December 29, 2025 • 39 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 1 (12/29) - Lou Penrose fills in for John. Volodymyr Zelenskyy was at the White House again and Lou is fed up with it. Max Rego from The Hill comes on the show to talk about this meeting between Pres. Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Should the US keep being the "world police"?
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Can't.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
I am six forty.
Speaker 1 (00:02):
You're listening to the John Cobelt podcast on the iHeartRadio.
Speaker 3 (00:05):
App Lou Penrose sitting for John Cobelt this week. Good
to have you along with us. It's New Year's week.
Hope you had a fantastic holiday. And this is kind
of that dead zone in between Christmas and New Year's
and everybody's a fill in host, so guest hosts everywhere.
But good to be with you, all right. So President
Trump went right back to work. It's Monday morning. You
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would think there'd be like a vacation or something, but
right back to work. But again, we're now back to
where we started this administration, sorting out the problem between
a land dispute between the Russian Federation and Ukraine.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
And I'm really growing tired of this.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
I have been critical of this administration on one area
and one area alone.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Otherwise, I'm very happy. I am very happy with my vote.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
I voted for everything that's happened that is happening domestically
in my country. I voted for lower taxes, a complete
reduction in the size and scope of the federal government,
more freedom, less intrusion, and deport the illegals right, love
it all that has happened better than I had hoped.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
But the one area that I am just not comfortable with.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
And I've withheld the criticism because he has enough critics.
He doesn't need his fans criticizing him. But here we're
going into a new year now, and we started off
this year dealing with Zelensky in the White House all
the time, and here we are now in December, rounding
out the year, and Zelensky is back in the White House,
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And I just don't get it.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Why is this a priority for this administration?
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Who cares about what happens in eastern Ukraine?
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Who cares in the United States?
Speaker 3 (01:59):
And I just every time I see one of those
foreign leaders walk into the Oval Office or just walk
into the East Gate, that's where they always are, I
think this is just an hour that this administration cannot focus.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
On the United States. And it's always conflict.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Nobody ever comes, I mean rarely they do sometimes as
Saudis come and they want to invest in the United States,
but they only want to invest in the United States
because they want to lower their tariffs.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
So it was leverage that brought them in. Happily. Same
with Japan. But that's fine. At least that's worth an
hour of time.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Every time I see these foreign leaders, I think this
is going to cost you, in me the taxpayer, it's
costing us time. You know, we were only three hundred
and forty three days into this presidency.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
It seems like a long time.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
We're not a year in, but we got a lot
to do and a lot hasn't been done.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
We still don't have a balanced budget.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
We still don't have a plan or a pathway or
a blueprint towards a balanced budget. I mean, if we
can eliminate entire departments like the Department of Education, then
we could keep going and eliminate more entire departments and
actually have a blueprint to a balanced.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Budget in ten years. We could do it. Eliminate government spending,
fire the federal employees. Let's go, go, go go go.
Oh wait, I can't why Annett Yahoo's on the phone.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
He wants to come over, and it's just it grinds me, man,
it absolutely grinds me. In a minute, we'll talk with
News Nations White House correspondent Kelly Meyer. She was there
this morning, and the President is playing up diplomacy on
the world stage with the Zelenski meeting. But you know
and I know that whatever they decide on today, it
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will never be enough for Ukraine because Ukraine will never
get over the fact that they're never getting that land
back ever, ever, ever. And somehow that's the United States
problem to solve, Like if we don't successfully, what go
and invade the land bridge between Ukraine and Russia, than
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were somehow communists or friends of Vladimir Putin. Like it's
a ridiculous narrative and we can never win it. And
I hate being placed in these positions and I saw
it coming. Ukraine is not an ally of the United States.
It is not a member of NATO. Russia isn't an
enemy of the United States. This is private people's business
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out in the wide open world. These are not part
of any entangling alliances. We owe no legal, moral, ethical,
or logical obligation to protect Ukraine from anybody. And Comma,
it speaks volumes that the former Soviet Union. I mean,
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we were so afraid of the Soviet Union. If you
grew up in the seventies and eighties like I did, boy,
that's Soviet Union. They were gonna get us, right Rambo
war games Oh my goodness. I mean it was any
day now, the Soviet Union was gonna just steamroll.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Right red Dawn. Oh man. We were in trouble. We
were in trouble.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
And then the Soviet Union disintegrated and it is now
the Russian Federation, which has a smaller GDP than Texas
and they can't beat Ukraine. So why am I fearing
the Russian Federation? Like why I think we need to
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re calibrate the realities here. Russia is not a threat.
They'll be fine, The United States will be fine. Everybody's
gonna be fine. Nobody's invading Poland. And by the way,
if there was a true concern that, well, lou, you.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Know that's isolationistic of you. You better believe it, baby.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
Weah, but that isolationism that gets us in trouble all
the time.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
You know.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
They if we just you know, we do the whole
nevill Chamberlain thing and just say, well, you know, nobody
wants to go to war too bad, so sad, just
give up the land and just let it be.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Then that's just the beginning. That's the way they work.
That's the way they work.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
The next thing, you'll know, they'll be in taking all
of Ukraine and then they'll be in Poland. All right,
call me when they're in Poland. I don't think it's
gonna happen.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
I don't think. I don't think the Russian Federation has.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
The strength to invade Poland if they can't even beat Ukraine.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
So why, oh why.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Is this going on in my Oval office? Why isn't
the head of Poland concern? Why isn't Zelenski there? Why
isn't the whole world and all the cameras in Western Europe,
If it's truly a concern, if Russian encroachment into Ukraine territory,
which is a dispute by the way, why.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Automatically do we take the Ukraine side of yargument.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
I don't know, I don't care. I'm never going to Ukraine.
And as I said, Ukraine is.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Not an ally of the United States.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
So why At least one thing that I'm comfortable with
is when Zelensky came countless times to the White House
under the Biden administration, he left with billions of your dollars,
constantly leaving with bags of cash. Constantly, every time I
turn on the news, it's there's Zelenski there.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
He is shaking hands with Biden.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
Uh, and there he goes with the twenty billion dollars
of your money. That's not gonna happen this morning, Like
that's not going That did not happen this morning, That's
not happening anytime soon. If at all Trump believes that
money is a factor and somehow money can lead to
an end to this, then he will.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Loan the money with interest. And at least I have
that going for me.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
But yeah, I'm becoming more and more of an isolationist
almost every day, and I'm rethinking all of post World
War two US history because it seems to me that
we're fine where we were always going to be fine.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
We will always be fine.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
And if you are unsure about that, drive down the
eight oh five freeway into San Diego and go by Miermar.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
And you'll be rest assured that we will always be fine.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
So we don't need to be feed like, we don't
have to be goaded into helping out Ukraine. Otherwise there's
gonna be some Western dventure, there's gonna be intervention from
the East, and we're gonna be dragged into World War three.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Ain't gonna happen. Ain't gonna happen, and if they.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
Tried, we'd end it as quickly as we blow the
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All this week, big doings back in DC. Max Rego
is with the Hill. A lot of people into down
the Monday after the Christmas week backs. What is the
big takeaway? What happened this morning? That's gonna like tell
make news now going forward?
Speaker 6 (09:10):
Yeah, well, Lou, thanks for having me. Well, I think
the one thing people are talking about here in d C,
and and really I mean it's you know, important globally
is the meeting yesterday between President Trump and Ukrainian President
Vladimir Zelenski at President Trump's resort in mar.
Speaker 7 (09:26):
A Lago in Florida.
Speaker 6 (09:28):
Obviously, this was their first face to face meeting in
a few months, but you know, the President went in
with with some OPTIMISMYC. They have the meekings of a
deal to end obviously Russia's ongoing three plus year war
in Ukraine and the two came, you know, to touch
for multiple hours. They had a lot of their top
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advisors there. Secretary of State Rubio was there, six the
Defense Secretary Hegseth was there. The Boycoff, the President's special envoy,
was there. Who's really been uh, you know, in close
contact with you know, negotiators on the Ukrainian and Russian
side in trying to end this war. And they both
came out of it.
Speaker 7 (10:06):
You know.
Speaker 6 (10:07):
Trump said the meeting was excellent. They said they covered
about ninety six He said that they covered about ninety
five percent of issues. The Ukrainian President Zlonski said the
US and the Ukraine are in about ninety percent agreement
about his twenty point plan to end the war. Obviously,
that has concerns a lot of security issues for Ukraine
and and you know in terms of how to rebuild
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the country. So that's kind of the main thing that's
been talked about in DC President Trump.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
It was reported that Trump had a call with Putin
earlier this morning.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
Is there anything from that call that he.
