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Speaker 1 (00:04):
It's that time, time, time.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Time, luck and load.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
So Michael Vari show is.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
On the air.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
The United States is the birthplace.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
The modern birthplace would have to go back to Greece,
but the modern birthplace of democracy, self governance, the idea of.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Governance by the.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
People for the people of the people, democratically elected republic.
We're not a democracy because otherwise would be voting all
the time, we couldn't get our work done. The idea
of a nation built on ideals, living out the lofty speeches.
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So people from around the world, but not to be discounted,
people from the United States go to Washington, DC as
a tourist to see our nation's capital, to tour the
White House. You know, I don't know how many countries
you can walk through the house that the leader lives in.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
You see it all.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
You walk through in.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
This this old house. It's not as big as you
would imagine considering. It's like when you first go to
Graceland and you're an Elvis nut and you figure this
is Elvis's house. This thing's got to be, you know, amazing,
and then you realize that every suburb in America has
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a house bigger than that one.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Because of the time it was built. Well, that's especially
to the White House.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Tourists go to see the White House, the Supreme Court,
the Capital.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
It's incredible. I don't know anywhere else she You can
stand out there and you can watch the.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
You know, when I was eighteen years old, between my
junior and senior year seventeen eighteen yees seventeen, I raised
the money from businessmen in Orange to go to Washington,
d C. And spend a good part of the summer
there and we would have sessions every day on government, governance, leadership, elections.
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Every politician as a young person did these sorts of things.
It's a student by the President kind of thing to do.
There are people who are eager to lead from an
early age, and there are lots of programs like this.
So I went on this program and we would have
free time in the afternoon and the House and Senate
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were in session. And I figured out very fast that
there's a little subway car. It's like a silly little
car at the at Astroworld. You remember the old timey cars.
You'd be on the old timey car, and that's really
more for an adult and a little beauty kid. But
they felt like they're on a ride.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Well they have.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
They have that sort of thing down in the that
that carries you from the Capitol where you vote back
over to your building, and so you don't have to
work walk at grade, but the public can get down there.
So I figured out that's where the politicians are. So
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I would go down there and I would just ride
the subway for hours. I sat just me and Paul Simon.
This was nineteen eighty eight. Paul Simon had dropped. Is
the summer of eighty eight, Paul Simon had dropped. The
Democrats had dropped out of the election. So you have
du Caucus's the nominee by this time, and the Vice President,
George H. W. Bush is the nominee. And I would
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I rode and I would I would ride, and when
we'd get off, I'd shake their hand, thank them. I'd
get some I had a little I had a little
little thirty five millimeter camera in a little blue bag
that I had strapped onto my belt, and I'd say,
do you mind if I get someone to take a photo.
We didn't think of selfies back then, but somebody else
would take a photo of the.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Two of us.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
And so there was me and John Glenn. Rode my little,
you know, three minute ride with John Glenn, caught up
with him about the house, barbershop, Paul Simon, al Gore,
Bob Dole, and in fact I got myself invited by
Bob Dole into a ceremonial signing in his office for
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I don't remember he was that he was the I
think he was a Senate Majority leader at the time.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
But on and on and on. Now I saw a
lot of other folks, but I just.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
Really wanted the Titans, and the Titans were the ones
who had just run for president that year. That was
a tourist. There was nowhere I wanted to go more
than Washington, D C. For a lot of students of government,
there's nowhere they want to go and visit more than Washington,
D C. At sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, twenty thirty. There are
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plant workers, entrepreneurs, pastors, nurses at home, moms that want
to see our nation's capital, see the cherry blossoms, see
the beautiful row. You know, it's one of the few
cities in this sense, it's a city, leave the legal
classification aside. It's one of the few cities that was
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actually designed and laid out like a master planned community.
Lean font design is just incredible, brilliant design. This has
resulted in it becoming not only a tourist attraction, which
is kind of odd for a government city, not only
a tourist attraction, but a point of great pride. Americans
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will take a vacation to DC. Now this isn't New York.
You're not going to see plays, You're not going for
the great restaurants. Although there are actually great restaurants. The
restaurants represent in the world. I've eaten restaurants from countries
that I've never seen a restaurant. They're in Eastern Market,
where my boys stayed. There was a Latvian restaurant. There
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was an Estonian restaurant. I mean restaurants you don't for
places you don't normally see.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
We ate it. Ukrainian restaurants. Figured out I already paid
for it. Why not?
Speaker 3 (06:44):
So anyway, this should be a place of great pride,
not just for the world to come and see, but
for Americans.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
This is our national capital.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
This is where our government gathers. We see it on
TV every day. We want to go there and feel proud.
The fact is it's incredibly dangerous. So my brother was
put on the National Police Officer Memorial and I went
this summer.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
To see that, to witness that with my boys, and the.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
Area where we were as we were walking, it was
all officers because all the fallen officers, they have contingents
from their departments that are there, and there were places
that the officers would say, hey, you know, you want
to be a little careful.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
You know over there that should not be the case.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
This is the sort of stuff that Trump is doing
that for the Democrats to criticize, and this was what
Smarconish was talking about, how are you criticizing him cleaning
up DC?
Speaker 1 (07:49):
And they immediately start arguing.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
DC's not dangerous, DSE's great, DZ's wonderful.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
You know, he can't take it over. He can't do that.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Not only do you sound still, let you sound evil.
You know how dangerous this city is. And the President
is saying, we're simply going to fix it. Pambondy is
going to take over as the head of law enforcement
for the city, the police chief of this community.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Yeah, that's what we're gonna do. That's yeah, we're not
gonna We're not gonna do meetings.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
We're gonna have new studies, We're gonna stakehold and grief.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
It not just what we're gonna do.
Speaker 5 (08:28):
That.
Speaker 6 (08:30):
Our creative director Jim Mudd notes that President Trump has
let his hair go gray ish grayish white, which I
had not noted before. He wasn't criticizing or complimenting. It
was simply an observation. If you saw his press conference,
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you can see it for yourself.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
President is still speaking about making our capital. Say it,
you talk about the sort of thing that should make
everybody in our country rally behind.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
This is it right here? Here's what he's saying.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
You're not gonna have to worry about that now.
