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Europe vs Trump | ‘Board of Peace’ · The Bill Handel Show

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  Speaker 1: Now moving to what's happening between Europe and the United States.
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  Speaker 1: Europe is bracing for a all out trade war with
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  Speaker 1: the President, and I want to go through some of
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  Speaker 1: the options that Europe is looking at and has. And
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  Speaker 1: this all has to do with Trump's plan to take
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  Speaker 1: control of Greenland, either buying Greenland or even threatening I
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  Speaker 1: don't know how legitimate that is, threatening the possibility of
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  Speaker 1: a military action. So the European Union can get involved
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  Speaker 1: with trade retaliation, reduce defense ties and use the bazuka.
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  Speaker 1: What is the bazooka, I'll tell you in a minute.
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  Speaker 1: So Trump has threatened actually it will institute economic measures
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  Speaker 1: against Europe starting February one. And you now have ten
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  Speaker 1: percent tariffs. He's going to add ten percent, and if
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  Speaker 1: the European Union doesn't cave on Greenland, it'll be another
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  Speaker 1: twenty five percent. And the European Union, okay, they're going
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  Speaker 1: to do the same thing retaliatory tariffs against the US.
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  Speaker 1: And what is the bazooka. Well, it allows the countries
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  Speaker 1: to fight back when under economic duress from another country.
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  Speaker 1: And that's exactly what they're arguing. The European Union is
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  Speaker 1: one trading block and its rules allow the entire block
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  Speaker 1: to fight back when duress is being exercised by another country.
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  Speaker 1: Read the United States. Now the ambassador didn't reach a decision,
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  Speaker 1: Diplomats say there's still time for talks with the US.
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  Speaker 1: You know, is Trump serious about this? I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: One of the things that President Trump does, he says
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  Speaker 1: pretty outrageous stuff and whether he means it or not,
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  Speaker 1: or he says it just to keep everybody on tenter hooks,
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  Speaker 1: wondering is it going to happen? Is it not going
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  Speaker 1: to happen. We don't know, and that gives him That's
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  Speaker 1: what he does, that's how he operates and always has.
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  Speaker 1: So they're going to discuss this matter European leaders at
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  Speaker 1: the start of the World Economic Forum. It happens every
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  Speaker 1: year in Davos, Switzerland, and that's where billionaires heads a
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  Speaker 1: state get together and they just schmooze and a lot
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  Speaker 1: comes out of that. Trump is going to be there too,
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  Speaker 1: and so originally, when Trump announced his quote Liberation Day
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  Speaker 1: terrorists last year, the European leaders hesitated to strike back,
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  Speaker 1: wanted to keep him involved in the military alliance, especially
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  Speaker 1: in Ukraine's defense. But now they're saying and taking him soonuriously,
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  Speaker 1: which I think they should after what happened in Venezuela.
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  Speaker 1: And so what are they going to do? Well looking
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  Speaker 1: at what Europe did to that lopsided trade deal with
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  Speaker 1: the US that included a fifteen percent duty for most
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  Speaker 1: EU goods imported the US. And again this is trump
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  Speaker 1: method to his madness. He wanted tariffs, He went ahead
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  Speaker 1: and established tariffs, and Europe did nothing, just sat back
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  Speaker 1: and let it happen. Well, has a line been has
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  Speaker 1: a ligne been crossed? Looks that way? Looks that way?
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  Speaker 1: Denmark which effectively owns Greenland, it's a semi autonomous territory
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  Speaker 1: of Denmark, and Denmark is saying you're not buying it
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  Speaker 1: from this And if you invade and try to grab
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  Speaker 1: it by force, well, Europe is already sending forces over there.
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  Speaker 1: So what Europe can do the EU is well, they
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  Speaker 1: have already drown up a list of one hundred billion
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  Speaker 1: dollars of tariffs, retaliatory tariffs, including chewing gum. Didn't know
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  Speaker 1: chewing gum was that big of an issue, motorcycles, peanut butter.
