Verdict with Ted Cruz - Putin Makes His Move

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00:04:14.300 Welcome back to Verdict with Ted Cruz.

00:04:16.100 I am Michael Knowles.

00:04:17.800 Senator, we often joke and say,

00:04:20.260 I hate to say I told you so,

00:04:21.280 and then we talk about things

00:04:22.100 that we predicted on this show

00:04:23.400 for weeks and weeks and months and months.

00:04:25.120 I think this would be an example

00:04:26.840 of actually hating to say we told you so.

00:04:30.460 You have been on this issue of Russia's aggression,

00:04:33.580 specifically with regard to Ukraine,

00:04:35.520 specifically with regard to the issue,

00:04:37.080 for instance, of Nord Stream 2 for months,

00:04:39.560 really for years at this point.

00:04:41.520 And things are playing out

00:04:42.940 basically exactly as you said they would.

00:04:46.280 Well, tragically, that's right.

00:04:47.980 I mean, we are at the outset of war in Europe.

00:04:51.540 You know, a couple of weeks ago,

00:04:52.500 we had a classified briefing

00:04:53.760 with the Secretary of State.

00:04:55.120 Secretary of Defense

00:04:56.040 and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs,

00:04:58.040 where in the judgment of our military,

00:05:00.660 Europe is in the most perilous situation

00:05:02.480 since 1945.

00:05:04.680 It is, we are facing,

00:05:08.380 the Russian Duma has authorized Putin

00:05:11.960 to invade Ukraine.

00:05:13.880 Ukraine is, Putin in turn, 0.94

00:05:16.040 has given the order to invade Ukraine.

00:05:18.060 And there's a cause and effect.

00:05:20.840 The direct cause of war in Europe is Joe Biden

00:05:25.520 and Joe Biden's weakness twofold.

00:05:28.560 Number one, Afghanistan. 0.99

00:05:30.040 And we've talked on this pod a lot

00:05:32.180 about the disaster that was the Afghan retreat,

00:05:36.420 the Afghan surrender,

00:05:37.700 surrendering Afghanistan to the Taliban,

00:05:39.780 leaving Americans behind,

00:05:41.060 the weakness,

00:05:41.980 the weakness,

00:05:42.940 the chaos.

00:05:43.980 And unfortunately,

00:05:45.980 every enemy of America

00:05:47.440 took a measure of the man in the Oval Office

00:05:49.740 when that happened.

00:05:50.480 They took a measure of Joe Biden.

00:05:51.980 And they determined that Biden was weak 0.98

00:05:54.160 and feckless and ineffective. 0.70

00:05:55.400 And as you'll recall,

00:05:58.040 on this podcast and publicly,

00:05:59.440 I said multiple times

00:06:00.980 when that disastrous withdrawal

00:06:02.940 of Afghanistan happened

00:06:04.860 that the odds of Russia invading Ukraine

00:06:07.620 had increased tenfold.

00:06:09.760 And also the odds of China invading Taiwan

00:06:12.080 had increased tenfold.

00:06:13.660 We're seeing the first of those two shoes drop.

00:06:15.940 Right now, I am very concerned

00:06:18.440 we'll see the second of those shoes drop 1.00

00:06:20.140 in the coming months.

00:06:21.900 But let's focus on Russia and Ukraine right now.

00:06:24.340 So Biden's weakness,

00:06:26.520 overall weakness,

00:06:27.420 was a major factor.

00:06:28.800 But then secondly,

00:06:30.860 specifically Biden's waiver

00:06:32.900 of sanctions on Nord Stream 2

00:06:34.860 is what facilitated this invasion.

00:06:38.480 You know, at that briefing,

00:06:39.500 it was one Democratic senator

00:06:40.860 stood up and asked,

00:06:42.280 why didn't Putin invade Ukraine in 2017?

00:06:45.940 Why didn't Putin invade Ukraine in 2018 0.54

00:06:48.220 or 2019 or 2020?

00:06:50.000 I have to admit,

00:06:50.920 I and a number of other senators

00:06:52.180 just began laughing.

00:06:53.120 Uh, because it's,

00:06:55.320 and the bizarre thing is

00:06:56.320 this Democrat didn't seem to realize,

00:06:59.200 um, didn't seem to get the joke.

00:07:02.200 And the answer is simple.

00:07:03.840 Putin didn't do it

00:07:04.900 because he feared President Trump.

00:07:06.740 He feared a strong president

00:07:08.020 who would stand up to him.

00:07:09.720 And by the way,

00:07:10.680 stand up to him doesn't mean send in troops.

00:07:13.700 That's one of the frustrating things

00:07:15.220 about how this is discussed

00:07:17.320 is sometimes the media says,

00:07:18.900 well, gosh, you know,

00:07:19.800 we don't want to go to war with Russia.

00:07:22.700 That's exactly right. 0.98

00:07:24.000 Only a lunatic would want American troops 0.99

00:07:26.520 to be in a shooting war with Russia. 0.92

00:07:29.260 But there are all sorts of tools

00:07:31.240 that America has short of sending the Marines

00:07:35.020 that constrain Russian aggression.

00:07:37.680 And the most effective

00:07:39.120 when it comes to stopping

00:07:40.380 the invasion of Ukraine,

00:07:42.140 uh, was the sanctions

00:07:44.340 on the Nord Stream 2 pipeline

00:07:45.920 that I authored,

00:07:46.840 that I passed

00:07:47.540 with overwhelming bipartisan majorities

00:07:49.840 that Trump signed into law.

00:07:52.300 And, and Putin literally

00:07:54.240 stopped constructing that pipeline

00:07:56.100 the day that Trump signed

00:07:57.780 my sanctions legislation into law.

00:07:59.740 He began building it again,

00:08:02.320 January 24th of 2021,

00:08:04.680 four days after Biden came into power.

00:08:06.780 Why?

00:08:07.120 Because Biden projected weakness

00:08:08.660 and that weakness manifested

00:08:10.960 last summer when Biden

00:08:12.740 formally waived the sanctions

00:08:14.620 on Nord Stream 2.

00:08:15.980 And, and the reason it matters,

00:08:17.340 you might be sitting here

00:08:18.120 and regular folks,

00:08:19.520 regular listeners of this podcast

00:08:20.680 will know,

00:08:21.560 but you might wonder,

00:08:22.660 well, what does a pipeline

00:08:23.560 have to do with Ukraine?

00:08:24.780 Well, the problem is

00:08:25.540 Russia's main export 1.00

00:08:26.760 is natural gas and oil.

00:08:28.960 And the natural gas goes on pipelines

00:08:30.700 right through Ukraine.

00:08:31.980 If they invade Ukraine, 0.87

00:08:33.440 they risk destroying

00:08:34.640 or damaging that infrastructure.

00:08:36.720 That's why they want to build

00:08:37.820 Nord Stream 2

00:08:38.440 to go around Ukraine.

00:08:39.740 Right.

00:08:40.040 So they can invade 0.86

00:08:41.220 and Biden has let Putin do that,

00:08:44.860 which is why Russian tanks

00:08:47.560 and Russian soldiers

00:08:48.540 are on the borders

00:08:50.580 and in the process

00:08:51.680 of invading as we speak.

00:08:53.460 And Putin is entirely reliant

00:08:55.040 on exporting energy.

00:08:56.500 So the pipeline really matters.

00:08:58.080 This brings up two points, actually.

00:09:00.240 One, as you've just pointed out,

00:09:01.800 there's a real irony

00:09:02.680 that Trump, who we were told,

00:09:04.480 was basically a KGB stooge.

00:09:06.820 It was like Boris and Natasha

00:09:08.560 and Trump in Rocky and Bullwinkle.

00:09:11.740 Donald Trump is now

00:09:12.800 the only president

00:09:13.860 among the last four presidents

00:09:16.020 on whose watch Vladimir Putin

00:09:17.800 has not invaded a sovereign country.

00:09:20.220 During George W. Bush,

00:09:21.580 he invaded Georgia

00:09:22.940 and Bush repelled that.

00:09:24.340 Obama, he invades Crimea.

00:09:26.140 Trump, he basically

00:09:27.060 just leaves things as they are.

00:09:28.600 And then under Biden,

00:09:29.860 now he's going even further.

00:09:31.520 But then this raises this question,

00:09:33.620 which is,

00:09:34.160 forgive me,

00:09:36.300 I am just

00:09:37.080 being the devil's advocate here.

00:09:40.100 Does Vladimir Putin

00:09:41.700 have a point?

00:09:43.460 He made his grand speech

00:09:45.660 giving the pretext

00:09:46.920 for war in Ukraine.

00:09:48.140 And he made a ton

00:09:49.160 of historical claims,

00:09:51.220 a ton of political claims.

00:09:52.940 He made a ton

00:09:53.560 of security claims

00:09:54.500 about Russia.

00:09:55.200 Those were basically

00:09:55.800 the three facets

00:09:56.660 of the speech.

00:09:57.820 And it is mind-boggling

00:10:00.260 that this two-bit leader

00:10:02.300 of a backwater

00:10:04.200 former superpower

00:10:05.280 that is now

00:10:06.020 just a petrol state

00:10:06.960 that's just basically

00:10:07.900 surviving on whether

00:10:09.100 gas and energy prices

00:10:10.420 are above a certain threshold,

00:10:12.180 that this guy

00:10:13.160 is basically eating

00:10:14.700 our lunch right now

00:10:15.840 here in the West.

00:10:16.660 How is he doing it?

00:10:18.900 Well, he's doing it

00:10:20.500 because of

00:10:22.120 presidential weakness.

00:10:23.240 He's doing it

00:10:24.000 because Biden

00:10:24.900 is scared

00:10:25.980 to stand up to him.

00:10:27.240 And look,

00:10:27.900 Putin senses weakness 1.00

00:10:29.100 and he's a bully. 1.00

00:10:30.660 He is a KGB thug. 1.00

00:10:32.240 You know, 0.97

00:10:32.400 the speech he gave,

00:10:34.120 it's an hour-long speech

00:10:35.400 and I have to say

00:10:36.760 it's ominous.

00:10:37.480 I've read it

00:10:38.180 front to back twice.

00:10:40.720 It is a speech

00:10:42.040 worth examining closely

00:10:43.860 because it lays out

00:10:45.180 precisely what

00:10:46.020 his ambitions are.

00:10:47.480 You know,

00:10:47.640 we've talked on the pod

00:10:48.620 before about how

00:10:49.460 Putin has been

00:10:50.120 very candid

00:10:50.780 saying that he

00:10:52.340 considers the dissolution

00:10:53.880 of the Soviet Union

00:10:55.000 to be the greatest

00:10:56.680 geopolitical disaster

00:10:58.180 of the 20th century.

