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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Good morning, everybody. This is that's the bottom line. I'm
your host, Jeff Lewis of Asset Growth Associates along with
Gene Valerani. Thanks for sharing part of your weekend with us.
Our top line story this week is the war in Ukraine.
As we mentioned on last week's show, President Trump met
last Friday with President Putin in Alaska, and although a
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ceasefire deal was not reached, both leaders spoke highly of
the progress made in the meeting.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
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 uh, it's a big deal.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Well yeah, I mean that's a big deal. I'm glad
Trump didn't trigger Putin to launch a nuclear first strike
or anything.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
We have a launch detection. We have so many launch detections.
Speaker 4 (00:58):
Femia is confirmed.
Speaker 5 (00:59):
Imagine, I don't want no.
Speaker 6 (01:01):
Confidence is high. I repeat, confidence is high.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
General DBS has trucking three bounds. Tell me this is
one of your simulations. Miss not.
Speaker 7 (01:20):
All right, plush the bombers, get the subs.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
And launch mode.
Speaker 7 (01:25):
We are at theft Con one.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Okay, so maybe my sense of humor is a little dark,
but let's be honest. That's really what's that stake in
these negotiations. We're trying to keep this war from spreading
further into Europe and potentially destroying human civilization. So part
of me if I don't sound sentimental enough about Ukrainian
sovereignty here, we've got a lot more at stake here
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than the fate of a region literally none of us
ever heard before twenty twenty two. All right, so mister president,
y'all shook hands and got along. You want to elaborate
on that.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
I mean, we were together almost three hours and it
was very extensive and we agreed 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.
Now it's really up to President Zolensky to get it done.
And I would also say the European nations they have
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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.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Okay, so that sounds like progress. As soon as the
meeting was over, President Trump was on the phone with
half the heads of state in Europe, including Ukrainian President Zelensky.
By Monday morning, they were all arriving in Washington for
probably the biggest wartime summit the White House has ever seen.
The goal was to get the Ukraine on board for
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a bilateral meeting with Russia or possibly trilateral with America
as the broker. Apparently that's a mission accomplished.
Speaker 8 (03:02):
After this productive meeting with President and then with all
our colleagues, departners who conformed that way are ready for
trail asal meeting.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
President Zelenski was highly complimentary of Trump on this visit,
even wearing almost the suit this time around.
Speaker 9 (03:19):
I guess he's.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Finally taken the diplomatic part of his shop seriously. He
had a lot of European leaders with them in a
show of support, and although the lamestream media tried to
spend it as they were there to prevent Trump from
bullying Zelensky into a bad deal, in reality that couldn't
have been further from the truth. The Europeans turned out
to be very grateful for President Trump's role in bringing
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both sides to the table. Here's NATO Secretary General Mark
Rutte speaking after the meeting.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
I really want to thank you President of the United States,
Theodnalds for the fact that you, as I said before,
broke the deathlog basically with the president, butim starting that dialogue.
And I think it was in February that you had
the first a phone call and from there we are
now very are today and that is I think if
we play this well, we could enter, and we have
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to enter, if we have to stop the killing, we
have to stop the destruction of Ukraine's infrastructure. There's a
terrible war.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Not every European leader was so optimistic. French President Emmanuel
Macron was a little more reserved in his assessment.
Speaker 10 (04:23):
When I look at the situation and the fact I
don't see a present putting very willing to get peace now.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
That soundclip was the edited version of what NBC aired
on the Today Show Tuesday morning, but interestingly enough, NBC
left out the quote that followed, which was far more
flattering to President Trump. Quote. But perhaps I'm too pessimistic.
The optimism of your president is to be taken seriously.
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So if he considers he can get a deal done,
this is great news and we have to do whatever
we can to have a great deal. In other words,
in spite of all the left wing media attempts to
sabotage the most important European peace deal in thirty five years,
Trump has achieved what no one else has really even
tried to do until now, and that's to get both
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sides talking again. He may not have gotten the ceasefire
he wanted, but we're now closer to something even more important,
a settlement to actually end the war. And make no mistake,
Trump's invitation to putin for a one on one meeting
in Alaska was full of implicit messaging. The location of
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the meeting itself, Alaska having been sold to US by
Russian and one of the biggest strategic errors in world history.
The fact that was held at Elmendorf Air Force Base,
which housed squadrons of bombers capable of dropping countless nuclear
bombs over the old Soviet Union and the height of
the Cold War. Trump deliberately reinforced that point with its
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B two flyover right over the hill of Vladimir Putin
before the meeting. These weren't coincidences. These details were intricately planned.
Treasury Secretary Scott Besson emphasized this point during his interview
on CNBC Tuesday Morning.
Speaker 9 (06:14):
Yeah, I want to set the record straight on what
went on in Alaska. Alaska was a show of force
by President Trump. He invited President Putin to land that
the Russians used to own. He displayed a huge amount
of military hardware and then did a flyover. It was
kind of like inviting your uncontrollable neighbor to your house
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and showing him your gun case.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Message sent, message received. Rcp's White House correspondent Phil Wegman
summarized this week's events this way.
