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Trump’s War, Putin’s Patience, and Maria’s Mic Drop: How Sanctions, Sanity, and Sarcasm Collide on International Flavor · International Flavor: Where the Truth Tastes Better

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  To bring you some incredibly awesome political talk
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  anything with you this beautiful thursday night.
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  It is what it is today today is
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  the 23rd we are a week away from
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  halloween That's what's that's what's that's what's upon
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  us.
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  It's a coming There's some scary folks out
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  there.
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  That's all I can tell you.
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  They're scary folks.
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  They don't even need to dress up They're
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  just scary and I am I am Dealing
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  with some scary folks in my life even
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  at present and I think it is Unfortunate
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  when people's masks are taken off and they're
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  even uglier when the mask is off.
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  This is not good Uh And I shall
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  leave you to ponder what I mean by
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  that Because I just will not go any
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  further into it Jr. Has got all the
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  tvs up in here and i'm being distracted,
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  but I don't want to turn them off
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  And on the far left There's the andy
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  griffith show showing up on pluto and I
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  always liked watching the andy griffith show It
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  has nothing to do with the show tonight.
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  I wanted to tell you a little bit
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  about events of the day Okay, so first
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  thing this morning.
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  Guess what I did.
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  What did I tell you?
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  I told you I was having an interview
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  There was going to be some interviewage of
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  me on a russian channel in russian and
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  What I thought I would do because uh,
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  you know Back in I don't know whenever
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  I was in russia back in uh, was
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  it september?
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  August I don't remember.
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  It was a late august early september coming
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  around between belarus.
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  Um Hanging out in moscow I went to
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  the tv studio and there spoke for an
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  hour.
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  Well If you know me well enough, you
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  know that I can sometimes just Ramble whether
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  you want to call it a gift or
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  less than a gift That's up to you
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  but I can also ramble in another language
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  and uh, I Felt like after it was
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  done The interview went very very well and
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  I enjoyed it but i've kind of felt
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  like I should have prepared a little bit
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  more at least on topics.
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  I didn't know What they had wanted to
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  talk about for an hour.
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  I really didn't know the last time I
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  had seen the lovely.
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  Um, A correspondent that was interviewing me We
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  had been in kazan at the bricks conference
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  and I thought we might go into some
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  of that And we did we talked a
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  little bit about it.
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  We talked about trump.
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  We talked about zalinsky We talked about some
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  other things but I kind of felt like
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  I hadn't prepared and I probably should have
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  done something and so before the interview this
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  time what I did was I got uh,
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  because she had told me she wanted to
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  uh, uh, you know quiz me about the
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  Zelinsky trump the visit it was last friday
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  and some of the aftermath of that And
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  some of this crap that I talk on
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  here on the show all the time.
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  Anyway, well I what I did was and
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  I uh, the interview ended up being about
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  20 minutes, you know, we had several topics
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  We went through it.
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  We talked about my my article that they're
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  going to publish for me Hopefully i'll see
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  it sometime in a pretty near future that
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  comes up.
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  She said it'll be coming out next she
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  wanted to uh, uh put my um video
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  in um In the proper format and i'll
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  have it out here and what I was
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  wanting to do was uh Take the russian
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  questions that they asked me and That I
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  answered in russian, of course and uh translate
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  them into english and give you the exact
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  format of the whole the whole shoot and
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  match and what I Thought I would do
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  because I did prep for a couple of
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  the answers one of the things that happened
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  yesterday And that I have talked about and
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  that they asked me about and I might
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  have mentioned some last night But didn't go
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  too far into was the fact that the
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  ukraine war Uh, or the war in ukraine
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  Is now donald trump's war, okay All of
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  this it is no longer joe biden's war,
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  you know, you still hear him saying Well,
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  if I had been in office this war
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  would have never taken place if you had
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  done this it would never This wouldn't have
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  happened and blah blah blah.
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  But now in my humble opinion this is
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  Donald trump's war.
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  It's no longer joe biden's war It's donald
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  trump's because he has the opportunity to end
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  it by cutting off ukraine And he won't
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  do it And he keeps being given the
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  opportunity he keeps tiptoeing or dancing up to
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  the line and then He reverses course and
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  goes back the other direction, which I said
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  something similar on Uh my russian interview this
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  morning And so I assume and for them
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  it was already evening.
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  So our interview is at nine o'clock
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  this morning Which meant it was 5 p
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  .m their time.
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  So by the time Uh, I get home
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  after this Broadcast I should be able to
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  find or maybe it'll come up that before
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  friday the article That I wrote will be
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  posted out in russian and the interview that
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  I gave Will be put out on the
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  russian sources But so far I haven't seen
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  it.
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  You know what?
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  I suppose I could do I could go
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  on the old interstellar internet and see If
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  there's anything out there because perhaps there is
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  maybe she did get something done Who knows
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  what happened?
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  They have things like uh interviews opinions wonder
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  where I am Maybe I was an interview.
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  Nope.
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  Not yet.
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  Nothing with the old sam wise And I
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  am not there.
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  I wonder if i'm on the Opinion page.
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  I don't know Uh, nope, mikhail pavlov is
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  there vladimir skotchka Rostislav ishenko And vladimir skotchka
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  is there again?
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  Well, but no sammy yet.
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  I am not there But we shall keep
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  an eye out and see when that comes
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  out because I want to put it out
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  for you but now it probably won't be
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  until Sunday, in fact, it won't be because
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  uh, i'm not um I'm not appearing again
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  until sunday.
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  That's the way it goes Isn't it?
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  uh, so at any rate I did want
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  to go into the I wanted to find
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  the medvedev because medvedev had a quote and
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  uh I wanted to tell you what it
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  was And exactly what he said because frankly
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  it's hard not to agree with him And
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  it's in russian.
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  So i'll have to translate it on the
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  fly.
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  But but here's what he said Dmitry medvedev
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  and he said about trump and the war
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  and and this is this Truly makes me
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  sad, you know, I I don't like to
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  hear This but it's true He said the
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  u.s is our enemy and their Uh
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  conversational peace talks mirror towards, uh is now
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  uh Has become The fields of battle with
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  russia.
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  So the peace talks are now the field
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  of battle with russia It is now his
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  conflict speaking about trump That's what dmitry medvedev
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  said yesterday And uh when and and it's
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  it's unfortunate now dmitry medvedev is kind of
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  like Medved means bear just so you know,
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  oh, by the way, um polly if you
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  happen to be listening Uh, the word is
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  for your listening pleasure.
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  Zat knees means shut up.
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  Is that knees?
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  and uh, uh That is the actual word
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  zat z-a-t knees k-n-i
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  -s and uh means shut up, uh medved
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  by the way means bear and so medvedev
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  is You know dmitry bear, you know, that's
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  him and uh, uh, or dmitry of the
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  bear depends on how you want, you know
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  Parse words, which I don't really want to
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  do.
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  Anyway, i'm just rambling because um, I Some
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  of the things that I I got into
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  on my show this morning And I had
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  watched because I don't sleep ever and in
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  the middle of the night last night I
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  was watching maria zakharova And she had uh
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  some interesting statements of her own That I
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  put out there one of them I thought
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  was hilarious and I and I and I
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  wanted to share it just because it was
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  so Funny she said because she is a
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  pretty What is the name of our girl
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  who who speaks, uh from the white house
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  press corps, but that's white house this lady
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  She speaks from the ministry of foreign affairs
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  side and she and i've told you about
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  her before she's got these.
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  Um, uh two and a half hour three
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  hour uh press conferences that she gives Uh,
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  literally two three times a week and so
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  you can get on there and she always
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  talks about Uh, she she she points out
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  all of the attacks on civilians this morning
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  some of the numbers that she gave and
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  this is a frightening number She says that
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  over the course of the war what the
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  ukrainians have done in attacking Buses beaches hospitals
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  schools apartment complexes civilian targets cars That over
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  that period and she always lists, you know
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  10 15 of these that occur each and
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  every day and nobody puts this stuff out.
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  No, i'm not saying War isn't war and
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  that the same thing doesn't happen on the
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  ukrainian side all of the time That that
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  you know, whether it's russian missiles.
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  I don't believe russians intentionally attack uh civilian
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  Uh living homes, you know, I don't believe
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  that happens, you know Uh, I believe they
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  try to avoid it and they have always
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  talked about it.
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  I believe that accidents do occur though and
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  that You know when a missile is shot
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  down by air defense Those two things collide
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  and they can fall and that would kill
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  civilians and stuff like that I don't think
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  that they are actually targeting now what happens
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  though Um when the ukrainians are out there
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  actually targeting These type of things the one
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  that got me the most was the beach
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  in crimea When on a sunday afternoon on
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  a beach where there's nobody there But families
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  sending themselves the ukrainians set off cluster rounds
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  and killed like 130 people something like that.
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  Not good and uh and those sorts of
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  things occur And you see stories like those
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  maria zakharova puts them points them out all
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  the time well, one of the things she
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  said and I have to um, um, Uh,
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  not give you the whole thing.
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  I'm just telling you a little bit of
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  the basics about it what she said was
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  that all of all of you people in
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  the west who are uh, you know fighting
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  for A democracy and then she stops and
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  she pauses and she looks in the camera
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  and she goes What are you talking about?
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  There is no democracy in ukraine you forget
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  That they haven't elected a parliament since you
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  know Whatever time and they haven't elected their
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  president since 2019 and he was supposed to
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  be gone in may of 2024 And nobody
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  mentions these things and nobody even talks about
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  it and this is okay but in europe
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  was still passing out this this illusion these
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  fake words that Uh, it's all about we're
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  backing democracy and zelensky gets on tv and
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  actually says, you know We appreciate people fighting
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  for our democracy.
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  You don't have a democracy.
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  It doesn't exist you aren't having elections for
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  um your parliament your Duma oh, I forget
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  what it's called over there your your state
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  house and you're not having elections for your
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  president You are arresting Everybody that uh that
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  offends you you are getting rid of um
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  uh churches that are associated with russia Um,
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  you know, there are all kinds of these
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  things going and by the way i've been
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  distracted and once again, I want to make
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  sure I mention this in my my Instant
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  dislike of how this happens I don't like
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  it.