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  Speaker 1: As the day progresses, yeah, from the height. All right,
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  Speaker 1: Now here's the problem. Retaliation, And this is President Trump.
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  Speaker 1: You hit me once, I hit you twice. Economic action
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  Speaker 1: over Greenland might put everything over the edge. And we're
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  Speaker 1: going to find out. Is it going to happen? Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: Also a couple of things Europe may bounce. The basis
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  Speaker 1: we have for example, Ramshein in Germany since World War
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  Speaker 1: Two is the biggest base, twelve thousand people, and it
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  Speaker 1: has incredible when anybody is wounded for example, in the
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  Speaker 1: Middle East, Americans that are dreadfully wounded, they go to
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  Speaker 1: Ramstein and it's considered literally some of the best medicine
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  Speaker 1: on the planet. And you can get rid of those bases.
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  Speaker 1: They can add more bases to Greenland. The whole thing is,
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  Speaker 1: is it going to explode? Who the hell knows. But
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  Speaker 1: it's another move by the president, an extraordinary move by
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  Speaker 1: the president, really controversial move by the president. And if
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  Speaker 1: it goes through, it changes our relationship with the European
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  Speaker 1: Block completely. Keeping in mind that most of Europe is
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  Speaker 1: a member of NATO. We are a member of NATO.
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  Speaker 1: And remember Article five. Never let that leave the conversation
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  Speaker 1: when you're talking about President Trump and any member of NATO,
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  Speaker 1: and that is an attack on one, is an attack
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  Speaker 1: on all. And it would be the United States invading
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  Speaker 1: and going to war with a NATO ally. When NATO
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  Speaker 1: was created, no one ever thought in a million years
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  Speaker 1: that that could happen. All right, now I got a well,
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  Speaker 1: here we go again, a Trump story, or a couple
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  Speaker 1: of them, one kind of crazy, typical Trump that you
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  Speaker 1: shake your head at, the other one not so crazy
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  Speaker 1: that a good part of it makes sense. First of all,
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  Speaker 1: as you know, the president is really upset about the snub,
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  Speaker 1: but as he perceives it that he did not get
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  Speaker 1: the Nobel Peace Prize. And he wrote to the Norwegian
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  Speaker 1: president or prime minister actually quote, considering your country decided
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  Speaker 1: not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having
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  Speaker 1: stopped eight wars, plus I no longer feel an obligation
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  Speaker 1: to think purely of peace, although it will always be predominant.
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  Speaker 1: But keen, now you can think about what is good,
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  Speaker 1: or we can think about what is good and proper
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  Speaker 1: for the United States. The implication, of course, is giving
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  Speaker 1: him the peace price. Then he bashed Denmark. It can't
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  Speaker 1: protect Greenland from Russia or China claimed it. A question
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  Speaker 1: is claim over Greenland, saying there are no written documents,
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  Speaker 1: which is only that a boat landed there hundreds of
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  Speaker 1: years before we had boats landing there also. And then
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  Speaker 1: Trump ends the letter saying the world is not secure
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  Speaker 1: unless we have complete and total control of Greenland. And
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  Speaker 1: by the way, that letter has been forwarded by the
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  Speaker 1: National Security Council to multiple European ambassadors in Washington. Kind
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  Speaker 1: of fun. And now he talks about the threat Russia
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  Speaker 1: and China, which according to a lot of experts, is
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  Speaker 1: really not a threat. China's been around four years, no
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  Speaker 1: ships have been around for ten years, and Russia is
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  Speaker 1: so concentrating on the Ukraine issue that it's been doing
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  Speaker 1: nothing for years. So here is the issue that I
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  Speaker 1: want to share with you. The President, for some reason,
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  Speaker 1: thinks that it is the country of Norway that gives
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  Speaker 1: the Peace Prize. It does not. You think he would
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  Speaker 1: know that it doesn't at all. There's a Nobel committee
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  Speaker 1: that issues the price, and we don't even know who's
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  Speaker 1: on that committee. By the way, that's super secret, and
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  Speaker 1: we don't know who the votes are. We don't know
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  Speaker 1: who finalists really are. And anybody can be nominated for
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  Speaker 1: any prize. I was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.