Speaker 11 (06:46):
It's hard to sort out what is flattery from these
other world leaders and what is actual progress. But I
think that there is now momentum. Every one of the
seven leaders from these European nations were certain to compliment
Donald Trump, and even Zelensky. This guy read the stage
directions correctly. He did not disagree with Trump in public.
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He's very complimentary. Even war sort of a suit. It
wasn't exactly the jacket and tie that we expect from
world leaders, but it was an indication that he realized
that the game in town is the United States. He
has to continue to play nice with Donald Trump. And
what we saw from that meeting about the past meeting
and Friday with Putin to set up a future meeting
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with Putin and then another future meeting with Putin and
Donald Trump, was that there was some type of momentum.
There's some type of progress here when.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
We come back, well, look at the ways the media
has been lying to us about the war in Ukraine.
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Speaker 7 (09:30):
We're just trying to turn an apple into what time.
That's the bottom line. Can even.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
We are backed with That's the bottom line. I'm Jeff Lewis.
In the first segment, we talked about how NBC selectively
edited French presidents for Crohn's comments to fit their narrative
that in effect, they're rooting against the peace deal. You've
been told for months, really years now that Ukraine can
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actually win this thing. They're fighting hard and all they
need is ever increasing levels of American support. The mainstream
media has been working over time to suppress the cold,
hard facts on the ground. On the will Kin Show,
this panelist gave a far more accurate assessment this week
when asked this simple question, who is it that.
Speaker 8 (10:46):
Has the upper hand?
Speaker 5 (10:47):
Who needs a deal?
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Who's winning the war on.
Speaker 8 (10:50):
The ground in Ukraine? Hello, Will Yes, And the state
of play is that the Russians have the initiative in
this war. They're taking ground out its slowly and they're
winning the war of attrition. Attorney undermanned, and we saw
a breakthrough just north of the city of u Krusk
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just over the last several weeks that demonstrates this. The
Ukrainians have had to pull back some elite forces from
other fronts in order to cover this gap, and they
have blunted this assault so far, but it puts other
areas of the country at risk. The reality is that
Ukrainians need this deal, They need some type of ceasefire.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
So it's like I've been saying all along, the Ukrainians
are losing. They're starting to run out of the manpower
necessary to keep their front lines intact. Of course, now
that the inevitable is approaching, listen to how news outlets
like MSNBC or should I say ms now are starting
to reframe their coverage. After months of telling us that
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the Ukrainians actually have a chance to win this thing.
Here's Joe Scarborough on Monday telling us how we've always
known how this war was going to play out.
Speaker 10 (12:07):
By the way, let's underline two things here, just again
to set expectations to be realistic. Even during the Biden administration,
every Biden official, including the Chairman of the Joint Chief
says they're gonna have to give a plan. They're not
going to like giving left Land, but they're gonna have
to give a plan Number one. Number two, They're not
going to become members of NATO. There may have been
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people writing articles in the Wall Street Journal or elsewhere
saying they have to be members of NATO, but you
go around to every European leader that was never going
to happen. But there was an idea of a quasi
NATO type guarantee.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Oh okay, Joe, So let's get this straight. Your network,
which just had to change its name and rebrand itself
because you've been lying out your butt cheeks. For so long,
your network has been saying this whole time that Ukraine
was going to lose land and that they would never
get into NATO. Never mind, Joe, that your network aired
then President Biden giving this speech in twenty twenty one
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where he refused to rule out Ukraine joining NATO.
Speaker 12 (13:11):
You know, school's out on that question. It remains to
be seen. In the meantime, we will do all that
we can to put Ukraine in the position to be
able to continue to resist Russian physical aggression. And it
will not just depend on me whether or not we
conclude that Ukraine can become part of NATO.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Where was your coverage, then, Joe Scarborough, when it was
our refusal to shut the door on emitting Ukraine into
NATO that instigated the Russian invasion in the first place.
Of course, this speech was before the war, right, I mean,
it wasn't like this was a consistent position of the
administration or anything.
Speaker 12 (13:53):
Oh No, And NATO will be in Ukraine's future, no
question about that. But we say, as we said in Villainius,
Ukraine will become a member of NATO when all allies
agree and conditions are met, right, now we may have
to make it.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
You got me freaking kiddem me. Joe Scarborough, your singlephant
media pal, has been catering to this nonsense for almost
half a decade. Now here's Nicole Wallace pandering to her
Ukrainian gift.
Speaker 13 (14:23):
Well, you are always very i think, sort of diligent
to keeping our coverage focused on these two in realities,
right that Ukraine is prevailing on the battlefield and there's
an extraordinary amount of Ukrainian and suffering.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
Or how about this exchange between Lawrence O'Donnell and a
Yale professor.
Speaker 14 (14:41):
Early on in the war, there are a lot of
people who were saying, well, why are we arming Ukraine?
Isn't that just extending the war because Russia has to win?
