The Debrief With MyronGainesX - Scott Ritter Analyzes Russia Ukraine War And Liberation Day Tariffs!

00:00:00.740 When holiday prep means cleaning every corner, reach for Pine Soul Original Pine.

00:00:06.280 Pine Soul is the only one you need for multiple surfaces.

00:00:09.680 Cleaning floors, counters, stoves, toilets, and showers, while killing 99.9% of germs.

00:00:16.660 With long-lasting freshness and an iconic pine scent, it's sure to give you that fresh holiday feeling.

00:00:22.620 Shop now and get your home holiday ready with Pine Soul.

00:00:25.980 Use as directed.

00:00:26.660 It's week two of Canadian Tires Early Black Friday Sale.

00:00:31.600 These prices won't go lower this year.

00:00:33.400 So you're lying on the floor?

00:00:34.460 Save up to 50% November 13th to 20th.

00:00:36.680 Conditions apply. Details online.

00:00:56.660 All right, we are live.

00:01:10.360 What's up, guys?

00:01:10.920 Welcome to the stream, man.

00:01:12.120 I got a special guest in the house.

00:01:13.380 I have Scott Ritter.

00:01:15.500 We are short on time, guys, so we're going to get, like, right into it.

00:01:18.720 Scott, what's up, man?

00:01:19.360 How are you?

00:01:20.440 I'm doing great.

00:01:21.080 Thank you.

00:01:21.280 Good, good, good.

00:01:22.920 I think we're live on all the platforms.

00:01:24.560 Let me just double-check here.

00:01:30.760 Yep, we are live.

00:01:31.840 Guys, give me ones in the chat if you guys can all hear me.

00:01:33.700 If you guys can hear me, it's Scott well.

00:01:36.040 Give me ones.

00:01:37.960 Give me ones in the chat.

00:01:39.480 Let's see.

00:01:40.060 All right, nice.

00:01:46.040 Take it here.

00:01:46.880 So, yeah, guys, so Scott's on limited time.

00:01:49.140 So, you know, no Kanye intros yet.

00:01:51.820 We're going to get right into it.

00:01:53.400 So, Scott, for those that don't know who you are,

00:01:56.140 can you please introduce yourself to the audience?

00:01:59.280 I'm a former Marine Corps intelligence officer,

00:02:02.320 and I have experience in arms control.

00:02:06.180 I did, you know, arms control in the former Soviet Union

00:02:10.420 and spent seven years as a chief weapons inspector in Iraq,

00:02:15.360 disarming Iraq in the aftermath of the Gulf War.

00:02:18.040 I was a critic of U.S. policy

00:02:20.240 and continue to be critical of U.S. policy

00:02:23.740 where it needs to be criticized.

00:02:26.960 I'm a loyal American, patriotic American,

00:02:29.380 who believes that it is our duty

00:02:31.500 to call out the wrongdoing of government

00:02:34.880 because at the end of the day,

00:02:35.960 the government works for us

00:02:37.120 and we must hold them accountable.

00:02:39.540 I remember our first interview we had,

00:02:42.940 and it was really one of my favorite interviews

00:02:44.800 because I learned so much about the Iraq war

00:02:48.600 because you were there like right on the front lines.

00:02:50.660 Can you talk a little bit about that experience

00:02:52.000 and the weapons of mass destruction

00:02:53.120 and all that stuff?

00:02:54.880 Because you're in a very unique position

00:02:56.000 when it came to that conflict.

00:02:58.320 Well, as I said,

00:03:00.000 I spent two and a half years

00:03:02.060 in the former Soviet Union

00:03:03.200 basically writing the book on on-site inspection,

00:03:07.080 implementing the Intermediate Nuclear Forces Treaty.

00:03:09.680 Prior to that,

00:03:10.300 there had never been an on-site inspection,

00:03:12.720 which is humans on the ground

00:03:14.380 doing the compliance verification

00:03:15.880 in accordance with the mandate

00:03:17.320 given to them by the treaty.

00:03:18.480 I carried that experience into the Gulf War

00:03:22.320 where people assumed wrongly

00:03:24.940 that because I was a weapons inspector

00:03:27.140 in Vaughan Kinslet

00:03:28.820 that I was somehow a Scud missile expert.

00:03:31.320 I'm a Marine.

00:03:32.280 I'm not really an expert on rockets.

00:03:35.120 I'm not a rocket scientist,

00:03:36.040 but I got caught up in the counter-Scud campaign.

00:03:40.120 And I learned or I figured out early on

00:03:44.400 that we knew that Iraq had 19 mobile launchers

00:03:48.580 and by week two, we had killed 66 of them.

00:03:51.500 And there's a problem

00:03:52.260 because even though I'm a Marine,

00:03:53.980 the math doesn't quite work out.

00:03:56.020 We're killing something that isn't Scud

00:03:57.580 and the Iraqis keep launching.

00:03:59.440 So I dove in head first

00:04:03.460 and I got to work with special operations forces,

00:04:07.760 Navy SEALs, Delta Force, SAS.

00:04:09.860 I worked with the Air Force

00:04:11.120 to try and target these things.

00:04:13.780 And at the end of the war,

00:04:16.200 we won that war.

00:04:17.480 We liberated Kuwait,

00:04:18.820 but the missile war we lost.

00:04:21.300 It's the reality.

00:04:22.760 The Iraqis didn't suffer a single launcher casualty 0.98

00:04:25.780 despite the fact that we diverted 40%

00:04:28.640 of the aerial sorties

00:04:31.780 that we flew during the Gulf War.

00:04:34.320 We put two squadrons of Delta Force on the ground,

00:04:37.300 two squadrons of SAS on the ground.

00:04:39.540 They didn't kill a single thing.

00:04:42.460 And that experience,

00:04:45.080 you know, I carried that out

00:04:46.580 and I was invited back.

00:04:48.760 I was invited to the United Nations

00:04:50.420 because of the combination

00:04:51.840 of my weapons inspection experience

00:04:53.500 and the Scud hunt

00:04:54.300 to help them hunt down Iraqi Scuds. 1.00

00:04:57.780 And so I was asked

00:04:59.080 to create an intelligence organization

00:05:00.920 within the United Nations

00:05:02.080 to try and account for Iraq's Scud missiles.

00:05:05.740 And I ended up doing that job for seven years.

00:05:10.620 Fantastic, man.

00:05:11.440 And I remember you were the first person,

00:05:13.920 because I remember asking you this question,

00:05:15.400 why did we go to war in Iraq?

00:05:16.720 And, you know, you bluntly said

00:05:18.020 we went to war for Israel.

00:05:20.360 And this was before October 7th.

00:05:22.780 And, man, you know,

00:05:24.740 that comment that you made

00:05:25.860 resonated with me so strongly

00:05:27.440 because I was like,

00:05:28.740 holy crap,

00:05:29.280 our whole Middle Eastern foreign policy

00:05:30.960 is literally run by Israel.

00:05:32.860 And, you know, this was, what,

00:05:34.260 I think maybe a year into the Ukraine war

00:05:36.040 because it was a few years ago.

00:05:37.040 But I guess we could start

00:05:37.940 with the Ukraine-Russia conflict.

00:05:39.500 It's been a minute

00:05:40.080 since we've spoken about it.

00:05:41.480 I don't think I've spoken to you

00:05:42.500 about it since Trump took office.

00:05:44.040 Can you kind of give us

00:05:45.140 an overall bird's eye view

00:05:46.200 of what's going on

00:05:47.300 and what you predict

00:05:48.500 is going to happen next?

00:05:50.920 Well, you might recall

00:05:52.020 when we talked last time,

00:05:53.940 I was on several death lists

00:05:56.280 because of what I was saying.

00:05:58.180 Ukrainians have put me 1.00

00:05:59.520 on three death lists.

00:06:01.120 And I've been to Russia twice

00:06:02.500 where the Ukrainians

00:06:03.360 have actually tried to kill me.

00:06:05.080 They don't like what I'm saying.

00:06:06.540 They accuse me of falsehoods.

00:06:08.460 I called this conflict a proxy war.

00:06:11.920 You know, that Ukraine 0.99

00:06:12.840 was just a proxy

00:06:13.600 between NATO,

00:06:14.640 the United States and Russia.

00:06:16.960 I, you know,

00:06:18.080 said that this was a war

00:06:19.120 that was based upon NATO expansion,

00:06:21.440 that this was a war

00:06:22.120 started by Ukraine.

00:06:24.360 And people were calling me

00:06:25.560 a Russian propagandist,

00:06:26.800 a stooge for Putin, et cetera.

00:06:30.200 Well, gosh, let's see.

00:06:32.200 Trump has come into office

00:06:33.400 and the politicized

00:06:34.740 Biden administration

00:06:35.660 is no more.

00:06:37.060 And we now have truths.

00:06:38.620 The Trump administration says

00:06:40.000 this is a proxy war

00:06:41.260 between the United States

00:06:42.900 and Ukraine.

00:06:43.980 Secretary of State

00:06:44.700 Marco Rubio has said this.

00:06:47.320 It's the truth.

00:06:48.520 Ukraine is just a proxy. 0.92

00:06:49.740 This is a war

00:06:50.320 between the United States

00:06:51.360 and Russia.

00:06:53.740 The, the, you know,

00:06:54.740 this, Trump has acknowledged

00:06:56.640 that this is all

00:06:57.620 about NATO expansion,

00:06:58.800 that the expansion of NATO

00:07:00.300 created this.

00:07:01.780 And Trump has said that,

00:07:03.180 you know,

00:07:03.600 if he were Vladimir Putin,

00:07:04.940 he'd be doing the same thing

00:07:05.980 because Ukraine is at fault. 0.89

00:07:07.500 This is the reality

00:07:08.840 that we have to deal with here,

00:07:10.140 that no longer

00:07:10.880 are we playing the games,

00:07:12.060 the pretending that,

00:07:13.320 you know,

00:07:14.380 we aren't doing what we're doing.

00:07:15.220 The New York Times

00:07:16.080 has just published

00:07:16.740 a very long piece

00:07:17.760 that details

00:07:19.340 how the United States

00:07:20.960 was managing this conflict,

00:07:23.440 the true nature

00:07:24.220 of this proxy conflict,

00:07:25.620 how American generals

00:07:26.400 are making decisions

00:07:27.220 on behalf of

00:07:28.020 Ukrainian military action,

00:07:29.900 doing the planning,

00:07:30.760 providing the intelligence,

00:07:31.780 providing the weapons

00:07:32.640 that were used

00:07:33.760 to kill Russians. 0.93

00:07:34.600 I was saying this early on

00:07:36.720 and again that

00:07:37.320 when I was saying

00:07:38.120 I was called a Russian stooge,

00:07:40.520 a shill for Putin.

00:07:42.020 It's the truth.

00:07:43.480 And the truth is today

00:07:44.580 that this is a war

00:07:46.360 that was thrust upon Russia 0.98

00:07:48.240 and Russia has responded

00:07:50.440 and Russia is winning.

00:07:53.120 I don't think there's anybody

00:07:54.480 that disputes this.

00:07:55.500 There was a time

00:07:55.980 if I said Russia

00:07:56.720 was winning the war again,

00:07:57.820 I would be called

00:07:58.420 a Russian propagandist.

00:08:00.080 But everybody acknowledges

00:08:01.680 now that Russia is winning 0.72

00:08:02.860 because it's the truth.

00:08:04.640 Russia has the military advantage.

00:08:06.740 By some estimates,

00:08:07.940 they've killed between

00:08:08.680 700,000 and 1.1 million

00:08:11.020 Ukrainian soldiers.

00:08:12.900 That's a huge number.

00:08:13.740 By the way,

00:08:14.120 I just want to remind people

00:08:15.040 that in the totality

00:08:15.800 of the Second World War,

00:08:16.960 we lost, you know,

00:08:18.100 300,000 men

00:08:19.180 on both theaters.

00:08:21.600 And here,

00:08:22.340 this conflict,

00:08:23.100 just Ukraine,

00:08:23.860 700,000 to 1.1 million dead.

00:08:26.480 And if this war continues,

00:08:28.000 they will probably lose

00:08:29.340 upwards of 200,000

00:08:31.000 to 500,000 more dead.

00:08:33.060 But Russia is waging 0.68

00:08:35.420 a war of attrition.

00:08:37.120 Their goal isn't to drive

00:08:38.840 big red arrows

00:08:39.800 deep into a Ukrainian map.

00:08:42.300 Their goal is to kill Ukrainians. 1.00

00:08:44.720 And they're doing

00:08:45.320 a very good job of this.

00:08:47.320 Russia is suffering

00:08:48.280 casualties as well.

00:08:49.080 This is high-intensity conflict.

00:08:51.020 This is the kind of war

00:08:52.200 that, you know,

00:08:54.340 the United States

00:08:55.200 should have been preparing for.

00:08:57.000 But instead,

00:08:58.320 we spent 20 years

00:08:59.320 in low-intensity conflict

00:09:00.480 in Iraq and Afghanistan.

00:09:03.220 You know,

00:09:03.640 no one is prepared

00:09:04.540 to fight the war

00:09:05.260 that's being fought

00:09:05.900 in Ukraine today.

00:09:06.720 NATO is not prepared.

00:09:07.680 The United States

00:09:08.360 is not prepared.

00:09:10.340 And Russia is going 0.62

00:09:11.900 to get what it wants.

00:09:13.020 Russia has said

00:09:13.680 that the goals

00:09:14.260 and objectives here

00:09:15.080 are to make sure

00:09:15.920 that Ukraine 0.91

00:09:16.380 never is a member of NATO,

00:09:18.060 that Ukraine 0.91

00:09:18.740 is demilitarized.

00:09:20.000 That means that

00:09:20.560 all of the NATO investment

00:09:21.900 in Ukraine

00:09:22.320 will be annulled.

00:09:23.560 Ukraine will be, 0.98

00:09:24.360 see their military

00:09:25.240 reduced to about 50,000 men.

00:09:27.540 De-Nazification means 0.85

00:09:28.860 that these right-wing

00:09:30.660 ultra-nationalist

00:09:31.920 political movements

00:09:33.080 in Ukraine

00:09:33.540 will be eradicated.

00:09:35.020 And eradicated means

00:09:35.900 killed, arrested,

00:09:37.260 or driven out of the country.

00:09:38.700 This isn't a game.

00:09:40.240 And the other thing

00:09:40.880 the Russians have said

00:09:41.640 is because Ukraine

00:09:42.580 opted out of a peace deal

00:09:44.900 that Russia was ready 0.90

00:09:45.780 to implement

00:09:47.300 in April of 2022,

00:09:50.340 that it's now lost territory.

00:09:53.220 Not only will Ukraine 0.98

00:09:54.200 never get Crimea back,

00:09:56.360 but Russia has run

00:09:57.360 referendum

00:09:57.860 in four additional provinces,

00:10:01.480 Kerasan, Zaporizhia,

00:10:02.720 Donetsk, and Lugansk.

00:10:03.780 And these are now

00:10:04.300 constitutionally part of Russia

00:10:05.840 and will forever

00:10:06.360 be part of Russia.

00:10:07.720 Now, the choice

00:10:08.620 the United States has

00:10:09.900 is do we recognize

00:10:12.080 the inevitability

00:10:13.000 of the Russian victory

00:10:13.980 and seek to shortcut

00:10:16.500 to the end game,

00:10:18.560 giving Russia 0.97

00:10:20.220 what it has won

00:10:21.080 on the battlefield

00:10:21.740 without causing Ukraine 0.89

00:10:23.040 to suffer additional

00:10:23.960 hundreds of thousands

00:10:24.820 of dead?

00:10:25.460 Or do we put

00:10:26.400 unrealistic requirements

00:10:29.700 on Russia

00:10:30.420 where Russia

00:10:32.660 will turn this down

00:10:34.140 and the war

00:10:34.600 will grind on

00:10:35.360 for another year,

00:10:36.400 year and a half

00:10:37.100 until all the Ukrainians 1.00

00:10:38.600 are dead?

00:10:38.980 Either way,

00:10:39.860 Russia wins this war. 0.93

00:10:40.980 There's nothing

00:10:41.720 the United States

00:10:42.520 can do,

00:10:43.240 nothing NATO can do

00:10:44.380 to stop a Russian victory.

00:10:45.800 So you said

00:10:47.440 700,000 to 1.1 million

00:10:49.860 dead for Ukraine,

00:10:52.180 which, you know,

00:10:52.660 obviously they've been

00:10:53.240 trying to keep these numbers

00:10:54.120 close to their chest

00:10:54.860 for years.

00:10:56.100 Do we know how many Russians

00:10:57.460 have died in this conflict?

00:11:00.160 The Russians are very reticent 1.00

00:11:01.580 about this as well,

00:11:02.580 but, you know,

00:11:03.980 I've been looking at this

00:11:05.340 and, you know,

00:11:07.540 first of all,

00:11:08.280 counting Russian debt

00:11:09.120 is tricky

00:11:10.180 because there's

00:11:10.960 different categories.

00:11:12.280 The Ministry of Defense,

00:11:13.580 I believe,

00:11:14.200 will show that Russia 0.97

00:11:15.040 has lost around

00:11:15.860 100,000 dead.

00:11:18.840 But on top of that,

00:11:21.380 you'll have Wagner,

00:11:22.380 which was a private

00:11:23.180 military contractor

00:11:24.380 in the first part

00:11:25.180 of the war,

00:11:25.840 and they probably

00:11:26.840 suffered another

00:11:27.580 20,000 to 30,000 dead.

00:11:31.040 And then you have

00:11:32.160 different volunteer units

00:11:33.600 and other,

00:11:34.360 you know,

00:11:35.860 non-Ministry of Defense,

00:11:38.100 Ministry of Interior units,

00:11:40.280 and they may have suffered

00:11:41.620 another 10,000,

00:11:43.100 15,000 dead.

00:11:44.860 So, you know,

00:11:45.940 Russia has probably 0.85

00:11:46.720 suffered in the area

00:11:47.520 of 140,000 to 150,000

00:11:49.640 dead in this fight.

00:11:51.200 That's a huge number,

00:11:52.180 a huge number.

00:11:54.160 But, again,

00:11:55.100 it's reflective

00:11:55.720 of the reality

00:11:56.600 that what's going on

00:11:58.000 in Ukraine today

00:11:58.700 is high-intensity conflict.

00:12:01.140 This is the kind of war

00:12:02.340 that nobody in the West

00:12:04.620 is prepared to fight.

00:12:06.120 You know,

00:12:06.340 we have a history

00:12:07.680 of going into Iraq

00:12:08.780 and Afghanistan,

00:12:09.840 and we get in a firefight,

00:12:10.940 and we lose,

00:12:11.860 you know,

00:12:12.060 two guys here,

00:12:12.780 three guys there,

00:12:13.500 five guys there,

00:12:14.380 and it's a national tragedy.

00:12:15.960 We have people coming home

00:12:16.840 on aircraft,

00:12:17.560 flags, ceremonies,

00:12:18.540 et cetera.

00:12:20.120 You know,

00:12:20.720 we are talking,

00:12:22.180 you know,

00:12:22.520 a situation where

00:12:23.520 Ukraine could be losing

00:12:25.080 upwards of,

00:12:25.860 you know,

00:12:26.180 1,000 men a day.

00:12:28.300 Wow.

00:12:28.820 You know,

00:12:29.040 the Russians could be losing

00:12:30.340 upwards of 200 men a day

00:12:31.880 on a bad day.

00:12:32.960 You know,

00:12:34.380 the death and destruction

00:12:36.140 is unimaginable,

00:12:38.500 and it gets to the point

00:12:39.620 where we're just

00:12:40.080 throwing out numbers

00:12:40.920 and people,

00:12:41.420 the numbers are so big,

00:12:42.380 people can't imagine it,

00:12:44.000 but you step onto

00:12:45.560 this battlefield,

00:12:46.420 you're stepping into

00:12:47.240 a dead zone.

00:12:48.600 People are dying

00:12:49.460 on both sides.

00:12:50.420 This is not,

00:12:51.800 you know,

00:12:53.020 a walk in the park.

00:12:54.240 This,

00:12:54.880 literally,

00:12:55.340 I mean,

00:12:55.620 some of the Russian forces

00:12:56.760 as they close in

00:12:57.620 on the battlefield

00:12:58.260 have to crawl

00:12:59.840 a kilometer and a half

00:13:01.720 to get to their positions

00:13:02.800 because of the drones

00:13:03.860 flying overhead.

00:13:05.660 You know,

00:13:06.200 this is a drone war.

00:13:07.520 Nobody is prepared

00:13:08.860 for this kind of conflict,

00:13:10.900 you know,

00:13:12.180 where if you move,

00:13:13.480 a drone spots you

00:13:14.360 and another drone

00:13:15.020 comes in to kill you.

00:13:16.600 This is literally something

00:13:17.820 out of a science fiction movie.

00:13:19.860 So,

00:13:20.760 you know,

00:13:21.000 but this is a very bloody war,

00:13:22.940 a very dangerous fight,

00:13:23.920 but it's one that Russia is winning.

00:13:27.340 You know,

00:13:27.960 and I know,

00:13:28.400 I remember,

00:13:28.980 it's crazy because

00:13:30.200 you're vindicated years later.

00:13:31.920 I remember,

00:13:32.800 you know,

00:13:33.120 when this war first popped off,

00:13:34.920 I was listening to guys like you,

00:13:36.720 Gonzalo Lira,

00:13:37.640 rest in peace.

00:13:38.340 You know,

00:13:38.740 they killed him.

00:13:39.960 Ukraine literally killed him.

00:13:42.580 Jackson Inkle,

00:13:43.320 et cetera,

00:13:43.500 because you guys

00:13:44.060 were some of the few people

00:13:45.000 that were talking about

00:13:45.840 what was really going on.

00:13:47.020 And now that Trump's taking office,

00:13:49.460 he's vindicated you guys.

00:13:50.600 He's been saying

00:13:51.220 what Biden's administration

00:13:52.780 and media was scared to say.

00:13:54.200 Yeah,

00:13:54.620 Ukraine's losing the war.

00:13:56.160 We can't win this thing.

00:13:57.180 We need to go ahead

00:13:57.840 and,

00:13:58.040 you know,

00:13:58.300 end it.

00:13:59.880 Obviously,

00:14:00.360 the media gave us

00:14:02.200 I guess

00:14:03.940 their sanitized version

00:14:04.960 of what was going on

00:14:05.700 in this conflict.

00:14:07.060 What would you say

00:14:07.520 are the top,

00:14:08.080 and for this,

00:14:08.560 for my audience,

00:14:09.060 I might not be

00:14:09.560 as geopolitically inclined.

00:14:11.220 What would you say

00:14:11.660 were the top two

00:14:12.400 or three things

00:14:13.120 that led to this conflict

00:14:14.840 with Russia and Ukraine?

00:14:18.760 Well,

00:14:19.160 the first thing is

00:14:20.440 NATO expansion.

00:14:23.240 That's the,

00:14:23.920 that's the big one.

00:14:24.840 And it's,

00:14:25.660 you know,

00:14:25.820 NATO has been,

00:14:27.360 NATO expansion

00:14:28.880 has been an issue

00:14:29.860 since the end

00:14:31.060 of the Soviet Union.

00:14:32.560 People might not realize it,

00:14:34.560 but the United States

00:14:35.760 and Europe

00:14:36.780 and NATO nations

00:14:38.220 gave the Soviet Union,

00:14:40.620 Mikhail Gorbachev,

00:14:41.480 assurances

00:14:41.940 that they would not

00:14:43.080 be expanding NATO

00:14:44.160 in the aftermath

00:14:44.940 of the collapse

00:14:45.660 of the Warsaw Pact.

00:14:46.900 Not one inch eastward

00:14:48.420 was a statement

00:14:49.360 made by James Baker

00:14:51.060 and German politicians.

00:14:54.240 And yet,

00:14:54.700 immediately,

00:14:55.620 we began plotting

00:14:56.480 to expand NATO eastward

00:14:58.520 and we continued

00:14:59.440 until we came up

00:15:00.400 to Ukraine.

00:15:01.560 And the Russians said,

00:15:02.360 this is existential.

00:15:03.380 You can't,

00:15:03.860 you can't go into Ukraine.

00:15:05.400 This is the red line.

00:15:06.360 In 2000,

00:15:07.640 2008,

00:15:08.960 then U.S. ambassador

00:15:10.400 to Russia,

00:15:11.420 William Burns,

00:15:12.280 wrote a memorandum,

00:15:13.280 which has gone down

00:15:13.980 in history

00:15:14.340 as the nyet means nyet,

00:15:15.920 no means no memorandum,

00:15:17.340 where he said,

00:15:18.280 the Russians

00:15:18.660 have drawn a red line

00:15:19.680 and if we seek

00:15:20.640 to move

00:15:21.260 to expand NATO

00:15:22.700 and Ukraine,

00:15:23.880 there will become a war

00:15:25.440 and Russia will go 0.91

00:15:26.880 to war for this

00:15:27.760 and Ukraine

00:15:28.920 will probably lose

00:15:29.920 the Crimea

00:15:30.420 and the Donbass.

00:15:31.780 Well, gosh,

00:15:32.500 he said that in 2008

00:15:33.860 and that's exactly

00:15:35.240 what's happened

00:15:35.880 and more.

00:15:36.980 Russia isn't playing 0.70

00:15:38.240 around here.

00:15:38.840 This is about

00:15:39.420 their existential survival.

