying to create, you know, an impeachment some type of effort, yeah,
to to try to undermine foreign policy and to try
to undermine peace in between russ in Ukraine, well goodness gracious,
(08:02):
how is it that trump derangement system and syndrome has
reached the level where Democrats are in favor of continuing
a war just to try to score political points semestically.
Speaker 9 (08:13):
It's disgusting.
Speaker 5 (08:14):
You mean the same the same democrats.
Speaker 4 (08:16):
Don't know what's been said about that yet, you mean
the same Democrats that were in the streets saying we
want waste, we want misspending, or the same Democrats that
are saying we're against Musk, we're against the illegal immigrants,
always a naturalized catiz and we're still against Musk. Of
course they will do this, you know what's coming. So
when I was watching this, my first thought was, well,
(08:36):
here comes the matrix, and boy has that played out.
Speaker 5 (08:38):
Trump's on the side of Rush. He's a Putin puppet.
He's got to go.
Speaker 4 (08:40):
He must be investigated, he must be impeached.
Speaker 5 (08:44):
We saw that. Then you've got the right.
Speaker 4 (08:46):
We're behind Trump and Z he's a warm and he's
you know, he's a he's of this, he's a that.
The point is, don't be tricked into either side. In fact,
stand with the president and not taking a side. I mean,
I love the way the President said it. You want
me to say here and say Puttin's evil, Putting's this,
puttings that, and then what get on the phone him, Hey, laddie,
let's work a deal. That's not how it works. I'm
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not on your side. I'm not on his side. I'm
on the United States' side, and I'm on the side
of eighteen and nine year olds that are dying by
the thousands every day and tens of billions and billions
of our dollars and we don't know where it's going.
And we want peace. We don't want continued war or escalation.
What's so hard about.
Speaker 8 (09:23):
This is stunning to me to see the and that's
where something of this is really coming into play. The
foreign policy blobs, lats of better word, seems to be
more willing to just have you know, eighteen and nineteen
year old Ukrainians firing in front, you know, standing in
front of bullets that we're sending to the to the warfront.
Speaker 5 (09:43):
It's crazy.
Speaker 9 (09:44):
You know, this has got to stop.
Speaker 8 (09:45):
President Trump is saying this has got to stop. And
you know, the only solution I seem to hear from
folks who are opposed to what President Trump is doing
simply because it's President Trump is to continue this war
for five, ten, fifteen, twenty years. We've seen what happens
in Afghanistan, We've seen what's happened in Vietnam.
Speaker 5 (10:00):
That is not a a.
Speaker 8 (10:02):
Progress to peace or prosperity for anyone, And to try
to advocate for that.
Speaker 9 (10:06):
Continuously, it's it's infuriating.
Speaker 8 (10:09):
And that's the same blob that President Trump is trying
to trying to dismantle inside the DC gereocracy. And so
look like that's I think that's the three D chess
that we're missing here on that front. Let's not also
forget that that President Trump is trying to shut off
the valve to some many of these whether it's USCI
D or the DoD and all of these folks are
screaming and trying to call their friends in the media
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to try to keep these things, these gravy trains runting
because this is their livelihood.
Speaker 4 (10:35):
They're By the way, that is not a small point
you made. That may be the elephant in the room.
There is a lot of money to be made over war.
The people that make these arms and get rich selling them,
they don't want peace. I mean, there's more money to
be made in war than there is in stockpiling.
Speaker 5 (10:54):
Right, that's right, that's right.
Speaker 4 (10:57):
Chris Walker is a Republican consultant analyst, and he joins
this as a contributor every Monday. All right, well, let
me tell you something. Rubio is a better man than me.
Trump's a better man than me. I'm Italian, and I
would have nothing to do with Zelensky again.
Speaker 5 (11:10):
I mean three strikes, you're out.
Speaker 4 (11:12):
You did this when I sent the secretary, the Treasury secretary.
Speaker 5 (11:16):
Be sent to Kiev.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
You did it again in Munich with my with my
vice president and my Secretary of State. Then you came
and did it in my office, in my house.
Speaker 5 (11:25):
Enough.
Speaker 4 (11:25):
If you want to move forward in peace with the
United States involved, you better have a different leader than Zelensky.
That's how I'd play it. But I'm Italian. Can they
resurrect this? I'll tell you The biggest problem I think
I have is you just out of the strategy now.
So now somebody better think of something new, because you
can't go to Vladimir Putin and say I'm doing a
minerals deal which is going to put the US interest
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and bodies on the soil. You're gonna have to keep
your word or we're gonna have war. You can't play
that game anymore. Subtly, I mean, how do you resurrect this?
Speaker 8 (11:55):
I think you know, first of all, I look, I
can't speak for putin my I grew up in the eighties.
My general senses is that Russians the pet guys. I
will just always have that bias in my head because
I watched Rocky for and and I love America, so
you know that was I'm a kidding. But like, my
general sense is, it's hard to make a deal with
Russians in the first place. So I think the first
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and I think President Trump that that really well, like, look,
we have to get Ukraine into a place where there's
an economic benefit for them to walk away from this
rather than it being bullet and ammunition. Let's share mental
right to figure out how to keep that you know,
government sustainable without having it have to be born aid
and military aid. So that was the point of that deal,
to at least get them to a place where they're
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not reliant on our on our dollars just for ammunition
and so and and material you know, on the right.
Speaker 4 (12:46):
For you, Yeah, a business relationship that can create prosperity
through building and things rather than war.
Speaker 8 (12:56):
That's right, and so you know, none of that was
that was a surprise to Russia either. So I think
the deal is certainly still on the table. You know,
we know what Putin wants. We know what Russia wants
Ukraine is not to be a part of NATO. And
the same foreign policy establishment that is that is crushingly,
you know, continuing to try.
Speaker 9 (13:15):
To continue this war is the same group that said.
Speaker 8 (13:18):
Where Ukraine should be in NATO? Where are troops and
European troops that have to be on.
Speaker 5 (13:21):
The ground right now.
Speaker 9 (13:23):
So you know, look, we know what Russia wants, we
know what we think what we.
Speaker 5 (13:27):
Can do with Ukraine. It's a matter of having the
right leaders in place to do that.
Speaker 8 (13:30):
And so you know, my fear is I'm not sure
that it's possible with Zelensky.
Speaker 5 (13:34):
And look, the man was a.
Speaker 8 (13:35):
Hero for a long time trying to find a war
that was an invasion that was wrongful invasion from Russia.
You know, there are pieces of him.
Speaker 9 (13:43):
Where where there was there was this three or four years.
Speaker 8 (13:45):
Ago was actually laudable. But since then, the gravy trans
continued unabated. There's been no pathway towards peace, and I
think he's so damaged by this. And look, I can't
fault him for that. He's been a year for three years.
Speaker 4 (13:58):
I had some compassion listen to him, like I want
to strangle the guy. Why aren't you wear wearing a suit?
I don't take that as disrespect of the guy's a war.
Speaker 5 (14:07):
I mean, you know, that was.
Speaker 4 (14:08):
Kind of dumb a lot, but at the point, it's
like two people that are going through a divorce. Clearly
these two hate each other. Clearly they're never going to
agree in mediation on what the others should have. So
you know there's going to have to be compromises, and
the easiest thing to do is bring up everything from
the past. The past will not get to the future.