Speaker 5 (09:05):
I think you're gonna do a fantastic job. And everybody
in this room, they may not express it, but they all.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Want that to happen. You know, they want to be safe.
Speaker 5 (09:11):
And they have families too, So it's an honor to
have such a large group. I've done this for years now.
Hard to believe. I've never seen this room so packed.
In fact, I'm sure it's a violation of every fire code.
But we'll let you say anyway, you take it a chance,
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and with that will say, maybe if you could, Oh.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
Well, we could be here all.
Speaker 5 (09:37):
Day long if you could, if we could, if we
could keep the first questions perhaps to this subject, and
then we'll go into a few hours.
Speaker 7 (09:47):
Mister President, thank you so much. We talked about how
personal of an issue this is. Who talked about flying
over the Washington Monument seeing.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Pride of what DC is?
Speaker 7 (09:56):
Do you believe the status of the city, the cleanliness,
the way, the crime, as well as a direct reflection
on how the country is run?
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Act I do I think the capital. Look, everyone comes here,
they all they're all coming, all the leaders, they're all
wanting to come. And I say it, I've said.
Speaker 5 (10:11):
It again, but I'm really just quoting other leaders from NATO,
from the Middle East.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
King of Saudi Arabia, Guitar uae I was over there.
Speaker 5 (10:20):
We brought back five point one trillion dollars of investment
into our country.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
But I was a month and a half ago. I
was at NATO.
Speaker 5 (10:27):
We had a great thing, agreed to put up five
percent a stead of two percent. Two percent they didn't
pay five percents already paid. We had a great meeting
and they all said the same thing. They said our
country was dead. They thought our country was gone one
year ago. They said, your country was dead, and now
you have the hottest country anywhere in the world.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
We do.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
We have the hottest country in the world right now.
The tariffs have helped.
Speaker 5 (10:48):
It's given us not only the money it said Vidians,
trillions of dollars of money, but it gives us great
power over enemies. We saw five wars with Pakistan and Indian. Yeah,
we just solved one. As you're Bajan and as you know,
in Armenia it was always raging for thirty seven years.
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And the two leaders got up in this said we
never thought this would be solved.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Russia tried to solve it. They all tried to solve it.
Speaker 5 (11:16):
It was a very tough situation, but we got it
done and got it done. And I said to the
two men, I said, are you guys friends and that
hard time? Yeah, they've been killing each other for thirty
seven years. Right, one was there five years, one was
there for twenty two years. He said, my whole life,
I've been fighting this war and you got to solve
But we did.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
Many of those.
Speaker 5 (11:35):
We did in the Congo and Rwanda that's been going
on for thirty years, eight to nine million people killed
that they know of, but it was.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Raging, and we got that solved. We got a lot
of them done some great honor.
Speaker 5 (11:48):
But you want to have when they come, the leaders
come to our country to sign documents that the war
is over or whatever, or for other reasons. They come
for trade, and you want them to come through so
beautifully you ride down those roads.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
Everything should be perfect.
Speaker 5 (12:04):
You shouldn't have medians falling down into the roadway median.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
You know the metal things that are always.
Speaker 5 (12:11):
Somebody had a great lobbyist, because I've never seen them
look good.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
I've been looking at those things with a little right.
Speaker 5 (12:20):
They're always broken bad, but here they're really bad. And
we're going to either put.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
New or fix it. And it's not expensive. It's not
really expensive. And we're going to fix our roads a
little bit. We're going to clean up our sidewalks.
Speaker 5 (12:32):
You have countries where every Saturday the people go out
and they wash their sidewalks in front of their stores,
of the houses, they scrub, they scrub their sidewalks.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
So we aren't quite at that level yet.
Speaker 5 (12:44):
I don't think, Daddy, we're not quite there yet, but
maybe we will. They go out and they scrub. I
think it's so beautiful to hear that and just see
those series.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
But we're going to make it clean. But just to
finish you with.
Speaker 5 (12:55):
Your question, it's a very very strong reflection of our
country and when.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
They see a bed city.
Speaker 5 (13:05):
You know, my father always used to tell me had
a wonderful father, very smart, and he used to say, son,
when you walk into a restaurant and you see a
dirty front door, don't go in because if the front.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Door is dirty, the kitchen is dirty. Also, same thing
with the capital.
Speaker 5 (13:23):
If our capital is dirty, our whole country is dirty.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
And they all respect us. So it's a very good question.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
Question for you on this specific ship.
Speaker 8 (13:35):
Do you expect more cities to follow DC's path if
this goes through? So the idea is that Chicago, La
San Francisco, would they expect similar action what we've seen
in DC. Any other questions are there is reporting that
the administration is going to reclassify marijuana. With that send
mixed messages that marijuana is okay. Drugs some drugs are okay,
but we're trying.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
To clean up crime. How do they go hand in hand.
Speaker 5 (13:54):
We're only looking at that. That's early, but you know,
somebody reported it, which is fine.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
We're looking at it.
Speaker 5 (13:58):
Some people like it, some people some people hate the
whole concept of marijuana because if it does bad for
the children, it does bad for.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
People that are older than children.
Speaker 5 (14:07):
But we're looking at reclassification and we'll make a determination
over the next i would say.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Over the next few weeks, and that determination hopefully will
be the right.
Speaker 5 (14:15):
One very complicated subject is, you know, the subject of marijuana.
I've heard great things having to do with medical, and
I've had bad things having to do with just about
everything else but medical.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
And you know, for pain and various things, I've heard
some pretty good.
Speaker 5 (14:28):
Things, but for other things, I've heard some.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Pretty bad things.
Speaker 5 (14:32):
The other part of your question, I mean, we're just
going to.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
See what happens with it. All you're going to have.
Speaker 5 (14:37):
We're going to have a tremendous success on what we're
doing other.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
Cities on the subject of marijuana. President Trump was very
close to decriminalization of marijuana on the federal level in
twenty twenty.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
If he had, it would have opened a floodgate.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
Of support for him for Democrats who don't typically vote Republican.
Pulling numbers showed that he was scared what it would
do that Republicans who have spent their entire careers telling
you that read for madness is real, And here is
Texas at this point making fools, making fools of our
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state with this stupid THHC band that they've banked on.