00:15:41.960 The next thing

00:15:43.300 I would say

00:15:43.840 is that

00:15:44.400 this is about

00:15:46.440 the strategic defeat

00:15:48.520 of Russia.

00:15:49.320 I mean,

00:15:49.680 the whole purpose

00:15:50.280 of NATO expansion

00:15:51.220 into Ukraine

00:15:52.240 was to create

00:15:53.420 the conditions

00:15:54.280 where through

00:15:56.020 economic sanctions,

00:15:57.440 isolation,

00:15:58.540 and military defeat

00:16:00.440 of Russia,

00:16:01.780 the conditions

00:16:03.200 would be created

00:16:03.900 for the political

00:16:05.440 fall of Vladimir Putin.

00:16:06.820 This has been

00:16:07.240 about getting rid

00:16:08.120 of Vladimir Putin.

00:16:09.020 That's been number

00:16:09.700 one on America

00:16:11.360 and Europe's wish list

00:16:13.080 since Putin came

00:16:14.160 into power.

00:16:15.740 And so there was

00:16:16.580 a real belief

00:16:18.220 in the part of Europe

00:16:20.020 and the United States

00:16:21.000 that through

00:16:22.060 this proxy war

00:16:23.040 in Ukraine,

00:16:23.740 conditions could be

00:16:24.700 created inside Russia

00:16:26.140 that would lead

00:16:26.940 to the collapse

00:16:27.680 of the Putin regime.

00:16:29.340 Of course,

00:16:30.300 that's not what happened.

00:16:31.740 The Russians 0.95

00:16:32.480 have actually

00:16:33.020 flipped the script

00:16:34.180 and it's the European

00:16:34.940 economy that's collapsing.

00:16:36.380 It's NATO

00:16:37.320 and the United States

00:16:38.060 that have been

00:16:38.460 militarily devastated

00:16:39.700 by this.

00:16:41.020 Vladimir Putin

00:16:41.580 is stronger than ever.

00:16:42.660 In an election

00:16:43.280 that took place

00:16:44.020 a year ago,

00:16:45.740 Vladimir Putin

00:16:46.340 won a huge mandate

00:16:49.980 from the Russian people.

00:16:51.600 We're talking about

00:16:52.640 76% of them

00:16:54.440 participating in the election.

00:16:56.200 We don't get those

00:16:56.980 numbers in America.

00:16:58.440 And of those 76%,

00:16:59.840 over 80% said,

00:17:02.240 we're with Putin.

00:17:03.780 Putin won his first election

00:17:05.300 back in 2000

00:17:06.320 with around 52% to 53%

00:17:08.760 of the vote.

00:17:09.920 And his victories

00:17:11.140 in the Russian

00:17:13.080 presidential election

00:17:13.900 have been in the

00:17:14.560 high 50s,

00:17:15.280 low 60s.

00:17:16.620 Here we are

00:17:17.360 in the middle of a war

00:17:18.220 that the United States

00:17:19.280 and Europe

00:17:19.740 wanted to turn into

00:17:20.640 a political disaster

00:17:21.860 for Putin.

00:17:22.900 And instead,

00:17:24.060 he's flipped the script.

00:17:25.000 He's more popular

00:17:25.800 than ever.

00:17:26.580 80% approval rating

00:17:28.060 on the part of the people

00:17:29.140 who voted in this election.

00:17:31.120 And Russia's stronger 0.80

00:17:32.240 than ever.

00:17:32.760 Their economy is booming.

00:17:34.260 They, you know,

00:17:35.320 I've been to Russia

00:17:36.020 a couple times

00:17:36.640 since the war started

00:17:37.680 and I can tell you

00:17:38.640 that the Russian economy

00:17:40.100 has adapted very well.

00:17:41.980 They're pretty much

00:17:42.440 sanction-proofed.

00:17:44.060 Tucker Carlson

00:17:44.780 said the same thing.

00:17:45.780 For anybody that might say

00:17:46.660 that, oh, Scott's

00:17:47.780 a Russian agent,

00:17:48.940 Tucker Carlson

00:17:49.560 said the same exact thing

00:17:50.600 when he went

00:17:50.940 to go interview Putin.

00:17:52.700 Yeah, I mean,

00:17:53.500 it's obvious.

00:17:54.460 I would be willing to bet.

00:17:57.120 I mean, if people are honest,

00:17:59.020 you know,

00:17:59.240 there's always, you know,

00:18:00.380 people who...

00:18:00.740 Jackson Hinkle told me

00:18:01.680 that it's great.

00:18:02.920 He told me that

00:18:03.500 it's a bunch of lies

00:18:04.460 when they say that

00:18:05.060 Russia's poor 0.95

00:18:05.880 and they don't have,

00:18:06.960 you know,

00:18:07.280 the sanctions are hurting them.

00:18:08.220 You give me five

00:18:08.920 of those people,

00:18:10.000 let's buy them tickets

00:18:10.940 to Moscow

00:18:11.540 and let them go to Moscow.

00:18:13.420 And I can guarantee you

00:18:15.080 if they're honest people,

00:18:16.540 they'll come out

00:18:17.140 saying we were wrong.

00:18:18.440 Yeah.

00:18:18.680 Totally.

00:18:19.700 About Russia,

00:18:20.660 about everything.

00:18:23.320 Because it's the propaganda

00:18:24.600 that we have here

00:18:25.500 in the United States.

00:18:26.320 And the third thing

00:18:27.400 is Ukrainian nationalism.

00:18:29.060 Okay.

00:18:29.520 And what I mean by that

00:18:30.440 is the extreme

00:18:31.520 ultra-nationalism

00:18:33.480 that has embraced

00:18:34.740 the ideology

00:18:35.460 of the Organization

00:18:37.160 of Ukrainian Nationalists

00:18:39.180 B for Bandera,

00:18:41.480 Stepan Bandera,

00:18:42.440 this Nazi 0.69

00:18:43.300 who fought

00:18:44.180 on the side

00:18:44.680 of Adolf Hitler

00:18:45.320 who slaughtered

00:18:46.080 tens of thousands

00:18:46.680 of Jews,

00:18:47.300 slaughtered hundreds

00:18:48.100 of thousands

00:18:48.620 of Poles,

00:18:49.480 slaughtered hundreds

00:18:50.220 of thousands

00:18:50.720 of Ukrainians

00:18:51.880 and Russians.

00:18:52.660 This murderer

00:18:53.500 is a hero

00:18:55.180 to the Ukrainian people.

00:18:57.480 They've elevated

00:18:58.400 him to a national hero.

00:18:59.760 They sing songs to him.

00:19:01.340 They parade

00:19:02.160 his portrait around

00:19:03.520 as if he's

00:19:04.100 George Washington.

00:19:05.980 These people

00:19:06.920 literally

00:19:07.900 trained from childhood

00:19:10.240 to hate Russians.

00:19:11.060 and this

00:19:13.120 contributes

00:19:13.620 to this

00:19:14.340 because

00:19:15.080 when they

00:19:16.080 carried out

00:19:16.780 the Maidan coup,

00:19:18.200 they call it

00:19:18.920 a revolution coup.

00:19:21.080 One man's

00:19:21.680 freedom fighters

00:19:22.520 and another man

00:19:22.900 a terrorist.

00:19:23.520 Yeah.

00:19:24.560 But whatever

00:19:25.720 they call it,

00:19:26.260 these people

00:19:26.960 hijacked

00:19:27.720 the Ukrainian

00:19:28.900 political system

00:19:29.960 at that point

00:19:30.460 in time

00:19:30.840 and began

00:19:31.620 a campaign

00:19:32.240 of suppression

00:19:33.960 and oppression

00:19:34.840 against the Russian-speaking 0.59

00:19:36.120 population

00:19:36.820 of Ukraine.

00:19:37.560 that's why

00:19:37.980 we have this war.

00:19:38.840 We have this war

00:19:39.540 because Ukraine

00:19:40.980 lost Crimea

00:19:41.860 because they

00:19:42.560 sent a train

00:19:43.660 of these

00:19:44.700 right-wing Nazis

00:19:46.000 to Crimea

00:19:46.940 to seize control

00:19:47.960 and the Russian

00:19:48.560 population of Crimea

00:19:49.560 rose up

00:19:50.300 and said no.

00:19:51.300 And then the Russian 0.97

00:19:51.780 government stepped in

00:19:52.680 and said we'll protect you.

00:19:54.140 Then they moved

00:19:55.000 into Mariupol,

00:19:56.500 a place where

00:19:57.120 a huge battle

00:19:58.600 in 2022.

00:20:00.440 But the rape 0.59

00:20:01.000 of Mariupol

00:20:01.740 isn't what,

00:20:02.520 you know,

00:20:02.680 the Ukrainian story

00:20:03.760 of the rape

00:20:04.140 of Mariupol

00:20:04.680 is the Russians

00:20:05.280 coming in

00:20:05.840 to capture the city.

00:20:06.940 That's the liberation

00:20:08.080 of Mariupol.

00:20:09.200 The rape of Mariupol

00:20:10.260 took place in 2014

00:20:11.620 when these neo-Nazis

00:20:13.820 took over the city

00:20:14.820 murdering Russian speakers, 1.00

00:20:16.680 raping the Russian women, 1.00

00:20:18.000 driving the Russians 0.71

00:20:18.900 out of the city,

00:20:19.940 occupying the city,

00:20:21.380 and they named themselves

00:20:23.000 the Azov Battalion,

00:20:24.660 Azov being the Azov Sea,

00:20:26.120 and they set their base up

00:20:28.440 in Mariupol

00:20:29.320 to say we,

00:20:30.300 the Nazis,

00:20:31.020 are in control.

00:20:31.800 They are literal Nazis

00:20:33.280 in control of the city.

00:20:34.520 The Russians liberated

00:20:35.720 Mariupol from those Nazis, 0.99

00:20:37.340 but these Nazis 0.83

00:20:38.100 are still in power,

00:20:39.300 and it's one of the

00:20:40.160 big problems we face.

00:20:41.100 This is why

00:20:41.640 when Russia talks about,

00:20:43.280 you know,

00:20:44.440 its objectives in this war,

00:20:45.820 Russia keeps saying

00:20:46.440 denazification.

00:20:48.000 And in the West,

00:20:48.620 we sort of roll our eyes

00:20:49.460 and go,

00:20:49.880 ah,

00:20:50.020 it's just Russian exaggeration.

00:20:51.540 No, it isn't.

00:20:52.880 Ukraine is governed

00:20:54.240 by Nazis.

00:20:56.000 Everything that happens

00:20:57.160 in Ukraine

00:20:57.600 is dictated to them

00:20:58.980 by Nazis.

00:20:59.980 They may be a minority

00:21:01.200 in terms of the overall numbers,

00:21:02.920 but they use violence.

00:21:04.180 These are people

00:21:04.820 that have told

00:21:05.600 President Zelensky

00:21:07.000 to his face

00:21:07.800 that if you do something

00:21:09.200 that we oppose,

00:21:10.420 we will hang you

00:21:11.500 by the neck

00:21:12.660 on the main thoroughfare,

00:21:14.380 which is named

00:21:14.920 Step on Bandera Avenue.

00:21:16.840 We will hang you

00:21:17.640 by the neck.

00:21:18.700 Now, normally,

00:21:19.380 if you threaten

00:21:19.860 the sitting president

00:21:21.060 of a country,

00:21:22.220 bad things happen to you,

00:21:24.380 not to the Nazis,

00:21:25.320 because they're in control.

00:21:27.160 They're dictating everything.

00:21:29.560 Wow.

00:21:30.760 Why does Western media,

00:21:33.100 because I've noticed this,

00:21:33.880 right,

00:21:34.060 when people like you

00:21:35.220 or Jackson Ackle

00:21:36.200 or Tucker Carlson,

00:21:37.320 you guys have all been to Russia

00:21:38.640 and it's literally

00:21:39.480 the opposite

00:21:40.000 of what the media says,

00:21:41.300 why do they demonize

00:21:42.380 Putin and Russia 0.70

00:21:43.520 so much in Western media?

00:21:45.240 It's crazy.

00:21:47.240 Well,

00:21:47.460 one of the big problems

00:21:48.140 is that,

00:21:48.760 you know,

00:21:50.020 when the Soviet Union

00:21:50.900 collapsed,

00:21:51.600 we created

00:21:54.280 this new industry

00:21:55.380 that was about

00:21:57.180 exploiting Russia.

00:21:58.500 How can we go to Russia,

00:22:00.300 keep the boot

00:22:00.960 on Russia's neck 0.90

00:22:02.100 and take as much resources

00:22:03.980 out of Russia,

00:22:04.640 which is a,

00:22:05.220 you know,

00:22:05.820 a resource-rich nation?

00:22:08.020 How can we rape Russia 0.99

00:22:09.380 economically

00:22:10.200 to our benefit?

00:22:12.300 And we did this

00:22:13.340 for a decade.

00:22:14.000 The decade of the 1990s,

00:22:15.880 Americans don't understand, 1.00

00:22:17.640 it made the Great Depression

00:22:18.900 in the United States

00:22:19.680 look like a Hawaiian vacation.

00:22:22.120 Okay?

00:22:23.540 Millions of Russians

00:22:24.480 lost their lives

00:22:25.520 through a variety

00:22:27.560 of alcoholism,

00:22:28.840 starvation,

00:22:29.880 disease,

00:22:31.040 murder.

00:22:33.100 I mean,

00:22:33.360 one of the big things

00:22:34.420 that happened

00:22:34.840 in the 1990s

00:22:36.100 is that criminal gangs

00:22:37.240 would prey

00:22:38.320 on the survivors

00:22:40.780 of World War II

00:22:41.520 who were pensioneers.

00:22:43.000 The government

00:22:43.740 had forgotten about them

00:22:44.880 and they were alone

00:22:46.520 in their apartments

00:22:47.200 and these gangs

00:22:48.380 would come in,

00:22:48.960 take them out

00:22:49.380 to the edge of the city,

00:22:50.380 kill them, 0.94

00:22:50.900 and then bribe

00:22:52.500 the police

00:22:53.020 to file

00:22:53.580 an abandoned property report,

00:22:55.640 take control

00:22:56.220 of the property

00:22:56.800 and then resell it

00:22:58.020 and making money.

00:22:58.820 I mean,

00:22:58.940 this happened

00:22:59.360 throughout Russia.

00:23:00.300 Millions of Russians

00:23:01.580 were murdered

00:23:02.080 in this way.

00:23:03.600 You had people

00:23:04.560 committing suicide

00:23:05.400 because at one minute

00:23:06.600 they were part

00:23:07.280 of the Soviet Union,

00:23:08.220 they had a job,

00:23:08.900 they had a profession,

00:23:09.720 the next minute

00:23:10.280 they're abandoned,

00:23:11.460 unemployed,

00:23:12.120 nobody's taking care of them

00:23:13.200 and so they're killing

00:23:13.880 their families

00:23:14.440 and they're jumping

00:23:14.920 out of buildings.

00:23:16.140 This was a devastating

00:23:18.620 period for Russia 0.55

00:23:20.640 and in the New Year's

00:23:22.460 1999,

00:23:24.160 the president

00:23:25.960 that the United States

00:23:26.780 handpicked to do this,

00:23:28.520 you know,

00:23:28.680 we keep talking about

00:23:29.340 Russia interfering 0.82

00:23:30.120 in American elections,

00:23:31.580 we interfered

00:23:32.960 in Russia's elections,

00:23:33.880 we kept Boris Yeltsin

00:23:35.300 in there,

00:23:36.000 we stole the election

00:23:37.020 in 1996

00:23:37.860 and we kept him

00:23:39.520 in power

00:23:39.960 because we wanted

00:23:41.320 to keep Russia down 0.97

00:23:42.300 and we wanted

00:23:42.680 Russia to collapse.

00:23:43.540 He turned the reins

00:23:45.660 over to this

00:23:46.400 relatively unknown

00:23:47.760 individual named

00:23:48.540 Vladimir Putin

00:23:49.360 and Putin basically said,

00:23:52.040 I'm going to lift

00:23:53.560 Russia up,

00:23:54.420 I'm going to take

00:23:55.440 Russia down 0.85

00:23:56.040 from where they are,

00:23:56.740 I'm going to bring

00:23:57.220 it back up on its feet,

00:23:58.360 I'm going to get

00:23:58.740 the Russians to believe 0.98

00:23:59.760 in Russia again,

00:24:01.020 which is what

00:24:01.820 a patriot does.

00:24:02.760 I mean,

00:24:02.920 if we had an American 0.52

00:24:03.840 that was doing this

00:24:04.420 in the United States,

00:24:05.220 we'd call him

00:24:05.580 the greatest patriot

00:24:06.280 in the world.

00:24:06.940 For sure.

00:24:07.600 Vladimir Putin

00:24:08.200 is the greatest

00:24:08.760 Russian patriot

00:24:09.580 there has ever been.

00:24:11.480 I mean,

00:24:11.940 I'm sure there's people

00:24:12.980 saying,

00:24:13.240 you know,

00:24:13.460 maybe Peter the Great

00:24:14.820 or Catherine the Great

00:24:16.300 or you know,

00:24:16.920 but for 25 years now,

00:24:19.300 this man has been

00:24:20.280 rebuilding Russia 0.86

00:24:21.300 and has made Russia

00:24:23.100 a place where Russians 0.88

00:24:24.040 are proud to be Russians.

00:24:25.600 Russians used to 1.00

00:24:26.260 in the 1990s,

00:24:28.560 they said they abandoned

00:24:29.540 being Russian

00:24:30.300 and they were looking

00:24:30.860 to the West.

00:24:31.620 They abandoned their culture, 1.00

00:24:32.880 their heritage,

00:24:33.880 everything,

00:24:34.560 and they looked

00:24:35.100 to the West for salvation,

00:24:36.240 but the West wasn't

00:24:36.980 there to help them.

00:24:38.820 You know,

00:24:38.960 sometimes when you're sheep,

00:24:40.520 you look at your shepherd

00:24:42.240 and you say,

00:24:42.660 the shepherd's here

00:24:43.180 to protect me.

00:24:44.060 No,

00:24:44.300 the shepherd's simply

00:24:45.000 here to take you

00:24:46.140 to the slaughterhouse.

00:24:47.240 Yeah.

00:24:47.480 And the American shepherd

00:24:48.440 was taking Russia 0.87

00:24:49.180 to the slaughterhouse

00:24:50.200 and Vladimir Putin

00:24:51.320 came in

00:24:51.860 and changed all that.

00:24:53.260 Today,

00:24:54.020 Russians are extraordinarily

00:24:55.180 proud of being Russian.

00:24:56.420 They have everything

00:24:56.940 to be proud of.

00:24:58.420 It's a wonderful country,

00:24:59.620 wonderful people,

00:25:00.460 wonderful heritage.

00:25:01.200 Fifth strongest economy,

00:25:04.800 right?

00:25:05.120 I would say

00:25:05.600 fifth strongest economy

00:25:07.100 in the world

00:25:07.500 at this point?

00:25:08.900 Fourth.

00:25:09.380 Fourth,

00:25:09.880 despite the sanctions.

00:25:11.520 They just bypassed.

00:25:12.700 Now,

00:25:12.940 that's if we use

00:25:13.640 what's called PPP,

00:25:16.000 which is purchasing power parity.

00:25:18.020 It's a different calculation,

00:25:19.240 but basically,

00:25:20.620 you know,

00:25:20.880 in the United States,

00:25:21.800 our GDP is very big

00:25:23.140 and there's another nation

00:25:24.080 with very big GDPs,

00:25:25.660 but what can you buy

00:25:26.720 for that GDP?

00:25:27.780 Gotcha.

00:25:28.060 And so when you make

00:25:29.400 the adjustment

00:25:29.940 for purchasing power parity,

00:25:32.020 the Russian economy

00:25:33.000 becomes the number four

00:25:34.040 in the world.

00:25:35.420 This is despite

00:25:36.580 all of the sanctions

00:25:37.480 that we placed on it.

00:25:38.500 Yeah.

00:25:39.580 But Putin,

00:25:41.080 you know,

00:25:41.260 his continued survival

00:25:42.300 is an embarrassment

00:25:44.240 to the United States

00:25:45.460 and Europe

00:25:45.880 who want him to go away

00:25:47.120 so they can replace him

00:25:48.660 with somebody

00:25:49.300 who will be more like

00:25:50.080 Boris Yeltsin

00:25:50.680 to allow the West

00:25:52.000 to dominate Russia,

00:25:53.060 to control Russia.

00:25:54.400 This is why they hate

00:25:55.320 Vladimir Putin.

00:25:57.340 You know,

00:25:57.540 I'm not going to sit here

00:25:58.480 and pretend that Russia

00:26:00.520 is the perfect democracy.

00:26:02.040 How can it be

00:26:02.660 when the CIA

00:26:03.320 has subverted

00:26:04.780 any notion

00:26:05.740 of political opposition?

00:26:07.240 When Vladimir Putin

00:26:08.120 first came into office,

00:26:09.160 he said,

00:26:09.680 I want an opposition.

00:26:10.940 I want a healthy discussion

00:26:12.020 and dialogue.

00:26:12.920 I want people

00:26:13.420 to be asking questions,

00:26:14.520 holding me accountable.

00:26:15.740 But those are Russians 1.00

00:26:16.780 who believe in Russia 0.74

00:26:18.220 and are asking questions

00:26:19.840 for the benefit of Russia.

00:26:21.160 What happened

00:26:21.580 is the CIA came in

00:26:22.760 and started putting

00:26:24.180 their own people,

00:26:25.400 you know,

00:26:26.440 Nimsov,

00:26:27.040 Navalny,

00:26:29.360 Garry Kasparov,

00:26:31.000 the chess player.

00:26:32.020 He's a CIA

00:26:32.680 paid asset.

00:26:34.660 All of these people

00:26:35.580 were there

00:26:36.200 perverting democracy,

00:26:38.280 basically using democracy

00:26:40.180 as a leverage

00:26:40.800 not to,

00:26:41.560 you know,

00:26:42.300 strengthen Russia, 0.75

00:26:43.220 but to tear Russia down, 0.93

00:26:44.580 to bring Putin down.

00:26:45.960 And as a result,

00:26:47.160 you know,

00:26:47.420 Russia has been denied

00:26:48.580 the opportunity

00:26:49.360 to build

00:26:50.160 viable political

00:26:51.960 opposition parties.

00:26:53.260 Today,

00:26:53.940 Russia is pretty much 0.67

00:26:55.440 a one-party nation,

00:26:56.640 united Russia,

00:26:57.680 Vladimir Putin's party.

00:26:58.580 Yes,

00:26:58.680 there's a communist party

00:26:59.540 that's strong.

00:27:00.380 There's some other parties,

00:27:01.520 but it's never had

00:27:03.000 the opportunity

00:27:03.540 to build

00:27:04.340 a viable

00:27:05.300 political opposition,

00:27:06.460 not because Putin

00:27:07.360 suppresses everything,

00:27:08.400 but because the CIA

00:27:09.780 has corrupted everything.

00:27:10.920 And this is what

00:27:12.580 we have to keep in mind

00:27:13.480 when we speak of

00:27:14.320 even Trump

00:27:14.920 trying to improve relations.

00:27:16.740 Until the CIA

00:27:17.660 is given an order

00:27:18.760 to cease and desist

00:27:20.300 on its,

00:27:20.880 you know,

00:27:21.580 several decades-long mission

00:27:23.020 of bringing down Russia, 0.92

00:27:24.460 how could Russia

00:27:25.060 ever trust the United States?

00:27:26.580 Because while Trump

00:27:27.520 may be saying

00:27:28.140 we want to be friends,

00:27:29.340 the CIA is doing

00:27:30.260 something completely different.

00:27:31.720 That's exactly

00:27:32.260 where we stand

00:27:33.180 with Iran as well,

00:27:33.960 where they don't trust us

00:27:34.680 trying to do a nuclear deal.

00:27:35.720 Let me ask you this then,

00:27:36.440 Scott,

00:27:36.700 with Russia.

00:27:38.240 Obviously,

00:27:38.640 we've seen a night and day

00:27:39.540 difference between

00:27:40.260 the Trump administration

00:27:41.040 dealing with Russia 0.93

00:27:41.940 versus the Biden administration,

00:27:43.420 right?

00:27:43.560 Biden didn't talk to him

00:27:44.320 for years.

00:27:45.080 The Trump administration

00:27:45.800 has had multiple talks.

00:27:46.900 They're meeting

00:27:47.140 on neutral grounds

00:27:47.840 trying to make something

00:27:49.000 happen to get

00:27:50.440 some kind of peace.

00:27:51.900 Where do we stand

00:27:52.720 right now

00:27:53.280 at this particular moment

00:27:54.500 when it comes to negotiations?

00:27:55.680 And then what do you

00:27:56.380 predict is going to happen?

00:27:59.960 Well,

00:28:00.600 the problem with negotiations

00:28:01.920 is that Trump came in this

00:28:03.120 with very unrealistic expectations

00:28:04.980 that were

00:28:05.680 driven by the advice

00:28:08.280 given to him

00:28:08.800 by Keith Kellogg,

00:28:09.720 a retired Army

00:28:11.120 lieutenant general.

00:28:12.500 Keith Kellogg,

00:28:13.380 with all due respect

00:28:14.120 to his heroism,

00:28:15.360 I'm not denigrating

00:28:16.360 his military,

00:28:18.880 he knows nothing

00:28:19.820 of Russia.

00:28:20.480 He's not a Russian 1.00

00:28:21.320 area specialist.