00:11:00.360 This speech

00:11:01.200 goes bolder than that.

00:11:02.280 He actually goes back

00:11:03.420 even prior to the Soviet Union

00:11:05.200 to the Russian Empire

00:11:06.540 of 1922.

00:11:08.240 He goes back a century

00:11:09.080 and it's amazing.

00:11:11.580 He walks through

00:11:12.420 and there's an enormous

00:11:13.320 amount of revisionist history

00:11:14.560 in this speech.

00:11:16.020 But look,

00:11:16.640 you have to give,

00:11:18.360 Russian propagandists

00:11:19.780 are very good

00:11:20.720 at what they do.

00:11:22.120 This is a meticulously

00:11:23.140 researched speech.

00:11:24.440 It is an alternative

00:11:25.500 history of the world.

00:11:27.280 But under the alternative

00:11:28.540 history of the world,

00:11:29.340 it's actually quite amazing.

00:11:31.180 Putin lays out

00:11:32.120 that he thinks

00:11:32.840 that Lenin and Stalin's,

00:11:35.000 Stalin are squishes. 1.00

00:11:36.560 They're too soft.

00:11:37.840 They're too general.

00:11:39.340 They allowed

00:11:40.180 too much freedom.

00:11:41.800 You know,

00:11:41.940 it's really quite,

00:11:42.720 quite stunning.

00:11:43.620 And going through it,

00:11:45.180 he talks about

00:11:46.840 he talks about

00:11:49.100 the Bolsheviks 0.73

00:11:50.600 who,

00:11:52.820 you know,

00:11:53.300 he says,

00:11:53.760 why was it necessary

00:11:54.720 to appease the nationalists

00:11:56.260 to satisfy

00:11:56.980 the ceaselessly growing

00:11:58.420 nationalist ambitions

00:11:59.440 on the outskirts

00:12:00.420 of the foreign empire?

00:12:02.680 And he goes on to say,

00:12:03.640 at first glance,

00:12:04.920 this looks absolutely

00:12:06.580 incomprehensible,

00:12:07.580 even crazy.

00:12:09.420 But you have to understand,

00:12:11.060 after the revolution,

00:12:12.000 the Bolsheviks' main goal 0.80

00:12:13.160 was to stay in power

00:12:14.280 at all costs.

00:12:17.540 Lenin's principles

00:12:18.560 of state development

00:12:20.500 were not just a mistake.

00:12:22.620 They were worse

00:12:23.460 than a mistake.

00:12:24.800 And this became

00:12:25.900 patently clear

00:12:26.780 after the dissolution

00:12:27.820 of the Soviet Union

00:12:28.720 in 1991.

00:12:29.800 So he goes on to say,

00:12:31.800 the Bolsheviks,

00:12:34.080 Lenin and Stalin

00:12:35.020 afterwards,

00:12:35.700 who he said

00:12:36.020 was implementing

00:12:36.600 Lenin's principles,

00:12:38.040 allowed too much freedom.

00:12:40.140 Right.

00:12:40.260 He said Stalin

00:12:40.780 was a little bit better.

00:12:42.360 Right.

00:12:42.540 He said,

00:12:42.760 Lenin was terrible 0.97

00:12:43.860 and a big squish. 0.96

00:12:44.980 Stalin was a little bit better, 0.89

00:12:46.320 but he didn't change

00:12:47.200 the philosophy enough.

00:12:49.160 Exactly.

00:12:49.520 So now Putin

00:12:50.520 wants to go further

00:12:51.360 than Stalin.

00:12:52.140 He wants to go further

00:12:52.980 than Stalin.

00:12:53.700 He wants to go further

00:12:54.480 than Lenin.

00:12:55.960 And he wants to,

00:12:57.380 look,

00:12:57.720 I got to tell you,

00:12:58.240 in Europe,

00:12:59.580 people are freaking out

00:13:00.880 about this speech.

00:13:02.200 And they're freaking out

00:13:03.740 that these are the rantings 0.99

00:13:04.980 of a madman. 0.98

00:13:06.040 And it's, 0.98

00:13:07.660 he wants,

00:13:09.060 Putin wants

00:13:09.960 to reassemble

00:13:11.000 the Soviet Union,

00:13:12.040 to reassemble

00:13:12.840 the Russian Empire.

00:13:14.380 He longs

00:13:15.820 for glory.

00:13:17.520 He longs for power.

00:13:19.000 When he looks

00:13:19.560 at Russia today,

00:13:20.960 he misses

00:13:22.700 that Russia 0.72

00:13:23.420 is no longer

00:13:24.080 a superpower.

00:13:25.020 You know,

00:13:25.320 one of my favorite

00:13:26.040 phrases for Russia 0.89

00:13:27.040 is what John McCain

00:13:28.360 used to call them,

00:13:29.700 a gas station

00:13:30.760 with a country attached.

00:13:33.420 That really is the case.

00:13:34.820 They don't have

00:13:35.280 the economic might,

00:13:36.140 but what they do have

00:13:37.360 is they have

00:13:38.940 a military,

00:13:40.300 they have nuclear weapons,

00:13:41.800 and they use

00:13:42.940 the revenue

00:13:43.820 from Putin's 0.89

00:13:44.660 being a petro tyrant

00:13:46.840 to fund their military

00:13:49.020 and to threaten

00:13:49.720 their neighbors.

00:13:50.600 And listen,

00:13:51.740 what Putin lays out

00:13:53.780 in this speech

00:13:54.500 is a justification

00:13:56.220 for invading Ukraine,

00:13:57.800 but not just Ukraine.

00:13:58.820 It's a justification

00:13:59.500 for invading

00:14:00.620 much of Eastern Europe.

00:14:01.720 It's a justification

00:14:02.300 for invading Poland,

00:14:03.980 for invading Finland,

00:14:05.020 for invading the Baltic,

00:14:06.140 He longs for

00:14:08.080 all the land

00:14:09.260 that was ever connected

00:14:10.400 in any way for Russia.

00:14:12.020 A hundred years ago,

00:14:14.000 he longs to

00:14:15.000 forcibly reassemble that,

00:14:16.920 and that is

00:14:17.600 really damn dangerous

00:14:19.280 for Europe 0.76

00:14:21.160 and for America.

00:14:22.540 The Soviet Union

00:14:23.500 was a dire threat,

00:14:26.780 and Putin wants

00:14:28.000 the Soviet Union

00:14:29.140 only stronger

00:14:30.580 and more powerful

00:14:31.560 this time.

00:14:32.580 Now,

00:14:32.780 he makes the claim here,

00:14:34.820 as we've been talking about,

00:14:36.060 he has the first bit,

00:14:37.600 which is about history,

00:14:38.520 and he's getting

00:14:39.700 a little creative,

00:14:40.600 perhaps,

00:14:40.920 with his history.

00:14:41.720 Look,

00:14:41.880 this is so bad,

00:14:42.700 it would make

00:14:43.100 the 1619 Project blush.

00:14:45.080 It is that revisionist.

00:14:47.720 Look,

00:14:48.060 it is literally

00:14:48.700 Russian propaganda.

00:14:51.000 Right,

00:14:51.420 right.

00:14:52.140 And,

00:14:52.360 but he saves,

00:14:54.000 I think,

00:14:54.320 the best propaganda

00:14:55.320 for the third part,

00:14:56.560 because he moves

00:14:57.100 into the second part,

00:14:57.760 he points out

00:14:58.180 that Ukraine 0.91

00:14:58.560 is a very corrupt oligarchy.

00:15:00.240 That's true.

00:15:00.780 I don't think anybody

00:15:01.360 really disputes that.

00:15:02.320 Then he gets

00:15:03.100 to the third part,

00:15:04.140 and he says,

00:15:05.100 the U.S. did this.

00:15:07.360 NATO did this, 0.70

00:15:08.560 because the United States

00:15:09.660 promised,

00:15:10.660 and the Russian

00:15:11.600 propaganda agencies

00:15:13.780 clearly have been

00:15:15.020 pushing this now

00:15:15.860 for a couple of weeks,

00:15:17.020 because it turned up

00:15:17.780 in Der Spiegel,

00:15:18.560 the German newspaper,

00:15:19.940 and they said,

00:15:20.620 there was an agreement

00:15:21.260 made in 1990,

00:15:22.560 1991,

00:15:23.540 the United States

00:15:24.260 assured

00:15:24.920 the then collapsing

00:15:26.320 Soviet Union

00:15:27.160 that in exchange

00:15:28.540 for Germany's

00:15:29.540 reunification,

00:15:30.880 the Soviet Union

00:15:31.680 or whatever

00:15:32.320 exists of it anymore,

00:15:33.760 is going to let

00:15:34.300 Germany come back together

00:15:35.440 in exchange for that,

00:15:37.000 the United States

00:15:37.760 is not going

00:15:38.460 to expand NATO

00:15:39.400 eastward.

00:15:40.120 And I knew

00:15:40.620 it was Russian

00:15:40.980 propaganda at the time

00:15:41.920 when I saw it

00:15:42.380 in Der Spiegel,

00:15:43.080 and now we know

00:15:43.760 it is because

00:15:44.220 it's in Putin's speech.

00:15:46.000 But Putin has

00:15:46.960 a point here.

00:15:47.740 If it is the case,

00:15:48.680 as it seems to be,

00:15:49.420 that the U.S.

00:15:50.100 promised that NATO

00:15:51.100 would not expand

00:15:51.820 eastward,

00:15:52.660 then if,

00:15:53.840 as we have

00:15:54.400 broken that

00:15:55.960 apparent promise,

00:15:57.220 does Russia

00:15:57.980 have a legitimate

00:15:58.680 security concern

00:15:59.540 to say,

00:16:00.680 look,

00:16:00.900 if NATO's

00:16:01.420 going to move

00:16:01.820 toward the east,

00:16:02.520 then we need

00:16:03.060 to go invade

00:16:03.680 our neighbors.

00:16:05.160 Well,

00:16:05.320 number one,

00:16:06.200 Putin doesn't

00:16:06.720 point to any

00:16:07.240 evidence for

00:16:07.780 this alleged promise.

00:16:09.120 There certainly

00:16:09.680 is no treaty

00:16:10.280 to that effect.

00:16:11.180 The way America 0.54

00:16:12.000 makes promises

00:16:13.000 is through treaties.

