On today's episode of Triggered, host John Rocha is joined by Kerry Lake (D-AZ) to discuss Joe Biden's upcoming press conference, the immigration debate, and the news of the week. Plus, a look at the latest in the Arizona Senate race and a look ahead to the 2020 mid-term elections. John also gives his thoughts on the recent immigration debate between Joe Biden and John McCain and why he should have been invited to the debate, as well as why he shouldn't have been allowed to sit in on the debate at all. John also takes your questions and responds to your comments in the live feed during the post-presser Q&A portion of the show, which will be hosted by John's good friend, Carrie Lake (R.I.P.Kerry Lake). Thanks to our sponsor, Public Square, for supporting the show and making it possible for us to bring you the best independent journalism in the country. Go download the Public Square App on the Apple App Store or Google Play, and go to Publicsquare.org/triggered to get a FREE copy of the latest issue of the new book, "Triggered: The Next Generation's Guide to America's Most Influential Book" by John McCain's newest novel, "The New York Times bestselling author John McCain on Amazon Prime, The New Deal: How to Win It All." John and John discuss what it means to be an American in the 21st century, and what it takes to be a true American hero. and how it's possible to live up to the standards and live out loud in the American Dreamer in a world where we all deserve to have it. in the real world. of the future, not just our own version of what we can be a hero, not only in real life, but in our own words and in real time, and how we can all of that, and not just the truth we all have the chance to be authentically authentically of what matters. . John talks to Kerry Lake, a fighter to talk about it all, and much more! and John gives us his take on what we should we can expect from Joe Biden, and John talks about it, and gives us a preview of what he's going to do in the presser, and why we should be looking forward to what's to come in 2020 and what we'll be hearing from Joe's press conference.
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00:08:58.000So, since we're going We're going to do it a little bit reverse.
00:09:04.000We're not going to do news of the day.
00:09:06.000We're going to have some fun with this.
00:09:08.000So now Joe Biden, we're told, is going to go to the podium at around 630.
00:09:13.000So I wanted to bring Kerry Lake on here, Senate candidate from Arizona, a great friend, a fighter, to preview a little bit of what we may see tonight.
00:09:24.000And with that, I'll give you Kerry Lake.
00:10:33.000I actually, I really did think, and I'm admitting this, I thought more Democrats would come over and do the right thing on this.
00:10:41.000I was shocked to find out only four did the right thing, and Ruben Gallego voted to basically let illegals come into this country and vote.
00:10:52.000The American people hate the Democrat Party's destructive dead-end policies because they've destroyed our economy, they've destroyed our national security, they've destroyed our communities, they've made our streets unsafe, they've
00:11:06.000exploded the massive chronic street homeless problem we have, they've made the fentanyl, you
00:11:12.000know, weapon of mass destruction problem even bigger than it is. Literally everything they
00:11:17.000touch turns to, I don't want to say it, but you know what I'm talking about. It's really
00:11:28.000I'm trying, I'm trying, you know, I've got kids, and we've got a cursed jar in the kitchen, and when you say a dirty word, you've got to put money in it.
00:11:36.000I haven't cursed a jacuzzi, because the jar, it overflows, so... But, no, but the reality is that, but that's the problem, like, hey, you're right, I get it, I try to be better around my kids and stuff like that, but honestly, these days, the expletives, It's almost required, because you're right.
00:13:01.000They are America last and we have to vote them out.
00:13:03.000The problem is our elections still aren't perfect and people, Don, when I'm on the campaign trail, which I am every day, all day, number one question I get is, but our elections are a mess and that's why we continue to fight.
00:13:15.000I just filed today or I'm filing today in the Arizona Supreme Court another filing to try to get Force the county of Maricopa and other election officials to just follow the law.
00:14:38.000The media has known it for a long time.
00:14:41.000The Democrat machine in the swamp has known it.
00:14:44.000And now they want to swap him out because they didn't want to go through the truly democratic process of letting people run for office on the Democrat ticket.
00:14:53.000And because they might not get somebody they can control that way, they want to just swap him out.
00:14:57.000You know, frankly, as a woman, as a mother, I'm very concerned over the next four months what our adversaries could do to us with this feeble, cognitively impaired person sitting in the White House.
00:15:26.000I mean, again, that's the nature of predation, right?
00:15:29.000You prey on the weak when they're weak, and that's what the world has been doing with Joe Biden at the helm.
00:15:35.000I guess the question is, is there ever going to be a reckoning or an accountability for all these Democrats that, no, no, no, this guy is great.
00:16:22.000Well, you can't forgive unless there's been justice.
00:16:24.000And we haven't seen justice in America for a long time.
00:16:27.000I believe right now the only thing that will keep us safe for the next four months Is the fact that world leaders and even our adversaries know that your dad and President Donald J. Trump is coming.
00:16:44.000And knowing that he's coming, that will keep us safe the next four months.
00:16:48.000I believe our adversaries know better than to do anything to hurt America.
00:16:52.000And I pray at least that that's the case, because they know that when President Trump comes into office, He's not going to go easy on people who try to hurt America.
00:17:06.000It broke my heart because, as you know, I'm from a big family of nine, eight girls and one boy, and my dad was such a huge influence on my life, a football coach, a history teacher.
00:17:17.000And he was a strong influence on our lives.
00:17:46.000But this economy just keeps getting worse and worse and worse.
00:17:48.000And I'm just worried about these families, Don, that I don't know how much longer a lot of these families can hold out before we start seeing a homeless population grow.
00:17:59.000Not with people hooked on drugs, with people who are working their butts off.
00:18:21.000But unfortunately, we have to wait four months for the election.
00:18:23.000I do want to tell the people of Arizona, we have primary ballots are in your mailbox.
00:18:28.000And even though we're way, way, way ahead, we've got to get out and vote.
00:18:32.000Let's finish this, vote in the primary, and then we'll keep our eye focused on the day we save our country, November 5th, when we vote for President Trump here in Arizona for president, Carrie Lake for U.S.
00:18:43.000Senate, and Republicans right down the line.
00:18:45.000Kerry, what do you make of Joe Biden's possible replacement, Kamala Harris?
00:18:49.000I mean, how do Arizonans view her, especially her ability as the person who was anointed to be a border czar?
00:18:57.000Doesn't seem like she did all that much, but doesn't seem like she has done all that much, frankly, throughout her career anyway.
00:19:08.000Oh, I know how she made it, but I'm not allowed to say it because they'll call me a misogynist and a sexist, but I'd say it's fairly well documented, but it's just, that's verboten for me to discuss as a conservative male, I guess.
00:19:20.000So, you know, I'll let Willie Brown do the talking on that.
00:19:23.000Listen, you know, as I said, Don, I'm from a big family, eight girls, so I love it when we see women doing great, but I also love it when we see great men doing well also.
00:19:33.000And I don't vote based on someone's gender.
00:19:36.000I don't vote based on someone's skin color.
00:20:52.000And they're absolutely horrifying when it comes to foreign policy.
00:20:55.000And that's a danger to the world, frankly.
00:20:59.000Yeah, I mean, I'll cover this later, I guess in my rundown, but there's literally a Pentagon slideshow that was shown to soldiers that said pro-life groups are terrorists.
00:21:09.000I mean, they're grouping them in there with ISIS.
00:21:12.000How concerned are you about sort of the leftist ideology in the military that's taken over, that's absolutely crushed the recruitment numbers?
