Russia has released 16 people, including Evan Gershkovich, who was detained over a year ago and wrongly convicted on a false charge of espionage. The others included former U.S. Marine Paul Whelan, as well as another journalist and activist who have opposed Vladimir Putin and his war in Ukraine. Russia, in return, has received 8 people including a convicted murderer. So the people of the United States got back. Who is Russia getting back? And what exactly is the deal they re getting back from the US? And why is this a huge win for the Biden administration and the White House? And why was this treated as a massive triumph by the media and by the State Department as a win for Joe Biden and the administration itself? Well, we re here to tell you, it s not a win. It s a triumph for the Taliban, which is something that Joe Biden says is a triumph, and that left hundreds of Americans behind. That s something that Biden and Kamala Harris have said that pull the US out of Afghanistan, which left tens of thousands of American service behind. And that can t be seen as a triumph. Join the fight right now at Dailywire.me/Dailywire. Subscribe to Dailywire Plus to get the most up-to-date breaking news, uncensored, unfiltered, ad-free shows you need to know about the happenings in the world, wherever you get your news and your chance to stay up to date with the latest in the latest breaking news you need it. You don t have to be a Dailywire member to keep up with the most reliable source of all things going on the breaking headlines you get the latest and the most impactful in the most authentic and up to the most influential stories you can get the freshest possible updates on what s going on everywhere you listen to be sure you re not only on the up and your most up to your day in the whole world. Stay tuned for more like it! Subscribe, stay tuned for all the latest from The Daily Wire Plus! - your never-fed, unedited version of the Daily Wire plus plus, your go-to source on everything you ve ever heard about what s happening on the world s most authentic source on the most powerful podcast on the left and your place to get it anywhere you ve got it anywhere and everything you care about it! Subscribe, right here on the 24/7, no matter where you get it!
00:00:00.000Well, we are at day 13 of Kamala Harris not being asked any questions at all about being the Democratic presidential nominee.
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00:00:19.000So, yesterday, the big news is that the United States secured Along with its allies, a deal with Russia in order to return some 16 people, including multiple Americans, from the Russians.
00:00:32.000The Russians had basically taken hostage a bunch of Americans over the course of the last several years, and the United States traded a bunch of murderers, terrorist spies, for these hostages.
00:00:43.000This was treated as a massive win for the Biden administration yesterday by the media and by the Biden administration itself.
00:00:50.000According to the Wall Street Journal, it's the largest prisoner swap between East and West since the Cold War.
00:00:55.000Russia has released 16 people, including Evan Gershkovich, the Wall Street Journal reported detained over a year ago and wrongly convicted on a false charge of espionage.
00:01:03.000Marine Paul Whelan, as well as another journalist and activist who have opposed Vladimir Putin and his war in Ukraine.
00:01:09.000Russia, in return, has received eight people, including a convicted murderer.
00:01:13.000So the people of the United States got back were Evan Gershkovich, the Wall Street Journal reporter who famously was taken prisoner by the Putin regime just about a year ago.
00:01:23.000Paul Whelan, who was taken prisoner by the Putin regime in 2018.
00:01:28.000A person named Alsu Kormasheva, who is a Russian-American journalist who was sentenced to six and a half years in prison in July when she was falsely accused of basically being a spy.
00:01:39.000A bunch of other UK Russian citizens, German Russian citizens.
00:01:44.000The Germans were involved in this exchange as well.
00:01:57.000Well, they're getting back Vadim Krasikov, who was sentenced to life imprisonment in Germany in 2021 for shooting dead a former Chechen rebel leader in Berlin on Russia's orders.
00:02:07.000Anna Valarevna Dolceva and Artem Viktorovich Dolcev, who are apparently, these are the real names, of Maria Rosa Mayer-Muñoz and Ludwig Gisch, who posed as an Argentine couple in Slovenia and were charged in 2002 as Russian agents working across Europe.
00:02:24.000Another Russian national, who is effectively a spy, who was released from Norway.
00:02:31.000A Spanish citizen named Pablo Gonzalez-Yagiu, Who was arrested by Polish authorities near the border with Ukraine in 2022 and accused of being a Russian spy.
00:02:40.000Roman Seliznev, the son of a Russian lawmaker, who had hacked credit card numbers in the United States, resulting in $169 million in losses and was serving 27 years in prison in the United States.