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  Speaker 1: How is that possible? Well, here are the rules, because
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  Speaker 1: any elected official from any country can nominate someone on
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  Speaker 1: the Peace Prize or for the Peace Prize, and then
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  Speaker 1: the nomination goes to the Nobel Committee. So what I
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  Speaker 1: did is iet myself a congressperson to nominate me for
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  Speaker 1: the Nobel Peace Price. Now the reality is, well, this
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  Speaker 1: congress person whose name I can't share with you because
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  Speaker 1: he or she has asked me not to in the
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  Speaker 1: letter to the Nobel Peace Committee which he shared with me,
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  Speaker 1: and I shared the letter that was shared had his
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  Speaker 1: name redacted because he was so embarrassed by nominating me
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  Speaker 1: for the Peace Prize. The point I am making is
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  Speaker 1: that anybody can nominate. Now. The President of Hungary, for example,
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  Speaker 1: nominated Donald Trump and he was pretty happy about that. Also,
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  Speaker 1: the elected Mushadow of Venezuela, and she's been in hiding
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  Speaker 1: and she won the Nobel Peace Prize because her surrogate
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  Speaker 1: won the election in Venezuela overwhelmingly by seventy percent, and
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  Speaker 1: Maduro pulled the results of the election. She went to
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  Speaker 1: Washington and she had said she was going to do
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  Speaker 1: this and handed the president her Nobel prize, saying, here
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  Speaker 1: you go, you really deserve this. And he was beaming
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  Speaker 1: upon the receipt of the Nobel Peace Prize. There he
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  Speaker 1: was the recipient of the Peace Prize. And the Nobel
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  Speaker 1: Committee said, no, no, we gave it to her. We
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  Speaker 1: didn't give it to the president. Is he ever going
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  Speaker 1: to get the Nobel Prize? Not a chance in hell,
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  Speaker 1: Because I'll tell you they are not very happy. Well,
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  Speaker 1: I'm assuming maybe they are happy. Maybe they think about it.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe he is going to get it next year, but
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  Speaker 1: he is saying to Norway that is, since I didn't
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  Speaker 1: get the priest prize, I may go after Greenland militarily
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  Speaker 1: because of the peace prize see peace and I gat ok.
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  Speaker 1: Here's the logic here. Peace is the absence of war, right,
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  Speaker 1: and if you give me the peace prize, I will
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  Speaker 1: not attack. And that's kind of a neat way of
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  Speaker 1: negotiating peace. I like it. I like it. It's kind
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  Speaker 1: of crazy, isn't it. Matter of fact? Tomorrow, what I
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  Speaker 1: want to do is eight crazy things or ten crazy
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  Speaker 1: things that we have seen from this administration. And by
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  Speaker 1: the way, some of the stuff that actually makes sense
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  Speaker 1: and pretty good at but this one is, yeah, this
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  Speaker 1: is the one that is really good. So now the
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  Speaker 1: other thing that may be crazy but not so crazy,
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  Speaker 1: is that the President has created a Board of Peace
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  Speaker 1: for Gaza and that's pretty impressive. And Lindsay just walked
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  Speaker 1: in with a hamburger hat. That is hilarious. It's why.
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  Speaker 1: It's because last night we're making burgers and she makes
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  Speaker 1: the actual burgers, and I always harass her on the
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  Speaker 1: making of the burgers. They weren't big enough because I
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  Speaker 1: wanted to make a hamburger, a hamburger sandwich. It was
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  Speaker 1: very complicated. I should tell a picture for someone to
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  Speaker 1: don't have somebody who's ninety eight pounds make your burger.
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  Speaker 1: That's a good point because they're very small burger. That's correct,
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  Speaker 1: That is correct. I made a much bigger burger. Okay, okay.
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  Speaker 1: An issue when I do a lot of this, and
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  Speaker 1: I know I talk a lot about Donald Trump, but
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  Speaker 1: it's almost impossible not to across the board in terms
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  Speaker 1: of impact, uniqueness as a president, entertainment value as a president.
