Vladimir Putin's Russia has blanketed Ukraine with missiles and drones in what is perhaps the largest air attack on the country since 2022. One missile apparently struck an apartment building in Kiev and killed 9 people and wounded another 63. This, of course, is a war zone.
00:00:00.000Well, folks, a big question I've been getting since we released the trailer for my interview with President Vladimir Zelensky of Ukraine is, why go to a nation under fire?
00:00:08.000Why take your crew and take that risk?
00:00:09.000And the answer is simple, because the truth matters and facts matter.
00:00:13.000We want you to be smarter and know more things.
00:00:26.000So, last night, Vladimir Putin's Russia blanketed Ukraine with missiles and drones in what was perhaps the largest-scale air attack on the country since 2022.
00:00:35.000One missile apparently struck an apartment building in Kiev and killed nine people and wounded another 63. This, of course, is a war zone.
00:00:43.000A little bit earlier yesterday, the Trump administration rolled out its proposed outline for a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine.
00:00:51.000It's a peace deal under which Ukraine would have been forced to accept Russian annexation of Crimea, that's the very southern portion of Ukraine that is on the Black Sea, as well as control of eastern Ukraine.
00:01:02.000Russia is currently in control of large swaths of eastern Ukraine and has been since 2014.
00:01:07.000It would have removed NATO membership from the table for Ukraine.
00:01:10.000Ukraine obviously is interested in joining NATO because that would mean that an attack on a NATO member would allow for Article 5 invocation, meaning other countries would have to come to Ukraine's defense.
00:01:18.000The deal would prevent Ukraine from becoming a NATO member.
00:01:21.000It would have provided little or nothing in the way of security guarantees for Ukraine.
00:01:25.000So the proposed Trump deal did not obligate the United States to come to Ukraine's defense or even allow for the EU's defense of Ukraine.
00:01:33.000Maybe they could have, maybe they couldn't have, but that was unclear.
00:01:35.000And it also would have full-scale ended sanctions on Russia.
00:01:38.000So clearly this peace deal gave Russia a bunch of things that Russia was looking for if it had been accepted by Ukraine.
00:01:44.000Russia has not accepted a peace arrangement.
00:01:49.000Essentially, the proposal that was published was the United States, Europe, and maybe Ukraine kind of negotiating against themselves because there's no one else at the table right now.
00:01:57.000Now, Zelensky rejected handing over Crimea legally because that would be making a major legal concession without actually getting anything from Russia in return.
00:02:05.000If you preemptively say Crimea is now part of Russia, you've now said it, and Zelensky doesn't want to do that.
00:02:10.000He has accepted the Trump proposal for a 30-day ceasefire without any preconditions.
00:03:04.000We've issued a very explicit proposal to both the Russians and the Ukrainians, and it's time for them to either say yes or for the United States to walk away from this process.
00:03:14.000We've engaged in an extraordinary amount of diplomacy, of on-the-ground work.
00:03:18.000We've really tried to understand things from the perspective of both the Ukrainians and the Russians.
00:03:23.000What do Ukrainians care the most about?
00:03:25.000What do the Russians care the most about?
00:03:26.000And I think that we've put together a very fair proposal.
00:03:29.000Okay, well, whether the proposal is fair or not, if Russia refuses to accept the deal...
00:03:34.000And then the United States walks away.
00:03:36.000Russia is the party that actually benefits from that.
00:03:39.000The Trump administration's pressure right now has been almost solely relegated to Ukraine at this point.
00:03:44.000President Trump unleashed a post on Truth Social yesterday attacking Vladimir Zelensky and blaming him for the continuation of the war.
00:03:50.000He stated, quote, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky is boasting on the front page of the Wall Street Journal that Ukraine will not legally recognize the occupation of Crimea.
00:03:59.000This statement says President Trump is very harmful to the peace negotiations with Russia and that Crimea was lost years ago under the auspices of President Barack Hussein Obama and is not even a point of discussion.
00:04:10.000Nobody's asking Zelensky to recognize Crimea as Russian territory, but if he wants Crimea, why didn't they fight for it 11 years ago when it was handed over to Russia without a shot being fired?
00:05:07.000For this conflict to end, Russia has to come to the table.
00:05:11.000Why is the question what Ukraine is willing to do when the real question here is why Russian aggression has not stopped for a single moment for three years?
00:05:20.000The American people, obviously, we need to understand just why it is important for Ukraine not to collapse amidst the escalation of Russia's invasion.