Speaker 6 (10:39):
Shared, Yeah, So the President spoke with with Putin today.
It should be should be noted that he also spoke
with Putin before meeting with Leonski yesterday. This is, I mean,
this is a pretty common, pretty common occurrence from the president.
He will speak with both leaders when they're meeting, when
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he's meeting the other. He did say that there are
a few things that he has to work through with Putin.
He's kind of back and forth with Putin the last
you know, really since he came to office. He thought
he would at least he was on the campaign, Charlie
said he could finish the war really within twenty four
hours of taking office. Obviously it has turned out to
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be much more difficult than that. But he has expressed
some frustration with Putin, especially after the summer in Alaska
didn't really prove to come, you know, bring much to fruition.
Speaker 7 (11:30):
In terms of ending the war. But he said there's
still some issues they have to work through.
Speaker 6 (11:36):
But it seems that, you know, Dolenski and Trump agreed
to meet later at some point in January when the
new year hits. And you know, also European leaders are
going to be involved as well in all future discussions.
Speaker 7 (11:48):
Trump and Zolenski spoke.
Speaker 6 (11:49):
With European leaders on a call yesterday from our lago.
So there's there's definitely a lot more negotiations to come here.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
You know, you mentioned the Alaska meeting with Putin.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
Is there a sense by anybody in DC that Trump
feels that he may have gotten played a little bit
by Putin?
Speaker 2 (12:06):
That did not go well?
Speaker 3 (12:07):
It looked good on TV, but then in the ensuing
days Trump looked annoyed with Putin. And I'm wondering if
he thought I got you know, I got I got played,
I got double cross, I got lied to.
Speaker 6 (12:19):
I can't you know, obviously can't speak for how he
felt out to that meeting.
Speaker 7 (12:23):
I think he definitely went in with very high expectations.
Speaker 6 (12:26):
I mean, you know, Trump has a long history as
a as a you know, businessman, as a deal maker.
Speaker 7 (12:31):
But you know, I think this this conflict is taking
a while to get both sides the fruition.
Speaker 6 (12:37):
And I mean the President has said multiple times that,
you know, President Putin and President Zelenski really dislike each
other and it is hard to get them to come
to the table on that. And obviously, you know it
is it is difficult, especially as Zolonsky noted yesterday early
yesterday morning before meeting with President Trump. But even as
you know, Russia says they are ready for peace and
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says they want to come an agreement. They continue to
launch strikes against Ukraine. They continue to launch missiles, including
against Ukraine's energy system. So it is despite the negotiations
ongoing and the war, the war is still going on.
So I you know, again, so I don't know whether
President Trump thinks he got played or what his play
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his mindset at any they have tried to set, you know,
finish this with these negotiations by various deadlines throughout the year,
and it is it has definitely taken longer than maybe
he expected. But that's that is how I guess diplomas.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
He goes during the press conference or during during some
Q and A session. At some point earlier today, the
President was asked about this latest strike in Venezuela on
a dock. We know about the strikes that the Department
of War has talked about with boats that.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
They say are carrying drugs into the United States.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
This would be the first time that Venezuelan soil was touched.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
Did the President expand on.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
That at all?
Speaker 6 (14:03):
Yeah, So he made these comments as part of an
interview with John katzim Matidis who's a major GOP donor.
He has a radio show on w ABC. It was
actually the interview was actually on Friday, but the interview
came out today.
Speaker 7 (14:18):
He was asked by reporters.
Speaker 6 (14:20):
About this on mar A Lago, and he said there
was a major explosion in the dock area where they
load the boats up with drugs, clarifying that this was
in fact a strike in the drug facility. He did
not say though, whether the US military or the CIA,
which who he has authorized to do operations inside of Venezuela,
whether they were behind the operation. And it is again
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part of an ongoing pressure campaign against Venezuela and.
Speaker 7 (14:46):
Its leader, Nicholas Madulo.
Speaker 6 (14:48):
The administration is say said he's an illegitimate leader and
the leader of a drug trafficking terrorist group.
Speaker 7 (14:55):
Uh, the White House has not really provided.
Speaker 6 (14:58):
Any further clarity on you know, again, what facility of
the President was referring to Venezuela as not said which facility,
if this did fact occur, which facility it affected. So
there's really a lot of details that we don't know
about this action.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Max Rigo with the Hill, thanks so much for coming
on with us.
Speaker 7 (15:16):
Man.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
Christmas is over and it's off to the races in Washington,
d C. Right out of the gate on Monday morning.
So busy time, busy time. I appreciate you coming on
with us.
Speaker 7 (15:26):
Yeah, thankful, appreciated. Happy holidays.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
So I as you were listening. So Max is great,
he works for the Hill, he's there. Everyone's trying to
sort all this out. But you get a sense of
just how messy.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
This all is. And I get it. World affairs are complicated.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
Why again, I keep going back to this, and you
very well may call it isolationistic.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Why are we involved? Like, why does this need us?
Speaker 3 (15:52):
There's no other world leader that speaks Russian, like, nobody
else can solve this.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
We're way over.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
Here, is way the hell over there, and the land
in dispute is on the eastern side of Ukraine, so
it's way over there. And the only concern is that, well,
you know, if they invade you parts Ukraine and we
let him have it, I'll tell you what, never never
be like well like Chamberlain all over again, and they'll
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just keep going and going and going. All right, then
talk to Poland, talk to Germany. Why aren't they more concerned?
I don't hear them all that concern. They're all looking here,
what's gonna happen? Is Trump gonna be able to negotiate
a peace deal?
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Why do we have to do this? It's striking to me.
It really is striking to me, you know.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
And President Trump talks about how he has resolved eight
conflicts since he's been president.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
He has, and I don't mind.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
I mean, how long does it really take to solve
the problem between the Congo and Rwanda?
Speaker 2 (16:52):
I mean, really, what How hard could that meeting take?
How long could that mean? But he did, and he
wants credit for it.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
I don't know why he feels the need, but it
really isn't him. He's not going over to the Congo
and saying, fellas, if you want to come to DC,
I'll host lunch and maybe we can sort this out.
They're coming here like they insist on encroaching upon our
time and I.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Really don't get it. And I have been tolerant. As
I said, I give this administration high marks. Everything that's
going on is everything I voted for.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
I just wanted to go more and faster, and with
the new budget and the ten thousand more border patrol
agents that are coming online in January, I got a
feeling it's going to go a lot faster and I'm
gonna be even happier. But every single time that things
start going well, right, we start to see the benefits
of Trump's economic policy. And economic policy takes time, but
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we just had in the last three weeks three great numbers.
Inflation down, gross domestic product up a full percentage point
higher than forecasted, labor participation rate going up.
Speaker 7 (18:02):
Right.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
We're eliminating federal employees and they're going into the private sector.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
That's good.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
We're moving welfare queens and lazy asses off of snap
perfectly good people.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
That's called able body people.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
We're moving them off of the welfare and forcing them
to grow up and get a job.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
That's good. That's good for you. Right, that's good for us.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
All these good things are happening, and every five minutes,
another foreign leader wants to come and talk to the President,
and it just drives me absolutely insane.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
Here's the call this morning.
Speaker 8 (18:38):
President Trump concluded a positive phone call with Russian President
Vladimir Putin this morning. White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt
says it was the second call in as many days
between the two leaders, and followed President Trump's in person
sit down yesterday with Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelenski.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
Oh, I got two calls with Putin and then a
sit down the next morning. Absolutely insane, Absolutely insane. All Right,
when we come back, I'm gonna take some of your
telephone calls on this. If you're listening live, you can
call us on the iHeartRadio app using.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
The talk back mic.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
I'm feeling far more isolationistic than I've ever felt in
my life. And yeah, usually isolationism is bad. That means
you're closing your eyes to world affairs, and that is unwise.
I am becoming more isolationistic because I am opening my
eyes wide open and seeing how meaningless the rest of
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the world is to American prosperity. Yet they're constantly knocking
on the door. Mister Trump, you're home. We want to
talk to you about Pakistan in India. Can't get along,
need you. It's draining and I'm done. Lou Penrose info
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Speaker 3 (20:02):
For Louke Penrose sitting at a John Cobalt all this week,
the President meeting with Zelensky again on the telephone with
Vladimir Putin.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
Again, and I'm done. I'm done.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
It was worth a shot in the beginning, I didn't
love it. Then there are other priorities. I don't care
about Ukraine. Nobody else does. Either doesn't affect the United States.
But President Trump was being a good guy and he said,
you know what, I think I'm uniquely positioned to solve this.