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  Speaker 1: And here is something that actually may make sense, but
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  Speaker 1: it's being it's basically being produced as a Trump event,
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  Speaker 1: a Trump esque And this is what's being called Trump's
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  Speaker 1: Board of Peace for Gaza. Actually it's being called the
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  Speaker 1: Board of Peace. And what is the Board of Peace?
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  Speaker 1: The Board of Peace is a group of countries that
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  Speaker 1: have been put together, have been invited to join this
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  Speaker 1: organization that the President created to help Gaza and it
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  Speaker 1: will oversee the next steps in Gaza. This is the
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  Speaker 1: second phase of the war in Gaza. First phase now
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  Speaker 1: in a semblance of a treaty, if you will, a
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  Speaker 1: peace sort of kind of peace plan that came into effect, okay,
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  Speaker 1: And what it does is include a new Palestinian Committee
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  Speaker 1: and Gaza, the deployment of an international security for disarmament
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  Speaker 1: of Gaza, which is way up in the air, of course,
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  Speaker 1: and reconstruction of the war Batter territory, which I think
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  Speaker 1: everybody is in favor of, and you know, Israel gives
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  Speaker 1: it lip service, but is it really Is it really
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  Speaker 1: in favor of that? I don't know. And what the
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  Speaker 1: President did inviting world leaders on behalf of their countries
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  Speaker 1: that the Board of Peace would embark on a bold
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  Speaker 1: new approach to resolving global global conflict. Effect of what
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  Speaker 1: he's doing is rivaling the UN Security Council. And the
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  Speaker 1: UN Security Council is an organization that has really no
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  Speaker 1: oomph to it. It's merely political statement. A lot of
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  Speaker 1: it is anti US, Third world countries that hate us.
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  Speaker 1: We have They just sit there in New York and
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  Speaker 1: babble and get traffic tickets the members of the UN
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  Speaker 1: and that they they don't have to pay because they
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  Speaker 1: have unity. And what Trump is doing, and I agree
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  Speaker 1: with him, is saying, okay, let's get an organization that
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  Speaker 1: rivals the UN Security Council, that actually does something. Now,
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  Speaker 1: the fifteen seat Council has been blocked by US, Vetos
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  Speaker 1: has been blocked by China, and certain aspects have been
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  Speaker 1: blocked by Russia. And why is that? Because you have
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  Speaker 1: five members, five founding members of the UN, the Security Council.
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  Speaker 1: Remember this was after the war, after World War two,
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  Speaker 1: and it was part of the peace treaty. It was
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  Speaker 1: part of the organization that was put together that after
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  Speaker 1: the war got together and effectively became anti communists if
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  Speaker 1: you were. And NATO was founded along the same grounds,
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  Speaker 1: except this was for peace, this was not for defense.
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  Speaker 1: Five members have veto power, can veto anything, and that's
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  Speaker 1: what happens because you have different views. Russia has its interests,
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  Speaker 1: the United States has its interests, you have China having
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  Speaker 1: its interests. And the other one is France and England
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  Speaker 1: are part of the Security Council. So the other reason
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  Speaker 1: that the UN has its cloud has been diminished is
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  Speaker 1: cut funding cuts from the Trump administration and other donors,
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  Speaker 1: which I agree with completely. President Trump is absolutely right
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  Speaker 1: on this one. The UN is a waste of time.
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  Speaker 1: It's an organization that just babbles and does nothing and
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  Speaker 1: doesn't enforce doesn't have well, it does have a police force,
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  Speaker 1: but it's only peacekeeping. I mean, they certainly don't go
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  Speaker 1: to war. So this council, Oh, in a couple of things,
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  Speaker 1: is founding members with a billion dollar contribution can be
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  Speaker 1: permanent members instead of a three year appointment. The three
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  Speaker 1: year appointment does not require a contribution. Australia has been invited,
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  Speaker 1: India says it has been invited, and Jordan, Greece, Cyprus,
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  Speaker 1: Pakistan said they've been invited. Canada, Turkey, Egia, Paraguay, Argentina,
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  Speaker 1: Albania have already said they were invited. And we'll get
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  Speaker 1: an official list of the members in the next few days,
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  Speaker 1: likely during the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland.