And now we see that's not true. Russia doesn't have
to win. Russia is losing, and it's very important to
make sure that Russia does lose, because only a cleared
defeat would reaffirm international law. Only a clear defeat would
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make it clear to China that it shouldn't be trying
adventures in the Pacific, And only a clear defeat gives
Russia a chance to get off on some kind of
new foot. So, I mean another fundamental point about what's
happening is that this shows that Russia is losing and
can lose, and that it would be normal for Russia
to lose. This is a stage in the history of
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what will be a Russian defeat if we stay the course.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
Yeah, that's right, Just stay the course and we can
defeat Russia and get rid of Vladimir Putin. By the way,
that interview is two years old now. Obviously the Russians
are teetering on the edge of the feet, now, aren't they?
That comment age as well as Putrid garbage. But yeah,
Joe Scarboro, y'all have always known that the Ukraine was
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going to have to give up land.
Speaker 9 (15:50):
Huh.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
So are y'all lying now or were you lying here?
Speaker 7 (15:55):
Their aim is to take back all the territory they
say that Russia occupied since.
Speaker 14 (16:01):
The invasion in February, and indeed they want to push
a head even.
Speaker 8 (16:06):
Further to take back Crimea, which Russia annexed in twenty fourteen.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
So, yeah, Joe Scarborough, you need to quit trying to
rewrite history. We're not all as stupid as your viewers.
All seven hundred and fifty thousand of them jij are pathetic.
We're at a serious moment in history, and we've got
to take it seriously. We're going to decide in the
coming months the relationship the United States has with not
just the Ukraine, but with all of Eastern Europe, and
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that includes Russia. We royally screwed up our foreign policy
with Russia under Clinton and Bush forty three, and we're
paying the price for it today. Then it was Obama
and Biden that got us entangled in Ukraine when we
shouldn't have been, just as Megan Kelly alludes to here.
Speaker 15 (16:51):
And it's not that like I have sympathy, of course
for the Ukrainian schipol. I mean, what's happened is terrible.
They've had terrible leaders. Yeah, and utter Food is not
a good man. I mean, nobody's going to dispute that.
But not everything can be our problem. And the problem
is we had Democrats who were messing with Ukraine and
kind of trying to make it our problem for a
number of years, which I think led us to feeling
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some obligation understandably, But at this point, I mean, like
you've got these two stubborn leaders. I don't know what's
going to happen today.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
Honestly, I'm not sure what's going to happen either. We're
talking security deals with Ukraine, and I don't see as
avoiding some form of military presence there, despite Trump's claim
that we won't have boots on the ground. Perhaps we
can simply include them in a security rotation that we
already have an effect in the Eastern Europe, like in
the Baltic States. But maybe with a different approach, we
can actually turn Russia into not a friend, then may
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be a partner. We'll be right back.
Speaker 7 (17:42):
Where's Josh trying to turn a Nekoee in woe? That's
the bottom line. Where's Josh trying to turn a neckelle
in to die?
Speaker 16 (17:57):
That's the bottom line.
Speaker 5 (17:59):
Well, good morning everyone. This is Gene Valerani joining the
Weekly Report at its time in this weekly broadcast to
lift you on a little, dirty, little secret is what
we've called it over the years. You know, last week
we were discussing the latest developments between President Trump and
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Russian Premiere Putin at their recent meeting in Alaska. Well,
it didn't take long for Russia. After only two days
after President Trump and he met, well, Frutin fruit of form.
Soon after returning to the Krumblin ordered the launch of
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three hundred and nine drones and ten missiles into the Ukraine,
causing large fires to break out among the targets Putin
fired into the Ukraine. We're on Ukrainian oil and gas refineries.
All this occurred after mister Zolensky flew into DC for
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more talks with President Trump and what most thought were
true steps to ending that war. So much for peace
negotiations with Russia to negotiations and its invasion of the Ukraine,
Optimism quickly turned to more treachery from Putin's Russia. How
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peace talks will resume going forward and any deal ending
the conflict remains to be seen. After President Trump met
with Boote, met with Zelenski, and the future looked as
if a truce between Russia and the Ukraine might have
a chance. But it didn't take long for Putin to
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dampen the oapes for a quick end to the war.
Member countries of NATO met with President Trump and Putin
and Trump's some it occurred as the NATO countries heads
of state gathered at the White House else to engage
in talks with President Trump, who still is going to
try and bring the Russian Ukrainian conflict to a peaceful end.
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Peace may yet a cur but it appears mister Putin
has other has other plans, and it seems like he
wants to flex his muscles first and they then begin
yet another amissal attack on the Ukraine. Now, maybe the
meeting last week with Trump was only a head fake
on Putin's park, or maybe there's still a chance for
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peace talks to occur between the Ukraine and Russia. Anyhow,
this was my initial reaction to the news of there
being a potential meeting to occur between Russia and the Ukraine.
Any further developments will have to include second guessing as
to what Putin really has up his sleep. And for
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all intents and purposes, I suppose Putin thought he could
overrun the uk Ukraine area that he wanted to confiscate.
