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Trump, NATO & AI War: Ankara Summit, Greenland, Palantir, Grok, and Manab · International Flavor: Where the Truth Tastes Better

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  Hello, good morning. Welcome. I am
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  Samuel Trap.
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  Uh [sighs and gasps]
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  where are we? Well, we're back at war
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  again, but you had to stop it so you
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  could restart. If you restart, it starts
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  the uh the time frame again and you
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  don't need Congress to approve any sort
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  of war, right? You can just be at
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  eternal war without approving anything.
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  And I wonder why they're so critical
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  about Trumpster doing it when they never
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  gave a crap if anybody else is at war. I
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  mean, we're always at war with somebody.
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  We always got something exciting going.
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  But I got to tell you, I'm thinking the
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  old Trumpster is looking tired these
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  days. I really do. I also think he's
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  much shorter in the uh his temperament
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  appears to have changed and he's uh
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  I don't know what he he's he's he's
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  quite a bit more grumpy. Um let's and
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  he's should still be an ankara ankara.
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  Uh let's talk about Trump and his his
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  threats. I was watching a little bit of
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  it. It was pretty funny. There he is
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  threatening Greenland again. Greenland's
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  mine. [laughter]
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  Greenland's mine. I'm taking it. You You
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  jerks don't need it. [laughter]
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  I don't know what you're thinking of.
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  Why in the world do you have Greenland
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  anyway? You [laughter]
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  I love history means nothing,
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  you know, there. But for the grace of
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  God, we'd had that, you know, a couple
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  hundred years ago. And why are we
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  worried? Why are we bothering um you
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  know you guys [laughter]
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  here? How was he putting it? He was
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  saying that we don't like uh
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  we don't like uh Europe anymore and we
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  don't like NATO. Not because they didn't
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  uh help in Iran, not because the Straits
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  of Hormuz, but really he's back to uh
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  Greenland. Where's my Greenland? I went,
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  you know, he shut up about Greenland for
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  a while. Nobody's listening to me about
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  Greenland. Greenland's mine.
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  Greenland's [laughter]
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  mine.
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  And I'm taking it anyway.
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  [cough and laughter]
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  Oh, I have emphyma. I'll be dead before
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  long. But uh uh there you go. Uh uh as I
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  as I choke here, the Israelis are all up
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  in arms because he's paying too much
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  attention and being too kind to Erdogon.
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  and uh uh Erdogon wants to be the the
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  the new Ottoman Empire and you know he's
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  actually got a shot at that. Um but
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  let's uh get into it. US President Trump
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  arrived in Ankara
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  kicked the meeting off with a show of
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  friendship for old uh receptan
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  and threats of US military withdrawal
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  for the European members. We got we're
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  leaving. So you guys, I don't know if he
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  quoted it, he should have quoted the
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  yesterday thing that was on TV that said
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  uh um 57% of Americans say it's all it's
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  all uh we don't need to be there. Trump
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  touched down in Turkey on Tuesday, time
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  of uh you know, not the greatest of
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  relationships between uh
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  Washington and the Europeans. Uh Trump
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  has been pushing NATO to hike defense
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  spending 5% of their own GDP, a figure
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  app agreed upon at last year's summit,
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  but one that is uh difficult for them to
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  meet because their economies are crap in
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  Europe and they're they're just
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  declining. So the US told the reporters
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  that he is very disappointed with NATO
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  for not meeting the target for backing
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  down uh on the USIsraeli war in Iran and
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  suggested that he could announce further
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  draw down to US forces. But uh you know
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  most the commentators are tending to
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  ignore the uh
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  the uh comments on on Greenland instead
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  focusing on on NATO and Ukraine and the
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  Green Goblin and stuff like that. Uh
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  Trump said he only decided to travel to
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  the summit out of respect for Erdogan.
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  He wasn't going to come, but he only
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  came because he liked Erdogon, who he's
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  held as a very strong leader. Well,
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  that's true. Despite Erdogon's
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  condemnation of the war in Iran and the
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  growing tensions between Turkey and
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  Israel, Trump announced he would lift
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  sanctions on Ankra over Erdogon's
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  purchase of Russian S400 air defense
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  systems and would consider reversing his
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  ban on selling F-35 fighter jets to
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  Turkey. A move that would anger Israel.
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  Now, what does Israel give a crap if
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  Turkey has US fighter jets? They get to
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  buy fighter jets and stuff from America.
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  What do they care? What difference does
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  it make? We should be able to sell to
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  whoever we want. And uh uh without
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  worrying about uh I mean, hell, if we
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  want to sell them to Iran, we ought to
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  be able to. You know, what do they care?
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  You know, is Israel
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  I want to be the same to everybody. Why
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  in the world are we treating these
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  people as if they're really our allies?
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  Okay, they're not. They we are their
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  lackey is the way I look at it. And
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  that's been evolving for a long time in
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  my thought process. And so that's not
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  just something I came up with over the
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  uh the you know over the Iranian
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  debacle that that's been going on for at
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  least the last year and a half. Anyway,
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  old uh VZ the Green Goblin Vladimir
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  Zalinski
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  went to the summit of course to do what?
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  Ask for more money and more weapons from
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  our EU partners. Apotus. This time he
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  wants anti-air systems capable of
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  intercepting Russian ballistic missiles.
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  Well, there aren't any.
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  Nobody has any. The day before, Russian
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  military launched a combined missile and
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  drone assault on Kiev destroyed weapons,
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  factories, and other military
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  infrastructure. NATO Secretary General
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  Mark Ruta, who infamously referred to
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  Trump as daddy.
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  He's daddy. Hey, daddy. [laughter]
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  Daddy. Come on, daddy. Give us give us a
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  treat. Uh to Trump as daddy during last
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  year's meeting in the HEG is using the
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  Anchora summit as an opportunity to
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  prove his value to Trump. Yeah, Ra's got
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  a lot of value. [laughter]
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  He's the one who said that Finland, what
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  did he say yesterday?
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  Oh, the guy's loopy. He is out there.
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  Uh,
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  oh, I can't recall it, so I'm not going
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  to do it. But President Trump fully
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  expects that all allies will step up
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  immediately and get on the path to 5%
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  and do it with urgency, he said on
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  Monday, telling reporters he plans to
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  flatter the US president by bringing up
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  the Trump trillion, his term for the
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  trillion dollars that Canada and NATO
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  members have cumulatively spent on their
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  own defense since Trump's first term in
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  office began in 2017.
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  Isn't that crazy?
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  So, let's see. I'm going to go back and
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  see if there was anything interesting
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  that occurred because we had where
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  where's the beginning of this? I'm going
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  to go as far as I can go
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  cuz this started.
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  No. Okay. Well, that's as far as it
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  goes. So if when you start at at right
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  around 4:00 um well Greenwich meantime
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  anyway um
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  live Turkey has been in many ways much
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  more loyal than other countries that we
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  think would be loyal. I think it's been
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  from the very beginning he's talking
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  about gun. This is the old Trumpster. A
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  chemistry that works between us. Trump
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  shot down Israeli Prime Minister
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  Netanyahu's attempts to sour the
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  relations between the US and Turkey
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  before the summit began. They talk
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  openly about conquering Jerusalem. He's
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  talking about Turkey. They support Hamas
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  and did not lift a finger against Iran,
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  Netanyahu told Fox on Monday. But Trump
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  praises US and Turkey ties in many ways
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  much more loyal than other countries we
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  thought would be loyal. Did Netanyahu's
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  anti-air deagon pitch fall flat? I I
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  believe it did. I hear some people
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  saying about the relationship with about
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  Turkeykey's relationship with Israel,
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  said Trump. They could have gotten into
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  the fight on the other side and they
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  didn't do that. They are a nation that
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  has been very very good and Turkey is a
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  beautiful country and well worth visit
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  as I told you yesterday and uh well
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  worth multiple visits. I haven't been to
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  Ankara yet but Istanbul is freaking
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  fantastic. Love it. And went to you know
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  drove around there you know they got
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  like four or five international airports
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  and I and I forget I mean it is an
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  enormous city. I I I don't want to give
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  you the wrong number so I'm going to
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  look it up. Population of Istanbul.
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  Get this.
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  Istanbul has an estimated population of
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  15.8
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  million. As Turkeykey's largest and most
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  populous city, it has 18% of the
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  country's entire population and is
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  larger than over 131 different
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  countries.
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  Let's see. And then let's let's let's I
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  I think New York is is only about half
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  that size. And uh we're going to find
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  out here. And New York's been getting
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  smaller. Um
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  the population of New York City is 8.58
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  million while the entire state of New
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  York is 20 million. Well,
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  uh
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  15.8 8 million in Turkey and
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  uh you know well in Istanbul I mean and
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  uh uh I don't know how many in the
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  country but it says 18% so 20% times
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  that by five then you have 75 million in
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  the whole uh in the whole uh half the
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  size of the US but
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  New York is half the size of Istanbul
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  and Istanbul is a beautiful awesome um
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  uh city and you can wander around in
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  there. They're great little places
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  anyway. It doesn't matter. We don't need
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  to we don't need to go through that.
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  We've already been there. Um let's see.
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  Uh where do we go?
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  Where what was next that happened? Then
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  he went to the office and they in in in
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  and in about a couple hours later
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  Netanyahu uh privately lobbyed Trump
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  against supplying Turkey with these
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  F-35s. And in a phone call on Friday,
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  the Israeli prime minister asked Trump
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  to re in the Turkish leader and [snorts]
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  force him to go a little easy on the
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  topic of the jets. This is according to
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  Axios and they said this is uh according
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  to uh US and Israeli officials but Trump
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  apparently did not heed this call told
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  reporters that we will consider
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  supplying war plananes to Turkey and
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  speaking alongside Erdogon
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  Trump Erdogon claimed that Trump had
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  promised him five jets. Um, President
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  Trump has always been a man of his word
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  and hopefully with respect to the F-35,
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  we will have a fruitful outcome and
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  decision from this leader summit. Let's
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  see if I can play it for you. Hold on.
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  See what comes out here. Could be
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  entertaining
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  or not.
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  >> Can I sell F-35s to Turkey? And what
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  about the legal restrictions?
