00:01:46.040It's a ceasefire for that 60-day period, as you know.
00:01:49.220But it sets out a series of conditions and what will happen when they are fulfilled.
00:01:54.160So I think it's I think it's well structured from our perspective, but I think as well is the regional countries are behind it.
00:02:02.160Of course, we met with with the UAE, the Qataris, the Egyptians.
00:02:06.720We have contacts as well. And again, it's well structured.
00:02:10.940It creates I actually think, you know, I think it's a game changer, not just for this situation,
00:02:16.600because it starts to take off certainly this issue, but it allows us.
00:02:22.420and this is what's happened in the meeting, to step back, look anew at Ukraine, Ukraine situation.
00:02:29.120We had a very, very constructive conversation around Ukraine.
00:02:32.740On the issue of trade and Chinese EVs, Carney says he spoke with Trump in a hot mic moment,
00:02:39.360but apparently got the president's approval.
00:02:41.760That I had seven or eight discussions with President Trump over the course of the last 36 hours.
00:02:47.320I'll have more today, a wide range of subjects from the economy, relations, his birthday, artificial intelligence, Ukraine, obviously Iran,
00:03:00.860the aspects of the deal and the next steps there and how Canada can help, and good discussions with the president.
00:03:08.380So I wouldn't take a big message from it.
00:03:10.100Now, President Trump, meantime, says the other G7 leaders appear to have come around to his way of thinking.
00:03:16.540Our guest today is communications expert and political strategist,
00:03:37.580George Ann Burke, coming to us from Florida. Welcome, George Ann.
00:04:44.020he scares the hell out of them they they're terrified of him because he may say something
00:04:49.940about them like he said about obama vis-a-vis the iranians i won't repeat it here on the air
00:04:54.880because it was a little spicy but they know that they that this is a guy that's unpredictable
00:05:00.100and they he comes to you says i'm the boss they better they better laugh at least laugh somehow
00:05:05.800whether nervously or not um the g7 itself i mean like i i'm not a great fan of these meetings but
00:05:13.980I guess they have to do it. And the one thing good that did come out of this, if anything good
00:05:20.420came out of this, is that finally these weak, useless countries have decided that maybe he
00:05:27.400wasn't completely crazy to have gone after Iran after 47 years of nothing from all these other
00:05:34.100countries around the world, including the United States of America, that maybe he wasn't so wrong
00:05:41.240And maybe there is a chance that these terror-supporting monsters from Iran have been eliminated, and maybe there's a chance that they can get some better behavior out of this country.
00:05:57.760I think that the thing that's important to me is he has said over and over again, and he actually said something just before we connected here on the air that stuck with me.
00:06:07.980He said over and over again, if they don't follow through, there's going to be a penalty to pay.
00:06:13.800And the penalty, he's been quite blunt, is going to be, we're going to come back and we're going to bomb them again.
00:06:17.640He actually said that exactly just about 10 minutes ago.
00:06:25.220He said, and the other thing he said, though, that followed was, I can't tell you what will happen when I'm not president anymore.
00:06:32.500If you get some weak, useless person in office, I don't know if they're going to follow through.
00:06:37.420I can only do what I can do. I've got almost three years left and I'm going to do everything
00:06:43.000I can to make this a success. Okay. That's, I don't know if we can ask him for any more than
00:06:47.680that. Um, he's certainly going to try his best. There are things about this that I have questions
00:06:53.440about. Um, I'm not ready to throw it down the, the, the circular, whatever, flush it down way.
00:07:01.020I'm not ready to do that. Um, I want to, I want to get more details. I mean, I heard a press
00:07:06.080conference i haven't seen the document yet the actual document yet that he's referring to um
00:07:12.480and uh i said yesterday in something that i wrote that i am not willing to condemn him to you know
00:07:19.440being a traitor to the american cause and even worse coming out of my own community a traitor
00:07:25.280to israel i don't believe that is you know what he's done there are things that he's done and
00:07:31.280said that i don't like and i've been open about those things but um i think that he's on the right
00:07:37.760track i don't know it's 47 years nobody's done anything about these people for this long did
00:07:42.400they think you could undo all of this mess like overnight in fact he's gotten about as close to
00:07:47.520undoing the mess overnight as you could have gotten and that's because he wasn't afraid to
00:07:51.280take action and to do what needed to be done so now we have to see what the follow-through is um
00:07:56.400and people are accusing Steve Woodcoff, he's in bed with the Qataris, and Jared Kushner is only
00:08:03.960trying to make money for himself, and Donald Trump, the usual. I say, can we not listen to
00:08:11.460all that gossip and chatter and just actually observe what actually happens? I've learned a
00:08:16.760long time ago with him, it doesn't really matter what he says, it matters what he does. He'll save
00:08:21.320things to get you to look over there when he's doing something over here. So I tend to watch
00:08:26.860what he's doing rather than what he's saying. Yeah, I think some people said he was in bed with
00:08:31.320Israel for a while there. Oh yeah, and now he's not. From Bibi Netanyahu. Yeah. And so now I guess
00:08:40.140he's not because some people think, especially supporters of Israel, that he kind of threw them
00:08:46.580under the bus a little bit with certain aspects of the steel. I know you're still looking at it.
00:08:53.040Actually, that's the main thing that stuck out to me. And I actually commented on it already.
00:08:58.840I want him to stop accusing Israel of doing horrible things to the Lebanese people
00:09:07.060and fighting a war with Lebanon. That's not who they're fighting with. They're fighting with
00:09:12.400Hezbollah. And I'm sorry. I actually want, like I was dying to actually be able to say to him,
00:09:19.200well, what did you do about Tehran? What did you do about the towns that you bombed in Iran?