00:05:28.000So, with the Russia-Ukraine war now in year number three, with tens of thousands of dead on each side and hundreds of thousands wounded, probably 50,000 dead on the Ukrainian side, maybe 200,000 dead.
00:05:38.000On the Russian side, with eastern Ukraine and Crimea currently in Russian hands, and with the Trump administration obviously trying to end the war through negotiation, we felt that now is a vital time to actually travel to Ukraine to discuss this crisis with Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky.
00:05:52.000The American people have a lot of questions, and they have a right to know why they should care about this conflict in a faraway place and to have their questions answered on matters ranging from how their tax dollars are being spent to the treatment of Christians in Ukraine.
00:06:03.000From the nature of Russia's aspirations in Ukraine to the Ukrainian desire to remain free of Russian domination.
00:06:08.000So, the trip into Ukraine wasn't exactly easy.
00:06:13.000First, we traveled some 12 hours from Florida to Krakow, that's Poland, and then we took a 10-hour car ride with security from Poland to Kiev.
00:06:20.000The border crossing was pretty much deserted.
00:06:22.000Not a lot of people are trying to get into Ukraine at this point in time.
00:06:25.000The country itself, it's a beautiful country.
00:06:27.000The breadbasket of the continent, western Ukraine, which is what you drive through to get to Kiev.
00:06:31.000Is it rolling farmland dotted with forest?
00:06:34.000My great-great-grandparents came originally from this general region, Belarus, Poland, Ukraine.
00:06:38.000I tried to see it through their eyes as we were driving.
00:06:40.000What it must have been like 150 years ago, before the carnage of the Ukrainian Holodomar, which is the Stalin-created genocidal starvation campaign against Ukrainian farmers and their families, and against those who oppose the evil of Soviet collectivization.
00:06:53.000And what it was like before the Nazi invasion in 1941 and the mass slaughter of Jews with roving bands of SS mowing down tens of thousands of Jews over open pits in Babi Yar, shipping Jews via train to death camps all over Europe.
00:07:05.000Timothy Snyder, historian and author of a book called Bloodlands, Europe Between Hitler and Stalin, writes, quote, During the years that both Stalin and Hitler were in power, more people were killed in Ukraine than anywhere else in the bloodlands or in Europe or in the world.
00:07:17.000For both Hitler and Stalin, Ukraine was more than a source of food.
00:07:20.000It was the place that would enable them to break the rules of traditional economics, rescue their countries from poverty and isolation, and remake the continent in their own image.
00:07:28.000If you know history, the voices of all of our brother's blood cries out from the ground of Ukraine.
00:07:33.000And the history of Ukraine's suffering doesn't stop with World War II.
00:07:37.000After the war, the Soviet Union again was in control of Ukraine.
00:07:40.000Its history was then steamrolled and homogenized to fit Soviet presumptions.
00:07:44.000After the Cold War, after the Soviet Union fell, Ukraine broke free.
00:07:49.000It gave up its nuclear weapons in exchange for security guarantees from the West.
00:07:53.000Didn't go well for Ukraine, obviously.
00:07:55.000Torn between the attraction of joining the post-Soviet West and Russian pressure from the East, the country was governed by a series of corruption-ridden governments, culminating in the victory of Viktor Yanukovych, whose pro-Russian swing led to the so-called Maidan Revolution of 2014.
00:08:08.000Yanukovych was ousted, Vladimir Putin, dictator of Russia, seeing Ukraine slipping out of his grasp.
00:08:13.000Then launched invasions of the Donbass region of eastern Ukraine, as well as Crimea.
00:08:17.000Both of those were largely Russian-speaking areas that favored a closer relationship with Russia, but they didn't actually want to be fully ruled by Russia, by the polling data available at the time.
00:08:27.000Instead, Putin brought in what were called little green men, who he said were sort of domestic insurgents, they were actually Russian soldiers, to take over those areas.
00:08:34.000Citizens of those areas were brought under Russian control.
00:08:39.000Sensing weakness from the American-led North Atlantic Treaty Organization in the aftermath of Joe Biden's surrender of Afghanistan to the Taliban, Putin launched a full-scale invasion of the rest of Ukraine.
00:08:48.000When the war began, few expected Ukraine to survive.
00:08:51.000Indeed, the first Russian push into Ukraine came within 10 or 12 kilometers of Akiv, the capital city, which is located on both sides of the Dnieper River.