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  They've blown up boat number six I'm gonna
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  tell you I just but you know on
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  in the venezuelan international waters because these are
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  drug dealers, you know Yeah, prove it prove
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  one and I will shut up prove it
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  You just this is this is not the
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  way you target drug dealers So you you
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  got the freaking navy stop them board the
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  boat Arrest them jail them Now, you know
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  or or turn it into a death penalty
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  to run these and but but still give
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  them the trial what you're doing Is un
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  -american and i'm against it now i'm against
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  drugs, too But I also think that it's
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  pretty convenient that you just get a blow
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  up a bunch of boats and say Oh,
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  but we're doing the right thing.
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  You're not doing the right thing And and
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  you cannot Justify this you don't write a
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  wrong with another wrong It's not that is
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  un-american It is not what we stand
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  for and I Personally samuel trap samuel edward
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  What does jr?
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  Call me sam you're samuel edward von trap
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  am I number one or number two?
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  I can't remember samuel run Sevt2 I think
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  i'm sevt2.
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  I don't know why i'm two I should
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  be number one because i'm certainly the oldest.
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  Um, my father was michael Actually clifford michael,
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  but he was And and my oldest brother
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  was clifford michael and my father's father was
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  clifford michael.
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  So there was one two and three But
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  i'm just plain old ordinary sam the first
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  I have a son named sam.
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  He's the second.
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  So there you go.
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  I cannot be Sevt2 I can be sevt1
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  I suppose However, anyway, i'm rambling again.
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  Sorry about that.
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  Uh, we're gonna continue.
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  Um, let's see The India and sanctions.
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  Okay, so I saw some uh, Some news
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  that uh india and sanctions um That allegedly
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  ross neft and luke oil.
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  The indians are going to cut off purchases
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  from ross neft and luke oil I was
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  and I told you last night to keep
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  track of that and really pay attention that
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  in this morning in the news They said
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  that the largest Refiner of indian oil the
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  biggest company that Has they have said and
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  they have already started trying to move around?
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  uh contracts To stop the purchase of russian
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  oil from luke oil and ross neft and
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  Uh that I it so far hasn't happened
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  xi jingping and and trumpster are meeting in
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  on on what the 30th I think next
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  thursday That they're gonna meet and they haven't
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  met since 2019 And the alleged agenda of
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  that is to convince xi jingping to stop
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  buying russian oil and gas too and force
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  this to uh to uh Take place and
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  stop the war We already know how to
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  stop the war if these a-holes would
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  only listen to me this would be resolved
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  already But it's not same old crap different
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  day and but once again Did you see
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  the headline today?
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  Here we go.
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  Let's let's laugh over this for just a
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  tiniest of bits.
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  Okay Uh, what is her name?
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  The the the highly attractive in my humble
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  view, of course I don't know.
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  Maybe i'm maybe i'm weird, but I think
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  she's pretty Um, let's see.
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  What is her name though?
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  I can't remember there it is.
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  I found it good.
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  At least I got to read it I'm,
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  i'm i've always been sort of bad with
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  names and I really apologize for that but
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  Here you go from the white house itself.
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  So where were we yesterday?
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  Oh, we're not gonna go to budapest.
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  There is no budapest that is put off.
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  It's canceled.
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  We're not doing it now The putin trump
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  summit is not off the table said the
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  white house a summit between us president donald
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  trump and russian president vladimir vladimirovich putin is
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  Not completely off the table said the white
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  house press secretary the highly attractive carolyn levitt
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  In a press briefing on thursday.
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  So just today yesterday off the table today
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  back on the table These people You know
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  changed underwear the underwear said, you know the
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  tag in the back said back on And
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  then when they take the underwear off, it'll
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  be back off.
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  That's how it works Trump called off a
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  planned summit with putin in budapest a day
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  earlier After it was announced last week that
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  there would be one And it was canceled
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  put back on canceled put back on and
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  now it was canceled and now It's not
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  completely off the table.
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  It's just falling.
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  Okay, so we we don't know what the
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  hell's going on Levitt was asked to comment
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  on the decision and the recent us sanctions
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  on major russian oil companies A meeting between
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  these two leaders is not completely off the
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  table.
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  She said I think the president and the
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  entire administration hopes that one day that can
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  happen again She said trump has not seen
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  enough interest in enough action Hmm from russia,
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  so why aren't we sanctioning ukraine too for
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  god's sake?
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  Force them to the table.
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  They're not at the table Doesn't it take
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  two to tango?
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  Curiouser and curiouser as I read once in
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  a book Moscow has maintained that it remains
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  fully committed to a diplomatic solution Not just
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  to ceasefire a solution to the ukraine contract
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  Conflict provided the root causes are addressed But
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  the lovely and talented carolyn levitt also addressed
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  sanctions on russia that were unveiled by the
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  u.s treasury department wednesday The president has
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  always maintained that he would implement sanctions on
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  russia when he felt it was appropriate and
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  necessary and Yesterday was that day?
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  She said Putin speaking to the press also
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  on thursday noted that the unfriendly move causes
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  harm to russian and u.s Relations, which
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  he said have just begun to recover Despite
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  this the sanctions will not significantly impact the
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  russian economy He said the restrictions are yet
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  another attempt by the u.s to strong
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  arm russia He said and stressed that no
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  self-respecting country makes decisions under pressure The
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  president confirmed president putin that is that the
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  summit with trump is postponed What can I
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  say dialogue is always better than confrontations disputes
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  or even more so War said putin adding
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  that russia has always supported and continues to
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  support diplomacy Let's talk about what an analyst
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  said about these, uh These sanctions I gave
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  you a little bit yesterday But now we're
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  going to take somebody who's an economist and
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  went on into this a little bit further
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  It's a little bit longer piece, but I
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  think we should talk about it um washington's
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  nine-month pause On new restrictions against russia
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  has come to an end as donald trump
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  imposed his first sanctions of his second term
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  Targeting two of russia's biggest oil companies rosneft
• 22:32
  and luke oil along with their subsidiaries the
• 22:37
  move presented by the white house as a
• 22:41
  push to Encourage moscow to agree to a
• 22:44
  ceasefire Comes alongside postponement of the anticipated summit
• 22:49
  between trump and putin in budapest While the
• 22:53
  administration insists the meeting is merely delayed not
• 22:57
  cancelled The twin decisions have reignited debate in
• 23:02
  moscow about trump's real intentions I'm, not sure.
• 23:07
  He knows what his real intentions are.
• 23:08
  Hello.
• 23:09
  How's the family?
• 23:11
  this guy Will change his underwear tomorrow and
• 23:16
  uh, you know, it'll be all about how
• 23:19
  much we don't like zelensky Then we'll go
• 23:21
  back to hating putin again, then we won't
• 23:23
  like zelensky I don't know at least uh,
• 23:27
  at least uh, how does that statement go?
• 23:31
  You don't like the weather in north texas
• 23:34
  Uh stick around five minutes.
• 23:36
  It'll change, you know, you don't like trump's
• 23:39
  underwear.
• 23:39
  Wait a minute.
• 23:40
  He'll change him any minute now And about
• 23:43
  who truly sets the tone for us policy
• 23:46
  toward russia nobody Sets the tone for us
• 23:52
  policy toward russia.
• 23:54
  There is no policy All it is Is
• 24:00
  throw a dart at a dart board and
• 24:02
  hope you hit something reasonable, you know And
• 24:06
  it doesn't matter if you do or don't
• 24:07
  because it's just you know One one one
• 24:10
  split red one's black one's bullseye one's outer
• 24:13
  ring.
• 24:13
  That's where it's gonna be You never know
• 24:16
  what the hell's gonna be happening Below is
• 24:20
  a roundup of reactions from leading russian experts
• 24:24
  and commentators on this Debacle Ivan timofeyev who's
• 24:32
  a program director at the valdai club remember
• 24:35
  when?
• 24:36
  Putin gave a three and a half hour
• 24:37
  speech at the valdai club, uh several weeks
• 24:39
  ago Two of russia's largest energy companies and
• 24:43
  their subsidiaries have just been hit with blocking
• 24:46
  financial sanctions The energy sector is already under
• 24:50
  heavy pressure.
• 24:51
  Not the least of which is because Uh
• 24:55
  of extensive export control Uh, well, let's see.
• 24:59
  Maybe someone has something exciting to tell us
• 25:02
  let us Find out and begin at the
• 25:06
  beginning.
• 25:06
  Yes kind sir.
• 25:07
  How may I help you?
• 25:09
  So, hey trapper, what do you think about
• 25:11
  john brennan I keep trying to think but
• 25:14
  nothing happens Okay, maybe I should rephrase the
• 25:20
  question uh, john brennan is what the was
• 25:25
  the former cia director under uh, barry satoro
• 25:30
  bathhouse bears Keep going So, uh, so this
• 25:37
  guy is a devout muslim He's he's whiter
• 25:41
  than the driven snow.
• 25:42
  And why is this bad?
• 25:45
  What well because he's a traitor What wait,
• 25:49
  wait, wait, wait, are you saying that all
• 25:50
  muslims are traitors?
• 25:52
  uh No, not necessarily But I I would
• 25:57
  lean I would lean Heavily in that direction
• 26:01
  just given the history Of of you know,
• 26:05
  they're they're uh, they're uh You know, I
• 26:09
  will tell you that I think that is
• 26:11
  a mistake.
• 26:12
  Um, are you aware That I have been
• 26:16
  married to a muslim No, i'm not Pray
• 26:20
  tell what do you what do you know
• 26:22
  about muslims in all seriousness?
• 26:25
  The only thing I know about muslims are
• 26:28
  there's a thing called sharia law.
• 26:31
  That's all I know Okay, well that I
• 26:34
  will tell you is a fear tactic now.
• 26:37
  I'm not telling you there aren't extreme wings
• 26:40
  of muslimism just like there are of many
• 26:44
  other Organizations, uh religions, however, you want to
• 26:50
  put it.
• 26:51
  Um there are I don't want this to
• 26:55
  sound really bad But the quickest example I
• 26:57
  can think of is there are murderous are
• 27:00
  murderous arms of a highly religious israel Organizations,
• 27:04
  okay.