A time's going to tell, and soon we'll know the
outcome of that conflict, or maybe we won't. Putin knows
what he wants, and I suppose he's not someone the
rest of the world can trust. But you've got to
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give the Ukraine credit for styming slowing down Russia's invasion,
which so far has caused more casualties among Russian troops
and it has on the Ukraine's troops. Now, there yet
may be a peace deal, but it will have to
wait a while longer, and that's how it appears to be. Then,
keep in mind my opinion as to how this will
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all end really doesn't matter. President Trump wants to bring
an end to the conflict, and I suppose the NATO
alliance also wants an end to the conflict. After all,
I doubt anyone wants another world war between the East
and the West. Is Putin trustworthy and I doubt it.
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He probably has to watch his back in the Kremlin
as well as where he has enemies inside Russia who
would like to lift him from his power, and that
too is a possibility. But then no one knows the future.
And the one thing we do know is that Vladimir
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Putin is not a nice guy and he wants as
much control over Russia and the Ukraine as well. Now,
to what length he will go remains to be seen.
It's also possible his enemies in Russia itself might try
to remove him from power as well. Now I don't
know that there's a plot on him going on over there,
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but you know, they might try to pull him out
of there. Who knows Putin wants to rebuild the Russian Empire.
He wants to rule over it with an iron fist.
I think we can all agree with that. And he
has dashed away, listen to this hetashed away millions of
dollars for himself and surrounded himself with loyalists. But in
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the end, like most dictators, he may reach the point
of no return and be overthrown from power. It could happen,
and I for one wouldn't be surprised if it didn't
eventually occur. I guess this chapter in world history will
just have to play out one way or another. And
that then is the bottom line. When we take a
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look at what's going on over there right now, I
guess it's not really settled. We thought when he met
with Trump that maybe they were going to get together
and they were going to get the fellow from the
Ukraine in there with them, and they the three of
them were going to meet. But as soon as he
broke his meeting up with President Trump, Puton goes back
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to Russia start sending missiles and drones into the Ukraine
blowing up their oil rigs and their gasoline and things
like that. So that war is still pushing on, and
I guess they're going to keep trying to get it settled,
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and there's going to be more meetings coming up. But
then in the meantime, we have no control over what
mister Putin's going to do. And mister Putin, I guess
he has a mind of his own and he does
pretty much what he wants to do. So this bears
more watching and we'll have to wait and see the outcome.
But at least Trump is trying to bring peace into
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that conflict and end that war, so that remains to
be seen. We'll be back with more right after this.
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your host, Jeff Lewis of Asset Growth Associates along with
Gene Valerani. Thanks for sharing part of your weekend with us.
Our top line story this week is the war in Ukraine.
As we mentioned on last week's show, President Trump met
last Friday with President Putin in Alaska, and although a
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ceasefire deal was not reached, both leaders spoke highly of
the progress made in the meeting.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
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 uh, it's a big deal.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Well yeah, I mean that's a big deal. I'm glad
Trump didn't trigger Putin to launch a nuclear first strike
or anything.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
We have a launch detection. We have so many launch detections.
Speaker 4 (00:58):
Femia is confirmed.
Speaker 5 (00:59):
Imagine, I don't want no.
Speaker 6 (01:01):
Confidence is high. I repeat, confidence is high.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
General DBS has trucking three bounds. Tell me this is
one of your simulations. Miss not.
Speaker 7 (01:20):
All right, plush the bombers, get the subs.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
And launch mode.
Speaker 7 (01:25):
We are at theft Con one.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Okay, so maybe my sense of humor is a little dark,
but let's be honest. That's really what's that stake in
these negotiations. We're trying to keep this war from spreading
further into Europe and potentially destroying human civilization. So part
of me if I don't sound sentimental enough about Ukrainian
sovereignty here, we've got a lot more at stake here
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than the fate of a region literally none of us
ever heard before twenty twenty two. All right, so mister president,
y'all shook hands and got along. You want to elaborate
on that.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
I mean, we were together almost three hours and it
was very extensive and we agreed 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.
Now it's really up to President Zolensky to get it done.
And I would also say the European nations they have
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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.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Okay, so that sounds like progress. As soon as the
meeting was over, President Trump was on the phone with
half the heads of state in Europe, including Ukrainian President Zelensky.
By Monday morning, they were all arriving in Washington for
probably the biggest wartime summit the White House has ever seen.
The goal was to get the Ukraine on board for
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a bilateral meeting with Russia or possibly trilateral with America
as the broker. Apparently that's a mission accomplished.
Speaker 8 (03:02):
After this productive meeting with President and then with all
our colleagues, departners who conformed that way are ready for
trail asal meeting.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
President Zelenski was highly complimentary of Trump on this visit,
even wearing almost the suit this time around.
Speaker 9 (03:19):
I guess he's.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Finally taken the diplomatic part of his shop seriously. He
had a lot of European leaders with them in a
show of support, and although the lamestream media tried to
spend it as they were there to prevent Trump from
bullying Zelensky into a bad deal, in reality that couldn't
have been further from the truth. The Europeans turned out
to be very grateful for President Trump's role in bringing
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both sides to the table. Here's NATO Secretary General Mark
Rutte speaking after the meeting.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
I really want to thank you President of the United States,
Theodnalds for the fact that you, as I said before,
broke the deathlog basically with the president, butim starting that dialogue.