00:28:22.600 He's a pure propagandist.

00:28:24.040 And the advice

00:28:24.600 he was giving

00:28:25.120 the president

00:28:25.680 was literally written

00:28:26.780 by Ukrainian propagandists

00:28:28.360 and Biden administration

00:28:30.180 Russophobes.

00:28:31.500 Gotcha.

00:28:32.700 And Trump bought

00:28:33.620 into this.

00:28:34.080 Now,

00:28:34.620 at some point in time,

00:28:35.920 Trump

00:28:36.180 got some

00:28:37.740 good information.

00:28:39.360 And I still don't know

00:28:40.280 the source of that.

00:28:41.540 But suddenly,

00:28:42.700 he became very realistic

00:28:44.600 about what was going on

00:28:46.140 and what was needed.

00:28:47.140 And so,

00:28:47.720 when he

00:28:48.180 sent Steve Wyckoff,

00:28:50.680 his special envoy,

00:28:52.460 to Moscow

00:28:53.740 to free

00:28:54.900 the American prisoner,

00:28:56.100 but also to talk to Putin.

00:28:57.800 So,

00:28:57.960 I didn't know that

00:28:58.560 Wyckoff is also,

00:28:59.420 so Wyckoff is not just

00:29:00.500 doing the Middle East,

00:29:01.120 he's also doing Russia as well?

00:29:03.120 He's doing Russia 1.00

00:29:03.900 for the moment.

00:29:05.200 Okay.

00:29:05.540 He doesn't seem

00:29:05.980 to be the long-term guy,

00:29:07.160 but he's the guy

00:29:07.800 who opened the door in Russia.

00:29:08.940 He went over there

00:29:09.540 and opened it

00:29:09.980 because Trump trusts him.

00:29:11.500 And Scott,

00:29:11.980 you're 100% right

00:29:12.940 because I remember

00:29:13.360 Trump campaign saying,

00:29:14.380 I can get this war done, 0.84

00:29:15.560 you know,

00:29:15.940 obviously he's sensationalizing it.

00:29:17.340 On day one,

00:29:18.060 I'm going to,

00:29:18.680 we're going to have

00:29:19.200 a demilitarized zone,

00:29:20.560 we're going to let Russia 0.99

00:29:21.680 have what they have,

00:29:22.380 and then we're going to

00:29:22.800 take the sanctions off.

00:29:23.760 And they were very confident

00:29:24.620 that they'd be able

00:29:25.160 to end the war off that,

00:29:26.040 but it didn't work.

00:29:27.240 No,

00:29:27.520 because Russia told them

00:29:28.700 the truth,

00:29:29.840 which is,

00:29:30.640 we're winning this war,

00:29:31.580 we're going to win this war,

00:29:32.780 we're going to achieve

00:29:33.680 what we want to achieve.

00:29:34.880 If you want to help us

00:29:36.360 achieve this,

00:29:37.840 we'll be more than happy

00:29:39.140 to have a ceasefire

00:29:40.860 bringing into the killing,

00:29:42.120 but we're not freezing this war.

00:29:45.140 When the ceasefire happens,

00:29:46.380 the Ukrainians have to 1.00

00:29:47.140 leave our territory,

00:29:48.360 they have to shrink

00:29:49.000 their military,

00:29:49.880 and they have to get rid of,

00:29:50.960 replace their government.

00:29:52.000 If that doesn't happen,

00:29:52.900 we're not doing this.

00:29:54.760 Just so I'm clear,

00:29:55.740 because again,

00:29:56.680 this never gets put out

00:29:57.420 on Western media.

00:29:59.020 So the requirements are

00:30:01.320 Ukrainian military

00:30:03.740 become smaller,

00:30:06.960 they keep what they've taken already,

00:30:08.920 which is most of eastern Ukraine,

00:30:10.460 if I'm not mistaken, right?

00:30:12.060 And then...

00:30:13.540 It's not just keep what they've taken,

00:30:15.040 it's keep what the referendum gets them.

00:30:17.100 Right now there is,

00:30:18.440 Ukraine's holding on

00:30:19.920 to a certain percentage

00:30:21.220 of Kherson and Zaporizhia

00:30:23.200 and even Donetsk.

00:30:24.980 What the Russians won't tolerate 1.00

00:30:26.320 is a freezing of the battlefield

00:30:27.940 where Ukraine gets to keep those.

00:30:29.660 Russia's saying...

00:30:30.460 Do you have a map by chance, Scott?

00:30:32.000 So I can show this to the audience?

00:30:33.200 Do you have a map by chance?

00:30:35.300 Do I have a map?

00:30:35.980 A map that shows this.

00:30:37.760 I don't have one on me.

00:30:38.960 Okay.

00:30:39.420 I can try to find a Google one

00:30:40.900 on the side if you...

00:30:42.340 But sorry, keep going.

00:30:43.160 My bad.

00:30:43.500 But the point is

00:30:44.940 the Russians are saying

00:30:45.800 we're taking this land.

00:30:47.420 It's our land.

00:30:48.500 You can leave voluntarily and live

00:30:50.740 or you can sit here

00:30:52.320 and try and resist us and die. 0.78

00:30:53.780 But either way,

00:30:54.920 we're not stopping

00:30:55.840 until this is all of ours.

00:30:57.760 And they told that

00:30:58.300 to the United States.

00:30:59.660 Trump somehow believes

00:31:02.120 that he can put pressure on Putin

00:31:04.400 to get Putin to back away

00:31:05.880 from this stuff.

00:31:06.500 There's no pressure

00:31:07.180 you can put on Putin.

00:31:09.420 That's the thing

00:31:10.580 that Trump doesn't understand.

00:31:11.440 And so the negotiations

00:31:12.860 have actually stalled right now.

00:31:15.060 And what Trump is going to find out

00:31:17.240 is that the Russians don't care.

00:31:20.380 You know, I think he believes

00:31:22.100 that Putin's looking

00:31:22.900 at the American intervention

00:31:23.980 with relief, saying,

00:31:24.980 oh my God,

00:31:25.420 you've saved us from ourselves.

00:31:27.140 No, Putin was trying to say,

00:31:28.780 look, we'd love to have good relations

00:31:30.300 with the United States

00:31:31.100 and if you can, you know,

00:31:33.380 make this conflict

00:31:35.060 reach its endgame status sooner

00:31:37.460 with fewer casualties,

00:31:38.920 we're all on board.

00:31:40.360 But we're not going to

00:31:42.220 yield to you

00:31:43.640 the things that we have

00:31:44.700 sacrificed so much.

00:31:46.140 You don't lose

00:31:46.740 150,000 men in combat

00:31:48.500 just to give up

00:31:49.700 at the negotiating table

00:31:50.960 when you hold all the cards.

00:31:52.620 Trump holds no cards.

00:31:57.200 Right.

00:31:57.780 So if you look at this map,

00:31:59.400 if you see the area in red,

00:32:02.920 that's where the Russians 0.99

00:32:03.860 are controlling.

00:32:05.340 But if you'll notice,

00:32:06.320 for instance,

00:32:08.280 if you go up,

00:32:10.340 see where Bakhmut is.

00:32:12.820 Okay.

00:32:14.100 Oh, you can't see it on the left?

00:32:15.860 Yeah.

00:32:16.100 There's a line there

00:32:17.820 and that line connects up

00:32:19.900 to the top in the red

00:32:20.760 and then goes down

00:32:21.520 around Pukrosh.

00:32:22.680 That's Donetsk Republic

00:32:24.100 that continues to be occupied

00:32:26.020 by Ukraine.

00:32:27.840 In Zaporizhia,

00:32:29.180 an area,

00:32:29.700 that's part of Zaporizhia

00:32:30.920 that's occupied by Ukraine.

00:32:32.480 And then across

00:32:34.040 at the bottom of the screen,

00:32:35.640 that's the right bank

00:32:37.180 of the Dnieper River

00:32:39.400 and that's Kherson

00:32:40.100 and that's occupied by Ukraine.

00:32:41.820 All of this territory

00:32:42.600 belongs to Russia.

00:32:44.020 Russia's held referendum

00:32:45.000 and they say

00:32:45.660 that this belongs to us

00:32:46.600 and they're not going to,

00:32:47.900 they're not going to yield on that.

00:32:49.820 And if Ukraine

00:32:50.360 doesn't surrender it peacefully,

00:32:52.340 then the Russians 0.87

00:32:52.920 will kill them all. 0.94

00:32:54.260 And that's the way

00:32:55.240 this war is going.

00:32:56.000 It's a huge meat grinder.

00:32:57.680 Russia, like I said,

00:32:59.080 isn't doing big arrow advances.

00:33:00.920 Their job is to put the Ukrainians 1.00

00:33:03.100 in untenable situations

00:33:05.280 and then the Ukrainians die. 0.89

00:33:07.480 And the Russians 0.83

00:33:08.640 are very effective

00:33:09.400 at killing the Ukrainians. 0.79

00:33:10.760 And that's where this war stands.

00:33:13.260 But they're not going to give that up.

00:33:15.240 They're not going to let Ukraine. 0.97

00:33:16.360 Remember,

00:33:16.700 I just want to remind your audience

00:33:17.780 that from 2015 to 2022,

00:33:20.440 the United States and NATO

00:33:21.700 rebuilt the Ukrainian army

00:33:24.340 for the sole purpose

00:33:25.460 of attacking the Russians 0.99

00:33:27.420 in Crimea,

00:33:28.740 in the Donbass.

00:33:29.500 It was a NATO-style army

00:33:31.660 designed to go to war

00:33:32.620 against the Russians. 0.68

00:33:34.320 The Russians have said

00:33:35.520 that kind of army can't stand.

00:33:38.140 So Russia will demand 0.66

00:33:40.100 that the army be shrunk.

00:33:41.340 And, you know,

00:33:42.480 people say, well,

00:33:43.960 I mean,

00:33:44.220 I had this conversation earlier.

00:33:45.740 So, you know,

00:33:46.900 her said,

00:33:47.540 well, Ukraine's a sovereign state.

00:33:49.300 Now, with all due respect,

00:33:50.240 Ukraine's a nation

00:33:50.880 that got their ass kicked. 0.88

00:33:52.060 They lost the war.

00:33:53.600 Can you call Nazi Germany

00:33:54.820 a sovereign state

00:33:55.740 after we won that war,

00:33:57.980 after Russia occupied Berlin,

00:33:59.520 after we, you know,

00:34:01.040 occupied half the country?

00:34:01.940 No, it's a defeated nation.

00:34:03.120 There's no sovereignty there.

00:34:04.640 Japan, no sovereignty. 0.93

00:34:06.520 We won.

00:34:07.660 And I'm sorry, Ukraine, 1.00

00:34:09.120 you lost.

00:34:10.720 You can lose the easy way,

00:34:12.500 which is to accept your defeat

00:34:13.900 and yield gracefully,

00:34:15.680 or Russia's going to grind you down 0.87

00:34:17.100 and kill you all. 0.99

00:34:18.080 But either way,

00:34:18.920 there is no Ukrainian sovereignty 0.94

00:34:20.620 that's going to be retained.

00:34:22.220 And this is what the United States

00:34:23.420 doesn't understand.

00:34:24.900 Trump is under the belief

00:34:26.000 that there's going to be

00:34:27.120 a Ukrainian government

00:34:28.160 and Zelenskyy's going to be

00:34:29.300 at the head of that government.

00:34:30.420 That is not going to happen.

00:34:32.360 The government that exists

00:34:33.420 in Ukraine today

00:34:34.240 will be removed,

00:34:35.320 just like the Nazis were removed,

00:34:36.680 just like Imperial Japanese government

00:34:38.680 was removed

00:34:39.220 and will be replaced

00:34:40.080 by a government picked by Russia,

00:34:42.340 just like we replaced

00:34:43.520 the government in Germany

00:34:44.600 with a government picked by us.

00:34:46.360 We replaced the government in Japan 0.99

00:34:47.740 with a government picked by us.

00:34:49.240 To the victor goes the spoils.

00:34:50.760 And Russia is winning this war 0.94

00:34:52.600 and will win this war,

00:34:53.900 and they get to dictate the outcome.

00:34:56.000 Trump doesn't understand that.

00:34:57.260 And so these peace talks

00:34:59.080 are not going very well.

00:35:01.340 I did not know

00:35:02.380 that a contingency was that

00:35:04.100 Zelenskyy needs to step down.

00:35:05.840 I didn't know that.

00:35:06.720 So that's basically

00:35:07.580 a non-negotiable for Russia.

00:35:09.100 He's got to go.

00:35:11.000 Well, Russia doesn't even view him

00:35:12.160 as a legitimate president.

00:35:13.220 Russia says,

00:35:14.100 and they have an argument,

00:35:15.540 although I get in trouble

00:35:16.640 in Russia when I say

00:35:17.540 it's Russia doesn't have a right 1.00

00:35:18.900 to interpret Ukrainian constitution

00:35:21.100 for the Ukrainians.

00:35:22.280 But the point is,

00:35:24.240 Zelenskyy's presidency expired.

00:35:28.040 He hasn't held elections,

00:35:29.220 which he's constitutionally mandated to do.

00:35:32.180 And so legally speaking,

00:35:34.180 the true leader of Ukraine

00:35:36.200 is the speaker of the parliament,

00:35:37.980 the Rada.

00:35:39.800 And so Russia says,

00:35:40.880 we won't sit at the table with this man

00:35:42.700 because anything he signs

00:35:44.340 doesn't carry the power of law.

00:35:46.560 He's not the legitimate leader

00:35:48.260 of Ukraine.

00:35:50.400 Now, the United States,

00:35:51.500 I guess,

00:35:52.480 believes that this is,

00:35:53.440 you know,

00:35:54.720 a facade.

00:35:56.000 The Russians are, 0.96

00:35:56.640 you know,

00:35:57.080 bluffing.

00:35:57.980 The Russians don't bluff. 0.89

00:35:59.500 When the Russians commit to something, 1.00

00:36:01.420 they generally have a reason

00:36:03.020 to commit to it,

00:36:03.780 and they're not going to

00:36:05.100 back away from that,

00:36:06.860 especially if they're winning.

00:36:08.340 I mean,

00:36:08.580 it'd be one thing

00:36:09.260 if the Russians were 0.57

00:36:10.060 on their back hills,

00:36:11.400 losing,

00:36:12.300 taking casualties,

00:36:13.500 uncertain of their ability

00:36:14.580 to regain the strategic initiative,

00:36:16.220 then we might have some leverage.

00:36:17.840 But that's not the case.

00:36:18.860 The Russians are winning 1.00

00:36:19.740 up and down

00:36:20.880 and all around.

00:36:22.140 Let me ask you this, Scott.

00:36:22.900 Let's say that

00:36:23.640 you became the special envoy

00:36:25.640 to Russia relations

00:36:27.320 and you would take,

00:36:28.200 I guess,

00:36:28.580 Steve Wyckoff's

00:36:29.140 temporary position here.

00:36:30.280 What would you advise

00:36:31.520 Trump to do

00:36:32.340 to get this thing done

00:36:33.880 specifically?

00:36:35.020 Well,

00:36:35.200 first thing I'd ask Trump

00:36:36.160 is what is his strategic objective?

00:36:38.480 Okay.

00:36:39.200 What is your end game?

00:36:41.320 And I mean,

00:36:42.940 for instance,

00:36:43.560 are we looking

00:36:44.240 to continue

00:36:45.040 to continue

00:36:45.060 the policy

00:36:45.620 of strategic defeat

00:36:46.680 because that means

00:36:48.800 that what we're doing

00:36:49.600 is a lie.

00:36:50.780 What we're doing

00:36:51.180 is creating a facade

00:36:52.700 under which we have,

00:36:54.160 you know,

00:36:54.660 a poison pill

00:36:55.440 designed to bring Russia down. 0.91

00:36:56.840 I need to know

00:36:57.420 what his strategic objectives are.

00:36:59.320 Does he want

00:36:59.880 a genuine restoration

00:37:02.020 of good relations

00:37:03.180 or does he want

00:37:05.060 to fake it

00:37:06.020 to continue

00:37:07.180 the policy

00:37:07.720 of bringing down Russia?

00:37:09.120 These are important things

00:37:10.220 that I would need

00:37:11.660 to know

00:37:11.940 as the negotiator.

00:37:12.820 And then I would say

00:37:14.580 if you're serious

00:37:15.240 about peace,

00:37:17.260 et cetera,

00:37:17.800 then I need to also understand

00:37:19.320 before I go in,

00:37:20.680 what is your end game

00:37:21.680 about NATO?

00:37:22.720 What are you going

00:37:23.460 to do about Europe?

00:37:24.260 Because Europe

00:37:24.660 is deeply impacted

00:37:25.720 by this.

00:37:27.740 And so he would have

00:37:29.160 to clarify things

00:37:30.100 and then hopefully

00:37:30.960 what he would say is that...

00:37:32.160 Let's say peace

00:37:32.180 and restore,

00:37:33.840 because Trump

00:37:34.420 is a businessman.

00:37:35.120 Let's say peace

00:37:36.140 and restore,

00:37:36.960 you know,

00:37:38.720 economic reciprocation,

00:37:40.540 us working together

00:37:41.340 economically.

00:37:42.820 Then I would tell them

00:37:44.040 that you need

00:37:45.380 to go to NATO

00:37:46.080 and tell them

00:37:46.680 to cease and desist,

00:37:47.760 all this nonsense,

00:37:49.200 that if they continue

00:37:50.640 to hold these meetings,

00:37:51.580 they become the enemies

00:37:52.620 of the United States

00:37:53.580 of America.

00:37:55.040 Because what they're doing

00:37:56.240 is talking about

00:37:57.080 continuing a war

00:37:58.240 that could go nuclear

00:37:59.160 and the United States

00:38:00.020 is not in the business

00:38:00.800 of going to nuclear war

00:38:01.780 with Russia.

00:38:02.280 And I would tell them

00:38:02.740 Macron and Keir Starmer

00:38:04.260 to their face,

00:38:05.140 you are threatening us

00:38:06.200 with existential destruction.

00:38:07.900 You become the enemy

00:38:09.180 if you continue this policy.

00:38:10.860 Do you want to be

00:38:12.200 the enemy

00:38:12.660 of the United States?

00:38:13.840 That's your fundamental question.

00:38:15.460 And if the answer is yes,

00:38:16.580 we will be the worst enemy

00:38:17.680 you've ever had.

00:38:18.920 If you want to be our friend,

00:38:20.000 then work with us

00:38:20.940 to bring an end

00:38:21.440 to this conflict.

00:38:22.440 Oh, by the way,

00:38:23.080 Ukraine no longer exists

00:38:24.220 as you know it.

00:38:25.420 We're going to yield

00:38:26.800 to the Russians

00:38:27.420 and work with the Russians

00:38:28.600 to create

00:38:29.220 a stable Ukraine,

00:38:31.220 one that is not

00:38:32.400 conducive to

00:38:33.860 resurrecting this conflict

00:38:35.460 down the road

00:38:36.000 because everything

00:38:36.580 Europe is doing,

00:38:37.760 everything Ukraine

00:38:38.380 is doing is designed

00:38:40.300 to create

00:38:40.720 a temporary peace

00:38:42.160 so that at some point

00:38:44.180 down the road

00:38:44.840 when Ukraine

00:38:45.340 is able to rebuild

00:38:46.500 its military,

00:38:48.100 its economy,

00:38:48.960 and Europe can supply

00:38:49.980 them with weapons,

00:38:50.800 they're going to do it

00:38:51.640 all over again.

00:38:52.520 And Russia says,

00:38:53.040 we're not doing that.

00:38:53.940 We didn't lose

00:38:54.440 150,000 men

00:38:55.680 just to let this war

00:38:56.920 happen again.

00:38:57.480 This war ends now.

00:38:59.100 Gotcha.

00:39:00.000 Donald Trump,

00:39:00.800 this war ends now

00:39:02.240 and there can only

00:39:02.940 be one victor.

00:39:04.280 There can't be two victors.

00:39:05.720 One victor

00:39:06.340 and that victor

00:39:06.980 is Russia.

00:39:08.040 Now,

00:39:08.400 if you facilitate

00:39:09.360 Russia's victory,

00:39:10.180 which you're going

00:39:10.620 to get no matter what,

00:39:12.280 what you can get

00:39:13.120 is tremendous

00:39:13.740 economic gain

00:39:14.800 twofold.

00:39:15.900 One,

00:39:16.760 we can get

00:39:17.520 in the business

00:39:18.320 of investments,

00:39:19.660 et cetera.

00:39:20.100 There's 300,

00:39:20.860 400,

00:39:21.300 500 billion dollars

00:39:22.320 worth of business

00:39:22.980 that can happen

00:39:23.760 overnight inside Russia.

00:39:25.800 That's big business.

00:39:27.700 Two,

00:39:28.340 we can create

00:39:29.460 a new European

00:39:30.140 security framework

00:39:31.080 that doesn't trap us

00:39:32.140 into a permanent

00:39:33.620 state of conflict

00:39:34.640 with Russia.

00:39:35.220 We can deemphasize

00:39:36.960 our role in NATO,

00:39:38.040 transfer responsibility

00:39:39.160 of European defense

00:39:40.160 to the Europeans,

00:39:41.940 and at the same time,

00:39:44.700 lower the threshold

00:39:45.680 of conflict

00:39:47.120 between Europe

00:39:47.740 and Russia

00:39:48.140 to create

00:39:48.640 the possibilities

00:39:49.580 of peace.

00:39:51.780 And then,

00:39:52.800 you know,

00:39:53.080 this kind of stability

00:39:54.200 has its own benefit

00:39:55.360 because when you're

00:39:56.820 spending money

00:39:57.500 on weapons

00:39:58.220 and investment

00:39:59.180 in war,

00:40:00.180 your economy

00:40:00.760 does not do well.

00:40:02.180 Defense industry

00:40:03.000 does well,

00:40:03.440 but your economy

00:40:04.240 is not doing well.

00:40:05.040 But if you have

00:40:06.000 stability where you're

00:40:06.940 able to focus

00:40:07.540 on sound business

00:40:08.560 decisions,

00:40:09.380 then the overall

00:40:10.660 economic health

00:40:11.500 of the United States,

00:40:12.440 Russia,

00:40:12.760 and Europe

00:40:13.340 improves dramatically.

00:40:14.780 If Donald Trump

00:40:15.360 is a businessman,

00:40:17.140 the thing I would say

00:40:18.240 is war is bad business

00:40:19.360 and we need to bring

00:40:20.620 this war to an end,

00:40:21.920 but all wars

00:40:23.060 need a victor.

00:40:24.500 And with all due respect,

00:40:25.600 Mr. President,

00:40:26.440 the United States

00:40:26.960 has lost this war.

00:40:28.520 You yourself acknowledge

00:40:29.560 that it's a proxy war

00:40:30.580 between the United States

00:40:31.520 and Russia.

00:40:32.180 We lost.

00:40:33.620 So why don't we

00:40:34.680 just mitigate

00:40:35.260 the consequences

00:40:36.340 of this defeat

00:40:37.180 and turn it into

00:40:38.220 an economic victory?

00:40:39.460 You can walk away

00:40:40.420 and say,

00:40:40.800 I didn't lose this war.

00:40:42.220 Biden lost this war.

00:40:43.380 I'm the one that brought

00:40:44.120 this war to an end

00:40:45.060 so that you don't suffer

00:40:46.200 political embarrassment.

00:40:47.520 But the bottom line is

00:40:48.640 all of the objectives

00:40:49.780 the United States had

00:40:50.840 going into this conflict,

00:40:52.200 none of them will be met

00:40:53.040 and they're not going

00:40:54.180 to be met.

00:40:54.580 There's no chance

00:40:55.180 of meeting them.

00:40:56.600 So if Trump's going

00:40:58.040 to do that,

00:40:58.700 you can seal the deal

00:40:59.560 instantly.

00:41:01.640 That's a very interesting

00:41:02.380 angle.

00:41:03.560 I never thought of it

00:41:04.180 that way,

00:41:04.620 where the reason why

00:41:05.680 Russia's so reluctant

00:41:06.560 to come to an agreement

00:41:07.440 is because in their eyes,

00:41:09.000 you know,

00:41:10.220 what Europe's looking for

00:41:11.300 is a temporary ceasefire

00:41:12.200 so that they can rearm

00:41:13.160 and restrengthen

00:41:13.880 versus actually end things

00:41:15.760 versus we basically need

00:41:17.680 damn near the disbandment

00:41:18.780 of NATO for this to work.

00:41:21.000 Yeah, look,

00:41:21.940 if you and I,

00:41:23.120 I'll put an analogy out here.

00:41:24.840 You and I are in a 12-round

00:41:26.580 boxing match.

00:41:28.560 All right?

00:41:29.140 And you've trained for this

00:41:30.280 and, you know,

00:41:31.940 you've said,

00:41:32.520 okay,

00:41:32.660 I don't think I'm going

00:41:33.460 to knock Ritter out

00:41:34.180 in the first rounds.

00:41:35.220 This is going to be

00:41:35.640 an endurance fight

00:41:36.960 and I'm going to wear him down

00:41:39.160 and I'm going to get him

00:41:40.060 in the later rounds.

00:41:41.440 And around round eight,

00:41:43.300 I can hardly respond

00:41:45.140 from my corner.

00:41:46.480 I'm not moving.

00:41:47.320 You're fresh.

00:41:47.960 You're beating the crap

00:41:48.860 out of me.

00:41:49.600 Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.