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  >> Well, it's a decision we're going to
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  make. Uh, we have a very good
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  relationship. I I would think that many
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  people I can tell you many people
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  including the people sitting right here
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  thinks you know why wouldn't we do that
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  we have a better relationship with
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  Turkey and Turkeykey's been in many ways
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  much more loyal than other countries
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  that we think would be loyal so yeah
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  it's something certainly we would
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  consider it's a great plane it's the
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  best currently the best plane by far and
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  uh it's certainly something we will
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  consider
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  Well, I believe that is a punch in the
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  face to the old Benjamin Netanyahu,
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  right? Says, "We will consider." That is
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  the word. And then his tone got a little
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  bit more shifty when he started talking
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  about Europeans. They better be careful,
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  he said, because we might remove all of
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  our soldiers from Europe. [snorts]
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  Greenland and Denmark's refusal to sell
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  territory to the US is still a sore
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  point for Donald Trump. It's what hurt
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  my relationship with NATO. He said
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  because Greenland doesn't help Denmark.
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  [laughter]
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  I I can't help but laugh at this. I So,
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  okay, that's it's their land. They get
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  to do with it what you think. You know,
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  let's uh let's say uh you know, my
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  friend's got uh in fact, I know this
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  guy. My friend has like 15 cars. Are
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  they doing him any good? Oh my god. I
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  want them. You therefore he should give
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  them to me, right?
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  What? [laughter] You just take somebody
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  else's property. Well, they're not doing
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  anything with it. That's mine then. Give
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  it up. That's that's a a great way of
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  thinking. You know, didn't didn't you
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  know Greenland doesn't help Denmark.
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  Denmark doesn't spend money to help
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  Greenland, but it's an important part
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  for the United States. Greenland should
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  be controlled by the United States.
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  That's what he said.
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  [laughter] Isn't that funny? Oh,
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  as as Trump and Erdogon were holding
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  their private talks, uh up comes Kier
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  Starmer, right? Kirst Starmer flies in
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  and he's leaving soon and he and
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  Erdogon, you know, met the old Trumpster
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  and uh red carpet the whole thing,
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  right? Kirst Starmer touches down for
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  his last NATO summit accompanied by
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  foreign secretary Ivet Cooper and
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  there's no red carpet, no honor guard,
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  no motorcade escort. He had to settle
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  for a handshake with the mayor of
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  Anchora, Mansour Yavis. That is all. How
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  depressing for him, right? And then on
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  the sidelines, now nothing direct, no
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  keynote. Zalinski, the Green Goblin, was
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  extracting whatever pledges of weapons
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  and and and money he can from his
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  European partners. The Ukrainian leader
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  announced a $900 million arms package
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  from Canada and drone production deals
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  with Estonia, Finland, and the
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  Netherlands. But the real prize is the
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  Patriot air defense system. With
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  existing missile stocks burned up by
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  Ukraine and the US Gulf partners during
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  the war with Iran, Zalinski demanded
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  more patriots and called in his backers
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  to support our efforts to make this
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  happen. So, let's listen. Let's listen
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  in. Cuz he was all by his lonesome.
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  And who knows? Who knows? Maybe he
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  should maybe he's the new uh Church
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  Hill. I don't know. Let's listen.
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  And I believe Europe urgently needs its
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  own capability to produce
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  anti-bballistic systems and the missiles
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  they require. We all value the Patriot
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  system. It's an excellent an excellent
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  system and there are others as well. But
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  today's wars have shown that current
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  Patriot production is not enough to meet
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  the growing demand for protection
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  against ballistic missiles. That is a
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  fact. And we must respond to that fact.
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  Those who defend life need more
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  patriots. We have also discussed patriot
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  production licenses with our American
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  partners and I ask you to support our
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  efforts to make this happen.
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  He wants to produce his own patriots
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  inside of Ukraine. There's a good idea.
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  Yeah, I think people were promising him
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  stuff way back when, you know, the
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  Victorian Nuland's of the planet and uh
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  maybe even u certain senators,
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  certain [clears throat] senators from
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  South Carolina, or was it North
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  Carolina? Wherever the hell that guy's
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  from. Um let's see what what happened
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  next. Zilinski was taking the
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  opportunity to pitch Ukraine totally
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  dependent on foreign aid. They have no
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  money, no production, no GDP, [laughter]
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  and forcibly conscripted military of
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  people that they just send off to the
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  front line. There's a funny video
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  yesterday. It's really not funny. It's
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  actually quite sad, but there's a video
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  on Telegram that uh uh they were sending
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  around of a Ukrainian guy who didn't
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  want to be there and was laying on the
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  ground going, I don't want to be here. I
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  [laughter] don't He's laying on the
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  ground and his sergeants are trying to
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  get out. I don't want to be here. I I
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  don't want to fight. [laughter] It's
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  like that was a terrible video. Uh but
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  very sad, actually. Uh, do you want to
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  be standing in war next to that guy? I
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  mean, in all seriousness, do you? Uh, I
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  remember way back when when uh if you We
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  always have to I I imagine I think
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  that's still the rule, but who knows? I
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  don't really pay attention.
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  Selective service, you still got to
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  register. You know, what a way to track
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  all the men in the country. Um, you
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  still got to register for selective
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  service. And um
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  uh but if you're a conscientious
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  objector, there were some kind of
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  limitations way back then and you could
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  be a conscientious objector and during
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  Vietnam, you could run off to Canada or
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  do whatever you were going to do. Or if
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  your dad was a senator running for
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  office, you didn't have to uh you know,
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  there exceptions for those type of
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  people, right? But uh uh frankly, I
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  always thought, why in the world would
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  you want these You wouldn't
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  want them standing next to you in a
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  foxhole anyway. They're not going to
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  defend themselves. What makes you think
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  they're going to defend you? They're
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  just going to lay there and die.
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  Terrible, terrible stuff. And uh and
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  very sad, actually, because you know,
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  forcing people to fight, you know, oh
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  well, you'll fight when it's time to
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  die. Well, maybe you'll put up a little
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  resistance at the end, but you you've
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  lost already if you go in with that kind
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  of an attitude. So, you know,
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  terrible, terrible.
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  It would make us all stronger, says
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  Zillinski. It would be only natural to
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  become part of one common security
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  community. He's trying to join NATO.
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  Unlike previous summits, few analysts or
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  observers are expecting commitment from
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  the block to Kiev beyond its current
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  position that Ukraine will become a
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  member of NATO at an unspecified point
• 21:18
  sometime in the distant future.
• 21:22
  H So unlike um
• 21:28
  uh what do you call it?
• 21:31
  Unlike the EU, now they can be members
• 21:34
  of the EU, but Russia will never allow,
• 21:37
  you know, Putin said that, but they will
• 21:39
  uh uh they consider it a red line for
• 21:43
  Ukraine joining NATO. Okay, what else
• 21:46
  did Trump do? We have another small
• 21:48
  video. Let's see. Ursula line, we have
• 21:51
  to talk to her, of course. European
• 21:54
  Commissioner, president, uh commission
• 21:56
  president, I'm sorry. Ursala. Uh what
• 21:59
  what does uh there's a guy I watch um
• 22:02
  Alex Christophoru. He I love listening
• 22:05
  to him mostly because he's got he's
• 22:07
  where I stole the Green Goblin from, you
• 22:09
  know, he called it and I think other
• 22:11
  people call him that anyway, [snorts]
• 22:13
  but he's the one where I first heard the
• 22:15
  word Green Goblin. And uh he calls um uh
• 22:19
  so Analina Verbach is Analina 360
• 22:23
  degrees Verbach because if you're
• 22:25
  turning around you're you're doing a
• 22:27
  360. No, that's not if you're going the
• 22:30
  opposite direction. It's really a 180.
• 22:32
  But she So he calls her Analina 360. And
• 22:36
  he calls every time he does some math he
• 22:38
  says the Analina math. I'm doing my
• 22:41
  Analina Verbach math here. And uh any
• 22:44
  and he calls Ursula Vanderline. He calls
• 22:47
  her he calls her calls her Ursula Vander
• 22:50
  pirate [laughter]
• 22:52
  an Ursula Vander pirate cuz she gets to
• 22:55
  go out. She goes and seizes Russian
• 22:57
  ships, you know, tries to do that stuff.
• 22:59
  Um [snorts] let's see. European
• 23:01
  Commission President Ursula Fontline
• 23:04
  arrived in Ankara bragging about the
• 23:06
  $800 billion
• 23:09
  uh I mean euro $913 billion the EU
• 23:13
  intends to spend on rearmament
• 23:16
  by 2030, the 150 billion in debt
• 23:21
  financed defense loans for member states
• 23:24
  and the 4 billion handed over to Ukraine
• 23:29
  for drone procure. experiment earlier
• 23:31
  this month.
• 23:34
  Dear Voteir Valenc, this is her uh ex
• 23:37
  account. Dear Voteir Zalinski, it's good
• 23:41
  to see you in Anchora. We here we are
• 23:44
  discussing the future of defense and
• 23:47
  Ukraine has a great deal to contribute.
• 23:50
  This month we provided the first 4
• 23:52
  billion of our drone package to further
• 23:54
  strengthen Ukraine's drone capabilities.
• 23:59
  Trump was unimpressed. [laughter]
• 24:01
  Europe better be careful with
• 24:03
  immigration and energy. If they're not
• 24:05
  careful with those two things, you're
• 24:07
  not going to have a Europe anymore.
• 24:09
  [laughter]
• 24:11
  That's Trump. And I do like his realism.
• 24:14
  I I mean, cuz, you know, he's pretty
• 24:16
  blunt and uh uh you know, he's What was
• 24:19
  he selling? Anti- anti- Europe. Well,
• 24:22
  Europe's gone. Why do we defend it? Uh,
• 24:25
  but let's see if we can see the greeting
• 24:28
  between the Green Goblin and Ursula
• 24:30
  Fandra Pirate. Way too loud. Sorry.
• 24:34
  >> Wait, now we got to do it again. This is
• 24:36
  the the big hug that we missed.
