Zelensky & the Bolton Indictment-Rory ties it all together

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Big meeting today with the President and Zelensky from Ukraine.
But yesterday President Trump was talking with Russian President Vladimir
Putin for over two hours, I do believe, and he
was asked about.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
It pretty quick.

Speaker 3 (00:13):
Marco Rubio is going to be meeting with his counterpart,
as you know, Labrov, and they'll be meeting pretty soon.
They're going to set up a time and a place
very shortly. Maybe it's already set up. They've already spoken.
And I thought it was a very good phone call.
I thought very productive.

Speaker 1 (00:30):
Yeah, So they say they're going to be meeting in
Budapest at some point, so we shall see. But that
leads up to today's meeting with Zolensky and joining US now.
Roy O'Neil, our correspondent, been following this. Good morning sir, Yeah,
good morning JT.

Speaker 2 (00:43):
And at both those meetings there's going to be a
lot of talk about missiles. Long range missiles were a
big part of the phone calls that the presidents of
Russia and the US had yesterday. Zelenski is in the
Oval Office today. He wants the US to sell them
long range missiles. He says Ukraine needs to be able
to launch strikes against weapons manufacturing plants, the places where

(01:06):
those drones are made, in order to finally get an
upper hand after this invasion three years ago.

Speaker 1 (01:12):
I tell you what, the tomahawks ramp things up just
to notch. But he was also quick to say, yeah,
we're going to talk about it, you know, but we'd
like to keep them too. We need ours o. They're
powerful weapons, right, So you know, the tomahawk also kind
of sends a message to putin that we're taking this
a little bit more serious than just, you know, a

(01:34):
couple of hand grenades coming at.

Speaker 2 (01:35):
You, right. And well, President Biden did not want to
send F sixteen's and he did not want to send
tomahawks out of fear that if Ukraine suddenly were to
strike the Kremlin using American made weapons, well then Russia
is going to attack America, right, and then it's no
longer a proxy war. So that's some of the reasoning
that they gave for not giving Ukraine these weapons. But

(01:56):
Ukraine is saying, look, we've been holding on for three
years now. We beat the odds, but you know, we're
sort of down at our knees here, and we need
that one little extra push that these weapons can provide
to really stand up and hold back this invasion.

Speaker 1 (02:09):
Yeah, well Biden lived in the basement in a world
of fear and being scared as a president. So we
have a whole new leader in the White House now,
the getter done president. So he means what he says,
and he does what he says when it you know,
comes time, and I think the world leaders know it.
And he's not playing around. So we'll see how it
goes with Zelensky. But more importantly, what's going to happen

(02:32):
with Putin and all of this. I think, you know,
you're right, they start seeing tom Hawks coming, will it
ramp up? But you know, I don't think President Trump's
going to you know, back off because he's afraid of
what they might do. So all right, speaking of Donald Trump,
one of his former advisors, John Bolton, has now been indicted.
Here is President Trump. He was asked yesterday about his

(02:53):
now indicted former buddy.

Speaker 3 (02:55):
I think he's, you know, a bad person. I think
he's a bad guy. Yeah, he's a bad guy, too bad.

Speaker 2 (03:03):
But that's the way he goes.

Speaker 3 (03:05):
That's the way he goes right.

Speaker 1 (03:07):
As where he goes. Sorry, he's a criminal. Now we're
going to indict him. That's actually started the investigation into
him during the Biden administration. I love how the Democrats
are saying, oh, this is just weaponization. They're quite familiar
with that with all the attacks and legal actions they
had against at our president now. But no, this actually
started before that the President Trump came back to office.

Speaker 2 (03:28):
Right twenty twenty one really is when the FBI became
aware of this, because the AOL account that Bolton allegedly
used here was apparently hacked by Iran, and then FBI,
once they got a look at what was being emailed around,
figured out that some of this information was being shared,
probably improperly or illegally, but they chose not to prosecute,

(03:49):
in part, we believe because if you were to go
to court to say, well, how'd you know he was hacked, Well,
because we're gonna and how do you know it was Iran? Well,
we don't want to tell you how we know what
Iran knows, and that's sort of a thing. So that
was part of the intelligence stance they were trying to avoid.
Of course, Now this is the third prosecution on this

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list that President Trump sent to Attorney General Bondi but
it's also happening in a different district, and that's important
to note. Those two cases in eastern Virginia. Most say
that they're sort of okay, you know, maybe barely a
charge there, but that there's meat on the bone when
it comes to this Bolton case, and this is being
prosecuted by veteran prosecutors out of Maryland, Bolton living well.

Speaker 1 (04:33):
Bring it on maybe eight counts of transmission and national
defense information, ten counts of retention of that national defense information.
The result of this investigation, once again started with Biden.
So Democrats calmed down. This is not something Donald Trump
with the fuse on. It's just blowing up with him
being in the White House. Bring it on, all right, buddy,
Thank you so much,