00:21:21.000I'm sure it's crushed our ability to actually function.
00:21:33.000And we have some very strong, incredible people, hard-working people who love our country and the military.
00:21:39.000I look forward to after this election.
00:21:42.000Right now, they're having a hard time recruiting people.
00:21:44.000I think a lot of people, even if they're families who for decades and generations have been in the military, they don't want to serve under Joe Biden.
00:21:55.000Even though they love our country, they don't want to serve with Joe Biden as Commander-in-Chief.
00:21:59.000I predict we are going to see a surge of young, strong men who want to join the military, and a bunch of women as well, who want to join the military when President Trump gets back in office.
00:22:10.000And we will have, once again, the greatest, strongest military, not a woke military, Um, it concerns me greatly, though, because, you know, a woke military, when we're watching some of these folks at the top, these leaders at the top who are men dressed as women, I mean, that makes us the laughingstock of the world.
00:22:38.000But I predict we're gonna see a turnaround.
00:22:41.000And the beautiful thing is, these problems we have, while they are dire and horrible, and we don't have to have these problems, Joe Biden created all of them, and my opponent, Ruben Gallego, rubber-stamped it all.
00:23:11.000On Middle East oil or oil from, you know, Venezuela, for goodness sakes.
00:23:16.000We can turn the economy around, bring back Trump policies that had a strong economy, reshore businesses and manufacturing, enabling American men and women to get good jobs once again.
00:23:36.000Come January, when President Trump is sworn into office, when I'm sworn into the U.S.
00:23:40.000Senate, and a whole bunch of other great folks who are willing to step up for this moment and serve, we are going to turn this around quickly.
00:23:46.000And we are going to see our most prosperous period, I believe, in maybe our lifetimes, Dawn.
00:23:52.000I told my kids, I know you have a large family and some amazing children.
00:23:59.000And Ruby, the other day at dinner, She looked at me dead serious and she said, Mom, I did the math.
00:24:04.000Even if I work every waking hour from literally, if it was possible, the minute I wake up until the minute I go to bed, I won't be able to save enough money to afford a house in Arizona.
00:24:15.000And I thought, wow, I mean, here I have wonderfully hardworking kids and they're willing to work hard, but working from the minute you wake up until the minute you go to bed and it's still impossible to achieve the American dream.
00:24:27.000We've got to all jump in and get involved.
00:24:29.000The next four months, if you're not willing to sacrifice literally everything for this country, I don't know what it's going to take, because we're on the verge of losing the greatest nation that's ever existed on this planet.
00:24:41.000And I'm seeing it on the campaign trail.
00:24:43.000We started a bus tour just a few days ago.
00:24:55.000And we have big crowds of people saying, how can I get involved?
00:24:58.000What can I do, aside from voting, to make sure that President Trump gets in the White House, you get in the Senate, and we save our country?
00:25:16.000This country is actually so much more united than anybody understands.
00:25:20.000And once we just turn off the fake news, give them zero power, don't give them any of our attention, that's when we'll realize how united we are as a country.
00:25:29.000And we're taking our country back November 5th.
00:26:11.000I would sign up for the military if they're taking middle-aged women, if your dad was the commander-in-chief, but I think I'm a little too old to jump into the military.
00:26:19.000Hey, listen, I would much rather have you in there than, like, the trans-admiral, so you don't have to know how to hold a gun, you don't have to know anything.
00:26:26.000Basically, I don't think you need to know how to do anything militarily to still be a force to be reckoned with relative to some of the garbage that I see out there on a daily basis, so I don't think you actually have to worry about that.
00:26:39.000How about I just go serve in a role in the U.S.
00:26:42.000Senate and help make sure we get that America First agenda moved through quickly.
00:26:46.000We get all those cabinet confirmations quickly confirmed so that each and every one of them can go into those departments, shrink them down, clean house, cut out all the bureaucracy, and we get the Supreme Court and judicial picks approved, and we start turning things around.
00:28:10.000He called the border wall, which is the most effective, cheapest way to secure our border.
00:28:15.000He called it dumb and stupid and said he would never, ever, ever.
00:28:18.000Yes, he said ever three times, like a 13-year-old girl.
00:28:22.000He said he would never, ever, ever fund it.
00:28:24.000He has voted for asylum for everybody who's invaded our country and voting rights, which would forever change our nation.
00:28:32.000He's actually marched and defunded police rallies.
00:28:35.000And when our cities were burning back in 2020, when Minneapolis was on fire and hard-earned folks were watching their businesses burn to the ground and there was rioting, looting, He was actually out there saying, let's get rid of the filibuster, he said, in order to put the George Floyd legislation to pass that and bring defunding of the police nationwide.
00:28:56.000I could go on and on and on about the federal investigation of a company he worked for, for Medicare fraud, about the fact that he's voted.
00:29:03.000And because of his votes for the last two years, we watched Medicare cuts, about the fact that his secret plan is to destroy Social Security.
00:29:39.000His voting record has been disastrous for Arizona and, frankly, America.
00:29:45.000And he's against your dad's tax cuts, the Trump tax cuts, which gave us, everybody in America, more money in their pocket.
00:29:53.000He already said he's not going to vote to keep the Trump tax cuts, which would mean in January of 25, if he were to be elected, everybody would see a 20 or 30% increase in their taxes.
00:30:05.000I don't know anybody who can afford that.
00:30:09.000That's why everybody, if they love President Trump and want to get back to good America First policies, have to vote Trump and Lake in Arizona.
00:30:18.000Well, Carrie, thank you very much, as always.
00:30:21.000I think the Joe Biden press conference is just going to begin in a few minutes, so we'll go to that live when it begins.
00:30:26.000But I want to appreciate just all the work that you're putting in there.
00:30:29.000Look forward to seeing you out in Arizona in the not-too-distant future.
00:30:36.000I want you to come on out and join our bus tour, and I'm going to see you next week when we make history and watch your dad be nominated for a third time to be the greatest president we've ever had in our country.
00:30:47.000I'm looking forward to seeing you at the convention, and then we'll be back here in Arizona.
00:30:51.000If you're watching from Arizona, get those primary ballots in.
00:31:18.000You know, I speculated last week, perhaps the reason the debate went so badly.
00:31:23.000Hunter Biden has apparently been in the White House as, you know, Joe Biden's consigliere.
00:31:27.000Maybe he's been You know, getting into Biden's supply of whatever drugs they're jacking him up with.
00:31:32.000So maybe, maybe we'll see a young, vibrant and spry Joe Biden in just a couple minutes.
00:31:38.000I'm not going to count on that, but when it begins, we'll go there.
00:31:41.000In the meantime, I'm going to have the team pull up You guys pull up the uh live feed uh also in my laptop up here uh so we can get that going and I can answer your questions in the meantime while we wait because you know Joe's not often on time and if he's not quite jacked up enough or the drugs haven't kicked in yet or perhaps they wore off and they gotta
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00:34:29.000Let's say one thing that we do have to underline here just so so viewers can can follow what's going on behind the scenes is is the Biden campaign and many Democratic officials do believe that Barack Obama is is quietly working behind the scenes to orchestrate this.
00:34:53.000By the way, I'm seeing something in the feed.
00:36:19.000Never underestimate Joe's ability to F things up.
00:36:23.000Well, Biden has clearly F'd it all up.