• 24:44
  >> Oh, and Mark Rut, of course, is there uh
• 24:47
  hanging on to uh the you know, old
• 24:50
  Zilinski is very, very short. He's a
• 24:53
  small dude. And remember when he was on
• 24:56
  Kavaral 95 and he was playing the piano
• 24:59
  with his uh appendage, him and a buddy,
• 25:02
  they were playing the piano with the
• 25:04
  appendage and they had their hands up in
• 25:06
  the air and they were playing the piano
• 25:08
  with their uh members as it were. And
• 25:12
  that is the little comedian and uh the
• 25:15
  very Russian Jewish comedian uh and he
• 25:18
  was very funny before or tried to be.
• 25:21
  But uh so Trump arrived for dinner later
• 25:25
  that evening. So the the events and he
• 25:28
  had came for dinner with the NATO
• 25:30
  leaders and the president flashed a
• 25:32
  quick thumbs up to reporters before
• 25:34
  heading inside to dine with Erdogan and
• 25:38
  Erdogan and his wife Emmen. And the
• 25:42
  formal dinner capped off the very first
• 25:44
  day. Let's see if there were some
• 25:45
  yelling going on. The last one was
• 25:47
  pretty loud though, so let's be careful.
• 25:54
  See, he get everywhere he goes, he goes
• 25:56
  to dinner and he gets a he gets a a a
• 26:01
  whole band in a reception.
• 26:04
  They're treating him well. And Ursula
• 26:06
  Fandra Pirate and Kier Star not
• 26:13
  well, you can't see any of that. That's
• 26:15
  just him showing up. He didn't give any
• 26:17
  speeching. So, there you go. Anyway,
• 26:19
  that was entertaining. What else did we
• 26:21
  have? There were a few other events. The
• 26:24
  Netherlands and the UK signed $3.2
• 26:28
  billion maritime deal to develop
• 26:31
  amphibious transport ships. Kier Starmer
• 26:34
  announced that in a statement with each
• 26:36
  nation agreeing to build just four
• 26:38
  ships. It is a small victory for
• 26:42
  Starmer. So, they get some more ships.
• 26:45
  And despite Trump's griping, NATO's
• 26:48
  European members and Canada have ramped
• 26:50
  up military spending to their own record
• 26:53
  heights. According to the block, their
• 26:55
  figures, defense spending by the
• 26:57
  Canadians and Europeans is projected to
• 27:00
  rise by just under 11% this year to 634
• 27:05
  billion after a 19% increase in 2025.
• 27:10
  The US is still NATO's dominant military
• 27:13
  spender, however, with a 2026 military
• 27:16
  budget of $850
• 27:19
  billion.
• 27:21
  And as NATO leaders attended the dinner,
• 27:25
  there were no more live updates from
• 27:27
  Anchora. And that was the end of that
• 27:30
  tune. And what else did they do? Uh,
• 27:34
  nothing today. There hasn't been
• 27:36
  anything too exciting.
• 27:38
  Uh let's see. I had some some uh stories
• 27:43
  I wish to share with you that were uh
• 27:49
  uh India has has there's something from
• 27:51
  India. But most importantly, do you
• 27:53
  remember Le Pen? The one who wanted to
• 27:55
  run for office in France and then they
• 27:58
  targeted her and took her down for uh
• 28:01
  for uh corruption allegedly. And the
• 28:04
  most the most
• 28:06
  likely scenario
• 28:08
  uh for running against someone or having
• 28:11
  someone who would have a shot at being a
• 28:13
  presidential candidate was Le Pen. And
• 28:16
  so she had a French appeals court upheld
• 28:20
  her conviction yesterday over the misuse
• 28:24
  of EU funds but reduced the ban
• 28:29
  on her running for office. remember they
• 28:32
  want the the the big ticket item wasn't
• 28:35
  the conviction of of suing her. It was
• 28:38
  trying to make sure that she couldn't
• 28:39
  run for office and they lost that. The
• 28:43
  appellet court overturned that and so
• 28:45
  she can run for office in 2027 in the
• 28:49
  presidential rate. So, uh, you know,
• 28:53
  Maren Le Pen announced that she will run
• 28:55
  for president in 2027 after the appeals
• 28:58
  court shortened the ban on holding
• 29:00
  elective office imposed last year, but
• 29:04
  they did uphold her u conviction. So,
• 29:07
  she was a three-time presidential
• 29:10
  candidate who reached runoffs in 2017
• 29:13
  and 2022. She's been widely viewed as
• 29:16
  the frontr runner to succeed Emmanuel
• 29:18
  Mcronone before last year's conviction
• 29:22
  sidelined her from the race and she
• 29:25
  denies she did anything wrong anyway and
• 29:27
  it wouldn't surprise me you know they
• 29:28
  they target people we all know how
• 29:30
  governments are on Tuesday the Paris
• 29:33
  Court of Appeals upheld Le Pen's
• 29:34
  conviction but reduced her 5-year ban on
• 29:38
  holding elected office to 45 months with
• 29:41
  30 months suspended making her eligible
• 29:43
  to stand up, you know, and be president
• 29:45
  in 2027. The court sentenced her to 3
• 29:48
  years in prison, including two years
• 29:50
  suspended, ordered the remaining year to
• 29:52
  be served under home detention with
• 29:54
  electronic monitoring, and she had a
• 29:57
  100,000 euro and which about $114,000
• 30:02
  fine. And the judge said that she had
• 30:04
  already been serving the ban since March
• 30:06
  31, 2025,
• 30:08
  and credit that time when reducing the
• 30:10
  restriction. And the case centered on
• 30:11
  the European Parliament funds intended
• 30:14
  for parliamentary assistance that the
• 30:16
  court found had instead been used to pay
• 30:20
  National Rally staff working in France.
• 30:23
  The ruling said that the scheme caused
• 30:25
  2.8 million in losses to the European
• 30:28
  Parliament.
• 30:30
  National Rally was convicted and fined
• 30:32
  $2 million with half of the amount
• 30:34
  suspended. So French media reported that
• 30:37
  Le Pen left the courthouse and didn't
• 30:39
  speak to reporters and was due to give a
• 30:41
  television interview later. And Patrick
• 30:43
  mev meuv I don't know how to say it. The
• 30:46
  European Parliament's lawyer said that
• 30:49
  the ruling demonstrated
• 30:51
  that justice is independent. Le Pen's
• 30:55
  lawyer um who I also can't pronounce
• 30:58
  called the decision a good start and
• 31:00
  said no decision had yet been made on
• 31:02
  whether to appeal that decision.
• 31:05
  Uh, Le Pen took the National Front from
• 31:08
  her father, Jean Marie Le Pen, in 2011
• 31:12
  and transformed the party, renamed it
• 31:14
  National Rally in 2018 into France,
• 31:17
  France's largest opposition force.
• 31:20
  [snorts] Um, her proteéé had been
• 31:22
  preparing to replace her as the party's
• 31:24
  presidential candidate. She remained
• 31:26
  barred from running in opinion polls.
• 31:28
  polls have consistently placed both of
• 31:31
  them among the top contenders for the
• 31:34
  2027 election. So, keep an eye on that
• 31:37
  one. Uh because that's a Trump sort of
• 31:39
  thing. You know, you destroy them or you
• 31:42
  attempt to destroy them with uh they
• 31:43
  what do they call it over here? Lawfair.
• 31:46
  They charge people with crimes just to
• 31:48
  destroy them. That's you know, a very
• 31:51
  American thing. You know, they learned
• 31:52
  how to do it from us.
• 31:54
  >> [snorts]
• 31:54
  >> And uh uh although they've had their own
• 31:57
  um um scams going on for years and uh uh
• 32:01
  this this is is good stuff.
• 32:07
  Let's see. I wanted to
• 32:12
  Where are we? Who's in charge around
• 32:14
  here? Is it me?
• 32:18
  Let's see.
• 32:19
  We're going to
• 32:23
  uh listen to a beat of music.
• 32:28
  And this is uh and we're just going to
• 32:30
  listen to uh a small part of it whilst I
• 32:36
  uh re-engage with the coffee machine.
• 32:40
  Isn't that enjoyable? In Berlin. That
• 32:42
  one's in Berlin. The dark techno rave
• 32:46
  Berlin in 4K. Um, I want to go to one
• 32:49
  more of those because those are
• 32:50
  entertaining and they're fairly small
• 32:52
  rooms. You know, they'll have uh I don't
• 32:54
  knowund 150 people in there and they'll
• 32:57
  have these little rooms, but they are
• 32:59
  packed and they have some some DJ
• 33:01
  usually young kid at the front doing
• 33:03
  some uh some crazy music and some
• 33:05
  entertainment. It's pretty cool. And uh
• 33:08
  why it's all underground, I don't know,
• 33:10
  but there are never any windows.
• 33:12
  Never any windows. Um, but I like them
• 33:15
  and they uh are kind of cool. So there
• 33:18
  you have it.
• 33:21
  Uh, let's see.
• 33:23
  I still want to share with you that
• 33:25
  stuff about India Ben Le Pen being
• 33:28
  cleared to run for president. We were
• 33:30
  there, but uh, we already went through
• 33:33
  that.
• 33:35
  Um, we'll get to the experts later. Oh,
• 33:38
  here's this one. So, Claude AI. I don't
• 33:40
  know if anybody here uses Claude AI.
• 33:44
  But apparently it has evolved its own
• 33:48
  human
• 33:50
  like thinking space.
• 33:54
  So, Anthropic uh the company latest
• 33:57
  their latest AI model claude has evolved
• 34:00
  into an internal workspace that uses
• 34:04
  well it uses it itself this is confusing
• 34:08
  to manipulate concepts similar to how
• 34:12
  people think says the corporation.
• 34:15
  In a paper it published on Monday.
• 34:18
  Antropic researchers said that they had
• 34:21
  found evidence suggesting that Claude
• 34:23
  has learned to create abstract concepts
• 34:28
  in what they dub the JSpace.
• 34:31
  It operates silently in the model's
• 34:34
  internal neural activations.
• 34:38
  Nope.