Only a reset and a peace plan will get to
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the future. I don't think Friday moved us forward. I
think there's no question it moved us backwards. I hope
your words are right, and it's all still very possible.
Speaker 8 (14:39):
Here's where I think you could move us forward. One
because I think President Trump was very keenly aware of
how that meeting was going to go, and I think
he let the cameras stay there on purpose.
Speaker 5 (14:48):
That people could see it. Oh, he said he did too.
He said he did, yeah, and so too.
Speaker 8 (14:53):
I think we're going to see a deal to peace
because look, Thelenski went.
Speaker 9 (14:57):
Straight to Europe and went to European leaders.
Speaker 8 (14:59):
And begged for the But let's not forget Europe doesn't
have a has one aircraft carrier and has zero.
Speaker 5 (15:04):
Air tanking refuelers.
Speaker 8 (15:06):
They can't even fly their.
Speaker 5 (15:07):
Plane to Ukraine, let alone do anything else.
Speaker 8 (15:09):
So let's not assume that Europe can help them on
any way.
Speaker 5 (15:12):
I can go out, I can go all day, but
I can go all day with you. But we're out
of time. I will tell you this.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
Unless you watched all forty eight minutes, you don't know
what happened Friday. And I got a minute and thirty
of the Treasury Secretary with Laura Ingram that puts the
whole picture in place, that's coming up and sounds the
day as always our pleasure, Chris, God bless you.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
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Speaker 5 (15:32):
If you're just waking up, Welcome to March. Monday, March.
Speaker 4 (15:35):
The Third Secretary of State, Marco Rubio is insisting the
US is committed to ending this Russian Ukrainian War. Vladimir
Zelinsky says a US and Ukraine relationship can be salvaged.
Tyble Tell, Hollywood's biggest night all went to a noura.
As I have said in summary, if Sweet Home, Alabama
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(15:57):
the same story all the hooker with an oligarchs. But
it got all the top honors. Was nominated for six awards,
got five of them, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Editing,
Best Screenplay, Best Actress.
Speaker 5 (16:11):
I mean it had it all and.
Speaker 4 (16:13):
For complete noon and wicked almost a complete snuff from
the Oscars.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
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Speaker 4 (16:48):
Clearly you all wanted to talk about what happened Friday
at the White House between Zelenski, Trump and I guess
we'll throw in JD. Banson Marco Rubio, which makes sounds
the day so important today. Things that didn't allow us
to get to Zelensky says a US Ukraine relationship can
be salvaged from him and his stunt. Meanwhile, you got
Alexander Vindemann. Now he's gonna try to leave the charge
(17:10):
for impeachment now, and he says the President Trump, Oh,
Zelensky an apology.
Speaker 5 (17:18):
There's no sneeze button, but I spared you anyway. Bless you,
thank you.
Speaker 4 (17:22):
I am Trump signed an executive order designating English as
the official language of the United States. I'm sure the
left will turn this into hatred towards all people of
other languages. Know, but something's got to be the way
we do business and communicate. Gene Hackman, this is interesting.
I think the pacemaker makes it pretty clear. Gene Hackman,
with his cane and sunglasses is walking to go outside.
(17:43):
Who knows, maybe walk the dogs or walk with the dogs.
His pacemaker suggests he had a cardiac arrest, fell to
the ground and died instantly. Virtually that's common, and at
ninety five that's a common cause of death. Will cause
his wife to die with a dog still in a
kennel in the closet in the bathroom where she's got
(18:04):
pills that fell everywhere. That remains a mystery. She either
just coincidentally, after finding her husband and being so upset,
died of a cardiac arrest herself, or she fell hit
her head and something happened and she bled out. This
may all come down to just a really strange coincidence,
(18:27):
but other than that, you're just not going to know
until the blood work gets back. I love this story.
Former Governor Andrew Cuomo now announces he's running for New
York City mayor. This is a Democrat party crisis in
New York and now the man riddled and scandal from
COVID as governor is the solution to a party crisis
in a city that's not in crisis.
Speaker 5 (18:47):
In fact, it's governor realizes the.
Speaker 4 (18:49):
Only thing threatening its people are all these illegals committing crimes,
and he just wants to work with the federal government
to secure the priority of any mayor of any city,
which is the security of his people. But now a
Democrat crisis will be solved in New York City where
there is no crisis by the cause of a crisis
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the party itself. You can't make this stuff up. And
then we always talk about voter election integrity. And I
did a big thing. If you didn't hear in the
five o'clock hour, if we could have adaptive cruise control
for America or auto pilot like they have in planes
for America. I went through my list. Founding fathers had
(19:34):
no interest in a two party stranglehold. All it does
is create distractions and division solves nothing. That's why our
founding fathers weren't interested in it. We've had it for
almost one hundred years and it's just not working. Then
you add a one party media, which has since died
legacy media. That's just adding confusion and mistrust in a
distracted and divided country, and it equals people focused on
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the presidency when the real power lies.
Speaker 5 (20:00):
In the Congress.
Speaker 4 (20:01):
But if I wanted to put this thing on autopilot,
zero based prioritize, balance budget, no continuing resolutions, no more deficit,
no more debt, one budget, and it coincides with the
two year legislative term, a flatterfair tax system for revenue.
Everybody has skin in the game, everybody pays the share
term limits because it was never intended. And fourth on
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my list is only paper ballots and in person voting.
Now I also threw into that list. The US senators
are appointed by the states, again, not a statewide election,
dividing the debt among the total number of taxpayers and
giving them a set term to pay it off. If
the previous generation did this to our grandchildren, this generation
is going to stand up and do the right thing
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to free the next generation.
Speaker 5 (20:47):
From the sins of the previous.
Speaker 4 (20:49):
But if you just take the top four zero based,
prioritized budget, flatterfair tax system, term limits, and paper ballot,
that's my four things to create adaptive cruise control or
autopilot for a republic, and you and I would have
any reason to talk about anything or fight every day
would run itself. Well, sixty percent of the American people
agree with me on paper ballots. But will it happen?
(21:13):
Don't hold your breath all right, in terms of what
everybody's fighting about, what happened at the White House. This
is not just a fun and interesting sounds of the day.
You can't understand this issue without sounds.
Speaker 5 (21:25):
Of the day. This is CNN. This is the news, and.
Speaker 10 (21:29):
That's why more paintball are watching the cartoon networks, lunge
robbery runs right now.
Speaker 5 (21:33):
I'm a big ad democratic. This is like a gold
stall in a pass.
Speaker 6 (21:37):
You should have a government that just minds its own
damn business and leaves people alone.
Speaker 4 (21:41):
Let's start with what happened. This is exactly what I
don't want you doing. Going directly to the clip from
somebody that's trying to make a point and create a
narrative or an opinion in your mind. But if you
want to zoom in on it, here is probably the
most contentious moment. Zelenski's saying Putin doesn't.
Speaker 5 (22:03):
Keep his word.
Speaker 4 (22:04):
He's never kept his word, and the US has failed
to keep us secure. I want assurances that you will
back my country against Putin, not just in the signing
of a ceasefire, not just in a peace deal, but
if they break their word. And that's when he turns
(22:25):
to JD. Vans and says, what diplomacy are you talking about?
This was probably one of the more heated moments you
keep seeing over and over again.
Speaker 11 (22:34):
What kind of diplomacy GGUS became involved?