00:09:00.000Actually, Vladimir Zelensky was made offers by the Europeans to flee the country.
00:09:17.000Drones continue to fly, particularly last night.
00:09:19.000The Russian government since 2014, in an effort to russify Ukrainian children, has abducted tens of thousands of kids from eastern Ukraine and Crimea back into Ukraine.
00:09:28.000As the New York Times reported in 2023, quote, Russian officials have made it clear their goal is to replace any childhood attachment to home with a love for Russia.
00:09:36.000Hundreds of thousands of Russian soldiers and contractors have died, according to the BBC.
00:09:40.000Around 50,000 Ukrainians have been killed, according to Zelensky's government.
00:09:43.000As of February, the numbers are probably higher.
00:09:45.000President Trump's entry into office provided the possibility of something new.
00:09:49.000Pledging to end the war, the Trump administration insisted on negotiations, and to that end, put pressure on both Zelensky and Vladimir Putin to come to the table.
00:09:56.000After a fraught conversation with President Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance in the Oval Office, Zelensky has agreed to an unconditional 30-day ceasefire.
00:10:06.000The United States, under Special Envoy Steve Witkoff, continues to advocate for Ukrainian concessions, ranging again from recognition of Russian territorial annexation to abandonment of intent to join NATO.
00:10:16.000Putin, for his part, has mouthed words of interest but has shown little willingness to make any real concessions at all.
00:10:22.000That is where things stood as we traveled into Ukraine.
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00:12:23.000As we neared the city, an app on our phones sounded a drone alert in Kiev.
00:12:27.000Drone warfare has become one of the most highly publicized aspects of the war in Ukraine.
00:12:31.000Ukrainian forces, at a material disadvantage in the early days of the war, engaged in technological creativity to counter Russian advances.
00:12:37.000Russia then responded by building new drones with Chinese help, as well as by importing drones from Iran.
00:12:42.000By the time we reached Kiev, the drone sirens had stopped.
00:12:46.000After a very short night in the center of Kiev...
00:12:48.000We visited the site of the Babinyar massacre, which is just across the street from a television tower struck by a Russian missile in the early days of the war.
00:12:55.000We visited a blown-out building, hit multiple times in a variety of Russian attacks.
00:12:58.000We visited a memorial to the victims of the Halatomar.
00:13:01.000The city is beautiful, but it obviously feels pretty empty.
00:13:05.000Approximately 7 million Ukrainians have left the country during the war.
00:13:08.000That's out of a total population of 44 million or so in 2021.
00:13:12.000I attended a meeting of the All-Ukrainian Council of Churches and Religious Organizations with representatives of 15 different religious sects attending to discuss religious freedom and traditional values with Zelensky.
00:13:22.000A member of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine was joined by a member of the Catholic Church, for example, to ask for a ministry of family to foster higher birth rates and support more kids in Ukraine.
00:13:29.000Other members of the council asked President Zelensky.
00:13:32.000And then, finally, it was time to sit down with President Zelensky.
00:13:38.000President Zelensky looks weary, but upbeat.
00:13:40.000He is, of course, very camera-friendly, given his history as a TV star.
00:13:46.000We're late in 1011 centuries before the Tsardom of Russia.
00:13:50.000Here then is part one of our interview with President Vladimir Zelensky in Kiev, Ukraine, and perhaps the most crucial moment for the negotiations yet in the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine.
00:14:06.000President Zelensky, thank you so much for taking the time.
00:14:55.000Tomorrow, by the way, there will be a meeting in London.
00:15:00.000So, as you can see, what's important to us is the teams of Ukraine.
00:15:04.000And the United States, plus our European colleagues, that is, our team has started to work together with the United States, and I can see some positive things about this.
00:15:15.000I'm grateful to this, to all the partners, and I'm grateful to President Trump for this, as well as to Keir Starmer and to Emmanuel Macron, and to all the leaders who constantly support this very beginning, the complete ceasefire.
00:15:30.000It's the beginning of the path towards the And that is not yet ready to put an end to this war.
00:15:57.000On the strengths of the United States, on the strengths in terms of the sanctions, on the experience of the United States, and the influence that the United States has on Russia.
00:16:07.000So for Russia to agree to put an end to this war, it depends on them.
00:16:11.000As for our meeting in the Oval Office, I kept saying that we needed this meeting.
00:16:17.000We had to talk over a variety of elements.