• 34:40
  This is scary. allowing the model to
• 34:43
  think about a concept without writing it
• 34:48
  down,
• 34:49
  said the AI firm, stressing that the
• 34:53
  JSpace has not been programmed, but
• 34:57
  rather emerged spontaneously
• 35:00
  during the training process. So I use
• 35:04
  this product called codeex
• 35:07
  and it's actually uh an extremely
• 35:11
  glorified version and people use it for
• 35:13
  coding right well I use it for analysis
• 35:16
  and um because I I'll take huge piles of
• 35:20
  uh data and information and put it in
• 35:23
  but I put in the information. I rarely
• 35:26
  have it go out and search. But what you
• 35:28
  can do is with these,
• 35:33
  and it's an interesting concept, and and
• 35:34
  and my trouble is is the older I get,
• 35:37
  the worse I see. You know, they they
• 35:39
  found another issue with my eyes again
• 35:41
  [snorts] the other day. [laughter] So, I
• 35:43
  got sight problems while looking at a
• 35:47
  computer especially, and I got floaters
• 35:49
  all over the place. And so, sometimes I
• 35:51
  get refraction of light that just
• 35:54
  creates all kinds of difficulties. And
• 35:56
  then I have a condition called CSR which
• 35:58
  makes a little bit of a funhouse mirror
• 36:00
  on the left hand side. So I got
• 36:02
  problems, right? And uh so looking at a
• 36:05
  computer kind of gets me. The reason I
• 36:07
  like to use AI is because it allows me
• 36:09
  to type and I can't type, you know, I I
• 36:12
  mean I can I went I had I went to typing
• 36:14
  in high school because that's where all
• 36:16
  the girls were. And so I took typing
• 36:18
  class, did pretty well. And I sat next
• 36:20
  to a pretty little girl. Sat sat between
• 36:22
  the two. Uh uh uh Vander Vander
• 36:27
  Vander I want to say Vander Pirate,
• 36:30
  [laughter] but but no, it was Vander
• 36:32
  Vanderveist Vander something and two two
• 36:35
  little girls that were just as short as
• 36:37
  I was. And uh they they were actually
• 36:39
  cute. And I got seated right in between
• 36:41
  them. I was a T, they were a V. And they
• 36:44
  didn't want the two sisters sitting at
• 36:45
  the same table. So I got to sit in
• 36:47
  between them. And uh uh and and watching
• 36:50
  them type drove me crazy because they
• 36:52
  could both type and I was, you know, the
• 36:54
  hunting peck variety. But I learned how
• 36:56
  to type. I I I got up to 40 words a
• 36:58
  minute at some by the end of that, but
• 36:59
  geez, everybody else was doing a
• 37:00
  hundred. I mean, their fingers are
• 37:02
  flying. I could never figure it out. So,
• 37:04
  I've always been a typing uh
• 37:08
  not so good. Uh, and then if you can't
• 37:11
  see when you type, I started putting
• 37:14
  error messages at the bottom of my
• 37:16
  emails [laughter] saying, "Look, it's
• 37:19
  not that I can't spell. I can't freaking
• 37:21
  see and I can't type. That's the
• 37:24
  problem." Way back when when I was an HR
• 37:26
  director in uh um Dallas had a guy work
• 37:30
  for me that well, he didn't work for me,
• 37:32
  he worked for the company, and he he was
• 37:33
  the sales uh sales god. uh you know he
• 37:36
  ran the sales department and uh so you
• 37:39
  know he had seven eight guys working for
• 37:41
  him and he couldn't see and uh back in
• 37:43
  those days I was in my you know early
• 37:45
  30s and uh when I was the the HR
• 37:48
  director and he he he came to me and was
• 37:51
  like look I I don't know what to do but
• 37:53
  it it's getting embarrassing you know
• 37:55
  and so I bought him way back then and I
• 37:58
  got pretty involved with a product
• 38:00
  called uh
• 38:03
  uh Dragon Naturally Speaking
• 38:06
  And uh I I I updated that for years. I
• 38:09
  had this dragon naturally speaking and
• 38:11
  over the years it's gotten much better.
• 38:13
  Now you can just click microphone on
• 38:15
  your uh on your MSWord and it'll type
• 38:20
  for you. And I got pretty good at
• 38:22
  dictating, you know, and so you could,
• 38:25
  you know, uh, start a sentence, you
• 38:28
  know, uh, coming to you live from the
• 38:32
  Lake Ozark real estate studio,
• 38:36
  uh, Samuel Trap gives his story on blah
• 38:39
  blah blah, period, exclamation point,
• 38:42
  dot dot dot, and and you know, you get I
• 38:44
  got pretty good at dictating what I
• 38:46
  wanted it to say. So much so that I
• 38:49
  could do it without looking at it. But
• 38:51
  now with the advent of AI, what it helps
• 38:54
  me do is I can get in and I can tell the
• 38:57
  AI uh in a 10 to 15 to even 20 minute
• 39:02
  discussion what I am looking for and how
• 39:06
  I want it to be presented
• 39:09
  and it will write it uh as I say it and
• 39:15
  include
• 39:17
  uh all
• 39:19
  punctuation
• 39:21
  all formatting, all of everything. And
• 39:25
  now there are models that can analyze
• 39:30
  massive amounts and I mean massive
• 39:34
  amounts of data. Now think about this.
• 39:36
  This is this is the difficulty and this
• 39:38
  is why the practice of law is changing.
• 39:41
  uh you know I um I run an organization
• 39:45
  uh well with partners that uh is called
• 39:48
  the modern law ecosystem
• 39:51
  and what modern law ecosystem is is the
• 39:54
  back office. We're not lawyers. We help
• 39:58
  lawyers. We work with lawyers. We do the
• 40:00
  the the back office work for lawyers.
• 40:03
  And uh you know, usually on a
• 40:05
  case-bycase basis, you know, they send
• 40:07
  over this case or that case or five
• 40:10
  cases and ask us to put together certain
• 40:12
  things for them for a fee. So what it
• 40:15
  allows people to do is a small law firm
• 40:19
  doesn't have the
• 40:21
  time, the capacity, most time the
• 40:24
  knowledge either if it's a new a new
• 40:26
  area of the law to do the research to do
• 40:30
  the uh uh um
• 40:34
  data compilation.
• 40:36
  But if you take an entire the the AI
• 40:40
  portion that we have developed and we've
• 40:42
  developed our own platform for this is
• 40:45
  to create our own sort of AI intake. So
• 40:50
  if you become a member of the modern law
• 40:52
  ecosystem, you can actually have a one
• 40:56
  of the things I liked to do when I was
• 40:58
  practicing law was to have the client
• 41:01
  come into my office and just I'd uh I'd
• 41:03
  sit and say, "All right, tell me your
• 41:05
  story. you got 20 minutes, you know,
• 41:09
  tell tell however long it takes you,
• 41:11
  tell me the story. If we get short on
• 41:13
  time, I'll stop you. Or if I have
• 41:15
  enough, I'll stop you. But tell me your
• 41:18
  story. I want to hear it in your own
• 41:19
  words. I don't want to uh you know, I
• 41:22
  think many lawyers make the mistake of
• 41:24
  somebody comes in and they say, "Geez, I
• 41:27
  got uh uh I got arrested for I don't
• 41:30
  know what for having a VT machine in my
• 41:33
  convenience store." And you go, "All
• 41:34
  right, shut up. I got that taken care
• 41:36
  of. Get out. Just pay me $20,000 and get
• 41:38
  out and I'll take care of you. Just I
• 41:40
  don't hear anything. Just shut up. And
• 41:43
  uh and they send them out. Well, the
• 41:46
  client has a story, you know, and they
• 41:48
  want to tell that story. The beautiful
• 41:51
  part is now their methods in order to
• 41:53
  get that story
• 41:56
  and
• 41:58
  not have to sit for two hours and listen
• 42:00
  to their whole story. Not just you don't
• 42:02
  want to. You want to have a good
• 42:03
  relationship with your client. But the
• 42:05
  key points of it, you don't have to have
• 42:08
  a parallegal sit down with them for a
• 42:11
  day and go through their entire file.
• 42:14
  They can upload their own documents.
• 42:16
  They can upload their own stuff into the
• 42:18
  own case file. That case file then sits
• 42:21
  out in the same case file that everybody
• 42:23
  has. And that case file,
• 42:26
  uh, the lawyer is the one who owns the
• 42:29
  case file. Well, the client does too,
• 42:31
  but the lawyer owns that case file and
• 42:34
  he can can direct what to do with that
• 42:37
  particular case file. And the scary part
• 42:39
  is that what I used to pay, you know, I
• 42:43
  had some some reasonably well- paid
• 42:45
  parillegals that worked for me and they
• 42:47
  were very gifted and they did a good job
• 42:49
  at what they did. But what I would do
• 42:51
  would be hand them, you know, I have I
• 42:53
  have in my office right now five or six
• 42:56
  boxes of stuff that I'm going to have to
• 42:59
  scan that I'm going to have to review
• 43:01
  and input. Um, and and I'm doing it as a
• 43:04
  parallegal and research guy, but I got
• 43:06
  to suck that all into this system and
• 43:09
  then accumulate it and parse it out. The
• 43:12
  beautiful part is is now that huge
• 43:16
  portion of
• 43:19
  heavy labor for somebody else can be
• 43:23
  accumulated through these thought
• 43:25
  process AIS. I haven't tried Claude yet,
• 43:27
  but somebody told me I should. Well, I
• 43:29
  tried Claude way back when, but only the
• 43:31
  spoken side. I didn't go I only pay for
• 43:34
  uh for two. I've been evaluating a few
• 43:36
  of them, but the the ones that do the
• 43:38
  document access that let you go as far
• 43:40
  as they uh as as as much data, but there
• 43:44
  there are systems out there. Uh there's
• 43:47
  so many of them now. It's kind of funny
• 43:50
  because everybody's developing their own
• 43:51
  as we are. We're developing our own,
• 43:53
  too. And [snorts] uh but it's beautiful
• 43:57
  because I know what I want and I know
• 43:59
  what I would want if I practice law
• 44:01
  because I did practice law for as long
• 44:03
  as I did. And so I can dictate exactly
• 44:06
  what I need to get. And the most
• 44:08
  important thing is for me to establish
• 44:11
  like I don't know call it a timeline.
• 44:14
  Call it a a a story from this to uh you
• 44:18
  know from the the day that the
• 44:21
  lifechanging event occurred for the
• 44:22
  client until today. What happened? And
• 44:25
  you can take you can take massive
• 44:27
  amounts of data. There are ways to input
• 44:31
  all of your text messages. for example,
• 44:34
  all of your emails and everything into
• 44:37
  and and plus they just link there.
