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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time time time luck and load. So Michael
Very Show is on the air right drinking in the
mic the week.

Speaker 2 (00:22):
Gotta feed a beard.

Speaker 3 (00:24):
I don't plan to shave, and it's good thing, but
I just gotta.

Speaker 4 (00:29):
See I'm doing all right?

Speaker 1 (00:33):
Will come make me support meets beating ready to That's
the true.

Speaker 5 (00:41):
It's neither drink nor drug and just snoo.

Speaker 6 (00:44):
I'm just turn all right, instagrat.

Speaker 5 (00:50):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (00:52):
The League World Series in Williamsport at the twelve year
old age division, well they can and you're playing together
and playing together well, and they went to the Juniors
Little League World Series. They were defeated last week. That
group well, wherever they play together, high school, it's going

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to be interesting to see that group grow up together
because they are obviously a unit. And the year before them,
Lamar Little League out of Richmond in Southwest Houston had
their incredible run come to an end with a seven
to three loss to New England. Head coach Justin Pollard

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talking about the experience.

Speaker 7 (01:41):
Sold the boys there at the end. It's not the
way that we wanted it to go. It's definitely disappointing.
We had high expectations of playing a lot longer here and.

Speaker 1 (01:56):
Just didn't play out that way.

Speaker 7 (01:58):
But you know, we've got to be We're definitely grateful
for the opportunity to be able to be here and
play on this state and represent the Southwest and just
it was an unbelievable experience. I just wish we could
have made it a little bit longer.

Speaker 8 (02:12):
But when you.

Speaker 7 (02:14):
Out hit a team but have four errors and it's tough,
it's awesome to see the community rally behind you and
all the support that we get along the way. The
amount of people that we had from back home travel
here to come out and watch us play here in
Williamsport is amazing. We know there's been There was tons
of watch parties and everything going on back home in

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Houston too. We get lots of phone calls and texts
and everything all the time. The community, sport, his support
has been amazing throughout the whole journey.

Speaker 1 (02:45):
Very cool, very cool, And may I say that coach
and his staff conducted themselves the way you would want
father coaches to conduct themselves, all the while mindful that
you're raising young men. You're not sparky, you're not Tommy Lasorda,

(03:06):
You're not Tony LaRussa, don't make this about you. Teach
those young men, teach those young boys to grow into men.
And I have to say I think he did a
great job. In a three two surprising vote, Tom Ramsey,
Leslie Brioni's and Adrian Garcia made a three to two

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packed against Rodney Ellis and Lacoman Dante to approve a
pay raise for the Harris County constables, prompting Lena to
get very, very angry. She's gonna have to go back
in the loney bin. She's gonna have to there. They're
setting her off.

Speaker 6 (03:46):
There was a heavy police presence at Harris County Commissioner's
Court today, not because something was wrong, but the.

Speaker 2 (03:51):
Fight for over how much to pay them was up
for debate.

Speaker 6 (03:54):
After agreeing to give raises to debties earlier this year,
commissioners considered elected constable salaries. Today they go from about
one hundred and eighty thousand to nearly three hundred thousand
dollars measure that passed by a three to two vote.
Now there's a question of how to afford it. Budget
director says the recent pay raises added one hundred million
dollars to the proposed budget. That's not the only shortfall,

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the director says, in all, the county needs to find
about two hundred and ten million dollars.

Speaker 2 (04:22):
How they're going to close the gap depends.

Speaker 1 (04:24):
On who you ask.

Speaker 9 (04:26):
Let me try it. I'd like to see two hundred
million dollars worth of efficiencies. I don't see them appear.

Speaker 6 (04:35):
During the meeting, Judge Lena Hadago constantly blamed Commissioners Tom Ramsey,
Leslie Brionis and Adrian Garcia for the shortfall. She says,
to balance the budget, positions may get cut, services get dropped,
and money for emergencies like hurricanes could be impacted.

Speaker 9 (04:50):
Unless my colleagues can make money grow on trees. Yes,
there will be cuts to basic services.

