Join us as we break down the future of Ukraine following Donald Trump’s speech to Congress. We fact-check key claims made by Trump and examine Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s letter addressing the situation. Plus, we explore how Ukraine’s vast mineral resources serve as an inherent security guarantee if the mineral rights deal is signed. We also discuss the EU’s emergency meetings on Ukrainian aid in response to Trump’s decision to pause military assistance. Additionally, we put the mass firings at federal agencies into perspective—highlighting how they’re about increasing efficiency, not cutting essential services.
Finally, on "This Day in History," we revisit the creation of the periodic table of elements.
Learn more at regulatorsproductions.com.
Mark as Played
Transcript
Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
(00:21):
Good morning, ladies and gentlemen.
Welcome back here to The Full Story
on W.Y.A.B.
103.9 as we get in to this.
What is it?
It's already it's already Thursday.
Wow. This week is going by going by
quite fast as it started to get more
and more bright outside as we get
through this early morning show.
It's I guess it's getting about
getting that close enough time to
(00:41):
to change the change the clocks
as our country itself is slowly
changing.
So today, what we want to cover,
what I want to cover this morning is
more fallout from when I say fallout,
more changes.
What's what's the movements of
Donald Trump's
non state of the union speech
speech to Congress.
(01:02):
We're getting not a state of the
union speech, technically,
even though it operated the same.
So obviously a lot of fallout
yesterday, you know, the craziness
of the Democrats,
you know, just not clapping for
anything, not clapping for a boy who
literally had cancer and
had the biggest had the biggest
smile on his face when he was made
(01:22):
a honorary man, an honorary
secret service agent, just the
biggest thing, hugs the secret
service agent.
You know, maybe we'll play that for
you guys a little bit later today.
But Democrats standing still
for it, standing resolute,
which is exactly what Donald Trump
won, right? You know, any time any
time they bring people
to the state of the union speeches,
speeches to Congress,
(01:43):
you know, they always bring they
always try to bring guests that are
overall,
you know, that everybody should
like.
Right. How can you not how
can you not feel for Lake and
Riley's family, for instance,
or the poor little girl who was
killed in Houston and they named
a nature, you know, reserve after
her?
I mean, how can you not clap for
those things? Right. Those are wins
(02:04):
for everybody.
When he did that solely to solely
to show the Democrats
how how ridiculous they
have gotten.
And that's what Donald Trump does.
I think he's good about setting
people up that way.
And one person he did, I also
think he set up that way is
President Vladimir Zelensky.
(02:24):
Of course, he talked about
the about that during
the state of the union
or during his speech to Congress.
And so that's one of the things I
want to cover. Right.
I want to cover this morning
as there is now an EU
summit that is going on
as they hold emergency talks
about Ukraine now that Trump
(02:44):
has suspended aid.
Now, again, that may all change if
that deal comes through that Donald
Trump talked about.
But that's not the case.
But that is something
that they are they're trying to
reel around.
And we covered, obviously, his
speech and his his
his discussion with Zelensky
last week, last Friday.
(03:07):
Crazy. That was just about a week
ago.
How fast is how fast the time
goes in politics?
But I think, you know, as
I talked about that, I think the
part of that was a setup for him
to just make him look like an
idiot in front of the American
people, which gives them
an opportunity to say, hey, we're
not giving you any more aid, pal.
Put them in a better negotiating
position.
(03:29):
So we're going to talk about that
and this this emergency
meeting that the EU is holding
we talked again.
I'm going to go back over some of
the numbers about that, about
the how much the EU is giving
for so much we're giving
because there's a little bit of
confusion on that.
Trump himself is not as accurate
on those numbers either,
(03:50):
at least on the we don't know all
of the money that's spent.
You know, that's kind of a scary
thing.
Just all the money that we know
that we spend.
We're going to cover that.
And if the EU can even make up for
it and what they're talking about.
Also, there
is more movements
in Doge
as we look to further
(04:10):
cut down the federal government.
You heard it on the top of the CBS
News. They they talk about
they try to bring the most biased
people they can. Look at this
veteran.
He's like, oh, Trump and his cronies,
right? You know, they just try to
get as biased
people as they possibly can to
interview. It's like, you
(04:31):
know, with the with the media and
all of this,
it's like, can you not can you not
read the room? Look, again, my
show is called The Fool's Story,
right? And obviously, you know, I
have my own opinion on things, but
I'm going to try to present you the
facts, right? If I if there's
a fact that Donald Trump gets
wrong, I'm going to mention it.
Right. And I'm going to I'm going
to correct it.
(04:51):
But at the same time, I'm not
going to present you with facts
that are skewed one way or the
other. I'm going to present you
the facts and I'm going to present
my own argument to it.
But these these these
liberal media outlets,
they hate Trump so much.
And the thing is that the American
people, again, Donald Trump, this
is why Donald Trump is so
(05:12):
emboldened. I mean, it was,
you know, you know, if you
you know, you know, the old
text like DGAF, right?
Don't give a crap.
Right. That's that's Donald
Trump's that's Donald that's
Donald Trump's
whole demeanor at this point,
because he knows he won with that
popular vote. He knows that he has
the Americans behind him
(05:32):
of that last election.
And that's the wind under his
sails.
And so that's what he's pushing
with, because he has that support
from the American people. So he
can be aggressive like this.
And these liberal media outlets,
they just can't read the room.
They just can't see that
this is
like the American people
(05:53):
are supporting this.
Like they're not going.
If you go down this path,
they're not going to continue to
support you.
I mean, it's obvious that this
amount of bias, I mean, obviously
traditional news is going down as
people are getting more and more
of their news from
non-traditional sources,
including things like what we do
(06:13):
here on the live stream.
But as well as, you
know, TikTok and all these other
ways that people get, you know, the
35 to 45 second news
podcast as well.
That's where people are getting
their news now. And a big part of
that is because the traditional
media has lost all of that,
all of that, any kind of trust
that they ever had as
(06:33):
time goes on.
People are seeking out
those alternative means
and alternative ways to
get their news.
And that's one thing we try to
present to you guys here as well.
Right. Is again, I want to present
to you the facts.
If Trump gets a fact wrong,
I'm going to mention it.
If if a Democrat gets a fact
wrong, I'm definitely going to
mention it.
Right.
But we got to start.
(06:55):
We got to start with the facts
first. Right.
We got to start with that
before we can make an opinion.
And
and I think that's that's that's
that's why I started this show,
you know, so many years ago is
to cut through the crap.
Right. Because it's hard to
everybody is so biased and all
that. You know,
(07:15):
you know, you could use to you
could use to kind of
rely on someone like the
Associated Press to give
unbiased news.
But when I go through their
articles and I go through their
sources, I got to piece it
through. And because it is so
tinged with with
that liberal bias, even in the AP,
which was traditionally the
(07:35):
standard of news reporting,
right. They're the standard of
how to write objectively.
You know, if you go to journalism
school, they talked about that,
right.
Is, you know, they write the style
book in journalism.
That's that's that's they were
always the standard.
And even then I got to piece
through it and I can only take a
couple of facts from their stories,
from their reporting to
(07:56):
present to you guys, because
again, it's so it's like, oh,
wait a minute. They put a tinge
here. They put attention.
They put an adverb.
They put an adjective.
Right.
If you're putting a lot of
adjectives and adverbs in your
story, you got a problem.
That's if you're seeing that in
an article, you know, it's skewed
one way or the other.
But the other thing I want to try
to talk about today as well is
those tariffs.
If we can talk about that as
(08:17):
well. So a loaded, loaded thing
here is our country, like I said,
is going through a lot
of movements, a lot of changes.
And as Donald Trump said at the
at his speeches, you know, hang
with him, you know, and a lot of
a lot of his plans that he has
and we're going to go into this
more detail, but a little bit
later on, but a lot of those
(08:37):
plans that he has, you know,
plans that he has, they are
going to have growing pains.
They are going to have short
term losses for long term gains.
And that's why politically
they've never been the best.
Like things like tariffs, why
politically they've been hard to
do because we're on a two year
election cycle.
Right. And tariffs take more than
(08:59):
two years.
They take more than eight years,
really, to start making those
returns back because it's going
to take a while for companies to
come back and build factories,
come back and to start investing
here. Now, just as Donald Trump
mentioned, just in the first
month, there's been, you know,
billions of dollars already
invested back into the United
States.
But it takes time and it's going
(09:20):
to take quite a long time.
It can be done.
It's just it's just, you know,
Americans have to have, do they
have that patience to get through
it or they're going to say, look,
X, X and X are now pricey
because of your tariffs.