Speaker 5 (22:37):
What do you what do you mean?
Speaker 12 (22:39):
I'm talking about the kind of diplomacy that's going to
end the destruction of your country. But President, mister President,
with respect, I think it's disrespectful for you to come
into the Oval Office to try to litigate this in
front of the American media. Right now, you guys are
going around and forcing conscripts to the front lines because
you have manpower problems. You should be thanking the president
for trying to bring it into.
Speaker 5 (22:59):
The conflict up into Ukraine. That do you say, what
problems we have?
Speaker 12 (23:03):
I have been to I've actually I've actually watched and
seen the stories, and I know what happens is you
bring people, you bring them on a propaganda tour. Mister president,
are do you disagree that you've had problems bringing people
in your military? And do you think that it's respectful
Alans to come to the Oval Office of the United
States of America and attack the administration that is trying
(23:25):
to trying to prevent the destruction of your country.
Speaker 5 (23:28):
A lot of questions. Let's start from the beginning.
Speaker 11 (23:30):
Fist wall during the war, everybody has problems, even you.
But you have nice ocean and don't feel now, but
you will feel it in diffusion.
Speaker 5 (23:42):
Bless you, I'm blessed you're not. Don't tell us what
we're going to feel. We're trying to solve a problem.
Don't tell us what we're going to feel.
Speaker 11 (23:50):
I'm not telling you because you're in no position to
dictate that.
Speaker 6 (23:53):
You're in no position to dictate what we're going to feel.
Speaker 5 (23:58):
We're going to feel.
Speaker 11 (23:59):
Very feel good, to feel very good and very strong.
Speaker 5 (24:03):
It'll feel influenced. You're right now, not in a very
good position.
Speaker 13 (24:07):
You've allowed you to be in a very bad position
that he's happen to be right about the very beginning
of the war.
Speaker 5 (24:12):
Not in a good position. You don't have the cards right.
Speaker 4 (24:15):
Now, all right, So here's this whole disagreement. Your first
thought probably was why is this happening in front of
the cameras. This is the kind of conversations that happened
behind closed doors. And then you come out in solidarity,
you make your statement, or you don't come out of
the room and say anything because you couldn't arrive at anything.
But perceivably they had a discussion, let the press in.
(24:37):
Things go well for about what forty minutes, and then
he pulls this stunt. But there's background to this, and
I think the most important minute in twenty seconds is
Treasury Secretary Scott descent with Laura Ingram the night after
(24:58):
it happens Friday night, and he tells this story.
Speaker 5 (25:03):
Listen.
Speaker 10 (25:05):
Yeah, so Laura, I went all the way to Kiev
because I thought it was important. President Trump sent me
there to again, we were supposed to bring the Ukrainian
people closer to the US people, send a strong signal
to Russian leadership that we had the not only shared values,
(25:25):
but now shared economic interests.
Speaker 4 (25:27):
All right, that's February twelfth. First and foremost, I want
you to understand what he's going to lay out. One,
I was sent by the President to find out where
all the money's been going, because I'm not giving him
any more money if we can't track it. I've heard
things about this guy. I've had interactions with this guy.
I don't trust this guy. Go find where my American
people's money went, and there were problems accounting for all
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of it. Secondly, to symbolically be standing there and showing solidarity. Thirdly,
US strategy being played out over minimal rights. Now, some
of you have been calling up saying he's already given
those mineral rights to Europe. That's why he can't sign
a deal. This is in February February twelve. And this
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is the very assurance he's saying. By the way, if
he can't get assurance from the United States that they're
going to back Ukraine, if Russia doesn't keep its word,
it's because you blew it up. This was the strategy.
We do the minimal rights. It's sus of my people
get their money back. We have a vested interest in
business arrangement.
Speaker 5 (26:27):
Together.
Speaker 4 (26:27):
We got physical bodies on the ground there. If he
pulls any stunts, now I can protect my country. That
was your assurance. He just blew that strategy up. So
this is the three things that percent was sent there
to do. Now watch how he lays out how it went.
Speaker 10 (26:44):
And also have a strong signal for the American people
that their tax dollars were actually going to work instead.
President Zelensky and I had a very tough forty five
minute meeting at a very loud decibel level, and I
kept telling him, mister President, the purpose of this is
(27:05):
to show the Russians there is no daylight between us.
And at the end of the meeting he said, well,
I'm not signing this, and I said it into the meeting.
I said to him, what do you want to go
out and tell the press. He said, I said, because
I don't want to go out and show the Russians
of the daylight in between us. And he said, well,
I'm going to go out and say I'll sign it
(27:25):
in Munich. Then he got to Munich and he ran
into Vice President of Vance and Secretary of Rubio, very
different than Vice President Harris and Secretary Blincoln. But he
didn't sign the agreement. So finally we were supposed to
have the signing today. It was supposed to be a
great day. And this is one of the biggest own
goals in diplomatic history.
Speaker 5 (27:47):
One goals in diplomatic history. Ark Rubio.
Speaker 4 (27:53):
At quite the exchange with George Stepanovolos about four I
had planned I have time for one.
Speaker 13 (27:57):
But listen, by the way, at the Security Council, which
has not been widely reported, the first resolution on Ukraine
that has passed the Security Council in three years passed
this week because of the leadership of President Trump. And
it's a resolution that says bad war needs to end.
Let's bring the two sides together. That's what the resolution is. Again,
what is the United Nations for? Isn't it not a
(28:18):
forum to promote peace in the world, and it shouldn't
our president. Shouldn't we all be happy that we have
a president who's trying to stop wars and prevent them
instead of start them. And I just don't get it.
I really don't. Other than the fact that it's Donald J.
Speaker 5 (28:31):
Trump.
Speaker 13 (28:32):
If this was a Democrat that was doing this, everyone
would be saying, well, he's on his way to the
Nobel Peace Prize. This is absurd. We are trying to
end a war. You cannot end the war unless both
sides come to the table, starting with the Russians. And
that is the point the President has made, and we
have to do whatever we can to try to bring
them to the table to see if it's even possible.
I'm not promising you it's possible. I'm not telling you
(28:53):
it's ninety percent likely. I'm saying it's zero percent likely
if we don't get them to a negotiating table. And
the sooner everyone grows up around here and figures out
that this is a bad war that's heading in a
bad direction, with death and destruction and all kinds of
danger surrounding it that could spiral into a broader conflict.
The sooner people grow up and realize that. I think
the more progress we're going to be able to make.
(29:13):
But the President's crystal clear. He campaigned on it and
he's going to govern on it, and that is he
is going to be a president that tries to achieve peace.
And he has been very clear. This is a war
that would have never happened at Donald Trump and in
the White House, and it needs to end and we're
going to do everything we can to end it in
an enduring and sustainable and fair way.
Speaker 4 (29:30):
That was my choice for president, quite frankly in twenty sixteen,
and I might have been interested again in twenty twenty
and I couldn't agree with them more. Everybody's trying to
influence your opinion in stance based on clips. Make sure
you watch all forty eight minutes of that exchange in
(29:50):
the Oval Office. Make sure you're aware of what the
Treasury Secretary just laid out. The stunt he pulled Friday
is the same stunty Polden Munich before that and all
the way back to February twelfth in Kiev. No, I
don't know what his endgame is. I'm with Donald Trump.
You want to do this without our weapons, without our money.