00:36:28.000NBC News And the New York Times are now both reporting that Biden campaign aides think he has no shot of winning, and they want to convince him to drop out.
00:36:39.000Even Biden's cabinet secretaries are leaking.
00:36:42.000One of them told CNN today that they don't know what condition Joe Biden is in.
00:36:51.000Maybe Biden will drop out during the press conference, which was supposed to start about two minutes ago, but, you know, again, Who knows what they're jacking up Joe with.
00:37:00.000If Joe Biden is out, it would appear that Kamala Harris is up.
00:37:05.000I've told you about how radical she is.
00:37:08.000Here's a video that summarizes her incredibly well.
00:37:14.000Eventually, everyone would be taken off a private, the private plan that their company currently has.
00:38:13.000Just look at what's happening with our military.
00:38:15.000A recent anti-terrorism briefing at an army base labeled several pro-life organizations, including National Right to Life and Operation Rescue, as terrorist groups.
00:38:27.000I mean, just American religious groups, these are terrorists in these people's minds.
00:38:34.000I know this seems too shocking to be real, but in a statement this afternoon, this afternoon, the Army confirmed that this slideshow was used at Fort Liberty.
00:38:46.000Many of you who aren't woke and imbecilic used to call it Fort Bragg.
00:38:53.000Okay, that's the home of many special forces, some great patriots.
00:38:57.000This is the crap they are pushing there.
00:39:02.000And 198 House Democrats just voted against stopping illegal immigrants from voting in elections.
00:39:09.000They're not even pretending anymore, folks.
00:39:12.000They are so desperate for power that they will let this country get destroyed just for the illegal voters, right?
00:39:20.000You heard Carrie Lake talking about Americans not being able to get by.
00:39:25.000They're going to give your taxpayer money to these Folks who aren't here legally, who haven't contributed, but who will reliably vote for their communist policies.
00:39:39.000Our country can't win wars if our military starts to sound like an MSNBC panel, okay?
00:39:46.000And our country won't survive another four years of open borders.
00:39:51.000While Joe Biden is certainly weak as hell, and Kamala is crazy, nothing's going to change because the Democrats at the top are all this way.
00:40:00.000They believe these things are somehow working.
00:40:04.000But anyone with a brain and a pair of eyes understands that's not the case.
00:41:18.000I think we're staring at an empty podium, which is basically the same as if Joe Biden was actually on the podium, but I'm going to go to the live feed.
00:41:25.000I'm going to take some of your guys' questions.
00:41:29.000Do you have any thoughts on what's going on in Arizona?
00:42:03.000Don, how will we stop the illegals from voting and stop them from getting social security cards?
00:42:06.000Well, they're giving them to them now.
00:42:08.000You have to make people understand that there are consequences to this.
00:42:11.000Just because the Democrats pretend it's not against the law doesn't mean it's not.
00:42:15.000And I think we have to spend a lot of money making sure that people know that if they're doing these things illegally, they'll be prosecuted.
00:42:21.000Um, that's, you know, that's a reality.
00:42:24.000You heard about, you know, the, the Dropbox situation in Wisconsin last week.
00:42:29.000And, you know, hey, we got to raise a bunch more money.
00:42:31.000We got to put cameras, even hidden cameras on each and every one of these things.
00:42:35.000And when you catch them playing the games, you got to go after them.
00:42:39.000Uh, you know, we need people in Congress to follow up.
00:42:41.000We need people in the state legislators to follow up.
00:42:45.000You know, we exude weakness even from the conservative side so much, we actually have to just finally say enough is enough, put our big boy pants on, and fight the way the Democrats would.
00:43:44.000And, uh, we, we will, if we do that and everyone fights the same way they do, I think it's a no-brainer.
00:43:49.000The fact that when you think about what we're up against, right?
00:43:53.000A trillion-dollar institution that is the mainstream media, trillion dollars in big tech, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
00:44:00.000And the fact that elections are even close, it's almost impossible to believe.
00:44:06.000That tells me that we actually are winning on policy.
00:44:09.000We just have to make sure we're not afraid, we're not pushed down into corners, we don't let the suppression, the cancellation affect us anymore.
00:44:17.000We just have to fight to protect our country into the future.
00:44:24.000You gotta get out there and just vote, and you gotta make sure it's counted, and you gotta make sure people are watching, and if you understand how to do the poll watching, and you're tough enough to call out the nonsense, and you're not gonna get pushed around, get involved.
00:45:02.000I mean, okay, actually, this is an interesting one.
00:45:05.000Hey, type in the live chat, give me a number one, if you would rather run against Joe Biden, meaning to win for conservatives, or number two, if you would rather run against Kamala Harris.
00:45:17.000So would you rather be running against Joe Biden?
00:45:21.000Number one, if you're rather run against Kamala Harris, give me a two.
00:45:24.000Let's, let's see what, I'm just kind of curious where we are here.
00:47:35.000I mean, this press conference is gonna be truly special.
00:47:37.000I mean, I think this press conference is, it's actually the opportunity for, like, a journalist to, like, you can actually take out a president.
00:47:46.000If you ask a good question the right way and follow up the right way, you could actually be, like, you could actually do something in your otherwise worthless lives, uh, and careers, you know, because I'm sure it's gonna be staffed with all liberal, you know, journalists that will never do anything other than carry the water of the Democrat Party, but, like, I don't know.
00:48:04.000You could add it to your resume that you took the kill shot, like, on a president, figuratively speaking, because I know someone's gonna, you know, call Secret Service, but, like, of a presidency, and take out, you know, a moron with this answer.
00:49:02.000It's not, they're not protecting the Democrats anymore.
00:49:05.000They think they're protecting him by taking him out.
00:49:07.000So I don't know if they're going to do with the preloaded questions anymore.
00:49:10.000I don't think they're going to go for that.
00:49:11.000I think they may actually go for that sort of, you know, verbal kill shot because Because that's how they do the bidding of the Democrat Party, right?
00:49:23.000He has to still kind of ultimately decide for himself a little bit, or at least that's the way to make it easy.
00:49:29.000But I don't see the Democrats or the press doing that because It's no longer a favor to the Democrat Party.
00:49:38.000All they do is favors to the Democrat Party.
00:49:41.000They are the today's press corps, the White House press corps, you know, with the exception of maybe two or three people that occasionally get to answer questions, they are activists for the Democrat Party.
00:51:05.000And those, you know, there's a few that have gone on the record saying, Hey, I was, I was a hundred percent wrong.
00:51:09.000But in 16, don't forget, everyone was the enemy of my father and he was going to fail miserably on these things.
00:51:14.000And he was going to be the worst president on XYZ on everything.
00:51:17.000So, you know, those people who actually do a mea culpa and then spend, you know, the last four or five years truly fighting at six years and, you know, fighting back and being like, Hey, I was wrong.
00:51:37.000I have a lot less respect for the people who pretend they didn't say these things and are big buddies, but the ones who go out there and say, hey, I was wrong, here's why Trump's right, and then literally vigorously defends you, J.D.
00:51:50.000I mean, I think he's by far, you know, the best senator in the Senate pushing the issues that matters, and he can articulate it better than all of them.
00:51:58.000There's a couple of great guys there, but it's a very small number.
00:52:44.000You know, hey, once people actually saw that you were real and you say the guy from New York, you know, that everyone was like, oh, he's a Democrat, like actually wasn't and actually pushed conservative values.