I understand the complexities better than anybody here in Washington, DC,
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and certainly everybody in the Biden administration.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
So let me give it a shot.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
And I don't think either party are being honest. I
don't know that Zelensky wants the war to end as
badly as Trump does. I don't think Russia and Putin
have any any skin in the game of the war ending.
Why so they can say, yeah, we want peace. But
I don't think either side he wants peace. Trump actually
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wants peace because he cares about the lives of soldiers
on both sides. And I just I just see political
capital being wasted and my time being wasted, and the
reporter's time being wasted and I'm done with it. So
I just really want these people to stop bothering my president.
He's got a lot to do. Everything else I give
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him high marks. I think he's doing a great job.
Administration is going strong, fulfilling all the campaign promises.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
But enough for ready with the foreign leaders?
Speaker 7 (21:31):
Well, is this moron in place?
Speaker 1 (21:33):
On John Cobalt?
Speaker 6 (21:34):
I mean, seriously, you're happy with this administration.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
Everything except this Ukraine nonsense.
Speaker 9 (21:41):
Hey, Louke, Cliff and Las Vegas love the show.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
It's always good and entertaining.
Speaker 7 (21:45):
Listen.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
I may not agree with everything you say. In fact,
a lot of it I.
Speaker 9 (21:48):
Don't, but in this case with Ukraine, I'm one percent
with you on it totally. I mean, why does America
have to be the savior to the world. We have
to feed everybody, we have to protect everybody, all at
the taxpayer's expense. Meanwhile, our own people have terrible health care, starving.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
I mean, just tons of issues. It's just it's frustrating. Anyway,
keep up the great work, man.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
I appreciate the call. That's the thing we're told like.
It's interesting that we debate that question. I remember during
I don't know if it was the two thousand presidential campaign.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
It may have even.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
Been earlier during the Clinton re election in ninety six,
but the debate of whether the United States should be
the policeman of the world was a campaign issue, Like
it really was a question. You would hear this question
asked during the campaign rallies. You would hear this question
asked during the presidential debates. What role does the United States,
mister governor, what roles in the United States have in
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world affairs? And really are we in jeopardy becoming the
policeman of the world? And I would think, who We're
not the policeman of the world. Why do we have
to debate whether we should continue being the policeman of
the world. I don't want to be policemen of the world.
First off, cops get paid. Where's our money? President Trump
said he solved eight conflicts.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
Where's our money? If you want to hire.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
Out the United States military for private security, where's their money?
Speaker 2 (23:10):
Why don't you pay them?
Speaker 3 (23:13):
So we're not the policemen of the world because very
little good to the United States comes from these things.
Most of the world is a third world hellhole. So
you tell me what good comes from settling the differences
between the Rwandans and the.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
Congo people zero.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
So it's it's it's it's it's not that it's in
our best interest or not in our best interest.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
It's a waste of our time.
Speaker 4 (23:41):
Hey, Lou, love your show. Can you please just mention
also that the same people that are in a war
with Russia are the same people that are buying their
heating oil from Russia.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (23:55):
To me, that doesn't make any sense. Okay, you're up.
Should stop buying their oil from Russia. Maybe that'll cost
Russia to run out of money.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
Yeah, I don't want Russia to run out of money.
I don't want to tell other countries what to do.
I don't care who they buy their heating oil from.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
You see, this would be a lot simpler if we
were not involved.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
Then we could say, I don't know, you buy who
buy oil from?
Speaker 2 (24:22):
Whoever you want?
Speaker 3 (24:22):
Yeah, but those are the people you're saying are threatening you.
That was what was going on with Germany. Trump put
an end to that by calling it out right. We
were paying a far low, far larger portion of our
GDP to NATO.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
And what's NATO all about?
Speaker 3 (24:40):
Well, to protect Western Europe from Russian invasion effectively, right,
I mean, you could dance around and talk about world
security and getting along and being strong, blah blah blah.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
At the end of the day, that's the.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
Only concern is that the Russian Federation, the former Soviet Union,
was going to start World War three again and invade
Eastern Europe.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
So we had to have NATO.
Speaker 3 (24:59):
And then we found out that all the NATO countries
that were actually threatened by a potential Russian invasion, which
was never going to happen, they weren't even paying their
fair share of their GDP to NATO. Yet we were
paying all of our fair share on a much larger GDP,
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so we were getting screwed. And they were buying their
heating oil from the nation that they think we should
fund an alliance to keep from invading them.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
What a joke.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
Look, it's a big world, and I want it all
to be calm, but most of the world can't handle
Jeffersonian democracy. They're not ready for first world which is
why they insist on being third world.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
And that's fine. I'm not in charge of that.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
I'm in charge of making sure my country remains first world.
And you know, if you want to pass the hat
and drop medicine and food for the people that insist
on killing each other, then that's fine, we'll do that.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
It never works.
Speaker 3 (26:03):
The people steal the medicine and the food and sell
it on the black market instead of giving the medicine
to their own family members in many of these Third
world hell holes.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
So I'm out.
Speaker 3 (26:12):
I grew up watching TV as a kid, and if
you grew up in the years I grew up, it
was during the Carter administration when I became old enough
to really understand the news, and every single day of
my life, my president his name was Jimmy Carter.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
He was having meetings with Israel in Egypt and.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
Uh, you know the Seventh like all constantly, and they
were always coming to Camp David, and you always saw
the TV and there was President Carter shaking.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
Hands the three hand the three men handshake with Carter.
Speaker 3 (26:41):
In the middle, and there was a you know, Israeli
guy on one side and either a I don't know,
an Egyptian guy or a guy.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
From Libya I don't know.
Speaker 3 (26:48):
There was all these countries far away that I don't
care about, have no effect on the United States, And
there's my president with this great, big smile in the
middle of this three hand handshake behind a table.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
Camp Dave Accords. Oh it's so good. Piece to the
Middle East gonna be so great.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
Meanwhile, heating oil in the late seventies was through the roof.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
There were gas lines all around the block.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
And I'm wondering, is Carter the President of the United
States or is he the president of the Middle East?
Because every time I turn on the TV, that's all
that they're talking about is the Middle East. But at
least Piece of Chords, Camp David Accords, and my dad's
online to get gasoline. But they all said the same thing. Oh,
you know, international affair.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
Is very important, world stability, good for the United States.
Speaker 3 (27:32):
I'm like, okay, I guess that's where the president needs
to be in Egypt, right, And then fast forward it
during the Clinton years and we had a small recession
in the nineties, and what's Clinton talking about Bosnia and Herzegovina, Like,
who the hell gives a.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
Damn about Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
And it's just like every administration gets dragged into some
other stupid camp countries problems. And I had high hopes
that the President would not, and for the most part
it doesn't detract him in his ability to perform for Americans,
So I'm happy about that. But I mean, it's just
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it kills me that here we are in just late December,
going into a new year.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
Time to turn the page. Wow, there's Zelenski again. What
do you want? My goodness, it's the John Cobelt Show.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
Lou Penrose Inva, John Cobelt on KFI AM six forty
live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 5 (28:32):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM sixty.
Speaker 3 (28:38):
Lou Penrose sitting for John Cobelt all this week, but
coblt working today on the network, so he was filling
in for Klay, Travis and Buck Sexton across the nation.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
So everybody's doing double duty.
Speaker 3 (28:51):
But it's all good and happy to be here with
you talking about the President and the meetings with Ukraine
and Russia. And it's not just Ukraine and Russia, also
the intervention in Venezuela and every other country that is
invading the time of this administration. And I'm done with it,
(29:11):
and i it's been a year. We gave it a go,
but uh, enough's enough.
Speaker 10 (29:17):
Okay, I'll keep this message more clean for the public airwaves, Sir.
For you to say that you don't care what happens
in Ukraine because it doesn't affect the United States is
the most crass, unfeeling, despicable thing a person could think.
That is absolutely scroogey.
Speaker 3 (29:39):
You'd be amazed with how scroogy I am with the
US Treasury. Uh yeah, you know what, I care about
the Ukraine as much as the people of Ukraine care
about Los Angeles.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
How's that I don't see them ponying up for the homeless.
Speaker 11 (29:55):
Wants Ukraine to win because you left out the of
all the precious minerals that Ukraine has, and they're never
going to be able to pass back all the billions
we've sent them for the weapons and stuff. So if
they win or Russia gives up, then we get all
those minerals.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (30:16):
I've been hearing about these minerals for a while now.
First off, I'm not even sure that's true. Secondly, they're
not the only place in the world with rare earth minerals. Three,
if Ukraine collapses and becomes a satellite possession of another nation,
we can do business with that.