Speaker 2 (04:55):
Garcia and Brionis don't see it that way.

Speaker 6 (04:58):
They say over the last eight months they as non
critical service departments to cut their budgets by ten percent.
They see savings with the hiring freeze, cutting contracts and
selling property.

Speaker 1 (05:08):
Library hours as I mentioned earlier, are not being cut.

Speaker 4 (05:12):
That's something that you've seen other governments do.

Speaker 1 (05:14):
We're not doing it.

Speaker 2 (05:16):
Just by increasing police pay.

Speaker 6 (05:17):
The commissioners say the county can't afford it without raising taxes.
It's not a done deal though, as commissioners still have
a few weeks to finalize their plans. To me, raising
taxes is a last last resort. We have to put
in the work to see what we can do to
be more strategic and more effective with what we have.

Speaker 2 (05:38):
So let's give you a timeline of what could be coming.
In early September, Herdago said.

Speaker 1 (05:44):
We might even have to cut back on her trips
to Paris. Oh my, oh my, where in the world
is Lena? Had all go, oh, she's stuck here in
Harris County. Wouldn't that be a strange twist of fate.
I've said it before, I'll say it again. You don't

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need to operate public libraries in twenty twenty five, you
do not need to operate public libraries. Now. People have
this emotional connection to where we have to have a library.
You've ever been to one? Howvin since you've been to
the public library? How long has it been since you've
been to the public library. It's very expensive to operate.

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You've got to staff them, you have to air condition them.
This is property that's taken off the tax roll, the
no tax is paid on it. And then of course
you got your collections, So take that property, put it
to auction, let it be sold. Put that money toward

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debt retirement. They'll never do this because there's no glory
for them in doing that. Put that money toward debt
retirement and get those salaries all off the public teat
So people say, no, I've said this about the city. No, no, no,
you got to have the libraries. Okay, the next time
you call for a cop and there's not one for

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a long time, and you find out that there's not
the money in the budget for enough cops. Considering how
many Democrats are out here mugging, raping, pedophiles, carjacking, jugging,
the whole thing, there's just not enough to keep up
with the Democrats, because it's all democrats. Make no mistake.
Every Democrat is not a criminal, but every criminal is

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a Democrat. Well, how about if you found out the
next time there's not a cop that comes for an
hour when you've had you've been the victim of a
violent crime, and you find out that that money could
have come from the library to put more cops on
the street. Are you so passionate about these libraries that
you're holding on to now? It's ridiculous. It's ridiculous. You

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could sell that property, put the money toward debt. Stop
those operations, lay off all the librarians. I'm sure they're
wonderful people, and I'm sure they'll find a job doing
something else. This is the point, Oh, to roll up
our sleeves. There's a lot of tough work. There's not
tough work. No, no, this is what families would do. Hey, guys,

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we're spending money on stuff we can't afford. We're gonna
cut that period. End of story. The King of Team
continues on The Michael Berry Show. I love this dum
dumb KP George, the county judge in Fort Benn County.
The poor Man's Lena Hidalgo indicted by Fort Benn County

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prosecutors for using campaign funds for personal expenses, including property
taxes and a down payment on his home. Assistant District
Attorney Charin might be Charon, I don't know, c cha
r a in In. Thompson wrote last week that after
George's first campaign for only judge in twenty eighteen, he

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reported a campaign balance of three hundred ninety nine dollars. However,
Thompson stated his actual campaign balance was thirty seven twenty
eight dollars and ninety four cents, noting that two weeks later,
the defendant transferred thirty thousand dollars from his campaign account
to his personal account. The DA's office said George transferred

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another sixteen thousand, five hundred from his campaign account to
his personal account a few months later, with Thompson saying
quote that the defendant used the money to pay his
personal property taxes and toward a down payment on a
new house. Prosecutors also said George not only concealed the
campaign contribution from his January report, but also concealed the
transfers from the subsequent campaign finance report, adding that George

(09:46):
knowingly made a false entry in a government document KP. George.
We call him dumb dumb. And the reason we call
him dumb dumb is it's complicatedy because he's stupid. He's
really stupid. He's not smart. He's low IQ, he's well,
I don't want to say he's that because that would

(10:06):
make you more sympathetic. He's just really, really slow. He's
not smart. He's the opposite of smart. He can't add
two and two together. Now, the problem with someone being
so stupid in a position of authority. Is that then
he is beholden to people around him who want to
use him to make money. And he goes and that's

(10:30):
what he does, kind of grunts, kind of uh, do
you remember what is that movie we've been still?