00:09:23.900Do you think that no innocent people were killed there? And why did you do it? You did it because
00:09:28.420there's a big enemy that has to be dealt with. Well, Hezbollah has gotten away with killing
00:09:34.980Israelis with impunity for 25 or 30 years, at least, out of Lebanon, okay? The Lebanese people
00:09:44.200did not enjoy this situation with Hezbollah, but they also didn't do anything about it,
00:09:49.620okay? They allowed it to continue. Now the chickens have come home to roost. Israel says no more. We're
00:09:54.540not putting up with it anymore. We're not going to allow Hezbollah. We've defeated Hamas. We've
00:09:59.980knocked them off pretty much, okay? You know, they'll keep popping their heads up every now
00:10:04.860that, but they're pretty much decimated. Don't hear much about the Houthis these days, okay?
00:10:10.400But Hezbollah doesn't seem ready to give up yet. And so Israel is going to do what it has to do
00:10:17.220to defend its own people. And he said today, well, you know, if Israel doesn't do it the way that we
00:10:21.680want, then maybe Syria will do it. Okay, Syria, you get in and defeat Hezbollah. I don't care who
00:10:25.500does it. They want to be the champs. They want to be the heroes. Go right ahead. Fine. As long as
00:10:29.820Hezbollah, stops killing Israelis with impunity. So the tone of that is I know a lot of people
00:10:37.720who are Trump supporters in the Jewish community are very hurt by this. They feel bad. They feel
00:10:43.640it was unnecessary. They feel it was being thrown under the bus. And I don't disagree. I didn't like
00:10:48.200it. And I said I didn't like it. I thought it was gratuitous. It wasn't necessary. But I also know
00:10:56.520that sometimes he says things for a reason and maybe it's going to make the other side feel like
00:11:02.420they have more of an ally in him than they actually do. I don't know. I don't know what
00:11:06.040the reason is. I suspect he was worried that Israel would do something ahead of the signing
00:11:12.120of this MOU slash agreement that would torpedo the whole thing. And I think he wanted a deal
00:11:19.380before the G7 so he could make a triumphant entrance and, you know, they could move forward
00:11:26.900with other things that he wants to do, like end the war in Ukraine, for instance, deal with Cuba
00:11:32.520and, of course, move towards hopefully a victory for the GOP in the midterm. So all of these things
00:11:41.000are out there and he didn't want Israel, specifically Netanyahu, doing something
00:11:47.980that would torpedo that peace agreement.
00:14:40.240So, but he says he spoke to Trump six or seven times
00:14:42.580about all sorts of things, including Chinese EVs.
00:14:48.620How should Canadians see his performance there
00:14:51.160in so far as it applies to dealing with Trump
00:14:53.860and moving forward with our trade issues with that country?
00:14:58.240So I said to you off the air, and I'll say it here now,
00:15:02.040it kind of reminded me of somebody else.
00:15:03.880at a previous G20 or G7 meeting, that being Trudeau, trying to get Trump's attention.
00:15:10.040Every time Carney passed by Trump, he leaned down to say something to him.
00:15:14.560He was not standing next to him on the group pictures. He was up in the back row, as usual.
00:15:22.820Trump did not have a bilateral with him. And that was purposeful, because they're in negotiations
00:15:27.400now for Kuzma, and Trump is not happy with them. So I think that's part of this, too.
00:15:33.140And that may explain, by the way, Carney's behavior lately, including saying things at, what was it, at the New York Economic Club, making Canada strong and prosperous will help make America great again, whatever.
00:15:46.680And, you know, now saying, oh, maybe this wasn't such a bad thing to do this war.
00:15:52.000So he seems to try to be sucking up to Trump for whatever reason.
00:15:56.880And I think that reason is that they know they're in trouble with Kuzma.
00:15:59.580They know there will not be a three-way agreement unless some miracle occurs, because the U.S.
00:16:05.820has been negotiating with Mexico for a year on a bilateral.
00:16:10.380So if we're lucky, we'll have a bilateral agreement.
00:16:14.040But they've got a lot of tap dancing to do before Trump is happy enough with them to
00:16:18.860So I think that explains at least some of Carney's behavior.
00:16:23.280He loves hobnobbing with the Europeans because he feels more at home with them than he does
00:16:27.540with north americans canadians or americans um so i'm sure he enjoyed himself uh i'm waiting to
00:16:35.540see the catering bill from i know that's mean but whatever um but that's the truth i'm sorry you
00:16:45.220know you spend taxpayer money you better be able to account for every single nickel of it
00:16:49.380um and when you spend enough money to feed a family of four for 55 years yeah okay maybe you
00:16:54.340You ought to be rethinking yourself there a bit, especially in these times.
00:16:59.020We're not in a time when people are not suffering economically.
00:17:02.680So I think that for Carney, you know, he probably felt that it was an accomplishment for him to be there, to be accepted by these European people,
00:17:14.180to have his three or four little quick conversations with Trump, who always is, I would say he's generally polite, like he'll generally, if you talk to him, I'll answer you back.
00:17:23.560But he did not have a bilateral with Canada, which they might have done in the past, especially if things were good between them, but they're not particularly at this time.
00:17:34.600So I hope that Carney takes note of that fact.
00:17:39.800It's certainly been reported in the media enough, right?
00:17:44.040So that he thinks, you know, what am I going to do to create a better relationship here?