00:02:54.000Vladislav Kiliuchin was a Russian national who was convicted of hacking into corporate databases to trade on yet-to-be-released earnings reports from companies like Tesla, His company was conducting work for the Kremlin.
00:03:06.000He was released from the United States as well.
00:03:08.000And finally, Vadim Konushchenov, who was an extradited Russian national to the United States on charges that he illegally smuggled microelectronics and munitions to the Russian military.
00:03:20.000So a bunch of spies, smugglers, one murderer, who were traded for a bunch of Western innocents.
00:03:26.000Now, it's great that we're getting back our people.
00:03:32.000The treatment of this as a massive triumph by the Biden administration betrays an enormous amount about the way that Americans think about foreign policy, particularly on the left and in the hallowed precincts of the State Department.
00:03:44.000The way that the West has become accustomed to looking at foreign policy is that the best foreign policy is where you end up trading a bunch of murderers and spies for a bunch of innocent people.
00:03:57.000And that in and of itself is an extension of a generalized worldview, which says that the best foreign policy for America is where you lose slowly and with the least possible cost, not where you actually push to victory.
00:04:09.000It's part and parcel of a broader worldview that says, for example, that Afghanistan was a triumph, which is something that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have said.
00:04:16.000That Afghanistan, the pullout from Afghanistan, which left tens of thousands of American allies to be slaughtered by the Taliban, and millions of women to be stuffed back into bags and back into basements so they can't go to school, and that left Americans behind, hundreds of Americans behind, and that got 13 American service people killed.
00:04:32.000That was a triumph, according to Joe Biden and his State Department team, and Kamala Harris, too.
00:04:38.000Meanwhile, if you have a nation like Israel that is fighting to victory in Gaza, that's bad.
00:04:42.000And what Israel should do is they should stop before they get to victory.
00:04:44.000Because again, the best form of foreign policy is where you lose very, very slowly and with the least amount of cost to you.
00:04:51.000But the worst foreign policy is where you win.
00:04:53.000And this has been, again, it's not unique to Joe Biden or Kamala Harris.
00:04:56.000Unfortunately, this has been part and parcel of American foreign policy strategy on the left for decades.
00:05:03.000It's why America really has not won a full-scale victorious war since World War II.
00:05:08.000It's been a long time in America since we won a full-scale victorious war because we're always fighting to stasis.
00:05:16.000And so that is why you treat something that really should be treated as sort of an inevitable tragedy as a triumph.
00:05:22.000It is in fact a tragedy to trade murderers for American citizens specifically because what you're doing is you are now incentivizing Vladimir Putin to take more Americans hostage.
00:05:32.000We know this because, again, in other countries that have been stupid enough to do this, namely Israel, this has been the predicate to more hostages being taken.
00:05:39.000The reason that Hamas took 250 hostages and didn't just kill everybody on October 7th is because they knew that they would get thousands of people who were murderers and terrorists released from prison in exchange for innocence.
00:05:50.000And they knew that because years ago, Israel made a hostage deal for a person named Gilad Shalit.
00:05:58.000He was captured in 2006 by terrorists in a cross-tunnel border raid, and he was held captive for over five years.
00:06:06.000And Israel ended up trading 1,000 terrorists, including Yehya Sinwar, who is the current military head of Hamas, for Gilad Shalit.
00:06:13.000And this was treated as like a big win.
00:06:15.000And it turns out it was just the predicate to more hostage-taking and war.
00:06:19.000The West has been sucked into the maw of never-winning victories and treating What are, by any standard of the imagination, losses as victories?
00:06:28.000Folks, it's not a diplomatic win when you trade terrorists, spies, murderers in favor of innocent Americans.
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00:07:54.000Now, Joe Biden is the same person who, in a debate a month ago, was saying that no Americans had died in Afghanistan.
00:07:59.000He's perfectly willing to ignore the families of dead American soldiers.
00:08:03.000Well, he's meeting with trans influencers at the White House, but he's definitely going to be there on the tarmac when Evan Gershkovich gets back, and so is Kamala Harris, to present a happy face of diplomacy.
00:09:42.000Multiple countries helped get this done.
00:09:45.000They joined the difficult, complex negotiations at my request, and I personally thank them all again.
00:09:52.000I thank them personally, and I thank them again.