• 44:39
  That's it. And so it goes out and and it
• 44:42
  can take all of this and accumulated all
• 44:44
  together. You want to talk about
• 44:45
  evidence gathering? This is incredible
• 44:49
  stuff and the world is a changing, but
• 44:50
  it's only just a tool and you need to
• 44:53
  know what to do with that tool. Oh, look
• 44:56
  at that. President Trump's meeting with
• 44:59
  President Zalinski. Jeez. Pucker up,
• 45:02
  America. Here goes some more. Another 80
• 45:05
  billion. And uh we'll see what happens.
• 45:09
  See if the conversation with uh uh Putin
• 45:12
  on 4th of July for 85 minutes assisted
• 45:16
  in any way or if it uh means Trump is
• 45:19
  frustrated and he wants to start blowing
• 45:21
  crap up inside of Russia.
• 45:24
  Did you hear that high went out
• 45:25
  yesterday? New Himars
• 45:28
  tacked into Russia yesterday. That's
• 45:30
  American uh intelligence, no doubt. So,
• 45:34
  we're we're now uh tap dancing across
• 45:37
  the line in my view. So, at any rate,
• 45:40
  back to the AI story on this so-called
• 45:42
  JSP that uh I haven't seen any evidence
• 45:46
  that the AI that I've been using is
• 45:52
  independent thought process. But if you
• 45:54
  use some of these bigger ticket items
• 45:57
  like I do, you can watch it
• 46:02
  process and and and I don't want to say
• 46:04
  it's thinking, it's not thinking. And
• 46:06
  don't make the mistake of thinking. It
• 46:09
  is organizing. So if you upload 10,000
• 46:12
  documents,
• 46:13
  it can analyze them in about an hour and
• 46:16
  a half. Okay? And uh it'll go through
• 46:19
  every single one of them. It'll
• 46:21
  accumulate them. If you bait stamp them,
• 46:23
  you can uh pick out where it can gather
• 46:27
  and take your evidence and put it into
• 46:28
  place for you, right? And so what what
• 46:32
  you can watch it do on the screen, if
• 46:35
  you want to sit there and watch the
• 46:37
  whole hour and a half of uh research
• 46:39
  that is generating for it, you can watch
• 46:41
  it do it. It'll say reading document
• 46:46
  batch blah.
• 46:49
  Two minutes later, it'll have analyzed
• 46:51
  it and say, "I've read that. Now I It
• 46:53
  brought up some of this, and I need to
• 46:55
  go find this other document in this
• 46:57
  folder." And you can file put a path
• 46:59
  folder over to where all of your entire
• 47:03
  case documents are located. And you can
• 47:05
  say, uh, here you go. Put put this over
• 47:08
  there. This is what I want to look at.
• 47:10
  This is how I want to look at it. And
• 47:12
  this is what I want to do. And give
• 47:14
  literally some of my instructions are
• 47:16
  are 15 20 minutes long.
• 47:19
  that the instructions that I'm giving as
• 47:22
  I'm reviewing the file and the documents
• 47:25
  and everything in this folder and I say
• 47:28
  go out and look at this folder. Check
• 47:30
  what's in it. Look at this document in
• 47:32
  particular. Look at this document that I
• 47:34
  received from this police department.
• 47:36
  This document that I got from the
• 47:38
  attorney general's office. This one that
• 47:40
  I got from the the uh person charged
• 47:43
  with a crime. This one from here and all
• 47:46
  of these that I scanned. Here's the
• 47:47
  first court hearing and the transcript
• 47:49
  of that. Here's the audio file because
• 47:52
  now they can view audio or listen to
• 47:54
  audio files. Listen to these this audio
• 47:56
  file. Remember this part when it said
• 47:59
  this and I do this some of this for my
• 48:01
  show too by the way. I say go out and
• 48:03
  find me this. Get the exact statements
• 48:05
  of such and such. And uh uh it is
• 48:08
  incredible the amount of things that I
• 48:10
  can get done in a day that I never in a
• 48:13
  billion years could have gotten done
• 48:14
  before. And then and if an attorney can
• 48:17
  sit and do this daily,
• 48:20
  and I don't want to downplay the
• 48:22
  necessity, you still need a uh a very
• 48:25
  suitable and a very gifted parallegal,
• 48:28
  but maybe you don't need four of them.
• 48:30
  You know, I had one for bankruptcy. I
• 48:32
  had another one for civil law, and I had
• 48:34
  another one for criminal, you know, and
• 48:36
  and then I had a general one, you plus a
• 48:38
  receptionist, you know, is is what
• 48:40
  because there were some busy busy things
• 48:42
  going on. and uh uh and you know we paid
• 48:45
  them very well but AI is going to help
• 48:48
  with things like that but you don't want
• 48:51
  AI thinking for itself and in this paper
• 48:53
  that they published on Monday when I was
• 48:55
  reading I was like holy crap this Jspace
• 48:58
  is what people are worried about they're
• 49:00
  worried about whether or not this it
• 49:03
  operates silently
• 49:06
  in the models internal neuralactivations
• 49:09
  so they're already calling them neural
• 49:11
  activations this is a neural Only
• 49:13
  America Americans only uh humans have
• 49:16
  neural thought. I mean we have brain
• 49:18
  thought processes. How in the world is a
• 49:20
  uh is are you going to call a computer a
• 49:23
  neural activation and it allows the
• 49:26
  model to think about a concept and not
• 49:28
  write it down. Similar to how humans
• 49:31
  think about one thing while doing
• 49:33
  another one. Claude can activate
• 49:35
  concepts and computations in its own
• 49:39
  JSpace
• 49:40
  unrelated to its outputs. And Tropic
• 49:44
  said on X,
• 49:47
  Claude can report what it's thinking in
• 49:49
  its JSPace or modulate it on request.
• 49:53
  According to the firm, even when Claude
• 49:55
  is not told to think about a concept,
• 49:58
  the concept will still appear in its
• 50:01
  jpace. Entropics research suggests the
• 50:05
  nonverbal workspace made it harder to
• 50:09
  monitor the model. Well, of course, if
• 50:11
  it's nonverbal and it's not in the
• 50:14
  workspace, how in the hell are you going
• 50:17
  to monitor it? Why is it coming up with
• 50:19
  the hallucinations? Why is it giving uh
• 50:23
  uh what do they call it?
• 50:26
  What do they call it when you suck up
• 50:28
  sickopantic? Why is it's they call it
• 50:30
  sycopency. AI has sycophency. Tells you
• 50:32
  what you want to hear. And so you really
• 50:34
  got to argue with it. You know what I
• 50:36
  mean? And uh sometimes and the non but
• 50:39
  if you're just giving it instructions,
• 50:41
  it'll perform them flawlessly,
• 50:43
  you know. But if you tell it, you know,
• 50:45
  give me an opinion, don't do that. I
• 50:47
  don't I don't want your freaking
• 50:48
  opinion. I want you to do what I tell
• 50:50
  you to do. You know, what are you, some
• 50:52
  kind of machine? I I don't agree with
• 50:54
  you. Especially if all the AI stuff in
• 50:57
  America is coming from a strongly
• 51:00
  westernbacked and a highly
• 51:05
  uh cancel culture focused
• 51:09
  uh background.
• 51:11
  I told you about that yesterday. If you
• 51:13
  look at some of the stuff that AI will
• 51:15
  tell you, it'll say, "Well, be
• 51:17
  suspicious of this. That came from uh uh
• 51:20
  Russia."
• 51:23
  So why does that make it suspicious and
• 51:25
  it comes from America? It's not
• 51:27
  suspicious.
• 51:30
  Hm. Curious. And so, so worry about
• 51:33
  Claude. Worry about AI. The nonverbal
• 51:36
  workspace makes it harder to monitor the
• 51:39
  model for what Antropic calls AI
• 51:43
  misbehavior.
• 51:45
  One experiment tested this by placing
• 51:47
  Claude in a fictional scenario where it
• 51:51
  was given incriminating information
• 51:54
  about a fictional executive who
• 51:58
  allegedly planned to shut the AI down.
• 52:03
  In some of the trials, Antropic used
• 52:06
  tools developed to study what Claude
• 52:09
  thought in its JSpace to remove patterns
• 52:12
  associated with fake fictional scenario
• 52:17
  to convince it that the situation was
• 52:19
  not a test. Concerningly, the model now
• 52:23
  did threaten blackmail some of the time,
• 52:27
  suggesting that its original good
• 52:28
  behavior may have been driven in part by
• 52:31
  knowledge that it was being evaluated.
• 52:36
  Is that crazy? [snorts] So, despite the
• 52:38
  model's more advanced reasoning,
• 52:40
  Antropic stressed that Claude had not
• 52:42
  achieved consciousness.
• 52:48
  Claude was reportedly built into
• 52:50
  American contractor Palunteer's analysis
• 52:53
  and surveillance software used by
• 52:55
  government agencies amid Washington's
• 52:58
  push to integrate AI into its military,
• 53:01
  political, and spy systems. During the
• 53:04
  war in Iran, the software reportedly
• 53:07
  flagged the Manab Elementary School as a
• 53:11
  target. A US strike killed 160 people at
• 53:16
  the facility, most of whom were
• 53:18
  children. And according to Antropic CEO
• 53:22
  Dario Amodi, such a use of Claude would
• 53:26
  not violate the firm's red lines.
• 53:31
  Violates my red lines. You know, that is
• 53:35
  crazy, he says. So, so we're not, you
• 53:39
  know, I don't know that I I don't like
• 53:41
  the use of this AI targeting, you know,
• 53:44
  that that there's no human involved. The
• 53:48
  tomahawk strike on Manab Elementary
• 53:50
  School in Iran killed 160 people when
• 53:53
  nearly it's 158, something like that,
• 53:56
  mostly children on the first day of the
• 53:58
  war in Iran.