00:52:54.000You know, people can change their mind and they can have a very different opinion.
00:52:57.000But eight years ago at that convention, you know, Mike and I did not get along all that well.
00:53:34.000A lot of it really depends on how long everything sits.
00:53:37.000If you get something in a place where you can get it, you know, or even get it hung fast while it's still warm, you can do it a lot faster than if you sort of have to, sort of, once it gets cold.
00:53:47.000So the skinning part, You know, that could take a little bit longer, but basic field dressing?
00:54:13.000It was like a late-season archery tag.
00:54:15.000I went out there, and I had, like, you know, Secret Service guys on me, and they were right on my butt with, like, MP5s, and I'm trying to stalk up and...
00:54:39.000Uh, you know, managed to actually tag out in a couple days, uh, on an elk.
00:54:44.000Uh, and I get to work, you know, gutting this elk.
00:54:48.000And, uh, one of the guys on the detail who became a very good friend of mine afterwards and everything and that it was, it was sort of funny, but literally saw me gutting an elk and just literally started throwing up.
00:55:00.000Guys, this is gonna be a long detail for you if you can't handle this one.
00:55:03.000So I was like, by the way, what happens if I get shot?
00:55:07.000And if you can't handle the elk guts, what happens if, like, you gotta handle me getting shot?
00:55:10.000And I was, according to those guys, I was the number two most threatened guy in the government at the time or, you know, shortly thereafter.
00:55:16.000So, you know, figured could have been a decent chance to that.
00:55:20.000So that was just, I don't know, random sort of funny elk gutting story while we wait.
00:55:26.000Any other random thoughts while we're at it?
00:55:28.000Uh, gun questions, fishing questions, political questions.
00:55:41.000The triceratops hoax was pretty funny.
00:55:44.000Yeah, was that Crowder or one of the guys?
00:55:47.000They went around like California and they basically showed a picture of me with a literal dinosaur and a gun, posing over it like you'd maybe sit with like, you know, a deer you just shot.
00:55:56.000and literally libs were going crazy that I helped exterminate and make extinct a dinosaur,
00:56:07.000like an actual dinosaur that a triceratops, like it's not like you could mix it up with like,
00:56:11.000I don't know, a rhino or something, it was a triceratops, it was very clear.
00:56:15.000It was like they screenshot one of the things from Jurassic Park, put me in there,
00:56:54.000I like some of the stuff he's done as it relates to tech.
00:56:58.000I don't know that he's in the running.
00:57:01.000Someone may have talked about it a couple of times, but that's never really been Um, you know, one of the top, uh, contenders.
00:57:08.000So, you know, again, you know, a good guy, a young guy, probably has a great future.
00:57:14.000You know, not, it's not really part of this VP conversation.
00:57:18.000I don't know that it really has been, uh, too much.
00:57:20.000Again, everyone, everyone has their comms team sort of leaked certain things like it's like it's real or whatever it may be, but I don't know that that's ever really been, uh, you know, one of the, let's call it top 10 kind of contenders.
00:57:33.000Trump and sons, only ones DJT can trust.
00:57:36.000Well, I appreciate that, but yeah, like I said, probably not going to happen.
00:57:39.000We have a residency issue, uh, you know, amongst other things.
00:57:43.000I think, you know, I think if it was me, I think it makes my father, you know, the, the Democrats would work very well to make sure he stays nice and healthy.
00:57:53.000Uh, so I don't ever get it because they probably like me even less.
00:58:04.000That's not a surprise, but a lot of times I'll hunt because I actually enjoy just hunting as well.
00:58:09.000I'll pay to have stuff processed where it is and give it to hunters feeding the homeless and charities like that.
00:58:17.000I'll take what me and my family can eat.
00:58:19.000I usually probably hunt more than what we can eat because I actually just enjoy hunting and that's okay.
00:58:25.000Uh, but everything always gets eaten and so I'll spend a lot of time, uh, actually donating to those causes and donating it to, you know, the various homeless shelters that'll take, uh, you know, processed elk or venison.
00:58:36.000Uh, but yeah, we, I have a whole trunk freezer full of it.
00:59:52.000We got a convention, you know, so I wanted to make sure we get through some of this stuff, and I'll get back to locals, you know, next week, and we'll be doing a bunch of that.
01:00:02.000Make sure all of those people, and I see some of the people and locals just, I just get familiar with the handles there because that's a much smaller group.
01:00:08.000I probably, I think I get that pretty much everyone's question when I do, you know, 15-20 minutes, half hour there.
01:00:13.000I think I probably get to everyone there.
01:00:14.000So if you're on locals, you know, that's a good way to get me.
01:00:17.000Because like I said, I literally, I'm scrolling and I guess there's hundreds of posts and, you know, just trying to scroll down and keep up.
01:00:25.000But that's definitely a place, you know, where if you have specific questions or longer ones where it's a little bit easier to read on the fly, you know, I definitely get to.
01:00:55.000I mean, you know, I guess you get involved at a certain level, and I guess maybe it comes up a bit.
01:01:03.000I guess in last year, before, you know, sort of everyone formally announced, I know there was a lot of polling that sort of had me You know had me in the top three almost irrespective even with my father in that I was still top three In a lot of sort of the credible sort of national polls, so I guess I guess I've done okay At least certainly with the base, but it was sort of you know my father Is a clear front-runner and then sort of me and DeSantis as like the next two and sort of we flip back and forth and without my father
01:01:34.000Uh, you know, I captured a lot of that, and, you know, I was either first or second there for quite some time, and then when everyone made it official, it started spending a lot of money, and they stopped putting me in the polling.
01:01:43.000Many of the people didn't love that I was in the polling.
01:01:45.000I guess I was the only person that never sort of had or never announced any sort of political aspirations, um, in there.
01:01:54.000And, uh, you know, so that was sort of unusual.
01:01:56.000Everyone else generally was a sitting senator or someone that had... So, you know, I did pretty well on my own, so I guess...
01:02:03.000I'd never thought about it, but other people had thought about it for me, apparently.
01:02:07.000So, you know, I guess I'll just take that as one of the great compliments I could imagine.
01:02:13.000Because if, you know, great conservative patriots actually thought that, or even thought to put me in the conversation, I consider that just, you know, it's an honor and a true compliment.
01:02:51.000The Yukon, I actually have a hunting operation up at the Yukon I'm a partner in, so spent even more time on sort of the Canada side, you know, hunting over there.
01:03:03.000I mean, that's sort of my favorite place in the world.
01:03:06.000Sheep hunting in that crazy terrain and just that great vastness, you know, that's the ultimate for me in terms of hunting because it's, you know, it's not like It's not like the Texas sort of sit over a feeder kind of thing.
01:03:18.000You can hike for days and not even see an animal.
01:03:20.000As wild and as vast as it is, it's just really rough terrain and rough country.
01:03:25.000It doesn't even hold that much animals because of just how rugged it is and how rough the winters are.
01:03:32.000But that's the ultimate because half of it, it's not just even hunting.
01:06:42.000Like I said, I'd still say, you know, I'd still say, even with all of this stuff, because of that, it's 50-50, but that's why we have to get in the game.
01:06:59.000Where's the best snorkeling in Florida?
01:07:02.000Honestly, I don't do a lot of snorkeling.
01:07:03.000I've done some free diving, used to do a lot of scuba diving, but deeper stuff.