• 27:05
  Oh, I agree and and so to lump
• 27:09
  all Israelis or all jewish people into that
• 27:13
  would be a huge mistake to lump all
• 27:17
  Muslims into sharia law is an equally large
• 27:22
  mistake And there are bad people everywhere when
• 27:28
  charlie kirk got killed they tried to paint
• 27:30
  the murdering a-hole who did it as
• 27:35
  a uh mormon And I believe he did
• 27:38
  grow up that way if if he you
• 27:40
  know was the guy that murdered him I
• 27:42
  don't get into any of that stuff But
• 27:44
  i'm saying they tried to paint it that
• 27:46
  way as they did with another couple of
• 27:48
  uh of actions that come up And and
• 27:50
  i'm not saying that doesn't exist.
• 27:53
  I'm not even saying that they aren't I
• 27:56
  don't know and so what I am saying
• 27:59
  is I reserve judgment until I personally know
• 28:02
  and when somebody wants to extrapolate Some bad
• 28:06
  act by a bad person in a religion
• 28:10
  to the entire religious realm of that religion
• 28:17
  I am against that And so that's the
• 28:20
  only caution I will give you I don't
• 28:22
  know much about john brennan or or what
• 28:24
  you know He has done.
• 28:26
  Maybe he's a sharia law god, and I
• 28:28
  don't know maybe that it's I don't know
• 28:30
  I don't know either sam, but see these
• 28:32
  are the conversations the conversations that we we
• 28:35
  need to have as uh, you know right
• 28:38
  thinking open-minded liberal Minded and I don't
• 28:42
  mean leftist.
• 28:44
  I mean open-minded liberalism We need to
• 28:47
  engage in these conversations and get to the
• 28:49
  bottom of this and I think weed out
• 28:53
  The uh, the the ne'er-do-wells
• 28:55
  and the bad ones that are trying to
• 28:57
  there are there are bad ones But let
• 28:58
  me tell you an opposite story.
• 29:00
  You you are aware.
• 29:01
  I think that I lived in qatar for
• 29:03
  a year.
• 29:04
  Yes Yeah, I remember you talking.
• 29:06
  Well, well one of the things I lived
• 29:08
  and and I told this story to somebody
• 29:10
  else tonight And and so it's just fresh
• 29:12
  on my mind and I forgot about this.
• 29:14
  It's hilarious when I lived over there I
• 29:17
  lived in a villa with uh, seven European
• 29:22
  um men and one, uh, there was an
• 29:25
  american girl in there and there was uh,
• 29:28
  The wife of one of the the guy
• 29:30
  from amsterdam his wife was there as well
• 29:32
  So there were like eight or nine of
• 29:34
  us that lived in this huge villa three
• 29:36
  floors Several wings right on the ocean.
• 29:39
  It was really cool and uh, uh all
• 29:41
  Fairly well to do except me, of course,
• 29:44
  but the rest of them were were fairly
• 29:46
  well off that and uh, um Had had
• 29:49
  pretty cool jobs all of us were there
• 29:51
  building things.
• 29:52
  Well, one of my buddies My my my
• 29:56
  my friend for a year who lived there
• 29:58
  with me was an engineer a really cool
• 30:01
  guy from south africa named warren And warren
• 30:06
  was a very good friend of mine and
• 30:07
  we would go out and uh, you know
• 30:11
  The culture is so completely different over there
• 30:13
  You work two parts of the day you
• 30:16
  have a quick morning because the afternoon it's
• 30:19
  too hot to work in and then you
• 30:20
  work Again later in the evening for several
• 30:23
  hours.
• 30:23
  And so especially in the hot months.
• 30:25
  It's all split up And the story I
• 30:28
  told to people was about ramadan and people
• 30:31
  don't understand this It's a religious a religious
• 30:33
  celebration around the whole country Well, it is
• 30:36
  rude to not at least pay attention to
• 30:40
  the highly religious Nation in which you are
• 30:43
  living and so most Europeans that live there,
• 30:47
  although most are christian and or most or
• 30:49
  you know, whatever agnostic or whatever They still
• 30:52
  tried to follow and not, you know, offend
• 30:56
  the host nation And so the rule during
• 30:59
  ramadan, it's not a rule is that that
• 31:01
  you don't eat from Sunrise to sunset it's
• 31:05
  you fast during the day but at night
• 31:07
  when the when the sun goes down There's
• 31:11
  something called iftar And iftar you anywhere you
• 31:16
  go in the city of doha Anywhere you
• 31:20
  go The food is free And they have
• 31:23
  a banquet and you go to these restaurants
• 31:26
  and it is fantastic and they are extremely
• 31:28
  kind people and uh in during during ramadan,
• 31:32
  they are Extremely, you know, they're they're Worshipping
• 31:37
  right and they have their worships that they
• 31:40
  do during the day But they limit how
• 31:42
  much work people can do they limit where
• 31:44
  they you know where they are, but it's
• 31:46
  not anything horrifying right and and so I
• 31:50
  was extremely glad to have run into this
• 31:53
  because I didn't know much about the uh,
• 31:57
  you know, the muslim religion I had heard
• 31:59
  stuff and I was pretty well read and
• 32:01
  I knew things but I never experienced it
• 32:04
  firsthand well this is why a lot of
• 32:07
  people around the rest of the world think
• 32:09
  that the we americans are just ignorant Because
• 32:14
  we don't know these things We we we
• 32:17
  we just hear a tiny little bit about
• 32:20
  it and everybody says oh gee they wear
• 32:22
  black robes Well my the reason I told
• 32:24
  you about my buddy warren and the reason
• 32:26
  I told you about the kind people Because
• 32:28
  warren was one hilarious dude and he and
• 32:32
  I had so much fun some just running
• 32:35
  around Buying pizza.
• 32:38
  He would always go in the way.
• 32:39
  He spoke.
• 32:39
  He'd go sam sam We need to get
• 32:41
  a we would have just gone to dinner
• 32:43
  We went somewhere and had curry somewhere some
• 32:45
  indian food fantastic curry that they had all
• 32:48
  over The city or we'd go buy something
• 32:50
  and have dinner and on the way home
• 32:52
  He'd go sam sam, you know what we
• 32:55
  need i'd say.
• 32:55
  What do we need?
• 32:56
  He'd go.
• 32:57
  We need a whopper We need whopper whopper
• 32:59
  whopper and we He would always go to
• 33:02
  burger king and we would get whoppers Well,
• 33:04
  the only reason these are stupid stories, but
• 33:06
  i'm getting to a point And the point
• 33:08
  and several times over the course of the
• 33:11
  year that I lived there and he and
• 33:12
  I were running around together he Uh, we
• 33:16
  would go out and and the women are
• 33:18
  all in black the men, you know the
• 33:20
  the qatari women and they have the uh
• 33:24
  The hijab and they're they have the robes
• 33:26
  that they're wearing and they're all in black.
• 33:28
  Um, uh, you know limousines and black Escalades
• 33:32
  and you know highly expensive cars and several
• 33:35
  times during the year uh warren Would go
• 33:41
  up to these people would be parked like
• 33:43
  at a gas station or somewhere like that
• 33:45
  and and he would go up And knock
• 33:47
  on the window And I was like, what
• 33:49
  are you doing?
• 33:50
  You know, why are you harassing the qataris?
• 33:52
  He said sam watch watch Watch this is
• 33:54
  how it goes and I never did this
• 33:56
  myself.
• 33:56
  Just so you know, but I did Laugh
• 34:00
  my ass off with warren about it later,
• 34:02
  you know, and and it was he he
• 34:04
  would knock on the door And that's it
• 34:06
  or knock on the door of the window
• 34:07
  of the car And the qatari woman who
• 34:09
  would be riding in the back.
• 34:11
  She has a driver and she has all
• 34:12
  that stuff There's so much money over there.
• 34:13
  They all got tons of money and especially
• 34:16
  during iftar or during ramadan I mean he
• 34:19
  would knock on the windows and They would
• 34:22
  roll down the window And he would ask
• 34:24
  them for money now warren made extremely good
• 34:28
  money.
• 34:28
  Everybody over there was making reasonably good money
• 34:30
  I mean we were westerners in a in
• 34:32
  an arabic country.
• 34:33
  You made some pretty good money And uh,
• 34:36
  he would knock on the window and ask
• 34:37
  for money.
• 34:37
  I said warren.
• 34:38
  Why are you doing that?
• 34:39
  He goes because if you ask them for
• 34:41
  money, they have to give it to you.
• 34:43
  I said what?
• 34:44
  He goes.
• 34:44
  Yes.
• 34:45
  This is it's part of their religious code
• 34:47
  in their religion He goes, you know, I
• 34:48
  was like, you're not telling me You just
• 34:50
  go knock on the window and people give
• 34:51
  you money And I watched him do it
• 34:53
  and I swear to god this guy came
• 34:55
  back with four $100 bills that somebody just
• 34:58
  passed out the window to him now You
• 35:01
  could say they're just fabulously wealthy people and
• 35:03
  they do you know, they do all this
• 35:04
  stuff warren Warren was taking advantage Obviously and
• 35:10
  I and I I thought that guy we
• 35:11
  had we had a lot of fun He
• 35:12
  was a very good guy highly professional engineer
• 35:15
  and did some stuff But he knew how
• 35:17
  to have fun and do some other stuff.
• 35:19
  And the only reason I tell you that
• 35:20
  whole story is because There is a certain
• 35:26
  amount of and and so when you say
• 35:27
  something about oh gee, he's muslim, you know
• 35:30
  that And nothing else that you said and
• 35:33
  it's not offensive to me.
• 35:34
  I just want you to take a different
• 35:36
  perspective I very much apologize for for for
• 35:39
  jumping back on you with that And I
• 35:41
  don't hope you don't take it as anything
• 35:42
  offensive because I don't mean it that way
• 35:44
  But a lot of times you don't understand
• 35:47
  the perspective of where they're coming and here
• 35:49
  in america I don't want to say we're
• 35:51
  ignorant, but a lot of times we're ignorant,
• 35:54
  you know, and The only reason i'm not
• 35:57
  is because I at least on that topic
• 36:00
  is because I have experienced it.
• 36:02
  Does that make sense?
• 36:04
  Of course it does sam and and i'm
• 36:06
  going to be the first one to confess
• 36:07
  right now.
• 36:08
  I am ignorant I don't know that but
• 36:09
  I have an equally interesting story I I
• 36:13
  used to be in the trucking business.
• 36:15
  We hauled gasoline diesel fuel, you know, jet
• 36:18
  fuel rocket fuel, etc so on a very
• 36:21
  very highly volatile Commodity that we transported from
• 36:26
  a to b and there's a gentleman.
• 36:28
  His name's clyde.
