Will Smith smacks Chris Rock upside the head at the Oscars, President Biden visits Europe where he proceeds to gaffe all over himself, and Russia shifts strategy as their offensive stalls out. Ben Shapiro explains why the Oscars will never be as good as they used to be, and why we should be looking for another representative to the rest of the world who is a better moral guide than the people who stand there and lecture you about your moral code and how Hollywood is supposed to be America s representative. Ben Shapiro is the host of the Ben Shapiro Show on Fox News and host of The FiveThirtyEight podcast. He is a regular contributor to the Financial Times and the New York Times, and is a frequent contributor to The Weekly Standard. He is the author of the book "The Dark Side of Hollywood" and has been featured in the Hollywood Reporter, USA Today, and The Hollywood Reporter. His latest novel Other Words For Smoke is out now and it's out on Amazon Prime Video. Subscribe to his new book, "Hollywood's Dark Side Of," out now. If you like what you hear on the show, don't miss it! Subscribe on Apple Podcasts! Subscribe on iTunes Learn more about your ad choices. Like, comment and tell a friend about what's going on in your favorite podcast episode by becoming a supporter of the show by becoming one of the most influential podcast listeners in the world. Become a patron of The Ben Shapiro Podcasts Podulp here! Subscribe and comment on iTunes and leave us a review on iTunes! Thanks for listening and share the show! and share it with your fellow podcast listeners! Timestamps: Thank you for listening to Ben Shapiro's latest podcast episode and Good Morning America? The Best of Ben Shapiro by clicking here - The Best Podcasts of the Week? Subscribe & Share this episode of The Six Sigma Podcast? and other podcasts of the week? Rate, review Ben Shapiro s latest book review in iTunes Leave us a rating and review us on Podulps or review us in your podcast on Podchick if you re a review? or share it on Instapod subscribe on iTunes or review it on Podcoin? , and subscribe on Instagrific or your thoughts on a podcast review on Instafeed or any other podcasting platform you like it?
00:00:00.000Will Smith smacks Chris Rock upside the head at the Oscars, President Biden visits Europe where he proceeds to gaffe all over himself, and Russia shifts strategy as their offensive stalls out.
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00:01:32.000The Oscars, it's a time when a bunch of preening morons get together and pat themselves on the back, give each other awards, give each other thousands of dollars in swag bags, fly in on their private jets, lecture about climate change, and then tell us why they ought to be the moral guides for the rest of us.
00:01:46.000People wonder why the Oscars have been sliding for years and years and years, and sure, it's the quality of the films, and sure, it's the fact that the theater experience has been watered down by streaming, And it's been watered down by the fact that there's so much good TV.
00:01:57.000And sure, it's the fact that fewer people watch each of these best picture nominees than they did back in, say, 2000, 2001.
00:02:16.000And that gap between Hollywood and the rest of America becomes clearer every single year.
00:02:20.000And this year was just Excellent par excellence, more like chef's kiss example of why these people should never run anything about your life, why people associated with them should never run anything about your life, why they are a bunch of low IQ idiots with no moral compass, and why when they stand there and lecture you about your moral code, And how Hollywood is supposed to be America's representative to the world?
00:02:45.000We should really be looking for another representative to the world because my goodness, my goodness.
00:02:50.000The only reason to talk about the Oscars, of course, is no one watched them.
00:02:52.000More people will hear about them on the show than probably watched the Oscars in its entirety last night.
00:02:57.000The only reason to talk about this is because the Oscars used to be a sort of cultural totem for the United States.
00:03:04.000Hollywood was the exporter of American ideas and American ideology and the American vision to the rest of the world.
00:03:10.000This is true in the 30s, 40s, 50s, and 60s.
00:03:13.000And now, Hollywood has largely become an afterthought in the sort of global cultural milieu.
00:03:21.000And if people do think of Hollywood, it's only how do we ban the Hollywood movies so it doesn't corrupt the youth, right?
00:03:26.000That seems to be the way that authoritarian countries approach Hollywood movies.
00:03:29.000And yet here in the United States, the media treat the Oscars as though it is a gathering of great luminaries, intellectual luminaries, moral luminaries, who are going to come together in a sort of conclave to figure out the moral code By which we must all live.
00:03:45.000The Oscars began last night with a small controversy over whether the president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, was going to appear on the Oscars.
00:03:50.000Now, I have to say, I'm not sure why Volodymyr Zelensky should appear on the Oscars.