Speaker 6 (30:35):
Nation.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
It's interesting to me.
Speaker 3 (30:41):
I'm not the only one, but when I talk to
people that argue with me about this, they come from
a point of view that is really crystallized in a
narrative that we are obligated to protect Ukraine and stop
Russian's aggression toward Ukraine. And I would ask you to
(31:02):
absolve yourself of that. These are not allies, these are
private people in the world. There's all kinds of encroachment
going on. Other nations are disobeying borders all day every day.
I mean, look what's going on or what has been
going on to the United States southern border in the
Biden administration. Other nations were defying west border by sending
(31:25):
their illegals into our country. So we're not responsible for
a land dispute in eastern Ukraine.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
Not our problem.
Speaker 3 (31:37):
If we can solve it with minimal fuss before lunch,
we'll be happy to do so.
Speaker 2 (31:43):
But it's been a year. Aren't you sick of seeing Zelenski?
I am.
Speaker 3 (31:48):
I'm sick of that stupid outfit. I'm sick of his
smug smile. I'm sick of him sitting at a table
like he.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
Belongs at the table.
Speaker 3 (31:57):
And I'm frankly, I'm sick of Trumpets supposing himself to
political defeat.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
When he'll he'll come up with the deal.
Speaker 3 (32:07):
The two sides that sign the deal don't obey the
terms of the deal, the deal falls apart, the fighting continues,
and then Democrats, Trump's political enemies say, see he didn't
fulfill his campaign promise of ending the war.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
He's no good. Gotta have Kamala Harris. Heylu let me
ask you this question.
Speaker 12 (32:24):
We're all the idiot congress people and senators were in
the stupid Ukrainian pen Huh. They started all this by
with biting, giving him billions and billions of dollars. Where
those idiots now huh? And they're nowhere to be.
Speaker 4 (32:36):
Found because they're all morons.
Speaker 12 (32:37):
It's all political.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
I agree with you one hundred percent.
Speaker 7 (32:39):
Leave it alone.
Speaker 12 (32:40):
Poland will take care of or Germany will if they're
really that concerned.
Speaker 3 (32:44):
Yeah, of course you agree with me, because it's clear,
like it's it's.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
So crystal clear.
Speaker 3 (32:52):
And I'm not sure if people want there to be
constant tension between Western Europe and the former Union the
Russian Republic, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
It almost seems like.
Speaker 3 (33:05):
Sides have flipped because during the Reagan administration, Democrats were
mad at Reagan and they were cheering for Gorbachev.
Speaker 2 (33:14):
They love Gorbachev every right, think about it.
Speaker 3 (33:18):
Liberals in the United States government, they love Gorbachev so
excited to see him all the time.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
There he is.
Speaker 3 (33:24):
Reagan's being too tough. They got the you know, look
at it, look at the body language in Raykervic boy.
Reagan doesn't know how to make a deal. Gorbachev is sada.
Democrats were on the Soviet side. Now they want to
punish the Russians and side with Ukraine and put on
(33:44):
the Ukraine pin.
Speaker 2 (33:46):
Where are those Ukraine pins?
Speaker 7 (33:48):
They?
Speaker 3 (33:48):
Is that like still a thing to people still put
that in their social media profiles.
Speaker 2 (33:54):
It's really incredible to me.
Speaker 3 (33:56):
It is so incredible to me that they're There are
so many Americans that think that it is our job
to go solve these crisises. And if we don't solve
them by really unwilling actors to solve, then it's a
flaw in this administration's ability to conduct global affairs. That's
(34:16):
why I went out. I went out all together. I'm
not going to Ukraine. I'm not going to the Congo.
I'm not going to Rwanda. Yeah, we tried to solve Rwanda.
In a former life, I was deputy chief of staff
to a Member of Congress who was chair of the
Foreign Affairs Committee.
Speaker 2 (34:35):
Pretty big stuff.
Speaker 3 (34:37):
The chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee is in charge
of planet Earth in the United States Congress, and he
was we were. It was during the conflict. You remember
the comp remember the movie Hotel Rwanda. The guy who
was starting it is now like a Marvel character, a
(34:59):
Don Chiel, but.
Speaker 2 (35:00):
The story was real.
Speaker 3 (35:02):
And the Hutus and the Tutsis didn't like each other,
but it was Rwanda, so they really didn't have any
guns or anything. So the only way they could fight
was to hack each other to death with machetes. And
this was going on, and somehow we the United States
were called upon to solve the conflict.
Speaker 2 (35:18):
Between the Hutus and the Tutsis.
Speaker 3 (35:22):
And being a good staffer to a diplomat, I'm like,
all right, well, what does each side want?
Speaker 2 (35:27):
What does each side need? What are their points of view?
Is this religious? Is it setarian? I mean, what's going
on here with these people?
Speaker 3 (35:36):
And I remember reaching the conclusion that you know, the
whole world ain't the United States, And some of these
people are just not ready. Like when you talk about
a country of people in the year this would have
been two thousand and what five six? In the year
two thousand and five, you got a place where people
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hack each other to death over a religious dispute and
throw the dead corpses in the only clean water supply
in the.
Speaker 2 (36:06):
Middle of a desert.
Speaker 3 (36:08):
Perhaps these people are just not ready for Jeffersonian democracy,
you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (36:14):
So drop a medicine and go home, all right?
Speaker 3 (36:18):
When we come back, this story is continuing, speaking of
third world hellholes. Minneapolis is becoming a third world hellhole
because the Somali illegals were recruited to Minneapolis because of
Congresswoman Ilhan Omar.
Speaker 2 (36:35):
She got words.
Speaker 3 (36:35):
Somehow all the illegals knew like what websites to go to.
Speaker 2 (36:39):
They stayed very well connected.
Speaker 3 (36:41):
If you notice right, the same countries all descended upon
one city or another where they had an advocate, and
a having a member of Congress be an advocate for
illegals from Somalia's pretty good advocacy.
Speaker 2 (36:52):
So the smart Somali illegals went there. They all gathered
in Minneapolis. Now what to do. They all have to
have some kind of a job, So she.
Speaker 3 (37:00):
The Biden administration to grant temporary protection status. So if
you're here in the country illegally, you're instantly deportable because
it's illegal to be.
Speaker 2 (37:09):
In the United States illegally.
Speaker 3 (37:10):
Regardless of what the screaming liberal white women with the
cell phone say in the parking lot of the home depot,
it is illegal in and of itself to be standing
in the home Depot parking lot if you're in the
United States illegally.
Speaker 2 (37:25):
And the same goes to the Somalis well.
Speaker 3 (37:27):
Not if President Biden invents something called a temporary protection status,
and this was to allow them to illegally be in
Minneapolis pending their fake phony asylum hearing. So they all
played make believe. They all pretended they were seeking asylum,
and none of them qualify for asylum. To this day,
(37:49):
none of them qualify for asylum. But if they are,
if they are given temporary protection status, then they can
hang around and abuse public social services in Minneapolis while
awaiting their asylum hearing, which will certainly result in rejection.
They'll get stamped rejected like red in shash Ank Redemption,
(38:11):
Big go stamp red letters done, You do not qualify
for asylum, You are a liar.
Speaker 2 (38:17):
Go back to Somalia.
Speaker 3 (38:19):
But that was going to take a long time because
there's tens of thousands of Somalis and there's only so
many judges, and they're all going to get rejected for asylum.
But if they're in the country under temporary protective status,
then they can hang out for a while and hopefully
just kind of get lost in American society and people
will just give.
Speaker 2 (38:36):
Up looking for it. So what happened was the state government.
Speaker 3 (38:41):
Of Minnesota set up a system for daycare for children
preschool because the governor wanted to be the state that guaranteed.
Speaker 2 (38:52):
Pre school for all.
Speaker 3 (38:55):
You hear these phrases all the time from these progressive governors.
Pre school for everybody, doesn't matter how much are. We'll
make sure there's a place for you for low income
or even no income childcare because Americans have got to
get to work and childcare is more expensive than the
salary and it's all bad. So government's going to solve
the problem. All right, sounds great, Where do I sign up?
(39:15):
So they set up all these daycare centers. The Somali's
got wind a bit and completely defrauded.
Speaker 2 (39:22):
The system for billions of dollars. Wait do you hear
about it?
Speaker 3 (39:25):
That's coming up next, Lou Penrose Info John Cobelt on
The John coe Belt Show on KFI AM six forty,
live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (39:34):
Let's get the latest OWT, Debra Mark and the KFI
twenty for our newsroom.
Speaker 1 (39:37):
Hey, you've been listening to the John Cobalt Show podcast.