I'm going to vote someone else in
and then the whole idea of it is
lost because someone else comes
in, they take away all the
tariffs and then any any
(09:40):
investment that we're going to
put in the country is no longer
because why do that anymore?
So again, it's just this idea of
can they hold off and you know,
can you can you hang with them
for just a little bit?
So we're going to talk about that
as well.
As always, if you're going to
call in the number 601-879-0002.
As I mentioned before, if you
call in during the break, we have
(10:01):
that on the live stream for some
bonus content where we can have
a little bit more open discussions
during the breaks and we can have
on the FM airwaves.
So again, that's number 601-879-0002
but keep it tuned to the full
story on WIAB 103.9.
(10:22):
Alright, ladies and gentlemen,
welcome back here to the full
story on WIAB 103.9.
And so what I want to get started
with this morning is highlighting
two big areas of Trump's speech
that I want to go into detail
about especially now as we're,
you know, a couple days.
Was it?
(10:42):
Yes, no.
Yeah, exactly.
Exactly.
Well, I guess a day and a half,
honestly from his speech.
But again, anytime Donald Trump
makes these announcements, things
start moving, right?
Things start moving around the
country.
Things start moving around the
world.
And one of those, of course, has
been this this back and forth
with Ukraine.
And so what I want to do is I
want to play that part of the
(11:02):
speech and then I want to update
you on how the EU is reacting
and as well as what we look for
going forward as as we continue
on with this, what our
relationship should be with
Ukraine.
So what I'll go for you is start
with the speech on Friday of
that little piece.
(11:23):
And so we'll go ahead and get
started with that one.
I'm also working tirelessly to
end the savage conflict in
Ukraine.
Millions of Ukrainians and
Russians have been needlessly
killed or wounded in this
horrific and brutal conflict
with no end in sight.
The United States has sent
(11:45):
hundreds of billions of dollars
to support Ukraine's defense
with no security, with no
anything.
(12:08):
Do you want to keep it going for
another five years?
Yeah, yeah, you would say
Pocahontas says yes.
Of course, he had to get he had
to get that in right.
I mean, why not?
That was one of the biggest
viral moments.
I guess this is what I talked
about when Trump is in the
DGAF mode, right?
(12:28):
That's right there.
He just he's just going to
call you out.
He doesn't care.
All that stuff's gone.
JD Vance, you can see him here
here.
He is he's just loving it.
He's calling out Zelensky too,
but I'll continue.
Two thousand people are being
killed every single week.
(12:49):
More than that.
They're Russian young people.
They're Ukrainian young people.
They're not Americans, but I
wanted to stop.
Meanwhile, Europe has sadly
spent more money buying Russian
oil and gas than they have spent
on defending Ukraine by far.
Think of that.
They've spent more buying Russian
(13:10):
oil and gas than they have
defending and we've spent
perhaps three hundred and fifty
billion dollars like taking
candy from a baby.
That's what happened and they've
spent a hundred billion dollars.
What a difference that is and we
have a notion separating us and
they don't.
(13:31):
All right.
So I just want to stop it right
there for just a second because
I just want to go through those
facts that Donald Trump's talking
about there because I think it's
important as we go forward to
fully understand what is actually
being spent out there.
So as I mentioned this, I
mentioned this on the show on
Friday last Friday, but so far
(13:53):
Donald Trump has put out the
three hundred and fifty billion
dollar number out there.
But what I've what I've what I've
been able to piece together and
again, there's could be things
out there that we're just they're
not publicly telling right.
So I'm just looking at things
that have been publicly stated
that has been spent and what we
have is that the Department of
(14:15):
Defense has appropriated a
hundred eighty two billion
dollars.
Again, that's quite a bit.
Hundred eighty two point three
hundred eighty two point eight.
So hundred eighty three billion
dollars that in and of itself
quite a bit right.
And that's just from January
twenty two to December twenty
twenty four.
So that's just in the last two
years.
That's not anything we've given
before the invasion or of course
(14:36):
we know there's been a lot of
backroom deals with Ukraine
before then.
But that's the figures that I've
gotten in that two year time
frame.
And the NATO Secretary General
Mark Root said that in twenty
twenty four NATO allies provided
fifty billion euros and security
assistance to Ukraine with forty
(14:58):
percent of that coming from the
U.S.
So twenty billion is twenty
additional billion through NATO.
That's what NATO has specifically
given to Ukraine.
That's not any other thing
that's going on.
Of course we we fund the vast
majority of Ukraine.
I mean fund the vast majority of
NATO but that's another twenty
billion right there.
So that puts us at two hundred
billion.
(15:20):
And that's additionally you know
it's hard to tell how many
grants and things like that
we've given them in other
programs and our social programs
or to or in aid.
Again that's just military aid
non-military aid is a little bit
harder to track.
Part of that is because of
things like USAID right.
(15:40):
It's hard to figure out what all
they're spending.
We're still going through all of
that but just militarily what
I've been able to find is two
hundred billion which is vast
vastly a big difference between
any of the European countries
and we are by far the single
largest donor.
(16:01):
And so again it's in now overall
the EU countries combined if you
combine all of them they have
spent more than that two hundred
billion dollars.
Again about about 20 percent more
than that.
So again EU as a whole every
single country has spent a little
(16:23):
bit more that militarily again
that's not including any of our
aid.
So the three hundred fifty
billion dollars that Trump is
putting out there I believe also
includes non-military aid is how
he's getting to that number.
But again despite the specific
numbers what really comes out is
that how much of a I mean we're
we're funding almost half that war
(16:43):
we make up almost half of all the
spending EU makes up the other
half.
And so it is by far the we are the
largest single largest single
spender in that regard and in that
same in that same vein that's
what's the EU right now is having
(17:06):
an emergency meeting about how
much more aid they're going to be
able to give Ukraine because even
though they give like it's
slightly more than half right now
that's a lot to make up if we
completely pull out right then
they have to double their input
every single country over there
has to have to double what they
already give to be able to
maintain the same sort of the
(17:29):
same sort of assistant that
Ukraine is getting from the
United States.
That's probably unfeasible
because they don't spend that
much on their own military again
part of the problem with NATO as
a whole is that we don't get a
good return on investment on it
because they're not these
countries a lot of these NATO
countries aren't spending their
2% GDP.
So if they're going to double
their own aid to Ukraine that
(17:49):
would be more than their own
military.
I don't know how their own
people will think of that right
we've talked about how in
Germany anti-Ukraine anti-Ukrainian
parties have risen.
I think a lot of these other
European countries like wait a
minute that's Eastern Europe
again.
What are we going to do here and
they have a lot of money in
(18:10):
their pockets.
They have more of a skin in the
game than we do by far right as
Donald Trump you just heard
Donald Trump say we have an
ocean separating us and they
don't they're actually on that
same continent.
So they at least they have some
kind of skin in the game with
any kind of advancement of Russia
much more so than we do.
So in reality they should have
been they should have been
(18:30):
paying a lot more than us from
the get-go.
They're never should have been
us paying more for them.
So that's what the EU like I
said they're holding emergency
meetings and I don't know if it
will continue into tomorrow but
it is the EU is arguably right
now at its weakest point.
(18:51):
I guess said as there has been
rising of other parties within
the within Italy and Germany
and France which we've covered
all those elections here here
on the show because we see this
this rising apart is hey no we
want to focus more on Italy.
We want to focus more on
France.
Right.
We don't want to focus we want
(19:11):
to this globalist idea is
hurting our own country added to
the fact that they have just
like we've had they've had this
unnecessary influx of migrants
in those countries as well.
So the EU right now is having
its own challenges and Donald
Trump knows this right.
Donald Trump knows that because
of that there is no way that
(19:33):
that they are going to be able
to make up for the United States
is just impossible.
Even if they I'm sure the
leaders really really really
really want to they just don't
have it.
If you don't have it you don't
have it and that's going to be
the problem that they have.
And so that's what their
meeting day to figure out.
Well how can we come up with
something because you said after
(19:55):
this speech you know Trump
ordered a Paul went out after
that speech after this thing
last Friday ordered a pause to
all US military supplies to
Ukraine as they sought to the
negotiations with the with the
deal someone to continue on with
Trump speech and we're talking
about that next is the actual
deal but we're getting along
(20:15):
very well with them and lots of
good things are happening.
Biden is authorized more money
in this fight than Europe has
spent by billions and billions
of dollars.
It's hard to believe that they
wouldn't have stopped it and
said at some point come on let's
equalize you got to be equal to
us that didn't happen.
(20:36):
You see these idiots wearing
their blue and yellow blazers
and ties man it's just it's just
funny.
It's almost comical watching
these Democrats but I'll
continue earlier today.