00:16:14.400 The Soviet Union

00:16:15.180 didn't break up

00:16:16.180 out of kindness

00:16:17.080 and goodwill

00:16:17.900 towards us.

00:16:18.580 The Soviet Union

00:16:19.340 broke up

00:16:20.000 because we won

00:16:21.000 the Cold War.

00:16:21.720 The Soviet Union

00:16:22.400 broke up

00:16:23.000 because we defeated

00:16:24.360 the Soviet Union.

00:16:25.740 The Soviet Union

00:16:26.400 broke up

00:16:26.860 because we were

00:16:27.360 bankrupting their economy.

00:16:28.560 The Soviet Union

00:16:29.260 broke up

00:16:29.800 because Ronald Reagan

00:16:30.920 had the courage

00:16:31.640 and vision

00:16:32.160 to stand up.

00:16:33.980 You know,

00:16:34.440 go back to the 70s.

00:16:36.260 In the 70s,

00:16:37.100 you had

00:16:37.660 conventional wisdom

00:16:39.240 in foreign policy

00:16:40.240 among all Democrats

00:16:41.920 and most Republicans

00:16:42.920 is that you should

00:16:44.780 engage in mealy-mouthed

00:16:46.480 ambiguity towards

00:16:47.460 the Soviet Union

00:16:48.460 that the Soviet Union

00:16:50.580 was unstoppable,

00:16:51.660 it was unbeatable,

00:16:52.460 and there was 0.87

00:16:52.920 this crazy cowboy 0.97

00:16:54.380 in California 0.99

00:16:56.000 named Ronald Reagan.

00:16:57.840 And when Reagan

00:16:58.900 became president,

00:17:00.060 he referred to

00:17:01.180 the Soviet Union

00:17:01.920 as an evil empire.

00:17:03.620 And all of the

00:17:05.200 intelligentsia

00:17:06.060 were shocked.

00:17:07.340 He said Marxism,

00:17:08.560 Leninism will end up

00:17:09.360 on the ash heap

00:17:10.020 of history.

00:17:10.460 Again,

00:17:11.500 all of the educated

00:17:13.120 elites said,

00:17:13.780 that's terrible,

00:17:14.480 you can't say that.

00:17:16.160 All of our professors

00:17:17.200 were Marxists,

00:17:17.800 how can that possibly be?

00:17:19.000 That I'm paraphrasing.

00:17:20.620 But,

00:17:20.860 you know,

00:17:22.360 he spoke

00:17:24.340 with absolute clarity.

00:17:25.760 They asked him,

00:17:27.180 what's your objective

00:17:28.360 in the Cold War?

00:17:29.260 Now remember,

00:17:30.020 Nixon said,

00:17:31.460 détente,

00:17:32.720 which I've joked,

00:17:33.600 détente is French

00:17:34.560 for surrender.

00:17:35.260 You know,

00:17:36.080 we just want to

00:17:37.040 hold them

00:17:37.540 to a stalemate

00:17:38.520 because,

00:17:39.200 and Reagan

00:17:39.920 had the absolute

00:17:41.620 effrontery

00:17:42.260 to say,

00:17:43.340 the goal's very simple,

00:17:45.380 we win,

00:17:45.860 they lose.

00:17:46.700 People gasped.

00:17:48.560 And when Reagan

00:17:49.500 stood in front

00:17:50.140 of the Brandenburg Gate

00:17:51.000 and said,

00:17:51.280 Mr. Gorbachev,

00:17:52.020 tear down this wall,

00:17:53.200 that clarity

00:17:54.160 combined with

00:17:55.360 missile defense,

00:17:56.760 Reagan invested

00:17:57.640 in SDI,

00:17:58.600 Strategic Defense Initiative

00:17:59.720 called Star Wars.

00:18:01.180 The American economy

00:18:02.580 was so powerful,

00:18:03.620 the Soviets

00:18:04.000 couldn't keep up.

00:18:04.860 And so they broke up

00:18:05.720 because they couldn't

00:18:06.380 stay together.

00:18:07.480 We didn't give them

00:18:08.220 any concessions

00:18:09.040 and NATO is the most

00:18:10.080 successful military alliance

00:18:12.260 in modern history.

00:18:14.220 But what does Putin want?

00:18:16.260 Putin wants to reassemble

00:18:17.320 the Soviet Union.

00:18:18.660 He wants to break up NATO

00:18:20.320 and this invasion

00:18:21.380 is a major objective

00:18:23.540 here is breaking up NATO.

00:18:25.220 He also wants to end

00:18:26.400 missile defense.

00:18:27.700 And it's one of the things

00:18:28.420 he talks about in the speech

00:18:29.520 that America keeps installing

00:18:31.940 missile defense sites

00:18:32.920 and we don't want

00:18:33.600 missile defense.

00:18:34.860 So let's pause.

00:18:36.300 Let's talk about

00:18:37.000 what happens next

00:18:37.820 because it's important

00:18:38.560 to understand

00:18:39.320 what's going to play out

00:18:40.800 in the coming days

00:18:41.700 and weeks.

00:18:43.260 So where this fight

00:18:45.120 is engaged

00:18:45.800 is a region of Ukraine

00:18:47.440 called Donbass

00:18:48.600 and I'm holding here

00:18:49.580 a map.

00:18:50.140 I don't know how clear

00:18:50.960 it's going to come through

00:18:51.860 but I'm holding up

00:18:53.600 a map of Ukraine

00:18:55.080 and you can see

00:18:56.440 the Donbass region

00:18:57.520 is the eastern portion

00:18:59.180 of Ukraine

00:19:00.860 and it's two different regions.

00:19:02.320 One's called

00:19:03.100 the Donetsk region

00:19:04.560 and the other's called

00:19:05.400 the Luchansk region

00:19:06.620 and if you look

00:19:10.020 at those two regions

00:19:11.000 there's a portion

00:19:12.660 of those regions

00:19:13.600 that are controlled

00:19:15.140 by Russian separatists

00:19:16.280 and have been controlled

00:19:17.480 by essentially

00:19:18.400 Russian militia

00:19:19.940 that the Russians

00:19:20.580 have been putting in place.

00:19:22.220 That's sort of

00:19:23.040 the darker portion

00:19:23.900 of this map.

00:19:24.860 The lighter portion

00:19:25.840 of this map

00:19:27.100 is not controlled

00:19:27.760 by Russian separatists.

00:19:28.860 What happened was

00:19:30.400 the Russian separatists

00:19:31.640 in those two regions

00:19:32.700 declared independence

00:19:34.340 for the entire region.

00:19:36.620 Once they declared independence

00:19:38.660 these are militia

00:19:39.680 effectively controlled

00:19:40.560 by Russia

00:19:41.100 then what happened

00:19:43.100 was the Russian Duma

00:19:44.220 the parliament

00:19:44.840 authorized

00:19:47.180 Putin to go defend

00:19:50.780 the independent regions.

00:19:52.860 Putin recognized them

00:19:53.860 and the Duma said

00:19:54.560 you're authorized

00:19:55.460 to defend them

00:19:56.360 and so Putin

00:19:57.580 is calling the troops

00:19:58.860 that he's sending in

00:19:59.840 to invade Ukraine

00:20:00.980 peacekeepers.

00:20:02.620 And this is an old

00:20:03.780 Soviet trick. 0.81

00:20:04.640 This is not the first time.

00:20:06.280 He's not

00:20:06.980 he's being perfectly

00:20:09.400 shameless 0.53

00:20:11.620 in saying

00:20:14.180 oh well we're just

00:20:15.080 going to defend

00:20:16.280 the persecuted

00:20:17.300 and we're peacekeepers.

00:20:19.940 I think we will see

00:20:21.360 in the coming days

00:20:22.480 Russian troops

00:20:24.220 invading the Donbass region

00:20:25.900 but I think

00:20:26.640 there is a very real risk

00:20:27.920 that they won't stop there

00:20:29.060 that they will continue

00:20:30.740 throughout the remainder

00:20:31.840 of Ukraine

00:20:32.420 they will continue

00:20:33.140 up to Kiev

00:20:33.880 the capital city.

00:20:36.020 You know

00:20:36.600 in this speech

00:20:37.460 Putin goes on

00:20:38.460 at length

00:20:38.900 and says

00:20:39.420 Ukraine is not 0.98

00:20:40.860 a real country.

00:20:42.540 This is not

00:20:43.640 he talks about

00:20:45.780 about the revolution

00:20:48.120 so

00:20:48.800 in 2014

00:20:50.840 there was a revolution

00:20:53.220 from the people.