Speaker 5 (10:40):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (10:40):
Uh uh? Tropic thunder? Do you remember the movie he
had made? And that you don't go that's KP. George,
That is KP George. The yeah, go ahead.

Speaker 5 (10:54):
Everybody knows you never go full retired.

Speaker 8 (10:57):
What do you mean?

Speaker 10 (10:59):
Check out? It doesn't often ray Man look retarded. That retarded,
not retarded. He got two picks to your cards autistic show,
not retarded. Yeah, Tona Hanes forst. Gump, So yes, retarded.
Maybe he braces his own as Dave. But he's trying
to pins off next year and they want a pin
pund competition.

Speaker 1 (11:15):
That he retaught it. He was a damn war hero.
You know what, he retired war heroes.

Speaker 11 (11:21):
You went full retarding man, never go for retarding. You
don't buy that, Yeah, Sean Penn two thousand one. Understand
remember went full retard, went on emptenda.

Speaker 1 (11:35):
So you've got Lena Hidalgo, who even her peers now
admit she's crazy, even the people who helped put her there.
She's crazy, Okay. Her three top aides were indicted for
an inside deal to give twenty million dollars to a
woman who would have given them a kickback. You you've
got now, you've got the mayor of New Orleans who's

(11:59):
been in on using seventy thousand dollars of city funds
to travel with her boyfriend bodyguard. And we've been saying
for three four years because New Orleans is a big
market for us, and people would say they're lovey dove everywhere.
I mean, they're like two rabbits, they're like teenagers. It's disgusting.

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And she was paying to have him flown everywhere else. Well,
of course he's married. That creates awkwardness with his wife,
and she's flying first class. She said that she couldn't
couldn't travel in quitch because it was not safe for
her as a black woman. This is like a vaudeville

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act being carried out in this country. You've got these fat, ugly,
stupid black women who are mayors of cities, and then
our police chiefs are fire chiefs. You've got other non
white that's Lena hid allgo who are county judges and
mayors and police chiefs, and they're always lesbians. In this case,

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we don't think she is. And then you've got the
white liberal women who are the most dangerous of them all.
And if things don't change, now, we're going to have
a white liberal lesbian as our next county judge. And
you get these very angry white liberal women judges, white
liberal women, police chiefs, fire chiefs. You look at what

(13:32):
happened in Cincinnati where those people were pummelings. A wonder
they didn't die. It's really a wonder they did not die.
They were beaten so badly. And you wonder about the
black people who beat them like that, clearly orchestrated, clearly
plan and such anger at just a random woman half
your size. You don't know to beat a woman like this.

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Investigators will tell you when somebody is beaten beyond being incapacitated,
it's always a crime of passion because there's so much
anger built up. How you have that much anger toward
a random white woman. Well, there are a lot of
black thugs walking around, and white liberals and black elected
officials who are very, very angry at normal white people.

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And if they had the opportunity to kill them, beat them,
maim them, they would. And that's what's going on all
the time around us. Everywhere there is a simmering animosity.
Go to the post office. Just go to any post
office today and transact business three times, and at least

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one of your experiences will be with some angry black
woman who hates you for being a white guy. It'll happen.
You're just used to it now, God forbid you go
in there and ask to buy a book of stamps.
And how long it'll take for this letter to reach Philadelphia?
And it's in everything we do. And now you've got

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that as the leadership of every major city in this country.
If Whipmer didn't meet Sheila Jackson Lee, you realize over
a third of Houstonians voted for Sheila Jackson Lye as
our mayor. Can you imagine Sheila Jackson Lee is our mayor?