• 36:29
  I don't remember his last name uh, he's
• 36:31
  a Black guy, you know just a regular
• 36:34
  old american black guy clyde and he and
• 36:37
  I got along so well together And he
• 36:39
  worked in doha And he would tell me
• 36:42
  stories About just making so much money over
• 36:46
  there and never feeling in fear of his
• 36:48
  life You know, he never never never that
• 36:51
  was an extremely safe place Yeah, and he
• 36:55
  was a marine.
• 36:56
  I think you know, I don't remember the
• 36:57
  marine detachment he was with but so this
• 36:59
  guy comes back over here on a I
• 37:02
  don't know dd 21 or whatever 214 214
• 37:07
  Discharged came back over here highly qualified uh
• 37:11
  applicant and driver and we hired him and
• 37:14
  I thought he was just Phenomenal honest nice
• 37:19
  Wonderful guy and he shared Deep stories with
• 37:23
  me.
• 37:23
  I mean deep what I believe are true
• 37:25
  stories and just like what you said in
• 37:27
  doha It was just like a paradise and
• 37:30
  so he comes and making tons of money
• 37:33
  And then he comes back over here and
• 37:35
  he works for a company i'm not going
• 37:37
  to divulge the name because I don't think
• 37:39
  that'd be fair, but But works for the
• 37:41
  company that I worked for making a tenth
• 37:45
  one tenth Of what he made while he
• 37:47
  was working over there as a marine supply
• 37:49
  sergeant and Reason I say this is i'm
• 37:53
  not against muslims.
• 37:55
  I'm not against uh, Israelis i'm not against
• 37:59
  uh buddhists or hindus or any other thing
• 38:02
  like that What I am against is is
• 38:05
  them they or whomever that Whatever it might
• 38:11
  come from is coming over here and trying
• 38:13
  to insurrect or redirect our Representative constitutional republic
• 38:22
  and that's why I call out that guy
• 38:26
  that Traitor yeah, well, I haven't read his
• 38:30
  whole story and I don't know it and
• 38:32
  and uh, and so I I couldn't speak
• 38:34
  intelligently on it That's fine.
• 38:37
  I'm just i'm telling you this right now.
• 38:39
  I am probably um, one of the least
• 38:43
  most racist or or misogynistic or or fascist
• 38:49
  or whatever those leftists want to try to
• 38:51
  try to couch a You know an old
• 38:54
  white guy in an old white christian in
• 38:57
  I believe that we should all get along
• 39:02
  and not effing fight And and there are
• 39:06
  factions out there amongst us man, and it's
• 39:09
  it's not the muslims so much They've just
• 39:12
  been gymmed up ginned up and it's not
• 39:14
  the uh, you know, it's not the hindus.
• 39:17
  It's not the african-americans It's not the
• 39:21
  you know, white rednecks it's there's a class
• 39:24
  of people out there that have learned how
• 39:27
  to Manipulate people through mind control and propaganda
• 39:32
  to create Consistent dissent.
• 39:35
  It's called cloward and piven if you haven't
• 39:38
  heard of it, look it up.
• 39:39
  I have not and I shall Oh do
• 39:42
  do it and it's designed to destroy the
• 39:47
  uh Um decent infrastructure of getting along and
• 39:52
  and create social Turmoil So that so that
• 39:58
  supposedly when that turmoil and civil war hits
• 40:01
  The hegelian dialectic, you know problem reaction solution.
• 40:05
  They can swoop in and offer us some
• 40:08
  sort of uh, You know solution that's going
• 40:10
  to save us, you know this utopian You
• 40:13
  know central bank Uh, you know cbdc's Good
• 40:19
  luck with that.
• 40:20
  That ain't gonna work and then one world
• 40:22
  religion And then the the other thing I
• 40:25
  love talking to you because you're so smart
• 40:26
  and you're so experienced And then the other
• 40:29
  thing i'm gonna leave you with is project
• 40:31
  blue beam.
• 40:32
  Have you heard about the atlas?
• 40:34
  Uh, the three eye atlas thing.
• 40:36
  Yeah, you told me that Yeah, yeah look
• 40:39
  into that too.
• 40:40
  And then on the heels of that is
• 40:42
  going to come a thing called project project
• 40:44
  blue beam and it's going to be these
• 40:48
  mind controlling Holographic images that are going to
• 40:51
  come down And try to capture the mind
• 40:54
  of I don't know at least 20 maybe
• 40:57
  40 percent of the the uninformed you know
• 41:01
  human population to to to to Gen them
• 41:06
  up and turn them into bloodthirsty Vampires and
• 41:13
  killers bro.
• 41:14
  It's a true thing.
• 41:15
  It's out there I know it sounds crazy
• 41:17
  and and I know I might be a
• 41:20
  little bit, uh, you know out there on
• 41:22
  the fringe, but I I've looked into this
• 41:25
  i've deep dived into this and bro.
• 41:28
  It's a thing.
• 41:29
  It is a thing that's going on and
• 41:31
  Russia, they're they're not our enemies man.
• 41:34
  They're our friends and nope and they're trying
• 41:37
  And ukraine is nothing but a tool and
• 41:40
  it's depressing what they're doing to those people
• 41:43
  what we are doing to those people we
• 41:46
  america and the Deep state a holes in
• 41:49
  the eu Are doing to that country It's
• 41:54
  a shame brother.
• 41:55
  It's a shame.
• 41:55
  So I'm, so glad I don't know how
• 41:58
  you wound up on this radio station.
• 42:00
  I listened to you years and years ago.
• 42:01
  I paid jr Is that right?
• 42:04
  Yeah, I remember listening to you on krms
• 42:07
  years ago on saturday afternoons That's right And
• 42:13
  and I my show was called question everything
• 42:16
  because I always question stuff And did they
• 42:19
  kick you off or did you?
• 42:21
  No, no, no.
• 42:21
  No, I I I ran my uh contract
• 42:24
  length and I just didn't renew It was
• 42:27
  uh, I enjoyed it and then You know,
• 42:30
  I sponsored the trip to mexico quite a
• 42:33
  few times So when they did that and
• 42:35
  they let me speak down there and I
• 42:37
  have no problem with krms at all.
• 42:39
  I I enjoyed my I enjoyed my time
• 42:42
  there and Uh, and I enjoy the people
• 42:47
  and I knew them and uh, you know,
• 42:48
  do I always agree with them?
• 42:50
  No, but do I always agree with anybody?
• 42:52
  No, not usually Well, you're a treasure brother
• 42:56
  and jr has done a great thing by
• 42:58
  uh capturing you on this this airwaves and
• 43:01
  And I feel lucky.
• 43:03
  I really feel lucky to get to listen
• 43:05
  to your insight and your experience and i'm
• 43:07
  not blowing smoke up Your ass i'm i'm
• 43:10
  telling you I choose wisely what I engage
• 43:13
  in and listen to Well, i'm glad you
• 43:15
  do.
• 43:16
  I appreciate that Yeah, and and and and
• 43:19
  i'm just telling you right now That you've
• 43:22
  got a You've got something special about you.
• 43:27
  I don't quite know exactly i'm still trying
• 43:30
  to figure that out You know one one
• 43:31
  day, you know one day I will do
• 43:33
  something special.
• 43:34
  We remember, uh, The movie the jerk with
• 43:38
  naven johnson.
• 43:39
  I love that movie I'm somebody Somebody You
• 43:44
  got a special purpose.
• 43:45
  That's right.
• 43:46
  You got a special purpose.
• 43:47
  That's right.
• 43:48
  Remember he was somebody because his name was
• 43:50
  in the phone book Naven r johnson.
• 43:53
  He's trying to shoot the cans He hates
• 43:57
  these cans How about this one i'm picking
• 44:01
  out a thermos for you?
• 44:06
  I am picking out a thermos.
• 44:09
  I was born a poor black child, right,
• 44:13
  right, right, right Dude, so see that's the
• 44:16
  kind of connection and and then uh, jr
• 44:18
  has the connection with smoky and the bandit
• 44:20
  Those are the simple little connections that convince
• 44:23
  me When I get home i'm gonna punch
• 44:27
  your mama in the mouth There is no
• 44:31
  way You came from my loins Right, okay
• 44:37
  Man, it's so much i'm talking to you.
• 44:39
  I have a great night.
• 44:40
  I look forward to every You know minute
• 44:43
  of conversation we get to share brother.
• 44:45
  Just just god bless you I know you're
• 44:46
  not into that but but just just just
• 44:49
  just just be a blessed soul And continue
• 44:52
  to do what you're doing because you're adding
• 44:54
  value To the value added stream.
• 44:57
  I'm i'm a value added good thing.
• 45:00
  There's no vat tax here Because jr'd be
• 45:03
  losing his ass because i'm adding some value
• 45:07
  You'd be asked.
• 45:08
  All right, brother.
• 45:09
  I'll let you go.
• 45:10
  Good night.
• 45:10
  Sam.
• 45:10
  Thanks for calling Yeah, my pleasure And there
• 45:14
  he goes, you know That reminded me of
• 45:19
  something that I wished to opine upon um,
• 45:23
  I listened today to um The show of
• 45:31
  uh, uh polly, um Eye of the beholder
• 45:37
  comes in on fridays and I uh, uh
• 45:40
  Sometimes get a chance to listen to it.
• 45:42
  I try to if I can and there
• 45:44
  was a discussion about the old eyester and
• 45:47
  uh, some of the things that uh, uh,
• 45:50
  and and I listened to some of the
• 45:53
  commentary and It is definitely a different perspective
• 45:56
  and uh I did a show about ike
• 46:01
  Uh, and what happened to him?
• 46:04
  when um Um, he pleaded guilty, uh To
• 46:11
  this nonsensical nonsense of taking down the camera
• 46:18
  And you know, I did somewhat of a
• 46:21
  dive into the legality of it all and
• 46:24
  some of the things that should come up
• 46:27
  I was unaware until listening to polly's show
• 46:31
  That there were even more cameras put up
• 46:34
  I agree with him for some of the
• 46:37
  uh, uh idiocy That is going on in
• 46:41
  the county uh, I I hate to say
• 46:46
  her name wrong, but i've always known her
• 46:47
  as rochelle Different last name, but I can't
• 46:52
  remember what it is now.