00:20:54.040 Ukraine

00:20:55.500 had

00:20:56.180 as its head

00:20:58.340 of state

00:20:58.760 Yanukovych 0.65

00:20:59.440 who was a Russian puppet 0.96

00:21:00.340 and there were

00:21:01.820 massive protests 0.82

00:21:02.920 against this Russian puppet 0.96

00:21:04.320 the corruption 0.94

00:21:04.940 they didn't like Ukraine

00:21:06.200 being subject

00:21:07.280 to Russia's control 0.88

00:21:08.400 and what happened

00:21:10.000 the Maiden Square

00:21:10.960 which is

00:21:11.420 in Kiev

00:21:12.320 you had

00:21:13.760 thousands

00:21:14.380 and thousands

00:21:14.980 of protesters

00:21:15.700 standing up

00:21:16.540 and you had

00:21:17.940 the Ukrainian police

00:21:19.780 that were controlled

00:21:20.480 by the Russians

00:21:21.060 at that time 0.91

00:21:21.740 shooting them 1.00

00:21:22.560 shooting 1.00

00:21:23.500 over 100 people

00:21:26.100 were murdered

00:21:26.900 by snipers

00:21:29.160 you know

00:21:29.380 I went to Kiev

00:21:30.520 in 2014

00:21:31.260 after this happened

00:21:32.280 and walked

00:21:34.620 through the Maiden Square

00:21:35.560 a 16 year old girl

00:21:36.680 who had been

00:21:36.960 one of the protesters

00:21:37.800 led me through

00:21:38.580 the Maiden Square

00:21:39.140 showed me

00:21:40.000 where compatriots

00:21:41.600 of hers

00:21:41.940 protesters

00:21:42.580 were standing

00:21:43.400 and where they'd been

00:21:44.700 shot by snipers

00:21:45.640 and murdered

00:21:46.040 and you could still see

00:21:47.560 you could still see

00:21:48.700 the bloodstains

00:21:49.400 on the ground

00:21:50.080 where they had

00:21:50.620 murdered the protesters

00:21:51.580 but what happened

00:21:52.460 it led to a revolution

00:21:54.880 in Ukraine

00:21:55.560 which Putin calls

00:21:56.920 a coup d'etat

00:21:57.540 because suddenly

00:21:58.840 he didn't control

00:22:00.140 Ukraine anymore

00:22:01.200 instead

00:22:02.200 it elected

00:22:03.340 its own leader

00:22:03.980 so I met with Poroshenko

00:22:05.340 who was the new leader

00:22:06.060 then

00:22:06.400 it was actually called

00:22:07.780 the Chocolate King

00:22:08.560 my girls were very excited

00:22:09.760 that I was meeting

00:22:10.600 with someone named

00:22:11.160 the Chocolate King

00:22:11.920 but it was because

00:22:13.200 he was a candy maker

00:22:13.980 not because he was

00:22:14.820 in fact Willy Wonka

00:22:15.740 but you look at

00:22:19.860 this speech

00:22:22.120 is laying out

00:22:23.300 that all of history

00:22:24.660 in Ukraine

00:22:25.280 of independent governance

00:22:27.580 governance that wants

00:22:28.700 to be allied

00:22:29.300 with the West

00:22:30.080 with Europe

00:22:30.620 with America

00:22:31.260 all of that

00:22:32.240 is illegitimate

00:22:33.080 and Putin

00:22:34.760 is the liberator

00:22:36.340 and the peacekeeper

00:22:38.480 and you know

00:22:40.220 it's interesting

00:22:41.160 this speech

00:22:41.880 why did he give

00:22:42.780 an hour long

00:22:43.860 meticulously reset

00:22:45.380 researched

00:22:46.180 revisionist history

00:22:47.580 speech

00:22:47.980 I will say this

00:22:49.380 Putin has learned

00:22:50.280 one lesson

00:22:50.880 of the Cold War

00:22:51.740 which is the

00:22:52.920 intellectual foundation

00:22:54.320 that Reagan laid out

00:22:55.760 help lead the predicate

00:22:58.080 for winning the Cold War

00:23:00.200 and I think Putin

00:23:00.940 is fighting very hard

00:23:02.560 to lay out

00:23:03.800 a counter narrative

00:23:04.880 that sadly

00:23:06.820 there are useful 1.00

00:23:08.100 idiots in the West 1.00

00:23:09.140 who will echo 1.00

00:23:09.960 no this is something

00:23:11.080 to that exact point

00:23:12.260 it hadn't occurred to me

00:23:13.100 until you said it

00:23:13.860 but he lays out

00:23:15.140 that reasoning

00:23:15.760 in the speech itself

00:23:17.020 right he says

00:23:17.620 the intellectual foundation

00:23:19.140 for the Soviet Union

00:23:20.240 created by Lenin

00:23:21.540 and then not amended

00:23:22.440 by Stalin

00:23:23.160 led to our

00:23:24.440 voluntary

00:23:25.540 or inevitable

00:23:26.840 collapse

00:23:27.440 right he says

00:23:27.940 you didn't beat us

00:23:29.160 it wasn't the republics

00:23:30.600 they didn't actually

00:23:31.260 win independence

00:23:31.880 or break away

00:23:32.460 it was a problem

00:23:34.040 of the communist party

00:23:35.340 logic in the Soviet Union

00:23:36.520 because of that

00:23:37.180 intellectual foundation

00:23:38.080 so now

00:23:39.000 I'm creating a new

00:23:40.240 intellectual foundation

00:23:41.380 here for why

00:23:42.300 we've got to gobble up

00:23:43.280 our neighbors

00:23:44.020 but then this question

00:23:45.000 remains

00:23:45.460 and it's for a lot

00:23:47.280 of people in the West

00:23:48.660 who don't know

00:23:49.760 where Kiev is

00:23:50.820 who don't know

00:23:51.360 where Lviv is

00:23:52.460 who don't

00:23:52.980 probably don't know

00:23:53.760 where Ukraine is

00:23:54.620 and really nor should

00:23:56.900 they I suppose

00:23:57.540 in their day to day

00:23:58.360 they probably don't

00:23:59.100 think about this

00:23:59.660 that much

00:24:00.140 which is

00:24:01.020 why do we care

00:24:02.940 do we do we want

00:24:04.060 NATO to be 0.93

00:24:04.840 in these

00:24:05.420 Eastern European states

00:24:06.800 do we care if

00:24:07.920 Vladimir I mean

00:24:08.520 we care maybe

00:24:09.060 at a moral level

00:24:09.780 but do we care

00:24:10.460 at a you know

00:24:11.360 politics is full

00:24:12.300 of all sorts

00:24:12.740 of terrible things

00:24:13.320 do we care

00:24:13.800 if Putin gobbles

00:24:14.480 up his neighbors

00:24:15.500 is this a threat

00:24:16.800 to the U.S.