And I think it was in February that you had
the first a phone call and from there we are
now very are today and that is I think if
we play this well, we could enter, and we have
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to enter, if we have to stop the killing, we
have to stop the destruction of Ukraine's infrastructure. There's a
terrible war.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Not every European leader was so optimistic. French President Emmanuel
Macron was a little more reserved in his assessment.
Speaker 10 (04:23):
When I look at the situation and the fact I
don't see a present putting very willing to get peace now.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
That soundclip was the edited version of what NBC aired
on the Today Show Tuesday morning, but interestingly enough, NBC
left out the quote that followed, which was far more
flattering to President Trump. Quote. But perhaps I'm too pessimistic.
The optimism of your president is to be taken seriously.
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So if he considers he can get a deal done,
this is great news and we have to do whatever
we can to have a great deal. In other words,
in spite of all the left wing media attempts to
sabotage the most important European peace deal in thirty five years,
Trump has achieved what no one else has really even
tried to do until now, and that's to get both
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sides talking again. He may not have gotten the ceasefire
he wanted, but we're now closer to something even more important,
a settlement to actually end the war. And make no mistake,
Trump's invitation to putin for a one on one meeting
in Alaska was full of implicit messaging. The location of
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the meeting itself, Alaska having been sold to US by
Russian and one of the biggest strategic errors in world history.
The fact that was held at Elmendorf Air Force Base,
which housed squadrons of bombers capable of dropping countless nuclear
bombs over the old Soviet Union and the height of
the Cold War. Trump deliberately reinforced that point with its
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B two flyover right over the hill of Vladimir Putin
before the meeting. These weren't coincidences. These details were intricately planned.
Treasury Secretary Scott Besson emphasized this point during his interview
on CNBC Tuesday Morning.
Speaker 9 (06:14):
Yeah, I want to set the record straight on what
went on in Alaska. Alaska was a show of force
by President Trump. He invited President Putin to land that
the Russians used to own. He displayed a huge amount
of military hardware and then did a flyover. It was
kind of like inviting your uncontrollable neighbor to your house
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and showing him your gun case.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Message sent, message received. Rcp's White House correspondent Phil Wegman
summarized this week's events this way.
Speaker 11 (06:46):
It's hard to sort out what is flattery from these
other world leaders and what is actual progress. But I
think that there is now momentum. Every one of the
seven leaders from these European nations were certain to compliment
Donald Trump, and even Zelensky. This guy read the stage
directions correctly. He did not disagree with Trump in public.
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He's very complimentary. Even war sort of a suit. It
wasn't exactly the jacket and tie that we expect from
world leaders, but it was an indication that he realized
that the game in town is the United States. He
has to continue to play nice with Donald Trump. And
what we saw from that meeting about the past meeting
and Friday with Putin to set up a future meeting
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with Putin and then another future meeting with Putin and
Donald Trump, was that there was some type of momentum.
There's some type of progress here when.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
We come back, well, look at the ways the media
has been lying to us about the war in Ukraine.
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We are backed with That's the bottom line. I'm Jeff Lewis.
In the first segment, we talked about how NBC selectively
edited French presidents for Crohn's comments to fit their narrative
that in effect, they're rooting against the peace deal. You've
been told for months, really years now that Ukraine can
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actually win this thing. They're fighting hard and all they
need is ever increasing levels of American support. The mainstream
media has been working over time to suppress the cold,
hard facts on the ground. On the will Kin Show,
this panelist gave a far more accurate assessment this week
when asked this simple question, who is it that.
Speaker 8 (10:46):
Has the upper hand?
Speaker 5 (10:47):
Who needs a deal?
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Who's winning the war on.
Speaker 8 (10:50):
The ground in Ukraine? Hello, Will Yes, And the state
of play is that the Russians have the initiative in
this war. They're taking ground out its slowly and they're
winning the war of attrition. Attorney undermanned, and we saw
a breakthrough just north of the city of u Krusk
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just over the last several weeks that demonstrates this. The
Ukrainians have had to pull back some elite forces from
other fronts in order to cover this gap, and they
have blunted this assault so far, but it puts other
areas of the country at risk. The reality is that
Ukrainians need this deal, They need some type of ceasefire.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
So it's like I've been saying all along, the Ukrainians
are losing. They're starting to run out of the manpower
necessary to keep their front lines intact. Of course, now
that the inevitable is approaching, listen to how news outlets
like MSNBC or should I say ms now are starting
to reframe their coverage. After months of telling us that
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the Ukrainians actually have a chance to win this thing.
Here's Joe Scarborough on Monday telling us how we've always
known how this war was going to play out.
Speaker 10 (12:07):
By the way, let's underline two things here, just again
to set expectations to be realistic. Even during the Biden administration,
every Biden official, including the Chairman of the Joint Chief
says they're gonna have to give a plan. They're not
going to like giving left Land, but they're gonna have
to give a plan Number one. Number two, They're not
going to become members of NATO. There may have been
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people writing articles in the Wall Street Journal or elsewhere
saying they have to be members of NATO, but you
go around to every European leader that was never going
to happen. But there was an idea of a quasi
NATO type guarantee.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Oh okay, Joe, So let's get this straight. Your network,
which just had to change its name and rebrand itself
because you've been lying out your butt cheeks. For so long,
your network has been saying this whole time that Ukraine
was going to lose land and that they would never
get into NATO. Never mind, Joe, that your network aired
then President Biden giving this speech in twenty twenty one
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where he refused to rule out Ukraine joining NATO.