• 46:53
  So I don't want to say it but
• 46:54
  prosecutor in the county And I think what
• 46:57
  she did is a dastardly deed and i'm
• 47:00
  disgusted by what she did I don't like
• 47:02
  it and I think she should be called
• 47:04
  out upon it Uh, and I think also
• 47:08
  there, you know Ethical concerns never hit the
• 47:12
  the those sorts of people But I think
• 47:15
  it's an ethical concern to be a witness
• 47:17
  in a case And then be also the
• 47:21
  person who begs someone to prosecute someone I
• 47:25
  think is just wrong And I didn't like
• 47:27
  it then I don't like it now And
• 47:30
  somebody would have to convince me that i'm
• 47:32
  incorrect and good luck with that Uh to
• 47:35
  say that what she did was just wrong
• 47:38
  And uh, and I and I I cannot
• 47:41
  stand up for that kind of thing Um,
• 47:44
  I also think that ike being targeted is
• 47:47
  the biggest pile biggest lump of dog Excrement
• 47:52
  on the planet it is not right and
• 47:56
  although I Understand that he should maybe stand
• 48:04
  up for the people of Camden county, I
• 48:08
  believe he did.
• 48:09
  I also believe that he still has the
• 48:12
  opportunity to do so And I hope he
• 48:15
  does And I believe and I and I
• 48:18
  went through it on the the one time
• 48:20
  after he pleaded guilty And I think I
• 48:22
  did one before he pleaded guilty severally.
• 48:25
  I I remember talking to him about maybe
• 48:29
  we should be out there Broadcasting this all
• 48:31
  the time But and I agree that it
• 48:34
  does kind of shut people up but remember
• 48:36
  it is his choice And i'm not saying
• 48:41
  that polly can't have his opinions of you
• 48:43
  know, i'm Those are his opinions.
• 48:45
  I wouldn't change them I understand them and
• 48:48
  I get it and I get I get
• 48:49
  I get what he's saying and I listen
• 48:51
  to it and you know A part of
• 48:54
  me is supportive of that kind of thing
• 48:56
  and I get it And and I cannot
• 48:58
  certainly understand that point of view he backs
• 49:01
  it up however, I also think that Ike
• 49:05
  backed up his um that that that Until
• 49:11
  you're the one going through it and you
• 49:14
  understand how the system Is stacked in what
• 49:18
  they're doing to you and how they're destroying
• 49:21
  And what point you are in your life
• 49:23
  and the various things that are going on
• 49:26
  in different areas that affect you your family
• 49:29
  and what you know the the frightening nature
• 49:31
  of it all and you know there but
• 49:33
  for the grace of god go I that
• 49:36
  kind of thing and uh, uh, you know
• 49:41
  You can always It's easy to look at
• 49:49
  Anything I mean pick it with hindsight I
• 49:52
  do it every night You know you go
• 49:54
  back and you look and you judge and
• 49:56
  you say something I try hard Not to
• 49:59
  judge and I don't judge Ike for what
• 50:01
  he did.
• 50:01
  I think that uh, That he could have
• 50:04
  gone either way, but it's a risk and
• 50:07
  it's always a risk and whose risk was
• 50:10
  it?
• 50:10
  It wasn't the counties It was Ike's and
• 50:13
  these people are screwing with him Now did
• 50:16
  I think that he would have had a
• 50:19
  a strong?
• 50:21
  likelihood of winning those And would probably have
• 50:25
  won on appeal And would probably have have
• 50:28
  gotten more out of it.
• 50:31
  Had he fighted Fighted did I say fighted?
• 50:34
  Oh my god.
• 50:35
  I'm done.
• 50:36
  I quit All right, i've rehired myself i'm
• 50:40
  gonna do it again, but I apologize for
• 50:41
  that and uh, You know who's to say
• 50:44
  that if he fought He would have won
• 50:48
  um, and for a perspective on this I
• 50:52
  fought the corrupt missouri bar for how long?
• 50:56
  How long friends and neighbors 10 years and
• 50:59
  I am right they are wrong But I
• 51:05
  didn't win Who's still the guy without his
• 51:08
  law license?
• 51:09
  Samuel edward von trapp second or first.
• 51:13
  I remember jr knows and uh, me in
• 51:17
  other words, I I Because they're corrupt a
• 51:20
  -holes And they have a system that isn't
• 51:23
  that is not constitutional by any stretch They
• 51:28
  have not been granted authority by the supreme
• 51:31
  court to do what they did they have
• 51:33
  not been granted any authority by the Governor
• 51:37
  by the executive branch, so they have no
• 51:40
  judicial no executive and no statutory Authority in
• 51:45
  the missouri bar at all for the arm
• 51:47
  that they are trying to replace And the
• 51:51
  u.s. Supreme court of the missouri had
• 51:53
  zero rule that applies to it And however,
• 51:57
  that doesn't mean they aren't going to use
• 51:59
  it to stick it up the tailpipe of
• 52:01
  samuel trapp And it's uh, it's it's just
• 52:04
  not right what they did but but people
• 52:06
  like The rochelles of the world they'll get
• 52:09
  away with it.
• 52:10
  But who's to say?
• 52:12
  That ike would have okay.
• 52:15
  No, did I think he was he would
• 52:16
  have been in the right to do so?
• 52:19
  Absolutely, would it be uh worth the risk?
• 52:22
  Maybe so But it's not my choice It's
• 52:26
  not polly's And in you know, I very
• 52:30
  much enjoyed the perspective of polly on that
• 52:34
  on that show and I think there's a
• 52:36
  a lot proper to be said there, but
• 52:39
  Not your choice You know the the choice
• 52:41
  and and by the way paying a freaking
• 52:44
  lawyer to do that forever and ever and
• 52:46
  have the risk of losing and then losing
• 52:49
  and having to appeal and the constant worry
• 52:52
  and Borrowing money or having have people raise
• 52:55
  money for you the argument that the the
• 52:58
  county should have paid yeah, I could see
• 53:00
  that argument, but You know the the rochelles
• 53:04
  of the world would fight that too and
• 53:06
  then he would you know, maybe they'll charge
• 53:08
  him with something for that crap and uh,
• 53:10
  and so Until you're saddled with someone else's
• 53:16
  burden It is easy to say, you know,
• 53:20
  this is what I what you should have
• 53:22
  done or this is what you know we
• 53:24
  paid you to do or Whatever.
• 53:27
  Do I think ike was was right and
• 53:29
  justified in taking down that idiotic camera?
• 53:32
  I do do I think he was uh
• 53:35
  justified in pleading to a misdemeanor to forego
• 53:39
  the pleasure of having to fight off A
• 53:43
  and have a debacle for himself and his
• 53:46
  family and go through the destruction of that
• 53:48
  process I honor his choice and the choice
• 53:53
  is his and so I I I don't
• 53:55
  have anything Negative to say in fact, I
• 53:58
  have a lot of support for what uh,
• 54:00
  what paulie said he backed it up Like
• 54:03
  I said, so I honor everybody else's opinion.
• 54:06
  I get that I honor ike's choice and
• 54:09
  ike's opinion and I honor what ike is
• 54:11
  doing There were a couple of things that
• 54:13
  I can't speak to.
• 54:14
  I don't know whether ike is, you know
• 54:17
  back slapping somewhere I don't know.
• 54:19
  I don't see ike that way and I
• 54:21
  know ike It's not like we're best of
• 54:24
  buddies or anything, but i've i've known ike
• 54:26
  for a while and uh, and i'm, you
• 54:29
  know, we're Certainly on a first name basis,
• 54:32
  you know And I have no problem chatting
• 54:35
  with him and no problem believing in him
• 54:38
  Um, and I don't condemn the choice he
• 54:41
  had to make I think it's unfortunate That
• 54:44
  the county did what they did if there
• 54:46
  really are and I didn't know this and
• 54:49
  and I assume it's true That they have
• 54:51
  five more cameras.
• 54:53
  I still want somebody and maybe many of
• 54:56
  us To file a class action of the
• 54:58
  type that is filed currently in richmond in
• 55:00
  the eastern district of virginia and do something
• 55:05
  similar to what they do with these, um
• 55:08
  Uh, and then it's also flocked there, but
• 55:11
  they didn't sue flock They sued the police
• 55:13
  chief because and they sued on the basis
• 55:17
  of an illegal search and seizure And we
• 55:20
  should do somebody should do something similar here.
• 55:22
  Maybe in one or two places Maybe it
• 55:24
  would be joined in the same case in
• 55:27
  uh in uh, richmond Maybe I mean maybe
• 55:30
  they would combine the cases that's possible and
• 55:32
  they I forget what they call it the
• 55:34
  inter inter uh jurisdictional Court or something like
• 55:38
  that where in a federal court if you
• 55:40
  file something and it's very similar to something
• 55:43
  in another jurisdiction They put the two together
• 55:45
  and I don't remember what the name of
• 55:47
  it, but I want to say interjurisdictional court
• 55:50
  or the court of the court of uh
• 55:52
  inter inter judicial shit inter State jurisdiction or
• 55:58
  something like that.
• 55:59
  I can't remember what it's called, but it's
• 56:00
  on the federal level But I think that
• 56:03
  if there are now five or six cameras
• 56:04
  and they are tracking us Or they have
• 56:07
  the ability to track us and they are
• 56:10
  doing the same thing here that the flock
• 56:12
  system is doing there you could almost copy
• 56:15
  the uh, uh, The petition and go against
• 56:18
  the sheriff here For refusing to take them
• 56:22
  down and I think somebody should hell i'll
• 56:24
  draft it for you I don't i've done
• 56:26
  it somebody else could file it, you know,
• 56:28
  hell if I said it was myself Because
• 56:30
  they're tracking me now I could uh, uh
• 56:33
  file it myself pro se and just say
• 56:36
  i'm going to do it as a Mass
• 56:37
  action for everybody else that is in the
• 56:39
  state of missouri and is going through this
• 56:41
  because of what they are doing It's bs
• 56:43
  I don't like it either.
• 56:45
  I am against these cameras and I think
• 56:46
  somebody ought to do it and all you
• 56:49
  need is a Oh, there it is.
• 56:51
  Again.
• 56:52
  Heg seth says two narco terrorists killed in
• 56:55
  a boat strike in the pacific b s
• 56:58
  friends and neighbors Show me where the drugs
• 57:01
  are, you know, show me some residue show
• 57:04
  me something Alleged drug boat is all they
• 57:07
  can call it.