00:41:50.680 And I suddenly come in

00:41:51.800 and go,

00:41:52.320 wait, wait,

00:41:52.680 you know,

00:41:53.260 what I'd like to do

00:41:54.560 is pause the fight

00:41:55.980 and take about six months off

00:41:59.420 so I can train

00:42:00.300 and all this

00:42:02.680 and then we're going

00:42:03.400 to resume the fight

00:42:04.260 later on.

00:42:06.520 Would you go for that?

00:42:07.820 Yeah.

00:42:08.360 Yeah, that'd be a no.

00:42:09.580 Yeah, of course not.

00:42:10.340 Yeah, of course not.

00:42:10.920 Okay, so here's Russia saying,

00:42:12.460 no, we won the fight.

00:42:13.360 We won the match.

00:42:14.820 We're taking you down.

00:42:17.380 We're going to knock you out 0.95

00:42:18.440 or we're going to win

00:42:19.400 by a technical decision.

00:42:21.240 But either way,

00:42:21.840 our hand's going up

00:42:22.880 at the end of the fight

00:42:23.600 and Ukraine's saying,

00:42:25.020 no, no, no,

00:42:25.400 we want to stop this,

00:42:27.160 freeze it,

00:42:28.140 and let us rebuild

00:42:29.680 and retrain

00:42:30.460 and then we're going

00:42:31.020 to do it again.

00:42:31.900 And it's not going

00:42:32.860 to start at round eight.

00:42:33.960 Ukraine wants to start

00:42:34.820 it at round one.

00:42:36.540 Russia's not playing that game.

00:42:37.580 So, I mean,

00:42:39.960 now that we kind of understand

00:42:41.460 what's going on here

00:42:42.360 with these negotiations

00:42:43.180 and what Russia's looking for

00:42:44.480 and what needs to be done,

00:42:46.240 do you think the Trump

00:42:47.200 administration can get this done

00:42:48.460 and do you think we can

00:42:49.160 actually end this thing for good?

00:42:51.780 I'm losing confidence

00:42:52.940 in the Trump administration,

00:42:54.280 to be honest.

00:42:57.840 The words coming out

00:42:59.200 of Trump's inner circle

00:43:01.100 do not inspire confidence in me.

00:43:06.620 I, I, the realism

00:43:08.500 that I saw embraced

00:43:10.440 in February

00:43:11.400 has been replaced

00:43:12.980 with arrogance.

00:43:14.580 You know,

00:43:15.300 where Trump is talking about,

00:43:17.020 you know,

00:43:17.260 we can impose 500%

00:43:19.220 secondary sanctions

00:43:20.860 on Russian oil.

00:43:22.260 We can seize

00:43:23.820 the Russian shadow fleet.

00:43:25.680 We can attack Russia's 1.00

00:43:27.120 soft underbelly.

00:43:29.460 Vladimir Putin

00:43:30.300 doesn't yield to threat.

00:43:31.280 I just want to remind people,

00:43:33.740 Vladimir Putin's father,

00:43:35.640 Vladimir Putin was born

00:43:37.080 in Leningrad

00:43:38.160 during the Second World War,

00:43:40.060 or he was born afterwards,

00:43:41.160 but his father

00:43:42.060 fought in this conflict.

00:43:46.000 A million Russian,

00:43:47.020 the Soviets

00:43:47.520 starved to death

00:43:49.060 in Leningrad,

00:43:50.480 starved to death,

00:43:51.660 were killed by the fighting.

00:43:52.780 27 million died

00:43:53.940 in that conflict.

00:43:54.780 On May 9th,

00:43:55.460 they're having the 80th

00:43:56.960 anniversary

00:43:58.180 of their victory

00:43:58.980 over Nazi Germany.

00:44:00.060 Those 27 million

00:44:02.260 are like stars

00:44:03.480 in the heavens

00:44:03.960 looking down

00:44:04.620 and every Russian

00:44:05.280 looks up to those stars

00:44:06.400 and they hear them say,

00:44:07.480 do not betray

00:44:08.200 that which we have

00:44:09.100 sacrificed for.

00:44:10.680 Anybody who thinks

00:44:11.740 that Russia's going to yield 0.85

00:44:12.740 because you're going to do

00:44:13.760 some stupidity, 0.71

00:44:15.240 these are people

00:44:16.000 that have shown

00:44:18.000 the ability

00:44:19.060 to fight to the death.

00:44:21.800 Don't mess

00:44:22.540 with the Russians.

00:44:24.220 I mean,

00:44:24.520 literally,

00:44:25.220 don't mess

00:44:25.700 with the Russians

00:44:26.280 and yet,

00:44:27.160 I don't know

00:44:27.920 why Trump thinks

00:44:28.700 that he can

00:44:29.400 pull this stunt.

00:44:31.080 The Russians 0.95

00:44:31.400 will tighten their belts.

00:44:32.720 The Russians 0.95

00:44:33.000 will eat grass.

00:44:34.280 The Russians 0.95

00:44:34.580 will do what

00:44:35.120 they have done

00:44:35.520 in the past

00:44:36.220 to ensure

00:44:37.120 the survival

00:44:37.940 of the Russian nation

00:44:38.980 and the survival

00:44:39.640 of the Russian people.

00:44:40.960 They're not going

00:44:41.500 to yield

00:44:41.860 and Vladimir Putin

00:44:42.840 is not a man

00:44:43.880 who yields.

00:44:44.860 He will not yield.

00:44:45.620 He has said

00:44:46.200 and this is,

00:44:47.440 you know,

00:44:48.460 something Americans

00:44:49.120 reflect on.

00:44:50.440 A world without Russia 0.99

00:44:51.720 is a world

00:44:53.060 not worth living in.

00:44:54.500 Meaning that

00:44:55.140 if you threaten

00:44:55.680 Russia's existential survival, 0.93

00:44:57.720 Russia will take 0.99

00:44:58.340 the entire world

00:44:59.160 down with it

00:44:59.780 and it has

00:45:00.320 the nuclear arsenal

00:45:01.100 to do that.

00:45:02.080 So Trump needs

00:45:02.640 to stop playing

00:45:03.240 stupid games

00:45:03.980 and start being realistic

00:45:05.840 and trying to do this.

00:45:07.680 And I'll say

00:45:08.280 he's missed

00:45:08.700 a golden opportunity.

00:45:09.920 Had Trump done this right

00:45:11.040 on May 9th,

00:45:12.640 Victory Day,

00:45:13.140 80th anniversary,

00:45:14.700 we could have had

00:45:15.860 a high-level

00:45:16.460 American delegation

00:45:17.380 there in Moscow,

00:45:18.560 which would have

00:45:19.220 won a huge amount

00:45:20.200 of kudos

00:45:20.740 amongst the Russians.

00:45:21.620 The Russians would have said,

00:45:22.200 well, this is cool.

00:45:22.900 We could have sent

00:45:23.520 American troops

00:45:24.100 to march in that parade

00:45:25.060 because it celebrates

00:45:26.440 the defeat

00:45:26.920 of Nazi Germany.

00:45:28.520 But because Trump

00:45:29.420 has messed around,

00:45:31.440 you know who's

00:45:31.880 the guest of honor?

00:45:33.080 Xi Jinping.

00:45:33.940 Oh, man.

00:45:35.420 Wow.

00:45:35.720 And it's a state visit.

00:45:37.500 This isn't like,

00:45:38.400 hey, come in and simply,

00:45:39.340 he will fly in,

00:45:40.980 the red carpet's

00:45:41.800 going to come out,

00:45:42.340 the soldiers are coming out.

00:45:43.800 This will be all about

00:45:44.860 Russia-China relationship,

00:45:47.380 solidifying that

00:45:48.440 which Trump believes

00:45:49.200 he can split apart.

00:45:50.700 We have made

00:45:51.300 a huge strategic mistake

00:45:52.660 here by playing games.

00:45:54.140 We should have exploited

00:45:55.480 the goodwill of Russia,

00:45:56.720 the willingness to

00:45:57.480 reach a conclusion

00:45:58.740 and we could have

00:45:59.300 had a different outcome.

00:46:00.300 But instead,

00:46:00.940 we're playing stupid games

00:46:02.020 and the Chinese 0.83

00:46:02.760 and the Russians,

00:46:04.080 they're not.

00:46:05.760 Russia doesn't need us.

00:46:07.060 That's the other thing

00:46:07.740 I need to emphasize.

00:46:08.800 Russia doesn't need us.

00:46:10.700 We need Russia 0.95

00:46:11.340 more than anything.

00:46:11.880 They've proven that

00:46:12.100 over the past few years.

00:46:13.320 We've been heavily

00:46:14.020 sanctioning them

00:46:14.660 and their economy's

00:46:15.260 gotten stronger.

00:46:17.080 Yeah.

00:46:17.600 And one of the reasons

00:46:18.380 why their economy's

00:46:19.040 gotten stronger

00:46:19.560 is because of the

00:46:20.180 economic linkage

00:46:20.880 that they've developed

00:46:21.620 with China,

00:46:22.340 which is now going

00:46:23.520 to be played out

00:46:24.360 even further

00:46:24.940 when J.J. Bean comes.

00:46:26.280 It's a great...

00:46:27.620 I was at the May 9th celebration

00:46:31.160 two years ago.

00:46:33.240 This is a huge deal

00:46:34.940 for the Russians.

00:46:35.640 Americans have no idea. 0.51

00:46:36.920 We often dismiss it

00:46:37.940 as propaganda.

00:46:39.440 Russians wake up 0.95

00:46:40.160 in the morning

00:46:40.540 and cry tears

00:46:41.840 of remembrance,

00:46:44.460 remembering the 27 million.

00:46:46.400 This war resonates with it.

00:46:47.840 This is the patriotic day

00:46:49.220 of patriotic day

00:46:50.240 for the Russians.

00:46:51.840 They build up to this

00:46:53.480 and it lasts

00:46:54.720 for days afterwards.

00:46:56.320 It's a moment

00:46:57.420 of immense celebration.

00:46:59.680 It's how we should

00:47:00.500 celebrate July 4th

00:47:01.620 in America,

00:47:02.340 but we don't.

00:47:03.660 But the Russians 0.98

00:47:04.140 do it right.

00:47:05.460 And for Xi Jinping

00:47:06.300 to now be brought in

00:47:07.480 as a part of

00:47:08.220 the biggest

00:47:09.480 May 9th celebration

00:47:11.160 ever,

00:47:12.380 this is a huge loss

00:47:15.220 for the United States.

00:47:16.260 We should have been

00:47:17.000 part of that ceremony

00:47:17.980 and we opted out

00:47:19.240 because of Donald Trump's

00:47:20.700 belligerence.

00:47:22.540 Damn, man.

00:47:25.360 Unfortunately,

00:47:25.840 I got to go

00:47:26.440 because I have to

00:47:27.580 pick up my wife.

00:47:28.560 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:47:29.040 No worries.

00:47:29.480 No worries, man.

00:47:30.500 I'll bring you back

00:47:31.480 and we'll talk Israel

00:47:33.380 because I don't think

00:47:34.500 we'll have enough time

00:47:35.240 for it.

00:47:36.660 I guess,

00:47:37.440 yeah,

00:47:37.800 I guess the last thing is

00:47:39.100 what do you predict

00:47:40.420 is going to happen last

00:47:41.260 and I'll let you go

00:47:42.100 after that.

00:47:42.920 And then you can tell people

00:47:43.700 where they can find you.

00:47:46.260 I don't have confidence

00:47:47.700 in the Trump administration

00:47:48.640 bringing a peace.

00:47:51.020 I hope they do.

00:47:51.960 This is one of those places

00:47:52.940 where I'd love to be wrong.

00:47:53.900 I'd love people

00:47:54.760 in the summer to go,

00:47:55.760 Ritter,

00:47:56.120 you were on Myron Gaines

00:47:57.220 and you said

00:47:57.780 that Trump isn't

00:47:58.600 going to be able

00:47:58.860 to pull it off

00:47:59.360 but he pulled it off

00:48:00.060 and I'm like,

00:48:00.720 good,

00:48:01.800 good.

00:48:02.900 But I don't have faith

00:48:04.080 in that right now

00:48:04.660 so I think that this war

00:48:05.920 is going to become

00:48:07.100 bloodier,

00:48:07.840 more violent.

00:48:08.840 Oh, wow.

00:48:09.580 You think it'll escalate?

00:48:10.400 The Russians 0.95

00:48:11.340 are just going

00:48:11.780 to turn up the heat

00:48:12.500 and destroy Ukraine 0.97

00:48:14.160 and if Europe

00:48:15.140 wants to get involved,

00:48:16.020 Russia will destroy 0.94

00:48:16.700 Europe as well.

00:48:18.120 Russia is going 0.94

00:48:18.800 to win this war

00:48:19.560 on its terms

00:48:20.880 and there's some people

00:48:22.980 who believe

00:48:23.420 that the collapse

00:48:24.800 of Ukraine

00:48:25.260 could come

00:48:25.700 as soon as this summer

00:48:26.580 and it's not just

00:48:27.200 the Russians

00:48:27.600 that are saying that,

00:48:28.480 Ukrainians are saying

00:48:29.480 that,

00:48:29.840 that Ukraine 0.91

00:48:30.940 could collapse

00:48:32.400 and cease to exist

00:48:33.280 as a nation state

00:48:34.120 by the summer

00:48:35.300 of 2025.

00:48:36.480 We'll see.

00:48:37.260 This war could go on

00:48:38.100 for another six months,

00:48:39.360 another year

00:48:39.940 but what we know

00:48:40.920 is that Russia

00:48:41.340 is going to win this war.

00:48:42.780 People can find me

00:48:43.440 at scottritter.com

00:48:44.580 all my,

00:48:45.380 all my information's there,

00:48:47.260 my sub stack,

00:48:48.580 my telegram channel,

00:48:50.260 my X channel,

00:48:52.020 every podcast I do,

00:48:53.600 for instance,

00:48:53.940 if you send me a link,

00:48:54.880 I'll put it on there.

00:48:56.080 So scottritter.com

00:48:57.220 is a one-stop shop.

00:48:58.860 Bam.

00:48:59.160 Guys,

00:48:59.420 go show them some love,

00:49:00.180 man.

00:49:00.340 Join us,

00:49:00.720 join us sub stack

00:49:02.220 and Scott,

00:49:02.620 I'll bring you on

00:49:03.320 maybe late,

00:49:04.980 maybe Friday

00:49:05.540 or next week

00:49:06.620 if you're available,

00:49:07.320 we could talk Israel.

00:49:09.040 Sure,

00:49:09.440 sure thing.

00:49:10.040 Thank you so much

00:49:10.440 for coming on,

00:49:10.960 man.

00:49:11.160 Take it easy.

00:49:11.760 Okay,

00:49:12.000 man.

00:49:12.160 Thanks a lot.

00:49:12.840 Bye,

00:49:13.040 brother.

00:49:13.320 Bye.

00:49:16.200 All right.

00:49:17.340 Okay,

00:49:17.760 chat,

00:49:18.040 let me go ahead

00:49:18.880 and switch off the zoom.

00:49:20.800 Give me one sec,

00:49:21.540 guys.

00:49:22.400 Give me one sec.

00:49:38.100 All right.

00:49:39.360 What's up,

00:49:39.720 guys?

00:49:40.160 Welcome,

00:49:40.460 welcome,

00:49:40.720 welcome,

00:49:40.980 man.

00:49:41.160 Sorry,

00:49:41.500 like that was,

00:49:42.820 I hope you guys enjoyed that.

00:49:44.760 Obviously,

00:49:45.160 it's always good to have

00:49:46.480 Scott Rood in the house.

00:49:48.260 He is a wealth of knowledge

00:49:50.900 when it comes to

00:49:53.260 Russia,

00:49:55.700 foreign policy with Russia,

00:49:59.040 modern warfare,

00:50:00.120 et cetera,

00:50:00.480 political and warfare

00:50:03.760 analysts.

00:50:05.100 So,

00:50:05.480 yeah,

00:50:06.820 because obviously we're

00:50:08.140 a limited time.

00:50:09.660 So I literally,

00:50:10.420 as soon as he got on,

00:50:11.700 I just started the stream up

00:50:12.740 and got it going.

00:50:16.580 So what we're going to do here,

00:50:18.400 guys,

00:50:19.080 this is going to be a bit

00:50:20.040 of a shorter stream chat

00:50:21.060 because I'm going to,

00:50:21.740 I definitely want to hit the gym

00:50:22.540 and then we got three shows

00:50:23.360 for you guys today.

00:50:24.800 So we got right now,

00:50:28.100 Trump unveils worldwide tariffs

00:50:30.520 on Liberation Day.

00:50:33.180 So let's go ahead

00:50:34.080 and get in here. 0.88

00:50:37.400 And then we're going to bring

00:50:38.380 a home ath on later,

00:50:39.480 I think.

00:50:41.140 And we might be talking

00:50:42.400 also about

00:50:43.260 the fake 911 call.

00:50:48.840 Political tariffs

00:50:49.540 on imports

00:50:50.580 from more than 60 countries.

00:50:53.900 And so,

00:50:54.300 like I said,

00:50:54.900 businesses around the world

00:50:56.320 are reacting.

00:50:57.380 Our allies,

00:50:58.360 our friends,

00:50:59.000 countries around the world

00:51:00.180 are reacting as well.

00:51:01.980 I'm Andrew Kraft.

00:51:02.960 Thanks so much

00:51:03.640 to my colleague

00:51:04.520 here at Live Now,

00:51:05.400 Josh Breslow,

00:51:06.120 for guiding you

00:51:06.880 through that really busy

00:51:08.480 last three hours.

00:51:09.700 I'm going to be doing

00:51:10.240 the same for the next two.

00:51:11.760 We're going to get

00:51:12.440 all the reaction in

00:51:14.040 from reporters standing by.

00:51:16.460 They have been speaking

00:51:17.300 to everyday Americans,

00:51:19.040 to everyday business owners

00:51:20.220 about how these

00:51:21.260 sweeping tariffs

00:51:22.440 may impact them.

00:51:24.180 And you remember,

00:51:25.120 just heard from the

00:51:25.900 Australian Prime Minister,

00:51:27.500 Albany,

00:51:28.120 is there reacting as well.

00:51:30.180 We have this shot here

00:51:31.820 there in Ottawa,

00:51:33.680 in Canada.

00:51:34.500 We're waiting to see

00:51:35.720 whether or not

00:51:36.860 we're going to get

00:51:37.960 any reaction

00:51:38.540 from Canadian Prime Minister

00:51:39.780 Mark Carney.

00:51:41.120 That shot is what 0.83

00:51:42.300 that is right now.

00:51:44.040 And, of course,

00:51:44.960 there on the Senate floor,

00:51:46.900 Senate Democrats

00:51:47.560 are really railing

00:51:49.140 against this new

00:51:50.380 tariff regime here.

00:51:52.340 The senator from Virginia,

00:51:53.740 the Democrat,

00:51:54.740 Mark Warner,

00:51:55.560 still speaking.

00:51:56.800 Let's listen briefly.

00:51:57.720 Folks in Ohio 0.98

00:52:01.540 are going to be able

00:52:02.000 to afford $2,000

00:52:03.340 or $5,000 more

00:52:04.720 per car

00:52:05.400 just because of

00:52:07.440 ill-suited tariffs.

00:52:08.300 So I hope

00:52:11.740 that folks

00:52:14.660 on both sides

00:52:15.520 of the aisle

00:52:15.980 will actually stand up

00:52:17.760 for America first.

00:52:20.120 Reject this

00:52:21.020 misguided tariff strategy.

00:52:24.060 Reject this

00:52:24.900 demonization

00:52:26.660 of Canada.

00:52:29.000 Recognize

00:52:29.680 that America first

00:52:30.900 doesn't have to be

00:52:32.060 America alone.

00:52:34.620 The only thing

00:52:35.640 that can make my day

00:52:36.540 absolutely better

00:52:38.340 at this point

00:52:38.780 beyond that

00:52:39.240 little dose

00:52:39.740 of Cain optimism

00:52:41.680 if the Senate

00:52:42.840 finally comes

00:52:43.480 to its senses

00:52:44.000 tonight,

00:52:44.820 endorses

00:52:45.480 Kim's resolution,

00:52:47.660 and we put an end

00:52:48.800 to this misguided

00:52:49.980 economic policy.

00:52:51.560 With that,

00:52:51.980 Mr. President,

00:52:52.680 I yield the floor.

00:52:53.380 Mr. President,

00:53:04.900 I recognize

00:53:06.520 the senator

00:53:06.960 from Maryland.

00:53:08.120 Thank you,

00:53:09.040 Mr. President.

00:53:09.540 I want to start

00:53:10.100 by thanking

00:53:11.500 our colleagues

00:53:13.360 from Virginia,

00:53:14.720 starting

00:53:15.200 with Senator Cain,

00:53:17.400 who brought us

00:53:19.060 to this debate

00:53:20.340 here on the Senate

00:53:21.600 floor today

00:53:23.160 on a very important

00:53:24.620 question.

00:53:25.840 And to my other

00:53:26.540 colleague from

00:53:27.240 across the Potomac River

00:53:28.800 from Maryland,

00:53:30.060 Senator Warner,

00:53:31.400 and we sometimes

00:53:32.760 disagree on various

00:53:34.020 issues.

00:53:34.460 On this,

00:53:35.460 we have solidarity

00:53:36.600 across the Potomac

00:53:37.800 River from Maryland.

00:53:39.740 And that unity

00:53:41.760 comes from

00:53:43.300 a very simple

00:53:44.960 result,

00:53:46.800 which is

00:53:48.100 we are here

00:53:49.380 to sound

00:53:50.200 the alarm

00:53:50.800 about the

00:53:53.200 trade war

00:53:54.240 that Donald

00:53:55.880 Trump just

00:53:56.800 unleashed

00:53:57.520 today.

00:53:59.900 He calls it

00:54:01.300 Liberation

00:54:02.160 Day.

00:54:04.200 If he had

00:54:05.380 made this

00:54:06.060 announcement

00:54:06.740 yesterday

00:54:07.520 on April

00:54:08.760 Fool's Day,

00:54:10.040 people would

00:54:11.580 have thought

00:54:12.060 it was an

00:54:12.700 April Fool's

00:54:13.840 joke.

00:54:15.100 But this

00:54:15.960 is no joke

00:54:17.300 and it's

00:54:17.700 not

00:54:17.980 Liberation

00:54:19.120 Day.

00:54:20.400 It is

00:54:21.260 a national

00:54:22.300 sales tax

00:54:23.440 day

00:54:23.760 because that

00:54:25.000 will be the

00:54:25.620 result of

00:54:26.720 the President's

00:54:27.980 action,

00:54:29.340 a sales tax

00:54:30.840 on the

00:54:31.780 American people,

00:54:32.820 a national

00:54:33.500 sales tax.

00:54:36.300 Because

00:54:37.180 today,

00:54:38.240 the President

00:54:38.840 announced he

00:54:39.840 was levying

00:54:40.420 massive across-the-board

00:54:42.040 tariffs on

00:54:42.980 countless goods,

00:54:45.560 making big

00:54:46.360 promises,

00:54:47.520 but at the

00:54:48.320 end of the

00:54:48.740 day,

00:54:49.040 betraying the

00:54:49.640 American people

00:54:50.480 who are going

00:54:51.460 to be hit

00:54:52.040 hard by

00:54:52.720 rising prices.

00:54:55.920 All right,

00:54:56.700 Senator Chris

00:54:57.300 Van Hollen,

00:54:57.800 the Democrat

00:54:58.200 of Maryland,

00:54:59.020 calling these

00:55:00.160 new tariffs

00:55:00.920 a national

00:55:01.640 sales tax

00:55:02.460 on the

00:55:03.000 American people.

00:55:04.440 We've heard

00:55:05.040 him also say

00:55:05.840 that if this

00:55:06.480 happened yesterday

00:55:07.340 on April

00:55:07.760 the 1st,

00:55:08.840 Americans

00:55:09.320 would have

00:55:09.760 thought it

00:55:10.220 was an

00:55:10.820 April Fool's

00:55:11.680 joke.

00:55:11.920 So that just

00:55:12.440 gives you a

00:55:13.020 sense of

00:55:14.480 how Senate

00:55:15.100 Democrats are

00:55:16.020 responding to

00:55:17.100 these tariff

00:55:17.780 announcements there.

00:55:18.880 Remember,

00:55:19.280 earlier today,

00:55:20.400 you heard from

00:55:20.880 House Minority

00:55:21.540 Leader,

00:55:21.880 the Democrat,

00:55:22.500 Hakeem Jeffries,

00:55:23.400 saying it's not

00:55:24.200 Liberation Day,

00:55:25.700 it's Recession

00:55:26.520 Day.

00:55:26.980 I'm Andrew Kraft.

00:55:27.940 Like I said,

00:55:28.600 we are at the

00:55:29.440 top of the hour.

00:55:30.140 We want to dive

00:55:30.780 in from across

00:55:31.780 the country to

00:55:32.600 how so many

00:55:33.500 are responding

00:55:34.800 to these new

00:55:35.900 tariffs.

00:55:36.440 Well, as you

00:55:37.040 know, the

00:55:37.420 President unveiling

00:55:38.440 this new economic

00:55:39.400 plan, placing

00:55:40.540 what's been

00:55:41.060 described as

00:55:41.920 reciprocal tariffs

00:55:43.060 on imports from

00:55:44.380 all countries

00:55:45.300 and businesses

00:55:46.260 around the world

00:55:47.240 are now bracing

00:55:48.420 for a potential

00:55:49.460 trade war.