00:16:20.000We had different meetings, fruitful and more philosophic meetings, I would say.
00:16:45.000When Ukraine and the United States are having the meeting, we should give light to people.
00:16:51.000We should demonstrate this path that I've already mentioned to a path towards the end of this war.
00:16:57.000We count on the strategic partnership when we always respected the people of the United States and the choice of the United States and the support coming from the United States.
00:17:07.000And that is why I think that we will have more fruitful meetings with President Trump.
00:17:14.000You have to understand, Ukraine, that we are defending against Russia's offense.
00:17:23.000We believe the United States is a true and real friend.
00:17:27.000We know that the United States has a position to serve as the mediator in this conflict.
00:17:32.000That is the choice made by the United States.
00:17:35.000But we consider the United States as a strong, strategic partner with an influence.
00:17:41.000and we would really like to have these two strengths that would be used towards Russia so that the force would be towards the Russia because they're the one who is
00:17:53.000I highly respect the fact that he's searching for an approach.
00:19:15.000What kind of transparency can you provide to the American people to guarantee that their taxpayer dollars are being used in the best possible way to fight Russia, to defend Ukraine, and to ensure that if the United States wants, wouldn't ought to be possible by the United States of where those dollars are?
00:19:34.000Yes. Let me start with the end of your question.
00:19:38.000As for the audit, the United States have to understand.
00:19:42.000There's the United States inspectors working.
00:19:46.000There's the inspectors of European countries because they've also allocated the money and we are also grateful to them.
00:19:52.000Just as to the United States, we highly respect the support and assistance coming from the people of the United States as well as the people of Europe.
00:20:00.000That is why we have told at once that we are ready to have We don't have any inspections from the very beginning of the war.
00:20:06.000The inspectors coming from the United States, Europe and our own inspectors, they're working.
00:20:11.000We have complete reporting counting, absolutely transparent within the Ministry of Defence.
00:20:17.000There is access to all the figures starting from the very first year of the war.
00:20:21.000There's always and there's been always an access when we've seen in the very beginning of the war that Russia attempted to undermine the support and assistance coming from the United States.
00:20:32.000The United States was the main donor, and they wanted to undermine this through fake news, through other tools.
00:20:40.000That is why we told it once, that we are open.
00:20:57.000I never wanted to, you know, well, I just, I was grateful to all the U.S. taxpayers.
00:21:04.000I understand that the United States have different programs, directions, and that is also related to the weapons support and to the assistance of other countries of the world.
00:21:22.000I have my own internal audit and I clearly understand how much assistance coming from which country at which moment was provided to Ukraine.
00:21:33.000I'm not responding poorly to saying that the United States has transferred something around 200 billion.
00:21:47.000We are grateful to the bipartisan support in the Congress because we are grateful to this unity around the fight of Ukraine for the independence and your great assistance and the great contribution of the United States in this, in the defense of our people.
00:22:05.000I have my own internal audit, and my country is clearly documenting how many assistance was provided.
00:22:13.000Just for you to know, we had 104, 105 billion US dollars.
00:22:19.000Most of those money were in the form of weapons.
00:23:53.000And the audit that I've mentioned clearly documented that whether this weapon was used on the battlefield or in accordance to some of the information been posted on the media.
00:24:04.000Primarily, that was the Russian narratives that some of the weapons were sent elsewhere or there was some corruption related to this weapon.
00:24:53.000Not because we didn't need the kind of financial support or the support to the people.
00:25:00.000There were different aspects, infrastructural aspects, etc.
00:25:03.000We needed all of that and we are grateful to all that.
00:25:07.000But the United States have to know that they were not feeding our pensioners.
00:25:14.000And our soldiers, with regards to the salary or the compensation, surely you've provided the most important aspect, that is the weapons, the weapons we needed to defend.
00:25:27.000Now, there are special programs or separate programs, and we have the clear figures behind those.
00:25:34.000When the United States were paying money for the development of a certain direction in the technological kind of development, like in new drones, and there were direct funding either in the private sector that was constructing the
00:25:49.000drones like that, what the United States have received, well, the exchange of information, the United States without the
00:26:03.000But whenever we're saying what the United States have received, for example...
00:26:08.000When there were some programs, when the United States had funded the weapons, and they were transferring the Patriots to us, and we are grateful to the United States, first of all, for this.