01:07:07.000So where I live is actually a great reef, you know, that whole area around.
01:07:11.000I'm in Jupiter, but a little south of us in Palm Beach, some of the best sort of like natural reef structure in sort of the lower 48 before you get to the island.
01:07:20.000So there's actually some really good scuba diving around here.
01:07:23.000You know, my kids are certified to do a lot of that.
01:07:26.000Not as much great sort of shallow stuff around here.
01:07:29.000That's probably, you know, that's a lot better in the Bahamas.
01:07:32.000There's some stuff probably in the Keys.
01:07:56.000I guess she cut her foot on some glass.
01:08:00.000Alina, she cut her foot on some glass.
01:08:03.000Hey, everything's gram-worthy these days, so it ended up on Instagram, and I, you know, I commented.
01:08:07.000I was like, hey, these screenshots are going big on, like, you know, some, you know, adult foot fetish websites or whatever it is, and then everyone's like, ah, you're flirting!
01:09:51.000I'd go to Africa and just literally, you know, with like some buddies that were South African that, you know, live there and, uh, you know, lived out of the back of a truck for six weeks, like in the African back country, did that a couple of times.
01:10:02.000Like, so yeah, no, I, I really like, uh, all of that, uh, outdoor stuff.
01:10:07.000I just, I was more familiar with Colorado.
01:10:08.000I went there a lot growing up, but like Idaho, all those places, you know, Idaho, Montana, probably better, especially because of the political views that didn't matter as much 20 years ago.
01:10:18.000Um, You know, I was out in Colorado with my daughter.
01:10:23.000We do, like, a daddy-daughter ski trip every year, and this was out back, I guess, it was in March, and, like, I was in Aspen, like, a ski town, because we're going on a ski trip, so it was a little different, and, you know, bringing your daughter, and, you know, nice food.
01:10:34.000We're not gonna sleep in the back of a truck or anything like that.
01:10:36.000We're gonna try to do it nice for her, and, uh, I was amazed, like, even the place, like, super liberal Aspen, uh, the amount of people, like, screaming, like, across, like, Maga, you gotta win this thing!
01:10:48.000It was, uh, It was a pretty amazing in a town that I was like that I thought when like full libtard It was sort of telling us it was one of those places like you go.
01:11:00.000It's almost like you know in New York City like if you go If you go into those places, you realize, wait a minute, it's not as bad as I thought.
01:11:09.000All of the restaurant owners and the waiters and the staff that understand what it's like to work for a living, just super supportive.
01:11:16.000I was like, I'm not sure I'll be able to get a dinner reservation or not even a little bit.
01:13:09.000And like, that's the thing with Joe Biden, like every minute that's later is like, That's like exponential.
01:13:17.000You know, we're now way past bedtime, right?
01:13:20.000We're over three hours past when his own staff said he's able to function reasonably well.
01:13:26.000You saw that one last week, you know, between the hours of 10 and 4.
01:13:29.000I just truly hope our enemies weren't watching that so they don't decide to, like, hit us during happy hour at 5 because, you know, Joe Biden will be out.
01:14:50.000Yeah, that's like, yeah, there's Ratchet, but that's Jill Biden right now, and Hunter's running the show, so that's an interesting... Is he late because they're changing his depends?
01:16:21.000It's close to his bedtime with every passing minute.
01:16:24.000Had to get the Parkinson's doctor over for a last-minute cognitive test.
01:16:28.000No, they're not gonna do the cognitive test because his doctor is actually, as we discussed on Monday, his doctor is actually a business partner with the Bidens.
01:16:38.000Now, the Bidens have no actual businesses that aren't tied to, you know, selling access to Joe and to government.
01:16:48.000Like, it's all influence peddling, right?
01:16:50.000So, you think the doctor's gonna say, this guy can't Isn't fit?
01:17:45.000Honestly, sometimes this is actually easier than doing a regular show and sort of prepping and clipping clips and like, actually, like, this is easy.
01:18:47.000So I was going in, you know, these stores that was probably not.
01:18:50.000And again, I was amazed at sort of, uh, I was amazed at, uh, what was going on.
01:18:56.000What was sort of funny was though, the second she did actually dress me and I wasn't wearing like my normal, like jeans and a flannel shirt.
01:19:02.000And I was dressed again, not, not even fancy, but like, uh, Yeah, a lot of the, the, let's call it the, you know, my age women around Aspen started literally just flagrantly hitting on me in front of my daughter.
01:19:16.000She was laughing her butt off about that.
01:19:19.000I, this is not, I don't need that headache.
01:19:21.000But, but it was sort of funny that the second I dressed perhaps a little bit more appropriately or dressed the way A woman would want me to dress as opposed to the way I usually dress.
01:19:40.000It's a true story and it was kind of funny and I'm pretty sure I told her that but my daughter had a lot of laughs about that one because it was candidly pretty darn funny.
01:19:50.000Um, it was really, like, embarrassing.
01:19:52.000I'm sitting there, like, walking around with my daughter and, like, just getting, like, stopped and, like, hit on.
01:21:17.000Would you run for president in 28 again?
01:21:19.000I answered that earlier, so you guys can check on my response to that so I don't repeat myself to those who were paying attention or who have been tuned in for an hour and 15 minutes now.
01:21:30.000Are we getting any news or anything even on Twitter?
01:21:38.000Do you guys want me to stay on for that long and comment for another... Okay.
01:21:46.000Do you want me to stay on and forego dinner?
01:21:49.000It's not that my fat ass couldn't lose a couple of pounds, so I don't necessarily know if I mind missing dinner, but he's gonna be an hour late.
01:23:01.000It's interesting, when I stay on long, and it's sort of unusual, I was actually talking to the guys at Rumble, they were like, you're one of the few guys that sort of, you know, most people get a thing and then you lose people.
01:23:51.000I love, you know, but like, you know, there's days where I could start at, like, 6 a.m., whether it's doing TV or whatever it may be or international calls or whatever it is, and it's like, you get to, like, 8, 9 p.m., and it's like, I'm not Joe Biden, I'm confident, I'm clear, but like, you don't necessarily have the energy to, you know, after, let's call it a 12 hour day, to then get on and entertain for two hours.
01:25:37.000See, that's gonna be one of those where I'm gonna get up at 6 a.m.
01:25:39.000I'm gonna be doing press and I gotta speak to like, you know, millions of people watching on TV live and bang out like a more serious speech.
01:25:46.000So that's when it can be one of those days.
01:25:48.000So you guys can tell me if I fail miserably or not.
01:25:51.000But like, you know, to do that a couple times a week can be rough.
01:26:05.000I think they just play it over, but I think I'm supposed to host War Room one day next week, by the way.
01:26:12.000Obviously, they put Steve Bannon in prison for four months because they're sociopaths that will jail their political opponents, but we'll see.
01:26:27.000Someone... I don't know, this guy's an idiot, but apparently I'm not America first according to Ejack H. Truly, that would be a first.
01:26:38.000That would be a first that I've heard that.
01:26:54.000I sort of have a really, really eclectic sort of music taste, a little bit of everything, probably diverge more towards classic rock, although these days it's probably more alt rock, which is basically like 90s alt rock is like becoming classic rock.
01:27:05.000And there's some guys sort of starting new stuff with that.
01:27:08.000I'd probably say favorite of all time is probably, you know, honestly, it's probably Pink Floyd.
01:27:14.000And I have a funny story about that one.