00:09:56.000So, President Trump, for his part, criticized the deal because he suggested that it's an embarrassment to give up terrorists in favor of Americans.
00:10:04.000Now, to be realistic, Donald Trump did make deals when he was President of the United States to get Americans back, and we had to trade some bad people for those Americans.
00:10:18.000And all they do is, again, incentivize the world's worst actors to take Americans... Like, if I were Vladimir Putin today, seeing what he just... He has now scored multiple victories on these sorts of deals.
00:10:28.000We had to give up the Merchant of Death for Britney Griner, for example.
00:10:31.000If I were Vladimir Putin today, I'd think very seriously about simply arresting a hundred Americans on false charges in Russia, and then immediately saying that the only way that he would stop that is if the United States and its allies stopped their support for Ukraine in the war.
00:11:43.000I mean, he was on the tarmac yesterday and he was asked about Israel killing Ismail Khania, who is the political leader and one of the masterminds behind October 7th.
00:12:39.000You know how many offers have been put on the table to Hamas to release the hostages?
00:12:43.000Also, what Biden should say there is, Israel's gonna keep killing the heads of Hamas until they release the hostages or agree to a ceasefire.
00:12:50.000That's gonna be, I mean, that's what an, that's what, not just what an ally would do, that's what the United States should do in the middle of a terror war, for example.
00:12:57.000But what the left considers to be a victory is just losing slowly with a minimum of possible costs.
00:13:04.000That is what the left considers to be victory.
00:13:06.000You know, so after Donald Trump criticized Joe Biden, Joe Biden was then asked about that and he sort of slammed Trump with a pithy but stupid one-liner.
00:13:17.000President Trump has said repeatedly that he could have gotten the hostages out without giving anything in exchange.
00:14:24.000The characterization Again, of America's enemies taking innocent people hostage, which is what happened with Evan Gershkovich, and getting in return murderers and spies.
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00:16:10.000It is not a masterpiece of American foreign policy strength.
00:16:15.000They had to trade murderers for people who were illegitimately arrested in the first place.
00:16:20.000Here's Jake Sullivan showing his emotion.
00:16:23.000From the president on down, we've stayed in regular and routine touch with them.
00:16:30.000I spent a lot of time with the families of Evan and Paul and also, and most of the time, as you can imagine, those are tough conversations, but not today.
00:16:54.000Meanwhile, John Kirby, national security spokesperson, he was asked about the point that I'm making, which is when you trade terrorists and murderers for innocent people, aren't you incentivizing your opponents to take hostages?
00:17:13.000How do you do something like this, achieve this kind of success, and at the same time not incentivize states to engage in this taking of people and convicting them and putting them in jail or holding them?
00:17:25.000Yeah, look, I think it's an open question that that precept is actually true.
00:17:30.000That negotiating a deal like this just encourages more hostages taking.
00:17:35.000The truth is, we haven't seen data that actually confirms that that's the case.
00:17:39.000I mean, even when you're not negotiating deals, bad actors like Russia, bad actors like Iran are still taking hostages.
00:17:50.000If the United States was not constantly negotiating, and instead, they were basically saying, listen, you take an American hostage, and you will not be alive tomorrow.
00:17:59.000If that were the actual policy of the United States, there would be a lot fewer hostages being taken all around the world.
00:18:04.000But that is not the policy of the United States.
00:18:06.000The policy of the United States and the rest of the West is nicety.
00:18:20.000Vladimir Putin on Thursday secured the release of spies, hackers, and his most coveted Russian prisoner in the West, an assassin linked to intelligence services convicted of murder in Germany.
00:18:28.000For the authoritarian Russian leader, it was the biggest victory yet, stemming from his willingness to violate global norms to extract what he wants from Western leaders.
00:18:38.000Putin hinted at his determination to win the freedom of the assassin Vadim Krasikov during an interview in February with Tucker Carlson calling Krasikov patriotic, without actually naming him and indicating he was open to a prisoner exchange involving American journalist Evan Gershkovich, whom Russia accused of espionage.
00:18:54.000Apparently, Western responses were often timid either to preserve diplomatic and business ties to avoid escalation or to address domestic political imperatives.
00:19:01.000Those responses only emboldened Putin, according to analysts.
00:19:09.000The weakness of the Biden administration, the weakness of the left when it comes to foreign policy on these things has real consequences.