00:03:54.000Every time there's an international conflagration, should that person appear on the Oscars?
00:04:00.000But Sean Penn was very hot and bothered about the idea that Wladimir Zelensky would not appear on the Oscars.
00:04:05.000Because after all, Wladimir Zelensky is a Hollywood star in one of the best picture nominees.
00:04:11.000Or alternatively, he's the leader of a country at war.
00:04:13.000And in any case, Sean Penn was very upset about all of this.
00:04:17.000If presenters have elected not to pursue the leadership in Ukraine who are taking bullets and bombs for us, along with the Ukrainian children that they are trying to protect, then I think every single one of those people And every bit of that decision will have been the most obscene moment in all of Hollywood history, and I hope that's not what's happening.
00:04:44.000If it turns out to be what's happening, I would encourage everyone involved to know that though it may be their moment, and I understand that, to celebrate their films, it is so much more importantly their moment to shine and to protest and to boycott that Academy Awards.
00:05:02.000And I myself, if it comes back to it, When I return, I will smelt mine in public.
00:05:09.000He publicly smelt his Oscar down to do what now?
00:05:23.000Now listen, what Sean Penn is doing in documenting what's going on with Zelensky in Ukraine, that's fine, that's good.
00:05:27.000But the point here, which is that Sean Penn and the rest of Hollywood do think of themselves as the moral imprimatur for the rest of the universe, It's silly.
00:08:30.000So they let off, as you knew they would, right?
00:08:32.000If I had had to make my Oscar prediction, I didn't care about who's going to win best picture because frankly, I've seen some of them, but nothing has really blown me away But the one prediction I would have made is that they would have opened with the Florida stuff.
00:08:43.000Like, absolutely, because they can't help themselves.
00:08:46.000The only cause that matters to Hollywood is LGBTQ causes.
00:08:54.000Suffering abroad does not matter to them.
00:08:55.000Climate change does not matter to them.
00:08:56.000This is the only thing that matters to them.
00:08:58.000And the reason it's the only thing that matters to them is because their alternative moral code is the only thing that matters to them, and it's what a lot of them believe ought to be indoctrinated into kids, which is why they're very upset with this Florida bill.
00:09:08.000So this Florida bill, obviously, which has become the cause celeb in Hollywood for no reason whatsoever, considering that what the bill says is you don't get to indoctrinate small children into sexual orientation and gender identity.
00:09:19.000And all of Hollywood is very, very upset about this.
00:09:21.000I knew for a fact that they would be chanting gay within the first five minutes of the Oscars.
00:09:26.000And then they wonder why the Oscar ratings are go down.
00:09:29.000Maybe it's because if I like when I was a kid, I was like 10, 11 years old.
00:09:33.000My mom really liked watching the Oscars.
00:09:35.000And so, we, like a lot of other families, we'd get together in the den, and we'd all watch the Oscars, and my dad would fume at the annoyance of it, and we'd get through the nine-hour show together, and it was sort of a family bonding event.
00:09:45.000You'd mock the Oscars and all of that.
00:09:47.000Hey, there is no way in hell I would put my children in front of a screen with these morons on it.
00:09:52.000I mean, their overt attempt here is to indoctrinate your kids into ridiculous values, like why small kindergartners should know about Homosexuality and gender identity and transgender theory.
00:10:08.000So I knew for a fact within the first five minutes they would be smacking you over the head with the mallet of the Florida parental protection bill.
00:10:15.000So here they were last night, our great comedic minds all together combined, Amy Schumer, Wanda Sykes, and Regina Hall, who may together be able to tell a joke, maybe.
00:11:04.000And then the music comes up and the lights come up in the background.
00:11:07.000Oh, oh, the heroism of a bunch of people who all agree that small children should be indoctrinated into the joys of of homosexuality and gender identity.
00:11:23.000Meg Ryan-ing it from When Harry Met Sally to the to the chants of these three very, very unfunny people saying gay over and over.
00:11:29.000Okay, so it begins with this and these are your moral betters.
00:11:32.000And then we get Amy Schumer, again, who I don't know when people thought Amy Schumer was funny, but she has not been funny for a very, very long time.
00:11:42.000She made a pay gap joke because that one's not tired.
00:11:45.000And her joke was that the Oscars hired these three women because it was cheaper than hiring one man.
00:11:51.000This year, the Academy hired three women to host because it's cheaper than hiring one man.