01:27:16.000So my brother and I share almost like identical music tastes, Eric.
01:27:21.000I guess Pink Floyd was doing this like tour or whatever and I'd seen him a bunch of times or whatever, but he goes like a couple years ago, I think when my father was president, he goes to the concert and he tweets about it and he's like, I have Pink Floyd and I guess one of the band members, not like a real like original band member, but like one of the guys they got to fill in for something or whatever it is.
01:27:38.000So like, you know, kind of fake Pink Floyd band member, I guess saw it and replied back like, wish you weren't here.
01:27:46.000To my brother Eric, and I was like, you know what?
01:27:53.000So I try not to get too involved in a lot of like, you know, the bands or whatever that I loved, you know, into their politics because, you know, you just don't want that getting in the way of like, I can still appreciate good music, but...
01:28:14.000Like, you know, seems like anti-Semite.
01:28:17.000So I don't appreciate his political views at all.
01:28:20.000I think he's probably bordering on sociopathic, but he's a talented musician.
01:28:25.000And so that's still, it's up there, but you know, there, there's so many that I like, but again, with, with eclectic taste, but you know, that, that of all time, that could be it.
01:29:09.000You give someone 20 strokes, they should take it.
01:29:11.000If Joe Biden's a 6, and he's getting 20 strokes, and even if you assume my father at 76 is a scratch, that means you're giving him 14 strokes on what would otherwise be a net game?
01:30:29.000Many have said, this is not me because I would never say something like this, but many have said they are one and the same, but I would never say something like that because it's totally, it's totally inappropriate.
01:30:38.000$1,000,000 to Hunter's charity, yeah, exactly.
01:30:41.000I bet you I could get my dad to be like, if Joe Biden says yes, 20 strokes, 10 a side, $1,000,000 just to Hunter Biden, because that's what the Biden family does, I can make that happen if Joe says yes.
01:31:03.000You know, whether it's a pedo ring or otherwise, like it's all, these people are insane and they just don't live in the real world, they don't understand it.
01:31:09.000And I get where I come from guys, so I'm not pretending that I haven't been anything but blessed, but man, they don't understand it even a little bit, you know?
01:31:17.000These guys, you know, they see themselves and they think they're brilliant and they're this and they give themselves awards and they keep feeding that ego that it's just, it's pretty sad.
01:31:29.000De Niro was a good actor once yeah, he was a great actor once like I and by the way
01:31:33.000That's the thing when he does all this things like hey did the Trumps were like just so we're clear like I said
01:31:37.000There's a couple weeks ago like Robert De Niro's son literally introduced me to my wife like the mother of my
01:31:42.000five children like It's not like we didn't know each other like it's so it's
01:31:47.000it's sort of funny But you know hey if you're a liberal and they put you on TV
01:31:52.000I guess you disavow and pretend that none of these things happen. That's okay
01:31:55.000That's honestly that was the nice thing about politics people like isn't that terrible. I know it's cathartic
01:32:00.000It's so nice like you know if you have people that are like fake friends, or they could
01:32:05.000Like I've ever been quiet about like what I believe in and all these things like everyone knows and everyone knew
01:32:11.000But like it when those people are like they disavow it It's nice.
01:32:14.000You said you start with a clean slate You know you get rid of all the nonsense and it's like that's that lunch that you don't have to have a Couple times a year or you know once a year with the friend that you don't really care about it It's you know it's like Facebook, right?
01:32:28.000It's like Great for keeping in touch with people you don't really want to keep in touch with.
01:34:42.000I warned the world that the invasion was imminent.
01:34:43.000reading prepared remarks so maybe that's the best we're gonna get. Hopefully he'll
01:34:45.000ask them. I warned the world that the invasion was imminent.
01:34:49.000Someone may have been right. This could rally the coalition of 15 nations
01:34:53.000from Europe to Asia to help Ukraine defend itself. My foreign policy, many foreign
01:34:58.000policy experts thought as Putin amassed Russian forces just 100 miles north of Kiev.
01:35:04.000Do you think they have pre-rigged questions and maybe the teleprompter so they can put the answers into the teleprompter for those questions?
01:35:11.000And that's why they're doing the kind of intro because otherwise you wouldn't have this in a press conference necessarily.
01:35:15.000With Ukrainian people backed by a coalition to help build, stop them.
01:35:24.000And NATO stands stronger than it has ever been.
01:35:28.000During the week of this summit, several heads of state made it a point in their statements to thank the United States, and to thank me personally, for all that NATO has achieved.
01:35:40.000NATO is not only stronger, NATO is bigger, because we led the charge to bring in Finland and Sweden into the alliance.
01:36:18.000Somebody forgot that, but that's exactly what he said.
01:36:20.000Don't forget, Joe Biden and his people gave Vladimir Putin every excuse he needed to invade Ukraine by offering to bring him into NATO and all of these nonsense.
01:36:29.000That was always the red line, but no one's going to ask that question tonight.
01:36:32.000I remind all Americans, Article 5 has been revoked only once in NATO's long history, and that was to defend America after 9-11.
01:36:42.000I made it clear that I will not bow down to Putin.
01:38:55.000Second, our efforts to secure the border, southern border, is working.
01:39:00.000After Trump killed the bipartisan effort to secure the border, Republicans and Democrats had worked on, because he thought it would benefit me and make him a loser, Republicans walked away.
01:39:14.000So I took executive action last month.
01:39:17.000As a consequence, working with Mexico, border encounters have gone down over 50 percent.
01:39:56.000They take, you know... Gas prices came down because they dropped one cent.
01:39:59.000They're still $4, but, you know, there wasn't the $1.89 when Trump left, but it came down since, you know, we last measured, and therefore we've lowered them.
01:40:06.000They take, you know, gas prices came down because they dropped one cent.
01:40:10.000They're still $4, but you know, there wasn't a $1.89 when Trump left, but it came down
01:40:14.000since we last measured, and therefore we've lowered them.
01:43:22.000I wanted to ask you about your mixed-up President Zelensky and Putin earlier today.
01:43:33.000And you now have sort of your key allies including the British Prime Minister, the President of France and the German Chancellor having to step in and make excuses for you on that.
01:43:42.000Officials here are saying off the record that your decline has become noticeable.
01:43:46.000Hasn't this now frankly become damaging for America's standing in the world?
01:43:58.000And the Putin piece, I was talking about Putin, and I said, and now, at the very end, I said, here, I mean, Putin, I said, no, I'm sorry, Zelensky.
01:44:11.000Look, guys, the idea, anybody suggests that we haven't had an incredibly successful conference.
01:44:23.000How many times did you hear in that conference?
01:44:27.000I know it sounds too self-serving, but other leaders, heads of state, in thanking me, saying the reason we're together is because of Biden, because Biden did the following.
01:44:39.000Look, folks, this is a. Well, anyway, I here we go.
01:44:45.000A successful conference I've attended a long time and find me a world leader who didn't think it was Next one.
01:45:00.000You mentioned other instances in history where presidents have faced a challenge.
01:45:05.000But what makes this moment in history so unique is that it is not your enemies who are calling on you to reconsider your decision to stay in the race.
01:45:13.000It's your friends, supporters, people who think you've done a great job over the past four years.
01:45:19.000Have you spent time thinking about what it would mean for your legacy, which you've worked decades to build, if you stay in the race Despite the concerns that voters say they have, and you lose to someone who you yourself have argued is unfit to return to the Oval Office.