I received an important letter
from President Zelensky of
Ukraine.
The letter reads Ukraine is
ready to come to the negotiating
table as soon as possible to
(20:56):
bring lasting peace closer.
Nobody wants peace more than the
Ukrainians.
He said my team and I stand
ready to work under President
Trump's strong leadership to
get a peace that lasts.
We do really value how much
America has done to help Ukraine
maintain its sovereignty and
(21:16):
independence regarding the
agreement on minerals and
security Ukraine is ready to
sign it at any time that is
convenient for you.
I appreciate that he sent this
letter just got it a little
while ago.
Simultaneously we've had serious
discussions with Russia and have
received strong signals that
(21:38):
they are ready for peace.
Wouldn't that be beautiful?
Wouldn't that be beautiful?
All right.
I'm going to take it off there
for a second.
So obviously I said the that
letter that he is that he's
talking about you know a big
part of what Trump asked for his
you know thank the American
people and Zelensky knows that
(21:58):
right again.
They're having these emergency
EU meetings and this meeting
that the EU is having right now
whatever happens right.
It's not expected to address
Ukraine's most pressing need
because it's not aimed at
urgency drumming up more arms
and ammunition to fill any
supply vacuum created by the
(22:19):
US freeze nor will it unblock
the estimated 183 billion euros
in frozen Russian assets held
in a Belgian clearinghouse.
So it's it's they just they
don't they don't have it and
Zelensky knows this Donald Trump
knows this from the beginning
right which is why he's able to
(22:41):
he's able to steer this
conversation how he wants to
steer it because America is in
the driving seat and what he's
asking for here is that look we
got to get something back right.
We just can't give you all this
money and our citizens not get
anything out of this right.
We can't and that's that's part
of where we are now is why I
think we have to do something
with Ukraine because we can't
(23:01):
just make all of this money
that we've been giving them.
You know this you know as
Donald Trump says over 300
billion but by my own estimates
at least over 200 billion and
military assets.
We can't make that a sunk cost
we have to hopefully get
something out of this of course
sometimes you got to just cut
it if you can't get anything
right just cut your losses and
(23:24):
Donald Trump like said that's
that's your walk away point
anytime in a negotiation.
This is negotiation 101 and of
course Donald Trump's written
literally written the book on
negotiation.
You have to have a walk away
point of like look you know
what we're going to cut our
losses and be done with it and
again that's part of any
negotiations that a you got to
be willing to do it and be
you got to know what that point
(23:45):
is and we're getting to that
point and Donald Trump's
projecting that out and which
is why he is able to again be
able to steal the conversation
because Ukraine has a whole lot
more to lose and we do at the
end of the day if we if we lose
you know even Trump's own
estimates if we have to lose
(24:05):
350 billion dollars if that's
just gone.
It's unfortunate but our
country will survive losing that
money and it's best to stop it
now before we bleed any further
with it.
However Ukraine cannot survive
without it.
They cannot survive without the
United States.
It's I think it's quite clear at
(24:26):
this point and the EU
understands that I think as well
as again they're having these
emergency meetings and they're
quickly finding out well guys
we ain't got it.
You got it.
You got it.
You got it.
No, no one's got it.
Oh man, we're screwed right and
so and I talked about that
hundred eighty two billion
dollars they have frozen in
Russian assets reason not
touching that because they know
(24:47):
that also would cause a war
with Russia if they just steal
a hundred eighty two billion
dollars from Russia that would
not be a great thing for them
and they know that and they
can't do that.
They can freeze it but they're
not going to steal it because
that would be a whole nother
that would be a whole nother
thing that would be almost
impossible for them to get from
and would cause a heck of a lot
(25:07):
harder piece because Russia is
going to want that back, right?
You just can't steal it from
them and then have any kind of
peace where Russia doesn't get
it back and right now we are at
the best opportunity and this
this this deal with the
minerals is the best opportunity
for peace because of what it
does right even though you
(25:29):
know you can't so they want
security guarantees as I've
mentioned before secure.
You're not going to get a
security guarantee of American
troops in Ukraine.
That's not going to happen.
Americans don't want that right
no one as I said, you know
these people want to wear, you
know all these politicians like
those Democrats they want to
wear little Ukrainian flag and
they want to wear their blue
(25:49):
and yellow shirts.
But the thing is it's not going
to be their son or daughter
is going to be in the on the
on the boots on the ground in
Ukraine, right?
You know their sons and daughters
get to go to the Ivy League
schools and never have to touch
reality.
It's the working class Americans
who have to fight their stupid
wars and that working class
Americans are tired of fighting
(26:10):
and dying for their wars just
tired of it and that's not what
we want.
That's not what's going to
happen.
That's why Democrats have been
voted out because they're tired
of unnecessary foreign wars.
But that being said, we don't
need boots on the ground and
Ukraine doesn't need the
American boots on the ground for
a security guarantee.
(26:30):
The security guarantee being
the Minerals Rights Deal itself.
If America has rights to their
minerals that is almost a
facto American soil.
We literally own that soil
right and that in of itself is
a security deal because you
know what Russia is not going
to do.
They're not going to try to take
American soil.
They're not going to do it
(26:51):
because they know that would
cause a war and if you try to
take American soil that will
anger Americans.
That will turn them very
quickly against you.
So if America can control those
mineral rights in certain places
of Ukraine, those areas are
going to be secure because it is
American.
America owns those rights to
(27:12):
that soil.
So that in of itself is a
guarantee.
You don't need boots on the
ground.
It's just the threat of it and
again, they know Donald Trump.
Donald Trump himself is a threat
to that because they know
Donald Trump will say hey you
screw up.
We're going to be there right.
We're going to we're going to
we're going to take you down and
he's not going to hold back.
(27:33):
They know that for a fact right.
So the security guarantee this
is this is the path to P and
again Russia can accept that as
that's why that's why they're
in connect and content.
They have to be in contact with
Russia.
It just blows my mind.
The Democrats are going to talk
into the Russians.
We have to talk to him idiots
or else you're never going to
(27:53):
have a peace plan.
Both sides got to talk.
Guess what in the American
Revolution we had to talk to the
British to get to the to get to
the peace deal right to get in
Paris to sign it right.
We had to talk to him.
We just say I'm not talking to
the British.
They they they they taxed us and
we're not going to talk to him
at all.
No, so you know we don't like
it.
But guess what we got to talk to
you this week in this thing,
(28:14):
right?
It's like if General Grant said
I'm not going to talk to General
Lee like he's a he's a he's a
dirty southerner.
I'm not talking to him.
No, it's like it's in our best
interest to stop this war,
right?
Let's stop this war and come
back together.
So you got to talk to the other
side and you got to be you got
to have that mutual respect,
(28:34):
right?
I get it.
You hate each other.
You invaded them.
Whatever I get it.
But at the same time you have to
respect each other's abilities
again, unless you can can unless
you can totally annihilate the
other side.
That's the only time we don't
have to come to the negotiation
table, right?
If you can totally annihilate
them and you are willing to do
so then you don't need to go to
it right like Hamas they can be
(28:56):
totally annihilated.
I've talked about that right.
So guess what they don't get
invited to the negotiation table
because we'll we're going to
totally annihilate you anyway,
but if you can't totally annihilate
your opponent if there cannot be
a total annihilation then you
have to talk to them right.
And so that's what has to happen.
That's why they're in connection
(29:16):
with Russia right now and talking
with Russia to say hey this is
what we're looking at doing in
Ukraine.
We're going to look at getting
these middle rights in these
places.
If we do that we can help get
we can help you know, you're the
Don boss region, which I told
what I talked about in the show
on Monday is I talked about the
(29:38):
history of that and that's been
you know, and that they've been
trying to get in that region for
a long long time.
Not to mention they've really
it's only been there.
It's only been part of Ukraine
since 1991 anyway.
But you know, they've been trying
to get back in that region for a
while now going all the way back
to the Obama days which they
haven't which they didn't do
anything and which even back
then they say hey we don't want
to give arms to Ukraine so that
(29:59):
will make the situation worse.
Democrats are saying that back
then mind you it's amazing how
things change especially get
backroom deals.
But hey, we're going to find that
out too.
So but talking with Russia look
hey Russia, we're going to be
we're going to be taking our
interest in here.
This is going to be ours.
You touch it.
You're messing with fire.
Okay, if you want your Don boss
(30:20):
region we can work something out
where that's an autonomous region
or its own country or whatever
you want to do, but you will not
touch this area, right?
This will be this will remain
part of Ukraine and this will be
American like soil, right?
We're going to own it and
because it's ours we will defend
our own place in our own in our
own interests and you're going
(30:42):
to understand that and we're
going to understand and we're
going to respect what you want
and that part of Russia and that
part of Ukraine.