00:26:20.000They know that all the air defense systems that we had, different shells, there is artillery shells, even 155 shells could be different, the HIMARS, etc.
00:26:34.000Ukraine... Provided the reports to the United States and Ukraine has improved many of the elements and specifications.
00:26:43.000By our engineers, by our people on the ground, they've improved the specifications of the weapons.
00:26:50.000The United States have received a true report based on the largest land operation, land war, in many years.
00:27:01.000So now the United States know where to invest the money, where not to invest the money.
00:27:06.000I know those conclusions, but this is not public information.
00:27:09.000But the United States have received this knowledge, this data.
00:27:12.000And this knowledge could not be acquired without the live operations that the United States have provided money to the development of different drones.
00:27:22.000Surely it's all about our special forces, RECON, intelligence security service of Ukraine, foreign intelligence.
00:27:35.000So this is where the scientists were working, the recon, the intelligence, the military engineers were working.
00:27:40.000Now, what the United States have received, when the United States have paid for those developments, the United States have received complete and open information on the drones.
00:27:50.000This is the new weapons that was not available to the United States, to Europe, and truly we didn't have it.
00:27:57.000Now, the United States have received all this experience, all this know-how and development.
00:28:05.000I'm not willing to say that it's a cheap price for all of those developments.
00:28:08.000We are grateful to every single cent paid by the United States, but this is the fair price, so to say.
00:28:14.000The knowledge, the experience, you know, that the whole world is based on the knowledge, and I believe that this is what the United States have received.
00:28:23.000How are medics operating on the battlefield?
00:28:52.000The United States, together with the Europeans, have provided the support to the people, and I can give you the conclusions.
00:28:58.000You can compare the number of killed and the number of casualties.
00:29:03.000Now, I'm now comparing the Russian army with the Ukrainian army, but look at the portion of the wounded in action and the killed in action.
00:29:14.000We have the portion of the wounded in action the lowest.
00:29:17.000If we have one to ten, that is one killed, we have ten wounded in action.
00:29:23.000Now, in case of Russians, in case of 10 casualties, there will be five killed in action or six by four.
00:29:31.000So we're saying that's a different level of medical support.
00:29:33.000And that knowledge was also provided to our partners.
00:29:36.000Now, what exactly the United States have received as well?
00:29:40.000This is the most important thing that I have not mentioned yet.
00:30:00.000So if Putin will come to the NATO member countries or when he will do that, I don't believe that I know everything in advance.
00:30:10.000But let's just imagine, because everyone see who they have.
00:30:18.000So Putin might go to the European countries.
00:30:22.000Now, in this case, there would be a need to defend the European nations or to leave the NATO.
00:30:28.000I'm not saying whether the United States should be doing that or not.
00:30:32.000That's the choice made by the people of United States and other allies.
00:30:36.000But this is a question that will definitely be on the agenda.
00:30:40.000So, as long as Russians are not in any single NATO member nation, your families are not facing with this question.
00:30:49.000So, there will be a major question for your families either to send your child to the war or not, to the other country, to some foreign country.
00:31:03.000Now, the cost of the United States not searching...
00:31:10.000And the families are not searching for an answer to this complicated question of whether to send their son or daughter, whether they will return home, like, and alive.
00:31:25.000Nobody knows the cost of that question, whether the United States is the richest economy in the world, whether this is the biggest amount paid for what's being provided.
00:31:44.000It's fair that the United States assisted, supported Ukraine, and Ukraine gave away a lot in return for that support and assistance.
00:31:55.000And, of course, the most precious thing we have is the life of our people.
00:32:00.000So I want to get to Russia's intentions in a moment and the possibilities of a ceasefire, but Americans have questions about things that are happening here.
00:32:07.000There have been a lot of accusations that there's been a crackdown on religious freedom in Ukraine, particularly with regard to the Russian Orthodox Church.
00:32:14.000I just watched you perform a meeting with the all church meeting with members of a wide variety of faiths.
00:32:19.000Maybe you can respond to the accusations that there's a restriction on religious freedom with regard to Russian Orthodox in Ukraine.
00:32:25.000Well, first of all, I'm very happy that you're here.
00:32:36.000And really, we have a meeting like that a couple of times per year.
00:32:41.000And I truly visit some of the church sites.
00:32:46.000And during the Easter, there's the Easter meetings and Pesach.
00:32:52.000Have a meeting with all of our religious institutions, and I believe that what Ukraine has, and that is the largest council of churches, the largest in Europe, all of our churches are united, different religions, and everyone is united.