01:45:36.000Look, Joe's own DOJ says he's unfit to stand trial for his crimes.
01:48:14.000And we talk about how, for example, when I went, remember when we talked about getting the computer chip industry back in the United States?
01:48:26.00040% of the industry was in the United States.
01:48:30.000And former presidents decided that the best way to do it was to find the cheapest labor in the world, send the product over there, and import what the product was.
01:52:06.000Some of them with thousands of people showing up.
01:52:10.000And so, I just think it's better... I always have an inclination, whether I was playing sports or doing politics, just to keep going, not stop.
01:52:22.000I just gotta pace myself a little more.
01:53:03.000First, on the NATO summit, President Zelensky, in your meeting with him, he pressed you to lift your limitations on the Ukrainian use of American weapons, saying that, in his public remarks afterwards, saying that Ukraine cannot win the war unless those limitations are lifted.
01:53:19.000Are you reconsidering your position on that?
01:53:21.000And then secondly, following up on Felicia's question there, leaders of your own party have said First thing about Zelensky asking for the ability to shrink deep into Russia.
01:53:29.000they're worried about the next bad night and the bad night after that. How can you reassure
01:53:34.000the American people that you are up to the task and that there won't be more bad nights
01:54:23.000I've gotten a more long-range capacity, as well as defensive capacity.
01:54:30.000And so, our military is where I'm following the advice of my Commander-in-Chief, the Chief of Staff of the military, as well as the Secretary of Defense and our intelligence people.
01:54:44.000And we're making a day-to-day basis on what they should and shouldn't do, how far they should go in.
01:54:55.000How can you reassure the American people that you won't have more bad nights, whether they be on a debate stage or it's a matter of foreign policy?
01:56:11.000Many people in Poland and across Europe are worried that the former president may win the election.
01:56:19.000And there's a lot of concerns that Donald Trump may weaken NATO, stop supporting Ukraine, or push Ukraine to give up territories to Russia.
01:57:32.000I mean, I think he said in one of his rallies, don't hold me to this, recently, where NATO, I just learned about NATO or something to that effect.
01:57:42.000Foreign policy has never been his strong point.
01:57:45.000And he seems to have an affinity to people who are authoritarian.
01:59:20.000I mean, I was thinking, like, debate-level disaster.
01:59:24.000I mean, it's clear, you know, he's calling on people.
01:59:25.000I think he probably knows what the question is beforehand.
01:59:27.000They've kept it different enough that it's, you know, given what's going on in the world, I figured there'd be a lot more of the similar questions.
01:59:33.000So, you know, it's definitely staged a little bit.
01:59:37.000You know, it's gonna be harder for them just to say, to get him out.
01:59:40.000He's slow and lying, but, you know, it's okay.
02:00:11.000And by the way, I was able to get 50 other nations, 55-0, to support Ukraine. 50.
02:00:20.000We're able to bring about a coalition between, of Europe and Asia, Japan and South Korea.
02:00:28.000I just met with, we talked about AUKUS, and we talked about the relationship between Australia, New Zealand, Japan, South Korea, the United States.
02:00:41.000We're making the world safer and stronger, because we have to deal with a new arrangement that exists in the world.
02:01:15.000Mr. President, The NATO declaration that was issued yesterday was very notable because it described China as a decisive enabler of the war in Ukraine for its provision of critical goods to the Russians.
02:01:33.000That's part of a broader partnership that seems to have cemented in place in the past two or three years.
02:01:41.000I think one that you were a little bit doubtful of when we asked you about it some time ago.
02:01:46.000So I'd be interested to know whether you have a strategy now of trying to interrupt the partnership between China and Russia, and whether or not, in a second term, you would pursue that, if you could describe that strategy to us.
02:02:02.000And along the way, could you also tell us whether you think, just to follow up on Felicia's question, That if you were in a room with Vladimir Putin again the way you were three years ago, or with President Xi, that a few years from now you will be able to go negotiate with them, handle them one-on-one.
02:02:23.000Hey guys, who do you think Vladimir Putin would rather be in a room with?
02:02:30.000Number one for Joe Biden, number two for Donald Trump.
02:02:35.000Would Vladimir Putin rather negotiate with Joe Biden, one, or rather negotiate with Trump, two?
02:02:42.000Vladimir Putin is going to eat Joe Biden's lunch in about three seconds.
02:02:46.000They're not supplying weapons themselves.
02:02:48.000They're supplying mechanisms for them to be able to get weapons.
02:02:52.000And China's position is basically, and I've spent more time with Xi Jinping than any world leader has, Over 90 hours since being vice president all the way through.
02:03:02.000Yeah, if Putin respects Trump, they can get a deal done.
02:03:06.000Although he'd probably want to negotiate against Biden just because you'll get whatever he wants and Biden will probably desperately try to do anything.
02:03:19.000They want Putin to get to the table now because they don't want to do it under Trump because they realize The money stops then.
02:03:26.000...commitments from Europe to do A, B, C, or D, or not to do certain things.
02:03:32.000What's happened is we had a long discussion about what we cannot, we have to make clear China has to understand that if they are supplying Russia with information and capacity, along with working with North Korea and others to help Russia in armament, That they're not going to benefit economically as a consequence of that, by getting the kind of investment they're looking for.
02:04:02.000And so, for example, we're in a situation where, and we've re-established direct contact with China, after that, remember the balloon, quote-unquote, going down, and all of a sudden things came to an end?
02:04:19.000There's a direct line between Xi and me, And our military has direct access to one another and they contact one another when we have problems.
02:04:29.000The issue is that we have to make sure that she understands there's a price to pay for undercutting both the Pacific Basin as well as Europe and it relates to Russia and dealing with Ukraine.
02:04:51.000And so, we, for example, if you want to invest in China, as you know, you know this area really well.
02:05:00.000If you want to invest in China, you have to have a 51% Chinese owner, you have to make sure that you do by their rules, and you can't, you don't have the authority, and you have to provide all access to all the data and information you have.
02:05:15.000There was a while there, as you recall, in the last administration and other administrations, where the access to that market was enticing enough to get companies to come in because they had access to over a billion people in the market.
02:05:31.000Not a billion, but a lot of people in the market.
02:06:06.000It is a concern that you have both China, North Korea, Russia, Iran, countries that are not necessarily coordinated in the past, looking to figure out how they can have impact.
02:06:24.000Do you have a strategy to interrupt that impact?
02:06:28.000Yes, I do, but I'm not prepared to talk about the detail of it in public.
02:06:36.000And I think you'll see that some of our European friends Are going to be curtailing their investment in Russia.
02:07:26.000We need a new industrial policy in the West.
02:07:30.000For example, we talked about how both the EU as well as NATO Hey guys, if you're new on here, make sure you're liking, sharing, and subscribing as well, okay?
02:08:07.000systems and so 18,000 people watching this was we're gonna be meeting thousand
02:08:12.000like my colleagues my European colleagues is what do we do to increase
02:08:17.000the capacity if we get those likes up a lot I'll stay on afterwards and keep
02:08:22.000talking but otherwise I'm going to get dinner after this disaster ability to
02:08:27.000produce their own weapon systems not just for themselves but to be able to
02:08:31.000generate that that's right now he's just going to sort of the the road talking
02:08:39.000points it doesn't really have actually all that much to do with the question
02:08:41.000but it's a fallback kind of spot is going to become the industrial base for
02:08:46.000the ability to have all the defensive weapons that we need that was a
02:08:52.000discussion as well I'm not sure you answered on whether you would be ready to...