00:24:17.800 national interest

00:24:18.520 so it is

00:24:19.500 and Michael

00:24:20.040 it's a great question

00:24:20.900 and I will say

00:24:21.480 some Republicans

00:24:22.280 who speak about this

00:24:23.540 when they speak

00:24:24.880 I want to jump

00:24:25.780 out a window

00:24:26.240 because they talk

00:24:27.140 about this sort

00:24:27.820 of amorphous need

00:24:29.520 to protect democracy

00:24:30.800 across the globe 0.99

00:24:31.820 and it's complete garbage 1.00

00:24:32.860 that is not 0.99

00:24:36.540 our focus

00:24:37.680 should be protecting

00:24:38.740 U.S. national security

00:24:39.980 not we are not

00:24:41.680 just world policemen

00:24:43.480 we are not

00:24:44.120 protecting democracy

00:24:45.240 wherever it occurs

00:24:46.180 but it is

00:24:48.700 in our interest

00:24:49.480 for enemies

00:24:50.560 of America

00:24:51.320 people that want

00:24:52.100 to defeat America

00:24:53.220 not to get

00:24:54.940 much much stronger

00:24:56.220 and more able

00:24:57.460 to inflict damage

00:24:58.920 on America

00:24:59.520 the Soviet Union's

00:25:01.800 collapse was one

00:25:02.680 of the greatest

00:25:03.340 victories for world

00:25:04.580 peace but also

00:25:05.420 for American

00:25:06.140 national security

00:25:07.340 that we've ever

00:25:08.440 seen

00:25:08.900 Russia is much 1.00

00:25:10.780 much less dangerous

00:25:11.780 than the Soviet Union

00:25:12.680 was

00:25:13.040 Russia is much 1.00

00:25:14.120 much less powerful

00:25:15.200 than the Soviet Union

00:25:16.020 was

00:25:16.400 that's why Putin's

00:25:17.600 unhappy

00:25:18.020 he wants

00:25:19.520 the danger

00:25:21.260 he wants the power

00:25:22.440 he wants the threat

00:25:23.440 to America

00:25:24.120 of the Soviet Union

00:25:25.140 that is also

00:25:26.460 why we should

00:25:27.300 not want that

00:25:28.240 we want to keep

00:25:29.340 Putin relatively

00:25:30.560 weak

00:25:31.180 because he

00:25:32.720 harbors

00:25:33.600 I gotta say

00:25:35.660 you read this

00:25:36.440 speech

00:25:36.920 and it is

00:25:37.840 reminiscent

00:25:38.520 of early

00:25:39.520 speeches

00:25:40.040 of Hitler 0.92

00:25:40.580 and look

00:25:40.940 in politics

00:25:41.460 there are far

00:25:41.940 too many

00:25:42.460 analogies

00:25:43.680 to Hitler 0.88

00:25:44.080 I think

00:25:45.040 you always

00:25:45.600 have to be

00:25:46.120 cautious

00:25:46.480 but you look

00:25:47.900 at Hitler 0.82

00:25:48.300 when he's

00:25:48.740 talking about

00:25:49.320 needing

00:25:49.580 growing room

00:25:50.660 needing living

00:25:51.740 space for Germany

00:25:52.980 and it's the

00:25:54.720 same sort

00:25:55.540 of wild

00:25:57.480 ambition

00:25:58.280 I mean

00:25:58.620 going back

00:25:59.220 rehashing

00:26:01.400 wrongs 0.77

00:26:03.260 perceived

00:26:03.740 wrongs 0.77

00:26:04.820 from a

00:26:05.340 century

00:26:05.960 ago

00:26:06.580 that

00:26:08.540 you know

00:26:09.580 repeatedly

00:26:10.200 in this speech

00:26:11.140 Putin refers

00:26:12.280 to what he

00:26:12.780 calls the

00:26:13.260 virus

00:26:14.020 of nationalism

00:26:15.680 by the way

00:26:16.300 that's

00:26:17.120 the Poles

00:26:18.380 wanting to be

00:26:18.980 part of Poland

00:26:19.660 and not subject

00:26:20.480 to his

00:26:20.780 dictatorship

00:26:21.300 that's the

00:26:22.120 people in

00:26:22.500 Estonia

00:26:23.020 not wanting

00:26:23.540 to be subject

00:26:23.980 to his

00:26:24.300 dictatorship

00:26:24.940 that is

00:26:25.800 simply

00:26:26.140 countries

00:26:26.620 wanting to

00:26:27.100 govern

00:26:27.340 themselves

00:26:27.700 and people

00:26:28.260 wanting to

00:26:28.640 be free

00:26:28.940 he calls

00:26:29.320 that a

00:26:29.700 virus

00:26:30.200 and a

00:26:31.140 disease

00:26:31.640 and it

00:26:33.700 is

00:26:34.140 there is

00:26:36.120 a grandiosity

00:26:37.100 to this

00:26:37.940 that is

00:26:39.300 frightening

00:26:39.740 now here's

00:26:40.380 what

00:26:40.700 there's a

00:26:42.500 very good

00:26:42.880 chance

00:26:43.240 will play

00:26:43.660 out

00:26:43.980 that in

00:26:44.840 the coming

00:26:45.200 days

00:26:45.800 Putin

00:26:46.380 will invade

00:26:46.960 the Donbass

00:26:47.560 regions

00:26:48.060 that under

00:26:49.860 the pretense

00:26:51.160 of being a

00:26:51.700 peacekeeper

00:26:52.200 that he will

00:26:53.700 manufacture a

00:26:54.700 pretense to

00:26:55.320 continue invading

00:26:56.260 Ukraine to go

00:26:57.060 all the way

00:26:57.460 to Kiev

00:26:57.880 that once

00:26:59.500 he seizes

00:27:00.000 control of

00:27:00.640 the nation

00:27:01.080 I expect

00:27:03.220 Putin to

00:27:03.700 then try to

00:27:04.260 negotiate

00:27:04.700 to leave

00:27:05.940 to formally

00:27:06.620 say we're

00:27:07.960 going to

00:27:08.460 withdraw

00:27:08.840 but the

00:27:11.200 condition of

00:27:11.860 withdraw is

00:27:12.560 we want to

00:27:13.160 put a puppet

00:27:13.640 in place

00:27:14.040 they want

00:27:14.480 someone like

00:27:15.280 Yanukovych back

00:27:16.140 in place

00:27:16.520 so they'll

00:27:16.900 even say

00:27:17.360 look there's

00:27:18.280 a new

00:27:18.600 Ukrainian

00:27:19.020 leader

00:27:19.400 he just

00:27:19.960 reports to

00:27:21.180 Putin

00:27:21.500 like Belarus 0.97

00:27:22.920 which is

00:27:23.760 basically a

00:27:24.440 puppet state

00:27:24.980 of Russia

00:27:25.360 that they

00:27:25.740 want

00:27:26.100 Ukraine

00:27:27.000 to be

00:27:27.360 the same

00:27:27.840 but I

00:27:28.120 think even

00:27:28.480 more than

00:27:28.880 that

00:27:29.120 and Putin

00:27:29.500 lays this

00:27:29.940 out in

00:27:30.180 the speech

00:27:30.640 he is

00:27:32.080 going to

00:27:32.500 want

00:27:32.820 major

00:27:33.540 concessions

00:27:34.560 from Joe

00:27:35.340 Biden

00:27:35.720 and from

00:27:36.720 NATO

00:27:37.000 concessions

00:27:37.840 like

00:27:38.260 withdraw

00:27:39.020 troops

00:27:39.520 from

00:27:39.740 NATO

00:27:40.060 concessions

00:27:41.400 like

00:27:41.760 limit

00:27:42.920 or prohibit

00:27:43.760 exercises

00:27:44.600 in Eastern

00:27:45.200 Europe

00:27:45.600 concessions

00:27:46.620 like

00:27:46.980 limit

00:27:47.640 or prohibit

00:27:48.300 missiles

00:27:48.760 or anti-missile

00:27:49.600 batteries

00:27:50.120 from Eastern

00:27:50.780 Europe

00:27:51.120 and I

00:27:52.220 gotta say

00:27:52.780 given

00:27:53.140 Biden's

00:27:53.720 pattern

00:27:54.060 of

00:27:54.340 weakness

00:27:54.720 I

00:27:55.780 think

00:27:55.980 there's

00:27:56.300 a

00:27:56.440 very

00:27:56.700 real

00:27:57.140 risk

00:27:57.560 that

00:27:57.800 Biden

00:27:58.260 will

00:27:58.780 surrender

00:27:59.980 and literally

00:28:00.800 pay

00:28:01.280 Putin

00:28:01.720 to

00:28:02.420 withdraw

00:28:02.800 after he

00:28:03.640 invades

00:28:04.100 and puts

00:28:04.460 a puppet

00:28:04.800 government

00:28:05.180 in place

00:28:05.700 under his

00:28:06.100 control

00:28:06.460 that is

00:28:07.400 a

00:28:07.760 very

00:28:08.700 sad

00:28:09.420 unfortunate

00:28:10.180 outcome

00:28:10.560 I wish

00:28:11.800 there

00:28:12.000 I wish

00:28:13.000 that there

00:28:13.400 were more

00:28:13.920 hope for

00:28:14.560 the way

00:28:14.760 the situation

00:28:15.280 plays out

00:28:15.840 but unfortunately

00:28:16.680 you have

00:28:17.460 predicted this

00:28:18.540 pretty well

00:28:19.160 I'm not just

00:28:20.640 flattering you

00:28:21.140 people can go

00:28:21.560 back to the

00:28:21.900 previous episodes

00:28:22.580 this whole

00:28:23.640 experience

00:28:25.460 in Ukraine

00:28:26.120 has played

00:28:27.120 out

00:28:27.460 as

00:28:28.280 we were

00:28:29.200 discussing

00:28:29.660 on this

00:28:30.120 show

00:28:30.500 we should

00:28:31.260 note

00:28:31.600 for the

00:28:32.040 listeners

00:28:32.380 we're

00:28:33.020 speaking

00:28:33.340 right now

00:28:33.840 it's

00:28:34.120 Tuesday

00:28:34.520 evening

00:28:35.020 obviously

00:28:35.920 the events

00:28:36.400 are changing

00:28:37.080 hour by

00:28:38.140 hour

00:28:38.460 in Ukraine

00:28:39.180 but that

00:28:40.240 would appear

00:28:40.600 to be

00:28:41.040 the script

00:28:43.140 so Michael

00:28:43.940 let me

00:28:44.540 do briefly

00:28:45.440 say

00:28:45.960 what Biden

00:28:46.920 should do

00:28:47.840 you noted

00:28:49.420 it's Tuesday

00:28:50.120 evening

00:28:50.480 so I don't

00:28:50.880 know what's

00:28:51.240 going to

00:28:51.400 happen

00:28:51.620 tonight or

00:28:52.020 tomorrow

00:28:52.340 but here's

00:28:53.840 what Biden

00:28:54.400 should do

00:28:55.100 today

00:28:55.560 right now

00:28:56.620 he should

00:28:57.680 immediately

00:28:58.320 rescind

00:28:59.160 his waiver

00:28:59.920 of the

00:29:01.240 Nord Stream

00:29:01.700 2

00:29:01.920 sanctions

00:29:02.380 now

00:29:02.860 one of