You can always hear the show live on KFI AM
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Speaker 2 (00:00):
I am six forty.
Speaker 1 (00:02):
You're listening to the John Cobelt podcast on the iHeartRadio.
Speaker 3 (00:05):
App Lou Penrose sitting for John Cobelt this week. Good
to have you along with us. It's New Year's week.
Hope you had a fantastic holiday. And this is kind
of that dead zone in between Christmas and New Year's
and everybody's a fill in host, so guest hosts everywhere.
But good to be with you, all right. So President
Trump went right back to work. It's Monday morning. You
(00:27):
would think there'd be like a vacation or something, but
right back to work. But again, we're now back to
where we started this administration, sorting out the problem between
a land dispute between the Russian Federation and Ukraine.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
And I'm really growing tired of this.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
I have been critical of this administration on one area
and one area alone.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Otherwise, I'm very happy. I am very happy with my vote.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
I voted for everything that's happened that is happening domestically
in my country. I voted for lower taxes, a complete
reduction in the size and scope of the federal government,
more freedom, less intrusion, and deport the illegals right, love
it all that has happened better than I had hoped.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
But the one area that I am just not comfortable with.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
And I've withheld the criticism because he has enough critics.
He doesn't need his fans criticizing him. But here we're
going into a new year now, and we started off
this year dealing with Zelensky in the White House all
the time, and here we are now in December, rounding
out the year, and Zelensky is back in the White House,
(01:45):
And I just don't get it.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Why is this a priority for this administration?
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Who cares about what happens in eastern Ukraine?
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Who cares in the United States?
Speaker 3 (01:59):
And I just every time I see one of those
foreign leaders walk into the Oval Office or just walk
into the East Gate, that's where they always are, I
think this is just an hour that this administration cannot focus.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
On the United States. And it's always conflict.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Nobody ever comes, I mean rarely they do sometimes as
Saudis come and they want to invest in the United States,
but they only want to invest in the United States
because they want to lower their tariffs.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
So it was leverage that brought them in. Happily. Same
with Japan. But that's fine. At least that's worth an
hour of time.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Every time I see these foreign leaders, I think this
is going to cost you, in me the taxpayer, it's
costing us time. You know, we were only three hundred
and forty three days into this presidency.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
It seems like a long time.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
We're not a year in, but we got a lot
to do and a lot hasn't been done.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
We still don't have a balanced budget.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
We still don't have a plan or a pathway or
a blueprint towards a balanced budget. I mean, if we
can eliminate entire departments like the Department of Education, then
we could keep going and eliminate more entire departments and
actually have a blueprint to a balanced.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Budget in ten years. We could do it. Eliminate government spending,
fire the federal employees. Let's go, go, go go go.
Oh wait, I can't why Annett Yahoo's on the phone.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
He wants to come over, and it's just it grinds me, man,
it absolutely grinds me. In a minute, we'll talk with
News Nations White House correspondent Kelly Meyer. She was there
this morning, and the President is playing up diplomacy on
the world stage with the Zelenski meeting. But you know
and I know that whatever they decide on today, it
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will never be enough for Ukraine because Ukraine will never
get over the fact that they're never getting that land
back ever, ever, ever. And somehow that's the United States
problem to solve, Like if we don't successfully, what go
and invade the land bridge between Ukraine and Russia, than
(04:03):
were somehow communists or friends of Vladimir Putin. Like it's
a ridiculous narrative and we can never win it. And
I hate being placed in these positions and I saw
it coming. Ukraine is not an ally of the United States.
It is not a member of NATO. Russia isn't an
enemy of the United States. This is private people's business
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out in the wide open world. These are not part
of any entangling alliances. We owe no legal, moral, ethical,
or logical obligation to protect Ukraine from anybody. And Comma,
it speaks volumes that the former Soviet Union. I mean,
(04:47):
we were so afraid of the Soviet Union. If you
grew up in the seventies and eighties like I did, boy,
that's Soviet Union. They were gonna get us, right Rambo
war games Oh my goodness. I mean it was any
day now, the Soviet Union was gonna just steamroll.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Right red Dawn. Oh man. We were in trouble. We
were in trouble.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
And then the Soviet Union disintegrated and it is now
the Russian Federation, which has a smaller GDP than Texas
and they can't beat Ukraine. So why am I fearing
the Russian Federation? Like why I think we need to
(05:27):
re calibrate the realities here. Russia is not a threat.
They'll be fine, The United States will be fine. Everybody's
gonna be fine. Nobody's invading Poland. And by the way,
if there was a true concern that, well, lou, you.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Know that's isolationistic of you. You better believe it, baby.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
Weah, but that isolationism that gets us in trouble all
the time.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
You know.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
They if we just you know, we do the whole
nevill Chamberlain thing and just say, well, you know, nobody
wants to go to war too bad, so sad, just
give up the land and just let it be.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Then that's just the beginning. That's the way they work.
That's the way they work.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
The next thing, you'll know, they'll be in taking all
of Ukraine and then they'll be in Poland. All right,
call me when they're in Poland. I don't think it's
gonna happen.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
I don't think. I don't think the Russian Federation has.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
The strength to invade Poland if they can't even beat Ukraine.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
So why, oh why.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Is this going on in my Oval office? Why isn't
the head of Poland concern? Why isn't Zelenski there? Why
isn't the whole world and all the cameras in Western Europe,
If it's truly a concern, if Russian encroachment into Ukraine territory,
which is a dispute by the way, why.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Automatically do we take the Ukraine side of yargument.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
I don't know, I don't care. I'm never going to Ukraine.
And as I said, Ukraine is.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Not an ally of the United States.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
So why At least one thing that I'm comfortable with
is when Zelensky came countless times to the White House
under the Biden administration, he left with billions of your dollars,
constantly leaving with bags of cash. Constantly, every time I
turn on the news, it's there's Zelenski there.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
He is shaking hands with Biden.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
Uh, and there he goes with the twenty billion dollars
of your money. That's not gonna happen this morning, Like
that's not going That did not happen this morning, That's
not happening anytime soon. If at all Trump believes that
money is a factor and somehow money can lead to
an end to this, then he will.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Loan the money with interest. And at least I have
that going for me.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
But yeah, I'm becoming more and more of an isolationist
almost every day, and I'm rethinking all of post World
War two US history because it seems to me that
we're fine where we were always going to be fine.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
We will always be fine.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
And if you are unsure about that, drive down the
eight oh five freeway into San Diego and go by Miermar.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
And you'll be rest assured that we will always be fine.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
So we don't need to be feed like, we don't
have to be goaded into helping out Ukraine. Otherwise there's
gonna be some Western dventure, there's gonna be intervention from
the East, and we're gonna be dragged into World War three.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Ain't gonna happen. Ain't gonna happen, and if they.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
Tried, we'd end it as quickly as we blow the
Venezuelan boats out of the water. Lou Penrose Info John
coblt on KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 5 (08:43):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
Blue Penrose Info. John Cobelt on the John Covelt Show.
All this week, big doings back in DC. Max Rego
is with the Hill. A lot of people into down
the Monday after the Christmas week backs. What is the
big takeaway? What happened this morning? That's gonna like tell
make news now going forward?
Speaker 6 (09:10):
Yeah, well, Lou, thanks for having me. Well, I think
the one thing people are talking about here in d C,
and and really I mean it's you know, important globally
is the meeting yesterday between President Trump and Ukrainian President
Vladimir Zelenski at President Trump's resort in mar.
Speaker 7 (09:26):
A Lago in Florida.
Speaker 6 (09:28):
Obviously, this was their first face to face meeting in
a few months, but you know, the President went in
with with some OPTIMISMYC. They have the meekings of a
deal to end obviously Russia's ongoing three plus year war
in Ukraine and the two came, you know, to touch
for multiple hours. They had a lot of their top
(09:48):
advisors there. Secretary of State Rubio was there, six the
Defense Secretary Hegseth was there. The Boycoff, the President's special envoy,
was there. Who's really been uh, you know, in close
contact with you know, negotiators on the Ukrainian and Russian
side in trying to end this war. And they both
came out of it.
Speaker 7 (10:06):
You know.
Speaker 6 (10:07):
Trump said the meeting was excellent. They said they covered
about ninety six He said that they covered about ninety
five percent of issues. The Ukrainian President Zlonski said the
US and the Ukraine are in about ninety percent agreement
about his twenty point plan to end the war. Obviously,
that has concerns a lot of security issues for Ukraine
and and you know in terms of how to rebuild
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the country. So that's kind of the main thing that's
been talked about in DC President Trump.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
It was reported that Trump had a call with Putin
earlier this morning.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
Is there anything from that call that he.