President Trump will meet with Vladimir Putin in the historically
significant Alaska that will be on Friday. The left is
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already predicting the meeting will be a failure. Imagine hating
Trump so much that you want wars to continue and
bad things to happen to your country because you don't
want Trump to ever have any successes. Over the weekend,
Armenian Azerbaijan signing a piece d a peace deal in
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Rwanda nobody believed could happen. Obama won a Nobel Peace
Prize nine months into his first term. He had zero
peace deals nine months in and he won a Nobel Prize,
which my guest says because he was a black guy
and they felt it'd be great for him to win
a Nobel prize. Trump, on the other hand, has won
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zero Nobel prizes and he's seven months in with five
peace deals, and don't be shocked if he walks away
from Alaska having ended the war between Russia and Ukraine.
Don't be shocked. I heard John Bolton saying that the
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deal wouldn't be good for Ukraine. He was just gonna
he and Putin are just going to carve up a
deal and the deal will be presented to Zelenski and
he'll be told do it. Well, Okay, let's assuming you're right,
mister warhawk, mister treason us warhawk. Let's just assume you're
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right that that's what's going to happen. What is the
alternative that the war continue? Remember how much treasure we
gave those people they were threatening. Zelenski came to this
country and said, give me more money or you'll have
to give me your sons.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
M effort.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
You ain't getting either one. Go back.
Speaker 4 (17:36):
No, this idea that we owe Ukraine a war with
Russia is absurd, and they kept convincing people here that
we had to just keep pouring cash into it. Our
capital's broken, our major cities are broken, people are dying,
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people are absolutely he's suffering under the weight of student
loan debts, under the weight of their business having been
hurt by COVID, and we're sending billions to Zelensky that
he's using for yachts.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
No Trump talked.
Speaker 4 (18:18):
I believe right now he's talking about his meeting with
Putin in Alaska, which I think pretends to be the
most important meeting with a foreign leader he has had,
after only after only the European Union.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
President constructive conversations.
Speaker 5 (18:34):
Then after that meeting, immediately, maybe as I'm flying out,
maybe as.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
I'm leaving the room, I'll be calling the European leader.
Speaker 5 (18:41):
So I get along with very well, and you know,
I have a great relationship, I think with all of them,
and I get along with Zelenski, but you know, I
disagree with what he's done, very very severely disagree. This
is a war that should have never happened, wouldn't have happened.
But I'll be speaking to Zelenski. The next meeting will
be with Zelenski and Putin, or Zelenskin putting to me,
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I'll be there if they need, but I want to
have a meeting set up between.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
The two leaders.
Speaker 5 (19:09):
I was a little bothered by the fact that Zelenski
was saying, well, I have to get constitutional approved. I mean,
he's got approval to go into the ward Kill everybody,
but he needs approval to do a land swap because
there'll be some.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
Land swapping going on.
Speaker 5 (19:24):
I know that through Russia and through conversations with everybody
to the good for the good of Ukraine, good stuff,
not bad stuff, also some bad stuff for both.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
It's good and there's bad. But it's very complex because you.
Speaker 5 (19:38):
Have lines that are very uneven and there'll be some swapping.
There'll be some changes in land and the word that
they will use is, you know, they make changes.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
We're going to change the lines, the battle lines.
Speaker 5 (19:52):
Russia's occupied a big portion of Ukraine. They've occupied some
very prime territory. We're going to try and get some
of that territory back for you, Ukraine. But they've taken
some very prime territory. They've taken largely ocean.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
You know, in Ros we call.
Speaker 5 (20:07):
Ocean front property. That's always the most valuable property. If
you're in a lake, a river, or an ocean, it's
always the best property. Well, Ukraine, a lot of people
don't know that Ukraine was largely a thousand miles of
ocean that's gone. Other than one small area Odessa. It's
a small area. There's just a little bit of water left,
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So I'm going to go and.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
See the parameters.
Speaker 5 (20:32):
Now I may leave and say good luck, and that'll
be the end. I may say this is not going
to be settled. I mean, there are those that believe
that Putin wanted all of Ukraine. I happen to be
one of them. By the way, I think if a
warnt for me, he would not be even talking to
anybody else right now.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
But I'm going to meet with him.
Speaker 5 (20:53):
We're going to see what the parameters are, and then
going to call up Prisident Zelinski and the European right
after the meeting, and I'm going to tell him what
kind of I'm not going to make a deal. It's
not up to me to make a deal. I think
a deal should be made for both. I think Russia
has to get back into building their country. It's a
massive country. I think they have eleven time zones, if
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you can believe it. It's a massive by far from
the standpoint of land, it's by far the largest. They
have tremendous potential in Russia to do well.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
They're not doing well.
Speaker 5 (21:25):
Their economy is not doing well right now because it's
been very well disturbed by this doesn't help with the
president of the United States tells their largest or second
largest oil buyer that We're putting a fifty percent tarif
on you if you buy oil from Russia. That was
a big blow. And then they said, gee, he wasn't
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so tough. Nobody else would have done that. And I
haven't stopped there. I mean, look, I was all set
to do things.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
Far bigger than that. But I got a call that
they'd like to meet, and I'm going to see what
they want to meet. I like to see a cease fire.
Speaker 5 (22:00):
I'd like to see the best deal that could be
made for both parties. You know, it takes two to tango, right,
So ultimately I'll have a meeting next week.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
I had a great.
Speaker 5 (22:10):
Relationship with him, considering the fact that, you know, I
was not nice to him because of the pipeline. I
ended the pipeline. I also gave the javelins. Do you
ever hear of a javelin? Javelin is called a tankbuster.
They say that Obama gave them sheets, and I gave
them javelins.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
They weren't for me. All those tanks that were.
Speaker 5 (22:32):
Destroyed at the first days of the war because the
tanks got stuck in the mud. Some commander made it better. Say,
you know, they would have been they would have been
in Kiev in four hours going down the highway, but
a Russian general made a brilliant decision to go through
the farmland instead, and they just had torrential rains and
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the rains were so bad and it was mud, and.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
Those tanks got stuck in the mud. I don't know
who that.