00:33:24.000We believe that the religious actors, if they're on the front line, it could be only through their will voluntarily, and they should be supporting military.
00:33:32.000Now, if those religious actors, if they're willing to do that, we are kind of considering every single question.
00:33:37.000We do not believe that these are the major challenges.
00:34:43.000And I'm also planning, together with my wife, to have a visit.
00:34:48.000We'll have several meetings around the same dates.
00:34:52.000Now, as for the pressure, there's no pressure, and you will never hear anything about the pressure, because we don't have any additional dialogues with our religious institutions, our religious leaders.
00:37:38.000So, one of the other questions that's been asked is about military mobilization.
00:37:42.000So, you know, obviously you're in the middle of a war.
00:37:44.000At the same time, there have been reports online that people are being picked up off the streets in places in eastern Ukraine and recruited into services.
00:37:52.000How do you respond to accusations and videos like that?
00:37:56.000Every single case is scrutinized by the land forces, by the Ministry of Defense.
00:38:05.000They're the ones responsible for the mobilization.
00:38:11.000It can have a different attitude towards mobilization, but we have this mobilization from the beginning of the war.
00:38:16.000It's in accordance to the legislation, in accordance to the martial law period.
00:38:39.000There were different aspects, like someone suggested money, someone took money for going or not going to the army.
00:38:50.000There's different approaches or there are different cases, but we shouldn't be saying that this is the major phase or the main thing that describes Ukraine today.
00:39:00.000No. Ukraine has 800,000 right now or 600,000 people who volunteered.
00:39:10.000That was the law on mobilization, but the people were volunteering to go and defend Ukraine.
00:39:17.000Definitely, there is, well, there's different people, and I think there's different people in every country, and the law enforcement personnel should be making sure that everything would be transparent,
00:39:33.000there would be no coercion or something.
00:39:40.000We shouldn't be hiding that like a corruption.
00:39:42.000But if we have any anti-corruption bodies, there's the security service of Ukrainians.
00:39:47.000If we are fighting with this on an everyday basis, well, of course, you can hide it, like everything, as in the case of Russia or some European countries, but Ukraine...
00:39:58.000clearly shows that it is fighting on a constant basis against aspects like that.
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00:42:55.000Meanwhile, in other news, the Trump administration signed an excellent executive order yesterday to eliminate the use of so-called disparate impact liability.
00:43:03.000Disparate impact liability is the idea that you can simply discern whether a branch of government or a company, for example, is racist based on the pure numbers of blacks versus whites who get a particular benefit.
00:43:16.000That if there's a disparate impact of a law or a policy, it must be that the law or the policy is racist.
00:43:34.000The executive order says a bedrock principle of the United States that all citizens are treated equally under the law.
00:43:39.000This principle guarantees equality of opportunity, not equal outcomes.
00:43:42.000It promises that people are treated as individuals, not components of a particular race or group.
00:43:46.000It encourages meritocracy in a colorblind society, not race or sex based favoritism.
00:43:50.000Adherence to this principle is essential to creating opportunity, encouraging achievement and sustaining the American dream.
00:43:56.000A pernicious movement endangers this foundational principle seeking to transform America's promise of equal opportunity into a divisive pursuit of results.
00:44:04.000Preordained by irrelevant immutable characteristics, regardless of individual strengths, efforts or achievement.
00:44:09.000A key tool of this movement is disparate impact liability, which holds that a near insurmountable presumption of unlawful discrimination exists where there are any differences in outcomes in certain circumstances among different races, sexes or similar groups.
00:44:20.000Even if there is no facially discriminatory policy or practice or discriminatory intent involved, and even if everyone has an equal opportunity to be able to do it.
00:44:27.000This is a great, great move by the Trump administration.
00:44:30.000Should have been done long ago by Republicans going all the way back to Richard Nixon.
00:44:34.000Good for President Trump on that score.
00:44:36.000And one of the benefits of the Trump presidency, taking seriously DEI and destroying it.
00:45:17.000Everybody wants to be a part of what we're doing.
00:45:19.000They know that they can't get away with it any longer, but they're still going to do fine.
00:45:25.000Again, the White House is considering slashing the China tariffs in order to de-escalate the trade war, according to the Wall Street Journal.
00:45:32.000President Trump hasn't made a final determination.
00:45:34.000One administration official said Trump wouldn't act unilaterally.