We're essentially going to divide
it up, right?
As what happens in war
sometimes again, you crazy
not going to be able to get
everything at once.
It's just the way it is.
It sucks.
That's war.
You know, you don't that's
that sometimes you don't again
(31:02):
when you're facing a place like
Russia and it's just the way it
has to be now.
There's been a whole lot of talk
about, you know, appeasement and
looking at, you know, going back
to World War two, right when
Germany invaded Austria and
Europe just let it happen, right?
That the idea of appeasement
which grew the Nazi regime.
(31:22):
So first off, I'll say even back
then part of Europe, what do we
care?
Nazis are horrible.
I get it.
But, you know, from our
perspective in America even back
then, you know, most of our
citizens like hey get it bad
guys over there, but you know, I
care more about here.
You know, again, we have this
(31:43):
ocean now things all change
once Pearl Harbor attack.
Then we're out for blood.
That's the way it works, right?
That's the way it works for
America, right?
You attack our soil, then we're
going to be out for blood and
that's why they know not to mess
with us in that way.
But again, the EU is failing in
that regard to just like they
(32:03):
didn't war to because this is
supposed to be their problem.
Yet they've put that problem on
us and our citizens have had to
pay for it, right?
While their cities are doing
great in building factories and
having all this economic growth
because they don't have to worry
about the military.
That's what we've been providing
it for them.
So they don't have to worry
about spending it.
Of course, they're going to be
(32:24):
doing great in that regard.
We're paying.
We're doing that stuff for them
and that's what Americans are
tired of.
And now like I said, they don't
even have the other they don't
even put enough money in their
own militaries and now they're
trying to scramble and say well
how can we give Ukraine more we
give our own rights and they
don't want to get in a war with
(32:44):
Russia.
I mean again Europeans getting
a war with Russians has not
been a great they haven't had a
great track record with that
especially Germans as you know,
I talked I said Germans I talked
about Germany's really in the
big talks about this when these
EU talks as as they as they are
(33:06):
talking about it and no one
should no one should know better
than them about what it's like
to have to face Russia.
Okay.
Again, Russia is horrible
fighters.
They've never been great.
They've just they're just not
good.
There's not great and military
and military strategy or
anything their idea is just hey
we'll throw as many people the
(33:26):
problem the problem is possible
if it takes 20 of ours to kill
two of yours.
So be it.
We have a lot of them.
We'll just keep going to
Mongolia and places right to
just keep get more people right
not Mongolia itself, but you
know that part of Russia, you
know Siberia and all that stuff
right?
We'll just we'll just pull
people right?
We can just throw people at it
conscripts don't care right?
(33:46):
They just throw people in a
problem. That's what they do
human life means nothing to
them.
And if that's the case, that's
a tough enemy to fight because
it's just it's just wears you
down right?
Whether you want to or not and
that was and that was at the
time the the well both the
German army in World War one
and World War two but in World
(34:07):
War two right the Nazi army
which was which was vastly
superior to the Russian army to
the Soviet army the Red Army
they still lost because again
just that amount of just lack
of care of human life and that
war of attrition they can do
okay, I went a little bit long
there at the end.
I kind of tell off we have
(34:27):
taken another break right here
and we get back.
We're going to be a little bit
short on time.
So I may not have time to get
into directly into the tariffs.
It's not we'll either do
tariffs or Hamas to bring how
much time we have if you want
to call him during the break
number 601-879-0002 keep it
tuned to the full story on
wyab 103.9.
All right, as you know, welcome
back here to the full story on
(34:48):
wyab 103.9 and we only have
about two or three minutes to
get to this next or before you
have to take another break
and fortunately as I went to
probably too much detail about
the about the history of
of Russian Russian military
but what I want to cover I'm
going to go ahead and cover it
tomorrow because there's a
couple things I want to cover
(35:09):
in that regard with with Hamas
and you just heard on the
bottom news out about a new
Gallup poll that talked about
support more there's now a
significant more support for a
two-state solution than there
has been in the past.
So I want to get into detail
about that poll because we
polls are mentioned they're
(35:30):
thrown around all the time,
right?
It's like, oh look at this new
poll.
Look at this new poll.
Well, we have to look at the
methodology and I talk about
that all the times that we have
to understand the methodology
of a poll before we can just
accept it willy-nilly.
So tomorrow what we're going
to do is we're going to go into
that we're going to go into
Donald Trump's also his his
recent post about Hamas and
(35:50):
about releasing the hostages
again and looking at the trends
at this new Gallup poll put out
first look at his methodology
and then to look at the actual
poll says and compare that with
what Donald Trump is saying.
Also there you heard on the on
the on the CBS News, you know,
they talked about, you know,
firing, you know, tens of
thousands of people at the VA
and they had heard that one
(36:10):
crazy again.
They find the craziest people
all suicides are going to rise
up.
You know, so I think the
National Parks.
It's like just because we're
cutting jobs doesn't mean we're
getting rid of the department.
They act like they're getting
rid of the whole thing like
when the national they they
they shut down.
They fired a lot of National
Park people.
It's like it's like they're
getting rid of the National
Parks.
No, the idea is can we still be
efficient with this less amount
(36:31):
of people right if we can still
do the same job and the do and
be just to have the same
services as with 20,000 less
people.
Why would we not right is that
we're going to get rid of we're
going to lessen services.
That's what they're they're
acting like right.
That's not what's happening.
That's not what's happening at
all.
It's just we're making it more
efficiency.
That's actually in the name
(36:52):
right Doge Department of
Governmental Efficiency.
We're not just we're not just
cutting it and in cutting
services.
They always act like he's he's
cutting Department of Affairs.
That means we're going to get
rid of the Department of Affairs.
No, those two things don't go
together.
It's not the same thing people
it's we're making it more
efficient.
We're doing the same job with
much less people right and the
(37:12):
idea is right.
We're going to run this
efficiency.
So we have that we get the idea
when you look at any kind of
efficiency, especially in human
resources, right is to see how
can we get the same job done
with the least amount of people
possible.
That's what every business does
right.
They want to make sure that
they're efficient in the number
of people at hires right.
Elon Musk did that with Twitter
right when he came in he fired
(37:32):
like 60% of the people and guess
what nothing got interrupted
with Twitter.
It run just fine.
Just like you did.
No one noticed.
That's the idea right.
That's what we want to get to
is that same amount of
services we just don't have to
have all these people running
it.
So that's what they're doing
with the Department of Veterans
Affairs.
That's what they do with all
these departments but the
Democrats and all these crazy
news agencies act like he's
(37:53):
shutting down the department.
No, we're just making it more
efficient.
If we can do that same job with
30,000 40,000 100,000 less
people the more power to you
right now if we find out that
we that those services drop
then we can hire back or we can
adjust as necessary.
That's the way it works.
That's the way business works.
That's the way that's the way
that's the way that's the way
(38:13):
it has to get done is getting
rid of these people who just
sit on their butts all day and
get absolutely nothing done
because that's not doing the
veterans any service.
What's going to do the veterans
service is an efficient
department where things get done
quicker cutting red tape and
being able to find solutions to
problems to their problems into
the problems as as a whole.
(38:34):
All right, we're going to take
our last break right here.
We get back.
We'll do this day in history,
but keep it tuned to the full
story on WIAB 103.9.
All right, ladies and gentlemen,
welcome back here to the full
story and WIAB.
I just love that mailroom
Gluckstadt commercial by the
way, because what can they not
do at the mailroom Gluckstadt,
but I want to get to this day
in history regardless.
So on this day, March 6th,
1869 was the day the building
(38:56):
blocks of chemistry came together.
So on this day, Russian
chemist Dmitry Mendeleev unveiled
the first periodic table of the
elements to the Russian
Chemical Society.
And at the time only 63 elements
were known and scientists
struggled to organize them.
But Mendeleev saw a pattern.
Elements followed recurring
trends when arranged by atomic
(39:17):
weight.
He placed similar elements into
groups and most remarkably left
gaps where he predicted
undiscovered elements would fit
in and he was right because
within years elements like
gallium, scandium and germanium
were discovering matches matching
his forecast almost perfectly.
Mendeleev's work became the
foundation of modern chemistry
(39:37):
leading to today's periodic
table now arranged by atomic
number instead of weight,
but still following those same
trends that he has set out.
His insights revolutionized
science paving the way for
medical, industrial and
technological advancements.
All right, that's all we have
for you guys today.
We'll see you again tomorrow
where we'll cover those things
about the Palestinian state
(39:57):
what I just severed.
It's going to be a great show.
But until then, my name is
Matthew Bishop and you have
heard the full story.