(30:12):
Good luck, you don't hold the cards, but you're not
going to trick me into World War three. You're playing
with world War three was the quote from President Trump.
And you just heard Marco Rubio say, today isn't a
day to pick sides between Zelinsky and Trump. Today is
a day for you to decide do you want peace
or take a giant leap towards a world war? Because
(30:33):
that's what Zelensky and Europe is up to and the crazy,
crazy matrix games they've just begun.
Speaker 5 (30:47):
Everybody, I'm not joking.
Speaker 8 (30:49):
I don't think we should be taking the advice from
a group of people who can't define what a woman is.
Speaker 5 (30:55):
That was just complete formation are That's your Sounds of
the Day for this Monday, March the.
Speaker 3 (31:04):
Third, This is your Morning Show with Michael del Trono.
Speaker 4 (31:10):
European leaders are pledging billions in support for Ukraine following
the emergency summit in London. Over the weekend, Hollywood's Biggest
Night all went to honor five of the six nominations.
They took home the statues and it was all the
big categories. He's supposedly anti vacks, but your Secretary of
Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Junior is pushing
(31:30):
people to get vaccinated against the measles, and President Trump
on Saturdays signed an executive order making English the official
language of the United States. Meanwhile, thousands of troops are
being deployed to the southern border. National Correspondent Roy O'Neil
has the very latest on this movement.
Speaker 5 (31:46):
Good morning, Rory. Hey there, Michael.
Speaker 14 (31:48):
Yeah, three thousand troops, all coming mostly from Colorado. It's
a combination of soldiers, some vehicles, some armored striker vehicles
and a helicopter.
Speaker 5 (32:00):
As well, all being deployed to the Arizona border.
Speaker 4 (32:05):
Obviously, as we've discussed a million times, a wall could
be helpful. Wall doesn't make sense all the way across,
but a wall technology, more border patrol agents, and then
if you're in the midst of a crisis, setting troops.
But momentum wise, things have been down. Just by stating
(32:26):
that we're going to secure the border. I think this
will make them go down even more. But the question
becomes is it necessary? Well, right, I mean that's the idea.
Speaker 14 (32:35):
We got a tweet from Secretary Hegseth over the weekend
saying he wants one operational control of the border. We
know that those border crossing numbers have been falling a
lot for the past year. The Biden administration, you know,
trying to turn the tide going into the election, so
the numbers were falling and heading in the right direction.
(32:56):
Then after President Trump won re election, it really started
to fall off and went even further off the cliff
on January twentieth, So it is down to a trickle.
Exactly what these troops will be doing in terms of
trying to do for messaging purposes, you know, are they
talking to migrants?
Speaker 5 (33:13):
Is this a message for the cartels? Maybe a bit
of both.
Speaker 4 (33:17):
Yeah, And then we still have Canada that put a
borders are in place, committed one point three billion dollars,
Mexico that had agreed to send troops to their side
of the border in this effort, and then of course
that expires in hours quite frankly, and we wonder if
the tariffs are going to go into place.
Speaker 5 (33:36):
So where do we stand on all that?
Speaker 14 (33:38):
Yeah, well, you know it's a moving target, those tariffs.
So let's see what the day holds and whether or
not the President may save some announcement for tomorrow night
when he speaks to that joint session of Congress.
Speaker 5 (33:49):
Pope.
Speaker 4 (33:50):
I thought when I I was on a golf course,
somebody told me they put him on a ventilator. I thought, oh,
now we're really getting towards the end. But it ended
up being, you know, some vomit that got in his lungs.
Speaker 5 (33:59):
They treat.
Speaker 4 (34:00):
He's off the ventilator, he's up sitting talking, participated in mass.
Speaker 5 (34:05):
Don't count this guy out yet.
Speaker 14 (34:08):
Yeah, No, celebrated Mass with the people who are taking
care of him there at that hospital in Rome. So
you know, it's one step forward, one step back, and
back and forth, back and forth. But he's been in
the hospital now since Valentine's Day, the longest stretch of
him we know, being in the hospital.
Speaker 5 (34:25):
So a lot. There are some more encouraging signs today and.
Speaker 4 (34:28):
A lot of people in his church praying form and
the miracles continue. He's still with us, so I appreciate
it so much.
Speaker 5 (34:33):
Thanks for joining us today, Rory.
Speaker 3 (34:35):
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Speaker 4 (00:31):
So we all began to wax poetically about our take
on Zelenski Trump, these versus picking sides, all that stuff.
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it is your morning show. We can't have your morning
show without your voice. And obviously the main story is
(01:15):
what happened at the White House between Trump and Zelensky.
Our big question is why did the Ukrainian president travel
to the United States to even meet with Trump anyway
if this was his intent, Because what he did Friday
he had done previously in Munich and before that in Kiev.
(01:37):
So the President sends the Treasury Secretary to find out
where all our money went and to lay out the strategy.
Speaker 5 (01:44):
We signed the mineral rights deal.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
Listen, that puts us on your soil, that will hold
Russia accountable. There's your assurance that they will keep whatever
agreement we make. He refuses to sign it there and
says I'll sign in Munich. Then he gets to Munich
and meets with Vance and Rubio still doesn't sign it.
Then he comes to America to sign it and doesn't
sign it again. Let's sub with that. What to Donald
(02:13):
Trump's question, what is your game? You're playing with World
War three and you don't have the cards. But we're
getting your response mainly to the question, why did he
bother to come if he was just going to do
it for a third time pull a media stunt. What's
Selensky really up to? I don't know by name but
caller one.
Speaker 6 (02:32):
Although this story is important. I think every story that
we are going through right now relates to how people
perceive things, especially through the media. You're not going to
regulate in the media, nor should you. But what's going
to have to happen is people are going to have
to be awake. And I think what really comes down
to knowing what's going to happen is the mid terms.
It will be the great litmus test are we going
(02:53):
to continue to get better or are we going to
go back?
Speaker 7 (02:56):
Michael, So, what the press is not talking about is
that one hour before as Vilenski met Trump in the
White House, he met with Chris Murphy and a panel
of Democrats elsewhere and they told him don't sign the deal.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Yeah, Lensky is just a new world order up it
just like Biden was.
Speaker 8 (03:15):
Ah, this is Richard from Boydell, Georgia in my morning
show show with Michael.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
Maybe Richard and Flip, is there a sanity today? No? Look,
it's up to you that we live in a world
where information is everywhere. You've never had more information at
your fingertips in an ocean of voices. There's no putting
(03:44):
the toothpaste back in the tube. Only you can control
what you listen to. Only you can do the due
diligence to understand everybody's trying to spin you at once.
You got to go find the truth. Is it harder, yes,
but you weren't getting the truth before. That's why our
(04:05):
take on this has been very simple. Have you listened
to all forty eight minutes? Not the clips that are
being fed to you as an agenda in a narrative
is being sold to you. Have you listened to all
forty eight minutes? That's number one, number two, and we're
going to repeat it in our Sounds of the Day
coming up and lessen thirty minutes. Did you hear what
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent laid out for Laura Ingram how
(04:28):
the President Trump sent him to Kiev to visit with
this strategy, the strategy that addresses and provides the very
security assurance he made a scene over and now by
doing that takes that strategy off the table because now
(04:49):
Plutin knows, but if you did it then in Kiev
and wouldn't sign it and then said I'll sign it
in Munich, and then you go to Munich and don't
sign it, and then you say I'll sign it in America.