00:19:16.000Losing slowly is in fact the strategy of the left, which presumably is why the United States under Joe Biden just cut another disgusting deal, this time without even any leverage.
00:19:29.000They cut a deal with the mastermind of 9-11, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.
00:19:35.000According to the Office of Military Commissions, which is prosecuting the case against KSM, they entered into pre-trial agreements with Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and two alleged co-conspirators, Walid Mohammed Salih Mubarak bin Attash and Mustafa Ahmed Adam Al-Hawsawi, all of whom have been held at Gitmo since 2003.
00:19:54.000They will now be spared the death penalty under a deal with prosecutors.
00:20:42.000What do you get the death penalty for around here?
00:20:44.000Judea Pearl, who is the father of Daniel Pearl, Daniel Pearl, of course, was the Wall Street Journal journalist who was beheaded by Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his team.
00:20:55.000He says, of course we weren't consulted before they decided to kick the charges.
00:20:58.000Before they decided to get the death penalty off of these people.
00:21:09.000Here is Kareem Jean-Pierre saying, Joe Biden still plans to close Gitmo before he leaves.
00:21:14.000Does the President still plan to close Guantanamo Bay Prison before he leaves office, and is there a realistic pathway to do that in the next six months?
00:21:22.000That's still something that the President wants to do and get done.
00:21:25.000As far as a timeline, I don't have anything for you here, but obviously this is something that he wanted to be done under his administration.
00:21:33.000I just don't have anything else to read out or preview at this time, but it is something that he's determined to get done.
00:21:46.000Meanwhile, the Kamala Harris running away from questions train continues to chug on.
00:21:50.000As I mentioned before, we are now on day 13 of Kamala Harris, the presidential nominee for the Democratic Party, anointed without a single vote in the primaries.
00:21:57.000She has not been asked a single question by the press.
00:22:47.000Again, if you've got just a rusting, junky old model out on the curb, and your wife or your husband keeps bugging you, what are we doing with that car?
00:23:18.000So first, we should point out that she was there to just hug the people coming off the plane, despite really having nothing to do with anything.
00:23:25.000Because she has to be there for... Now she's gonna put that in her campaign ads.
00:23:28.000That's the important thing, is that she got a campaign ad out of this.
00:23:30.000She was asked about the magic of diplomacy, and she has moved beyond, I think, word salad, and we are now onto full-scale word slaw.
00:23:37.000She's got some mayo in there, she's whipping it up with the cabbage, and now she's got some nice word slaw going on.
00:23:44.000This is just extraordinary testament to the importance of having a president who understands the power of diplomacy and understands the strength that rests in understanding the significance of diplomacy and strengthening alliances.
00:24:26.000This is just an extraordinary testament to the importance of having a president who understands the power of diplomacy and understands the strength that rests in understanding the significance of diplomacy.
00:24:39.000So there are a few key words that she rests upon, like a fifth grader who didn't read the book.
00:24:42.000She read like the first five pages of the book, and now she has to come up with an answer.
00:25:51.000At least she can climb stairs, unlike our current president of the United States.
00:25:54.000She doesn't seem to have trouble with stairs.
00:25:55.000She does have problems, like the current president of the United States, with words and sentences.
00:25:59.000However, the reason she's running for the hills, obviously, is because she doesn't want to answer any questions about anything she has ever said.
00:26:06.000So a clip has now emerged from way back in her California days, where she was telling people that they should no longer say Merry Christmas because illegal immigrants are suffering.
00:26:18.000We all know that she is a radical, which is why the Trump campaign should focus in on the fact that she is a radical and make her answer questions.
00:26:27.000He needs to direct that giant spotlight at Kamala Harris and the fact that she is totally inconsistent, that she is an absolute liar, that she has flipped every position via surrogate in press statements for the last two weeks.
00:26:42.000And when we all sing happy tunes and sing Merry Christmas and wish each other Merry Christmas, these children are not going to have a Merry Christmas.
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00:29:28.000Now, I may be mildly out of touch because I only know about half of those celebrities.
00:29:32.000I'm not a member of the TikTok generation.
00:29:34.000But apparently, some of those celebrities included Shonda Rhimes, the Hollywood producer, and singer Reina Roberts, Kerry Washington, and of course, San Antonio Spurs point guard Chris Paul.