Good morning, ladies and gentlemen.
Welcome back here to The Full Story
on W.Y.A.B.
103.9 as we get in to this.
What is it?
It's already it's already Thursday.
Wow. This week is going by going by
quite fast as it started to get more
and more bright outside as we get
through this early morning show.
It's I guess it's getting about
getting that close enough time to
(00:41):
to change the change the clocks
as our country itself is slowly
changing.
So today, what we want to cover,
what I want to cover this morning is
more fallout from when I say fallout,
more changes.
What's what's the movements of
Donald Trump's
non state of the union speech
speech to Congress.
(01:02):
We're getting not a state of the
union speech, technically,
even though it operated the same.
So obviously a lot of fallout
yesterday, you know, the craziness
of the Democrats,
you know, just not clapping for
anything, not clapping for a boy who
literally had cancer and
had the biggest had the biggest
smile on his face when he was made
(01:22):
a honorary man, an honorary
secret service agent, just the
biggest thing, hugs the secret
service agent.
You know, maybe we'll play that for
you guys a little bit later today.
But Democrats standing still
for it, standing resolute,
which is exactly what Donald Trump
won, right? You know, any time any
time they bring people
to the state of the union speeches,
speeches to Congress,
(01:43):
you know, they always bring they
always try to bring guests that are
overall,
you know, that everybody should
like.
Right. How can you not how
can you not feel for Lake and
Riley's family, for instance,
or the poor little girl who was
killed in Houston and they named
a nature, you know, reserve after
her?
I mean, how can you not clap for
those things? Right. Those are wins
(02:04):
for everybody.
When he did that solely to solely
to show the Democrats
how how ridiculous they
have gotten.
And that's what Donald Trump does.
I think he's good about setting
people up that way.
And one person he did, I also
think he set up that way is
President Vladimir Zelensky.
(02:24):
Of course, he talked about
the about that during
the state of the union
or during his speech to Congress.
And so that's one of the things I
want to cover. Right.
I want to cover this morning
as there is now an EU
summit that is going on
as they hold emergency talks
about Ukraine now that Trump
(02:44):
has suspended aid.
Now, again, that may all change if
that deal comes through that Donald
Trump talked about.
But that's not the case.
But that is something
that they are they're trying to
reel around.
And we covered, obviously, his
speech and his his
his discussion with Zelensky
last week, last Friday.
(03:07):
Crazy. That was just about a week
ago.
How fast is how fast the time
goes in politics?
But I think, you know, as
I talked about that, I think the
part of that was a setup for him
to just make him look like an
idiot in front of the American
people, which gives them
an opportunity to say, hey, we're
not giving you any more aid, pal.
Put them in a better negotiating
position.
(03:29):
So we're going to talk about that
and this this emergency
meeting that the EU is holding
we talked again.
I'm going to go back over some of
the numbers about that, about
the how much the EU is giving
for so much we're giving
because there's a little bit of
confusion on that.
Trump himself is not as accurate
on those numbers either,
(03:50):
at least on the we don't know all
of the money that's spent.
You know, that's kind of a scary
thing.
Just all the money that we know
that we spend.
We're going to cover that.
And if the EU can even make up for
it and what they're talking about.
Also, there
is more movements
in Doge
as we look to further
(04:10):
cut down the federal government.
You heard it on the top of the CBS
News. They they talk about
they try to bring the most biased
people they can. Look at this
veteran.
He's like, oh, Trump and his cronies,
right? You know, they just try to
get as biased
people as they possibly can to
interview. It's like, you
(04:31):
know, with the with the media and
all of this,
it's like, can you not can you not
read the room? Look, again, my
show is called The Fool's Story,
right? And obviously, you know, I
have my own opinion on things, but
I'm going to try to present you the
facts, right? If I if there's
a fact that Donald Trump gets
wrong, I'm going to mention it.
Right. And I'm going to I'm going
to correct it.
(04:51):
But at the same time, I'm not
going to present you with facts
that are skewed one way or the
other. I'm going to present you
the facts and I'm going to present
my own argument to it.
But these these these
liberal media outlets,
they hate Trump so much.
And the thing is that the American
people, again, Donald Trump, this
is why Donald Trump is so
(05:12):
emboldened. I mean, it was,
you know, you know, if you
you know, you know, the old
text like DGAF, right?
Don't give a crap.
Right. That's that's Donald
Trump's that's Donald that's
Donald Trump's
whole demeanor at this point,
because he knows he won with that
popular vote. He knows that he has
the Americans behind him
(05:32):
of that last election.
And that's the wind under his
sails.
And so that's what he's pushing
with, because he has that support
from the American people. So he
can be aggressive like this.
And these liberal media outlets,
they just can't read the room.
They just can't see that
this is
like the American people
(05:53):
are supporting this.
Like they're not going.
If you go down this path,
they're not going to continue to
support you.
I mean, it's obvious that this
amount of bias, I mean, obviously
traditional news is going down as
people are getting more and more
of their news from
non-traditional sources,
including things like what we do
(06:13):
here on the live stream.
But as well as, you
know, TikTok and all these other
ways that people get, you know, the
35 to 45 second news
podcast as well.
That's where people are getting
their news now. And a big part of
that is because the traditional
media has lost all of that,
all of that, any kind of trust
that they ever had as
(06:33):
time goes on.
People are seeking out
those alternative means
and alternative ways to
get their news.
And that's one thing we try to
present to you guys here as well.
Right. Is again, I want to present
to you the facts.
If Trump gets a fact wrong,
I'm going to mention it.
If if a Democrat gets a fact
wrong, I'm definitely going to
mention it.
Right.
But we got to start.
(06:55):
We got to start with the facts
first. Right.
We got to start with that
before we can make an opinion.
And
and I think that's that's that's
that's why I started this show,
you know, so many years ago is
to cut through the crap.
Right. Because it's hard to
everybody is so biased and all
that. You know,
(07:15):
you know, you could use to you
could use to kind of
rely on someone like the
Associated Press to give
unbiased news.
But when I go through their
articles and I go through their
sources, I got to piece it
through. And because it is so
tinged with with
that liberal bias, even in the AP,
which was traditionally the
(07:35):
standard of news reporting,
right. They're the standard of
how to write objectively.
You know, if you go to journalism
school, they talked about that,
right.
Is, you know, they write the style
book in journalism.
That's that's that's they were
always the standard.
And even then I got to piece
through it and I can only take a
couple of facts from their stories,
from their reporting to
(07:56):
present to you guys, because
again, it's so it's like, oh,
wait a minute. They put a tinge
here. They put attention.
They put an adverb.
They put an adjective.
Right.
If you're putting a lot of
adjectives and adverbs in your
story, you got a problem.
That's if you're seeing that in
an article, you know, it's skewed
one way or the other.
But the other thing I want to try
to talk about today as well is
those tariffs.
If we can talk about that as
(08:17):
well. So a loaded, loaded thing
here is our country, like I said,
is going through a lot
of movements, a lot of changes.
And as Donald Trump said at the
at his speeches, you know, hang
with him, you know, and a lot of
a lot of his plans that he has
and we're going to go into this
more detail, but a little bit
later on, but a lot of those
(08:37):
plans that he has, you know,
plans that he has, they are
going to have growing pains.
They are going to have short
term losses for long term gains.
And that's why politically
they've never been the best.
Like things like tariffs, why
politically they've been hard to
do because we're on a two year
election cycle.
Right. And tariffs take more than
(08:59):
two years.
They take more than eight years,
really, to start making those
returns back because it's going
to take a while for companies to
come back and build factories,
come back and to start investing
here. Now, just as Donald Trump
mentioned, just in the first
month, there's been, you know,
billions of dollars already
invested back into the United
States.
But it takes time and it's going
(09:20):
to take quite a long time.
It can be done.
It's just it's just, you know,
Americans have to have, do they
have that patience to get through
it or they're going to say, look,
X, X and X are now pricey
because of your tariffs.
I'm going to vote someone else in
and then the whole idea of it is
lost because someone else comes
in, they take away all the
tariffs and then any any
(09:40):
investment that we're going to
put in the country is no longer
because why do that anymore?
So again, it's just this idea of
can they hold off and you know,
can you can you hang with them
for just a little bit?
So we're going to talk about that
as well.
As always, if you're going to
call in the number 601-879-0002.
As I mentioned before, if you
call in during the break, we have
(10:01):
that on the live stream for some
bonus content where we can have
a little bit more open discussions
during the breaks and we can have
on the FM airwaves.
So again, that's number 601-879-0002
but keep it tuned to the full
story on WIAB 103.9.