00:55:50.400 Remember, we have

00:55:50.900 this shot there

00:55:51.680 live in Ottawa

00:55:53.260 in Canada.

00:55:53.960 We're waiting

00:55:54.440 for any reaction

00:55:55.540 from the Prime

00:55:56.200 Minister there

00:55:56.740 in Canada,

00:55:57.660 Mark Carney.

00:55:58.480 We're about to

00:55:59.020 go out to

00:55:59.540 Canada, but also

00:56:00.480 in Houston, Texas.

00:56:01.960 Our colleagues,

00:56:02.740 Fox's multimedia

00:56:03.640 reporters, both

00:56:04.660 Caroline Elliott

00:56:05.800 in Montreal,

00:56:06.860 Sarah Allegra

00:56:07.540 in Houston.

00:56:08.320 With all of this

00:56:09.280 reaction, it's good

00:56:10.200 to see you guys.

00:56:11.120 Though, Caroline,

00:56:11.940 we're going to

00:56:12.580 start with you

00:56:13.200 first.

00:56:13.820 Who have you

00:56:14.260 been speaking to

00:56:15.120 and what have

00:56:15.520 they told you?

00:56:18.940 Yeah, Andrew,

00:56:19.920 right now we

00:56:20.660 are standing by

00:56:21.820 waiting for any

00:56:22.720 reaction from the

00:56:23.980 Prime Minister

00:56:24.520 in Canada,

00:56:25.540 but at the same

00:56:26.580 time listening

00:56:27.420 into that

00:56:28.140 announcement from

00:56:28.960 the Rose Garden

00:56:29.740 just an hour ago

00:56:31.280 as President Trump

00:56:32.360 now introducing

00:56:33.320 what he's described

00:56:34.360 as a discounted

00:56:36.060 tariff plan.

00:56:36.860 As the President

00:56:37.840 put it, it means

00:56:38.900 if they do it

00:56:39.820 to us, then

00:56:40.700 we're going to

00:56:41.720 do it to them.

00:56:42.840 Now, the White 0.99

00:56:43.360 House, again, has

00:56:44.400 charged tariffs

00:56:45.300 anywhere from

00:56:45.900 10 to 50 percent

00:56:47.780 based on the

00:56:48.740 country.

00:56:49.620 And again, the

00:56:50.100 President is

00:56:50.620 charging these

00:56:51.240 tariffs based on

00:56:52.240 what the country

00:56:53.100 charges the

00:56:54.120 United States.

00:56:55.360 The President

00:56:55.900 shared tariff

00:56:56.760 plans for several

00:56:57.980 countries this

00:56:59.120 afternoon, just

00:57:00.200 in the last

00:57:01.020 hour, but some

00:57:01.960 of the United

00:57:02.400 States' largest

00:57:03.360 trading partners

00:57:04.480 were noticeably

00:57:05.880 missing from

00:57:06.780 that list.

00:57:08.160 Reporting from

00:57:08.780 Canadian media

00:57:09.500 outlet CTV

00:57:10.440 says, quote,

00:57:11.660 a fact sheet

00:57:12.480 from the White

00:57:13.180 House states

00:57:13.940 Canada is

00:57:14.840 exempt from

00:57:15.560 Wednesday's

00:57:16.120 reciprocal tariff

00:57:17.120 announcement,

00:57:18.300 but, quote,

00:57:18.880 non-compliant

00:57:19.840 CUSMA goods

00:57:21.360 will see a

00:57:22.040 25 percent

00:57:23.620 tariff in

00:57:24.300 Canada and

00:57:25.260 non-compliant

00:57:26.100 CUSMA energy

00:57:28.020 will see a

00:57:28.920 10 percent

00:57:29.840 tariff.

00:57:30.760 Now, again,

00:57:31.180 we're also

00:57:31.720 hearing from

00:57:32.380 businesses right

00:57:33.540 here in Quebec

00:57:34.460 that say that

00:57:35.600 the auto

00:57:36.060 industry,

00:57:36.760 these auto

00:57:37.320 tariffs,

00:57:37.960 will certainly

00:57:38.780 hurt businesses

00:57:40.120 here across

00:57:41.120 Canada, but

00:57:42.240 President Trump

00:57:43.020 says the days

00:57:43.900 of the United

00:57:44.320 States being,

00:57:45.280 quote, ripped

00:57:45.840 off are done.

00:57:50.960 We cannot pay

00:57:52.680 the deficits

00:57:53.360 of Canada,

00:57:54.220 Mexico, and so

00:57:55.000 many other

00:57:55.500 countries.

00:57:56.100 We used to do

00:57:56.740 it.

00:57:56.940 We can't do

00:57:57.440 it anymore.

00:58:00.580 So, again,

00:58:01.520 still waiting to

00:58:02.320 hear from

00:58:02.860 Canadian Prime

00:58:03.540 Minister Mark

00:58:04.380 Carney,

00:58:04.860 following this

00:58:05.860 announcement,

00:58:06.580 but we do

00:58:07.060 know the

00:58:07.400 Prime Minister

00:58:07.980 told Donald

00:58:09.080 Trump in

00:58:09.600 recent days

00:58:10.440 that if the

00:58:10.980 U.S.

00:58:11.460 does move

00:58:12.500 forward with

00:58:13.300 these tariffs,

00:58:14.460 then Canada,

00:58:15.140 in fact,

00:58:15.700 will retaliate

00:58:16.700 with tariffs

00:58:17.360 of their own.

00:58:18.900 Andrew?

00:58:21.020 Caroline,

00:58:21.680 thanks so much

00:58:22.240 for bringing

00:58:22.560 us that.

00:58:23.540 No doubt,

00:58:24.220 so many people

00:58:24.880 talking about

00:58:25.540 this.

00:58:25.940 We'll talk

00:58:26.300 soon here.

00:58:27.020 In the meantime,

00:58:28.140 we do have,

00:58:29.120 like I said,

00:58:29.920 Fox News

00:58:30.680 multimedia

00:58:31.120 reporter.

00:58:31.960 Sarah

00:58:32.200 Allegri

00:58:32.820 standing by

00:58:33.680 there in

00:58:34.400 Houston,

00:58:35.180 Texas,

00:58:35.860 with the

00:58:36.140 latest,

00:58:36.660 especially

00:58:37.000 when it

00:58:37.380 comes to

00:58:37.960 some of

00:58:38.640 these tariffs

00:58:39.380 levied against

00:58:40.720 steel products

00:58:41.940 as well.

00:58:42.500 She has been

00:58:42.940 speaking to

00:58:44.040 so many

00:58:44.620 there at

00:58:45.120 the port

00:58:45.440 of Houston,

00:58:46.160 though.

00:58:46.460 Some worry

00:58:47.060 that protection

00:58:48.140 comes at a

00:58:49.700 cost.

00:58:50.240 Sarah joins

00:58:50.740 me.

00:58:51.240 Sarah, good

00:58:51.820 to see you

00:58:52.260 here.

00:58:52.800 I'm going to

00:58:53.040 ask the same

00:58:53.460 question to

00:58:54.100 you.

00:58:54.520 Who have

00:58:54.900 you spoken

00:58:55.520 to?

00:58:55.780 What have

00:58:56.020 they told

00:58:56.520 you about

00:58:56.940 this?

00:58:59.340 I talked

00:59:00.280 to a local

00:59:00.940 steel

00:59:01.320 distribution

00:59:01.940 company here

00:59:02.920 in Houston,

00:59:03.780 and about

00:59:04.060 half of their

00:59:04.780 supply comes

00:59:06.000 here out

00:59:06.600 of the port.

00:59:07.440 Now, the

00:59:07.640 CEO I talked

00:59:08.520 to, he says

00:59:09.420 tariffs really

00:59:10.200 aren't affecting

00:59:10.920 his operations

00:59:12.220 quite yet,

00:59:13.240 but he does

00:59:14.120 say mills are

00:59:15.140 holding back

00:59:15.740 more so on

00:59:16.420 those larger

00:59:17.160 shipments,

00:59:18.140 of course,

00:59:18.600 expecting those

00:59:19.160 prices to

00:59:19.920 climb.

00:59:23.240 They're not

00:59:24.020 wanting to

00:59:24.660 send out

00:59:25.740 large quantities

00:59:27.040 of steel

00:59:27.440 because they

00:59:28.460 send it to

00:59:28.880 you, and

00:59:29.100 then the

00:59:29.380 next week

00:59:29.900 they can

00:59:30.560 raise the

00:59:30.920 price.

00:59:31.380 So that's

00:59:31.780 what we're

00:59:32.080 fighting, but

00:59:32.660 I've been

00:59:33.320 doing this

00:59:33.700 18 years.

00:59:34.540 We were

00:59:34.780 prepared for

00:59:35.500 it.

00:59:36.020 We were

00:59:36.640 excited for

00:59:37.300 it, and

00:59:37.560 so that's

00:59:37.860 why I

00:59:38.400 invested

00:59:38.840 $2 million

00:59:39.260 in raw

00:59:40.580 steel before

00:59:41.660 Trump took

00:59:42.300 office.

00:59:43.040 Now, if I

00:59:43.700 hadn't done

00:59:44.080 it, that

00:59:44.360 same steel

00:59:45.040 is worth

00:59:45.480 $2.6

00:59:46.020 million.

00:59:48.340 And Port

00:59:49.020 Houston, it

00:59:49.600 really plays

00:59:50.080 a big role

00:59:50.940 in this.

00:59:51.780 The port

00:59:51.960 handled a

00:59:52.400 record 53

00:59:53.080 million tons

00:59:53.900 of cargo

00:59:54.500 last year.

00:59:55.300 That's a

00:59:55.940 6% jump

00:59:56.820 from 2023,

00:59:58.140 so we've

00:59:58.440 seen growth.

00:59:59.520 Experts

00:59:59.900 warn tariffs,

01:00:00.560 though, could

01:00:00.900 drive up costs,

01:00:02.080 disrupt trade

01:00:02.860 flows, and

01:00:03.740 slow momentum

01:00:04.600 here at the

01:00:05.180 port.

01:00:05.620 But not

01:00:06.000 everyone's

01:00:06.480 concerned.

01:00:06.980 You just

01:00:07.220 heard from

01:00:07.500 that CEO of

01:00:08.340 American

01:00:08.680 Western Steel,

01:00:09.820 Michael Vivian.

01:00:10.920 He says demand

01:00:11.600 for steel right

01:00:12.340 now is strong,

01:00:13.320 and many of his

01:00:14.100 clients have

01:00:14.720 adjusted to

01:00:15.440 tariffs in the

01:00:16.160 past.

01:00:16.640 And with Port

01:00:17.520 Houston seeing

01:00:18.240 continued export

01:00:19.440 growth, including

01:00:20.660 an 8% jump from

01:00:22.140 last year, he

01:00:23.300 believes goods will

01:00:24.140 keep on flowing

01:00:24.880 even if those

01:00:25.680 costs go up.

01:00:27.900 An American

01:00:28.760 business has

01:00:29.580 already before we

01:00:32.160 start work against

01:00:33.220 a foreign company,

01:00:34.200 we're at a

01:00:34.860 disadvantage, a

01:00:35.560 great disadvantage.

01:00:36.780 The economy may

01:00:37.580 slow down a little

01:00:38.460 bit, but where I

01:00:40.120 think we're going

01:00:40.480 to see is the

01:00:42.400 money that stays

01:00:43.300 in the United

01:00:43.820 States.

01:00:44.900 If 10% of our

01:00:46.580 GDP was spent

01:00:48.500 in-house instead

01:00:49.400 of going across,

01:00:50.500 I mean, that's

01:00:50.780 going to be huge,

01:00:51.760 huge for our

01:00:52.600 business, huge

01:00:53.160 for everyone's

01:00:53.700 business.

01:00:56.060 Yeah, but

01:00:56.720 economists warn

01:00:57.360 especially with

01:00:58.100 Trump's new

01:00:58.660 sweeping tariffs,

01:01:00.320 I should say that

01:01:01.540 because of just the

01:01:02.480 constant changes

01:01:03.320 that we're seeing

01:01:04.020 and along with

01:01:04.680 that stock market

01:01:05.880 volatility, a lot

01:01:07.580 of these consumers

01:01:08.340 are putting a

01:01:09.020 pause on spending.

01:01:10.820 In Houston, Texas,

01:01:11.720 Sarah Laigre,

01:01:12.360 back to you.

01:01:12.780 All right, Sarah,

01:01:14.460 thanks so much.

01:01:15.640 So many are

01:01:16.180 responding and

01:01:16.840 reacting to this

01:01:17.680 in real time.

01:01:18.580 It's kind of

01:01:18.820 much higher.

01:01:19.840 Canada, by the way,

01:01:20.920 imposes a 250 to

01:01:22.800 300 percent tariff

01:01:24.800 on many of our

01:01:25.720 dairy products.

01:01:26.540 They do the

01:01:27.420 first can of milk,

01:01:30.420 they do the first

01:01:31.240 little carton of

01:01:32.120 milk at a very low

01:01:33.160 price, but after

01:01:34.000 that it gets bad

01:01:34.920 and then it gets

01:01:35.520 up to 275, 300

01:01:37.660 percent.

01:01:38.520 And China charges

01:01:39.640 American rice

01:01:40.600 farmers, an

01:01:41.440 over-quoter, it's

01:01:42.500 called, a tariff

01:01:43.560 rate of 65 percent.

01:01:45.080 South Korea charges

01:01:46.260 50, actually they

01:01:48.900 charge different

01:01:49.580 from 50 percent

01:01:50.600 to 513 percent.

01:01:53.240 And Japan, our

01:01:54.720 friend, charges

01:01:55.800 a 700 percent.

01:01:58.940 Okay, so look,

01:02:00.820 it is true that

01:02:02.080 many companies are,

01:02:04.180 I should say many

01:02:05.000 countries, are hitting

01:02:06.020 us with much higher

01:02:07.300 tariffs than we are

01:02:08.540 charging, you know,

01:02:09.640 companies from their

01:02:11.220 countries as they

01:02:12.340 import products into

01:02:13.800 the United States.

01:02:15.160 But let's also be

01:02:16.500 real, America has

01:02:17.880 some pretty big

01:02:18.840 tariffs on other

01:02:19.540 countries as well,

01:02:20.400 even before this

01:02:21.260 announcement from

01:02:21.880 Donald Trump.

01:02:22.840 So the U.S. has

01:02:23.480 high tariffs on

01:02:24.180 certain products as

01:02:25.100 well, like sugar,

01:02:26.440 footwear, apparel,

01:02:27.660 and peanuts, a

01:02:28.500 legacy of efforts to

01:02:30.060 protect those

01:02:30.680 industries.

01:02:31.960 The U.S.

01:02:32.680 charges 350 percent

01:02:33.880 tariffs on tobacco

01:02:35.180 from many countries,

01:02:37.220 260 percent tariffs

01:02:38.480 on Irish butter.

01:02:40.520 That's interesting.

01:02:41.540 Substitutes and

01:02:42.460 197 percent tariffs on

01:02:44.700 Chinese stainless steel

01:02:46.080 kitchenware.

01:02:47.400 And look, guys, I'm

01:02:49.440 actually okay with the

01:02:51.280 reciprocal tariffs because

01:02:52.520 understand what's

01:02:53.280 happening here.

01:02:54.060 Understand the actual

01:02:55.880 unfairness of the

01:02:56.960 situation.

01:02:58.220 So basically, we have-

01:03:00.420 All right, let me read

01:03:00.960 some of these chats.

01:03:02.120 St. Francis says,

01:03:02.940 Did you see a federal

01:03:03.760 judge dismiss NY

01:03:04.860 Mayor Eric Adams'

01:03:07.440 bribery case?

01:03:08.000 I believe our judicial

01:03:08.680 system should have

01:03:09.820 held him accountable.

01:03:10.960 We shouldn't allow our 1.00

01:03:11.540 political leaders to

01:03:12.300 commit crimes with

01:03:12.920 impunity, especially

01:03:13.700 with a case like this.

01:03:15.380 Well, okay, so they

01:03:16.520 officially did it.

01:03:17.100 I knew that this was

01:03:17.740 coming.

01:03:18.340 I knew he was going to

01:03:18.980 get the pardon.

01:03:19.620 As soon as I saw that he

01:03:20.440 was becoming buddy-buddy

01:03:21.460 with Donald Trump, I

01:03:23.400 knew that.

01:03:23.960 So let me go ahead real

01:03:24.840 quick.

01:03:25.200 Let's go to breaking

01:03:26.360 news here, Eric Adams.

01:03:29.200 But I knew he was going

01:03:30.460 to get a pardon.

01:03:31.200 It was just a matter of

01:03:31.920 time.

01:03:32.140 Did they already

01:03:42.400 dismiss it?

01:03:44.080 Not yet.

01:03:45.900 But Legal Eagle, I

01:03:47.300 know, even though he's

01:03:48.160 a Democrat, he had

01:03:51.520 been talking about this

01:03:52.400 because this is it

01:03:58.780 right here.

01:03:59.480 I think I reacted to

01:04:00.680 this before.

01:04:01.400 But basically, they

01:04:02.720 were pushing to

01:04:04.100 know.

01:04:04.660 Pam Bondi sent a

01:04:05.700 letter to the

01:04:06.700 Department of Justice,

01:04:10.000 the Southern District

01:04:11.360 of New York, a few

01:04:12.900 months ago.

01:04:13.360 This is what?

01:04:13.800 Yeah, a month ago

01:04:14.240 now, almost two months,

01:04:15.820 saying that they need

01:04:16.860 to basically drop the

01:04:21.240 case.

01:04:21.560 I'll play a little bit of

01:04:22.980 this for you guys.

01:04:25.900 This is arguably worse

01:04:27.180 than Nixon's

01:04:27.720 Saturday Night Massacre.

01:04:29.280 Open corruption is

01:04:30.280 on...

01:04:30.620 All right, let me

01:04:31.160 finish reading these

01:04:31.740 chats.

01:04:32.080 We'll play this a little

01:04:32.780 bit.

01:04:33.520 I'm going to read

01:04:34.100 chats, play this a little

01:04:35.460 bit, and then go back to

01:04:36.180 the tariff war.

01:04:36.740 Let me see here.

01:04:43.840 We got some rumble

01:04:46.680 rants here.

01:04:47.220 Shout out to you

01:04:47.640 guys.

01:04:48.620 Minato says, what's your

01:04:49.640 opinion on the possible

01:04:50.340 Turkey-Israel conflict

01:04:51.560 situation if war breaks

01:04:52.480 out?

01:04:53.840 We didn't get a chance

01:04:54.700 to talk about Israel with

01:04:55.700 Scott Ritter, but I will

01:04:56.500 bring him back and we will

01:04:57.600 talk about Israel.

01:05:00.220 I wanted to focus really on

01:05:01.660 Russia-Ukraine.

01:05:02.240 We talked quite a bit

01:05:03.420 about Israel the past few

01:05:05.260 days, so I wanted to

01:05:07.720 really make sure that we

01:05:08.660 get this going.

01:05:10.280 We got TPC Films, and

01:05:11.520 I'll shout out to TPC

01:05:12.220 Films.

01:05:12.700 You guys should see

01:05:13.920 better camera quality

01:05:16.120 right now.

01:05:16.820 Me and him made some

01:05:17.440 other adjustments.

01:05:19.400 Matter of fact, we made

01:05:21.040 an adjustment here, right,

01:05:22.880 on this camera, and we

01:05:23.800 also made an adjustment

01:05:24.720 over here.

01:05:26.160 So you guys should be

01:05:27.340 getting some better camera

01:05:28.580 quality right now on this

01:05:30.720 stuff.

01:05:31.300 Shout out to TPC

01:05:32.140 Films.

01:05:32.600 If you guys like this

01:05:33.560 stuff, you know, we were

01:05:34.980 up late last night doing

01:05:37.180 this, getting angles going.

01:05:40.700 He's near Orlando area,

01:05:41.620 by the way, guys, TPC

01:05:42.440 Films, if you guys, you 1.00

01:05:43.920 know, need help with this

01:05:44.760 stuff.

01:05:45.440 But really good stuff.

01:05:46.840 You guys should see a

01:05:47.860 significant increase in

01:05:48.880 quality between these two

01:05:51.840 side camera angles and

01:05:53.620 obviously this one here in

01:05:55.180 the front, which I just

01:05:56.320 ordered a new lens.

01:05:57.500 That's going to be better

01:05:58.580 than, that's going to be

01:06:02.080 better than the one I'm

01:06:03.600 using now.

01:06:04.040 The one I'm using now is a

01:06:05.460 different lens than which I

01:06:06.720 had yesterday, but the one

01:06:07.980 I'm getting is going to be

01:06:08.600 even better.

01:06:09.180 So, yeah, man, you guys are

01:06:11.320 going to get some better

01:06:13.240 quality stuff.

01:06:14.000 I just want to say service for

01:06:17.040 your devil dog from an FMF

01:06:19.340 Navy corpsman, Ra, WStream

01:06:21.400 WInformation.

01:06:22.260 Appreciate that, TPC.

01:06:23.740 Nightly Wisdom says, W

01:06:25.180 content, do you think Trump is

01:06:26.200 missing?

01:06:27.060 It's messing like that because

01:06:28.740 of them boys' influence and

01:06:29.860 agenda.

01:06:33.160 I think that was a question for

01:06:35.020 Scott.

01:06:38.340 Like I said, we'll have him

01:06:39.320 back on, guys.

01:06:40.060 So, yeah, but anyway, let's

01:06:44.100 get back to full display at the

01:06:50.800 Department of Justice because

01:06:52.380 acting deputy attorney general

01:06:53.540 Emil Bovet III appears to have

01:06:55.120 brokered a backroom deal with

01:06:56.180 New York City Mayor Eric Adams.

01:06:57.900 Help push Trump's immigration 0.97

01:06:58.960 agenda and the feds will kill the 0.98

01:07:00.560 corruption case against you.

01:07:02.080 A classic quid pro quo.

01:07:03.780 And I did a whole breakdown on

01:07:05.660 this, guys, on the Eric Adams

01:07:07.300 case.

01:07:07.660 Basically, long story short,

01:07:09.140 was he got money from the

01:07:11.940 Turkish government to expedite

01:07:15.020 the building of the Turkish

01:07:20.160 embassy and he like kind of

01:07:22.100 circumvented fire codes and all

01:07:23.780 this other shit and he got like 0.82

01:07:26.120 expensive trips and all this other

01:07:27.440 shit to Turkey. 0.62

01:07:28.300 That's basically what he's getting

01:07:29.440 jammed up for.

01:07:30.740 But when Bovet ordered U.S.

01:07:32.340 Attorney Danielle Sassoon to file a

01:07:33.940 motion to dismiss, she refused and

01:07:35.700 instead resigned.

01:07:36.480 Her letter to Attorney General

01:07:37.880 Pam Bondi set off a mass exodus that 1.00

01:07:39.640 will probably be remembered as the

01:07:41.000 Thursday Night Massacre.

01:07:42.300 And when Sassoon quit, Bovet demanded

01:07:43.580 some other attorney do his dirty

01:07:44.900 work.

01:07:45.600 No one stepped up.

01:07:46.580 And one by one, they chose the

01:07:47.980 door instead.

01:07:49.040 As one said in his resignation

01:07:50.240 letter, quote,

01:07:51.080 I expect you'll find someone foolish

01:07:52.340 or cowardly enough to file your

01:07:53.580 motion, but it was never going to be

01:07:55.400 me.

01:07:55.960 As the time of this recording, at

01:07:57.080 least seven prosecutors have

01:07:58.200 resigned in protest.

01:07:59.380 Desperate, Bovet and Bondi forced

01:08:00.860 the remaining members of the Public

01:08:02.220 Integrity Unit, or PIN, into a room,

01:08:04.240 Squid Game style, and gave them one

01:08:05.880 hour to pick who would eventually

01:08:07.140 carry out the order, or they would

01:08:08.480 all be fired en masse.

01:08:09.960 This is so much worse than Nixon's

01:08:11.620 Saturday Night Massacre.

01:08:12.820 Now, why do I say that?

01:08:13.720 Well, because we've been here before.

01:08:15.240 On October 20th, 1973, President

01:08:17.080 Richard Nixon tried to fire special

01:08:18.540 prosecutor Archibald Cox, who was

01:08:20.160 investigating the Watergate affair.

01:08:21.800 Cox had subpoenaed Nixon's secret

01:08:23.240 Oval Office recordings, which contained

01:08:24.800 crucial evidence of White House

01:08:25.840 misconduct.

01:08:26.800 Nixon refused to comply and instead

01:08:28.100 offered a compromise, a summary of the

01:08:29.700 tapes prepared by Democratic Senator

01:08:31.100 John Stennis, a Nixon ally who was

01:08:33.200 basically deaf.

01:08:34.380 Cox rejected that offer, insisting on

01:08:36.160 the full tapes instead.

01:08:37.700 In response, Nixon ordered Attorney

01:08:39.120 General Elliot Richardson to fire

01:08:40.520 Cox.

01:08:41.320 Richardson refused and resigned in

01:08:42.960 protest.

01:08:43.760 Nixon then ordered Deputy Attorney

01:08:45.060 General William Ruckelhaus to fire

01:08:46.660 Cox, but he too refused and resigned.

01:08:49.140 And finally, Solicitor General Robert

01:08:50.560 Bork, who had then become the acting

01:08:52.300 Attorney General, complied with Nixon's

01:08:53.740 demand and fired Cox.