Speaker 12 (13:11):
You know, school's out on that question. It remains to
be seen. In the meantime, we will do all that
we can to put Ukraine in the position to be
able to continue to resist Russian physical aggression. And it
will not just depend on me whether or not we
conclude that Ukraine can become part of NATO.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Where was your coverage, then, Joe Scarborough, when it was
our refusal to shut the door on emitting Ukraine into
NATO that instigated the Russian invasion in the first place.
Of course, this speech was before the war, right, I mean,
it wasn't like this was a consistent position of the
administration or anything.
Speaker 12 (13:53):
Oh No, And NATO will be in Ukraine's future, no
question about that. But we say, as we said in Villainius,
Ukraine will become a member of NATO when all allies
agree and conditions are met, right, now we may have
to make it.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
You got me freaking kiddem me. Joe Scarborough, your singlephant
media pal, has been catering to this nonsense for almost
half a decade. Now here's Nicole Wallace pandering to her
Ukrainian gift.
Speaker 13 (14:23):
Well, you are always very i think, sort of diligent
to keeping our coverage focused on these two in realities,
right that Ukraine is prevailing on the battlefield and there's
an extraordinary amount of Ukrainian and suffering.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
Or how about this exchange between Lawrence O'Donnell and a
Yale professor.
Speaker 14 (14:41):
Early on in the war, there are a lot of
people who were saying, well, why are we arming Ukraine?
Isn't that just extending the war because Russia has to win?
And now we see that's not true. Russia doesn't have
to win. Russia is losing, and it's very important to
make sure that Russia does lose, because only a cleared
defeat would reaffirm international law. Only a clear defeat would
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make it clear to China that it shouldn't be trying
adventures in the Pacific, And only a clear defeat gives
Russia a chance to get off on some kind of
new foot. So, I mean another fundamental point about what's
happening is that this shows that Russia is losing and
can lose, and that it would be normal for Russia
to lose. This is a stage in the history of
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what will be a Russian defeat if we stay the course.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
Yeah, that's right, Just stay the course and we can
defeat Russia and get rid of Vladimir Putin. By the way,
that interview is two years old now. Obviously the Russians
are teetering on the edge of the feet, now, aren't they?
That comment age as well as Putrid garbage. But yeah,
Joe Scarboro, y'all have always known that the Ukraine was
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going to have to give up land.
Speaker 9 (15:50):
Huh.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
So are y'all lying now or were you lying here?
Speaker 7 (15:55):
Their aim is to take back all the territory they
say that Russia occupied since.
Speaker 14 (16:01):
The invasion in February, and indeed they want to push
a head even.
Speaker 8 (16:06):
Further to take back Crimea, which Russia annexed in twenty fourteen.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
So, yeah, Joe Scarborough, you need to quit trying to
rewrite history. We're not all as stupid as your viewers.
All seven hundred and fifty thousand of them jij are pathetic.
We're at a serious moment in history, and we've got
to take it seriously. We're going to decide in the
coming months the relationship the United States has with not
just the Ukraine, but with all of Eastern Europe, and
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that includes Russia. We royally screwed up our foreign policy
with Russia under Clinton and Bush forty three, and we're
paying the price for it today. Then it was Obama
and Biden that got us entangled in Ukraine when we
shouldn't have been, just as Megan Kelly alludes to here.
Speaker 15 (16:51):
And it's not that like I have sympathy, of course
for the Ukrainian schipol. I mean, what's happened is terrible.
They've had terrible leaders. Yeah, and utter Food is not
a good man. I mean, nobody's going to dispute that.
But not everything can be our problem. And the problem
is we had Democrats who were messing with Ukraine and
kind of trying to make it our problem for a
number of years, which I think led us to feeling
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some obligation understandably, But at this point, I mean, like
you've got these two stubborn leaders. I don't know what's
going to happen today.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
Honestly, I'm not sure what's going to happen either. We're
talking security deals with Ukraine, and I don't see as
avoiding some form of military presence there, despite Trump's claim
that we won't have boots on the ground. Perhaps we
can simply include them in a security rotation that we
already have an effect in the Eastern Europe, like in
the Baltic States. But maybe with a different approach, we
can actually turn Russia into not a friend, then may
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be a partner. We'll be right back.
Speaker 7 (17:42):
Where's Josh trying to turn a Nekoee in woe? That's
the bottom line. Where's Josh trying to turn a neckelle
in to die?
Speaker 16 (17:57):
That's the bottom line.
Speaker 5 (17:59):
Well, good morning everyone. This is Gene Valerani joining the
Weekly Report at its time in this weekly broadcast to
lift you on a little, dirty, little secret is what
we've called it over the years. You know, last week
we were discussing the latest developments between President Trump and
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Russian Premiere Putin at their recent meeting in Alaska. Well,
it didn't take long for Russia. After only two days
after President Trump and he met, well, Frutin fruit of form.