00:29:51.000They can only hope that this campaign doesn't blow up in the late stages in the way that Chris Paul's teams always do in the late stages of the playoffs.
00:29:59.000In any case, Kamala Harris, she was on the campaign trail yesterday and by on the campaign trail I mean she was reading from the teleprompter to a chorus of huzzahs from people who already like her.
00:30:08.000She was in Houston and she accidentally called herself the President of the United States and the crowd was like, yes, yes!
00:30:13.000But don't worry guys, they love Joe Biden and they want him to remain.
00:30:17.000As a United States Senator, I was proud to co-sponsor, and then as Vice President, it was my honor,
00:30:32.000And then, of course, lie about her opponent.
00:30:34.000So she suggests that Donald Trump is going to pass a nationwide abortion ban, which is weird because Donald Trump literally removed all the abortion planks from the RNC platform.
00:31:32.000It doesn't mean he's not for the transing of the children.
00:31:33.000He's still for the transing of the children.
00:31:34.000But it does mean that for Democrats, he is a moderate.
00:31:37.000Which is also why some of the Democratic base is upset with Kamala Harris possibly picking him.
00:31:43.000According to Politico, several top contenders have met in recent days with Harris's vetting team.
00:31:49.000Aids insists they are trying to tune out a lot of public hype around the contenders.
00:31:51.000There are people familiar with the process and they say she has yet to truly whittle down the final list and may meet with several individuals before deciding, but apparently she's going to announce who the candidate is Tuesday in Philadelphia.
00:32:03.000Philadelphia happens to be in Pennsylvania.
00:32:05.000It would be a big shock at this point if it were anybody but Josh Shapiro.
00:32:09.000The vetting team has already met with Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania, Tim Walls of Minnesota, who'd be a terrible pick, Andy Beshear of Kentucky, who seems in also ran, Senator Mark Kelly of Arizona, who's got some baggage.
00:32:20.000Apparently, her primary consideration is not who can excite the base.
00:32:24.000The question is, how do you get to 270 electoral votes?
00:32:26.000Is that impacted by the choice that you make?
00:32:28.000David Axelrod says the Democratic base is very enthusiastic about Kamala Harris.
00:32:32.000She has a chance now through this VP choice to broaden her base and send a message to the rest of the electorate that's open to her, and that's rare.
00:32:39.000So, again, I think that it is very likely that it's Josh Shapiro that would, in fact, be the smartest pick so far.
00:32:56.000It's ugly, and it's terrible for American politics, and it's pathetic that journalists are performing colonoscopies on Kamala Harris with their heads.
00:33:05.000Yeah, I mean, you gotta hand it to him that it's smart campaigning.
00:33:07.000It is a bit of a risk for her to pick Josh Shapiro because, of course, there are a lot of people inside the Democratic Party who ain't fond of the Jews.
00:33:12.000Nina Turner, who happens to be one of these, she's enraged at the possibility of Josh Shapiro over on Chris Cuomo's show.
00:33:21.000He labeled peaceful college protesters.
00:33:40.000We gotta stop playing games with these people.
00:33:41.000Now, you might not have liked the college protesters, but comparing any college protesters to the mayhem and the destruction and the death that was caused by the KKK, really?
00:33:56.000Will there be enough members of the pro-Hamas caucus to push Kamala Harris off Josh Shapiro?
00:33:59.000If so, that'll be an excellent indicator as to her number one lack of political skill because she could have a sister-soldier moment where she actually says to the pro-Hamas people, hey guys, we don't need you.
00:35:37.000And we're starting to see the Trump campaign finally, after I think a little bit too long, find its footing and starting to label Kamala Harris, which is what they need to do.
00:35:45.000So yesterday, Donald Trump was asked about all of the weird attacks.
00:35:48.000We talked about this last week, about the fact that the Democrats have spent the last two weeks suggesting that J.D.
00:36:18.000I mean, who wants to have open borders where prisoners, that's weird, where prisoners and where mental institution patients are taken out of hospitals and jails and They'll let into our country.
00:37:08.000Vance was asked by the media about Donald Trump's comments about Kamala Harris and her Indian heritage versus being African American and all this kind of stuff.
00:37:16.000And here was J.D.' 's quite smart answer.
00:37:19.000Do those comments give you pause at all?