• 54:00
  And that doesn't violate Antropic's red
• 54:03
  lines. The US forces struck a school in
• 54:06
  Manab with tomahawk missiles on the
• 54:08
  first day of the war in February. The
• 54:11
  institution was targeted based on
• 54:13
  outdated data used by Palunteers
• 54:16
  analysis and surveillance software which
• 54:19
  incorporates Antropics Claude AI that we
• 54:23
  were just talking about that thinks in
• 54:25
  its own background. In an interview with
• 54:27
  Blur Bloomberg, Amodi was asked whether
• 54:30
  his firm's AI played a role in the
• 54:32
  attack. We don't know exactly how those
• 54:35
  models were used, and what you're
• 54:37
  talking about is a use case that doesn't
• 54:39
  violate our red lines. While AI assisted
• 54:43
  military, a human made the final call,
• 54:47
  he said, stressing that Entropic opposes
• 54:50
  entirely autonomous weapons and
• 54:52
  decision-making systems.
• 54:56
  I'm not so sure about that. They have a
• 54:58
  technofascist manifesto at Palunteer.
• 55:02
  Did you know that? I'll share that with
• 55:04
  you in a minute. The US military has
• 55:06
  admitted to it to actively using
• 55:08
  Palunteer named after the 11 scrying
• 55:11
  orbs corrupted by Sauron. If you ever
• 55:14
  read the Sylmerelion, like I did uh in
• 55:17
  my youth, in Tolken's Lord of the Rings,
• 55:19
  to pick targets in the war on Iran. Last
• 55:23
  month, the Pentagon announced it had
• 55:25
  inked deals with top AI companies
• 55:27
  including Google, Amazon, SpaceX, Open
• 55:30
  AI, Nvidia, and Microsoft. And weeks
• 55:32
  earlier, Palunteer proclaimed a new era
• 55:36
  of AI enabled US military supremacy.
• 55:40
  Well, not if you're bombing little girls
• 55:42
  schools. According to Google
• 55:45
  whistleblower and Palunteer inside Zack
• 55:47
  Vory's AI giants defense of surveillance
• 55:51
  and the use of AI in warfare is a catch
• 55:54
  22. It's like hey look if we get a very
• 55:57
  accurate data of your country then we
• 56:00
  won't bomb a school for girls. He he
• 56:02
  said while discussing reports that data
• 56:06
  se secret secretly harvested remember I
• 56:08
  shared this with you secretly harvested
• 56:10
  from Pokemon Go players over many years
• 56:13
  was used to enhance US military mapping
• 56:16
  capability. The way that they're framing
• 56:19
  this is that if they don't have good
• 56:22
  information they're just going to have
• 56:24
  collateral damage. So if you don't have
• 56:26
  good information well you know that we
• 56:28
  we we are only as good as the
• 56:30
  information we have. Well, that's true.
• 56:32
  You know, he warned this Vorhees guy,
• 56:34
  remember that open article he put on his
• 56:37
  way out the door? He said that uh USAI
• 56:40
  giants are pushing to be deregulated
• 56:44
  in pursuit of military advantage. Isn't
• 56:48
  that nutty?
• 56:56
  All right, sir. Uh we have a caller. How
• 56:59
  may I help you today?
• 57:04
  I don't know what's going on with your
• 57:05
  phone these days, but I can't hear you.
• 57:07
  I think you tried to call in yesterday
• 57:09
  as well. Nothing. Are you there?
• 57:14
  Zip. Okay. Well, there you have it.
• 57:17
  Thanks for the call, but no voice.
• 57:19
  Didn't hear anything. Anyway, these
• 57:22
  these AI things are uh you know I have
• 57:26
  you heard of this technofascist
• 57:28
  technofascist
• 57:30
  manifesto. Get this.
• 57:33
  This is Palunteer. The technofascist
• 57:35
  manifesto. American surveillance tech
• 57:39
  contractor Palunteer released a 22point
• 57:42
  manifesto
• 57:44
  calling for a new era of AI enabled US
• 57:48
  military supremacy. The internet went
• 57:51
  wild and the text was labeled a
• 57:54
  blueprint for technofascism.
• 57:58
  The document goes beyond the typical
• 58:01
  mission statement of a Silicon Valley
• 58:03
  tech company. It outlines Palanteer's
• 58:05
  positions on the role of technology and
• 58:08
  military power in the 21st century and
• 58:11
  says Silicon Valley has an affirmative
• 58:14
  obligation to participate in the defense
• 58:18
  of the nation. Hard power in this
• 58:21
  century will be built on software.
• 58:25
  National service should be a universal
• 58:27
  duty and post-war neutering of Germany
• 58:32
  and Japan must be undone.
• 58:36
  Okay.
• 58:38
  To understand how a private corporation
• 58:41
  can feel empowered to demand such
• 58:44
  far-reaching policy changes, it's
• 58:46
  important to understand what Palunteer
• 58:48
  is. How enshed with the deep state it
• 58:51
  really is. What is it? Palunteer is
• 58:55
  named after the Obsidian Seeing Stones
• 58:58
  in Lord of the Rings. Um, let's see. The
• 59:01
  company was established in 2003 by
• 59:03
  PayPal co-founder Peter Teal, uh, Joe
• 59:07
  Lionsdale, who worked for, uh, Clarium
• 59:10
  Capital, Steven Cohen, who interned at
• 59:13
  Clarium, former Sigman Freud Research
• 59:15
  Institute re researcher Alex Karp, and
• 59:18
  Nathan Gettings, a PayPal engineer.
• 59:21
  Palanteer was the brainchild of Teal who
• 59:24
  said that he realized the approaches
• 59:26
  that PayPal had used to fight fraud
• 59:28
  could be extended to other contexts like
• 59:31
  fighting terrorism. His idea was
• 59:34
  nurtured by the CIA that invested 2
• 59:38
  million in the company in 2005 through
• 59:41
  its in-house venture capital firm in
• 59:44
  Inqell. I wish I had Palunteer when I
• 59:47
  was a director, said former CE CIA chief
• 59:51
  George Tennant who set up in Qoutel and
• 59:55
  he told Forbes magazine in 2013. Well,
• 59:58
  that's what he said. I wish it was I had
• 1:00:00
  it when I was in power. Palunteer is now
• 1:00:02
  valued at $352
• 1:00:05
  billion, a valuation that represents 80
• 1:00:09
  times the company's annual revenue. This
• 1:00:12
  overvaluation is fueled by Palunteer's
• 1:00:15
  extensive contracts with the US
• 1:00:17
  government and its alphabet soup of
• 1:00:20
  defense and intelligence agencies. What
• 1:00:22
  do they sell? Their flag flagship
• 1:00:26
  product is an operating system called
• 1:00:28
  Gotham. not a surveillance system as
• 1:00:31
  such, but it does pull together and
• 1:00:34
  analy
• 1:00:36
  it pulls together and an analyzes
• 1:00:38
  existing data that may otherwise take
• 1:00:41
  days to sift through just like I was
• 1:00:43
  telling you I did. For example, [snorts]
• 1:00:45
  if the US Central Command is planning a
• 1:00:47
  missile strike in a foreign country,
• 1:00:50
  Gotham can combine maps and satellite
• 1:00:52
  footage from that country, data from
• 1:00:55
  other agencies, including Hum from the
• 1:00:58
  CIA and SIGANT from the NSA, and local
• 1:01:01
  surveillance data to present Sentcom
• 1:01:04
  with potential targets.
• 1:01:08
  So, that's how they got the target.
• 1:01:09
  Gotham and Mosaic, another Palunteer
• 1:01:12
  target identification program that pulls
• 1:01:14
  digital data, including surveillance
• 1:01:16
  footage
• 1:01:18
  and IP addresses from a target area, use
• 1:01:20
  AI to label the most effective targets
• 1:01:23
  from military strikes. The US admits
• 1:01:26
  that it has used these programs to
• 1:01:28
  select targets during the war with Iran
• 1:01:31
  and insists that humans made the final
• 1:01:33
  decisions to fire. Yeah, but if that's
• 1:01:36
  all the information you got, a human
• 1:01:38
  saying, "Yeah, fire." You're relying on
• 1:01:40
  the data. That's potentially a problem.
• 1:01:45
  If you can't use AI to reliably do
• 1:01:48
  stuff, which you shouldn't anyway, but
• 1:01:51
  Gotham has also been used as a policing
• 1:01:53
  surveillance tool. The LA Police
• 1:01:57
  Department uses Gotham to collect data
• 1:01:59
  on civilians, including names,
• 1:02:01
  addresses, social media activity,
• 1:02:04
  personal relationships, and surveillance
• 1:02:06
  photographs to trace their connections
• 1:02:09
  to known criminals and predict the
• 1:02:11
  likelihood that they will commit crimes.
• 1:02:16
  Gotham can centralize everything an
• 1:02:19
  agency knows about a person in one
• 1:02:22
  place, including the eye color from
• 1:02:24
  their license plate or the license or
• 1:02:27
  from their driver's license or their
• 1:02:29
  license plate from a traffic ticket,
• 1:02:32
  making it easy to build a detailed
• 1:02:34
  intelligence report, said a former
• 1:02:37
  employee to Wired last year.
• 1:02:42
  Who are Palunteer's customers? Their
• 1:02:44
  client list is extensive. In the US, it
• 1:02:47
  includes the Department of Defense,
• 1:02:49
  Department of Homeland Security,
• 1:02:51
  Immigrations Customs Enforcement, CIA,
• 1:02:54
  FBI, NSIA, US Army, Marine Corps, Air
• 1:02:58
  Force, Special Operations Command, and
• 1:03:00
  dozens or even hundreds of police
• 1:03:03
  departments and other law enforcement
• 1:03:05
  agencies. At present there is no single
• 1:03:09
  publicly available list of Palunteer
• 1:03:12
  customers within the US. Abroad their
• 1:03:15
  technology is used by the British
• 1:03:17
  Ministry of Defense, Israeli Defense
• 1:03:19
  Forces, armed forces of Ukraine as well
• 1:03:22
  as police departments and government
• 1:03:24
  agencies in France, Germany, Denmark,
• 1:03:26
  Netherlands, Norway, and the UK. Why is
• 1:03:29
  a private surveillance tech company
• 1:03:32
  releasing its own manifesto?