02:08:58.000To go deal with Putin and Xi two or three years from now?
02:09:02.000I'm ready to deal with them now and three years from now.
02:09:05.000Look, um, the, uh... Yeah, he likes, you know, got a couple, like 400 more likes or 200 more likes, but you guys are killing me.
02:09:13.000I'm dealing with Xi right now and direct contact with him.
02:09:19.000I have no good reason to talk to Putin right now.
02:09:23.000There's not much that, uh, He is prepared to do in terms of accommodating any change in his behavior.
02:09:33.000But there isn't any world leader I'm not prepared to deal with.
02:09:36.000He was willing to sit at the table like a year and a half ago, but you guys didn't want to do it because you wanted to make more money peddling death.
02:09:42.000I'm not ready to talk to Putin unless Putin's ready to change his behavior.
02:09:48.000And the idea, look, Putin's got a problem.
02:09:55.000First of all, in this war that he is supposedly won, and by the way, I think, don't hold me to that number, I think that in Russia had 70% of the country was taken out, and now it's 74%.
02:10:05.000starts getting russian you know fumbly and forgets where he is it's always look
02:10:08.000look you can you can hear when you start saying that more now it's wearing off
02:10:12.000or I mean in terms of percentage of territory they've not been very
02:10:17.000successful They've caused horrible damage and loss of life.
02:10:22.000But they've also lost over 350,000 troops, military, killed or wounded.
02:10:30.000They've over a million people, particularly young people with technical capability, leaving Russia because they see no future there.
02:10:40.000But what they do have control of is they are very good at controlling and running the public outcry that relates to how they use mechanisms to communicate with people.
02:10:53.000They lie like hell to the constituencies.
02:10:55.000They lie like hell about what's going on.
02:10:59.000And so the idea that we're going to be able to fundamentally change Russia in the near term is not likely, but one thing for certain.
02:11:17.000If you guys are watching and not following me, make sure you're following so that you can get notifications when I go live next week, especially with the convention.
02:11:25.000I'm going to be doing a lot of random stuff live.
02:11:27.000Try to sit down with the VP and all this.
02:12:05.000We have strengthened the Asian Pacific area more than anyone else has.
02:12:11.000We, you know, we just put together with, today we had, I brought on, I asked our NATO allies that we bring on the group from the South Pacific, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Australia.
02:13:01.000Earlier you spoke about the ceasefire plan between Israel and Hamas.
02:13:06.000We're now looking at 10 months of war and I'm curious if there's anything that you feel personally you wish you would have done differently over the course of the war.
02:13:15.000And secondly, if I may, I wanted to ask you about your presidential campaign.
02:13:19.000I remember covering your campaign in 2020, and there was a moment where you referred to yourself as a, quote, bridge candidacy, a transition to a younger generation of leaders.
02:13:33.000Yes, take someone who served in Congress for 50 years to transition to a generation of younger leaders.
02:13:38.000Well, you talked about what I've seen happening with Israel and the Palestinians and the Palestinian movement.
02:13:46.000The answer is, as you recall, from the very beginning, I immediately... I went to Israel, but I also got immediate contact with Al-Sisi in Egypt.
02:13:57.000I met with... I met with most of the Arab leaders to try to get a consensus going as to what had to be done to deal with getting more aid and food and medicine into the Gaza Strip.
02:14:44.000But this war cabinet is one of the most conservative war cabinets in the history of Israel.
02:14:53.000And there's no ultimate answer other than a two-state solution here.
02:14:56.000And so what was able to be done, in terms of the plan I put together, was it would be a process for a two-state solution.
02:15:05.000And we get the Arab nations to, particularly from Egypt to all the way to Saudi Arabia, to be in a position where they would cooperate in the transition so that they could keep the peace in Gaza without Israeli forces staying in Gaza.
02:15:22.000The question has been from the beginning, what's the day after in Gaza?
02:15:26.000And the day after in Gaza has to be, the end of the day after has to be no occupation by Israel on the Gaza Strip.
02:15:36.000As well as the ability for us to access, get in and out as rapidly as you can, all that's needed there.
02:15:45.000I've been disappointed that some of the things that I've put forward have not succeeded as well.
02:15:52.000I want the press to ask how many times Joe takes a nap a week.
02:15:55.000But that's why when I went to Israel immediately after the massacres that occurred at the hands of Hamas, The one thing I said to the Israelis, and I met with the War Cabinet and with Bibi, don't make the same mistake America made after Bin Laden.
02:19:00.000And I think, I won't put words in anybody's mouth, most presidential historians give me credit
02:19:09.000for having accomplished more than most any president since Johnson and maybe before that,
02:19:15.000to get major pieces of legislation passed.
02:19:18.000And what I realized was, my long time in the Senate had equipped me to have the wisdom to know how to deal with the Congress, to get things done.
02:19:30.000We got more major legislation passed that no one thought would happen.
02:20:31.000Are you thinking that way about how the next two weeks go?
02:20:34.000Will that affect your decision or are you fully determined on running I'm determined on running, but I think it's important that I lay fears by letting them see me out there.
02:20:49.000For the longest time, it was, you know, Biden's not prepared to sit with us unscripted.
02:20:57.000Biden's not prepared to, you know, anyway.
02:21:00.000And so what I'm doing is, and I've been doing, I think we've done over 20 major events from Wisconsin to North Carolina to, anyway, to demonstrate that I'm going out in the areas where we think we can win, where we can persuade people to move our way, where people are already there.
02:21:19.000And look, the other thing is, we have the most extensive campaign organization that anybody's had in a long, long time.
02:21:28.000We have well over a thousand volunteers knocking on doors, making phone calls, making tens of thousands of phone calls.
02:25:31.000But the fact of the matter is, I don't think you have them telling you that all the major ideas we've undertaken haven't been in part initiated by me.
02:25:40.000I remember with the staff, I said, I'm going to go to South Korea, we're going to get the chip.
02:25:46.000I'm going to get Japan and Korea back together again after not essentially having hostilities toward one another since the end of World War two I'm gonna move and see that we can expand it, you know The only thing age does Is help you with it creates a little bit of wisdom if you pay attention Anyway, and so the point I'm making is I think it's important that I if
02:26:18.000If the neurologist tells me he thinks I need another exam, and by the way, I've laid every bit of the record out.
02:30:33.000If your team came back and showed you data that she would fare better against former President Donald Trump, would you reconsider your decision to stay in the race?
02:30:43.000No, unless they came back and said, there's no way you can win.
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02:32:32.000Rudy says Biden isn't fit to be president.
02:32:33.000Well, I don't think anyone necessarily thinks he's fit to be president, but I'm happy to run against him.
02:32:37.000So I think he, I think he did fine enough to, to be able to stay in it.
02:32:41.000He doesn't want to go, or Jill doesn't want to go, or Hunter needs the pardon, or whatever it is, they got to drag it out as long as possible.
02:36:01.000We may do a couple of random ones in there.
02:36:03.000So just wanted to make sure you guys are aware of that and that you don't miss any of it because, you know, let's just say I'll probably have some pretty good access.
02:36:11.000So with that, I'm going to go eat dinner because I'm freaking starving.