00:12:01.000Well, I mean, one man... Actually, any man would have been funnier than those three women.
00:12:06.000You could have hired a janitor off the street and he would have been funnier than those three women.
00:12:11.000As one of my producers noted, Chris Rock provided more humor in one moment this evening than all three of those women did across the combined 27 hours of this Oscar telecast.
00:12:20.000So yeah, that's three women cheaper than hiring.
00:12:24.000Honestly, I wonder how much money each of these women made last year.
00:12:27.000I have a feeling none of them are poor, even though they're really not good at their job.
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00:14:59.000All of this was prelude to the greatest moments maybe in Oscar history.
00:15:05.000So, again, we have heard from our moral betters.
00:15:59.000And this is like the mildest joke anyone has ever told about Will Smith and Jada Pinkett, considering they have an open marriage and it is well known that Will Smith, let's just say that other dudes and Jada Pinkett has been a thing for a very long time within this marriage, like very publicly so.
00:16:17.000So this is the mildest joke anyone has ever told about Jada Pinkett Smith.
00:16:20.000On the list of jokes about Jada Pinkett Smith, this one is like, this ranks like 1,292.
00:16:26.000And what's funny about this, actually, is that, as you will see, after Chris Rock tells this joke, they cut to Will Smith, he's laughing, and then he looks over at Jada Pinkett, and she's mad.
00:18:25.000The moral standards of Hollywood are weird.
00:18:29.000Will Smith is fine with other dudes and his wife having sex.
00:18:32.000He is not fine with someone making a joke about his wife at the Oscars.
00:18:37.000They've been public figures for about as long as I've been alive.
00:18:41.000So that's, that was a weird, strange, now what was even weirder, and I won't say it's weird because it actually does say something about where we are in the country.
00:18:48.000A huge number of people on Twitter came out from the left and were defending Will Smith.
00:19:13.000That so much of the left is willing to defend this kind of stuff.
00:19:16.000Because after all, the left has been willing to defend the idea that violence should be the response to quote-unquote microaggressions for years and years and years and years.
00:19:24.000You know, I was on national television on CNN Headline News in, like, 2013, 2014, and a transgender woman, meaning a biological male, was sitting next to me, and I called him, sir.
00:19:34.000And he threatened me on national TV while putting his hand on the back of my neck.
00:19:38.000And the rest of us was like, well, you had that coming.
00:19:40.000Assault is a decent response to you being labeled by your biological... Like, this is the way the left thinks now, which is that if I'm offended, I do get to smack you upside the head.
00:19:48.000The only question is whether he's justified in smacking Chris Rock upside the head.
00:19:55.000Remember, these are all the people you should listen to.
00:19:58.000These are the people who, when they chant gay, you should probably let your kids be educated by them.
00:20:02.000They should set the standards for how you educate your kindergartner.
00:20:05.000They literally can't keep other men's hands off their wife or their hands off other men who make fun of their wives, but they should definitely educate your kids.
00:20:16.000By the way, one second later, Will Smith won the Oscar for King Richard, and he received a standing ovation from the crowd.
00:20:22.000This is like within minutes of him smacking a dude upside the head on national TV for telling a joke he didn't like, or a joke he did like, but then didn't like.
00:20:30.000Because, I will say this, for all the whipped men out there, the part where you're laughing at a joke about your spouse, and then you look over and your spouse is unhappy, and then you realize it.
00:21:30.000me. I want to apologize to all my fellow nominees. This is a beautiful moment, and I'm not crying for winning an award.
00:21:53.000It's not about winning an award for me, it's about being able to shine light on all of the people, Tim and Trevor and Zach and Saniya and Demi and Anjanew and the entire cast and crew of King Richard and Venus and Serena, the
00:23:38.000They're a bunch of people who are very good at one thing and very bad at many, many other things.
00:23:43.000Among those other things, thinking and acting morally.
00:23:47.000Those are among the other things in Hollywood.
00:23:49.000And so when they lecture you, or when they suggest that your values are somehow bereft, while their values are the ones you should listen to, you should just think of the Oscars.
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00:25:25.000In actual, more important news, let's get to what happened overseas.
00:25:28.000So Joe Biden, our not all there president, went over to Europe over the weekend.
00:25:34.000He was in Brussels and then he went over to Poland.
00:25:36.000And while he was there, he just made a series of gaps.