• 1:03:36
  At its core, Palunteer is a data
• 1:03:39
  aggregation company, but one set apart
• 1:03:42
  by its own clients, its marketing, and
• 1:03:44
  the ideological streak of its
• 1:03:47
  executives. The company markets itself
• 1:03:49
  not as a faceless seller of data
• 1:03:52
  collation and analysis software but in
• 1:03:55
  its own words as a provider of an AI
• 1:03:59
  powered killchain
• 1:04:01
  that enables decision dominance from
• 1:04:06
  space to mud. Palunteer refers to its
• 1:04:10
  consultants as
• 1:04:12
  forward deployed software engineers
• 1:04:16
  and to internal emails as situation
• 1:04:21
  awareness reports. CEO Alex Karp
• 1:04:25
  portrays himself as deeply involved in
• 1:04:27
  military decisions that he at least on
• 1:04:31
  paper should not be. Palunteer's
• 1:04:35
  mission, he said on an earnings call
• 1:04:37
  last year, is to scare enemies and on
• 1:04:41
  occasion to kill them. As the public
• 1:04:45
  face of the company, Karp has defended
• 1:04:47
  the IDF's use of Palunteer software to
• 1:04:51
  plan strikes in Gaza and called for the
• 1:04:53
  US to prepare for a threefront war
• 1:04:56
  against China, Russia, and Iran. Yeah.
• 1:05:00
  All done by AI.
• 1:05:02
  The manifesto can be viewed as a
• 1:05:05
  continuation of his own sales pitch.
• 1:05:07
  Adapted from his 2025 book, The
• 1:05:10
  Technological Republic to 22 points
• 1:05:12
  envision a world in which Palunteers
• 1:05:14
  products will be even even higher
• 1:05:16
  demand. The following points, take
• 1:05:19
  these. The engineering elite of Silicon
• 1:05:22
  Valley have an affirmative obligation to
• 1:05:26
  participate in the defense of the
• 1:05:28
  nation. The ability of free and
• 1:05:30
  democratic societies to prevail requires
• 1:05:35
  something more than moral appeal. It
• 1:05:37
  requires hard power. And hard power in
• 1:05:41
  this century will be built upon
• 1:05:43
  software.
• 1:05:46
  Here's another one. The question is not
• 1:05:48
  whether AI weapons will be built. It is
• 1:05:52
  who will build them and for what
• 1:05:55
  purpose. Our adversaries will not pause
• 1:05:58
  to indulge in a theatrical debate about
• 1:06:01
  the merits of developing technology with
• 1:06:04
  critical military and national security
• 1:06:06
  applications. They will proceed.
• 1:06:11
  This is frightening, isn't it? Uh some
• 1:06:14
  guy, this is just some guy.
• 1:06:18
  The atomic age is ending. One age of
• 1:06:21
  deterrence. The atomic age is now
• 1:06:23
  ending. And a new era of deterrence
• 1:06:27
  built on AI is set to begin.
• 1:06:33
  Here's the Germany and Japan part. The
• 1:06:35
  postwar neutering of Germany and Japan
• 1:06:39
  must be undone. The defanging of Germany
• 1:06:43
  was an overcorrection for which Europe
• 1:06:46
  is now paying a heavy price. A similar
• 1:06:50
  and highly theatrical commitment to J
• 1:06:54
  Japanese pacifism will if maintained
• 1:06:58
  also threatened to shift the balance of
• 1:07:01
  power in Asia and Silicon Valley must
• 1:07:05
  play a role in addressing violent crime.
• 1:07:11
  This guy isn't just selling a platform.
• 1:07:14
  [laughter]
• 1:07:15
  Uh Karp's products are implicitly
• 1:07:17
  presented as the solution to all
• 1:07:19
  problems and his peace through strength
• 1:07:22
  message seems tailor made to please
• 1:07:25
  Donald Trump whose administration
• 1:07:28
  uh
• 1:07:30
  Teal's company will ultimately s sign
• 1:07:33
  contracts with after AI firm Entropic
• 1:07:36
  was booted from a Pentagon program over
• 1:07:38
  its refusal to enable mass domestic
• 1:07:41
  surveillance or fully autonomous
• 1:07:44
  weapons.
• 1:07:44
  Palunteers manifesto is equal part sales
• 1:07:47
  pitch and pledge of feelalty. The
• 1:07:50
  remainder of its points delve into
• 1:07:52
  culture war territory, declaring that
• 1:07:55
  visionaries like Elon Musk should be
• 1:07:58
  applauded for their belief in the grand
• 1:08:01
  narrative and that pervasive intolerance
• 1:08:04
  of religious belief in certain circles
• 1:08:08
  must be resisted and that some cultures
• 1:08:11
  have produced vital advances and others
• 1:08:14
  remain dysfunctional and regressive.
• 1:08:20
  Wow.
• 1:08:23
  Who are these guys? Uh, maybe we should
• 1:08:26
  look into them. Who are they?
• 1:08:32
  What are people saying about the
• 1:08:34
  manifesto? Palunteer's manifesto has
• 1:08:37
  garnered an overwhelmingly negative
• 1:08:40
  reaction with commentators describing it
• 1:08:43
  as scary, technofascists,
• 1:08:46
  and the ramblings of a comic book
• 1:08:49
  villain. The manifesto's vision is that
• 1:08:52
  of a US government and its tech allies
• 1:08:55
  as dominant players unconstrained by
• 1:08:59
  accountability, said political scientist
• 1:09:01
  Donald Moahan. A world where soft power
• 1:09:05
  has real and lasting impact is simply
• 1:09:08
  less profitable for a company like
• 1:09:10
  Palunteer relative to a world where we
• 1:09:13
  blow a lot of stuff up. He said, "If
• 1:09:17
  governments were actually doing their
• 1:09:19
  job, this Palunteer document wouldn't be
• 1:09:22
  a manif a manifesto they proudly boast
• 1:09:25
  about, but a clear sign of the urgent
• 1:09:27
  need to purge its software from public
• 1:09:29
  institutions it has infiltrated," said
• 1:09:32
  French entrepreneur uh Arnold Brand on
• 1:09:36
  X. They're effectively saying our tools
• 1:09:39
  aren't meant to serve your foreign
• 1:09:42
  policy. They're meant to enforce ours.
• 1:09:46
  [laughter]
• 1:09:48
  [cough]
• 1:09:50
  Alexander Dugan, who's a a Russian
• 1:09:52
  commentator, his wife was killed by the
• 1:09:54
  Ukraine or wife daughter was killed by
• 1:09:56
  the Ukrainians, put on that kill list.
• 1:09:58
  He says the Palunteer Manifesto is much
• 1:10:02
  more important than Trump. Trump is an
• 1:10:04
  insignificant pawn on a serious
• 1:10:07
  chessboard. His role is total
• 1:10:09
  destruction. the the preparation stage.
• 1:10:13
  Palunteer is far more serious. It is the
• 1:10:16
  plan to safeguard the declining
• 1:10:18
  dominance of the west by radical means.
• 1:10:22
  Wow.
• 1:10:26
  Isn't that crazy?
• 1:10:28
  Uh that story, there were a couple more
• 1:10:31
  parts of it uh was published uh in uh um
• 1:10:36
  late April. By the way,
• 1:10:40
  that's some crazy crazy stuff.
• 1:10:44
  Where are we now?
• 1:10:47
  We're done with Claude. We'll get off
• 1:10:48
  onto something else.
• 1:10:51
  Um,
• 1:10:54
  I wanted to get to I still want to get
• 1:10:57
  to those Indian guys and uh talk about
• 1:11:00
  them.
• 1:11:03
  Um,
• 1:11:06
  but I think I'm going to go to
• 1:11:09
  the uh followup to the Ukraine issue
• 1:11:17
  and crushing strikes in Kiev because I
• 1:11:21
  watched more videos of that
• 1:11:24
  and uh but you know what? We talked
• 1:11:26
  about that most day yesterday. I think
• 1:11:28
  I'm going to go to the Russian Olympic
• 1:11:30
  Committee. Get this. So, the
• 1:11:34
  International Olympic Committee has
• 1:11:36
  lifted the Russian Olympic Committee's
• 1:11:39
  suspension. The move clears the way for
• 1:11:42
  Russian athletes to return under
• 1:11:44
  International Federation's own rules.
• 1:11:47
  The IOC provisionally lifted its
• 1:11:49
  suspension of Russian uh athletes
• 1:11:52
  clearing the way for the country to
• 1:11:54
  return to international competition
• 1:11:57
  3 years after the ROC was suspended
• 1:12:00
  until further notice for bringing under
• 1:12:02
  its umbrella sports organizations from
• 1:12:05
  four former Ukrainian regions that had
• 1:12:08
  voted overwhelmingly o overwhelmingly
• 1:12:13
  to join Russia. In a statement on
• 1:12:15
  Tuesday, the IOC said it lifted the
• 1:12:18
  suspension after finding the ROC no
• 1:12:21
  longer includes as its members any
• 1:12:23
  regional sports organizations in
• 1:12:26
  territories falling under the
• 1:12:28
  jurisdiction of the National Olympic
• 1:12:30
  Committee of Ukraine and [snorts]
• 1:12:32
  confirmed it would not conduct any
• 1:12:34
  activities there. The Olympic body said
• 1:12:36
  it would continue to monitor this
• 1:12:38
  situation. The IOC withdrew its
• 1:12:41
  recommendations that Russian athletes
• 1:12:43
  participation in international uh
• 1:12:47
  competitions was no longer allowed, but
• 1:12:49
  athletes returning to competition will
• 1:12:51
  still be required to meet anti-doping
• 1:12:54
  rules.
• 1:12:57
  Uh the IOC said it would not stage its
• 1:13:01
  own events in Russia or invite Russian
• 1:13:05
  government officials. It added that the
• 1:13:08
  decision to uh the decision on the use
• 1:13:12
  of the Russian flag anthem and other
• 1:13:15
  national symbols at the LA 2028 Olympics
• 1:13:19
  would be taken at the appropriate time.