Speaker 5 (22:57):
General is, but knowing Vladimir, he's probably not around any
longer because all those tanks were stuck in the mud
and they went along with the javelins I got. I
gave him the javelins, you know that, right. I gave
him javelins. They gave them sheets. But I'm going to
I'm going to meet with President Putin and we're going
to see what he has in mind, and if it's
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a fair deal, I'll reveal it to the European mark
my words, leaders and to the Democrats.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
Leaders will be sending envoys to Ukraine to tell Zelensky
not to take the deal, to absolutely bust up this deal.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
They do not want peace.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
Zelensky doesn't want peace, The Democrats don't want peace, and
the American arms industry certainly doesn't want peace, and they
will do everything they can to bust.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
This deal up.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
Can you still say queer the deal because Queer was
not homosexual?
Speaker 1 (23:59):
Crew was like mess something up or make it is?
I don't know, is that like is that acceptable?
Speaker 4 (24:04):
Now?
Speaker 1 (24:05):
I'm just here a genuine questioning.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
President Trump has incredible instincts better than anybody I've ever
seen with regard to media and messaging. He knew that
with the visit with Putin coming up Friday and the
weekend talk shows UH focusing on trying to sabotage that meeting,
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that all the media would want to ask about today
was Putin and try to trip him up. And I
genuinely believe that all the Democrats who now work for
the media that their goal is to god Trump into
saying something so aggressive toward Putin that he flares up
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Putin's You know, you go to the dog park and
you see the dogs and you're trying to keep them calm,
and anything can set one of them off because they're
so defensive and everything is there are I genuinely believe
that the media is trying to incite Trump to say
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something that will destroy any possibility of.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
The meetings if not call the meetings off altogether. And
I think that.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
They're trying to inflame Zelenski to where he basically says,
it doesn't matter what comes out of that meeting, I
won't do anything because there are a lot of people
who stand to gain from that war continuing, which is
really unfortunate because you have the people of two countries
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who are wasting a lot of money trying to kill
each other in a truly existential sense.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
That is sad. That is sad.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
You're no better than two low level animals fighting over
the same worm in the forest. That is not how
great art is produced. That's not how scientific advancements come about, innovation, commerce, transportation, health, medicine, music.
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This is not how societies. If you want to look
at what will drag a society down and prevent development,
look at the African tribal wars post mostly British, some Dutch, French,
some Belgian for that matter, to Congo imperialism, the throwing
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off of the yoke of a foreign imperial control has
not been for Africa what one would have hoped, maybe
would have expected, but what would one would have hoped.
And the reason was because it's set off a power grab,
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and what you've mostly seen, of the few names that
are recognized by Americans of African leaders, what you've mostly
seen is someone who comes up from the ranks of
the military who has no experience or aptitude for governance,
for leading, for building. And so you have a continent
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that most of these countries became independent in the sixties,
fifties and sixties, and you've had a complete lack of
any real tangible development. And it's breathtaking and it's sad,
and it can be partly blamed on constant war. Even Ethiopia,
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which I think is an advanced culture, maybe not financially,
but as an advanced culture in Africa, they had.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
The Tigrai.
Speaker 3 (28:31):
Militia within a matter of a few miles of Addis
Ababa trying to take over the government. Just a couple
of years ago, you had a civil war where hundreds
of bodies were washing up in lakes and rivers having
been butchered. And that's in a country that if you
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went there, you wouldn't think this is a warmongering people.
But you have such tribal identity, such hatred, such self dealing.
I mean, imagine this, imagine you had a nation of
Jasmine Crockett, a nation of Nancy Pelosi, Pete Boudagig. You
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think about how divisive these people are and how tribal
they are, self dealing, no sense of integrity, no sense
of the common good, no sense of restraint.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
You think about these people.
Speaker 3 (29:29):
I mean, imagine you had a nation of Lena Hidalgo
with Rodney Ellis running it. They have managed to destroy
Harris County government in a matter of just a couple
of years, and it's only gonna get worse until hopefully
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it gets better. But it's why Rodney's so popular in
Africa because he can cut deals over there. He knows
the mindset. He understands this sense that there is no shame.
One thing you notice about democrats, and you see this
in Africa, you will notice that democrats have zero shame,
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none at all. When Joe Biden told the cornpop.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
Story, that wasn't the first time he's told that.
Speaker 3 (30:18):
When Joe Biden claimed he was top of his class
and he'd won all these honors, and Sam Donaldson exposed
him for the fool that he was and that he
had lied about all of them. He just lied about everything.
That's what we're dealing with, these types of people from
a political culture where there is no sense of honor
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and dignity in doing the right thing, even for people
that don't vote for you. These are notions that Republicans hold.
These are notions that our founders held. And this is
why the left hates our founders. This is why the
monuments were torn down. This is why the founders are
called slave owners. Is why the Jeffersonian ideals, the words
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of George Washington, the words of our early founders, this
is why they're reduced. They must be reduced. That person
is imperfect. He is imperfect. We must never listen to
him again. So it's maddening and saddening to see two
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great nations, which of course were once one. Ukraine has
been largely a part of Russia, and by the way,
Ukraine was arguably the most important piece of the USSR.
I think Khushov was Ukrainian so much, so much the
bread basket of the world. To see these two at
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war constantly, and see what a distraction it is to
those people, and such loss of life, Ukrainian people, Ukrainian
men being grabbed off the reach and thrown into a
van so they can be sent out there as more
cannon fodder. Trump is not a warmonger. They can say
what they want. Trump has been a president of peace,
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peace through strength, but peace. And he has done more
for peace in seven months than any president I ever
recall in the first two years of their presidency. This
is amazing what he has accomplished. I don't expect him
to get the Nobel Prize. I do think Americans should
understand in addition to all the things he's done, he's
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brought peace to regions of the world where we never
expected to see it. I mean, look at Armenia and Azerbaijan.
These people have what a waste of energy, and now
he's trying to do that for Russia and Ukraine.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
You'd think he would be praised for that. You'd think
It's that time, time, time.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Time, luck and load.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
So Michael Vari show is.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
On the air.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
The United States is the birthplace.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
The modern birthplace would have to go back to Greece,
but the modern birthplace of democracy, self governance, the idea of.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Governance by the.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
People for the people of the people, democratically elected republic.