(10:22):
Alright, ladies and gentlemen,
welcome back here to the full
story on WIAB 103.9.
And so what I want to get started
with this morning is highlighting
two big areas of Trump's speech
that I want to go into detail
about especially now as we're,
you know, a couple days.
Was it?
(10:42):
Yes, no.
Yeah, exactly.
Exactly.
Well, I guess a day and a half,
honestly from his speech.
But again, anytime Donald Trump
makes these announcements, things
start moving, right?
Things start moving around the
country.
Things start moving around the
world.
And one of those, of course, has
been this this back and forth
with Ukraine.
And so what I want to do is I
want to play that part of the
(11:02):
speech and then I want to update
you on how the EU is reacting
and as well as what we look for
going forward as as we continue
on with this, what our
relationship should be with
Ukraine.
So what I'll go for you is start
with the speech on Friday of
that little piece.
(11:23):
And so we'll go ahead and get
started with that one.
I'm also working tirelessly to
end the savage conflict in
Ukraine.
Millions of Ukrainians and
Russians have been needlessly
killed or wounded in this
horrific and brutal conflict
with no end in sight.
The United States has sent
(11:45):
hundreds of billions of dollars
to support Ukraine's defense
with no security, with no
anything.
(12:08):
Do you want to keep it going for
another five years?
Yeah, yeah, you would say
Pocahontas says yes.
Of course, he had to get he had
to get that in right.
I mean, why not?
That was one of the biggest
viral moments.
I guess this is what I talked
about when Trump is in the
DGAF mode, right?
(12:28):
That's right there.
He just he's just going to
call you out.
He doesn't care.
All that stuff's gone.
JD Vance, you can see him here
here.
He is he's just loving it.
He's calling out Zelensky too,
but I'll continue.
Two thousand people are being
killed every single week.
(12:49):
More than that.
They're Russian young people.
They're Ukrainian young people.
They're not Americans, but I
wanted to stop.
Meanwhile, Europe has sadly
spent more money buying Russian
oil and gas than they have spent
on defending Ukraine by far.
Think of that.
They've spent more buying Russian
(13:10):
oil and gas than they have
defending and we've spent
perhaps three hundred and fifty
billion dollars like taking
candy from a baby.
That's what happened and they've
spent a hundred billion dollars.
What a difference that is and we
have a notion separating us and
they don't.
(13:31):
All right.
So I just want to stop it right
there for just a second because
I just want to go through those
facts that Donald Trump's talking
about there because I think it's
important as we go forward to
fully understand what is actually
being spent out there.
So as I mentioned this, I
mentioned this on the show on
Friday last Friday, but so far
(13:53):
Donald Trump has put out the
three hundred and fifty billion
dollar number out there.
But what I've what I've what I've
been able to piece together and
again, there's could be things
out there that we're just they're
not publicly telling right.
So I'm just looking at things
that have been publicly stated
that has been spent and what we
have is that the Department of
(14:15):
Defense has appropriated a
hundred eighty two billion
dollars.
Again, that's quite a bit.
Hundred eighty two point three
hundred eighty two point eight.
So hundred eighty three billion
dollars that in and of itself
quite a bit right.
And that's just from January
twenty two to December twenty
twenty four.
So that's just in the last two
years.
That's not anything we've given
before the invasion or of course
(14:36):
we know there's been a lot of
backroom deals with Ukraine
before then.
But that's the figures that I've
gotten in that two year time
frame.
And the NATO Secretary General
Mark Root said that in twenty
twenty four NATO allies provided
fifty billion euros and security
assistance to Ukraine with forty
(14:58):
percent of that coming from the
U.S.
So twenty billion is twenty
additional billion through NATO.
That's what NATO has specifically
given to Ukraine.
That's not any other thing
that's going on.
Of course we we fund the vast
majority of Ukraine.
I mean fund the vast majority of
NATO but that's another twenty
billion right there.
So that puts us at two hundred
billion.
(15:20):
And that's additionally you know
it's hard to tell how many
grants and things like that
we've given them in other
programs and our social programs
or to or in aid.
Again that's just military aid
non-military aid is a little bit
harder to track.
Part of that is because of
things like USAID right.
(15:40):
It's hard to figure out what all
they're spending.
We're still going through all of
that but just militarily what
I've been able to find is two
hundred billion which is vast
vastly a big difference between
any of the European countries
and we are by far the single
largest donor.
(16:01):
And so again it's in now overall
the EU countries combined if you
combine all of them they have
spent more than that two hundred
billion dollars.
Again about about 20 percent more
than that.
So again EU as a whole every
single country has spent a little
(16:23):
bit more that militarily again
that's not including any of our
aid.
So the three hundred fifty
billion dollars that Trump is
putting out there I believe also
includes non-military aid is how
he's getting to that number.
But again despite the specific
numbers what really comes out is
that how much of a I mean we're
we're funding almost half that war
(16:43):
we make up almost half of all the
spending EU makes up the other
half.
And so it is by far the we are the
largest single largest single
spender in that regard and in that
same in that same vein that's
what's the EU right now is having
(17:06):
an emergency meeting about how
much more aid they're going to be
able to give Ukraine because even
though they give like it's
slightly more than half right now
that's a lot to make up if we
completely pull out right then
they have to double their input
every single country over there
has to have to double what they
already give to be able to
maintain the same sort of the
(17:29):
same sort of assistant that
Ukraine is getting from the
United States.
That's probably unfeasible
because they don't spend that
much on their own military again
part of the problem with NATO as
a whole is that we don't get a
good return on investment on it
because they're not these
countries a lot of these NATO
countries aren't spending their
2% GDP.
So if they're going to double
their own aid to Ukraine that
(17:49):
would be more than their own
military.
I don't know how their own
people will think of that right
we've talked about how in
Germany anti-Ukraine anti-Ukrainian
parties have risen.
I think a lot of these other
European countries like wait a
minute that's Eastern Europe
again.
What are we going to do here and
they have a lot of money in
(18:10):
their pockets.
They have more of a skin in the
game than we do by far right as
Donald Trump you just heard
Donald Trump say we have an
ocean separating us and they
don't they're actually on that
same continent.
So they at least they have some
kind of skin in the game with
any kind of advancement of Russia
much more so than we do.
So in reality they should have
been they should have been
(18:30):
paying a lot more than us from
the get-go.
They're never should have been
us paying more for them.
So that's what the EU like I
said they're holding emergency
meetings and I don't know if it
will continue into tomorrow but
it is the EU is arguably right
now at its weakest point.
(18:51):
I guess said as there has been
rising of other parties within
the within Italy and Germany
and France which we've covered
all those elections here here
on the show because we see this
this rising apart is hey no we
want to focus more on Italy.
We want to focus more on
France.
Right.
We don't want to focus we want
(19:11):
to this globalist idea is
hurting our own country added to
the fact that they have just
like we've had they've had this
unnecessary influx of migrants
in those countries as well.
So the EU right now is having
its own challenges and Donald
Trump knows this right.
Donald Trump knows that because
of that there is no way that
(19:33):
that they are going to be able
to make up for the United States
is just impossible.
Even if they I'm sure the
leaders really really really
really want to they just don't
have it.
If you don't have it you don't
have it and that's going to be
the problem that they have.
And so that's what their
meeting day to figure out.
Well how can we come up with
something because you said after
(19:55):
this speech you know Trump
ordered a Paul went out after
that speech after this thing
last Friday ordered a pause to
all US military supplies to
Ukraine as they sought to the
negotiations with the with the
deal someone to continue on with
Trump speech and we're talking
about that next is the actual
deal but we're getting along
(20:15):
very well with them and lots of
good things are happening.
Biden is authorized more money
in this fight than Europe has
spent by billions and billions
of dollars.
It's hard to believe that they
wouldn't have stopped it and
said at some point come on let's
equalize you got to be equal to
us that didn't happen.
(20:36):
You see these idiots wearing
their blue and yellow blazers
and ties man it's just it's just
funny.
It's almost comical watching
these Democrats but I'll
continue earlier today.
I received an important letter
from President Zelensky of
Ukraine.
The letter reads Ukraine is
ready to come to the negotiating
table as soon as possible to
(20:56):
bring lasting peace closer.
Nobody wants peace more than the
Ukrainians.
He said my team and I stand
ready to work under President
Trump's strong leadership to
get a peace that lasts.
We do really value how much
America has done to help Ukraine
maintain its sovereignty and
(21:16):
independence regarding the
agreement on minerals and
security Ukraine is ready to
sign it at any time that is
convenient for you.
I appreciate that he sent this
letter just got it a little
while ago.
Simultaneously we've had serious
discussions with Russia and have
received strong signals that
(21:38):
they are ready for peace.