Speaker 6 (10:39):
Shared, Yeah, So the President spoke with with Putin today.
It should be should be noted that he also spoke
with Putin before meeting with Leonski yesterday. This is, I mean,
this is a pretty common, pretty common occurrence from the president.
He will speak with both leaders when they're meeting, when
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he's meeting the other. He did say that there are
a few things that he has to work through with Putin.
He's kind of back and forth with Putin the last
you know, really since he came to office. He thought
he would at least he was on the campaign, Charlie
said he could finish the war really within twenty four
hours of taking office. Obviously it has turned out to
(11:19):
be much more difficult than that. But he has expressed
some frustration with Putin, especially after the summer in Alaska
didn't really prove to come, you know, bring much to fruition.
Speaker 7 (11:30):
In terms of ending the war. But he said there's
still some issues they have to work through.
Speaker 6 (11:36):
But it seems that, you know, Dolenski and Trump agreed
to meet later at some point in January when the
new year hits. And you know, also European leaders are
going to be involved as well in all future discussions.
Speaker 7 (11:48):
Trump and Zolenski spoke.
Speaker 6 (11:49):
With European leaders on a call yesterday from our lago.
So there's there's definitely a lot more negotiations to come here.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
You know, you mentioned the Alaska meeting with Putin.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
Is there a sense by anybody in DC that Trump
feels that he may have gotten played a little bit
by Putin?
Speaker 2 (12:06):
That did not go well?
Speaker 3 (12:07):
It looked good on TV, but then in the ensuing
days Trump looked annoyed with Putin. And I'm wondering if
he thought I got you know, I got I got played,
I got double cross, I got lied to.
Speaker 6 (12:19):
I can't you know, obviously can't speak for how he
felt out to that meeting.
Speaker 7 (12:23):
I think he definitely went in with very high expectations.
Speaker 6 (12:26):
I mean, you know, Trump has a long history as
a as a you know, businessman, as a deal maker.
Speaker 7 (12:31):
But you know, I think this this conflict is taking
a while to get both sides the fruition.
Speaker 6 (12:37):
And I mean the President has said multiple times that,
you know, President Putin and President Zelenski really dislike each
other and it is hard to get them to come
to the table on that. And obviously, you know it
is it is difficult, especially as Zolonsky noted yesterday early
yesterday morning before meeting with President Trump. But even as
you know, Russia says they are ready for peace and
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says they want to come an agreement. They continue to
launch strikes against Ukraine. They continue to launch missiles, including
against Ukraine's energy system. So it is despite the negotiations
ongoing and the war, the war is still going on.
So I you know, again, so I don't know whether
President Trump thinks he got played or what his play
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his mindset at any they have tried to set, you know,
finish this with these negotiations by various deadlines throughout the year,
and it is it has definitely taken longer than maybe
he expected. But that's that is how I guess diplomas.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
He goes during the press conference or during during some
Q and A session. At some point earlier today, the
President was asked about this latest strike in Venezuela on
a dock. We know about the strikes that the Department
of War has talked about with boats that.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
They say are carrying drugs into the United States.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
This would be the first time that Venezuelan soil was touched.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
Did the President expand on.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
That at all?
Speaker 6 (14:03):
Yeah, So he made these comments as part of an
interview with John katzim Matidis who's a major GOP donor.
He has a radio show on w ABC. It was
actually the interview was actually on Friday, but the interview
came out today.
Speaker 7 (14:18):
He was asked by reporters.
Speaker 6 (14:20):
About this on mar A Lago, and he said there
was a major explosion in the dock area where they
load the boats up with drugs, clarifying that this was
in fact a strike in the drug facility. He did
not say though, whether the US military or the CIA,
which who he has authorized to do operations inside of Venezuela,
whether they were behind the operation. And it is again
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part of an ongoing pressure campaign against Venezuela and.
Speaker 7 (14:46):
Its leader, Nicholas Madulo.
Speaker 6 (14:48):
The administration is say said he's an illegitimate leader and
the leader of a drug trafficking terrorist group.
Speaker 7 (14:55):
Uh, the White House has not really provided.
Speaker 6 (14:58):
Any further clarity on you know, again, what facility of
the President was referring to Venezuela as not said which facility,
if this did fact occur, which facility it affected. So
there's really a lot of details that we don't know
about this action.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Max Rigo with the Hill, thanks so much for coming
on with us.
Speaker 7 (15:16):
Man.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
Christmas is over and it's off to the races in Washington,
d C. Right out of the gate on Monday morning.
So busy time, busy time. I appreciate you coming on
with us.
Speaker 7 (15:26):
Yeah, thankful, appreciated. Happy holidays.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
So I as you were listening. So Max is great,
he works for the Hill, he's there. Everyone's trying to
sort all this out. But you get a sense of
just how messy.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
This all is. And I get it. World affairs are complicated.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
Why again, I keep going back to this, and you
very well may call it isolationistic.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Why are we involved? Like, why does this need us?
Speaker 3 (15:52):
There's no other world leader that speaks Russian, like, nobody
else can solve this.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
We're way over.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
Here, is way the hell over there, and the land
in dispute is on the eastern side of Ukraine, so
it's way over there. And the only concern is that, well,
you know, if they invade you parts Ukraine and we
let him have it, I'll tell you what, never never
be like well like Chamberlain all over again, and they'll
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just keep going and going and going. All right, then
talk to Poland, talk to Germany. Why aren't they more concerned?
I don't hear them all that concern. They're all looking here,
what's gonna happen? Is Trump gonna be able to negotiate
a peace deal?
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Why do we have to do this? It's striking to me.
It really is striking to me, you know.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
And President Trump talks about how he has resolved eight
conflicts since he's been president.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
He has, and I don't mind.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
I mean, how long does it really take to solve
the problem between the Congo and Rwanda?
Speaker 2 (16:52):
I mean, really, what How hard could that meeting take?
How long could that mean? But he did, and he
wants credit for it.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
I don't know why he feels the need, but it
really isn't him. He's not going over to the Congo
and saying, fellas, if you want to come to DC,
I'll host lunch and maybe we can sort this out.
They're coming here like they insist on encroaching upon our
time and I.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Really don't get it. And I have been tolerant. As
I said, I give this administration high marks. Everything that's
going on is everything I voted for.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
I just wanted to go more and faster, and with
the new budget and the ten thousand more border patrol
agents that are coming online in January, I got a
feeling it's going to go a lot faster and I'm
gonna be even happier. But every single time that things
start going well, right, we start to see the benefits
of Trump's economic policy. And economic policy takes time, but
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we just had in the last three weeks three great numbers.
Inflation down, gross domestic product up a full percentage point
higher than forecasted, labor participation rate going up.
Speaker 7 (18:02):
Right.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
We're eliminating federal employees and they're going into the private sector.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
That's good.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
We're moving welfare queens and lazy asses off of snap
perfectly good people.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
That's called able body people.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
We're moving them off of the welfare and forcing them
to grow up and get a job.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
That's good. That's good for you. Right, that's good for us.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
All these good things are happening, and every five minutes,
another foreign leader wants to come and talk to the President,
and it just drives me absolutely insane.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
Here's the call this morning.
Speaker 8 (18:38):
President Trump concluded a positive phone call with Russian President
Vladimir Putin this morning. White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt
says it was the second call in as many days
between the two leaders, and followed President Trump's in person
sit down yesterday with Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelenski.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
Oh, I got two calls with Putin and then a
sit down the next morning. Absolutely insane, Absolutely insane. All Right,
when we come back, I'm gonna take some of your
telephone calls on this. If you're listening live, you can
call us on the iHeartRadio app using.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
The talk back mic.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
I'm feeling far more isolationistic than I've ever felt in
my life. And yeah, usually isolationism is bad. That means
you're closing your eyes to world affairs, and that is unwise.
I am becoming more isolationistic because I am opening my
eyes wide open and seeing how meaningless the rest of
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the world is to American prosperity. Yet they're constantly knocking
on the door. Mister Trump, you're home. We want to
talk to you about Pakistan in India. Can't get along,
need you. It's draining and I'm done. Lou Penrose info
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Speaker 5 (19:58):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI six.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
For Louke Penrose sitting at a John Cobalt all this week,
the President meeting with Zelensky again on the telephone with
Vladimir Putin.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
Again, and I'm done. I'm done.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
It was worth a shot in the beginning, I didn't
love it. Then there are other priorities. I don't care
about Ukraine. Nobody else does. Either doesn't affect the United States.