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  Speaker 1: And I want to point something out in a very
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  Speaker 1: unusual move that the President makes, is that he did
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  Speaker 1: not name himself the chair of the board. He is
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  Speaker 1: not the chair of the Board of Peace for Gaza.
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  Speaker 1: Oh I'm sorry, I misread that he is the chair
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  Speaker 1: of the Board of Peace. He created it and he's
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  Speaker 1: going to run damn thing much like the Kennedy excuse me,
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  Speaker 1: the Donald Trump slash Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts,
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  Speaker 1: much like the one hundred thousand dollar visa, the B
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  Speaker 1: one visa, which is the Trump visa, also the million
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  Speaker 1: dollar visa, that gold card, as you know, it's like
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  Speaker 1: an American Express gold card, except that has a picture
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  Speaker 1: of the president on it. And we go on and on.
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  Speaker 1: So does it make sense? Yeah, if it works, it
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  Speaker 1: makes sense because here we're talking about putting together a
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  Speaker 1: group of countries who will commit money to rebuild Gaza,
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  Speaker 1: who will effectuate and move forward the peace plan, who
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  Speaker 1: will disarm Haramas if that's going to be one of
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  Speaker 1: the big ones. And also where is Israel going to
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  Speaker 1: accept the borders? And I think right now controls about
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  Speaker 1: half of Gaza, half is controlled by Israel. And the
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  Speaker 1: war is, as I said, a war of attrition. There
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  Speaker 1: are attacks being made, both terrorist attacks against Israeli soldiers
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  Speaker 1: and citizens by members of Hamas. And every time that happens,
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  Speaker 1: Israel goes ahead and attacks targets. And on top of that,
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  Speaker 1: the border crossings are clothes. Humanitarian aid is not getting
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  Speaker 1: in for the most part. Israel says that it is.
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  Speaker 1: It is not. Israel is starving people, although fewer now
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  Speaker 1: and there is no oil. This is the middle of
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  Speaker 1: winter and when rains come. Most of the Palestinians in
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  Speaker 1: Gaza are living in tents. Huge number living intents, eighty
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  Speaker 1: or eighty five percent have been displaced. There is no infrastructure, none,
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  Speaker 1: there's one, I think there's one hospital that's still standing.
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  Speaker 1: There are no universities, there are no school rooms. It's
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  Speaker 1: the only way they can live is on solar power,
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  Speaker 1: and then they can they can charge batteries on that.
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  Speaker 1: It's a miserable way to live, and Israel's not letting
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  Speaker 1: it get any better. At the same time, Hamas has
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  Speaker 1: yet to give up. It's a ridiculous belief that Israel
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  Speaker 1: should not exist. In the Charter of Hamas says we
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  Speaker 1: will destroy the Jews in Israel and we will take
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  Speaker 1: all of it. Well, that worked out, didn't it. Look
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  Speaker 1: what's happening now? Yeah, you know that attack on Israel,
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  Speaker 1: that October seventh attack in which twelve hundred Israelis were killed.
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  Speaker 1: How did that one work out for you? And we're
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  Speaker 1: not hearing much from Palestinians that live in Gazam. Maybe
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  Speaker 1: it wasn't such a good idea. We're not hearing that
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  Speaker 1: because Hamas is a dictatorial government, and it is a
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  Speaker 1: government that if you speak any if you speak against it,
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  Speaker 1: if they speak against it, they are in a lot
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  Speaker 1: of trouble. Okay, Now, a quick story about billionaires. We have.