We're not a democracy because otherwise would be voting all
the time, we couldn't get our work done. The idea
of a nation built on ideals, living out the lofty speeches.
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So people from around the world, but not to be discounted,
people from the United States go to Washington, DC as
a tourist to see our nation's capital, to tour the
White House. You know, I don't know how many countries
you can walk through the house that the leader lives in.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
You see it all.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
You walk through in.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
This this old house. It's not as big as you
would imagine considering. It's like when you first go to
Graceland and you're an Elvis nut and you figure this
is Elvis's house. This thing's got to be, you know, amazing,
and then you realize that every suburb in America has
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a house bigger than that one.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Because of the time it was built. Well, that's especially
to the White House.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Tourists go to see the White House, the Supreme Court,
the Capital.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
It's incredible. I don't know anywhere else she You can
stand out there and you can watch the.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
You know, when I was eighteen years old, between my
junior and senior year seventeen eighteen yees seventeen, I raised
the money from businessmen in Orange to go to Washington,
d C. And spend a good part of the summer
there and we would have sessions every day on government, governance, leadership, elections.
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Every politician as a young person did these sorts of things.
It's a student by the President kind of thing to do.
There are people who are eager to lead from an
early age, and there are lots of programs like this.
So I went on this program and we would have
free time in the afternoon and the House and Senate
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were in session. And I figured out very fast that
there's a little subway car. It's like a silly little
car at the at Astroworld. You remember the old timey cars.
You'd be on the old timey car, and that's really
more for an adult and a little beauty kid. But
they felt like they're on a ride.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Well they have.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
They have that sort of thing down in the that
that carries you from the Capitol where you vote back
over to your building, and so you don't have to
work walk at grade, but the public can get down there.
So I figured out that's where the politicians are. So
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I would go down there and I would just ride
the subway for hours. I sat just me and Paul Simon.
This was nineteen eighty eight. Paul Simon had dropped. Is
the summer of eighty eight, Paul Simon had dropped. The
Democrats had dropped out of the election. So you have
du Caucus's the nominee by this time, and the Vice President,
George H. W. Bush is the nominee. And I would
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I rode and I would I would ride, and when
we'd get off, I'd shake their hand, thank them. I'd
get some I had a little I had a little
little thirty five millimeter camera in a little blue bag
that I had strapped onto my belt, and I'd say,
do you mind if I get someone to take a photo.
We didn't think of selfies back then, but somebody else
would take a photo of the.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Two of us.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
And so there was me and John Glenn. Rode my little,
you know, three minute ride with John Glenn, caught up
with him about the house, barbershop, Paul Simon, al Gore,
Bob Dole, and in fact I got myself invited by
Bob Dole into a ceremonial signing in his office for
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I don't remember he was that he was the I
think he was a Senate Majority leader at the time.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
But on and on and on. Now I saw a
lot of other folks, but I just.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
Really wanted the Titans, and the Titans were the ones
who had just run for president that year. That was
a tourist. There was nowhere I wanted to go more
than Washington, D C. For a lot of students of government,
there's nowhere they want to go and visit more than Washington,
D C. At sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, twenty thirty. There are
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plant workers, entrepreneurs, pastors, nurses at home, moms that want
to see our nation's capital, see the cherry blossoms, see
the beautiful row. You know, it's one of the few
cities in this sense, it's a city, leave the legal
classification aside. It's one of the few cities that was
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actually designed and laid out like a master planned community.
Lean font design is just incredible, brilliant design. This has
resulted in it becoming not only a tourist attraction, which
is kind of odd for a government city, not only
a tourist attraction, but a point of great pride. Americans
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will take a vacation to DC. Now this isn't New York.
You're not going to see plays, You're not going for
the great restaurants. Although there are actually great restaurants. The
restaurants represent in the world. I've eaten restaurants from countries
that I've never seen a restaurant. They're in Eastern Market,
where my boys stayed. There was a Latvian restaurant. There
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was an Estonian restaurant. I mean restaurants you don't for
places you don't normally see.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
We ate it. Ukrainian restaurants. Figured out I already paid
for it. Why not?
Speaker 3 (06:44):
So anyway, this should be a place of great pride,
not just for the world to come and see, but
for Americans.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
This is our national capital.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
This is where our government gathers. We see it on
TV every day. We want to go there and feel proud.
The fact is it's incredibly dangerous. So my brother was
put on the National Police Officer Memorial and I went
this summer.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
To see that, to witness that with my boys, and the.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
Area where we were as we were walking, it was
all officers because all the fallen officers, they have contingents
from their departments that are there, and there were places
that the officers would say, hey, you know, you want
to be a little careful.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
You know over there that should not be the case.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
This is the sort of stuff that Trump is doing
that for the Democrats to criticize, and this was what
Smarconish was talking about, how are you criticizing him cleaning
up DC?
Speaker 1 (07:49):
And they immediately start arguing.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
DC's not dangerous, DSE's great, DZ's wonderful.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
You know, he can't take it over. He can't do that.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Not only do you sound still, let you sound evil.
You know how dangerous this city is. And the President
is saying, we're simply going to fix it. Pambondy is
going to take over as the head of law enforcement
for the city, the police chief of this community.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Yeah, that's what we're gonna do. That's yeah, we're not
gonna We're not gonna do meetings.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
We're gonna have new studies, We're gonna stakehold and grief.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
It not just what we're gonna do.
Speaker 5 (08:28):
That.
Speaker 6 (08:30):
Our creative director Jim Mudd notes that President Trump has
let his hair go gray ish grayish white, which I
had not noted before. He wasn't criticizing or complimenting. It
was simply an observation. If you saw his press conference,
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you can see it for yourself.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
President is still speaking about making our capital. Say it,
you talk about the sort of thing that should make
everybody in our country rally behind.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
This is it right here? Here's what he's saying.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
You're not gonna have to worry about that now.
Speaker 5 (09:05):
I think you're gonna do a fantastic job. And everybody
in this room, they may not express it, but they all.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Want that to happen. You know, they want to be safe.