• 57:08
  It's an alleged drug boat and we're just
• 57:11
  executing people willy-nilly because we say they
• 57:16
  are um Drug runners.
• 57:19
  Anyway, sorry jr.
• 57:20
  Your tv's distracting me I gotta turn these
• 57:23
  damn things off, but you told me not
• 57:24
  turn them off because sometimes it Causes issues.
• 57:27
  So anyway, i'll try to quit looking at
• 57:29
  them and go back to what I said
• 57:30
  But I think that that the the ikes
• 57:33
  of the world are really the good guys
• 57:35
  no matter how you slice it anyway and
• 57:38
  that uh, you know if he's if he's
• 57:40
  out back slapping his uh, his uh Polly
• 57:43
  called it and by the way I like
• 57:45
  me probably shows a good show and I
• 57:47
  think his opinion is fantastic too and I
• 57:50
  and I Honor it.
• 57:51
  I honor them both and uh, you know,
• 57:54
  I hope uh, I hope they continue to
• 57:56
  have a uh, a decent dialogue between each
• 57:59
  other without um you know, uh any sort
• 58:02
  of uh bad blood because You know It
• 58:07
  doesn't you can have your opinion and you
• 58:09
  can speak it here on this station and
• 58:11
  I believe it's a good a good spot
• 58:13
  to do it and uh, I I believe
• 58:17
  that uh I'm, not sure what I would
• 58:21
  have done where I ike but I honor
• 58:24
  what he had to do and I honor
• 58:26
  the the fact that he was Put in
• 58:28
  a position that nobody would like to be
• 58:30
  put in and I you know, there could
• 58:34
  be people that are pissed off about it
• 58:35
  Well, i'm sure there are because I heard
• 58:37
  about it and uh, but i'm not pissed
• 58:40
  off.
• 58:40
  I understand it and uh, i'm pissed off
• 58:43
  more at the camera bs Than I ever
• 58:46
  would be at ike skeleton.
• 58:49
  So Uh, I believe that's all the further
• 58:51
  I will go into that But uh, you
• 58:53
  know my little own my own personal little
• 58:55
  diatribe on that but I did mean to
• 58:57
  speak on that and uh, I I nearly
• 59:00
  forgot to do so and I wanted to
• 59:04
  go into a little bit more of the
• 59:07
  uh world um Events so one of the
• 59:13
  one of the Things, uh, did I finish
• 59:15
  the story I was reading?
• 59:17
  I don't think I did Because I was
• 59:19
  reading about uh, where to go Oh, yes,
• 59:23
  I was talking about mr.
• 59:24
  Timofeyev from the valdai club on the two
• 59:27
  people meeting meeting on on trump hitting moscow
• 59:31
  about these sanctions And i'm I I don't
• 59:34
  I think that what putin said today in
• 59:38
  response to these sanctions is the same thing
• 59:42
  Regardless of what you're doing on the sanctions.
• 59:45
  It will not change what we are doing
• 59:50
  to Finalize our special military operation in ukraine
• 59:59
  And we've been very steadfast and steady with
• 1:00:02
  what we're going to say And you know
• 1:00:06
  the part where he said, you know the
• 1:00:10
  the Any self-respecting country wouldn't allow itself
• 1:00:15
  to be forced especially if you're another nuclear
• 1:00:18
  power I mean, it's nonsense Do I think
• 1:00:20
  that trump's going to be successful in forcing
• 1:00:23
  gd xingping to do anything you know It'd
• 1:00:27
  be nice Well, I suppose if you go
• 1:00:31
  from the point of view that the entire
• 1:00:33
  world Runs on money whether it's the dollar
• 1:00:38
  or on anything else what donald trump is
• 1:00:41
  doing um And and I just saw it
• 1:00:45
  The hill is predicting donald trump says he
• 1:00:48
  will have a deal on everything So, you
• 1:00:52
  know my assumption is that the tail twister
• 1:00:54
  is going to be you quit buying oil
• 1:00:56
  from russia buy it from us instead and
• 1:01:01
  um We'll get rid of all these tariffs
• 1:01:05
  on you I don't think it's going to
• 1:01:07
  work russia and China are very very close
• 1:01:13
  And getting closer and I think what these
• 1:01:17
  sanctions and I think what these back and
• 1:01:20
  forths and turnarounds of trump and changes of
• 1:01:24
  direction and trump That's only going to make
• 1:01:26
  it further and remember this has nothing to
• 1:01:29
  do with trump what it has to do
• 1:01:32
  with is the indecision the Instability if you
• 1:01:40
  will and that's a hard word, but but
• 1:01:42
  it's exactly that the instability of america We
• 1:01:50
  are unstable And why are we unstable?
• 1:01:54
  Because every four years it changes And I
• 1:01:59
  told you before i'll tell you again China
• 1:02:02
  has 50-year plans 30-year plans.
• 1:02:06
  They have long term plans that go past
• 1:02:13
  Changes in The parliament changes they have they
• 1:02:19
  have these long plans Wouldn't it be nice
• 1:02:22
  and I talked about this when we were
• 1:02:23
  talking about finances Several months ago a couple
• 1:02:27
  months ago.
• 1:02:27
  I don't know how long ago actually But
• 1:02:29
  it but it was after my trip to
• 1:02:31
  russia, so it really couldn't have been that
• 1:02:32
  long um that if we had some sort
• 1:02:37
  of government planning office some something else that
• 1:02:45
  was that was Infrastructure bound of something and
• 1:02:49
  allegedly these are your professional bureaucrats But they're
• 1:02:53
  all crooks and and you know, I have
• 1:02:55
  no faith in any of that That is
• 1:02:58
  not planning.
• 1:02:59
  That's politics and if every president can come
• 1:03:04
  in And have his 225 or whatever brand
• 1:03:09
  new Executive orders on the desk and that
• 1:03:13
  he can sign with a flourish and hold
• 1:03:15
  them all up and say Well, here's the
• 1:03:18
  new one.
• 1:03:18
  You can't do this.
• 1:03:19
  We're gonna take the nordster the keystone pipeline
• 1:03:24
  and Dismantle it Donald trump look who we
• 1:03:28
  did to you you said it was good,
• 1:03:31
  but we don't like it because i'm joe
• 1:03:33
  biden and uh I think that thing needs
• 1:03:36
  to go.
• 1:03:37
  So what if it's 10 billion dollars, what's
• 1:03:39
  10 billion dollars among friends, you know, no
• 1:03:42
  problem Anyway, I think that sanctions are in
• 1:03:46
  that category and that uh long-term sanctions
• 1:03:50
  aren't the answer so As I was saying
• 1:03:53
  ivan timofeyev, this is good Before the caller
• 1:03:58
  even ivan timofeyev who's the program director at
• 1:04:01
  the vault die club?
• 1:04:02
  Said the energy sector was already under pressure
• 1:04:06
  not the least of which is because of
• 1:04:08
  extensive export controls in practical terms sanctioning two
• 1:04:13
  more industry Giants doesn't change a whole lot
• 1:04:18
  What matters is the political message?
• 1:04:21
  Washington had held off on new sanctions since
• 1:04:24
  trump returned to the white house even as
• 1:04:29
  The eu and the uk pressed ahead with
• 1:04:32
  more now, they've got the 19th packet of
• 1:04:36
  sanctions We always get to call them packets
• 1:04:38
  the return to sanctions is a very negative
• 1:04:41
  sign It suggests that hopes for a political
• 1:04:45
  settlement in ukraine are fading Officially the u
• 1:04:49
  .s. Presents these measures as leverage for a
• 1:04:53
  ceasefire But moscow doesn't make decisions under pressure
• 1:05:00
  russia's position has long been clear A ceasefire
• 1:05:04
  won't solve anything.
• 1:05:06
  It will only deepen the crisis The new
• 1:05:10
  sanctions mark a new phase This means the
• 1:05:14
  conflict will continue with both sides seeking stronger
• 1:05:18
  negotiating positions the western hawks Enter lindsey graham
• 1:05:24
  have managed to push washington their way But
• 1:05:28
  ukraine will continue to pay the price So
• 1:05:32
  that was Ivan timofeyev the program director of
• 1:05:36
  all die Here's another one Konstantin kasachov deputy
• 1:05:41
  speaker of the federation council Washington's decision to
• 1:05:46
  sanction rosneft and luke oil fits perfectly into
• 1:05:49
  trump's familiar logic Raise the stakes turn up
• 1:05:53
  the pressure Go into negotiations from what he
• 1:05:57
  sees as a position of strength But in
• 1:06:00
  this case, I believe the outcome will be
• 1:06:03
  exactly the opposite agreed New sanctions will not
• 1:06:08
  bring success at the negotiating table They will
• 1:06:11
  only bring trump closer to the very approach
• 1:06:14
  he used to criticize joe biden Those who
• 1:06:18
  convinced him that more sanctions more missiles longer
• 1:06:22
  ranges will make russia more compliant Are in
• 1:06:26
  fact undermining him Far from strengthening trump's hand
• 1:06:31
  They are sharply limiting his role as a
• 1:06:35
  potential mediator and peacemaker agreed And that is
• 1:06:40
  precisely what the alliance of democrats and euro
• 1:06:44
  globalist want Because trump is a much greater
• 1:06:48
  obstacle to them Than he is to the
• 1:06:52
  conflict in ukraine itself Anyone who truly understands
• 1:06:57
  the realities and origins of the conflict in
• 1:07:01
  ukraine As well as russia's interests therein which
• 1:07:05
  have nothing to do with imperial conquest and
• 1:07:10
  everything to do with removing Existential threats will
• 1:07:15
  realize that sanctions and missiles are gasoline poured
• 1:07:20
  onto a fire They will not bring peace
• 1:07:23
  but more casualties and they will only deepen
• 1:07:28
  this crisis given russia's history and capability It
• 1:07:34
  is I'm adding the word Extremely naive to
• 1:07:39
  believe the country would make a forced concession
• 1:07:42
  That could later turn into a fatal long
• 1:07:45
  -term risk The expectation that the u.s.