01:08:55.140 Now, that was only a few months before

01:08:56.520 Nixon resigned.

01:08:57.520 And at the time, this was a historic

01:08:58.820 presidency-ending scandal.

01:09:00.200 But what a difference 50 years makes.

01:09:02.240 Now, as we talked about last year, a

01:09:03.540 federal grand jury indicted New York

01:09:04.980 City Mayor Eric Adams for accepting

01:09:06.840 bribes, wire frauds, soliciting campaign

01:09:08.680 contributions from foreign nationals,

01:09:10.340 and conspiracy.

01:09:11.220 The indictment alleges that Adams and his

01:09:12.480 staff received hundreds of thousands

01:09:13.600 of dollars in free flights and hotels

01:09:15.100 from the Turkish government, and

01:09:16.900 alleges that Adams used straw donors to

01:09:18.680 bypass federal campaign finance laws and

01:09:20.400 misused the New York City public matching

01:09:22.080 fund system to receive over $10 million

01:09:23.700 in public funds for his 2021 mayoral

01:09:26.060 campaign.

01:09:26.740 The government alleges that in return, Adams

01:09:28.220 gave political favor, such as overruling the

01:09:29.940 New York City Fire Department's determination

01:09:31.280 that the new Turkish consular building was

01:09:33.440 unsafe.

01:09:34.220 The FDNY found 60 violations that needed to

01:09:36.140 be handled before the skyscraper could open

01:09:37.780 to the public.

01:09:38.660 And according to the indictment, Adams

01:09:39.840 intervened, and the FDNY officer who made the

01:09:41.900 recommendations was told he would be fired if

01:09:43.860 he didn't acquiesce.

01:09:44.840 And the, quote, skyscraper opened as requested

01:09:47.120 by the Turkish official.

01:09:48.400 And in December, prosecutors notified the court that

01:09:50.320 they discovered more illegal conduct by Adams,

01:09:52.380 including destruction of evidence, and that they

01:09:54.220 would probably file a superseding indictment to

01:09:56.140 that effect.

01:09:56.560 Now, reporting indicates that acting attorney general

01:09:58.720 Beauvais didn't care about any of this.

01:10:00.640 He set out to make a deal with Adams that would

01:10:02.040 please Trump and sought to use the criminal

01:10:03.720 allegations to their advantage.

01:10:05.720 Note that Beauvais worked diligently on the

01:10:07.260 January 6th prosecutions before leaving the DOJ and

01:10:09.600 defending Trump.

01:10:10.400 Now, Mayor Adams did not resign when he was indicted,

01:10:12.400 and it seems that he determined that his best chance

01:10:14.440 of political and personal survival was to cozy up

01:10:16.940 to Trump.

01:10:17.440 And to that effect, Adams' lawyers are William Burke

01:10:19.520 and Alex Spiro.

01:10:20.480 Spiro also represents Elon Musk, and Burke recently

01:10:22.760 became an ethics advisor to Trump's private companies.

01:10:24.960 But, so basically, as you guys know, more than likely

01:10:28.580 this stuff is going to get dismissed, man.

01:10:30.220 It really is.

01:10:31.540 Oh, let's see here.

01:10:32.440 It was good about tariffs. 0.99

01:10:33.460 Where they make, they took all of our computer chips

01:10:36.720 and semiconductors.

01:10:37.940 We used to be the king, right?

01:10:39.380 We were everything.

01:10:40.820 We had all of it.

01:10:42.080 Now we have almost none of it, except the biggest

01:10:44.180 company is coming in.

01:10:45.320 They're going to have, we're going to end up with

01:10:46.500 almost 40%.

01:10:47.640 Lee Zeldin's working to get their approvals.

01:10:49.560 And it's an amazing company.

01:10:52.220 Mr. Wei, of one of the great companies of the world,

01:10:55.520 actually, they're coming in from Taiwan,

01:10:57.520 and they're going to build one of the biggest plants

01:10:59.520 in the world, maybe the biggest for that.

01:11:01.940 But 64%, we're going to charge them 32%.

01:11:04.900 Japan, very, very tough, great people.

01:11:09.800 And again, I don't blame the people for doing it.

01:11:12.160 It's, I think they're very smart in doing it.

01:11:13.780 I blame the people that sat right in that Oval Office,

01:11:16.180 right over there, right behind the Resolute desk

01:11:18.900 or whichever desk they chose.

01:11:21.940 Japan, 46%.

01:11:23.480 They would charge us 46% and much higher

01:11:26.360 for certain items like cars, you know,

01:11:28.760 little items like cars.

01:11:31.400 46% were charging them 24%.

01:11:34.080 India, very, very tough, very, very tough. 1.00

01:11:38.020 The prime minister just left.

01:11:40.620 He's a great friend of mine, but I said,

01:11:42.240 you're a friend of mine, but you're not treating us right.

01:11:45.780 They charge us 52%.

01:11:47.320 You have to understand, we charge them almost nothing

01:11:49.320 for years and years and decades.

01:11:51.080 And it was only seven years ago when I came in,

01:11:55.980 we started with China in charge,

01:11:57.900 and we took in hundreds of billions of dollars

01:12:00.440 from China in tariffs.

01:12:03.160 And they understood, honestly.

01:12:05.320 The president, she understood.

01:12:07.160 He said, look, I understand.

01:12:08.460 And the other countries, and they all understand.

01:12:11.060 We're going to have to go through a little tough love, maybe.

01:12:13.680 But they all understand.

01:12:14.900 They're ripping us off, and they understood it.

01:12:17.580 Prime Minister of Japan, Shinzo, was Shinzo Abe.

01:12:23.300 He was a fantastic man.

01:12:25.700 He was, unfortunately, taken from an assassination.

01:12:29.840 But I went to him, and I said,

01:12:31.260 Shinzo, we have to do something.

01:12:33.880 A trade is not fair.

01:12:35.740 He said, I know that.

01:12:37.020 I know that.

01:12:38.220 And he was a great gentleman.

01:12:39.940 He was a fantastic man.

01:12:43.100 But he understood immediately what I was talking about.

01:12:46.260 I said, Shinzo, we have to do something.

01:12:47.980 He said, I know that.

01:12:49.480 And we've worked out a deal.

01:12:51.060 And it would have been a much better deal.

01:12:52.520 But, frankly, there were many years left

01:12:54.940 in the deal that was made previous to my getting there.

01:12:57.120 But it was something.

01:13:00.200 If you look at Switzerland, 61% to 31%.

01:13:03.640 Indonesia, Malaysia, Cambodia.

01:13:06.240 Oh, look at Cambodia. 0.94

01:13:07.440 And 97%.

01:13:08.960 We're going to bring it down to 49%.

01:13:11.440 They made a fortune with the United States of America.

01:13:14.080 United Kingdom, 10%.

01:13:15.500 And we'll go 10%.

01:13:17.540 So we'll do the same thing.

01:13:20.420 South Africa, oh, 60%, 30%.

01:13:23.860 And they've got some bad things going on in South Africa.

01:13:27.720 You know, we're paying them billions of dollars

01:13:30.420 that we cut the funding

01:13:31.600 because a lot of bad things are happening in South Africa.

01:13:34.320 The fake news ought to be looking at it.

01:13:35.780 They don't want to report it.

01:13:37.600 Brazil, 10%. 0.51

01:13:39.260 10%.

01:13:39.980 Bangladesh is 74%.

01:13:42.980 So you see what's going on.

01:13:44.580 Pakistan, 58%. 0.84

01:13:46.960 Sri Lanka, 88%.

01:13:50.900 So what we're doing is we're taking not the full.

01:13:54.580 We're taking not the full.

01:13:57.960 Five pictures of President Trump

01:14:00.900 with the litany of some of these trade actions

01:14:04.380 against so many countries here.

01:14:06.420 We do want to stay, though, in Washington

01:14:08.400 as we are getting more and more reaction as well.

01:14:12.040 We're about to check in with our friend there,

01:14:14.460 Fox News' Caroline Shively.

01:14:16.280 She has been monitoring the reaction

01:14:17.760 to all of these tariff headlines

01:14:19.800 there from the nation's capital, and she joins me.

01:14:22.320 Caroline, good to see you here.

01:14:24.020 What are people saying there in Washington?

01:14:28.460 Democrats do not like the idea.

01:14:30.200 Even some Republicans are trying to throw up

01:14:32.000 some roadblocks on this day

01:14:33.980 that President Trump has dubbed Liberation Day

01:14:36.300 while putting new tariffs on America's trading partners.

01:14:42.740 It's a lot of work.

01:14:43.860 President Trump laying out his tariff plan

01:14:46.100 in the Rose Garden Wednesday afternoon.

01:14:48.480 A baseline tariff of 10% is set to go into effect Saturday.

01:14:52.440 Then a week from today, higher reciprocal rates

01:14:55.080 will be placed on countries

01:14:56.200 who already have tariffs against the U.S.

01:14:58.820 Effective at midnight, we will impose a 25% tariff

01:15:02.680 on all foreign-made automobiles.

01:15:05.020 The president says the tariffs

01:15:06.380 will help return manufacturing plants to the U.S.

01:15:09.060 and rebalance the trade deficit.

01:15:10.960 Last year, the U.S. imported $918 billion

01:15:14.600 more in goods than it exported.

01:15:17.220 Economists warn U.S. companies

01:15:18.840 will feel the pain first, followed by consumers.

01:15:21.920 The tariff is a tax,

01:15:24.100 and regardless of what politicians tell you,

01:15:27.000 a tariff is the tax paid by American companies

01:15:30.100 that import inputs for their production.

01:15:33.540 While the White House calls this Liberation Day,

01:15:36.060 Democrats have another name for it.

01:15:37.720 This is not Liberation Day.

01:15:40.220 It's Recession Day in the United States of America.

01:15:43.480 That's what the Trump tariffs are going to do.

01:15:46.600 Crash the economy.

01:15:50.320 Two things to look out for now.

01:15:52.160 One is how foreign countries retaliate.

01:15:54.280 It's in the middle of the night in Europe,

01:15:55.720 but still European leaders are talking

01:15:57.260 with Keir Starmer of the U.K.,

01:15:59.320 saying anything is on the table.

01:16:01.620 Also, the other thing,

01:16:02.780 how the markets react tomorrow morning.

01:16:05.140 Andrew?

01:16:05.420 All right, Caroline Chavley there,

01:16:07.780 live for us in Washington.

01:16:08.840 Caroline, good to see you.

01:16:09.780 We'll talk soon.

01:16:12.100 Thanks.

01:16:13.500 All right, in the meantime here,

01:16:14.760 we do have this message

01:16:15.820 from Treasury Secretary Scott Besson

01:16:18.000 on X saying this,

01:16:19.760 President Trump signed

01:16:21.420 the Declaration of Economic Independence

01:16:23.540 for the American people.

01:16:25.180 For decades, the trade status quo

01:16:26.640 has allowed countries to leverage tariffs

01:16:28.580 and unfair trade practices

01:16:30.260 to get ahead at the expense

01:16:32.500 of hard-working Americans.

01:16:34.540 The president's historic actions

01:16:35.920 will level the playing field

01:16:37.220 for American workers

01:16:38.280 and usher in a new age

01:16:40.340 of economic strength.

01:16:41.520 That's from Secretary Besson.

01:16:43.780 We also have Speaker of the House

01:16:45.500 Mike Johnson.

01:16:46.360 We'll get into his reaction there

01:16:48.740 on social media.

01:16:50.160 Folks, you've got a lot to get to.

01:16:51.040 But he, right now,

01:16:51.700 he is swearing in 0.54

01:16:52.660 new Congressman-elect Randy Fine

01:16:54.860 from Florida.

01:16:55.880 Let's listen.

01:16:56.400 All right, family photo?

01:17:22.260 Yep.

01:17:23.860 Come on, boys.

01:17:24.380 The bodyguards here, man.

01:17:26.680 They're big.

01:17:27.800 All right, wait,

01:17:28.320 I want to fix your collar.

01:17:29.160 Thank you.

01:17:31.020 There we go.

01:17:31.820 Thank you.

01:17:32.440 Sure.

01:17:33.340 Where do you want my dad to go?

01:17:35.520 Come next to Jacob, Dad.

01:17:37.500 This way.

01:17:40.800 Sadie.

01:17:42.860 I'm still glad we've got Sadie

01:17:44.000 in the picture.

01:17:44.500 That's awesome.

01:17:45.980 She's a hard worker.

01:17:46.940 True family photo.

01:17:47.840 All right.

01:17:54.380 Thank you all so much.

01:17:57.100 Thank you.

01:17:57.540 All right.

01:17:58.300 Congratulations, Joe.

01:17:59.320 Thank you, sir.

01:17:59.920 Thank you.

01:18:02.220 Thank you.

01:18:03.060 Thanks, Randy.

01:18:03.440 Got it.

01:18:03.800 Look forward to it.

01:18:04.400 Oh, I know that.

01:18:05.920 I know that.

01:18:06.460 Congratulations.

01:18:07.500 Thank you all.

01:18:08.440 Good to see you.

01:18:09.800 Okay, we're going out.

01:18:11.200 Nice to meet you.

01:18:12.240 You too, absolutely.

01:18:13.480 Thank you so much.

01:18:14.760 Have a good one.

01:18:15.800 Thank you.

01:18:16.380 There you go.

01:18:18.900 Okay, so you see their now representative, Randy Fine, the Republican of Florida, being

01:18:27.140 sworn in there by Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson.

01:18:30.160 Okay, you also have the other new congressman-elect as well, Jimmy Petronis there.

01:18:37.140 He won the special election last night in Florida's first congressional district.

01:18:42.020 So let's hold on this shot for now, as he will be sworn in after beating the Democrat

01:18:52.040 last night in Florida.

01:18:54.960 This is Florida's first congressional district.

01:18:57.340 This was a seat held by Matt Gaetz.

01:19:00.020 Let's listen.

01:19:02.380 Now we'll look at them.

01:19:03.180 Great.

01:19:03.580 Now you'll have to shake hands.

01:19:09.380 Okay.

01:19:10.620 I'm going to give her this.

01:19:12.020 All right.

01:19:12.800 Thank you.

01:19:14.160 We've done this a few times.

01:19:19.400 Awesome.

01:19:20.060 You guys want to go and enjoy your dance?

01:19:21.880 All right.

01:19:23.260 We'll get a bodyguard on each side.

01:19:24.700 The thing is, it's hard to hide the market.

01:19:26.380 How about that? Yeah, yeah, there you go.

01:19:27.300 But that's why, if you're looking to come out ahead in the very end, if you're a long-term

01:19:31.980 investor, and don't be a day trader, be a long-term investor, it's smart to just consistently

01:19:37.300 invest little by little and don't get creeped out or scared when the market

01:19:41.940 dips.

01:19:42.320 Because that's actually when you're buying stocks at a discount.

01:19:45.540 But yeah, they could definitely go down even more.

01:19:48.500 And honestly, I think this is all done intentionally.

01:19:50.660 That's my take on it.

01:19:52.560 Let's go to our super chats.

01:19:54.040 The Stinky Stocking Full of Lies says, sounds like Trump's policies are tariffable.

01:20:01.240 That's good.

01:20:02.460 I'm here all week, folks.

01:20:03.760 Don't forget to tip your waitress.

01:20:05.260 See, I'm unfair to Cenk, because if Cenk made that joke, I would totally roll my eyes, and

01:20:08.860 I would not even find it funny.

01:20:11.300 It's all in the delivery, and you delivered it really well, so thank you.

01:20:15.600 Christina writes in and says, happy Wednesday, TYT fam.

01:20:18.240 I love the hosts and staff for their honesty and hope.

01:20:21.280 Thank you, love and peace, and blessings to Anna and her mom.

01:20:24.460 We are with you.

01:20:25.200 Christina Elsa Brown, thank you so much.

01:20:26.720 I appreciate you.

01:20:27.380 Let's get back to the show.

01:20:28.160 We're going to protect our workers, and we are going to build the strongest economy in

01:20:47.040 the G7.

01:20:48.300 In a crisis, it's important to come together, and it's essential to act with purpose and

01:20:55.720 with force, and that's what we will do.

01:20:58.180 Alors, en français, si je peux, Monsieur le Président, le Président Trump, il vient

01:21:05.100 d'en lancer une série de mesures qui seront changés le système du commerce international

01:21:15.200 dans une manière fondamentale.

01:21:21.820 On fait ça.

01:21:22.820 On fait ça là.

01:21:23.480 Il a préservé quelques aspects, quelques grands aspects de la relation canado-américaine,

01:21:31.500 très important.

01:21:33.280 Mais en même temps, les tarifs injustifiés contre l'acier et l'aluminium restent en place.

01:21:42.980 Et ce soir, les tarifs dans le secteur automobile vont être mettre en vigueur.

01:21:49.960 Et l'administration américaine a souligné qu'il y aura des tarifs dans le secteur stratégique,

01:21:59.480 c'est, c'est, c'est, c'est, c'est, c'est, c'est, c'est, c'est, c'est, in termes-américain,

01:22:04.300 pour les secteurs de bois.

01:22:06.860 Le secteur, des semiconductors.

01:22:07.300 All right, Canadian Prime Minister there, Mark Carney, going there in French, as you would imagine.

01:22:12.880 But he did make English comments right off the top there.

01:22:15.520 A little bit later on, we will re-rack that. We will replay that for you.

01:22:18.780 In the meantime, though, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson is getting asked some questions about some of these tariffs.

01:22:24.560 Let's listen.

01:22:27.020 Congratulations, sir.

01:22:29.960 We're very close, yes. Yes.

01:22:31.420 Talking to Anna Paulina Luna and the other parties, and we feel like we'll find a path through it.

01:22:36.840 Thank you all.

01:22:37.420 Stay tuned.

01:22:38.200 Thank you all for being here. Good to see you.

01:22:41.980 All right, so barely caught Speaker Johnson there.

01:22:44.420 I know we're kind of ping-ponging between some of these live events, but you heard him there.

01:22:48.240 He was asked a question about the fight right now within the Republican Party about this idea brought about by Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna,

01:22:57.740 the Republican of Florida, to institute proxy voting for new mothers, for new fathers, for expectant mothers there in the House.

01:23:05.460 This has really kind of split some divisions among some of these House Republicans, so much so that Luna stepped down as a member of the House Freedom Caucus earlier this week here.

01:23:15.860 So in the meantime, we're at the bottom of the hour.

01:23:18.260 That was quite the sprint over the last 30 minutes here.

01:23:21.680 We're going to keep it going.

01:23:22.580 We do want to bring into the conversation right now, though, our friend there, Ed Behrens, Al Root, a reporter who covers all of this.

01:23:29.840 He's going to help us make sense of what President Trump did today.

01:23:32.460 What did he levy?

01:23:33.380 What is the nature and the impact going to be of this new tariff regime?

01:23:37.800 Al joins me.

01:23:38.980 Al, good to see you here.

01:23:40.480 You've been watching all the reaction there from Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, Australian Prime Minister Albanese, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, and so many.

01:23:49.220 Before he gets into it, guys, do me a favor.

01:23:51.260 Like the video.

01:23:52.620 I'm going to stay on air probably like another 45 minutes or so.

01:23:57.400 I want to go get a workout in before we go live at 8.

01:24:00.000 I think we're going to have HomeAth on.

01:24:01.480 And we can talk about, I think, some of this stuff as well.

01:24:31.480 Hold on, I'm talking with him now.

01:24:42.800 And also, guys, just so you know, tomorrow there will be no debrief.

01:25:03.880 I am going to be, tomorrow's not going to be any, there's going to be no debrief tomorrow, guys.

01:25:10.760 I'm going to be in Austin, Texas.

01:25:11.920 I'm going to go and be on InfoWars.

01:25:15.400 So you guys are going to see me there with Alex Jones and Owen Schroyer.

01:25:20.580 I think I'm going to go at 1 p.m. with Alex and then Owen, I think around 5 or 6 p.m.

01:25:25.540 Okay.

01:25:27.540 So I will be live there.

01:25:29.420 If you guys don't follow me on X, follow me on X now so that you guys know what's going on.

01:25:36.200 X is like my main thing nowadays.

01:25:37.860 So make sure that you guys check me out over there.

01:25:41.880 What's going on with the, hmm, my Twitter's acting crazy, I think.

01:25:49.680 Let me see here.

01:25:50.880 YouTube, fine, I think.

01:25:52.200 Yep, YouTube's fine.

01:25:53.960 Fumble's fine.

01:25:54.580 Sorry, guys.

01:25:58.140 I'm fixing my Twitter right now.

01:25:59.280 I don't know what the fuck's going on here.

01:26:02.240 Hmm, interesting.

01:26:04.260 All right, whatever.

01:26:09.440 Some kind of fucking setting.

01:26:11.360 Let's.

01:26:21.740 Whatever.

01:26:22.980 Anyway.

01:26:27.140 The point is, guys, is, yeah, that'll be tomorrow, 1 p.m., I think, Easter Standard Time.

01:26:38.280 But just follow me on Twitter because I'm going to tweet out when I go live and shit like that.

01:26:42.160 So don't worry.

01:26:43.320 So no debrief tomorrow is the main thing I wanted to tell you guys.

01:26:45.560 No debrief tomorrow.

01:26:48.480 And we are going to have Home Math on tonight.

01:26:52.080 Then we're going to have After Hours.

01:26:54.360 And then we are going to do, and then tomorrow's Thursday.

01:26:59.340 No debrief.

01:26:59.960 And then I should be back Friday.

01:27:01.080 I'll be back Friday morning.

01:27:02.700 Okay.

01:27:03.820 You guys will probably get a debrief on Friday.

01:27:06.900 Depends on, you know, what's going on in the news and, you know, what time I actually get in.

01:27:10.720 You guys know planes always delay.

01:27:12.680 And then this weekend, I will be able to do Fed Reacts, and I'll probably travel on Monday and go to Penn State and, you know, have that debate stuff over there.

01:27:25.280 It's going to be a fun time.

01:27:26.080 And then I will come back, or I might go from Penn State actually to London because we have some stuff set up there for April 9th and 10th or whatever, where we're going to be doing some collabs over there in the U.K.

01:27:39.880 And then we might stay abroad a little bit longer.

01:27:42.400 It depends.

01:27:42.740 I'm still finalizing some stuff behind the scenes, which I don't want to talk about yet.

01:27:46.440 But, yeah, basically we've got an action-packed week, guys, is what I'm trying to tell you guys.

01:27:49.820 The next two weeks are going to be very crazy.

01:27:51.900 You guys might not see me on the debrief as much or Fresh and Fit, but I understand that, you know, we're going to be traveling and doing some collabs.

01:27:59.300 So, again, tomorrow, Austin, Texas, InfoWars, okay?

01:28:03.720 1 p.m. and 6 p.m., or 5 and 6 p.m., one of those times.

01:28:07.820 Follow me on Twitter.

01:28:08.600 I'm going to tweet it out for you guys.

01:28:10.380 Then I'll be back on Friday.

01:28:12.620 We'll give you guys Fresh and Fit on Friday.

01:28:14.580 I'll probably do an episode of the debrief depending on what time I come in.

01:28:17.220 Sunday, more than likely, I'm thinking, like, 90% chance we're going to do Fed Reacts.

01:28:23.240 Then Penn State, from Penn State to the U.K., and then from the U.K., either back to the United States or some other stuff we've got kind of going on.

01:28:34.860 All right?

01:28:35.100 So that's kind of where we are with the traveling and what we've got planned for today.

01:28:40.220 Obviously, today we had Scott Ritter on.

01:28:42.380 We talked about Russia and Ukraine.

01:28:43.760 Didn't get a chance to talk about Israel.

01:28:45.520 Didn't have enough time, but that's fine.

01:28:47.560 I'll bring them back again.

01:28:48.680 You know me and Scott, you know, talk, you know, somewhat, you know, have a good line of communication.

01:28:56.580 And right now we're covering the tariff war because you guys know it's Liberation Day.

01:29:00.040 And look, I've spoken about tariffs before.

01:29:02.520 This is my take on it.

01:29:07.580 Basically, as a businessman, Trump looks at it like, yo, these guys get all these benefits from us doing trade with them, and we're getting ripped off.

01:29:15.940 This is bullshit.

01:29:17.240 We are going to go ahead and start imposing, you know, higher tariffs on these guys.

01:29:22.080 And really what it's about, guys, it's about, think of it as like taking a step backward to take two eventual steps forward.

01:29:27.920 It's to stimulate more American industry, right?

01:29:32.920 The problem is that we used to make things, and we don't make things anymore.

01:29:36.600 And that's the main reason why Trump has this gripe.

01:29:40.520 And yes, is it true that the increase, because what tariffs do is it penalizes the importer, and they have to pay more money to get their product, right?

01:29:54.000 And then what the importer does, a.k.a. these businesses, they don't want to lose their margins of profit, so what they do is they pass that cost on to the consumer.

01:30:03.280 So the end consumer pays more for said product.

01:30:07.440 And a lot of people are like, yo, this is bullshit.

01:30:09.020 Why?

01:30:10.400 Well, though there is some tightening in the beginning, what it does is it puts pressure on the importer to utilize American industry versus importing it in.

01:30:24.360 If I am importing something from China and I have to pay more money to get this product into China, I can only increase the price so much before American consumers start saying, fuck this shit, I'm not going to buy your stuff anymore.

01:30:37.760 Because what's going to happen is they are going to pass it on to the consumer.