You fly all the way here just to pull this
stup with the media. What's your end game? Going alone
(05:09):
with Europe? Fine, but you're pushing us towards World War
not peace. President Trump has said over and over again,
this war would have never happened if I were president. Well,
now they're trying to start World War three while he's president.
That's really the moment you're in. Chris Walker is a
(05:32):
Republican consultant, obviously under your umbrella.
Speaker 5 (05:38):
You know that.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
One caller brings up how he met with Democrats. He
also met with a lot of establishment Republicans too before.
I don't think that was the defining moment because all
he did Friday was the same thing he did in
Munich and the same thing he did prior to that
in Kiev. But is the Republican party behind their president
and not taking a side with Russia or Ukraine, but
taking the USA and world peace aside and finding a solution,
(06:02):
not relitigating the past.
Speaker 5 (06:04):
Where does your party stand? Good morning?
Speaker 8 (06:08):
You know, I would say most are behind the president.
You know, I don't know if you caught the clip
of Marco Rubio giving uh, you know, George Stephanopolis uh
a lecture in terms of trying to secure peace. But
George Stephanopplos played the old trick of trying to play,
you know, a Republican contrarian quote to him, and Marco
wasn't taking. That happened to me from Vicki Rakowski, who's
(06:29):
you know, barely a Republican these days. But you know,
I think you can you could pick the outlier here
or there, but on the whole, you know, the party's
pretty unified here, like no more money to Ukraine unless
there's a piece of an attempt to go to peace.
And so that's what President Trump is trying to do.
That's what the cabinets trying to do. That's what Jade
Vance is trying to do.
Speaker 5 (06:49):
And to see you.
Speaker 8 (06:50):
Know a lot more uh Zilinski over the of the
over the of the on Friday saying basically, I'm not
I don't want to sign a deal without some security arrangement,
which basically means boots on the ground from Americans and Europeans.
You know, that's that's not on the on the table,
President Trump is not going to send American troops to Ukraine.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
Do you think, by the way, do you think I'm
right when I say by the way, I'm just using
the president's words. This, This is the value of watching
all forty eight minutes. That's when the President put his
arm on his shoulder and paused him and said, you're
playing with world War three here. I think the bottom
line is President Trump believes this war wouldn't have begun
if he were president. But he's gonna be darn sure
(07:30):
world War three doesn't begin while he's president. And that's
what this is. A movement towards and away from peace
and a security deal.
Speaker 8 (07:38):
Yeah, and you know, I think it will remain to
be played out. I'm like to see what happens this week.
I don't know the full details of the Chris Murphy stuff.
I've read some of those tweets as well. We'll see
what We'll see what happens. But if Democrats are actively
trying to create, you know, an impeachment some type of effort, yeah,
to to try to undermine foreign policy and to try
to undermine peace in between russ in Ukraine, well goodness gracious,
(08:02):
how is it that trump derangement system and syndrome has
reached the level where Democrats are in favor of continuing
a war just to try to score political points semestically.
Speaker 9 (08:13):
It's disgusting.
Speaker 5 (08:14):
You mean the same the same democrats.
Speaker 4 (08:16):
Don't know what's been said about that yet, you mean
the same Democrats that were in the streets saying we
want waste, we want misspending, or the same Democrats that
are saying we're against Musk, we're against the illegal immigrants,
always a naturalized catiz and we're still against Musk. Of
course they will do this, you know what's coming. So
when I was watching this, my first thought was, well,
(08:36):
here comes the matrix, and boy has that played out.
Speaker 5 (08:38):
Trump's on the side of Rush. He's a Putin puppet.
He's got to go.
Speaker 4 (08:40):
He must be investigated, he must be impeached.
Speaker 5 (08:44):
We saw that. Then you've got the right.
Speaker 4 (08:46):
We're behind Trump and Z he's a warm and he's
you know, he's a he's of this, he's a that.
The point is, don't be tricked into either side. In fact,
stand with the president and not taking a side. I mean,
I love the way the President said it. You want
me to say here and say Puttin's evil, Putting's this,
puttings that, and then what get on the phone him, Hey, laddie,
let's work a deal. That's not how it works. I'm
(09:06):
not on your side. I'm not on his side. I'm
on the United States' side, and I'm on the side
of eighteen and nine year olds that are dying by
the thousands every day and tens of billions and billions
of our dollars and we don't know where it's going.
And we want peace. We don't want continued war or escalation.
What's so hard about.
Speaker 8 (09:23):
This is stunning to me to see the and that's
where something of this is really coming into play. The
foreign policy blobs, lats of better word, seems to be
more willing to just have you know, eighteen and nineteen
year old Ukrainians firing in front, you know, standing in
front of bullets that we're sending to the to the warfront.
Speaker 5 (09:43):
It's crazy.
Speaker 9 (09:44):
You know, this has got to stop.
Speaker 8 (09:45):
President Trump is saying this has got to stop. And
you know, the only solution I seem to hear from
folks who are opposed to what President Trump is doing
simply because it's President Trump is to continue this war
for five, ten, fifteen, twenty years. We've seen what happens
in Afghanistan, We've seen what's happened in Vietnam.
Speaker 5 (10:00):
That is not a a.
Speaker 8 (10:02):
Progress to peace or prosperity for anyone, And to try
to advocate for that.
Speaker 9 (10:06):
Continuously, it's it's infuriating.
Speaker 8 (10:09):
And that's the same blob that President Trump is trying
to trying to dismantle inside the DC gereocracy. And so
look like that's I think that's the three D chess
that we're missing here on that front. Let's not also
forget that that President Trump is trying to shut off
the valve to some many of these whether it's USCI
D or the DoD and all of these folks are
screaming and trying to call their friends in the media
(10:30):
to try to keep these things, these gravy trains runting
because this is their livelihood.
Speaker 4 (10:35):
They're By the way, that is not a small point
you made. That may be the elephant in the room.
There is a lot of money to be made over war.
The people that make these arms and get rich selling them,
they don't want peace. I mean, there's more money to
be made in war than there is in stockpiling.
Speaker 5 (10:54):
Right, that's right, that's right.
Speaker 4 (10:57):
Chris Walker is a Republican consultant analyst, and he joins
this as a contributor every Monday. All right, well, let
me tell you something. Rubio is a better man than me.
Trump's a better man than me. I'm Italian, and I
would have nothing to do with Zelensky again.
Speaker 5 (11:10):
I mean three strikes, you're out.
Speaker 4 (11:12):
You did this when I sent the secretary, the Treasury secretary.
Speaker 5 (11:16):
Be sent to Kiev.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
You did it again in Munich with my with my
vice president and my Secretary of State. Then you came
and did it in my office, in my house.
Speaker 5 (11:25):
Enough.
Speaker 4 (11:25):
If you want to move forward in peace with the
United States involved, you better have a different leader than Zelensky.
That's how I'd play it. But I'm Italian. Can they
resurrect this? I'll tell you The biggest problem I think
I have is you just out of the strategy now.
So now somebody better think of something new, because you
can't go to Vladimir Putin and say I'm doing a
minerals deal which is going to put the US interest
(11:46):
and bodies on the soil. You're gonna have to keep
your word or we're gonna have war. You can't play
that game anymore. Subtly, I mean, how do you resurrect this?