But President Trump was being a good guy and he said,
you know what, I think I'm uniquely positioned to solve this.
I understand the complexities better than anybody here in Washington, DC,
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and certainly everybody in the Biden administration.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
So let me give it a shot.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
And I don't think either party are being honest. I
don't know that Zelensky wants the war to end as
badly as Trump does. I don't think Russia and Putin
have any any skin in the game of the war ending.
Why so they can say, yeah, we want peace. But
I don't think either side he wants peace. Trump actually
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wants peace because he cares about the lives of soldiers
on both sides. And I just I just see political
capital being wasted and my time being wasted, and the
reporter's time being wasted and I'm done with it. So
I just really want these people to stop bothering my president.
He's got a lot to do. Everything else I give
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him high marks. I think he's doing a great job.
Administration is going strong, fulfilling all the campaign promises.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
But enough for ready with the foreign leaders?
Speaker 7 (21:31):
Well, is this moron in place?
Speaker 1 (21:33):
On John Cobalt?
Speaker 6 (21:34):
I mean, seriously, you're happy with this administration.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
Everything except this Ukraine nonsense.
Speaker 9 (21:41):
Hey, Louke, Cliff and Las Vegas love the show.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
It's always good and entertaining.
Speaker 7 (21:45):
Listen.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
I may not agree with everything you say. In fact,
a lot of it I.
Speaker 9 (21:48):
Don't, but in this case with Ukraine, I'm one percent
with you on it totally. I mean, why does America
have to be the savior to the world. We have
to feed everybody, we have to protect everybody, all at
the taxpayer's expense. Meanwhile, our own people have terrible health care, starving.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
I mean, just tons of issues. It's just it's frustrating. Anyway,
keep up the great work, man.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
I appreciate the call. That's the thing we're told like.
It's interesting that we debate that question. I remember during
I don't know if it was the two thousand presidential campaign.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
It may have even.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
Been earlier during the Clinton re election in ninety six,
but the debate of whether the United States should be
the policeman of the world was a campaign issue, Like
it really was a question. You would hear this question
asked during the campaign rallies. You would hear this question
asked during the presidential debates. What role does the United States,
mister governor, what roles in the United States have in
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world affairs? And really are we in jeopardy becoming the
policeman of the world? And I would think, who We're
not the policeman of the world. Why do we have
to debate whether we should continue being the policeman of
the world. I don't want to be policemen of the world.
First off, cops get paid. Where's our money? President Trump
said he solved eight conflicts.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
Where's our money? If you want to hire.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
Out the United States military for private security, where's their money?
Speaker 2 (23:10):
Why don't you pay them?
Speaker 3 (23:13):
So we're not the policemen of the world because very
little good to the United States comes from these things.
Most of the world is a third world hellhole. So
you tell me what good comes from settling the differences
between the Rwandans and the.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
Congo people zero.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
So it's it's it's it's it's not that it's in
our best interest or not in our best interest.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
It's a waste of our time.
Speaker 4 (23:41):
Hey, Lou, love your show. Can you please just mention
also that the same people that are in a war
with Russia are the same people that are buying their
heating oil from Russia.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (23:55):
To me, that doesn't make any sense. Okay, you're up.
Should stop buying their oil from Russia. Maybe that'll cost
Russia to run out of money.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
Yeah, I don't want Russia to run out of money.
I don't want to tell other countries what to do.
I don't care who they buy their heating oil from.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
You see, this would be a lot simpler if we
were not involved.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
Then we could say, I don't know, you buy who
buy oil from?
Speaker 2 (24:22):
Whoever you want?
Speaker 3 (24:22):
Yeah, but those are the people you're saying are threatening you.
That was what was going on with Germany. Trump put
an end to that by calling it out right. We
were paying a far low, far larger portion of our
GDP to NATO.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
And what's NATO all about?
Speaker 3 (24:40):
Well, to protect Western Europe from Russian invasion effectively, right,
I mean, you could dance around and talk about world
security and getting along and being strong, blah blah blah.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
At the end of the day, that's the.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
Only concern is that the Russian Federation, the former Soviet Union,
was going to start World War three again and invade
Eastern Europe.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
So we had to have NATO.
Speaker 3 (24:59):
And then we found out that all the NATO countries
that were actually threatened by a potential Russian invasion, which
was never going to happen, they weren't even paying their
fair share of their GDP to NATO. Yet we were
paying all of our fair share on a much larger GDP,
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so we were getting screwed. And they were buying their
heating oil from the nation that they think we should
fund an alliance to keep from invading them.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
What a joke.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
Look, it's a big world, and I want it all
to be calm, but most of the world can't handle
Jeffersonian democracy. They're not ready for first world which is
why they insist on being third world.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
And that's fine. I'm not in charge of that.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
I'm in charge of making sure my country remains first world.
And you know, if you want to pass the hat
and drop medicine and food for the people that insist
on killing each other, then that's fine, we'll do that.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
It never works.
Speaker 3 (26:03):
The people steal the medicine and the food and sell
it on the black market instead of giving the medicine
to their own family members in many of these Third
world hell holes.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
So I'm out.
Speaker 3 (26:12):
I grew up watching TV as a kid, and if
you grew up in the years I grew up, it
was during the Carter administration when I became old enough
to really understand the news, and every single day of
my life, my president his name was Jimmy Carter.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
He was having meetings with Israel in Egypt and.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
Uh, you know the Seventh like all constantly, and they
were always coming to Camp David, and you always saw
the TV and there was President Carter shaking.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
Hands the three hand the three men handshake with Carter.
Speaker 3 (26:41):
In the middle, and there was a you know, Israeli
guy on one side and either a I don't know,
an Egyptian guy or a guy.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
From Libya I don't know.
Speaker 3 (26:48):
There was all these countries far away that I don't
care about, have no effect on the United States, And
there's my president with this great, big smile in the
middle of this three hand handshake behind a table.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
Camp Dave Accords. Oh it's so good. Piece to the
Middle East gonna be so great.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
Meanwhile, heating oil in the late seventies was through the roof.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
There were gas lines all around the block.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
And I'm wondering, is Carter the President of the United
States or is he the president of the Middle East?
Because every time I turn on the TV, that's all
that they're talking about is the Middle East. But at
least Piece of Chords, Camp David Accords, and my dad's
online to get gasoline. But they all said the same thing. Oh,
you know, international affair.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
Is very important, world stability, good for the United States.
Speaker 3 (27:32):
I'm like, okay, I guess that's where the president needs
to be in Egypt, right, And then fast forward it
during the Clinton years and we had a small recession
in the nineties, and what's Clinton talking about Bosnia and Herzegovina, Like,
who the hell gives a.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
Damn about Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
And it's just like every administration gets dragged into some
other stupid camp countries problems. And I had high hopes
that the President would not, and for the most part
it doesn't detract him in his ability to perform for Americans,
So I'm happy about that. But I mean, it's just
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it kills me that here we are in just late December,
going into a new year.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
Time to turn the page. Wow, there's Zelenski again. What
do you want? My goodness, it's the John Cobelt Show.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
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live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 5 (28:32):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM sixty.
Speaker 3 (28:38):
Lou Penrose sitting for John Cobelt all this week, but
coblt working today on the network, so he was filling
in for Klay, Travis and Buck Sexton across the nation.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
So everybody's doing double duty.
Speaker 3 (28:51):
But it's all good and happy to be here with
you talking about the President and the meetings with Ukraine
and Russia. And it's not just Ukraine and Russia, also
the intervention in Venezuela and every other country that is
invading the time of this administration. And I'm done with it,
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and i it's been a year. We gave it a go,
but uh, enough's enough.
Speaker 10 (29:17):
Okay, I'll keep this message more clean for the public airwaves, Sir.
For you to say that you don't care what happens
in Ukraine because it doesn't affect the United States is
the most crass, unfeeling, despicable thing a person could think.
That is absolutely scroogey.
Speaker 3 (29:39):
You'd be amazed with how scroogy I am with the
US Treasury. Uh yeah, you know what, I care about
the Ukraine as much as the people of Ukraine care
about Los Angeles.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
How's that I don't see them ponying up for the homeless.
Speaker 11 (29:55):
Wants Ukraine to win because you left out the of
all the precious minerals that Ukraine has, and they're never
going to be able to pass back all the billions
we've sent them for the weapons and stuff. So if
they win or Russia gives up, then we get all
those minerals.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (30:16):
I've been hearing about these minerals for a while now.
First off, I'm not even sure that's true. Secondly, they're
not the only place in the world with rare earth minerals. Three,
if Ukraine collapses and becomes a satellite possession of another nation,
we can do business with that.