01:30:41.220 Make no mistake about it, Chad.

01:30:42.440 I'm not saying they're not going to pass it on.

01:30:43.980 They will.

01:30:45.500 Okay?

01:30:45.740 But instead of passing it on to the consumer and potentially losing sales because there's other competitors there, what that does is one of two things.

01:30:58.240 Either the person that imports is going to say, damn, I might as well just use an American company, which is good for the country.

01:31:05.940 Or the consumer is going to say, fuck this.

01:31:10.160 I'm going to go to the guy that sells the cheap brew who probably is using an, hold on, too much fire.

01:31:15.740 Sorry, guys.

01:31:19.320 Camera turned off.

01:31:21.180 We're spending too much heat there.

01:31:23.780 Or I'm going to go to another person that's going to give me a better price who probably is using an American distributor.

01:31:33.720 So that's kind of what it is.

01:31:37.660 All right?

01:31:39.140 That's kind of what the benefit becomes.

01:31:42.640 Excuse me.

01:31:43.240 That's what the benefit becomes when it comes to the tariff situation.

01:31:48.120 It's basically a long-term strategy to keep industry here, prevent using foreign countries and their manufacturers, and motivate businesses to start building things again.

01:32:04.180 That's one of the biggest problems that we made, guys, was we stopped building things.

01:32:09.340 We started outsourcing it to other places, which, you know, is kind of an inevitable reality when it comes to capitalism because the companies want to increase their private margins, increase their private margins.

01:32:18.560 They bring the cost of labor down, bring the cost of labor down.

01:32:20.720 You can only do so much in the United States.

01:32:22.380 You have to go ahead and move that labor to other countries, which will pay, which you pay far less to do.

01:32:29.940 But what Trump is trying to do is get some of that leverage back and say, okay, you guys want this cheap labor?

01:32:34.920 You guys want to experience these margins that you guys have been experiencing?

01:32:38.600 Cool.

01:32:38.880 We're going to cut those margins in half now.

01:32:40.940 Now you have two choices.

01:32:42.220 Either employ Americans that don't import this shit or use American companies to get the stuff that you're importing.

01:32:52.700 So we're going to be one of those two.

01:32:53.880 Either way, long term, this does help the economy.

01:32:58.720 Yes, it is going to cost more in the beginning.

01:33:01.460 Yes, it does suck in the beginning.

01:33:03.300 Yes, it does blow.

01:33:03.980 But anytime you have to go through any type of, you know, change, you have to deal with the level of discomfort up front.

01:33:09.980 When you go to the gym, right, and you train, it sucks when you're in there training, of course.

01:33:13.500 But when you go home, you eat properly, drink water, et cetera, that muscle that got broken down grows bigger and stronger later on.

01:33:24.100 And that's kind of what the tariffs are, guys.

01:33:26.740 Okay?

01:33:27.840 That's kind of the whole concept with it.

01:33:29.740 Obviously, I'm grossly oversimplifying it.

01:33:31.720 I'm not an economist, right, or someone who, you know, is an expert at the stuff like Aaron Clary or whatever.

01:33:39.400 But that is a very simplified version of what the goal is here with this tariff strategy.

01:33:47.280 So let me go back to this.

01:33:51.840 This is a minimum baseline tariff of 10% on all of these countries.

01:34:02.520 It's about 60-plus countries here.

01:34:05.580 The rate is higher for our top trading partners.

01:34:08.760 Now, President Trump said this, Al.

01:34:11.260 We can no longer commit economic surrender with these huge trade deficits between these countries here.

01:34:16.960 Will the tariffs reduce our trade deficit with some of these countries that the president is talking about?

01:34:26.580 Theoretically, good to be back, hi, Andrew.

01:34:28.900 Interesting day.

01:34:30.920 Theoretically, over time, sure, you will reduce your trade deficit.

01:34:37.880 Some of that will be at the cost of overall economic growth.

01:34:41.720 And, again, so if you sort of take politics out of it, you know, we've organized the world post-World War II that free trade was a good thing.

01:34:51.920 You know, getting, you know, ripped off in terms of Canada is like getting oil and electricity from Ontario and wood from B.C.

01:34:59.980 So ripped off is sort of an interesting way to think about it.

01:35:04.220 Now, he seems, President Trump seems to equate trade deficits with, like, you know, somehow being ripped off.

01:35:11.700 Most economists would disagree with that.

01:35:14.520 But the one thing we learned today in terms of all of these messages is he is very serious about these tariffs.

01:35:20.840 And then, like you see from Canada, we'll get into the second derivative effects now with watching people, you know, do tariffs on us and just an escalation.

01:35:29.340 And then we have to see where it ends.

01:35:30.880 So, I mean, Al, the president is talking about returning to this pre-World War I, pre-Federal Reserve, pre-Federal Income Tax U.S. economy.

01:35:44.420 And he says that essentially was the United States' golden age when it comes to wealth accrual.

01:35:50.800 What is he talking about?

01:35:51.760 What does he mean by that when he wants to return the U.S. economy to that?

01:35:55.940 What is that?

01:35:56.680 So, you know, back in the good old days, mercantilists, you know, before, you know, mercantilists was like, you go and you sort of take resources and you bring them home and you make stuff here and you put up tariff walls and domestic manufacturing is great.

01:36:12.280 And then somebody had the good idea of, like, well, if we trade with you, you make this, we make this, you know, we're all both better off.

01:36:19.280 It's sort of basic economic theory 101.

01:36:22.740 You know, if you go, so it's almost like a weird debate, right?

01:36:26.340 It's kind of like when you bring up something that nobody understands or has thought about for 100 years, you have to go, huh.

01:36:32.180 But, you know, tariffs versus income taxes and things like this in the golden age.

01:36:36.300 So, you know, I know for a fact they didn't have heated seats in their Toyota Corolla in 1887.

01:36:46.380 I know for a fact they didn't have avocados 100% of the time.

01:36:50.600 So these wealth estimates are, you know, Coke was in nickel, but that was two weeks of, you know, two weeks of your wage.

01:36:58.200 So it's very difficult.

01:37:00.200 We are richer now.

01:37:01.540 Now, there's a separate question of fairness and what sorts of, has globalization gone too far?

01:37:08.620 I sort of get all that.

01:37:10.340 But, you know, to sort of use 1887, you know, or, you know, pre-World War I as the justification for it feels a little odd to me.

01:37:20.260 And if it feels a little odd to everybody else, it's because it's a little odd.

01:37:23.900 So I want to talk about the word reciprocal.

01:37:25.980 Because you can make the argument that this was not a one-to-one reciprocal binary match.

01:37:33.660 You know, 20% on the U.S., 20% on everyone else.

01:37:36.640 Yes, there is going to be a baseline tariff of 10%.

01:37:40.380 But you heard there President Trump say, we're going to be kind.

01:37:44.300 We're going to charge some of them half so it's not fully reciprocal here.

01:37:47.900 Why are they still being called reciprocal then?

01:37:49.860 Um, you know, that's a good question.

01:37:54.820 I, the, the, I would answer it to make Trump look bad.

01:37:58.600 That's why.

01:38:00.340 That's why, man.

01:38:02.060 Um, so yeah.

01:38:03.840 Also, guys, uh, how is the, uh, quality here?

01:38:08.020 Um, I saw, uh, shout out to TPC Films again.

01:38:11.400 He's helping me out here.

01:38:12.360 We are streaming right now at fucking 2160, I think.

01:38:17.520 I think we are streaming at 2160.

01:38:19.300 I'm going to double check here.

01:38:20.780 But you guys should see a significant increase in quality, uh, on the stream right now versus, um, yesterday.

01:38:31.960 Uh, because we're, I think we're almost at like full-on 4K streaming right now.

01:38:37.500 It's just fucking wild to me.

01:38:38.440 I never thought this day would be able to fucking be able to do that shit.

01:38:41.860 Um, on YouTube especially, yeah, there's literally 2160, um, here.

01:38:47.480 2160 is working.

01:38:50.040 Quality is fine.

01:38:50.580 It's not lagging for you guys or anything.

01:38:52.560 Um, because I made some camera setting switches yesterday and then YouTube here is telling me the bit rate, uh, is a bit lower.

01:38:59.920 So I might have to increase it.

01:39:01.020 But I just want to make sure you guys aren't getting lag.

01:39:03.240 And obviously, on Rumble, I'm going 1080p.

01:39:06.000 X, I'm going 1080p.

01:39:07.820 Uh, Castle Club, I'm going 1080p.

01:39:09.180 Because I don't think you can stream 4K on these platforms.

01:39:12.440 Rumble, I think you can.

01:39:13.540 But you have to use a certain, uh, you have to use a certain, uh, thing.

01:39:20.420 But, um, but yeah.

01:39:22.840 But I don't, I can't use Rumble Studio, which Rumble Studio is obviously where it's at.

01:39:26.940 So I just want to make sure that there's no lag or anything like that.

01:39:30.440 Um, because obviously these settings are brand new.

01:39:32.440 We just adjusted this stuff.

01:39:34.260 Uh, okay, cool.

01:39:35.440 4K.

01:39:35.800 Okay, so I see on YouTube you guys are saying it's really good.

01:39:38.440 Fine on YouTube, bro.

01:39:39.400 Appreciate that, man.

01:39:40.220 Um, yeah, 2160 is the only reason to be on YouTube.

01:39:45.240 If Rumble had it, it would be 10 out of 10.

01:39:46.540 Yeah.

01:39:47.100 And I'll tell you guys this.

01:39:48.640 Rumble, uh, Rumble's 1080p or 1920 is, is better than YouTube's by far.

01:39:54.620 Like, if you guys watch me on Rumble and you go to the highest, the 1920 setting, it looks damn near 4K.

01:39:59.860 It's really good.

01:40:01.000 So, um, but yeah, I just wanted to double check with you guys and make sure, um, shit's good here and it's not lagging or anything like that.

01:40:08.120 Because it is telling me on the YouTube studio, uh, keyframe frequency or four, like, I don't know what the fuck this is, this shit.

01:40:15.860 So, I just wanted to make sure that it's all good.

01:40:18.200 So, cool.

01:40:19.440 Awesome, awesome, awesome.

01:40:20.540 Sorry for the delay.

01:40:21.040 Let's get back into this thing.

01:40:22.000 I'm going to get another, um, I'm going to get a drink here and then we're going to go for another 30, 40 minutes or so.

01:40:29.680 And then, I did, I am thinking about getting, uh, reacting to this.

01:40:34.760 Ben Shapiro talked about JFK today.

01:40:38.960 Right here.

01:40:40.520 Who shot JFK?

01:40:41.700 Someone super chatted this in.

01:40:43.520 Uh, Quagmire Giggity Giggity says, uh, hey Myron, you hear that Candace got served on her, uh, for her phone?

01:40:50.000 Yeah, I did hear about that yesterday.

01:40:51.820 Um, so, that's wild.

01:40:56.640 And then I also saw, let me see here.

01:41:06.500 Hold on.

01:41:17.740 And then right here.

01:41:21.820 Quality is good.

01:41:23.680 I appreciate that way of Vic.

01:41:25.660 Knightly wisdom.

01:41:26.340 Yes.

01:41:26.780 First question about the strategic mistake Trump did, but I guess I can still ask the question about this topic.

01:41:31.140 What would be the outcome of the tariff employment if we pretty much give everything to them boys anyway?

01:41:36.040 What do you think, Myron?

01:41:37.620 Um, well, you got to remember, man, that foreign aid is still a small percentage of, uh, the American tax, uh, payer percentage.

01:41:46.140 Hey, Myron, why would Trump increase tariffs on us Australians?

01:41:48.460 We are pretty much an extension of the U.S. with multiple military bases.

01:41:51.820 Um, and especially Pine Gap being critical for U.S. defense.

01:41:58.200 Uh, well, at the end of the day, we got the leverage, bro.

01:42:03.060 We own you guys.

01:42:04.360 That's why, to be honest with you, bro.

01:42:05.880 Uh, earlier this morning, Ben Shapiro broke his thoughts about who killed JFK.

01:42:09.920 He stated there is no zero evidence Israel is involved in the form of residence.

01:42:12.200 Like, bro, and this is why people, like, don't fuck with Ben Shapiro anymore, bro.

01:42:17.840 You know what I mean?

01:42:19.380 This is why so many people, um, like, just don't take him seriously anymore.

01:42:25.520 Like, he runs cover for Israel so goddamn hard that it's starting to get ridiculous now at this point.

01:42:31.580 Um, I mean, hold on one sec, Chad.

01:42:36.540 Um, it's really starting to get to the point now where, um, goddammit, where he's starting to become, like, a straight-up Israeli propagandist is what it's coming down to.

01:42:50.420 So, so, why don't you, I'm fixing this.

01:42:57.260 Yeah, I don't know why the fuck it was all the way over there.

01:43:00.420 There we go.

01:43:06.060 Sorry, Chad.

01:43:06.780 Fucking, um, always fixing little things here.

01:43:13.840 I'll tell you guys this, man.

01:43:15.200 It's, uh, there we go.

01:43:19.600 I think that's better.

01:43:21.140 Okay.

01:43:21.560 Sorry about that.

01:43:25.660 Let me lock that so I don't know if I move again.

01:43:28.000 All right.

01:43:28.580 Let's get back to this.

01:43:30.060 Uh, this way, right?

01:43:31.140 So, uh, the, the countries with the largest trade deficits, China, uh, for one, seem to be, uh, Taiwan, seem to be getting...

01:43:39.160 Yes, the 4K on YouTube is good.

01:43:42.100 Um, but yeah, sorry.

01:43:43.520 It's a finished round thing with Ben Shapiro.

01:43:45.140 I got distracted in the chat.

01:43:46.300 Um, yeah, man.

01:43:46.980 The guy just runs cover for Israel.

01:43:48.060 And that, and, and him running cover for Israel has been one of the main reasons why the Daily Wire has, uh, taken such a fucking hit, man.

01:43:56.200 That is a big reason why.

01:43:57.840 Why they've lost so much credibility.

01:44:00.340 You know?

01:44:00.900 They are not an American-first, an America-first conservative media outlet.

01:44:06.120 That's the problem.

01:44:10.680 ...hit relatively harder.

01:44:12.520 Um, you know, I think reciprocal, to some extent, is this idea of fairness.

01:44:17.300 So, um, you know, you know, he talked about milk tariffs in Canada and things like this.

01:44:23.120 Like, there's not a lot of milk trade.

01:44:24.460 It's a sort of small industry.

01:44:25.640 So it's always very difficult.

01:44:27.260 So, like, you know, I do think that the Canadian milk tariff is too high, but I'm not sure what that matters.

01:44:32.000 So this idea of sort of resetting the bar for fairness, and then on those, you know, we'll be fair, I think that is like a little carrot to people, like investors looking at the stock market reaction, hoping that, okay, there's room for negotiation.

01:44:45.720 So if you do something, then I can do something, then we can reset the bar maybe lower, a little more fair.

01:44:52.120 Um, but, you know, just the idea of reciprocal, I think that's fine.

01:44:56.880 And then I think that, you know, we'll be fair is, is like the softest language he said today that maybe negotiation is still a possibility.

01:45:05.280 I mean, in his view, though, some countries did get some type of reprieve today because it wasn't one-to-one reciprocally.

01:45:11.480 Yeah, I mean, I'd have to go country by country.

01:45:13.440 But, like, the tariffs on China and Taiwan vary, you know, worse than Wall Street expected, that's for sure.

01:45:19.960 If you look at Apple stock, Apple stock is down seven, right?

01:45:22.560 Wow.

01:45:23.180 I mean, because, you know, they get all their iPhones.

01:45:25.520 I mean, they essentially make all their iPhones in China.

01:45:27.980 So that was definitely like, whoa, I think that the total tariff on China is going to be in the range of 50% if you sort of add it all up.

01:45:34.900 Okay.

01:45:35.160 And then we have to, like, okay, is that actually what's going to happen?

01:45:37.580 So that was like, oh, my goodness.

01:45:38.880 And then on, like, EU and places like this, you just have to sort of go down the list.

01:45:43.780 Yeah.

01:45:44.400 I think as, you know, when you held up that chart and then people sort of zoomed in on the chart and then started looking at the reciprocal tariffs, they were like, wow, some of these are actually pretty severe.

01:45:53.940 Okay.

01:45:54.240 Maybe it's because we didn't really realize how we were treated, like, with India or Taiwan or things like this because they're not really large trade partners.

01:46:02.320 But it was a bit of a surprise.

01:46:04.140 So, Al, I want to ask, because some Democrats are characterizing this as not Liberation Day, as Recession Day.

01:46:11.080 Chris Van Hollen there from Maryland on the Senate floor just last hour said that what essentially happened today was a national sales tax was instituted on the American people.

01:46:22.480 So is all of this a tax hike that President Trump just did last hour?

01:46:27.440 Or do you think industries, knowing this was coming, I'm talking about domestic industries, knowing that this was coming today, prepared and absorbed as best they could what this was today?

01:46:41.800 So a couple of things.

01:46:44.040 We can debate whether globalization has gone too far and where we should be and all this sort of thing.

01:46:50.680 Barron's position, Wall Street Journal's position.

01:46:52.780 Hey, guys, let's get to 1.5K likes.

01:46:57.440 What is it, 6.54?

01:47:00.640 Yeah, as much as I want to talk about JFK and Ben Shapiro, this is going to probably, because he spent, what, 20, yeah, he spent almost an hour talking about JFK.

01:47:16.720 So I kind of want to react to this and do it on its own day.

01:47:21.000 Because that's going to take longer.

01:47:26.760 And obviously today we're a bit shorter for time.

01:47:28.800 Maybe I'll do it on Friday, now that I think about it.

01:47:30.660 What do you guys think?

01:47:31.940 Do a debrief on this on Friday?

01:47:36.200 Maybe Friday.

01:47:38.480 Hey, Jack Jackson, shut the fuck up in YouTube chat.

01:47:42.840 How about that?

01:47:44.160 Please shut the fuck up. 1.00

01:47:45.160 How about that one?

01:47:45.660 Yeah, guys, yeah, I might do this on Friday.

01:47:55.140 Because today is limited time, guys.

01:47:57.020 We've got to do first or fifth at 8.

01:47:59.600 So that's why.

01:48:02.300 And I want to hit the gym.

01:48:14.700 Yeah, I think I'm going to have to do it Friday.

01:48:16.420 This will raise prices, right?

01:48:30.040 And then it's just, so like the most immediate price increases are the things that turn the fastest.

01:48:35.120 So you would see this in theory fastest at like the grocery store.

01:48:38.700 So, you know, some of the produce that's imported, especially in the winter, yes, that would get more expensive.

01:48:45.180 That'll get more expensive almost immediately.

01:48:47.240 You look at Lululemon stock, that's down.

01:48:49.460 You know, they're importing things from overseas on the textiles front.

01:48:53.580 You know, there's a supply chain there.

01:48:55.280 But within six to nine months, cars, flows, food, there should be some inflationary pressure on those.

01:49:03.360 Again, like let's take cars, how much automakers will push back against their parts suppliers on price increases.

01:49:10.920 They will cut costs to try and avoid raising prices.

01:49:14.840 So I can't tell you like that disaster scenario.

01:49:17.720 People like to publish like imported car up $10,000.

01:49:20.700 Probably won't be that big, but there will be inflationary pressure all the way through the economy for like six to nine months while this unfolds.

01:49:28.660 Okay.

01:49:29.080 If things stay as exactly as they are now.

01:49:32.000 I see.

01:49:32.480 So Anderson Economic Group released its analysis today of these new tariffs, how they will impact the auto industry for consumers here.

01:49:40.540 Tariffs are expected to cost an additional $2,500 to $5,000 for the lowest cost American cars and up to $20,000 more for some of these imported models.

01:49:51.960 So I thought that was interesting here.

01:49:53.080 So what about when President Trump says this?

01:49:56.620 There is no tariff if you build here in America.

01:49:59.440 Will industry respond to that?

01:50:00.660 Have they already?

01:50:01.180 So the problem is—

01:50:03.000 And that's the main bottom line here is to penalize these importers for, you know, trying to use foreign labor to increase their profit margins.

01:50:13.900 That's the whole purpose of these tariffs, guys, okay?

01:50:16.960 The whole purpose of these tariffs is to basically get America back to building things.

01:50:24.260 That's really what this boils down to.

01:50:26.080 And the tariffs are a deterrence to businesses to avoid bringing in foreign products that are made via foreign labor.

01:50:41.080 That's what it is.

01:50:42.900 It's not so much as in, oh, let's go ahead and mess with these countries' economies rather than let's stimulate our own and incentivize our American businesses to use stuff from America.

01:50:54.740 Employ American companies to give them the products that they need versus relying on foreign countries with cheaper labor so that they can increase their profit margins.

01:51:04.480 Now, again, like I said before, does that increase the price to the consumer because the companies don't want to deal with the loss?

01:51:12.040 Of course it does, short term.

01:51:14.060 But the goal here is to kind of let capitalism work its way out and people say, oh, now this shit's more expensive?

01:51:25.720 I'm going to go to somebody else who probably does use American labor.

01:51:31.820 It's basically giving American labor or companies that utilize American labor a fighting chance against these companies that use foreign labor.

01:51:39.360 Again, I'm grossly oversimplifying this because I'm not an economist, but that's the general stance on things.

01:51:48.800 Now, we could go ahead and, you know, doomsday plan and say, well, this country's going to do that.

01:51:52.460 This country's going to do that.

01:51:53.740 You know, it's improbable here.

01:51:55.440 Actually, I think that this is going to happen.

01:51:57.100 We could say all that.

01:51:57.880 But I'm sure Trump has a team of advisors that are economists that literally can go into the most, you know, minutiae of detail as to what could potentially happen with putting tariffs on certain countries, consequences, ramifications, how long it would take for this to, you know, fix.

01:52:16.940 Because obviously there's going to be a few months or a year of destabilized prices, but things almost always correct themselves.

01:52:26.120 So that's the goal here.

01:52:29.040 It's more of a deterrence objective versus a long-term strategy to attack other countries.

01:52:38.060 That makes sense.

01:52:38.680 So, yes, that's true, right?

01:52:43.720 We have a few problems.

01:52:45.180 One is we actually, like, if you just, we don't have endless workers.

01:52:49.540 Actually, unemployment's relatively low.

01:52:51.520 And from a manufacturing perspective, people have trouble getting enough people versus having too many people.

01:52:57.540 Problem number one.

01:52:58.280 Problem number two is these are, you know, Ford broke ground on its blue oval.

01:53:03.440 So they're building battery plants.

01:53:04.480 They're building a manufacturing facility in Tennessee, right?

01:53:08.340 They're spending tens of billions of dollars.

01:53:10.080 They broke ground in 2022.

01:53:11.640 They're looking to open that in 2026.

01:53:15.440 Even if you go at rocket speed, you know, citing permits, building.

01:53:20.360 Yeah, I was going to say, Camille's a jeep.

01:53:23.160 Camille says, my, I don't understand it very well.

01:53:24.880 USA manufacturer provides a little economic value.

01:53:26.640 Bro, you're probably a jeep.

01:53:27.660 Shut the fuck up. 1.00

01:53:29.120 Thank you.

01:53:29.580 Come again.

01:53:30.580 You're talking about two to three-year programs to reorient your footprint.

01:53:34.780 So it's very slow.

01:53:36.680 Okay.

01:53:36.900 There are no sort of empty factories that we will turn on and we will start making things here.

01:53:43.560 It's a very difficult process.

01:53:46.820 So, you know, President Trump's goal is to bring more manufacturing here.

01:53:51.080 This will do it.

01:53:52.360 It might not be the most efficient way to do it.

01:53:54.840 And it will do it probably a little more slowly than you would expect.

01:53:58.900 Okay.

01:53:59.240 But, you know, it will happen eventually.

01:54:02.520 Al, last question for you, though.

01:54:03.800 Where should we look next?

01:54:04.840 I mean, what indices will you be looking at about how these tariffs are being received?

01:54:12.160 You know what?

01:54:13.920 You can look at everything.

01:54:15.580 So that's a terrible answer, right?

01:54:17.000 I would start to look at jobs.

01:54:18.740 So over six to nine months, you would start to look at inflation, just broad inflation data to see how bad it is.

01:54:25.280 But I'm talking, like, tomorrow.

01:54:27.200 What should we look for tomorrow?

01:54:28.380 I mean, goodness gracious, look at the S&P 500, right?

01:54:31.300 And I think it'll be a push and pull, right?

01:54:33.060 So the S&P 500 futures are down about 2%.

01:54:35.540 Like I said, Apple, some of the tech stocks that use these chips, down 5% to 7%.

01:54:40.380 Watch how they trade.

01:54:42.560 Or do they trade?

01:54:43.460 Do they close off the lows, which is like, oh, maybe it's not so bad.

01:54:46.980 We're going to negotiate.

01:54:48.180 Maybe I'm overreacting.

01:54:49.820 Do they, you know, does the Dow drop 1,000 points or 2.5% as one of those four-digit days?

01:54:56.860 You just watch the initial stock market.

01:54:58.580 The market is good.

01:55:00.180 Sometimes it's overreacting.

01:55:01.360 But especially now that futures are down 1% to 2%, see how it closes.

01:55:06.700 Do we close off the lows?

01:55:07.940 Okay.

01:55:08.600 We see what's happening here.

01:55:10.380 Maybe negotiation, maybe not as bad as fear.

01:55:12.960 But if sentiment starts to really slide and you sort of close out the lows, that's sort of like bad news.