Speaker 3 (15:20):
From Portland to Waldeny, all Greek cities in between to
Michael Berry show is nationwide.

Speaker 1 (15:35):
After President Trump's meeting with Vladimir Putin in Alaska on Friday,
Zelenski will be at the White House this afternoon. Immediately
after that, meeting at one pm Eastern will be a
two fifteen meeting with European leaders. Sure seems like they're

(15:57):
setting the stage for the announcement of a deal. Now
that might be putting extra pressure to get the deal done.
Lindsey Grahamnesty, over the weekend, along with a Democrat senator,
was moving to bring criminal charges against Vladimir Putin. Now,

(16:18):
what does that sound like? He's trying to do? Queer
the deal? Absolutely exactly what he's trying to do. And
it's just it's blatant. It's embarrassing, it's childish. It really
is childish to think this looks like it's natural coming. Now,

(16:38):
of course we're talking about Lindsay Grahamnesty. I mean, this
guy talk about a fraud in every aspect of his life.
We'll get to that in just a moment. Larry writes,
I'm so excited right now I can barely contain it.
Three wild hogs just spotted in Katie by the house
I'm moving into in Ellison E. L y Son. I'm

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assuming that's also five point twenty nine and ninety nine area.
I'm shocked. They were there about two hundred pounder hogs.
Best I could tell they were three foot off the ground,
grazing by their retention pond. I can't wait to go
to the HOA meeting and offer my pest control services.

(17:23):
They won't like my methods, but I can guarantee results
with no civilian casualties. Are I'm going to corn the
road and set up shop on my balcony day one.
I got this. I like to imagine the HOA guy
trying to get him to calm down, and him steady going,
I'm gonna kill him, hogs, I'm gonna kill him. Well,

(17:44):
now hold on, sir, now, now, now don't you do that.
I'm coming down. I don't kill it now, now do
you better not do it? It reminds me of the police
chief that roy D Mercer went down there after the
deputy was trying to pick up dates for the chief
and roy D wasna come down there and whoop him.

Speaker 4 (18:03):
Please, I need to speak with the Chief's rd in
Mercer about the problem I had on the owls officer okay,
mars yeah in ma, r c E R okay.

Speaker 8 (18:16):
In the r c R just a moment.

Speaker 4 (18:18):
Yeah, yes, listen, my name is R. D. Mercer, and
we had as a problem last night with one of
the OL's officers over her over where we're in town.
He stopped my little stepdaughter last night for a burnout
tail light, and he said that he wouldn't ride her
a ticket if she had agreed to go on a
date with you. And I ain't I ain't gonna sign.

(18:42):
I ain't gonna stand for it.

Speaker 8 (18:43):
By god, I don't believe it.

Speaker 4 (18:44):
What's he doing down there trying to work up a
date with one of my step.

Speaker 8 (18:48):
You bring your daughter in here and sign this, and
we'll sign a formal complaint. We'll get him here.

Speaker 4 (18:53):
I ain't gonna do it. I'm coming down there to
whoop somebody's ass.

Speaker 8 (18:56):
You come in and bring her in.

Speaker 4 (18:58):
I'm bringing myself down there with about a fifty five
gallon drum or whoop I ask. Now, I'm gonna open
it on y'all.

Speaker 8 (19:03):
No, you better not do that.

Speaker 4 (19:05):
I guarantee she doesn't engage to marry a fella over
down and broken bowl.

Speaker 8 (19:09):
Fellow, I don't know what you're talking about it. You're
talking in broken bowl, righty, be Ida Bell.

Speaker 4 (19:13):
She's in Ida Bell. She's gonna marry boy Joe Biffle.
You know Joe Biffin.

Speaker 8 (19:17):
I don't know Joe Biff.

Speaker 4 (19:18):
He's a double diamond, am way dishribert her down there
and broken bowl.

Speaker 8 (19:21):
You bring her in, heily complaint.

Speaker 4 (19:23):
I ain't done it. I ain't done it. I'm coming
down there today and I wanna find that fella, and
I'm gonna find y'all.