Speaker 6 (30:35):
Nation.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
It's interesting to me.
Speaker 3 (30:41):
I'm not the only one, but when I talk to
people that argue with me about this, they come from
a point of view that is really crystallized in a
narrative that we are obligated to protect Ukraine and stop
Russian's aggression toward Ukraine. And I would ask you to
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absolve yourself of that. These are not allies, these are
private people in the world. There's all kinds of encroachment
going on. Other nations are disobeying borders all day every day.
I mean, look what's going on or what has been
going on to the United States southern border in the
Biden administration. Other nations were defying west border by sending
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their illegals into our country. So we're not responsible for
a land dispute in eastern Ukraine.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
Not our problem.
Speaker 3 (31:37):
If we can solve it with minimal fuss before lunch,
we'll be happy to do so.
Speaker 2 (31:43):
But it's been a year. Aren't you sick of seeing Zelenski?
I am.
Speaker 3 (31:48):
I'm sick of that stupid outfit. I'm sick of his
smug smile. I'm sick of him sitting at a table
like he.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
Belongs at the table.
Speaker 3 (31:57):
And I'm frankly, I'm sick of Trumpets supposing himself to
political defeat.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
When he'll he'll come up with the deal.
Speaker 3 (32:07):
The two sides that sign the deal don't obey the
terms of the deal, the deal falls apart, the fighting continues,
and then Democrats, Trump's political enemies say, see he didn't
fulfill his campaign promise of ending the war.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
He's no good. Gotta have Kamala Harris. Heylu let me
ask you this question.
Speaker 12 (32:24):
We're all the idiot congress people and senators were in
the stupid Ukrainian pen Huh. They started all this by
with biting, giving him billions and billions of dollars. Where
those idiots now huh? And they're nowhere to be.
Speaker 4 (32:36):
Found because they're all morons.
Speaker 12 (32:37):
It's all political.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
I agree with you one hundred percent.
Speaker 7 (32:39):
Leave it alone.
Speaker 12 (32:40):
Poland will take care of or Germany will if they're
really that concerned.
Speaker 3 (32:44):
Yeah, of course you agree with me, because it's clear,
like it's it's.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
So crystal clear.
Speaker 3 (32:52):
And I'm not sure if people want there to be
constant tension between Western Europe and the former Union the
Russian Republic, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
It almost seems like.
Speaker 3 (33:05):
Sides have flipped because during the Reagan administration, Democrats were
mad at Reagan and they were cheering for Gorbachev.
Speaker 2 (33:14):
They love Gorbachev every right, think about it.
Speaker 3 (33:18):
Liberals in the United States government, they love Gorbachev so
excited to see him all the time.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
There he is.
Speaker 3 (33:24):
Reagan's being too tough. They got the you know, look
at it, look at the body language in Raykervic boy.
Reagan doesn't know how to make a deal. Gorbachev is sada.
Democrats were on the Soviet side. Now they want to
punish the Russians and side with Ukraine and put on
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the Ukraine pin.
Speaker 2 (33:46):
Where are those Ukraine pins?
Speaker 7 (33:48):
They?
Speaker 3 (33:48):
Is that like still a thing to people still put
that in their social media profiles.
Speaker 2 (33:54):
It's really incredible to me.
Speaker 3 (33:56):
It is so incredible to me that they're There are
so many Americans that think that it is our job
to go solve these crisises. And if we don't solve
them by really unwilling actors to solve, then it's a
flaw in this administration's ability to conduct global affairs. That's
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why I went out. I went out all together. I'm
not going to Ukraine. I'm not going to the Congo.
I'm not going to Rwanda. Yeah, we tried to solve Rwanda.
In a former life, I was deputy chief of staff
to a Member of Congress who was chair of the
Foreign Affairs Committee.
Speaker 2 (34:35):
Pretty big stuff.
Speaker 3 (34:37):
The chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee is in charge
of planet Earth in the United States Congress, and he
was we were. It was during the conflict. You remember
the comp remember the movie Hotel Rwanda. The guy who
was starting it is now like a Marvel character, a
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Don Chiel, but.
Speaker 2 (35:00):
The story was real.
Speaker 3 (35:02):
And the Hutus and the Tutsis didn't like each other,
but it was Rwanda, so they really didn't have any
guns or anything. So the only way they could fight
was to hack each other to death with machetes. And
this was going on, and somehow we the United States
were called upon to solve the conflict.
Speaker 2 (35:18):
Between the Hutus and the Tutsis.
Speaker 3 (35:22):
And being a good staffer to a diplomat, I'm like,
all right, well, what does each side want?
Speaker 2 (35:27):
What does each side need? What are their points of view?
Is this religious? Is it setarian? I mean, what's going
on here with these people?
Speaker 3 (35:36):
And I remember reaching the conclusion that you know, the
whole world ain't the United States, And some of these
people are just not ready. Like when you talk about
a country of people in the year this would have
been two thousand and what five six? In the year
two thousand and five, you got a place where people
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hack each other to death over a religious dispute and
throw the dead corpses in the only clean water supply
in the.
Speaker 2 (36:06):
Middle of a desert.
Speaker 3 (36:08):
Perhaps these people are just not ready for Jeffersonian democracy,
you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (36:14):
So drop a medicine and go home, all right?
Speaker 3 (36:18):
When we come back, this story is continuing, speaking of
third world hellholes. Minneapolis is becoming a third world hellhole
because the Somali illegals were recruited to Minneapolis because of
Congresswoman Ilhan Omar.
Speaker 2 (36:35):
She got words.
Speaker 3 (36:35):
Somehow all the illegals knew like what websites to go to.
Speaker 2 (36:39):
They stayed very well connected.
Speaker 3 (36:41):
If you notice right, the same countries all descended upon
one city or another where they had an advocate, and
a having a member of Congress be an advocate for
illegals from Somalia's pretty good advocacy.
Speaker 2 (36:52):
So the smart Somali illegals went there. They all gathered
in Minneapolis. Now what to do. They all have to
have some kind of a job, So she.
Speaker 3 (37:00):
The Biden administration to grant temporary protection status. So if
you're here in the country illegally, you're instantly deportable because
it's illegal to be.
Speaker 2 (37:09):
In the United States illegally.
Speaker 3 (37:10):
Regardless of what the screaming liberal white women with the
cell phone say in the parking lot of the home depot,
it is illegal in and of itself to be standing
in the home Depot parking lot if you're in the
United States illegally.
Speaker 2 (37:25):
And the same goes to the Somalis well.
Speaker 3 (37:27):
Not if President Biden invents something called a temporary protection status,
and this was to allow them to illegally be in
Minneapolis pending their fake phony asylum hearing. So they all
played make believe. They all pretended they were seeking asylum,
and none of them qualify for asylum. To this day,
(37:49):
none of them qualify for asylum. But if they are,
if they are given temporary protection status, then they can
hang around and abuse public social services in Minneapolis while
awaiting their asylum hearing, which will certainly result in rejection.
They'll get stamped rejected like red in shash Ank Redemption,
(38:11):
Big go stamp red letters done, You do not qualify
for asylum, You are a liar.
Speaker 2 (38:17):
Go back to Somalia.
Speaker 3 (38:19):
But that was going to take a long time because
there's tens of thousands of Somalis and there's only so
many judges, and they're all going to get rejected for asylum.
But if they're in the country under temporary protective status,
then they can hang out for a while and hopefully
just kind of get lost in American society and people
will just give.
Speaker 2 (38:36):
Up looking for it. So what happened was the state government.
Speaker 3 (38:41):
Of Minnesota set up a system for daycare for children
preschool because the governor wanted to be the state that guaranteed.
Speaker 2 (38:52):
Pre school for all.
Speaker 3 (38:55):
You hear these phrases all the time from these progressive governors.
Pre school for everybody, doesn't matter how much are. We'll
make sure there's a place for you for low income
or even no income childcare because Americans have got to
get to work and childcare is more expensive than the
salary and it's all bad. So government's going to solve
the problem. All right, sounds great, Where do I sign up?
(39:15):
So they set up all these daycare centers. The Somali's
got wind a bit and completely defrauded.
Speaker 2 (39:22):
The system for billions of dollars. Wait do you hear
about it?
Speaker 3 (39:25):
That's coming up next, Lou Penrose Info John Cobelt on
The John coe Belt Show on KFI AM six forty,
live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (39:34):
Let's get the latest OWT, Debra Mark and the KFI
twenty for our newsroom.
Speaker 1 (39:37):
Hey, you've been listening to the John Cobalt Show podcast.
You can always hear the show live on KFI AM
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