Speaker 8 (11:55):
I think you know, first of all, I look, I
can't speak for putin my I grew up in the eighties.
My general senses is that Russians the pet guys. I
will just always have that bias in my head because
I watched Rocky for and and I love America, so
you know that was I'm a kidding. But like, my
general sense is, it's hard to make a deal with
Russians in the first place. So I think the first
(12:17):
and I think President Trump that that really well, like, look,
we have to get Ukraine into a place where there's
an economic benefit for them to walk away from this
rather than it being bullet and ammunition. Let's share mental
right to figure out how to keep that you know,
government sustainable without having it have to be born aid
and military aid. So that was the point of that deal,
to at least get them to a place where they're
(12:38):
not reliant on our on our dollars just for ammunition
and so and and material you know, on the right.
Speaker 4 (12:46):
For you, Yeah, a business relationship that can create prosperity
through building and things rather than war.
Speaker 8 (12:56):
That's right, and so you know, none of that was
that was a surprise to Russia either. So I think
the deal is certainly still on the table. You know,
we know what Putin wants. We know what Russia wants
Ukraine is not to be a part of NATO. And
the same foreign policy establishment that is that is crushingly,
you know, continuing to try.
Speaker 9 (13:15):
To continue this war is the same group that said.
Speaker 8 (13:18):
Where Ukraine should be in NATO? Where are troops and
European troops that have to be on.
Speaker 5 (13:21):
The ground right now.
Speaker 9 (13:23):
So you know, look, we know what Russia wants, we
know what we think what we.
Speaker 5 (13:27):
Can do with Ukraine. It's a matter of having the
right leaders in place to do that.
Speaker 8 (13:30):
And so you know, my fear is I'm not sure
that it's possible with Zelensky.
Speaker 5 (13:34):
And look, the man was a.
Speaker 8 (13:35):
Hero for a long time trying to find a war
that was an invasion that was wrongful invasion from Russia.
You know, there are pieces of him.
Speaker 9 (13:43):
Where where there was there was this three or four years.
Speaker 8 (13:45):
Ago was actually laudable. But since then, the gravy trans
continued unabated. There's been no pathway towards peace, and I
think he's so damaged by this. And look, I can't
fault him for that. He's been a year for three years.
Speaker 4 (13:58):
I had some compassion listen to him, like I want
to strangle the guy. Why aren't you wear wearing a suit?
I don't take that as disrespect of the guy's a war.
Speaker 5 (14:07):
I mean, you know, that was.
Speaker 4 (14:08):
Kind of dumb a lot, but at the point, it's
like two people that are going through a divorce. Clearly
these two hate each other. Clearly they're never going to
agree in mediation on what the others should have. So
you know there's going to have to be compromises, and
the easiest thing to do is bring up everything from
the past. The past will not get to the future.
Only a reset and a peace plan will get to
(14:31):
the future. I don't think Friday moved us forward. I
think there's no question it moved us backwards. I hope
your words are right, and it's all still very possible.
Speaker 8 (14:39):
Here's where I think you could move us forward. One
because I think President Trump was very keenly aware of
how that meeting was going to go, and I think
he let the cameras stay there on purpose.
Speaker 5 (14:48):
That people could see it. Oh, he said he did too.
He said he did, yeah, and so too.
Speaker 8 (14:53):
I think we're going to see a deal to peace
because look, Thelenski went.
Speaker 9 (14:57):
Straight to Europe and went to European leaders.
Speaker 8 (14:59):
And begged for the But let's not forget Europe doesn't
have a has one aircraft carrier and has zero.
Speaker 5 (15:04):
Air tanking refuelers.
Speaker 8 (15:06):
They can't even fly their.
Speaker 5 (15:07):
Plane to Ukraine, let alone do anything else.
Speaker 8 (15:09):
So let's not assume that Europe can help them on
any way.
Speaker 5 (15:12):
I can go out, I can go all day, but
I can go all day with you. But we're out
of time. I will tell you this.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
Unless you watched all forty eight minutes, you don't know
what happened Friday. And I got a minute and thirty
of the Treasury Secretary with Laura Ingram that puts the
whole picture in place, that's coming up and sounds the
day as always our pleasure, Chris, God bless you.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
It's your morning show with Michael del Chano.
Speaker 5 (15:32):
If you're just waking up, Welcome to March. Monday, March.
Speaker 4 (15:35):
The Third Secretary of State, Marco Rubio is insisting the
US is committed to ending this Russian Ukrainian War. Vladimir
Zelinsky says a US and Ukraine relationship can be salvaged.
Tyble Tell, Hollywood's biggest night all went to a noura.
As I have said in summary, if Sweet Home, Alabama
had a baby with pretty woman, you'd get anura. Is
(15:57):
the same story all the hooker with an oligarchs. But
it got all the top honors. Was nominated for six awards,
got five of them, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Editing,
Best Screenplay, Best Actress.
Speaker 5 (16:11):
I mean it had it all and.
Speaker 4 (16:13):
For complete noon and wicked almost a complete snuff from
the Oscars.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
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Morning Show with Michael de Jono.
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Speaker 4 (16:48):
Clearly you all wanted to talk about what happened Friday
at the White House between Zelenski, Trump and I guess
we'll throw in JD. Banson Marco Rubio, which makes sounds
the day so important today. Things that didn't allow us
to get to Zelensky says a US Ukraine relationship can
be salvaged from him and his stunt. Meanwhile, you got
Alexander Vindemann. Now he's gonna try to leave the charge
(17:10):
for impeachment now, and he says the President Trump, Oh,
Zelensky an apology.
Speaker 5 (17:18):
There's no sneeze button, but I spared you anyway. Bless you,
thank you.
Speaker 4 (17:22):
I am Trump signed an executive order designating English as
the official language of the United States. I'm sure the
left will turn this into hatred towards all people of
other languages. Know, but something's got to be the way
we do business and communicate. Gene Hackman, this is interesting.
I think the pacemaker makes it pretty clear. Gene Hackman,
with his cane and sunglasses is walking to go outside.
(17:43):
Who knows, maybe walk the dogs or walk with the dogs.
His pacemaker suggests he had a cardiac arrest, fell to
the ground and died instantly. Virtually that's common, and at
ninety five that's a common cause of death. Will cause
his wife to die with a dog still in a
kennel in the closet in the bathroom where she's got
(18:04):
pills that fell everywhere. That remains a mystery. She either
just coincidentally, after finding her husband and being so upset,
died of a cardiac arrest herself, or she fell hit
her head and something happened and she bled out. This
may all come down to just a really strange coincidence,
(18:27):
but other than that, you're just not going to know
until the blood work gets back. I love this story.
Former Governor Andrew Cuomo now announces he's running for New
York City mayor. This is a Democrat party crisis in
New York and now the man riddled and scandal from
COVID as governor is the solution to a party crisis
in a city that's not in crisis.
Speaker 5 (18:47):
In fact, it's governor realizes the.