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  Speaker 1: We have more billionaires in California than any place basically
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  Speaker 1: in the world. And guess what happens with billionaires. They
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  Speaker 1: like the whole public public office. For some reason, they
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  Speaker 1: just like to run for office. All the way from
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  Speaker 1: Caruso running for mayor, which he didn't get to, Megan
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  Speaker 1: Whitman ran for governor, didn't get there. We just have
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  Speaker 1: Bill Donald Trump, billionaire who got there. And so we
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  Speaker 1: have a lot of billionaires. Why because it's kind of
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  Speaker 1: fun for them, you know, Okay, billionaires, Well, I don't
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  Speaker 1: have anything to do. Wake up in the morning. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: let's run for office. Because they have certainly succeeded in
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  Speaker 1: any any and every way possible financially. And it is
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  Speaker 1: really interesting. OXFAM which is a British non nonprofit and
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  Speaker 1: it talks about economic justice. OXFAM America report just came out.
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  Speaker 1: Seventy four of the world's two thousand billionaires held either
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  Speaker 1: executive or legislative government positions in twenty twenty three. That's
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  Speaker 1: the last year for figures Now that's not a lot.
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  Speaker 1: That's three point six chance of holding office. According to Oxfam.
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  Speaker 1: Now the average global citizen, which is we who are
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  Speaker 1: not billionaires, we have a point zero zero zero nine
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  Speaker 1: percent chance of holding public office. And according to Rebecca Riddell,
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  Speaker 1: this year report really shines a light on the relationship
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  Speaker 1: between political inequality economic inequality, and so why not why not?
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  Speaker 1: Forbes came out of this and this is coinciding with
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  Speaker 1: a kickoff of the annual World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
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  Speaker 1: Big you will hear a lot about that. And this
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  Speaker 1: is this elite gathering of some of the richest people
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  Speaker 1: in the world as well as world leaders, and they schmooze.
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  Speaker 1: Let me just walk around, have a good time. Major
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  Speaker 1: deals are struck at DeVos. I think the sale of
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  Speaker 1: Pixar to Disney happened at DeVos, and they just walk around.
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  Speaker 1: Now I think there are breakouts and there's a keynote speaker,
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  Speaker 1: But for the most part, I would think the food
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  Speaker 1: tod be great. You know it's I want to do
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  Speaker 1: a story about that. And So a quick word about
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  Speaker 1: President Trump in this particular, in this term, he has
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  Speaker 1: a se the wealthiest cabinet and team in modern American history,
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  Speaker 1: multiple billionaires, multi millionaires leading government agencies. And that's what
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  Speaker 1: is done. And here is one of the controversies, because
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  Speaker 1: the Republican led Congress last year enacted a sweeping domestic
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  Speaker 1: policy package, big tax cuts for the wealthy and cuts
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  Speaker 1: to the safety net programs. But this is the president's view,
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  Speaker 1: is the Republican's view, certainly the magaview that social programs
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  Speaker 1: are not something the United States should move towards or have,
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  Speaker 1: and should be cut relative to enforcement of the border
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  Speaker 1: and our military defense. And it's simply a question of
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  Speaker 1: what the priorities are. So the other thing about billionaires.
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  Speaker 1: In twenty twenty five, their wealth grew three times faster
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  Speaker 1: than the past five years, reaching eighteen point three trillion dollars,
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  Speaker 1: And that's equal to about half of the entire wealth
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  Speaker 1: held by four point one billion people on the planet.
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  Speaker 1: The lower half of the population around the world has
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  Speaker 1: less money than these billionaires. Unfortunately, most of the world.
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  Speaker 1: We are so blessed because you have so many people
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  Speaker 1: around the world, poor, poor, poor people in Africa and
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: in India, where they struggle for a dollar a day.
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  Speaker 1: They wake up in the morning and all they do
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  Speaker 1: is figure out how they're going to eat that night.
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  Speaker 1: Families do that. Can you imagine living that way? Can
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  Speaker 1: you imagine living because and having kids and they go
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  Speaker 1: to work at six because families have to be fed,
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  Speaker 1: and there's so much of the world that is that way.
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  Speaker 1: It's really unfortunate. KFI am sixty. You've been listening to
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