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Doubt cast on Russia's willingness to agree to energy ceasefire · THE DAILY BRIEF

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  Speaker 1: We are ready today for energy ceasefire, as President Trump said.
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  Speaker 2: But I'm not sure that Putin is ready.
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  Speaker 3: So that's Ukraine's President Zelensky with us a bit earlier,
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  Speaker 3: 30 minutes ago, in fact, reacting to the announcement from
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  Speaker 3: this weekend about President Trump in an energy ceasefire. But
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  Speaker 3: Ukraine says Russia continues to strike civilian and energy sites.
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  Speaker 3: And a warning, a lot of this video is graphic,
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  Speaker 3: like this one right here. So that was a drone
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  Speaker 3: strike on Sunday, blasting a grocery store in eastern Ukraine.
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  Speaker 3: Three people reported dead, nine injured, and President Zelensky telling
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  Speaker 3: us why a ceasefire is needed for a lasting peace.
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  Speaker 4: After Russian attacks, we lose 20, from 20 to 30 people,
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  Speaker 4: just civilians.
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  Speaker 5: It's not about soldiers.
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  Speaker 2: I'm speaking about people. This is awful. This is a
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  Speaker 2: big tragedy. That's why we need ceasefire to communicate, to
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  Speaker 2: find a diplomatic way of ending this war. And, of course,
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  Speaker 2: ceasefire is a good first step from both sides. This
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  Speaker 2: is very important.
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  Speaker 4: And if Russia doesn't want to support ceasefire.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know why. I think the only one reason
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  Speaker 2: that they don't want to stop this war.
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  Speaker 3: So former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is a Fox
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  Speaker 3: News contributor. Sir, good day to you and thank you
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  Speaker 3: for your time. There are a lot of cross currents
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  Speaker 3: in this war right now, and some of them directly
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  Speaker 3: affect American consumers. Do you believe this energy ceasefire is
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  Speaker 3: something that could stand up?
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  Speaker 2: Well, Bill, I must say, I hope that it is.
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  Speaker 4: And as it sounds like President Zelensky hopes that it
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  Speaker 4: is as well. But multiple offers for ceasefires have been
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  Speaker 4: presented by Mr.
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  Speaker 2: Kushner, Mr. Witkoff, President Trump himself.
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  Speaker 4: And Putin to date has rejected every single one of
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  Speaker 4: them time and time again.
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  Speaker 2: And so I suspect he'll reject this one as well.
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  Speaker 4: He clearly thinks it's in his nation's best interest to
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  Speaker 4: continue this, to bomb civilians, to go after schools and
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  Speaker 4: energy infrastructure inside of Ukraine, especially as winter's approaching.
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  Speaker 2: He thinks that's going to achieve his endgame.
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  Speaker 4: I wish it weren't so, but it seems to me
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  Speaker 4: unlikely that the Russians will actually engage in an energy ceasefire.
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  Speaker 1: Specifically on energy, one of the things that Treasury Secretary
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  Speaker 1: Scott Besson said over the weekend was that the Europeans
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  Speaker 1: are also complicit, I guess you could say, in paying
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  Speaker 1: Russia in order to keep this war going.
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  Speaker 3: Watch.
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  Speaker 5: The Europeans have given the Russians more money since the
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  Speaker 5: start of this war than they have given the Ukrainians
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  Speaker 5: because they cannot wean themselves off Russian energy. They had
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  Speaker 5: a failed energy policy, and Vladimir Putin, they continue to
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  Speaker 5: fund him. So for them to say that we cannot
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  Speaker 5: have a respite in diesel pricing is completely hypocritical.
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  Speaker 1: It really keeps coming back to this issue of energy.
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  Speaker 1: And coming up in this winter, it's energy plus desperation
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  Speaker 1: on both sides, perhaps. And then you add a third level,
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  Speaker 1: which is either increased technology in terms of weapons or
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  Speaker 1: a lack of weapons.
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  Speaker 3: To fight back.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Dana, I think that's true.
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  Speaker 4: And Secretary Besson's point about European hypocrisy, it's actually worse
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  Speaker 4: than that. The fact that the Europeans have become so
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  Speaker 4: heavily dependent on Russian energy over the last decade, and
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  Speaker 4: we'd warned them about it as far back as when
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  Speaker 4: I was Secretary of State.