00:29:03.620 the things

00:29:04.000 that played

00:29:04.400 out today

00:29:04.960 is Germany

00:29:05.620 announced

00:29:07.260 that they

00:29:07.760 were suspending

00:29:08.540 Nord Stream

00:29:09.040 2

00:29:09.300 the problem

00:29:11.300 is

00:29:11.740 Putin

00:29:12.300 doesn't

00:29:12.700 believe

00:29:13.020 that

00:29:13.400 Germany

00:29:16.520 has been

00:29:17.400 so weak

00:29:18.420 on this

00:29:18.960 that he

00:29:19.280 fully

00:29:19.680 expects

00:29:20.340 that as

00:29:21.140 part of

00:29:21.720 negotiating

00:29:22.440 the withdrawal

00:29:23.060 that they'll

00:29:23.680 turn Nord Stream

00:29:24.500 2 on

00:29:25.180 and so that

00:29:25.960 this is just

00:29:26.540 a momentary

00:29:27.320 delay

00:29:27.760 Biden

00:29:29.060 he doesn't

00:29:29.800 believe

00:29:30.020 Biden

00:29:30.340 either

00:29:30.600 both

00:29:30.940 Biden

00:29:31.280 and Germany

00:29:31.780 have

00:29:32.060 demonstrated

00:29:32.680 empty

00:29:33.120 promises

00:29:33.580 over and

00:29:33.980 over again

00:29:34.240 so Putin

00:29:34.660 is laughing

00:29:35.240 at

00:29:35.580 okay fine

00:29:36.560 you suspended

00:29:37.180 it briefly

00:29:37.680 sure

00:29:38.180 when I

00:29:38.920 come in

00:29:39.240 and invade

00:29:39.620 Ukraine

00:29:39.980 and what

00:29:40.820 you're

00:29:41.020 going to

00:29:41.100 let your

00:29:41.360 people freeze 0.99

00:29:42.000 to death

00:29:42.400 no you're

00:29:42.880 going to

00:29:43.540 turn the

00:29:43.980 pipeline

00:29:44.320 on

00:29:44.760 because

00:29:45.300 I'm

00:29:45.560 going to

00:29:45.700 have

00:29:45.840 all the

00:29:46.120 leverage

00:29:46.500 Biden

00:29:47.580 should

00:29:48.040 immediately

00:29:48.940 revoke

00:29:50.240 his waiver

00:29:50.780 of the

00:29:51.080 sanctions

00:29:51.460 that would

00:29:51.840 impose

00:29:52.260 sanctions

00:29:52.780 on Nord Stream

00:29:53.500 2 AG

00:29:54.020 which is

00:29:54.540 the umbrella

00:29:55.620 company

00:29:56.140 that owns

00:29:57.080 and operates

00:29:57.680 Nord Stream

00:29:58.160 2

00:29:58.440 but secondly

00:29:59.940 Congress

00:30:01.440 should pass

00:30:02.180 legislation

00:30:02.820 that I've

00:30:03.240 introduced

00:30:03.600 that we

00:30:04.120 voted on

00:30:04.940 just a few

00:30:06.240 weeks ago

00:30:06.840 that I got

00:30:07.580 a big

00:30:08.240 bipartisan

00:30:08.860 majority

00:30:09.360 of Congress

00:30:09.820 to vote

00:30:10.140 for the

00:30:10.480 Senate

00:30:10.720 the vote

00:30:11.720 was 55

00:30:12.400 to 44

00:30:13.160 so six

00:30:13.880 Democrats

00:30:14.420 voted with

00:30:15.020 me

00:30:15.260 but the

00:30:16.680 Democrats

00:30:17.120 filibustered

00:30:17.760 it

00:30:17.940 they demanded

00:30:18.480 60

00:30:18.980 ironically

00:30:19.520 while they

00:30:19.920 were simultaneously

00:30:20.600 giving speeches

00:30:21.500 calling the

00:30:22.420 filibuster a

00:30:23.360 racist relic

00:30:24.240 of Jim Crow 0.82

00:30:24.920 that same

00:30:26.520 day they

00:30:27.140 were filibustering

00:30:27.940 to protect

00:30:28.940 Russia from 0.51

00:30:29.420 sanctions

00:30:29.860 but we

00:30:31.000 ought to

00:30:31.200 pass that

00:30:31.700 legislation

00:30:32.360 that takes

00:30:33.800 away Joe

00:30:34.660 Biden's

00:30:35.200 ability to

00:30:35.900 waive these

00:30:36.520 sanctions

00:30:36.980 you want

00:30:37.860 to talk

00:30:38.820 about the

00:30:39.220 only thing

00:30:39.820 that I

00:30:40.140 think has

00:30:40.640 a prayer

00:30:41.540 of stopping

00:30:43.340 Putin

00:30:43.720 even this

00:30:44.520 might not

00:30:44.940 work

00:30:45.180 he's so

00:30:45.680 far along

00:30:46.580 that there

00:30:47.340 may not

00:30:47.660 be anything

00:30:48.260 that can

00:30:48.620 be done

00:30:48.940 to stop

00:30:49.420 it

00:30:49.580 but the

00:30:50.160 only thing

00:30:50.700 that has

00:30:51.140 a chance

00:30:51.980 of stopping

00:30:52.600 it is

00:30:53.780 imposing the

00:30:54.620 sanctions

00:30:55.020 right now

00:30:55.620 and Congress

00:30:56.180 acting to

00:30:56.840 say you

00:30:57.700 know what

00:30:58.220 Biden

00:30:59.580 doesn't have

00:31:00.060 the ability

00:31:00.520 to waive

00:31:01.000 these in

00:31:01.340 other words

00:31:01.780 these sanctions

00:31:02.560 are going

00:31:03.120 to be a

00:31:04.200 permanent

00:31:04.760 factor

00:31:05.320 we're not

00:31:06.020 turning on

00:31:06.660 Nord Stream

00:31:07.160 2

00:31:07.480 that would

00:31:08.620 be the

00:31:08.920 right thing

00:31:09.320 to do

00:31:09.600 and by

00:31:09.940 the way

00:31:10.440 both the

00:31:11.340 leadership

00:31:11.700 of Ukraine

00:31:12.340 and the

00:31:12.640 leadership

00:31:12.940 of Poland

00:31:13.520 have explicitly

00:31:14.240 asked us

00:31:14.860 to do

00:31:15.140 that

00:31:15.320 they've

00:31:16.020 told us

00:31:16.560 if you

00:31:16.860 want to

00:31:17.140 stop

00:31:17.400 the

00:31:17.560 invasion

00:31:18.060 sanction

00:31:18.980 Nord Stream

00:31:19.900 2

00:31:20.120 immediately

00:31:20.700 as you

00:31:22.060 know

00:31:22.260 I've

00:31:22.520 got holds

00:31:23.120 on a

00:31:23.340 bunch

00:31:23.520 of State

00:31:23.840 Department

00:31:24.220 nominees

00:31:24.640 I've

00:31:25.100 repeatedly

00:31:25.620 offered

00:31:26.060 to the

00:31:26.300 Biden

00:31:26.540 White

00:31:26.840 House

00:31:27.140 if you

00:31:28.500 revoke

00:31:28.860 the waiver

00:31:29.300 if you

00:31:29.620 impose

00:31:29.940 the

00:31:30.120 sanctions

00:31:30.540 I'll

00:31:31.800 lift

00:31:31.980 my

00:31:32.200 holds

00:31:32.600 I can

00:31:33.020 tell you

00:31:33.400 I'm

00:31:33.660 extending

00:31:34.100 that offer

00:31:34.660 right

00:31:34.980 now

00:31:35.420 impose

00:31:36.660 the

00:31:36.920 sanctions

00:31:37.460 I'll

00:31:38.380 lift

00:31:38.620 my

00:31:38.880 holds

00:31:39.340 at

00:31:39.840 this

00:31:40.140 point

00:31:40.520 right

00:31:40.820 now

00:31:41.260 A

00:31:43.080 Putin

00:31:43.620 is

00:31:43.860 complaining

00:31:44.300 Stalin 0.57

00:31:44.800 wasn't

00:31:45.220 tough

00:31:45.480 enough

00:31:45.840 and

00:31:46.820 B

00:31:47.340 Biden

00:31:48.420 is

00:31:48.700 being

00:31:49.040 wimpier

00:31:49.580 on

00:31:49.880 Putin

00:31:50.940 than

00:31:51.600 Germany

00:31:52.120 both

00:31:53.380 of those

00:31:53.820 are

00:31:53.980 absurd

00:31:54.420 positions

00:31:55.000 I

00:31:55.380 hope

00:31:56.240 there

00:31:58.120 is

00:31:58.440 some

00:31:58.800 reasonableness

00:31:59.660 and we

00:32:00.060 see the

00:32:00.500 Biden

00:32:00.780 White

00:32:01.120 House

00:32:01.460 stop

00:32:02.580 this

00:32:02.960 fecklessness 1.00

00:32:05.200 that has

00:32:05.680 produced

00:32:06.320 chaos

00:32:07.520 and war

00:32:08.040 in

00:32:08.200 Europe

00:32:08.460 I'm

00:32:08.920 really

00:32:09.140 glad

00:32:09.380 you

00:32:09.540 mentioned

00:32:09.900 the

00:32:10.140 second

00:32:10.480 part

00:32:10.780 to

00:32:10.940 senator

00:32:11.240 because

00:32:11.520 as

00:32:12.040 you

00:32:12.180 were

00:32:12.420 telling

00:32:12.760 me

00:32:12.940 listen

00:32:13.160 here's

00:32:13.440 what

00:32:13.620 what

00:32:13.880 Congress

00:32:14.240 should

00:32:14.460 do

00:32:14.660 once

00:32:15.640 the

00:32:15.800 sanctions

00:32:16.140 go in

00:32:16.640 let's

00:32:16.880 hope

00:32:17.020 we

00:32:17.120 get

00:32:17.240 some

00:32:17.400 sanctions

00:32:17.780 then

00:32:18.540 they're

00:32:19.620 in

00:32:19.960 place

00:32:20.280 Congress

00:32:20.660 needs

00:32:20.900 to

00:32:21.020 go

00:32:21.140 in

00:32:21.240 though

00:32:21.340 and

00:32:21.440 make

00:32:21.600 sure

00:32:21.840 that

00:32:22.220 Biden

00:32:22.500 can't

00:32:22.860 take

00:32:23.060 away

00:32:23.280 those

00:32:23.540 sanctions

00:32:23.940 and

00:32:24.300 this

00:32:24.460 has

00:32:24.620 me

00:32:24.780 thinking

00:32:25.080 well

00:32:25.360 you

00:32:25.600 know

00:32:25.760 why

00:32:26.260 would

00:32:26.440 the

00:32:26.560 Democrats

00:32:26.940 go

00:32:27.180 along

00:32:27.500 with

00:32:27.680 that

00:32:27.860 why

00:32:28.120 would

00:32:28.460 Democrats

00:32:29.600 willingly

00:32:30.280 limit

00:32:30.760 Joe

00:32:31.040 Biden's

00:32:31.460 power

00:32:31.820 sure

00:32:32.220 maybe

00:32:32.540 they'll

00:32:32.760 have

00:32:32.920 some

00:32:33.140 solidarity

00:32:34.040 in the

00:32:34.420 Senate

00:32:34.620 or

00:32:34.760 something

00:32:34.980 but

00:32:35.140 probably

00:32:35.400 not

00:32:35.600 probably

00:32:35.820 this

00:32:35.960 is

00:32:36.060 going

00:32:36.120 to

00:32:36.200 break

00:32:36.380 down

00:32:36.600 unpartisan

00:32:37.300 lines

00:32:37.580 the

00:32:37.740 Democrats

00:32:38.080 have

00:32:38.300 no

00:32:38.460 reason

00:32:38.700 to

00:32:38.880 do

00:32:39.040 it

00:32:39.140 but