• 1:07:49
  President will now approach Talks with russia holding
• 1:07:54
  Stronger cards is a major miscalculation In reality
• 1:08:01
  his position is weaker Not stronger instead of
• 1:08:06
  acting as an arbiter Trump is moving in
• 1:08:09
  step with globalist forces that benefit from prolonging
• 1:08:13
  the conflict Becoming hostage both to those forces
• 1:08:18
  and to his own sanctions, which are always
• 1:08:23
  harder to lift than to impose of course
• 1:08:27
  Washington may hope to later portray any peace
• 1:08:31
  Even one achieved on terms acceptable to russia
• 1:08:35
  as the result of sanctions and tough measures
• 1:08:39
  But by raising the stakes and misreading the
• 1:08:43
  driving forces of the war Trump risks losing
• 1:08:47
  control of the situation altogether much to the
• 1:08:52
  delight of his domestic and foreign opponents who
• 1:08:56
  will happily brand him once again as impulsive
• 1:09:00
  donald Acting blindly in someone else's interests And
• 1:09:06
  I agree with that guy, uh, that is
• 1:09:10
  constantine Uh, kasa choffe and I think it's
• 1:09:14
  choffe might be chev Konstantin kosa choffe is
• 1:09:17
  what I think it is And uh that
• 1:09:20
  I you know, that was very well put
• 1:09:22
  and here Dmitry Novikov Associate professor of the
• 1:09:27
  higher school of economics america's latest zigzag can
• 1:09:31
  be explained by two simple factors First washington
• 1:09:34
  still believes that contact with the u.s.
• 1:09:37
  Is something russia values for its own sake
• 1:09:41
  Canceling a meeting or limiting access to the
• 1:09:44
  american president is meant to make moscow think
• 1:09:48
  twice But these contacts are purely functional for
• 1:09:53
  russia not symbolic I think I think trump
• 1:09:57
  did this, you know, I think this was
• 1:09:59
  planned, you know and I think it was
• 1:10:01
  planned because remember i'm 90 certain that putin
• 1:10:05
  called him the day before the Zelensky visit
• 1:10:10
  and trump was immediately very very positive and
• 1:10:13
  over the next four three or four days
• 1:10:15
  after the horrible meeting with the old z
• 1:10:18
  man and everybody else Trump reverse course and
• 1:10:22
  and if he really thinks and if this
• 1:10:24
  dmitry novikov is right He thinks that he's
• 1:10:27
  more important than he is to putin And
• 1:10:30
  you know what that also makes a decent
• 1:10:32
  point anyway, there is his analysis continues second
• 1:10:37
  Americans think there is no rush.
• 1:10:40
  The goal is to soften Moscow's demands before
• 1:10:45
  the summit to avoid another anchorage style showdown
• 1:10:49
  and show progress But pressure even limited is
• 1:10:54
  still pressure and Moscow doesn't make concessions Underpressure
• 1:10:59
  notice he said the exact same thing and
• 1:11:02
  they don't they never have They never will
• 1:11:04
  if you think they will you don't know
• 1:11:07
  russians at all It's like you don't know
• 1:11:12
  traps at all if you think you're gonna
• 1:11:13
  force me to do something because you know
• 1:11:15
  You told me so well, you better think
• 1:11:18
  again that it's not how it works or
• 1:11:21
  you're gonna pressure me You put pressure on
• 1:11:23
  me, you know, I'm Pressure back.
• 1:11:26
  That's it Anyway, there's no detente yet for
• 1:11:30
  the simple reason that the time hasn't begun
• 1:11:32
  both sides are still maneuvering All right.
• 1:11:36
  Here's another one guy named Dimitri signs TV
• 1:11:41
  host and professor The ghost of Joe Biden
• 1:11:44
  is still haunting the Oval Office Trump keeps
• 1:11:48
  insisting the Ukraine war isn't his that it
• 1:11:52
  wouldn't have happened under him True the war
• 1:11:55
  began under Biden but during Trump's first term
• 1:11:58
  the u.s. expanded sanctions started supplying Ukraine
• 1:12:01
  with lethal weapons and refused to discuss security
• 1:12:05
  guarantees for Russia Still Moscow took Trump seriously
• 1:12:10
  when he said he wanted normalization and a
• 1:12:12
  broader solution to the crisis Yet he has
• 1:12:14
  now postponed Budapest citing a vague feeling and
• 1:12:19
  imposing Sanctions that were drafted under Biden, but
• 1:12:23
  never enacted Trump has effectively continued Biden's policy
• 1:12:27
  That's a shame in itself people while pleasing
• 1:12:31
  the very people who once branded him a
• 1:12:35
  Kremlin agent in Russia Analysts see Trump's move
• 1:12:40
  as yet another zigzag Assigned that despite his
• 1:12:44
  rhetoric he remains Constrained by the same forces
• 1:12:48
  that shaped his predecessors foreign policy Public opinion
• 1:12:53
  is hardening around one conclusion Trump and Biden
• 1:12:58
  were cut from the same cloth and Moscow
• 1:13:02
  expects Putin to stand firm against them both
• 1:13:07
  That's pretty harsh.
• 1:13:09
  Isn't it people that was Dimitri signs?
• 1:13:12
  Here's another one Valentin Bogdanov who's a bureau
• 1:13:16
  chief in New York the sanctions against Luke
• 1:13:19
  oil and Rosneft are The first anti-russian
• 1:13:23
  strict restrictions of Trump's second term the key
• 1:13:27
  point isn't the sanctions themselves But the vulnerability
• 1:13:30
  Trump reveals in writing not just with words
• 1:13:35
  by signing off on sanctions he's admitting that
• 1:13:38
  Washington has no real leverage over India or
• 1:13:42
  China and That his own opponents still have
• 1:13:46
  leverage over him after his call with Putin
• 1:13:50
  the Hawks struck back and Trump took the
• 1:13:54
  hit his disclaimer that the sanctions might not
• 1:13:58
  last long Only confirms his own uncertainty unable
• 1:14:03
  to fight the globalist establishment alone Trump has
• 1:14:07
  turned his fire on media allies attacking the
• 1:14:11
  Wall Street Journal For reporting on long-range
• 1:14:14
  missiles for Ukraine yet He confirmed their existence
• 1:14:17
  himself as if Ukraine could use them without
• 1:14:20
  NATO guidance Trump also said he wouldn't send
• 1:14:23
  Tomahawks to Kiev Arguing that only US troops
• 1:14:26
  could operate them a sign that he's still
• 1:14:29
  leaving himself an exit route I believe I
• 1:14:32
  said that yesterday He's even voiced a support
• 1:14:35
  for extending the new START treaty a gesture
• 1:14:39
  toward De-escalation and express confidence in a
• 1:14:43
  future meeting with Putin But the contours of
• 1:14:46
  that future are being drawn increasingly shit Increasingly
• 1:14:52
  by someone else's hand that was Valentin Bogdanov.
• 1:14:57
  Here's another one Oleg Tsarev former Ukrainian Politician
• 1:15:03
  the meeting hasn't been canceled just postponed and
• 1:15:07
  most likely it will still take place in
• 1:15:10
  Budapest There is no better location since Zelensky
• 1:15:14
  refused to give up Donbass Voluntarily the summit
• 1:15:17
  summit has been delayed until the Russian army
• 1:15:20
  takes it by force After that, there will
• 1:15:23
  be room for negotiations But on entirely new
• 1:15:27
  terms because Russia will already have it Malik
• 1:15:32
  Dudikov a political analyst specializing in US affairs
• 1:15:37
  Pressure from Hawks on both sides of the
• 1:15:40
  Atlantic has worked Trump postponed the Budapest meeting
• 1:15:44
  and refused to send new weapons to Ukraine
• 1:15:47
  a positive sign The sanctions are more nuanced.
• 1:15:51
  They're the first major measures of Trump's second
• 1:15:54
  term But they could later serve as proof
• 1:15:57
  that sanctions don't work Russia will simply reroute
• 1:16:02
  its trade flows and Trump can then push
• 1:16:04
  back against the Hawks Arguing that he tried
• 1:16:07
  sanctions they failed and there's no point repeating
• 1:16:11
  them He's playing a multi-layered game trying
• 1:16:15
  to strengthen the u.s. Negotiating position Resist
• 1:16:19
  internal pressure and use sanctions as leverage in
• 1:16:23
  talks with India and China Russia's top oil
• 1:16:27
  buyers.
• 1:16:28
  This is what I think too He's unlikely
• 1:16:31
  to succeed in coercing either India or China
• 1:16:34
  or in hurting Russia's economy I agree with
• 1:16:38
  that too, but he might succeed in buying
• 1:16:40
  himself some time from the Hawks That's an
• 1:16:44
  interesting perspective Here's another guy Dmitry Drobnitsky a
• 1:16:51
  political analyst and American affairs expert Trump has
• 1:16:54
  chosen the least Strategic path.
• 1:16:57
  He believes he can end the war in
• 1:16:59
  Ukraine quickly through deal-making and creative Diplomacy
• 1:17:03
  without addressing the underlying causes.
• 1:17:06
  It's not gonna work His vanity has been
• 1:17:09
  his undoing the Euro Atlantic elite figured him
• 1:17:14
  out and learned how to manipulate him Flattering
• 1:17:17
  him through the media while threatening his legitimacy
• 1:17:20
  through Congress He should have purged his administration
• 1:17:24
  early on Instead he avoided conflict even alienated
• 1:17:30
  Elon Musk who could have helped him clean
• 1:17:33
  house Now anyone who might have backed his
• 1:17:36
  foreign policy agenda is being sidelined leaving him
• 1:17:40
  dependent on the media Europe and a Congress
• 1:17:45
  where MAGA Republicans are outnumbered After his call
• 1:17:50
  with Putin Europe rushed to Washington to steer
• 1:17:54
  Trump back on to the Into the Euro
• 1:17:58
  Atlantic fold mark Ruta.
• 1:18:00
  It's now clear There is no independent Trump
• 1:18:04
  foreign policy not without a broader change in
• 1:18:08
  the US Establishment his line about hoping the
• 1:18:11
  sanctions won't be needed for long Shows that
• 1:18:15
  he didn't really want them There may still
• 1:18:19
  be another meeting with Putin another phone call
• 1:18:23
  may be limited contacts, but Trump is no
• 1:18:27
  longer an independent player all that can be
• 1:18:30
  said in his favor is that he tried
• 1:18:32
  to resist and Gave Russia nearly nine months
• 1:18:37
  free of new sanctions and direct funding for
• 1:18:41
  the Ukrainian Army That was Dmitry Drobnitsky a
• 1:18:46
  political analyst and Those are the opinions of
• 1:18:53
  what has happened What they think is going
• 1:18:58
  to happen because of these sanctions and I
• 1:19:04
  think Most of them are dead on and
• 1:19:08
  I think and I've said it before Trump
• 1:19:11
  is listening to the wrong folks whether it's
• 1:19:13
  pressure or whether he has to whether it's
• 1:19:16
  EU and all of this He's trying to
• 1:19:18
  stop them from stealing Russian money Brussels is
• 1:19:22
  even pushing back.