Speaker 8 (19:29):
Let her have your fact straight.

Speaker 4 (19:30):
Well, I guarantee it, that's what she told me.

Speaker 8 (19:32):
Well, bring her in, let her facing.

Speaker 4 (19:34):
Okay, Now she ain't. She's too upset about it that
she's been safety herass down there.

Speaker 8 (19:39):
Bring her in, let her facing.

Speaker 4 (19:40):
I ain't gonna do it. She doesn't talk to him
last night, and I'm buying pold about it.

Speaker 8 (19:44):
Well, I'm a little pi old the way you're talking.

Speaker 4 (19:46):
Well, and he's it's somebody somebody.

Speaker 8 (19:48):
If yeah, I bring my daughter in though and let her.

Speaker 4 (19:50):
Facing, you'd be p old if it's your daughter.

Speaker 8 (19:52):
Would bring her in though, too.

Speaker 4 (19:54):
Well, I ain't gonna do it. I'm coming down there,
and she ain't never lied to me, and I don't
think she's gonna start now bad or no bad, somebody's
gonna get ass.

Speaker 8 (20:01):
Will you bring her in and let her face him?

Speaker 4 (20:05):
You ever had an ass wooman who.

Speaker 8 (20:08):
You, fellow, don't be calling threatening me on the phone.

Speaker 4 (20:10):
Are you a single man? Or you married man?

Speaker 8 (20:13):
I've got a daughter twenty seven?

Speaker 4 (20:14):
Well, and by god, do you understand how come I
got some bring her in? I guarantee I ain't gonna
do it.

Speaker 8 (20:20):
Well, then don't come down to your raising.

Speaker 4 (20:21):
Hell, I'm coming down there to whoop somebody's ass hearing
about a New York minute.

Speaker 8 (20:25):
Well, and I tell you what I'm you better get
your stuff straight.

Speaker 4 (20:28):
Well, I ain't gonna have to have it straight when
I come down there.

Speaker 8 (20:31):
You are.

Speaker 4 (20:31):
She's got a big bachelorette part of the night and
she's gonna be tore up, and I ain't gonna be
able to have it. I was gonna get the somebody
dressed up like a state trooper and stripped for.

Speaker 8 (20:41):
You better get your stuff together.

Speaker 4 (20:42):
The name is John Kaufman. He's coming down here to
do that. He's gonna strip down to a m O
belt in the nightclub.

Speaker 8 (20:52):
Who in the hell is this?

Speaker 1 (20:56):
Your brother wanted to pull a joke on you? I
think it did the pool.

Speaker 2 (21:01):
One, Is that right?

Speaker 4 (21:02):
Yeah?

Speaker 8 (21:04):
That first time my blood pressure has been up.

Speaker 1 (21:06):
Man, on wan, are you oka Jim?

Speaker 8 (21:08):
I was fixing to go get my damn pistol and
we're gonna We're gonna play gun fight till Kraill.

Speaker 4 (21:14):
You're not first sake me, hol my secretary.

Speaker 8 (21:18):
Come back here, said, who you yelling at? What's going on?

Speaker 1 (21:25):
Roy D Mercer was voiced by Felling Brent Douglas out
of Tulsa, Oklahoma. They were on the radio there, it
was Brent and Phil and Phil would be in the
background laughing, and I don't know, ten years or so ago,
Phil passed. They'd been off the air for a while,

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and so I got an email address for Brent, tracked
it down my p I said, it's best we can find,
and Brent had kind of gone off the grid, but
he was the voice of Roy Mercer and I sent
him an email told him about the show. What a
fan I was. Never got a response back. I ended

(22:08):
up sitting in about five emails, but I offered him money,
a monthly retainer to cut a couple of spots a month.
I didn't know if he'd want to do it or not,
but it was my hope that he would, and I thought,
how cool would it be to bring roy D Mercer back.
Never responded and My understanding from other people in the
radio business is that he didn't want any part of