00:32:39.460 you're

00:32:39.700 offering

00:32:40.000 something

00:32:40.500 tangible

00:32:41.260 you're

00:32:41.800 saying

00:32:42.080 you've

00:32:42.260 got

00:32:42.380 a lot

00:32:42.880 of

00:32:43.220 Joe

00:32:43.860 Biden

00:32:44.260 State

00:32:44.580 Department

00:32:44.940 nominees

00:32:45.360 you've

00:32:45.620 got

00:32:45.720 holds

00:32:46.120 on

00:32:46.320 them

00:32:46.460 you're

00:32:46.880 dragging

00:32:47.180 this

00:32:47.420 process

00:32:47.900 out

00:32:48.320 ad

00:32:49.100 infinitum

00:32:49.660 it seems

00:32:50.000 like

00:32:50.300 and

00:32:50.660 you

00:32:50.800 can

00:32:50.940 release

00:32:51.260 those

00:32:51.500 holds

00:32:51.880 if

00:32:52.480 we

00:32:52.600 get

00:32:52.720 the

00:32:52.840 sanctions

00:32:53.220 and

00:32:53.860 or

00:32:53.980 if

00:32:54.120 we

00:32:54.200 get

00:32:54.300 legislation

00:32:54.660 that

00:32:54.900 does

00:32:55.160 not

00:32:55.340 allow

00:32:55.580 Biden

00:32:55.920 to

00:32:56.160 remove

00:32:56.540 the

00:32:56.680 sanctions

00:32:56.960 so

00:32:57.260 that's

00:32:58.140 exactly

00:32:58.560 right

00:32:58.900 and

00:32:59.040 so

00:32:59.180 that's

00:32:59.500 certainly

00:32:59.760 a

00:32:59.980 carrot

00:33:00.260 that's

00:33:00.620 a

00:33:00.760 sweetener

00:33:01.200 but

00:33:01.440 there's

00:33:01.860 another

00:33:02.080 factor

00:33:02.500 which

00:33:02.780 is

00:33:03.000 almost

00:33:04.140 every

00:33:04.760 single

00:33:05.200 Senate

00:33:05.540 Democrat

00:33:06.040 thinks

00:33:07.880 Biden

00:33:08.380 is

00:33:08.780 wrong

00:33:09.920 on

00:33:10.340 Nord Stream

00:33:10.800 2

00:33:11.080 they've

00:33:13.640 all

00:33:13.900 given

00:33:14.200 speeches

00:33:14.860 blasting

00:33:15.700 Nord Stream

00:33:16.320 2

00:33:16.660 the

00:33:17.660 Senate

00:33:17.960 Democrats

00:33:18.520 every

00:33:19.120 Democrat

00:33:19.640 has

00:33:19.960 voted

00:33:20.220 in

00:33:20.440 favor

00:33:20.700 of

00:33:20.880 my

00:33:21.080 sanctions

00:33:21.480 twice

00:33:22.020 in

00:33:23.620 2019

00:33:24.360 and

00:33:24.740 2020

00:33:25.220 100%

00:33:26.260 of

00:33:26.420 them

00:33:26.500 every

00:33:26.960 single

00:33:27.500 Democrat

00:33:28.000 the

00:33:29.320 only

00:33:29.560 difference

00:33:30.020 was

00:33:30.380 the

00:33:30.560 president

00:33:31.180 then

00:33:31.600 had

00:33:31.800 an

00:33:31.920 R

00:33:32.080 behind

00:33:32.380 his

00:33:32.580 name

00:33:32.800 instead

00:33:33.020 of

00:33:33.160 a

00:33:33.280 D

00:33:33.460 and

00:33:33.680 so

00:33:33.840 when

00:33:34.040 Donald

00:33:34.280 Trump

00:33:34.540 was

00:33:34.740 president

00:33:35.140 by

00:33:35.640 the

00:33:35.780 way

00:33:35.940 if

00:33:36.100 Trump

00:33:36.320 had

00:33:36.460 been

00:33:36.640 reelected

00:33:37.320 and

00:33:37.740 I

00:33:37.880 filed

00:33:38.140 my

00:33:38.320 sanctions

00:33:38.660 legislation

00:33:39.180 they'd

00:33:39.420 all

00:33:39.540 vote

00:33:39.700 for

00:33:39.880 it

00:33:39.980 again

00:33:40.260 in

00:33:40.420 a

00:33:40.540 heartbeat

00:33:40.880 and

00:33:41.120 they'd

00:33:41.300 give

00:33:41.420 speeches

00:33:41.820 about

00:33:42.120 how

00:33:42.320 Trump

00:33:42.620 loves

00:33:43.240 Russia

00:33:43.640 the

00:33:44.520 only

00:33:44.760 thing

00:33:45.080 that

00:33:45.280 changed

00:33:45.980 is

00:33:46.760 instead

00:33:47.040 of

00:33:47.200 a

00:33:47.300 Republican

00:33:47.680 you

00:33:47.920 have

00:33:48.100 Joe

00:33:48.340 Biden

00:33:48.720 and

00:33:49.640 when

00:33:49.840 44

00:33:50.460 Democrats

00:33:51.120 voted

00:33:51.460 no

00:33:51.840 on

00:33:53.500 the

00:33:53.700 sanctions

00:33:54.260 not

00:33:56.020 a

00:33:56.200 single

00:33:56.700 Democrat

00:33:57.240 put

00:33:57.700 forward

00:33:58.200 even

00:33:58.580 one

00:33:59.340 substantive

00:34:00.460 defense

00:34:01.080 of the

00:34:01.420 waiver

00:34:01.700 of

00:34:01.920 sanctions

00:34:02.300 I

00:34:02.480 mean

00:34:02.560 I

00:34:02.720 went

00:34:02.900 to

00:34:03.020 the

00:34:03.180 Senate

00:34:03.380 floor

00:34:03.700 for

00:34:04.220 hours

00:34:04.900 laying

00:34:05.300 out

00:34:05.520 the

00:34:05.680 case

00:34:05.920 giving

00:34:06.180 speeches

00:34:06.580 nobody

00:34:06.960 objected

00:34:07.660 they

00:34:08.040 said

00:34:08.260 we

00:34:08.400 don't

00:34:08.520 like

00:34:08.720 your

00:34:08.840 holds

00:34:09.100 we

00:34:09.240 don't

00:34:09.340 like

00:34:09.520 your

00:34:09.660 tactic

00:34:10.020 okay

00:34:10.300 fine

00:34:10.560 you

00:34:10.660 don't

00:34:10.760 like

00:34:10.880 my

00:34:11.040 tactic

00:34:11.380 I'm

00:34:11.620 trying

00:34:11.820 to

00:34:11.960 use

00:34:12.120 whatever

00:34:12.340 leverage

00:34:12.680 I

00:34:12.860 can

00:34:13.220 to

00:34:13.860 stop

00:34:14.540 a

00:34:15.020 generational

00:34:15.940 national

00:34:16.460 security

00:34:16.940 blunder

00:34:17.360 but

00:34:18.200 privately

00:34:19.720 Democrat

00:34:21.040 after

00:34:21.440 Democrat

00:34:21.880 they

00:34:22.280 say

00:34:22.560 to

00:34:22.700 me

00:34:22.840 I

00:34:23.040 don't

00:34:23.240 know

00:34:23.360 why

00:34:23.540 he's

00:34:23.700 doing

00:34:23.860 this

00:34:24.060 this

00:34:24.180 doesn't

00:34:24.460 make

00:34:24.640 any

00:34:24.820 sense

00:34:25.060 the

00:34:25.220 political

00:34:25.720 capital

00:34:26.320 that

00:34:27.580 they

00:34:27.920 spent

00:34:28.700 surrendering

00:34:30.780 to

00:34:31.040 Russia

00:34:31.400 was 1.00

00:34:31.800 insane 0.61

00:34:32.420 and I'll

00:34:33.440 make

00:34:33.620 two

00:34:33.800 quick

00:34:34.000 points

00:34:34.280 on

00:34:34.440 that

00:34:34.640 the

00:34:35.700 day

00:34:35.940 we

00:34:36.180 voted

00:34:36.520 on

00:34:36.860 my

00:34:37.260 Nordstrom

00:34:37.640 two

00:34:37.860 sanctions

00:34:38.280 bill

00:34:38.540 a few

00:34:38.780 weeks

00:34:39.000 ago

00:34:39.300 Joe

00:34:40.360 Biden

00:34:40.760 personally

00:34:41.500 came

00:34:42.180 to

00:34:42.860 the

00:34:43.060 Senate

00:34:43.300 to

00:34:43.480 Capitol

00:34:43.800 Hill

00:34:44.060 to

00:34:45.320 lobby

00:34:45.900 Democratic

00:34:47.120 senators

00:34:47.580 to vote

00:34:48.200 against

00:34:48.600 sanctions

00:34:49.040 on

00:34:49.240 Russia

00:34:49.500 that

00:34:51.000 doesn't

00:34:51.440 happen

00:34:51.760 I think

00:34:52.040 it's

00:34:52.260 the

00:34:52.420 second

00:34:52.700 time

00:34:53.240 since

00:34:53.520 he's

00:34:53.680 been

00:34:53.840 president

00:34:54.240 that

00:34:54.480 Biden

00:34:54.780 has

00:34:54.940 come

00:34:55.120 to

00:34:55.240 the

00:34:55.340 hill

00:34:55.520 right

00:34:55.840 it

00:34:56.260 is

00:34:56.460 really

00:34:57.000 unusual

00:34:57.620 I

00:34:58.420 had

00:34:58.600 two

00:34:58.920 Democratic

00:34:59.460 senators

00:34:59.900 who

00:35:00.120 told

00:35:00.400 me

00:35:00.540 they

00:35:00.660 were

00:35:00.760 going

00:35:00.880 to

00:35:00.960 vote

00:35:01.140 with

00:35:01.360 me

00:35:01.520 who

00:35:01.660 both

00:35:01.940 voted

00:35:02.200 against

00:35:02.500 me

00:35:02.760 who

00:35:03.680 both

00:35:04.120 told

00:35:04.540 me

00:35:04.780 they

00:35:04.960 said

00:35:08.540 a

00:35:09.780 personal

00:35:10.380 favor

00:35:10.920 would

00:35:11.260 we

00:35:11.960 vote

00:35:12.260 with

00:35:12.500 him

00:35:12.840 and

00:35:13.660 we

00:35:13.840 did

00:35:14.180 it

00:35:14.860 was

00:35:15.140 stunning

00:35:15.660 and

00:35:17.480 to

00:35:17.680 show

00:35:17.920 you

00:35:18.140 just

00:35:18.500 how

00:35:18.780 much

00:35:19.220 Democrats

00:35:20.260 realize

00:35:20.800 they're

00:35:21.080 wrong

00:35:21.400 all

00:35:23.840 four

00:35:24.340 Democrats

00:35:25.100 in

00:35:26.960 vulnerable

00:35:27.680 states

00:35:28.160 that are

00:35:28.440 on the

00:35:28.700 ballot

00:35:29.020 in

00:35:29.420 November

00:35:29.800 all

00:35:30.220 four

00:35:30.560 of

00:35:30.720 them

00:35:30.860 voted

00:35:31.120 with

00:35:31.380 me

00:35:31.540 so

00:35:31.740 you

00:35:31.940 had

00:35:32.380 you

00:35:33.340 had

00:35:33.440 Mark

00:35:33.660 Kelly

00:35:33.900 in

00:35:34.040 Arizona

00:35:34.380 voted

00:35:34.700 with

00:35:35.220 me

00:35:35.420 you

00:35:35.580 had

00:35:35.720 Catherine

00:35:36.040 Cortez

00:35:36.400 Masto

00:35:36.760 in

00:35:36.920 Nevada

00:35:37.180 voted

00:35:37.480 with

00:35:37.700 me

00:35:37.840 you

00:35:37.940 had

00:35:38.060 Maggie

00:35:38.360 Hassan

00:35:38.840 in

00:35:39.440 New

00:35:39.560 Hampshire

00:35:39.800 voted

00:35:40.060 with

00:35:40.220 me

00:35:40.340 you

00:35:40.460 even

00:35:40.640 had

00:35:40.820 Raphael

00:35:41.320 Warnock

00:35:41.820 in

00:35:42.140 Georgia

00:35:42.540 vote

00:35:42.800 with

00:35:43.020 me

00:35:43.140 Raphael

00:35:43.560 Warnock

00:35:43.900 is

