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Trump scolds the United Nations for failing to stop wars · Gil I Am

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  Speaker 1: On the world stage. America is respected again like it
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  Speaker 1: has never been respected before. You think about two years ago,
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  Speaker 1: three years ago, four years ago, or one year ago,
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  Speaker 1: we were a laughing stock all over the world. At
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  Speaker 1: the NATO summit in June, virtually all NATO members formerly
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  Speaker 1: committed to increased events spending at my request, from two
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  Speaker 1: percent to five percent of GDP, making our alliance far
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  Speaker 1: stronger and more powerful than it was ever before. In May,
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  Speaker 1: I traveled to the Middle East to visit my friends
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  Speaker 1: and rebuild our partnerships in the Gulf, and those valued
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  Speaker 1: relationships with Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the UAE and other
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  Speaker 1: countries are now, I believe, closer than ever before. My
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  Speaker 1: administration has negotiated one historic trade deal after another, including
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  Speaker 1: with the United Kingdom, the European Union, Japan, South Korea, Vietnam, Indonesia,
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  Speaker 1: the Philippines, Malaysia, and many many others. Likewise, in a
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  Speaker 1: period of just seven months, I have ended seven unendable wars.
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  Speaker 1: They said they were unendable, You're never going to get themselves.
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  Speaker 1: Some were going for thirty one years. Two of them
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  Speaker 1: thirty one you think of it, thirty one years. One
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  Speaker 1: was thirty six years. One was twenty eight years. I
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  Speaker 1: ended seven wars, and in all cases they were raging,
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  Speaker 1: with countless thousands of people being killed. This includes Cambodia
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  Speaker 1: and Thailand, Kosovo and Serbia, the Congo and Rwanda, a vicious,
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  Speaker 1: violent war that was Pakistan and India, Israel and Iran,
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  Speaker 1: Egypt and Ethiopia, and Armenia and Azerbaijan. It included all
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  Speaker 1: of them, no president or a prime minister, and for
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  Speaker 1: that matter, no other country has ever done anything close
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  Speaker 1: to that, and I did it in just seven months.
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  Speaker 1: It's never happened before. There's never been anything like that.
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  Speaker 1: Very honored to have done it. It's too bad that
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  Speaker 1: I had to do these things instead of the United
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  Speaker 1: Nations doing them. And sadly, in all cases, the United
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  Speaker 1: Nations did not even try to help in any of them.
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  Speaker 1: I ended seven wars, dealt with the leaders of each
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  Speaker 1: and every one of these countries, and never even received
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  Speaker 1: a phone call from the United Nations offering to help
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  Speaker 1: in finalizing the deal. All I got from the United
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  Speaker 1: Nations was an escalator that on the way up, stopped
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  Speaker 1: right in the middle. If the first lady wasn't in
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  Speaker 1: great shape, she would have fallen, but she's in great shape.
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  Speaker 1: We're both in good shape. We both stood. And then
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  Speaker 1: a teleprompter that didn't work. This is These are the
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  Speaker 1: two things I got from the United Nations. A bad
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  Speaker 1: escalator and a bad teleprompter. Thank you very much. And
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  Speaker 1: by the way, it's working now, just went on, thank you.
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  Speaker 1: I think I should just do it the other way.
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  Speaker 1: It's easier, Thank you very much. I didn't think of
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  Speaker 1: it at the time because I was too busy working
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  Speaker 1: to save millions of lives, that is the saving and
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  Speaker 1: stopping of these wars. But later I realized that the
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  Speaker 1: United Nations wasn't there for us. They weren't there. I
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  Speaker 1: thought of it really after the fact, not during, not
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  Speaker 1: during these negotiations, which were not easy. That being the case,
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  Speaker 1: what is the purpose of the United Nations? The UN
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  Speaker 1: has such tremendous potential. I've always said it, it has
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  Speaker 1: such tremendous, tremendous this potential. But it's not even coming
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  Speaker 1: close to living up to that potential for the most part,
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  Speaker 1: at least for now. All they seem to do is
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  Speaker 1: write a really strongly worded letter and then never follow
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  Speaker 1: that letter up. It's empty words and empty words don't
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  Speaker 1: solve war. The only thing that solves war and wars
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  Speaker 1: is action. Now after ending all of these wars and
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  Speaker 1: also earlier negotiating the Abraham Accords, which is a very
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  Speaker 1: big thing for which our country received no credit, never
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  Speaker 1: receives credit. Everyone says that I should get the Nobel
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  Speaker 1: Peace Prize for each one of these achievements. But for me,
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  Speaker 1: the real prize will be the sons and daughters who
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  Speaker 1: live to grow up with the mothers and fathers because
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  Speaker 1: millions of people are no longer being killed in endless
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  Speaker 1: and unglorious wars. What I care about is not winning
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  Speaker 1: p is, it's saving lives. We saved millions and millions
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  Speaker 1: of lives with the Seven Wars, and we have others
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  Speaker 1: that were working on And you know that many years ago,
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  Speaker 1: a very successful real estate developer in New York known
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  Speaker 1: as Donald J. Trump, I bid on the renovation and
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  Speaker 1: rebuilding of this very United Nations complex. I remembered so well.