Wouldn't that be beautiful?
Wouldn't that be beautiful?
All right.
I'm going to take it off there
for a second.
So obviously I said the that
letter that he is that he's
talking about you know a big
part of what Trump asked for his
you know thank the American
people and Zelensky knows that
(21:58):
right again.
They're having these emergency
EU meetings and this meeting
that the EU is having right now
whatever happens right.
It's not expected to address
Ukraine's most pressing need
because it's not aimed at
urgency drumming up more arms
and ammunition to fill any
supply vacuum created by the
(22:19):
US freeze nor will it unblock
the estimated 183 billion euros
in frozen Russian assets held
in a Belgian clearinghouse.
So it's it's they just they
don't they don't have it and
Zelensky knows this Donald Trump
knows this from the beginning
right which is why he's able to
(22:41):
he's able to steer this
conversation how he wants to
steer it because America is in
the driving seat and what he's
asking for here is that look we
got to get something back right.
We just can't give you all this
money and our citizens not get
anything out of this right.
We can't and that's that's part
of where we are now is why I
think we have to do something
with Ukraine because we can't
(23:01):
just make all of this money
that we've been giving them.
You know this you know as
Donald Trump says over 300
billion but by my own estimates
at least over 200 billion and
military assets.
We can't make that a sunk cost
we have to hopefully get
something out of this of course
sometimes you got to just cut
it if you can't get anything
right just cut your losses and
(23:24):
Donald Trump like said that's
that's your walk away point
anytime in a negotiation.
This is negotiation 101 and of
course Donald Trump's written
literally written the book on
negotiation.
You have to have a walk away
point of like look you know
what we're going to cut our
losses and be done with it and
again that's part of any
negotiations that a you got to
be willing to do it and be
you got to know what that point
(23:45):
is and we're getting to that
point and Donald Trump's
projecting that out and which
is why he is able to again be
able to steal the conversation
because Ukraine has a whole lot
more to lose and we do at the
end of the day if we if we lose
you know even Trump's own
estimates if we have to lose
(24:05):
350 billion dollars if that's
just gone.
It's unfortunate but our
country will survive losing that
money and it's best to stop it
now before we bleed any further
with it.
However Ukraine cannot survive
without it.
They cannot survive without the
United States.
It's I think it's quite clear at
(24:26):
this point and the EU
understands that I think as well
as again they're having these
emergency meetings and they're
quickly finding out well guys
we ain't got it.
You got it.
You got it.
You got it.
No, no one's got it.
Oh man, we're screwed right and
so and I talked about that
hundred eighty two billion
dollars they have frozen in
Russian assets reason not
touching that because they know
(24:47):
that also would cause a war
with Russia if they just steal
a hundred eighty two billion
dollars from Russia that would
not be a great thing for them
and they know that and they
can't do that.
They can freeze it but they're
not going to steal it because
that would be a whole nother
that would be a whole nother
thing that would be almost
impossible for them to get from
and would cause a heck of a lot
(25:07):
harder piece because Russia is
going to want that back, right?
You just can't steal it from
them and then have any kind of
peace where Russia doesn't get
it back and right now we are at
the best opportunity and this
this this deal with the
minerals is the best opportunity
for peace because of what it
does right even though you
(25:29):
know you can't so they want
security guarantees as I've
mentioned before secure.
You're not going to get a
security guarantee of American
troops in Ukraine.
That's not going to happen.
Americans don't want that right
no one as I said, you know
these people want to wear, you
know all these politicians like
those Democrats they want to
wear little Ukrainian flag and
they want to wear their blue
(25:49):
and yellow shirts.
But the thing is it's not going
to be their son or daughter
is going to be in the on the
on the boots on the ground in
Ukraine, right?
You know their sons and daughters
get to go to the Ivy League
schools and never have to touch
reality.
It's the working class Americans
who have to fight their stupid
wars and that working class
Americans are tired of fighting
(26:10):
and dying for their wars just
tired of it and that's not what
we want.
That's not what's going to
happen.
That's why Democrats have been
voted out because they're tired
of unnecessary foreign wars.
But that being said, we don't
need boots on the ground and
Ukraine doesn't need the
American boots on the ground for
a security guarantee.
(26:30):
The security guarantee being
the Minerals Rights Deal itself.
If America has rights to their
minerals that is almost a
facto American soil.
We literally own that soil
right and that in of itself is
a security deal because you
know what Russia is not going
to do.
They're not going to try to take
American soil.
They're not going to do it
(26:51):
because they know that would
cause a war and if you try to
take American soil that will
anger Americans.
That will turn them very
quickly against you.
So if America can control those
mineral rights in certain places
of Ukraine, those areas are
going to be secure because it is
American.
America owns those rights to
(27:12):
that soil.
So that in of itself is a
guarantee.
You don't need boots on the
ground.
It's just the threat of it and
again, they know Donald Trump.
Donald Trump himself is a threat
to that because they know
Donald Trump will say hey you
screw up.
We're going to be there right.
We're going to we're going to
we're going to take you down and
he's not going to hold back.
(27:33):
They know that for a fact right.
So the security guarantee this
is this is the path to P and
again Russia can accept that as
that's why that's why they're
in connect and content.
They have to be in contact with
Russia.
It just blows my mind.
The Democrats are going to talk
into the Russians.
We have to talk to him idiots
or else you're never going to
(27:53):
have a peace plan.
Both sides got to talk.
Guess what in the American
Revolution we had to talk to the
British to get to the to get to
the peace deal right to get in
Paris to sign it right.
We had to talk to him.
We just say I'm not talking to
the British.
They they they they taxed us and
we're not going to talk to him
at all.
No, so you know we don't like
it.
But guess what we got to talk to
you this week in this thing,
(28:14):
right?
It's like if General Grant said
I'm not going to talk to General
Lee like he's a he's a he's a
dirty southerner.
I'm not talking to him.
No, it's like it's in our best
interest to stop this war,
right?
Let's stop this war and come
back together.
So you got to talk to the other
side and you got to be you got
to have that mutual respect,
(28:34):
right?
I get it.
You hate each other.
You invaded them.
Whatever I get it.
But at the same time you have to
respect each other's abilities
again, unless you can can unless
you can totally annihilate the
other side.
That's the only time we don't
have to come to the negotiation
table, right?
If you can totally annihilate
them and you are willing to do
so then you don't need to go to
it right like Hamas they can be
(28:56):
totally annihilated.
I've talked about that right.
So guess what they don't get
invited to the negotiation table
because we'll we're going to
totally annihilate you anyway,
but if you can't totally annihilate
your opponent if there cannot be
a total annihilation then you
have to talk to them right.
And so that's what has to happen.
That's why they're in connection
(29:16):
with Russia right now and talking
with Russia to say hey this is
what we're looking at doing in
Ukraine.
We're going to look at getting
these middle rights in these
places.
If we do that we can help get
we can help you know, you're the
Don boss region, which I told
what I talked about in the show
on Monday is I talked about the
(29:38):
history of that and that's been
you know, and that they've been
trying to get in that region for
a long long time.
Not to mention they've really
it's only been there.
It's only been part of Ukraine
since 1991 anyway.
But you know, they've been trying
to get back in that region for a
while now going all the way back
to the Obama days which they
haven't which they didn't do
anything and which even back
then they say hey we don't want
to give arms to Ukraine so that
(29:59):
will make the situation worse.
Democrats are saying that back
then mind you it's amazing how
things change especially get
backroom deals.
But hey, we're going to find that
out too.
So but talking with Russia look
hey Russia, we're going to be
we're going to be taking our
interest in here.
This is going to be ours.
You touch it.
You're messing with fire.
Okay, if you want your Don boss
(30:20):
region we can work something out
where that's an autonomous region
or its own country or whatever
you want to do, but you will not
touch this area, right?
This will be this will remain
part of Ukraine and this will be
American like soil, right?
We're going to own it and
because it's ours we will defend
our own place in our own in our
own interests and you're going
(30:42):
to understand that and we're
going to understand and we're
going to respect what you want
and that part of Russia and that
part of Ukraine.
We're essentially going to divide
it up, right?
As what happens in war
sometimes again, you crazy
not going to be able to get
everything at once.
It's just the way it is.
It sucks.
That's war.
You know, you don't that's
that sometimes you don't again
(31:02):
when you're facing a place like
Russia and it's just the way it
has to be now.
There's been a whole lot of talk
about, you know, appeasement and
looking at, you know, going back
to World War two, right when
Germany invaded Austria and
Europe just let it happen, right?
That the idea of appeasement
which grew the Nazi regime.
(31:22):
So first off, I'll say even back
then part of Europe, what do we
care?