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  Speaker 2: Now leads to precisely where they are.
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  Speaker 4: And the Europeans have for now, gosh, five years, I
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  Speaker 4: guess this has been going on since February of 2022,
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  Speaker 4: have continued to fund the Russian war machine by buying
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  Speaker 4: energy from Russia. So they have nothing to stand on
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  Speaker 4: here with respect to President Trump now saying, well, we
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  Speaker 4: need some diesel.
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  Speaker 2: I doubt there's much diesel to be delivered.
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  Speaker 4: I doubt that in the next three or four weeks,
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  Speaker 4: this will actually change energy prices. And frankly, I wish
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  Speaker 4: it were the case that the United States hadn't gone
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  Speaker 4: down this path. It seems to me we ought to
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  Speaker 4: be doing everything we can for America to make sure
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  Speaker 4: that this war ends quickly. And giving Vladimir Putin more
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  Speaker 4: money is akin to underwriting the Iranians as well.
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  Speaker 2: More money, more terror, more horrors.
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  Speaker 4: That's the pattern for these evildoers like Vladimir Putin and
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  Speaker 4: the Ayatollah.
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  Speaker 3: On the topic of energy, Saudi Arabia continues to be
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  Speaker 3: an issue. Over the weekend, there was a direct strike
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  Speaker 3: on the airport in Riyadh. several people killed from many
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  Speaker 3: different countries, including the United States. The president was asked
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  Speaker 3: about that as well. Watch here on Saturday. Have you
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  Speaker 3: decided whether to join the Saudi strikes on the... We may.
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  Speaker 3: We're going to look at it. How soon? We just
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  Speaker 3: found out about the recent attack. So we'll make a decision.
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  Speaker 2: We move very quickly.
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  Speaker 3: This is a new front that got super hot this weekend.
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  Speaker 3: How do you cool it down and can we?
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  Speaker 4: Bill, some ways it is a new front, but in
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  Speaker 4: some ways it's the new front's the same as the
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  Speaker 4: old front. This is the Iranian regime 40 years on now.
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  Speaker 4: You cool it down by winning. You cool it down
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  Speaker 4: by defeating them. You have to take away their capacity
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  Speaker 4: to inflict this kind of terror, right? Firing at civilians
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  Speaker 4: at an international airport. It's unacceptable. I heard President Trump's remarks.
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  Speaker 4: I've been in the room when we've talked about the
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  Speaker 4: relationship between the United States and Saudi Arabia. It won't
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  Speaker 4: surprise me at all if the president ends up taking
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  Speaker 4: the necessary actions to convince the Iranians to stop bombing
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  Speaker 4: Saudi airports and Saudi infrastructure that impacts Americans horribly adversely
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  Speaker 4: in a way that raises energy prices and now has
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  Speaker 4: killed an American as well.
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  Speaker 1: The other thing is that air travel across the world
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  Speaker 1: is one of those things where you look at this
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  Speaker 1: and you think, well, you think you're safe flying, but
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  Speaker 1: it's not necessarily the case. In addition to the 13
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  Speaker 1: people who were killed, 300 people were injured, some of
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  Speaker 1: them critically in Saudi Arabia. So A quick final word
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  Speaker 1: about what people should be thinking as we head into
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  Speaker 1: the holidays.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, there's no doubt about it. The Iranian regime is
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  Speaker 4: intent on using every last tool that they have available.
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  Speaker 4: And they now resorted to going after civilian aircraft at
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  Speaker 4: commercial airports. It's way out of bounds. I'm convinced that
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  Speaker 4: the world needs to unite to stop it. I'm convinced
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  Speaker 4: we will. But for Americans who are thinking about traveling,
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  Speaker 4: we just need to be cautious, do our best, and
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  Speaker 4: then do the things we need to do to continue
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  Speaker 4: to live our lives in the face of this horrible
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  Speaker 4: terror from the Iranian regime.
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  Speaker 3: There's a lot happening. Mike Pompeo, thanks for sharing time
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  Speaker 3: with us today.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: Bill and Dana, great to be with you all. Thanks.
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  Speaker 2: You as well.
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