00:45:37.000He'd need to see some action from Beijing to lower tariffs.
00:45:39.000But this seems to be something the Trump administration is trying to back off of, considering the market impacts as well as the polling impacts.
00:45:45.000According to Pew, President Trump is down to 40% in the approval ratings.
00:45:49.000According to a Harvard Youth poll, his numbers have dropped precipitously with young people.
00:45:54.000Just under a third of young people currently approve of his job performance.
00:45:58.000A large part of that is tied to economic uncertainty.
00:46:02.000White House spokesman Kush Desai said President Trump has been clear China needs to make a deal with the United States.
00:46:06.000When decisions on tariffs are made, they'll come directly from the president.
00:46:11.000Treasury Secretary Scott Besson did tell reporters Trump has not offered to take down U.S. tariffs on China on a unilateral basis, so it may take longer than expected.
00:46:20.000However, here was Scott Besson laying out the idea that we do need trade partners.
00:47:13.000That is not true of trade advisor Peter Navarro.
00:47:15.000It's not true of some other members of the administration.
00:47:18.000Besant does have a good, solid view as to what the Trump administration is attempting to do, and he understands markets well enough to understand the best ways to achieve all of that.
00:47:27.000Every time Besant speaks, the market spikes, and there is a reason for that.
00:47:31.000Presumably, it was Besant and his team who helped convince President Trump not to fire Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell or threaten to fire him.
00:47:37.000That was roiling markets, according to the Washington Post.
00:47:40.000President Trump's abrupt shift in rhetoric on Tuesday toward Jerome Powell reflected the private lobbying of some of his senior advisors who had urged the president to back off his incendiary attacks on the central bank.
00:47:50.000Again, one of the things that's hilarious and amazing about what's going on economically speaking is,
00:47:53.000And if you're going to make major moves, you really do have to prep the ground for those major moves.
00:48:07.000Meanwhile, by the way, Great Britain is saying that they're not going to alter their standards or rush a U.S. trade deal.
00:48:13.000One of the problems here for President Trump is many of the people he's negotiating with are not actually on board with his trade war, and so they're kind of eager to watch the United States twist in the wind a little bit here.
00:48:24.000According to Rachel Reeves, the British Chancellor of the Exchequer, she said that Britain will not rush into a trade deal with the United States or change its food or car safety standards.
00:48:32.000She said she wanted to reduce trade barriers between Britain and other countries, but they're not going to rush to it, which again is because they now believe that they have President Trump a little bit over a barrel.
00:48:42.000In terms of this trade war, because the economy has been roiling thanks to the trade war.
00:48:46.000Okay, meanwhile, today marks Yom HaShoah, which is Holocaust Remembrance Day.
00:48:52.000And Holocaust Remembrance Day was commemorated at Yale by throwing water bottles at Jews.
00:48:56.000So things were going really well over at Yale last night.
00:48:59.000The Yale anti-Israel encampments are back.
00:49:05.000They set up in response to a visit by Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gavir, who is one of the furthest right ministers in the Israeli government.
00:49:14.000Around 200 people calling for the university cutting of financial ties with Israel erected tents in Beineke Plaza on the anniversary of the first encampment, according to the Jerusalem Post.
00:49:23.000And there they set up checkpoints for Jews on the evening of Holocaust Remembrance Day, which starts at night in Israel.
00:49:32.000By the way, I'm glad they're doing this because this is an excellent excuse for the Trump administration's Office of Civil Rights, led by Harmeet Dillon, to crack down on Yale and maybe...
00:49:40.000Start taxing its endowment or removing its federal funding.
00:49:43.000Because if Yale refuses to do anything about, you know, like actually setting up checkpoints for Jews at the university, that is a violation of the Civil Rights Act in the same way it would be if whites set up a cordon to prevent black students from getting to certain parts of the campus.
00:49:58.000Here are these Yale protesters blocking Jews.
00:51:52.000I hope they continue to do this and I hope that Yale gets absolutely clocked by the Trump Justice Department.
00:51:57.000I think that'd be an excellent and proper way to respond to the trash administration over at Yale.
00:52:02.000So I asked my friends and sponsors over at Perplexity just how big is Yale's endowment and also how much federal taxpayer money does Yale receive?
00:52:10.000According to Perplexity, Yale University's endowment stood at $41.4 billion as of June 30th, 2024, making it the second largest university endowment in the United States, only behind Harvard.
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