00:35:44.320 one

00:35:44.480 of

00:35:44.560 the

00:35:44.640 most

00:35:44.800 liberal

00:35:45.200 members

00:35:45.560 of

00:35:45.700 the

00:35:45.840 Senate

00:35:46.080 what's

00:35:47.720 interesting

00:35:48.220 is

00:35:48.480 in

00:35:48.660 Nevada

00:35:49.120 Jackie

00:35:50.500 Rosen

00:35:50.920 the

00:35:51.180 other

00:35:51.420 Nevada

00:35:51.740 Democrat

00:35:52.140 also

00:35:52.540 voted

00:35:52.860 with

00:35:53.140 me

00:35:53.440 I

00:35:56.940 guess

00:35:57.860 to

00:35:58.100 provide

00:35:58.480 cover

00:35:58.920 for

00:35:59.160 Cortez

00:35:59.500 Masto

00:35:59.840 because

00:36:00.120 she

00:36:00.320 was

00:36:00.480 voting

00:36:00.720 with

00:36:00.960 me

00:36:01.060 I

00:36:01.200 guess

00:36:01.460 Rosen

00:36:01.940 voted

00:36:02.260 the

00:36:02.440 same

00:36:02.660 way

00:36:02.900 what

00:36:03.420 I

00:36:03.560 found

00:36:03.840 fascinating

00:36:04.560 was

00:36:05.580 the

00:36:05.760 Democrats

00:36:06.240 in

00:36:08.100 Georgia

00:36:08.980 and

00:36:09.900 New

00:36:10.080 Hampshire

00:36:10.420 and

00:36:10.620 Arizona

00:36:10.940 didn't

00:36:11.460 provide

00:36:11.780 cover

00:36:12.100 for

00:36:12.260 their

00:36:12.460 colleagues

00:36:12.820 that

00:36:13.000 were

00:36:13.120 voting

00:36:13.380 but

00:36:13.560 the

00:36:14.000 fact

00:36:14.480 that

00:36:14.780 every

00:36:15.200 vulnerable

00:36:15.660 D

00:36:15.880 on

00:36:16.020 the

00:36:16.120 ballot

00:36:16.380 voted

00:36:16.740 with

00:36:17.020 me

00:36:17.180 and

00:36:17.280 against

00:36:17.640 waving

00:36:17.940 sanctions

00:36:18.340 on

00:36:18.540 Russia

00:36:18.820 shows

00:36:19.460 they

00:36:20.800 they

00:36:20.820 know

00:36:21.040 Biden

00:36:21.400 is

00:36:21.520 wrong

00:36:21.900 and

00:36:22.840 it

00:36:23.320 it

00:36:23.580 it

00:36:23.680 it

00:36:23.940 it

00:36:23.960 it

00:36:23.980 I

00:36:25.180 think

00:36:25.600 I

00:36:26.360 spoke

00:36:26.740 with

00:36:26.880 a

00:36:27.000 Democratic

00:36:27.380 senator

00:36:27.780 today

00:36:28.380 urging

00:36:29.640 this

00:36:30.100 is

00:36:30.280 a

00:36:30.440 way

00:36:30.640 out

00:36:31.020 look

00:36:31.880 revoke

00:36:32.420 the

00:36:32.620 sanctions

00:36:33.100 all

00:36:33.440 lift

00:36:33.720 the

00:36:33.900 hold

00:36:34.320 but

00:36:34.920 one

00:36:35.120 of

00:36:35.220 the

00:36:35.320 reasons

00:36:35.620 that

00:36:35.920 ought

00:36:36.260 in

00:36:36.620 a

00:36:36.840 reasonable

00:36:37.380 and

00:36:37.600 rational

00:36:37.940 world

00:36:38.260 that

00:36:38.460 should

00:36:38.620 be

00:36:38.740 appealing

00:36:39.040 to

00:36:39.220 them

00:36:39.380 is

00:36:39.500 it

00:36:39.620 gets

00:36:39.940 them

00:36:40.200 somewhat

00:36:40.720 out

00:36:41.160 of

00:36:41.320 this

00:36:41.620 mess

00:36:42.240 that

00:36:43.120 that

00:36:43.440 Biden's

00:36:44.320 own

00:36:44.500 mistakes

00:36:44.900 have

00:36:45.060 created

00:36:45.400 Senator

00:36:46.220 that

00:36:46.640 is

00:36:46.940 a

00:36:47.420 hopeful

00:36:47.800 note

00:36:48.300 to

00:36:48.540 end

00:36:48.780 on

00:36:49.020 but

00:36:49.760 there's

00:36:49.960 a lot

00:36:50.140 more

00:36:50.280 to talk

00:36:50.580 about

00:36:50.720 of course

00:36:51.060 which is

00:36:51.400 why

00:36:51.700 you are

00:36:52.120 going to

00:36:52.400 be going

00:36:52.760 straight 0.70

00:36:53.100 from

00:36:53.300 this

00:36:53.580 you've

00:36:53.940 gone

00:36:54.040 straight 0.70

00:36:54.240 from

00:36:54.400 the

00:36:54.520 capital

00:36:54.900 straight 0.70

00:36:55.500 from

00:36:55.860 the

00:36:56.180 big

00:36:57.160 fight

00:36:57.440 that's

00:36:57.620 actually

00:36:57.860 going

00:36:58.120 on

00:36:58.500 in

00:36:59.200 the

00:36:59.360 Senate

00:36:59.560 playing

00:36:59.940 out

00:37:00.280 you know

00:37:00.740 all the way

00:37:01.180 around

00:37:01.380 the other

00:37:01.620 side

00:37:01.880 of the

00:37:02.020 world

00:37:02.240 to

00:37:02.880 this

00:37:03.220 studio

00:37:03.540 here

00:37:03.860 where

00:37:04.320 we

00:37:04.720 can

00:37:04.980 talk

00:37:05.720 about

00:37:05.920 it

00:37:06.080 and

00:37:06.360 lay

00:37:06.720 it

00:37:06.860 out

00:37:07.060 for

00:37:07.440 ordinary

00:37:07.940 people

00:37:08.220 to

00:37:08.340 make

00:37:08.460 sense

00:37:16.640 Liz

00:37:17.240 what are

00:37:17.960 you

00:37:18.000 going

00:37:18.100 to

00:37:18.120 be

00:37:18.220 talking

00:37:18.480 about

00:37:18.740 hi

00:37:19.320 Michael

00:37:19.720 hi

00:37:19.980 senator

00:37:20.360 yeah

00:37:20.900 we

00:37:21.060 have

00:37:21.220 a

00:37:21.400 really

00:37:21.680 interesting

00:37:22.320 really

00:37:22.660 nerdy

00:37:23.180 topic

00:37:23.640 to

00:37:23.860 talk

00:37:24.080 about

00:37:24.300 today

00:37:24.520 on

00:37:24.640 the

00:37:24.740 cloak

00:37:25.000 room

00:37:25.160 I'm

00:37:25.360 actually

00:37:25.600 very

00:37:25.920 excited

00:37:26.500 about

00:37:26.760 this

00:37:27.140 we're

00:37:27.620 going

00:37:27.720 to

00:37:27.740 be

00:37:27.840 talking

00:37:28.000 about

00:37:28.200 cryptocurrency

00:37:28.920 because

00:37:29.560 of

00:37:29.860 some

00:37:30.020 of

00:37:30.160 the

00:37:30.260 events

00:37:30.700 that

00:37:30.920 have

00:37:31.020 been

00:37:31.120 happening

00:37:31.500 in

00:37:32.180 Canada

00:37:32.560 particularly

00:37:33.160 in

00:37:33.520 the

00:37:33.640 UK

00:37:33.860 this

00:37:34.200 is

00:37:34.320 maybe

00:37:34.600 an

00:37:34.780 underreported

00:37:35.460 story

00:37:35.860 the

00:37:36.580 debate

00:37:36.940 that's

00:37:37.200 happening

00:37:37.540 in

00:37:37.760 the

00:37:37.860 United

00:37:38.040 Kingdom

00:37:38.340 right

00:37:38.560 now

00:37:38.820 about

00:37:39.100 government

00:37:39.620 controlled

00:37:40.100 cryptocurrency

00:37:40.660 so

00:37:41.120 we're

00:37:41.260 going

00:37:41.360 to

00:37:41.500 dive

00:37:41.920 into

00:37:42.380 some

00:37:42.640 of

00:37:42.840 the

00:37:43.140 details

00:37:44.320 of

00:37:44.720 this

00:37:44.940 story

00:37:45.300 and

00:37:45.680 how

00:37:45.860 that

00:37:46.040 could

00:37:46.300 very

00:37:46.520 easily

00:37:46.840 happen

00:37:47.180 here

00:37:47.360 in

00:37:47.460 the

00:37:47.520 United

00:37:47.680 States

00:37:47.920 and

00:37:48.060 how

00:37:48.180 to

00:37:48.320 prevent

00:37:48.560 that

00:37:48.880 as

00:37:49.660 always

00:37:50.180 you

00:37:50.480 can

00:37:50.640 join

00:37:50.940 us

00:37:51.140 for

00:37:51.260 this

00:37:51.420 new

00:37:51.660 series

00:37:52.060 the

00:37:52.320 cloak

00:37:52.640 room

00:37:52.860 on

00:37:53.040 verdict

00:37:53.300 plus

00:37:53.680 on

00:37:54.000 of

00:37:54.260 course

00:37:54.600 verdict

00:37:55.040 plus

00:37:55.420 that's

00:37:56.000 verdict

00:37:56.280 with

00:37:56.460 ted

00:37:56.640 cruz

00:37:56.920 dot com

00:37:57.380 slash

00:37:57.900 plus

00:37:58.120 I

00:37:58.240 have

00:37:58.340 a

00:37:58.440 promo

00:37:58.680 code

00:37:58.940 for

00:37:59.140 you

00:37:59.280 as

00:37:59.520 well

00:37:59.860 use

00:38:00.340 the

00:38:00.460 promo

00:38:00.660 code

00:38:01.020 cloak

00:38:01.540 room

00:38:01.840 and

00:38:02.000 you

00:38:02.080 get

00:38:02.220 one

00:38:02.500 month

00:38:02.820 on

00:38:03.200 one

00:38:03.660 month

00:38:03.860 free

00:38:04.180 on

00:38:04.400 an

00:38:04.520 annual

00:38:04.780 subscription

00:38:05.300 verdict

00:38:05.700 with

00:38:05.960 ted

00:38:06.160 cruz

00:38:06.540 dot

00:38:06.900 com

00:38:07.220 slash

00:38:07.800 plus

00:38:08.420 come

00:38:08.920 on

00:38:09.080 over

00:38:09.360 and

00:38:09.620 join

00:38:09.800 us

00:38:09.980 it's

00:38:10.160 going

00:38:10.240 to

00:38:10.260 be

00:38:10.340 a

00:38:10.460 great

00:38:10.700 episode

00:38:11.540 that's

00:38:12.100 really

00:38:12.360 important

00:38:12.860 one

00:38:13.780 because

00:38:14.300 if

00:38:14.520 we

00:38:14.640 go

00:38:14.840 into

00:38:15.040 world

00:38:15.300 war

00:38:15.540 three

00:38:15.820 then

00:38:16.140 I

00:38:16.480 I

00:38:16.500 want

00:38:16.800 to

00:38:16.880 want

00:38:17.100 a

00:38:17.300 more

00:38:17.720 reliable

00:38:18.160 asset

00:38:18.600 you

00:38:18.800 know

00:38:18.940 and

00:38:19.120 two

00:38:19.400 even

00:38:19.780 if

00:38:19.920 we

00:38:20.040 don't

00:38:20.220 descend

00:38:20.500 into

00:38:20.680 world

00:38:20.900 war

00:38:21.140 three

00:38:21.380 Joe

00:38:21.820 Biden

00:38:22.160 has

00:38:22.360 so

00:38:22.520 devalued

00:38:23.140 my

00:38:23.300 dollar

00:38:23.640 that

00:38:23.820 I

00:38:23.980 want

00:38:24.300 to

00:38:24.400 I

00:38:24.540 need

00:38:24.880 alternative

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Verdict with Ted Cruz - February 23, 2022

Putin Makes His Move

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