00:39:27.000Her administration is currently, right now, weaponizing the DOJ against her political opponents, but she's accusing Trump of this sort of stuff.
00:39:33.000She is, I've said this before, she's an eggshell skull candidate.
00:39:37.000Like, you tap the eggshell skull of the Kamala Harris campaign, and that thing collapses like an egg.
00:39:46.000Recall Donald Trump has openly vowed if reelected to be a dictator on day one that he will weaponize the Department of Justice against his political enemies, that he will round up peaceful protesters and throw them out of our country and even, quote, terminate the United States Constitution.
00:41:00.000Those quotes are the, have a great summer, in the yearbook quotes.
00:41:04.000Right, you barely know somebody in high school, you don't really like the guy, and then the guy comes up to you and he wants you to write something in the yearbook and you're like, have a great summer!
00:41:13.000This is the have a great summer yearbook quote that Democrats are now trotting out.
00:41:29.000In my own personal case, it's very reminiscent of when somebody wants me to endorse a book, I don't feel like reading the book, or I think the book is bad.
00:41:34.000And so what I write on the back cover or something, just as a favor, is like, this person is very nice and writes something absolutely anodyne.
00:41:45.000And meanwhile, you know what's not ridiculous, is the current situation of the economy.
00:41:48.000So, All of the underlying fundamentals have been ignored for the last two weeks because there's been so much drama about Joe Biden dropping out of the race and Kamala Harris replacing him and all this kind of crap.
00:42:13.000That's the highest level since October of 2021.
00:42:15.000They also revised down job growth over the past month.
00:42:20.000That has now happened with 10 of the last 14 jobs reports.
00:42:23.000So that you'll get a top line number and the media will be like, yeah, amazing!
00:42:25.000And then a month later, you get the actual number and it was lower than what the media originally reported.
00:42:30.000When in 10 or 14 months, you end up revising lower, that starts to look like a purposeful trend, like falsification of data, not like just mistakes.
00:42:39.000Wages rose by 0.2% in July compared with the previous month and 3.6% from a year earlier.
00:42:45.000Wage growth has been moderating for more than two years.
00:42:48.000The Federal Reserve held the benchmark interest rate steady at 5.3%, but Jerome Powell said a rate cut could be on the table at the next gathering in September.
00:42:56.000Meanwhile, Intel is cutting jobs and suspending dividends.
00:43:00.000Meanwhile, Apple's iPhone sales have slid, so their revenue fell for a second consecutive quarter.
00:43:07.000Meanwhile, Amazon shares slid yesterday, as spending surged and revenue outlook disappoints, according to the Wall Street Journal.
00:43:15.000So all of America's big companies are getting hit.
00:43:18.000The stock market is taking it on the chin.
00:43:22.000The Dow closed nearly 500 points lower on Thursday, as investors started to fear actual recession.
00:43:28.000Some fresh data, according to CNBC, stoked fears over a possible recession and the notion the Federal Reserve could be too late in starting to cut interest rates.
00:43:35.000Initial jobless claims rose the most since August of 2023.
00:43:37.000Chris Ruppke, chief economist at Ford Bonds, added that Thursday's data hinted at an economic downturn amid the volatility.
00:43:45.000He said the stock market doesn't know whether to laugh or cry because while three Fed rate cuts may be coming this year and 10-year bond yields are falling below 4%, the winds of recession are coming in hard.
00:43:55.000So, unpleasant economies tend not to work out particularly well for the incumbent party, and the economy remains unpleasant under Joe Biden and company.
00:44:04.000Meanwhile, the United States, in yet another show of diplomatic weakness, they have now suggested that Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia is the legitimate winner of the Venezuelan presidential election.
00:44:14.000Oh, you know, happiness and joy all around.
00:44:19.000So what are you going to do about it considering you relieved sanctions on Nicolas Maduro last year in order to free up elections and then that gigantically failed?
00:44:26.000The real reason, by the way, that they freed up the sanctions on Venezuela was to lower the oil prices just in time for the 2024 election because this administration is perfectly willing to manipulate Americans and global economies for their own peculiar political benefit.
00:44:43.000Secretary of State Antony Blinken has given the overwhelming evidence it is clear to the United States and most importantly to the Venezuelan people that Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia won the most votes in Venezuela's July 28th presidential election.