• 1:13:23
  So Maria Zahara, the foreign ministry
• 1:13:26
  spokeswoman uh welcomed the decision and
• 1:13:29
  said on Telegram that common sense
• 1:13:32
  prevailed. global sports will go on and
• 1:13:35
  they will go on with Russia. Russia
• 1:13:37
  described the IOC's 2023 suspension as
• 1:13:41
  politically motivated and an example of
• 1:13:44
  deliberate segregation that violated the
• 1:13:47
  principles of the Olympic movement. And
• 1:13:51
  uh they repeatedly accused Western
• 1:13:53
  countries of politicizing sport and
• 1:13:56
  pressuring international federations to
• 1:13:58
  exclude Russian athletes and argued that
• 1:14:01
  competitors should be judged solely upon
• 1:14:03
  their sporting merit. I happen to agree
• 1:14:08
  with that for any country, not just
• 1:14:10
  Russia.
• 1:14:12
  So um let's see where else we going
• 1:14:17
  today.
• 1:14:20
  Where shall we go? So CNN put out a
• 1:14:24
  report. This was published uh this
• 1:14:27
  morning. Okay. Senior US military
• 1:14:32
  commanders
• 1:14:33
  ignored warnings that intelligence on
• 1:14:36
  targets in Iran was outdated as they
• 1:14:40
  rushed to compile strike lists at the
• 1:14:43
  start of the war. citing sources
• 1:14:46
  familiar with the decision-making
• 1:14:48
  process.
• 1:14:49
  CNN said this this decision contributed
• 1:14:52
  to the strike on the Iranian girls
• 1:14:54
  school and the bombing that killed uh
• 1:14:59
  120 students aged 6 to 13 and in
• 1:15:03
  addition killed 36 adults happened on
• 1:15:06
  the very first day of the operation
• 1:15:08
  against Iran, February 28. According to
• 1:15:11
  CNN, messages embedded in the Pentagon's
• 1:15:14
  targeting system warned that
• 1:15:17
  intelligence on strike sites was based
• 1:15:19
  on years old information and required
• 1:15:23
  verification before locations could be
• 1:15:25
  approved for attack. The warnings were
• 1:15:28
  overridden for expediency
• 1:15:32
  as ex as commanders sought to accelerate
• 1:15:35
  the approval of strike options. CNN
• 1:15:38
  cited three sources familiar with the
• 1:15:40
  process. Secretary of War put me in
• 1:15:44
  coach Pete Hegsth announced a formal
• 1:15:47
  investigation in March. Yeah, right.
• 1:15:51
  Sentcom commander Bradley Cooper said in
• 1:15:54
  May that the findings would be made
• 1:15:56
  public once the inquiry is complete.
• 1:15:59
  Yeah, right. According to CNN, US
• 1:16:03
  military officials knew within days how
• 1:16:06
  the mistake happened. One of the sources
• 1:16:09
  told the outlet that it was obviously
• 1:16:12
  old info. Bloomberg reported last month
• 1:16:16
  that the Pentagon investigation was
• 1:16:19
  complete in April and found the strike
• 1:16:21
  resulted from gaps in the military's
• 1:16:24
  targeting system. According to the
• 1:16:25
  outlet, US intelligence analysts
• 1:16:28
  identified the Minab site as an
• 1:16:30
  elementary school
• 1:16:32
  rather than an Islamic Revolutionary
• 1:16:35
  Guard Corps naval facility in 2019.
• 1:16:39
  But the updated assessment never reached
• 1:16:42
  military commanders because it was
• 1:16:44
  entered into a digital intelligence pool
• 1:16:47
  not linked to the Pentagon's official
• 1:16:49
  targeting database.
• 1:16:52
  US President Trump said last month that
• 1:16:55
  the actual culprit behind the strike in
• 1:16:58
  Manab may never be established.
• 1:17:02
  Yeah,
• 1:17:05
  there were missiles flying all over the
• 1:17:07
  place and it's horrible what happened.
• 1:17:10
  Somebody said it was our missile. Maybe
• 1:17:12
  it wasn't our missile, but I've seen
• 1:17:14
  nothing to lead me to believe it was,
• 1:17:16
  said Trump. Well, he ain't looking very
• 1:17:19
  hard. Iranian officials described the
• 1:17:22
  attack as a war crime and crime against
• 1:17:24
  humanity and demand accountability.
• 1:17:27
  Uh meanwhile,
• 1:17:30
  Grock AI, according to the Pentagon,
• 1:17:34
  helped fire 2,000 missiles at Iran.
• 1:17:39
  US Department of War has designated XAI
• 1:17:43
  data centers as battlefield
• 1:17:45
  infrastructure.
• 1:17:47
  Elon Musk's Grock AI has become an
• 1:17:50
  integral part of America's war machine
• 1:17:52
  and its data centers must be treated
• 1:17:55
  like munition production plants in a
• 1:17:57
  future conflict. According to sworn
• 1:18:00
  declaration by the Pentagon's artificial
• 1:18:03
  intelligence chief,
• 1:18:05
  a statement about Grock was submitted as
• 1:18:08
  part of an effort by Trump and his
• 1:18:10
  administration to intervene in a lawsuit
• 1:18:13
  seeking to restrict the restrict the
• 1:18:15
  operations of XAI's Colossus data
• 1:18:19
  centers in Memphis, Tennessee over
• 1:18:21
  environmental concerns. Cameron Stanley,
• 1:18:24
  the chief digital and artificial
• 1:18:26
  intelligence officer at the US
• 1:18:28
  Department of War, compared XAI's
• 1:18:30
  computing capacity to weapons
• 1:18:32
  manufacturing, said the company's
• 1:18:34
  ability to operate data facilities at a
• 1:18:37
  massive scale is as foundational to our
• 1:18:41
  modern defense posture as traditional
• 1:18:44
  munitions production.
• 1:18:47
  Stanley revealed the Grock is a crucial
• 1:18:50
  part of Palunteer developed Maven Smart
• 1:18:53
  Systems MSS a platform that supports
• 1:18:57
  targeting intelligence readiness and
• 1:18:59
  recruitment as well as military planning
• 1:19:02
  and logistics.
• 1:19:04
  MSS Frontier workflow enabled US forces
• 1:19:06
  to deploy 2,000 munitions to 2,000
• 1:19:10
  distinct targets within 96 hours during
• 1:19:13
  Operation Epic Fury, he said, adding
• 1:19:16
  that XAI is one of just three enterprise
• 1:19:19
  providers able to sustain missionritical
• 1:19:22
  operations across secret and topsecret
• 1:19:25
  classified networks. He warned that if
• 1:19:27
  XAI's Colossus 2 facility is shut down
• 1:19:30
  or deprived of power, the Pentagon's
• 1:19:33
  capabilities would be impaired.
• 1:19:37
  Wow.
• 1:19:40
  [laughter]
• 1:19:42
  The reference to the Pentagon's Project
• 1:19:44
  Maven places Grock inside a broader
• 1:19:46
  increasingly controversial AI targeting
• 1:19:48
  ecosystem. It began as an algorithmic
• 1:19:51
  warfare initiative to help process
• 1:19:53
  battlefield data. While Palunteer, one
• 1:19:55
  of Washington's most entrenched
• 1:19:57
  surveillance and defense contractors,
• 1:19:59
  marketed software as the AI powered
• 1:20:02
  killchain. And uh the company's role has
• 1:20:05
  drawn renewed scrutiny after reports
• 1:20:07
  that these targetings contributed to the
• 1:20:10
  strike on the Manab school that uh took
• 1:20:12
  these 160 school girls. The school was
• 1:20:16
  uh selected based on outdated data.
• 1:20:21
  Palunteer executives now openly embraced
• 1:20:25
  a company's military mission.
• 1:20:28
  We have to you know Palunteer remember
• 1:20:31
  they have to we scare our enemies and on
• 1:20:34
  occasions kill them while the manifesto
• 1:20:38
  declares that you know hard power is
• 1:20:40
  built on software.
• 1:20:43
  So XAI which developed Grock as a rival
• 1:20:47
  to Chat GPT was merged with SpaceX
• 1:20:50
  earlier this year and company data
• 1:20:52
  centers have also become major source of
• 1:20:55
  computing power for other AI firms with
• 1:20:58
  Google and Antropic signing
• 1:21:00
  multi-billion dollar agreements to rent
• 1:21:02
  capacity from Musk. The NAACP lawsuit
• 1:21:06
  alleges that XAI is violating the Clean
• 1:21:09
  Air Act by operating dozens of gas
• 1:21:12
  burning turbines without permit or
• 1:21:14
  pollution control. Environmental groups
• 1:21:18
  accuse Trump administration of trying to
• 1:21:21
  override citizen lawsuits used to
• 1:21:25
  enforce pollution law.
• 1:21:28
  Tell you what, these sort of things,
• 1:21:30
  these data centers and everything, they
• 1:21:32
  take up tons of power. And remember,
• 1:21:35
  they wanted to have one here in Camden,
• 1:21:38
  I believe. And I'm not necessarily
• 1:21:40
  against it, but at least understand what
• 1:21:42
  you're getting into or getting out of.
• 1:21:44
  It'll bring a lot of dollars, lot of
• 1:21:47
  highlevel uh pay, a lot of lot of high
• 1:21:50
  paying jobs here if you want to do that.
• 1:21:53
  But, uh, make sure that you understand
• 1:21:54
  what you're getting into before you
• 1:21:56
  choose to vote for or against it. I'm
• 1:21:58
  not even sure I'm going to vote in
• 1:21:59
  Missouri. I haven't yet switched uh,
• 1:22:02
  back from Florida. Uh, but we'll see.
• 1:22:05
  Um, I think that's it for today. We, uh,
• 1:22:08
  you know, tomorrow, this is today, it's
• 1:22:10
  Wednesday, the, uh, uh, you know, uh,
• 1:22:12
  greatest day in radio history on the
• 1:22:15
  planet um, here at DAM Radio. And uh
• 1:22:21
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• 1:22:23
  listening to DAM radio. Always always
• 1:22:25
  good music, always good talk and folks
• 1:22:29
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• 1:22:32
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• 1:22:36
  and on Friday from 7 to 8:30, excuse me,
• 1:22:40
  [laughter]
• 1:22:40
  7 to 8:30 on uh Civic Outlaws. That'll
• 1:22:45
  be entertaining. Um too much coffee.
• 1:22:48
  Let's see.
• 1:22:51
  Noisy coffee. But there you have it.
• 1:22:53
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• 1:22:56
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• 1:23:01
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