Speaker 4 (18:49):
Only thing threatening its people are all these illegals committing crimes,
and he just wants to work with the federal government
to secure the priority of any mayor of any city,
which is the security of his people. But now a
Democrat crisis will be solved in New York City where
there is no crisis by the cause of a crisis
(19:11):
the party itself. You can't make this stuff up. And
then we always talk about voter election integrity. And I
did a big thing. If you didn't hear in the
five o'clock hour, if we could have adaptive cruise control
for America or auto pilot like they have in planes
for America. I went through my list. Founding fathers had
(19:34):
no interest in a two party stranglehold. All it does
is create distractions and division solves nothing. That's why our
founding fathers weren't interested in it. We've had it for
almost one hundred years and it's just not working. Then
you add a one party media, which has since died
legacy media. That's just adding confusion and mistrust in a
distracted and divided country, and it equals people focused on
(19:57):
the presidency when the real power lies.
Speaker 5 (20:00):
In the Congress.
Speaker 4 (20:01):
But if I wanted to put this thing on autopilot,
zero based prioritize, balance budget, no continuing resolutions, no more deficit,
no more debt, one budget, and it coincides with the
two year legislative term, a flatterfair tax system for revenue.
Everybody has skin in the game, everybody pays the share
term limits because it was never intended. And fourth on
(20:23):
my list is only paper ballots and in person voting.
Now I also threw into that list. The US senators
are appointed by the states, again, not a statewide election,
dividing the debt among the total number of taxpayers and
giving them a set term to pay it off. If
the previous generation did this to our grandchildren, this generation
is going to stand up and do the right thing
(20:45):
to free the next generation.
Speaker 5 (20:47):
From the sins of the previous.
Speaker 4 (20:49):
But if you just take the top four zero based,
prioritized budget, flatterfair tax system, term limits, and paper ballot,
that's my four things to create adaptive cruise control or
autopilot for a republic, and you and I would have
any reason to talk about anything or fight every day
would run itself. Well, sixty percent of the American people
agree with me on paper ballots. But will it happen?
(21:13):
Don't hold your breath all right, in terms of what
everybody's fighting about, what happened at the White House. This
is not just a fun and interesting sounds of the day.
You can't understand this issue without sounds.
Speaker 5 (21:25):
Of the day. This is CNN. This is the news, and.
Speaker 10 (21:29):
That's why more paintball are watching the cartoon networks, lunge
robbery runs right now.
Speaker 5 (21:33):
I'm a big ad democratic. This is like a gold
stall in a pass.
Speaker 6 (21:37):
You should have a government that just minds its own
damn business and leaves people alone.
Speaker 4 (21:41):
Let's start with what happened. This is exactly what I
don't want you doing. Going directly to the clip from
somebody that's trying to make a point and create a
narrative or an opinion in your mind. But if you
want to zoom in on it, here is probably the
most contentious moment. Zelenski's saying Putin doesn't.
Speaker 5 (22:03):
Keep his word.
Speaker 4 (22:04):
He's never kept his word, and the US has failed
to keep us secure. I want assurances that you will
back my country against Putin, not just in the signing
of a ceasefire, not just in a peace deal, but
if they break their word. And that's when he turns
(22:25):
to JD. Vans and says, what diplomacy are you talking about?
This was probably one of the more heated moments you
keep seeing over and over again.
Speaker 11 (22:34):
What kind of diplomacy GGUS became involved?
Speaker 5 (22:37):
What do you what do you mean?
Speaker 12 (22:39):
I'm talking about the kind of diplomacy that's going to
end the destruction of your country. But President, mister President,
with respect, I think it's disrespectful for you to come
into the Oval Office to try to litigate this in
front of the American media. Right now, you guys are
going around and forcing conscripts to the front lines because
you have manpower problems. You should be thanking the president
for trying to bring it into.
Speaker 5 (22:59):
The conflict up into Ukraine. That do you say, what
problems we have?
Speaker 12 (23:03):
I have been to I've actually I've actually watched and
seen the stories, and I know what happens is you
bring people, you bring them on a propaganda tour. Mister president,
are do you disagree that you've had problems bringing people
in your military? And do you think that it's respectful
Alans to come to the Oval Office of the United
States of America and attack the administration that is trying
(23:25):
to trying to prevent the destruction of your country.
Speaker 5 (23:28):
A lot of questions. Let's start from the beginning.
Speaker 11 (23:30):
Fist wall during the war, everybody has problems, even you.
But you have nice ocean and don't feel now, but
you will feel it in diffusion.
Speaker 5 (23:42):
Bless you, I'm blessed you're not. Don't tell us what
we're going to feel. We're trying to solve a problem.
Don't tell us what we're going to feel.
Speaker 11 (23:50):
I'm not telling you because you're in no position to
dictate that.
Speaker 6 (23:53):
You're in no position to dictate what we're going to feel.
Speaker 5 (23:58):
We're going to feel.
Speaker 11 (23:59):
Very feel good, to feel very good and very strong.
Speaker 5 (24:03):
It'll feel influenced. You're right now, not in a very
good position.
Speaker 13 (24:07):
You've allowed you to be in a very bad position
that he's happen to be right about the very beginning
of the war.
Speaker 5 (24:12):
Not in a good position. You don't have the cards right.
Speaker 4 (24:15):
Now, all right, So here's this whole disagreement. Your first
thought probably was why is this happening in front of
the cameras. This is the kind of conversations that happened
behind closed doors. And then you come out in solidarity,
you make your statement, or you don't come out of
the room and say anything because you couldn't arrive at anything.
But perceivably they had a discussion, let the press in.
(24:37):
Things go well for about what forty minutes, and then
he pulls this stunt. But there's background to this, and
I think the most important minute in twenty seconds is
Treasury Secretary Scott descent with Laura Ingram the night after
(24:58):
it happens Friday night, and he tells this story.
Speaker 5 (25:03):
Listen.
Speaker 10 (25:05):
Yeah, so Laura, I went all the way to Kiev
because I thought it was important. President Trump sent me
there to again, we were supposed to bring the Ukrainian
people closer to the US people, send a strong signal
to Russian leadership that we had the not only shared values,
(25:25):
but now shared economic interests.
Speaker 4 (25:27):
All right, that's February twelfth. First and foremost, I want
you to understand what he's going to lay out. One,
I was sent by the President to find out where
all the money's been going, because I'm not giving him
any more money if we can't track it. I've heard
things about this guy. I've had interactions with this guy.
I don't trust this guy. Go find where my American
people's money went, and there were problems accounting for all
(25:51):
of it. Secondly, to symbolically be standing there and showing solidarity. Thirdly,
US strategy being played out over minimal rights. Now, some
of you have been calling up saying he's already given
those mineral rights to Europe. That's why he can't sign
a deal. This is in February February twelve. And this
(26:12):
is the very assurance he's saying. By the way, if
he can't get assurance from the United States that they're
going to back Ukraine, if Russia doesn't keep its word,
it's because you blew it up. This was the strategy.
We do the minimal rights. It's sus of my people
get their money back. We have a vested interest in
business arrangement.
Speaker 5 (26:27):
Together.
Speaker 4 (26:27):
We got physical bodies on the ground there. If he
pulls any stunts, now I can protect my country. That
was your assurance. He just blew that strategy up. So
this is the three things that percent was sent there
to do. Now watch how he lays out how it went.
Speaker 10 (26:44):
And also have a strong signal for the American people
that their tax dollars were actually going to work instead.
President Zelensky and I had a very tough forty five
minute meeting at a very loud decibel level, and I
kept telling him, mister President, the purpose of this is
(27:05):
to show the Russians there is no daylight between us.
And at the end of the meeting he said, well,
I'm not signing this, and I said it into the meeting.