(22:29):
anything anymore. When Phil died, that was kind of the
death of that character and their you know, radio persona.
And Brent passed in February of this year, so we
just passed a couple of months ago. So that means
that the roy D Mercer that we have in the

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can is all the roy D Mercer there will there
will never be. You know that you could always hold
out hope that he would come back. And I played
roy D Mercer about ten maybe fifteen years ago or so,
and I got no. We were on in Kentucky, so
it must have been about ten years ago, and I

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got an email from a fellow in Kentucky and he said,
those guys ripped off. I can't remember the guy's name.
The guy's real name is something like r. D. Mercer.
It's not Roy It was like r. D Mercer, and
they ripped him off and he was the original, and

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he had tapes that he would sell. And I did
my research and it turned out it's true. They had
absolutely one percent ripped off a guy that never really
made any real money off the creation of that chair.
But he cussed that's why he couldn't play him.

Speaker 12 (23:50):
On air very show, President Trump talking about the summit
with Putin, saying, we were together almost three hours and

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it was very extensive.

Speaker 1 (24:11):
We agreed on a lot of points. I mean a
lot of points were agreed on, and there's not that much.
There's you know, one or two pretty significant items, but
I think they can be reached. Resident Trump is a
hype man. He builds hype to build momentum for his efforts.
The fact that he is offering less hype than he

(24:34):
usually would. This is a man who called an omnibus
spending bill the one big beautiful bill. The fact that
he is not hyping this makes me think perhaps that
he's got a deal, but he doesn't want to put
himself in this situation where Putin Zelenski has no hand

(24:58):
in this, but where Putin can kill this deal and
would have that over him. So by underselling this, he's
creating a situation where Putin's more likely to finish the deal,
Whereas if he does a victory lap before the meeting,
that would be an unsophisticated approach because Putin will be

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renegotiating until the last minute. Here was President Trump talking
to Sean Hannity.

Speaker 13 (25:23):
It's a terrible war where he's losing a lot and
both of them are, and hopefully it can get completed.
That would be great achievement for them, forget about me,
for them, and you'll save seven thousand lives a week.

Speaker 5 (25:38):
That's a lot.

Speaker 14 (25:39):
I spoke very briefly to Secretary of State Rubio and
he did say to me, he goes, there's a difference
when you sit in the same room together, the versus
you know, talking to each other through the press. Do
you even through the phone, even through the phone, not the.

Speaker 13 (25:54):
Same thing when you're on a telephone, it's not the
same thing either.

Speaker 5 (25:56):
This was I mean, we were together.

Speaker 13 (25:59):
Almost three hours, and it was very extensive and we
agreed it a lot of points. I mean a lot
of points were agreed on, but there's not that much,
as you know, one or two pretty significant items, but
I think they can be reached.

Speaker 5 (26:11):
Now.

Speaker 13 (26:11):
It's really up to Presidents Olynsky to get it done.
And I would also say the European nations they have
to get involved a little bit. But it's up to
Presidents Olynsky. I think we are and if they'd like,
I'll be at that next meeting. They're going to set
up a meeting now between Presidents Olynsky and President.

Speaker 5 (26:27):
Putin and myself.

Speaker 13 (26:29):
I guess you know, I didn't even I didn't ask
you about it. Not that I want to be there,
but I want to make sure it gets done.

Speaker 5 (26:34):
And we have a pretty good chance of getting it
done if.

Speaker 14 (26:37):
You had to grade it on a scale of one
to ten.

Speaker 13 (26:41):
So I think the meeting was a ten in the
sense that we got along great and it's good when
you know two big powers get along, especially when they're
nuclear powers. You know, we're number one, they're number two
in the world, and it's a big deal. That's a
big deal. You never want to even mention that word,
the word nuclear. But we have a tremendous nuclear and

(27:04):
I rebuilt it when I was president first term, and
I hated to rebuild it. It was the one thing I
hated to rebuild, but we had to. And we have
the greatest nuclear force with the greatest military in the
world actually, and they have a big nuclear presidents also.