Nazis are horrible.
I get it.
But, you know, from our
perspective in America even back
then, you know, most of our
citizens like hey get it bad
guys over there, but you know, I
care more about here.
You know, again, we have this
(31:43):
ocean now things all change
once Pearl Harbor attack.
Then we're out for blood.
That's the way it works, right?
That's the way it works for
America, right?
You attack our soil, then we're
going to be out for blood and
that's why they know not to mess
with us in that way.
But again, the EU is failing in
that regard to just like they
(32:03):
didn't war to because this is
supposed to be their problem.
Yet they've put that problem on
us and our citizens have had to
pay for it, right?
While their cities are doing
great in building factories and
having all this economic growth
because they don't have to worry
about the military.
That's what we've been providing
it for them.
So they don't have to worry
about spending it.
Of course, they're going to be
(32:24):
doing great in that regard.
We're paying.
We're doing that stuff for them
and that's what Americans are
tired of.
And now like I said, they don't
even have the other they don't
even put enough money in their
own militaries and now they're
trying to scramble and say well
how can we give Ukraine more we
give our own rights and they
don't want to get in a war with
(32:44):
Russia.
I mean again Europeans getting
a war with Russians has not
been a great they haven't had a
great track record with that
especially Germans as you know,
I talked I said Germans I talked
about Germany's really in the
big talks about this when these
EU talks as as they as they are
(33:06):
talking about it and no one
should no one should know better
than them about what it's like
to have to face Russia.
Okay.
Again, Russia is horrible
fighters.
They've never been great.
They've just they're just not
good.
There's not great and military
and military strategy or
anything their idea is just hey
we'll throw as many people the
(33:26):
problem the problem is possible
if it takes 20 of ours to kill
two of yours.
So be it.
We have a lot of them.
We'll just keep going to
Mongolia and places right to
just keep get more people right
not Mongolia itself, but you
know that part of Russia, you
know Siberia and all that stuff
right?
We'll just we'll just pull
people right?
We can just throw people at it
conscripts don't care right?
(33:46):
They just throw people in a
problem. That's what they do
human life means nothing to
them.
And if that's the case, that's
a tough enemy to fight because
it's just it's just wears you
down right?
Whether you want to or not and
that was and that was at the
time the the well both the
German army in World War one
and World War two but in World
(34:07):
War two right the Nazi army
which was which was vastly
superior to the Russian army to
the Soviet army the Red Army
they still lost because again
just that amount of just lack
of care of human life and that
war of attrition they can do
okay, I went a little bit long
there at the end.
I kind of tell off we have
(34:27):
taken another break right here
and we get back.
We're going to be a little bit
short on time.
So I may not have time to get
into directly into the tariffs.
It's not we'll either do
tariffs or Hamas to bring how
much time we have if you want
to call him during the break
number 601-879-0002 keep it
tuned to the full story on
wyab 103.9.
All right, as you know, welcome
back here to the full story on
(34:48):
wyab 103.9 and we only have
about two or three minutes to
get to this next or before you
have to take another break
and fortunately as I went to
probably too much detail about
the about the history of
of Russian Russian military
but what I want to cover I'm
going to go ahead and cover it
tomorrow because there's a
couple things I want to cover
(35:09):
in that regard with with Hamas
and you just heard on the
bottom news out about a new
Gallup poll that talked about
support more there's now a
significant more support for a
two-state solution than there
has been in the past.
So I want to get into detail
about that poll because we
polls are mentioned they're
(35:30):
thrown around all the time,
right?
It's like, oh look at this new
poll.
Look at this new poll.
Well, we have to look at the
methodology and I talk about
that all the times that we have
to understand the methodology
of a poll before we can just
accept it willy-nilly.
So tomorrow what we're going
to do is we're going to go into
that we're going to go into
Donald Trump's also his his
recent post about Hamas and
(35:50):
about releasing the hostages
again and looking at the trends
at this new Gallup poll put out
first look at his methodology
and then to look at the actual
poll says and compare that with
what Donald Trump is saying.
Also there you heard on the on
the on the CBS News, you know,
they talked about, you know,
firing, you know, tens of
thousands of people at the VA
and they had heard that one
(36:10):
crazy again.
They find the craziest people
all suicides are going to rise
up.
You know, so I think the
National Parks.
It's like just because we're
cutting jobs doesn't mean we're
getting rid of the department.
They act like they're getting
rid of the whole thing like
when the national they they
they shut down.
They fired a lot of National
Park people.
It's like it's like they're
getting rid of the National
Parks.
No, the idea is can we still be
efficient with this less amount
(36:31):
of people right if we can still
do the same job and the do and
be just to have the same
services as with 20,000 less
people.
Why would we not right is that
we're going to get rid of we're
going to lessen services.
That's what they're they're
acting like right.
That's not what's happening.
That's not what's happening at
all.
It's just we're making it more
efficiency.
That's actually in the name
(36:52):
right Doge Department of
Governmental Efficiency.
We're not just we're not just
cutting it and in cutting
services.
They always act like he's he's
cutting Department of Affairs.
That means we're going to get
rid of the Department of Affairs.
No, those two things don't go
together.
It's not the same thing people
it's we're making it more
efficient.
We're doing the same job with
much less people right and the
(37:12):
idea is right.
We're going to run this
efficiency.
So we have that we get the idea
when you look at any kind of
efficiency, especially in human
resources, right is to see how
can we get the same job done
with the least amount of people
possible.
That's what every business does
right.
They want to make sure that
they're efficient in the number
of people at hires right.
Elon Musk did that with Twitter
right when he came in he fired
(37:32):
like 60% of the people and guess
what nothing got interrupted
with Twitter.
It run just fine.
Just like you did.
No one noticed.
That's the idea right.
That's what we want to get to
is that same amount of
services we just don't have to
have all these people running
it.
So that's what they're doing
with the Department of Veterans
Affairs.
That's what they do with all
these departments but the
Democrats and all these crazy
news agencies act like he's
(37:53):
shutting down the department.
No, we're just making it more
efficient.
If we can do that same job with
30,000 40,000 100,000 less
people the more power to you
right now if we find out that
we that those services drop
then we can hire back or we can
adjust as necessary.
That's the way it works.
That's the way business works.
That's the way that's the way
that's the way that's the way
(38:13):
it has to get done is getting
rid of these people who just
sit on their butts all day and
get absolutely nothing done
because that's not doing the
veterans any service.
What's going to do the veterans
service is an efficient
department where things get done
quicker cutting red tape and
being able to find solutions to
problems to their problems into
the problems as as a whole.
(38:34):
All right, we're going to take
our last break right here.
We get back.
We'll do this day in history,
but keep it tuned to the full
story on WIAB 103.9.
All right, ladies and gentlemen,
welcome back here to the full
story and WIAB.
I just love that mailroom
Gluckstadt commercial by the
way, because what can they not
do at the mailroom Gluckstadt,
but I want to get to this day
in history regardless.
So on this day, March 6th,
1869 was the day the building
(38:56):
blocks of chemistry came together.
So on this day, Russian
chemist Dmitry Mendeleev unveiled
the first periodic table of the
elements to the Russian
Chemical Society.
And at the time only 63 elements
were known and scientists
struggled to organize them.
But Mendeleev saw a pattern.
Elements followed recurring
trends when arranged by atomic
(39:17):
weight.
He placed similar elements into
groups and most remarkably left
gaps where he predicted
undiscovered elements would fit
in and he was right because
within years elements like
gallium, scandium and germanium
were discovering matches matching
his forecast almost perfectly.
Mendeleev's work became the
foundation of modern chemistry
(39:37):
leading to today's periodic
table now arranged by atomic
number instead of weight,
but still following those same
trends that he has set out.
His insights revolutionized
science paving the way for
medical, industrial and
technological advancements.
All right, that's all we have
for you guys today.
We'll see you again tomorrow
where we'll cover those things
about the Palestinian state
(39:57):
what I just severed.
It's going to be a great show.
But until then, my name is
Matthew Bishop and you have
heard the full story.
Popular Podcasts
Stuff You Should Know
If you've ever wanted to know about champagne, satanism, the Stonewall Uprising, chaos theory, LSD, El Nino, true crime and Rosa Parks, then look no further. Josh and Chuck have you covered.
24/7 News: The Latest
The latest news in 4 minutes updated every hour, every day.
Dateline NBC
Current and classic episodes, featuring compelling true-crime mysteries, powerful documentaries and in-depth investigations. Follow now to get the latest episodes of Dateline NBC completely free, or subscribe to Dateline Premium for ad-free listening and exclusive bonus content: DatelinePremium.com