Speaker 5 (09:11):
And they have families too, So it's an honor to
have such a large group. I've done this for years now.
Hard to believe. I've never seen this room so packed.
In fact, I'm sure it's a violation of every fire code.
But we'll let you say anyway, you take it a chance,
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and with that will say, maybe if you could, Oh.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
Well, we could be here all.
Speaker 5 (09:37):
Day long if you could, if we could, if we
could keep the first questions perhaps to this subject, and
then we'll go into a few hours.
Speaker 7 (09:47):
Mister President, thank you so much. We talked about how
personal of an issue this is. Who talked about flying
over the Washington Monument seeing.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Pride of what DC is?
Speaker 7 (09:56):
Do you believe the status of the city, the cleanliness,
the way, the crime, as well as a direct reflection
on how the country is run?
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Act I do I think the capital. Look, everyone comes here,
they all they're all coming, all the leaders, they're all
wanting to come. And I say it, I've said.
Speaker 5 (10:11):
It again, but I'm really just quoting other leaders from NATO,
from the Middle East.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
King of Saudi Arabia, Guitar uae I was over there.
Speaker 5 (10:20):
We brought back five point one trillion dollars of investment
into our country.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
But I was a month and a half ago. I
was at NATO.
Speaker 5 (10:27):
We had a great thing, agreed to put up five
percent a stead of two percent. Two percent they didn't
pay five percents already paid. We had a great meeting
and they all said the same thing. They said our
country was dead. They thought our country was gone one
year ago. They said, your country was dead, and now
you have the hottest country anywhere in the world.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
We do.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
We have the hottest country in the world right now.
The tariffs have helped.
Speaker 5 (10:48):
It's given us not only the money it said Vidians,
trillions of dollars of money, but it gives us great
power over enemies. We saw five wars with Pakistan and Indian. Yeah,
we just solved one. As you're Bajan and as you know,
in Armenia it was always raging for thirty seven years.
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And the two leaders got up in this said we
never thought this would be solved.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Russia tried to solve it. They all tried to solve it.
Speaker 5 (11:16):
It was a very tough situation, but we got it
done and got it done. And I said to the
two men, I said, are you guys friends and that
hard time? Yeah, they've been killing each other for thirty
seven years. Right, one was there five years, one was
there for twenty two years. He said, my whole life,
I've been fighting this war and you got to solve
But we did.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
Many of those.
Speaker 5 (11:35):
We did in the Congo and Rwanda that's been going
on for thirty years, eight to nine million people killed
that they know of, but it was.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Raging, and we got that solved. We got a lot
of them done some great honor.
Speaker 5 (11:48):
But you want to have when they come, the leaders
come to our country to sign documents that the war
is over or whatever, or for other reasons. They come
for trade, and you want them to come through so
beautifully you ride down those roads.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
Everything should be perfect.
Speaker 5 (12:04):
You shouldn't have medians falling down into the roadway median.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
You know the metal things that are always.
Speaker 5 (12:11):
Somebody had a great lobbyist, because I've never seen them
look good.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
I've been looking at those things with a little right.
Speaker 5 (12:20):
They're always broken bad, but here they're really bad. And
we're going to either put.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
New or fix it. And it's not expensive. It's not
really expensive. And we're going to fix our roads a
little bit. We're going to clean up our sidewalks.
Speaker 5 (12:32):
You have countries where every Saturday the people go out
and they wash their sidewalks in front of their stores,
of the houses, they scrub, they scrub their sidewalks.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
So we aren't quite at that level yet.
Speaker 5 (12:44):
I don't think, Daddy, we're not quite there yet, but
maybe we will. They go out and they scrub. I
think it's so beautiful to hear that and just see
those series.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
But we're going to make it clean. But just to
finish you with.
Speaker 5 (12:55):
Your question, it's a very very strong reflection of our
country and when.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
They see a bed city.
Speaker 5 (13:05):
You know, my father always used to tell me had
a wonderful father, very smart, and he used to say, son,
when you walk into a restaurant and you see a
dirty front door, don't go in because if the front.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Door is dirty, the kitchen is dirty. Also, same thing
with the capital.
Speaker 5 (13:23):
If our capital is dirty, our whole country is dirty.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
And they all respect us. So it's a very good question.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
Question for you on this specific ship.
Speaker 8 (13:35):
Do you expect more cities to follow DC's path if
this goes through? So the idea is that Chicago, La
San Francisco, would they expect similar action what we've seen
in DC. Any other questions are there is reporting that
the administration is going to reclassify marijuana. With that send
mixed messages that marijuana is okay. Drugs some drugs are okay,
but we're trying.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
To clean up crime. How do they go hand in hand.
Speaker 5 (13:54):
We're only looking at that. That's early, but you know,
somebody reported it, which is fine.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
We're looking at it.
Speaker 5 (13:58):
Some people like it, some people some people hate the
whole concept of marijuana because if it does bad for
the children, it does bad for.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
People that are older than children.
Speaker 5 (14:07):
But we're looking at reclassification and we'll make a determination
over the next i would say.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Over the next few weeks, and that determination hopefully will
be the right.
Speaker 5 (14:15):
One very complicated subject is, you know, the subject of marijuana.
I've heard great things having to do with medical, and
I've had bad things having to do with just about
everything else but medical.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
And you know, for pain and various things, I've heard
some pretty good.
Speaker 5 (14:28):
Things, but for other things, I've heard some.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Pretty bad things.
Speaker 5 (14:32):
The other part of your question, I mean, we're just
going to.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
See what happens with it. All you're going to have.
Speaker 5 (14:37):
We're going to have a tremendous success on what we're
doing other.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
Cities on the subject of marijuana. President Trump was very
close to decriminalization of marijuana on the federal level in
twenty twenty.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
If he had, it would have opened a floodgate.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
Of support for him for Democrats who don't typically vote Republican.
Pulling numbers showed that he was scared what it would
do that Republicans who have spent their entire careers telling
you that read for madness is real, And here is
Texas at this point making fools, making fools of our
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state with this stupid THHC band that they've banked on.