00:25:40.000As it turns out, having a man who verges on senility at the head of your country in the middle of a proxy war with the most armed nuclear power on planet Earth is not an ideal situation.
00:25:52.000Now, Russia's military efforts have basically stalled out at this point.
00:25:56.000Russia is now relegating its own desires back toward what I thought the original war aims were going to be, namely the splitting off Luhansk and Donetsk and the consolidation of power in Crimea.
00:26:07.000They don't have the ability at this point to completely overthrow the government of Vladimir Zelensky, barring the use of some sort of weapons of mass destruction or barring some massive new conscription.
00:26:17.000They don't have the ability to topple that government.
00:26:19.000They don't have the ability to hold the country, even if they do topple the government.
00:26:21.000This has become very clear to the Russians.
00:26:23.000That does not mean that Vladimir Putin can afford to lose outright.
00:26:26.000If he loses outright, there's a good shot that his regime is over.
00:26:30.000And what this means is that now is a time for the West, as I've been saying for a while, to be looking, and Zelensky has been looking apparently, for an off-ramp here.
00:26:37.000Because if there is no off-ramp, then the chances that Vladimir Putin gets more and more erratic as he is boxed in more and more grow.
00:26:44.000According to Naftali Bennett, who's been sort of acting as a go-between between Ukraine and Russia, he said that the advances that the Russians are no longer trying to depose Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky and fully demilitarize Ukraine in the negotiations.
00:26:57.000Those advances are in the negotiations.
00:27:25.000All three were a real problem for Joe Biden, and for NATO, and for the West.
00:27:31.000Because the entire idea here from the West is, you made a move, Vladimir Putin, and now we are boxing you in.
00:27:36.000We're going to bring all pressure to bear to box you in, to stop you from making territorially aggressive moves, but we are not going to get into a shooting war with you.
00:27:44.000And that's what everybody is in agreement on.
00:27:49.000Do not allow him to take over Ukraine.
00:27:50.000Do not allow him to fire off Okay, so all of this began on Friday, when Joe Biden dropped some language that he must think is clever, but his synapses are no longer firing properly, and even when they were firing properly, they weren't firing properly.
00:28:22.000So on Friday, he was talking about Putin using chemical weapons in Ukraine.
00:28:27.000And instead of him either explaining precisely what would happen or making a vague threat, instead he used language that suggests the United States was going to use chemical weapons in response.
00:28:37.000If chemical weapons were used in Ukraine, would that trigger a military response from NATO?
00:28:45.000It would trigger a response in kind whether or not you're asking whether NATO would cross, but we'd make that decision at the time.
00:28:53.000He thinks he's being smart because he's doing the I'm Joe Biden and I think I'm smart face, which is the.
00:28:59.000But he's actually not being particularly smart.
00:29:02.000He's not being particularly smart because when you use the word in kind, what you mean is I'm going to respond exactly the same way.
00:29:06.000So if Chris Rock had responded in kind to Will Smith, he would have smacked him upside the head, right?
00:29:10.000So then the White House had to walk that back.
00:29:11.000Oh, no, no, we're not going to use chemical.
00:29:14.000OK, then on Saturday, Joe Biden met with American troops in Brussels, and he proceeded to explain to American troops that they will be in Ukraine.
00:31:02.000And then he continues along these lines and he gave a speech in Poland and the speech was fine until it wasn't.
00:31:11.000So he started off by talking about how he was confident that Putin wanted to divide NATO.
00:31:16.000This is actually at a presser right before the speech.
00:31:19.000This is when he was meeting with the Polish president Andrzej Duda.
00:31:23.000I'm confident that Vladimir Putin was counting on being able to divide NATO, to be able to separate the eastern flank from the west, be able to separate nations based on past histories.
00:31:50.000Right now, it was fine, the speech was okay, and as I say, until it wasn't.
00:31:55.000First of all, it's very easy for him to say that Europe has to end its dependence on Russian fossil fuels.
00:31:58.000You know what would've been nice there is if America had ramped up its production so that Europe had not been dependent on Russian fossil fuels.
00:32:04.000Instead, they decided to outsource their energy policy to a small Swedish child who does not know anything.
00:33:16.000It's not seeking the demise of Russia.
00:33:17.000They're not seeking to overturn the regime in Russia.
00:33:20.000Five seconds later, Joe Biden calls Putin a murderer.