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  Speaker 1: I said at the time that I would do it
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  Speaker 1: for five hundred million dollars, rebuilding everything. It would be beautiful.
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  Speaker 1: I used to talk about, I'm going to give you
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  Speaker 1: marble floors. They're going to give you to Raza, I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to give you a best of everything. You're going
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  Speaker 1: to have mahogany walls, They're going to give you plastic.
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  Speaker 1: But they decided to go in another direction, which was
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  Speaker 1: much more expensive at the time, which actually produced a
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  Speaker 1: far inferior product. And I realized that they did not
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  Speaker 1: know what they were doing when it came to construction,
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  Speaker 1: and that they're building concepts were so wrong, and the
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  Speaker 1: product that they were proposing to build was so bad
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  Speaker 1: and so costly. It was going to cost them a fortune.
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  Speaker 1: And I said, and wait till you see the overruns.
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  Speaker 1: Well I turned out to be right. They had massive
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  Speaker 1: cost overruns and spent between two and four billion dollars
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  Speaker 1: on the building and did not even get the marble
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  Speaker 1: floors that I promised them. You walk on to Raza,
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  Speaker 1: do you notice that, as far as I'm concerned, frankly
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  Speaker 1: looking at the building and getting stuck on the escalator,
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  Speaker 1: they still haven't finished the job. They still haven't finished.
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  Speaker 1: That was years ago. The project was so corrupt that
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  Speaker 1: Congress actually asked me to testify before them on the
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  Speaker 1: tremendous waste of money because it turned out that they
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  Speaker 1: had no idea what it was, but they knew it
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  Speaker 1: was anywhere between two and four billion dollars as opposed
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  Speaker 1: to five hundred million with a guarantee. But they had
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  Speaker 1: no idea, and I said, it costs much more than
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  Speaker 1: five billion dollars. Unfortunately, many things in the United Nations
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  Speaker 1: are happening just like that, but on an even much
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  Speaker 1: bigger scale, much much bigger. Very sad to see whether
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  Speaker 1: the UN can manage to play a productive role. I've
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  Speaker 1: come here today to offer the hand of American leadership
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  Speaker 1: and friendship to any nation in this Assembly that is
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  Speaker 1: willing to join us in forging a safer, more prosperous world.
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  Speaker 1: And it's a world that will be much happier with
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  Speaker 1: a dramatically better future. Is within our reach. But to
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  Speaker 1: get there, we must reject the failed approaches of the
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  Speaker 1: past and work together to confront some of the greatest
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  Speaker 1: threats in history. There is no more serious danger to
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  Speaker 1: our planet today than the most powerful and destructive weapons
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  Speaker 1: ever divide by man, of which the United States, as
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  Speaker 1: you know, has many. Just as I did in my
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  Speaker 1: first term, I've made containing these threats a top priority,
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  Speaker 1: starting with the nation of Iran. My position is very simple.
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  Speaker 1: The world's number one sponsor of terra can never be
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  Speaker 1: allowed to possess the most dangerous weapon. That's why, shortly
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  Speaker 1: after taking office, I sent the so called Supreme Leader
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  Speaker 1: a letter making a generous offer. I extended a pledge
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  Speaker 1: of full cooperation in exchange for a suspension of Iran's
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  Speaker 1: nuclear program. The regime's answer was to continue their constant
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  Speaker 1: threats to their neighbors and US interests throughout the region
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  Speaker 1: and some great countries that are right nearby. Today, many
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  Speaker 1: of Iran's former military commanders, in fact, I can say
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  Speaker 1: almost all of them no longer with us. They're dead.
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  Speaker 1: And three months ago when Operation Midnight Hammer, seven American
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  Speaker 1: B two bombers dropped the fourteen thirty thousand pounds each
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  Speaker 1: bombs on Iran's key nuclear facilities, totally obliterating everything. No
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  Speaker 1: other country on Earth could have done what we did.
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  Speaker 1: No other country has the equipment to do what we did.
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  Speaker 1: We have the greatest weapons on earth. We hate to
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  Speaker 1: use them, but we did something that for twenty two
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  Speaker 1: years people wanted to do. With Iran's nuclear Richmond capacity demolished.
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  Speaker 1: I immediately broke it. An into the Twelve Day war
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  Speaker 1: as it's called between Israel and Iran, with both sides
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  Speaker 1: agreeing to fight fight no longer. As everyone knows, I
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  Speaker 1: have also been deeply engaged in seeking a ceasefire in Gaza.
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  Speaker 2: Have to get that done, have to get it done.
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  Speaker 1: Unfortunately, has repeatedly rejected reasonable offers to make peace. We
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  Speaker 1: can't forget October seventh, can we now? As if to
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  Speaker 1: encourage continued conflict, some of this body seeking to unilaterally
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  Speaker 1: recognize a Palestinian state. The rewards would be too great
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  Speaker 1: for Hamas terrorists for their atrocities. This would be a
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  Speaker 1: reward for these horrible atrocities, including October seventh, even while
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  Speaker 1: they refuse to release the hostages or accept the cease fire.