President Trump will meet with Vladimir Putin in the historically
significant Alaska that will be on Friday. The left is
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already predicting the meeting will be a failure. Imagine hating
Trump so much that you want wars to continue and
bad things to happen to your country because you don't
want Trump to ever have any successes. Over the weekend,
Armenian Azerbaijan signing a piece d a peace deal in
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Rwanda nobody believed could happen. Obama won a Nobel Peace
Prize nine months into his first term. He had zero
peace deals nine months in and he won a Nobel Prize,
which my guest says because he was a black guy
and they felt it'd be great for him to win
a Nobel prize. Trump, on the other hand, has won
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zero Nobel prizes and he's seven months in with five
peace deals, and don't be shocked if he walks away
from Alaska having ended the war between Russia and Ukraine.
Don't be shocked. I heard John Bolton saying that the
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deal wouldn't be good for Ukraine. He was just gonna
he and Putin are just going to carve up a
deal and the deal will be presented to Zelenski and
he'll be told do it. Well, Okay, let's assuming you're right,
mister warhawk, mister treason us warhawk. Let's just assume you're
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right that that's what's going to happen. What is the
alternative that the war continue? Remember how much treasure we
gave those people they were threatening. Zelenski came to this
country and said, give me more money or you'll have
to give me your sons.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
M effort.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
You ain't getting either one. Go back.
Speaker 4 (17:36):
No, this idea that we owe Ukraine a war with
Russia is absurd, and they kept convincing people here that
we had to just keep pouring cash into it. Our
capital's broken, our major cities are broken, people are dying,
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people are absolutely he's suffering under the weight of student
loan debts, under the weight of their business having been
hurt by COVID, and we're sending billions to Zelensky that
he's using for yachts.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
No Trump talked.
Speaker 4 (18:18):
I believe right now he's talking about his meeting with
Putin in Alaska, which I think pretends to be the
most important meeting with a foreign leader he has had,
after only after only the European Union.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
President constructive conversations.
Speaker 5 (18:34):
Then after that meeting, immediately, maybe as I'm flying out,
maybe as.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
I'm leaving the room, I'll be calling the European leader.
Speaker 5 (18:41):
So I get along with very well, and you know,
I have a great relationship, I think with all of them,
and I get along with Zelenski, but you know, I
disagree with what he's done, very very severely disagree. This
is a war that should have never happened, wouldn't have happened.
But I'll be speaking to Zelenski. The next meeting will
be with Zelenski and Putin, or Zelenskin putting to me,
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I'll be there if they need, but I want to
have a meeting set up between.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
The two leaders.
Speaker 5 (19:09):
I was a little bothered by the fact that Zelenski
was saying, well, I have to get constitutional approved. I mean,
he's got approval to go into the ward Kill everybody,
but he needs approval to do a land swap because
there'll be some.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
Land swapping going on.
Speaker 5 (19:24):
I know that through Russia and through conversations with everybody
to the good for the good of Ukraine, good stuff,
not bad stuff, also some bad stuff for both.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
It's good and there's bad. But it's very complex because you.
Speaker 5 (19:38):
Have lines that are very uneven and there'll be some swapping.
There'll be some changes in land and the word that
they will use is, you know, they make changes.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
We're going to change the lines, the battle lines.
Speaker 5 (19:52):
Russia's occupied a big portion of Ukraine. They've occupied some
very prime territory. We're going to try and get some
of that territory back for you, Ukraine. But they've taken
some very prime territory. They've taken largely ocean.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
You know, in Ros we call.
Speaker 5 (20:07):
Ocean front property. That's always the most valuable property. If
you're in a lake, a river, or an ocean, it's
always the best property. Well, Ukraine, a lot of people
don't know that Ukraine was largely a thousand miles of
ocean that's gone. Other than one small area Odessa. It's
a small area. There's just a little bit of water left,
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So I'm going to go and.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
See the parameters.
Speaker 5 (20:32):
Now I may leave and say good luck, and that'll
be the end. I may say this is not going
to be settled. I mean, there are those that believe
that Putin wanted all of Ukraine. I happen to be
one of them. By the way, I think if a
warnt for me, he would not be even talking to
anybody else right now.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
But I'm going to meet with him.
Speaker 5 (20:53):
We're going to see what the parameters are, and then
going to call up Prisident Zelinski and the European right
after the meeting, and I'm going to tell him what
kind of I'm not going to make a deal. It's
not up to me to make a deal. I think
a deal should be made for both. I think Russia
has to get back into building their country. It's a
massive country. I think they have eleven time zones, if
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you can believe it. It's a massive by far from
the standpoint of land, it's by far the largest. They
have tremendous potential in Russia to do well.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
They're not doing well.
Speaker 5 (21:25):
Their economy is not doing well right now because it's
been very well disturbed by this doesn't help with the
president of the United States tells their largest or second
largest oil buyer that We're putting a fifty percent tarif
on you if you buy oil from Russia. That was
a big blow. And then they said, gee, he wasn't
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so tough. Nobody else would have done that. And I
haven't stopped there. I mean, look, I was all set
to do things.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
Far bigger than that. But I got a call that
they'd like to meet, and I'm going to see what
they want to meet. I like to see a cease fire.
Speaker 5 (22:00):
I'd like to see the best deal that could be
made for both parties. You know, it takes two to tango, right,
So ultimately I'll have a meeting next week.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
I had a great.
Speaker 5 (22:10):
Relationship with him, considering the fact that, you know, I
was not nice to him because of the pipeline. I
ended the pipeline. I also gave the javelins. Do you
ever hear of a javelin? Javelin is called a tankbuster.
They say that Obama gave them sheets, and I gave
them javelins.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
They weren't for me. All those tanks that were.
Speaker 5 (22:32):
Destroyed at the first days of the war because the
tanks got stuck in the mud. Some commander made it better. Say,
you know, they would have been they would have been
in Kiev in four hours going down the highway, but
a Russian general made a brilliant decision to go through
the farmland instead, and they just had torrential rains and
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the rains were so bad and it was mud, and.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
Those tanks got stuck in the mud. I don't know
who that.