I said to him, what do you want to go
out and tell the press. He said, I said, because
I don't want to go out and show the Russians
of the daylight in between us. And he said, well,
I'm going to go out and say I'll sign it
(27:25):
in Munich. Then he got to Munich and he ran
into Vice President of Vance and Secretary of Rubio, very
different than Vice President Harris and Secretary Blincoln. But he
didn't sign the agreement. So finally we were supposed to
have the signing today. It was supposed to be a
great day. And this is one of the biggest own
goals in diplomatic history.
Speaker 5 (27:47):
One goals in diplomatic history. Ark Rubio.
Speaker 4 (27:53):
At quite the exchange with George Stepanovolos about four I
had planned I have time for one.
Speaker 13 (27:57):
But listen, by the way, at the Security Council, which
has not been widely reported, the first resolution on Ukraine
that has passed the Security Council in three years passed
this week because of the leadership of President Trump. And
it's a resolution that says bad war needs to end.
Let's bring the two sides together. That's what the resolution is. Again,
what is the United Nations for? Isn't it not a
(28:18):
forum to promote peace in the world, and it shouldn't
our president. Shouldn't we all be happy that we have
a president who's trying to stop wars and prevent them
instead of start them. And I just don't get it.
I really don't. Other than the fact that it's Donald J.
Speaker 5 (28:31):
Trump.
Speaker 13 (28:32):
If this was a Democrat that was doing this, everyone
would be saying, well, he's on his way to the
Nobel Peace Prize. This is absurd. We are trying to
end a war. You cannot end the war unless both
sides come to the table, starting with the Russians. And
that is the point the President has made, and we
have to do whatever we can to try to bring
them to the table to see if it's even possible.
I'm not promising you it's possible. I'm not telling you
(28:53):
it's ninety percent likely. I'm saying it's zero percent likely
if we don't get them to a negotiating table. And
the sooner everyone grows up around here and figures out
that this is a bad war that's heading in a
bad direction, with death and destruction and all kinds of
danger surrounding it that could spiral into a broader conflict.
The sooner people grow up and realize that. I think
the more progress we're going to be able to make.
(29:13):
But the President's crystal clear. He campaigned on it and
he's going to govern on it, and that is he
is going to be a president that tries to achieve peace.
And he has been very clear. This is a war
that would have never happened at Donald Trump and in
the White House, and it needs to end and we're
going to do everything we can to end it in
an enduring and sustainable and fair way.
Speaker 4 (29:30):
That was my choice for president, quite frankly in twenty sixteen,
and I might have been interested again in twenty twenty
and I couldn't agree with them more. Everybody's trying to
influence your opinion in stance based on clips. Make sure
you watch all forty eight minutes of that exchange in
(29:50):
the Oval Office. Make sure you're aware of what the
Treasury Secretary just laid out. The stunt he pulled Friday
is the same stunty Polden Munich before that and all
the way back to February twelfth in Kiev. No, I
don't know what his endgame is. I'm with Donald Trump.
You want to do this without our weapons, without our money.
(30:12):
Good luck, you don't hold the cards, but you're not
going to trick me into World War three. You're playing
with world War three was the quote from President Trump.
And you just heard Marco Rubio say, today isn't a
day to pick sides between Zelinsky and Trump. Today is
a day for you to decide do you want peace
or take a giant leap towards a world war? Because
(30:33):
that's what Zelensky and Europe is up to and the crazy,
crazy matrix games they've just begun.
Speaker 5 (30:47):
Everybody, I'm not joking.
Speaker 8 (30:49):
I don't think we should be taking the advice from
a group of people who can't define what a woman is.
Speaker 5 (30:55):
That was just complete formation are That's your Sounds of
the Day for this Monday, March the.
Speaker 3 (31:04):
Third, This is your Morning Show with Michael del Trono.
Speaker 4 (31:10):
European leaders are pledging billions in support for Ukraine following
the emergency summit in London. Over the weekend, Hollywood's Biggest
Night all went to honor five of the six nominations.
They took home the statues and it was all the
big categories. He's supposedly anti vacks, but your Secretary of
Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Junior is pushing
(31:30):
people to get vaccinated against the measles, and President Trump
on Saturdays signed an executive order making English the official
language of the United States. Meanwhile, thousands of troops are
being deployed to the southern border. National Correspondent Roy O'Neil
has the very latest on this movement.
Speaker 5 (31:46):
Good morning, Rory. Hey there, Michael.
Speaker 14 (31:48):
Yeah, three thousand troops, all coming mostly from Colorado. It's
a combination of soldiers, some vehicles, some armored striker vehicles
and a helicopter.
Speaker 5 (32:00):
As well, all being deployed to the Arizona border.
Speaker 4 (32:05):
Obviously, as we've discussed a million times, a wall could
be helpful. Wall doesn't make sense all the way across,
but a wall technology, more border patrol agents, and then
if you're in the midst of a crisis, setting troops.
But momentum wise, things have been down. Just by stating
(32:26):
that we're going to secure the border. I think this
will make them go down even more. But the question
becomes is it necessary? Well, right, I mean that's the idea.
Speaker 14 (32:35):
We got a tweet from Secretary Hegseth over the weekend
saying he wants one operational control of the border. We
know that those border crossing numbers have been falling a
lot for the past year. The Biden administration, you know,
trying to turn the tide going into the election, so
the numbers were falling and heading in the right direction.
(32:56):
Then after President Trump won re election, it really started
to fall off and went even further off the cliff
on January twentieth, So it is down to a trickle.
Exactly what these troops will be doing in terms of
trying to do for messaging purposes, you know, are they
talking to migrants?
Speaker 5 (33:13):
Is this a message for the cartels? Maybe a bit
of both.
Speaker 4 (33:17):
Yeah, And then we still have Canada that put a
borders are in place, committed one point three billion dollars,
Mexico that had agreed to send troops to their side
of the border in this effort, and then of course
that expires in hours quite frankly, and we wonder if
the tariffs are going to go into place.
Speaker 5 (33:36):
So where do we stand on all that?
Speaker 14 (33:38):
Yeah, well, you know it's a moving target, those tariffs.
So let's see what the day holds and whether or
not the President may save some announcement for tomorrow night
when he speaks to that joint session of Congress.
Speaker 5 (33:49):
Pope.
Speaker 4 (33:50):
I thought when I I was on a golf course,
somebody told me they put him on a ventilator. I thought, oh,
now we're really getting towards the end. But it ended
up being, you know, some vomit that got in his lungs.
Speaker 5 (33:59):
They treat.
Speaker 4 (34:00):
He's off the ventilator, he's up sitting talking, participated in mass.
Speaker 5 (34:05):
Don't count this guy out yet.
Speaker 14 (34:08):
Yeah, No, celebrated Mass with the people who are taking
care of him there at that hospital in Rome. So
you know, it's one step forward, one step back, and
back and forth, back and forth. But he's been in
the hospital now since Valentine's Day, the longest stretch of
him we know, being in the hospital.
Speaker 5 (34:25):
So a lot. There are some more encouraging signs today and.
Speaker 4 (34:28):
A lot of people in his church praying form and
the miracles continue. He's still with us, so I appreciate
it so much.
Speaker 5 (34:33):
Thanks for joining us today, Rory.
Speaker 3 (34:35):
We're all in this together. This is your morning show
with Michaeldenhild jow No
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