Speaker 1 (27:23):
He's right, President Trump talking to Sean Hannity about the war,
which should have never happened.

Speaker 14 (27:33):
He said at the Joint Press conference that you have
said this many, many times, and he confirmed for the
world today that if you were president, this wouldn't have happened.
Did any of the specifics come up as to why
he said that it did.

Speaker 13 (27:47):
It doesn't matter at this point. But this war should
never have happened. You know, a lot of wars should
never have happened. There was stupid things go down, and
the wrong people are talking. But Biden was a terrible
resident in so many ways. He should have never let
it happen, and it did.

Speaker 5 (28:06):
There are millions of people killed.

Speaker 13 (28:08):
I mean, it's the worst thing since I see everyone's
saying since World War Two. By far, there's nothing even close.
But we had a very good meeting today and I
think a lot of points were negotiated on behalf of
Ukraine and on behalf of the whole NATO situation where
we're dealing very well with a lot of foreign countries

(28:28):
that are great European countries.

Speaker 5 (28:31):
So look, as far as I'm concerned.

Speaker 13 (28:34):
There's no deal until there's a deal, But we did
make a lot of progress.

Speaker 1 (28:40):
It was during the Biden presidency that the Putin invasion
of southeastern Ukraine along the border, along the entire eastern
border with Russia occurred, and Putin said at the summit
on Friday that if Trump had been president, there would

(29:02):
have been no invasion. There is a consequence to incompetence.
There is a consequence to elections, and that is one
of them. We have no business being involved in that war,
and certainly not to the extent that we have. The
American people have funded what is, in effect, by mid

(29:27):
eighties standards, a massive civil war. The intricacies between the
Ukrainians and the Russians are extensive. It's a very very
complicated matter. But either way, a war that is chosen

(29:51):
between those countries is not an American war and we
should not be funding it. We big budget once a year,
and then I constantly revise it, and we sit down
credit cards, bank records, checkbook, and we go through every expense.

(30:13):
Who paid for this this amount. It's a very uncomfortable
thing for people to have to go through. If we
did that with the federal government, if the American people
knew what you are paying for. So the question, well,
Putin's got the better hand here. Putin's the one who
decides whether there will be a war or not. And

(30:35):
Marco Rubio is right when he makes that point. You've
got to say that you have to give him his due,
that he is in charge of whether this war continues
or not.

Speaker 15 (30:48):
You're not going to have a peace agreement between Russia
and Ukraine.

Speaker 5 (30:51):
You're not going to end a war between.

Speaker 15 (30:53):
Russia and Ukraine without dealing with Putin. That's just common sense.
I should even have to say it, so people can
say whatever they want. Ultimately, at the end of the day,
we have to get the Russian side to agree to
things that they don't want to agree to if we're
going to have peace. If not, they'll just be a war.
They'll keep killing each other and life will go on
in America and in the rest of the world, but

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not for Ukraine. So the President has invested a lot
of time in trying to bring an end to this war.
He deserves credit for doing that. He gets criticism for
doing that. He could just let this war go on.
The President could have just said this is Biden's war.

Speaker 5 (31:25):
It started under him.

Speaker 15 (31:26):
We'll do what we can for Ukraine, but we're going
to focus on other things. He could have easily said that,
But he's.

Speaker 5 (31:31):
The only leader in the world.

Speaker 15 (31:32):
Final if we get pert into a meeting to talk
about serious things.

Speaker 2 (31:35):
Just just a final point here.

Speaker 1 (31:37):
So at this point, even though he demanded sanctions, no sanctions,
no ceasefire, and no deadlines.

Speaker 15 (31:44):
Well, but ultimately, first of all about deadlines. The deadline
is as soon as possible. We want this war to
end as soon as possible. I mean, that's why we're
working on it. In terms of sanctions. Look, at the
end of the day, if we can't reach a peace
agreement here and this war continues and so forth, then
I anticipate you'll see the President take further action. He's
already made that clear. The problem is this, let's let's
use our heads here. The problem is this. The minute

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you levy additional sanctions, strong additional sanctions, the talking stops