Speaker 5 (22:57):
General is, but knowing Vladimir, he's probably not around any
longer because all those tanks were stuck in the mud
and they went along with the javelins I got. I
gave him the javelins, you know that, right. I gave
him javelins. They gave them sheets. But I'm going to
I'm going to meet with President Putin and we're going
to see what he has in mind, and if it's
(23:20):
a fair deal, I'll reveal it to the European mark
my words, leaders and to the Democrats.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
Leaders will be sending envoys to Ukraine to tell Zelensky
not to take the deal, to absolutely bust up this deal.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
They do not want peace.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
Zelensky doesn't want peace, The Democrats don't want peace, and
the American arms industry certainly doesn't want peace, and they
will do everything they can to bust.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
This deal up.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
Can you still say queer the deal because Queer was
not homosexual?
Speaker 1 (23:59):
Crew was like mess something up or make it is?
I don't know, is that like is that acceptable?
Speaker 4 (24:04):
Now?
Speaker 1 (24:05):
I'm just here a genuine questioning.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
President Trump has incredible instincts better than anybody I've ever
seen with regard to media and messaging. He knew that
with the visit with Putin coming up Friday and the
weekend talk shows UH focusing on trying to sabotage that meeting,
(24:40):
that all the media would want to ask about today
was Putin and try to trip him up. And I
genuinely believe that all the Democrats who now work for
the media that their goal is to god Trump into
saying something so aggressive toward Putin that he flares up
(25:06):
Putin's You know, you go to the dog park and
you see the dogs and you're trying to keep them calm,
and anything can set one of them off because they're
so defensive and everything is there are I genuinely believe
that the media is trying to incite Trump to say
(25:31):
something that will destroy any possibility of.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
The meetings if not call the meetings off altogether. And
I think that.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
They're trying to inflame Zelenski to where he basically says,
it doesn't matter what comes out of that meeting, I
won't do anything because there are a lot of people
who stand to gain from that war continuing, which is
really unfortunate because you have the people of two countries
(26:04):
who are wasting a lot of money trying to kill
each other in a truly existential sense.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
That is sad. That is sad.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
You're no better than two low level animals fighting over
the same worm in the forest. That is not how
great art is produced. That's not how scientific advancements come about, innovation, commerce, transportation, health, medicine, music.
(26:41):
This is not how societies. If you want to look
at what will drag a society down and prevent development,
look at the African tribal wars post mostly British, some Dutch, French,
some Belgian for that matter, to Congo imperialism, the throwing
(27:06):
off of the yoke of a foreign imperial control has
not been for Africa what one would have hoped, maybe
would have expected, but what would one would have hoped.
And the reason was because it's set off a power grab,
(27:30):
and what you've mostly seen, of the few names that
are recognized by Americans of African leaders, what you've mostly
seen is someone who comes up from the ranks of
the military who has no experience or aptitude for governance,
for leading, for building. And so you have a continent
(27:52):
that most of these countries became independent in the sixties,
fifties and sixties, and you've had a complete lack of
any real tangible development. And it's breathtaking and it's sad,
and it can be partly blamed on constant war. Even Ethiopia,
(28:19):
which I think is an advanced culture, maybe not financially,
but as an advanced culture in Africa, they had.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
The Tigrai.
Speaker 3 (28:31):
Militia within a matter of a few miles of Addis
Ababa trying to take over the government. Just a couple
of years ago, you had a civil war where hundreds
of bodies were washing up in lakes and rivers having
been butchered. And that's in a country that if you
(28:52):
went there, you wouldn't think this is a warmongering people.
But you have such tribal identity, such hatred, such self dealing.
I mean, imagine this, imagine you had a nation of
Jasmine Crockett, a nation of Nancy Pelosi, Pete Boudagig. You
(29:13):
think about how divisive these people are and how tribal
they are, self dealing, no sense of integrity, no sense
of the common good, no sense of restraint.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
You think about these people.
Speaker 3 (29:29):
I mean, imagine you had a nation of Lena Hidalgo
with Rodney Ellis running it. They have managed to destroy
Harris County government in a matter of just a couple
of years, and it's only gonna get worse until hopefully
(29:50):
it gets better. But it's why Rodney's so popular in
Africa because he can cut deals over there. He knows
the mindset. He understands this sense that there is no shame.
One thing you notice about democrats, and you see this
in Africa, you will notice that democrats have zero shame,
(30:11):
none at all. When Joe Biden told the cornpop.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
Story, that wasn't the first time he's told that.
Speaker 3 (30:18):
When Joe Biden claimed he was top of his class
and he'd won all these honors, and Sam Donaldson exposed
him for the fool that he was and that he
had lied about all of them. He just lied about everything.
That's what we're dealing with, these types of people from
a political culture where there is no sense of honor
(30:42):
and dignity in doing the right thing, even for people
that don't vote for you. These are notions that Republicans hold.
These are notions that our founders held. And this is
why the left hates our founders. This is why the
monuments were torn down. This is why the founders are
called slave owners. Is why the Jeffersonian ideals, the words
(31:04):
of George Washington, the words of our early founders, this
is why they're reduced. They must be reduced. That person
is imperfect. He is imperfect. We must never listen to
him again. So it's maddening and saddening to see two
(31:25):
great nations, which of course were once one. Ukraine has
been largely a part of Russia, and by the way,
Ukraine was arguably the most important piece of the USSR.
I think Khushov was Ukrainian so much, so much the
bread basket of the world. To see these two at
(31:48):
war constantly, and see what a distraction it is to
those people, and such loss of life, Ukrainian people, Ukrainian
men being grabbed off the reach and thrown into a
van so they can be sent out there as more
cannon fodder. Trump is not a warmonger. They can say
what they want. Trump has been a president of peace,
(32:10):
peace through strength, but peace. And he has done more
for peace in seven months than any president I ever
recall in the first two years of their presidency. This
is amazing what he has accomplished. I don't expect him
to get the Nobel Prize. I do think Americans should
understand in addition to all the things he's done, he's
(32:32):
brought peace to regions of the world where we never
expected to see it. I mean, look at Armenia and Azerbaijan.
These people have what a waste of energy, and now
he's trying to do that for Russia and Ukraine.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
You'd think he would be praised for that. You'd think
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