00:33:23.000And then, off of the teleprompter, because this man should never be allowed to stray from teleprompter, he immediately says that Putin has to go.
00:33:32.000And this is the only headline that comes out of his trip to Europe, basically.
00:33:36.000We will have a different future, a brighter future, rooted in democracy and principle, hope and light, of decency and dignity, of freedom and possibilities.
00:33:44.000For God's sake, this man cannot remain in power.
00:33:49.000For God's sake, this man cannot remain in power.
00:33:55.000He says, NATO is a defensive alliance, also regime change.
00:34:00.000Okay, so now you've granted Putin his premise, which is that the entire purpose of this conflict was the West ceding the Ukrainian situation in order to overthrow Putin somehow.
00:34:57.000One, he didn't actually say, Mr. Gorbachev, the entire Soviet Union needs to fall and you need to be replaced.
00:35:03.000He didn't say that because that would have been bad politics.
00:35:05.000He said that you should release this country from the grip of your tyranny.
00:35:09.000And Biden has said that about Ukraine.
00:35:13.000Also, that was all scripted and the media went nuts about it.
00:35:16.000Well, as we'll see, the media were so happy with Joe Biden for this ad lib.
00:35:20.000They were so happy until they weren't.
00:35:22.000Because as it turns out, the White House has to keep making... They're the night nurse.
00:35:26.000The White House and the media are the night nurse for this administration.
00:35:29.000Joe Biden craps the bed, everybody comes in at night, and they clean the bedpan, and they take away the sheets, and they replace them.
00:35:35.000And they have to make sure that the mattress is covered in plastic every single night.
00:35:40.000Because this guy craps the bed on the regular.
00:35:42.000And it is ugly and it has real ramifications for foreign policy.
00:35:45.000So the media reacted with just joy and wonder at Joe Biden's announcement that Vladimir Putin had to go.
00:35:51.000There's only one problem, Joe Biden did not mean that.
00:35:53.000We'll get to more on that in just one moment.
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00:37:16.000Again, this is like his third gaffe of the weekend that he had to walk back.
00:37:18.000There was the chemical weapons in kind gaffe, and then there was the American troops will be in Ukraine gaffe, which he had to walk back, and then there was the Putin has to go, and this was the headline.
00:37:29.000It was like the chyron on CNN and all the rest.
00:37:31.000Okay, so the original take, when they thought that it was scripted, was celebration.
00:37:35.000So many people on the left just so happy about all of this.
00:37:39.000So Paul Macero, for example, who is a foreign policy guy, works for one of these kind of left-wing foreign policy organizations.
00:37:47.000He tweeted, for God's sake, this man cannot remain in power as Biden's Mr. Gorbachev tear down this wall.
00:37:53.000Tara Setmire, a political voice of the left, President Biden may have just given his tear down this wall speech.
00:39:33.000President Joe Biden was not calling for regime change in Russia when he said on Saturday that Russian President Vladimir Putin cannot remain in power, a White House official said.
00:39:43.000Because it sounded like he was calling for Vladimir Putin not to remain in power.
00:39:47.000What they actually tried to say, I'm not kidding, what they actually tried to say that he meant was Vladimir Putin cannot remain in power in Ukraine.
00:39:59.000So, no, you can't walk that one back and pretend you never said it.
00:40:03.000So, it turns out that having a doddering old fool in charge of the United States in the middle of an international, possibly weapons-of-mass-destruction-oriented crisis is not exactly ideal.
00:40:39.000If this is what we want to do, we shouldn't escalate things, neither with words nor actions.
00:40:43.000Even President Obama's former head of the CIA, Michael Morrell, he said, yeah, this was a rather large scale mistake.
00:40:50.000I think his comment that Putin had to go was an unforced error.
00:40:55.000It makes it, it strengthens Putin at home, makes it difficult for any domestic opposition to coalesce together.
00:41:03.000And no Russian citizen, none, wants to be told by the leader of Russia's main enemy about what their leadership can look like and not.
00:41:11.000I think framing it as democracy versus autocracy drives the Chinese closer to the Russians and makes it difficult for some of our own allies who are autocrats to stand with us.
00:41:23.000He's not wrong about any of this, by the way.
00:41:25.000And then NATO Ambassador Julianne Smith is the American ambassador to NATO.
00:41:31.000She went on CNN and she's trying to defend Biden's activities.
00:41:35.000And as soon as she's asked about Biden's regime change comment, she basically starts running.