Soon after returning to the Krumblin ordered the launch of
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three hundred and nine drones and ten missiles into the Ukraine,
causing large fires to break out among the targets Putin
fired into the Ukraine. We're on Ukrainian oil and gas refineries.
All this occurred after mister Zolensky flew into DC for
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more talks with President Trump and what most thought were
true steps to ending that war. So much for peace
negotiations with Russia to negotiations and its invasion of the Ukraine,
Optimism quickly turned to more treachery from Putin's Russia. How
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peace talks will resume going forward and any deal ending
the conflict remains to be seen. After President Trump met
with Boote, met with Zelenski, and the future looked as
if a truce between Russia and the Ukraine might have
a chance. But it didn't take long for Putin to
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dampen the oapes for a quick end to the war.
Member countries of NATO met with President Trump and Putin
and Trump's some it occurred as the NATO countries heads
of state gathered at the White House else to engage
in talks with President Trump, who still is going to
try and bring the Russian Ukrainian conflict to a peaceful end.
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Peace may yet a cur but it appears mister Putin
has other has other plans, and it seems like he
wants to flex his muscles first and they then begin
yet another amissal attack on the Ukraine. Now, maybe the
meeting last week with Trump was only a head fake
on Putin's park, or maybe there's still a chance for
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peace talks to occur between the Ukraine and Russia. Anyhow,
this was my initial reaction to the news of there
being a potential meeting to occur between Russia and the Ukraine.
Any further developments will have to include second guessing as
to what Putin really has up his sleep. And for
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all intents and purposes, I suppose Putin thought he could
overrun the uk Ukraine area that he wanted to confiscate.
A time's going to tell, and soon we'll know the
outcome of that conflict, or maybe we won't. Putin knows
what he wants, and I suppose he's not someone the
rest of the world can trust. But you've got to
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give the Ukraine credit for styming slowing down Russia's invasion,
which so far has caused more casualties among Russian troops
and it has on the Ukraine's troops. Now, there yet
may be a peace deal, but it will have to
wait a while longer, and that's how it appears to be. Then,
keep in mind my opinion as to how this will
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all end really doesn't matter. President Trump wants to bring
an end to the conflict, and I suppose the NATO
alliance also wants an end to the conflict. After all,
I doubt anyone wants another world war between the East
and the West. Is Putin trustworthy and I doubt it.
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He probably has to watch his back in the Kremlin
as well as where he has enemies inside Russia who
would like to lift him from his power, and that
too is a possibility. But then no one knows the future.
And the one thing we do know is that Vladimir
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Putin is not a nice guy and he wants as
much control over Russia and the Ukraine as well. Now,
to what length he will go remains to be seen.
It's also possible his enemies in Russia itself might try
to remove him from power as well. Now I don't
know that there's a plot on him going on over there,
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but you know, they might try to pull him out
of there. Who knows Putin wants to rebuild the Russian Empire.
He wants to rule over it with an iron fist.
I think we can all agree with that. And he
has dashed away, listen to this hetashed away millions of
dollars for himself and surrounded himself with loyalists. But in
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the end, like most dictators, he may reach the point
of no return and be overthrown from power. It could happen,
and I for one wouldn't be surprised if it didn't
eventually occur. I guess this chapter in world history will
just have to play out one way or another. And
that then is the bottom line. When we take a
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look at what's going on over there right now, I
guess it's not really settled. We thought when he met
with Trump that maybe they were going to get together
and they were going to get the fellow from the
Ukraine in there with them, and they the three of
them were going to meet. But as soon as he
broke his meeting up with President Trump, Puton goes back
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to Russia start sending missiles and drones into the Ukraine
blowing up their oil rigs and their gasoline and things
like that. So that war is still pushing on, and
I guess they're going to keep trying to get it settled,
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and there's going to be more meetings coming up. But
then in the meantime, we have no control over what
mister Putin's going to do. And mister Putin, I guess
he has a mind of his own and he does
pretty much what he wants to do. So this bears
more watching and we'll have to wait and see the outcome.
But at least Trump is trying to bring peace into
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that conflict and end that war, so that remains to
be seen. We'll be back with more right after this.
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can grow your money without exposure to losses caused by
a downturn on Wall Street. All you have to do
is call us an Asset Growth See it's four oh
nine eight four sixty nine hundred. Meet with us and
we'll show you how it's done. And here's something else.
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About these plans. They grow tax deferred and are available
to a named beneficiary by because they bypass probate. So
if you die before you retire, that money is not
going to be tied up anywhere. It's going to come
straight to a named beneficiary. Proceeds are available in a
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lump summer. They can be paid out in monthly income.
These plans are not complicated, they can't provide security for investors,
and they're loved ones very important, So why not call
us for a sit down appointment learn more about it?
Because these plans are excellent for four oh one K
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and pension rollovers and transfers. You know that we have
been offering for a law long, long before the financial
services industry even began talking about them. We were among
the first, and we're right here in the local area
where we talk to you face to face. For anyone
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nearing retirement already retired. At Asset Growth Associates, we can
simplify your investment life and have been doing so for
our clients for decades now. So if you have a
vested four one K, or if you have access to
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funds now before you retire, you may be able to
pull those funds aside, roll them out and put them
where they're safe. They'll keep growing and you'll have even
more money and less and less risk. As you get
closer and closer to retirement, and you want to add
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that money to h which you use money for everything.