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  Speaker 1: Instead of giving to Hamas and giving so much because
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  Speaker 1: they've taken so much, they have taken so much. This
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  Speaker 1: could have been solved so long ago. But instead of
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  Speaker 1: giving in to Hamas's ransom demands, those who want peace
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  Speaker 1: should be united with one message, release the hostages.
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  Speaker 2: Now, just release the hostages. Okay, thank you.
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  Speaker 1: As we've got to come together, and we will come together.
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  Speaker 1: We get to get it done. We have to stop
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  Speaker 1: the war in Gaza immediately. We have to stop it.
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  Speaker 1: We have to get it done. We have to negotiate immediately,
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  Speaker 1: have to negotiate peace. We got to get the hostages back.
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  Speaker 1: We want all twenty back. We don't want two and four.
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  Speaker 1: As you know, I got along with Steve Whitcoff and
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  Speaker 1: others that helped us, Marco Rubio, we got most of
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  Speaker 1: them back. We were involved in all of them. But
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  Speaker 1: I always said the last twenty are going to be
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  Speaker 1: the hardest, and that's exactly what happened. We have to
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  Speaker 1: get them back now. We don't want to get back
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  Speaker 1: two and then another two and then one and then three,
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  Speaker 1: have this process. No, we want them all back, and
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  Speaker 1: we want the actually thirty eight dead bodies back to
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  Speaker 1: those parents came to me and they want them back,
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  Speaker 1: and they want them back very quickly and very badly,
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  Speaker 1: as though they were alive. They want them. They want
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  Speaker 1: them every bit as much as if their son what
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  Speaker 1: daughter were alive. I've also been working relentlessly stopping the
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  Speaker 1: killing in Ukraine. I thought that would be of the
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  Speaker 1: seven wars that I stopped. I thought that would be
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  Speaker 1: the easiest. Because of my relationship with President Putin, which
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  Speaker 1: had always been a good one. I thought that was
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  Speaker 1: going to be the easiest one. But you know, in war,
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  Speaker 1: you never know what's going to happen. There are always
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  Speaker 1: lots of surprises, both good and bad. Everyone thought Russia
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  Speaker 1: would win this war in three days, but it didn't
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  Speaker 1: work out that way. It was supposed to be just
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  Speaker 1: a quick, little skirmish. It's not making Russia look good.
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  Speaker 1: It's making them look bad no matter what happens from
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  Speaker 1: here and out. This was something that should have taken
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  Speaker 1: a matter of days, certainly less than a week, and
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  Speaker 1: they've been fighting for three and a half years and
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  Speaker 1: killing anywhere from five to seven thousand young soldiers, mostly
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  Speaker 1: mostly soldiers on both sides, every single week, from five
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  Speaker 1: to seven thousand dead young people, and some in cities,
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  Speaker 1: much smaller numbers where rockets are shot, where drones are dropped.
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  Speaker 1: This war would never have started if I were president.
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  Speaker 1: This was a war that should have never happened. It
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  Speaker 1: shows you what leadership is, what bad leadership can do
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  Speaker 1: to a country. Look what happened to the United States,
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  Speaker 1: and look where we are right now in just a
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  Speaker 1: short period of time. The only question now is how
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  Speaker 1: many more lives will be needlessly lost on both sides.
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  Speaker 1: China and India are the primary funders of the ongoing
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  Speaker 1: war by continuing to purchase Russian oil, but inexcusably, even
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  Speaker 1: NATO countries have not cut off much Russian energy and
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  Speaker 1: Russian energy products, which, as you know, I found out
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  Speaker 1: about two weeks ago, and I wasn't happy think of it.
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  Speaker 1: They're funding the war against themselves. Who the hell ever
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  Speaker 1: heard of that one. In the event that Russia is
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  Speaker 1: not ready to make a deal to end the war,
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  Speaker 1: then the United States is fully prepared to impose a
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  Speaker 1: very strong round of powerful tariffs, which would stop the bloodshed,
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  Speaker 1: I believe, very quickly. But for those tariffs to be effective,
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  Speaker 1: European nations, all of you are gathered here right now,
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  Speaker 1: would have to join us in adopting the exact same measures.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you're much closer to the city. We have
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  Speaker 1: an ocean in between. You're right there, and Europe has
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  Speaker 1: to step it up. They can't be doing what they're doing.
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  Speaker 1: They're buying oil and gas from Russia while they're fighting Russia.
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  Speaker 1: It's embarrassing to them, and it was very embarrassing to
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  Speaker 1: them when I found out about it. I can tell
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  Speaker 1: you that they have to immediately cease all energy purchases
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  Speaker 1: from Russia. Otherwise we're all wasting a lot of time.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm ready to discuss this. We're going to discuss
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  Speaker 1: it today with the European nations all gathered here. Sure
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  Speaker 1: they're thrilled to hear me speak about it, but that's
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  Speaker 1: the way it is. I like to speak my mind
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  Speaker 1: and speak the truth.