00:41:38.000There's now a Julianne Smith sized hole in the background.
00:41:40.000She runs directly through the hole to get away from the question.
00:41:44.000Let's start with President Biden's comment yesterday that Vladimir Putin cannot remain in power.
00:41:50.000The White House said quickly that he was not discussing Putin's power in Russia or regime change.
00:42:24.000I've been telling you since the beginning we need to take Ukraine, because if we don't take Ukraine, they're going to try and topple the regime.
00:42:29.000And then Joe Biden just said it right out.
00:42:51.000Meanwhile, the situation in Ukraine for the Russians continues to be basically stalled out.
00:42:56.000Russia has not grown closer to taking Kiev.
00:42:59.000They probably don't even have the resources to take Kiev at this point.
00:43:02.000According to the New York Times, Russian forces redoubled attacks on strategic targets across Ukraine on Sunday.
00:43:07.000With fierce fighting reported around the capital, Kiev, amid signs the besieged city of Mariupol was close to falling.
00:43:13.000As the conflict moved into its second month, Russian forces have largely failed in their first aim to take the larger cities and have narrowed immediate targets to the sieges of southern port city of Mariupol and the strategically placed city of Chernihiv in the north.
00:43:24.000Air raid sirens rang out in Kiev during the day.
00:43:26.000Otherwise, the city remained calm, lending some credence to the Russian Defense Ministry's recent assertion it was turning its focus away from Kiev to concentrate on the Eastern Front.
00:43:33.000Some Russian units were withdrawing to Belarus in the north to regroup and re-equip.
00:43:37.000According to the Ukrainian military, heavy Russian artillery attacks continued around the journey northeast of Kiev.
00:43:42.000It would not be a surprise at this point, by the way, if some pretext was created for Belarus to get involved in the war and start shipping men and material across that border to the north of Ukraine.
00:43:53.000Seven people, including two kids, died in artillery fire in Kharkiv in northeast Ukraine as Russian forces tried to subdue the city near the border, the Ukrainian news media reported.
00:44:00.000Missiles hit a fuel depot in western Ukraine as Russia continued to use airstrikes to disrupt supply lines to Ukrainian forces.
00:44:07.000Ukraine's top military intel officer suggested Russia was actually changing its military focus to the south and the east and might be trying to divide Ukraine between occupied and non-occupied territories.
00:44:18.000Brigadier General Kirill Obudinov, the head of the Intelligence Division of Ukraine's Ministry of Defense, according to the New York Times, says, quote, In fact, this is an attempt to create North and South Korea in Ukraine.
00:44:29.000But the truth is, I'm not sure that there's going to be a lot of choice here, given the fact that Ukraine does not have the weaponry or materiel to actually expel Russia from Luhansk and Donetsk.
00:44:37.000That is an ongoing war that's been happening since 2014, when the U.S.
00:44:41.000succeeded to Vladimir Putin's original invasion of Ukraine in Crimea and Luhansk and Donetsk.
00:44:46.000Those Russian forces are not going to be uprooted, not by Western power, not by Ukrainian power.
00:44:50.000And so the best that you're going to end up with probably here is something akin to what I've been suggesting for weeks, which is some sort of territorial concessions by the Lenski administration in Ukraine simply to end this thing for now.
00:45:03.000Now listen, no foreign policy settlement is final.
00:45:06.000And maybe at some point in the future, those areas will be liberated again by Ukraine.
00:45:10.000But they don't have the power to expel Russia from those areas.
00:45:13.000Meanwhile, NATO can't even guarantee that they're going to give Zelensky what he wants.
00:45:16.000So you got Joe Biden out there calling on Vladimir Putin to be thrown out of power.
00:45:20.000And at the same time, the NATO ambassador is like, yeah, we're not even sure we're going to give Zelensky all the weaponry.
00:45:24.000How do you how do you seek to accomplish what you say you seek to accomplish?
00:45:27.000We've spoken with President Zelensky many times in recent weeks.
00:45:31.000We've heard their requests for assistance.
00:45:33.000In many cases, we've delivered those anti-aircraft, anti-armor capabilities.
00:45:40.000We are assessing their air defense needs.
00:45:55.000According to the Biden administration, too scary and offensive to allow jets to be shipped to the Ukrainians so they can defend themselves.
00:46:01.000Not offensive to call for full regime change in Russia that you then have to walk back because the president is senile.