01:55:18.220 All right.

01:55:19.080 Al Rood, can't thank you enough.

01:55:20.640 I think that was easily digestible enough for viewers because this was.

01:55:24.840 This dude says, Myron, I'll debate you right now.

01:55:28.260 Look, look, look, Pajit.

01:55:31.360 Number one, you're using an anon anime profile.

01:55:35.840 Number two, nobody knows or gives a fuck about you.

01:55:39.760 Okay.

01:55:40.120 Nobody, you're a nobody.

01:55:42.100 All right.

01:55:43.720 Number three, you can go ahead and continue to argue with people in the chat about tariffs, bro.

01:55:48.360 Go ahead.

01:55:48.900 Just do that.

01:55:49.640 But at the end of the day, Sanjeev.

01:55:54.760 Nah, man, I'm not going to keep cooking you, bro.

01:56:03.520 You're going to cry.

01:56:04.300 I'm going to stop roasting this nigga, bro. 1.00

01:56:06.200 So I really start going in on your fucking 7-Eleven ass. 1.00

01:56:08.640 It's not going to be a good day for you.

01:56:10.840 Quite impactful.

01:56:11.560 Very sweeping.

01:56:12.240 That's how it's being described.

01:56:13.200 Al, we'll talk soon.

01:56:15.580 See ya.

01:56:16.640 All right.

01:56:17.040 In the meantime, here, let's take a quick commercial break.

01:56:18.940 A lot more where that came from in these two minutes.

01:56:26.600 Back out live to New York City.

01:56:28.980 We have our vantage points there.

01:56:31.840 Niggas in the chat saying, go back to tech support. 1.00

01:56:36.760 See, the chat can just go ahead and roast you, bro.

01:56:38.500 I don't got to say shit, man.

01:56:41.940 Niggas in the chat saying, go back to tech support, bro. 1.00

01:56:43.780 I want to show you the shot we have of the Statue of Liberty.

01:56:48.140 It's a little grainy, a little pixelated.

01:56:50.080 We usually have a great shot.

01:56:52.160 Unfortunately, at the moment, we do not.

01:56:54.160 So we also have, let's go to Washington now.

01:56:56.560 They're on the Senate floor.

01:56:58.860 Many senators, including and especially Senate Democrats,

01:57:02.220 have been railing against what President Trump did

01:57:04.800 earlier this afternoon in the Rose Garden

01:57:07.380 with the new tariff regime policy in place.

01:57:12.880 We have a live picture outside the U.S. Capitol as well.

01:57:19.060 Take a look at this.

01:57:21.580 It said L. Vivek.

01:57:23.080 So we do want to take a quick commercial break

01:57:25.480 very, very soon here.

01:57:26.620 And when we come back, we're going to be highlighting

01:57:29.120 some of the election results in states like Florida

01:57:32.400 and Wisconsin from last night.

01:57:34.780 We're going to be going over some of those results.

01:57:36.460 We're going to be showing you some of the statements put out.

01:57:38.480 Let me read some of these chats.

01:57:40.320 Let's see here.

01:57:40.940 We got Benz started to produce their vehicles in the U.S.

01:57:47.640 and is cheaper than their German counterparts, BMW and Audi,

01:57:50.000 by roughly 10% to 15%.

01:57:51.260 This will also make getting car parts from Benz easier for repairs.

01:57:55.200 Fair.

01:57:56.040 Quality is good.

01:57:57.200 Appreciate that.

01:57:57.840 We got here.

01:58:04.700 Albo A says,

01:58:05.480 I didn't even realize Israel had tariffs on the U.S. until today.

01:58:07.940 Unbelievable after all the aid we give them.

01:58:09.820 And Trump put a reciprocal 70% tariff on them as well.

01:58:12.780 They're about a JFK, this nigga, probably. 1.00

01:58:14.360 St. Francis says,

01:58:17.880 do you believe Americans can outsource a lot of the commodities that we rely on from foreign countries?

01:58:29.680 It depends.

01:58:31.340 It depends which countries, bro.

01:58:32.780 That's a good question, though.

01:58:36.440 But it really does depend.

01:58:41.980 Let's see here.

01:58:42.860 I don't know why this fucking shit is not...

01:58:46.380 Sorry, guys.

01:58:46.820 My stream labs is, like, acting stupid.

01:58:49.340 Let me refresh the page over here.

01:58:51.080 I got another browser open.

01:58:51.980 Damn, you guys made fucking Camille leave, bro. 0.75

01:59:00.100 Y'all roasted him that bad.

01:59:01.100 That nigga gone. 1.00

01:59:05.680 Once y'all started calling him tech support, that nigga dipped. 1.00

01:59:11.720 Oh, man.

01:59:13.860 Let's see here.

01:59:19.400 Softlife said,

01:59:20.240 he says,

01:59:23.720 where

01:59:24.780 do quote them boys get the money to buy people like Trump to put on their agenda?

01:59:32.280 Bro, this is so poorly fucking worded, man.

01:59:35.060 Two, how much money do these people have,

01:59:36.460 and why aren't they listed in the household income yet every other race is?

01:59:40.580 It depends on which chart you look at.

01:59:41.960 Sometimes Jewish families are listed on there.

01:59:44.160 Did you see that the owner of OnlyFans

01:59:46.060 wants to buy TikTok?

01:59:47.860 I think you put her offer,

01:59:50.140 and you can't make this up.

01:59:52.180 SMH, oy vey.

01:59:53.820 Well,

01:59:54.460 for those that are wondering...

01:59:55.860 That is the owner of OnlyFans,

02:00:01.240 that is the owner of OnlyFans.

02:00:25.940 Leonid Redvinsky.

02:00:33.820 So, yeah, he's trying to buy TikTok.

02:00:35.520 I'm not surprised that he would want to buy TikTok,

02:00:39.580 because as you guys know,

02:00:42.320 TikTok is basically, to keep it honest with y'all,

02:00:46.520 TikTok is a huge fucking OnlyFans funnel.

02:00:49.600 That's what TikTok is.

02:00:51.760 TikTok has a huge OnlyFans funnel.

02:00:53.300 That's why thoughts just get on there and dance with the stupid shit that they do.

02:00:57.980 So, they go ahead and say,

02:00:59.320 oh, link in bio.

02:01:00.980 You know, Instagram too.

02:01:02.280 Instagram and TikTok are quite literally porn feeds.

02:01:06.940 That's what they are.

02:01:08.000 If we're going to be honest here.

02:01:10.560 So, I have no...

02:01:11.680 I am not surprised whatsoever that this dude, Leonid,

02:01:14.020 is trying to buy TikTok.

02:01:15.140 Because you guys know,

02:01:16.780 TikTok is supposed to shut down this weekend, I think,

02:01:18.940 if I'm not mistaken.

02:01:19.860 Trump saved it.

02:01:21.080 Gave them an extension.

02:01:21.880 But at this point, man, fuck TikTok.

02:01:24.540 If TikTok got banned, I wouldn't even care, bro.

02:01:26.920 I used to have sympathy for TikTok,

02:01:28.680 but now I'm like, fuck that platform, bro.

02:01:32.380 It is so fucking ridiculous

02:01:33.940 how

02:01:35.460 they are so anti-conservative viewpoints, bro.

02:01:42.120 It's fucking wild.

02:01:44.260 It's wild.

02:01:45.340 If you're a stupid thot, 1.00

02:01:46.800 doing dances on there,

02:01:48.140 you're fine.

02:01:48.660 But if you're

02:01:49.900 a political commentator on the right whatever,

02:01:52.560 bro, you're cooked.

02:01:53.740 You are absolutely cooked.

02:01:55.740 They banned TimCast.

02:01:56.660 They banned me.

02:01:57.180 They banned everybody, bro.

02:01:58.260 They're like Twitch, but worse.

02:02:00.400 So, yeah, I'm not surprised

02:02:01.220 that this fucking guy over here 1.00

02:02:02.360 who runs a...

02:02:04.320 Because let's be honest,

02:02:05.120 what is OnlyFans?

02:02:05.860 OnlyFans is a porn company, bro.

02:02:07.560 I'm not surprised that this guy wants to buy it

02:02:09.200 because that would give him the ability

02:02:10.800 to literally control

02:02:14.280 one of the biggest funnels 0.94

02:02:15.700 to his other website.

02:02:17.540 So, not surprised

02:02:18.520 that he's trying to buy it whatsoever.

02:02:23.160 Yeah, we talked about the federal judge

02:02:24.720 dismissing his case.

02:02:27.160 Yeah.

02:02:27.600 All right, let's...

02:02:30.600 Again, shorter show today, guys.

02:02:37.760 We got a very busy day today.

02:02:41.080 And also, we got a busy day today

02:02:43.700 as well as over the next week or so.

02:02:48.220 So...

02:02:49.220 Let's see here.

02:03:19.220 Let's see here.

02:03:31.520 Shout out to all you guys watching, man.

02:03:34.700 We got some haters in the chat,

02:03:35.980 which is good.

02:03:36.740 It's always good to have haters.

02:03:38.420 That means you're reaching people

02:03:40.440 that otherwise don't know you

02:03:44.260 or don't know your content or whatever.

02:03:45.660 And for obviously people that are new here,

02:03:47.520 they might consider me extreme,

02:03:51.020 which is fine.

02:03:52.620 Last night by those in the know.

02:03:55.780 And also, you're going to be hearing

02:03:57.280 the inaugural speech there on the House floor.

02:03:59.820 That happened just last hour

02:04:01.140 by freshman congressman,

02:04:03.140 now the Republican from Florida, Randy Fine.

02:04:06.160 So, we're going to keep it political

02:04:08.300 with these headlines.

02:04:09.300 When we come back, rehashing,

02:04:11.140 recapping election night last night.

02:04:14.080 We'll see you in two minutes.

02:04:15.260 Hey, guys, don't mute the haters, bro.

02:04:23.080 Let them say what they want to say

02:04:23.980 in the chat, bro.

02:04:27.360 Don't mute them, man.

02:04:31.020 Let them say what they want to say, chat.

02:04:33.020 Mods, let them talk.

02:04:35.160 I'd rather you... 0.95

02:04:36.140 Like, let them talk their shit

02:04:37.100 and then you guys could just roast them.

02:04:38.280 It's actually funny to watch you guys

02:04:39.400 go back and forth

02:04:40.100 and call these niggas tech support and shit. 1.00

02:04:41.420 That's funny.

02:04:42.940 So, don't mute them.

02:04:51.600 Republican gains.

02:04:52.920 Fine had Donald Trump on his side.

02:04:55.240 Trump won the presidential race

02:04:56.480 with more than twice the margin fine did.

02:04:58.780 And the Florida Democratic Party says

02:05:00.340 they'll keep chipping away at those numbers.

02:05:03.080 One election at a time,

02:05:04.360 one forced vote at a time.

02:05:05.640 Marie Edinger, Fox 35 News.

02:05:08.260 Marie, thanks so much.

02:05:09.500 That was the Orlando vantage point.

02:05:11.960 Let's get the Tampa vantage point

02:05:13.360 on these elections last night.

02:05:15.700 Fox 13's Regina Gonzalez.

02:05:18.720 Hey there.

02:05:19.320 Yeah, Republicans will hold on to two seats 0.60

02:05:21.960 in their narrow House majority

02:05:23.360 after former Florida State Senator Randy Fine

02:05:26.380 won the special election

02:05:27.680 for an open U.S. House seat

02:05:29.540 in Florida's 6th Congressional District.

02:05:31.960 And Republican Jimmy Petronas

02:05:33.620 won Florida's 1st Congressional District.

02:05:36.720 Petronas fended off a challenge

02:05:38.300 from Democrat Gay Valamont,

02:05:40.240 even though she far out-raised and out-spent him.

02:05:43.680 He will fill the Northwest Florida 1st District seat

02:05:46.100 vacated by former Representative Matt Gaetz,

02:05:48.660 who was chosen to be Trump's Attorney General,

02:05:51.200 but withdrew from consideration

02:05:52.640 amid allegations of sexual misconduct,

02:05:54.840 which he has denied.

02:05:56.980 In North Florida's 6th District,

02:05:58.740 fine won against Democratic challenger Josh Wheel

02:06:01.400 for a seat vacated by Mike Waltz

02:06:03.940 when he was tapped to become

02:06:05.240 Trump's National Security Advisor.

02:06:07.480 Both Fine and Petronas relied heavily

02:06:09.560 on President Donald Trump's support

02:06:11.340 to win the races

02:06:12.280 and were vocal about their support

02:06:14.260 for the president's agenda

02:06:15.420 during their victory speeches.

02:06:17.180 And I'm looking forward to working with him

02:06:19.440 to help...

02:06:20.340 Hey, guys, we got 1,284 likes, guys.

02:06:24.800 Let's get to 2K Ninjas.

02:06:27.460 Let's get to almost 100% engagement.

02:06:28.740 We built our military

02:06:30.200 to close the border,

02:06:31.980 to keep men out of women's sports, 0.99

02:06:34.300 and to get our country back on track

02:06:36.100 to drop this record-high inflation

02:06:38.340 in our national debt

02:06:39.720 that is crippling the complete world.

02:06:42.140 They still stand with you

02:06:43.300 because they're proud

02:06:44.180 that he closed the border.

02:06:45.680 They're excited

02:06:46.340 to see you demand fair trade

02:06:48.380 around the world.

02:06:50.020 They're hopeful

02:06:50.740 that Donald Trump

02:06:51.620 has the yellow pin.

02:06:52.820 Donald Trump will bring peace.

02:06:54.040 And they are thrilled

02:06:55.960 to see President Trump

02:06:57.700 and Elon Musk

02:06:58.980 take the axe

02:06:59.960 to a bloated, deep state

02:07:02.040 whose spending is an insult

02:07:03.960 to every American

02:07:05.320 who goes to work

02:07:06.480 and struggles to make ends meet.

02:07:08.940 With the outcomes

02:07:09.820 of these two races,

02:07:11.120 there will now be 220 Republicans

02:07:13.400 and 213 Democrats

02:07:15.540 in the chamber with...

02:07:16.900 Here, my buddy Dave

02:07:18.280 is a dual-commissioned Army officer,

02:07:20.080 former FBI,

02:07:20.560 no longer welcome in America.

02:07:21.700 Please get him on

02:07:22.860 so he can spread awareness.

02:07:24.040 How is he not welcome

02:07:26.540 in America?

02:07:27.060 He's a U.S. citizen.

02:07:27.980 You can't not be welcomed

02:07:29.080 in your own home country.

02:07:30.240 They can't deny you

02:07:30.840 to come in.

02:07:34.180 Modern day Jays

02:07:36.200 actually originated

02:07:36.960 from Kazarian Empire

02:07:37.840 and history behind it.

02:07:39.120 Bro, that's...

02:07:39.960 Bro, that's...

02:07:44.960 That's like...

02:07:45.960 Again, that's like...

02:07:48.960 basic...

02:07:51.960 stuff, bro.

02:07:52.960 Like...

02:07:53.960 Kazarians, Frankis, 0.97

02:07:55.820 all this shit, 0.84

02:07:56.220 that's like retard-level shit, bro. 0.99

02:07:58.900 It's easy, bro.

02:08:01.940 It's them boys.

02:08:03.380 Two vacancies.

02:08:04.540 There's really no difference.

02:08:07.760 Still to be filled in...

02:08:08.840 All of that is a distraction

02:08:10.100 from what the fuck 0.78

02:08:10.860 is really going on.

02:08:12.840 Kazarian, uh! 0.98

02:08:14.500 Frankis!

02:08:14.900 Somebody has saw...

02:08:15.900 Arizona and Texas.

02:08:21.580 Something interesting

02:08:22.280 to note, too.

02:08:23.120 Republican concerns

02:08:24.120 about their narrow margin

02:08:25.680 of control in the House

02:08:26.840 and about Randy Fine's race

02:08:28.840 expected to be close

02:08:29.900 grew to the point

02:08:32.240 that President Trump

02:08:33.580 asked Representative

02:08:34.780 Elise Stefanik

02:08:35.900 of New York

02:08:36.840 to withdraw her name 0.97

02:08:38.340 from consideration...

02:08:38.900 Yeah, this chick 1.00

02:08:39.400 is the worst.

02:08:39.900 ...to be ambassador

02:08:41.420 to the United Nations

02:08:42.580 and to remain in Congress instead.

02:08:44.780 That happened last week.

02:08:46.260 We know Randy Fine...

02:08:47.040 That chick is fucking 1.00

02:08:47.920 Israel first to the max. 0.98

02:08:49.660 ...says he is getting

02:08:50.820 on a plane

02:08:51.320 to Washington, D.C. today

02:08:52.840 so he can get right to work.

02:08:54.360 We'll send it back to you.

02:08:56.960 Regina, thanks so much.

02:08:58.240 And to Regina's point,

02:08:59.640 you just saw that live

02:09:00.780 last hour.

02:09:01.520 Both Randy Fine

02:09:02.280 and Jimmy Patronis

02:09:03.160 sworn in

02:09:03.940 as new House members

02:09:05.360 by Speaker of the House

02:09:07.020 Mike Johnson.

02:09:08.240 Well, Fine took the opportunity

02:09:09.460 to address his colleagues

02:09:10.660 for the first time

02:09:11.420 on the House floor.

02:09:12.620 Let's listen

02:09:13.120 to what he had to say.

02:09:16.600 Thirty-five years ago,

02:09:18.280 a 16-year-old boy

02:09:19.500 walked through those doors

02:09:20.920 and he marveled

02:09:22.960 in this room

02:09:23.720 at this temple of democracy

02:09:25.040 as he watched people

02:09:26.340 who gave up their lives,

02:09:28.260 who gave up time

02:09:29.060 with their families,

02:09:30.220 who gave up their careers

02:09:31.720 in order to serve

02:09:33.700 their country.

02:09:35.300 When I spent a year

02:09:36.580 working here

02:09:37.180 as a House page,

02:09:38.400 I learned

02:09:39.120 from so many people,

02:09:40.620 five of whom,

02:09:41.340 by the way,

02:09:41.820 are still serving today,

02:09:43.520 what it meant

02:09:44.640 to serve America,

02:09:46.200 what it meant

02:09:46.660 to put the needs

02:09:47.420 of the country

02:09:48.080 before yourself.

02:09:50.440 I want to recognize

02:09:51.320 my family

02:09:52.000 because when I did

02:09:53.040 this opportunity,

02:09:53.880 being a good Jewish boy,

02:09:55.480 my family would not

02:09:56.460 send me alone.

02:09:57.320 My mother, my father...

02:09:58.220 I was going to do

02:09:58.800 an early life check,

02:09:59.600 but he did it for me.

02:10:01.760 My father, my sister,

02:10:03.020 they moved to Washington.

02:10:04.200 And my mom,

02:10:06.160 who I'll talk about

02:10:06.900 in a little bit,

02:10:07.380 used to sit where Wendy,

02:10:09.600 my father...

02:10:11.040 I want to recognize them.

02:10:12.500 Thank you so much

02:10:13.120 for being here.

02:10:22.640 My sons,

02:10:23.580 who are over there.

02:10:24.780 But my mom used to sit up there 0.87

02:10:26.260 and she used to watch me 0.67

02:10:27.500 every day.

02:10:28.420 And she used to tell me,

02:10:29.520 Randy,

02:10:29.820 that God has a plan.

02:10:32.040 Now, I believe that

02:10:32.820 when Donald Trump's life

02:10:33.900 was saved in Butler, Pennsylvania,

02:10:36.040 it was so that

02:10:36.820 he could save the world.

02:10:38.900 And it is an honor

02:10:39.720 of a lifetime

02:10:40.380 that God's plan for me

02:10:42.260 is to come and help

02:10:43.660 all of you

02:10:44.420 implement that plan.

02:10:47.760 But today is also

02:10:48.860 a sad day for me

02:10:50.080 because the person

02:10:51.520 I most wish

02:10:52.340 could be here

02:10:53.000 to watch this

02:10:53.960 can't be here.

02:10:55.340 I will tell you

02:10:55.920 a story about...

02:10:56.620 First, the dog said,

02:10:57.440 Randy Fine,

02:10:58.040 an early lifer.

02:10:58.740 He did it for us.

02:10:59.760 He did it for us, guys.

02:11:03.220 She was my biggest champion.

02:11:04.960 She was the one

02:11:05.840 who taught me

02:11:06.820 how to fight.

02:11:08.020 And if you don't know me

02:11:09.320 and if you haven't

02:11:09.900 followed me,

02:11:10.960 fighter will be the word

02:11:12.340 that you know

02:11:13.180 soon enough.

02:11:15.280 But one day

02:11:16.180 when I was 16 years old,

02:11:17.540 my mother

02:11:18.120 came with me.

02:11:19.780 We went to the

02:11:20.260 stationery store,

02:11:21.320 which is still

02:11:22.040 in the same place

02:11:23.360 that it is today.

02:11:25.400 And we went...

02:11:26.020 All right.

02:11:27.420 So, guys,

02:11:28.160 it's 7.20.

02:11:31.000 We're going to be live

02:11:31.760 with Home Math at 8.

02:11:32.700 I'm going to go

02:11:33.240 hit the gym.

02:11:34.140 All right.

02:11:34.640 I've been fucking...

02:11:35.780 I feel like a crack

02:11:36.420 and I haven't went.

02:11:37.500 So, I need to go.

02:11:40.520 I hope you guys

02:11:41.160 like the...

02:11:41.620 Like I said,

02:11:42.220 the new quality.

02:11:44.220 We're going to keep 0.99

02:11:44.680 doing it,

02:11:45.240 making it better.

02:11:45.920 I'm actually going to

02:11:46.480 fix...

02:11:46.840 Get a new lens

02:11:47.520 for this one.

02:11:47.980 It's going to be

02:11:48.340 even better

02:11:48.860 than what you guys

02:11:49.520 see right now.

02:11:51.420 And we're just going

02:11:51.980 to keep improving

02:11:52.460 the show, guys.

02:11:53.340 The quality's going up.

02:11:55.240 Views are going up.

02:11:56.500 Subscribers are going up.

02:11:58.020 You guys are really

02:11:58.720 enjoying this stuff.

02:12:00.600 I'm going to be back

02:12:01.320 doing a debrief

02:12:01.900 on Friday.

02:12:02.520 We're going to cover

02:12:02.960 JFK and Ben Shapiro.

02:12:04.900 I think that's going to be

02:12:05.800 the topic for Friday.

02:12:07.620 Today, we covered

02:12:08.320 a great interview

02:12:09.080 with Scott Ritter.

02:12:09.960 We went over

02:12:10.460 the Russia-Ukraine conflict.

02:12:12.180 Got an update.

02:12:12.800 I did not know

02:12:13.380 that many, you know,

02:12:15.380 Ukrainians... 0.99

02:12:16.640 Ukrainian soldiers

02:12:17.300 were killed, man.

02:12:19.060 700,000,

02:12:19.680 1.1 million.

02:12:20.480 That's crazy.

02:12:22.080 So...

02:12:22.480 But it makes sense.

02:12:24.240 It does make sense.

02:12:25.260 Obviously, they've been

02:12:26.280 trying to keep these

02:12:26.780 numbers from us

02:12:27.300 for obvious reasons.

02:12:30.180 So...

02:12:30.540 So, yeah.

02:12:31.380 So...

02:12:32.260 Home at tonight,

02:12:35.280 8 p.m.

02:12:36.200 After hours.

02:12:38.500 Info Wars tomorrow.

02:12:40.080 I'll be back

02:12:40.700 Friday morning.

02:12:42.080 And then we're going

02:12:42.760 to go ahead

02:12:43.120 and give y'all

02:12:43.720 some more fresher fit.

02:12:46.960 And then, yeah.

02:12:48.160 It's going to be fun.

02:12:49.120 It's going to be fun, guys.

02:12:51.140 I'm off.

02:12:52.180 I'm going to go

02:12:52.680 hit the gym.

02:12:53.640 But before I hit the gym,

02:12:54.780 since we didn't get

02:12:55.220 to do this before...

02:12:58.700 I got to get...

02:13:01.600 I got to get you guys

02:13:02.320 out on the right path, man.

02:13:04.480 You know?

02:13:05.640 I couldn't do it earlier.

02:13:07.720 We're going to do it now.

02:13:21.700 Love you guys, man.

02:13:36.460 Enjoy the tune.

02:13:37.740 I'm going to be out.

02:13:39.300 Be back at about

02:13:40.040 8 o'clock.

02:13:40.800 First of all,

02:13:41.140 for you guys,

02:13:41.540 we're home at...

02:13:42.220 Let's go!

02:13:51.700 I want to see

02:13:55.180 those O'slashes fly, 1.00

02:13:56.380 goddammit.

02:13:56.840 Let me go ahead

02:13:57.260 and get the whole chat

02:13:58.120 in here.

02:13:58.700 Let me fucking 0.99

02:13:59.360 get this shit going.

02:14:00.900 Let's get the

02:14:01.320 Castle Club niggas 1.00

02:14:02.080 in here.

02:14:03.020 All right.

02:14:03.720 I want to see

02:14:04.280 that chat fly, baby.

02:14:21.700 I want to see

02:14:51.700 all right love you guys be back in about uh 45 minutes or so with um with hellmouth on

02:15:17.240 go over there right now guys love y'all ninjas peace

The Debrief With MyronGainesX - April 02, 2025

Scott Ritter Analyzes Russia Ukraine War And Liberation Day Tariffs!

Episode Stats

Summary

Transcript