Speaker 6 (30:03):
You know.
Speaker 5 (30:03):
There's an old saying which suggests that the journey of
a thousand miles begins with the first step. Why not
take that first step? You do that by calling us
at four oh nine eight four oh sixty nine hundred.
We have a toll free number one eight sixty six
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seven two eight three six nine seven call us. We
can also be reached online by logging on to Savemyretirement
dot com. You can blog onto that website. You can
learn more about us and the work that we do
for our clients. Money isn't everything. You've heard me say
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that time and time again, but it sure comes in
handy sometimes, and our job is to help you grow
your money and do it safely without exposure to losses.
Another words, you can earn market returns without exposure to
market losses. There's nothing wrong with that. Ladies and gentlemen.
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Remember our name Asset Growth Associates, and our name means
what it says. We grow nest eggs and do it
without the risk of loss caused by downturns on Wall Street.
And we've been doing this now for decades. There's no
perfect plan. You've heard me say that before, but depending
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on individual needs, some are just better than others, and
we feel we can help individuals grow their nest eggs
without ever being exposed to losses caused by downturns on
Wall Street. In other words, you're in one of these
plans and the market's up, you're making money. If the
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market goes down, your money stays put and increase sects
whenever the market starts coming back up. So you can
never lose and have to come back from less because
you're just you're always moving forward. Face it, ladies and gentlemen.
We live in a hostile world where foreign enemies would
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love to be able to carry out terrorist threats against
US and our homeland. Through the grace of God, we
now have more stability and common sense in Washington, DC.
And that's a good thing. And of course I'm talking
about President Trump and his administration. But while we have
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more security, our enemies are still out there, and who
knows what they're planning to carry out next, or causing
more widespread mayhem threats and a successful attack and cause
great harm. We all remember nine to eleven. If we don't,
we should, and all the losses that were caused on
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Wall Street and elsewhere well in just the times that
we live in, and why it's important to have your
investment dollars in safe places that do not lose value
or crash or in a banic. Safety first, with proper planning,
prevents losses. So why not call us soon an asset
growth Associates where we can help you both grow and
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protect yourself from losses, no matter what brings them about.
Once again, the journey of one thousand miles begins with
the first step. So call us soon four o nine
eight four sixty nine one hundred. If you live in
far away places, toll free call one eight six six
seven two eight three six nine seven. It costs nothing
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to talk to us, and we're ready and willing to
help you achieve your financial goals. Keep that in mind.
Speaker 7 (33:54):
We're just trying to turn a nickel into a dime,
that's the bottom line. We're just trying to turn a
neckel into a dive.
Speaker 16 (34:04):
That's the bottom line.
Speaker 1 (34:21):
Thank you for listening today. That that's the bottom line.
All of our broadcasts are available on demand online at
savemiretirement dot com, or just go to your iHeartRadio app
and search for that's the bottom line under the podcast app,
and remember to add us to favorites. We're on Facebook
at Jeff Lewis. That's the bottom line, Search for its
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name and show and follow us for all of the
latest updates. If you want to schedule an appointment with us,
call our office toll free at eight sixty six Save
my Retirement. Our physical address in Beaumont is at thirteen
ninety one Calder Avenue, a block from the intersection of
M in Calder. Are you interested in increasing your retirement income,
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Come talk with us about our cover call ETF strategy.
These exchange traded funds base their values off of underlying
equity positions and big time companies like Pallunteering Nvidia, but
pay dividends for a monthly income. Whether or not you're
already retired. You never want to give up capital if
you don't have to. Our proprietary portfolio builder can customize
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a plan based off of your income needs, whether it's
for your overall budget for real estate purchase, or even
to protect against rising medical costs. Now, if you are
close to retirement and are more interested in keeping your
money safe, you're probably a good candidate for a principal
protection strategy where you can get market linked rates of
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return with zero risk to your principle. We generally recommend
these as at least a portion of a diversified portfolio,
but regardless of your personal goals, we've got multiple options
and reasons to choose Asset Growth Associates. We've got the
experience and name you can trust. We know how to
handle your money consistently, safely, and always with your best
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interest in mind. I'm Jeff Lewis for Jean Valerani and
everyone here at Asset Growth Associates. Remember that you are.
Speaker 6 (36:21):
Gradely blest holli fa imperfect bud forget child of God,
grady blest Holly fa imperfect bod bgin child of God.
Speaker 1 (36:52):
That's why I tell y'all that every week from the
Prophet Jeremiah, for I know the plans I have for you,
declares the Lord plans to prosper you and not harm you,
plans to give you a hope and a future. And
that's why we say this. You are greatly blessed and
highly favored because as always, that's the bottom line.
Speaker 16 (37:16):
That's the bottom line.
Speaker 7 (37:19):
You can reach asset Growth and associates by calling one
eight six six seven to eight thirty six ninety seven
are by visiting savemretirement dot com
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