• 1:19:23
  I don't know if you're aware of that
• 1:19:25
  story, but The the EU is trying to
• 1:19:29
  steal Russia's money and give it to Ukraine
• 1:19:34
  What's the scheme the EU is proposing to
• 1:19:38
  borrow Russia's money?
• 1:19:39
  Some 160 billion from Euro clear who's holding
• 1:19:44
  it a private company in Belgium with all
• 1:19:47
  member states promising to pay it back when
• 1:19:51
  as They put it Ukraine wins the war
• 1:19:55
  and Russia agrees to pay reparations.
• 1:19:58
  That's the scheme Do you hear that when
• 1:20:02
  Ukraine wins the war and Russia agrees to
• 1:20:06
  pay reparations?
• 1:20:07
  That's when they agree to pay it back.
• 1:20:09
  So that's not really borrowing it.
• 1:20:11
  Is it?
• 1:20:12
  So the second question isn't that wishful thinking
• 1:20:15
  the reparations loan idea assumes both that Ukraine
• 1:20:20
  will win the war and That Russia will
• 1:20:23
  agree to pay reparations neither of those is
• 1:20:27
  likely or even Possible it's nonsense How would
• 1:20:33
  it work then the EU would then forgive
• 1:20:36
  the debt to Kiev but would still have
• 1:20:39
  to repay the money it borrowed from euro
• 1:20:41
  clear So who ultimately would have to pay
• 1:20:45
  it back probably European taxpayers not a politically
• 1:20:49
  popular or sustainable idea in a block where
• 1:20:53
  the far right is surging electorally and Brussels
• 1:20:56
  forces through an agenda on militarization So what
• 1:21:01
  about the bankers European central bankers fear a
• 1:21:05
  legal precedent that could undermine global financial stability
• 1:21:09
  I think it's idiotic if they do it
• 1:21:13
  as well as destroying the euro's reputation as
• 1:21:16
  a safe space You want to see people
• 1:21:18
  abandon the euro and probably the dollar to?
• 1:21:22
  Steal Russia's money and watch how fast all
• 1:21:25
  the banks pull them out and go to
• 1:21:27
  China Pull them out and go to Saudi
• 1:21:30
  Arabia UAE somewhere in BRICS There was an
• 1:21:34
  article I read that said hungry one to
• 1:21:36
  go to BRICS.
• 1:21:37
  I don't believe it you know, I think
• 1:21:38
  it was a you know, definitely propaganda, but
• 1:21:41
  there it was and You know anyway, well,
• 1:21:48
  let's let's go on with this because there's
• 1:21:50
  still a few more to go Okay, so
• 1:21:51
  the EU wants to take and use Russian
• 1:21:53
  money held privately in Belgium who has said
• 1:21:56
  what?
• 1:21:57
  Belgian Prime Minister Bart de Weaver whose country
• 1:22:02
  hosts euro clear Has warned that quote.
• 1:22:06
  There's no free money.
• 1:22:08
  There are always Consequences.
• 1:22:11
  I want their signatures saying if we take
• 1:22:14
  Russian President Vladimir Putin's money.
• 1:22:17
  We're all going to be responsible if it
• 1:22:20
  goes wrong This was Luxembourg Prime Minister Luke
• 1:22:28
  Frieden voiced a similar apprehension D Weaver has
• 1:22:33
  refused to move unless he gets 100%
• 1:22:35
  backing from EU members Belgium will not support
• 1:22:39
  the EU's plan to use frozen Russian assets
• 1:22:42
  as collateral for a massive loan to Ukraine
• 1:22:45
  Unless the financial risks are shared across all
• 1:22:49
  member states The ECB's Christian Lagarde has warned
• 1:22:54
  that breaking the law Which is what this
• 1:22:57
  is to steal Russia's money will crash the
• 1:23:00
  euro's reputation as a stable currency I say
• 1:23:04
  the same a legally contentious move will undermine
• 1:23:07
  the euro's credibility deter investment in Euro denominated
• 1:23:13
  assets and pose a risk to global financial
• 1:23:17
  Stability from my vantage point and In mind
• 1:23:21
  and with in mind financial stability and the
• 1:23:25
  strength of the euro We will be looking
• 1:23:27
  very attentive attentively to make sure that what
• 1:23:31
  is proposed is in accordance with international law
• 1:23:34
  and is mindful of financial stability Lagarde said
• 1:23:40
  days before the EU summit Italy's Giorgia Maloney
• 1:23:45
  warned the bloc's leaders to respect international law
• 1:23:50
  France wants the money to be spent on
• 1:23:53
  European weapons and financing the Ukraine state Germany
• 1:23:56
  wants to be money money to be spent
• 1:23:59
  on weapons only other EU members think Kiev
• 1:24:02
  should decide how to spend the money Does
• 1:24:05
  Kiev even have a say?
• 1:24:06
  Kiv insists that there be no restrictions on
• 1:24:10
  how they spend the money a stance widely
• 1:24:13
  regarded with skepticism you think Given the risk
• 1:24:17
  of the cash being siphoned off into Ukraine's
• 1:24:20
  notorious graft channels, which are abundant What does
• 1:24:25
  Russia think and what is it warned of
• 1:24:27
  Russia is thought to hold some 200 billion
• 1:24:31
  in?
• 1:24:32
  EU funds most of which is privately owned
• 1:24:35
  Hmm wonder what they're gonna do.
• 1:24:38
  Let us read further Russian planet president Putin
• 1:24:42
  said last month that smarter governments opposed the
• 1:24:46
  seizure of Russian assets because they understand that
• 1:24:50
  it would fundamentally undermine all principles of international
• 1:24:54
  economic activity and without a doubt cause enormous
• 1:24:59
  harm to the international financial system Kremlin spokesman
• 1:25:04
  Dmitry Peskov warned of a boomerang if Russian
• 1:25:08
  assets are tapped to finance Kiev Telling reporters
• 1:25:11
  this month that these plans are all about
• 1:25:14
  the illegal seizure of Russian property We are
• 1:25:17
  talking about theft said Peskov on Wednesday if
• 1:25:21
  someone wants to steal our property our assets
• 1:25:25
  and illegally appropriate them They will be subject
• 1:25:30
  to legal prosecution in one way or another
• 1:25:34
  These are all steps toward the complete destruction
• 1:25:38
  of trust in the principle of property inviolability
• 1:25:42
  The boomerang will hit countries which host the
• 1:25:45
  main Depositories and are interested in investment attractiveness
• 1:25:50
  He warned Peskov has likened the EU to
• 1:25:54
  a group of mobsters planning their next heist
• 1:25:57
  They all look like a gang Someone keeps
• 1:26:00
  lookout somebody robs and somebody like Belgium shouts
• 1:26:05
  guys.
• 1:26:06
  Let's share Responsibility.
• 1:26:08
  So what's the bottom line if?
• 1:26:11
  the EU Engages in what Russia sees as
• 1:26:16
  theft We will see a euro slump while
• 1:26:20
  Kiev prepares for a much longer curious curious
• 1:26:27
  curious We are a bunch of crooks It's
• 1:26:32
  it's nonsense that we're even talking about it.
• 1:26:35
  It is nuts There's another article that says
• 1:26:39
  that they've delayed it Belgium's demanding robust legal
• 1:26:44
  guarantees You know, they want, you know According
• 1:26:47
  to Bloomberg and political EU officials made very
• 1:26:51
  little headway at the Brussels summit on Thursday
• 1:26:54
  in the plan to steal this money to
• 1:26:57
  create a repatriation loan Moscow repeats again that
• 1:27:02
  this is theft Politico Reported the talks were
• 1:27:05
  thrown into disarray after that Bart DeWeaver took
• 1:27:10
  what one official described as a surprisingly uncompromising
• 1:27:15
  position what be this he's a he's a
• 1:27:17
  smart man a Belgium which has legal control
• 1:27:22
  over the bulk of the funds through the
• 1:27:24
  Brussels based euro clear Consistently demands that all
• 1:27:29
  your EU members share responsibility if they take
• 1:27:32
  Russia's money, so Belgium did back a compromise
• 1:27:38
  text that delayed any firm commitment the current
• 1:27:41
  draft seen by Politico Invites the EU Commission
• 1:27:45
  to present as soon as possible options for
• 1:27:49
  financial support replacing earlier language that called for
• 1:27:53
  a legal proposal Belgians Belgium's opposition left some
• 1:27:59
  EU officials unhappy Yeah, we want to steal
• 1:28:03
  the money and you're not letting us with
• 1:28:06
  one source telling Politico Nobody wants to be
• 1:28:09
  seen to be responsible for Ukraine running out
• 1:28:13
  of money.
• 1:28:14
  I Don't give a crap if they run
• 1:28:17
  out of money.
• 1:28:17
  I think if they run out of money
• 1:28:19
  the war is over But there's nothing agreed
• 1:28:22
  yet to actually send them any money according
• 1:28:26
  to Bloomberg EU leaders plan to review the
• 1:28:30
  possibilities at the next summit with the goal
• 1:28:33
  being To get a final agreement by the
• 1:28:37
  end of the year on how to steal
• 1:28:39
  Russia's money Dmitry Peskov once again warned that
• 1:28:43
  using these assets is It's you know, it's
• 1:28:49
  just illegal and we're gonna submit them, you
• 1:28:52
  know We're trying to submit them to legal
• 1:28:54
  prosecution in one way or another I suppose
• 1:28:58
  the bigger picture for me is it doesn't
• 1:29:00
  change anything All the money in the world
• 1:29:03
  isn't gonna change the result here You don't
• 1:29:08
  have anybody to fight You can't mobilize people
• 1:29:12
  that you just can't do it.
• 1:29:14
  You have no soldiers Pokrovsk is gone life
• 1:29:18
  sucks for you.
• 1:29:20
  You need to figure out how to end
• 1:29:23
  this My name is Samuel trap.
• 1:29:26
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